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We are pleased to state that with the completion of recent election for Deputy Secretary post, all the posts of Board of Directors for our alumni association have been filled up.
The Board of Directors (BoD) consists of 14 elected directors and 3 appointed directors (one each from Institute, Faculty and Students). The 14 directors include seven pairs of directors and deputy directors.
For the post of Deputy Secretary, we received two nominations. The candidate was selected by online voting by Council of Representatives (CoR) members. Online voting results can be viewed at:
https://www.itbhuglobal.org/elections/pollingbooth/?q=node/6
Total 40 votes (out of 145 members of CoR) were cast. Akash Surana (Chemical 2006) was declared elected for the post. The new Board of Directors will hold the post for two years, i.e. till March 2011. The Board will start its regular business shortly.
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Following is the list of directors appointed for new board of IT-BHU Global Alumni Association:
1. President: Vish Laxminarayanan (Electrical 1983), Michigan, USA
2. Vice President: Arvind Gupta (Electronics 1992), New Delhi, India
3. Secretary: Amit Gupta (Chemical 1996), Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4. Deputy Secretary: Akash Surana (Chemical 2006), Sumerpur, Rajasthan, India
5. Treasurer: Vibhore Kumar (CSE 2002), Mamaroneck, New York, USA
6. Deputy Treasurer: Shalabh Goyal (Electrical 2002), San Jose, CA
7. Director - External Affairs: Yogesh K Upadhyaya (Chemical 1977), New Jersey, USA
8. Deputy Director - External Affairs: Ramendra Singh (Mechanical 1996), Ahmedabad, India
9. Director - Institute Affairs: Prof. Brij Bansal (Mechanical 1967), Varanasi, India
10. Deputy Director - Institute Affairs: Puneet Bindlish (Mining 2002), New Delhi, India
11. Director - Website: Anand Singh (Electronics 1993) Singapore
12. Deputy Director - Website: Animesh Pathak (CSE 2003), Paris, France
13. Director - Reunions: Nihal Ansari (Mechanical 1982), New Delhi, India
14. Deputy Director - Reunions: Rajat Kashyap (Electrical 2006), Hyderabad, India
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(Report forwarded by Rikki Maheshwari. Email: rikkimaheshwari@ gmail.com)
An informal get together of alumni was held in Bombay on Saturday April 11 afternoon at Moti Mahal, Bandra (West) in Bombay. The meeting was planned by alumni volunteers, Rikki Maheshwari (Ceramic 2008), Abhishek Sancheti (Chemical 2005) and others.
It was an informal get together arranged at short notice and around 15 alumni attended the meeting. During the meeting, it was decided to form a core team of volunteers and spread the news for organizing alumni meet in about two months. The senior most member in the get together was Arun Anant (Chemical 1985) followed by Puneet Krishna and Sumanta Majee (both from Metallurgy 1998). Rests of the alumni were from 2000's batches.
Arun shared some wonderful experiences of his time and was really enthusiastic for the next alumni meet. It was decided to pitch for the next alumni meet with a target of 100+ people.
Rikki Maheshwari
(Ceramic 2008)
Mumbai
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The Tri-state chapter alumni meet was held on Saturday evening on April 25 at Urban Spice Restaurant in Oak Tree Road, Edison, New Jersey. Total 13 alumni attended the meet. It included Dr. Krishna Kumar (Pharma 1972) and few other senior alumni (Chandrakant Trivedi, Dushyant Desai and Vinod Shah) from Pharma batches of 1970’s. Dr. Krishna Kumar is Professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Howard University, Washington, DC.
There were also few alumni (Nikhil Miraj, Mahesh Mohanty, Akshay Jain and Sandeep Mehta) from the batches of 1990’s and 2000’s who attended the meeting for the first time. A few came from Connecticut. Among the regular members were: Yogesh Upadhyaya, Manu Goyal, Anil Singh, Ravi Gupta and Anand Maharana. Prof. Devesh Kapur (Chemical 1983) and Professor at U Penn, Philadelphia planned to attend meeting but could not attend due to personal reasons.
