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For all those dreaming of making it big in the corporate world and not wanting to go for the regular MBA programs, getting a diploma in Risk Management is the new option. A new course on the block, the Risk Management program is especially structured with a curriculum that spans across all aspects of enterprise risk- financial, operational, strategic, regulatory and compliance, and provides nuanced insights across all key industry verticals.

The diploma is a one year long course with cutting edge curriculum and an extensive infusion of live case studies, to give students a more practical and analytical experience. Leading industry icons will be providing regular course curriculum, making it beneficial for students as it includes real life context learning experience.

The course is being currently offered at Global Risk Management Institute (GRMI), a Gurgaon based institute pioneering in the world of education in Risk Management. GRMI is headed Subhashis Nath and has an impressive board of academicians and is run under the guidance of a board of directors and governors with international representation. The institute, along with specific Risk Management papers, also offers papers in other hand- picked subjects like HR, Organisation behavior, Applied Cyber Risk, and Impact of Digitization on Risk Management which helps students to develop an all rounded approach.

Leading consulting firms have shown interest in hiring all-rounder specialists for their firms who enable them to understand and analyse risk environment and risk trends, mastering which will allow them to gain efficiency.
Some large risk consulting firms like Accenture, EY, KPMG, PwC, Deloitte, Protiviti, Grant Thornton, etc. and other large corporate organizations like General Electrics (GE), Tata Group, PepsiCo etc. are potential recruiters at GRMI.

The admission procedure at GRMI has already begun for the session 2016-17 and forms are available on the website of the institute. The eligibility criterion and the fee structure can be found on the website.
http://www.grm.institute/

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Akshara Srivastava

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The University of Delhi is a dynamic place to be, and records new highs with various achievements but also new lows with several controversial issues taking place every year. With another academic session coming to its end, we bring to you another edition of The Best and Worst of Delhi University series.

The first part of the series is a walk through the new additions to the hall of fame of Delhi University where students and societies who have done the university proud find their name:

1. LSR’s ‘Basta’ presents business model at UN Headquarters

October 2015: Basta, aimed at creating employement for women, is a venture started by three students of Lady Sri Ram College for Women. They recycle and refashion waste flex banners into bags and pouches. The project was chosen from 300 contestants to be presented at the UN Headquarters, NYC.

LSR Basta

Read the full article here: LSR’s Basta to present business model at UN Headquarters

2. Student awarded National RTI Awareness Award

October 2015: Second year Political Science student from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Himadrish Suwan, was awarded the National RTI Awareness Award for his work in the field of RTI activism. Suwan has filed over 100 RTI’S and also writes for many dailies and weeklies.

RTI Awareness award

Read the full article here: Student awarded with National RTI Awareness Award

3. Social entrepreneurship model by SRCC students presented at UN

October 2015: Shreya Gupta and Harsh Agrawal, two students from SRCC and curators of project Sanjeevani, presented their model at the UN Headquarters. This was a part of the ‘Change the World Internship’, structured by US based Not for Profit organization, ‘A Million for a billion.’

SRCC Entrepreneurship

Read the full article here: Social entrepreneurship model by SRCC students presented at UN

4. SRCC student sets Guinness World Record

October 2015: Mrityunjay Sharma, a student of third year B.Com (hons.) from SRCC set a Guinness World Record by playing a piano for 130 hours continuously. The record was earlier held by Polish pianist Romuald Koperski for 103 hours. Mrityunjay was awarded 1 lakh rupees by the college on achieving this feat.

SRCC Piano record

Read the full article here: SRCC student sets Guinness World Record

5. Delhi University’s very own Modern Pentathlon Athlete

December 2015: Ragha Jamwal, a History student from DCAC, attained the second rank and was selected as an Indian qualifier for Olympics at Asian Championship’15 held in Beijing. Pentathlon is an infusion of five extremely difficult disciplines of sports including Fencing, Swimming, Pistol-Shooting, Show Jumping (Horse-Riding) and Running.

