सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी की दुनिया में हिंदी विषय पर वेब – संवाद

Chandigarh September 4, 2020

  • हिंदी को ज्ञान की भाषा बनाना जरूरी
  • सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी को अपनाना ही रास्ता

चंडीगढ़,4 सितंबर:

 पंजाब विश्वविद्यालय के हिंदी विभाग द्वारा हिंदी माह उत्सव के तहत विशेष व्याख्यानपरिचर्चा श्रृंखला की चौथी कड़ी में आज ‘सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी की दुनिया में हिंदी’ विषय पर परिचर्चा हुई, इस परिचर्चा में विशेष रूप से जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली के डॉ. गंगा सहाय मीणा मुख्य वक्ता के रूप में शामिल हुए। 

डॉ. मीणा ने कहा कि सूचनाओं और मनोरंजन की भाषा से अब हिंदी को ज्ञान की भाषा बनाना जरूरी है और इसके लिए सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी को अपनाना ही एक मात्र विकल्प है। उन्होंने कहा कि सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी के क्षेत्र में प्रयोग की जा रही हिंदी में अभी भले ही एकरूपता नहीं है लेकिन फिर भी इसके माध्यम से राष्ट्रीय और अंतरराष्ट्रीय फलक पर हिंदी जन जन तक पहुंची है। सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी के विभिन्न आयामों को लेकर हिंदी समाज में जागरूकता की कमी है। इसलिए इस दिशा में विशेष प्रयास करने की जरूरत है। 

एक दशक पहले हिंदी में भी विण्डोज़ आने लगे हैं और लिनक्स ऑपरेटिंग में शुरू से हिंदी आपको मिलेगी।

हिंदी की उन्नति  के बारे में उन्होंने कहा कि एटीएम में हम खुद ही हिंदी नहीं चुनते, फ़ोन में भी हम हिंदी नहीं चुनते हैं और दिल्ली के नेहरू प्लेस जैसे स्थान जहाँ ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम ख़ूब मिलते हैं वहां भी अगर हिंदी ऑपरेटिंग सिस्टम मांगेंगे तो वो कहेंगे की ऐसा ग्राहक साल भर में एक दो ही आते हैं। 

व्याख्यान के बाद प्रश्न उत्तर का सत्र भी हुआ जिसमें देश के विभिन्न हिस्सों से शोधार्थी एवं प्राध्यापकों ने हिस्सा लिया।

विभागाध्यक्ष डॉ. गुरमीत सिंह ने सभी का स्वागत करते हुए बताया कि इस वर्ष हिंदी माह उत्सव में विशेष तौर पर ऑनलाइन माध्यम का लाभ उठाकर के देश के विभिन्न हिस्सों के विद्वानों को जोड़ने की कोशिश की गई है ताकि हमारे विद्यार्थी हिंदी की व्यापक पहुंच से अवगत हो सकें।

इस कड़ी में अगला व्याख्यान 4 सितंबर को ‘अनुवाद का संसार और हिंदी’ विषय पर होगा। इस  व्याख्यान में केंद्रीय अनुवाद ब्यूरो, नई दिल्ली के संयुक्त निदशक विनोद संदलेश मुख्य वक्ता होंगे। 

14 सितंबर को हिंदी दिवस पर इस एक माह के उत्सव का समापन कार्यक्रम होगा जिसमें प्रसिद्ध गीतकार और हिंदी विभाग के पूर्व छात्र डॉ. इरशाद कामिल मुख्य अतिथि के रूप में शामिल होंगे। वे ‘हिंदी-उर्दू-पंजाबी की साझा विरासत’ पर अपनी बात रखेंगे।

आज के कार्यक्रम में देश के विभिन्न हिस्सों से 50 से अधिक प्रतिभागियों ने हिस्सा लिया जिनमें विभाग के प्रो. सत्यपाल सहगल, हिमाचल प्रदेश विश्वविद्यालय से डॉ. मंजू पुरी, प्रयागराज से डॉ. ज्ञानेन्द्र शुक्ल और श्री प्रशांत मिश्रा शामिल रहे।

