In the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Union Minister Satya Pal Singh Baghel filed his nomination papers from the Karhal Assembly constituency to face Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav. Baghel, 61, is a member of the Lok Sabha from Agra and the Union government’s minister of state for law and justice. He
Minutes after Akhilesh turned in his documents, he filed his nomination.
The minister is a four-time MP who previously served in the UP government as a cabinet minister. Karhal will vote on February 20, the third of the state’s seven-phase Assembly elections.
The only Grade A+ university in the state, DAVV is eyeing a position in the Top 100 universities in the country this year. The only Grade A+ university in the state, DAVV had, last year, improved its position from a band of 151-200 to a band of 101-150 universities and, now, it is eyeing a position in the Top 100 universities.
.“This year, we expect a better performance. We’re hoping to make it to the Top 100 varsities in Rankings, 2022,” Pratosh Bansal, DAVV’s nodal officer for NIRF, said.
‘Data for five categories’
‘We participated in a total of five categories, namely university, management, law, pharmacy and engineering. We’ve submitted the details required to participate in the management, law and pharmacy categories, whereas the process for collecting data for the engineering category is underway. Once data for the engineering category is ready, we’ll upload it along with the data for the university category on the NIRF website’
— Pratosh Bansal, DAVV’s nodal officer for NIRF
What is NIRF’s objective?
§ The NIRF was launched by the ministry in 2015; the main objective was to have an indigenous ranking for institutions across the country
§ Institutions are assessed on five broad parameters, such as teaching and learning resources, research and professional practices, graduation outcome, outreach and inclusivity and perception
§ These five broad parameters give due weightage to make it a very objective scale of ranking of the institutions
§ The first ranking by the NIRF was released in April 2016
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