Ambedkar University Delhi

24/06/2016

23/06/16, 4:32:52 PM: : *SAP India CEO Ranjan Das Dies After Gym Workout*

Ranjan Das, CEO and MD of SAP-Indian subcontinent died after a massive cardiac arrest in Mumbai recently.
One of the youngest CEOs, he was only 42.

What killed Ranjan Das?

He was very active in sports, was a fitness freak and a marathon runner.

After his workout, he collapsed with a massive heart attack and died. He is survived by his wife and two very young kids.

It was certainly a wake-up call for corporate India. However, it was even more disastrous for runners.

The question arises as to why an exceptionally active, athletic person succumbed to a heart attack at 42 years of age.

What is the real reason?

Everyone missed out a small line in the reports that Ranjan used to manage with 4-5 hours of sleep.

In an earlier interview of Ranjan on NDTV in the program ‘Boss' day out’, Ranjan Das himself admitted that he sleeps less and would love to get more sleep.

Short sleep duration (

09/05/2016

AUD Announces Admissions to its Karampura campus in 2016-17

A multi-campus University

The vision of AUD, a city University, established by the Government of NCT of Delhi, is to cater to the aspirations of Delhi’s youth. A University with a unitary structure, our vision is to become a multi-campus University with facilities across the city. Till now it has been operating from its campus in Kashmere Gate where 40 undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes are currently on offer.

The Directorate of Higher Education, Government of the NCT of Delhi is in the process of handing over the old campus of Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) College of Delhi University in Karampura (West Delhi) to AUD. DDU College will move to its new campus in Dwarka.

Admissions in Karampura Campus in 2016-17

AUD proposes to offer four undergraduate programmes in the Karampura campus starting from academic session of 2016-17. This is subject to the campus being made available in time to AUD.

The programmes to be offered at AUD’s Karampura campus are:

1. BA (Honours) in Economics
2. BA (Honours) in English
3. BA (Honours) in Psychology
4. BA (Honours) in Social Science and Humanities

At the Karampura campus intake for each BA programme is 50 with the total number of seats available being 200.

These four programmes are currently also offered in the Kashmere Gate campus.

Separate merit lists will be prepared for both campuses in each of the above programmes. The merit list will be based on preferences for campus provided by each applicant. Each applicant should mention both preferences (1 & 2) for the two campus for each of these four programme they apply to. Application forms without campus preference will not be accepted.

Programme and Course Structure:

The programme and course structure (syllabus) will be the same in both the campuses with only some minor changes in the list of electives.

Teachers

AUD has a single pool of teachers. Teachers for both the campuses will be drawn from that pool. AUD already has a policy of concurrent appointments of teachers. The same set of teachers, teach both postgraduate and undergraduate courses in various Schools.

Facilities

The Karampura campus will have all the facilities that the Kashmere Gate campus has – technology enabled classrooms with climate control, well-stocked library, computer labs, student activity area, playgrounds, and cafeteria.

Future Plans:

More undergraduate and postgraduate programmes will be launched in the Karampura campus from 2017-18 onwards. It is expected to accommodate approximately 2200 students by 2019.

Two new campuses in Rohini (Sector 3) and Dheerpur (Near Model Town and Mukherjee Nagar) will be ready by 2020.

Reaching AUDs Karampura Campus

The AUD Campus in Karampura is 1.3 Kms from the Kirti Nagar Metro Station (on the Blue and Green Line of Delhi Metro), less than a kilometre from the Moti Nagar Metro Station (on the Blue line), and about 3 kms from the Inderlok Metro Station (Red Line).

