With the intention of working with our Institute, and helping it to grow, we have formed an association focussing only on IT BHU (and not BHU). We are planning to launch the association at Delhi on 14th December 2002.

We are also trying to get some of our prominent alumni to attend. VC BHU and Director IT have already consented.

The Association is named "Association of IT BHU Alumni".

Please circulate this to all those alumni you know, so that we could have a good gathering and discuss how and in what way we can help our alma mater.

For details, please talk to me at 011-6213051 / 6219684, or mail me at deba_bhatta@yahoo.com.

With best regards

Debashish Bhattacharyya
Mechanical Engg, 1982

Hi.

There is a BHU Alumni Meet being held at Lucknow.
We can use that Meet for our projects.

Saurabh Ahuja
Class of 2002
Chemical Engg.
IT - BHU

way to go !! This is what has been always missing. Once we have a strong alumni association, we'll become more visible in the world.

call it AIVA ( Association of ITBHU Varanasi Alumni) and not AIBA. That way if tommorow ITBHU becomes IIT varanasi, the name AIVA would still be vaild.

I have been waiting for a site like this!!. I graduated in Civil Engg in 1997 and have ever since been thinking of how i could contribute to the growth of IT-BHU. We always had and will continue have tremndous potential at our Institute. After all the time i have spent in field and academics outside IT-BHU i have felt even more strongly about this. However, we, as alumni need to find means and ways in which we can harness this potential for furthering the growth and prosperity of IT-BHU. We need to bring out our Institute on a global frame in more ways than it is right now.
I am very happy that finally i can see things happening. I hope my fellow alumni feel the same too.
I hope to see specific goals and objectives for the association.
To the people behind all this : ALL THE BEST.. THIS IS GREAT JOB..

hi,

This is a gr8 work..., i felt a lot bad when i found that in "IIT50 - Golden Jubilee Celebrations in Silicon Valley" there is no mention of IT-BHU while IIT-Roorkee is there.

Hi,
It is great to see that we have a site to represent the IT - BHU alumni. I have been helping the BHU people with www.bhu.ac.in site for last couple of years and would like to see what we can do about this site.

The main problem that we are facing with the BHU site is volunteering activity. We all would agree that since most of us are working full time most of us can only help so much. It would be in our best interest to involve the students of IT to help with the day to day activity. I am willing to offer my work in co-ordinating the required activities.

Please let me know - what you all feel.

Hi,

Its great to see the enthusiasm for this Alumni associaton.

Myself and some of my colleagues as well as juniors are very keen to help. We can go for the database of alumnis related to Department of Electronics Engg.

We are here to help anytime....

regards,

Excellent Effort Guys.

By the way ITBHU guys are welcome at the IIT50 get together. I confirmed this from the organizers of this event.

Please try to make it to the IIT50 event if possible.

Visit http://www.iit.org for details.

SECOND INTERNATIONAL BHU ALUMNI MEET – 2004

This comment is re-posted verbatim as an article by itself to give it due coverage under
SECOND INTERNATIONAL BHU ALUMNI MEET
-- editor ITBHU

Is it possible for us to lobby & get the name itself changed to IIT-Varanasi. When Roorkee can gtet this status why not we. It is really frustrating when one cannot claim to be an IITian despite having equivalent talent and passing thru the same rigours. It pains more when one sees our counterparts from Roorkee becoming IITians overnight. Please advise can we have this as a goal? It is really painful that we were not included in IIT-50 celebrations. I am more than willing to work for this.

Dear friends,
I am professor in Dr. Babasaeb Ambedkar Technological University, lonere, Raigad,Maharashtra doing my research work in antenna topic I would like to collect the mail adderess of prof. Srivastava, department of electronics and his student mr. manoj meshram
If anybody of you know about the same please send me the mail on address khobragadesanju@indiatimes.com
Looking for your kind reply

Good work friends. Keep it moving. On the IIT-V front if it really matters for the future of new students then don't discuss on the subject like Indian politicians instead pool all resources - Bhaiya sham dam dand sabhai kam ma le la auar kar dala. Like and true itian
SSKedia 1975 Mech.