The meeting went very well and it was a great time for professional networking even within the small group. The issue about IIT conversion, launching of alumni funded projects in near future and strengthening of association was also discussed.
It was planned to have next meeting fully family oriented, by providing some fun and activities for spouses and children. The next meeting is planned around next October and efforts will be made to have more alumni (about 40-50) to attend the meet.
Yogesh Upadhyaya
Chemical 1977
Email: Yogesh@optonline.net
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(Report forwarded by Lakhwinder Singh Civil 2006. Email: lakhwinder.singh@gmail.com)
The meeting of alumni of Washington DC chapter was held as planned on April 11, 2009. This was the 2nd meet of the DC chapter. Fourteen IT-BHU alumni and their families attended the meet at Heritage India Hotel, Washington DC. In this informal meeting the key topics discussed by the alumni were their unforgettable moments back from IT-BHU, and its conversion to IIT.
The DC chapter will be going to have many more informal and formal meetings in the future for any concerns please contact our volunteers:
Ritu Bajpai (Elect 2006) ritu.bajpai@gmail.com
Amit Pandey (Mining 2003) amitpandey02@gmail.com
Thanking You,
IT-BHU Alumni Washington DC Chapter
IT BHU DC Chapter itbhu.alumni.dc.chapter@gmail.com
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Mr. Srikumar Mukherjee is working as Senior Director, Oracle Customer care & Quality at Oracle India Private Limited, Gurgaon, Haryana.
(Srikumar Mukherjee)
His interview was published in Oracle article titled “Oracle Bounces Back” in Dataquest Magazine, February 15. 2009 issue.
The article can be viewed as PDF file. Click here.Oracle Bounces back-Dataquest.pdf
He can be contacted at: srikumar.mukherjee@ oracle.com
Profile of Srikumar on Oracle India website:
SRIKUMAR MUKHERJEE is a B. Tech in Electronics Engineering and M. Tech in Electronic Instrumentation from Banaras Hindu University. He is having over 32 years of experience in Sales, Service and Manufacturing functions. He has worked in various corporate organisations as well as in Government department in various capacities. He is one of the few real-time mainframe computer specialists in India. He is a recipient of United Nations Fellowship award. Since last 16 years he is in the field of ERP. He has led as well as has been associated with several ERP implementations in the country.
He has been with Oracle India for the last 13 years and currently he is the Senior Director for Customer Care in Oracle India, heading the corporate initiative in Customer Care and is responsible for success in the implementation of ERP and e- business projects of Oracle customers in India. He is the winner Oracle Values Champion award for South Asia region.
In Oracle India, his organisation is the single point of contact for the Customers. He promotes the Customer Advocacy, Customer Centricity within Oracle India. The processes developed by him are being followed by the other countries in APAC region.
He brings in rich experience in the areas of sales and marketing, especially in the field of Relationship Marketing - its concepts, its values and various other aspects. He is a follower of basic corporate values like Trust, Integrity, Respect and Innovation and he inculcates the same in the daily corporate activities. His skills in the areas of Business Processes Re-engineering, Change Management and Adoption of Learning have helped many organisations in the country to gain competitive advantage in their businesses.
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Additional Link:
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
http://www.aioug.org/index.php
Profile of Srikumar Mukherjee on Oracle India website:
http://www.aioug.org/boardofdirectors.php
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http://www.allbusiness.com/science-technology/materials-science-technology/12267029-1.html
(Karthik H Obla)
HEADNOTE
Twenty-eight members to be honored in San Antonio
At the upcoming ACI 2009 Spring Convention, ACI will recognize its newest group of members who have attained the rank of Fellow of the American Concrete Institute (FACI). The new Fellows will be introduced during the Opening Session and Awards Program on March 15. The spring convention is scheduled for March 15-19 at the Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, TX.
As stated in the ACI Bylaws, a Fellow is an individual who has made "outstanding contributions to the production or use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education, research, development, design, construction, or management." The Fellows Nomination Committee selects those to be considered for the award, and then forwards its recommendations to the Board of Direction for final action at its fall meeting. Nominations may come from the committee itself, from local chapters, from the International Committee, or by petition signed by at least five current ACI members.
