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Vice-Chancellor's MessageVice-Chancellor's Message

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is the rst and the largest state university established byGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is the rst and the largest state university established by

the Govt of NCT of Delhi in the year 1998. During the last 15 years, it has carved a niche for itselfthe Govt of NCT of Delhi in the year 1998. During the last 15 years, it has carved a niche for itselfas a premier institution for professional and technical education, with several achievements to itsas a premier institution for professional and technical education, with several achievements to its

credit, including ISO 9001-2000. The university was awarded A-grade in 2007 by the UGC’s Nationalcredit, including ISO 9001-2000. The university was awarded A-grade in 2007 by the UGC’s National Academic Academic Accreditation Accreditation Council Council (NAAC) (NAAC) for for a a period period of of ve ve years, years, and and re-accredited re-accredited with with A-grade A-grade inin

2013 for the next 5 years.2013 for the next 5 years.

In a relatively short span of time, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has launched a numberIn a relatively short span of time, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University has launched a number

of professional courses at the Diploma, Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral levels in a wide range ofof professional courses at the Diploma, Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral levels in a wide range ofdisciplines in Engineering, Technology, Medical and Paramedical, Law, Management, Environment,disciplines in Engineering, Technology, Medical and Paramedical, Law, Management, Environment,

Humanities, Journalism, Architecture, Education etc. The University today caters to about Humanities, Journalism, Architecture, Education etc. The University today caters to about 60,000 students60,000 studentswith an annual intake of more than 21,000, which is the highest intake in these courses, compared towith an annual intake of more than 21,000, which is the highest intake in these courses, compared to

any other university in and any other university in and around Delhi. around Delhi. Approximately 1200 students are admitted annually Approximately 1200 students are admitted annually to theto the

11 University Schools of Studies in the sprawling Dwarka campus, and the rest in about 110 afliated11 University Schools of Studies in the sprawling Dwarka campus, and the rest in about 110 afliatedcolleges spread all over Delhi and NCR. In order to supplement the educational needs and to fulllcolleges spread all over Delhi and NCR. In order to supplement the educational needs and to fulll

the aspirations of the people of Delhi, 85% of the total seats are earmarked for the students of Delhi.the aspirations of the people of Delhi, 85% of the total seats are earmarked for the students of Delhi.With the emergence of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University on the educational landscape ofWith the emergence of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University on the educational landscape of

Delhi, both the demand for professional education and qualied human capital are being met.Delhi, both the demand for professional education and qualied human capital are being met.

It It is is a a matter matter of of great great satisfaction satisfaction that that we we have have been been able able to to balance balance growth growth and and expansion expansion withwith

access, equity and quality, as well as blend modern technologies with conventional approaches toaccess, equity and quality, as well as blend modern technologies with conventional approaches tothe teaching-learning process. The Dwarka campus combines state-of-the-art, centrally air-conditionedthe teaching-learning process. The Dwarka campus combines state-of-the-art, centrally air-conditioned

infrastructure with disabled-friendly amenities and an environmentally sustainable approach.infrastructure with disabled-friendly amenities and an environmentally sustainable approach.

The The university university is is committed committed to to promoting promoting excellence excellence through through holistic holistic teaching-learning teaching-learning and and researchresearch

processes aimed at unleashing the creative potential of every student, thus enabling them to becomeprocesses aimed at unleashing the creative potential of every student, thus enabling them to becomecatalysts of social and economic transformation necessary for a just, humane and peaceful world.catalysts of social and economic transformation necessary for a just, humane and peaceful world.

It is our belief that these goals can be best achieved through transparency, democratic values, equity,It is our belief that these goals can be best achieved through transparency, democratic values, equity,

accountability and accessibility in an atmosphere that fosters intellectual freedom. It is our constantaccountability and accessibility in an atmosphere that fosters intellectual freedom. It is our constantendeavour to actively ingrain these values into the day-to-day functioning of the university.endeavour to actively ingrain these values into the day-to-day functioning of the university.

The The University University would would like like be be known known as as a a knowledge knowledge generating generating space space where where the the synergy synergy betweenbetweenteachers and students results into teaching and research working towards the welfare of humanityteachers and students results into teaching and research working towards the welfare of humanity

through establishing an interface between Science & Technology and Humanities & Social Sciences.through establishing an interface between Science & Technology and Humanities & Social Sciences.The Universities shall be starting new initiatives for promoting The Universities shall be starting new initiatives for promoting inter-disciplinary research in the University.inter-disciplinary research in the University.

As As a a member member of of the the University University family family since since its its inception inception and and its its current current Vice-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, it it gives gives memegreat pride to welcome new students to be a part of this dream.great pride to welcome new students to be a part of this dream.

(Prof. Anup S. Beniwal)(Prof. Anup S. Beniwal)Vice - ChancellorVice - Chancellor


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CONTENTSCONTENTS

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UNIVERSITY PROFILE ADMINISTRATION &UNIVERSITY PROFILE ADMINISTRATION &

UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS OF STUDYUNIVERSITY SCHOOLS OF STUDY

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LIST OF PROGRAMMES, ELIGIBILITY ANDLIST OF PROGRAMMES, ELIGIBILITY AND

CET DETAILSCET DETAILS

PART C:PART C:

ADMISSION/COUNSELLING: PROCEDURE,ADMISSION/COUNSELLING: PROCEDURE,

SCHEDULE, SCHEDULE, SEASEAT ALLOCAT ALLOCATION TION ,,

RESERVARESERVATION TION OF SEAOF SEATS & TS & FEE STRUCTUFEE STRUCTURERE

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LIST OF LIST OF PROGRAMMPROGRAMMES & ES & INSTITUTES FORINSTITUTES FOR

ACADEMIC SESSIONACADEMIC SESSION

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IMPORTIMPORTANT ANT INFORMAINFORMATION AND ATION AND APPENDICESPPENDICES

PART F:PART F:

PROFILES PROFILES OF OF INSTITUTES/INSTITUTES/COLLEGESCOLLEGES

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Brig P. K. Upmanyu

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THE UNIVERSITY

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University was established by an Act of Govt. of NCT of Delhi on July 28,1998. It was conceived as a teaching and afliating University with explicit objective to facilitate and promotestudies, research and extension work in areas of professional and technical education. It is included underSection 2 (f) and 12 (B) of the University Grants Commission and has been awarded ‘A’ Grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore for the period 2013-2018. It rst got certied asISO 9001 : 2000 and was subsequently upgraded to ISO 9001 : 2008 by the STQC Directorate, Ministry ofCommunication and Information Technology, Govt. of India. GGSIP University has been conferred with the"Golden Europe Award for Quality and Commercial Prestige" by Otherways Management & Counsulting Association, Paris, France on 16.07.2012 giving credence to our commitment to quality management.

In order to serve the broad purpose for which the University is established, it set out its statements of vision,mission and Quality Policy.

VISION

“The University will stimulate both the hearts and minds of scholars, empower them to contribute to thewelfare of society at large; train them to adapt themselves to the changing needs of the economy; preparethem for cultural leadership to ensure peace, harmony and prosperity for all.”

MISSION

“Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University shall strive hard to provide a market oriented professionaleducation to the student community of India in general and of Delhi in particular, with a view to serving thecause of higher education as well as to meet the needs of the Indian industries by promoting establishmentof colleges and Schools of Studies as Centres of Excellence in emerging areas of education with focus onprofessional education in disciplines of engineering, technology, medicine, education, pharmacy, nursing,law, humanities & social sciences etc.”

QUALITY POLICY

“Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is committed to providing professional education with thruston creativity, innovation, continuous change and motivating environment for knowledge creation anddissemination through its effective quality management system.”

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES

University has 11 Schools of Studies wherein as many as 42 Undergraduate and Postgraduate academicprogrammes are being conducted for more than 3000 Students. On the afliation front, 02 Schools of Studies,namely, School of Engineering and Technology and School of Medicine and Para Medical Health Sciencesare being maintained for providing leadership role to the programmes conducted under these Schools atafliated institutions. In all, the University has 110 afliated institutes; of these, 84 are self nanced and26 are owned and managed by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi/ Govt. of India, offering education to more than60,000 students.

Since its inception University has been striving to maintain excellence in teaching, research and extensionactivities. The University promotes a culture that fosters scientic temper, ethical values and quest forexcellence. University contributes to overall socio-economic growth of all the sections of society by providinggreater access to professional education in the National Capital Region (NCR). By providing nancial aids,scholarships and relaxation in qualications for differently abled students and socially backward classes,the university has registered signicant increase in access during last 15 years.

Regular review of existing courses and introduction of new courses of current national and internationalrelevance have been a major activity of the university to generate human resource which is more skilledand employable. There is a blend of conventional programme as well as inter-disciplinary programmes inemerging areas of technology. To maintain high quality, the teaching and learning processes have been

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made more rigorous and effective. Evaluation process has been made more transparent and credible withhigh level of automation. ICT enabled working in most of its functional units namely teaching, learning,evaluation, research, administration and governance ensures efciency and transparency.

Universities have a larger role to play in creation of new knowledge through research. GGSIPU has not onlymade visible impact on national and international levels through quality research but has also competed wellwith other Peer Institutions. Recognition of the University School of Biotechnology by UGC for its ‘Special Assistance Programme’ and support received from DST under FIST programme to University School ofBasic and Applied Science is the testimony of research advances made by the faculty members.

The programmes offered by the university in different Schools are relevant and catering to the need ofsociety. All programmes incorporate ICT tools to make them globally competitive. Curriculum developmentthrough various Committee such as Board of Studies, Sub Committee of Academic Council and AcademicCouncil that includes external experts from academic institutions and industry ensures it. University has anin-built mechanism to regularly review programmes based on students’ feedback, current needs, advancesmade in different subject areas and industry feedback.

The university has highly qualied teaching faculty, mostly having Ph.D. degree and an excellent trackrecord of professional progression. Keeping in view the global higher education scenario, the curriculardesign has the contemporary features namely semester system, modularity, choice based credit system,credit transfer, inter university and intra-university migration, interdisciplinary programmes, elective optionsthereby offering the warranted exibility to the students. University encourages use of interactive teachingmethodology aided by state-of-the-art teaching tools.

Admissions to various programmes in the university are merit based made through Entrance Tests followedby a transparent system of personal counselling. With a view to provide increasing access and equalopportunities to all sections of society, the university provides reservations and relaxation in qualicationsfor SC/ST/OBC/differently abled candidates as per the policy of the Government.

Since the University has shifted to its new campus efforts are on to make it a world class university with asocial outlook and scientic ambience. Reform in management and governance system, innovative ideasin the academic and administrative spheres and the right moral and ethical orientation, the university canbe given the status of being a University with difference.

CAMPUSES

The University’s state-of-the-art Main Campus, spread over on an area of more than 60 acres, is locatedat Sector 16-C, Dwarka, New Delhi and 10 University Schools of Studies, namely, (i) University Schoolof Basic and Applied Sciences; (ii) University School of Biotechnology; (iii) University School of ChemicalTechnology; (iv) University School of Education; (v) University School of Environment Management;(vi) University School of Humanities and Social Sciences; (vii) University School of Information andCommunication Technology; (viii) University School of Law & Legal Studies; (ix) University School ofMass Communication; and, (x) University School of Management Studies are functional from here.Certain distinguishing features of Dwarka Campus are State of the Art Buildings; Rain WaterHarvesting; Sewage Treatment Plant (Recycling for ushing, air-conditioning & horticulture); Usageof solar energy; Disabled friendly-Vehicular free pedestrian walk ways; Adequate Sports facilities;Shopping complex; Innovative landscaping; Attractive exteriors, Murals & Sculptures. University


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School of Architecture & Planning is still functioning from the University’s Kashmere Gate Campusand it’s from here that the Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University (exclusively for women students)is also operational. In so far as University’s School of Architecture & Planning is concerned, its worldclass infrastructure is being created at University’s East Campus located at Surajmal Vihar (spreadover the land measuring nearly 19 Acres) wherein an Institute of Design shall further be established.

HOSTEL

University has four well-equipped hostels for girls and boys. Each hostel is provided with television and cableconnectivity. It has also a good gymnasium. All hostels have Wi-Fi facilities and thereby the students canaccess internet in their respective rooms using their device. The hostels are provided with good hygieniccooking facility and spacious dining halls.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS AND FOREIGN STUDENTS INTAKE

The University has been able to formalize MoUs in order to facilitate exchange of faculty and students onthe one hand, and take up collaborative research, consultancy assignments, organizing of internationalconferences / seminars with international Universities having good repute, on the other; some of theseUniversities are : Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig / Wolfenbuettel, Germany, Universityof Padova, Padova, Italy, Catholic University of Paris (CUP), Institute Superieur d’Electronique de Paris(ISEP), Venice International University, Venice, Italy, Webster University Vienna, Vienna, Austria, HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany, ESSEC Business School, Cedex, France,ESCP, Europe, France, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Nanyag Technological University,Singapore and Singapore Management University, Singapore. A many as 71 International students tookadmission during the academic session 2013-14 from different countries of the world. Important amongthese being: Canada; Nigeria; Germany; Tibet; Thailand; Indonesia; Congo; Afghanistan; Bhutan; Iraq;Magnolia; Nepal; Cambodia; and Malaysia.

DOCTORAL RESEARCH

The University has a well formulated ‘Ph.D. Ordinance’ and the ‘Regulation in regard to ApprovedResearch Centres and Approved Supervisors’ which is in alignment with UGC’s Regulations(minimum Standards and Procedure for the Award of M.Phil/Ph.D. Degree), 2009. Ph.D studentsare registered through an entrance test followed by personal interview and completion ofcompulsory coursework requirement. The range of research subjects covers theoretical as well asthe experimental work in diverse elds such as Polymer Engineering and Technology, Genome Mapping,Theoretical Particle Physics, Renewable Energy, Organizational Behaviour, Financial Modelling,Strategy, Articial Intelligence, Education Management, Contemporary Indian Literature, BiodiversityConservation to name a few.

DOCTORAL AND POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

The University has introduced Doctoral and Post Doctoral Fellowships. The amount of Doctoral Fellowshipis Rs.14,000 per month for the rst two years to be increased to Rs.16,000 in the third year and the fourthyear. The amount for the Post-Doctoral scholarship is Rs.18,000 per month and the period is extendableto the third year.

PROVIDING ACCESS TO WEAKER SEGMENTS OF THE POPULACE

The Ofce of the Director, Student Welfare provides nancial support to weaker segments of the societythrough Student welfare fund to the extent of waiving of entire fee/partial fee payable by the students,whose parental income is less than Rs.2 Lakhs per annum, on the recommendations of a committeeconstituted for the purpose. These students could be either from the University Schools of Studies orfrom any afliated institutions.

UNIVERSITY INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTRE (UIRC)

The University Library, started its services from its inception of the University and moved to itsnew building at Dwarka Campus in January 2011 with the prime responsibility to supplementthe educational and knowledge needs of the students, researchers and its faculty members.UIRC has been consistently building up itself to fulll its objective by incorporating the latesttechnology and talent in providing most cost effective and time efcient information services toits member and for this the opening time of the library has been extended from 9.00 am to 9.00


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pm to facilitate students to access the library resources.The total area under the control of UIRC is about 29000sq.ft, which is spread over to two oors. The servicesoffered by UIRC are fully computerized and the Libraryis fully air-conditioned. The Resource Centre also hasXerox facilities and document delivery services.

UIRC provide a good ICT infrastructure for accessing itse-resources and have its own computer centre, where30 systems are installed for accessing the e-resources.Beside this, e-resources can also be accessed throughnewly installed wi- system from student’s laptop. The centre at present serves about 5868members.

UIRC is subscribing to about 340 Print Journals and magazines for its users. A balancedcollection of books having more than 50000 volumes of books, covering almost all the majorstream of studies with more focus on Science,Technology and Management (STM) are a part of itscollection development.

In order to supplement and complement the printresources, UIRC is subscribing to e-resources foralmost all the School of Studies, prominent amongthem are Nature Bundle, ACM Digital Library Collection,IEL Digital Library Collection, EBSCO database,Emerald Management Extra, Hein Online, Lexis-Nexis,Manupatra, Sci-Finder Scholar, Sage Communicationand Media Studies Bundle, West Law and manymore like this. In addition to this, UIRC is one ofthe members of INDEST and UGC-INFONET Consortia and can access all its resources over theinternet. Many of the online resources available in public domain can also be accessed throughthe University Library Webpage available at www.ipu.ac.in/urc/digital.htm. In totality, UIRC provideaccess to about 14000 + IP authenticated e-resources through its Webpage. Moreover, on thefaculty request, access is also provided off campus to these resources.

In addition to this, there are libraries in all the afliated colleges/institutes of the Universitydepending on the requirement of the courses.

SPORTS AND CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES FOR AN ALL AROUND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

The University accords signicance to all around development of the students. Therefore a series of sportsand co-curricular activities are planned throughout the year to attain the same.

The University has state of the art playgrounds comprising of Lawn Tennis Court, Badminton Court,Volleyball Court and a large Football ground besides indoor game facilities for Table Tennis, Chess,etc. A Sports Meet is also organized every year by the University where series of sports eventscovering Volleyball, Basket Ball, Football, Cricket, TableTennis, Badminton, Chess, Relay Race, Long, High andTriple Jumps, Short Put, Disc Throw, etc. are organized.These apart, students are also encouraged to participate inadventure sports like, Trekking, Rock Climbing, RiverCrossing, River Rafting, Skewing, Rappling, etc.

Every year in the month of February, a three days culturalfestival under the banner “Anugoonj” is organized in theUniversity where students from more than 100 afliatedinstitutions and the University Schools of Studies participate.In addition each University School of Study through theirstudents bodies organize technical festivals. Last year it has


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seen a substantial range of extracurricular student activities. This can be attributed to creation of Srijanunder the supervision of Director Student Welfare with support from enthusiastic faculty members. Srijan,the Indraprastha Society for Creative Expression, is constituted to promote Co-curricular activities amongstudents.

EXAMINATION

The University follows credit based evaluation. The overallweightage of a course in the Syllabi and Scheme ofExamination is determined in terms of credits assigned tothe course. Obtaining a minimum of 50% marks in aggregatein each course including the semester-end / year-endexamination and the teacher's continuous evaluation isessential to earn the assigned credits. A candidate whosecures less than 50% of marks in a course is, therefore,deemed to have failed in that course. A student is eligible forthe award of the University degree, if he/she has registeredhimself/herself, undergone the regular course of studies,completed the project report/ dissertation specied in thecurriculum of his/her programme within the stipulated time,and has secured the minimum credits prescribed for the award of the concerned degree.

ATTENDANCE AND RE-ADMISSION

A student shall be required to have a minimum of 75% or more in the aggregate of all the courses takentogether in a semester provided that the Dean of the School in case of University Schools and Principal/Director in case of University maintained college / afliated institutes may condone attendance shortageupto 5% for individual student as per University Examination Ordinances. However, under no condition, astudent who has an aggregate attendance of less than 70% in a semester shall be allowed to appear inthe semester end examination.

Student who has been detained due to shortage of attendance shall not be allowed to be promoted to thenext semester and he/she will be required to take re-admission in accordance with the University Rules.

A Student will be promoted to the next academic year only if such student has obtained at least,

A. 50% of the total credits of the ensuing academic year from which the promotion to nextacademic year is being sought, and

B. 90% of the total credits of previous year excluding the credits of the ensuing academic yearfrom which the promotion to next academic year is being sought.

All such students who fail to get promoted to next academic year for the reason of deciency in requiredcredits as stated here in above will automatically be declared to have taken academic break to reappear insuch examinations of previous semesters in which the student has failed, so as to obtain sufcient creditsto be promoted to the next academic year.

Only two academic breaks are permissible for a student for the completion of the academic programme/course. In no situation a student will be allowed to take more than two academic breaks, for any reasonwhatsoever, including for the reasons of detention for shortage of attendance or deciency of credits duringthe whole term of completion of the course/programme. A student who has exhausted two academic breaksand a further occasion arises for him or her to take academic break because of non promotion or detention,in such cases the admission of such student would automatically stand cancelled right at the time such anoccasion of more than two academic breaks arises.


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Prof. Anup S. Beniwal, Vice Chancellor

The founder faculty of the University, Professor Anup S. Beniwal has been pursuingteaching and research in the areas of Literature, Culture, Translations and Communicationstudies for the last 25 years. An alumni of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, hehas been a meritorious student throughout his academic career and has won variousawards and scholarships, such as National Merit Scholarship, AYOSA Gold Medal, etc.and has been twice adjudged as the Best Researcher (Humanity, Law & EducationGroup) of the University.

His areas of academic interest include Indian English Fiction, Contemporary HindiLiterature, Cultural Studies and Communication Studies. He has authored four books so far on varioussubjects such as Partition Literature, Tribal Studies and Narratives of Globalization. He has also publishedwidely in various national/international research journals, reputed magazines and news papers. He is onthe editorial and advisory boards of various research journals. He is on the Board of Studies and otheracademic bodies of various Universities in India

He has served the University in various capacities. He is the Dean of University School of Humanitiesand Social Sciences since 2008 and has been the Founder Dean of University School of Education andUniversity School of Mass Communication. He has held the ofce of Director Students’ Welfare and hasbeen the Chairmen and Members of various administrative and academic Committees of the University.

OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY & THEIR PROFILE

Smt. Ranjana Deswal, Registrar

Smt. Ranjana Deswal is an accomplished administrator, academician with quest andpassion for learning. Prior to joining as Registrar, GGSIP University, she headed theState Transport Authority, Department of Transport, Government of NCT of Delhi asSecretary.

She holds Masters in Public Policy from George Mason University, United States of America where she submitted research paper on Intelligent Transport System in Delhi.She achieved fourth rank in Delhi University in her undergraduate i.e. Bachelor ofScience with Major in Physics. Smt. Ranjana specialized in Astro Physics and PlasmaPhysics for her Masters from Delhi University.

She is a 1996 batch UTCS ofcer. She served the Government of NCT of Delhi as SDM, Land AcquisitionCollector, Deputy Commissioner – Transport, Additional Commissioner – Trade and Taxes and Director –New Delhi Municipal Council. She has also served as Additional District Magistrate and Project Director ofRural Development Agency in the Union Territory of Daman and Diu.

Prior to joining the Civil Services, Smt. Ranjana worked as Assistant Professor of Physics in Delhi University.

STATUTORY BODIES & CEO

The President of India is the Visitor of the University and the Lt. Governor of Delhi is its Chancellor.The University in its functioning gets support and guidance from its Statutory Bodies such as the Court,the Board of Management, the Planning Board, the Board of Afliation, the Ac ademic Council and theFinance Committee. To facilitate the assigned role to these Statutory bodies, the members of thesebodies are the persons of eminence from different elds and disciplines. The University functions underVice-Chancellor, Prof. Anup S Beniwal, on day-to-day basis who is supported by other Ofcers.

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Sh. S.K. Tanwar, Controller of Finance

Sh. S.K. Tanwar has more than 27 years of experience in accounting and auditingof various department of Government of India. He is MBA (Finance & Accounts)IGNOU, M.Com (University of Rajasthan) and B.Com (Hons.) from Delhi University.He is presently working as Controller of Finance in GGSIP University, Delhi. Before joining GGSIP University, he was associated in Pay & Accounts Ofce, Ministryof Home Affairs, Govt. of India and National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS),an autonomous organization under Ministry of Human Resource Development,Government of India. He has initiated various innovative techiques in nance andaccounts system while serving his previous intitutions. He was also instrumentalin establishing fully computerized Accounting system in National Institute of OpenSchooling (NIOS) and helped in developing nancial and accounting policies of the

Institution. He was a member of various committees constituted for formulating of institutional planning andpolicies as a Finance & Accounts expert. He also has experience in organizing national and internationalconferences/seminar on education.

Prof. Harish C. Rai, Controller of Examinations (Planning)

Prof. Harish C. Rai is the Controller of Examinations (COE) of Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University. Besides being COE, he is holding the additional charge ofDirector, Academic Affairs and Director, Research & Project Monitoring Cell of theUniversity. While being COE, during 2006-2009, Prof. Rai joined on deputation at All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi as Advisor-I. Prof. Raireceived his Undergraduate and Postgraduate Degrees in Engineering from DelhiCollege of Engineering, Delhi, followed by Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT,Delhi, in 1991.

