The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is first such university in the country that introduces environmental calendar to sensitise its students and faculties towards a safer environment.

The environmental calendar is a part of BHU’s proposed institute of environment and sustainable development for which the University Grants Commission (UGC) has allocated Rs 7.50 crore. The IESD will be the fourth institute of BHU that already has Institute of Technology (IT), Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) and Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS).
“The mission of the proposed institute is to carry out teaching, research and extension relevant to India’s sustainable development,” said vice-chancellor Prof DP Singh. This educational effort will encourage changes in behaviour that will create a more sustainable future in terms of environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society for the present and future generations.
According to the V-C, the institute will work for a better understanding of critical scientific and social issues related to sustainable development goals. By doing so, the BHU is taking a lead in teaching and research in the field of environment and sustainability science. It will provide a common platform where faculty from different departments will work in interface areas leading to sustainable development.
The main research priorities set for the institute include global change and atmospheric pollution, natural resource management, sustainable agriculture, alternate energy resources and socio-economic and legal dimensions of sustainable development. The institute will contribute to inter-disciplinary education and research offering PhD, MSc, diploma and certificate programmes.

Department of geology would organise a three-day national symposium on planet Earth - its finite resources and human civilization- on 17th of this month.
According to convener and head of department Geology Prof Jai Krishna, the programme would witness half-a-dozen interactive sessions from various fields including philosophy, politics, ayurveda, economics, music, arts and history besides physics, chemistry and biology for making a peaceful and pollution free planet to live.
Dr Shailesh Nayak, secretary, ministry of earth sciences, Government of India would be the chief guest and dean, faculty of Science, BHU, Prof SC Lakhotia would preside over the inaugural function.

President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil launched the environment calendar of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU).
BHU vice-chancellor Prof DP Singh briefed the President about the aims and objectives of the environment calendar saying it would sensitise the university fraternity regarding important environmental issues and motivate students to work towards a safe environment. The calendar contains a list of national and international environmental issues. It is expected that identified departments of BHU will would programmes on the listed days.

As many as 369 medals, including 28 BHU medals, were awarded during the 91st convocation function of Banaras Hindu University.
Vinita Lal, topper of MSc (environmental science) examinations received the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for coming first in all the examinations in post-graduate level in the university.
As many as 6,372 students of BHU and its affiliated colleges, including Arya Mahila Degree College, Vasant Kanya Mahavidyalaya, Vasanta College for Women and DAV PG College, were conferred their degrees on the occasion.
Chancellor (BHU) Dr Karn Singh conferred the degrees upon students. Vice-chancellor Prof DP Singh welcomed the dignitaries on the occasion. Devi Singh Shekhawat attended the convocation as the guest of honour.

Aakanksha (Faculty of Science) has turned high tech.

I have seen IT BHU studets battling in COUNTER STRIKE at Technex.

What do you think shall we have something similar in Aakanksha-09 ?

Tell me about your opinions !!

By : saksham

Finally the game is over leaving a lot of memories in our heart which we would cherish for life.

What was unique to this years’ event : 1) Online registrations, 2) SMS notifications, 3) Two day finale, 4) SFM (Media) coverage, 5) Trophies to all the winners and many more….

This years’ event was historical. Thank you all the members in the organizing committee for making this such a grand event and heartiest congratulations to all the winners.

This hostel is given to the toppers of B.Sc 3 rd yr. instead of it there are a many problems like :-

1) absence of mess

2) lack of cleanliness

3)and the biggest is that, here most of the students are not provided with cot and they are compelled to sleep on ground

4) there is no any aqua guard, freezer is there but it is without aqua guard

with so many problems, we are still living.

I personally wrote a application to DEAN OF STUDENTS  of BHU, but that application was rejected by his secretories, they told that you first get signed your application by your warden then come to us. And warden is not signing the application since he  has told us that cots are not avialable at BHU so we can’t provide you manage personally. And cot is needed by us, we can’t sleep on floor/ground snakes wander during night hours in lawn and in gallaries.

Suvimal k Sindhu

B.Sc. 3 rd Year (Zoology honours)

Hello friends!

I am Rupashri of B.Sc(part 1) of BGC group, roll no. BG 30 , n I am planning to sell my scooty. the scooty has got no such problem with it . But I wanted to sell it  just because ,now I have got a home near my college, which is on walking distance from the college. the scooty has a mileage of 70 km/litres.I bought my scooty for Rs.23,000 and I expect atleast Rs.7,000 for it.

      If you want to buy it, plz contact me on - 9450963543.

Terrorism is the in thing. But we at BHU are peace lovers.
Dont get confused by the picture. The guy is not a member of Al-Quaida. He is merely a victim of Chemistry. It was a practical day at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and we were dealing with the stinky Benzoic Acid. The smell was so pungent that all the students moved at the top of the building to have some fresh air. Even that was not enough as the mixture needed to be stirred continously. So covering the face was the only way out. Thanks to Pawan (in the picture) for dealing with my experiment You must have noticed two beakers in front of him, one is actually mine :).

I know most of you will agree to me when it comes to the number of holidays we get at Faculty of Science and Commerce.

I feel that more holidays shall me sanctioned for students at BHU. Its really tiring maintaining constant attendance at the faculty. We hardly have time for fun. No university in India has such strict rules for attendance. Whenever I tell my friends (outside BHU) that we have a compulsion of 90% attendance at college they start laughing. Some have even confirmed that is 90%  the sum of attendance for all the three years. Often I feel that others students outside BHU enjoy the real college life. College is more like a school in Faculty of Science. The holidays are really SPECIAL at BHU.

One of the most chaotic days of Faculty of Science was when B.Sc. second year results were out. There was a flood of students at dean’s office. You know you are in BHU when you come across looooooooooooooooong queues. In country like India, which is so technologically sound, I think that the university can atleast afford to publish the results online to avoid long queus and rush of students.

Anyways it was really worth a picture.