February 2018

Hands-on-Workshop on the Introduction and Applications of UV-Visible Absorption Spectroscopy Organized by Department of Chemistry, DDUC (Under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme) on February 20, 2018

 

Programme Schedule

A Hands-on-Workshop on the Introduction and Applications of UV-Visible Absorption Spectroscopy was organized by the Department of Chemistry, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi) under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme on February 20, 2018. It constituted of a key note lecture on the topic “UV-Visible Absorption Spectroscopy” by Dr. Vinod Kumar, guest speaker and resource person for the day. The lecture was followed by a Hands-on-session in which students from various science courses of the college participated.

Summary of the Event

The event started with brief introduction of DBT Star College Scheme by Dr. S. K. Garg, Principal. After that, Dr. Vinod enlightened the audience with the keynote lecture on UV-Visible Spectroscopy. Lecture was attended by a total number of 85 students and 13 faculty members of the college. The main key points of the lecture were:-

1. Different spectroscopic techniques

2. Electromagnetic spectrum

3. Absorption spectroscopy- its principle and working

4. Instrumentation and Applications of UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy

The lecture was concluded with a demonstration by Dr. Vinod Kumar using a portable VISIBLE spectrophotometer. He conducted an analysis using solutions of different concentrations of potassium permanganate and showed their respective spectra’s. 

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After the lecture, the Hands-on-Workshop was conducted in the chemistry research lab of the Department in which a total of 32 students participated. It was conducted in batches of five students each. Resource persons Dr. Jyoti, Dr. Nityanand Agasti, Dr. Reema Chhabra and Dr. Chetna Angrish conducted this workshop. The participants acquired the skills of using a Spectrophotometer and understood its principle and its working. The experiment was conducted by all the students with the help of different samples and the data was recorded by the experimentalists. The workshop was concluded with a valedictory ceremony.

 

National Science Day 2018

A Poster titled “Synthetic Seeds: A promising method to conserve endangered plant species” by Priya Singh Kushwaha and Kritika Bahuguna, both of B.Sc. (H) Botany 1st year, (prepared under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme) was selected for National Science Day 2018 celebration organized by ‘Indian National Science Academy’, Delhi, ‘Indian Academy of Sciences’, Bengaluru and the University of Delhi on February 28, 2018 at INSA, Delhi. Two student projects (prepared under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme) were selected for National Science Day 2018 celebration organized by ‘Indian National Science Academy’, Delhi, ‘Indian Academy of Sciences’, Bengaluru and the University of Delhi on February 28, 2018 at INSA, Delhi.

• “IoT based Real Time Gas Concentration Monitoring and safety Alarm System” by Pawan Kumar Mishra (B.Sc. (H) Electronics 3rd year) and Manish (B.Sc. (H) Electronics 2nd year).
• “Spybot and Autonomous Path Follower PROTOBOT” by Praveen Kumar Gond (B.Sc. (H) Electronics 3rd year) and Praveen Kumar Chaturvedi (B.Sc. (H) Electronics 3rd year). 

Sneha Bisht, Abhay Verma of B.Sc (Hons.) Zoology II year and Rohan Bahl, B.Sc (Hons.) Zoology I year were selected for a project presentation (prepared under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme) on “Effects of different acoustic treatments on growth & biosynthetic capabilities of unicellular & multicellular forms” in National Science Day 2018 celebration organized by ‘Indian National Science Academy’, Delhi, ‘Indian Academy of Sciences’, Bengaluru and the University of Delhi on February 28, 2018 at INSA, Delhi.

Under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme, Deepika Pawar and Kavita of B.Sc (Hons.) Zoology II year participated and won 1st prize in the debate competition on “Scientific Issues for Development of a Nation” in National Science Day 2018 celebration organized by ‘Indian National Science Academy’, Delhi, ‘Indian Academy of Sciences’, Bengaluru and the University of Delhi on February 28, 2018 at INSA, Delhi.

