India’s top brains to guide GU’s PhD aspirants

J M Vyas of FSL and Dr Ali Irani,personal physician of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar,have also consented to provide guidance to GU research candidates.

The decision to rope in the services of experts in diverse fields from across the country was taken at GU’s research cell meeting headed by Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi on Sunday.

Trivedi,who has been heading the oldest university in the state for the last seven years,said he was greatly concerned about the quality of research at the university.

When contacted,Alagh said: “I would be very happy to supplement the research project of GU.” Alagh,a former union minister who has headed various departments like Planning Commission,said all the seniors in SPIESR could also put in their efforts and use their knowledge and talent to guide the research candidates enrolled with GU.

Trivedi said teachers from these research institutes could provide better guidance to research candidates.

Earlier,only professors from university’s faculty worked as guides.

According to GU officials,it is for the first time that experts from outside the university as well as state have been selected for providing guidance to researchers.

According to Trivedi,the new initiative would help the university to go for research even in those areas that had remained untouched so far,like space sciences.

The GU will also use the services of Imtiaz Malik,assistant commissioner of sales tax,in guiding researchers on Jainism. Theatre activists Rajan Sajan Mishra and Amol Palekar have been appointed guides in theatre and drama fields.

Asked about facilities for researches,Trivedi said he had set up advanced laboratories and made arrangements for computers with Internet facilities,e-books,e-journals and reference materials for research work. He said the university would enrol about 400 research students annually and spend Rs 10 crore on research projects every year.