Minutes of Meeting: Zone-1 and 2 (Ahmedabad and
Gandhinagar) on Sunday, 8th December, 2013
The Zonal meeting for Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar was organized by Gujarat Technological
University at GTU, Chnadkheda Campus. More than 150 Principals and Trustees of Management
and Engineering colleges, senior faculty members and GTU officials participated in the Zonal
Meeting.
Inaugural Session:
On behalf of GTU Ms. Almas Juneja, OSD compares the
Zonal Meeting and welcome all the participants present in
the meeting. After the “Deep pragatyam” and felicitation
of the Dignitaries Dr. S.O.Junare, Principle of NICM and
Dean of GTU, Welcome all the dignitaries, all Directors
and Principals present in the Zonal meeting. He also stated
the objective of the Meeting.
Dr. M.N.Patel, Hon’ble Director of GTU could not present
in the meeting. Dr. N.M.Bhatt, Director, GIT Gandhinagar
Institute of Technology and Dean of Engineering, GTU
briefed about the Role of the university in the Admission,
Enrollment, Examination Process, including evaluation process for the timely deceleration of
University results. He also guides principles to instruct faculty members to read the assessment order
and finish the assessment of answer book with in specified time durations. He gives some important
Guidelines to the Examiner/Evaluator such as carry forward total of sub questions marks on the front
page of the answer book, Always give marks in integers only, Always fill all details available on the
answer book lot/bag before submitting it to Zonal Office ect. and he also advice to read details on the
penalty clause recommended by UFM committee for mistakes in assessing answer books by
examiners on http://www.gtu.ac.in/ImpCircular/penalty_teacher.pdf He shared the E-assessment
Growth and Process of the University (i.e Winter 2012 - 15,000, Summer -2012 -2,65,000
,Winter 2013-7,00,000) and Winter 2013 E-assessment will be done for the following courses
B.E. Sem. 1 , 2 , 7 & All PG Courses. He said Being and ICT enabled university we shall take
the maximum advantage of technology in eassessment and e- enrolment.
• It is faster and cost effective method of
assessment.
• Students are inquiring to view the answer
books on request, which will be easy through eassessment
• In case of doubt in assessment, two to three
evaluators can see it again at a time.
• Can Reduce the RTIs in Answer Books
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viewing.
Helps in Early declaration of Results
Saves time and money spent on transportation and physical movements of answer books.
He also discuss about the revised norms of the Increased Remunerations and TA DA available
on http://www.gtu.ac.in/Honorarium.asp. He through lights on the new academic calendar and
Centre for Global Business Studies (CGBS) is one of the PG research centres of GTU. CGBS
promotes the research work in field of business management and facilitates the foreign study
programs across the branches of Engineering, Pharmacy, Computer Science and Management.
He through light on Indo- Canadian and Indo-German Study Centres, International Students at
GTU, International Co-Supervisors in GTU’s Doctoral Program and IEP program.
After this Lecture, Dean of the Pharmacy and Director of
Shree Sharvajanik Pharmacy College of Mehsana, Dr.
C.N.Patel discussed about the education system of the
Gujarat. He also gives some inputs to the trustees to
increase the enrolment in the institute. He said that it is
very difficult to manage the semester system as at Student
and Institute level because there is no time for the first
semester student to get adequate with the English,
especially for those students who come from the Gujarati medium.
Dr. S. O. Junare, Principle of NICM and Dean of GTU
discuss about the Role of trustees in Admission of in the
University. He gives some suggestions to the trustees for
the Publicity and Marketing of their Institute. He said
trustees should involve in the academics activities and make
some schedule to meet Faculty and staff twice in a year. He
proposed to make Advisory committee for the academics
and Quality enhancement of the Institute and University. He
also advice trustees to take some feedbacks from the
Students for academic situation and He also advice to do a
regular update on the website and do compulsory two
events in a year. He said it is important to attract maximum number of students and good faculty
members in the Institute.
