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Woman power rules DU campus

The Delhi University Students’ Union has a strong presence of women in the central panel this year, with as many as three posts of office-bearers having gone to girl candidates.

Kriti Wadhera of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad is the new vice-president, while National Students’ Union of India candidate Arshdeep Kaur has been elected DUSU secretary. Anupriya Tyagi from Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha, who was also being suppo rted by ABVP in the absence of its own candidate, is the new joint secretary.

Despite their different political leanings, these young women have promised to deliver the goods as they claim to have similar views on certain important issues pertaining to girl students on the DU campus.

“Our parties come much later. Our main priority is students. I am sure all three of us would be united in responding to problems like safety and security of girls on the campus,” says Anupriya, a first-year student of Hans Raj College.

“We have travelled in U-Specials and walked on the campus roads. We have first-hand experience about what other girl students go through and we will try to find a solution. We will certainly demand more hostels for girls as they are safer in a college hostel than a private accommodation. We may also begin some self-defence programmes for them,” she adds.

Miranda House student Kriti, who feels the election of three women candidates to the DUSU central panel is a sign of “women empowerment” in DU, underscores the need for installing more closed-circuit TV cameras on the campus.

“I am yet to meet the other two women office-bearers. We will sit together and chalk out our strategy soon,” adds Kriti.

Some girl students, however, remain sceptical of the assurances made by the three winners. “More often than not, the women candidates are selected by different students’ outfits purely to add glamour. I really hope these three new office-bearers are genuinely interested in students’ welfare,” says one student of Ramjas College.

Some others feel DUSU should start with “some basic things” before launching other fancy campaigns.

“We certainly need more U-Specials. Besides, all said and done, the North Campus is still quite secure, while the same can’t be said about the South Campus where all the colleges are scattered. Eve-teasing is rampant,” points out another student.

However, the victory of Kriti and Arshdeep is still provisional, subject to the outcome of the ongoing inquiry against them for allegedly using printed material in their campaign.

Furqan Qamar, professor of management studies and former director of the Centre for Management Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, has been appointed Vice-Chancellor of Rajasthan University.

He is currently on deputation to the Planning Commission as Adviser (Education).

Forty-nine-year-old Prof. Qamar is the youngest person to be appointed Vice-Chancellor of Rajasthan University.

He has been appointed for a three-year term on the recommendation of a search committee headed by renowned educationist Deepak Nayyar, said a release from Jamia.

An alumnus of Lucknow Christian Degree College and Canning College of Lucknow University, Prof. Qamar started his teaching career in 1981 and moved to Jamia in 1984. He has completed over 28 years in teaching and research in India and abroad.

The Noida campus of Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow has launched an executive programme in human resource management which will have a three-day induction from September 14.

The programme is for 15 weeks, and the first batch includes 75 HR professionals.

“The course has been designed to provide training in the techniques and nuances of human resource management expected of a successful professional in the corporate sector, banks and financial institutions or in any entrepreneurial venture. It will focus on new trends and challenges facing HR professionals today,” say programme directors Prof. Punam Sahgal and Prof. Ajay Singh.

The programme will also talk about the HR challenges in a slowing economy to prepare working executives to come up with appropriate response to the current environment.

Parul Sharma

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