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Institute Newsletter March 2021 THE BEACON RAY A quarterly newsletter from NIT Warangal March 2021 | vol. 2 Issue. 1 FOREWORD Dear colleagues, Strategic Action Plan has been Hope all of you and your family are doing well and are safe prepared with short term and long during the COVID-19. term goals. I congratulate the Dean The Institute has been making good progress on all the (Faculty Welfare) for the success of fronts. The Academic activities are going on smoothly. The this elaborate exercise. first semester examinations have been successfully The Institute has been in the completed and the results have been declared for all the forefront in implementing the NEP- students, except for the freshly admitted batches. The class 2020. Detailed discussions were held work for the Second semester has started on a smooth note. at various levels and all the departments have come out with I congratulate the Dean (Academic) and his team for this actionable points. As a first step in this direction of success. All the faculty members have been equipped with implementing the NEP-2020, the Institute is starting a 5- the required digital tools including Laptops. I congratulate the years integrated M.Sc programme from the next academic entire team of the Administration for their alacrity in pursuing year, 2021-22. This is only a beginning, but we have a long this significant achievement in a short span of time. The way to go before all the provisions of the NEP-2020 are Institute Administration has been continuously striving to completely implemented. With curriculum revision on the improve the working environment in the Institute. cards, I am confident that the NEP team under the guidance Our faculty have been continuously pursuing R&D. It is learnt of the Advisor (CRRM) will come out with an action plan with that 14 New Projects worth Rs. 3.50 crore have been short term and long term goals. sanctioned recently by DST to our faculty. Similarly, two more The Institute is preparing an action plan for NBA patens have been sanctioned in the last few months. accreditation of all the eligible programmes. Quality Congratulations to all these faculty colleagues for their assessment is an essential part in evaluating the overall achievements. Our students have been performing ranking of the Institute. Our faculty colleagues are exceedingly well on all fronts. Some of our final year and enthusiastically involved in compiling the details and graduated students have scored very good ranks in the CAT presenting them in the best possible format so that all the 2020 Examination. Congratulations to all of them. eligible programmes are accredited to the maximum period. The NITW Alumni Association has been doing great work. In The Institute is slowly recovering from the Covid effect. All response to a call given to them to help the needy students the Faculty and Staff are working in the offline mode. Efforts of the Institute by donating Laptops, nearly 150 Laptops have are also being made to open the Institute for the students in been donated by the Alumni. The efforts of Mr. Ramana a phased manner. The Dean (Students Welfare) and the Chief Rayavarapu (B.Tech–ECE-1983 batch) Toronto Canada, and Warden are working out the modalities for effective Mr. Sudhir Subbaraman (B. Tech-Mechanical-1994 batch) implementation of the SOP for the students to return to the Bangalore – (both working for CGI, have facilitated the Hostels. donation of 91 Laptops from their company) are specially I congratulate the Editorial Board of the Newsletter for appreciated in this regard. compiling all the details and bringing out in this neat format. Seven Working Groups have been constituted in the Finally, I would like to remind all the colleagues that Teaching Institute to develop strategies to improve the standing of the and Research have to go hand in hand for the development Institute in general and the NIRF ranking of the Institute in and better ranking of the Institute. Let us all resolve to work particular. All these groups have made elaborate exercise and hard and keep the flag of NIT Warangal high. came out with detailed action plans on the respective themes. - Prof. N. V. Ramana Rao Director , NIT Warangal Detailed presentations have been made by these groups and the actionable items were thoroughly discussed. Finally, the Brief Report on Working Groups Though the Working Groups submitted a soft copy to the Dean In order to improve the overall performance of the Institute (FW), at the behest of respected rector, the presentations were given by Chairperson all working groups, spread over in 2 days in general and NIRF ranking in particular, and keeping in view and 3 sessions per day. the aspects which are taken into consideration for ranking The presentations were scheduled on 21&25 January 2021, purpose, 7 working groups have been constituted by the inviting all Deans, Advisors, Registrar