After this session Hon. Akshai Aggarwal Address on the
Quality of education in the education system. He instructed
trustees and principals to motive their faculty members and
professor to organize and attend Faculty Development
Programs and Workshop for the benefit of the students and
faculties. He said that maximum number of foreign
students complaining about the faculties that they do not
know proper English and because of this reason we may
lose our impression in the India as well as outside country.
He said we should build our reputation in such way that we
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can attract more number of foreign students in the next year as compare to this year. This can give
benefit to the Institute and University.
Prof. Mitesh Dadhania, Deputy Director of GTU
discuss about the Run for Unity Program and unique
initiative of the Gujarat Government aims at
building the World’s Largest Statue of Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel, a structure that will be 182m
tall. He said that we should encourage all GTU
family members, including Faculties, Students,
Directors, Principals, HODs and Staff Members to
join the Run for Unity on 15/12/2013 (8.00 am to
11.00 am). He said we must contribute in this event
hence all the GTU family members are requested to
make
their
registration
on
the
link
given
in
below
circular.
http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/13Dec/04122013_02.pdf
To give tribute to the to the great men Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel GTU is publishing a special
Issue of Anantyam in the context of the Statue of Unity being put up on an island called Sadhu
Bet in Narmada directly facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam. The special issue will have
papers/articles on the following themes: (Papers on other aspects of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s
life will also be considered) kindly refer the circular dated 04/12/2013 on GTU site for
Anantyam http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/13Dec/04122013_01.pdf.
In the Open Forum some of the principals and trustees focus on the some of the points such as:
o To give a soft copy and hard copy of the Results to the Institute.
o To give some more to fill Exam form and hall ticket and declare the dated of if before
academics starts.
o To upload some format on the University website for the support given by the University
in arranging the FDP, Workshop and Conference.
At the end Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, GTU thank all the trustees and Principles.
The meeting started at 10: 30am and ended at 2.30pm. Over all meeting remained very
interactive. The meeting ended with the feelings of gratitude to the Chair, i.e. Dr. Akshai
Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor, GTU.
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Zonal Meeting with MBA Trustees & Directors – Post Lunch
Zone – 1 & 2:
Address: B-0, GTU, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad
Members Present:
1. Dr. S. O. Junare, Dean , Faculty of Management , Zone 1&2 , GTU and Director , Shri
Jairambhai Patel Institute of Management & Computer Application, Gandhinagar
(Chairman of the Meeting).
2. Prof. Mitesh Dadhania, Dy. Director, GTU,
3. Prof. Pragnesh Shashtri, Managing Trustee, Som Lalit Inst. of Mgt. Studies, Ahmedabad,
4. Prof. Kalika Bansal, Som Lalit Inst. of Mgt. Studies, Ahmedabad,
5. Prof. Chanduji Thakar, HOD, VJKM Institute,
6. Prof. Hiren Shah, N.R. Inst. of Business Mgt., Ahmedabad,
7. Dr. Arti Trivedi, Director, Shri Chimanbhai Patel Inst. of Mgt. & Research, Ahmedabad,
8. Dr. Siddhant Singh, Dean, L.J. Inst. of Mgt. Studies, Ahmedabad,
9. Rakesh Tiwari, O.S., R. H. Patel Inst. of Mgt., Goblaj,
10. Dr. B. K. Nirmal, Director, Shayona Inst. of Business Mgt., Ahmedabad.
Dr. Junare, Dean of Zone 1 & 2 welcomed all representatives of the respective institutes.
The following points were discussed and raised by the respective member of the meeting.
1. Dr. Junare proposed to design the format of the Affiliation, Extension and Approval of the
Institutes.
2. Prof. Hiren Shah has suggested that the Affiliation & Approval should be given for 2 to 5
years based on the previous 3 years LIC reports.
3. Dr. Arti Trivedi has proposed to schedule the special meetings of 5 trustees in each zone to
discuss serious issues of Admission Process through CMAT / GCET for the Academic Year
2014 – 15.
4. Dr. Siddhant Singh discussed about the issues related to strategies for confirming full
strength of admission.
5. Prof. Hiren Shah also raised the issues of examination, assessments and late results
declaration as well as the examination remuneration and account settlements.
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