09/05/2016

AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY DELHI - PRESS RELEASE

AUD Announces Tuition Fee Waiver scheme to SC, ST, Differentially-abled and increase in the ceiling of income for Economically Backward Students

This entails:

1. Full waiver of Tuition Fees to all students belonging to SC, ST and PwD categories

2. Gross Annual family income ceiling (slab-wise) for availing Tuition Fee waiver for the Economically Backward students (other than SC, ST & PwD) is increased from Rs.5 Lakhs to Rs. 6 Lakhs as per the following details:*

% of Tuition Fee Waiver Gross Annual Family Income
Slab 1 100% Tuition Fee Waiver Rs. 3 lakhs or below
Slab 2 75% Tuition Fee Waiver Rs. 4 lakhs or below, but more than Rs.3 lakhs
Slab 3 50% Tuition Fee Waiver Rs. 5 lakhs or below, but more than Rs.4 lakhs
Slab 4 25% Tuition Fee Waiver Rs. 6 lakhs or below, but more than Rs.5 lakhs

*This is subject to production of documents to substantiate the claim.

25/04/2016

AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY DELHI

Admissions 2016

Online application process for admission to the 19 Post Graduate programmes offered at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) has started on 22 April 2016.

The online application process for admission to the 7 Under Graduate programmes will be activated from the 2nd of May 2016.

Details on the application procedure are in the University's website http://aud.ac.in/admissions2016

Seats and Eligibility:

Under Graduate Programmes

A total of 245 seats are available in 7 Bachelor’s programmes for the academic session 2016-17.

Admission to the undergraduate programmes will be based on marks obtained in Class XII examinations.

1. To be eligible to apply for admission to Mathematics, students must have obtained a minimum of 65% in Mathematics in the class XII examination from a recognised Board.

2. For applying to BA Honours in both Mathematics and Economics, the marks obtained in Mathematics in the XII Board Examination must be included in the calculation of the aggregate of the Best Four subjects of the XII Board Examination.

3. To be eligible to apply for admission to BA Honours English, students should have obtained a minimum of 65% marks in English in the XII Board Examination.

Total intake this year in every BA programme is 35.

Postgraduate Programmes

A total of 538 seats are available in the various post graduate programmes offered at AUD. To be eligible for MA programmes at AUD, candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 45 or 50 % marks (or an equivalent grade) as the case may be, in different programmes from a recognised University in any discipline (there is relaxation of 5% of marks for candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes and Physically Disabled). Eligible candidates who have applied for admission to the different Post Graduate Programmes of the the University will be required to appear for admission tests followed by interviews which will be conducted in the month of July 2016.



The total intake this year in most MA programme is 42 (including general as well as reserved seats as per norms set by the Government of NCT of Delhi). The total number of seats in other MA programmes:



MA Education 30

MDes (Social Design) 24

MA Social Entrepreneurship 10

MA Visual Art 10

MA Literary Art 10

MA Film Studies 14

MA Performance Studies 14

PG Diploma in Early Childhood Care 30

and Education

PG Diploma in Publishing* 20



* Admission to PG Diploma Publishing has been suspended for the forthcoming academic year

Reservation of Seats

Admissions will be made in accordance with the reservation policies of the Government of NCT of Delhi in respect of various social groups and other categories as applicable to institutions of higher education. Applicants claiming the benefit of reservations will have to produce the requisite certificates from the competent authorities. The current scheme of reservations is given below:

Students from the NCT, Delhi—85%

Students from outside the NCT, Delhi—15%

Admission process to the various research programmes will be announced soon. However, applications to the MBA and MA in Social Entrepreneurship programmes, for which online applications were open till the 31st of March 2016 have already closed.

11/04/2016

Baardeisikhla” - the spring festival on 13 April to celebrate the many colours and flavours of Spring

The festival will begin with a pot-luck at 1 pm followed by an evening of cultural performances by invited artists as well as students.