 

 

March 2018

 

An Industrial Visit to Yakult Danone India Pvt. Ltd., Sonepat, Haryana was organized under the aegis DBT Star College Scheme on March 10, 2018. Students of B.Sc (Hons.) Electronics Semester II, IV and VI along with six faculty members visited the plant and had an exposure to the automation of the plant. Thirty eight students of B.Sc (Hons.) Zoology Semester IV and VI and B.Sc (P) Life Sciences Semester VI and six teaching and non-teaching faculty visited the factory.

 

 

 

A total of 62 Students from B.Sc. Chemistry Hons and B.Sc. Physical Sciences with Chemistry from all the years 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The students were accompanied by teachers of Department of Chemistry. Yakult is a probiotic dairy product made by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk with a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei Shirota (LcS). LcS was discovered by Dr.Minoru Shirota, a Japanese scientist in 1930. A single bottle of Yakult has 6.5 Billion LcS. Yakult is a probiotic drink which is maily used for digestion and Its production comprise of many complex processes i.e. The first area was the Seed room where skimmed milk powder, sugar, glucose in hot water are allowed to ferment at 37degees for 3- 4 days with an innoculum  of LcS bacteria in sterile conditions which is tested and given OK tag for further proceedings. Next was the Culture Mixing Room where the fermented seed is given its homogeneous liquid form by adding sugar syrup, chilled water and other ingredients in Blending tanks. Next was the laboratory were all the materials before and after processing are approved by more than 100 safety tests. Next the Bottling and Filling area where all processes like production of bottles, labelling, filling ,capping and packaging are automated. Each batch of Yakult is monitored for 24 hours before it is dispatched for sale. The visit was then followed by a lecture by the members of Yakult family about its various uses and benefits to human body. After the presentation free samples of their probiotics were distributed among the students. The taste was sweet and tasty inspite of its medical subject. Students and Teachers enjoyed the visit and learnt various things about how productions at such a large scale happen and how the bacterias such as LcS are used for digestion purposes.

 

 

 

 

Faculty Development Program on Biostatistics: Theoretical and Practical Aspects (14.03.2018 – 18.03.2018)

 

 

A five day Faculty Development Program on Biostatistics was organized by Department of Mathematics and Department of Botany from 14th April to 18th April 2018 under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme. A total of 40 candidates participated in this program including teachers and research scholars from different colleges of University of Delhi and other universities like Banaras Hindu University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kurukshetra University, GGSIP University, Sharda University, Lucknow University, National Institute of Immunology, Delhi Technological University, Govt. College for Women. A total of 10 candidates from Mathematics, 13 from Botany, 5 from Environmental Sciences, 5 from Statistics, 3 from Zoology, 2 from Immunology, 1 from IUCN and 1 from NGO have participated in the program. 

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April 2018

A Science Academies’ Lecture Workshop entitled “Role of Epigenetics in Health and Diseases” was organized from April 5-6, 2018 under the aegis DBT Star College Scheme.

 

Prof. Madan Mohan Chaturvedi convened the event and Dr. Sudhir Verma served as the coordinator. The event included lecture sessions by the following eminent scientists and fellows of the Science Academies:

• Prof. Madan Mohan Chaturvedi, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi
• Prof. Pramod C. Rath, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Prof. Shantanu Chowdhury, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology
• Dr. Beena Pillai, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology 

 

Academic Excursion to The Energy And Resources Institute (TERI)

Gururgram, Haryana  (13th April, 2018) Under DBT Star College Scheme

 

