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Vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University Lal Ji Singh inaugurated the Career Guidance and Counseling Cell at Student Welfare Center on Friday. The centre will work in the field of guidance, counseling and career.

According to BHU spokesperson, the students are going through lot of stress due to their studies, career home and other personal problems. The Centre will work for students to solve all the stresses they are facing in the campus life. Psychological counseling, psychological therapy, career guidance, career counseling, stress therapy are the areas where the students will be helped.

The VC also attended a function of Students Council to release 'Dristi 2011', a magazine by Student Council of BHU. Speaking on the occasion he said the Career Guidance and Counseling Cell is very important in current day stressful life. The students will face more stress in the days to come as we increase the population. He said stress does not come from campus life but it also comes from environment at home where a student has spent more life. He said a student learnt 60% of education from his/her home. So counseling requires dealing with parameter which include life, class room, hostel, playground as well as at home.

He wished that the center would play very important role in making student more comfortable and confident to face current and future life of their career. He said "today we are moving in the century of knowledge, science and technology, which will take us to become a developed country. We should not be afraid of small percentage of corrupt people and politician."

"There is large percentage of people who are devoted and wish to see India as a developed country," he said. He emphasized that quality of education should be promoted in rural area where the strength of democracy and most of the people were coming forward to contribute to democracy.

He said BHU was entering a crucial turning point where if we took our step properly so that we could compete with best universities of the world. "Today, we are not among best universities of the world," he said. He said he wanted international student should come to BHU to take up their higher education in the field of science. He mentioned that all the hostels would have special attention on horticulture "so that we can have very good environment for student to study."

He has ordered to increase the load of internet so that every hostel, every room has internet connectivity with high speed. He said he took the BHU hospital as his first priority. He said many new facilities were created in the hospital that included extra beds in ayurveda to attend brain stroke patients, 10 beds for accidental cases including head and spine injury, a special ward for Geriatric patients, separate pediatric surgery building, 15 additional instruments for dialysis of the patients under private public partnership. He said the stem cell/bone marrow facilities would be created in next 13-15 months.

BHU suspends 14 students : Clash on campus

Taking a serious note of violent clashes that erupted on the main campus as well as Rajiv Gandhi South Campus (RGSC), Barkachha (Mirzapur), the Banaras Hindu University administration suspended as many as 14 students of faculty of commerce till further orders on Friday.

According to O P Rai, deputy chief proctor, BHU, as many as 11 students were suspended from the main campus while three others were suspended from RGSC under the varsity. The action was taken after an enquiry committee set up by the dean of the faculty recommended their suspension from classes as well as hostel till further orders. All the students on the main campus were from B Com (Hons) final year programme, he informed.

As per the list, suspension from classes and Gurtu Hostel (under the faculty) has been handed over to seven students including Soumitra Vajpayee, Amitesh Shukla, Ritesh Rai, Ajit Upadhyaya, Prakhar Pandey, Sandeep Singh Rathore and Manish Pandey . Similarly, suspension orders were also issued to four day scholars including Satendra Gond, Vaibhav Singh, Ambar Srivastava and Ajay Yadav, who were debarred from attending classes till further orders.

It may be mentioned here that the B Com (Hons) final year students were engaged in violent clash that disrupted law and order situation in the main campus in the past 48 hours. After engaging in violent tussle on Wednesday (February 8), even more violent clash occurred a day later, when Proctorial staff and Lanka police were called to control the students. The Lanka police also booked 20 students under section 151 of IPC for disrupting law and order situation in the main campus.

Meanwhile, three students belonging to Commerce faculty, residing in Vindyachal Hostel at RGSC were also suspended from classes and hostel facilities till further orders. These students were engaged in violent clash with B Ed students, hurting as many as two students in the clash.

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