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VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 IIT ROORKEE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA (IITRAAA) VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 2 GLANCE INSIDE GLANCE INSIDE 2 EDITOR’S DESK 3 IITRAAA NEWS 4 IITR AND IITRAA NEWS 8 PNIIT NEWS 10 THE EVENTS THAT ECHOED 11 A JOURNEY TO KUCH REGION IN GUJARAT 13 FINANCE AND LAW 16 Learn a lesson from birds. They feed those who can’nt fly far. They help and serve each other with no thought of rewards Atharva Veda, TOI, Sep 23’2013 MATH-LOGIC 1x8+1=9 12x8+2=98 123x8+3=987 1234x8+4=9876 12345x8+5=98765 123456x8+6=987654 1234567x8+7=9876543 12345678x8+8=98765432 123456789x8+9=987654321 1x1=1 11x11=121 111x111=12321 1111x1111= 1234321 11111x11111=123454321 111111x111111=12345654321 1111111x1111111=1234567654321 11111111x11111111=123456787654321 111111111x111111111=12345678987654321 VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 3 EDITOR’S DESK Dear VAANI Readers, As you know the monsoon makes us lazy. Exactly the same thing happened in bringing out this issue too. Not that I was enjoying chai-pakodi. Like fruits and vegetables, the material was scarce and I had few personal priorities. However I am happy that I am able to serve you the July’2014 issue now, fresh and delicious. New office bearers of the executive committee were elected. The names and contact of the mem- bers are given in this issue. Dr Sudhir Kumar Jain, Director IIT Gandhinagar, has taken over the reins of IITRAAA from the outgoing president. It was a great pleasure this time, to have Dr Prem Krishna, the president of National Chapter of IITRAA-Roorkeee, in our annual general body meet- ing held on June 22. He was very happy with the vibrancy of our chapter. He was very keen to have continued interaction with us. A gist of talk given by Dr Ashok Ghai, one of our alumnus, blessed with divine power, has also been covered in the issue. You can enjoy a pleasure trip to the Rann of Kuch in Gujarat through an illustrated article by one of our member. In the Finance and Law section we have covered this time the provision in law to protect the woman in addition to the latest on money matter and income tax. Next quarter is full of festivities. I wish happy days in the next quarter. Enjoy reading VAANI in the continuing rainy days. Vijai Kumar Editor- VAANI-The Voice of IITRAAA [email protected], mob no 09327008244 THE VAANI TEAM (The Editor on the Lead) Vishruti Arvind Singh D R Rajak Cover Page Design Field Photography Mngt Support Veena Arun K Singh Himanshu Tushiar Text Reading Mngt Support Mngt Support VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 4 IITRAAA NEWS IITRAAA HAD ITS ANNUAL GENERAL BODY MEETING ON JUNE22’2014 report and the accounts were accepted and passed by the AGM. IITRAAA had its annual general body meeting This time IITRAAA had the VIP guest Profes- on June 22’2014 at, Hotel Grand Cambay, off sor Prem Krishana, the President of National SG Highway. Family get together was also Chapter of IITRAA at Roorkee. The history of combined along with. Mr Velchamy, the outgo- IITRAAA and its activities including social, ing secretary, highlighted the activities of cultural and philanthropic ones were presented IITRAAA during past two years. The Treasurer to him. He expressed a great happiness on the Mr Manish Seth presented the accounts. The vibrant activities of IITRAAA and meeting with its members. IITRAAA felicitated him Eldest member Sri D C Goel Sri D C Goel presenting memento to Dr Prem Krishna being felicitated by Dr Prem Krishna Sri Desh Raj, the past president Panoramic View of the AGM proceedings VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 5 with a memento. Mr D R Rajak, fondly known always get nominated, seconded and accepted as RAM, then, gave an illustrated presentation unopposed. on his trip to Antarctica continent. He kept the Dr Sudhir Jain resolved to take IITRAAA to a audience captivated throughout. newer height. VAANI wishes the new EC a Another reason to be happy on the occasion happy welcome as well as await for the new was the presence of our beloved eldest member bright events to happen in the forthcoming (94 years old) Sri D C Goel in the function. The years. gathering lauded and cheered up his presence in the get together as he was the most regular eld- est member attending our functions and a great THAT MOVING MOMEMNT elderly motivator in performing our activities. On the day of AGM on June 22 our Eldest member He is a living legend of healthy & happy