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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” - Gautam Buddha

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CENTRAL ZONE VICE CHANCELLORS’ MEET 2017 Jointly Organized By

Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi and Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal

Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (RGPV) and Association of Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi have collaborated to organize AMU’s Central Zone Vice Chancellors Meet 2017 at RGPV University campus on a central theme of ‘Opportunities and Challenges towards Transforming

Indian Universities into Global Premier Universities by 2022’ on December 12-13,2017. The first of its kind meet got inaugurated in the gracious presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ji’ as Chief Guest; Hon’ble Minister, Technical Education & Skill Development, Shri Deepak Joshi Ji as Guest of Honor; Vice Chancellor RGPV, Prof. Sunil Kumar; President, AIU, Prof. P.B. Sharma; Secretary General, AIU, Prof Furqan Qamar; and Director, UIT, RGPV, Prof. RS Rajput. In his welcome address, Prof. Sunil Kumar, Vice Chancellor, RGPV deeply thanked and appreciated the presence of Hon’ble Chief Minister despite a cabinet meeting being scheduled on the same day. Prof. Kumar further extended welcome to other dignitaries on the dais. Prof. Sunil Kumar further acknowledged the Madhya Pradesh Governments significant achievements and initiatives taken under the dynamic leadership of Hon’ble Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In his inaugural address, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ji spoke at length about the Prime Minister’s concern about placing Indian Universities amongst the topmost universities in the world. In his speech, Hon’ble Chief Minister cited the role of knowledge, skills and ethics as three crucial elements for overall upliftment of higher education. He further stressed upon the inevitability of promoting skill-based courses and the significance of responsible citizen by inculcating ethical values amongst youngsters. Hon’ble Chief Minister also shared his concern towards brain-drain problem and combating its menace by exploring creative financial solutions towards ever escalating cost of higher education. He further praised University’s efforts to host such a grand meet in collaboration with Association of Indian Universities for realizing the key factors towards bringing Indian Universities in the league of global premier universities. During the ceremony, a special issue of ‘University News’ and RGPV Newsletter for the month of December also got released at the hands of Hon’ble Chief Minister Madhya Pradesh, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ji in the presence of other dignitaries on the Dais. University News’ is an official organ of the Association of Indian Universities. Much sought after by the academia in India as well as other countries, the Journal has now become an icon in the landscape of Indian higher education. After welcoming the Distinguished Guests on the dais and in the audience, Prof. Furqan Qamar, Secretary General AIU briefed about the statistics pertaining to Central Universities and their long standing association with AIU. Prof. Qamar

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further elicited education to be the foundation for the four pillars of democracy. The Guest of Honor for the day, Hon’ble Minister, Technical Education & Skill Development, Shri Deepak Joshi Ji began his speech by appreciating the vastness and significance of ancient Indian wisdom. He further stressed upon the significance of promoting education beyond the barriers of language. He appreciated the efforts at RGPV towards conducting examination in Hindi. In his presidential address, Prof. P.B. Sharma, founder Vice Chancellor, RGPV and president AIU mesmerized the audience by highlighting the inevitability of clarity in vision, strategic framework and commitment of hierarchy for achieving

excellence in higher education. He stressed upon the cardinality of research and innovation and development of state-of-the-art skill centers promoting generic as well as high-end skills at all our universities to serve as a benchmark for exploiting a true human potential for creativity and innovation. He further elicited about the need for innovation incubation and its indispensable role as knowledge enterprises for catalyzing new wave for employment. Prof. Sharma deeply thanked Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan Ji for his gracious

presence and concern towards realizing responsible citizenship as one of the key element for development. The inaugural ceremony witnessed over forty Vice Chancellors from different states which include Madhya Pradesh, Orrisa, Chhattisgarh and many more across the central zone. A foreign Delegation from Taiwan also marked its presence for sharing the needs for promoting

c r o s s -border opportunities in higher learning. The gathering witnessed a large audience in a jam packed Seminar Hall of RGPV. On the Valediction Day, Addressing the gathering, State Higher Education Minister Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya stated that higher education and industrial sector are complementary to each other. “The universities should not become the center of degree distribution and produce youths to stand in queue seeking jobs,” the minister said. He further stressed that Universities must create an environment of