Prof. Rai has rich experience of more than 33 years in the eld of Technical Education.He held faculty positions in premier institutions such as Faculty of Engineering &

Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi and Professor in the Department of Electrical& Electronics Engineering, C.R. State College of Engineering, Murthal, Sonepat, Haryana and Director, AICTE, New Delhi. His subject areas of interest include Electrical Machines, Control Engineering, PowerElectronics and Power Systems etc.

Prof. Rai has contributed a number of papers in National and International Journals of repute and alsoauthored 14 books meant for degree in Engineering or equivalent.

Prof. Rai is a fellow member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Institutionof Engineers, Aeronautical Society of India, ICTP, Life member of ISTE. Member of Governing Bodies ofNIT (Srinagar, Agartala, Duargapur) and CBSE. He is a recipient of “Spardha Shree Award 1999” for hisMeritorious Services in Education. He was awarded “Dr. S. Radha Krishnan National Teacher’s Memorial Award 1997”. He was a recipient of rst prize from MHRD-AICTE for writing a Technical Book in Hindi onIndustrial and Power Electronics. He was awarded Teacher’s Excellence Award – 2000 for valuable servicesrendered to the cause of Education in the Country.

Prof. Pravin Chandra, Controller of Examinations (Operations)

Prof. Pravin Chandra is working as Professor in the University School of Information& Communication Technology and Controller of Examinations of Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University, Delhi. Previously he was working as Assistant Professor(IT & Production & Operations Management) at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute ofManagement, New Delhi. He has also worked in University of Delhi as AssociateProfessor during 2010-2011, He did his M.Sc in Physics from University of Delhiand M.Tech. (Computer Applications) from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Articial Neural Network,Theoretical Computer Science. His doctoral research work is in the area of articialneural networks.


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Brig. Pradeep Kumar Upmanyu, Joint Registrar (Admissions)

Br ig . Pradeep K. Upmanyu is present ly work ing as Jo in tRegistrar(Admissions) in the University. He had joined this Universityas Deputy Registrar in 01st October, 1999. Since then, he hasworked in various capacities as Deputy Registrar and held variousdepartments like General Administration, Store & Purchase, StudentWelfare, Planning, Examination. Prior to joining this University, he wasserving as Regular Commission Ofcer in Indian Army in the Corpsof EME. He has also served as HOD of Transport & Security and FireDepartment in New Delhi Municipal Council , New Delhi on deputationfrom Indian Army for a period of four years from November 1994 toNovember, 1998. He has done his Graduation in Engineering from

REC, Kurukshetra in rst division and after that he has done several technical and managementcourses in the army being conducted at EME School at Baroda and MCEME at Secundrabad. Aftertaking premature retirement from Regular Army, he has taken commission into the Territorial Armyand at present posted as Deputy Director General TA (TA) in TA Directorate at Army Head Quarters(presently on disembodiment).


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Other Ofcers of the University

I Directors

1. Prof. A. K. Narula Centre for Pharmaceutical Technology

2. Prof. C. S. Rai Director (Students' Welfare) &

Director (Research & Consultancy)

3. Prof. Anu Singh Lather Director (International Affairs)

4. Prof. H. C. Rai Director (Academic Affairs) & COE (Planning)

5. Prof. M. Afzal Wani Director (Legal Aid Cell)

6. Prof. Neena Sinha Director (Development)

7. Prof. J. K. Garg Director (CDMS)

8. Prof. Suman Gupta Director (Centre for Governance)

9. Prof. A. K. Saini Director (IP University Interaction Cell)

II Proctor

Prof. U. K. Mandal Proctor

III Chief Warden

Prof. P. Bhattacharya Chief Warden

IV Examination Divison

Prof. Harish C. Rai Controller of Examinations (Planning)

Prof. Pravin Chandra Controller of Examinations (Operations)

Sh. A. D. Lamba Dy. Registrar

V Accounts Branch

Sh. Sushil Kr. Tanwar Controller of Finance

Sh. Partha Mukherjee Dy. Finance Ofcer

VI Admission Branch

Brig. P. K. Upmanyu Jt. Registrar

VII Academic - Coordination & Students Support Branch / Legal Branch

Dr. Nitin Malik Jt. Registrar

VIII Personnel Branch

Sh. A. K. Verma Jt. Registrar

IX Coordination Branch

Dr. (Mrs.) Suchitra Kumar Jt. Registrar

X Afliation Branch

Ms. Sunita Shiva Dy. Registrar

XI Estate

Md. Ahtesham Ullah Dy. Registrar

XII Purchase Branch

Dr. Abha Vermani Dy. Registrar

XIII General Administration Branch

Sh. Pankaj Agarwal Dy. Registrar

XIV Policy, Planning & RTI Branch

Sh. Ajay Kumar Asstt. Registrar

XV University Information Resources Centre(UIRC)

Mr. Subhash Deshmukh Librarian

Dr. Anand P Singh Dy. Librarian (On Deputation)

Dr. Kanta Kapoor Dy. Librarian (On Leave)

Dr. Savita Mittal Dy. Librarian

XVI Central Store

Sh. R. P. Kansal In-charge (Store)


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XVII Public Relations Section

Sh. Nalini Ranjan Public Relation Ofcer

XVIII Staff Development Cell

Prof. Arvinder Kaur Chairperson

XIX Centralized Career Guidance and Placement Cell

Prof. B. V. R. Reddy Chairman

XX University Legal Cell

Prof. Afzal Wani Director

XXI Academic Grievance Committee

Prof. P. C. Sharma Chairman

XXII University Works Division

Sh. V. P. Srivastava Superintending Engineer

XXIII University Dispensary

Dr. Ravi Gupta Medical Ofcer

XXIV Ofcers on Deputation

Sh. Sushil Kumar Jt. Registrar - On deputation as Registrar NIFTEM

Sh. Umakant Agarwal Dy. Registrar in Lien JNUFl. Lt. Mamta Rani Aggarwal Dy Registrar ( On Lien)

University Website and Intranet

University Centre for IT Infrastructure & Management (UCITIM)

A Committee comprising of three faculty members, namely Dr. Amit Prakash Singh, Sh. Ashish Payal and Sh.R.L. Ujjwal, under UCITIM maintains the website (www.ipu.ac.in) giving information on various aspects and facetsof the University. The website of the University also acts as a communication channel to the public at large andvarious institutions, parents, students etc. who wish to have any latest information about the University. The resultsof various programmes and all information relating to admissions are also given on this website.

The entire University is connected through 10 Gbps OFC LAN having Intranet facility available in each classrooms,Laboratories, seminar hall and ofces of the University. The internet facility has also been provided in each roomof the boys and girls hostel of the University. Wi- facility has been provided in and around university library.University has 1 Gbps NKN link for internet. UCITIM also provide repository services of library through its server.

UCITIM has dedicated mail server for faculty, staff and students.

Rules & Regulations

University administration functions while dealing with various issues of administrative and academic signicance,

within the provisions of the University Act, rules and regulations (Statutes & Ordinances) framed thereunder. The

University has notied 33 Statutes and 36 Ordinances which have not only been published in the Gazette of Delhi

but have also been laid on the oor of the Legislative Assembly of Delhi. The University Act and all its Statutes as

well as Ordinances have been placed on the University Website. This clearly speaks of the nature of transparency

maintained by the University Administration in its functioning keeping the society at large informed not only about

the academic programmes but also about all its latest rules, regulations etc.


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1. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BASIC & APPLIED SCIENCES (USBAS)

The basic science is the mother of Technlogy, Applied Sciences & Engineering. The University School ofBasic & Applied Sciences (USBAS) has a unique place in the academic landscape of the University. It hasbeen at the forefront of providing required courses in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics for B.Tech/M.Tech,MCA, M.Sc. teaching programmes of all University School of Studies. Along with active teaching at theundergraduate and the postgraduate levels, USBAS has a very vibrant research culture. The experienceand expertise of our faculty has played an important role in training students and preparing them for boththe professional job market and for basic & interdisciplinary research careers in Science & Technology.USBAS remains committed to this mission for all its present and future programmes.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

The faculty of USBAS is actively involved in teaching of above said foundation courses for B.Tech/M.Tech(Dual Degree) programmes of the University in the elds of Chemical Engineering, Information Technology,Biochemical Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Biotechnology and Computer Science& Engineering both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition, USBAS also runs threespecialized post graduate programmes of its own: M.Tech (Engineering Physics), M.Tech (Nanoscienceand Technology) and Post Graduate Diploma in Radiological Physics (PG-DRP). M.Tech (Nanoscience andTechnology) is started with the requisite funding provided by the Department of Sciences and Technology.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

Programme Duration (Years) Intake

M.Tech (Engineering Physics) 2 Yrs 18

M.Tech (Nano Science & Technology) 2 Yrs 15

*PG Diploma in Radiological Physics 1+1 20

*One year course work under UGC innovative programme+one year internship (from 2013 as per AERB guidelines)

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

The University School of Basic and Applied Sciences is one of the most active research promoters in theUniversity. Many of our faculty members are the acknowledged researchers in their areas of expertiseand undertake research projects in several frontline areas of Science. In the past decade, boundariesbetween the sciences have blurred like never before and many of the frontline areas of research are trulyinterdisciplinary in nature. Our excellent faculty and their team of research scholars actively pursue work indiverse areas both in fundamental sciences and interdisciplinary topics. Some of our research areas are inhigh energy physics, accelerator driven sub critical system, neutron scattering, Radiation Physics, MaterialScience, Ion Beam modications of materials, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum computing,medicinal chemistry, organometallic chemistry, polymer sciences, activated Carbon, Carbon & ceramicbased foam and inorganic nanostructured materials & their nanocomposites, Numerical analys is, Non-linearDynamics, Weather Forecasting, renewable energy, Nano Science, space dynamics, applied mathematics,uid dynamics and topology etc. The School also has many research projects funded by national fundingagencies like the DST, AICTE, CSIR, IUAC, BRNS UGC etc. Among our many research collaborators are theUniversity of Delhi, IIT Delhi, Sri Ram Institute for Industrial Research, Delhi, IUAC, New Delhi, Saha Instituteof Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, Punjab University, Patiala, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Torino Polytechnic, USA,INPE Obnisk & JINR Dubna, Russia and Unversity of Bonn (Germany). A Large number of our publicationsare in leading national and international referred journals of repute.

LABORATORIES

Over the preceding fourteen years, the University School of Basic & Applied Sciences has developedseveral equipped laboratories with state-of-the-art instruments to cater need of its teaching courses as wellas research activities:

● UG Chemistry Laboratories

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● UG Physics Laboratory● Chemistry Research Laboratories (Organometallic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry,

nanomaterial Synthesis)● Physics Research Laboratories (Solar Energy, Thermoelectric, Material Science and Radiation

Physics, Functional Nanomaterials)● Computational Physics Laboratory● Advanced Physics PG Laboratory● PGDRP Laboratory● Nano Science & Technology PG Laboratory● Non-Linear Dynamics Laboratary (Applied Mathemetics, Weather forecasting)

USBAS also supervises the functioning of the Technology Resource Centre (TRC) and Nano Science &Technology programme (NST) as a higher-end research facility, which provides industrial consultancyservices to industrial houses and to institutions and individual researchers. The TRC has many advanceinstruments like:

● Differential Scanning Calorimeter

● Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy

● High Performance Liquid Chromatography

● Gas Chromatography

● UV- Visible Spectrophotometer

● Viscometer

● Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analyzer

The NST has the following major facilities:

● XRD

● Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

● Source Meter

● Nanovolmeter The School is in the process of acquiring equipments like Micro Raman, UV-Vis-NIR Spectrophotometer,B-class Sun Simulator and High performance Computing Facility under the FIST(DST) grant and iscommitted to develop a closer association with industry through collaborations & consultancy.

FACULTY

USBAS has a team of qualied and highly accomplished faculty members. In total, we have 24 facultymembers.Prof. A.K. Narula, Dean, USBAS, Ph.D

Dr A.K. Narula is a Professor of Chemistry. Prior to joining this university in 1998, he wasProfessor of Industrial Chemistry at Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar and was Deanof Faculty of Science and Technology at Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar. He is alsoa Director, Centre for Pharmaceutical Science and Technology. He has done his Ph.D.from University of Delhi, Delhi. He has been a Post Dotoral Fellow at the Laboratory deChimie Minerale'et Moleculaire, Parc Valrose, Nice Cedex, France. He has more than30 years of Teaching and Research experience. He has Supervised about 16 Ph.D. At

present 6 Research scholars are working under his supervision. He has more than 80 research paperin journals of National and international repute. He is an author of two books. His area of research is Alkoxide Chemistry, Organometall ic Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry. He is aresource person and subject expert in the eld of Chemistry in many Universities and subject Reviewerfor many National and International Journals and also chaired the technical sessions in National as wellas International conferences. He has about 20 years Administrative experience as Director & ChairmanBoard of Studies, School Research Committee, Examination Committee, Curriculum DevelopmentCommittee, Library Committee, University News Letter etc., Life member of several International/Nationalrecognized Organizations in the sphere of Chemical Sciences and was Appointed as Consultant, SubjectExpert, Examiner-Head examiner for various examinations in various selection committees of States,Universities and Organizations.


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DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

Prof.(Mrs.) S. Manocha, FGSA

Dr. (Mrs.) Satish Manocha is a Professor of Chemistry at University School of Basicand Applied Science. Prior to joining this University, she has served at senior positionsat various organizations like as Senior Scientist at DST, CSIR & DSIR and Professor atSardar Patel University. She was a Professor and Head, Department of Materials Scienceat Sardar Patel University. She obtained her Ph.D. Degree from I.I.T. Delhi and Masterdegree from Delhi University. Her 32 years experience includes teaching, research andscience management at Institutions like Sardar Patel University, I.I.T. Delhi; N.P.L. Delhi;C.S.I.R. Delhi; D.S.I.R. and D.S.T, Delhi. On joining Sardar Patel University in 1992,she made signicant contributions in establishing the Department of Materials Scienceboth in Higher Education & Advanced Research programs of the Department. Currently, it

is Centre for Advanced Studies, the only CAS Department in Materials Science and particularly in Gujarat.She has done signicant research work pertaining to activated carbon, carbon and ceramics based foamsand inorganic nanostructured materials and their nanocomposites, nanoclays and their nanocomposites,nanosilver reinforced HA composite for medical application, carbon and ceramic based materials fromwaste materials under sponsored research projects from DAE, DRDO, DST, CSIR, AICTE and UGC. Herwork has been recognised by awards and honours such as Academician- 2013, Asian Pacic Academyof Materials (APAM); International Sardar Patel Award for Excellence in Technology Development-2012;MRSI-Medal, 2012 ; Elected Fellow of Gujarat Science Academy -2003; Visiting Researcher, Tokyo Instituteof Technology 1998-2003: Best poster presentation MRSI 2000 ; HariOm Ashram Prarit Inter UniversityBest Paper Award in Materials Science -1992. She has published more than 80 papers in peer reviewedJournals and chapter in Sadhna-INSA, Delhi. To her credit is one patent on Smectite Nanoclays from IndianClays. She has developed several processes which have been transferred to Industries, e.g. nanoclays,carbon and ceramic from Banana stem, porous carbon and carbon Foams for high end application andinorganic-carbon hybrid nanomaterials. Consultancies have been given to companies in USA, Japan andIndia. She has completed 15 national Projects from various funding agencies, e.g. DST, AICTE, UGC, CSIR,DAE, GUJCOST, DMSRDE, DRDO and 8 International projects sponsored by NSF, USA; IFCPAR, France;BMBF-Germany and TIT, Japan. 13 students have been awarded Ph.D. Degree under her guidance andcurrently 6 more are working. 197 M.Sc students have carried out M.Sc. projects under her supervision.She has given more than 25 Invited talks and key note addresses in International and national Conferences.She has been expert member on various DST, UGC, IBS and CSIR committees. She had organized sixRefresher courses in Materials Science sponsored by UGC for University and college teachers in westernregion of India and participants in turn promoted Materials Science In their Institutions. In addition she hasorganised more than 20 National & International conferences and workshops on Industrial Carbon andnanostructured carbon & ceramic materials.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Prof. Avinash C. Sharma, Ph.D., M.Sc.

Dr Avinash Sharma is a Professor of Physics. He obtained his PhD from Punjab University,Chandigarh in 1983. Prior to joining GGSIPU in 1999, he was at the Department of Physics,Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. He has more than 30 years of teaching & researchexperience. During his tenure as Dean USBAS (2005-2008), three PG level innovativeprogrammes were conceived and launched; and the School grew three folds in terms of facultystrength with extramural funding of several crores from various funding agencies, includingthe prestigious Nano Technology project from DST. Several international collaborative

programmes were also initiated. He has worked at CERN (Switzerland) and LNF, Frascati (Italy), and NihonUniversity (Japan) apart from short visits to a large number of International centers and universities worldover, including in USA, Russia, Taiwan, China, Japan, Netherland etc. He is also a recipient of Hari Om Ashram Research Endowment Award. He has successfully completed various research projects fundedby different organizations of repute such as UGC, DST, and CSIR. Recently he has also led internationalpatents. His area of Interest: Theoretical Particle Physics; QCD Phenomenology; B-Physics; Relic Neutrinos.He has also been Director of (Academic Affairs) from 2009-2011.


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DEPARTMENT OF NANO SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Prof. Vinod Kumar, M.Sc. , Ph.D

Dr. Vinod Kumar joined as Professor of Engg. Physics / Nano Science in the School of Basicand Applied Sciences on April, 30, 2010. Earlier, he was Professor of Physics and Directorof Centre for Development of Physics Education at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. In hiscareer as High Energy Nuclear Physicist from the year 1974 to 2001 he has published about144 research papers working in EMU01, L3, WA93, WA98 international collaborations. OnRelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions and Quark Gluon Plasma he has guided 3 students leadingto Ph.D degree during the period 1986 to 1994.

During the last 13 years he has pioneered research and developmental work related to Accelerator DrivenSub critical Systems (ADS) in the country for the development of nuclear energy systems for i) utilizationof Thorium as a fuel and ii) Transmutation and /or incineration of long lived nuclear waste. For the saidtechnology he has developed a Monte Carlo code in collaboration with JINR (Russia) and measured crosssections of very high energy spallation neutrons. Both the activities are useful in design and modellingof ADS. Recently, he is developing a Monte Carlo code for the Radiation Damage (named “JA-IPU”) byneutrons and other charged radiation and conducting pioneering experiments of (n,xn) reactions using thehigh energy accelerators for validation of the two codes in an international collaboration. In this new area ofR&D he has successfully guided 3 more research students. On the subject a book entitled "Role of (n,xn)reactions in ADS" has been published by Lambert publications (Germany).

He has been a member of Board of Studies of Physics in Kota, Ajmer and Rajasthan Universities and memberof a committee on Physics studies of ADS of BARC, Mumbai. He is member of the Advisory Committeeand COC of Centre for Development of Physics Education, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He is a memberof a DST committee for SERC School on Experimental High Energy Physics. He is a nominated memberof Scientic Advisory Committee (SAC) of IUAC, New Delhi and Departmental Research Committee of Applied Physics of BSBRA Central University, Lucknow. Also he has been nominated member of Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) of DST, New Delhi. He has been recognized by various academic and socialorganizations for his academic achievements.

Faculty of USBAS

1. Dr. Rashmi Bhardwaj, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

2. Dr. Shruti Aggarwal, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

3. Dr. Anu Venugopalan, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

4. Dr. Anjana Bagga, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

5. Dr. Vaishali Singh, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

6. Dr. Tapan K. Jain, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

7. Dr. Anindya Datta, Associate Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

8. Dr. Abha Aggarwal, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

9. Dr. Gulshan Dhamija, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

10. Dr. Arif Ali Khan, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

11. Dr. Kriti Batra, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

12. Dr. Archana Khurana, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

13. Dr. S. Neeleshwar, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

14. Dr. Yogesh Kumar Tyagi, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

15. Dr. Ram Shankar Gupta, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

16. Dr. Leena Khanna, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

17. Dr. Shipra Mittal Gupta, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

18. Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

19. Dr. Satyabrata Mohapatra, Assistant Professor M.Sc., Ph.D

20. Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Assistant Professor M.Tech


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2. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (USBT)

USBT was established in 1999 with ultra-modern facilities. It startedwith the mission of generating world-class manpower and knowledge-base for biotechnology education, research and development based onnational values, social awareness and conscience. The vision of USBThas been to impart learner-oriented education, research, demonstrationand dissemination of knowledge to the needs of a sustainable society.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

USBT offers B. Tech/M. Tech dual degree course in Biotechnology, M.Tech course in Food ProcessingTechnology and Ph.D programme. Admission is strictly through an All India Common Entrance Test. Studentswith 10+2 in physics, chemistry, biology or biotechnology are eligible for the B.Tech course. Engineeringgraduates or M.Sc. students of Biotechnology and Food Technology are eligible for M.Tech. Food ProcessingTechnology course.

Programme CET code Duraon (Years) Intake

B.Tech./M.Tech. (Dual Degree) 130 4+2 45

M.Tech. (Food Processing Technology) 152 2 20

INFRASTRUCTURE

USBT is equipped with advanced equipments and infrastructure commensurateto undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral research. It has been ranked sixthin India by Cyber Media Research (publishers of Biotech magazine Biospectrum,September 2012). USBT is the youngest among all Top Ten Biotech Schools.The USBT has established state of the art laboratories for teaching and researchin different areas of biotechnology viz. plant tissue culture, animal tissue culture,genomics, proteomics, microbial technology, food biotechnology and bioinformatics.

RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Advanced contemporary research is an important activity of the USBT that has ledto more than 200 research publications in last ve years - of which over 100 arein international journals. Presently, there are 24 students pursuing Ph. D underthe guidance of faculty members. The research areas span various disciplinesof biotechnology like plant biotechnology, structural and functional genomics andproteomics, plant based bioactives, biotic and abiotic stress signaling, developmentand metabolic regulation, animal biotechnology, immunology and molecular biologyof human pathogens and disease, microbial biotechnology, food biotechnology,biosensors, bioinformatics, etc.

CONFERENCES

USBT has successfuly conducted Indraprastha Internationalconference of Biotechnology in Oct 2013.Various renowned speakers from India and abroad had participated delivered their talk on various topicsrelated to Biotechnology. USBT had also conducted Indo-UK joint seminar on the topic related to 'Stem CellTechnology in Drug Discovery' in Jan 2013 jointly sponsored by DST, India & Royal Society, United Kingdom.

STUDENTS' PROFILE

Our students' prole reects its national character in terms of various regions, communit ies and gender. Aftercompleting B.Tech/M.Tech course a majority of students opt for PhD in India (IISc, NCBS, CCMB, JNCASR,NCCS, ICGEB, IGIB, NII, IITD, IITM, IITK, IITB) or abroad in Universities like Cambridge, Göttingen, Tufts,Penn State, Ohio State, Utah, Iowa State, Chicago, Massachusetts, Texas A & M, Cincinnati, Nebraska, andMax-Planck Institute, Frankfurt. Some successfully combine this course with MBA programme. Studentshave also been regularly offered jobs by industrial organizations such as Reliance, Panacea Biotech, TCGA,BCIL, Jubilant Organosys, and E-valueserve. Students of the USBT have proven their academic acumenby successfully qualifying in many national (UGC/CSIR/- NET, ICMR, GATE, CAT, IIFT, IMI, ICFAI, XIMB)and international (GRE, TOEFL, IELTS, GMAT) competitive examinations, often with top scores and ranks.


