Svechha is a non-profit organization initiated by an ITBHU alumnus, Puneet Bindlish, along with senior professionals from software industry. The main aim is to help people in need in the areas of children education, old age care, sponsoring libraries, medical care etc. As a first step, Svechha has adopted two projects, Trinity old home and Orphanage in L.B.Nagar, Hyderabad & Bala-vikas, a school for disabled kids in Kukatpally, Hyderabad.
Old age home is in bad need of funds to just have enough food and basic facilities for funds. Our main aim is to help them provide operational expenses for the age home and get more training material and sponsor poor disabled kids education. said Puneet Bindlish, Vice President, Svechha Foundation.
For raising funds & crating awareness, Svechha intends to do various fun & meaningful events. In the same pursuit, Svechha organized a fund-raising event called ROCK RHYTHMZ, first of its kind National Level Rock Contest. This event was also significant as it was the first Rock event of its kind for a social cause & also provided a platform for IT corporate Rock bands alongside professional bands participating.
Rock bands from Bombay, Pune, Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad participated in this contest along with corporate bands from IT companies like Microsoft, Oracle, CSC and Satyam. The pre-finals were conducted on March 2nd at PRASADS Multiplex. The final event was on March 3rd at Durgam Cheruvu, Hyderabad. Winners of Campus Rock Idol, History Makers gave a special performance dedicated to the beneficiaries of the event. The contest culminated with a DJ ball featured DJ Moksh.
The contest was won by Chennai Based band Panatella, followed up by Satyam Band as 1st runners up. Prizes were given by Famous Music Director, Chakri & other film personalities from Telugu Film Fraternity. The show was supported by TV9, Big FM, Caf Coffee Day, Vision Avenues, Prasads Multiplex, Hyderabad Central along with various volunteers from IT companies at Hyderabad like Oracle, Infosys, iSoft, SumTotal Systems, Satyam.
All the Svechha members and volunteers worked for this event without taking any compensation. All the funds raised now would be used to fund these two organizations and few other poor students in Andhra Pradesh. Lot of effort was put to reduce the expenses for the event so that the maximum go to the people in need Svechha Officials stated.
| Winners of Rock Rhythmz, Best Drummer and Best Bass | Panatella from Chennai |
| Runners and Best Vocalist | Satyam Band |
| Best Lead guitarist | Pushing Tin |
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| AUDITIONS | FINALISTS | HISTORY MAKERS | HONOURING OUR SPONSORS | |||||||
| OUR STRENGTH | PRIZE DISTRIBUTION | MISCELLANEOUS | VIDEO 1 VIDEO2 VIDEO3 |
 | (Puneet Bindlish graduated from the Dept. of Mining Engineering, IT-BHU in 2002 and is currently the CEO of Infogile Corporation, a fast paced IT development and software consulting company. He is also the Vice President of Svechha and his company, Infogile, has decided to extend life long assistance to Svechha in all its philanthropic efforts. For further information, email at info[at]svechha.org) |
(The above report is forwarded by Rajat Harlalka, Electrical 2002)