hi ,i am from electrical engg 2000 batch.
can i get any links on abhik mitra..his email id..
thx in advance
presently i doing my MBA,so a source is needed.
sanjeev

Hi Sanjeev,

You can try reaching TNT India office. Below is the address: -

1A Prince Arcade
22A Cathedral Road
Chennai 600 086

Tel: 44 827 7722
Fax: 44 827 7020

They should be able to help you.

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Campus Placement

Campus statistics for batch of 2005

Hi Abhik,
It is a great news. Congratulations and best wishes for more illustrative career growth in future.
Regards, ---------- Debu

I had heard of your acheivements and it made my heart swell in pride. You have done us proud. Looking forward to further achievements.
Tapas.

hey how is the meta rock fraternity doin.
if anyone from meta reads this. get back with some news

Excerpts from the Special Nanotechnology issue of BHU News Letter (Vol. 2, Oct. 2004):

Prof. P. Ramachandra Rao writes ...
"In order to facilitate studies in nanotechnology, the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, has launched a major initiative in the area of nano-materials science and technology. In the initial phase of this important activity, several research groups were supported to build the necessary infrastructure and pursue studies in a wide variety of materials. A committee under the Chairmanship of Prof. C.N.R. Rao, FRS has recommended the establishment of Units on Nano Science and Technology in the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern regions of the country. Banaras Hindu University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur have been identified for the creation of the Northern regional center. Under this scheme the University has received funding to the extent of 3.52 crores."

BHU's R&D efforts in Nanoscience and Technology: Prof. O. N. Srivastava writes ...
"The Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India announced NST initiative through the formation of high-level committee chaired by apex scientists like Prof. C.N.R.Rao. This DST-NST Committee invited all the Universities, IITs and labs. to work out NST programmes. The phase I of the programme commenced in 2001. Several institutions including BHU were supported. A second phase commenced in 2002 where the whole institutions instead of individual scientists were supported. Here again B.H.U. was selected. In 2004 applications for units or Centres from Institutions were called for. The Vice-chancellor, BHU, Prof. P. Ramachandra Rao, presented the case of BHU beforethe DST-NST committee held at Bangalore on 29 June 2004. Luckily BHU was selected among seven apex institutions in the country for NST unit/centre. The seven institutions selected are (I) Northern Zone; (a) BHU and (b) IIT (K); (II) Southern Zone; (a) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre and (b) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (III) East Zone; (a) Indian Association of Cultivation of Science and (b) S.N. Bose Centre, both from Calcutta and (IV) West Zone; (a) National Chemical Lab. (Poona). It is noteworthy that BHU is the only University out of the 200 Universities in the country, which has been elected for nano unit and centre. A total grant of about Rs. 5 crores has been provided to BHU covering all the three phases of the nanoscience and technology programme/ initiative."

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hi,
this is gr8 to see the efforts put by alumni to help the institute.
but still i dont think efforts are as concrete and organized as it should be.
according to itbhu.org library automation work is in progress for about a year but i dont see any type of automation in library and its condition is as miserable as it was before.
we should take example of nit trichy ,how they collabrated with different companies with the help of their alumni in those companies and set up different labs and obtained financial assistance.
for example see http://www.nitt.edu/sun/

Hi Ateet,
The Library automation project is going on, slowly but surely. You may want to meet with Rahul Hari CSE06, who is in-charge of this project from the students side. Two barcode scanners were doated by alumni and the software is also installed. They are currently testing out the barcode etc. Please let rahul know if you are interested to help. You may also go to http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/itbhu-volunteers/
regards
Animesh
CSE03

Hello Atit,
This is to inform you that the project is in the testing phase. The library site is already on the BHU intranet (U might try typing http://10.3.31.10 on ur browser on any comp in the university). We are testing the software for any errors. In case you are still not satisfied, you can see me at my room.
Rahul Hari,
Room No. 60,
Raj.

There was some proposal to add IT-BHU's name in Google's University Search. But still it is not appearing. What has happened to that? Any progress?

Abhijeet

Hi,

Nope! No mention of IIT status for BHU in the union budget (see report from FT below).

Is the report of the Kasturirangan committee out yet? or has the government conveniently scrapped the idea of more IITs.