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FACULTY

USBT has an excellent faculty prole. Most of the faculty members of the USBT are Ph. D. holders fromreputed institutions in India and abroad and represent diverse areas such as Genomics, Bioinformatics, Agr icultural Biotechnology, Biomedical Research, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, EnvironmentalBiotechnology and Industrial Biotechnology, as well as IPR, Biosafety, Bioethics and Management issues, asevidenced by their publications, conference presentations, awards, and extramural research grants. Someof them are Fellows of National Academies/Societies/Professional bodies. Faculty members have availedtop research Fellowships l ike Alexander von Humboldt, JSPS, INSA-DFG, INSA-Royal Society, BOYSCAST,UNESCO Biotechnology Award, etc. to work in world-renowned institutes in Germany, Japan, UK and USA.The faculty consciously orients and updates themselves by attending refresher/orientation courses andparticipating in national/international conferences/symposia/workshops. Two faculty members have beenconferred with the Best Teacher Award, and one faculty the Best Researcher Award of the University. So farthe faculty has attracted extramural funding of Rs. 7.0 crores in the form of sponsored research projects fromvarious granting agencies like DRDO, CSIR, DST, DBT, AICTE, UGC, MoEF & ICAR. USBT has received5 year (2011-2016) grant from UGC, under Special Assistance programme (SAP) to carry out research on“Phytomedicines”. The USBT organized an International Conference on Biotechnology (IICB – 2013) duringOct 22-25, 2013. Over 250 national and international scientists participated in this important scientic event.

PROFESSORS

Prof. P.C. Sharma, Dean

Prof. P.C. Sharma did his M.Phil. & Ph. D in Ag. Botany (Genetics & Plant Breeding)from Meerut University. He has 30 years of teaching and research experience. Prior to joining this University in Nov. 2002, he served in Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerutas Lecturer and subsequently as Reader in the Department of Agricultural Botany, andas Coordinator, Department of Biotechnology. His main teaching and research areascover genetics, plant molecular biology, agricultural biotechnology and bioinformatics.He has over 100 research publications to his credit. He has availed INSA-DFGInternational Exchange Fellowship in 1993, 1998 and 2009, UNESCO BiotechnologyFellowship in 2000 at Plant Molecular Biology unit of Department of Biology, FrankfurtUniversity, Frankfurt, Germany. During these visits, he worked on development of

molecular markers for DNA ngerprinting, genome mapping and transcriptome analysis in chickpea. In2002, he was awarded long term JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, which he availed atIwate Biotechnology Research Centre, Kitakami, Japan to work in front line areas like Virus Induced GeneSilencing and Serial Analysis of Gene Expression. His group’s most recent research on in silico mining ofmicrosatellites has been published in high ranking international journals and led to the development of twohighly accessed microsatellite databases. A large number of EST and short sequences have been submittedto NCBI database. He has been PI/Co-PI in different research projects sanctioned by DBT, DRDO, ICAR,etc. He has supervised 14 Ph.D. and a large number of M.Phil., M.Sc. and M.Tech. students. He is a Fellowof the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc.),and Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences(FNAAS).

Prof. K. Kannan

Prof K. Kannan former Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University (Central University) andfounder Dean of USBT, did M.Sc. Chemistry from IIT(Bombay) and Ph.D. (Biochemistry)from Mysore University, a fellow of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London.He has worked at CCMB, Hyderabad, established the rst biotechnology programme inPune University and industry. He has held senior positions (Director, GM & AssociateDirector) in the diagnostic industry (Span Diagnostics) and pharmaceutical industry(Ranbaxy Research Lab). He is very well known for initiating stem cell research inIndia nearly three decades ago. He established the rst extracellular role for ubiquitinin the world and its role in hematopoitic stem cell in homing and adhesion in mousebone marrow in 1993. Areas of research interest are Protein Chemistry, Enzymology,

Natural Products, Stem cell Biology, Diagnostics, Molecular Medicine, Hematology, DNA Probes, FISH,Dairy Science and Technology. He was the national convener for biotechnology for CBSE (2002-2009) whointroduced Biotechnology for XI and XII as an optional subject and the state of Jammu & Kashmir. In theyear 1970 he was recipient of the National Science Talent Scholarship from Government of India. He wasmember of the National committee on Higher Education drafting the 12th Plan. In the year 2000, the nowwell known cultural festival Anugoonj was initiated by Prof. K. Kannan.


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Prof. Rajinder K. Gupta

Prof. Rajinder K. Gupta, Ex-Dean (2009-12) completed his higher education includingrst PhD degree from Delhi University in Organic Chemistry of Natural Products. Heearned his second PhD in Microbiology /Biotechnology from University of Idaho, USA.He was awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to work at the Technical University,Berlin, Germany, where he worked on Phytochemicals and Natural Products. He workedon bioactive agents from marine organisms at the University of Oklahoma, USA, and onactinomycetes physiology and on their biocatalytic /biotransformation ability of varioussubstrates of natural origin at University of Idaho, USA. He has over 134 researchpublications to his credit and has more than three decades of experience in academia,and industry (pharmaceutical, agrochemical, polymer and commercial test house). Heis a member of several national & international professional /academic bodies. He has

provided consultancy to Delhi Government to set up an ultramodern food quality testing facility in Delhi.His current areas of research include Phytomedicine, nutraceuticals and functional foods, antibiotics fromactinomycetes, biotransformations, and nanobiotechnology. Currently he is looking after M. Tech FoodProcessing Technology Program.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Dr. N. Raghuram

N. Raghuram (Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1994) specializes in the functional genomics of plantsignaling and metabolic regulation by light and nitrate through G-protein pathways, with special referenceto plant nitrate assimilation and N use efciency, in rice, Arabidopsis and Spirulina (Arthrospira).

Dr. K.K. Aggarwal

K.K. Aggarwal (Ph. D from University of Delhi, 1994) specializes in enzyme purication and characterization,protein-protein interactions, bioremediation, plant insect interaction.

Dr. Meenu Kapoor

Meenu Kapoor (Ph.D., 1997 from Center for Gene Research, Nagoya University, Japan) specializes inplant molecular biology with emphasis on gene silencing using developmental mutants and epigenetics.

Dr. Promila Gupta

Promila Gupta (Ph.D. from University of Delhi, 1997) specializes in economic botany, plant developmentalbiology with emphasis on exploring phytochemicals and their roles in alleviating various types of biotic andabiotic stresses ensuring better plant survival and possible medicinal implications for human welfare.

Dr. Suresh Kumar

Suresh Kumar (Ph.D. from Newcastle University, UK) holds a B. Pharma and M. Tech in Biotechnology.He specializes in role of Phyto-medicine in neurodegenerative disorders specically Alzheimer diseases.His area of interest includes receptor defects in breast cancer patient and immunopharmacological studyof herbal compounds.

Dr. Nimisha Sharma

Nimisha Sharma (Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, 2000) specializes in the area of regulation of geneexpression in eukaryotic cells and functional genomics, with a focus on RNA Polymerase II transcriptionalmachinery.

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Dr. Monika Gandhi, (Ph.D. from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 2004) specializes in the role ofcomplement receptor 1 in the pathophysiology of falciparum malaria, and the molecular etiology of recurrentspontaneous abortions and plant based therapeutics for recurrent spontaneous abortions.

Dr. Ram Singh Purty, (Ph.D. from University of Delhi, 2005) specializes in plant signal transduction andabiotic stress tolerance mechanisms in plants.

Dr. Rinu Sharma, (Ph.D. from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 2004) specializes in differential geneexpression in cancer, development of biomarker targeted early diagnosis of cancer.

Mr. Sayan Chatterjee, B.Tech in Biotechnology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata. M.E. inBiotechnology from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, specializes in Bio-informatics,Food Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering.


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3. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY (USCT)

Vision

To be among the top ten schools in the country imparting innovative and practical knowledge in the ChemicalEngineering and allied elds to help people and society in terms of services by the students.

Mission

To generate new knowledge by offering graduate and post graduate programme and provide quality manpowerwith high employment potential in the present liberalized economic climate in the era of globalization.

Concept of The School

University School of Chemical Technology (USCT) is a place for fertile young minds who will be futurethinkers, developers and creators with special focus on Chemical Engineering and its allied elds. TheUSCT offers to the students a high quality learning experience, appropriate blend of theory, basic principlesand engineering practice which is boosted by cutting edge research and innovation – at the heart of oneof the nation’s most vibrant cities.

QUALITY POLICY

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University is committed to providing professional education with thruston creativity, innovation, continuous change and motivating environment for knowledge creation anddissemination through it’s Quality Management System.

Programmes offered

y B. Tech/M. Tech (dual degree) in Chemical Engineering - (4+2) years

y B. Tech/M. Tech (dual degree) in Bio-Chemical Engineering - (4+2) years

y M. Tech in Chemical Engineering – 2 years.

y Ph.D Programme.The curriculum is structured to provide knowledge in a variety of areas to the students. The system isexible so that a student has adequate opportunity to learn about other elds such as Biotechnology,Information Technology and Environment Management, Business Management and be equipped toserve emerging interdisciplinary elds in future.

WHAT IS CHEMICAL ENGINEERING?

Chemical Engineering is sometimes called ‘Process’ or ‘Manufacturing’ engineering. It concerns the Science,Technology and Management involved in making the materials and products the society needs. Chemistsdesign chemical reaction routes to produce desirable products, working on a molecular level. ChemicalEngineers then nd ways to put these into practice in a cost-effective and safe way on an industrial scale,using real equipment to move, mix, react, heat up, cool down, and separate materials. Over the last 25years, Chemical Engineering has evolved developing interfaces with newer areas, including BiochemicalEngineering, Nano Technology, and Energy Engineering taking advantage of developments in highperformance computations, electronics and instrumentations and information processing. Chemical Engineerscan work in areas from chemo-informatics to bioinformatics, drug delivery systems, molecular modelling, tohandling systems from nanoscales to global scales for environmental impact and climate change. There isa huge scope for higher studies in Chemical Engineering because of highly science based discipline andrequirement of R&D in the country.

CAREER PROSPECTS

y Our graduate/post graduate students are acceptedand recognized throughout the world. A prestigiousqualication from our University is a passport to a greatfuture.

y Courses have a practical focus and use design projects,laboratory experiments and problem based learning toenhance theoretical work. You gain the analytical andproblem-solving skills that are sought by the employers.

y Chemical Engineers work in a wide range of employment sectors at home and abroad.


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y Close links with industry ensure your degree will be well known and highly acclaimed.

y A Chemical Engineering degree is widely applicable to industrial and business sectors, giving youchoice and exibility.

y Our graduates also forge excellent careers in non-Chemical Engineering jobs, such as nance,marketing and management.

USCT has launched a new B.Tech/M.Tech dual degree programme in Biochemical Engineering from theacademic session 2013-2014. A wide range of industries such as agriculture, food, enzymes, fermentation,chemicals, waste treatment, energy and health care need trained people in BioChemical engineering. As bothChemical and Biochemical Engineering Programs are capital intensive that require specialized laboratoryinfrastructure and trained & experienced personnel only a few Institutes like IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur andNIT Jalandar etc. are offering these engineering programs.

RESEARCH FACILITIES & LABORATORIES

The Chemical Engineering Laboratories like Instrumentation and Process Control, CAD and Simulation,Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Reaction Engineering and Unit Operations are well equippedwith imported/indigenous equipment/instruments. The USCT has state-of-the-art laboratories, set up at acost of roughly Rs.2.0 crores. The students are trained on softwares like ASPEN PLUS, MATLAB, FLUENT,gPROM, SIGMA PLOT, Design Expert 8, PHAST RISK to enhance their capabilities. The school has manyresearch facilties like Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Double beam UV-VIS Spectrophotometer,Electronic Turbine/Corolis Mass ow meter for both liquid and gas ow calibration, Surface Area Analyzer,Refractometer, Surface Charge Analyzer, GC FID and GC TCD

THRUST AREAS OF RESEARCH

Petroleum and Perochemical, Biofuels and Bioprocessing, Catalysis, Process safety/Hazard, SeparationTechnology, Process Modeling, Simulation and Control, Environment.

ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY INTERACTION

Eminent professionals from industry are invited on regular basis, so that faculty and students can interactand enhance their knowledge. To name a few, senior executives from Indian Oil Corporation Limited [IOCL(R&D centre)], Stone and Webster Inc., Engineers India Limited (EIL), Institution of Engineers (India), havevisited the School and delivered lectures in their respective areas of expertise. As part of B.Tech curriculumstudents go for summer training after completion of six semester of studies in leading organizations likeEIL, Oil & Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), IOCL, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL), IFFCO and so on.The students also go on industrial visits to get a feel of the industry.

TRAINING & PLACEMENT CELL

The Training & Placement Cell constantly endeavors to forge a strong network with the industry to ensureplacement of its students in leading organizations like Reliance Industries Limited, NFL, Nuclear PowerCorporation Limited, BALCO, Hindustan Lever Limited, IOCL, ONGC, EIL, Bhaba Atomic Research Centre,NTPC, Glaxo Smithline, Defence Research & Development Organisation, Dabur Research Foundation,Hindustan Copper Limited, Prakash Chemicals Limited, CICO Chemicals Limited, KLGESS, JubilantOrganosys, Kokoku Intech Company, Limited (India) and Nerolac. The other major activity of the cell is tohelp students in getting placement for training.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

‘REACT' – student's body of USCT organizes an annual technical festival ‘Sanshlation', which providesthem an opportunity to interact with students of other institutions. The students also participate regularly ininter and intra institute competitions and have brought many accolades to the School. REACT also organize‘CHEMCHORD’ a national level student seminar on various growing issues like safety, environment incoordination with IIChE every year.

FACULTY

The highly qualified and experienced faculty has varied experience in process industry, researchorganizations, and academic institutions. At present, the faculty strength is 17 that include the Dean, threeProfessors, four Associate Professors and nine Assistant Professors.


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Prof. U. K. Mandal, Dean

Dr. U.K. Mandal is a Professor of Chemical Engineering & is Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur& M.Tech, B.Tech from Calcutta University. He has 18 years of Teaching & Researchexperience. His areas of interest is Polymer Engineering, Nanotechnology & SeparationTechnology. He has published 25 research papers in Internatioal journals, presented/published 15 papers in National/International seminars. He has guided 3 Ph.D students.

Prof. S. S. Sambi

Dr. S. S. Sambi is Ph. D., M. Tech and B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from IndianInstitute of Technology, Delhi with post doctoral experience of over twenty-ve yearsin teaching/research. Seventeen publications in national/international journals besidesseveral presentations/publications in conferences/workshops. Field of specialization isHeat and Mass transfer and special interest in the eld of biomass combustion, pyrolysisand gasication. Several B. Tech, M. Tech and Ph. D. students are beneting from hisguidance. Member of Board of Studies – PTU (Punjab Technical University), Uttar Pradesh

Technical University, Lucknow, Deenbandhu Chotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Murthal.Member of expert committee of Department of Polymer Science and Chemical Technology, DTU, Delhi.Joint secretary of IIChE, Northern Regional Center and also coordinator for its scholarship committee.

Prof. M. A Siddiqui

Over 35 years of professional experience spanning several petroleum/petrochemicalcompanies and research institutions. Prior to joining the Indraprastha University, he heldthe position of Executive Director (R&D), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and in thatcapacity headed the corporate R&D Centre. He has published over a dozen papers/articles and presented a score of papers in national/international seminars/symposia. Hehas several patents (granted/applied for) to his credit.

Prof. Arinjay Kumar

Dr. Arinjay Kumar is Ph.D. and M.Tech. in Chemical Engg. from IIT Roorkee. He has 15years of teaching & research experience. His areas of interest include Hazardous WasteTreatment, Bioprocess Engg. & Modeling & Simulation. He has published/ presentedresearch papers in National/ International Journals, proceeding and conferences. Heis life member of two professional bodies of Engineers namely; Institution of Engineers(India) and Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. He has guided many Doctoral/M.Tech. students.


Dr. Neeru Anand, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)Dr. Rakesh Angira, Ph.D. (BITS, Pilani)Dr. Biswajit Sarkar, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)Dr. Aradhana Srivastava, Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)


Dr. S. K. Sharma, Ph.D. (Kanpur University)Dr. Tapan Sarkar Ph.D. (University of California, USA)Dr. Hasan Akhtar Zaidi, Ph.D. (IIT, Delhi)Ms. Sanigdha Acharya, M.Tech. (Punjab University, Chandigarh)Mr. Azad Singh, MS (IIT, Delhi).Mr. Dinesh Kumar, (Pursuing Ph.D. at IIT Delhi).Mr. Deepak Garg, M.Tech. (Pursuing Ph.D. at IIT Roorkee)Dr. Monisha Mrida Mandal, Ph.D. (IIT, Delhi)Mr. Binay Shah, M.Tech. (IIT Roorkee)


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4. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT (USEM)

The University School of Environment Management was establishedin the year 1998 essentially to address future environmental problem andsustainable use of natural resources through quality education, training andresearch. The vision followed by the School is to actively pursue the goalsof imparting quality education, training and facilitate research in the eldof environment and natural resources management and also act as a thinktank in policy matters related to environment management and sustainabledevelopment. The School is set up for the accomplishment of its nation tobuild a pool of trained and dedicated professionals who can contribute tothe systematic development of policies, measures and programmes for environmental management and sustainable development at national andinternational levels. USEM has got Placement cell which actively facilitatesummer training, major projects/dissertations and nal job placement ofstudents. Two Student's forum Biophilia and SEED are active for the variousstudents' activities in the School.

OBJECTIVES OF THE SCHOOL

• To provide quality education and training in environment management.• To pursue and facilitate contemporary research in various facets of bioresources and environment

using modern analytical and other tools such as geospatial techniques.• To establish working linkages with industry and undertake research on environment related issues.• To foster environmental awareness and promote the principles and practices of sustainable

development.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

The School of Environment Management offers 02 years Masters Programmes in(i) M.Sc. Environment Management (25 seats intake)(ii) M.Sc. Biodiversity and Conservation (20 seats intake)(iii) M.Sc. Natural Resource Management (25 seats intake)

These programmes are aimed to develop professionals, equipped with the fundamental scientic knowledgeso as to become responsive to the current and emerging environmental issues. The students acquire indepth and comprehensive understanding of a wide variety of environmental analysis tools, methods andsystems so that they can play a leading role in the development and application of environmental policiesand conservation programmes for environmental management and sustainable development. Presentintake for the courses is: 25 students for M. Sc. Environment Management (EM) from science/engineeringbackground, 20 for M.Sc. Biodiversity and Conservation (B&C) from any discipline of Biological/ Life Sciencesand 25 students for M. Sc. Natural Resource Management (NRM) from science background students. Everyyear students of all the M.Sc. programmes were taken to eld visits to orient them actual issues and forpractical understanding on subject areas.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

During the last couple of years the School has made concerted efforts in promoting research activities inthe contemporary areas of research. Presently, USEM is actively involved in carrying out research in thefollowing thrust areas:

• Conservation Biology, Biodiversity• Glaciology• Urban landscape- green space management• Environmental Biotechnology• Water and wastewater treatment• Energy and Environment Interactions, Climate Change• Environmental modeling• Air, Water and land pollution, EIA• Biosystematics of plants and animals• Disaster management• Forestry, ecotourism, Livelihoods


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• Wetland ecosystem• Wildlife and habitat ecology

Few senior level ‘post- doctoral research scholars’ are also workingin various research lab. with Sponsored research project of DST/UGC/CSIR

PH.D PROGRAMME AT THE SCHOOL

The school strongly focus on inter-disciplinary research in theenvironmental eld on all the above diversied area to addresscurrent issue pertains to nature and environment. The Ph.D Scholarsof the School (51nos.)are working on different research topics, theyare admitted through common written test and interview as perthe university rules. Research scholars share their results throughmonthly in-house seminars, national and international conferenceand by journals publications. Most of the regular scholars havetheir scholarship from UGC/CSIR/GGS IPU/DST- Inspire fellowshipprogramme. On an average annually about 30-40 research papersare published from the School, some are having high impact factors

INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITIES

USEM has state of the art laboratories for carrying out teaching andresearch. USEM boasts of having an advanced instrumentationsystem lab, water quality analysis laboratory, remote sensing / GISlaboratory, environment microbial technology laboratory, Energy andClimate Change, air pollution monitoring laboratory, biosystematics,natural resource management and conservation biology laboratory.

ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEM LABORATORY

Lab houses the latest and sophisticated instruments namely,Gas Liquid chromatograph (GLC), High Performance LiquidChromatograph (HPLC), UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), CHNSO Analyzer, MicrobialIdentication System, Mass Detection System, Automatic Titrator,Flame Photometer etc.

Water Quality Analysis Laboratory

Physico-chemical parameters of water are analyzed in this laboratory.Special emphasis is given on learning treatment techniques for publicwater supply and domestic and industrial efuents. Water qualityanalysis laboratory is the hub of teaching and research in the school.

Geomatics Lab

School has among the best equipped facilities for carrying outresearch in the area of bioresources and environment using geospatialtechniques. Geomatics lab has remote sensing and GIS software's likeERDAS 2010, ArcGIS, Arc View, GeoMedia, ENVI, SARSCPAE etc.which not only cater to the needs of M.Sc. students but also researchneeds of the Ph. D. scholars

Environment Microbial Technology Laboratory

Environmental Microbial Technology Lab with facilities like Laminar Air Flow, BOD Incubator, incubator shakers, centrifuge, autoclave,microscopes, colony counter etc. is providing knowledge of microbialworld and their use in bioremediation.

NRM and Conservation Biology Laboratory

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resources, Wildlife, Grassland resources, Certication ,Ecotourism and other components of NRM. Variousequipments like Digital Soil Moisture Meter, Digital pH Meter, Digital Platform Scale, microscopes, eldBinoculars, digital Cameras, Scientic compass, GPS etc.

ENERGY & AIR POLLUTION MONITORING LABORATORY

Energy and Air Pollution monitoring laboratory has latest and sophisticated instruments like High Volumesampler, Bomb Calorie Meter, Sound Level Meter etc. Experiments in this lab are performed on sampling,analysis, measurement and monitoring of air and noise pollution. The lab has recently acquired sensorbased instrument for analysis of green house gases and aerosols.

BIOSYSTEMATICS LAB

Biosystematics lab has all the latest instruments like gel-doc, PCR, uorescence microscope and softwarerequired in the elds of systematics, phylogenetics and web designing.

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION LAB

Biodiversity and Conservation lab has all the latest instruments like gel-doc, PCR, uorescence microscopeand software required in the elds of systematics, phylogenetics and web designing.

In addition to the teaching labs, there are labs dedicated to the research in the specied elds.

STUDENT’S PROFILE

Our students have done exceptionally well and are placed at reputed educational and professional insti tutesand organisations. Most of the students are pursuing research in reputed national and internationalorganizations like IISC Bangalore, Helmholtz Zentrum Fuer Umweltforschung UFZ-Germany, ATREE, IIT-Delhi, TERI, JNU, Nottingham University, UK etc. The students of our school are usually placed at FICCI,Department of Environment, Govt. of Delhi, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., TCS, RMSI, NOIDA, Emergent VenturesIndia, Ramkay Environment Engineers Ltd; JK Cement Ltd; Google Earth, Vayam Techologies, Jindal Steel,ERM Consultants, Centre for Science and Environment, CII- ITC; Central Road Research Institute, EnergyPlantation Project India Ltd., Comibatore, JM Environment Pvt. Ltd., Union Bank, Syndicate Bank, WetlandsInternational-South Asia, Delhi Pollution Control Committee, TERI, ATREE, WII, SACON, WWF. Many ofour students have been qualifying UGC/CSIR-NET and SLET competitive examinations for the eligibilityof scholarship and lectureship.

FACULTYUSEM possess excellent group of experience faculty members, they are all having PhD degree from reputedinstitutions. Faculty members have long years of experience of running International and national researchprojects. Most of them are involved with several areas of expertise as evidenced from their publication, awards,fellowships and sponsored research grants. All faculty members are continually improving their teachingmethods, and explore new areas of research. Faculty members are having many prestigious committeememberships and having involved in collaborative projects and association with foreign universities.

Prof. Prodyut Bhattacharya, Dean

Dr. Prodyut Bhattacharya did his Postgraduate in Botany with specialization in ForestEcology and Ph.D. awarded in Botany, worked in Ecology and utility of Ethno-medicinalPlants from Dr. H.S. Gour University (Central University), Sagar, M.P.