Modern Pentathlon

Read the full article here: Delhi University’s very own Modern Pentathlon athlete

6. Youngest recipient of the APJ Abdul Kalam award from DU

January 2016: Second year Political Science student from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Himadrish Suwan, was honored with the APJ Abdul Kalam award. The award is given to honour achievements towards social service and a clean, green, healthy and educated India. Himadrish became the youngest recipient of the award.

APJ Award

Read the full article here: Youngest recipient of APJ Abdul Kalam Award from DU

7. DU girl receives Rhodes Scholarship

January 2016: Rene Verma, a student of History from St. Stephen’s College, received the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. She wishes to study two Masters is subject programs, Women’s Studies and Film Aesthetics.

Renee Verma- Rhodes Scholar

Read the full article here: DU girl receives Rhodes scholarship

8. KMC student plans to travel solo along the Golden Quadrilateral

March 2016: Kirori Mal College student, Keshav Kumar, embarked on a 6100 km journey to visit 13 states and 174 cities in 13 days. Through this journey, he seeks to find answers to questions about women’s safety and empowerment. He’ll also be visiting over 20 colleges to conduct talks and sessions with the students.

Solo Traveller

Read the full article here: KMC student plans solo trip across Golden Quadrilateral

9. Applied Psychology student makes it to WSEN Global Summit

March 2016: Sadiq Mobeen, a student from South Campus, has been selected for the World Student Environment Network’s 9th Global Summit: Sustainability Together. The summit is being organized by University of Sussex and Keele University in UK from 24 – 30 July.WSEN-1Read the full article here: Applied Psychology student makes it to WSEN Global Summit

10. Venky student wins gold at US Open World Championship for Karate

April 2016: Having recently won a gold medal for Karate at the US Open World Championship 2016, Bhaskar Sen, a student of Sri Venkateswara College, juggles engineering and his passion for Karate at the same time. He is a two-time gold medalist at the prestigious event.

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Read full story here : In conversation with Bhaskar Sen, two-time gold medalist at US Open World Championship 

11. Priyadarshini Chatterjee wins FBB Femina Miss India 2016

April 2016: Priyadarshini Chatterjee of Hindu College was crowned Femina Miss India 2016. She will be representing India at Miss World 2016 soon. This is the third consecutive time that Delhi University student has been crowned at the pageant.

FBB Femina Miss India

Stay tuned for more articles within the series!

Akshara Srivastava

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It’s impossible for me to escape the hordes of e-rickshaw waalas when I exit the Vishwavidyalaya metro station for I need to reach the cycle rickshaw of Chun Chun , who I struck an acquaintance with a few months back, for he is always stationed outside my college. Chun Chun, who hails from Bihar and lives in the Majnu-ka-Tila area has a perpetually animated way of doing almost everything, from riding the rickshaw to engaging in political discussions with me. His animation always beats my cogent arguments.

Of late, he’s been discussing how the e-rickshaw waalas have taken over the city by targeting specific areas with the largest concentration of short distance travellers (including the north campus), thus affecting the livelihoods of cycle rickshaw waalas like him.

The e-rickshaw community has grown from 4,000 in 2010 to more than 1,20,000 in 2016 in the city. As per a research by the Centre for Civil Society (CCS), 37% of the drivers were either unemployed before taking up the occupation or were cycle rickshaw pullers. Around 21% were either factory workers or daily wage labourers.

The concept was e-rickshaws was initially started in China, which is the largest e-rickshaw manufacturer in the world. In April 2015, Hero Electric became the first domestic company in India to launch the vehicle at Rs 1.10 lakh and named its model ‘Raahii’. Most of the rickshaws that ply on North Campus roads are Raahiis, which can travel up to 90 km on a single charge and also have inbuilt accessories for the drivers, like USB mobile charging system and electronic lock system. The batteries of the rickshaws have a life of about six months and new ones can be had for 25,000.