HoDs, and faculty. The Director. Director was kind enough to sit all through the presentations. The composition of each group is such that a senior professor The deliberations were effective and majority of the faculty as Chairperson, at the institute level, a convener and members have actively interacted. drawn across all the departments of the institute, forming a The Director also gave presentation on all the aspects of NIRF heterogeneous group. ranking and metrics involved and also compared the The Working Groups were given free hand to come out plan of performance of Institute across 4 years. action after going through the existing practices at the institute. Induction Program 2020 for I B.Tech Students morning from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and creative arts session Upholding the convention, NITW has led its annual Induction in the evening from 3:15 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Programme for the students of batch 2020-24, amidst the Universal Human Values (UHV): This course being specifically pandemic. Introduced by MHRD, the induction programme designed helps out the students with an exposure to human and includes the activities namely Universal Human Values, Creative societal concerns. The series of sessions promise the arts, Lectures by eminent speakers, English Proficiency etc. development of holistic perspective based on self-exploration Induction Programme for first year was inaugurated on 2nd Dec. about themselves, family, society, nature, existence, in addition 2020 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 AM. The main purpose of this to understanding of harmony in the human being. The course is event was to create awareness regarding various activities to taught by the faculty with pre-existent grip on the content. enhance social and personal qualities in students. Starting with CREATIVE ARTS: Students learn about the culture and Dr. J.V.Ramana Murthy, Dean (Student Welfare), Professor of community through creative arts. With the ability of choosing, Mathematics Dept. NITW. He gave a brief introduction on clubs, NITW offers a group of activities like dance, karate, events and ended with motivational speech. After that Prof. N.V. photography, painting and more. These acts aid the students a Ramana Rao, Director NITW, gave speech on NITW history and cognitive growth thereby amplifying the potential to invent new ranking. After that Prof. Rajeev Sangal, former Director, IIT ways of creation. On day 2 there was also a presentation on BHU, started his speech with the story of tortoise and rabbit and LMS which is a platform for online learning. Later after the lunch concluded that we should develop qualities besides analytical break there was an address by the Registrar and the Deans. abilities. At the end, he answered student’s queries and appreciated all the students. Later the Academic activities were On day 3 there was continuation on LMS in which students were presented by Dr. A. Venugopal, Dean (Academic) and Dr. made more familiar to the platform and the doubts were Harikumar Voruganti, Associate Dean (Academics-UG). The cleared. After the Lunch break there was a guest lecture by Mr main objective of the event was “Academic Rules and D Murali an Alumni of NITW. The day ended with creative arts Regulations”. The following objectives were explained in detail: session. On Day 4 after UHV session there was a guest lecture by Dr. BVR Mohan Reddy from Cyient. After the lunch break 1. Rules and Regulations, 2. Attendance, 3. Academic Calendar, there was an English Proficiency session of one hour. 4. Credentials and Grading, 5. Synchronous and Asynchronous Classes and 6. Exams. After it different departments were Day 5 started with the UHV session followed by the address of introduced by their respective HOD’s. The event also included Chief Warden to the students about the Hostel and Mess rules student’s doubts clarifying session. With this day 1 ended. From and regulations. Then TEQIP coordinator told the students about Day 2 there were daily Universal Human values sessions in the TEQIP and its functions. After this CCPD (Centre for Carrier Planning and Development) Head told the students about by creative arts. The day was ended by a session in which placement procedure, companies visiting our college and Secretaries of Student’s Council told about the Institute festivals placement stats of last few years. and the Institute Clubs. General Secretaries of few clubs also presented a glimpse of their clubs to the students. After this Centre for Innovation and Incubation (CII) Head told the students about CII with a presentation and few CII members Day 6, it was the last day of the induction programme. Started also spoke about it. Next Student’s Council Secretaries told with UHV session which was followed by a Talk by Gurudev Sri about the functioning of the council.
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