Meeting of the Board of Governors Held on 7Th March, 2020
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GAYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, GAYA Minutes of the 10th Meeting of the Board of Governors held on 7th March, 2020. Minutes of the 10thMeeting of the Board of Governors of Gaya College of Engineering, Gaya held at 10:00 A.M. on March7th, 2020. On 7thMarch 2020, the BoG members assembled in the conference room of the Gaya College of Engineering, Gaya at 10:00 am. The members interacted informally prior to the formal meeting of 10th BoG . The following members were present: S. No. Name of the member 1 Dr. Janak Pandey, Chairman 2 Dr. Nirmal Kumar, Secretary 3 Dr. L. B. Roy, Member (BoG) 4 Prof. G. N. Sharma, Member (BoG) 5 Dr. Ajit Kumar Singh, Member (BoG) Note: The Principal reported that Dr. S.J. Ahmad was hospitalized since 23/02/2020 after sudden brain haemorrhage and therefore in his place, Dr. A.K. Singh has been nominated. 6 Dr. Prabhash Kumar, Member (BoG) After lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries, the meeting began with the welcoming of the Chairman and the members of the Board by the Principal, Dr.Nirmal Kumar. The Chairman of the Board welcomed the new member of the Board, Dr. Ajit Kumar Singh. Other members, Shri Sanjiv Kumar, Prof. B.D. Chaudhary and Prof. M.P. Jakhanwal had informed regarding their inability to attend the meeting and they could not attend the meeting. th The faculty members, In-charge of activities were invited to attend the 10 BoG to facilitate discussion on agenda matters. The following such faculty were present: 1.Mr. Chandra Bhushan Kumar Yadav (TEQIP- Coordinator), 2.Dr. Kashid Vitthalrao (Academic Coordinator), 3.Dr. Shashank Tripathi (Procurement Coordinator), 4.Mr. Ashish Kumar (Nodal Officer Finance), 5.Dr. Prashant Singh Chauhan (HOD, ME), 6.Mr. Omprakash Sudhansu (Professor-in-charge, Civil Engineering), 7.Mr. Mrinal Ranjan (HOD, EEE), 8.Mr. Ritesh Kumar (HOD, CSE), 9.Dr. Vikram Kumar (R&D Coordinator), 10.Mr. Rajeev Kumar (GATE, Coordinator), 11.Mr. Mrityunjay Kumar and Dr. Santosh Agrawal (Employability Skills Training Coordinator), 12.Mr. Santosh Kumar (NBA Coordinator), Digitally signed Nirmal by Nirmal Kumar Date: 2020.04.10 Kumar 22:17:24 +05'30' ( 2 ) 13. Dr. Biplab Goswami (Twinning Coordinator), 14. Mr. Prabhakar Kumar (SWAYAM Coordinator), 15.Dr. Amol Bute (Employability Skills Test coordinator) and Mr. Murli Manohar Vishwakarma (Program Manager). th th As per the decision of the 7 BOG, the following invited students attended the 10 BoG meeting as observers: Aniwesh Kumar Tiwari (19/CSE/51), Soni Raj (17101110037), Karuna Kumari (17101110041), Keshav Kumar (17101110050). In, introductory welcome address, the Chairman Dr. Janak Pandey shared his experience of his interactions with students on 06/03/2020 and highlighted the importance of understanding the nature of human mind and cognitive processes and its linkage with the ongoing revolutions in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Dr. Nirmal Kumar presented the progress report of the College during the quarter ending on March 31st, 2020. He briefly presented the following: (i) He reported that on the MOOCs1/SWAYAM2/NPTEL3 platform, the registration of around 380 students have completed from GCE, Gaya. The NPTEL assessment exam is scheduled in the last week of April, 2020. An expert lecture on Development of life skills, Team building and performance and tips for graduated success in an interview by Dr. A. K. Sinha, Retd. Assoc. Director and outstanding scientist, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), Mumbai was organized at GCE Gaya on 20/2/2020. (ii) One student from the EEE department of GCE, Gaya (Ms Pummy, Roll no. 16/EEE/64) has been selected in the Pool Campus Placements drive of "OkayaInfocom" on 29.02.2020 at AKU, Patna. (iii) Projects of eight students from GCE, Gaya selected under the BCST (Bihar Council of Science and Technology) Student Project Program on 02/03/2020. (iv) The annual sports program was organized at GCE, Gaya in the second week of February, 2020. 1 Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a free Web-based distance learning program that is designed for the participation of large numbers of geographically dispersed students. 2 Study Webs of Active–Learning for Young Aspiring Minds is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. 