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New vice-chancellor H Maheshappa’s idea to ease traffic congestion and reduce pollution: Two lakh Visvesvaraya Technological University students should ditch two-wheelers, cars and use buses

Should a university banish a boy’s ultimate status symbol and a girl’s most efficient  and bottom-pinching-proof mode of transport from its campuses?

The Visvesvaraya Technological University is planning to ban bikes and all other forms of private transport at all it campuses. The students, predictably, are up in wheelies.
H Maheshappa, who recently took over as VTU vice-chancellor, in an exclusive interview to Bangalore Mirror on Tuesday said he will convene a meeting of all VTU-affiliated college principals to get the proposal ratified.

His logic — this will cut congestion on roads and control runaway pollution. Girls, obviously, are not on his mind nor, of course, are the touchy-feely perverts found aplenty on BMTC buses. “Why should students bring either two-wheelers or cars to campuses? I don’t think it is a good idea.”

VTU is the governing varsity for 174 engineering colleges in the state with close to 200,000 students.

Maheshappa believes “showing off” is the only reason why students ride bikes to colleges. “There are examples where students have altered silencers of their bikes to get noticed,” he said.

While students do not deny bikes add to their profile, they point out that the VC is ignoring another small matter of getting to college on time, with one’s dignity intact.
Srikanth, a fourth semester student of Instrumentation and Technology said, “I am okay with the move only if lecturers and the vice-chancellor themselves travel by bus. Let them practise what they preach.”

Another student, Chandan G, said: “I drive to the college every day. If I’ve to take a BMTC bus, I’ll end up changing four buses and will be dead tired by the time I step into class.”

The vice-chancellor said he will ensure every college has enough buses and the colleges are served well by BMTC. “The students can save a lot of money if they travel by mass transport. Also, this will encourage students to spend more time in classes,” he added.

The VC’s idea has found resonance with some college principals. Reva Engineering College principal Dr Rana Pratap

Reddy said, “We will support such a move. Buses are safer than personal vehicles.”
He, however, has a word of caution. “Before we take a decision, we need to do our homework. Our college buses are grossly insufficient to serve such a large number of students. The university should hold talks with BMTC to increase the number of buses on routes students take,” he said.

BE/B.Tech VI semester results Announced for GULBARGA & BELGAUM Regions.

B.Arch ALL semester results Announced for ALL Regions.

BE/B.Tech VIII semester results Announced for ALL Regions.

BELGAUM: The PGCET entrance test for admissions to ME, MTech, MArch and MBA (infrastructure management) courses for the academic year 2010-11 is scheduled for Sunday.

Approximately, 4,400 seats are available for selection to ME, MTech and MBA (infrastructure management) courses. Around 13,008 candidates are expected to appear for the test at 19 centres across the state, VTU registrar said in a press release. Candidates seeking admission to ME, MTech, MArch and MBA (infrastructure management) programmes, under UVCE, UBDTCE and VTU will write the test 11 am and 1 pm. Candidates seeking admission to ME and MTech programmes under Mysore and Kuvempu universities will write test between 2 pm and 4 pm.

Candidates have been asked to come to the test venue with hall ticket and a black ballpoint pen for marking the OMR sheet. They have been informed to submit the required documents like attested copies of marks cards, caste certificate, experience certificate, no-objection certificate for part-time and no-objection certificate for sponsored category, before July 24. PGCET Cell will not send individual intimation for the submission of documents.

Prof. H Maheshappa, principal of Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore assumed charge as the new vice-chancellor of the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum on Thursday. He will succeed incumbent Prof. H P Khincha.

 
Maheshappa hails from Deetur village of Harihar taluk in Davangere district. He has over 25 years of experience in teaching, training, industry, consultancy and research. He obtained his BE degree from UBDT College of Engineering, Davangere, ME from Bangalore University Bangalore, and PhD in machine design from Bangalore University.

Before joining Cambridge Institute of Technology, Maheshappa had served in RV College of Engineering, Reva Institute of Technology, PES Institute of Technology and Don Bosco Institute of Technology. He was the founder special officer of VTU when it was founded in 1998. He is a fellow of World Academy of Productivity Science, Canada.

VTUzone.com heartily congratulates Prof. H. Maheshappa on this occasion.

BELGAUM: Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU, Belgaum) and Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS, Bangalore), the two leading universities in the state engaged in higher education and research in engineering, technology and health sciences, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly conduct research on technology in health sciences.

The MoU has been signed by the registrars of both universities __ Dr Vasantha Kumar (RGUHS) and K V A Balaji (VTU) __ at the latter’s headquarters, Jnana Sangama, here on Wednesday. RGUHS V-C Dr Ramananda Shetty and VTU V-C H P Khincha were present.
According to a release, the MoU will open doors to mutual co-operation between the two universities, their stakeholders and the society at large. The universities will co-operate on issues pertaining to any field of mutual interest, be it engineering sciences, technology and health sciences. They will work together with greater emphasis on medical electronics, instrumentation, material science, etc.

 
The universities will start joint student research projects at post-graduate level and faculty research, which will lead to exchange of research information between them, identification of potential research areas, and organizing conferences in common areas of interest.