Pot-luck: VC lawns; Time: 1 to 2 .30 pm
Cultural Programme: In front of Dara-Shikoh Library; Time: 3 to 6.30

For details contact:

Vikram Singh Thakur
Assistant Professor, SLS

09/04/2016

Eighth Dr B R Ambedkar Memorial Lecture
‘Rethinking Civilization as History’
The concept of civilization came to be used in European thought in the last four centuries. It was not a static concept. Its initial form grew out of the historical changes that were taking place in Europe at that time. In the nineteenth century it was used to
support colonial views particularly in the distinction between ‘civilised’ and ‘primitive’. In this the notion of exclusion was central. The definition of civilization itself required specifically unique characteristics. In the twentieth century historians began to use it in a different way when it was associated with social evolution. Anthropologists and archaeologists had given it a new meaning, namely, it was a stage in human history. This was a more neutral definition than the earlier one. Needless to say the earlier concepts as historical explanations came to be questioned with this change of meaning.
Civilizations had been defined as requiring evidence of high cultural achievements, articulated in a particular language, given expression to in a particular religion, and located in a demarcated territory. The concept is discussed in various ways. Some would
underline what is referred to as a characteristic ‘high culture’ of each. But others are asking whether these precise definitions still hold given the attention that is being directed to the inter-connectedness of cultures. The emphasis now is on the inter-action of evolution and exchange among and between cultures. This leads to a different way of perceiving history. So, do we have to ask the question whether we have to create typologies for the concept of civilization that are different from the ones we have used so far? Do we have to modify the concept of civilization or perhaps even redefine it?
Romila Thaparis Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been General President of the Indian History Congress. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and holds Hon. D.Lit. degrees from Calcutta University, Oxford University and the University of Chicago. She is an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and SOAS, London. In 2008 Professor Thapar was awarded the prestigious
Kluge Prize of the United States Library of Congress, which honours lifetime achievement in studies such as history that are not covered by the Nobel Prize. A prolific scholar with extraordinary skill in addressing historical issues and problems in relation to contemporary concerns, Romila Thapar’s body of work is known to students, professional historians and members of a wider public. Her recent books include The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India (2013), The Past As Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History(2014) and The Public Intellectual in India (2015).
Abstract: 2016 AML by Prof. Romila Thapar on 14 April 2016
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08/04/2016

ATTENTION AUD STUDENTS:

STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTION ON 18 APRIL

Have a feeling that a large section of students are not aware of the timeline. It is given below. Do spread the message. Please remember that the last date for nomination is 13 April.

For details you may contact Dr. Anup Dhar ([email protected]) or Dr. Praveen Singh ([email protected])

TIMELINE FOR STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2016-17

April 5 Voter's list in School offices & intranet (students please check your names)
April 6 General Body Meeting (GBM) on the formation of Student Council (3:30 pm in CR 12)
Call for nominations from students for each programme
April 7 Filing of nomination papers in Computer Lab (Room # 58) Contact person: Mr. Ramiz Kazmi
April 13 Last date of filing of nomination papers (till 2pm)
Scrutiny of nomination papers by 4 member Committee & Election / Returning Officers (Faculty Lounge)
April 16 Last date of withdrawal of nomination (till 2pm)
Final list of candidates to be put up both in School office & outside library (by 6 pm)
April 18 Elections (9am – 3pm)
Declaration of results (10 pm)

09/01/2016

AUD Stall at New Delhi World Book Fair, Pragati Maidan

08/01/2016

AUD participating at the New Delhi World Book Fair (Hall 14 Stall # 163 - near Entry from Hall 18): Venue: Pragati Maidan Dates: 9-17 January, 2016 (Time 11 am to 8 pm)

12/06/2015

The last date for Admissions 2015 is approaching. Please visit http://aud.ac.in/ to apply online for BA, MA and Research Studies programmes at AUD.

19/02/2015

Invitation to register for an upcoming conference: https://sheconference.wordpress.com/

A Conference organised by the School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University Delhi in collaboration with the E-QUAL Project | 27 February to 1 March 2015

04/11/2014

Utility of degrees beyond securing jobs: Najeeb Jung - The utility of education is beyond securing employment. This is the message Lt Governor Najeeb Jung gave today to graduating students of Dr BR Ambedkar University. "Utility of degrees is beyond securing jobs. Gaining education is just one step t…