Secretary’s Report
Respected senior members of the association, President, Vice President and other Governing Body members
I fondly remember the days when the seeds for this association were being sown some 9-10 years back. My dear friend Arvind Gupta (1992 Batch) had come back from a 5 year stint in the US and we wanted to get our Delhi Alumni together, for reminiscing our past, for being able to relive some good old times, to bask in the warmth of this relationship called ITBHU Alumni.
For the first few years, we took it on us to organise a contributory dinner every December. Despite several hurdles – like having no seed money and having no clue about the number of participants – we managed to do this. What prevailed was the spirit of being an IT-BHU’ite. People came and appreciated the effort and some even made good the shortfalls by contributing generously so that we did not land in financial trouble.
The body finally took formal shape in 2002 under the able leadership of Mr. A. K. Srivastava and our present Vice- President and past Secretary Mr. Debashish Bhattacharyya. The years since then have seen our membership swell to 400+ today.
I must say I have enjoyed every bit of this journey. I received all the affection and love from all our seniors and juniors that I got in touch with. There have been very senior members like our past President Mr. Pahwa,our present President Prof. Dhar, our Patrons, our special invitees our governing Board members and others who have supported the association with whatever was required time, money, resources, ideas ….etc.
During the current year, we started our program with a talk by noted writer and Trainer, Pawan Chaudhary on “When you are sinking become a submarine – winning through wisdom and creativity” at India International centre,on 10th Nov 2006.Around 35 members attended .
The Annual Dinner was held on 23.12.2006. The dinner was held at 1A Sunehri Bagh, which is our Patron VP Goyal’s residence. About 100 alumni attended with their families. Mr. Pramod Joshi was the master of ceremonies, and he engaged the attendees with various activities.This time we had a lot of cultural events performed by children of alumni and.Also our Sanjeev Sharma ( 1982 )enthralled the audience by rendering Kishore Kumar hits.
The Annual Picnic was held at Nehru Park on 04.02.2007, which was attended by about 50 members with their families.
We then invited senior consultants from PwC to talk about “Tax Planning in the wake of the the Budget 2007” at India International Centre on 8th March 2007. This was also attended by around 30 members.
This year we also took more courage from our past record and started the process of life memberships. We also instituted an award for significant contributors from amongst our distinguished alumni. An eminent jury under the chairmanship of of Mr. S S Kohli (ex-chairman PNB) and consisting of such stalwarts like Mr. MK Modi (CMD Modipon), Mr. Deepak Pahwa (CMD Bry- Air ), Mr. A. K. Sah (ex-CMD NTPC), Dr. Pritam Singh, Mr. Kashi Memani (Ex- chairman Ernst & Young) and Mr. Vinod Chandiok (Chairman, Grant Thorton) was constituted. All took out time from their busy schedules to do this important task of selecting the significant contributors from amongst established entrepreneurs, prolific CMDs of some of India’s largest corporate houses, scientists and academicians of international repute, Politician and Members of Parliament and some on the path to become one
The Honourable members may find the Souvenir 2007 to have more of articles and write ups; we have attempted this year to try and make the Souvenir a compendium of the the literary capabilities of our members and their families, in addition to it carrying the directory of members and messages. The souvenir carries a phenomenal 18 write ups (articles / poems etc.) from our members and family members; it also carries two articles by IIT Alumni. I would like to thank all of you who have contributed, and the editorial and printing team that has edited and compiled all these, and in a tight time frame, got the souvenir printed.
In addition to these activities, your association has also been lobbying with the Ministry of HRD, together with the Institute officials, to try and push for an upgradation to IIT. We are also taking up projects for building / upgrading infrastructure of the Institute, and in this, we are working closely with the nominated officials of the Institute, and the Director. Currently, we are have finished a project of making the IT Hostels WiFi enabled.
