Inside this Issue

Interview with Director

Induction Programme

Hindi Pakhwara

Convocation 2016

Central Instrument Facility

Office of Dean, Resources & Alumni

BHU Centenery Global Meet

In Talks : Deputy Librarian

Office of Dean, R&D

Faculty Achievements

Invited Talks

GIAN Courses

IMPRINT, MoUs, and Patents filed

Sponsored Projects

Appointments & Retirements

Publications

Students Achievements

Students Parliament Volume 2, Issue 1 The Institute Newsletter Student Council Activities Feb 2017 Spardha'16 2 Editor's Desk The inaugural edition of the Odd Semester of 2016-17. Articles we did in preparing it. Feedback and newsletter IIT BHU Connect was a are more interactive in nature this suggestions are most welcome. The comprehensive issue covering the time. Many of them come with short t e a m c a n b e r e a c h e d a t vibrant elements that make up an interviews, and we hope this will [email protected] and Institute like ours. It was a perfect provide the readers an insight into [email protected] starting point for this biyearly the vision and objectives of the The editorial team would like to thank publication. IIT BHU Connect is a initiatives under consideration. the Deans and their Offices for medium for sharing the efforts and Needless to say, a publication their cooperation and valuable successes of the Institute community. encompassing so many aspects of suggestions. In this second edition, we have made the Institute requires cooperation The team also thanks the Film and efforts to cover, in greater depth, from many quarters. We are grateful Media Council of the Institute. We activities in the various domains of for having received full support from are also grateful to the team of The the Institute. Along with the regular the faculty, student and staff Chronicle, the Newsletter of IBGAA. sections, special emphasis has been fraternities. We hope you will enjoy laid on events and activities in the reading the Newsletter as much as

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Chief Editor : Dr. Indrajit Sinha, Department of Chemistry Student Editor : Prasanjan Mitra Team : Bhavya Pruthi, Yenegu Dhanushmanth, Adit Aggrawal, Snehanshu Harsh, Sourabh Kumar, Shekhar Shivhare, Abhishek Singh, Piyush Dhakar, Shravani Eleswarapu, Anandita Gill, Abhimanyu Soni, K. Sriram Design and layout : Rajasvi Vinayak Sharma, Sanjeet Giri, Param Doshi, Khush Chopra 3 In Talks : Hon'ble Director In Talks with the Hon'ble Director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal on some contemporary matters pertinent to the Institute.

The Induction Programme for the freshers accomplish our goals and through those, Mathematical Sciences, work is currently was a huge success. It has been the subject we evolve, become better and contribute underway. But lack of space is still an of extensive media coverage and there is to the society. It consists of both issue for some of the departments, and talk of replication of the programme in ourselves, as well as the society, with the the need for provisions is evident. There other IITs and Central Universities as well. family in between. To initiate this thought is an acute shortage of faculty and staff What was the idea behind the initiative was an important goal of the induction quarters. Due to some obstacles, the and how well would you say have we programme. work has been stopped but we are achieved the objective? I am very happy with the overall hopeful that it will resume as soon as The success of a programme is judged by feedback. The students are pleased with possible. Next in the line is, as you are all its internal parameters. The fact that the concern shown towards them. They aware, the installation of solar panels external appreciation comes is just a enjoyed learning the art forms, be it which use renewable solar energy. It is confirmation or verification of our singing, painting or dance. They felt the worthwhile to note that the installation is conclusion. Internally, I felt that when discussions held during the Human done on the rooftops. So, it does not take new students arrive at the institute, they Values courses were useful as well as up ground space and the installation can immediately start going to classes and enjoyable. The entrants were also be done easily, ensuring safety of the listening to lectures. We wanted to delighted to get the opportunity to go equipments. Their capacity is 1.5 MW change this, and started thinking of ways around the city. We organised lectures which probably makes it the largest to make the new entrants more a b o u t Va ra n a s i , wh ich d rew installation amongst all the IITs. Based on comfortable first. The students enter a appreciation from the students. Some, the available roof area of our institute, new atmosphere after years of hard however, were a bit apprehensive about we can add one more MW and thereby work, and there should be some space the Physical education course, probably augment the capacity to 2.5 MW. for them to reflect on their own selves. because many of them did not have the Secondly, they should understand the habit of playing and exercising. We will culture of the institution, the working take suitable corrective measures in the atmosphere, and what to expect out of future. But as a whole, the overall their studies, as there is a drastic change impression was good. when one moves from school to college. We also wanted to promote the spirit of A lot of infrastructural developments like bonding with each other, and with installation of solar panels across the faculty and senior students. We were of Institute, and an extension of the library premises are under progress in the the idea that this is an appropriate time There are many student-driven social Institute. What is the progress in this for the vision of the students to be initiatives being taken in the institute, regard and what are the plans for the near enlarged with aspects such as how both within and beyond the ambit of the future? things are in the larger section of the Gymkhana - like blood donation drives, society, and also getting them to think It is true that we lack in infrastructure, and cloth collection drives for the poor. A new beyond themselves; beyond “What I will so we are continuously working on it. The Social Service council is also being do?” or “What will I get?”, and to think library has been expanded. Extra space established under the Gymkhana. What about the society as we all are a part of has been created for an administrative are your thoughts on such voluntary student initiatives? it. It is necessary to develop a broader block and it is almost ready. There is a vision of the society, and as I said in the requirement for new hostels. The It is excellent. As I have been mentioning, beginning, think about themselves and construction of a new girls hostel is about development of ourselves, our qualities, what they wish to do. Thus these two to start. If funds are allotted, a boys hostel and connecting them with the society for aspects of ‘’What I want to do in my would be constructed next year. In case the greater good is what gives us a life?” and “What the society expects me of departments, various departments holistic happiness. If I develop my to do?” ultimately connect. The have undergone expansion recently and qualities and use them for myself by convergence of these two elements is, in some departments like Computer being primarily engaged with myself what according to me, success is. We Science and Engineering, and and my family and not contributing to the 4 society, then such a life is incomplete. besides being a good engineer, a good the institute has been done. If better Many people, later in life, say that they scientist or a good researcher, we also performance is put up, external funds do not find purpose in life. When we should be a good son, a good spouse, a can be obtained. On the innovation connect with the society and good parent and ultimately a good front, Project Varanasi has been started environment, our picture becomes human being with regards to the society. and the Design and Innovation Hub has complete. That is what makes our living This larger vision requires that we have been set up, through which a large part more worthwhile, happy and holistic. humanities and social sciences in our of the student fraternity gets benefited. The council of social service is one way curriculum. Unfortunately, humanities is Further, this builds an environment of to emphasise the social component, seen as something which is very soft, excellence. By doing whatever we do, where we do voluntary service for the something to be learnt and forgotten. But well and trying to improve what we have society. That engagement is necessary done before, we attain excellence. any knowledge, until it is of some use, is as it teaches us many things. We learn not valuable. If people interpret We had talked about the NIRF rankings by and become more satisfied. humanities in such a fashion, then the the MHRD when we met last time. Can you question to ask while they are learning is, tell us about the significant steps taken in “How is this applicable to me?”, “How is the meantime to improve our performance in that regard? it applicable to the society?”, “How does it affect my role?”, “If I understand things One of the shortcomings we noticed in which are outside, how do I play my the NIRF data we provided last time, was role?”. Humanities becomes a success that it was incomplete. So, we have put when we view it this way and take extra effort in that direction. This time, we something out of it. Let us consider an have done a more complete job of Moving to academics, the institute has analogy. Suppose there is a period of coordination between the departments recently witnessed major changes in the heavy rainfall. If we are not prepared, all to get information. The other part is the c u r r ic u lu m , e s p e c ia l ly fo r t he the water would drain into the sea. On overall process of improvement such as undergraduates, with greater emphasis the other hand, if we are well prepared, greater innovation, better teaching and on courses related to humanities and the water would fill all the ponds and creative practices. What was the objective higher research output. We do not work behind this structural change? lakes and there would be no floods and for impoving a single aspect, but the droughts. Similarly when we get to rankings do help us identify the lacunae If we ask ourselves what we expect from experience something new like in the system, thereby enabling us to a graduate student of an IIT, our first humanities, either it can flow away like correct them. answer would definitely be that they water, resulting in us only passing the should be good at their subject, whether There have been reports of acute faculty exam, or, if we are well equipped to it is engineering, science or technology. shortage in the institute. Many gauge its usefulness, it can get absorbed newspapers have reported faculty deficit But that alone is not sufficient. We must inside us just like rain water, and serve us in all the IITs and especially in IIT BHU, have a larger vision of life. We need to our entire lives. which is reported to be a staggering 53%. understand about where we live, our What are the challenges in this aspect and society, politics, economy and social Are there any special incentives being given for the development in the field of what are the various actions being taken relations for two reasons. One is, as an academics in the institute like research so to overcome this deficit? engineer, when we do something in that more students enrol in programs at Faculty recruitment is one of our major society, we need to understand how various higher levels like post- challenges. In fact, getting the best things are. Whether we are an graduation? quality faculty to apply in our entrepreneur involved in designing a departments is one of the most important new product, or an employee of a Yes, that has been a prioritised area. We tasks ahead of us. In some departments, company involved in constructing a have been setting funds aside for we get applications of exceptional bridge or bringing out a new product, modernisation of all the departments. quality whereas in some others, it is not we need to work keeping in mind the We have been providing substantial quite the same. The dilemma then arises society. The second reason is that, in the funds of about Rs. 20-25 crores every whether or not to fill a position when we larger perspective, we ourselves are year just for basic equipment can get a better faculty member on human beings. Besides being engineers, modernisation, not counting anything board, i.e. whether to accept some we are people. We want people to be else. The Central Instrument Facility is applicant who is only marginally successful both professionally and in one such example where we have spent fulfilling the required profile. Also, it their lives, because profession is but a nearly 30 crores rupees. Then, invitations requires a concerted effort to project part of life; it is not everything. So for the proposals of research from within 5 ourselves globally by putting forward our on them. So, how is the situation at present However, ultimately, only two companies achievements and progress. It also with regards to relations with the submitted their bids. This took place in involves contacting potential faculty university ? early November, and we got stuck. If the members by vigorous efforts through We were not dependent on them process had materialised, our new mail etc. This groundwork needs to be financially. The moment we got intranet facility would have been in place done and unfortunately, we have not separated, the allocation of funds had by now. It takes two months to complete worked to our potential in this area. been clearly separated. We were the work. But as only two companies Sometimes we have to track people over dependent on them for many of our came forward, we had to cancel the a period of more than one or two years, normal procedures, like maintenance of tender and reissue it. The five companies and look out for candidates completing grades of both the institutes by BHU. We had visited the campus more than once their PhDs and Postdoctorates, and go had shifted to a new system of grading and made their presentations and got through their research papers. Then we and many new ordinances were put into their queries explained. So the outcome need to contact them and persuade them force and that made it difficult for BHU to was very unexpected and unfortunate. to apply for the position of faculty in our follow two different patterns. That was Earlier we had put some checks and institute. In this regard,I must accept that one of the first things which we shifted. of conditions on the experience and we are lagging behind, and it needs to course, once the finance had got capabilites on prospective vendors, be solved. separated, BHU was still been providing which we are now trying to relax, in

Reportedly, some institutes send assistance in certain areas but all those order to attract more bids. Therefore, it is representatives to places to scout for departments have now been shifted to going to take some more time and I faculty members. Is there any such the IIT. Excluding a couple of things like myself feel frustrated with this fall initiative from our institute? old pensions, the official responsibilities through, especially as a lot of effort had been invested in this area. Moreover, the It is an effective but slow process. Two have completely been shifted. students and the individual departments and half years ago I had gone for a The key areas where we continued to co- are the worst victims of this poor facility. conference abroad and I took another 8- exist and depend on each other were Although we did not have sufficient 10 days during which I went to almost services such as cleaning, maintenance funds, we had pressurised the MHRD 10-12 places and gave talks at many of of hostels and staff quarters. We paid for and obtained it, but to our dismay, the those places and the word sort of spread those, but they provided us with the bottleneck became the number of around. But this needs to be done services. We have taken up some of the tenders. The vendors themselves do not meticulously on a regular basis to get services, such as maintenance of hostels, manufacture the products but buy them things flying. This is because when we into our hands. In the case of horticulture, from the market. So, I do not know if there give talks anywhere; the people who are cleaning of roads, sewage system, water were any rivalry or politics at that level, completing their PhDs or Postdocs take supply and electricity, the entire campus but otherwise, there has been no issue of one or two years to apply. We did is being treated as a whole and they are prompt payment or prompt construction receive such applications, but the providing us with the services. With on our side. No such concern was raised process also takes time and the work is regards to security, there is a single by them. still going on. proctorial board for the entire campus Are we taking any such actions now to with the IIT having its boundaries clearly attract applicants? demarcated. Sometimes when new

