Amritsar: Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, won the overall championship trophy of final Inter-Zonal Youth Festival of the Guru Nanak Dev University. Similarly, Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar was declared runners up and Khalsa College, Amritsar, got the third position. As many as 80 student-artists from different institutes participated in 36 items of music, theatre, dance, literary and fine arts. The event was organised by the Youth Welfare Department of the Guru Nanak Dev University. Prof Anish Dua, Incharge and Dr Baljit Singh Sekhon, Advisor to the Youth Welfare Department in their seamless coordination are executing these festivals. Prof Dr Jaspal Singh Sandhu, Vice Chancellor was the chief guest of the event and gave away trophies to the winners. Prof. Anish Dua, Dr. Baljit Singh Sekhon, Prof. Tejwant Singh Kang and other officials were also present.

Expert talk on Big Data and Cloud

Tech Talk Club run under the auspices of the Department of CSE/IT at the Global Group of Institutes organised multifarious activities to develop and hone the overall skills of the students pertaining to self-discipline, effective communication and their overall personality. An expert talk on “Big Data and Cloud” was conducted by the club with an aim to apprise and educate the students about the importance and demand of this powerful technology in the near future. Varun Sethi, Associate Practice Lead, Big Data ; Cloud, Abzooba, Pune delivered the expert talk and enlightened the students and faculty on the scope and application of this technology in Industry. Another online quiz titled “Smart Hacks 2020-2021” in association with ICT-IIT Kanpur was organised by the club as part of activity based teaching and learning process for the benefit of the students, who participated in the online quiz. Tech Talk Club also organised group discussion on contemporary times and expressed their views showcasing their knowledge and understanding of the issues affecting the world at large and India in particular.

Workshop for faculty members

Faculty members from as many as 150 colleges were trained in a workshop organised jointly by Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar (GNDU) and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi here on Friday. This workshop titled “Advancing Green Educational Campuses – A Regional Experience Sharing” was organised to sensitise colleges to mobilise action for a green campus. Directors of Internal Quality Assurance Cell of universities and colleges were invited and attended the workshop. A green campus is a place that consumes fewer natural resources and generates less waste. This requires a range of measures for energy conservation, water conservation, waste management, reducing air pollution and improving overall health and well-being of the campus habitants.“Guru Nanak Dev University has conducted a tree plantation drive, established a 1.48 MWp solar rooftop power plant, won the second cleanest campus award given by Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2018 and 2019, treats it wastewater in-situ treatment and ensures its reuse in the University Botanical Garden among many other initiatives.” – Dr Sarbjot Singh Behl, Nodal Person RUSA, GNDU highlighted in his inaugural address at the workshop. CSE has mapped these initiatives taken by selected campuses who are also a part of CSE’s Forum of Green Campuses and published a preliminary assessment in a report titled “Green Campus Movement”. TNS