The drivers in the area have average net earnings of 550-800 rupees per day, which is more than that of cycle rickshaw waalas – Rs 300-450, and is slightly less than that of autorickshaw drivers – Rs 700-1000 (CCS). More than 89% of the people who took the job as e-rickshaw drivers saw an increase in their salaries after joining the occupation. Charges per passenger are set as per the rules laid down by the e-rickshaw unions of respective areas.

Most e-rickshaw waalas would disallow carrying a fifth passenger if a TI (traffic inspector) is on duty in the area. This is a common sight around the Vishwavidyalaya metro station in the mornings. You’d find the area outside the station in frenzy mode from 10-2 PM as the window signifies the peak time for the drivers.

The e-rickshaw phenomenon is also seen by many drivers who’ve come from motley occupations as a means for social upliftment and security. It has essentially become a part of the city’s travel ecosystem.

Feature Image: The Hindu

Sidharth Yadav

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Every year, societies from colleges across the campus compete neck to neck and put up spectacular performances during the fest season. This year too, saw certain teams shine a little brighter than the rest. We bring you a series with college societies that put their heart and soul into their respective fields and took home the top prizes at various cultural fests.

The best college society in each category was selected by creating a tally of the top 3 positions at competitive events held during various cultural fests of this season. Whenever a society won the first prize they were awarded 3 points, for the second position they received 2 points and for the third position, 1 point was added to their tally.

For the Battle of Bands category, Hans Raj Projekt scored the maximum points in the tally. Hans Raj Projekt’s 12 points were followed by High Time (Kirori Mal College) that scored 7 points. Playtime (Hans Raj College) bagged third spot scoring 5 points.

 

The Winning Society at a glance

 

Hans Raj Projekt, Hans Raj College

The Hans Raj Projekt is an offshoot of Swaranjali, the music society of Hans Raj College. The band performed four songs, all of which were original compositions of the band. Dilda Bhed about how problems of love can be understood only god or by the heart, Kya Kahu about the insignificance of the ego, When You about falling in love and getting back up and Madhukauns which is about determination.

The band president, Anirudh Varma reveals his secret of success. He says, “I think what has always worked for us is that we are very close friends outside the band as well which is reflected in our on stage chemistry. Our priority is to engage the audience not only at the level of the music but at the level of the sentiment as well and that is the feedback we get from the audience as well after our performance”

Band Members:

Vinayak Pant – Sitar
Shivash Chagti – Acoustic Guitar & Western vocals
Saptak Chatterjee – Hindustani Vocals
Anirudh Varma – Piano/Keyboards
Dimpal Kumar – Drums
Abhishek Mittal – Electric Guitar
Madhur Chaudhary – Bass

Winners Tally: Hans Raj Projekt

Eight college fests were referred to while evaluating the top societies tally this fest season which were: Tarang, LSR; Ullas, KNC; Tempest, Miranda House; Confluence, Hans Raj College; Montage, JMC; Mecca, Hindu College; Reverie, Gargi College and Nexus, Sri Venkateswara College.

The society emerged victorious at the following fests:

Ist position at: Reverie’16 (Gargi College), Montage’16 (Jesus and Mary College), Nexus’16 (Venkateshwara College) and Ullas’16 (Kamala Nehru College)
Apart from this the band has also won accolades at LSR, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, St. Stephen’s College, CVS and NIFT.