Each department has a departmental issues arise, they are handled amicably. faculty committee. Their primary function A major problem being faced especially by is to recruit faculty at various levels. Every the student fraternity is the institute time we had met, I had been sensitising internet facility. What are the setbacks in them to adopt modern means of this aspect and the measures being taken searching on the net and going to to generate an effective solution? various places and looking for potential We had a committee which designed a faculty members. Some of them are very modern network system for the doing well, but many have not seriously institute. Thereafter, we had to follow a started acting on this issue. t w o - s t e p p r o c e d u r e f o r i t s

Initially after conversion into an IIT, there implementation, the first step being the we r e c e r t a i n c o mp l ic at io ns i n expression of interest during which five administrative activities such as security, companies came forward and visited the allocation of funds, infrastructure and so campus and expressed their willingness on with BHU because of our dependence to put forth the bid, which is the next step. 6

INDUCTION PROGRAM : A Novel Experiment A three-week Induction Program (IP) was 3-Week Inducation conducted by IIT (BHU) Varanasi for the at a Glance newly admitted undergraduate students from July 27-August 20, 2016. Such a Credit Based Courses program was being implemented for an (Complete all Non-Credit activities intake of around 1000 students for the requirements in first time in the country. The students, 3-weeks) burdened and stressed out after a hectic high school life, were exposed to month- Physical Education Creative Practice Week-1 long credit courses like Physical (6:00 hrs-7:30 hrs) (9:00 hrs-13:00 hrs) Afternoon Session Education, Human Values and Creative Director's Address and Practices, as well as several non-credit interaction with parents, informal activities every afternoon, in an Human Values Basic English know your Institute attempt to bring them to terms with real- (9:00 hrs-13:00 hrs) (for needy students) Department, Discipline, Campus life skills and humanistic understanding. (in the late afternoon) Evening Session The program proved to be an eye-opener Lecture or informal interaction for many, with the feedback bringing out Some of the observations of the students many aspects that are worthy of during the feedback session are given consideration for the growth of IITs in below for assessing the impact of the IP. Week-2 particular, and any academic institution • I did not know that the morning Afternoon Session of higher learning in general. breeze could be so beautiful, Knowing your city, keeping although I was initially a reluctant your surrounding clean and green walker to the Gymkhana grounds so Evening Session early in the morning. Feedback by students • The program focused well on the about their stay, lecture or varied culture and amazing tradition informal interaction of the city. • The last but the most surprising part Campus Cleaning during Induction program were the night sessions with our Week-3 student mentors. The way seniors Afternoon Session interacted with us and helped Developing worldview, 2 days feedback session enlighten us about the various and group report activities taking place in the campus, Evening Session was commendable and we lecture or informal developed a very nice rapport with interaction them. Assembly before Physical Education classes

A survey by the Media Club of the Institute found some really positive reviews by the freshers. 82% of the respondents believed they had a lot of fun in the process, while a staggering 95% said the programme helped them gel better with their batchmates. Three-fifths of first yearites found the Creative Practices and Humanity courses in resonance with their interests, and a good 70% saw the distinguished lectures as enlightening. More than three-fourth of responses reported that the new junta feels more concerned about the environment now, and that's a big thumbs up to the Green Club and the Institute. “I really like this institute after having spent a few days here. I liked my Human Value classes as I got to ponder on the things I learnt and had the experience of working and discussing in a group. I felt better after sharing my thoughts. Secondly, before coming to IIT BHU, I had never thought that I would enjoy going to an IIT. I had thought that there would be nothing to do but study. But when I go to a Creative Practice class, I feel happier,” a review read. 7 efnvoer heKeJeeÌ[e laLFkku }kjk 01 ls 15 flracj] 2016 ds nkSjku fgUnh i[kokM+k dk vk;kstu fd;k x;k dk;ZØe dk mn~~?kkVu ekuuh; funs'kd egksn; }kjk fd;k x;k FkkA bl volj ij laLFkku esa jktHkk"kk uhfr;ksa ds vuqikyu gsrq funs'kd egksn; dh vihy tkjh dh xbZA dk;ZØe ds çFke l= dk 'kqHkkjaHk laLFkku ds ,uh cslsaV O;k[;ku d{k ladqy esa fgUnh dk;Z'kkyk dss foKku laLFkku] dk'kh fgUnw fo'ofo|ky; }kjk fnukad 13-09-2016 ds e/; vk;ksftr vk;kstu ds lkFk gqvkA Jh txnh'k ukjk;.k fn;k x;kAbl volj ij laLFkku ds dqy 46 izfr;ksfxrkvksa esa izFke] f}rh; ,oa r`rh; fotsrk jk;] la;kstd] dsUnzh; lfpoky;] fgUnh ifj"kn] vf/[email protected] us izf'k{k.k izkIr fd;kA deZpkfj;ksa dks iqjLd`r fd;kA okjk.klh }kjk fgUnh dk;Z'kkyk esa fuEu izf'k{k.k 14 flracj dks laLFkku esa fgUnh fnol lekjksg fgUnh fnol ds volj ij jkeuxj dh fn;s x, & dk vk;kstu fd;k x;kA dk;Zdze dk vk;kstu fo'oizfl) jkeyhyk ij fgUnh iqLrd dk d- fgUnh dk;Z'kkyk dk ifjp; rFkk jk"Vª dh ia0 enu eksgu ekyoh; dh izfrek ij ekY;kiZ.k foekspu ekuuh; funs'kd egksn; }kjk fd;k jktHkk"kk uhfr ,oa nhi izTToyu ds lkFk gqvkA Jh txnh'k x;kA rRi'pkr~ funs'kd egksn; us viuk [k- jktHkk"kk uhfr;ksa dk dk;kZUo;u rFkk ukjk;.k jk; usa dk;ZØe esa jktHkk"kk ds bfrgkl v/;{kh; lacks/ku izLrqr fd;k] ftlesa mUgksaus i=kpkj ,oa fVIi.k ys[ku rFkk 14 flracj dks fgUnh fnol euk;s tkus ds fgUnh fnol dks fgUnh dk gh ugha cfYd Hkk"kk dk bl dk;Z'kkyk esa laLFkku ds dqy 65 dkj.k ij izdk'k MkykA fnol crk;k vkSj dgk fd gesa ns'k dh lHkh vf/[email protected] us izf'k{k.k izkIr fd;kA rRi'pkr~ fgUnh i[kokM+k lfefr ds v/;{k izknsf'kd Hkk"kkvksa vkSj cksfy;ksa dk lEeku djuk dk;ZØe ds f}rh; l= esa daI;wVj ij fgUnh esa vkpk;Z lq'kkar dqekj JhokLro us ekuuh; x`g pkfg,A dk;ZØe dk lekiu laLFkku ds la;qDr dke&dkt dks c<+kok nsus ds fy, deZpkfj;ksa dks ea=h dk fgUnh fnol ds volj ij tkjh lans'k dqylfpo ¼iz'kklu½ Jh jktu JhokLro ds ;wuhdksM ds ek/;e ls fgUnh Vad.k dk izf'k{k.k dk iBu fd;kA /kU;okn Kkiu ls gqvkA Jh Mh- os.kqxksiky] lgk;d dqylfpo] Ñf"k funs'kd egksn; us fnukad 01-09-2016 ls CONVOCATION 2016 The 5th Convocation of the Institute was held on Monday 17th October, 2016 at Swatantrata Bhawan, BHU to confer the degrees on the students who passed out in the year 2016. There were 730 B. Tech., 216 IDD/IMD, 265 M. Tech. and 64 PhD degree recipients this year. For the graduates, the prize distribution was conducted by the Hon'ble Director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal and Dean of Academic Affairs, Prof. G. V. S. Sastry, who distributed the degrees as well as blessed the outgoing batch with the respected Chief Guests for tremendous success for years to come. c o m m e n d a b l e a c a d e m i c The distinguished guests at the convocation excellence and standing first in were Dr. Abhay Bang, Indian social their concerned departments. activist, a researcher working in the field of Apart from awards from the community health in Gadchiroli district of institution, there were 36 special Maharashtra, India; and Prof. Ashok prizes,named after alumni and Jhunjhunwala, Professor at IIT Madras. professors, which were awarded There were 42 Gold Medalists, who were to the students. awarded the IIT (BHU) Varanasi Medal by 8 Central Instrument Facility (CIF) In Talks : Prof. Rajiv Prakash, Professor In-Charge, CIF

Central Instrument Facility (CIF) is one applications like 3-D printing. On industry collaboration of the newly formed Specialized Core Nowadays, 3-D printing is getting a lot Except one or two instruments, all Facilities at the Institute. “Our mission is of attraction, and it will be useful for others have been acquired with to provide futuristic research students of Electronics, Electrical, company collaboration, that is, the infrastructure and quality education Mechanical, Physics, Material Science, company involved deputes the person services in support of advanced instru- Metallurgy, etc. Secondly, we will who operates the device. Also, the mentation.” The CIF offers an array of introduce a Nanoindenter which will be companies take a lot of interest through sophisticated instruments and technical useful for studying mechanical the deputed person. Time to time, expertise to support faculty/student properties of nanomaterials. It will be companies come here and organise research and industrial R&D. The coupled with one of the SEMs seminars and conferences. They give Facility is headed by Prof. Rajiv (Scanning Electron Microscope). lectures and provide student training Prakash, assisted by full-time Thirdly, we are planning to acquire a workshop so that students get more professional staff / scientists, each with unique characterization facility that familiar with the operation and their own specific expertise. PG student was discovered in India, Raman functions of the instruments. In addition assistants are also available for smooth Spectroscopy. Unfortunately, we don't to this, they provide us information operation of the instruments. The facility have this facility right now, but we will about additional devices, which when is currently being used extensively by make it available soon. So, these are used in association with the existing UG and PG students for research three main features that we are trying to instruments, will enhance the capability activities. bring in here. and productivity of the facility. For

instance, recently, they came here with Future plans regarding expansion of the Highlight of the facility the Raman Spectroscopy device to give facilities at the CIF M PM S ( M a g n e t i c s P r o p e r t y its demo and also analysed of around A lot of modern-age instruments are Measurement System) is a unique 50 samples of our students on it. available here at present. In the near service at CIFC and is not available future, we are trying to introduce anywhere else on the campus. instruments for some specific CIF Instrument Magnetic Property Measurement superconducting electromagnet of electrons rather than light. It serves as a System (MPMS3)-SQUID VSM very small size but capable of powerful tool for the investigation of producing high magnetic field at low surface structures of materials. power supply. It creates a 7T high Scanning electron microscopy is used magnetic field and can measure both for inspecting topographies of types of magnetization (AC/DC). specimens at very high magnifications. There are two scan modes - VSM (Vibrating Sample Magnetometer) and DC (Single motion control). It MPMS3 is a brilliant instrument to measures magnetic properties at very measure magnetic properties of low temperature of 2 K as well as high materials with high accuracy. It temperatures of 1000K. employs a SQUID (Super Conducting Model & Company Quantum Interface Device) detector MPMS3 Quantum Design based technology which can measure Scanning Electron Microscopy Model & Company very small magnetic fields, just as is (SEM/HRSEM) Zeiss EVO 18 observed in a human heart and brain A Scanning Electron Microscopy FEI- Nova Nano SEM (~10-14 Tesla). It possesses a (SEM) is a microscope that uses 9

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(PIV). Particle Image Velocimetry lets us make non-intrusive full-field fluid flow velocity measurements. Because of this, Vector Analysis is a very powerful CNC Lathe and Mill technique for performing flow velocity CNC Lathe is designed to perform measurements in air or water or for turning, threading, grooving, step measuring spray droplet / particle turning etc with very good precision. velocity. X-Ray Diffraction is a tool used to study CNC Mill is designed to perform the crystal structure of a material or facing, circular and rectangular pocket confirm a single phase of a sample. It and studs, deep hole, slot and drilling means XRD is the “finger print” of the etc. with high accuracy. material because it identifies which Model & Company family of crystal structure, the structure CNC Lathe 260 Turn (EMCO) and of compound belongs to. When X-rays CNC Milling 260 Mill (EMCO) are scattered from a crystalline solid,

Date Topic Company 7th December, 2016 Pulse laser Deposition Techniques XRF Techniques Bruker, India 27 - 28 Sept, 2016 BIRAC-IIT (BHU) workshop on bio-entrepreneurship, grant-writing & BIRAC - Wellcome Trust and Bill & intellectual property management Melinda Gates Foundation, India 19th Sept, 2015 General measurement techniques, operations and precautions Quantum Design - India related with Evercool MPMS-3" 17th July, 2015 “Advances in Separation and Detection Technologies” Agilent Technologies India Pvt. Ltd 18th June, 2016 Tabletop SEM Jeol India 8th April, 2015 Workshop on Electrochemistry applications Metrohm India Limited 10 Office of the Dean, Resources and Alumni Prof. A. K. Tripathi, Dean, Resources and Alumni, talks about the role of Alumni in the Institute.

