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INSPIRE > INVOLVE > TRANSFORM VOL 2 | ISSUE 2 AUGUST 2012 QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER PD Rai Pradeep Kumar Harish Hande Lok Sabha MP, Sikkim Central Vigilance Commissioner Co-founder SELCO Solar Light Private Ltd Dr Anil K Rajvanshi Chandrakant Singh Vinay Somani Colin Gonsalves Director Chairman and Co-founder Founder, Karmayog Founder, Human Rights Law Network Nimbkar Agricultural Chaitanya Gurukul Research Institute Krishnamurthy Sridharan Swapnil Kant Dixit Dr Balaji Sampath Founder, Sankara Eye Foundation Co-founder & Executive Director CEO, Aid India Jagriti Yatra Social Entrepreneurs: Transforming India Manish Kumar Mangu Singh R Sri Kumar Dr Ravi Chopra Co-founder, Farms n Farmers Shahzad Wakeel Managing Director Vigilance Commissioner Founder and Director Founder President Delhi Metro Rail Central Vigilance Commission People’s Science Institute Pankhudi Foundation Corporation Yatendra Agrawal Rajendra Desai Founder, Eco Solutions Joint Director National Centre for Peoples’ Action in Disaster Preparedness Shashank Kumar Co-founder, Farms n Farmers 2012 Paniit Global Conference 2012 GLOBAL 7th to 9th December Science City Auditorium, Kolkata, India CONFERENCE PanIIT EXPO 2012 Dear All, An excellent opportunity for Welcome to PanIIT Alumni Global Conference 2012 in Kolkata, the City of Joy, for a few days of knowledge sharing, giving the small, medium, networking, exotic foods, spectacular entertainment, meeting old buddies, Profs., international personalities, seniors, large industries, Indian and juniors and much more ! We look forward to you to be here with us with your family and take back some everlasting memories. foreign corporations, and business houses to showcase The programme starts from the forenoon of Friday, December 7, 2012 right through to afternoon of Sunday, December 9, their activities, technologies, 2012. Your registration fee covers conference expenses (including lunch, dinner and entertainment programmes). Spouse and products registration includes local sightseeing, meals and off course entertainment. There is an optional trip to Kharagpur on Mega exhibition spread Monday, December 10, 2012 for those keen to take a nostalgic trip to the roots of the IIT system - where it all started. across 100,000 square feet We look forward to welcoming you, your family, friends, and sponsoring organizations. Please promote this event to all your with six specially constructed alumni friends and classmates. See you in December ! air-conditioned domes, fully carpeted adjoining the main Sincerely, auditorium of the Science city Sitangshu M Basu (IIT Kharagpur, 69) For more deails, floor plan Chair, Participation and stall booking rates, see EXHIBITION: email: [email protected] http://bit.ly/L7ml4a QUICK LINKS REGISTER NOW!!! PanIIT 2012 WebSite: http://bit.ly/MGq93f The Conference is expected to draw over 5,000 IITians from 16 IITs across the breadth and length of India, and will include over 1,000 overseas participants from US, Canada, UK, Middle East, Register now for PanIIT 2012 Brochure: Singapore, and Australia. Don't miss the opportunity to catch up with your batch mates. Be a part http://bit.ly/M8bFcH of this extravagant event with industry leaders, policy makers, consultants, planners, and discount MEET UP WITH YOUR decision makers from various the private and public sector all at one platform. BUDDIES !!! 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Here is my opinion on the change in the IIT entrance pattern, as well as the For more details on years that build up to taking these examinations. Sponsorship Levels and read more: http://bit.ly/O7n3Vy Sponsorship Options, visit Sponsors: http://bit.ly/MjB5yy IITians….LETS SPREAD THE WORD AROUND !! 'Follow' the PAN IIT 2012 Page on ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Google+ : http://bit.ly/OYWFIl Contribute to the PanIIT 2012 Newsletter! 'Like' the PAN IIT 2012 Page on We would love to hear from you! If you'd like to contribute a short IIT-related story or article to be published in the Facebook: Newsletter, please send a 200-or 250-word writeup to [email protected]. http://www.facebook.com/paniit2012 Include your contact information and your IIT affiliation in your email. 