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TechnoSAVVY Eighth Newsletter
NATIONAL Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand Vol:8, Issue: MARCH 2014
Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony
The Fondation Stone laying ceremony of National Institute of Technology
Uttarakhand was held at Sumari, a village 22 kms away from Srinagar, Garhwal
on the 19th February 2014 where the permanent campus of the Institute will be
built extending over 300 acres of land. The Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri
Harish Rawat was the Chief Guest for the same.
Satpal Maharaj, MP Pauri Garhwal, Harak Singh Rawat, Cabinet Minister of the
Government of Uttarakhand, Ganesh Godiyal, MLA Srinagar, Garhwal presided
over the session. Prof. V.K. Singh, Vice-Chancellor, HNB University, Dr. M.C.
Pant, Vice-Chancellor, Uttarakhand Medical University, Dr. V.L. Jahangirdar,
Principal, Medical College, Srinagar, Mr. Rajesh Arora, GM, NBCC also graced the
occasion. The Director of NIT Uttarakhand, Dr. H.T. Thorat emphasized upon the
self-sufficiency of the new campus in terms of electricity and water supply.
Further, he highlighted that the construction of the boundary wall for the new
campus will be started within 15 days of the inauguration of the foundation stone.
The model of the institute campus has been prepared and the plan is to set up an
eco-friendly campus soon.
He congratulated the institute for making its proposed campus eco- friendly. The
CM also expressed his gratitude to the people of Sumari and nearby villages for
providing the land for the institute. Shri Rawat said that it is important to consider
the connectivity constraint of the mountains if development is to be planned.
NITUK Celebrates Institute Gathering
The Institute Gathering, “Sparks”, was organized at NIT Uttarakhand between
February 17th to 23rd, 2014. The institute gathering is an interdepartmental
competition in which students from various branches participated in various
events. The ceremony was inaugurated by Hon'ble Director of NIT UK, Prof. H.T.
Thorat. The fun-filled week was full of competitions and the students
enthusiastically participated and cheered for their respective branches. The event
came to an end on February 23rd with the Electronics and Communication
Engineering finishing at the top position while the Mechanical and Civil
Engineering occupying the runners up position. The Institute Gathering provided a
wonderful platform for the students to showcase their talents and helped to foster
a sense of fellow-feeling and brotherhood among the studentsurged the students
to maintain enthusiasm throughout the competition. The competition consisted of
varied events namely, singing, dancing, sports events, debate, extempore, poetry,
collage-making, stand-up comedy.
NITUK Celebrated Women's Day with Great Fervour
Organizing a one-day symposium on “Emancipation of Women” NIT, Uttarakhand
celebrated the International Women's Day on 8th
March with great enthusiasm. Prof.
Surekha Dangwal from H.N.B.Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal and Dr. Chitra
Joshi, Gynaecologist in VCSG Govt. Medical Sciences & Research Institute, Srinagar
Garhwal were the chief guests for the programme. In their speech, both the guest
speakers emphasized the importance of negating parochial thinking and raised the
issue of the equality and security of women. Dr. Renu Bhadola Dangwal, Assistant
Professor, Dept. Of Sciences & Humanities coordinated the programme. Dr. Saroj
Ranjan De, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sciences & Humanities and Dean
Academics, presided over the programme. The teaching and the administrative staff
members actively participated in the celebration of the Women's Day. Students
showed their gusto in the programme with their poems, speeches and group songs
etc. The programme was concluded by Dr. Ajay K. Chaubey, Assistant Professor,
Dept. Of Sciences and Humanities, with his vote of thanks.
DASA Admissions Meeting
Dr. Saroj Ranjan De, Associate Dean (Academics) attended the DASA Admissions Meeting at NITK, Surathkal on March 14th , 2014. The admission procedure of foreign students were discussed at the meeting.
Editors: Dr. Anirban Mukherjee Dr. Vineeta Negi
News from the Placement Cell
World Quant conducted conducted an online test in campus on
February 23rd, 2014. Around 70 students appeared for the test for
Internship. On 1
st
March, 2014 Amazon.com conducted an online test for
Internship which was attended by 3rd
year Computer Science and
Engineering students.
Suncore Microsystems visited the institute on 7th
March, 2014 and
conducted their recruitment drive. Spectrum Planning Services (SPS)
visited our Campus on 8th
March, 2014 and completed their
recruitment process through various rounds like written test, group
discussion and Personal Interview. The drive resulted to the placement
of: Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Mr. Shubham Sinha, Mr. Rajesh Gupta, Md.
Azeem, Pankaj Kumar, Mr. Ankit Agarwal.