Scope of the Office can become chapters under it. corpus fund of $1 billion by 2019 from The Office of Dean of Resources and Similarly we are asking the IBAA to our alumni for our Institute, with an Alumni exists primarily as a channel to redesignate itself as a national alumni administrative team to decide its facilitate communication with the association, with the idea of including expenditure. There is a proposal from alumni, and we work closely with the regional associations like Western the DST to open up a Research different administrative departments in India and the Pune association as Technology Park in our Institute with an the Institute for implementation of the chapters under the IBAA. We even investment of around Rs. 150 crore, of same. For example, the alumni have an alumni association in which around Rs. 7 crore is to be scholarships are handled by the Office Varanasi, which covers the city and generated by the Institute. In our last of Dean of Academic Affairs. The some of its surroundings. To enable Alumni Meet, Mr. Vish Narayan, proposed Research Park, for which better coordination between the cells, President of IBGAA, announced the alumni help has been pledged, is the executive committee of each Association's pledge to raise $1 being coordinated by the Office of Alumni Association will have a few million for the purpose. The idea is to Dean of Research and Development representatives in every other involve them not just financially, but in (DoRD). Additionally, some work is association. its working as well. A modern step indirectly managed by us. For taken by Institutes, including IITs, Current status of alumni involvement in example, when the Malviya Chair for the activities of the Institute involves opening up of branches Railway Technology was set up, the Alumni involvement in the several abroad. Setting up our liaison offices corpus of Rs. 5 crore was given and is aspects of governance of the institute, in business centres and major cities present with our office, but is within the framework of the governing abroad will enable us to collaborate in administered by the Office of DoRD. In principles and rules, is a long term R&D, provide opportunities to our matters of Student Affairs, we have objective that we have. In the medium students for projects and credit-transfer requested the Dean of Student Affairs term, we require the involvement of the programmes. The alumni associations to come up with list of stalwarts in Alumni in celebrating Centenary of can help immensely in this matter. different cultural fields that our Institute Engineering Education in India, from Expertise of alumni is also being has produced, so that they can be the centenary of BHU (2015-16) upto sought in our projects related to involved in various activities of our the centenary of IIT (2019-20). The academia and society. Sandeep Sen Institute. and other alumni members recently IBGAA celebrated the BHU Centenary Structure of our Alumni associations Meet in California in Sept. Five organised workshops to mentor Alumni activities till 2012 were centenary projects have been floated, students in DIH, and there are plans of conducted by the University. The for which Alumni involvement is being their involvement in stages of project Institute as such did not have any sought – a world class modern library guidance and evaluation process. separate cell. But our passouts had by the name of Shatabdi Granthagar, Overall, there is an immense need of been maintaining cells. There is one in which will house an ICT centre as well, galvanising of alumni activities. the USA, the IIT BHU Global Alumni and whose preliminary artistic view is Hopefully, future Deans of this office Asssociation (IBGAA), which is open already in place. A cultural complex will continue to work more on how to for membership across the globe.There around the SB by the name of include them in academic and administrative processes. is one at Delhi, the IIT BHU Alumni Shatabdi Sanskritik Sankul, to house Association (IBAA). Other specific the different cultural genres, is also Objectives and vision behind setting up regions also have their own coming up and the Gymkhana is the Student Alumni Interaction Cell representative associations. To involved in its development. A (SAIC): organise them, we are asking the Shatabdi Gosthi Sankul, a seminar The students are the most important IBGAA to assume a truly global role, hall centre, will come up around the stakeholders in our Institute, and it is whereby other country-specific alumni Guest House. A Shatabdi Kosh, or very fitting that they are now taking associations, like the one in the UK, Centenary Fund, will serve to raise a part in administration through the 11

Students' Parliament. Similarly, with intention to formalize these activities, opportunity to develop the Institute regards to our alumni activities, we the SAIC was formed. The cell works roadmap for the next 100 years. The arrived at an understanding that there closely with the Office of DoRA, and Hon'ble Director has come up with should be a front office at the Institute the DoRA himself is involved as some ideas for the long term, as to how level, to understand what students Chairman of the Cell. The members to develop ourselves into a pioneer in expect from the alumni, and to have been providing extensive help to various aspects. The issue of alumni facilitate contact with them. The idea is visiting alumni on campus. To further involvement and contributions in this that, the Students' Parliament will their role in alumni activities, they have regard will be discussed extensively at discuss the nature of alumni been taking part in IBAA meetings. the Meet, so that when they go back, re l a t io n s h i ps, wo rk o ut t h e The organisational work of the Alumni they can deliberate on the issue and expectations of the student community, Meet to be held in February will when we meet on the occasion of the and through the cell, will be indirectly majorly be taken up by SAIC, along Centenary, we can discuss it in depth. interacting with the alumni. The SAIC with some faculty members. So this is For this edition, we have made consists of a 7-member core the body that will be working out provisions to encourage alumni to committee, along with a 40-member requests of students, talking to alumni, come with their immediate family extended committee across different performing the liaison work,and will members, so that they can enjoy and departments and years, and their possibly exercise control over alumni appreciate their alma mater with their objective is to find initiatives of interest work in the Institute. loved ones. Furthermore, we will try to to students, including internships, have Centenary Meets in different On the Alumni Meet to be held in the scholarships, interaction with the Institute in February 2017 important places where we have a alumni to bring companies on board This Alumni Meet is an important one significant alumni presence, both for placements etc. Informally, these in the sense that this is a pre-centenary within and beyond our country. continue happening. But with the Alumni Meet. This will give us an

Student Alumni Interaction Cell (From the Core Team)

SAIC acts as a collaborative and benefits of having such a network. The scheme is the endowment scheme for symbiotic linkage between IIT (BHU) newly established cell aims to act as a Research Projects, both at the Institute Varanasi and its Alumni. The connecting link between the two and level and for foreign internships. organization functions with a vision to create a bridge between the student It has almost been a year since the cell develop a dynamic student-alumni fraternity and the alumni. An effort of started functioning in a full-fledged community committed to establishing such a kind was one of the most sought manner. We have got positive connections and strengthening ties after demand of both alumni and the responses from both the alumni and between students and alumni, students and this cell is expected to student fraternity. Our Facebook page facilitating IIT (BHU) Varanasi's pave a new path for both parties to is functioning well with wide reach of mission of providing top quality tread the road of mutual benefits. In our posts. Many alumni have education and opportunities for this regard, a Student Mentorship registered for the Mentorship investing in its future. Program has been initiated for existing Programme, and the number is The Alumni of prestigious institutions students to get guidance and growing. We have a bimonthly like other IITs have always played a key counselling from eminent alumni who newsletter 'Smaran' The Alumni Meet role in many avenues for the benefit of have excelled in their particular fields. is going to take place from 27th their alma-mater. Our institute also Besides, the cell would also facilitate February to 1st March this year. So, boasts of a very strong alumni network Infrastructure development, Hostel things are expanding, and many new but it was functional only outside. The development and Scholarship schemes are on their way. connecting thread was missing which Programmes through funds garnered kept us from realizing the complete from the Alumni. Another visionary 12 BHU Centenary Global Meet : Silicon Valley September 2016

Exactly a century ago, in Feb 1916, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was established and 2016 marks 100 years of BHU's contribution to education in India. Celebrating this centenary event, the IIT-BHU Global Alumni Association (IBGAA) hosted a Global Meet at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA on Saturday, 17th of September 2016. The theme for the Meet was CIRF - “Celebrate, Inform, Recognize accomplishments and have Fun”.

Alumni, family and distinguished guests from across the globe (Civil Engineering 1979, M. Tech. Name Award Category converged on the venue and the event 1982) was the Chief Guest of the Dr. Anil Chakravarthy Corporate was a grand success, with a record occasion. Invited special guests (CSE 1989) turnout of 350+ attendees. With Prof. Devesh Kapur Education included Prof. G. C. Tripathi, Vice- alumni from as far back as the class of (Chemical 1983) Chancellor BHU; Prof. A. K. Tripathi, 1945 and all the way to the class of Mr. Sanjay Sethi Entrepreneurship Dean of Resource and Alumni, IIT 2015 – it was a fitting celebration of (Mechanical 1993) (BHU); Prof. Satish Tripathi, President, the heritage of BHU and the 100 years Mr. Darshan Goswami Government SUNY Buffalo; Prof. Virinder Moudgil, of BHU's contribution to the progress of (Electrical 1967) President, Lawrence Technological Dr. Sarvajna Dwivedi R&D India and the world. University; Prof Leah Ronald – (B Pharm 1984) A packed agenda included, among Historian, South Asia, University of Dr. Salil Prabhakar Social Service other things, an entrepreneurship Texas at Austin; Mr. Venkatesan (CSE 1996) panel, career development workshop, Ashok, Consul General, SFO; and Mr. discussion on progress made by IIT R. K. Verma, Secretary, Railways, (BHU) and felicitation of distinguished Government of India. alumni. Successful alumni from the San With inspiring musical performances Francisco Bay Area as well as from by alumni and their family members, across the globe joined hands to share and attendees dancing late into the their experiences with their fellow night, a spirit of festivity and nostalgia alumni. Addressing the gathering, prevailed throughout. Alumni admitted Vice Chancellor of BHU Prof. G. C. they could not wait for the next global Lamp Lighting Ceremony Tripathi, urged the alumni to come meet planned for 2018. (Dr. G. C. Tripathi VC BHU, Dr. forward with ideas on how BHU and Virender Moudgil - President, IIT BHU can continue to make big The following alumni were presented Lawrence Technological University, strides while preserving the rich with 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Hon. Manoj Sinha, Minister of State heritage of the institution. Awards as part of the Centennial I n d e p e n d e n t C h a r g e f o r Meet. The awards were presented by The Meet included keynote address by Communication, and Minister of State Prof. A.K. Tripathi, Dean of Resource noted alumni and panel discussions on Railways, Government of India; Dr. and Alumni on behalf of Director of our relevant topics. Hon. Manoj Sinha, Satish Tripathi - President, SUNY Institute, Prof. Rajeev Sangal. Minister of State, Independent Charge Buffalo, Dr. A.K. Tripathi, Dean for Communication, and Minister of IITBHU, Mr. Venkatesan Ashok, Consul State, Railways, Government of India, General SFO ) 13 In Talks : Deputy Librarian Dr. Navin Upadhyay : Deputy Librarian, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, talks about the facilities and initiatives, and on the expansion work that is currently underway.