He has 24 years of experience in research and teaching for post graduate. A fellowof Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) of the University of California,Berkley, USA and Visiting Scientist fellowship (JSPS) under University of Tsukuba,Japan. Received advance training on community forestry and micronance fromRECOFTC, Kassetsart University, Bangkok; University of Naropa, Colorado, USArespectively. He has worked as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the

Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal since 1994 (before joining to GGSIPU), developedand set up the International Centre for Community Forestry (ICCF) at IIFM, Bhopal. Published more than125 research papers, in international and national journals including articles, technical reports, conferencepapers and four books as co-author. He has completed 10 international sponsored research projects & 14other nationally sponsored research projects from multilateral/bilateral donors Government and Corporatebodies. Guided several Ph.D. scholars and guided 26 M.Phil. theses. Completed 17 consultancy assignments


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for government, donor organization and for industries, and widely travelled to more than 20 countries withdifferent academic assignments. He is a member of different committees of Government of India, Internationalprojects, editorial board of journals and member, board of studies of different universities.

His research interest pertain to the broad NRM issues and Livelihood linkages; in subject area of BiodiversityConservation, Forest Ecology, Sustainable NTFP Management, effect of climate change, Urban-forestry,Forest Governance, Certication and Sustainable Forest Management.

Prof. Amarjeet Kaur

Dr. (Mrs.) Amarjeet Kaur did M.Sc. from Kurukshetra University and Ph.D. fromHaryana Agriculture University, Hisar. She has more than 22 years of experience inresearch and training. Her areas of specialization are applications of Remote SensingTechnology in Environmental Management, Disaster Management, and EnvironmentalBiotechnology. She has worked as Principal/Co-Principal Investigator of variousinternational/national projects related to Environment Management. She has visitedUSA, UK and Japan in connection with study exchange programmes and conferences.She was also involved in Environmental Management Plan of Delhi using RemoteSensing Technology and GIS.

Prof. J. K. Garg

Dr. J.K. Garg, M. Phil. (Environmental Science) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, NewDelhi and Ph.D. in the area of Wetland Conservation and Management from GujaratUniversity, Ahmedabad, has more than 35 years of experience. Dr. Garg has pioneeredthe research pertaining to use of remote sensing and GIS for environmental applicationsin the country while working at Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad. It maybe mentioned that 1st scientic inventory of the wetlands in the country, sponsored bythe Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, was carried out underhis guidance. He has completed successfully 12 research projects in various spheres ofbio resources and environment using geospatial techniques. His main endeavour hasbeen to develop techniques for environmental appraisal of developmental activities,wetland conservation and management, biodiversity conservation, wildlife habitat

suitability analysis, landslide hazard assessment etc. besides natural resources census using RS and GIStechniques. Prof. Garg has more than 140 publications which include research papers in international/national journals, book articles, and reports etc.

His current areas of research include emission and modelling of GHGs, climate change and ecosystemresponse, wetland ecology, watershed management, environmental hazards and developmental planning,biodiversity conservation, EIA of major developmental activities like mining, coal pithead thermal powergeneration, river valley projects, ecosystem analysis and management, and natural hazards assessmentetc. using geospatial techniques and other contemporary analytical tools.

Prof. Anubha Kaushik

Dr. Anubha Kaushik obtained her Masters and Ph.D. degree in Botany from K.U.Kurukshetra. She did pioneering work on phytosociology, biomass, nutrient dynamicsand carbon allocation patterns in grassland ecosystems of sodic soils, in collaborationwith Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana for her doctoral thesis.She has 08 Gold Medals to her credit in Academics and was awarded Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Fellowship Award and Gold Medal, Nehru Memorial FoundationPrize.. She has more than 29 years of P.G. teaching experience at different universities( G.J. Univ. of Science & Technology, Hisar, K.U. Kurukshetra, M.D.University, Rohtak)since 1984, and is Professor for the last 11 years. She has been Dean and founderChairperson of Env. Sc. & Engg. Deptt. at GJUS&T and KUK. She has been VisitingFellow in the Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,

Canada and Academic Guest to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),Boulder, Colorado,USA. She has published more than 100 research papers ( International 73 ; National 39 ), 07 TechnicalReports, about 25 scientic articles and book chapters, edited 05 Conference Proceedings and co-authored05 Books., besides more than 40 abstracts in conference proceedings. She is/ has been Member EditorialBoards of 06 journals and is in reviewer's panel of about 20 international journals. She was awarded DSTYoung Scientist Research Project and 07 Major projects funded by the UGC,CSIR, DOE, Haryana and has


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undertaken Consultancy work for the State Govt., Haryana and several industries. She has produced 15 Ph.Ds, supervised more than 80 P.G. research Projects and 03 M.Phils. Her current research areas include waterand soil pollution, bioremediation of heavy metals and dyes using cyanobacteria, biohydrogen productionusing microbial systems, Microbial fuel cell Technology , Constructed Wetland Technology and EIA studies.

Prof. N.C.Gupta

Dr. N.C. Gupta joined the GGS IP University in July 1999. He is Post-graduate inPhysics. He obtained his M. Phil. and Ph. D in Energy and Environment Systems fromJawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He is the founder member of UniversitySchool of Environment Management (USEM) and served as Associate Professor,Reader with the School prior to his current position. He was post-doctoral fellow (ProjectScientist) with The Energy and Biomass Conversion Laboratory of the Departmentof Chemical Engineering, IIT-Delhi and researcher with the Radio and AtmosphericScience Division of National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Delhi. He has more than22 years of research experience out of which 15 years of teaching experience to M.Sc. Environment Management, B. Tech., M. Tech. (Chemical Technology) and MBA

(Disaster Management). He was instrumental in setting up of major laboratories in the University School ofEnvironment Management. He has instructed vide variety of courses which includes Energy, Environmentand Technology, EIA, Air pollution, Climate Change and disaster management and risk analysis. He hassupervised several Doctoral Thesis and more than 70 dissertations including M. Sc., B. Tech., M. Tech. inthe area of energy, environmental pollution, EIA, climate change, environment management and disastermanagement. He has carried out several consultancy assignments for NTPC, IPGCL Power plants, Larsen &Toubro, NMBA and major project of UGC. He is training and placement in-charge of the School since 2002.He has delivered several talks in thermal power industry on environment protection and pollution control.He is editorial board member of international peer reviewed journals and is reviewer of several international journals. He has published more than 50 research papers in international and national journals. Prof. Guptais member of several academic associations/societies.

OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL :

Associate Professors

• Dr. Rita Singh, Associate Professor: D.Phil. (Allahabad University), Specialization: Biosystematicsand Conservation Biology

• Dr. Varun Joshi, Associate Professor: Ph.D. (HNB Garhwal University), Specialisation:Environmental geology, Natural hazards and Sustainable development, Glaciology, Disastermanagement, EIA

• Dr. Kiranmay Sarma, Associate Professor: Ph.D. (North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong),Specialization: Remote Sensing and GIS, Geography, Wildlife.

Assistant Professors

• Dr. Anshu Gupta, Assistant. Professor: Ph.D. (IIT Delhi), Specialization: EnvironmentalBiotechnology, Enzyme purication and Characterization.

• Dr. Deeksha Katyal, Assistant Professor: M.Sc., Ph.D. (Delhi College of Engineering),Specialization: Water quality assessment, Ground water pollution modelling, and analyticalinstrumentation.

• Dr. Pamposh, Assistant Professor: Ph.D. (Delhi University), Specialisation: Wetland Ecology.

• Dr. Sanjay K. Das, Assistant Professor: Ph.D. (J.N.V. University, Jodhpur), Specialisation:Biosystematics, Herpetology and Wildlife Ecology, Avi-fauna.

• Dr. Sumit Dookia, Assistant Professor: Ph.D. (J.N.V. University, Jodhpur), Specialisation:Biosystematics of Mammals Wildlife Ecology and Avi-fauna

• Dr. Sonwane Nandkishor Sheshrao: Ph.D. (Dr. B.A.M. University), Specication: Biodiversity, Air Pollution, Natural Resources.


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5. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (USHSS)

The School, an integral part of the overall vision of the University, aims at evolving innovative pedagogy andparticipative learning in order to provide an enabling platform for inclusive growth. Through its academicinputs it empowers the learners-scholars-professionals to systematically understand and reect on social,political and cultural structures and processes, and hence, endeavors to expand their professional vision.The school is committed to provide an interdisciplinary and integrative pedagogical interface to learners soas to nurture them into complete and competent human beings.

VISION

To inculcate integrative inquiry among the students through critical research and creative involvement, byuniting faculty and students, in a unique knowledge sharing domain which concentrates to understand thecomplexities of the immediate environment while simultaneously enabling minds to meet future challenges.

MISSION

The School aims to enhance students’ critical understanding of the society and culture in which they live.They are exposed to critical ideas with a view to instilling in them the acumen to understand their socialsurroundings and enable them to obtain skills that can lead to their successful and enriching career.

BEST PRACTICES AT THE SCHOOL

• Collective Teaching • Curriculum Design Workshops• Continuous Evaluation • M.A. Dissertation• Author-Student Interaction • Teacher Mentors• Off-campus Workshops • Fortnightly Seminars• Theatre Performances • Painting Exhibitions• Rasrang- the School Repertory

MA (ECS) SEMINAR

The School organizes fortnightly seminar-cum-extension lectures (on everyalternate Wednesday) for the students of MA (ECS) programme. Eachstudent of MA (ECS) programme is assigned a teacher-mentor who guidesand supervises their research papers. Students’ performance in the seminaris a part of continuous evaluation. The texts selected for the seminar caterto wide range of issues. In order to give wider exposure to the students, it isensured that these texts should not be a part of the prescribed syllabus forMA programme. The Seminar is a niche activity by the School at master’slevel which gives the students a platform to engage themselves with criticalideas and sharpen their analytical abilities. The School invites eminentscholars to formally evaluate students’ performance.In addition to this, the School has been organizing a series of nationalseminars for its students such as

y The Poet, the Critic and the World in 2010

y The Painter, the Critic and the World in 2012

y Muddat Hui Hai Yaar Ko Mehman Kiye Hue- a

y 2-day Seminar on Faiz Ahmed Faiz in 2012

y A seminar on Anne Ghode Da Daan in 2013The seminars organized by the School are meant to inculcate in students the creative interest and a healthysense of criticism. Also, it gives the students an opportunity to interact with renowned artists, distinguishedlitterateurs and academicians of repute.

INVITED WRITERS AND ARTISTS:

Sheen Kaaf Nizam (Sahitya Akademy Award Winner Urdu Poet)Sh. Kashinath Singh (Sahitya Akademy Winner Writer)Sh. Kedarnath (Sahitya Akademy Winner Poet)Sh. Manglesh Dabral (Sahitya Akademy Winner Poet)Sh. Keki Daruwala (Sahitya Akademy Winner Poet)


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K. Sachidanandan (Sahitya Akademy Winner Poet and Critic)S. Surjit Pattar (Sahitya Akademy Winner Poet)Sh. Vishnu Khare (A Renowned Poet)Sh. Abbas Batliwala (An International Painter)Sh. Shail Choyal (An International Painter)Sh Hemant Dwivedi (A Renowned Painter & Prof. Dept. of Fine-Arts, MLS Univ., Udaipur)Sh Ranjit Kapoor (An Eminent Theatre Director)Sh. Asghar Wajahat (A Renowned Novelist, Playwright, Documentary Filmmaker)Gurvinder Singh (A National Award Winning Filmmaker)

INVITED EMINENT SCHOLARS

Sh. Namvar Singh (Chancellor, Hindi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Wardha a distinguished scholar and critic of Hindiliterature)Prof. Amritjit Singh (Ohio University, USA)Prof. Poonam Arora (Hamline University, USA)Prof. Harish Trivedi (Retd. Professor, University of Delhi)Prof. Rana Nayar (Panjab University, Chandigarh)Prof. Manju Jaidka (Panjab University, Chandigarh)Prof. Akshay Kumar (Panjab University, Chandigarh)Prof. G.J.V. Prasad (JNU, New Delhi)

INITIATIVES AND ACADEMIC CURRICULAR ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES BY THE SCHOOL

y Organized an off-campus Painting Workshop at Palampur, HimachalPradesh in 2013

y Organized an off-campus Theatre Workshop at Nagda near Udaipurin 2013

y Organized a Workshop on Literary Appreciation in 2012

y Organized an off-campus Theatre Workshop at Udaipur in 2012

y Organized an off-campus Painting Workshop at Palampur, HimachalPradesh in 2011

y Organized a 15-day Theatre Workshop in collaboration with NSDfor the students of the University in 2009

y Organized an Art Appreciation Workshop-cum-Educational Tour at Akola, Udaipur in 2009

y Organized various soft skill development workshops.

RASRANG

RASRANG, the School Repertory, is a creative-cum-critical platform for the studentsto experience and learn the ner nuances of ne arts and performing arts. It isan integral part of MA (ECS) programme as it corresponds to the practical needsof various prescribed courses. It integrates theory with practice by involving thestudents in creative activities such as adaptation and performance of plays andpainting workshops. It supplements class-room teaching by giving them rst-handexposure to other forms of art and mediums of communication. It entails pedagogicalinnovation wherein the students are encouraged to move beyond the bounds of the‘course content’ and extend their creativity in allied areas. As a result, learning becomes an aestheticallyand intellectually stimulating exercise and students mature into responsive and responsible individuals withcapabilities to make vital connection with the self and the society.

SCHOOL JOURNAL:

Indraprasth- An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies.In order to promote generation and dissemination of knowledge, the USHSS has launched an inter-disciplinaryrefereed research journal, Indraprasth- An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies.The journal publishes scholarly articles on Literature in English, Translation Studies, Film Studies, CulturalStudies and Communication Studies. The endeavour in launching this journal is to full the need for more


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serious and scholarly journals in India, which can be a site for critical discussion and debate.

SNIPPETS…

PROGRAMMES OFFERED BY THE SCHOOL

1. USHSS offers Post Graduate programme in M.A. English and Communication Studies. It is a two-year modular programme with the provision to exit after one year with PG Diploma in CommunicationStudies.

2. It offers doctoral programme (Ph.D.) in Literary and Cultural Studies in the following areas:y Translation Studiesy Indian Literaturey American Literature

y British Literature

y European Literature

y Film Studies

3. It also offers need-based courses in communication-skills and Social Sciences at graduate and post-graduate levels to various University Schools.

M.A. (ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES)

The Post-graduate programme in English and Communication Studies adds a new dimension to theUniversity’s culture. The aim is to create a tradition of excellence in language/communication skill competenceand literary sensibility geared towards an all round development of personality through the cultivation andapplication of various facets of English and Communication Studies. The curriculum is designed to assiststudents from all streams in developing and rening their individual and professional skills with specialemphasis on professional communication commensurate with emerging professional needs.

The Programme is especially relevant for students seeking career in teaching & research, publicationindustry and media.

SCOPE OF THE PROGRAMME

The programme is inter-disciplinary in nature and offers a distinctive blend of academics and industry-relevant practices. The course prepares the students for a wide range of communication and languagerelated career opportunities.

In addition to the core subjects, this course also offers a wide range of optional subjects including regionalliteratures catering to the varied needs and interests of the scholars. Some of our path-breaking electivepapers have been designed according to the latest trends in literary and cultural studies such asLiterature of Protest Cinema and CommunicationGender Narratives Philosophy Psychology and LiteratureSu and Bhakti Poetry Teacher Specic Courses (Partition Literature, Shakespearian


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Translation Studies Drama, Romantic Poetry)Non-Fictional Narratives

Objectives: MA in English and Communication Studies has been designed with an aim to:

y Enable the students to develop comprehensive communication skills to meet the challenges ofcontemporary times

y Provide them with fundamental written communication skills required to become successful journalists and other media professionals

y Help them achieve an understanding of new communication technologies and their impact onthe fast-changing global scenario

y Help them appreciate the value of an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study oflanguage, literature and communication.

y Offer them with an opportunity to develop research skills and engage in applied analysis ofdifferent aspects of language, literature and communication skills

y Inculcate literary sensibility and critical acumen

FACULTY

USHSS has a dedicated and research-oriented faculty with an interdisciplinary sensibil ity, individual integrityand a sense of social responsibility. The emphasis is on empowering the learners to apply a humanisticperspective to the challenges faced by them in society.

Dr. Anup S Beniwal, DeanProf. Beniwal is a scholar of Indian English Fiction on Partition, Indian Writing in Englishand Translation and Cultural Studies. Apart from authoring four books, he has alsocontributed research papers, review articles and translations to prestigious national andinternational refereed journals, newspapers and magazines.Specialization:Contemporary Indian Writing in English, Indian English Fiction on PartitionField of Interest: Indian English Literature; Indian Fiction in English Translation;Contemporary Hindi Fiction; Cultural and Communication Studies

OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL :

Name Designation

y Dr. Manpreet Kang Associate Professor

y Dr. Ashutosh Mohan Associate Professor

y Dr. Vivek Sachdeva Associate Professor

y Dr. Shuchi Sharma Assistant Professor

y Dr. Chetna Tiwari Assistant Professor

y Dr. Naresh K. Vats Assistant Professor

y Dr. Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi Assistant Professor

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6. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES (USLLS)

USLLS is a distinct institution of legal education in an unparallel setting of advanced research andmultidisciplinary environment. Imparting of legal education along with studies in information technology,biotechnology, chemical technology, basic and applied sciences, business management, environmentalmanagement, humanities, education and media make it a wonderful experience with a condence of sureshort success. In any case it builds sound legal minds able to face any challenge in modern global context.This is the only one in such an ambience in the country. It offers in the National Capital Territory of Delhi thecourses: (a) Five Year BA.LLB(H), (b) Five Year BB.A.LLB(H), (c) LLM in Intellectual Property Rights, (d)LLM in Corporate Law, (e) LLM in Human Rights, (f) LLM (Weekend) in Cyber Law and Cyber Crime, and(g) LLM (Weekend) in Intellectual and Industrial Property Law. It also offers Ph.D. in various streams of lawand allied disciplines with inclusionary approach as demanded by contemporary national and internationalneeds. The law school, with a well experienced and sincere regular faculty, conducts all the courses withprofessionalism and due value orientation. The Course structureis contemporary and practice oriented with special focus on legalethics. The school has been attracting students from all over Indiaand even overseas. The students at the school regularly participatein lok adalats, seminars, conferences, moot court Competitions, mocktrials, quiz and debate competitions, client counseling demonstrationsand other contests at the local, national and international levels. Sofar many of its alumni have emerged as leaders in the profession andthe community. The USLLS is headed by Prof. M.Afzal Wani, a formermember of the Law Commission of India and a well known TOT expert,researcher and a comparative law scholar.

MISSION

y Adoption of multidisciplinary approach towards law and legal studies so as to develop greatersynergy between classroom lectures, conventional professional and alternative practices in law.

y Encourage continuous engagement with and adoption of innovative approaches towards law, legaleducation, training and legal processes through capacity building of the faculty and facilitatingaccess to advanced courses.

y Constant involvement with processes and practice of law in the professional, social and economicarenas of life by encouraging interaction between the institution and those involved in theseprocesses.

y Development of technical, advocacy, communication and research skills not only through taughtcourses but also through practical training and engagement with the industry, community andthe state.

y Expansion of facilities for advanced research in law, introduction of new and vibrant courses andfor augmenting the capacity to undertake consultancies and projects with state, national andinternational agencies, industry etc.

PROGRAMMES CONDUCTED AND INTAKE

S. No. Programme UG/PG/M Phil/ Ph.D/ Dip/Cert. Duration Sanctioned Intake

1. B.A.LLB(H) 5 Yrs. 60

2. B.B.A.LLB(H) 5 Yrs. 60

3. LL.M. 2 Yrs. 30

4. LLM (Weekend) in Cyber Law and Cyber Crime 2 Yrs. 20

5. LLM (Weekend) in Intellectual and Industrial PropertyLaw

2 Yrs. 20

6. Ph.D. -- 3

SPECIAL PROGRAMMES

USLLS conducts coaching for Civil and Judicial Services of students belonging to SC/ST/OBC/Minorities.No is fee charged for that. The LL.B./LL.M. students and those who have qualied law degree are eligiblefor enrolment.


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SOME PROMINENT PREVIOUS ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED

1. Law lecture series by most prominent law men of the country,including:a) Hon’ble Mr. Justice R.C.Lahoti, former Chief Justice

of Indiab) Mr. Soli J. Sorabji, former Attorney General for Indiac) Mr. Ram Jetmalani, former Union Law Minister,

Renowned Jurist and Senior Advocate, SupremeCourt of IndiaRecently, on 8th September 2013, Shri SubramanianSwamy, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India alsodelivered a lecture.

2. Training programmes for ofcers of Delhi Police in neraspects of law.

3. South Asia Legal Education Conference.4. Indhraprastha National Moot Court Competitions5. An Orientation Programme for 2013 batch was organized by USLLS in August 2013. The Chief

Guest in orientation program Mr. Justice SN Dhingra, member Competition Commission of Indiamotivated the students. The Guests of Honour Prof. MP Singh, Chancellor Central University,Haryana and Shri SS Rathi, Member DLSA and Dr. Arun Mohan, Senior Advocate gave tips onlegal education and the career ahead. The Dean and other faculty members also addressed andapprised the students about the rules and regulations of the School. The Vice Chancellor, GGSIPUniversity presided.

PARTICIPATION IN MOOT COURT COMPETITIONS

Students participated in following International Moot Court Competitions:1) Willem C. Vis (East) Arbitration Moot at Hong Kong2) Willem C. Vis Arbitration Moot at Vienna3) Stetson Moot Court Competition4) Louis M. Brown Client Counselling Competition5) Henry Dunant Competition6) Philip C. Jessup7) Won accolades in International and National Moot Court

Competitions8) Have brought laurels to the School by getting highest

approval in Debating circuit9) Acclaimed for their writing skills in essay and paper writing

competition10) Legal Research Paper Writing

INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITY

1) Seminar Hall2) Placement Cell3) Legal aid Cell4) Classroom with LCD projectors and interactive board5) Video conferencing facility6) Faculty committee room7) Computer Lab with access to on-line data bases8) Well equipped and state-of-the-art Moot Court Room

PLACEMENT CELL

USLLS has a proactive and professional Placement Cell looked after by a teamof experienced teachers, mainly Dr. Ravinder Kumar, Dr. Queeny Pradhan Singhand Dr. Aprajita Kashyap and some student coordinators. The Cell is entrustedwith the task of organizing seminars and workshops on training and placement,providing tips on preparing professional curriculum vitae, enhancing communicationskills, all-round personality development, mock interviews etc. The Placement Cell


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plays a pivotal role in organizing court/commission visits, summertraining and placement activities. A placement brochure is releasedpertaining to the specications of the students of out going batch.In our endeavour the placement cell has been getting support fromeminent legal luminaries. An impressive 90% placement of the 2008 –13 Batch was attained.

i. Some supportive Law rms are: Clifford Chance, TransIndia Law Association, Prakash Legal Advisor, Singh& Associate, Preeti Suri Associates, Renfry & Sagar Associates, Vikram Kapoor & Company, Pangea 3, Kings& Alliance, Khaitan & Co., DSK Legal, DGS & Associates, “M” Legal Associates, Lex Alliance andELDF Associates.

ii. 43 students interned in Supreme Court, High Court, District Courts, DLSA and various NGOs.

LEGAL AID AND LITERACY PRORAMMES

The USLLS is frequently organizing legal literacy camps at various places for different target groups.Students also teach voluntarily the needy students belonging to the people of lower income groups.Students remain associated with Delhi Legal Services Authority for voluntary work and experience.

FACULTY

USLLS has a dedicated faculty of 21 regular teachers with outstanding academic achievements. Eminentprofessors of law, lawyers and judges are in the panel of its visiting faculty.