Mr. Apurba Mandal, Faculty Incharge Training and Placement Cell,
Mr. Chandramauli Singh, Mr. Ravish Pillai, and Mr. Sumit Dobhal
visited MNIT Jaipur for collaborating with the Recruitment Cell of the
institute.
Training Programme on Preventing Sexual Harassment at
Workplace
NIT, Uttarakhand has avowed to say big No to sexual harassment of women
following the government Act in this regard. To meet this purpose and
strengthen this policy, Dr. Renu Bhadola Dangwal, Assistant Professor, Dept.
of Sciences & Humanities and Dr. Gareema Sanaman, Assistant Librarian
attended a 2-Days' residential training programme on “Sexual Harassment of
Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013”
organized by the Institute of Public Administration in Bengaluru from 24 to
25 February 2014. In the training programme they were informed about the
ways such harassment cases occur at workplaces and the existing
constitutional safeguards to prevent such incidents. The chief speaker, Dr.
H.S. Rana discussed and elaborated the Act on Sexual Harassment, explaining
all the terms like 'aggrieved women', ' sexual harassment', 'employee', etc. The
most important part of the programme was how to constitute the Internal
Complaint Committee, how enquiry should be conducted by the members of
the Committee, and what are the important measures to be taken in such
enquiries. The organizers supplied all the participants a Manual Book (Act)
and other study materials containing the detailed history of the Act and past
cases of sexual harassment.
NITUK organizes Photography Workshop
NITUK organized a Photography Workshop under the direction of photography
expert Mr. Threesh Kapoor between 27th
February and March 2nd
, 2014. The
event was coordinated by Ms. Ghanapriya Singh, Assistant Professor, Dept. Of
Electronics. The workshop was inaugurated on Thursday, the 27th
Feb’ 14 by
Hon’ble Director, Prof. H.T. Thorat. The next day participants were taken to
Ganga Darshan spot where they clicked some scenic snaps of the rising sun. "An
open mind and calm hands are essentially needed to portrait nature's beauty into
a photograph” said Threesh Kapoor enthusiastically to inspire the young minds.
Later on, Mr. Kapoor also lectured on types of lenses, the camera body, their
protection, and their usage to capture the unique moments. On their trip to Khirsu
and Pauri, participants were guided to think open-mindedly and encouraged to
capture every possible glance of nature. Finally, 55 best photographs, which
represented the effort of the committed photographers of the institute, were
assembled after an explicit analysis. The workshop ended with an emphasis by
the expert on continuous and sincere practice.
Faculty Members attend 2nd
World Summit of
Accreditation
The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) organized the 2nd world summit
on Accreditation (WOSA - 2014) from 8th-10th
March 2014 at Hotel
Ashoka, New Delhi. The theme of this summit was “International
Recognition of Education Qualifications, International Recognition of
Professional Qualifications, Harmonization in Accreditation Practices,
Bridging Academia and Industry, Outcome Assessment Tools, Role of
Government and Public Policy in Accreditation”. The Key Speakers included
persons of eminence from India (IITs, and Ministry of Human Resources),
and abroad (Dr. Kai Sang Lock, Engineering Accreditation Board, Institute of
Engineers, Singapore, Prof. Krishna S. Dhir, University of Hawaii, U.S.A.
Prof. Jeffrey W Fergus, Auburn University, USA, and Prof. Martin Henson,
University of Essex). The summit was expected to strengthen India’s on-
going negotiations with the Washington Accord to acquire full signatory
status to help the engineering students and professionals of India to have a
global recognition. For a newly established institute like NIT Uttarakhand,
the accreditation program provided the necessary exposure to faculty
members for meeting the quality standard and designing outcome based
course content for B.Tech students.
Guest Lectures:
Prof. Durga Toshiwal, Associate Prof, Dept. of Computer Science and
Engineering, IIT Roorkee, delivered a lecture on “Information Retrieval” on
20th
and 21st
of February, 2014.
Prof. R.K. Agarwal, Professor of Computer and System Science, JNU, Delhi,
gave a lecture on “Theory of Computation” on 2nd
and 3rd
March, 2014.
National Network Security Championship (NNSC) was conducted on 15th-
16th Feb, 2014 at NIT UK. In this workshop students were imparted
practical knowledge regarding networks, softwares etc. Overall it was quite
an informative and quintessential practical workshop.
Faculty Achievements
NITUK is proud to announce that Dr. Ajay K. Chaubey’s per-eminent work, VS
Naipaul: An anthology of 21st century criticism is being published by Atlantic
publications and Distributors, New Delhi.