Briefly tell us about the existing collection and facilities available at the Main Library. The library has a rich collection of books on engineering, science and technology. It also has an excellent collection of bound volumes comprising old (since 1918) and new periodicals, codes and standards. Since the conversion of the institute to an IIT, What are the steps being taken towards we have also been trying to enrich the implement the RFID and smart card modernization and digitization? collection of humanities titles in the library. technology for library transactions and Due to some recurring issues like network Currently, the library has more than other library services soon. We are in the connectivity and security concerns that we 1,30,000 books and bound volumes of process of replacing the old desktop have been facing, some basic facilities journals. computers with new ones and planning to which are essentially required for teaching shift the computer lab to the first floor with E-journals : 15,000 and research could not be provided to all new systems. E-standards : 60,000 library users as planned earlier. This is now E-books : 50,000 being considered by the library as a matter What has been the contribution of the Books (reference, general) : 88,730 of top priority. A new library management Alumni in this regard? Text Book Bank : 18,806 software has been installed which has been Our alumni have always come forward to SC/ST Book Bank : 8,740 serving us well. As soon as a proposed support the library since the very Bound volume of periodicals : 17,738 public IP is allocated to the library server’s beginning. Soon after I began my career in Thesis : 269 web OPAC, mobile access, SMS alert and this library in 2005, the US alumni Compact discs : 654 association members donated several Wi-Fi enabled desktop computers to the library, Additionally, some of the basic facilities that which earned us the distinction of being the are being provided include internet access first library to start Wi-Fi facility in the fa ci l i t y, d ig i ta l l i b ra r y a c c ess, university. In 2007, the 1976 batch photocopying service, computer print-out donated a collection of 600 titles of facility, reference service, Document reference books, text books and general Delivery Service and plagiarism check e-mail alert services will be provided to books for starting a text book reading facility. Under the User Awareness library users. The much-awaited Institutional section. Currently, the alumni have taken up program, the library has recently organized Digital Repository (IDR) is now functional. a grand project for the development of a an Author workshop and training program Various important documents like Ph.D. state-of-the-art sustainable green building - on Grammarly and Turnitin software. theses, MTech dissertations, faculty and “Shatabdi Granthagar”, costing approx students’ research articles, Institute Lecture 150 crore INR. Recently, an announcement How has been the overall progress of the series, convocation video, etc. are being Library over the years since our transition to of raise in alumni funds has been made, uploaded on the Repository for open an IIT? details of which are available in the Alumni access to all. The software - Grammarly and The construction of the first floor of the Newsletter. Turnitin have now been made available for library building is now almost complete all users, which will improve the research Going forward, what is the vision for the and is expected to be open for students by quality and publication of articles of the library in the short and long terms? March 2017. A sitting area, which can Institute. Very soon a discovery service, a The library is working remarkably towards accommodate more than 400 people, has single platform from where all the resources providing comprehensive and high-quality been created for reading purposes and will of the library will be accessible along with library resources and services which will remain open 24x7. This will be well provisions for remote access, will be cater to the academic needs of faculty and equipped with personal reading materials provided to library users. students. The primary goal is to fulfill the and furnished with a Seminar Hall cum User As far as the digitization of the old valuable Institute’s mission of achieving excellence in Awareness Program Hall for arranging collections is concerned, the library is education and participating in the Author workshops and training programs. continuing to work towards identifying the advancement of knowledge through The major problem of lack of adequate collections which do not fall under research and technological advancement. reading space is expected to be solved copyright category and can be digitized. A The ultimate vision of the library is to once the first floor is completed. Besides, separate proposal, ‘Digitization of old become a strategic asset for the Institute an Amul Stall is going to come up very soon collections’ is being made for which the and to be able to provide outstanding in the library premises. library is applying for a separate grant to collections and services for better learning the MHRD. We have also planned to and research. 14 Office of Dean, R&D Advanced Research Centre for Iron and A new unit, “Teaching-Learning Cell” added in TLC recently to deal with the Steel (ARCIS) (TLC), was initiated by the Institute on social issues of day to day life through (Dr. R. Manna, Coordinator) December 5th, 2013 to strengthen the education.

The Ministry of Steel, Government of teaching environment of the Institute by A. Special Programs organized India has created an ‘Advanced organizing several programs to enhance i. 15th IIRS outreach program: Basics Research Centre for Iron and teaching-learning processes at IIT (BHU) of Remote Sensing, GIS & GNSS" St e e l ’ (A RC I S ) f ro m t h e St e e l Varanasi. It covers all aspects of (August 10th, 2015 to November Development Fund (SDF) in the Institute. teaching, pedagogy, laboratory 27th, 2015). The ARCIS is created in the Department projects, assessment & Information & ii. 1-Day ‘Brain-storming Workshop on of Metallurgical Engineering of the Communication Technology (ICT) Teaching Pedagogy’ (October 10, Institute, and a part of the building of the concerning areas of course delivery 2015). Department has been renovated for the structure. It also involves running Faculty iii. Two days ‘Short Term Course on Centre. State-of-art equipment will be Development Programmes (FDP), Research Methods & Skill’ procured and installed in the ARCIS. The facilitating the National program on (December 04 to 05, 2015). Centre will cater to the needs of iron and Quality Enhancement in Engineering iv. Two days ‘Workshop on Doing steel education and research with the Education (QEEE) to run live lectures, live MOOCs with MOOKIT’ (December help of colleagues from the Department tutorials, live laboratories, MOOCs 22 to 23, 2015). and the Institute. The long term objectives (Open Courseware) and Bridge v. GIAN Course on ‘Volume of the ARCIS are to foster teaching and Courses, and furthering the Moodle Averaging Method for Upscaling in advanced research in emerging areas of initiative in the Institute. Porous Media’ (January 05 to 16, iron and steel technologies. The goals A Project titled “Pandit Madan Mohan 2016). include (i) creation of well qualified Malaviya National Mission on Teachers vi. 16th IIRS Advance course on manpower with advanced skill sets in the and Teaching (PMMMNMTT)” has been ‘Geospatial Technologies for Urban areas of raw material processing, sanctioned to IIT (BHU) by the MHRD, Planning’ (February 11, 2016 to modeling of direct reduction processes Govt. of India, to build a Teaching March 15, 2016). as well as thermomechanical processing Learning Centre (Technical) which is vii. 3 days’ workshop on making of of steels and (ii) development of human centric with many components as solar cookers (July 3-5, 2016). knowledge base that can be adopted by shown in the figure. viii. Five days’ National workshop on the steel industry with potential of FDP - 2016, 12-16 Dec, 2016. scaling-ups. ix. Three days Harmony workshop

The ARCIS will also work with industry 2016, 28-30 Dec, 2016. with the aim that some of the research findings are utilized by industry to “Under the PMMMNMTT scheme, a 5- improve the quality of existing storeyed TLC building is proposed to products/processes and to develop new come up soon. We aim to have good products. It has already initiated a infrastructure within 20 years and dialogue process in this regard. The envision an era where new teaching Centre recently organized ARCIS –Steel methods like active learning, I n d u s t rie s M e e t 2 0 1 6 wh e re cooperative learning and distant The center is expected to develop representatives of major steel producers learning will be incorporated. Mass teaching methodologies responsive to participated and discussed their learning is expected to be in vogue in the needs of the learners in both local expectations from the Centre, and many the foreseeable future, and we are and global context in a world class showed interest to collaborate in the working to make our mark in the field. educational system and the diversified areas of their interests which fall in line We have also been involved in a lot of knowledge requirements of the with our objectives. In future, the ARCIS training programmes for teachers of contemporary society. Teachers can also will collaborate with industries for mutual technical institutes and engineering use ICT resources so as to facilitate active benefit. colleges ranging from Eastern U.P. to & participatory learning for students and Bihar and West Bengal. TEACHING-LEARNING CELL (TLC), to link it with their learning outcomes. Prof. S. Kumar IIT(BHU) A new Harmony cell has also been (Prof. S. Kumar, Coordinator, TLC) 15

Malaviya Chair for Railway and Development of Light Weight major centres have been assigned the Technology Passenger Coaches Supported with Smart responsibility of training teachers to pursue (Prof. R K Mandal, Coordinator) System” was held on September 06, 2016. their M.Tech and PhD degrees. We provide This had been organized to promote them with the opportunity to complete these This chair has been established by the Institute-Industry interaction in presence of courses in any of the renowned colleges in Ministry of Railways, Government of India representatives from RDSO, Lucknow. A India, during which they receive salaries on June 08, 2015 to have collaboration concept note based on the discussions has and scholarships. Another of our with our Institute in the area of Materials been prepared and circulated for responsibilties is to organise short-term Science and Engineering. Some of the necessary action for taking up this project courses at the QIP Centres for serving areas where our expertise has been sought by various industrial houses and academic teachers in various emerging areas of pertain to Physical Metallurgy, Mechanical institutions. technology and research. Under this, metallurgy; development of new alloys and This Chair is expected to provide stimulus courses are allowed to be organised for a new generation of materials for future for the creation of a research center to meet period of 20 weeks in any of the above needs. The activities of the Chair are the entire corpus of engineering needs of mentioned major centres. We have been reviewed from time to time by a Chair Core the Railways. allotted 20 courses through this initiative Committee headed by Secretary, Railway and we are conducting them on a full- Board. RDSO, Lucknow is the active Quality Improvement Programme fledged basis. collaborator from the Railways. The Chair (Prof. B. K. Shrivastava, Coordinator) Accordingly, the Department of Mining is also expected to support the visit of The objective of the QIP is to upgrade the Engineering, Department of Ceramic experts and extend help in the expertise and capabilities of faculty Engineering, School of Bio-Medical organization of conference/workshop/ members of the AICTE approved degree- Engineering and Department of seminar relevant to materials research. level engineering institutions, National Mathematics and Computing have Some of the recent activities undertaken by Institutes of Technology (NITs) and undertaken courses of one-week duration the chair are mentioned below: National Institutes of Technical Teachers’ each. These courses are currently being (1) Two research projects are nearing their Training and Research (NITTTRs) of the organised and teachers are allowed to successful completion. They refer to (a) country. There are nine major centres under come from various places and allowances Development of Light Weight FRP runner for this program. Until last year, there were such as TA, DA are paid to them along with blower fan assembly of Roof Mounted eight major QIP centres, viz. IIT Bombay, lodging facilities and some other minor Package Unit (RMPU) fitted in AC coaches IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT expenditure. Therefore, they get to interact and (b) Development of long life Nylon Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati and with the faculty at IITs and also get bushes for Alternator with suitable material IISc Bangalore. In the current academic acquainted with the advanced courses and composition to avoid failure of bushes. year, we were also brought under this thereby enhance their skills and umbrella as a major centre. Apart from (2) A Brain Storming Session on “Design knowledge. these, there are several minor centres. The List of courses organised/planned by QIP

Department Course Coordinator Course Date

Department of Electronics Design of Microwave Antennas and Passive Components Dec 19-24, 2016 Engineering Dr. M.K. Meshram School of Bio-Medical D r. Sanjeev Kumar Mahto Tissue Engineering January 9-14, 2017 Engineering

Department of Mathematical Dr. Rajesh Kr. Pandey and Advanced Numerical and Analytical Methods for Engineers and Scientists January 12-18, 2017 Sciences Prof . I.P. Singh Department of Electrical Dr. Sandeep Ghosh Advanced Topics in Robust and Non-Linear Control Engineering Feb 14-20, 2017 School of Material Science Geometrical and Mathematical Crystallography with Applications to Dr. Chandan Upadhyay Feb 14-20, 2017 and Technology Structural Studies

Department of Ceramic Prof. Devendra Kumar Advanced Functional Materials and Devices March 2-9, 2017 Engineering Department of Metallurgical Steel Technology for Railways and Defence Engineering D r. R. Manna March 2-9, 2017 Department of Mining Dr. S. Gupta Advanced Technologies of Project Management(ATPM-2017) Engineering March 2-9, 2017 School of Bio-Chemical Dr. Abha Mishra and Concepts on Process Engineering in BioTechnology Engineering Prof. Pradeep Shrivastava March 16-22, 2017 Department of Mechanical Additive Manufacturing: Theory and Practice Engineering Prof. Satosh Kumar March 16-22, 2017 Department of Mathematical Prof. T. Som STC on Fuzzy Logic and Applications March 20-26, 2017 Sciences Department of Mechanical Materials Technology: Fundamentals and Recent Advances Engineering Prof. A. Harsha March 23-29, 2017 Department of Mechanical Recent Advances in Casting and Welding Engineering Prof. S.P. Tiwari March 23-29, 2017 16 Design Innovation Centre