The budget has mentioned a 100 cr. grant for IISC and the setting up of 6 AIIMS type institution, so if plans for new IITs were afoot, it would have been mentioned in the budget.

.................................

Financial Times

KOCHI, FEB 23: The proposal to raise the present Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) to an IIT status, a long-pending demand of the state, comes at a time when Kochi, the industrial capital of Kerala, is all set for a development boom.
It was recently that the expert committee headed by former ISRO chief K Kasturirangan submitted a report to the Union human resource development ministry stating that this university of excellence could be raised to the level of an IIT. A commitment on this is likely to receive mention in the coming Union Budget, top sources said. The Banaras Hindu University and the Osmania University are among the others expected to be raised to this level.

The demand of the state for an IIT has been there for quite sometime and though a separate institute was expected, the government has welcomed the proposal.

The Biggest Joke of the Year - The S.K. Joshi Report

Times of India Report

NEW DELHI: The S K Joshi committee, set up at the behest of the then PM, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to study a proposal to start five new IITs in 2003s, has submitted its report.

The committee has shortlisted seven technical institutes that can be upgraded to IITs (see table).

In the one and a half years since Vajapayee made the promise, the ministry has been flooded with queries from the state governments and questions in Parliament on which institutes would be the lucky ones.

The NDA government would have probably jumped at the recommendations and may have initiated action soon but the new dispensation is not too sure.

Although the ministry is yet to discuss the report's recommendations, the issue of whether we need more IITs has already triggered a debate.

Wouldn't half a dozen more IITs dilute the brand equity of the existing ones? Besides the big five, two new IITs were set up at Guwahati and Roorkee by the NDA government.

Why can't we upgrade some better performing state engineering colleges into National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and leave the IITs alone?

The ministry officials are posing some serious questions. "The IIT system of selection does not give any advantage to state students. So there is no need to to have an IIT in every other state. Setting up an IIT goes beyond a building and a faculty.

It requires support from the industry. We have to see these factors before deciding," said an official.

The S K Joshi committee has, however, looked at academic standing and infrastructure to shortlist the institutes.

Parameters like faculty, research papers published in a year, courses, student strength and physical infrastructure have been taken into account.

But the committee did not consider the 17 regional engineering colleges that were upgraded to NITs during Murli Manohar Joshi's stint as HRD minister with the logic that they already had the same governance structure and deemed university status as IITs

So hold your breath

The New IITs are....

•Bengal Engineering College (Howrah)

•Jadavpur University's engineering and technical department

•Benaras Hindu University's Institute of Technology

•Zakir Hussain College of Engineering, Aligarh

•Andhra University College of Engineering

•Osmania College of Engineering (Osmania University College of Technology)

•Cochin University of Science and Technology

This really must be a joke!

Look at the places the new IITs would be situtated-

Uttar Pradesh -2 ( + IIT Kanpur)
Andhra Pradesh -2
West Bengal - 2 (+ IIT Kharagpur)
Kerala -1

Also, apart from IT BHU, The faculty and standards of most of these institutions are much below that of the IITs and the NITs.

The status of the tag 'IIT' would fall below that of the NITs. Moreover all of of these institutions (except IT BHU) have reservations (state, minority etc), and these people would go any lengths to keep it in place.

Maybe they will introduce quotas in the IITs as well!

It is quite obvious that even Murali Manohar Joshi would laugh away this report.

Hi Ankur:

The S. K. Joshi Committee report on new IITs only shows colleges in final round. The final decision will be taken by HRD ministry in consultation with IIT Board.

The final IIT list is highly confidential and will be known only to PM and cabinet ministers.

We should wait for some more time for any announcement, which shall be made by PM in Parliament. The final list may contain only 2 or 3 IITs.

I have posted a detailed reply on our itbhu@yahoogroups website.

With regards,

Yogesh Upadhyaya
Chemical 1977

Yogesh Sir,

One of the articles mentioned that this was only mere recommendation by a panel set up by the NDA. Does this list have more relevance? . Will the final list be drawn from this list or do NITs and other colleges (like College of Engineering Guindy) have a chance?