Department of Botany had organised a one day academic excursion to The Energy And Resource Institute (TERI), Gual Pahari, Gurugram on 13th April, 2018. A total of 76 Students from B.Sc.(H) Botany and B.Sc. Life Sciences, 5 Teachers and 2 Non-teaching staff visited the place. Lush Green Campus of TERI is beautifully designed, green forested area with some cutting edge research activities and facilities as well as Self Sustainable Green  RETREAT close to mother nature. This RETREAT training complex uses no  power  from  the  Grid and is a unique model of Solar Energy, Waste and Water  resource - use  efficiency producing  no waste, with all the waste water  and  sewage being treated organically by the plants roots techniques specially  chosen  for  the purpose,  Heating and cooling with EAT tunnels technology ,tour to Herbal / Medicinal Garden  and Vermi Composting unit. The visit gave an opportunity to the students to see all the state of the art technologies involved to provide  sustainable environment and development, but most importantly, the students were exposed in an atmosphere where the air is clear,  the  sky is blue and there is lush greenery all around.

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Three Days Workshop on Cyber Security

Department of Electronics, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi) Organized Three Days Workshop on Cyber Security Under the Aegis of DBT Star College Scheme during April 13-15, 2018 at ICT Centre, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College

Theme of the Workshop - India is the global hub of IT and business process outsourcing. With exports of USD 53 billion in software and services and the industry projected to generate revenues of about USD 73 billion in the current year, this sector is expected to grow to the level of USD 225 billion by the year 2020. But, for this certain revolutionary steps are critically required. These include development of IT & Communication infrastructure and the education system that produces skilled manpower who can be readily deployed. Besides, to establish a strong data protection culture and legal regime in the country, India needs to develop global best practices of data security and privacy protection and encourage the companies to implement the same. This is because the threat landscape is changing, new technologies give rise to newer vulnerabilities in the applications and are exploited by criminals to commit cyber crimes. Cyber crimes, therefore, need to be given an effective response. We need to train not only our law enforcement agencies including police, public prosecutors and judiciary, but also to create awareness on cyber security and cyber crimes among the people at large. The proposed three day workshop on cyber security is a small step towards this distant objective. The faculty / trainers engaged for this workshop are thorough professionals of their domain and are experts both in licensed and open source software used for this purpose. The workshop intends to give a comprehensive information about the issues and tools and techniques to resolve them through practical / hands on training. We sincerely hope that the participants shall be deeply benefited by undergoing this specialized training.

Resource Person - Mr. Nishant Sharma covered

Network Security- Firewalls and AAA - Firewall- Fundamentals of firewall-based security, Firewall Types, Firewall capabilities, Firewall Limitations, Firewall architecture, Packet filters, Application gateway, proxy servers

Type of attacks handled best by Firewall: Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS); Latest trends in firewall design, Examples of contemporary firewall and data sheets, third generation firewalls, IPV6 based design

AAA framework – Data Center & client end; Unified Threat Management (UTM) module: firewall + IPSEC from single platform

IPSEC - TCP/IP Stack, IP Packetization and fragmentation, Introducing IPSec, Tunnel Mode, Transport mode of IPSec, Protection provided by Authentication Header, Authentication modes, AH processing for outbound and inbound messages, Auditing and Threat mitigation, Encapsulating Security Payload, RFC 2406

Virtual Private Networks - Need for VPNs for network security, leased lines vs VPN –what is good for network security, GRE tunnels as VPN: Case study, Security capabilities in VPN

Wirelesses Security - Fundamentals of wireless based network security, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wireless security in current cellular networks

Authentication Security - Authentication based on shared security key, Authentication using a key distribution center, Authentication using Kerberos 

Resource Person - Col (Retd.) H K Trivedi covered

Public Key Cryptography: E-mail security: PGP, PEM, S/MIME, Web Security - DNS Spoofing, Secure DNS, SSL; Active X, Java Script; Steganography ; Digital Signatures; PKE Infrastructure and framework; Cryptology – Basic principles of cryptology algorithms, MD5 (Now compromised) , SHA-1, DES, Triple DES, AES 

Resource Person - Mr. Vikas Sharma covered

Application oriented Security for Data at Rest - SCADA Systems, Security Breaches across world, Database Security, IPTables / Advanced Security Measures, File Systems Security Policy, Web applications / VPN / Access for Offensive /Defensive Applications, Web Crawling & its nuances