इस हिंदी माह उत्सव में 6 विशेष व्याख्यानों के अलावा ‘हिंदी हैं हम’ नाम से कविता लेखन प्रतियोगिता भी आयोजित की गई जिसमें अंतिम तिथि तक 115 से अधिक प्रविष्टियां प्राप्त हुईं हैं। इस प्रतियोगिता के नतीजे 14 सितंबर के कार्यक्रम में घोषित होंगे।  इसके साथ ही विभाग के फेसबुक अकाउंट के माध्यम से कविता वाचन श्रृंखला भी शुरू की गई है।

WEBINAR ON NEW EDUCATION POLICY: A ROADMAP FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Chandigarh September 4, 2020

A Webinar on New Education Policy: A roadmap for Engineering Education was organized by UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh ,today. The event commenced with an introductory message by Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor who has been associated with NEP since the beginning and also gave inputs in the framing of NEP. PU VC also gave some optimistic insight into the fact that although pandemic is a curse, it has certainly given the opportunity of development to domains like engineering and medicine.

Subsequently Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi,Director PEC spoke about the aspects of New Education Policy related to higher education. He cited the chapters from New Education Policy that are related to higher education. He talked about the aspect of multidisciplinary education. In the curriculum, there should be interdisciplinary courses. There should be more flexibility in the courses chosen by the students i.e. more elective courses should be offered to the students.

Prof.Sanghi pointed out that it is very natural that the minds of students, as well as faculties, will resist these changes that this policy demands but we need to overcome this resistance. The NEP caters to the major problem that the college students face about not knowing exactly what they want to study in college or what are their interests. The provision of Dual Major will be provided i.e. one person having computer science engineering shall be allowed to opt for psychology also. It was also discussed as to how important it is to make a robust lateral entry system if we want to implement the NEP in a good way.

Prof.Sanghi also pointed to the fact that the policy gives the flexibility to the universities to implement the changes recommended at a time they find appropriate i.e. either from this batch or from the next session. He also talked about Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) which will be established to digitally store the academic credits earned from various recognised higher educational institutes so that the credits earned in the previous years can be awarded after entering into the programme again. With this ABC, the fear of wastage of years is avoided.

Continuous evaluation will be there rather than having one major exam at the end of the semester which has almost 70 % of credit or marks. He also added that tenure track recruitment should be there for faculties in which the teaching ability of the teacher will be evaluated after every 5-6 years. He then talked about the use of technology through online and digital courses. He talked about a big caveat of NEP which states that the quality of the online courses should be as good as the best on-campus programme of the higher educational institution. He said that such a scenario is not possible in the present situation and can only be made possible after approximately 10 years from now. More than 40% of courses shall be offered online to reduce the teaching load that will also provide an ample amount of time to the faculty for research work. He also discussed Faculty development programmes that should be conducted more frequently.  Employability will automatically improve if a good batch of students graduate as  industry will  be interested to recruit them.

PU offers Grant of 5% Fee Waiver to Students

Chandigarh September 4, 2020

Panjab University Chandigarh, Vice Chancellor Prof Raj Kumar, in anticipation of approval of the Syndicate, has approved the 5% fee exemption across all courses to all the students of Panjab University Chandigarh and its Regional Centres for the current Semester, keeping in view the difficulties faced due to Covid 19 pandemic.

In order to facilitate the payment of fee , all students are allowed to deposit the course fee in 4 equal installments instead of two installments. The students who have paid full fee, will be adjusted in their next installment.

Also, 100% fee concession has been granted to physically challenged students whereas,  EWS concession will be extended to the students of traditional courses also as a special measure.

The concessions offered are over and above the different kinds of concession/ scholarships/schemes(involving an amount of Rs 5 Crore) which is already being offered by the University.

जेईई और नेट की परीक्षाएं तुरंत रद्द की जाएं-मुकेश सिरसवाल

पंचकूला 29 अगस्त:

