DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

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DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
Human resource development and building individual capabilities to cater to
the needs of the country, society and the economy, the University educates and
trains human resources and equips them with the required knowledge and
competencies in the chosen disciplinary domains.
The faculties are encouraged to undertake various research studies, surveys,
projects that aim at creating new knowledge, find solutions to the problems
and also make policy related recommendations. Various research studies and
projects undertaken by the faculty are the examples.
The Centre for Public Policy has contributed immensely by establishing a
PAN-India development forum called Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI) of
eleven Indian mountain states plus Darzeeling. The IMI has organized four
annual summits in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015 at Nainital, Sikkim, Nagaland
and Arunachal Pradesh. These summits have deliberated on issues and
problems of national and international level- such as disaster risk reduction,
sustainable mountain development, livelihood, compensating mountain states
for the production of forest and green cover, appropriateness of centrally
sponsored schemes, etc. Consequent to the efforts of the initiative, a separate
cell has been created in the NITI Ayog at Government of India on Himalayan
mountain states.
The University is actively participating and contributing in programmes of
nation building, such as Swachh Bharat-Swastha Bharat Abhiyan, creating and
building awareness in five adopted villages on the environmental issues,
innovative technology, welfare programmes, women’s issues. Blood donation
camps are held from time to time.
Fostering global competencies among students
Skill-competency development among students is the essence of the
University’s academic architecture and curriculum development. The curricula
of the academic programmes are formulated and approved by involving
experts of the national and international level and partners from the industry.
This has helped in developing and implementing academic programmes that
are of cutting edge level and impart competencies to perform and compete at
the national and global level.
An Entrepreneurship and Skill Development Cell has been created to specially
focus on the skills/competency requirements in the context of fast changing
scenario and create necessary opportunities in this regard.
The University’s pedagogical approach reflects the changing educational,
technological, professional and societal needs and aspirations. Thus, the
University is attempting to make a shift from the traditional form of classroom
based and teacher centred instructions to more holistic approach to acquire
appropriate knowledge and skills. The curricula of the academic programmes
have four key elements: active learning, learning beyond the classroom,
education for profession and career skills.
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