The Design Innovation Centre (DIC) is a joint project of the Banaras Hindu DELIVERABLES University (BHU) and IIT (BHU) Varanasi, DIC BHU and IIT funded by Department of Higher (BHU), along with its Education, MHRD, and Government of SPOKES, run more India. than forty different The basic objective of the Design projects related to Innovation Centre is to provide a platform A g r i c u l t u r e , and necessary framework to students and Environment, Art, faculty members to convert their innovative Culture, Science, ideas into viable design models and S o ci a l S ci e n c e, working prototypes. T e c h n o l o g y , Setting up of the BHU - IIT (BHU) Design Nanotechnology and Innovation Centre is expected to promote a other similar areas of culture of innovation and creative problem a c a d e m i a a n d solving, knowledge sharing and society. DIC BHU has collaboration with industry, academia, e s t a b l i s h e d a government Institutions, research Graphic and Digital laboratories, etc., and to encourage Media Lab with interdisciplinary research and creativity highly equipped focussed on design. computers and other Besides the above said parameters, DIC technical equipment. It has also inquisitive innovators and students from will also work for its sustainability, and established a Digital Innovation Gallery for Banaras Hindu University Campus have enable coordination for Intellectual demonstration of innovative projects in a been taking part in successive sessions of Property Rights (IPR) works, and facilitate digital format for researchers and students. Design Friday. The DIC has conducted over Artisans and local entrepreneurs in Design DIC BHU has already run more than 5 19 Design Fridays so far. and Innovation. different programmes to raise awareness of KALAKSHAR 2015 The DIC is planned with multidisciplinary the culture of design among students and is Design Innovation Centre organized a approach, and will be focusing mainly on a l so sch e d u l e d t o o rg a n i se a National Seminar cum Workshop the following key areas of social and Diploma/Certificate course in Design and KALAKSHAR 2015 between 9th and 11th national importance :Agriculture, Art & Innovation soon. The Centre is equipped October 2015, at the Faculty of Visual Culture, Energy, Environment, Language with modern technologies like a 3D Printer Arts, BHU. 125 participants from different and Computing, Science and Technology. and Scanner. Art colleges of India took part and worked Role of BHU in HUB position : BHU Events & Programs under the guidance of several professors in will be taking care of the multidimensional Summer Workshop 2016 the premises of Vishwanath Temple, Assi Design & Innovation projects and courses A 15-day Summer Workshop was held Ghat and the Faculty of Visual Arts. in the areas of Agriculture, Food between 15th and 30th June 2016, for the KALA MELA 2016 Processing, Art & Culture, Health, current students of BHU. The workshop was Design Innovation Centre partially Humanities, Branding for Artisans - for practical works and experiences, based sponsored KALA MELA 2016. It was Handicrafts (Aesthetics, Ethics, Values, on ‘Innovation and Environment, organized between 7th and 10th April, Print Media, Web and management Psychology behind Innovation Mind, 2016 in the Faculty of Visual Arts, Bararas support). Android application Development, Hindu University, Varanasi. More than 500 Role of IIT (BHU) in HUB position : IIT Creativity and Innovation, Social participants put in their efforts to make the (BHU) will specifically be taking care of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Rural Technological and Engineering aspects Mela successful. development & Innovation etc.’ mentored related to design and innovation projects by Academic and Professional Innovators Sketch-O-Banaras and course, and further, will be involved in and Experts. Fifty students participated in Sketch-O-Banaras was started in prototyping and final development of the the Summer Workshop. September 2016, and is open for anyone projects. willing to present their innovative ideas Design Friday through Sketches. The DIC welcomes SPOKES Design Innovation Centre has been innovators and viewers to visit the Centre ?Indian Institute of Information conducting DESIGN FRIDAY on every with their Sketched Ideas at DIC Lab’s Technology, (IIIT) Allahabad. working Friday since June 2016. Design Sketch-O-Banaras Corner. Followers can ?Motilal Nehru National Institute of Friday is a platform for presentation of also present and upload their Sketched Technology, (MNNIT), Allahabad. ideas, discussion of creative solutions and Ideas on the Facebook page of Sketch-O- ?University of Allahabad, Allahabad exchanging ideas. More than 40 Banaras. 17 Faculty Achievements A ka n s h a D w i ve d i ( C e ra m i c S h a i l e n d r a Ku m a r S h u k l a heterocyclic moiety as potential anti- Engineering) was awarded the “Early (Mechanical Engineering) was appointed inflammatory and analgesic agents” in Career Award” by Science and as the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi “Pharma Middle East - 2015” held from Engineering Research Board (SERB). University till 10th August 2016. 02nd - 04th, November 2015 at Dubai,

UAE." Santanu Das (Ceramic Engineering) D e b a s h i s K h a n ( M e ch a n ic a l was recognized as the “Country’s Most Engineering) was a Visiting Researcher at Sanjay Singh (Pharmaceutics) was Accomplished Professional” and his the Zernike Institute of Advanced Materials, appointed as Member of the Scientific biography was enlisted in the Who's Who University of Groningen, The Netherlands Body of the Indian Pharmacopoial in America 2016. His PhD Thesis is between August and October, 2016. Commission appointed by the Ministry of

Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India. amongst the top 10 most Accessed Jahar Sarkar (Mechanical Engineering) He also served as a member of the ICMR Dissertations on ProQuest’s amongst over was appointed as an editorial Board 2.5 million theses. Project Screening Committee Member of the International Journal of H iral al Pram anik (Chemical Applied Engineering Research. Prabhakar Singh (Physics) has been

selected under the Short Term Mobility Engineering) was awarded the Best Paper N.K. Mukhopadhyay (Metallurgical programme by Council of National Award at CHEMCON 2016 held at Anna Engineering) was awarded the G D. Birla Research (CNR), Institute for Energetics University, Chennai during 27-30, Gold Medal-2016 Award at the National December 2016 in two categories: and Interfaces (IENI), Genova, Italy. Metallurgists' Day (NMD) function to be Membrane Technology and Petroleum held in IIT Kanpur on November 14, The Department of Physics organized Safety. 2016.. Ishan Vikas programme, a comprehensive

programme to introduce school children MA Quraishi (Chemistry) was appointed Suresh Kumar Sharma (Mining from the North-Eastern states to institutes of as a member, editorial board of the Engineering) was awarded the Senior higher education in India. Dr. Debaprasad International Journal of Corrosion and Professional Engineer Award. Scale Inhibition, USSR and the Journal of Giri was the coordinator for the same. Steel Structure and Construction, USA. MA M S Muthu (Pharmaceutics) was Quraishi was also awarded the Prolific appointed as the Editor-in-Chief for The R a j e s h K u m a r ( M e c h a n i c a l Researcher Global rank 2 and Indian rank J o u r n a l o f P h a r m a c o l o g y a n d Engineering) published a book on 1 in the field of corrosion inhibition science Toxicological Studies, USA for the period of “Modelling of Chemical Wear – Relevance and technology on the basis of H Index and 2016-2017. He also received the to Practice” (Elsevier). citations on publications. International Faculty Award (VIFA-2016) from Venus International Foundation, Krishna Kant Pat hak (Civil Chennai, India and the Best Young Engineering) was Selected as a Fellow and Scientist Award (2016) from the Pearl Chartered Engineer, Institution of Educational Foundation, Madurai, India. Engineers (India), Kolkata. Brahmeshwar Mishra (Pharmaceutics) M.Thottappan (Electronics Engineering) was awarded the Distinguished Professor has been awarded UK Commonwealth Award 2017, by Computer Society of India Professional Fellowship 2016 for 5 months (CSI) Mumbai Chapter, at CSI TechNext from March to July 2017 at Faculty of India-2017 at IIT, Bombay, the “Pharma Science and Technology, Lancaster Ratan Award 2016” by Rab Di Meher University, United Kingdom. (NGO), New Delhi and also the Life Time Manoj Kumar Meshram (Electronics Achievement Award during the Aufau Engineering) was awarded the INSA-DFG International Awards 2016 organized by Fellowship-2017: Germany for 3 months Chemical Science Review and Letters. under the International Collaboration Sushant Kumar Shrivastava Program 2017 (Pharmaceutics) was awarded the Satyabrata Jit (Electronics Engineering) Illustrious Aluminous Award from “Dr. H.S. was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Department of Front cover of the book published by Prof. Rajesh Kumar Material Science Research India Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sagar (M.P.).

Best Poster Award for the presentation Kishor Sarawadekar (Electronics entitled “Synthesis, evaluation and docking Engineering) was awarded Visvesvaraya studies of some novel 1,2,4-triazine Young Faculty Research Fellowship for the derivatives bearing five member period of May 2016 to April 2018. 18 Invited Talks Ashish Kumar Singh (Biochemical Engineering) • Invited Talk during 25-26 Feb, 2016 at SHIATS, Allahabad.

Akansha Dwivedi (Ceramic Engineering) • Invited Talk at Annual meeting of American Ceramic Society in Materials Science and Technology (MS&T-16) Salt Lake City Utah. USA

Santanu Das (Ceramic Engineering) • Invited Keynote address at UK-India Workshop on Integrated Renewables for Autonomous Power Supply and Fuel Generation, August 1st-2nd, 2016 at Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, UK • Two Invited talks on 26th and 27th October 2016 at the Department of Physics and Astrophysics , University of Delhi for the “Refresher Course in Physics” organized by The Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), UGC-HRDC. • Invited as a Chair person and delivered a Keynote Lecture at National Seminar on Instrumentation and Characterization Techniques at Banasthali University Banasthali, Rajasthan.

JP Chakraborty (Chemical Engineering) • Invited Talk at Auburn University, Alabama, USA on 30th June, 2016

Jeyakumar Kandasamy (Chemistry) • Invited Talk at 1st International Bio-Molecular Systems conference held at Harnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlemm, Germany during November 11-13, 2016. • Invited Talk on Recent Innovations in Organic Synthesis -2016 (RIOS-2016)” during 15th and 16th December 2016, Periyar University, Salam, Tamil Nadu.

MA Quraishi (Chemistry) • Invited talk delivered at International conference on recent advances in science and applied sciences at Lovely University Punjab, Nov 2016.

Sundaram Singh (Chemistry) • Invited Talk at first International conference on pharmaceutical chemistry, 5-7 September, 2016 at Frankfurt, Germany

Ankit Gupta (Civil Engineering) • Invited Talk at Jawaharlal Nehru Government Engineering College (JNGEC) Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh on 19th August 2016 on the topic "Highway Geometric Design and Road Safety". • Invited Speaker in Seminar on "Urban Transport Corridors" at Visakhapatnam (AP) on 21-22 Oct 2016 by International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).

Krishna Kant Pathak (Civil Engineering) • Invited Talk on Topic: Applications of Modelling and simulations in design and manufacturing Date: 02/09/2016, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur

K K Shukla(Computer Science & Engineering) • Keynote address at ICCIDM 2016 held at KIIT University on 9-10 December, 2016. • Keynote address in the International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Application held at South Asian University, New Delhi on 23-25 May, 2016.

Rajeev Srivastava (Computer Science & Engineering) • Keynote address on topic "Selected research topics in image processing, computer vision, and pattern classification: A machine learning perspective" at IEEE International Advanced Computing Conference (IACC-2017) at VNR VJIET, Hyderabad on 07.01.2017.

Anil Kumar Singh (Computer Science & Engineering) • Invited talk on Issues in Annotation of Language Resources, April, 2016, MGAHV, Wardha • Invited talk on Using the Sanchay Annotation Interface for Indian Languages, April 2016, Goa University, Goa

M.Thottappan (Electronics Engineering) • Invited Talk on "Advances in RF Interaction Circuits for High Power Gyrotron Traveling Wave Amplifiers" at Venus International Research Foundation, Chennai on 03/12/2016

Manoj Kumar Meshram (Electronics Engineering) • Delivered invited talks on the topic ""Microstrip Antennas"" on 6 January 2017 at IIT(ISM) Dhanbad during Refreshers Course on "Recent Trends on Microwave Devices and Antennas”, 26 Dec 2016 to 15 Jan 2017:

Satyabrata Jit (Electronics Engineering) • Delivered invited Talk on December 09, 2016 at the International Conference on Allied Electrical and Communication Systems (ICAECS-2017) organized by the Vignan University, Guntur, A.P. • Delivered invited Talk on November 30, 2016 in the UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course on “VLSI Design and Nanotechnology: Issues and Challenges” organized by the Jadavpur University, Kolkata. • Delivered invited Talk on July 29, 2016 in the workshop ""Emerging areas of Electronics and Communication Engineering"" organized by the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. • Invited Talks delivered on July 11, 2016 in the Faculty Development Program on Integrated Circuits: Design and Applications organized by the United Institute of Technology, Allahabad during July 11-15, 2016. 19

Kishor Sarawadekar (Electronics Engineering) • Invited expert (for four days) in National level two weeks STTP on ""Recent Trends in VLSI and Embedded Systems"", MITCOE, Pune, Maharashtra • Invited expert (for four days) in the workshop on "Smart Embedded VLSI System and Hands on Training", Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra

Prasanta Kumar Panda (Humanistic Studies) • Delivered an invited lecture on: “The Condition of Literature Studies in a World Conditioned by Theories: Perceptions and Perspectives” in the Dept. of English, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur.

Tanmoy Som (Mathematics and Computing) • Invited Talk on “Fuzzy Informative Evidence Theory and Application in Project Selection Problem” at the World Conference on Soft Computing (WConSC-2016), held at University of California, Berkeley (USA) during May 22-25, 2016.

