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THE Newsletter of Volume 10, January 2017 Chairman’s Message I ndia holds an important place in the domain of world education industry. India’s is the third largest higher education system in the world and has the potential to grow further. In this educational scenario, Heritage Group of Institutions has made their benchmark in the world class education systems around the globe. This year once again, The Heritage School was honoured by Education World as the top co-ed day boarding school in the State. Moreover Careers 360 has given the prestigious rating of AAA+ to our School. In addition to all these accolades, THS once again received The Telegraph School of the Year Award for excellence in education in 2016. One of our students of B.Tech, Ms. Mayurakshi Mukherjee of Heritage Institute of Technology (HITK) brought laurels to our Institution and also to our country by getting selected from West Bengal Rowing Federation of India for the 2016 Asian Indoor Rowing Championships. HITK also fetched laurels to KBT by winning the All India PRSI Award for Page-10 Page-24 FOTA The Telegraph 2016 School of the ICABET 2016 (An International Conference organized by Year Award HITK) in the category of “Best Event Managed during the year” at the ALL India PRSI Conference 2016 held at Kolkata from 16th December till 18th December 2016. These achievements mark a significant milestone in the history of Heritage Group of Institutions which Page-5 would not have been possible without the Foundation Day of HITK efforts of the students, faculty members and staff of The Heritage family who toiled day and night to place our institutions in the Hall of Fame. Kalyan Bharti Trust feels proud of the Heritage family without whom the unique journey of 15 years towards excellence would have been impossible. We have concrete future plans to establish a Medical College, a Design Institute and Page-9 Film finally a world class university to make our legacy Festival in quality education prominent in this part of the country. Page-2 Education We have miles to go before we reach the final World destination. Thank you and Wish you a Happy 2017. Page-3 Shri H.K. Chaudhary Outstanding Achievers Quad Scripsi, Scripsi Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man What I Have written, I have written Swami Vivekananda 1 Lead Story Education World Award THS wins the Education World Award consecutively for four years as the top co-ed day boarding school in the state- a legacy since 2012 Ms. Runa Chatterjee with the Education World award The Heritage School received prestigious rating of AAA+ from Careers 360 (a unit of Outlook magazine) for outstanding overall performance HBS soars high • HER ranked Heritage Business School as ‘The Management College of the Year 2016’ in their ranking carried out in December, 2016. • India Today (December 2016 issue) has ranked Heritage Business School as one of the Top 5 B Schools in Kolkata. 2 Heritage Group of Institutions Lead Story All India PRSI award 2016 conferred on KBT Shri P.K.Agarwal, CEO, KBT, receiving the award from Dr. Chandan Mitra, Editor, Pioneer, in the presence of Swami Veditanandaji, Principal, R.K.M., Shilpamandir, Dr. Ajit Pathak, President, PRSI and Mr. Soumyajit Mahapatra, President, PRSI, Kolkata Chapter on 16th Dec 2016 All India PRSI Award 2016 was conferred to KBT under the category of ‘Best Event Management’ for ICABET 2016 organized by HITK in the month of January 2016. The Award Ceremony was attended by various eminent luminaries from the PR Fraternity. Mayurakshi makes Heritage Proud Ms. Mayurakshi Banerjee, the only girl selected from West Bengal by Rowing Federation of India (RFI) for the 2016 Asian Indoor Rowing Championships that concluded in Pattaya, Thailand made the country proud by winning a silver and a bronze medal. Our Country bagged 12 medals in all, including five silvers. A student of Electronics & Communication Engineering at the Heritage Institute of Technolgy, Mayurakshi is passionate about rowing. She has participated in several national events and won medals for the state. “This was a great achievement by the Indian team. I am also proud of my daughter who bagged a silver in the Open Mixed Four category and a bronze in Women’s Doubles. She takes the sport very seriously and is a member of Bengal Rowing Club and West Bengal Rowing Association (WBRA). She was at the RFI National Training Camp in Hyderabad since September 30 before proceeding to Thailand for the event. She arrived in Kolkata on Monday,” Ms. Mayurakshi Mukherjee, a student of Heritage Institute of Technology, the only girl - Milon Mukhopadhyay, father of Mayurakshi. selected from West Bengal for 2016 Asian Indoor Rowing Championships 3 India Today laurels Winning 650 points, The Heritage School were runners-up at the India Today Wiz-Quiz organized from 13th to 15th Sep’16 at New Delhi. Career Fair @THS On 7th September 2016, THS organized a Career Fair. Eminent The students