The ACI Board of Direction approved the nominations of this latest group of honorees at the ACI 2008 Fall Convention in St. Louis, MO. Including the new honorees, 699 members have attained the rank of FACI, first established by the Institute in 1973.
ACI's new Fellows are:
Karthikeyan H. Obla is the Managing Director, Research and Materials Engineering at the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA), Silver Spring, MD. Prior to joining NRMCA in 2003, he worked as a Technical Manager at Boral Material Technologies for 6 years.
He is Secretary of ACI Committee 232, Fly Ash and Natural Pozzolans in Concrete, and is a member of ACI Committees 201, Durability of Concrete; 211, Proportioning Concrete Mixtures; 365, Service Life Prediction; 555, Concrete with Recycled Materials; and C601-B, Certified Quality Technical Manager. He is a Past Secretary of ACI Committee 236, Material Science of Concrete, and a past member of ACI Committees 222, Corrosion of Metals in Concrete; 350, Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures; 544, Fiber Reinforced Concrete; and the Chapter Activities Committee. He is a Past Vice-President and Past President of the ACI San Antonio Chapter. Obla is an active member of various ASTM International and Transportation Research Board (TRB) technical committees and has authored or co-authored over 50 technical papers and reports.
Obla's research interests include concrete materials technology, specifications, test methods, and the use of recycled materials.
He received his bachelor's degree in technology in civil engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, in 1991, and his MS and PhD in civil engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. He is a licensed professional engineer in Michigan
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Additional link:
Acceptance Criteria for durability Tests of Concrete
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12638611/ci2905obla
American Concrete Institute
http://www.concrete.org/general/home.asp
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
Biography of Dr. Karthik H Obla on NRMCA website:
http://nrmca.org/about/Staff-Bio-KObla.asp
Karthik Obla Ph. D., P.E.
Managing Director, Research and Materials Engineering
Karthik has over 18 years of experience in concrete technology, research, materials, and products. He oversees NRMCA’s concrete laboratory and research program. His expertise is in the field of concrete materials technology, specifications, and the use of mineral and chemical admixtures. He is a Fellow of ACI and a winner of ACI’s Young Professional Achievement Award. Dr. Obla is an active member of various ACI, ASTM, and TRB technical committees and serves as Chair for ASTM C09.49 – Pervious Concrete and ACI 232 – Fly ash. He has published over 50 technical articles in journals and has presented in several international conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Michigan and Maryland. He served as Vice-President and President for the ACI San Antonio Chapter. Prior to joining NRMCA in 2003 he was Technical Manager at Boral Material Technologies for several years.
Email: KObla@nrmca.org
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Dr. Radha Shelat, Vice President and General Manager, Librato India
(Dr. Radha Shelat)
Dr. Radha Shelat is Vice President and General Manager of Librato India, responsible for leading Librato's product development center in Pune, India. She brings over 20 years of experience in enterprise software engineering to Librato and has done extensive work with high volume and distributed storage technologies. Prior to joining Librato, she was Chief Technology Officer for Symantec India. During her 13 year tenure at VERITAS Software and later Symantec India, Radha played a vital role in its growth from a team of four engineers to over 1,000.
Radha holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, and has taught and consulted at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Additional link
Librato India
Radha Shelat-Programming Growth
http://india-inc.in/Radha-Shelat.html
Biography of Dr. Radha Shelat in Data Quest magazine, June 2005:
http://dqindia.ciol.com/content/top_stories/2005/105062706.asp
Queen of Technology
Monday, June 27, 2005
Radha Shelat is synonymous with Veritas Software. After all this statistician from IT BHU (she did her PhD in probability theory) has been an active member of the core India leadership team that has spearheaded its growth from a four-member organization to over 1,000 people currently. Today the Pune-based Veritas Software is the largest R&D center globally for the $2.4 bn Veritas Software, one of the 10 largest software companies in the world.