(Hover on the icons below to know more about their victories)
Akshara Srivastava
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With yet another fest season coming to an end at the University of Delhi, it is time to let nostalgia get you over and look back at these few months that have gone by, before all of us get busy with semester examination preparation and some from the outgoing batch eventually leave to charter their career paths. Going by the thought, DU Beat brings to you its exclusive timeline for ‘Star performances at Delhi University’, where we present the highlight artists and singers at numerous college fests in Delhi University that took place in the year 2016.   So, go with the flow and view all what star nights highlighted the fest season this year at Delhi University, in this special edition. Here’s an overview of all such performances and celebrities:   Akshara Srivastava [email protected]]]>

Phase 1 focused on individual orders, wherein the volunteers and the team members  had to bring orders from households in their vicinity. Phase 2 shifted attention from individual orders to bulk orders in educational institutions, coaching centers, etc. Volunteers and the team members were supposed to contact their schools and nearby coaching centers for these bulk orders. The plants were sold at reasonable prices with timely delivery within 3-4 business days. The campaign witnessed an extraordinary success in phase 1, where the sales crossed over 2500 plants. This distant vision saw success because of the tireless efforts the team who continuously guided the volunteers at every step and motivated them to work hard. Phase 2 was also extremely successful and the overall sales crossed the 4000 mark. Overall, the campaign was extremely successful and Enactus SGGSCC was able to raise funds equal to Rs. 25000 from the campaign for funding its various other social projects. Image Credits: Enactus SGGSCC Shreya Srivastava [email protected]  ]]>

The Delhi Government has recently launched the second phase of the Odd Even scheme, keeping in mind the environmental concerns of the day. Environmental degradation needs to be combated by not just the government but also institutions and individuals to see some changes in the prevalent conditions.

Taking cue from that, Kalindi College, University of Delhi has recently put a ban on the sale of plastic water bottles on the campus. This announcement was made during the Annual Prize Distribution ceremony of the college which was attended by senior officials from the University Grants Commission (UGC) along with other dignitaries.

The college Principal, Anulya Maurya talked about the responsibility of each individual towards environment conservation. She added that the college has started using earthen pots and will discover new and alternative measures for water consumption.

“Every human being has a responsibility towards the environment. Keeping this in mind, we have decided to ban the sale of plastic water bottles in the college starting today,” college principal Anulya Maurya said in a statement as reported by NDTV on April 18th.
“We will discover alternative methods for water storage and consumption. For now we have started using earthen pots. Kalindi is the first DU college to introduce this kind of a ban,” she added.

Kalindi College is the first one in Delhi University to propose and work on such a move.

 

Akshara Srivastava
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Indraprastha College for Women organized the third Round Table Conference on Gandhi on the theme ‘Gandhi and Food’ on 8th April, 2016.
The session began with a welcome note by the Principal, Dr. Babli Moitra Saraf, who acquainted the audience with the idea of the Round Table Conference and the theme of the third edition. She mentioned that the incidents involving beef ban and the contentious issue of cow slaughter that gave rise to religious tensions recently, were, what triggered discussion on this topic. As per the Concept Note of the Conference, in the Gandhian discourse, food is not just what one eats, but is visualized as a paradigm that exhibits a range of issues. The whole exercise of the conference was perceived to be useful to engage and confront many key quandaries of our times, and answer many conundrums ranging from diet control for personal reasons, being vegetarian on moral grounds, fasting for religious or political expediency, to debate contestations between right to culture and food choices.

Shri Anil Nauriya, Advocate and Member, National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi, delivered the introductory remarks, and quoted instances and anecdotes of Gandhi’s meetings with different people, Sam Higginbottom and Richard Gregg to name a few. This was followed by 12 well-fleshed out paper presentations. Dr. Madhulika Banerjee, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi and Dr. Babli Moitra Saraf, Principal, Indraprastha College for Women judged these paper presentations.

The students presented a variety of riveting and thought-provoking presentations, ranging from a critique of Gandhi’s moral basis of vegetarianism to food in the context of Brahmacharaya as perceived by Gandhi in his times, with peppy titles like “You are not what you eat”. A plethora of viewpoints were discussed: how food is a cult in itself, and how unless there’s moral disgust in animal slaughter, there’s no moral superiority associated with vegetarianism.