research so that students can get access to new knowledge and also upgrade their skills. The Meet also witness a TEQIP-III sponsored, AIU Business Session in which a round table conference was organized amongst AIU officials, participant Vice Chancellors and representatives from leading industries on 13-12-2017 in compliance with the AICTE mandate for mandatory internship addressing the “Boosting Employability and Capacity Building” at RGPV, Bhopal for which Prof. Anil Kothari, Head, Training & Placement Cell RGPV was the Coordinator. The Meet ended with a cultural programme and a gala dinner hosted by the University at the University lawn on the eve of 13-12-2017.

Working for education is a mission which combined with passion can fulfill one’s vision. RGPV University, Bhopal has been my Alma Mater. It has motivated me in the past 18 years to further the cause of education in society. We realize that Technical Education needs to adapt to the rapid and tremendous change in the Industrial Sector and as stake holders we educationists, students,

Industrialists can work together to achieve it. We have a pool of young student talent and sufficient resources to train them for taking on the challenges they come across. Innovation is the call of the hour, while ethical attitude is the need of our society and nation. The rapidly changing scenario demands a fresh and different approach to the

same problems and often the most amazing new ideas are generated in small cities. I am confident that the efforts and support of RGPV University and all colleges affiliated to it will motivate the students to achieve their goals and fulfill the vision to serve society.

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Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya became a pioneering University to conduct an online (computer-based) semester theory examination for its undergraduate engineering programme. The

examination was conducted for about 226 students studying in the first semester of 3 branches i.e. Computer Science and

Engineering, Petrochemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The unique feature of this examination was the instant display of result at the end of the examination. Prof. Sunil Kumar, Vice Chancellor RGPV greatly acknowledged the utility and need of online examination in present context. In the examination a total of 37 questions were asked, out of which 20 were objective types; 10 fill in the blanks and 7 numerical-based problems. The examination was conducted by MP-Online in collaboration with TCS.

One Day Workshop Organized

One day workshop on “Creativity and innovation in technical education” organized by RGPV under TEQIP-III jointly with Center for Research and Industrial Staff Performance

(CRISP) for Administrators and Departmental Heads of RGPV and its affiliated institutions on 4-12-2017 towards boosting innovation and creativity amongst faculty members. Over 30 facutly members from different streams participated in this workshop and interacted with Professor Art Gogatz who conducted this workshop on out-of-the-box thinking. The workshop got inaugurated in the august presence of Hon’ble Vice Chancellor RGPV, Prof. Sunil Kumar, Rector RGPV, Prof. Mukesh Pandey, TEQIP-III Coordinator, Prof. S.C. Choube. Prof. Art is a former New York advertising photographer, art director, creative director, and vice president with over 34 years of experience in teaching creativity in more than 30 Countries around the world.

Alumni Association of RGPV Campus (AARGPVC) hosted its first Alumni Reunion Meet of 1991 to 2017 batches on the University Campus on 22-12-

2017. Honorable Mayor, Bhopal, Shri Alok Sharma was the Chief Guest on this occasion and Shri C.P. Sharma, Daulatram Engineering Pvt. Ltd. was the Guest of Honour. Prof. Sunil Kumar, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, RGPV, welcomed the alumni to the RGPV campus. He expressed that alumni play an important role in the progress of students .He also added that it is good to see that our students after

completing the degree have gone to higher positions in society. Dr. C L Wakhloo, Founder Principal of Govt. Engineering College, Bhopal (presently UIT RGPV) and other Professors Prof .M G Sharma, Prof. S R Nigam, Prof. V K Shrivastava, Prof. A M Jain, Prof. Rakesh Singhai, Prof. Purnima Swarup, Prof. Seema Saxena , Prof .Salim Akhtar and Prof. Alka Bani Agrawal were felicitated on the occasion for contributing their services to the Institute. Guest of Honour, Managing Director of Daulatram Engineering Pvt. Ltd Mr. C P Sharma also addressed the alumni. The Alumni Meet was an emotional moment for alma-mater. The students from all the batches were delighted to meet their friends and faculties and added that it was the time when bond between the faculty and students was very strong. After the initial greeting, the alumni hit the dance floor. The event was a joyous one which concluded with friends promising to keep in touch with each other as they step into new shoes. The event was planned to ensure that there continues to exist, a bond between the college and its former students. All the office bearers Mr B S Yadav, Dr. Roopam Gupta, Dr Subodh Pandey, Dr Ratish Agarwal, Dr R K Shrivastava and Dr Piyush Shukla put great efforts for successful completion of program.

