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Mid Tenure GS Review http://gymkhana.iitb.ac.in/~insight November 13, 2006* *Volume IX Issue III Students’ Gymkhana IIT Bombay General Secretary, Sports ● Vinay’s Manifesto proposed a host of is- - Kuppa Vijay Krishna sues that would be addressed such as dis- Mid Tenure GS Review counted mobile phone services, publicis- Achievements In a bid to make the institute GSs more accountable to the student ing of minutes of various meetings, proper ● A taekwondo centre has been estab- community, we conduct a review of the work done thus far. maintenance of the hostel affairs website, lished, as well as workshops held in swim- etc. However, only a few of them have ● Publicity: The publicity of sports (and General Secretary, Hostel Affairs ming, tennis, volleyball and football. been delivered so far. Since the GSHA’s cultural) events is highly dependent on in- - Vinay Sharma ● A proper sports orientation was held work is directly related to the problems of stitute funding and approval, unlike that of for UG and PG freshmen unlike in previ- students regarding institute infrastructural the self-funded independent bodies. As a Achievements ous years when it was clubbed with orien- facilities, it is imperative that he be in con- result, there is not much knowledge about ● A proposal for the setting up of a Stu- tations of other activities. stant communication with the students. At these events; this issue has been taken up dent Welfare Society has been approved ● Screening of the football World Cup. the same time, it must be said that he has with the concerned authorities. in principle by the Director. The Society is ● Inter-IIT put in a lot of effort to pursue the particular ● Inter-IIT contingent: The strength has aimed at addressing student problems di- 1. Part-time coaches have been appointed issues that he has taken up thus far. to train some teams before Inter-IIT - bad- been increased to 130, but the number of rectly and not via the Estate Office. Funds minton, weightlifting and swimming. girls has been reduced to 15 (from 20), for this are expected from the institute with Manifesto-related issues 2. The daily allowance during Inter-IIT has meaning that some Women’s teams will contributions from alumni. ● A 24-hour Printing and Xerox shop as been increased from Rs.110 to Rs.150. not be represented, in order to bolster the ● A Hostel Maintenance Committee is in well as a Late Night Canteen: The pro- 3. The cost of messing per day during In- chances of the Men’s contingent. the process of being set up. It aims to plan posals for these two have already been ter-IIT (borne by the institute, for all mem- ● Inter-IIT travel: Campus placements ahead for maintenance work, set deadlines accepted. The delay is being caused by st bers attending Inter-IIT camp) has been in- this year begin on Dec 1 , halt on Dec and have someone accountable for the ex- the unavailability of suitable venues; the th nd creased from Rs.110 to Rs.130 in the hope 9 for Inter-IIT and resume on Dec 22 . ecution of work within these deadlines. building near H 8 (old Chinks) is now oc- A lot of effort went into arranging partial 0 that quality of food will increase. For e.g., every year there are complaints cupied by NCC. air-travel for the final year students, with regarding leakage in hostels, but after the ● Cheaper call rates for campus dwell- 1 Shortcomings some subsidy from the institute and a con- monsoons the issue is forgotten. The job of ers: Vinay is due for a meeting with Hutch ● Sponsors for Inter-IIT track suits could tribution from the rest of the team. How- the committee is to ensure that such com- sometime soon, to discuss this further. not be acquired though mentioned in the ever, this contribution worked out to be too plaints are followed up by timely action. ● Centralised Distribution of Raw Ma- manifesto. much and unaffordable to some; hence, fi- ● The geyser problems of all hostels have terials: The old system of central procure- ● Basic tasks such as updating the sports nally all members will be going by train. been resolved by the purchase of sufficient ment of rations (operative till last semester) section of the gymkhana website have not ● Though all attending Inter-IIT camp numbers. has fallen apart, and now hostels procure been completed. will have to pay Rs.530 for track suits, an these commodities individually. The bot- Shortcomings increase of Rs.80 over last year, this is to tleneck however at present is the fact that Manifesto-related issues ● Poor internal transportation: This An issue that irks us at InsIghT is the bloat- ensure that those who make it for camp, the