Some of the problems the colleges in the list have are

1. CUSAT is a fully fledged university like Anna university with 23 engineering colleges and law/humanitites schools under it. Delinking these institutions will not be a easy task. Although some of the courses (like optonics and Navel Architecture) are of good quality at CUSAT, the university engineering college is given a wide berth by most students in Kerala.

2. Most of these institutions accept students through state level exams (except ITBHU) and have reservations for minorities, state etc., If the Roorkee pattern is followed , the students will get an IIT degree. Students in most of the colleges mentioned are those who haven't even appear for JEE, let alone scored ranks. From what I have seen lower ranked students choose RECs or private institutions like BITS or PSG or try again.

3. Most of faculty at IT BHU/NITs have got their M. Tech, Phd from IISc or IITs. I know that most teachers in the institutions in the Joshi list don't have an M. Tech let alone a Phd. It was different with Roorkee, where the faculty was well qualified. But converting any of the institutions (except IT BHU) would lead either the dismissal of many of the faculty (unlikely) or a drastic drop in standard of teaching at IIT.Even the established IITs are finding it difficult to get qualified faculty, so this problem should be considered clearly.
I think IT BHU and some of the better NITs should be converted and NITs should be established in states where there are none.

4. Most of these institutions except ITBHU rank much lower than NITs and private/ government engineering colleges in the state.

I hope that either none of the colleges except ITBHU will be upgraded or that they will go for the NITs like Surathkal, Warangal and Calicut

Because of the poor infrastructure/ faculty at most of these institutions (except ITBHU),it would take as much investment to bring these insitutions to IIT status as setting up new ones.

Karnataka has been pushing for NITK to be upgraded. Will it be considered for upgradation?

- Ankur

hello everyone..
I seriously support such discussions on the website. but we are discussing all these things at the wrong place. A forum has been launched on the itbhu.org website and i would prefer such posts going into a topic named organisational issues in the forum. This post was meant to congratulate abhik mitra on being appointed teh managing director of TNT india and not for discussion on the IIT issue and the library automation projects.
I would like the admin to kindly take care of this stuff.

i think our alumni are putting great efforts in bringing out the best of ITBHU.I feel ITBHU now is somewhat different than wat it was previously due to philanthropic servoice of alumni.specially i will appreciate animesh pathak and anshuman singh for their invaluable time devoted to itbhu.org.
recently i saw university of wiscosin,s site and there i saw that they hv put target to raise US $1.5 billion through alumni to make the university from excellent to extraordinary and for that they hv made a cell.while reading that article i was thinking why we here at ITBHU cud not start such a project and popularize it.for raising the fund we can take help even from the people who r not from ITBHU but wanna give something for cause of education.
our alumni r in such big places then why r they not feeling(very few r doing a lot of thing) that they shud give back something to institute.
i dont think our alumni r less capable of doing so than of IITs.we hv glorious n longer history than all the IITs combined but they r generating funds in crores while we r in thousands.
we shud take example from http://www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu/web/www.nsf/allpublished/create%2Bthe%2Bfuture
Hoping that we will do great in future as Malviyaji had done in past.

O THINK ITS REALLY A JOKE BY Mr.JOSHI COMMITTEE BY SHORTLISTING THESE COLLEGES(EXCEPT IT-BHU) FOR THE SEVEN NEW IITS. WHY DONT THEY CONSIDER NITS AT WARANGAL,SURATHKAL,TRICHY,PEC CHANDIGARH? I THINK THESE R THE COLLEGES WHICH REALLY DESERVE THE STATUS OF IIT. THE COLLEGES SHORTLISTED BY THE COMMITTEE, IF MADE IIT, WOULD BRING DOWN STATUS OT IIT EVEN LOWER THAN NIT.

Thanks for your comments arun and naitik. But I think we should all be following what sumit has recommended.
Let's not make the comments at any place we feel like, We already have a forum for such comments. And the best advantage is that you even get ranks on posts in the forum.
Nobody gets any rank on sending any post on the main site.
I would like the admin to take this seriously as this is a disrespect to Abhik Mitra. This part should have been meant only for congratulating Abhik on his success and not for discussing about what Wisc. is doing or what the joshi commission has recommended.
Rahul Hari
20020002