got an excellent opportunity to interact with representatives universities like Berkley University, University of Buffalo, University from these universities that will help them make the right career choice of San Fancisco, University of Ithaca and many more participated. for higher education. News Desk Grand Freshers’ welcome by HBS HBS Celebrated Freshers’ welcome in a grand manner on 9th September 2016 where the students were engaged in various activities like fashion show for the selection of Mr. and Ms. Fresher of the year and many more. The faculty members were actively involved in making this event a success. Dramatic Dreams @ THC THC - War of Words An Inter-Departmental Debate competition on the motion ‘Recent Demonetisation move by the Government of India would surely restrict the Expression was brought to life at the drama competition Black economy in India’ on 19th November 2016. organized by The Heritage College (THC) on 9th December, aptly named, ‘Dramatic Dreams’. The themes traversed by The debate had 10 teams representing all the Departments of the College. the four interdepartmental groups were ‘Twisted Fairy Tales’, Dr. Tilak Chatterjee, Principal, Bankim Sardar College, 24 Parganas (S), ‘Circus’ and ‘Terrorism’, provided by the college itself. was invited to grace the occasion as the Chief Guest. 4 Heritage Group of Institutions Celebration of the 15th Foundation day of HITK Confluence of many minds but one goal and that is excellence in education “Celebrate what you have accomplished but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed” – Mia Hamm From L to R- Dr. Shyamsundar Bang, Prof. Ajoy Dr. Shyamsundar Bang, Executive Director, Prof. Ajoy Ray, Director, IIEST, Shibpur Ray, Shri Vikram Swarup, Dr. Bikash Sinha Jubliant Life Sciences Prof. Kankan Bhattacharya, Ex Director, Prof. A.S. Kolaskar, VC, The Neotia University Prof. Siddhartha Dutta, Former Pro VC, JU IACS, Kolkata This was the flavor of the season at Heritage. To commemorate 15 years solving energy crisis. Prof. Kankan Bhattacharya elucidated about the of its unique journey, HITK organized a three-day National Conference sea change brought about by mobile phones. He emphasized on the on ‘Recent Advances in Science & Technology’ sponsored in association early green revolution followed by white revolution leading to abundant with TEQIP-II on 27th Sep. ’16. The Conference was addressed by supply of milk and then the pink revolution which created phenomenal the Chief Guest, Padma Bhushan Dr. Bikash Sinha, Homi Babha changes in the pharmaceutical industry. Professor, Former Director of SINP and VECC. The other dignitaries Later on Mr. Shyamsundar Bang spoke about the feasibility of were Shri Vikram Swarup, Vice-chairman, Kalyan Bharti Trust, Prof. investments in capital intensive projects for research and development Ajoy Ray, Director, IIEST, Shibpur, Prof. Kankan Bhattacharya, Ex- giving the discussion a commercial angle and also touched upon the Director, IACS, Kolkata, Mr. Shyamsundar Bang, Executive Director, applicability of science and technology in the economic growth of the Jubilant Life Sciences, Noida and Emeritus Professor, Department of Nation. “The phenomenal development of science and technology Chemistry, HITK, Prof. D.C. Mukherjee. will help us to create knowledge from the vast data,” said Shri Vikram In his opening address, Dr. Pranay Chaudhuri, Principal, HITK spoke Swarup during his address in the inaugural session. about the developments of the Institute during the last 15 years. Prof. The final day witnessed a panel discussion on ‘Innovations in Science Ajoy Ray, during his inaugural speech, spoke about recent developments & Technology’ which was moderated by Prof. A.S. Kolaskar VC, The in science and technology stressing on the increase in use of smart Neotia University. The panelists were Prof. Siddhartha Dutta, former devices. He also spoke about intelligent networks, recognition of Pro-VC, Jadavpur University, Prof. D.K. Banwet, VC, University of patterns in analyzing data that will help in solving many problems. Engineering & Management, Kolkata and Prof. D.K. Sinha, Former VC, Dr. Bikash Sinha spoke about the relationship between science and Viswa-Bharti University. Prof. A.S. Kolaskar gave examples of various technology and their inseparability from each other. Technology is used latest inventions in science and technology that transformed mankind. in science to invent new things to benefit mankind. He stressed upon Prof. D.K. Banwet provided various practical applications of innovation the importance of Nuclear Energy and emphasized on the reasons from his experiences when he was at the Department of Management behind climate changes, focusing more on green energy that will help in Sciences at IIT Delhi. From L to R- Prof. Pinaki Bhattacharya, Dr. Pranay Chaudhuri, Dr. Shyamsundar Bang, Prof. Ajoy Ray, Shri Vikram Swarup, Dr. Bikash Sinha, Prof. Kankan Bhattacharya, Prof. D.C. Mukherjee 5 News Desk HR Conclave @ HBS On 1st Oct.