Hailing from a conservative and traditional Gujarati family settled in Varanasi did not prevent her parents from ensuring that she gets the best education. As a student, Shelat also did well in sports-she was part of the University team in badminton and table tennis, and even played in the district basketball team. "But, in our society, it is important to get your focus back to education," she sighs.
She moved to Mumbai in 1987 when she got married and joined research at IIT Bombay. The next four years was devoted to research and some part-time consulting. Shelat's life changed in 1992, when she spotted an advertisement in the newspaper from Frontier Software, who were looking for people with Unix skills. "A work profile like the one I was offered at Frontier was something that was unimaginable outside the IITs at that time," Shelat recalls. Veritas later acquired Frontier and Shelat moved with her team of four to join Veritas Software India in 1994.
Shelat places high impetus on building a good core team that helps provide effective leadership to the product development teams. In fact, this has been her biggest challenge in the last 12 years. Veritas was not only a lesser-known name in the IT industry, the Pune address also played spoilsport. But that did not hamper her spirits and she personally accompanied the team during the initial years of recruitment. "Attracting the right people was the challenge, retention was not," says Shelat. Some of these people continue to work for Veritas today. The team got together and designed question papers for entrance tests, solving which was considered to be a big challenge even at the IITs till some time back.
Today, the difficult years are over. Shelat and her team-she insists she could not have done all this without the cooperation of her team at Veritas-have established a place for Veritas Software in India. But that's not enough for Radha Shelat. Her next goal is to build a strong team of independent thinkers and innovators who would make "invented in India" a reality. Currently, 30% of the annual global patents at Veritas come from India. She wants to see this figure rise significantly.
Shelat's success is especially noteworthy because one gets to see very few women in this field. "Women tend to struggle with personal and professional challenges," explains Shelat. "You also need a lot of perseverance and family support to continue in this field," she adds. Till a couple of years back, Shelat would only take time off from work when she would go trekking with her husband. But things are a little different now with the presence of their daughter Arundhati, 4, whom the couple has adopted recently. "It's so fulfilling to be a mother. I feel like a complete woman," says Shelat.
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(Chronicle note: Nikesh Arora has been appointed by Google as President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development. He is the highest ranking and the most successful executive among our alumni.)
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/apr/17/nikesh-arora-googles-new-sales-boss.htm
April 17, 2009
(Nikesh Arora)
Tucked into the first quarter report that showed an 8.45 per cent increase in Google's net profitability was another announcement. Nikesh Arora, president, international operations and known for running Google Europe, would be replacing Omid Kordestsani, the current global sales boss.
This will make him the top-ranking Indian in Google.
Here's what the Google statement said:
'After ten years of building and managing our global sales and partnership operations, Omid Kordestani has decided to hand over the reins to Nikesh Arora, currently president of international operations, and take on a new role as senior advisor, office of the CEO and founders.
'Continued growth is essential to our future success and no one is better placed to advise on new revenue opportunities than Omid, the business founder of Google.
'In his new role as president, global sales operations and business development, Nikesh Arora will have responsibility for all Google's revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships. He has a proven track record at Google, having spent the last four and a half years building our European operations into a substantial business.
Here's some more interesting info about Arora. The Independent reports that Arora, who is nearly 40, was recruited by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in an interview conducted among the artefacts of the
'We walked around. We looked at the exhibits and a lot of our conversation was about the Rosetta stone,' says Arora, referring to an Egyptian artefact that dates to 196BC and is inscribed in three languages. The Greek wording enabled scholars to decipher the hieroglyphics and was a major breakthrough in Egyptology. Arora says: 'We discussed how it was an amazing parallel to Google translating its services around the world.'
As this informal interview concluded, Arora left the museum but Brin continued to tour the exhibits. Ten days later Arora learned that he had the job.
He was the first Google vice president to be appointed outside the
Here's something else he told The Independent: 'I enjoy working in places which are very fast-moving and where things are changing. As my life takes on a steady pattern I do things to undo the pattern,' he says.
Before joining Google, Arora was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile, where he's said to have spearheaded all product development, terminals, brand and marketing activities of T-Mobile Europe.
