Tarun Kumar Das is new DU Registrar
Delhi University has appointed a new Registrar in the place of Alka Sharma, who was repatriated to her parent cadre after her extension was terminated. The Government had last week terminated the extension given to Sharma, who was under attack for her role in the controversial Four-Year Undergraduate Programme, which scrapped in June. “Consequent upon relinquishing of the office of the Registrar by Alka Sharma, IDAS, Professor Tarun Kumar Das, Department of Mathematics shall look after the duties of the Registrar of the University with immediate effect,” an official statement issued by the Deputy Registrar (Establishment) said. Sharma, a 1988 batch Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) officer, was on deputation for seven years and nine months. She joined the university as finance officer in 2011 RPT 2011 and was elevated to the position of Registrar in June 2012.
47,114 students get employable skills
In order to provide free technical education to the students up to Class X, the Delhi Government in collaboration with the Central Government is running a Modular Employable Scheme (MES) in the Capital. Under the scheme, free of cost technical education will be imparted to students by around 150 Vocational Training Providers (VTPs) who will be equally divided in all districts of Delhi. They will provide training in various sectors such as Banking and Accounting, Information and Communication Technology, Automotive Repair, Medical and Nursing, Electrical, Retail, Hospitality and Apparel/Garments. In the previous academic session, the Directorate of Training and Technical Education had registered 50 new VTPs and trained 47,114 students. All candidates who have attained the age of 14 years and passed the fifth, eighth and 10th class are eligible for the scheme. These courses are available in modules of duration ranges from 60 hours to 1,040 hours. After completion of course candidate has been assessed by registered Assessing Bodies (ABs).
1 held for duping people of crores of rupees
Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested an inter-State cheat, who had duped unsuspecting investors to the tune of crores of rupees by floating chit fund companies. According to the police, Naveen Singh (35), a resident of Sector-19, Dwarka, who had conned gullible investors into investing in his company and had fraudulently collected crores of rupees, had been absconding since long. He was wanted in two cases of cheating one registered at South Rohini police station in Outer Delhi and another registered at Fatehabad police station in Haryana. Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch Ashok Chand said an information about Naveen Singh that he would be coming near Tikri Border in Delhi on August 23. Following this information, Crime Branch laid a trap and he was apprehended. “Singh along with his family and other associates had founded a Chit Fund Company at Sector-3, Rohini, Delhi in the name of ‘NCR Multi-National’. They lured innocent people to invest in their company and promised to give high rate of interest every month on the invested amount,” Chand said.