Filing of nominations for the upcoming students’ poll started here at Ranchi University (RU) and Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University (DSPMU) on Monday. The respective universities will be soon conducting scrutiny process before the final publication of the list of contestants.
“Interested candidates of as many as 14 constituent colleges under RU including 22 Post-Graduate (PG) departments’ will file their nominations. The final list of the candidates after scrutiny for ‘Direct Election’ will be published on November 29 at 5 PM,” said RU officer (PR), Dr. PK Jha.
Meanwhile, DSPMU gearing to conduct its first students’ union election on December 4 completed its process of filing the nominations on varsity campus on Monday. The final list of the contestants will be released after scrutiny today. As per the DSPMU Officer (PR), as many as 44 students have filed their nominations for all the five posts – president, vice-president, general secretary, joint secretary cum treasurer and deputy secretary. “Around 11 students have filed nomination to contest election for the post of president here,” said an official of DSPMU.
Notably, more than 2000 students will cast votes from the newly constructed DSPMU this year while approximately 1.5 lakh voters will choose their representatives in the third students’ union poll. Over 15,000 voters alone from Doranda College affiliated under RU will cast their votes. As per the university senior officials, if any student does have their respective college ID cards with them, even then, he or she will be allowed to cast vote.
Direct Election will be held at the respective places on December 3 from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Counting of votes, declaration of results including the oath ceremony will be conducted on December 4. Submission/ intimation of complete list of the elected members to the office of Dean Students Welfare (DSW) must be done on December 5 by the colleges that followed direct election methodology.
Meanwhile, the university level election which will be carried out through indirect method is scheduled on December 13 at Multipurpose Examination Hall (MPEH) followed by counting and oath taking ceremony.