Exactly Mr. Kedia. Enough of talking done. Its time we need some action.

dear guyz,
there's no need to get depressed. it-bhu has its own existance & it's very much included in iit chain from very first. the profs at it-bhu [XXX censored -- (we need everyone's cooperation) editor XXX] don't take action to make it iit-v. they should know & feel what it takes & how much midnight oil is burnt to clear jee & still not getting an iit-ian status. shouldn't they feel ashamed that we had not been included in iit-50 bash???
...aveek chatterjee, mech. 1999.
senior officer, tata power,jamshedpur

I am glad to see folks creating something for IT-BHU.

Please let me know how I can help. I know a few alumni in Silicon Valley. Hope this debate of IIT and BHUI could be overcome. I believe IT should leverage both brand names it will give it double power. I could then have attended the IIT big marketing campaign going on here in California today.

I am a 1985 Electronics Graduate.

Vikram and others,
Definitely the alumni can work towards getting us an IIT-V status. It really requires lot of pushing, raising it at all forums,pushing the deans and profs, using contacts in govt. etc. This is how I view it personally. Those of you who have reached influential positions can really do this. We really slogged to get thru JEE and may be a difference of one wrong question has deprived us of the IIT-50 bash. I think it is a kind of 'forced aparthied'.Had IIT brand not commanded such world wide reverence the issue may not have arisen. But when we genuinely deserve the same reverence we are not getting it because we are not IIT-V.

Hello everybody.. i lost my gradesheets of 4 yrs at It-BHU.. anybody knows how i can get duplicate gradesheets from BHU.. can anybody help me

Friends,

It is great that some action is developing on the IIT-V (or even IIT-BHU )front. Well one may not have faced any 'aparthied' but fact remains that there is no mention of ITBHU in either PAN-IIT website or in any coverage that the event has got. No official from ITBHU was invited for the event. No one would turn us out once we reach the event..but we were not natural invitees. It is out of our own initiative that some of us reached there. So that comfort feeling of IITs reciprocating the relationship is in no way a universal feeling for our fraternity. It is also not the feeling of insecurity but an urge to get the 'IIT-label' that matters so much in the 21st century.

So keep on building enthu guys..use contacts, build universal opinion, involve all alumni you know, talk to officials at ITBHU and lets all create a wave for this movement. Its really now or never. So keep the enthu guys and spread the message.

I even suggest that we all start using IIT-V or IIT-BHU to recognise ourself from henceforth ( before even it becomes 'official').

'IIT-label' will be a nice thing to have but I wonder if people should sound as desperate to have it. I think we should try our best towards that goal but that is all we should do .. ie try...and not feel frustrated about it whatever the outcome.
Organizing/coordinating efforts would be the biggest challange.

Another suggestion is that we should probably ask fellow IITians to include IT-BHU on iit.org website. That might be much easier than IIT-V and would be enough for showing off. ( in those what is IT-BHU situations ;) )

The effort to build this platform for exchange of views is commendable. Congrats to those who have done it. (The website does not say who they are .. or am I missing some thing :) )

Jaskirat Singh
IT-BHU 99 Chem.

Jaskirat..it is a proven thing that if one needs to achieve a goal it is necessary to believe that it will be achieved..otherwise all efforts are half hearted. To carry forth our legacy of being an excellent Institute it has to be branded as an IIT and as an alumni we have to see this goal through. 'Trying our Best' is very subjective. A goal has to be measurable and herein the measure is 'achieving' the IIT tag. In today's scenario its all the more essential..with two new IITs inducted(Gauhati & Roorkee) and RECs being proposed to become NITs. I need not reiterate what image does BHU command today. Also see the miniscule extent of fundings we are getting as an Institute. All the more see the Institute's rank..it has not been making in top 10 for past so many years. When I joined it was number 4. It is disheartening to see this debacle and you know the contributing reasons. Major benefits of an IIT tag besides brand are the kind of funding we'll get..both from the govt., from us alumni and also from a number of companies that would than think of setting up labs there. So my dear friend..give your full hearted support to the cause and don't ever think that we will not achieve the target.