'Follow' PAN IIT 2012 on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/paniitgc2012 INSPIRE > INVOLV E > TRANSFORM 3 NEWSXXXXXVol 2, Issue 2, August 2012 Consulting Editor Rita Dutta Editorial Advisory Board: Hari Padmanabhan, Satish Kini, Chand Das Farewell Note For feedback, participation, subscription and sponsorship, write to [email protected] Hari Padmanabhan Immediate Past Chairman, PanIIT Alumni India To know more about individual projects, write to: Avanti Fellows Krishna Ramkumar Email: [email protected] Looking Back, Moving Forward Classle Knowledge Dear fellow alumni, Vaidya Nathan Email: [email protected] t’s time to bid good bye, and I have many 10,000 registered alumni on our active list I Create India I‘thank yous’ to say. Let me say that by and impacting 100,000 people through Ulhas Kamat capturing what we stepped into, what we nation building initiatives. Email: [email protected] did (and wished we did better) and what we believe is the way forward. Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education Nation Building (IUCEE) The first step was to set up a full time Vedula Krishna Great Expectations, working team that will engage with the Email: [email protected] Equal Challenges nation building initiatives and move them Thanks to the outstanding contributions of the towards sustainability and scale. This we IITians For ITIs Pradeep Kapse previous Chairmen and their teams, the PanIIT believed was fundamental to making this a Email: [email protected] Alumni brand, with three (as on April 2010) sustainable longer term effort. hugely successful PanIIT conferences in India In early 2011, Satish Kini (IIT B) came Pan IIT Alumni Reach For India (PARFI) and four in the US, had been growing larger on board as COO to lead nation building, Kalyan Chakroborty Email: [email protected] year on year in both stature and repute. The Anil Vij (IIT D) in Delhi took up Government overall impact was giant sized expectations and other institutional engagements and IIT Mentors on the scale and quality of whatever we Shanmuga Sunderam in Chennai was Ashok Das take up as PanIIT Alumni. While this was the brought in from the social sector, to get Email: [email protected] expectation or the demand side scenario, the field engagements going for the various India Nirman Sangh supply side showed a rather bleak picture. projects. Zindal, who has been our long David Barun Kumar Thomas A one man almost full time secretariat time advisor continued to take care of Email: [email protected] at Mumbai, located in a sparse facility in Government matters, while Ashok Kalbag I Will Impact (IWI) is a quarterly newsletter of Pan IIT Alumni IIT Mumbai, with a part time advisor on (IIT B), as always, stood as a rock, taking that is aimed at highlighting the pioneering nation-building Government relations in Delhi, and I am care of legal and secretarial matters. initiatives undertaken by its various projects: Avanti Fellows, referring to Ashok Kalbag and SN Zindal, Pramod Gothi chaired the finance function Classle Knowledge, I Create India, IUCEE, IITians For ITIs, was all that was there to back up the and gave us oversight. PARFI, IIT Mentors, India Nirman Sangh and SEED. IWI would also underscore determined efforts of social change and chairman. A few Nation Building initiatives Over the past year, through quarterly significant achievements of members, provide updates on had been identified for support, but pro- workshops and numerous field conferences and be a platform to discuss and deliberate. active engagement was a challenge due to engagements across projects, Nation a lack of resources. The one initiative that Building projects are now an ongoing How Can I Impact? stood out was the Pan IIT Alumni Reach For activity. Each project has begun to scale India, which was set up as a financially and and some of them have started to work To get involved in Pan IIT’s nation-building legally independent structure, during the mission, send the following details to together in unique ways, to create new [email protected] previous period (when Ashank Desai was possibilities.