Workshop on Ionic Equilibrium through Experiment (A three day outreach activity for school students) organized by Department of Chemistry & Science Foundation, DDUC (Under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme) during May 14-16, 2018

 

A three day workshop on 'Ionic Equilibrium through Experiment' was held under the DBT star college outreach program by the Department of Chemistry, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College between 14th to 16th May 2018. Twenty seven students of class eleven from Bal Bharti Public School, Dwarka participated in the workshop. The workshop involved a transacting the concepts through learning by doing, the Discovery Approach. The pedagogy involved was a new one different from the conventional method of teaching Science. The event started with a brief introduction about the necessity of outreach activity by Dr. S. K. Garg, Principal, DDU College. He also apprised students about the DBT star college scheme. Further, students were divided into six groups; they were made to do a series of experiments according to a scheme that has been evolved to cover the concepts of this important topic of Chemistry. At various stages as per the scheme, the results were compiled on the board, collectively discussed and analysed to arrive at the concepts. The concepts covered were 1) Classification of substance as electrolytes and non-electrolytes using conductance as tool, 2) Ionisation, 3) Equivalence in Chemistry, 4) pH of water, acids, bases and change in pH on dilution using pH paper, universal indicator and pH meter, 5) Ionic product of water, 6) Common ion effect, 7) Strong and weak electrolytes through conductance, titration and pH measurements, 8) Dissociation constant of weak acid through pH measurements. Skills taught were weighing, making standard solution, titration and use of pH meter. Students worked very enthusiastically, not just in doing the experiments, but participating in the discussion to understand the concepts. As a result so many new concepts could be covered in a very short duration.  

Coordinators – Dr. Ratna, Dr. Shashi Saxena

Resource persons - Dr. Ratna, Dr. Shashi Saxena, Dr. Mahaveer and Dr. Amreeta Preetam

 

 

 

Summer project on “Analysis of Microflora in Polluted water of South West and North West Part of Delhi” was under taken from 29 July 2018 to 15 June 2018

A summer project on “Analysis of Microflora in Polluted water of South West and North West Part of Delhi” was under taken from 15 June 2018 to 29 July 2018. A total of 8 students of B.Sc. (H) Botany II Year have participated in the project work under the guidance of Dr. S.N. Tripathi and Dr. Sandeep Kumar. The objectives of the study was to make an inventory of microflora commonly present in the polluted water bodies by proper visualization and identification according to the recent identification approaches available in literature. Sampling was done from different polluted water bodies of South-west (Dwarka) and North-west parts of Delhi in the month of June 2018. Samples were collected manually following standard protocols. Collected samples were placed in small vials added with 3% formalin to preserve the biotic components of sample and were labeled according to the sites and stored at room temperature in laboratory for further micro-flora analysis. 

Preparation of slides and Photomicrographs: Temporary slides were prepared by diluting the sample with distilled water in ratio of 1:9. Slides were prepared using glycerin as a mounting material and observed under microscope. Slides were observed under 40X and Photography was done by Optima, Dewinter DEW/070 photomicroscope.

• Cyanophyceae: 04
• Bacillariophyceae: 07
• Fragilariophyceae: 02
• Euglenophyceae: 03
• Zygnematophyceae: 02
• Chlorophyceae: 03

July 2018

Hands-on Workshop in Mathematica/Excel/Tora held during July 12-13, 2018 and organized by Department of Mathematics

 

A five days hands on inter-college workshop on “Basic Principles of Recombinant DNA Technology & Metagenomics” was organized by Department of Zoology under the aegis of DBT Star College Program from August 28 to September 1, 2018 in Laboratory No. 206 for undergraduate life science students of final year. The workshop was attended by following 31 students of B.Sc (Hons.) Zoology and B.Sc (P) Life Sciences from different colleges. The workshop commenced with a brief introduction of all the resource persons and an outline of the workshop by Dr. Shailly Anand followed by a talk by Dr. Sudhir Verma showcasing the various activities organized by Dept. of Zoology under the aegis of DBT Star College Program and our goals underlying them.