While we had planned to add our current portfolio of activities, we have been held back for want of organisers and volunteers. Honourable members will appreicate that unless the association is broad based, and we have additional volunteers for taking up these activities, it is not possible for a small group of governing body members only to try and expand the scope of our activities. I again request you to please come out and help us in making the association more vibrant.
To come back to another important item: the member database. Despite our best efforts, we have found that every time a mailing campaign – whether electronic or otherwise – is carried out, about 40% of the e-mails, and a similar number of couriered letters come back to us, which other than the wasted money, also inhibits our capability to reach out to you, and get complaints from honourable members as to how they were not informed about some event or the other. I would like to repeat that this can be enabled if and only if you keep us updated about your changes – in address, telephone numbers, offices, e-mail addresses. On behalf of the association, I request you again to please drop a mail, giving details of your changes, so that the database can be updated. We are also trying to have a software created, which will make it easier for us to maintain the database – if some member can help, it would be appreciated.
Please also participate by sharing your ideas on how the reach of the association can be inproved, and how its bandwidth can be increased. Slowly and slowly, we would like the association to become an important part of our lives, and would like to see the association moving beyond networking within the alumni group to Institution building and, maybe, to nation building.
With best regards
Rajeev Gupta
Secretary
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At a glittering function organized at the India Habitat Centre here, the Association of IT-BHU Alumni conferred on three of its distinguished alumni the Alumni Award of Excellence 2007-08.
The awardees were :
Mr. R.P. Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Power Grid Corporation of India
Dr. U. S. Awasthi, Managing Director, Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO)
Mr. L.C. Singh, Founder and CEO, Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Each of them was given a standing ovation as their respective citations were read out to a full house of their co-alumni. The assemblage warmly applauded the singular achievements of these stalwarts in their respective fields and their commitment to the noble task of nation-building
Regards
AIBA Team, Delhi
ITBHU Alumni Meet Recognizes Excellence Among Peers
New Delhi, May 26, 2007
At a glittering function organized at the India Habitat Centre here, the Association of IT-BHU Alumni conferred on three of its distinguished alumni the Alumni Award of Excellence 2007-08. The awardees were Mr. R.P. Singh, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Power Grid Corporation of India, Dr. U. S. Awasthi, Managing Director, Indian Farmers Fertilizers Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO) and Mr. L.C. Singh, Founder and CEO, Nihilent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Each of them was given a standing ovation as their respective citations were read out to a full house of their co-alumni. The assemblage warmly applauded the singular achievements of these stalwarts in their respective fields and their commitment to the noble task of nation-building. Said Rajiv Gupta, Secretary, AIBA, “IT-BHU has been at the forefront of nation-building from even before independence, when the vision of Mahamana Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya Ji created the Banaras Hindu University and its constituent colleges of technical education. Long before the IITs came into existence, IT-BHU engineers were already leading the way in building the country’s nascent foundations. Naturally the galaxy of IT-BHU Alumni is much larger and it is really difficult to select from the many outstanding alumni who have served the country during its many phases of growth. Yet, we felt we needed to make a start, and the awardees tonight have been carefully chosen by an independent jury of peers”.
The high-profile list of guests at the function included Mr. Vinod Rai, IAS, Secretary Banking, Govt. of India; Dr. T.Ramasami, Director General, CSIR & Secretary to the Govt. of India and Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, Founder President, RBEF & Chairman, AKC Group of Companies. The guests were unanimous in expressing their overwhelming appreciation of the rich contribution made by the alumni of the Institute in the onerous task of nation building.