Prof. M. Afzal Wani, Dean

Prof. (Dr.) M. Afzal Wani has more than 28 years of teaching and research experience.He is a former member of the Law Commission of India having authored and editedmore than 10 books. He has published more than 100 research papers/articles/bookreviews/research reports and noted on various subjects like Women and Law, HumanRights, Constitutional Law, Disaster Management, Criminal Justice System and theIslamic and Comparative Jurisprudence. He is the founder editor of the IndraprasthaTechnology Law Journal, a specialized journal on the subject published by USLLS.He is a life member of the Indian Law Indian Law Institute (ILI) and the Indian Instituteof Public Administration, New Delhi besides being associated with a large number ofuniversities and other institutions in different capacities. He has served as a member of

the Governing Council of the ILI and Executive member of the Delhi Legal Services Authority and the NationalLaw University, Delhi. He has successfully participated in many activities of the National Commission forwomen with fair sensitivit ies and organized many programmes with the assistance of National Human RightsCommission including PG Diploma in Human Rights at the ILI. He is known for having organized trainingprogrammes and refresher courses for law teachers from all over the country and abroad and many trendsetting national and international conferences/seminars etc. He has participated in academic programmesand delivered extension lectures in almost all the regions of the country and some other countries.

Prof. Suman Gupta

Dr. Suman Gupta is a Professor at the University School of Law and Legal Studies. Shedid her LLB, LLM and Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. She has teaching and researchexperience of more than 32 years. Her specialization is in the area of Corporate Lawand Intellectual Property Law. She has supervised more than 20 LLM dissertations and06 Ph.D.’s. Among her numerous articles and books, her book ‘Shareholder Democracy – Facts or Fiction’ has been highly acclaimed by business and legal fraternity. She isthe rst teacher in India to be provided World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)fellowship in Tokyo (Japan). She has attended training course on IPR for developingcountries of Asia and Pacic in Colombo (Sri Lanka). She has also delivered lecturesin Faculty of Law, Khyshu University, Japan and Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal.

She prepared a ‘Report on Corporate Governance in India’ a research project of the Institute of DevelopingEconomics (IDE) Japan, and Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). She is a member of ATRIP, abody of World Intellectual Property Organization Geneva (Switzerland).


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Dr. Kanwal DP Singh

Dr. Kanwal DP Singh started her career as a lecturer in Amity Law School (afliated toGGSIPU) in the year 1999. In 2008 She was promoted as Professor and Dy Directorand transferred to Amity University She has teaching and research experience of 14years. She completed her Phd from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2007. Her specializationis in area of Capital Market and Land Laws. She joined the University School of Lawand Legal Studies GGSIPU on May 21 2013. She has written a book “Legal control ofCapital Market in India” which is widely used by students in courses like CA, CWA etc.She has 20 published papers in National and International journals and has presentednumerous papers in National and International conferences. Prof Singh is frequentlyinvited as an expert for LLM and Phd Viva in universities like Jamia Millai Islamia,

IGNOU etc . Her vast administrative experience includes organising exams like CLAT, NET, DRDO etc.She has been instrumental in organising Guest Lecture of eminent personalities like Rajan Bharti Mittal,Mr Ram Jethmalani, Governor Chattisgarh etc. She is on the panel of Institute of Company Secretaries asPaper setter and evaluator.


Dr. Amarpal Singh(On lien), M.A., LLB, LLM, Ph.D

Dr. Deepshikha Agarwal, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D

Dr. Queeny Pradhan Singh, B.A.(H), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D

Dr. Shivani Goswami, B.A., LLM, Ph.D

Dr. Lisa P. Lukose, B.A.,LL.M, Ph.D


Mr. Anuj Kumar Vaksha, B.A., LLB, LLM

Ms. Upma Gautam, B.Sc., LLB, LLM.

Dr. Ritu Gupta(On lien), B.Sc., LLB, LLM, Ph.D

Mr. Rakesh Kumar, B.Sc., LLB, LLM

Dr. Ravinder Kumar, B.Sc., LLB, LLM, Ph.D

Dr. Kavita Solanki, B.A., LLB, LLM, Ph.D

Dr. Gurujeet Singh, B.Com., LLB, LLM

Dr. Neelu Mehra, B.A., LLB, LLM, Ph.D

Dr. Vandana Singh, B.Sc., LLM, Ph.D

Dr. Anuradha Hooda Jha, B.A.,M.A., Ph.D

Dr. Aprajita Kashyap, B.Sc., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D

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7. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (USMS)

University School of Management Studies (USMS) is an On-Campus School of Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University. The School, within a short span of time, has developed itself as a unique andprogressive School with its distinct curriculum, innovative teaching methodology and research focus. Theintellectually stimulating environment at the School provides a nurturing ground for developing competentmanagement professionals in tune with the changing business environment and emerging managerial needs.The School encourages individual growth, team building, extra-curricular activities, industry interactionand a multi-disciplinary study culture. The School is rated A++ in Best B-Schools Survey, conducted byBusiness India.

MISSION

Our Mission is to develop managers with the capability to understand and analyze the dynamic businessenvironment for effective decision-making while maintaining higher domains of professionalism.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

The University School of Management Studies offers the following specialized programmes:

y Two Year M.B.A. (Full-Time)

y Two Year M.B.A.( Financial Markets) (Full Time)

y Five Year B.Tech - M.B.A - Dual Degree (Full Time)

y Two Year M.B.A. Programme on Weekend basis with

Functional Specialisations- Finance, Human Resource, International Business, Information

Technology, Marketing.

Sectoral Specialisations- Consultancy, Banking, Insurance, Real Estate

y Certicate Course in Retail (Weekend)

y Certicate Course in Behaviour Testing and Training (Basic-Two Months) (Advanced - FourMonths) (Weekend)

y Doctoral Programme

PEDAGOGY

The School follows a pedagogy designed to equip the students with skills as per the latest requirement ofindustry. It includes a well-planned blend of industry exposure, conceptual learning, practical assignmentsand innovative projects based on empirical methods. Emphasis is on interactive learning and employingsophisticated electronic media/computer aided tools and technologies. Business games and case studies areused to develop analytical and managerial skills in the students. Participation in seminars, group discussions,role-plays and summer internships constitute an integral part of the pedagogy.

ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS

The school has entered into the following partnerships

y MOU with Catholic University of Paris (CUP), Institut Superieur d’ Electronique de Paris (ISEP) forpromoting Education and Research, Faculty and Student Exchange Programmes, Conduction of joint programme, Conduction of Joint Seminars, Conferences & Academic Meetings, Exchangeof Research Work.

y MOU with University of Padova, Padova, Italy for Scientic research, educational activities insubjects of common interest, mobili ty of academic staff and researchers, mobility of students anddoctoral candidates for academic activities, exchange of information and bibliographic materials,sharing of know-how about high complex technical-scientic sets, higher education extension,included the mobility of technical, administrative and librarian staff connected to these goals,participation in seminars and academic meetings.

y MOU with Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig/Wolfenbuettel, Germany forexchange of Faculty/Students, Conduction of joint Programmes/Seminars/Conferences and Academic Meetings etc.

y MOU with University of Milan, Milan, Italy for exchange of Faculty/Students, Conduction of JointPrograms/Seminars/Conferences and Academic Meetings, etc.


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y MOU with Lumsa University, Roma, Italy for exchange of Faculty/Students, Conduction of JointPrograms/Seminars/Conferences and Academic Meetings, etc.

y MOU with University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina for promoting academicand cultural cooperation, networking and mutual exchange of faculty, staff and students. Jointparticipation and applications access funds dedicated to education, research and artistic activities,Joint programme, symposia, congresses, seminars, workshops etc. Exchange of professionalliterature, textbooks and other university publications.

y MOU with University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina for exchange of Faculty/Students,collaborative research programs, Conduction of joint Programme/Seminars/Conferences and Academic Meetings, etc.

y MOU with Michigan State University, USA for Exchange faculty/student programme, Collaborationin teaching research.

y MOU with University of Debrecen, Faculty of Applied Economics and rural Development Debrecen,Hungary for Exchange of Faculty/Students, Conduction of joint Programme/Seminars/Conferenceetc.

y MOU with National Stock Exchange (NSE) for M.B.A.(Financial Markets) & B.B.A.(FinancialMarkets)

y MOU with Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria, for Exchange of Faculty / Student,Conduction of Joint Programs / Seminars / Conferences and Academic Meetings, etc.

y MOU with Modul University Vienna, Austria, for Faculty Exchange Programme, Collaborationon Organizing Workshops, Seminars, Conferences, Conclaves jointly at GGS IP Universityin India or at Modul University in Austria.

y MOU with Slovak University of Agriculture Nitra, Republic of Slovak, for Academic Cooperationand Faculty / Student Exchange Program.

y MOU with Szent István University Hungary, for Exchange ofFaculty / Student, Conduction of Joint Programs / Seminars/ Conferences and Academic Meetings, etc.

y Solbridge International School of business, WoosongUniversity, Republic of Korea for Academic Cooperation.

y Chapman Graduate School of Business, Florida InternationalUniversity, USA for MBA

y NAREDCO and HSMI for Certicate Course in Real EstateManagement

y CISCO Inc. to impart CISCO Certication to faculty andstudents.

y Consultancy Development Centre, Ministry of Science andTechnology, Government of India, New Delhi for M.B.A(Consultancy Management) Programme.

y MoU with NIS Sparta Ltd. for Certicate Course in Retail.

y MoU with CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India) for Real Estate programme.

STUDENT / FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

A delegation comprising of 12 students and two senior faculty members, Prof. Zdenka Galova and Dr.Danka Moravcikova from Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Republic of Slovak visited our Universityunder the aegis of the “Students / Faculty Exchange Programme” from February 28 to March 13, 2012. A course in “Corporate Social Responsibility” was offered to these students which was conducted by ourfaculty members of University School of Management Studies on a fast track mode. Apart from classroom teaching, the programme included plant visit to Maruti Suzuki Limited and visit to Agra and severalmonuments at Delhi. The credit / grades earned by the Slovak students were transferred in their degreesat Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra

Students from Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA), Nitra, Slovakia, visited USMS under the aegis ofstudent / Faculty exchange programme. USMS successfully undertook its rst student and faculty exchangeprogramme. 11 students along with Prof. Elena Horscka visited USMS in the month of January 2011. Theywere offered a course on Human Resource Management, conducted on a fast track mode. Apart from the


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classroom teaching, the programme included industrial visits to Maruti Suzuki Ltd. and Somany Tiles toalign theory with the practical insight. The credits earned by the students were transferred in their degreeat SUA, Nitra.Prof, Elena Horscka interacted with faculty and students and spoke on the topic “ Globalisation of HigherEducation”. An arrangement has also been worked out for joint supervision of 2 Ph.D. scholars by facultyof USMS and SUA , Nitra.

Students of USMS visited Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA) in March 2011 & June 2013.Seven students of USMS visited Slovak University of Agriculture (SUA), Nitra from June 15 – 30, 2013.These students undertaken a course in “Cross Cultural Communication” as an audit course.Twelve students of USMS and a Faculty visited SUA , Nitra in March – April 2011. These students haveundertaken a course in E-Business at SUA , Nitra. The credits earned have been transferred in their degreeback home in India.

CONVENTIONS, SEMINARS AND NATIONAL CASE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

USMS has always been at the forefront in organizing forums, discussions and workshops covering issues ofcontemporary management relevance. Management Development Programmes and Faculty DevelopmentProgrammes are also organized by the School on a regular basis. Some of the conferences conducted inthe recent past include:

y National Conference on “Mind and Management”, October25, 2013.

y National Conference on “Information and CommunicationTechnology (ICT) for competitive advantage”, April 26,2013.

y National Conference on “Emerging Issues in FinancialMarkets”, February 15, 2013.

y National Conference on “Managing Generation Y @Workplace: Issues & Cahllenges”, November 30, 2012.

y National Conference on “ Innovative Strategies forTransforming organisations”, October 19, 2012.

y The Marketing Summit on “Success Mantras for Marketing in the Year of Globalisation 2012”,March 24, 2012.

y National Conference on “Enhancing people Faactor: HR Issues and Challenges”, February 24& 25, 2012.

y International Conference on "Strategies & Innovations for Sustainable Development inOrganizations" between March 4-6, 2011.

y International Conference on “Strategies & Innovations for Sustainable Development inOrganizations” between March 4-6, 2011.

y Conference on "Contemporary Issues in Marketing & Intellectual Property Rights”, March 26,2011.

y National Conference On “Contemporary Issues In Corporate Finance” on January 29, 2011.

y National Conference on “Information Management in Knowledge Economy”, March 2010.

y National Conference on “Quality Management in Organisations”, February 2010.

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES

y FDP on “Advanced Data Analysis Techniques” , January 2013.

y Three weeks “Entrepreneurship Development Programme”, in association with MSME-DI,November – December 2012.

y One day sensitization programme on the theme, “How to start a Business: Issues & Challenges”,February 15, 2012.

y Seminar on “Policies, Regulations and Consumer Concerns in Insurance Sector”, in associationwith VOICE and IRDA, October 11, 2011.

y Seminar on “Consumer Awareness regarding Telecom Issues”, in association with VOICE,October 4, 2011.


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y Workshop on “Doing Business in Europe”, conducted by Prof. Pierre Morel from Escp France,January 21-22, 2011.• Faculty Development Program in Entrepreneurship, December 2010 – January 2011.• Workshop on “Financial Markets : Issues and Challenges” in collaboration with BSE,

September 2010• Workshop on “ Green Building Projects & their Impact on Construction Management

Practices”, by Prof. Matt Syal, Michigan State University, USA, March 2010• Business Skill Development Programme (BSDP), March- April 2010

FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

y FDP on “Analytical Techniques for Research”, December 2013-January 2014.

y National Conference on “Creating an Inclusive and Accessible Workplace”, January, 2014

y ‘Vishleshan’, A Case Study Symposium, March 2014.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Ph.D. Programme at the School: The School has a focus on promoting inter-disciplinary research.Major thrust areas of research are Global Business Management, HR Issues in Organization, HealthcareManagement, IT-Business Interface, Banking & Insurance, Brand& Retail Management and Entrepreneurship & Innovation. SixtyTwo Research Scholars are enrolled for the Ph.D. Programmeand Nine students have completed their pre – Ph.D. course work.Thirty One students have been awarded Ph.D. degree till date. Inorder to promote and create a conducive environment for qualityempirical research, the school ensures the availability of high-end statistical packages and tools like SPSS, Systat, SAP- QUT,Primavera, Prowess etc. for research scholars and faculty. Theother highlights include access to online journals like Emerald,Elsevier, Science Direct etc for extensive research. Apart fromthis University Resource Information Centre provides access toUGC, Infonet for all.

APPROVED RESEARCH CENTRES FOR DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES

University has approved research centers for conducting Doctoral Programmes at the following institutes1. International Management Institute (IMI), Qutub Institutional Area, Delhi2. Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad3. Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)4. Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM), Dwarka, New Delhi

Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP), Department of Scientic and Industrial Research, Ministryof Science and TechnologyUSMS has completed a project awarded by Department of Scientic and Industrial Research, Ministry ofScience and Technology for preparing ten case studies on innovators.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CELL

The School, with the assistance from AICTE, has set up an entrepreneurship development cell to promoteand educate the youth of NCT Delhi to take the benet of the liberalized economic policies of the governmentby setting up their own ventures. The cell organizes different activities and events to train and motivate thestudents on entrepreneurship.The EDC has organized various programmes from time to time:

y Entrepreneurial Awareness Programme

y Conclave On Export-Import Policy; To Give DirectionTo India's Foreign Trade

y Entrepreneurship Development Programme

y Entrepreneurial Motivational Camp

y Export-Import Procedures & Documentation Forex Management

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y Report of Business Skill Development Programme

INDUSTRY INSTITUTE PARTNERSHIP CELL

AICTE sponsored industry institute partnership cell has been constituted in USMS for having more activeinteractions with industry. One of the signicant activities of the Cell is the ongoing project to assessthe impact of organizational culture on implementation of Total Quality Management in Small and MediumEnterprises in the Automotive Sector.

SOCIAL OUTREACH INITIATIVES

Under the aegis of SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), an international organization made up of collegestudents from around the world who make a difference in their communities through free enterprise projects,USMS took up a project of Rural Meet Programme under Corporate Social Responsibi lity in association withLaxmi Precision systems, Rohtak. MBA students also partnered with AADI (formerly the Spastics Societyof Northern India) to create sustainable pathways to enhance their self-esteem and condence to leada dignied life by showcasing their products in several locations. A workshop on Entrepreneurship SkillsDevelopment for persons from weaker sections and those with disability was organized at the Universitycampus. A workshop was also organized to heighten awareness on health issues and schemes for girlchild education.

Students were acknowledged by HSBC and KPMG for their efforts and were nanced for their theseactivities with about Rs. 20,000/-. One of our student Saman Naqvi, was awarded with a gold medal for heroutstanding performance; and her name has been recorded in THE HALL OF FAME WINNERS, a list of20 winners selected in the country. The list has been submitted to the United Nations in its closure report

INFRASTRUCTURE

University School of Management Studies has state of the art infrastructure for fullling the needs of thestudents to keep at par with the best institutions in India. The advanced computer lab providing 1:1 computerto student ratio is well equipped with latest softwares that complement the varying needs of the studentsas well as the research requirements of the faculty. The softwares include MS Backofce Suite (SQLServer, Exchange Server, etc.), Oracle, SPSS, ERP, Tally, MS Project Server, Erwin, RedHat Linux, SpeechRecognition, CMIE PROWESS Corporate Database, PRIMAVERA, PERT MASTER and SAP. The schoolclass rooms and air conditioned seminar hall are equipped with state of the art infrastructure including LCDProjectors, K-Yans, Xerox Machines, Overhead Projectors, Audio Visual Systems, Computers and WirelessHotspots. The school also caters to the all around developments of the students by providing sports andother recreation facilities.CORPORATE RELATIONS CENTRE (CRC)USMS has a proactive Corporate Relations Centre managed by a team of faculty members and students. Itprovides the students with a full-edged corporate interface, enabling them to have a better understandingof the corporate culture and its current trends. All placements related activities are coordinated by theCentre. The school has a consistent track record of hundred percent placements in the last few years.USMS has been empanelled by TCS. The students have been placed in organizations such as OrientalBank of Commerce (Straight Middle Management), Federal Bank, British Airways, 20:20 Media, Barclay'sBank, Capital IQ, Centurion Bank of Punjab, Elli Lilly, Future Money, GAIL Ltd., E-Value Serve, Dawnay DaySecurities, ICICI Prudential, IL&FS, IDBI Bank, Pipal Research, Interglobe Technologies, TNS Research,Sharekhan, Standard Chartered Bank, Wipro Solutions.

FACULTY

Prof. Anu Singh Lather, Dean

Prof. Lather has teaching, research and consultancy experience spread over 26 years.Presently she is holding the dual charges of Dean, University School of ManagementStudies and Director, International Affairs of the university. She was founder Head ofthe Department of Applied Psychology, Guru Jambheshwar Technical University, Hissarfrom 1997-2000. Prof Lather has passion for research. She has more than 150 paperspublished in National and International journals, proceedings of National and InternationalConferences and Seminars.

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she has been conferred the Best Researcher Award in the year 2010, 2011 and 2012 by Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University. Szent Istvan Universtiy, Godollo, Budapest (Hungary) honoured Prof. Lather forexcellent academic activities and International Cooperation in 2010. Prof. Lather has also been awardedGold Medal for Excellence in Academics & Research by Faculty of Economics and Management, SlovakUniversity of Agriculture, Slovakia in Nitra in 2010.

Prof. Lather has extensively traveled to various countries like U.K., Germany, France, Hungary, Singapore,Malaysia, Austria, Republic of Slovakia, South Korea, Thailand etc. for academic collaborations and otheracademic activities.

Prof. Lather is panelist on different T.V. Channels such as CNBC 18, CNBC Awaz, DD-1 (National Hook-up), Aaj Tak, Delhi Aaj Tak & Headlines Today, Zee News, India TV News, Jain TV and Radio etc. She is aregular invitee for various programmes related to Management and Social Issues.

Prof. R.K. Mittal

Dr. R. K. Mittal is Professor of Economics in University School of Management Studies,Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He was founder Vice Chancellorof Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad from 2008 to 2013. Prior to that, hewas Dean, University School of Management Studies (2005-08), University School ofHumanities & Social Sciences (2005-07) and University School of Education (2005-07) atthe Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. Before joining Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University in 2000, he was Head of the Department of Business Economicsat Guru Jambheswar University of Science & Technology, Hisar (1996- 2000). Before tothat he has had the teaching and research experience (UGC Research Fellow) of about

ten years at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.

He obtained his Master’s degree in Economics from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Later on, he wasawarded M Phil and Doctor of Philosophy in Economics by the same University. Subsequently, he has donehis Master’s in Business Administration. He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience to hiscredit. Prof. Mittal specializes in micro & macro economic analysis, public nance, economic environment ofbusiness, planning and development, nancial institut ions and organization management. He has publishedmore than 85 research paper in professional journals and has guided a dozen of Ph.D theses. He hasalso co-edited ve books and has written many cases in management. In 2002 he was awarded with the‘Best Teacher Award’ by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University for his signicant contribution towardsteaching, research and corporate life of the University.

Prof. Sanjiv Mittal

Prof. Mittal has 32 Years of Teaching Experience to Post Graduate Students of BusinessManagement. He worked as Professor and Director, RDIAS, Madhuban Chowk, Rohini from1999 to June 2002. He worked as Reader, University School Of Management Studies, I.P.University, Kashmere Gate, Delhi from June 2002 till July 2007.He is working as Professorsince July 2007 to till date. He is Coordinator, Entrepreneurship. Development Centerof USMS created with the assistance of AICTE since 2006 till date. He has contributedmany articles in Journals of national and international repute. His areas of interest areMarketing and International business He also worked as Professor and Director, RDIAS,Madhuban Chowk, Rohini from 1999 to June 2002. He has travelled widely to countries like

US, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, He is active on AICTE, UGC panels and speaker at various conferencesof national and international repute. He has undertaken and conferred a major research project of UGC :“Measuring Marketing Productivity”. He has been conducting EDP programs of one month duration on aregular basis in the area of Entrepreneurship Development and Export-Import Documentation. He has beenconferred the Best Researcher Award for the year 2012-13 by the GGSIP University.

Prof. Anil.K. Saini

Dr. Saini is a post-graduate in Physics, Computers and Business Administration. Before joining USMS, he was holding a senior academic position at FMS, University of Delhi.He carries with him blend of industrial and academic experience of more than 27 yearsout of which six years in the industry in responsible capacities. Dr. Saini has to his creditsix published books and over sixty research papers in national and international journals/conferences. He has been actively associated with professional associations suchas Computer Society of India(CSI), Institution of Electronics and TelecommunicationEngineers(IETE), AIMA and Operational Research Society of India.. His major interestsinclude: MIS, Technology & Innovation Management, Knowledge Management. He is on


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the Board of Studies of several Institutions / Universities.

Prof. Neena Sinha

She began her academic career with Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University Japan. Later she worked as a faculty at Birla Instituteof Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani. She has been working as a Professor inUniversity School of Management Studies, GGS IP University Delhi since 2010 whereshe also holds additional responsibility of Director-Development. She is the Coordinatorof Indraprastha Internal Quality Assurance Cell and coordinates NAAC Accreditation.She is the Chairperson of IPU-IPR Cell of the University and a member of the UniversityComplains Committee. She is the author of more than 90 research publications in the

leading national and international journals and conference proceedings. Her areas of interest are StrategicManagement, International Business, Global Competitiveness and Sustainable Development. She is alsoinvolved in policy making committees in UGC. She is a Life Member of Global Institute of Flexible SystemsManagement (GIFT).


Dr. Udita Taneja, B.Tech (IIT Delhi), MS (USA), MBA (IIT-Delhi), Ph.D. (USA)Dr. Meenakshi Handa, MBA (Marketing), Ph.D.Dr. Shalini Garg, MBA, Ph.D. (HRM)Dr. Vijita S. Aggarwal, MPIB (IIFT), Ph.D.Dr. Puja Khatri, MIB , Ph.D. (OB)Dr. Sanjay Dhingra, B.E. (Computer Science), MMS, PGDFM, Ph.D.