Shailendra Kumar Shukla (Mechanical Engineering) • Invited as chief guest for STC on Alternate Energy at NIT Goa on December 05, 2016 • Delivered Lecture on Solar Thermal Energy storage during December 06,2016 at NIT Goa

Santosh Kumar (Mechanical Engineering) • Invited Talk on ‘Additive Manufacturing & Applications’ March 13, 2016 at MMMTU, Gorakhpur (UP)

Rashmi Rekha Sahoo (Mechanical Engineering) • Invited Talk at Ashoka Institute, Varanasi, Nov-2016

Rajiv Kumar Mandal (Metallurgical Engineering) • Keynote address in an International Conference on Nanomaterials, Department of Chemistry (BHU), December 2016

Kausik Chattopadhyay (Metallurgical Engineering) • Invited Talk in Prof. K.K. Ray symposium in ‘The 4th International Conference for Advanced Materials and Materials Processing' (ICAMMP-IV) during 5th to 7th Nov 2016 held in IIT Kharagpur

Girija Shankar Mahobia (Metallurgical Engineering) • Invited Talk on 'Metallurgy in Welding' at Indian Railway Welding Research Institute (IRWRI) - DLW Varanasi on 17.1.2017

N.K. Mukhopadhyay (Metallurgical Engineering) • Invited Lecture in International Conference on Metals and Materials Research (ICMR 2016), IISc, Bangalore, June 20-22, 2016. • Invited Lectures: Two lectures in Workshop on Materials Characterization: Principles and Practices, IIEST, Shibpur July 25-August 5, 2016. • Invited Lecture in NMD-ATM 2016 of Indian Institute of Metals at IIT Kanpur (November 11-14, 2016).

Rajesh Rai (Mining Engineering) • Invited Talk on Delivered an invited lecture on “Dump Slope stability”, in Dec. 10, 2016, in Krishnshila Project NCL, Singrauli.

Suresh Kumar Sharma (Mining Engineering) • Delivered lecture at the Executive Training and Development Programmeduring Dec. 27-29, 2016, organized by the International Center of Excellence in Mining Safety and Automation (iCEM), Ahmedabad.

Brahmeshwar Mishra (Pharmaceutics) • Invited talks on 5th January, 2017 and on 21st September, 2016 at Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. • Invited talk during 76th orientation course at UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Banaras Hindu University, 15th November – 12th December, 2016, Varanasi.

Senthil Raja A (Pharmaceutics) • Invited Talk during a National Seminar held on 05 November 2016 at Nirmala College of Pharmacy, Cochin, Kerala.

Sanjay Singh (Pharmaceutics) • Invited Talk on “Pharmacy: Education and Scope” at Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Research (IPSR), Lucknow, U.P. India. • Invited Talk on “Nanotechnology for Efficient Utilization of Herbal Drugs” in National seminar on “Recent Advances and Scope in Herbal Technology: Challenges and Prospects – 2016 organized by Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Assam University, Silchar, India.

Abhishek Kumar Srivastava (Physics) • Invited talk on “Observations of Fast Sausage Waves in Solar Magnetic Structures and Diagnostics Capabilities”, in IBUKS-2016, 13-17 June 2016, at KU Leuven, Belgium. • “On the Estimation of Streamer's Magnetic Field in the Outer Corona by Observed Kink Wave”, 25 November 2016, Sheffield University, United- Kingdom." • Conducted a mini Workshop on Spin-orbit interaction and related phenomena at Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany

R. Manna (Metallurgical Engineering) • “Development of Ultra High Strength Steel Processed by Severe Plastic Deformation Methods”, in NCETFF-2016, Nov 25-26, 2016, at NIFFT, Ranchi • Delivered Keynote talk on “Effect of Flash Annealing on Ultrafine-Grained Low Carbon Steel” along with Raj Bahadur Singh, N. K. Mukhopadhyay, G. V. S. Sastry and R. Manna at the 4th International Conference on Thermo-mechanical Simulation and Processing of Steels (SimPro’16), February 10 - 12, 2016, RDCIS at SAIL, Ranchi. 20 GIAN Courses The Govt. of India approved a new program titled Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs, internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country's existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India's scientific and technological capacity to global excellence.

? A GIAN Course was organised at the ?A GIAN workshop was held from 19th Management for Organizational Department of Physics, titled “Advanced t o 23 r d D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 o n Excellence" from 22nd August to 2nd Fluid Dynamics and Applications” from “Nanochemistry: From Preorganized September, 2016. Prof. Anil Kumar September 12 to September 22, 2016. Dr. Molecular Architectures to Functional Agrawal, Head, Department of A.K. Srivastava of the Department of Materials”. The course coordinator and Mechanical Engineering and Professor-In- Physics was local course coordinator for host faculty was Dr. Indrajit Sinha, charge of Training & Placement Cell at IIT the same, which drew 30 participants. The Department of Chemistry, IIT(BHU). A total (BHU), Varanasi was the host faculty expert International faculty member for the of 43 participants consisting of young member. occasion was Prof. Robertus von Fay- faculty, post-doctoral fellows, PhD students The main aim of the programme was to Siebenburgen. and also senior B.Tech/MTech students understand project failures measured in Solar & Space Plasma research dcals with attended the workshop. terms of unwarranted heavy cost, the heating processes that generate and As per the GIAN framework, the majority inconvenience to public, opportunity of sustain the observed high temperature of of lectures were delivered by the renowned deriving benefits from an early project the solar and stellar atmospheres which International expert of this area, Prof. completion, and having an edge over have so far defied a quantitative Sanjay Mathur, Director, Institute of others particularly from the projects of understanding despite the multitude of Inorganic Chemistry, University of strategic importance. efforts spanning over half a century. Cologne, Germany. This course focused on The resource faculty member for the the inherent relationship between synthetic occasion was Dr. Manu K. Vora, Chairman Prof. Robertus von Fay-Siebenburgen (a.k.a and material chemistry, and demonstrated and President of Business Excellence Inc. Robertus Erdelyi, as publishing) is working how chemically processed nanoparticles, (USA), and Adjunct Professor at the School as a professor and head of Solar Physics nanowires and films of different metal of Professional Studies, Northwestern and Space Plasma Research Centre in oxides open up new vistas of material University, Evanston, IL, USA. He received School of Mathematics and Statistics, properties, which can be transformed into his B. Tech. (Honors) from IIT (BHU), University of Sheffield, UK. He is also the advanced material technologies. The Varanasi, India in Chemical Engineering Director of Debrecen Observatory in lectures were conducted in a highly (1968). He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. Hungary. Prof. Erdelyi is one of the world interactive manner. Besides this, each day from the Illinois Institute of Technology, leaders in the field of solar & space plasma of the workshop ended with a question- Chicago (USA), and MBA in Marketing research with an outstanding track record answer session between the faculty and Management from the Keller Graduate of publications in peer-reviewed journals. participants. On the penultimate day, Prof. School of Management, DeVry University, He has been a part of similar programmes Mathur also delivered a lecture on the Chicago, IL (USA). With over 41 years of at Nanjing University, China, University of “Business of Chemical Nanotechnologies” leadership experience, he has assisted Balears, Mallorca, Spain, IAC, Tenerife, which enlightened the participants on Fortune 500 companies with Baldrige Spain, to name a few. In China, he commercial opportunities. Since this was a Performance Excellence framework contributed significantly to a new solar one-credit (or 14 lecture) course, a written implementation. mission where he is now the Chief Scientific exam was also conducted on the last Prof. A. K. Agarwal, with over 35 years of Advisor. He is also a scientific advisor in session of the workshop. Furthermore, on teaching experience, has Quality Control, various Indian national projects, e.g., the request of the participants, he also Six Sigma, Operations Management, NLST, MAST etc, and therefore, has a delivered a talk on internship, doctoral and Supply Chain Management, Optimization significant role in Indian Solar Physics. post-doctoral opportunities in Germany. and Industrial Engineering among his Solar Physics and Space Physics Research The workshop concluded with a fields of interest and expertise. Group (SP2RG) member Dr. A.K. valedictory session, which saw active The course coordinator was Dr. Prabhas Srivastava has been, for a long time, feedback from a large number of B h a rdwa j , A sso cia te P rofesso r, collaborating with Prof R. Erdelyi. Therefore participants. Mechanical Engineering Department, the proposed teaching collaboration will ? IIT(BHU), Varanasi. also support and strengthen cutting-edge The Department of Mechanical research in the field of Solar and Space Engineering organized a two week GIAN Plasma Physics. course on a subject titled "Project

21 IMPRINT IMPRINT is a first of its kind MHRD-supported Pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to address the major science and engineering challenges that India must address and champion to enable, empower and embolden the nation for inclusive growth and self-reliance. This novel initiative with twofold mandate is aimed at: (a) Developing new engineering education policy (b) Creating a road map to pursue engineering challenges

IMPRINT provides the overarching vision that guides research into areas that are predominantly socially relevant. The following research proposals at IIT (BHU) have been accepted under the IMPRINT scheme. ?Propagation & Mitigation Model of Mixed Road Traffic Noise for Planning of Mid-sized India Cities by Dr.Brind Kumar ?Development of high strength ceramic magnet for rotating machine applications by Dr.Pradip Kumar Roy ?Analytical Modeling, Design, PIC simulation and Development of Gigawatt range of pulse HPM Oscillator-Reltron by Prof. P.K. Jain MOUs MOUs with National Organizations in Financial Year 2016-17 as on 05.01.17 ?Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi (21.04.16) ?M/s Clean Max Enviro Energy Solution Pvt. Ltd. (SECI) Solar Energy Corporation of India (04.07.2016)

MOUs with International Organizations in Financial Year 2016-17 as on 05.01.17 ?Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei, Taiwan (21.04.2016) ?University of Wollongon, NSW, Australia (UOW) (02.06.2016) ?Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP), Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Irkutsk, Russia (13.08.2016) ?Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Institute (MPIKG) Potsdam, Germany (17.08.2016) Patents Filed

Title Inventor’s Name Department

Advanced Electrode materials for Superior Psuedocapacitors and Dr. Preetam Singh, Prof. Rajiv Prakash Ceramic Engg/ SMST Reversible Alkali-ion (Li+ /Na+) Batteries

New Thermal Insulting Material Developed Using Biomass for Dr. Manas Ranjan Majhi, SK Ceramic Engg. furnace and Structural Purpose Saddam Hossain, Aman Bhardwaj

Topical Composition for treatment of Burns with Enhanced A.K. Srivastava, Aparajita Pharmaceutics Penetration and method of Formulating The Same Dutta, Gyanendra Singh

A method for controlled Biodegradation of biopolymer using Prof. Pralay Maity, Mr. Arpan Biswas SMST Inorganic Salt and product thereof.

Composition and process of developing a new building bricks using Dr. Manas Ranjan Majhi, SK Ceramic Engg. demilotion waste, Industrial waste, Agriculture waste for application Saddam Hossain, Aman Bhardwaj in construction purpose.

Process of synthesis of Cerium (IV) pyrophosphate (doped and Dr. Bhupendra Singh Ceramic Engg. undoped) with sheet/ honeycomb structure.

Pyrophosphate - carbonate composite Ionic Conductors and Dr. Bhupendra Singh Ceramic Engg. Process of producing the same.

Eco friendly maintenance of desktop Dr. C. Ravindranath Chowdary Computer Science & Engineering computers in computer labs of institutions.

A process to produce high energy Sr based permanent magnet Dr. P.K. Roy, Ms. Deepshikha Shekhawat Ceramic Engg. for rotating machine application

A method to enhance piezoelectric and strains properties of lead Dr. P.K. Roy Ceramic Engg.

free (Ba,Ca0.02Srx) (Ti1-yZry) O3 ceramics

Radially coupled cavity high pulse power microwave oscillator Mr. Manpuran Mahto, Prof. P.K. Jain Electronics Engg of gigawatt range for long repetitive pulse operation. 22 List of Sponsored Projects started during 2016-17

Title of Project PI(s)/Co-PI(s) Department Funding Duration of Agency Project

Polymeric Nanobiohybrids for Tissue Prof. Pralay Maiti SMST SERB 3 Years Engineering and Drug Delivery

Development of a Rubber based sheet Hydro Prof. Santosh Kumar Mechanical DRDL, CARS 2 Years forming setup Hyderabad

Studies on Improvements in Stiffness of Dr. Rampada Manna/ Metallurical Engg. D.R.D.O., CARS, 18 months Aluminum Alloy Fibres Dr. K. Chattopadhyay Jodhpur

Photolabile Protected Monosaccharides: Dr. Jeyakumar Chemistry DST, New Delhi 3 year Syntehsis and Application to Oligosaccharides Kandasamy Synthesis Using a Continuous flow

Evaluation of some compounds in Dr. Sairam Pharmaceutics Natreon Inc., 2 years experimental Alzherimer Disease Krishnamurthy U.S.A.