The first prize was awarded to Asmita Jagwani, who presented the paper on “Food Asceticism: The Gandhian Grammar of Diet” where she explored the idea of gastro politics, explaining that for Gandhi, vegetarianism was a way of life that  was rooted in his moral convictions and not just an adherence to a filial vow. She was praised by the judges who mentioned that “such sophistication of rhetoric as a means of persuasion leaves you stupefied.” The second position was bagged by a team comprising of Anamika Dass and Ateka Hasan who explored food from the perspective of untouchability. Prerna Mishra, who explored “Salt and Satyagraha” in her paper, was adjudged as the winner of the third position. A judges’ special mention was awarded to Nihita Kumari who spoke on how food was a weapon for Gandhi. All winners were given cash prizes.

Dr. Jyoti Trehan Sharma, the Conference Convener, explained the philosophy behind the theme, and also drew the attention of the audience to the significance of the date when the conference was being held, as the date coincided when Gandhi got arrested at Palwal in 1919, just a few days before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Punjab. This was also the date when in 1929, Bhagat Singh, alongwith Sukhdev and Rajguru, made his motherland echo with the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”.

The Judges congratulated the participants on building such relevant arguments that led to a very pertinent discourse. They also provided constructive feedback and inputs on the same.

The round table conference at IPCW

Image Credits: Kritika Narula

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Making at least  one person in every family legally literate is one of the integral components of DSLSA-DUCR’S vision of “LEGAL LITERACY”.

Our constitution has provided many fundamental rights to every citizen of the country but  unfortunately in the absence of basic legal knowledge citizens are unable to access justice due to the absence of legal literacy.

Legal awareness through radio programme is an initiative taken by DUCR which was initiated by DSLSA (Delhi States Legal Services Authority) to make every citizen legally aware and to make legally literate through this legal awareness programme. The programme was inaugurated on 10 February 2016. On this day the DUCR in collaboration with DSLSA started the radio programme for legal awareness titled “NYAY HUMARA MAULIK ADHIKAR”.

After the successful inauguration of the project, finally the day has arrived on the doorstep of DUCR and  the most awaited first episode was started and this chain kept growing with successful recordings of programmes with honourable judges/secretaries from different district courts.

The 11 episodes were recorded with 11 learned judges/secretaries nominated by DSLSA. Each judge was specialised in a particular subject.

Radio University

The enthusiastic DUCR volunteers and the Para legal volunteers also showed their keen interest towards the legal literacy programme and successfully covered the topics like sexual harassment, domestic violence, juvenile justice act, senior citizens rights, child rights.

 

In all the sessions, frequently asked questions like legal queries or perceptions of every second individual, were being put up before the judges. The judges with equal grace, keeping the target audience in mind, answered and explained the questions in a very simple manner.

The interactive session was successfully hosted and conducted by the DUCR Anchor Shikha Johari and there were other participants who are voluntarily based with DUCR and few other PLVs were also there who energetically raised questions during the interactive session. They were M. Gayathri, Ritu Gupta, Heena Vashishta, Priyanka Girder(PLV), RohiT (PLV) and Puneet (PLV).

University radio

The session was successfully recorded by the technical expert Mr. Zakir Hussain under the guidance of  Mr. Isaac John,  assistant technical consultant of DUCR.

Mr. Mohit Kumar Gupta is the leader of this project and also is associated with DSLSA and Para legal volunteer (PLV) AND MR.R.K SINGH is the incharge of this project.

It was an interactive session in which the volunteers came to know about many schemes, special laws and rights of citizens of this country. The main motto of this project is to spread legal awareness through radio programme to the people and youth who are the future shining star for a development and change in the country.

Heena Vashistha, senior volunteer at DUCR had this to say, “Being a student of SOL(school of open learning) i got an opportunity to join DUCR and also to participate in this legal literacy project. I coordinated this whole legal literacy project as deputy coordinator  on behalf of DUCR and also as a girl and citizen of this country. I got to know about many special schemes, rights and special laws ”.