Mr. Amit Sharma, B.Tech (Mechanical), MBAMr. V.K. Wadhwa, MBA (FMS), CA, ICWAIDr. S. Sanjay Kumar, B.E. (Mechanical), MBA (Finance), LLB, Ph.D.Dr. Divya Verma, MBA, DOEACC 'A' Level, Ph.D.Ms. Deepti Prakash, MBADr. Sanchita, MBA, Ph.D.Dr. Shilpa Jain, MSc (Applied Psychology), Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior)Dr. Ashish Kumar, MBA, M.Com., Ph.D,Dr. Gagan Deep Sharma, M.Com, M.Phil., Ph.D.Ms. Sinthiya, B.Tech (Comp. Science), MBA (IT).


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8. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (USE)

OVERVIEW OF THE SCHOOL

The University School of Education aims at facilitatingstudies in all emerging areas of Education such asEducational Management, Planning and Finance,Teacher Education, Educational Technology, InclusiveEducation, Special Education, Distance Education etc.to prepare teacher educators who are well versed withthe skills and competencies of effective and efcientteaching skills and research. The school shall foster aclimate of life-long learning and empower individualsto be torch bearers of social change by transforming the very face of Teacher Education. The school hasemerged as a trend-setter with respect to the pedagogical interventions, innovations in research and creationof enriched teaching – learning environments which ignite minds through challenge and feedback. The schoolfosters the growth of the individual and the collective through constructing knowledge collaboratively andcreating an open environment which nurtures the spirit of progressive Teacher Education.

ACADEMIC VISION

The school aims to empower Teacher-Educators with knowledge and skills of the 21st century, nurturepassion for research and teaching and imbibe the spirit of social inquiry to ensue harmony and prosperity.This vision shall be translated into action by focusing on the following salient features in the area of TeacherEducation:

1. Quality Concerns in Teacher Education2. Innovation & Good practices in Teaching3. Environmental concerns in Teacher Education4. Use of ICT in Teacher Education5. Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Education6. Paradigm Shifts in teacher Education infusing National and Global Concerns i.e.-Peace, Gender

Issues, Art and Heritage of Crafts Education, Multilingualism, Health, Population etc. in TeacherEducation & Curriculum

PROGRAMMES OFFERED:

y Ph.D.

y Master of Education (M.Ed.) (Regular)

y Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) (offered through afliated Institutions)

y Bachelor of Special Education (Mental Retardation)

y Bachelor of Special Education (Hearing Impairment)

y Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance and Counseling (ADCGC)(offered by NIPCCD, an afliatedgovt. organization)

MASTER OF EDUCATION (M.ED)

The Post Graduate Degree Programme in Education aims to prepare socially responsible and responsiveteacher educators who are ready to face all challenges accompanying globalization. The school supportsthis endeavor through the provision of state of art infrastructure comprising spacious Lecture rooms, Seminarroom, Conference hall, Educational Technology Laboratory, Psychology Laboratory, Language Laboratory,Resource Room, Book Bank and a rich library which houses a large number of books, Periodicals, Journalscovering diverse themes of education.

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES:

The M.Ed. programme has been designed keeping in view of the following objectives:

y To produce dedicated Teacher Educators who believe in life long learning.

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y Have a clear futuristic vision and aspiration for improving the teaching learning process asprofessionals

y Be inspiring and motivational leaders in the school, community, nation and the world.

y To educate a new cadre of instructional leaders – teacher educators, school entrepreneurship andadministrators who will have the capacity, skill and knowledge to create and sustain environmentsin modern day education.

y To equip the teachers with the knowledge & skills of new technologies focusing on understandingthe principles of organizational management, Leadership, systemic change.

PH. D.

Ph.D. Programme at the school aims at developing competence in the methodology of conducting researchin various elds of Teacher Education so that it could go a long way in producing reliable and valid thesiswith the objectives of :

y To develop sound understanding of the methods of research in various elds of teacher educationso that it could go a long way in producing reliable and valid thesis.

y To develop sound understanding of the methods of research.

y To understand and analyse research literature to identify gaps.

y To develop the ability to construct and use appropriate educational research tools.

y To apply appropriate statistical techniques for data analysis depending on the research designs.

RECENT INITIATIVES AND ACADEMIC CURRICULAR ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES AT THE SCHOOL:

y Orientation Programme for M.Ed. Scholars of USE is organized regularly in the beginning ofevery session to acquaint them with the objectives and dynamics of the M. Ed. Curricula.

y Special Guest Lectures are organized by the School from time to time. These lectures enrichthe scholars by providing them a glimpse of the latest trends in the eld of Teacher Educationand also give them a platform to interact and learn through experience sharing.

y Development of Ph.D. course work and research syllabus was done.

y Collaboration of USE with INTEL to integrate technology in all dimensions of Education wasestablished and facilitated.

y Educational Tours and Visits to CIET and different Educational apex bodies such as NUEPA,NCERT, RCI are organized keeping in mind the need of the M.Ed. Curriculum.

y Placement Cell was established in year 2010 and currently it is fully functional to cater to theprofessional needs of scholars and to support them in their prospective careers. The Schoolmaintains a record of the placements on an yearly basis and organizes talks and workshopsfor personality development of the students to prepare them for the world of work in future. TheSchool conducted a number of Placement Orientation Lectures and invited agencies such asThe Alert to acquaint the students with respect to different employment opportunities in India andabroad.The School has also organized a very successful job fair in the campus for the recruitmentof teachers in leading schools of Delhi for the B.Ed paas outs of GGSIP University.

y Edu–Sangam - The Alumni Association of M.Ed. scholars acts as a forum to meet and learn fromeach others’ life experiences. It also acts as a bridge between students and faculty members tointeract and exchange ideas in teaching and research for future growth of the school.

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES/FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES

y The School organized a Panel Discussion on the theme of :Is Education failing in GenderSensitisation? The discussion was chaired by the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, GGSIP University andwas attended by the Principals and Faculty members of the afliated colleges and faculty membersand students of GGSIP University.The Panel had distinguished luminaries including Mr P.S Sharda(Lawyer,Supreme Court of India),Prof Madhu Wij(Faculty of Management Studies,DU),Mr PratapSomavanshi,Senior Editor,Dainik Hindustan and Ms Neetu from Navjyoti,Delhi.

y A One dayresearch workshop on the theme of ‘Statistical Analysis of Research Data using SPSSwas held at the school by Mr B.S Nagi, Former Head, ICSSR, for the M.Ed. scholars.

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Measures in Human Sciences.The lecture was delivered by Prof rob Cavanagh,University ofCurtin,Western Australia.The lecture benited both faculty and students.

y A series Intensive Personality Development Workshops on the theme of ‘Development of Selfthrough Life Skills Approach’ were held at the school and conducted by Prof B.B Khanna(IGNOU),Dr Selvarajan,Dr Dinesh (MDNIY) to prepare the M.Ed. and PGDELM Scholars for the world ofwork.

y Revision PGDELM syllabus was done by the school to organized for the purpose.

y The syllabus of B.Ed Special Education(MR) and B.Ed Special Education(HI) was also preparedby the school through conduct of subject workshops.

ROADMAP TO FUTURE:

University School of Education shall function as a cradle to prepare motivated & dedicated Educators, PolicyPlanners, Curriculum Developers, Administrators and most importantly life-long learners who shall functionas catalysts to create and sustain learning communities which promote equality and equity in education. Thisshall go a long way in developing competence in methodologyof conducting research in various elds of teacher educationso as to produce reliable and valid thesis with the objectives of:

1. To Develop sound understanding of the methodsof research

2. To Understand and verbalize research literature3. To Develop the ability to construct and use

appropriate research tools4. Highlight various techniques of sampling suitable

to different research designs5. Use of appropriate statistical techniques for data

analysis

This vision also aims at providing inputs in both quantitativeas well as qualitative research designs and also of computer programmes like the SPSS for data analysisUSE is devoted to the publication of research journals with papers, of advance knowledge through research& case functional areas of various streams of education at different levels. Innovations related to teaching –learning approaches & methods of teaching in different subjects and the material development for addressingthe plural need of students requires further dissemination. Training and re-training of large no. of teachersin India through Distance Education mode needs to be explored.

USE is in the process of exploring new domains of teacher education related to societal needs and is workingupon to start a number of graduate & post-graduate courses, short term certicate courses and diplomasin eld of contemporary education, so as to reach the grass root level.

FORTHCOMING INITIATIVES & INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS:

USE is in the process of bringing out a research journal which shall serve as a platform for disseminationof knowledge in all areas of Education to a wider audience and set a benchmark with respect to the qualityof publications in near future. The online edition of the same shall enable teachers, teacher-educators,researchers, policy planners and curriculum developers to voice their opinions andconcerns in their respective areas of research. Thus an e-learning community shallbecome a reality bridging the digital divide.

The school is in the process of hosting an International Workshop in the area ofCurriculum Study and Educational Psychology next year.

The school aims to provide a platform for the exchange of ideas in the form of Seminars,Workshops and Symposia for Teacher Educators, Policy Planners, CurriculumDevelopers and Educational Administrators through international collaborations withleading international Universities and Agencies in the coming years.

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Teaching as a tool to further the cause of Globalization in Education.

DEANThe Hon’ble Vice Chancellor holds the charge as the Dean USE

FACULTY INCHARGE

Dr. Sangeeta Chauhan, Associate Professor, M.A. (English), M.Ed., M.Phil, Ph.D

Dr. Sangeeta Chauhan, has teaching and research experience spread over 30 years.She joined the University in April 2006, wherein she was also entrusted with the task ofstarting the M.Ed programme in the campus. The USE now runs M.Ed., Ph.D., PGDELM(Weekend). The afliated institutes are running Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance andcounselling and B.Ed. Special Education in MR and HI. She was Principal of CES Collegeof Educational Research and Training (B.Ed. College) afliated to GGS IndraprasthaUniversity and Coordinator of afliated B.Ed colleges of I. P. University for over 6 years.She taught Philosophy, Psychology and History of Education both at graduate and B.El.Ed. level at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College between 1992 and 1999. She was a Junior

and then Senior Research Fellow from 1987 to 1991 (University Grants Commission). She has worked inIndian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR) funded projects from 1984 to 1985. She has workedin the Department of Chinese and Japanese studies, Delhi University in a project “World wide research onthe image of Japan ” from 1983 to 1984. She has also worked in the child guidance centre, Department ofSocial Works, Delhi University from 1982 to 1983. Wherein she was giving diagnostic treatment to childrenhaving behaviour, emotional, educational and speech problems.

Prof. Saroj Sharma, Professor (M. Sc. (Botany), M.A. (Sociology), M. Ed., M. Phil. (Education), Ph. D.

Education) & MBA (HR))She has been in the eld of teacher education since the last 20 years and has rich andvaried experience as a seasoned faculty member in Education departments of differentInstitutions and Universities offering the graduate and post graduate degrees (B.Ed.and M.Ed.) of Education. She has a sound administrative and academic experience.She is member of many educational associations. She is actively involved in variousresearch projects of UNICEF, UNESCO, UNFPA, NCERT and other social and culturalforums.

She specialises in Educational Philosophy, Educational Administration, Managementand Finance. Her areas of interest include Organizing Seminars, Symposia and

Workshops on issues of current Education System and Ancient Indian Science are her area of interest. Herimportant published work comprises various books on Education and several course books and modules inPost Graduate Diploma for School Leadership and Management (PGDSLM) and B.Ed. Programme of IGNOU.

She is empanelled as Evaluator in different leading National Universities, NIOS, SCERT, IGNOU and withother Higher Education bodies in India and abroad. She is a subject expert and regular Counsellor & ResourcePerson of various educational programmes on Radio-Counselling and Teleconferencing through EDU-SAT.

She has expertise in organizing Research Workshops and various Faculty Development and OrientationProgrammes. She has been member of various Curriculum-Framework teams at the National andInternational levels in the eld of various strata of School Teaching as well as of Teacher Education. Sheis keenly interested in various Community Service and SUPW Programmes and its incorporation andimplementation in Contemporary Education System.

Recently she has been awarded with the ‘Radhakrishnan Award’ for showing excellence in the eld ofEducation. She is in the Advisory and Editorial Boards of many Journals of Education and has contributeda number of articles and research papers in National and International Journals of repute. She is memberof a few reputed Teacher- Education Associations and actively working for the quality concerns in TeacherEducation.

OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS

y Dr. Dhananjay Joshi, Associate Professor, M.A. (Pol. Sc.), M.Ed. and Ph.D.

y Dr. Shalini Yadava, Assistant Professor, M. Sc. (Botany), M.Ed., M.Phil, Ph.D.

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9. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (USICT)

(Formerly known as University School of Information Technology)

VISIONTo become an internationally recognized center for education and research.

MISSIONTo provide the students with the best career prospects in the global market and to equip themto become effective professionals.Information & Communication Technology (ICT) has emerged as the most powerful tool for all rounddevelopment of the world today and has been recognized as a driving force for the next century. Indian ICTis booming and emerging steadily on top of the global information technology market. The ICT industry inIndia is already a major drive of the Indian economy. ICT will make remarkable changes in social, cultural,scientic, technological and economic elds in the 21st century. Information Technology has becomean integral part of our life and no section of society can afford to ignore its impact and advantages. Theimportance of ICT has grown manifold in the new competitive and global scenario of the world and it hasto discover new horizons of its applications affecting everyone's life in times to come.

SCHOOL'S PHILOSOPHY AND PEDAGOGY

The University School of Information & Communication Technology has been established to design andimplement courses with a twin objective of generating effective professionals and to keep pace with the R&D activities of this fast emerging and changing eld of Information & Communication Technology. The schoolaims at inculcating essential skills as demanded by the global software industry, through the interactivelearning process. This includes team-building skills, audio-visual presentations and personality developmentprogrammes. These enhance analytic and communication skills, besides inculcating the virtues of self-study.

THRUST AREAS

The School was set up with an aspiration to generate manpower, with the ability to take on challenges andfare forward in the realm of Information & Communication Technology. The Curriculum has been designed tocater to the ever changing demands of information & communication technology, with the necessary inputsfrom the Industry. The School has highly qualied & experienced faculty who excel in their respective areas.The School also encourages research work in various areas of information & communication technology.The school aspires to produce individuals equipped to contribute for progress at all levels: individual,national and global.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

Programme Duration (Years) Intake

B.Tech./M.Tech. (Dual Degree) Info. Technology 4+2 60

B.Tech./M.Tech. (Dual Degree) CSE 4+2 60

B.Tech./M.Tech (Dual Degree) ECE 4+2 60

MCA (Software Engineering) 3 60

M.Tech. (Information Technology) 2 25

M.Tech. (CSE) 2 18

M.Tech. (ECE) 2 18

M.Tech. - IT (Weekend) 3 60

M. Tech. - ECE (Weekend) 3 60

M. Tech. - CSE (Weekend) 3 60

RESEARCH

USICT is actively involved in the research work. It conducts Ph.D. programmes in areas of IT, CSEand ECE. The department has produced 25 Ph.Ds in the last 11 years of its existence. Thirty Eight(38) research scholars are currently pursuing Ph.D in the areas of Software Engineering, MobileCommunication Systems, Signal and Image Processing, Computer Networks, VLSI Design, DataWarehousing & Data Mining, Neural Networks etc. The School has published and presented around690 papers in last thirteen years in various national / international journals and conferences.


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INFRASTRUCTURAL FACILITIES

USICT has state-of-the-art labs, with more than 500 machines. Each lab is fully equipped with therequisite software that fullls the needs of the students. The School also has specialized labs such asElectronics & Signal Processing Lab, Control and Microwave Devices and Circuit Lab, Digital Electronics&Microprocessor Lab, General Computing, DBMS Lab/ Open Source Lab, Software Engineering Lab,Multimedia Lab, Image Processing & Computer Vision Lab, VLSI & Embedded System Design Lab,Electrical Science Lab & Signal & System Lab, Cellular and Mobile Communication Lab, ComputerNetwork Lab, Advanced Computing Lab/ Open Source Lab, Wireless Computing and Ad-hoc NetworkLab. The school supports campus wide network with a optical bre back bone and currently has 1Gbps NKN connectivity for internet access and other applications.

PLACEMENTS

Every year prestigious ICT companies like TCS, Adobe, Birla Soft, Samsung, Tech. Mahindra, Naggrow,Newgen Hexaware, Induslogic, Sapient etc. have been recruiting the students of USICT in their nal yearitself. Many of the students have received more than two or three offers. However signicant numberof students have opted for further education such as MBA/MS in international and national institutionsSanford University and Indian Institutes of Technology, amongst others.

INDUSTRY TIE-UP'S

The School has signed a MoU with CISCO System, Inc. and has been granted the status ofCISCO Regional Networking Academy for Delhi state.

The University also signed a long term MoU with IBM India Ltd. for faculty training in IBM softwarelike DB2, Visual Age for JAVA, Web Sphere Application server etc., from time to time.

MoU with EMC Corporation for Storage Technologies

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

InfoXpression is the annual festival of USICT. It is a three-day extravaganza that is a brilliant fusion oftechnical erudition and cultural events that brings together participants from all over the country. In thelast several years since its origin, 'InfoXpression' has established a considerable reputation for itselfas an event to look forward to each year. It is organized by the Students Association of Information &Communication Technology (SAInT), the student body of the School.

TRAINING PROGRAMME

Police Training Programme

The department is actively engaged in providing yeoman services to the society by organizing sociallyrelevant training programmes. A 06 weeks intensive course on "Cyber Crime Investigation and ComputerForensics" was conducted for 100 Ofcers of Delhi Police during April to July 2008 where in extensive


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theoretical lectures were delivered and hands on training and practical sessions were organized forparticipants of the training programme.

Faculty Development Programme

The department is actively engaged in conducting several MHRD/AICTE/UGC sponsored FacultyDevelopment Programmes/Summer School/Winter School and Short Term Training Programmes. Recentlydepartment successfully organized the AICTE sponsored FDP Programme on 'Wireless Communicationsand Mobile Computing' for 50 participants from technical institutions and research scholars during 22December 2008 - 02 January 2009 where in extensive theoretical sessions and practical sessions onSimulators and Hardware Kits were conducted by in-house faculty members and external speakersfrom academia and industry were involved.

FACULTY

Prof. Navin Rajpal, Dean

Prof. Navin Rajpal is Professor at USICT since September 2004 and has been

appointed as Dean, of the School w.e.f. 1st October 2011. He did his B. Sc.

(Engineering) in Electronics and Communication from R.E.C. Kurukshetra, now

known as NIT, Kurukshetra. He did his M. Tech and Ph.D. from Computer Science

& Engineering Department, IIT, Delhi. He served in various capacities and has

more than 24 years of experience in teaching and research. He has worked as

Senior Scientic Ofcer for more than eight years at Centre for Applied Research

in Electronics IIT Delhi on various sponsored and Consultancy projects. Before joining this university in

July 2000 as Reader, he worked for more than 4 years as Assistant Professor at C.R. State College of

Engineering, Murthal, where he was Incharge Computer Science and Engineering Department for about

two years. In G.G.S. Indrapratha University he has worked as Reader, USICT and Incharge Computer

Center from July 2000 to August 2004. He has also worked as Head CS&E at IGIT from Jan. 2005 to

Dec. 2007. He has supervised several M. Tech. and three Ph.D. Students. He has published / presented

more than 75 research papers in National and International Journals / Conferences. He is a life member

of CSI and ISTE. His areas of interest are Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition,

Articial Neural Networks, Computer Graphics, Algorithms Design and Digital Hardware Design.

Prof. Yogesh Singh, (on Lien)

Prof. Yogesh Singh, Professor in the University School of Information & CommunicationTechnology. He is presently on lien as he has been appointed as Vice Chancellor,Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda. He has worked as Dean of University Schoolof Information & Communication Technology from 2001 - 2006. He has also servedas Dean, University School of Engineering & Technology (2001-2006), Proctor (2001-2006), Controller of Examinations (2006-2011), Director Student's Welfare (2006-2009)and Chief Warden (2001-2009). Prior to this, he was Founder Chairman (1996-1999),Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar,

Haryana. He received his M.Tech. and Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) degrees from National Instituteof Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana. He has been a member of IT-Task force and a member of itsCore-group on E-Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi and also the member of IT Task force of AICTE.He was a Member of Review Committee for Direct Central Assistance Schemes Project, MHRD, Govt.of India and Member of various committees constituted by AICTE, UGC and MHRD. He has visitedforeign Universities like University of Portland, University of California at Berkley, University of Californiaat San Deigo, Princeton University at New Jersey, USA. He is a Fellow of IETE and Member of IEEE.

Prof. Nupur Prakash (On deputation to IGDTUW)

Prof. Nupur Prakash, Professor in University School of Information & CommunicationTechnology, presently is on Lien and holds the position of Hon'ble Vice Chancellor,Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women. She was Additional Director(IT) at Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Delhi. She has worked as Deanin the University School of Information & Communication Technology from 2006 -2008. She has also held the post of Principal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology,for four years (2002-2006). She received her B.E. (Electronics & CommunicationEngineering) and M.E. (Computer Science & Technology) degree


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from University of Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee) in 1981 and 1986 respectively. She was awarded withthe Chancellor's Medal for being the best outgoing student of 1981. She has worked as a scientist Bat CSIO, Chandigarh (1983-85) on microprocessor based projects. She completed her PhD (ComputerEngineering & Technology) from Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1998 in the area of Natural languageProcessing using Articial Neural Networks. She has served the Department of Computer Science &Engineering at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh as Head and Assistant Professor (1991-2000).Dr. Nupur Prakash has traveled to Australia, Malaysia, Dubai, USA, Tokyo, Italy, New Zealand and Austria to attend workshops and present papers at several International Conferences. She has deliveredinvited talks at National University of Singapore and University of Mauritius. She has been nominatedas a member of Board of Studies and Board of Examiners at University of Mauritius (2005-2007) forcourses offered by C-DAC School of Advanced Computing, Republic of Mauritius. She has recently beennominated as International Consultant to Asian Development funded project "ICT in Basic Education" byMinistry of Education, Uzbekistan for 2008-2010. Dr. Nupur Prakash is a member of Governing Counciland Advisory Board of several Engineering Colleges and Management Institutes of India. She is onthe editorial board of several IT Magazines and Journals of National repute. She has been a reviewerfor several conferences on Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing and SecureWireless Networks organised at National and International level.

She has been nominated by AICTE, UGC, DIT (Ministry of Comm & IT, Govt. of India), NIC, DOEACC,CDAC and DIT (Govt of Delhi) as expert member of various committees. She has been a recipient ofUNESCO fellowship to attend a Workshops in Italy. She has attended and organized several seminarsand workshops in the area of e-security and mobile computing. She possesses a work experienceof around 27 years in research and academic administration. Her major areas of interest are MobileCommunication, Network Security, Cryptography, Secure Wireless Communication and Natural languageProcessing. She has authored around 100 research papers and articles for various national andinternational journals/conferences. She is a life member of professional bodies like CSI and IEEE, USA.

Prof. B.V.R. Reddy

Prof. B.V.R. Reddy is a Professor at University School of Information &Communication Technology. He is also holding the position of Dean, UniversitySchool of Engineering & Technology. He obtained his M.E. and Ph.D. (ECE)degrees during 1991 and 1998 respectively. He served in various capacities andhas more than 20 years of experience in teaching and research. Before joiningthis University he served as Assistant Professor at NIT, Hamirpur. He has about50 publications in journals and international conferences to his credit. He is a

Fellow of IETE and a member of other professional bodies such as IE, IEEE, ISTE and SEMCEI. Hehas guided a few scholars leading to M. Tech and Ph.D's. He has already guided 4 Ph.D's & currently 6students are registered for Ph.D. His current research interests include Wireless communications, whichinclude mobile, Adhoc and sensor based networks, computer communication networks, Semiconductorand VLSI circuits and microwave & optical communications.

