Lucknow varsity depts to strive for cleanliness

With regards to take ahead the message of Swacch Bharat among the entire University, the Lucknow University will rank its 43 departments on the basis of cleanliness. To make sure that the department scores well, they should ensure that they meet the cleanliness parameters and have contributed towards Swachhta mission, else they will be marked as Failed in the annual report. The rankings will be uploaded on the Lucknow University official website and if the department has scored good or bad will also be revealed. A committee headed by the vice-chancellor S P Singh will be formed to analyse and award scores on the basis of the department's performance. As per the report published in The Times of India, "The report card of every department will be a mirror for every faculty. The department will get to know where they stand in terms of academic excellence, cleanliness and hygiene, job placement and teaching. It will also create a healthy competition not only between students of different departments but also among heads and teaching faculty of the department," said Singh and added that the parameters on which the departments will be ranked have already been decided. The marks division and areas where negative points will be awarded will also be finalised before the new session begins, he added. There will be many paramaeters like not using polythene bags and no tobacco in the campus. The final report card of each department is prepared on the basis of academic excellence, attendance, job placement, courses which have been closed due to poor performance, research, involvement in the extra co-curricular activities and use of innovation and technology in the classroom. The top five departments will be profiled on the university website under 'top performers' head, highlighting its achievement and total marks scored to attain the top rankings. Not keeping corridors, walls and garden area of educational blocks neat and clean may reflect badly on the head of departments in days to come.