 The following experiments were conducted during the five days of the workshop:

1. Experiment 1: Isolation of vector DNA (Mini Prep)
2. Experiment 2: Visualization of DNA using agarose gel electrophoresis
3. Experiment 3: Isolation of Metagenomic DNA from soil & its visualization on agarose gel
4. Experiment 4: Restriction Digestion of vector DNA & lambda DNA using EcoRI, HindIII and EcoRI/ HindIII
5. Experiment 5: Heat Inactivation of Restriction Digestion
6. Experiment 6: Elution of vector and lambda DNA from agarose gel
7. Experiment 7: Ligation of vector and lambda DNA using T4 DNA Ligase – Creation of a Recombinant DNA
8. Experiment 8: Transformation of E. coli cells with Recombinant DNA using Heat shock method
9. Experiment 9: Selection of transformed E. coli cells using blue-white selection method
10. Experiment 10: Calculation of Transformation Efficiency

To bridge the gap between the theoretical concepts & practical aspects, the workshop was planned in a manner to incorporate lecture sessions on the following topics:

• Lecture 1: Basic principle underlying the process of DNA isolation
• Lecture 2: An Introduction to Restriction Enzymes and  Restriction Digestion as techniques of Gene Manipulation
• Lecture 3: The Concept of Restriction maps using Problem Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy
• Lecture 4: An Introduction to Ligation as a technique of Gene Manipulation
• Lecture 5: An overview of various Transformation Techniques and Selection Strategies used in Biotechnology

 

On request of students, a session on media preparation and sterilization was also incorporated during the workshop. Students were provided with a manual of “Stepwise Guide to Experiments” in which they recorded all the observations. Enclosed with this report is a copy of the student workbook showing the details of the experiments and observations documented by the students during the workshop. On Day 4 (31st August, 2018), Prof. Rup Lal from Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi also visited to interact with the students. He  delivered a talk on “Microbiome: The Vision for Future” at 11:30 a.m. in Room No. 509. The lecture was attended by nearly 110 students of B. Sc (Hons.) Zoology & B. Sc (P) Life Sciences and 12 faculty members in addition to the participants of the workshop. The workshop concluded with a vote of thanks by Dr. Shailly Anand & Dr. Renu Solanki (Convenors, Workshop) and a feedback from all the participants. The students also shared their experience during the five days and wished to participate in many more such workshops in future too. As commented by the students, the workshop was well organized, informative and helped them enhance their skill. The efforts of all the resource persons was appreciated by the participants.

• Dr. Rekha Chaturvedi is Intellectual Property Rights Chair (Professor) at Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi. Dr. Chaturvedi delivered the inaugural lecture on Intellectual Property and its Management. She talked about the importance of intellectual property and explained about its different types such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs etc. 
• Dr. Arul George Scaria is an Assistant Professor of Law at National Law University, Delhi and Co Director of the Centre for Innovation Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC). He emphasized on the importance of copyrights and what are their exceptions. He also discussed few real life cases which added to the importance of copyrights.
• Dr. Rashmi Tandon is an Intellectual Property Rights expert. She gave an insight about the trademarks and their importance. She also discussed the procedure for filing trademark.

About the Workshop

The purpose of this workshop was to bring together the students interested to explore the subject of “NUMERICAL METHODS AND ITS APPLICATIONS WITH MATHEMATICA”. The workshop helped the students to find the best possible solutions of Equations, System of Equations, Differential Equations and different types of related problems. Students learnt through MATHEMATICA how to write codes of different methods, discussed the existing errors to find best possible solutions. Discussion on various types of errors enhanced the knowledge of sources of errors and how to manage them.  Theoretical sessions were followed by hand-on sessions with case studies covering the applications in various allied fields of sciences. Knowledge of the methods can be utilized at any platform to solve their own research problems in future and problems at their workplace.

