Gymkhana Institute Students Nation Wide Health Insurance Coming to IITK Ashutosh Ranka, President, Students’ Gymkhana, had presented a proposal for health insurance of IITK students earlier this year. Primarily, the proposal aims to have a policy through which the students have access to a genuine mediclaim for treatment in hospitals all over India. The senate had formed a six-member subcommittee to investigate this matter. The […] Written by Vox Populi April 11, 2017May 15, 2021
Faculty Institute Students Attendance : Needed or Not ? With the recent surge in a change of attendance related policies in IITK, Vox Populi thought that it was an ideal time to initiate a discussion among the campus community about this topic. we interacted with some people from the faculty and student community, who had varying perspectives on this topic. Below is a summary […] Written by Vox Populi March 30, 2017May 15, 2021
Gymkhana Students The Curious Case of Blank Manifestos Over the past few years, the number of nominations, for both Senate and Executive positions, have steadily decreased. During this general elections, the condition worsened, leaving the governance body short of volunteers in two major departments, FMC and the GnS. While there were no applicants for the position of GenSec, Films and Media, Mr. Tizil’s […] Written by Vox Populi February 17, 2017May 15, 2021
Gymkhana Institute Students Senate Samachar 2016-17/1 Senate Samachar brings out its first post to highlight the agendas discussed in the 6th special meeting and the 9th meeting of the students’ senate. Clarifications: The senate has not rejected Vipul Garg’s argument but has asked him, as Convener of the Gymkhana Review Committee, to come up with a suitable alternate name for the position […] Written by Vox Populi February 12, 2017May 15, 2021
Institute Students Attendance Matters IITK is among the few institutes of higher education where there is no mandatory attendance policy enforced in all courses. Lately, the practice of taking biometric attendance in certain courses has been a source of alarm and has led to various discussions in the student community. For a clearer insight, Vox had a discussion with […] Written by Vox Populi January 24, 2017May 15, 2021
Students For lack of a better ratio This is an entry received for the freshers’ writing competition for the topic : My Expectations from a Gender Unbalanced Society in IITs I am always reminded of this single incident when someone talks of gender imbalance in IITs. A friend of mine, at the start of our orientation, told me that he was lucky […] Written by Vox Populi January 5, 2017May 15, 2021
Students Anya and the Mass Execution of Femininity This is an entry received for the freshers writing competition and submitted written for the topic : My expectations from a gender unbalanced society at the IITs “Come out of the closet. It’s not so dark anymore. Look at the trees out there! What are you waiting for? We haven’t travelled all this way so […] Written by Vox Populi December 24, 2016May 15, 2021
Students The Tragic Demise of Alok: Looking Back to Move Ahead “The campus saw an unfortunate demise of Mr. Alok Pandey, a 33 year old PhD student in the department of Material Science yesterday afternoon. Mr. Pandey reported to HC with a neck and chest* pain around 2:15 pm. He was administered an injection for relieving pain followed by an ECG which indicated a severe case […] Written by Vox Populi August 21, 2016May 15, 2021
Administration Students The curious case of “incorrect” branch changes Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. – Murphy’s Law One of the most important and potentially life-changing decisions that can be taken by a student here at IIT Kanpur is that of changing one’s branch. However, there have been some cases in the recent past where, due to human error, students have been […] Written by Vox Populi July 29, 2016May 15, 2021
Students Mid Semester answer scripts on time from now The Academic Senate recently decided that all instructors will be required to show the answer scripts of the Mid Semester examinations within 14 days of the end of the exams. Vox contacted Prof. Neeraj Mishra, Dean of Academic Affairs, for further details on the matter. We were informed that the proposal was put forward by […] Written by Vox Populi April 29, 2016May 15, 2021