Thanks all, especially Jaskirat and Ravinder, for the latest brainstorming.

Yes, we first have to get listed under iit.org. We will as promised in the first article as soon as we are done with the first version of the site. Among other things, we will have channels where we can make the most of your willingness to help on specific issues.

With regards to IITs reciproacting, well there is no single person that speaks as the IIT :-). We have to identify like-minded thinkers, partners, potential allies, foot-draggers and potential opposing views. The IIT alums essentially made the entire IIT50 happen (as opposed to any "official" initiation/sponsorship from the institutes) and they had to go by the list of IITs. But they are our very likely allies, an example to follow (organization and money-raising speaks as opposed to govt patronage!), and people to convince to work together for mutually beneficial causes.

And yes, we are setting the goal to get the IIT label full-heartedly. Interestingly, there is support from seemingly unlikely quarters: the Malaviya Mission lists the IIT label as its top goal for their next five-year plan.

hi,
since we would like to get the list of the alumni ( create an alumni database ) it would be good if the students from the institute could do this work.

we can also pitch in and do the needful

Sanjay I too agree with what Anshuman is saying. We can hand over the work related with the site to the current batch of students. I think they would be more than willing to take it. Moreover, it would also expedite the entire process.

Its good to see Malviya mission having IIT status as a goal. Sanjay please update us from time to time regarding the IIT V status. Also do let us know if we can help in some way. One thing is building our community. I suggest to the current batch of students to please share the alumni database with the creators of this site.

Folks -- the alumni database has to be created where every alumnus self-registers, entering his/her latest information, registers outside email address and gets a passwd to keep it up to date and access non-public part of the site. This is the only way we can have validated info and maintain touch with everybody. That takes software. We are looking at a few options. So let's not worry about somehow getting an alumni database and entering it. I'd love to, as mentioned above, get the students energized to become part of contributing to the site. Stay with us patiently as some of us are managing work deadlines and this labor of love -- our first goal is to get to a point where we stop being bottlnecks while all alumni have many channels of contributing directly depending on their interest level! Cheers :-)

Dear Friends,

it-bhu or iit-v; it is debatable. It is a great bonding. Lets' create a database and do something meaningful in years to come.

best wishes to all,

mining engineering
1991 batch

hi
IT BHU ..Now that there r already NITs in the
arena..it hardly demands respect....
so ppl now will prefer to join NIT just after
IITs may be some NITs will rank above some IITs
but one thing is for sure after the NITs have come in to existence ,IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad
are no where

"it-bhu or iit-v; it is debatable."

I don't think its debatable.I was there from 1996 to 2000 and I didn't find a single guy who wanted to be associated with BHU as such.

Yes, We have become used to the name IT-BHU and BHU comes there naturally but bonding with BHU??

I don't think so.I don't know the situation before 96 ,So I can't comment on that.BHU might have been a great place but now its association is big problem for the well being of IT.Given a choice 99% guys will prefer IIT-V.Few people already suggested second name as IIT-BHU(just for the sake of carrying name and not to raise alarms for BHU , some other reasons as well)

Second and more important reason is funds.IIT gets many times than IT-BHU.In some deapartment we don't have the best possible infrastructure due to financial contraints.So, its not only about tag.

Third reason, more than 75% ITians could have easily joined some IIT with second choice branch but they decided to go for better branch(in their opinion) at IT-BHU.It would have not been difficult to get aerospace/metal/ ...... to ... MSc in some physics/chem in different IIT.So, due to quality of students ,we definately deserve the IIT status.

I can't talk for everyone and my opinion is based on interacting with few batches only.I have seen some people raising objection about this discussion of IIT/IT-BHU, reason it has been already discussed too many times.But if some of us still have doubt about it, I don't see any harm in having another round frank discussion among ITians.We shouldn't forget that everyday new people are coming here and they might have something important to add.