Resource persons:

• Dr. Nilam, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, DTU. Research interests: Mathematical Modeling and simulation, Diabetes: Prevention and Control, Infectious Diseases.

• Dr. Vivek Kumar Aggarwal, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, DTU, Research interests:   Numerical Analysis and Computation, Hyperbolic Conservation laws, Singularly, Perturbed Problems.

• Dr. Mani Mehra, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Research interests: Numerical methods, Wavelet methods for PDEs, Inverse problem.

Target Audience: Undergraduate science students

 

On the first day of the workshop Dr. Nilam discussed Numerical Methods and Errors, error propagation and Computer Arithmetic. Introduction to Mathematica and related problems were discussed in Hands on sessions. Next day Dr. Vivek covered the topics related to Numerical Methods and Solutions of Equations. Further Algorithms of various iterative methods and absolute relative approximate errors were discussed. Coding of di related Numerical Me with related problems in Hands on sessions. Third day Dr. Vivek discussed Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra. Solving system of linear equations and relative approximate errors were taken up. Program coding in Mathematica was done with related problems in Hands on sessions. Dr. Mani discussed Numerical Methods and Integration., Gaussian Quadrature rule on day four. Related problems were taken up in Hands on sessions. On day Five Dr. Nilam discussed Differential equations and Numerical methods used to solve them, followed by Hand on sessions on related problems.Mr. Sudhakar Yadav, Mr. Chhatra Pal, Ms. Kanica Goel and Mr. Abhishek Kumar guided students in Hands-on sessions along with the resource persons. Students from different colleges - Miranda House, Motilal Nehru College, Ramanujan College, Kalindi College, Maitreyi college, ARSD college and DDUC participated in the workshop.

 

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Department of Zoology under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme and in association with Department of Zoology (University of Delhi), Ramjas College (University of Delhi) and Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Outreach Program entitled “Lectures by INSA Fellows/Young Scientists/Teacher Awardees to Young Students and Teachers of Schools and Colleges in Remote Areas” organized Bani School Innovation Camp III (BaSIC III)  Program Conducted at Govt. Senior Secondary School, Bani, Himachal Pradesh (October 15th, 2018)

 

Detail Report

• Chief Coordinator: Prof. Rup Lal (INSA Fellow)
• Coordinators, BaSIC III: Dr. Shailly Anand (DDUC) & Dr. Sukanya Lal (Ramjas College)
• Co-Coordinator BaSIC III & DBT Convenor, Department of Zoology: Dr. Sudhir Verma
• Organizers (DDUC): Dr. Rashmi Kumari, Dr. Princy Hira, Dr. Priya Singh & Dr. Satyam Dwivedi
• Organizers (External): Dr. Helianthous (Ramjas College), Dr. Vipin Gupta (Dept. of Zoology, DU), Dr. Utkarsh Sood (Dept. of Zoology, DU), Ms. Nirjara (Dept. of Zoology, DU), Ms.. Chandni Talwar (Dept. of Zoology, DU), Ms.. Monika (Dept. of Zoology, DU) & Mr. Shekhar (Dept. of Zoology, DU)

Under INSA outreach program,"Lectures by INSA Fellows/Young scientists/teacher awardees to young students and teachers of schools and colleges in the remote/rural areas”, in which INSA-fellows can deliver lecture to motivate and ignite young minds, Prof. Rup Lal, Fellow- INSA, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi selected Govt. Senior Secondary School (GSSS), Bani located in the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. In the year 2016, Prof. Lal and his PhD students collaborated with teachers and undergraduate students from Ramjas College (DBT star college project) and together adopted GSSS, Bani, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh on December 23, 2016 and organized Bani School Innovation Camp I (BaSIC, 2016) on December 23rd -24th 2016. BaSIC II was then organised on March 7th, 2018. Both the programs were a major success as seen from the feedback obtained. In continuation of these efforts, a third camp was organized on October 15th, 2018 and was called Bani School Innovation Camp III or BaSIC III. The program was organized with an aim of uplifting the rural areas through propagation of scientific thoughts, promotion of student-teacher interactions and development of communication skills.