Design Investigations of High Power Prof. P.K. Jain/ Electronics SERB 2 Years MM Wave W Band Gyratron Dr. M. Thottappan

Development of high Thorough put Processing Dr. M.I. Ahmand/ Ceramic SERB 3 Years route for CIGS PV absorber films by spray Dr. S. Das pyrolysis of Pre-synthesised Nanoparticle Ink

Development of low voltage, low power, Dr. Bhola Nath Pal/ SMST SERB 3 Years colloidal quantum dot light-emitting transistors Prof. P. Maiti for next generation display technology

Pharmacological Effect of novel formulation in Dr. Sairam Pharmaceutics DISTO 1 Years experimental allergic encephalomyelitis Krishnamurthy Pharmaceutics rodent model

Fabrication of low-cost High-through out Flow Dr. Ankur Verma Chemical DST, 3 Years Cytometer using tunable nanolenses. Engg. New Delhi

Numerical methods for integral equations and Dr. Vineet Kumar Mathematical SERB, 3 Years differential equations by using Wavelets and Singh Sciences New Delhi operational matrix

Seamless synthesis of large area 2D transition Dr. Santanu Das/ Ceramic SERB, 3 Years metal di chlcogenide semiconductors and Dr. BholaNath Pal Engineering New Delhi their applications in nextgene ration high- performance optoelectronic devices

Development of solution methods for Abel’s Dr. Rajesh Pandey Mathematical DAE, 3 Years integral equations and generalized Abel’s Sciences Mumbai integral equation 23 FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

S. N o. Name of Faculty Member Designation Department Appointment Date

1 Dr. Mohd. Imteyaz Ahmad Assistant Professor Ceramic Engineering 01.02.2016

2 Dr. Gyan Prakash Modi Assistant Professor Pharmaceutics 04.02.2016

3 Dr. Joysurya Basu Associate Professor Metallurgy Engineering 04.02.2016

4 Dr. Sukomal Pal Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering 24.02.2016

5 Dr. Santanu Das Assistant Professor Ceramic Engineering 02.03.2016

6 Prof. Krishna Kant Pathak Professor Civil Engineering 06.04.2016

7 Dr. Om Prakash Singh Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering 11.07.2016

8 Dr. Shyam Kamal Assistant Professor (contract) Electrical Engineering 01.08.2016

9 Dr. Sandip Ghosh Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering 02.08.2016

10 Dr. Vishal Mishra Assistant Professor Bio-chemical Engineering 15.09.2016

11 Dr. Ashish Kumar Mishra Assistant Professor SMST 01.10.2016

12 Dr. Ashish Kumar Singh Assistant Professor Bio-chemical Engineering 04.10.2016

13 Dr. Sanjay Kumar Assistant Professor Bio-chemical Engineering 05.10.2016

14 Dr. Debdas Ghosh Assistant Professor Mathematical Science 08.10.2016

15 Dr. Sunil Kumar Assistant Professor Mathematical Science 17.10.2016

16 Dr. Shrawan Kumar Assistant Professor SMST 16.11.2016

14 Dr. Amitesh Kumar Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering 15.12.2016

15 Dr. Sanjay Kumar Assistant Professor SMST 19.12.2016

16 Dr. Somak Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor (contract) Electronics Engineering 16.11.2016

Faculty Retirements 10. Shri P.K. Mukherjee (Associate Non-Faculty Appointments Professor) Electronics Engineering- 1. Prof. S. P. Singh (Professor) - 30.11.2016 (Since May 2016) Electronics Engineering - 31.01.2016 Security Officer (Group-A) - Shri Shashank 2. Prof. A.K. Aggarwal (Professor) - Faculty Expired Shekhar Prasad Singh Computer Science - 31.03.2016 1. Prof. O.P. Singh (Professor) 3. Shri Amar Nath (Associate Professor) Assistant Engineer (Civil) - Shri Atul Kumar Mathematical Science - 14.01.2016 Ceramic Engineering - 30.06.2016 Singh 2. Prof. Ranjana Ghose (Professor) 4. Prof. K.K. Srivastava (Professor) Chemistry - 25.07.2016 Assistant Engineer (Electrical) - Shri Prem Chemical Engineering - 30.06.2016 Chandra Mishra 5. Dr. Gopal Sharma(Associate Faculty Resignations Professor) Electrical Engineering - Junior Engineer (Civil) - Shri Shitala Prasad 1. Dr. Vikas Kumar (Associate Professor) 30.06.2016 Department of Pharmaceutics - 6. Prof. R.R. Das (Professor) Electronics Assistant Security Officer- 26.09.2016 Engineering - 30.06.2016 a. Sri Sanjay Kumar Sharma 2. Dr. Somdeb Bose Dasgupta 7. Prof. M.A. Qurashi (Professor) b. Sri Amar Nath Yadav (Associate Professor) School of Chemistry - 30.06.2016 c. Sri Abhishek Kumar Singh B i o m e d i c a l E n g i n e e r i n g - 8. Prof. D.N. Vishwakarma (Professor) 17.10.2016 Junior Translator (Hindi) - Shri Shashank Electrical Engineering - 31.08.2016 Pathak 9. Prof. A.K. Ray (Professor) Biomedical Engineering - 30.11.2016 24 Publications “We don’t write because we want to, we write because we have to”- Somerset Maugham, noted English novelist.

IIT BHU is committed to being a leading Institutions from 42 countries. Inter- Collaborations by country/territory research institution. Since January, 2016 nationally, collaborative research is over 788 Papers have been published. performed with top Institutions and

Total Papers Published since January research centers including University of 2016 : 788 Ottawa (Canada), Texas A & M University and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Published in over 130 Journals Administration(US), Korea Institute of Research performed in collaboration Science and Technology (South Korea), with over 157 Educational and Research Swinburne University of Technology Institutions (Australia), Nanjing University (China). Research performed in collaboration Besides sister IIT's and other top with over 40 countries universities, IIT (BHU) collaborates with Top Journals leading national research centers such as Journal of Alloys and Compounds the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Central Drug Research Institute, Indian Documents by subject area Chemistry Maritime University, International Centre Applied Physics Letters for Agricultural Research and the Indira ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research.

Frontiers in Microbiology Documents by type ScriptaMaterialia Article (69.3%) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference Paper (19.3%) Reviews Article in Press (7.5%) RSC Advances Review (2.7%) IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Book Chapter (0.5%) Optics Letters Letter (0.3%) Collaborations Note (0.3%) IIT BHU has published in collaboration with Erratum (0.1%) over 157 Educational and Research Student Achievements Gourav Modanwal (Research Scholar, Mechanical Engineering will represent used by farmers in different areas. Electronics Engineering) was honored by India in the Finals of Global Student the Hon’ble President of India as a part of Challenge to be held in March in Zwolle, Jaseel Muhammed Keloth, from the School “In-Resident Programme” held in Netherlands. of Biomedical Engineering, was a recipient

Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, June 18- A team comprising undergraduates of the Khorana Scholarship, 2016. 24, 2016. He was also selected among Pratyush Chowdhury, Dhruv Chawla and Abhimanyu Soni, Ayushi Bansal, Yash India's Top 51 Innovator and Entrepreneur Debjyoti Biswas won Hult Prize India Finals Jain, Mehak Goyal, Himanshu Gupta, at 8th India Innovation Initiative National and will compete at the world regional Mohammed Fadil, Meenal Baheti, Ketan Fair 2016 by Confederation of Indian finals in Dubai, in March 2017. Ganne, Abhinav Dangi, Manuj Singh, Juhi Industry (CII) in partnership with DST and Singh, Ishita Vyas, Yash Mittal, Arpit AICTE, Government of India. Piyoosh Sharma, a Research Scholar from the Department of Pharmaceutics was Bhardwaj, Kazim Abbas and Vikram A team of Naman Singhal, Shubham awarded "Young Scientist Award" in the Kumar have been selected for DAAD-WISE Jaiswal, Rishabh Babeley, Devendra newer areas of ''Drug Chemistry'' from Scholarship 2017. Gupta, Jagjeet Shyamkunwar were Department of Health Research, Ministry of Shashwat Sinha from the School of MST winners of Ericsson Innovation Awards Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi won the 2nd prize in overall student paper 2016 and Finalists of Gitex Technology presentations held at the International Week (Student Lab Competition), Dubai, Sumit Swarnamaya from the Department of Conference on Ceramics, Glass and (October 2016) Mining was awarded 1 lakh rupees under "Odisha Youth Inovation Fund Scheme" for Refractories: Emerging Innovations A team of 4 students -- Archit Agarwal, having developed a machine/prototype (2016). Saurabh Chopra and Vishnu Pandeyand for the farmer of India known as improved Avnish Kumar Ravi of the Department of parbolic unit. This machine is also being 25 STUDENT PARLIAMENT Ushering in a new epoch for the Institute of making necessary amendments in the Alumni Relations Committee Technology (BHU), the long awaited Students’ Constitution and evaluating the This committee deals with organizing conversion to an Indian Institute of various committees on their performance interactive sessions with the visiting Alumni Technology in 2012 brought with it the regularly. for current students, as well as Alumni Talks great belief of making an already and Mentorship Programs for the students. Festivals Committee prestigious institution on par with the top- This committee deals with matters related to Grievance Redressal and Enquiries notch universities of not only our country the various festivals organized in the Committee but all across the globe. Being mirrors to institute including room allotment and The committee solves issues put forward by the society in one of the fastest growing appointment of Convenors. students and redirects them to respective economies of the world, the need to Emergency Committee committees whenever required. replicate democratic principles was evident. The approval for student It is responsible for calling any emergency Multiple resolutions have also been passed empowerment began in the academic meetings of the Parliament as and when the by the second Parliament to support student hour demands. activities in the institute. With this in mind, session of 2014-15 and culminated with the election of the 1st Students’ Parliament Nominations Committee the motion to establish a PR Cell was in Jan 2015. It was done in accordance It appoints members to the Parliament as passed and a proposal to set up the same with the Students’ Constitution that came the previous session members graduate. has been tabled. Recently, via the into effect following approval from the Parliament, a fifth Council has been Hostel Affairs and General Welfare Senate, under the patronage of our founded under the IIT Gymkhana - the Committee Hon’ble Director, Prof. Rajeev Sangal. Council for Social Services. The post It deals with matters related to the bearers for the new Council have been The 1st term of the Students’ Parliament, functioning of hostels such as managing appointed and it shall serve a full-fledged spanning one and a half years, laid the mess payments, as well as coordinating body from this session. For the current f o u n d a t i o n f o r s t ro n g s t u d e n t with other committees to ensure welfare of academic session, the total Gymkhana representation at all levels. Not only does the resident students. budget, including the plan and non-plan the Parliament discuss issues affecting funds, is Rs. 1.18 Cr, which has been students’ lives, it includes various Security Committee It oversees the safety arrangements of the appropriately distributed to all student committees, representing different aspects campus at all times such as installation of activity bodies. of students’ lives, which stitch together to CCTV cameras, street lights as well as ensure its smooth working. increasing the guard count. It acts as the The several standing committees of the student interface for the Institute Proctorial DoSA (Prof.Ashim K. Mukherjee) Students’ Parliament are headed by their Board. I think the Students’ Parliament is a good respective Convenors. The various activities beginning. We have been able to firmly of the clubs in the Institute which are a part Training & Placement Committee establish it as an integral component of of the Students’ Gymkhana are Some of the tasks performed by this student life here. Of course when the first coordinated by appointing various committee include ensuring a smooth session of the Parliament came up, there General Secretaries and Secretaries placement session and representing the were huge expectations that it would through a voting process involving the students in the Training and Placement change the institution radically, but it Cell. respective club members. They form the didn’t happen because after all, the executive wing of the Parliament. Web Management Committee institute is run by administrators. But The various committees of the Parliament Members of this committee are responsible students started contributing fresh ideas include: for looking after the websites of which are helping us achieve the greater

Finance Committee Gymkhana, festivals and student related goals. The Students’ Parliament has raised quite a few issues and brought This committee is responsible for ensuring activities as well as maintaining them with them to the attention of the financial transparency of the Gymkhana as the appropriate information. Besides, the administration. Parliamentarians have well as allocating the Gymkhana funds to committee also resolves any Internet highlighted activities and initiatives different councils and the festivals. It also connectivity issues in the college. which have crossed their deadlines and maintains accountability and creates UG and PG Academic Affairs helped accelerate their implementation reserves for the future committees to come. Committees by the relevant authorities in the Institute. Parliamentary Affairs Committee It is involved with matters pertaining to the It is responsible for keeping the functioning course curriculum, semester exchange, of the parliament smooth and consistent, credit transfer as well as issues affecting Ph.D students. 26 Student Council Activities Cultural Council Competitions The dance group DFZ of dance club stood first at THOMOSO, IIT Roorkee. They also secured the third position at the Inter-IIT Cultural Meet, 2016.

