It was the first day of college life for almost 14,000 students, who have taken admission in the various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), as the new academic session of the University commenced today at its Kashmere Gate campus and about 88 affiliated institutes.

At the campus, orientation sessions were organized by the University School of Studies to welcome new batch of students and to familiarize them with their respective academic programmes, faculty members and departments. University School of Management Studies, the on-campus, B-School of GGSIPU, is holding a two-day orientation session ‘Parichay’ for the budding managers, which includes series of activities like faculty interaction, Business Quiz and guest lectures, followed by a lunch with the faculty, tomorrow afternoon.

At the University School of Information Technology, students were given an introduction about their course, faculty and were taken on a tour of the laboratories. The University School of Biotechnology, University School of Basic & Applied Sciences, University School of Environment Management, University School of Humanities & Social Sciences and the University School of Chemical Technology also had a freshers’ orientation on the similar lines. On the other hand, the University School of Law & Legal Studies had lectures from eminent legal experts like Prof. S. N. Singh, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and Mr. K. C. Mittal, President, Delhi High Court Bar Association as a part of its orientation session. Students were moreover, shown a video programme on the different activities of Law School.

A visit-cum-orientation session for the new students was also organized by the University Information Resource Centre (Library) of the Varsity where they were taken on a tour of the library and given information about the books and reference material available.

GGSIPU is known for successful prevention of ragging at its campus. The University has formed an `Anti-Ragging Committee’ headed by the Proctor for this purpose, with six sub-committees that will keep a tight vigil on the entire campus. Any incident of ragging will be dealt sternly by the University.

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Established by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi in 1998, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) is a hub of professional education in the Capital. An affiliating-cum-teaching University, GGSIPU aims to facilitate and promote studies, research and extension work in emerging areas of higher education with focus on professional education in the disciplines of engineering, technology, architecture, management, law, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, education, journalism and mass communication, etc. Today, it is running more than 72 programmes in 09 University Schools of Studies and almost 88 Institutes (Government, Self-financing and Centres for Learning), imparting professional education to more than 40,000 students with an annual intake of about 13,500.