He started working with Deutsche Telekom in 1999 and founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. In his pre-Deutsche Telekom days, Nikesh held management positions at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in
Arora holds a master's degree and CFA certification from
Times Online adds that Arora was born in
Clearly, he didn't look back.
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Additional links:
Nikesh Arora on Google Page
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#nikesh
Nikesh Arora
President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development
Nikesh oversees all revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led Google's global direct sales operations. He also developed and managed the company's operations in the European, Middle Eastern and African markets and was responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships in those regions for the benefit of Google's growing number of users and advertisers.
With a background as an analyst, Nikesh's main areas of focus have been consulting, IT, marketing and finance. Prior to joining Google, he was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile. While there he spearheaded all product development, terminals, brand and marketing activities of T-Mobile Europe. In 1999, he started working with Deutsche Telekom and founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Nikesh held management positions at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in
Nikesh holds a master's degree from
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Meet Google's New Global Sales Boss, Nikesh Arora (GOOG)
http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-googles-new-global-sales-boss-nikesh-arora-2009-4
Chronicle interviews Nikesh Arora in November 2006 issue
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2006/11/
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(Report forwarded by Ravish Mishra, Electrical 2004. Email: ravish.mishra@gmail.com
(Vibhor Gupta)
Our Alumni, Vibhor Gupta and Sachin Garg started a company named Wit Innovation (www.witinnovation.com) in the year 2006. Both of them are Electrical-2000 pass out, Vibhor also holds a degree from ISB Hyderabad. All these years company has primarily been into IT application development market and software consultancy services model, and has served many International and Indian clients. They also intend to soon enter into the software products market as well.
The company is primarily focused on web (LAMP, .NET, Java), mobile (J2ME, Symbian, Android, Blackberry) and embedded systems (Barcodes, RFID, HID, Serial/ TCP/IP Communication) related application development and have their customers spanning across Canada, US, UK, Venezuela, Germany and India.
Wit Innovation announces 5% of the revenues to go to ITBHU
As ITBHU alumnus they want to give something back to institution and have decided that 5% of their revenues which are coming from any ITBHU related channel will go to ITBHU welfare. We thoroughly welcome that move.
If you want to give a hand in getting more funds to ITBHU by helping the company in any manner please contact Sachin or Vibhor. They can be reached at sachin@witinnovation.com and vibhor@witinnovation.com respectively.
For more information about us, please visit www.witinnovation.com.
Thanks,
Sachin Garg and Vibhor Gupta
About Witinnovation from the company website:
About Us:
Wit Innovation Technologies Pvt. Ltd. was conceived and founded in May 2006 by 2 enthusiastic technocrats and management graduates from prestigious institutes like IT-BHU and ISB with overall accumulated software experience of close to 20 years.
The idea behind starting Wit Innovation was to build a product company with continuous stream of revenues and cash flow from services lines of business..
Wit Innovation Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an IT solutions and Innovation company that thinks beyond the obvious customer needs and delivers solutions to global customers that are ahead of its times and exceed customer expectations.
Wit Innovation currently offers a wide array of solutions customized for a range of key verticals and horizontals like ERP, Survey, Access Control, Stock Trading, CRM, etc. Wit Innovation offers the range of expertise to help customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. Wit Innovation aspires to help clients maximize the ROI (Return on Investment) from their IT investments with its highly effective suite of services driven by effective delivery model. Wit Innovation’s effective delivery model allows it to deliver the best of breed solutions to its customers to help them become more competitive.
At Wit Innovation, we provide affordable technology solutions to the enterprises. Apart from Application development and maintenance, we have a strong focus in embedded systems and mobile handhelds. Our range of service offerings helps organizations (especially Small Medium Enterprises) to reduce their TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and make IT an integrated part of their organizations. We follow a step-by-step approach to understand the business needs of our customers and help them solve by subsequent implementation of the chosen solution.
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(Jaskirat Singh, along with others, started several website to monitor elections in India, to provide unbiased election related information and to create awareness about it among voters. He can be contacted at: jaskirats@gmail.com.)