Saurabh Mishra and Faraz Nomani secured the first position in solo and classical solo singing competitions respectively, in Oasis, held at BITS Pilani.

The team of Yatharth Dahiya, Ved Vineet, Vaibhav Kumar Dixit secured second position in the TV Quiz at Antaragni, IIT Garg, Chandana Royunder under one Kanpur. roof, with discussions on current social- Abhinav Dasiga stood third in English political issues. Kavi Sammelan featured Poetry Slam at the Inter-IIT Cultural Meet, stalwarts like Sunil Jogi Rupesh Saxena 2016. In the same Meet, the street play and Sikha Mishra. These events and performed by Masquerades (Theatre Club) workshops earned the LIT FEST special was highly appreciated. recognition from the Prime Minister’s Office.

The 5th edition of IITBHU MODEL UNITED NATIONS, which was held in September position at the on-site finals of GS Quantify 2016, witnessed participation of 450+ 2016, held at Bangalore. delegates, with participants coming from Yash Mehrotra bagged first position in around 40 colleges across the country. Tesco Technology Codeathon 2016 out of The group 'Nakshatra Gurukul' from 500+ coders across India.

Bhubaneshwar showcased Gotipua - The team of Mayank Panchal, Rishabh Odissi folk dance organized in association Agarwal, Rishabh Sinha and Prakhar with SPIC MACAY (Society for Promotion of Gupta from Club of Programmers bagged Indian Classical Music and Culture third position in Generex – an Application Amongst Youth. Development Contest, at Techfest 2016 To provide the first platform for freshers to held at IIT Bombay. The teams of Divyam showcase their talent, AGAMAN, a week- Goyal, Prateek Thakur, Aman Soni, Om long event consisting of inter-branch Kumar Sahoo, Nitin Gera and Arpit competitions, was held. Chaudhary from Club of Programmers grabbed all three podium places in Events Organised Science & Technology Council Quantum Code at the fest.

The CULTURAL WEEKEND was held with Competitions The Project of Abhishek Singh and Ayush 8 teams from Aero-Modelling Club (2 an aim of engaging the entire college Kumar Goyal on “Arduino and GSM Based fraternity, under which some exhilarating teams from first year) stood among top 30 Automatic Energy Meter Reading System” events were organized in different fields. teams winning 5000 rupees each in the won 12th position out of 40+ teams in Notable mentions include STRING`S EVE biggest RC plane event of India organized TECHNICHE`16, the annual technical fest –an evening of full of musical performances by Boeing. of IIT GHUWATI. In the same fest, the idea held at Limbdi corner, a performance by The team of Sampriti Mitra and of “A better platform for e-Education” by The Western Music Club during the Shreemoyee Sarkar finished among the top Vaishnav S Menon and Aviral Jethalia ACOUSTIC NIGHT, and a fine arts 6 teams in “Hack in Heels” organized by secured the 6th position. extravaganza open to the entire university. Walmart Labs at Bangalore in December, Events organized A captivating event was the BANARAS LIT 2016. Suraj Kumar and Chandan Kumar of Aero- FEST which brought together speakers and Modelling Club conducted a glider- panelists like Aseem Chhabra, Piyush Jha, The team of Nitin Gera, Om Kumar Sahoo making workshop with the support of Kulpreet Yadav, Sanil Sachar, Sachin and Adarsh Kumar bagged the first Technical and Rural Outreach Club for 27 students of seven backward districts of At the Inter-IIT Sports Meet ’16, held at IIT both UG and PG level. The tournament Bihar and West Bengal in Kishanganj, Kanpur, the Volleyball team won the silver witnessed participation of 50 girls in Bihar. medal while the Cricket and Football teams various sports such as badminton,

The Technical and Rural Outreach Club secured the bronze medals. Neha Gupta volleyball, chess, carom, table tennis, got a silver medal in the 50m breaststroke football and basketball successfully organized a Road Safety Campaign under the patronage of Ministry aquatics. Anant Kumar Singh got a bronze Intra freshers, a sporting tournament for of Road Transport and Highways which medal in the javelin throw competition. G boys, had 800 participants across witnessed massive participation from the Abhishek Ganesh was declared the disciplines. students who came up with various second best Player of the Tournament. Spardha ‘16, the annual sports and games sustainable solutions in the form of models At the Inter Faculty Meet in BHU, the festival of IIT (BHU) Varanasi, was to solve the road safety crisis. aquatics team won the gold medal in both organized (covered in article) The members of Green Club organized a the 50m medley and freestyle. Individually, FILM AND MEDIA COUNCIL Paper over Plastic Campaign in which Yugaraj secured a gold and a silver, Neha Achievements more than 2000 paper bags were made Gupta got two silver medals, while Suraj Panigrahi and Rajasvi Vinayak by the students which were then distributed Vaibhav Dixit got a bronze medal. The Sharma won 2nd and 3rd place to different shops in BHU. Basketball team won gold, the football team won silver, while the Table Tennis respectively in Design Competition at the The Club of Economics and Finance team got the bronze medal. Inter-IIT Cultural Meet, 2016. o r g a n i ze d t h e b i g g e s t s o c i a l entrepreneurship event – Hult Prize@ BHU At District Level contest, the Badminton in association with MCIIE. team won Gold in doubles. In the Open Boxing Championship, Vipin Bihari, Science and Technology Council Sambhav Jain and Vivek Bangar all got successfully completed the chapter of the bronze medals while Raman Kumar won first ever edition of Sci-League – a semester gold. In weightlifting, Parash Sonawal long celebration of the technical prowess of secured the bronze medal and won the our students. It comprised eight major gold medal in powerlifting along with Sonu events, three quizzes, three case studies, Meena, while Pawan Kumar secured a two guest talks and thirty workshops bronze medal. spanning the whole odd semester. Ashok Meena, Bipin Bihari and Raman A plantation campaign was organised by Kumar all won bronze medals in their the Green Club in three hostels of IIT (BHU) respective weight categories at the Rural on the occasion of the second anniversary Games International Championship, of Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan, in 2016. association with the Green Cell. The event was attended by our Hon’ble Director, Prof. The Institute football teams won both gold Rajeev Sangal. and silver in the DLW Five-a-Side Football Tournament. They also qualified for the Events organised GAMES AND SPORTS COUNCIL Super league. FMC Weekend ’16 , the annual festival of Achievements the Council, was held over 30th September In the Taekwondo Nationals at Kolkata, – 2nd October and drew footfall of over Ritu Mishra got a gold medal while Pawan 2500 students, with participants from Kumar, Aryan Chaudhary won silver and across North India and 5 other IITs. It Vikrant Singh Mahawar, Gaurav Kumar, included 18 creative events in five Kanmani R won bronze medals. categories, film festival nights, Creative

In National Kabaddi Tournament, the Guest Talks by eminent personalities from kabaddi team secured the bronze medal. both sides of the border, a professional Shiva Nayak was declared the Player of Travel Photography Workshop, and an the Tournament. NGO Fair.

I n t h e N a t i o n a l T a e k w o n d o The council launched FMC TV, a social- Championship, Nisha Meena, Kanmani R, media based video channel with weekly Vikrant Singh Mahawar won gold medals, web-episodes covering major events of the Orish Jindal, Nikhilesh Johari, Naresh Institute. Over 19 episodes have been released so far with more than 90,000 Kumar won silver medals while bronze went to Shikhar Kant Sharma, Saumya EVENTS ORGANISED overall views. Soni, Neesha Meena, Saumya Soni and Girls’ Weekend, an Inter branch Sports Nikhilesh Johari in different categories. tournament was organized for freshers at 28 SPARDHA’16 The institute hosted the 33th edition of Spardha, all-India games and sports festival during October 21-23, 2016. Over time, Spardha has grown to become one of the largest sports extravaganzas of India, where athletic competition is drawn from throughout the country and the level of toil, preparations and perseverance that goes into it inevitably makes it one of the most awaited events for all the participants. games and adventure activities. A total of umbrellas suspended over the street. An elaborate programme at the famed 1300+ participants from all over India On 23 October, Spardha ‘16 wrapped up Limbdi Corner of the institute, complete participated in Spardha’16. The with the closing ceremony that took place with a photo exhibition and other activities, participants showed unparalleled zeal and in the Gymkhana grounds. The Guests of marked the unveiling of the fest. The annual enthusiasm in sporting events in the fields Honour for the ceremony were Mr. Balbir musical night, Saturnalia, organised by the Singh and Mr. Dhanraj Pillay. Mr. Balbir organising team in September, set the Singh was a member of three Olympic gold mood. A Mashal Handover ceremony was "Spardha '16 was a great success! This winning Indian hockey teams. In 1957 he organised on 14th October 2016, which year we tried to introduce some new became the first Indian to be awarded the was attended by Olympic bronze medallist things to the festival, like the Mashal Padma Shri in the sports category. Mr. Sakshi Malik. It marked the initiation of handover ceremony by Ms. Sakshi Dhanraj Pillay has been awarded the Rajiv Spardha ‘16. Malik; a live military band performance; Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma The opening ceremony was held on 21st adventure activities like Hot air Shri. An ace field hockey player, he was October.The Chief Guest for this event was ballooning, parasailing & zorbing; and awarded Player of the Tournament in the Mr. Varun Singh Bhati. He is a successful video messages from sports legends like Champions Trophy held in Germany in Paralympian, and the winner of the bronze Milkha Singh. It was for the first time that 2002. Both the guests of honour addressed medal in Rio Olympics 2016. At the young 8 IITs came to participate outside of the the budding sportsmen and encouraged age of 21, he bagged the Gold in 2014 Inter IIT Sports Meet. I feel honored to be them never to feel let down upon losing. China Open Championship, and has also part of a great Sporting event." The true spirit of sportsmanship lies in won laurels for his country at several other Satish Kumar : Convener, Spardha 16 accepting victory and defeat gracefully. international events. Noted female netball Thus, Spardha 2016 ended on a positive player Prachi Tehlan graced the occasion of Athletic, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, note with the hosts promising to present a as the Guest of Honour. As former captain Carrom, Cricket, Football, Handball, bigger and even better version of the event of the Indian Netball team, Ms.Tehlan has Hockey, Kabaddi, Kho-kho, Powerlifting, next year. been a dynamic personality under whose Weightlifting, Squash, TableTennis, Tae- captaincy India won her first medal in the Kwon-Do, Tennis, Volleyball and Lan 2010 South Asian Beach Games. Both the Gaming. The hostel road, near Rajputana dignitaries seem to be living examples of Ground, wore a colourful look with floating the motto of Spardha - Believe, Struggle, Sport Winners (Boys) Winners(Girls) Achieve. The guests were welcomed by a Kabbadi CIMAGE, Patna Govt. Women Engineering College, Ajmer live band performance by the 38 GTC Kho Kho IIT Bombay Govt. Women Engineering College, Ajmer (Gorkha Training Center). Carrom Babu Banarasi Das University, Lko. NIT Trichy During the event, the ceremonial torch was Squash IIT Kanpur --- passed on to the Chief Guest and Guest of Tae-Kwon-Do IIT BHU IIT Roorkee Handball IIT BHU --- Honour. The honourable Director, IIT (BHU) Athletics MNNIT Allahabad IIT Roorkee Varanasi, Prof. Rajeev Sangal, addressed Chess NIT Trichy NIT Trichy the participants. He said that sports guide Tennis NIT Trichy Shiv Nadar University an individual in dealing with success and Badminton IIT Delhi Shiv Nadar University failure. It teaches people that rules are Cricket IIT BHU --- definite and cannot be bent or broken. Table Tennis NIT Trichy IIIT Delhi Basketball IIT BHU Mody Institute of Technology and Science Prachi Tehlan inspired the audience with Volleyball IIT BHU IIT Kanpur her views on success. She emphasized that Football Shiv Nadar University --- success comes from hard work, Hockey IIT Kanpur --- opportunities and willpower. Weightlifting IIT Kharagpur --- Spardha ’16 included 19 games and Powerlifting NIT Trichy --- Boxing IIT BHU --- sporting events in total, along with informal

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