IT-BHU, classified as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India, has a unique place in India’s growth story. In the early days, civil, mining, metallurgy and electrical engineers spread out across the country and laid the foundations of India’s early infrastructure. Later, more diverse disciplines like Ceramics, Pharmacy, Electronics and Computer Science were gradually added and its alumni contributed to the next wave of growth. The Institute is also renowned for its outstanding faculty and their research work, which has benefited the common man across all spheres of activity. IT-BHU has been taking students through the IIT-JEE process since the 1972-73 academic year, consistently getting ranked among the Top 10 Engineering Institutes of the country. Said Dr. B.B. Dhar, President, AIBA, himself an alumnus of the Institute in addition to having completed a distinguished academic and administrative career there, “The students who pass out from IT-BHU are not only technically proficient, but have an excellent Emotional Quotient as well. They are well-grounded and work very well in teams, thanks to the fact that they live on the multi-disciplinary BHU campus, which in turn is located in the culturally rich and diverse city of Varanasi, said to be the oldest living city in the world! Needless to say, this quality helps them develop into strong leaders and able technocrats. This ability to be a good team player is indeed a unique quality of every BHU-ITian and we are proud of the contributions made by our alumni to building the India of today.”
AIBA was launched in NCR five years ago with a view to channeling the collective resources of IT-BHU Alumni towards addressing the future challenges faced by the nation and for strengthening the Institute-Industry Partnership. With strong teamwork among the alumni, faculty and management of the Institute, the Association has made rapid strides over the last five years. It has organized several events, including CEO roundtables, industry visits and alumni get-togethers every year, with a view to fostering better alumni relations. The future looks even brighter, as more of the alumni join the mission of making IT-BHU a better institution with every passing year. For example, one batch of students donated internet connectivity to the Girls Hostel in 2003. Another Alumni initiative made all the hostels Wi-Fi enabled. An Alumni Guest House has recently come up on the campus, thanks to the liberal donation of a few distinguished alumni. Another batch is now targeting raising Rs. 1 crore for other campus improvement initiatives. The bonds of memories going back to their college days are so strong that members of AIBA are confident of beating even the most optimistic targets for fund mobilization.
The evening concluded on a high note, with the alumni loudly cheering the Awardees this year and also resolving to make the next year an even more eventful one.
Regards
AIBA Team, Delhi
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Association of IT BHU Alumni (AIBA), a not-for-profit society Registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, Registration No S44440, is the nodal organization of the alumni of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Our Association is a non-profit organization, and has a wide representation from our alumni senior officials from the government, public, and private sectors, and from various industry fora.
The activities of the association center around our efforts to improve quality of the technical education, viz., institute-industry participation, and alumni participation in education; we also maintain a network of alumni through various events and programs.
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E-Mail: info@itbhualumni.org
Phone: 011 – 23256677, 011 – 23256688
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PRESENT OFFICE BEARERS
Patrons
Mr. V P Goyal
Mr. A. K. Sah
Col. S P Wahi
Mr. R P Singh
Prof. P Ramachandra Rao
Permanent Invitees to the Governing Body
Mr. B. C. Bora
Mr. Utpal Dhar
Mr. M. K. Modi
Mr. S S Kohli
President
Prof. B.B. Dhar
Ph: 011 – 26231970 (R), 011 – 41888479 (O), 98101 - 90689 (Cell)
Vice President
Debashish Bhattacharyya
Ph: 011 – 26272684 (R), 0124 – 4527452 (O), 98101 – 09684 (Cell)
Secretary
Rajeev Gupta
Ph: 0124 – 4060453 (R), 0124 – 4062228 (O), 98102 – 88151 (Cell)
Treasurer
Sanjai Sorick
Ph: 0120 – 4359647 (R), 011 – 41635848 (O), 98104 – 05647 (Cell)
