After months of dithering between the representatives of several student union bodies and Ranchi University (RU) personnel over the issue of conducting the annual student union poll on fixed schedule, the State biggest varsity is all set to conduct the third RU Students Union (RUSU) election.
The university officials have ensured all mandatory arrangements for electing the office-bearers of the students’ union poll 2018-19. Following the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations ‘Direct Election’ will be conducted at the university departments, colleges, institutes under RU today. According to the university officials, around 356 candidates will contest the ‘Direct Election’ for different posts.
The eligible contenders will contest for the posts of president, vice-president, secretary, joint secretary and deputy secretary from the enlisted constituent colleges affiliated to RU, each Post Graduate (PG) Department and institutes. The voting will begin from 10:30 AM and continue till 4:30 PM at different colleges, institutes and PG departments.
The consolidated data prepared by RU suggests that 1, 14, 613 voters will cast their vote. In accordance to the compiled list drafted by the university, 86 contestants will contest election for the post of president whereas 66 contenders will contest election for the post of vice-president. Meanwhile, for the post of secretary, joint secretary and deputy secretary, 76, 71 and 60 contestants respectively will contest the students’ union poll.
“Students of as many as 14 constituent colleges, 22 PG departments (compiled as one unit) including RTC B. Ed College will participate in the ‘Direct Election’ of the students union poll 2018-19,” said RU Officer (PR), Dr. Prakash Kumar Jha
“From PG Department, RU 47 contenders are in the race of the election. For the post of president, 13 candidates will contest the election from the PG department while for the post of vice-president and secretary, nine contestants each will rub their shoulders in the election. Similarly for the post of joint secretary and deputy secretary, 10 and six contestants respectively are in the election fray,” added Jha.
The highest number of voters is from Doranda College while RTC B.Ed College has the lowest number of voters. Over 15,000 electors alone from Doranda College will cast their vote, this year. With 970 voters, University Department of commerce registers highest number of electors.182 polling booths have been demarcated at different colleges including the PG departments. All presiding officers have been instructed to share the details of voting percentage in every two hours. As per the communiqué released by the university, light blue colour ballot paper is for the president post whereas for the post of vice-president, a light yellow ballot sheet has been released. Similarly, for the post of secretary, joint secretary including the deputy secretary, the varsity has released pink, white and light green colour ballot papers respectively.
Counting of votes, declaration of result followed by oath taking ceremony at the concerned places for colleges, institutes including at University department of geology, Morhabadi for PG department students’ union will be conducted on December 4 from 10 AM onwards.
“The ‘Direct Election’ process will come to an end on December 5 with submission/intimation of complete list of the elected members to the office of Dean Students Welfare (DSW), RU. The submission of compiled list of elected members will be accepted till 3 PM,” added Jha.
Further as per the election schedule for ‘Indirect Election’, the process for publication of final electoral at the university level, date of filing the nominations, scrutiny, withdrawal of nominations, publication of list of final contestants including end of campaign will be completed between December 6 to December 11.
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.