Mr. Zakir Hussain, senior volunteer at DUCR, expressed his gratitude, “In this esteemed orgainsation i got to learn so much from editing to recording, OB and programme production and also got this oppurtnity to record and edit this whole legal proramme recordings and by editing this programme i got to know about many special laws and rights that every citizen must know and i believe that after broadcasting this episode, students and people like me will benefit and become aware about legal rights.” Mr. Hussain is a technical expert and a student of Arts Faculty.

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The DU Professor, G.N. Saibaba, alleged and arrested for Maoist links in May, 2014, has been granted bail. The bench led by Justice J.S. Kehar, also fired at the Maharashtra government who had tried to convince the authorities to do otherwise. What started with the arrest of Prashant Rahi (a journalist) and Hem Mishra (a student), eventually led to the professor’s arrest. Here’s an overlook at the timeline of G.N. Saibaba’s case:

 14th September, 2013

Maharashtra cops search his house, claiming he had info about Maoist leaders hiding in the forests of Abuj Maad in Chhattisgarh.

Agencies claim Saibaba had been associated with an organisation called the Revolutionary Democratic Front which is considered to be a front outfit for the CPI (Maoist).

He acknowledged knowing JNU student Hem Mishra, who was arrested by the Maharashtra Police for alleged links with Maoists, but denied giving him any coded chip.

18th September, 2013

The president of the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) wrote to the Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde seeking his intervention.

10th May, 2014

The Professor was arrested by the Maharashtra police to be produced before a court in Aheri town of Gadchiroli from the University Campus; seized hard-drives, chips serving as evidences.

16th May, 2014

After a recommendation from the Ram Lal Anand College itself, the Professor was suspended by the University. While DUSU and ABVP stood for the motion, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) The Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association spoke against the violation of his rights.

28th May, 2014

Investigation revealed that professor was affiliated with some prominent persons from Pune and guide movements of the ‘Urban Maoist Fronts’.

3rd June, 2014

The Professor’s family received an eviction notice from the University to vacate his Gwyer Hall residence. The notice asked Saibaba and his family to vacate the house on the grounds of “unauthorised possession of the premises in question since March 31, 2010 due to the absence of any valid agreement in the eyes of the law.” DUTA President, Nandita Narain consulted with the Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh.

14th June, 2014

Principal and Sessions Judge of Aheri in Gadchiroli, D R Shirasav, rejected the bail plea application of G N Saibaba.

19th June, 2015

The wheelchair-ridden Professor, then lodged in the Nagpur Central Jail, went through a medical examination.

20th June, 2015

Neurosurgeon Pramod Giri, who conducted a check-up of G.N. Saibaba declared that he did not need a surgery and was referred to a neuro-physician for his shoulder and neck pain.

1st July, 2015

The professor was granted bail by the Bombay High Court for three months, owing to his medical conditions.

21st November, 2015

The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court asked the government lawyer and G N Saibaba’s lawyer about why they had not objected to the Mumbai bench taking up his case and sought transfer of the case to Nagpur. Earlier in the year, the Nagpur bench comprising Justice Shukre (who later moved to the Mumbai bench) had rejected Saibaba’s bail plea “on merit”.

24th November, 2015

Justice A.B. Chaudhari of the Nagpur Bench raised questions over the intervention of the bench taking over and giving out decisions. Asked what determines such actions.

24th December, 2015

The professor was asked to surrender within 48 hours or face arrest following the resentment by The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court who believed that there was no need to interfere with an order refusing him bail earlier and that too when, his affiliation with the Maoists was based on solid evidences.

25th December, 2015

Delhi University Professors, activists and writers protested against the rejection of his bail. His wife, G Vasantha spoke against the order, saying she wanted to file a case against the “system”.

23rd February, 2016

The Supreme Court ordered the Maharashtra Government to provide basic medical facilities to the professor and asked the counsel for Saibaba to file an exemption plea.

Shreya Srivastava

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