Gov. Body Members
Mr. Deepak Pahwa
Onkar Gupta
Reeta Bandopadhyay
Ashok Kumar Srivastava
Arun Bhutani
Jayant Bhattacharjee
Rajat Dutta
Kaustav Mukherjee
Arvind Gupta
Puneet Bindlish
Co-opted Members
Asim Kumar Thakurta
Prof. B. B. Bansal
PAST OFFICE BEARERS
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Patrons
Mr. V P Goyal
Mr. A. K. Sah
Col. S P Wahi
Mr. R P Singh
Prof. P Ramachandra Rao
Permanent Invitees to the Governing Body
Mr. B. C. Bora
Mr. Utpal Dhar
Mr. M. K. Modi
Mr. S S Kohli
President
Prof. B.B. Dhar
Ph: 011 – 26231970 (R), 011 – 41888479 (O), 98101 - 90689 (Cell)
Vice President
Debashish Bhattacharyya
Ph: 011 – 26272684 (R), 0124 – 4527452 (O), 98101 – 09684 (Cell)
Secretary
Rajeev Gupta
Ph: 0124 – 4060453 (R), 0124 – 4062228 (O), 98102 – 88151 (Cell)
Treasurer
Sanjai Sorick
Ph: 0120 – 4359647 (R), 011 – 41635848 (O), 98104 – 05647 (Cell)
Gov. Body Members
Mr. Deepak Pahwa
Onkar Gupta
Reeta Bandopadhyay
Ashok Kumar Srivastava
Arun Bhutani
Jayant Bhattacharjee
Rajat Dutta
Kaustav Mukherjee
Arvind Gupta
Puneet Bindlish
Co-opted Members
Asim Kumar Thakurta
Prof. B. B. Bansal
PAST OFFICE BEARERS
2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
Dear Alumunus,
Association of IT BHU Alumni (AIBA) is the nodal organisation of the alumni of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Our Association is a non-profit organisation, and has a wide representation from our alumni senior officials from the government, public, and private sectors, and from various industry fora.
The activities of the association centre around our efforts to improve quality of the technical education, viz., institute-industry participation, and alumni participation in education; we also maintain a network of alumni through various events and programs.
We are hosting our 5th Annual General Body Meeting on 26.05.2007. After the AGM, we are also proposing to felicitate Alumni who have made significant contribution to the society / nation during the course of his / her carrier. The program and the AGM would be attended by industry captains and senior bureaucrats and opinion makers of the nation.
We look forward to patronage from the industry in the form of sponsorships. Needless to say, the visibility accorded to the sponsor, through the above platform would be high. The sponsorship options available as given below.
Platinum Sponsor: Rs. 75,000.00
Gold Sponsor: Rs. 50,000.00
Silver Sponsor: Rs. 25,000.00
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Please let us know, at the earliest, the option that you would like to take up along with the cheque, drawn in favour of “Association of IT BHU Alumni”, payable at Delhi.
With best regards
Secretary
Association of IT BHU Alumni
To
The Secretary
Association of IT BHU Alumni
34, Netaji Subhash Marg
Darya Ganj
New Delhi
Dear Sir
We would like to take up the (Platinum / Gold / Silver) sponsorship of the 5th AGM of your association.
Please find enclosed our cheque (no ________________ dated ______________), drawn on ___________________________ Bank, and made out in favour of “Association of IT BHU Alumni, payable in Delhi.
The subject matter of the banner to be put up is enclosed / will be sent to you separately.
Yours truly
________________
(Signature)
Name:
Designation:
Organisation:
Address:
To
The Secretary
Association of IT BHU Alumni
34, Netaji Subhash Marg
Darya Ganj
New Delhi
Dear Sir
We would like to take up the (Platinum / Gold / Silver) sponsorship of the 5th AGM of your association.
Please find enclosed our cheque (no ________________ dated ______________), drawn on ___________________________ Bank, and made out in favour of “Association of IT BHU Alumni, payable in Delhi.
The subject matter of the banner to be put up is enclosed / will be sent to you separately.
Yours truly
________________
(Signature)
Name:
Designation:
Organisation:
Address:
01.05.2007
Dear Sir,
Association of IT BHU Alumni (AIBA) is the nodal organisation of the alumni of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Our Association is a non-profit organisation, and has a wide representation from our alumni senior officials from the government, public, and private sectors, and from various industry fora.
The activities of the association centre around our efforts to improve quality of the technical education, viz., institute-industry participation, and alumni participation in education; we also maintain a network of alumni through various events and programs.