wardens are against this system. but not to the final team, are still rewarded. i s - sue was covered extensively in ing up of manifestos. The manifestos of all our previous issue (‘Tum-tum Other issues the GS Sports candidates looked similar To conclude, while several new initiatives tamasha’). However, the prob- ● Wireless network will be pursued in the last year with many promises of unachiev- have been taken thus far, an actual lem has still not been completely next semester; initial cost-estimates sug- able goals. Kuppa’s manifesto had points idea of the progress made in resolved. Vinay clarifies that to gest that this is quite feasible. However, such as the organisation of a Sports Fes- the sports scene will only rectify this, 8 tum-tums will be this proposal is still in the pipeline. tival, restructuring of NSO and formation be possible next semester, purchased early next semester. ● Dr. S. N. Jha, NSO coach, has proposed of a Sports Club. It is high time the GSs which will see most Sports The institute will take care of an idea of having a Doctor in SAC beyond showed some accountability with respect GC events taking place. 5 P.M. This will be further pushed from the the costs for now, but the to what is proposed in their manifestos. side of the students in the next semester. (Groundwork by Rohit Student Welfare Society Other issues Hippalgaonkar) would be involved in future payments. (Groundwork by Ruchir and Nithya) General Secretary, Cultural Af- the week immediately after the ● The attempt to fairs - Sai Krishna Thota midsems didn’t have any major draft a Cult Cal- ● Open House: When is it happening and event. endar (though t e n t a t i v e ) what are the plans? Achievements: was well appreciated by one and all. The council has planned to have a muli- - Sai clarifies that they had to keep the ● ‘Theatre Fest’ as a 6-day extravaganza: But a lot of rescheduling was done and in session Open House early next semester. inter-hostel events on hold because of the The event was sponsored by LIC (which some cases, events were even cancelled. The hostels would be divided into pools of delay in the formation of new councils in gave around Rs.30,000) and the institute Towards the end of the semester, Ad Film 3-4 and the council would visit each pool most hostels. had to only spend an additional amount of Making and Entertainment Quiz had to be separately and interact directly with the - Expecting the Diwali break to be only 2- Rs.15,000. postponed to the next semester. hostel councils and other students for any 3 days long, the council had not foreseen a ● Hasya Kavi Sammelan: Students’ doubts/complaints that they might have. 9-10 day lull in cultural events. It resulted - The Cult Council attributes the need for Council took over the responsibility from ● SAC library: What is its current status in over-crowding on the other available rescheduling to lots of unforeseen events the Hindi Cell and conducted it more pro- and future plans? days. like the NASI Convention as well as the fessionally, thus receiving a much better The severe budget constraint that the - His plan was to give people some time quiz weeks of sophies in particular. So, response. council is facing this year as compared to come out of the midsems’ state of mind. they chose to try to ensure maximum par- ● Spic Macay events were held in a spe- to last year is the reason why nothing has So the week just after saw simpler events ticipation by holding the events on more cial 4-day format to arouse interest and been done so far. Sai promises a revival of and workshops. convenient dates. then capitalise on this on the latter days. the library next semester, within the con- ● Revival of Gyrations and introduction ● A two-tier point system was announced Manifesto-related issues straints of the budget and will also publi- of Photography as a GC event for the first for group and individual events but this is ● Freshie GC: Why is it not happening? cise the work done in this regard. time. still very nebulous unless one clearly de- The DoSA is not in favour of a Freshie Other issues ● Active functioning of the Lit Club. fines what comprises a group or individual GC, not even a weekend event like last ● Why are so many hostel fests mush- event. And the decision as to what a partic- year and wants all freshie interaction and Shortcomings and Sai’s responses rooming in spite of the fact that they are ular event should be classified under was participation to be through clubs and open ● Cult Calendar was overloaded with found lacking in many respects? left till very late, even after the event in events.
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