Related Websites:
http://www.nationalelectionwatch.org/
http://www.adrindia.org/home/index.asp
(Jaskirat Singh)
Introduction by Jaskirat Singh
Our website, http://myneta.info is aimed at voters and citizens of India to help them make an informed choice when they go out to vote. All the candidates are required to file an affidavit giving details of their pending criminal charges, past convictions, assets, liabilities and education with their nomination papers to the election commission. We are collecting copies of those affidavits from all over the country for the candidates of the current Lok Sabha elections, and making their data available to people and media in an easy to access and easy to understand format. The process of collecting affidavits, processing their data into reports and disseminating it via web, media, SMS campaigns is what we call Election Watch. Every state has an election watch group that manages it in the respective states. There are about 1200 NGOs in all who are involved all over India in this. Further this campaign has been supported by Aamir Khan whose "Sachhe ko Chuney, Achche ko Chuney" ads are being shown on various TV channels.
This website has been a smashing hit and has already served a huge numbers of visitors from India and abroad. Within first two weeks the total number of visitors has crossed six figures.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) is an NGO which won PIL in the supreme court of India which resulted in these affidavits being made compulsory for candidates filing nominations. A lot more info on that is available on their website http://www.adrindia.org
I got involved with them first in 2007 when they wanted to do Punjab Election Watch for assembly elections and I volunteered for them during that. As I am a web developer running my own business, I thought it would be nice if we could create a web based data entry and reporting system which can make this information reach farther and faster. The reports generated from this software have been in the headlines in most national dailies from the past one month or so. That database also feeds myneta.info.
I am presently also the North Zone Coordinator for the National Election Watch.
I run www.webrosoft.com, a dot.com company
Thanks,
Jaskirat Singh
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From the websites:
About National Election Watch
The National Election Watch (NEW) is a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1200 NGO and other citizen led organizations working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India.
National Election Watch is active in almost all states of India and has done election watch for all states and Lok Sabha elections since ADR, along with couple other organizations, won the PIL in Supreme Court in 2002 to making disclosure of educational, financial and criminal background of electoral candidates mandatory.
Lots of people around the country are questioning what our elected representatives do. Do you know what the responsibilities of our elected representatives are?
Although a few responsibilities of the elected representatives are defined, the fact is that their responsibilities are very fluid. In fact, citizens and voters of their constituency can and should approach them for any problem that affects general public – be it related to education, health, transport, or any issue affecting general public.
The purpose of this site is several folds:
* Give information on the elected representatives – everything that they give in their affidavits.
* Give information about a constituency – various human development index parameters.
* Give a chance to the general public to give comments on work done by their elected representatives.
* Rate various representatives based on peoples’ comments and improvement shown in their constituency during their tenure, etc.
* Feed this feedback back to your elected representative, so that he has a chance to work on the feedback received from his constituency.
Get started by clicking here to find out more about your representatives and comment on how he/she is doing.
About ADR
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) is a Non-Political, Non-Partisan and a Non-Governmental Organization whose PIL filed in Dec 1999 culminated in a Supreme Court order on Mar 13, 2003 requiring disclosure of criminal, financial and educational background of all contesting candidates. Since then ADR has done Election Watches in almost all State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
ADR continues to works towards strengthening democracy and governance in India by focusing on fair and transparent electoral and political processes. It is currently conducting election watch is all states going for assembly polls. You can learn more about ADR at: www.adrindia.org
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http://www.nationalelectionwatch.org/main/aamir_speaks
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FOR IMMEDIDATE RELEASE
THE WEBSITE http://myneta.info GIVING CONTESTING CANDIDATES
INFORMATION A SMASHING HIT SAYS NATIONAL ELECTION WATCH
New Delhi, April 27, 2009 - MYNETA.INFO has been a smashing hit, with the number of visitors crossing into six digits within the first two weeks of its launch. This website presents profiles of all candidates contesting Lok Sabha 2009 elections all over India based on contents of their affidavits.