Yes I agree that words should be backed by action.Few people are already working quite hard on this issue.

No offence to anyone if you feel something for BHU in general.

Cheers,

Rohit Ranjan ( CSE 2000 )

What is the latest status of the IIT-V vs ITBHU issue? I have some strong political contacts with the existing centre BJP govt that I can leverage.

Shailesh Jain
Chem'95

It is not Hala BHU. The correct pronunciation is Halla Bechu. Bechu was a tea vendor opposite Dey Hostel. That is when we Graduated in 85. For all that we know he could have bought Taj Benares in the last round of Disinvestment, such were his earnings from us poor students. Though to be fair, all of us did our fair bit to ensure that he didn't get to be filthy rich. But no matter how tardy we would be in our payments he would still manage to remain as filthy as ever if not rich.

Looking for a benign and once athletic homosapien who languidly roamed the august portals of Ceramics Engg between 81 to 85 and would invariably answer, if not asleep, to the name of Rajinder Chavan. If sighted do not approach him with message. Inform me at the earliest.

Sir ,
Hip hip hurray to all of those who worked for this achievement ,but lets remember that success is not a one day fact ,its a continous struggle...
One more thing i would like to add is that lets make it more informative for example add all the students profile into this site or make them register themselves... more importantly the particulars of the important dates and the courses curriculum and the exam results be posted so that we make most use of this internet facility...exam results are one of those nightmares that makes us count our sleepless nights even acoounting for each minute spent on what thinking and what options we have for a result...
More over this effort is more than appreciable... and i wish to contribute in its work....
sincerely,
Ch. Vishweshwar
3rd meta.

Hi ! BHUs . Today I am remebering my Days at BHU. My electrical Department.........

Iam looking for the contact information( personal ph no or mail id ) of prof. Veer bhandra Mishra, Prof SK mishra or Prof U K Choudhary or Dr B N Roy ( Dean and Director) from Department of Civil Engineering. I am a graduate student currrently in New York, USA and need to contact one of these professors as soon as possible. So if anyone can give me some sort of information it would be of great help to me.
Thanks.

hi,
this pal is frm ISM-dhanbad,i found it really intresting that u people hav ebeen demanding of the iit status...just like us..
keep goin guys we'll have it one day..
wish u all a great time ahead..and hi to my dear frnds. Siddharth and Ritesh if they chek this out.

Hello Friends
I am a from 93 batch mining. There should be a complete list of members of alumni associan with latest contacts.
One can find his old friends if search facilty can give correct result.
OK
Have a nice time and good by.
Lalit KumarBharadwaj

Could someone please forward the e mail id of Prof.Om Prakash (Deptt. of Ceramic Engg.) and Prof. D. Kumar (Deptt. of Ceramic Engg.)to me.
Thanks in advance.
Vishal Bhatnagar
Class of 2002
Ceramic Engg.

I need some good Java technical interview questions.

I need contact details and mail id of some of our ITians based in DUBAI or MIDDLE EAST region. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Hi Puja and Pankaj,
For help like Java questions and Alumni contacts, please go to the ITBHU yahoogroup and post a message. You will get a faster response.
Thanks
Animesh

hi ! its me .ankur sinha.how r u guys

hi ! i m ishtayaque ahmad.working in isro as space scientist.1999 batch it-bhu

hi, never imagined that there is site where messages can be posted to ex-BHUites.

is this site also open for pharmacy graduates from BHU IT? I graduated in 1983...... yeah 22 years ago!!!

Hi Kohila,
Pharmacy is very much a part of IT BHU and all Pharma grads are welcome to register themselves.

Regards,
Editor

hi kohila,

you are very welcome to register at ITBHU.org as well as be a part of deptt. of pharmaceutics, ITBHU yahoo group 'pharma_itbhu', these are some excellent common platforms to connect to all your distant batchmates.

vivek
PHE03
ITBHU