जिला पंचकूला युवा कांग्रेस के जिलाध्यक्ष मुकेश सिरसवाल की अध्यक्षता में पंचकूला सेक्टर 1 जिला सचिवालय में नारे लगाकर नगराधीश श्री धीरज चहल के माध्यम से केंद्रीय शिक्षा मंत्री श्री रमेश पोखरियाल को जेईई-एनइइटी परीक्षाएं को स्थगित करवाने के बारे मैं ज्ञापन सौंपा। जिला पंचकूला युवा कांग्रेस के जिलाध्यक्ष मुकेश सिरसवाल ने कहा कि क्योंकि करो ना महामारी को देखते हुए भारत सरकार को अपना यह फैसला वापस लेना चाहिए और 25 लाख छात्र-छात्राओं का भविष्य दांव पर ना लगाते हुए जेईई और नेट की परीक्षाएं रद्द की जाए। पहले ही हमारा भारत देश करो ना जैसी महामारी बीमारी से लड़ रहा है। ऐसे में हमारे देश के युवा साथी पढ़ाई नहीं कर पाए ना उनकी अच्छी तैयारी हो पाई है। ऐसे में भाजपा सरकार युवा साथियों के साथ बहुत बड़ा धोखा परीक्षा करवा कर करने जा रही है।

मुकेश सिरसवाल ने मांग की है कि परीक्षा को तुरंत प्रभाव से रद्द किया जाए। इस अवसर पर केंद्र और राज्य सरकार के खिलाफ जमकर नारेबाजी की गई। इस अवसर पर विशेष तौर पर हरियाणा प्रदेश युवा कांग्रेस के प्रदेश महासचिव श्री शांतनु चौहान, जिला उपाध्यक्ष सुनील सरोहा, जिला युवा कांग्रेस जिला महासचिव अभिषेक सैनी, जिला युवा कांग्रेस पंचकूला के जिला सचिव विवेक शर्मा, जिला युवा कांग्रेस के जिला सचिव अनिल शर्मा, ब्लॉक अध्यक्ष लेखपाल, भीम यादव, युवा कांग्रेस सोशल मीडिया से राघव विज, मोहित सैनी, संजीव शर्मा, दीपक कुमार, सुखबीर गहलोत, प्रीत कुमार, मनीष मौजूद रहे।

“INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING (ICIIIE 2020)”

Chandigarh August 29, 2020

University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Panjab University inaugurated TEQIP-III sponsored three days online international conference entitled INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATIONS IN ENGINEERING” on 28th August 2020.

The conference scheduled from 28th to 30th August 2020 is being organized under twining activity of TEQIP-III in collaboration with Govt. college of Engineering and Technology Jammu under the guidance and patronage of  Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Prof. Savita Gupta, Director UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Dr. Sameru Sharma, Principal, Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu. The technical program is enriched with internationally reputed speakers scheduled to give ten plenary talks, twelve invited talks, eight short invited talks and 200 oral/poster presentations from participants from various institutes from India and abroad.

The Conference Chair Prof. R. K. Singla, Dean University Instruction, Panjab University delivered the welcome address. Prof. Singla emphasized on the application of various interdisciplinary innovations in our life. He also said that the conference will provide a valuable opportunity for the researchers, scientists, academicians, industry specialists and decision makers to share their experiences on a common platform. 

Prof. V. R. Sinha, Dean Research, Guest of Honour, stated that the conference will serve as an effective platform to learn, share, supplement learning while keeping abreast with the latest developments in the respective areas. He also stated that in this pandemic era of COVID-19, the conference will definitely benefit the research students.

Prof. Savita Gupta, Director, UIET elucidated the theme of the conference. She also quoted the role of interdisciplinary research as the base of many great discoveries and cited examples of great scientists.  She said that the objective of this conference is to bring active researchers and experts from various disciplines to showcase their state of art research results and to integrate interdisciplinary connections amongst them.

Chief guest Prof. P. M. Khodke, Central Project Advisor, NPIU, Govt. of India, delivered his inaugural address online. He stated that in past few decades engineering faculty are playing a major role in solving many societal and industrial problems and in future, the technical education will become boundaryless. He discussed about the MHRD ‘IMRINT’ program and its importance. He also discussed the role of World Bank assisted TEQIP in improving Engineering/Technical education. He also emphasized on collaborative research. He motivated the participants & set the tone of the conference.

Prof. Sukhwinder Singh, Conference Co-Chair & Coordinator, TEQIP-III extended vote of thanks by  paying gratitude to Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice- Chancellor, PU and Chief Patron for inspiring and encouraging the UIET team to organize this international conference. He also thanked Chief guest, Prof. P. M. Khodke, Guest of Honour, Prof. V. R. Sinha, Conference Chair Prof. R. K. Singla, Prof. Savita Gupta, Director, UIET, Dr. Sameru Sharma, Principal, GCET, Jammu, Prof. Harmesh Kumar Kansal, Program Chair, Prof. Harish Kumar, Nodal Officer, TEQIP-III, Prof. Kapil Sharma, Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee from South  Asian University, New Delhi, Dr Minto Rattan, Coordinator and all the members of organizing team , technical staff. He also thanked sponsors of this conference, TEQIP-III & Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, without their generous financial support, it would not have been possible to organize this conference.

