Defend The Students

We the Student Faculty Cell and Peer Group members of IGNOU view the attempts to denigrate the student community in the wake of racist attacks in Australia on the Indian students with extreme concern. We have condemned the racist attacks in an email to the FISA(Federation of Indian Students of Australia) and expressed our support for its attempts towards racial harmony.In this context it must be noted that students of diverse ethnic groups including the Australian students joined together to promote racial harmony with the Indian students.This is the right approach towards building a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere for continuing to study in Australia or anywhere in the world. The attempts by the Australian media to isolate the Indian students from this atmosphere by labelling them as 'smelly' or 'pesky'or by pointing to the limitations of language skills etc. only feeds in to the racial stereotyping which has contributed to the present violence. Students and learners everywhere( including IGNOU) study to overcome their limitations and if these limitations are racially or otherwise put in to a stereotypical mould then the entire process of teaching learning becomes counterproductive. We urge upon the Australian government and people to demonstrate the genuineness of the multicultural ethos which they put forward in their tourism advertisements.This will enable the students to study and work their way through their study programmes in Australia.Their families too will feel more secure back home.We in India and IGNOU too need to draw appropriate lessons from these horrifying episodes in Australia.The need to build a genuine teaching learning process free from prejudice is evermore the need of the hour.In IGNOU we will take this up in our meetings of the student faculty cells and the peer groups.We need more people like Mr.Amitabh Bacchan to stand up to this lawless counter world of prejudice both amongst the students and the wider fraternity.(Members of the Student Faculty Cells and Peer Groups of theFlying Club Study Centre and the Guru Dronacharya College Study Centre of IGNOU,India with the help of Mr. Ajay Mahurkar and Dr. Dolly Mathew)

Students Against Racist Attacks/Kudos To Amitabh Bacchan

We the peer group and the student faculty cell members of the IGNOU Flying Club and Guru Dronacharya study centres view with extreme concern and dismay the recent racist attacks on the Indian students in Australia. This violence is extremely counter productive for the serious study atmosphere we are trying to build. Racist attacks on students as they happened in Mumbai or anywhere in the country or abroad as in the UK or the US only tend to build a world of lawlessness which negates the constructive and peaceful world which students want to move towards.In this context we appreciate the stand of Mr. Amitabh Bacchan the famous Indian actor in refusing the honorary doctorate being conferred on him by an Australian university. Universities anywhere in the world have a major responsibility in countering racism.Mr. Bacchan's gesture is a step in the right direction for us students.We also hope given the fame and popularity of Mr.Bacchan the message goes to the right quarters.We urge upon him to continue to take such stances consistently. ( From the members of the SFC and Peer Group with the help of Mr. Ajay Mahurkar and Dr. Dolly Mathew)

Student Faculty Cell, Guru Dronacharya College, Gurgaon

Dear friends,
We are Ajay Gupta and Arun Varshney members of the student faculty cell,IGNOU Study Center at Guru Dronacharya College Gurgaon. We welcome you to the Student blog for our study center.We will take up problems of the students like non receipt of the study material,putting of grades on marksheet,counselling sessions problems etc.We are here to help you to resolve the problems. Our names and Telephone nos. are as below:
1.Ajay Kumar Gupta: 9899651241
2. Pinky Verma:9812685820
3.Satish Kumar:9015343836
4.Arun Kumar Varshney:9910631585
5.Deepashree N.S.:9899693529
6.Dr. Shashibhan:9999331033
7.Dr. Singla:9211309998
These numbers are for your help only. Please contact us whenever you face a problem.To further consolidate your study group we will be shortly posting the names of the peer group.
Thanking you ArunVarshney and Ajay Gupta with the advice and help of Mr. Ajay Mahurkar and Dr. Dolly Mathew of SOSS, IGNOU

LIST OF SFC AND PEER GROUP AT FLYING CLUB

Dear Friends,
Posting the list of the members of the peer group and the SFC members. They are all volunteers and will help you during the course of study at your study centre.

(Ajay Mahurkar & Dr. Dolly Mathew)

S.NO. NAME TELEPHONE NO. SPECIALISATION
1. Manisha Verma 9811644335
2. Rohit Ladsaria 9899363834
3. Sidharth Sandurea 9810746940
4. Pratibha Jha 9868733072
5. Jasmeet Kaur Bhasin 24626628
6. Bijo 9868603112
7. Navkiran 9350005110
8. J.S. Rana 25552530 (R) jagatsinghrana@yahoo.co.in
9. Beena 9899394081 nabinair@yahoo.com
10. Shilpa Sawant 9971110992 sawantshilp@gmail.com
11. Karuna 65862831
12. Reetu Sogani 9811222495
13. Prof. Ajay Dandekar 09904311995
14. Anjaneyulu 9868675119
15. Kapil Madan 9910447862
16. Rajesh 9891098090
17. Ms. Remya Francis 9990116330
18. Ms. Geeta 9212173041
19. Manzaruzzama 9910130424
20. M. Kiran 9911222086
21. Shikha Babbar 9810501439

Student Faculty Cell

1. Prof. A.C. Sharma 26266814 (R )
2. Prof. R.K. Gupta 9868865311
3. Mr. Jagat Singh Rana 25552530 (R)
4. Ms. Beena Nandkumar 9899394081 nabinair@yahoo.com
5. Ms. Shilpa Savant 9971110992
6. Ms. Remya Francis 9990116330 remyafrancis@gmail.com
7. Ms. Geeta 9212173041