 

This school was established in 1905 to impart education upto the 4th standard. In 1951, this school was upgraded to High School level and in the year 1990 became Senior Secondary School (co-educational) imparting education to students from the villages located in and around Bani. Over the years many students who passed out from this school have attained very good positions in India and globally. Prof. Rup Lal himself passed his matriculation from this school in the year 1969. During BaSIC- 2016, Prof. Rup Lal targeted and inspired students of classes IX-XII through his lecture. His interactions with students of classes VI-VIII and the confident and fearless attitude of these students forced him to organize the camp again for students of classes VI-VIII during BaSIC II. Hence, this time in order to motivate the students of all the classes of the school i.e. VI-XII, a plan to organize BaSIC III was submitted to INSA under the INSA outreach program that was sanctioned.

 

Under this program an innovation camp was conducted at GSSS Bani on October 15th, 2018. The program was given the name Bani School Innovation Camp III also called as BaSIC III. The program was discussed by Dr. Sukanya Lal, Coordinator of DBT Star College Project, Ramjas College and Dr. Shailly Anand, Coordinator BaSIC III, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College of University of Delhi. They were accompanied by a team of teachers from the Department of Zoology of Ramjas College (1 in number), and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (5), University of Delhi. Additionally Ph.D students from the Department of Zoology (8), undergraduate students from the Ramjas College (7) and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (21) and masters students (4) from Department of Zoology, University of Delhi also accompanied the group. Under the program, many different teaching modules were organized that covered the different areas of science and technology and revolved around the central theme of propagation of scientific thoughts among students. The sessions and modules were designed to not only to raise interest of school children in the field of science  but also the latest technologies that make our lives better such as emails and e-banking and fund transfers. The students were not only taught theoretically but were given hands-on training and demonstrations to develop their interest. Apart from these, the camp also included sessions for the parents of the school children to help bridge the communication gap between parents and children and to address the common issues while highlighting the roles and responsibilities of both the children and their parents.

 

The main objectives of BaSIC III camp organized under INSA outreach program were:

1. Propagation of scientific thoughts.

2. Promoting gender equality in rural areas.

3. Development of personality and communication skills.

4. Guiding the parents.

5. Promotion of extra-curricular (cultural and sports) activities.

 

Science Foundation Committee, DBT Star College Program Committee and NASI Delhi Chapter jointly organized Outreach Program for Class X students of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sector 12, Dwarka from October 24-29, 2018.

January 2019

Department of Botany conducted additional experiment no. 8 - “To Calculate Air Quality Index (AQI) of Dwarka and Nearby Area”, under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme on 31st January, 2019 at ICT Centre.

February 2019

Invited talk by Dr. Rashmi Verma Organised by Dept. of Mathematics, Under DBT Star College Program

An Invited Talk entitled “Congruence relation and It’s Applications” was organised by Department of Mathematics (under DBT star college scheme) on Feb 1, 2019 at 11 am in computer centre of the college. The talk was delivered by Dr. Rashmi Verma, Department of Mathematics, Mata Sundri College for Women, DU (Recipient of Shri Suresh Bhatia Memorial Gold Medal, 1999, Recipient of Rai Bahadur Brijmohan Lal Saheb Memorial Gold Medal, 1999, Recipient of Dr. J.N. Mitra Memorial Prize, 1999). She was introduced by Dr. Rashmi Gupta. In her talk she discussed about congruence relation, its various properties and applications in coding theory and cryptography. Sixty students were present in the lecture. In the end Dr. Manoj Saxena (Coordinator, DBT Star college Program) thanked Dr. Verma with a sapling.