Organising team consisting of Dr. Naresh Kumar, Prof. Naveen Aggarwal, Dr. Y P Verma, Dr. Deepak Kumar, Dr. Vivek Pahwa, Dr. Kalpana Dahiya, Dr. Suresh Kumar, Dr. Prabhjot Kaur were also present on this occasion.  

MAKA Trophy To PU for 2nd Time in a Row

Chandigarh August 29, 2020

On the occasion of National Sports Day today, the Hon’ble President of India Sh. Ram Nath Kovind in the presence of Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Sh. Kiren Rijiju and several other dignitaries virtually conferred various National Sports and Adventure Awards 2020 from a ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The much coveted Maulana Abul Kalam Azad(MAKA) Trophy for overall top performing University in Inter-University Tournaments has been awarded to Panjab University, Chandigarh for the second time in a row.

Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, PU attended the virtual ceremony from Chandigarh. Later, he addressed the employees of the Directorate of Sports, PU at the Gymansium Hall. He appreciated the efforts of the Sports Authority of India for virtually organizing the ceremony despite all odds due to Covid 19 pandemic. PU VC lauded the commendable achievement of the PU sports persons, coaches and the entire team of Directorate of Sports under the leadership of Prof. Parminder Singh, Director and Dr. Rakesh Malik, Deputy Director and extended his heartiest congratulations. He assured of all necessary help and support to the Sports Department for taking the Sports in PU to further heights.

Dr. Parminder Singh assured that with all supports from PU VC, concerted efforts will be made for improvement in the coming year in order to make a hat-trick for MAKA Trophy. 

Webinar on National Education Policy 2020: Roadmap for Implementation at PU

Chandigarh August 28, 2020

The Department of Community Education and Disability Studies, Panjab University  organized a webinar on National Education Policy 2020: Roadmap for Implementation.The Chief Guest of the Webinar was Shri Bandaru Dattatreya ,Honorable Governor of Himachal Pradesh. 

Prof. R.K.Singla DUI, Panjab University Introduced the Chief Guest and extended warm welcome on behalf of Panjab University.  Prof. Raj Kumar Vice Chancellor in his address stated that  Panjab University has already started planning short and long term implementation of NEP 2020. He also stressed on sharing of resources’ and collaborations with different agencies. Prof Raj Kumar also highlighted the infrastructure facilities like CIL, Incubation Center and Human Resources’ in the form of eminent scientists and researchers presently working in the Panjab University.

The Chief Guest of the Webinar Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Honorable Governor of Himachal Pradesh at the outset appreciated Panjab University for being one of the important Universities in the country producing the best Alumni in all the important fields. ‘This education policy is the true representative of Bharat and I hope that this policy will help in achieving the goals of Atma Nirbhar Bharat. This policy will help in making India a superpower in future and will stop brain drain’ Added Sh. Dattatraya. Governor also deliberated on Conversion of leading colleges into board administered, autonomous, degree giving HEIs and freeing up undergraduate students to take courses across all disciplines. He also discussed Launch of a four-year bachelor’s degree and incorporating vocational education in college curriculum. The emphasis was on Creation of a National Research Foundation.

The Vote of thanks was proposed by Coordinator of the Webinar  Prof. Prashant Gautam, UIHTM, Panjab University, Chandigarh who thanked The Chief Guest of the Webinar  Shri Bandaru Dattatreya Honorable Governor of Himachal Pradesh for sparing his valuable time and addressing PU faculty, research scholars and students. He also thanked Prof. Raj Kumar Vice Chancellor, Panjab University for having the vision and goal  for motivating everyone to achieve the same.