We are in the process of publishing a souvenir of the AIBA for the year 2007. The souvenir would contain interesting articles and stories contributed by the alumni in addition to messages from senior and important alumni who have done the institution proud by reaching the pinnacle of success in their chosen areas.
We solicit advertisements from your organisation for printing in this souvenir.
The souvenir is planned to be released alongwith the 5th Annual General Meeting, which is planned to be held on 26.05.2007. The souvenir will be circulated among all our alumni, many of whom are senior officials in the corporate world. This souvenir will be a good vehicle for the visibility of your organisation to these people.
The advertising rates are given below.
1 Back Cover Outside Rs. 20,000
2 Back Cover Inside Rs. 15,000
3 Front Cover Inside Rs. 15,000
4 Full Page Rs. 10,000
5 Half Page Rs. 5,000
6 Special Colour Full Page Rs. 12,000
We request you to kindly send your subject matter at the earliest along with the cheque, drawn in favour of “Association of IT BHU Alumni”, payable at Delhi. The form for submission of advertisements is also attached.
With best regards
Rajeev Gupta
Secretary
Association of IT BHU Alumni
To
The Secretary
Association of IT BHU Alumni
34, Netaji Subhash Marg
Darya Ganj
New Delhi
Dear Sir
We are pleased to offer our advertisement for Front Inside Cover / Back Outside Cover / Back Inside Cover / Spl. Colour Full Page / Full Page / Half Page for your souvenir.
Please find enclosed our cheque (no ________________ dated ______________), drawn on ___________________________ Bank, and made out in favour of “Association of IT BHU Alumni”, payable in Delhi.
The subject matter is enclosed / will be sent to you separately.
Yours truly
________________
(Signature)
Name :
Designation :
Organisation :
Address :
Dear Alumnus
You must have received the invitation to the 5th Annual General Body Meeting, to be followed by the IT BHU Alumni Award of Excellence by now. Please attend the AGM and the Award ceremony and make both a success.
The schedule for the evening is as given below.
Date : 26th May 2007 (Saturday)
Time : 1845 hours onwards
Venue : Jacaranda Hall, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi 110003
Schedule
1845 � 1915 : Registration and Networking
1915 � 2000 : 5th Annual General Body Meeting
a) Welcome address by the President
b) Adoption of the 4th AGM minutes of meeting
c) Presentation of the Annual Report by the Secretary
d) Presentation of the Financial Report by the Treasurer
e) Vote of Thanks by the Vice President
NB: Only those members who have joined the association on or before 30.09.2006 would be eligible to vote in the AGM. All members who have joined after 30.09.2006 would be eligible to vote in all future General Body Meetings.
2015 � 2100 : 1st IT BHU Alumni Award of Excellence
Mr. Vinod Rai, Secretary - Finance and Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary - Dept of Sc and Tech and DG - CSIR have consented to grace the occassion. We are also expecting a confirmation from the Hon. Minister of Sc. and Technology, Mr. Kapil Sibal.
2100 onwards : Cocktails and dinner
The IT BHU Alumni Award of Excellence has been instituted to honour the contributions made by our alumni during the course of their career and professional life. To make this award ceremony successful, we seek your help in raising funds for the ceremony. We are trying to raise funds for the ceremony through sponsorships, and the more sponsors we are able to gather, the more would be the visibility of the Awards function and similarly, more would be the Association�s visibility. Please therefore help us in raising finances. The sponsorship appeal is attached for your reference and necessary action.
As every year, we are bringing out a souvenir this year also. The souvenir would contain, other than the member directory, write ups from our alumni and their family members. We require contributions from you so that the souvenir becomes a tool for interaction and sharing of thoughts within our alumni community. Help in the form of advertisements would also be welcome.
Look forward to your help, and presence at the AGM and the Awards ceremony.
With warm regards
AIBA
For contributions or Sponsorship Opportunities. Please click the relevant link below:
Sponsorship Appeal ( download PDF )
Advertisement Appeal for Souvenir ( download PDF )
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