Students get a chance to show entrepreneurial skill

Students with entrepreneurial streak will have an opportunity to discuss viability of their ideas with experts at Delhi University’s annual festival ‘Antardhwani’, scheduled from February 20-22. 

The cultural festival will also have skill development plaza, which will conduct seminars on various job opportunities. 

“This year, the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Software technology Parks of India (STPI), which has a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DU, will display a model of the park at the fest. Students with an entrepreneurial bend of mind can come and discuss any ideas they have with the experts seated there,” Malay Neerav, DU’s media coordinator and Joint Dean of Student Welfare, said.

He added that the seminars on job opportunity will be conducted in collaboration with the National Skill Development Council. 

To ensure more footfalls, DU has launched an ‘Antardhvani 2015 Official’ app which will has features like push notifications for latest news, details of the events, contact information of coordinators, etc. The app will also provide location of events using Google Maps. 

But the Delhi University Teachers’ Association isn’t pleased. It has slammed the administration’s decision to order suspension of classes for three days in view of the annual cultural festival and alleged that there is no statutory approval for the amount being spent on the event.

“The decision to suspend teaching is forced and unwarranted. It shows scant regard, on the part of the VC and the DU administration, for the teaching-learning process. The tight semester schedule, within which teachers and students are struggling to complete the syllabi of courses, does not allow such a break,” Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) President Nandita Narain said in a press statement.

Last year, the teacher body had boycotted the festival claiming it to be a DU administration’s “propaganda” and raised serious objections on the funding of the festival.