3 National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. Digitally signed Nirmal by Nirmal Kumar Date: 2020.04.10 Kumar 22:18:23 +05'30' ( 3 ) (v) An expert lecture on “Psychosocial Development” by Prof. Janak Pandey, Chairman BoG, was organized at GCE, Gaya to motivate the students on 06/03/2020. Further, the top scorer students of NPTEL, IIT, Bombay tutorial courses and winners of annual sports activities were felicitated and awarded by the honorable Chairman. The book named as ‘Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl was given as prize to students for stimulating them. The Board members appreciated the progress and achievements made by the College. Agenda 10.1: Confirmation of the minutes of the 9th BoG Meeting held on 7th December, 2019. Note 10.1.1: The minutes were prepared and signed by the Chairman and the Secretary. The minutes were circulated for suggestions and comments of members. Suggested comments have been incorporated. The Board may reconfirm the minutes. The Board resolved to confirm the minutes of the 9th BoG Meeting held on 7th December, 2019. Agenda 10.2: To report the Action Taken Report (ATR) on decisions taken by the BoG in the ninth meeting held on 7th December, 2019. Note 10.2.1: Action taken report (ATR), prepared against each decision for which actions have been taken. Mr. Chandra Bhusan Kumar Yadav, TEQIP-III Coordinator presented ATR in the meeting. The Board noted and resolved to approve the action taken report of the 9thBoG meeting held on 07.12.2019. The Board, however, discussed in detail matters related to various actions taken by the College and made further observations as follows: i) A comprehensive report on the procurement status of the Advance Electronics Lab by the Lab Coordinators and HOD should be submitted to the Principal. The Board resolved to release the Partial payment of Advance Electronics Lab and release the remaining payment of Proteus VSM software and CSI software before the ending of the Quarter-IV (FY: 2019-20) as per TEQIP-III norms. Digitally signed Nirmal by Nirmal Kumar Date: 2020.04.10 Kumar 22:35:28 +05'30' ( 4 ) ii) Related to the Annual Report (2018-19) a number of suggestions were given: (a) The photographs of the laboratories should show activities going on in the lab, and (b) The title of the photographs should be provided. With the above suggestions, the report should be edited and published. iii) The Board further directed to the members of the annual report committee to prepare the annual report for the year 2019-20 and present the draft in the next BoG meeting. iv) The Board commented that the Annual Report is the face of the Institution, and therefore, various information related to the college should be presented in the best possible way. Agenda 10.3: Status of TEQIP-III project: Note 10.3.1: Procurement for modernization of laboratories was planned, initiated and generated purchase orders through PMS portal and completed the procurement process for some packages in Quarter-II and Quarter-III (July-December, 2019) and many academic & financial activities were conducted in Quarter-IV (FY: 2019-20) some of the major activities are as follows: In the memory of Great Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan the National Mathematic day was celebrated at GCE, Gaya on 22.12.2019. 12 students have participated in the training program “One-day training on interview etiquettes” by AKU, Patna on 10/1/2020 at Hotel Gargee Grand Patna. 20 students have participated in India Science Festival at IISER Pune held during 11-12 January, 2020. Annual Tech-Fest KSHITIJ, was organized by IIT, Kharagpur from 17/1/2020 to 19/1/2020. 15 students from GCE, Gaya have participated in KSHITIJ 2020 at IIT, Kharagpur. Debate competition for all the students on Democracy, Leadership, and Empowerment was organized on 29.01.2020 at GCE, Gaya. Annual Tech-Fest “STHAPATYA 20” was organized by VJTI Mumbai from 01/02/2020 to 02/02/2020. 10 students from GCE, Gaya have participated in STHAPATYA 20 at VJTI Mumbai. Digitally signed Nirmal by Nirmal Kumar Date: 2020.04.10 Kumar 22:39:34 +05'30' ( 5 ) An E Summit was organized at IIT Bombay from 1/2/2020 to 2/2/2020. 10 students have participated in this E-Summit. Felicitation program was organized at GCE, Gaya to felicitate the students who secured gold medal and silver medal in NPTEL and IIT Bombay online tutorial on 09.01.2020. Series of expert lectures were organized on 31.01.2020 by Dr. S.N. Sharma and Sri Rajiv Kumar from CSMRS4, New Delhi by Department of Civil Engineering at Conference hall GCE on the following topics: New Construction Materials for concrete structure, Distress in Hydraulic Structures, and Durability of Concrete. A Workshop for students and faculties on Robotics, basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D Printing and Designing was held from 11th-14th February, 2020 at Hotel Chanakya Patna. The following students have attended the workshop along with faculty guide Prof.Mrityunjay Kumar (Department of ME): Sweety Shailesh, Neha Kumari, Pragya Raj, Vimlendu Vatsayan, Ragini Singh.