living Sri D C Goel handed over a sealed cover to a veteran and a role model for the members in IITRAAA. Mr A C Mathur, making a peculiar request to open it only at home. On opening the cover at home, he The AGM, then, elected the new executive found a cheque of Rs 11000 in favour of IITRAAA, committee. Dr Sudhir Kumar Jain, the Director- few jokes and a touching sentence as under IIT Gandhinagar, was unanimously elected as the new president. In fact election is a misno- “Growing old is inevitable, feeling old is optional. My parting salute to IITRAAA.” mer in IITRAAA as the executive members D C Goel- A Thomsonian New president Dr Sudhir Jain addressing AGM Sri D Ram Rajak presenting on his Antactica Trip The New Executive committee 2014-16 VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 6 IITRAAA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2014-16 Post Name Batch email Profession President Dr Sudhir K Jain BE-C- 1979 [email protected] Director-IIT- Gandhinagar Vice J C Sethi BE-Mech -1975 [email protected] Free Lance President Consultant Secretary D Ram Rajak ME-C-1990 [email protected] SAC/ISRO Jt secretary Dr Sushil K MTech-1997 [email protected] SAC/ISRO Singh Applied Geophy Treasurer Manish Seth BE-Chem-1991 [email protected] GSPC Jt Treasurer Ritesh Agrawal BE-C-2000 [email protected] SAC/ISRO Member Harjinder Singh Mech-1983 [email protected] ONGC Applied Geophy Member Harbhajan Singh PhD Earth Sc [email protected] ONGC Member Devinder Dwivedi ME-E&C [email protected] BSNL Member Himanshu Tushiar MTech [email protected] SETP Earth Sc Member Anil Kumar anilabhi1961 I-T @rediffmail.com Member Vipul Rajvanshi M Sc [email protected] ONGC Maths Member Thakur D Patel B Tech Met [email protected] SBI 2001 Member Avinash BE-chem.-1983 [email protected] ESSAR Chaturvedi Member Sanjay Gupta BE-C-1982 [email protected] Enterpreneur Member S Velchamy M Sc-Chem [email protected] ONGC (Ex Officio) 1983 Member Desh Raj BE-EC-1974 [email protected] Rtd-I-T (Ex Officio) Past N M Bijlani BE-Elct-1958 [email protected] Rtd IAS President Do Kumud Mukerje B -Arch- 1965 [email protected] Free Lance Consultant Do Vijai kumar BE-Mech-1967 [email protected] Retd -ISRO Do V S Yadav ME-E&C-1970 [email protected] Retd-ISRO Do A C Mathur BE-Mech-1977 [email protected] Retd-ISRO VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 7 OBITUARIES SAD DEMISE OF SRI SAD DEMISE OF SRI S M SALGAR ASHOK K CHAUHAN It is to inform you with great grief , the sudden It is to inform you with demise of our former IITRAAA member and great grief, about the senior colleague Shri S. M. Salgar on June sudden demise of our 29’2014 due to heart attack at his daughter's veteran member Sri place in USA. He belonged to 1968 batch of Ashok Chauhan BE (E&C) and joined ESCES in 1971 and onJune16’2014 after prolonged illness. He worked for SITE,STEP and other projects of belonged to 1970 batch of Diploma in pulp ISRO/DOS before he moved to INFLIBNET & paper technology. He worked as Director- and retired as its Deputy Director. BGP Group. VAANI -The Voice Of IITRAAA wishes his VAANI -The Voice Of IITRAAA wishes his soul rest in peace. May God give strength to the soul rest in peace. May God give strength to bereaved family to bear the loss. the bereaved family to bear the loss. THE QUOTATIONS THAT PROVED WRONG A compilation by Dr Arvind Singh, from the web search VAANI, The Voice Of IITRAAA, JULY’2014 8 IITR AND IITRAA NEWS (from websites) BLESSED WITH DIVINE POWER language. Computer experts also certified that SRI ASHOK GHAI such pictures were beyond the intelligence of computers. He is also the President of IITRAA The BE-Mech-1967 Kanpur Chapter. batch alumnus of IITR VAANI-The Voice Of IITRAAA wish him Sri Ashok Ghai is fully continued success in his bid to facilitate the into the spiritual arena humanity. Those who want to communicate these days. He is gifted with him can do so on with divine power and ‘[email protected]’ has predicted many events which actually HOW STRONGLY ARE WE BONDED came true. An engineer WITH ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS AND OUR by profession he is also ALMA MATER addressed as ‘Futurologist’. Sri Ghai hit the headlines when a prediction made by him to a Many times we come to know, from news pa- US based radio site proved to be true just two pers and web search, about outstanding days after his interview was aired. The Hindu- achievements of our IITR alumni and feel stan Times Nov 16’2002 reported his prediction proud of them and of our Alma Mater. There made in Dec 2001 about Osama Bin Laden.