SSU to embrace IT tools, start online facilities for students

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Varanasi: Students of the state’s oldest premier institution for Sanskrit studies — Sampurnanand Sanskrit University — will soon get to avail online facilities for classes as well as administrative processes, including fee deposition, as the university gears up for technical advancement.
After getting the additional charge of vice-chancellor of the SSU, Lucknow University VC Prof Alok Kumar Rai has started efforts to provide advanced IT facilities at the SSU.
“A decision has been taken to enable SSU students to avail the facilities of technological advantages being utilised in other universities,” Prof Rai said while talking to TOI on Thursday.
Prof Rai added, “We are planning to introduce a strategic learning application for transformative education (SLATE), a registered and copyright property of LU to make administrative and academic activities of institution students centric by utilising IT advancements. It can be introduced through a memorandum of understanding signed between LU and SSU. This MoU will help in avoiding financial burdens on SSU, in developing SLATE like platforms.”
It will bring major changes on both-academic and administrative front, he said.
“The IT enabled system will make all the administrative process, from submitting forms for entrance exam and admission, deposition of fee, applications for degree and other documents, online. “It will make the entire administrative system transparent by ending manual contacts generally instrumental in false practices like fake admission, fake degrees and others,” he explained.
“The university has around 4,500 students on the main campus while over 40,000 others study at affiliated colleges across the country,” he said adding, “All these students will be benefited by the online system. The same platform will also be used for online classes and studies while social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and others will also be utilised for communication between the university, academicians and students.”
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Fresh registrations for PhDs in SSU soon
Fresh registrations will soon begin in the PhD in courses run by the SSU. New SSU VC Prof Alok Kumar Rai said that after assuming charge, he came to know that no new registration in PhD courses of any subject had taken place in this university after 2017. “Taking note of the issue, I have sought details of the vacant seats on which new aspirants can be registered for research studies. Once the details are received, the process for fresh registration will be started,” he added.