RGPV HOSTS ALUMNI REUNION

First Online Semester Theory Examination Conducted

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FORTHCOMING EVENT• Smart Cities Hackathon IOT Based Cloud Application for Smart Cities under TEQIP III

organized by e-Entrepreneurship Cell and ACM Chapters of RGPV.• Annual Flagship Event of e-Entrepreneurship Cell of RGPV IMPRENDITORE 2.0• Convolution 2018 - Annual technical festival of RGPV• TWO DAYS CONFERENCE MP-PRIDE 2018 Pharmaceutical Research for Industrial

Development and Education On Empowering People to Improve their Lives• National Seminar on Climate Change in academic partnership with RGPV by EPCO, Govt. of

M.P. 22 to 24 February 2018. Last date of Abstract Submission 6th February 2018.

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University is committed towards its mission of proliferating quality technical education to the

remotest of areas with significant tribal presence. This is reflected by University’s initiative of setting-up two new Institutes offering diverse academic programs in

distant locals of Shahdol and Jhabua.

RGPV organized a Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on ‘Cloud Computing : Concepts and Tools’ during 18– 23, December 2017 at Oriental college of Technology, bhopal under TEQIP-III for the faculty & students of RGPV affiliated institutions for which Dr. Shikha Agrawal was the Coordinator.University Organized a two days workshop (19-20, December 2017) on ‘Effective use of Social Media for Quality Enhancement in Technical Education’ under TEQIP-III. Prof. Sanjeev Sharma, Head, SoIT was the Coordinator of the workshop.

STTPS AND WORKSHOPS• Porous Biomaterials via Side Chain-Side

Chain Interactions of Tyrosine Analogue of Pyridine Carboxamides; Tiwari Priyanka, Verma Ritu, Basu Anindya, Christmann R, Waikar Digambar, Tiwari Amit and Dutt Konar Anita* , (Chemistry Select, 2018, 3, 262 –272.)

• The dominant role of sidechains in nucleation of double helical organization in synthetic peptides Gangele Sharma Ankita ,Tiwari Priyanka and Dutt Konar Anita* , (Journal of Molecular Structure (2018)in press.

• Proteolysis-Resistant Self-Assembled w-Amino Acid Dipeptide-Based Biocompatible Hydrogels as Drug Delivery Vehicle Tiwari Priyanka, Verma Ritu, Basu Anindya, Christmann R, Waikar Digambar, Tiwari Amit and Dutt Konar Anita* , (Chemistry Select, 2017, 2, 6623.)

• Cognitive Radios: A Survey On Spectrum Sensing, Security and Spectrum Handoff ( Networks and Security China Communications, Nov. 2017 ( Indexed in IEEE Xplore )), Vishakha Ramani, Sanjay K. Sharma. DOI 10.1109/CC.2017.823366

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Prof. Sunil Kumar ChairmanProf. S.K. Jain Editor-in-ChiefProf. Aseem C. Tiwari Editor-in-ChiefProf. Vinay Thapar EditorProf. Sanjeev Sharma EditorProf. Rakesh Singhai EditorShri. Ranjeet Joshi Editor

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The members of “Ensemble Theatre” were felicitated by LNCT GROUP. Ensemble Theatre is a group of artists from different parts of world who work voluntarily for issues related to children & youth. LNCT GROUP is supporting them for its Noble cause to help children overcome depression. Mr. Daniel, member of Ensemble Group, USA also interacted with students. Besides, The students of LNCT took a pledge on 30-12-2017 for ‘Environmental conservation & awareness’. The oath was: ‘I will do my part to protect, conserve the Earth, I will take care of & clean up the environment. I will be kind to and respect all life forms and the Natural Environment on which they depend’.

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