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It is a constituent College of the University of Delhi.
The college bears the name of Maitreyi, an eminent sage and scholar of ancient India who was the epitome of the perfect balance between intellectual pursuits and womanly duties.
Maitreyi, the wife of Yajnavalkya, considered knowledge to be the only means of attaining immortality and urged her husband to share his knowledge, rather than his material possessions with her.
With 74 per cent on her mark-sheet, the student has discovered that making it to the cut-off percentage is not the only thing that matters in Delhi University.
Coming from a Hindi medium background, Deepika is meeting resistance from MaitreyiCollege for admission into B.A. (Honours) History even though she meets the cut-off.
She should take admission in a college that instructs in Hindi medium,'' said principal Pushpa Kochhar.
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NCC / NSS - The college maintains two companies of NCC which are actively associated with all projects of the National Cadet Corps.
The National Service Scheme unit of the college is engaged in many community activities like adult literacy camps, blood donation camps, campaigns against drug abuse and projects related to environmental issues.
The college also provides exemption of tuition fee and admission fee to all scheduled caste / tribe students whose family income is such that they do not pay Income Tax.
Nanotechnology among 4 new courses in Maitreyi College(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
NANOTECHNOLOGY will soon be available for study at MaitreyiCollege, the first to introduce it in Delhi University as an add-on course.
It is one of the three short-term courses approved by the UGC for the college.
Once started, Maitreyi will be the first college to have a certificate course in nano-technology,’’ says Dr M.P. Srivastava, head of the Department of Physics at DU, who is designing the course structure.
According to Delhi University authorities, a particular college will offer a specific variable module course and no other college will be permitted to offer that course.
All colleges providing science courses are essentially `morning.' No evening college at Delhi University offers courses in science simply because the subject consumes major part of the day.
For instance, as per one of the UGC rules, a college is required not to spend more than Rs 250 annually for the provision and maintenance of laboratory equipment at the B Sc level.
North campus has feel-good factor: Students- The Times of India(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In the South campus it happens once in a blue moon." She feels that although the campus atmosphere is absent in the South, it has better transportation facilities as most of the colleges are on the ring road.
All the best colleges are here, while in the South they are scattered," she says.
Yes, in the North the colleges are closer to each other, but the South colleges are not really that far off.
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Only one team per college will be allowed.
Second Round : Situation / Prop to be provided by the host college at the venue.
For online registrations, shoot off a mail to vidhimakhija@hotmail.com, with the following details: name of event, name of participant, name of college (with course and year).
Maharaja Agrasen Vidyalaya(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Her academic career has been sparkling: she stood first class first in her college — MaitreyiCollege — during her graduation from Delhi University; she also secured third position in her M.Sc.
She started her professional career as a lecturer at the age of 22 in Multanimal Modi PG College, Modinagar, UP.
She taught biology at Beersheba Senior Secondary school, Haldwani, Nainital and at Rajkumar College, Rajkot.
www.agrasenvidya.com /principal.htm (174 words)
Indian Express: These panels are dominated by all-powerful politicians(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
According to the Delhi university statute, a selection committee set up to appoint teaching staff should comprise the chairperson of the governing body and the principal of the college, head of the department concerned at the university level, teacher-in-charge of the subject at the college and university representative on the governing body of that college.
Says Maitreyicollege principal Dr S. Bhadra: ``The governing bodies of Delhi administration-run colleges are dominated by politicians who are all powerful.
Reliable sources at DU claim that the former head of the political science department Dr Sushila Kaushik was removed from the post as the governing body wanted to appoint a teacher with the same political affiliation as the governing body.
GARGI CHAKRAVARTTY, a PhD of Calcutta University, is presently a Reader in the Department of History, MaitreyiCollege, University of Delhi.
Her book, Gandhi: A Challenge to Communalism, a critical appraisal of Gandhi's struggle against the forces of communalism, was published in 1987.
Partition has by and large come to mean the vivisection of Punjab as well as the holocaust accompanying it.This book portrays the hardships experienced by women in the aftermath of the Bengal Partition and how they were able to emerge as a distinct category of refugee women in due course.
As many as 50 teachers bearing allegiance to the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) were detained by the police this morning while they were demonstrating outside MaitreyiCollege.
The teachers alleged that the matter of appointment of the Principal was not discussed in the Academic College meeting that took place during the recent past.
According to the DUTA president, Dr Aditya Narayan Misra, “The matter of the appointment of the candidate for the post of Principal should be discussed in the AC meeting as it is written in the university statute.
Indian Express: Short Corner -- Delhi(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Ruchika Khanna's superb knock of 69 helped Daulat Ram College overwhelm Gargi College by 138 runs in the first Maitreyi invitation women's tournament for MS Trophy at MaitreyiCollege ground.
Ruchika Khanna and Rakhi Mehra were the top scorers for Daulat Ram while Asha (24) contributed for Gargi College.
Author: Kumari, Ramesh (Department of Chemistry, MaitreyiCollege, New Delhi, India)
This work aims to present the reader with the facts of the BASIC programming language, in the context of a college based course on computer programming.
It describes the fundamentals of computers, basic facts of BASIC language, enabling students to develop and write simple programs.
Higher Edge :: Global Staff Contacts :: India(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Shraddha Aswal has a Masters degree in International Relations from Reading University in the United Kingdom and a Bachelor degree in International History from Ferguson College in Pune.
Shraddha comes to us with experience from our industry, having worked for a successful agency assisting students to pursue higher studies in the United Kingdom.
Nisha Rajani has a postgraduate diploma in Public Relations & Marketing from Young Men's Christian Association, a postgraduate diploma in Business Administration from Symbiosis College, Pune and a Bachelor's Degree in Arts from Delhi University.
PGDAV College and Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences (IGIPESS) were declared champions in the men and women's sections of the inter-college judo competitions that concluded at the MaitreyiCollege recently.
Motilal Nehru College and SGTB Khalsa College secured the second and third places respectively in the men's section while the corresponding places in the women's section were claimed by MaitreyiCollege and Laxmi Bai College.
Smita Kishore, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow
P.C. Joshi, Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology and S.N. Sengupta, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi
Mala Kapur Shankardass, Sociologist; Reader, MaitreyiCollege, Delhi University; Chairperson, Development, Welfare and Research Foundation, Delhi