Research Project of 10.62 Lacs for CSE,UIET,PU

Chandigarh August 28, 2020

AICTE, Government of India has sanctioned a research project titled ‘Generative Adversarial Network(GANs) for unmasking blurred and covered faces’ under Research Promotion scheme(RPS) with financial outlay of Rs. 10.62 Lacs to pursue work on this research challenge for three years (2020-2023). to Dr. Akashdeep, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, at UIET Panjab University Chandigarh who works in the area of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

The Project aims to innovate in the field of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning to reconstruct faces from blurred and covered images. It is focused at designing suitable GAN framework that will learn a representation model from available samples of images/videos and then use this representation model to generate/unmask unseen, unclear or low-resolution faces. It will use two different Neural networks, Generator and Discriminator, competing with each other to improve themselves.  Once trained, generators will be used to generate fresh images of the unmasked person.

Dr Akashdeep informed that the work can be widely helpful to identify criminals, track missing persons, tracing source of mischievous behavior, apart from its use for facial recognition, recognition of faces in driver’s licenses, credit cards, passports and crowd surveillance.

Prof Harish Kumar, Coordinator, CSE Branch further informed that the criminals wear masks to cover their face either partially or completely while committing crime. Identifying people wearing masks is one of the major challenges faced by law enforcement agencies, organizations using facial recognition, biometric security, banking (during crimes) and high security applications. There have been numerous incidences when persons responsible for committing crime were not identified 

Tips related to Cosmetic and Retail Industry shared

Chandigarh August 28, 2020

An international Make-Up artist, Mandy Singh from Canada delivered a talk in a Webinar          titled – Changing Dynamics of Make-Up Industry organised by Dr Prabhdip Brar,  Chairperson,University Institute of Fashion Technology & Vocational Development (UIFT&VD), Panjab University, Chandigarh .

Dr. Brar gave a welcome address and introduced  the speaker, Mandy, a graduate in Fashion and Fine Art, with artistic abilities to do stunning makeovers, working with the world’s renowned brand M.A.C cosmetic to Fashion magazines like Harper Bazaar and Toronto Men’s Fashion week with over 7 years of experience in the makeup industry. He is well versed with his knowledge and current makeup techniques.

The talk spanned about the huge potential where the last 5 years have seen a 60% growth in this lucrative make up industry. Cosmetic industry encompasses haircare, skincare, hygiene and retail along with make-up.  The wedding business in India is 40-50 billion dollars industry just second to that of USA. Mandy suggested that Artistry required creative freedom. To be successful in this business you need to know what you are good at and should gain experience before venturing into the business. The right proportion of patience, personal connections, research and consistency are the essential requirements. Free lancing, YouTube blogging and social media influencers would help in spreading a good word of mouth about your good work.

Another Webinar titled – Online Trend of Shopping and Retail was conducted by Mr. Saurav Negi, founder of MIAMINX, a style destination for the trendiest and most affordable clothing online for latest in casual and fashion wear. The speaker pointed that providing solutions to the customer makes a brand win half the battle. It is the need of the hour for fashion and lifestyle brands to stay most relevant to the customers by conducting research and fill the gap in the market by focussing equally on quality and design. Need for Increased Visibility of the Right Product with Right kind of Marketing is the way forward. Brands can use either organic or sponsored platforms for marketing, tap the consumer base of influencers and bloggers but a brand can only thrive by reinventing themselves. The New Normal has its own set of challenges for entrepreneurship and brands are now focussing on Work from Home Collections. Also, the future of online shopping depends on Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence as brands work to provide customized and personalised experience by recognising the digital footprint left behind by internet users. The fashion students were advised to pursue entrepreneurial ventures in Ethnic wear as this segment has been continuously seeing growth than western wear.

These webinars were attended by more than 65 participants including faculty, research scholars and final year students of B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Fashion and Lifestyle Technology.

Webinar on Training of Preschool Teachers by PU

Chandigarh August 28, 2020

 The Department of Life Long Learning and Extension, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a Webinar on Training Program for Preschool Teachers. Dr. Parmjit Singh Kang, Chairperson, Department of Life Long Learning introduced the theme of the Training Program and welcomed the participants. 

Teachers from Ankur School, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Sehjot Sr. Sec. Dhanas (UT) Chandigarh along with students of Department of LifeLong Learning participated.

Dr. Parminder K. Duggal, Principal, Ankur School, Panjab University and Prof. Prabha Vig were the Resource Persons for the webinar. In the end, Dr. Parmjit Singh Kang proposed the Vote of Thanks.