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  • Lucknow diary: LU to collaborate with SAARC nations 

    Express News Service

    LU to collaborate with SAARC nations 

    In a significant move towards promoting regional cooperation and knowledge exchange, Lucknow university is embarking on a path of collaboration to benefit students, faculty, and researchers alike. To provide the students international exposure and experience, Lucknow University is set to foster academic and research ties with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations. The endeavour will expose the students to diverse cultures, languages and traditions, making it a fertile ground for academic exploration and cross-cultural understanding.

    New initiative kindles light of education

    UP government begins Atal Residential Schools (ARS), a key pro-rural and pro-poor initiative to empower minds and transform lives of children who lost their parents in pandemic. ARS will also offer better educational facilities to children of socially and financially backwards and deprived class. Conceived on the lines of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, ARSs are built to provide excellent residential facilities and quality education free of cost to the children. The state government had allocated `1,200 crore in this year’s budget for the project which covers all 18 divisions of the state in the initial phase. Later, each district will have one school.

    Varun Gandhi creates another stir in party

    After keeping quiet for some time, BJP MP from Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi has rubbed his own party’s government the wrong way by writing to UP deputy CM and state health minister Brajesh Pathak seeking reconsideration of suspension of licence of Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Amethi following the death of a 22-year-old owing to alleged medical negligence. The BJP MP said that the suspension would have far-reaching implications for the region’s health care access as people are dependent on hospital for primary health care services.

    LU to collaborate with SAARC nations 

    In a significant move towards promoting regional cooperation and knowledge exchange, Lucknow university is embarking on a path of collaboration to benefit students, faculty, and researchers alike. To provide the students international exposure and experience, Lucknow University is set to foster academic and research ties with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations. The endeavour will expose the students to diverse cultures, languages and traditions, making it a fertile ground for academic exploration and cross-cultural understanding.

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    UP government begins Atal Residential Schools (ARS), a key pro-rural and pro-poor initiative to empower minds and transform lives of children who lost their parents in pandemic. ARS will also offer better educational facilities to children of socially and financially backwards and deprived class. Conceived on the lines of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, ARSs are built to provide excellent residential facilities and quality education free of cost to the children. The state government had allocated `1,200 crore in this year’s budget for the project which covers all 18 divisions of the state in the initial phase. Later, each district will have one school.

    Varun Gandhi creates another stir in party

    After keeping quiet for some time, BJP MP from Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi has rubbed his own party’s government the wrong way by writing to UP deputy CM and state health minister Brajesh Pathak seeking reconsideration of suspension of licence of Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Amethi following the death of a 22-year-old owing to alleged medical negligence. The BJP MP said that the suspension would have far-reaching implications for the region’s health care access as people are dependent on hospital for primary health care services.

  • Attack on Lucknow University professor Ravi Kant Chandan takes on political overtones

    By IANS

    LUCKNOW: The attack on a Dalit Lucknow University professor, allegedly by right-wing activists, earlier this month, is now snowballing into a major political controversy.

    Professor Ravi Kant Chandan, who was attacked by students for his alleged remark on Kashi Vishwanath and Gyanvapi controversy during an online debate show, has not yet managed to get his complaint registered against the accused students.

    Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad, on Thursday, visited Lucknow University campus to express solidarity with Ravi Kant.

    Chandra Shekhar told reporters on Friday that “It is very unfortunate that police did not register case on the complaint filed by the teacher who was attacked by the students. Instead, the FIR was registered against the victim teacher on the students’ complaint.”

    Azad has also threatened to launch agitation if police did not register a case against those who attacked the professor on the campus.

    The Dalit professor had first faced the fury of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) students on May 10 when they raised slogans against him. Again, on May 18, an LU student slapped him in the presence of the university security guard.

    Meanwhile, Azad’s visit to Lucknow University campus has also led to another controversy.

    A section of students raised slogans in the name of Hindu deity and in retaliation, the members of the Dalit community and supporters of Azad raised slogans of ‘Jai Bhim’.

    Later, while raising objections over Azad’s visit to the university campus, the LU students gave representation to vice-chancellor Prof Alok Kumar Rai.

    It is noteworthy that the Lucknow University Teachers’ Association (LUTA) has also come out in support of the professor.

    In a letter to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday, the Lucknow University Teachers’ Association (LUTA) has requested him to ensure that action is taken against the culprits involved in the “unfortunate” attacks on Prof Ravi Kant Chandan on the campus on May 10 and 18.

    The letter reads, “Indecent behaviour and sloganeering by some people with Lucknow University teacher Ravi Kant Chandan is objectionable and the teachers’ body requests action against those who create unrest on the campus.”

    The association has requested the chief minister to ensure that an FIR should be registered on the complaint given by Ravi Kant dated May 10.

  • Lucknow University tightens COVID-19 restrictions, asks students to stay back at homes

    By ANI
    LUCKNOW: The University of Lucknow has issued directives to tighten the COVID-19 restrictions.

    Nalini Pandey, Chief Provost of the University said in a letter on Tuesday, “Due to a sharp surge in Coronavirus cases in the city, as a precautionary measure the hostel students are requested to stay back at home and not return to the hostel till offline classes resume.”

    “The students residing in the hostel are requested to either go back to their home and if they choose to remain in the hostel they shall not be allowed to leave the hostel premises for any reason besides in case of emergency and after seeking permission from their respective hostel provost,” the letter added.

    In view of rising Covid-19 cases, the state government on Tuesday restricted more than 100 people at any gathering or public place in an enclosed area until further orders.

    In an order, it said that only 50 per cent of the area’s capacity, subject to a maximum of 100 people will be permitted while an open area, 50 per cent of the capacity, subject to a maximum of 200 persons will be permitted. In both cases, wearing masks, maintaining physical distance and sanitisation will be compulsory.

    This and school closure for students up to class 8 are, so far, the only restrictions imposed in UP. The government will instead be focussing on increased testing, surveillance and containment to battle the second wave of novel coronavirus.