• 81 posters, projects and models were presented by over 160 participants from 22 different institutions like Punjabi University (Patiala); Bal Bharti Public School, (Dwarka) and Colleges of University of Delhi participated in various events organised during the festival. The list of competitions included Science quiz, debate, graffiti, and nukkad natak. A hands-on-workshop on “Bird Nest making for assisting the conservation of House Sparrow” and movie screening about the life of great Indian mathematician ‘Srinivasa Ramanujan’ were the highlight of the two-day event. 
• On March 12, 2019, Keysight technologies conducted a workshop for advance learners on Keysight Dreamcatcher Kit ME1000 with Fieldfox. Binary Semantics conducted an FDP and a Quiz on STEM Education for the audience. 
• A panel discussion on the topic “Science Communication” was organized, the speakers were Prof. Sreenivasa Rao Kottapalli, Head, Department of Botany, University of Delhi; Professor Vasudha Bhatnagar, Head, Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi and Professor Mridula Gupta, Department of Electronic Science, University of Delhi South Campus.
• Eight students of Class IX of Maxfort School, Dwarka and five students of Bal Bharati Public School visited the Science Exhibition and participated in various events. 20 students from NGO UPAY (Underprivileged Advancement by Youth) aged between 8-12 years visited the exhibition. 
• The program culminated with a cultural program in which students performed traditional folk dance of North-Eastern states, guitar performance, performance of RAAGA (dance society of the college) and many more.
• Software (MAPLE) demonstration for students and teachers of Mathematics department was organised with resource persons from Binary semantics Ltd. A mathematics quiz was also organised in which DDUC team won the free licences and a trophy.

On March 17, 2019 - Two teams from the college which were selected during zonal rounds of IoT (Internet of Thinga) Challenge’2019 (pan India) participated in the final round held at Radiance 2019, IIT Bombay.  Project: “Agritech - Smart Irrigation System” was presented by team1 (Praveen K Chaturvedi, Abhishek Soni - B.Sc. (H) Electronics III yr and Ashutosh Mishra, Shivam K Singh - B.Sc. (H) Electronics I yr). This project won 3rd prize from out of the 50 teams participating from all over the country. Second team ( Ajay Joshi, Sahil, Yashdeep Rana - B.Sc. (H) Electronics III yr and Rajat Jindal - B.Sc. (H) Electronics I yr) presented project “SMHA- Self Maintained Home Automation”.

On March 18, 2019 - An educational visit to “Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (CSIR-IHBT)”, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh was organized wherein students visited various research and infrastructural facilities and interacted with scientists and research scholars. (Convener: Dr. Sudhir Verma) [No. of Beneficiaries: 31]

On March 22, 2019 - Intensive Undergraduate Workshop on Analysis – A three day workshop was organised for the students of B.Sc. Mathematics of University of Delhi and other universities. Resource persons – Dr. Sushil Gorai from IISER Kolkata, Dr. Diganta Borah from IISER Pune , Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Dr. Dinesh Kumar. Each day there were two lectures and two tutorial sessions which helped students learn the basic concepts and question solving techniques. Total 54 students participated in this workshop of which 27 students were from different colleges and 27 were from our college. 

On March 29, 2019 - “Brain Awareness Program” was organized in association with National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar, Haryana to create awareness about Brain structure and function and related disorders. The events included: A popular lecture by Dr. Dipanjan Roy (Scientist, NBRC) on Brain Science: Foundations and Fundamentals, a rangoli making competition on “Artistic expression of Brain and its functions” and a poster making competition on “Public awareness of brain related disorders”. (Event Convenor: Dr. Sudhir Verma) [No. of Beneficiaries: 70]

APRIL 2020

SPECIAL WEBINAR on BASIC QUANTUM MECHANICS by Professor Ajoy Ghatak on April 06, 2020

Circular relevant to the webinar

Video link for the online webinar 

Progress Report April 01 2019 to March 31 2020

Report of Activities April 01 2019 to March 31 2020

Progress Report April 01 2020 to July 31 2021

Report of Activities April 01 2020 to July 31 2021