Prof. C. S. Rai

Prof. Chandra Shekhar Rai is a Professor with the University School of Information& Communication Technology and Director, Research & Consultancy. He obtainedhis M.E. degree in Computer Engineering from SGS Institute of Technology &Science, Indore in 1994 and completed Ph.D. in the area of Neural Network fromGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in 2003. His teaching and researchinterests include: Articial Neural Systems, Computer Networks, Signal Processing,Fuzzy logic and its applications and parallel processing. He has many publications

in International/national journals and conferences. He was conferred with "Best Teacher Award" of theUniversity for the academic year 2007-2008.

Prof. Pravin Chandra

Prof. Pravin Chandra is working as Professor in the University School of Information& Communication Technology and Controller of Examinations of Guru Gobind SinghIndraprastha University, Delhi. Previously he was working as Assistant Professor(IT & Production & Operations Management) at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute ofManagement, New Delhi. He has also worked in University of Delhi as AssociateProfessor during 2010-2011. He did his M.Sc. in Physics from University of Delhiand M.Tech. (Computer Applications) from The Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.


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His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Articial Neural Network, Theoretical ComputerScience. His doctoral research work is in the area of articial neural networks.

Prof. Arvinder Kaur

Prof. Arvinder Kaur is a Professor in the University School of Information & CommunicationTechnology. She obtained her Ph.D. from GGS Indraprastha University & M.E in ComputerScience from Thapar Institute of Engg. & Tech. Prior to joining the school, she workedwith Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar(1993-2000) and ThaparInstitute of Engg. & Tech. (1990-1993) . She has also worked for Gabriel India Ltd.,Parwanoo (H.P) as Engineer(R&D). Her research interests include Software Engineering,

Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Software Metrics, Microprocessors, operating systems, articialintelligence and computer networks. She is also a lifetime member of ISTE & CSI. She has published22 research papers in International / National journals and conferences. Her paper titled " Analysis ofobject oriented Metrics", has been published as book chapter in a book titled Innovations in SoftwareMeasurement, Shaker - Verlag, Aachen 2005.

Prof. Anjana GosainProf. Anjana Gosain is working as Professor in University school of information &Communication technology. She obtained her Ph. D. from GGS Indraprastha University& M.Tech Information Systems form Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) Delhi.Prior to joining the school, she has worked with computer science department of YMCAInstitute of Engineering, Faidabad (1994-2002). She has also worked with REC kurukshetra.Her technical and research interests include data warehous, requirements engineering,databases, software engineering, object orientation and conceptual modeling. She has

published 18 research papers in International/National journals and conferences.

OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL

Associate Professor

Dr. Amit Prakash Singh, Ph. D. (IT)

Dr. Udayan Ghose, Ph. D. (IT)

Dr. Bharti Suri, Ph. D. (IT)

Dr. Pushpendra Singh Bharti, Ph. D. (ME)

Dr. R. Rama Kishore, Ph. D. (IT)

Dr. Anju Saha, Ph.D. (IT)

Dr. Ravindra Kr. Purwar, Ph.D. (IT)

Dr. Manoj Kumar, Ph.D. (ECE)

Dr. Virendra P. Vishwakarma, Ph.D. (CSE)

Dr. A.K. Mahapatra, Ph.D. (IT)

Assistant Professor

Mr. Anurag Jain, M.Tech (Computer Science & Information Technology)

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Malik, M.Tech (IT)

Mr. Sartaj Singh Sodhi, M.Tech (IT)

Mr. Rinkaj Goyal, M.Tech (IT)

Mr Parijat Mathur, M.Tech(ECE)

Mr. Ashish Payal, M.Tech (CSE)

Mrs. Jyotsna, M.Tech. (IT)

Mr. R.L.Ujjwal, M.E. (Computer Technology and Application)

Mrs. Reena Gupta, M.Tech (IT)

Mr. M. Bala Krishna, M.Tech (IT)

Mrs. Anuradha Chug, M.Tech (IT)

Mr. Rahul Johari, M.Tech (IT)

Ms. Priyanka Bhutani, M.Tech (IT)

Ms Kamal Deep Kaur, M.Tech (IT)

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Ms. Mansi Jhamb, M. TechMs. Mansi Jhamb, M. Tech

Ms. Jaspreeti Singh, M. TechMs. Jaspreeti Singh, M. Tech

Ms. Ruchi Sehrawat, M. TechMs. Ruchi Sehrawat, M. Tech

Ms. Asna Furqan, M. Tech. (Communication Engg.)Ms. Asna Furqan, M. Tech. (Communication Engg.)

Mr. Mr. Manoj Manoj SatyarthSatyarthi, i, M.TM.Techech

Mr. Shiv Ram Meena, M. TechMr. Shiv Ram Meena, M. Tech

Ms. Shweta Dabbas, M. TechMs. Shweta Dabbas, M. Tech

Faculty on Contract Basis (Assistant Professor)Faculty on Contract Basis (Assistant Professor)

Ms. Geetanjali ChopraMs. Geetanjali Chopra

Ms. Shimpee SeemaMs. Shimpee Seema

Ms. Shweta SinghalMs. Shweta Singhal

Mr. Anurag AgrawalMr. Anurag Agrawal

Ms. Bharti SinhaMs. Bharti Sinha

Mr. AvinashMr. Avinash

Ms. Karishma SharmaMs. Karishma Sharma

Ms. KhyatiMs. Khyati

Mr. Syed AamiruddinMr. Syed Aamiruddin

Ms. SavitaMs. Savita

Ms. SonikaMs. Sonika

Ms. RuchiMs. Ruchi

Ms. Sheema N.M.Ms. Sheema N.M.

Ms. Poonam YadavMs. Poonam Yadav

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10. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (USAP)10. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (USAP)

University School of Architecture & University School of Architecture & Planning, under the aegis of Planning, under the aegis of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityGuru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Universitywas established in the year 2009. USAP has started the B.Arch. progrwas established in the year 2009. USAP has started the B.Arch. programme with due approval from Councilamme with due approval from Councilof Architecture (CoA), and has an of Architecture (CoA), and has an annual intake of 80 students. USAP is annual intake of 80 students. USAP is dedicated to study and undertakededicated to study and undertakeresearch in the area of Architecture and Planning. The School plans to start a Postgraduate program inresearch in the area of Architecture and Planning. The School plans to start a Postgraduate program inthe near future.the near future.

VISIONVISION

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmonywith all existence”with all existence”

-Rabindranath Tagore-Rabindranath Tagore‘My School’ (lecture delivered in America‘My School’ (lecture delivered in America

published in Personality, London: MacMillan, 1933)published in Personality, London: MacMillan, 1933)

The school aspires to make a centre of learning which is knowledge-driven and not merely information-The school aspires to make a centre of learning which is knowledge-driven and not merely information-driven and hence achieve academic excellence. It plans to develop a synergy between various conventionaldriven and hence achieve academic excellence. It plans to develop a synergy between various conventionalconcepts, theories and applications of concepts, theories and applications of architecture and contemporary challenges in the built architecture and contemporary challenges in the built environment.environment.

MISSIONMISSION

USAP positions itself to become a Centre of Excellence for knowledge creation, implementation andUSAP positions itself to become a Centre of Excellence for knowledge creation, implementation anddissemination in the core dissemination in the core areas of Architecture and Planning.areas of Architecture and Planning.

PEDAGOGYPEDAGOGY

The school adopts a combination of teaching, research and training forThe school adopts a combination of teaching, research and training forthe curriculum development and pedagogy. USAP recognizes equitablethe curriculum development and pedagogy. USAP recognizes equitabledevelopment as the key challenge to contemporary societies. Students aredevelopment as the key challenge to contemporary societies. Students areencourageencouraged to d to develop a critical ability develop a critical ability to reect upon current challengesto reect upon current challengesof a rapidly developing technology-based society.of a rapidly developing technology-based society.

PROGRAMMEPROGRAMME

University School of Architecture and University School of Architecture and Planning offers a Bachelor Degree Planning offers a Bachelor Degree Program in Architecture (B. Arch.)Program in Architecture (B. Arch.)duly approved by Council of Architecture (CoA). It is a ve year regular programme, with architectural trainingduly approved by Council of Architecture (CoA). It is a ve year regular programme, with architectural trainingperiod incorporated within this time frame.period incorporated within this time frame.

FACULTYFACULTY

Dr. (Prof.) Neeraja Lugani Sethi,Dr. (Prof.) Neeraja Lugani Sethi, Professor-In-Charge| Ph.D CES, IProfessor-In-Charge| Ph.D CES, I IT Delhi| M.Arch. IT Delhi| M.Arch. (Conservation); SP(Conservation); SPAADelhi; B. Arch, Delhi; B. Arch, CCA Chandigarh.CCA Chandigarh.

Prof. RajaProf. Rajat Ray,t Ray, Professor | Professor | MA (ConservationMA (Conservation), York University; PG Dip ), York University; PG Dip (Conservation), Florence; M.Arch.(Conservation), Florence; M.Arch.(Urban Design); SPA Delhi; B. Arch, B.E. (Urban Design); SPA Delhi; B. Arch, B.E. College SibpurCollege Sibpur, University , University of Calcuttaof Calcutta

Prof. Rajat Ray received the prestigious ‘Charles Wallace’ Scholarship for ConservationProf. Rajat Ray received the prestigious ‘Charles Wallace’ Scholarship for Conservationstudies’ in UK and the ‘Italian Government Scholarship to Foreign Students for Culturalstudies’ in UK and the ‘Italian Government Scholarship to Foreign Students for CulturalStudies’. Prof. Ray worked with reputed architectural practices in Calcutta and Delhi,Studies’. Prof. Ray worked with reputed architectural practices in Calcutta and Delhi,including Stein Doshi Bhalla and K.T. Ravindran, and has practised independently asincluding Stein Doshi Bhalla and K.T. Ravindran, and has practised independently aswell. He has taught at graduate and postgraduate levels for more than two decades. Hewell. He has taught at graduate and postgraduate levels for more than two decades. Hehas worked as Professor of Architecture and the ex-ofcio Dean of the Sushant Schoolhas worked as Professor of Architecture and the ex-ofcio Dean of the Sushant Schoolof Art and Architectuof Art and Architecture, Gurgaon. He is re, Gurgaon. He is a member of the visiting faculty a member of the visiting faculty in SPA, Delhi andin SPA, Delhi andInstitute of ArchaeologInstitute of Archaeology of the ASI and y of the ASI and has been member of their Board of has been member of their Board of studies. He isstudies. He is


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empanelled as a Conservation Consultant to INTACH, Kolkata Municipal Corpoempanelled as a Conservation Consultant to INTACH, Kolkata Municipal Corporation. He has made severalration. He has made severalpresentations at National and International forums for urban and architectural conservation in addition topresentations at National and International forums for urban and architectural conservation in addition towriting regularly for various journals. His areas of specialization are historical buildings and cities, architecturalwriting regularly for various journals. His areas of specialization are historical buildings and cities, architecturaltheorytheory, history , history and urbanism. He is and urbanism. He is currently pursuing doctoral research on colonial period architecture andcurrently pursuing doctoral research on colonial period architecture andurbanism of Kolkata city.urbanism of Kolkata city.

Ar. Avtar Singh,Ar. Avtar Singh, Associate Professor |M.Arch. (Ekistics), Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi; B. Arch, Associate Professor |M.Arch. (Ekistics), Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi; B. Arch,CCA, ChandigarhCCA, Chandigarh Architect Architect Avtar Avtar Singh Singh has ehas eighteen ighteen years oyears of teachf teaching eing experience xperience and and has bhas been een associated associated with thwith the inde industryustryfor more than thirty years. He has for more than thirty years. He has worked as an architect on many prestigious projects of airports, housing,worked as an architect on many prestigious projects of airports, housing,ofces, educational institutes, utility buildings and plotted residential buildings. His interests include theofces, educational institutes, utility buildings and plotted residential buildings. His interests include thestudy of regional development and settlements, energy efcient architecture and construction technology.study of regional development and settlements, energy efcient architecture and construction technology.

Ar. Rekha Bhaskaran,Ar. Rekha Bhaskaran, Associate Professor | M.Arch. Associate Professor | M.Arch. (Urban Design), SPA Del(Urban Design), SPA Delhi; B. Arch, SSAA, hi; B. Arch, SSAA, GurgaonGurgaonRekha has been pursuing the profession of Architecture since 1995 with an academic and researchRekha has been pursuing the profession of Architecture since 1995 with an academic and researchexperience of 17 years including an industry experience of 4 years. Her area of interest is Urban Designexperience of 17 years including an industry experience of 4 years. Her area of interest is Urban Designand Green architecture.and Green architecture.

Ar. Vishal Rai,Ar. Vishal Rai, Assistant Professor | M.Plan. (Urban Planning), SPA Delhi; B. Arch, MNIT, Jaipur Assistant Professor | M.Plan. (Urban Planning), SPA Delhi; B. Arch, MNIT, Jaipur Vishal had worked on seveVishal had worked on several infrastructure projects before he started to teach. ral infrastructure projects before he started to teach. Vishal had earlieVishal had earlier taught atr taught atDepartment of ArchitectDepartment of Architecture, NIT, Patna as ure, NIT, Patna as AssistAssistant Professor fant Professor for a period of one year prior to joining USAPor a period of one year prior to joining USAP..

Ar. Sonali Ramesh Roy,Ar. Sonali Ramesh Roy, Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor | M.Arch. (Conservation), SPA DelM.Arch. (Conservation), SPA Delhi; B. Arch, hi; B. Arch, LAD, Nagpur LAD, Nagpur Sonali had worked for several years extensively in the area of architectural conservation with prominentSonali had worked for several years extensively in the area of architectural conservation with prominentexperts in the eld. Her areas of interest are architectural restoration, vernacular architecture and history.experts in the eld. Her areas of interest are architectural restoration, vernacular architecture and history.

Dr. Seema Devgan,Dr. Seema Devgan, Assistant Professor | Ph.D, IIT-Delhi; M.Tech. (Building Science and Construction Assistant Professor | Ph.D, IIT-Delhi; M.Tech. (Building Science and ConstructionManagemeManagement), IIT-Delhi; B. Arch, nt), IIT-Delhi; B. Arch, TVBSHS, DelhiTVBSHS, DelhiDr. Seema Devgan has many research publications in both national and international refereed journals toDr. Seema Devgan has many research publications in both national and international refereed journals toher credit. Her areas her credit. Her areas of interest include climate sensitive building design, building energy simulation, projectof interest include climate sensitive building design, building energy simulation, projectmanagement and redevelopment issues in urban areas.management and redevelopment issues in urban areas.

Ar. Taniya Sanyal,Ar. Taniya Sanyal, Assistant Professor | Assistant Professor | M.B.E.M, SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, SPA, DelhiM.B.E.M, SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, SPA, DelhiTTaniya was engaged in conaniya was engaged in consultancy fsultancy for both design and management or both design and management before joininbefore joining USAPg USAP. She has special. She has specialinterest in sustainable issues, interest in sustainable issues, alternate building materials and technologyalternate building materials and technology..

Ar. Divya Chopra,Ar. Divya Chopra, Assistant Professor | M.Arch. Assistant Professor | M.Arch. (Urban Design), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, TVBSHS, Delhi(Urban Design), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, TVBSHS, DelhiDivya had been engaged both in design and academics before joining USAP. Her special interest lies inDivya had been engaged both in design and academics before joining USAP. Her special interest lies inthe contemporary issues of Indian cities the contemporary issues of Indian cities and transforming rural Himalayan settlements.and transforming rural Himalayan settlements.

Ar. Sumant Sharma,Ar. Sumant Sharma, Assistant Professor | MBA Assistant Professor | MBA (Real Estate), GGSIPU, De(Real Estate), GGSIPU, Delhi; B. Alhi; B. Arch, NITrch, NIT, Hamirpur , Hamirpur Sumant had a teaching experience of more than six years in which he has earlier taught at Shri MataSumant had a teaching experience of more than six years in which he has earlier taught at Shri MataVaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K. His research areas include Real Estate development, urban sprawlVaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K. His research areas include Real Estate development, urban sprawland transportation and transportation managememanagement.nt.

Ar. Aditi Kundu,Ar. Aditi Kundu, Assistant Professor | M.Arch. ( Assistant Professor | M.Arch. ( Industrial Design), SPIndustrial Design), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, TVBSHS, DelhiA, Delhi; B. Arch, TVBSHS, Delhi Aditi had worked with emin Aditi had worked with eminent architectural practices for abent architectural practices for about 10 years before she started teout 10 years before she started teaching. Sheaching. Shewas a visiting was a visiting faculty for many architecture colleges in faculty for many architecture colleges in the Delhi NCR before the Delhi NCR before joining USAPjoining USAP..

Ar. Hemlata,Ar. Hemlata, Assistant Professor | M.Plan. (Ur Assistant Professor | M.Plan. (Urban Planning), SPA, Delhi; B. ban Planning), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, Jamia Millia IsArch, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhilamia, DelhiHemlata has worked as an architect for residential projects and as Urban Planner Consultant for DelhiHemlata has worked as an architect for residential projects and as Urban Planner Consultant for DelhiDevelopment Development AuthorityAuthority. Her areas . Her areas of interests are of interests are Urban and regional development, Public Private PartnershipUrban and regional development, Public Private Partnershipin providing Urban Infrastructure.in providing Urban Infrastructure.

Ar. Siddharth Khitoliya,Ar. Siddharth Khitoliya, Assistant Professor | M.Arch. (Landscape Architecture), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, Assistant Professor | M.Arch. (Landscape Architecture), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch,Jamia Millia Islamia, DelhiJamia Millia Islamia, DelhiSiddharth was earlier teaching in Chandigarh College of Architecture before joining USAP. He has beenSiddharth was earlier teaching in Chandigarh College of Architecture before joining USAP. He has beeninvolved in various designs for resiinvolved in various designs for residential and commercial projectsdential and commercial projects. He has to his credits 14 technical papers. He has to his credits 14 technical paperspublished in various national and published in various national and international conferenceinternational conferences and s and journals.journals.


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Ar. Anurag Giri, Assistant Professor | M.Plan. (Urban Planning), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, GCA, Lucknow

Ar. Akhil Dass, Assistant Professor | M.Arch. (Urban Design), SPA, Delhi; B. Arch, TVBSHS, Delhi Inaddition to the permanent faculty following visiting faculty members are associated with the School foracademic session 2013-14

Name Qualication Present Position Industryexperience

1 A. G. KrishnaMenon

MSc. Arch, ChicagoM.Sc. Urban Planning, Columbia Univ.,NYB. Arch., IIT, Kharagpur

Architectural consultant,Convenor INTACH (Delhi)

48 years

2 Bashabi Das Gupta B. Arch, SPA, New Delhi Architectural consultant 43 years

3 Deorao D Bakde B.Arch., VRCE, Nagpur, 1970Master of Town Planning, SAP,University of Madras, 1973PG International diploma in Housing,Planning & Building, BIE, Rotterdam,Holland, 1978

Practicing Architect, TownPlanner, Professor ofarchitecture

43 years

4 Gopal Swarup B.Arch., SPA 1983 Practicing Architect &Professor of architecture

30 years

5 Jagdish ChanderWason

M.E (Civil Engg.) IIT RoorkeeB.E., DCE

Structural Engineer 51 years

6 Kishor Gundigara BA (Fine), MSR University, 1968 Teach ing as V is i t ingFaculty

45 years

7 Mona Chandra B.Arch, Sir JJ College of Arch, Mumbai,1989

Practicing Architect andTeaching as Visiting faculty

24 years

8 Peu Banerjee Dass B. Arch., Calcutta, 1992M. Phil., New Castle, U.K. 2005

Architect 21 years

9 Rajen Baraya B.Arch, SPA -1976University of Manchester


37 years

10 Sudip Choudhury M.Arch, SingaporeB.Arch, SPA, New Delhi

BIM Specialist 21 years

11 Sunil PrasadShrivastava

M.E. (Civil), BIT RanchiB.Sc Engg (Civil), BIT, Ranchi

Civil Engineer 28 years

12 Suresh VaidyaRajan

B. Arch., SPA, Delhi Architectural Consultant 41 years

13 Vijay Matange M.Arch. (Urban Design) SPA, DelhiP.G Dip (Housing) RotterdamB.Arch. BKPS College of Arch, Pune

Practicing Partner, Vinyas A r c h i t ec t s & U r banDesigners, New Delhi

27 years

14 V K Jain B. Arch, IIT-Roorkee 1977P.G.Diploma in “Health FacilitiesPlanning”, SPA, 1990

Practicing Architect andProfessor of architecture

36 years

15 Vivek Varma B.Arch, SPA -1985 Practicing Architect andTeaching as Visiting faculty

28 years

16 Amit Mendiratta 5 Year Diploma, TVB School, 1999M.Sc in Renewable Energy & Architecture, Nottingham University, UK

P r i n c i p a l A r c h i t e c t ,EcoDesign Architects

14 years

17 Archana Gupta Masters in Sustainable Development,Sikkim Manipal University5 Year Diploma, TVB School, Delhi

Practicing Architect, Arch Associates, New Delhi

15 years

18 Mohit Kumar B.Arch., SPA, 1999M.B.A- Real Estate, GGSIPU, 2013


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19 Mohit Verma B.Arch, TVB School,1999Masters in Ekistics, Jamia Millia IslamiaUniversity, 2012

P r i n c i p a l A r c h i t e c t ,MOVARCH DESIGNS

14 years

20 Rajiv Bhakat M.Arch (Urban Design), University ofPennsylvaniaB.Arch, SSAA, Gurgaon

Architectural Consultant 11 years

21 Sabina B.Arch, TVB School,1997M.S.Architecture Studies (Architectureand Urbanism), MIT, 2000

Urban designer andarchitect

16 years

22 Shaleen Sharma M.Arch, UKB.Arch, TVB School, Delhi

Architectural Consultant 15 years

23 Alisa Akbar B.Arch, SPA -2007 Architectural Consulatantfor Jasbir Sawhney and Associates

06 years

24 Bishwajit Banerjee B.Arch., School of Architecture andLandscape Design,Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University,Katra, J&K, 2011

P r i n c i p a l A r c h i t e c t ,Graphite Graphics

02 years

25 Bhaskar Agarwal B. Arch., MANIT, Bhopal, 2008M.Arch., Urban Design, SPA, 2012

A r c h i t e c t & U r b a nDesigner, DUAC

05 years

26 ChitraChandrashekhar

B.Arch, SPA -2007M.Des., Visual Communication, IDC,IIT-Bombay, 2011

Independent Consultant 06 years

27 Czaee Malpani B.Arch, TVB School, 2007M.Arch, Department of Architecture, Artand Planning, Universityof Cincinnati, 2011

Architect, Shiriesh Malpaniand Associates

06 years

28 Deepak Bhatia B.Arch, USAP, IPU 2010 Practicing Architect andTeaching as Visiting faculty

03 years

29 Kanishka Prasad B. Arch., TVBSHS, Delhi Architectural Consultant 11 years

30 Nimish Madaan B.Arch., Vastu Kala Academy, 2006 Teaching as Vis i t ingFaculty

07 years

31 Puneet Narang B. Arch., USAP, GGSIPU, Delhi 2009MA – Interior Design, University ofPortsmouth, UK

P r i n c i p a l A r c h i t e c t , Abhikalp Creations

04 years

32 Rejimon R Nair BFA (Painting), Delhi University Artist 06 years

33 Ruchita Dasgupta B. Arch., USAP, GGSIPU, Delhi 2009M.Sc. (Hons) Architectural Technologyand Building Performance: EdinburghNapier Univeristy, Scotland, 2012

Principal Architect, UD84,NEW DELHI, INDIA

04 years

34 Sakshi Jain B. Arch., USAP, GGSIPU, Delhi, 2010Master in Architectural Engineering:Environmental Design from Universityof Bath, UK

Sustainability Consultant, AECOM India Pv t Ltd,Delhi

03 years

35 Sonal Singh B.Arch, SPA -2005M.Arch., Industrial Design, SPA, 2008

Director, Design BeginsStudio (DBS)

08 years

36 Sourav Sil M.FA, Kala Bhavan, Visva BharatiSantiniketanB.FA, Kala Bhavan, Visva BharatiSantiniketan

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37 Suparna Ghosh M.Arch, Milan Polytechnic, ItalyB.Arch SSAA, Gurgaon

Practising Architect 05 years

38 Surbhi Anand Roy M. Arch. (Conservation), SPA, DelhiB. Arch., SSAA, Gurgaon

Conservation Architect 08 years

39 Sushant Rari B. Arch., USAP, GGSIPU, Delhi 2009 Principal Architect, UD84,NEW DELHI, INDIA

04 years

40 Tanay Jathmalani B. Arch., USAP, GGSIPU, Delhi Architect, Ashok B. Lall, Architects, New Delhi

02 years

41 Yamini Jajoria B.Arch, SPA -2005Masters in Industrial design, SPA, 2008

Practicing Architect 08 years

INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES

Presently, the school is housed in the existing University Campus at Kashmere Gate. It has architecturestudios, lecture rooms, seminar halls and an operational computer lab with various architecture relatedsoftware installed. The school has its separate library having above 3000 volumes and journals. The studentshave an access to the Central Library as well. A world class infrastructure is in the process of creation at University’s East campus having 18.75 acre landlocated at Surajmal Vihar as a new campus for USAP and a new School of Design.

ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

USAP is a part of the larger University community which has a full calendar of student events – sports,fests, debates, performing arts as well as participation in International and National program for students.

y COURTYARD | USAP introduced 'Courtyard' as a forum for discussion and exchange of viewson relevant and contemporary issues on built environment. In this forum, USAP is activelyorganizing workshops, seminars, symposia, exhibitions and other related activities across theyear.

y COURTYARD SYMPOSIUM | USAP formally started this platform with the symposium on‘Architecture and Our Cities: Contemporary Challenges’ at the India International Centre(IIC), New Delhi on Saturday, 10th March 2012. Prof. Dilip K. Bandyopadhyay, Honourable ViceChancellor, GGSIP University, was the Chief Guest of the symposium. The event was coveredwidely by the media.

y Courtyard Lecture Series was initiated. Five lectures byprominent Indian and International architects had been organisedin the academic session 2012-13, including a special lecture byProf. Brett Steele, Director: AA School of Architecture, London.For the academic session 2013-14, Courtyard Lecture Series-02has already seen one lecture and a panel discussion.

y DIWALI 2013 celebrations | Like every year, Rangoli, Photographyand Face painting competitions were held on the occasion of Diwalias part of students activities where there was great participation bythe students who also came dressed for the event.

y NASA and ZONASA | USAP students have been participating atboth the national and zonal conventions of architectural competitionsheld in the country with great enthusiasm. At the 55th Annual NASAcompetition held at the Gateway College of Architecture, Sonepat,USAP won the rst prize in Dance competition. At ZONASA 2013, Stambh, held at Sunder DeepCollege of Architecture, Ghaziabad, the USAP team not only won the second prize for Fashionshow but also were adjudged second for display at Rueben’s Trophy which showcases academicperformance and standard of teaching.

y PANORAMA Photography Exhibition | 2013 also saw USAP Architecture Club Neev presentinga students’ photography exhibition in the campus which drew many visitors.

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Students have documented and recorded their observations of various settlements like Pushkar,Jodhpur, Puri, village Niwai (near Jaipur), Orchcha and Pondicherry. Their studies have beenpublished and exhibited from time to time.

y Sports | USAP encourages the students to participate in sports. Like every year,USAP hosted a cricket match this year on 24th Feb, 2013. The current batches ofUSAP played with great gusto but lost the match to their alumni.

y Orientation 2013 | USAP invited industry experts and eminent academicians likeProf. A.B. Lall and Prof. AGK Menon to deliver orientation lectures on issues ofcontemporary relevance and orient the students towards professional and educational aspectsof architecture.

y NEO PARADIGM 2013| USAP hosted its rst Technical Fest Neo Paradigm, in March, 2013.The two-day Summit witnessed participation of not only students but many

eminent professionals and academicians. With various technical workshops,competitions, exhibitions, performances and panel discussions, Neo Paradigm2013 became a huge success and a milestone in USAP’s history.

RESEARCH/ PUBLICATIONS/ PROJECTS

The faculty of USAP have been consistently working upon relevant research areas. Someof their works have been published both in national and international referred journals.They have also presented their works at many prestigious conferences. Following arethe recent publications:

y Ar. Vishal Rai | “Sustainable Energy Management for a city”, published inJournal of Architecture (ISSN2249 9326)

y Ar. Sonali Roy Chandra | “Uplifting traditional skills to Professional Levels”,published in Journal of Architecture (ISSN22499326)

y Dr. Seema Devgan | “Role of Building Energy Codes in the EnergyEfcient Design of Building Envelope”, co-authored with Jain, A. K. andBhattacharjee, B. (2012), published in Conference proceedings of NationalConference on Energy Efcient Design of Buildings & Cities, DCRUST,Murthal, India & HSOWL, Detmold, Germany. pp. 139-155.

y “Comparative Inuence of Building Envelope Criteria on Energy Efciency of the BuildingEnvelope”, co-authored with Bhattacharjee, B. (2012), published in Conference proceedingsof National Conference on Emerging Trends of Energy Conservation in Buildings, CSIR-CBRI,Roorkee. pp. 309-316.


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y Ar. Sumant Sharma | “ Economics of URBAN SPRAWL”, published with Indian Journal of Applied Research, Page 19-21, Volume : 3, Issue : 6 ,June 2013 | ISSN - 2249-555X.

y “NEW CITY MODEL TO REDUCE DEMAND FOR TRANSPORTATION”, co-authored with Ashwani Kumar, Anoop Sharma, published in Elsevier, Procedia Engineering, Volume 21,2011, Pages 1078–1087, indexed by science direct also, International Conference on GreenBuildings and Sustainable Cities-2011, University of Bologna, Italy.

y “Green Buildings – A Requisite for Development of Hill Towns” co-authored with AshwaniKumar, Anoop Sharma, published in proceedings of Global Vision: Risk and Opportunitieson Urban Planet, 5th Conference of International Forum of Urbanism, National University ofSingapore, Singapore-Feb. 2011

y “URBAN SPRAWL VIS-A-VIZ ECONOMIC DRIFT” co-authored with Anoop Sharma, ArshiaKhajooria, published in proceedings of 11th International Congress Asian planning schoolassociation, University of Tokyo, Japan 16th to 19th Sept. 2011.

The School has been actively engaged in the consultancy/research projects. The following have beenundertaken by USAP so far:

y Project | Preparation of Local Area Plan for 03 MCD WardsClient | MCDYear | 2011-12

y Project | Rental Housing Options for EWS / LIG in DelhiClient | MCDYear | 2011-12

y Project | Preparation of Layout Plans for Regularization of Unauthorisedcolonies

Client | MCDYear | 2012


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11. UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MASS COMMUNICATION (USMC)

MISSION

In keeping with the grand vision incorporating the largersocial responsibilities of the University, the School has setits eyes at much higher goals than just producing quicklyemployable media students. They are being groomed toemerge as strategic decision makers for tomorrow’s mediabusiness that would not be bereft of ethical and moral valuesin its quest for prots.

OVERVIEW

Media industry in India is growing at a fast pace next only to telecommunications. For meeting the growingdemand of the industry, we need well educated and trained media profess ionals. Moreover, the growth in theindustry also demands relevant research inputs to maintain its tempo. Thus, a good number of competentand qualied researchers are also required.

INTERNATIONAL PATTERN: In line with the recommendations of the United Nations Educational, Scienticand Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the School has included in its Master in Mass Communication (MMC)syllabus the basics of social sciences such as economics, political science, history and sociology in the rstsemester syllabus that would be common to all the specializations. A step further, in the light of the mediaboom in the BRIC( Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries, Media Economics & Media Management havealso been included in the foundation syllabus.

NATIONAL THRUST: India being a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual country with a very richheritage in all walks of life, no mass communicator can afford to ignore group sensibilities of fellow citizens.With this in view, the new syllabus has modules on Indian Literature, Indian & World Literary Thinkers, and,Indian & World Cinemas.

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE: Media sector has undergone tremendous evolution during the last two decades. A dynamic understanding of the emerging professions and careers is required before a student decidesin favour of a specialization. The paper Media Industries, Professions and Careers has been introducedto take care of this need. In this respect and many others mentioned above, GGSIPU’s regular master’sprogramme of mass communication is not only unique but very contemporary too.

Serious research at master’s level: The Industry Interface Cell (IIC) has been tasked with advising sociallyrelevant topics for Minor & Major Research Projects to be done by master ’s students as part of their curriculumand generating Ideas Bank for Ph.D. scholars.

PROGRAMMES OFFERED

MASTER IN MASS COMMUNICATION (MMC)

The GGSIP University is one of the rst few institutions in the NCR to have launched master’s programme – both regular and weekend- during the last ve years. Earlier known as the Master of Mass Media(MMM),now the regular programme has been rechristened as the Master of Mass Communication(MMC) that offersve specializations in the last two semesters such as Journalism, New Media, Corporate Communicationand TV Production.

The programme aims at helping a student evolve into a professional who is capable of meeting not onlythe current needs of the industry but also what the industry and society would need in future in view ofdynamic local and global environments. Having given an overview of the industry and its professions andalso trained into basic content and technical skills, she is required to do Case Method studies to have ahands-on experience in the domain of her choice and nally come out with a substantial research work onthe given subject.

MASTER OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (MJMC)

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programme designed specially for working professionals who wish to enhance their academic qualicationsfor career advancement. The programme emphasizes application of theoretical inputs to real li fe situations tohelp the students gain an overview of the market and the industry that is crucial for honing in their decisionmaking skills.

PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Television: Reporter, Anchor, Producer, Copy Editor, Script Writer, Video Editor, Cameraperson, Researcher,Production Executive, Video Jockey, Media sales /Media planning executive, PR executive, Informationexecutive, Programme Executive. Radio: Radio Jockey / Anchor, News Reader, Reporter, Producer,Programme Executive, audio editor/Spool Editor, Transmission Executive; Advertising and PR (across theindustries): PR Executive, Media Sales Executive, Script Writer, Copy Writer, and Ad Visualiser. Internet andMobile: Reporter /Correspondent; Feature writer; Content writer, Web content developer, Content manager.Newspaper and Magazine: Reporter /Correspondent; Political writer; Feature writer; Business writer; Copyeditor; Sub-editor; Book Publishing: Content editor; Sponsoring editor.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES

USMC has its own independent premises on the UniversityCampus at Dwarka. It has a splendid TV Studio attached toProduction Control Room (PCR) with state –of-the-art facilities.The studio is equipped with multi-cam set up and online editingfacility. The Non-Linear Editing Lab (NLE) is equipped with Avidand FCP editing machines. Other labs include Print Media Laband Cyber Media Lab. A separate Audio Studio with TCR is thelatest addition to the School.

These labs have forty plus computers and have all the requiredsoftware for print, web and radio production. The studentsproduce TV-radio programmes and lms; bring out lab newspapers and magazines; and, execute Adcampaigns on their own.

Community radio: The University Management has decided in principle to set up a community radio in tunewith its larger goal of connecting with neighbouring and marginal communities and in the process come outwith the socially relevant research work.

UNIQUE TEACHING METHODOLOGY

y Orientation programme: At the start of the sessionitself, students undergo two-week orientationprogramme with the aim of having a helicopter viewnot only of the media industries and professions butalso of the regional, national and global environmentsin which we live.

y Media analysis: Students are required to do acomparative study of media and media productsduring interactive sessions that break the monotony ofone-way learning by way of TV watching/newspaperreading, etc.

y Practical work: Nearly half of the total academic time is devoted to practical/project work aimedat creating industry-like work environments.

y Case study method: Students are assigned live projects as case studies that are aimed at testingthe application of theoretical concepts to industry situations.

y Feedback: Both teachers and students evaluate each other in an exercise of mutual developmentand promotion of excellence.

y Self and peer assessment: Students are encouraged to assess themselves and get assessed bytheir peers along industry- and domain-specic parameters in order that they know their strengthsand weaknesses. This is done to motivate them to perform better.


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WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS

The School organises workshops and seminars in different specialised areas to provide guidance fromexperts practicing in the Industry. Those conducted during 2013 include

1. Design and Graphics in Advertising by Prof. N.N.Sarkar, Former Head, Design and Graphics, IIMCDelhi.

2. Workshop on Case Studies in Public Relations and Corporate Communication by Prof. J. Jethwaney,Head, Ad and PR, IIMC, Delhi

3. Making and Ad Campaign by Mr. Subash Sood, PR/Ad Consultant & Educator

4. Workshop on Diplomatic Reporting by Mr. Sandeep Dikshit,

5. Specialized and Advanced Reporting and Writing, by Mr. Venkatsubramanium, Former SeniorCorrespondent, PTI

6. Writing for Radio News, by Sh. Rajendra Chugh, Former News Reader, All India Radio

7. Scripting and Pitching, by Mr. Bikash Mishra, Independent Filmmaker and Journalist

8. Concept Development, by Mr. Ashok Purang, Film and Theatre Trainer

9. Media Workshop on Nuclear Energy Awareness, Co-organised by Vigyan Prasar (Department ofScience and Technology, Govt. of India)

10. Ten Day's Research Methodology Course For Ph.D. Students (SC Category), sponsored by IndianCouncil of Social Science Research (Min. of Human Resource Development)

11. Two Day's National Seminar on "Media Governance and Youth" sponsored by Indian Council ofSocial Science Research (Min. of Human Resource Development)

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Ph.D. PROGRAMME

The School has launched Ph.D. programme in the Odd Semester of 2013-14 session. This has been donein order to promote research in one of the most happening areas of industry in India. USMC is striving togain the Centre of Excellence status in tune with the University’s twin-goal of Quality Teaching & SociallyRelevant Research.

PROJECTS

y Project titled "Media & Youth (A comparative analysisof New Media preference of youth in metro and remotearea)” has been sanctioned to Dr. Durgesh Tripathi, Asst.Professor, for a period of two years (April 2013-March2015) by UGC.

y Project titled "Films on T.V. Viewing Habits of Youth(A Comparative Study of Delhi & Meerut)" has beensanctioned to Dr. Sachin Bharti, Asst. Professor, for aperiod of One years (April 2013-March 2014) by UGC.

y Project titled " Media and Youth (A Study of New MediaPreference of Youth in Delhi)" has been sanctioned to Dr. Durgesh Tripathi and Dr. Sachin Bharti, Asst. Professor, for a period of One years (April 2013-May 2014) by ICSSR.

ACTIVITIES

The students went to Puducherry in the rst week of April 2013 as a part of educational trip organisedannually by the school.

FACULTY

The quality of teaching, training and research is maintained by providing a blend of regular faculty withacademic excellence and guest faculty with industrial experience and expertise. USMC employs seven full-time and over 25 visiting and guest faculty members. They have been and many of them are still associatedwith national and multinational media houses and academic institutions such as Aajtak, Voice of America( Washington, DC), Zee News, NDTV, Star News, Sahara Group, Discovery Channel, Doordarshan, AllIndia Radio, Fairfax Business Media ( Australia), Perfect Relations, Essar Group, Outlook Magazine, TOI


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Group, Hindu, Indian Express, and, Dalal Street. Some faculty members are actively engaged in guidingresearch projects. They are encouraged to design syllabi that impart contemporary relevance to variousspecializations. Here, teaching & research go hand in hand.

Prof. C. P. Singh, Dean

Prof. C. P. Singh is a bilingual educator, author and researcher with over 20 years ofindustry, academic and administrative experience and has been associated with the TOIGroup, Fairfax Business Media (Singapore & Australia), Discovery Channel, IIMC, JagranInstitute of Management and Mass Communication (NOIDA) and MRIU( Faridabad).

His publications on news and media include those from Macmillan, Oxford UniversityPress and Discovery Channel. He has been invited to national and international seminars/conferences held by institutions such as Gartner Inc., AMIC & UNESCO; and has done

extensive case studies on the change management challenges of organizations such as MTNL, HUDCO,Coca Cola, World Bank and UNICEF.Currently a member of European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Belgium& International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), UK, and, on the boards ofvarious academic institutions including NCERT (Text Book Committee on Media Studies), he has beenexternal guide to research scholars at AMU & JNU. He has a dream of developing a National Centre ofExcellence in Media Education & Research.Interest areas: Designing Strategic Syllabi; Media Education Models; Media Economics; Communicationof Innovations for Freedom; News Content Trends.

OTHER FACULTY MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL

y Dr. Durgesh Tripathi, Asstt. Professor, Ph.D.

y Dr. Sarvesh Dutt Tripathi, Asstt. Professor, Ph.D.

y Dr. Kulveen Trehan, Asstt. Professor, MMC, NET, Ph.D.

y Ms. Sweta Singh, Asstt. Professor, MMC, NET

y Mr. Vinay Shanker, Asstt. Professor, MA(MC), NET

y Dr. Sachin Bharti, Asstt. Professor, MA(MC), JRF, Ph.D.

GUEST FACULTY

y Mr. A. S. Raghunath, Ex-GM (Brand) JPL & Visiting Faculty, MICA

y Mr. I. C. Pandey, Lawyer, Supreme Court of India

y Mr. Samir Kapur, Sr. Vice-President, Religare

y Mr. Sandeep Dikshit, Asst. Editor, The Hindu

y Dr. C. S. Dubey, Associate Prof. (Eng.), Delhi University

y Dr. P. K. Chowdhary, Associate Prof. (Hist.) DU

y Ms. Sunanda Dikshit, Media Trainer, formerly with Zee News, IBN-7, News-24

y Mr. Pallav Moitra, Consulting Director, Converge Communications & Ex. CEO, Paprika Media

y Ms. Garima Dutt, Ex-Content Manager, Buongiorno India Ltd.

y Ms. Aparna Dwivedi, Editor, Delhi , formerly Input Editor (NDTV Metro Nation), SpecialCorrespondent, Star News & Aajtak

y Ms. Shilpi Jha, Media Researcher, formerly Producer, Voice of America, Washington DC

VISITING INDUSTRY EXPERTS

y Mr. Ashok Ogra, Formerly Vice President (Programming), Discovery Channel India.

y Mr. Tabrez Ahmad, Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs (IPR), Microsoft India, New Delhi.

y Mr. N. N. Sarkar, Eminent Author and formerly Head Design & Graphics, IIMC, New Delhi.

y Ms. Jyotsna Roy, CEO, TARAA Human Development & Facilitation Consultants, New Delhi.

y Mr. Hemant Anand, Director, DLA Media.

y Mr. Amit Mukherjee, Associate Director, Perfect Relations Group.


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y Mr. Subodh Kumar, Group Head, Carat Fresh Integrated, Gurgaon.

y Mr. Navneet Anand, Director, Grey Matters Communications.

y Mr. Rahul Rao, Producer, NDTV.

y Mr. Yogesh Vajpeyi, formerly Editor (News), Indian Express.

y Mr. Sumit Sinhal, Associate Vice President, Strategy & Planning, NDTV India, New Delhi.

y Mr. Sanjay Banerjee , Exe. Producer, Sahara Samay.

y Mr. Sanjay Kapoor, Editor, Hard News, and formerly Editorial Advisor, Star News.

y Mr. P. K. Singh, Consulting Editor, Dalal Street.

y Mr. Rahul Sinha, Anchor, Zee News.

y Mr. Suresh Kumar, Associate Editor, www.aajtak.com

y Dr. Vartika Nanda, HOD, Journalism & Mass Communication, Lady Sri Ram College.

y Mr. Bikas Paul, Sr. Producer, News-X , New Delhi.

y Mr. Siddhinath, Sr. Producer, Aajtak.

y Mr. Deshbandhu Singh, Editor(Mobile), NDTV Convergence.

y Mrs Saheena Khan, Formerly Associate Professor, IIMC, New Delhi.

INDUSTRY INTERFACE CELL (IIC)

IIC is being set up to guide the faculty and students in keeping themselvesabreast of the latest developments in the industry in order to be ableto respond to the challenges posed by the ever changing businessenvironment. Members of the Cell are drawn from the list of aforementionedindustry experts, internal faculty and students representing alumni andthe passing out batch. Its tasks include:(a) Placement Assistance (b) Summer Training(c) Research Projects (d) Ideas Bank:

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

Zee News, DD, CNN –IBN, Meditech, NDTV 24 X 7, BBC, IBN7, HT Media, The Indian Express, Mail Today,The Economic Times, R. K. Swamy, Ulka, Fab India, JWT, Perspective PR, Grey World Wide, Ogilvy &Mather, India Today, NIIT, Citi Bank, Petroleum University, Leo Burnett, Metro Group, Rockland, DLA, Zenith,Bhaskar Media Group, SAUV Communications.

MEDIA COVERAGE

USMC faculty and staff have been burning midnight oil together to effect structural changes that are germaneto giving the School an edge over the rest. Initiatives ranging from incorporating UNESCO recommendationsinto the New Syllabus to setting up Industry Interface Cell to engaging students in socially relevant ResearchProjects at the masters level have attracted the media attention in a big way and kicked off debates in theacademic and professional circles:

NEWSPAPERS:

y The Indian Express, Delhi

y Dainik Bhaskar, Delhi

y Amar Ujala, Delhi

y Dainik Jagran (National), Delhi

y Hindustan, Delhi

y The Pioneer, Delhi

WEBSITES:

y http://khabar.ndtv.com/2011/01/22134440/CP-Singh-Intv.html

y http://www.livehindustan.com/news/desh/national/39-39-155316.html

y http://www.hellosirsa.podbean.com/

y http://www.livehindustan.com/news/desh/national/39-39-151190.html


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12. CENTRE FOR DISASTER MANAGEMENT STUDIES (CDMS)

Centre for Disaster Management Studies (CDMS) wasestablished in the year 2005 to provide specializedtraining in Disaster Management to the personnelengaged in Disaster Management especially inGovernment, Public Sector Undertakings, Corporate,NGO, UN Agencies and teachers etc. Presently,CDMS runs a weekend MBA(Disaster Management)programme and plans to conduct short-term Coursesin future. The Centre utilizes experienced faculty fromdifferent University School of Studies for impartingeducation and also invites experts from NationalInstitute of Disaster Management, LalBhadurShastsriNational Academy of Administration, Mussoorie,National Disaster Management Authority, besidesexperienced faculty from specialized department likeDelhi Fire Service and Defense services etc.

FACULTY

Prof. J.K. Garg, Director

Prof. J.K. Garg, has more than 37 years of experience and has pioneered theresearch pertaining to applications of remote sensing and GIS for environmentalapplications in the country while working at Space Application Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad. It may be mentioned that 1st scientic inventory of the wetlands inthe country, sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Governmentof India, was carried out under his guidance. He has completed successfully 12research projects in various spheres of bioresources and environment usinggeospatial techniques. His main endeavor has been to develop techniques forenvironmental appraisal of developmental activities, wetland conservation and

management, biodiversity conservation, landslide hazard assessment, forest re monitoringetc.usinggeospatial techniques.Prof. Garg was Project Manager in International Charter on Space and MajorDisasters before joining GGSIPU. Prof. Garg has more than 140 publications which include research papersin international/national journals, book articles, and reports etc.

Dr. Mukta Girdhar, Assistant Professor

Dr. MuktaGirdhar specializes in Disaster Management, Geographic Information System andRemote Sensing. She has over nine years of experience in imparting education in the eldof Disaster Management. She has guided several dissertation related to disasters besidespublishing and presenting many research papers in national and International Journals. Shehas undergone many training courses at national and International levels and is f amiliar with ArcGIS, MapInfo, Erdas Imagine, and Illwissoftwares.

OTHER FACULTY FROM UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF STUDIES (USS) University School of EnvironmentManagement

University School of Environment Management

y Dr. N.C Gupta, Professor

y Dr. Varun Joshi, Associate Professor

y Dr. Deeksha Katyal, Assistant Professor

University School of Management Studies

y Shri V K Wadhwa, Assistant Professor

University School of Law & Legal Studies

y Sh. Anuj Kumar Vaksha, Assistant Professor

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