What most visitors found exceptional about this website was not only that it provides full details of pending criminal charges, convicted cases, asset details, liability details and education details of all candidates, but also the comparison charts for each constituency which they can use as a powerful aid in making an informed choice for their vote.
These charts have also been used by NGOs to print posters and leaflets for their constituencies for the benefit of those who do not use internet.
"We got more than twenty thousand visitors on 22nd April with page views surging to 3.5 lakh, which is the highest so far on any single day. From the day one of the launch of this website we have been flooded with hundreds of messages a day with feedback and comments which has been very encouraging." said Jaskirat Singh the architect of this website.
"It has been blogged about and linked to by scores of Bloggers and that has been a significant source of visitors. This has also spawned many discussions on various popular discussion forums and community websites like Orkut and Face Book. Other than that we have been getting a very big percentage of visitors from search engines who find myneta.info while searching on Google etc. for information about their constituencies and candidates." he added.
The candidate information from this website also feeds the replies to SMS queries generated by TV advertisements of "Sachhe ko Chuney, Achche ko Chuney" campaign by Aamir Khan.
Data presented on myneta.info is also being shared with a number of other websites on the internet which are using it in their own way in raising voter awareness like www.bharatvotes.org and the much talked about "Google 2009 Lok Sabha Elections - Be an Informed Voter!" Campaign.
Contact
Jaskirat Singh
North Zone Coordinator – National Election Watch
webmaster@myneta.info
093160-84953
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About Webrosoft
Webrosoft is a young dot.com company. It specializes in web application development and online retail.
Jaskirat Singh has been running web and e-commerce business since 1999. He specializes in creating web applications which are both user and search engine friendly.
The company is based at Ludhiana, Punjab.
Jaskirat Singh, Director and CEO
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(Forwarded by Animesh Pathak, CSE 2003. Email: Animesh@gmail.com)
We are pleased to state that website run by our alumni association has received approval from Google Apps Team through its email dated April 17, 2009.
The Google offer is for www.itbhuglobal.org, the official website for IT-BHU global Alumni Association. We are currently using Google Apps, but with limited numbers of accounts and features. Now, with our non-profit status and Google approval, we can have unlimited numbers of accounts and more features to use.
The institute’s website www.itbhu.ac.in already receives Google Apps services due to accredited educational institution status of IT-BHU. In fact, our institute was among the first institutes in India to use Google Apps. The institute’s website was set up with a dedicated group of alumni led by Anshuman Singh (Electrical 1998).
The approval is given by Google after we received tax-exempt status (as a non-profit organization) from Internal Revenue Service of US Government last month.
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/03/index-alumni-world.php#004193
The best part is that now the Google Apps is free to us because of US Govt. granting us status as non-profit organization. Google Apps provides free service to recognized Educational Institutes and organizations with non-profit status.
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About Google Apps:
The Google Apps service was launched in August 2006. Google Apps provides the users of a domain with large email boxes just like Gmail (which they can also read using outlook and mobile phones, and also forward to normal addresses). In addition, it also allows them to use shared documents and spreadsheets, much like you do today using Google docs.
The big part is - the users can now have IDs @itbhuglobal.org, and we can give proper email inboxes (with POP/IMAP/space) to ALL our members, as opposed to simple email redirection.
The users can also create their own small websites on a section of our website such as http://sites.itbhuglobal.org/ (this will be of interest to our future plan for providing users personal pages in version2 of the alumni website)
Google also allows programmatic access to these services, so we can easily integrate this with our existing alumni database system.
More info about Google apps for education (also for non-profits, currently being used in itbhu.ac.in) is at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html
Google app is a set of capabilities that are provided by Google as an online service.
These capabilities include
1. Email accounts
2. Google Docs
3. Google Calendar etc. etc.
We can integrate these capabilities into our website; and all of that with the domain of itbhuglobal.org
All the mailing lists that we have today are managed via the Google email application; so all things like scholarships@itbhuglobal.org are being handled via Google and we don't have to do anything much on our servers.
Just for information, the entire official email of IT-BHU is run via Google Apps. All emails sent to xyz@itbhu.ac.in are actually handled by the Google system. It provides email facility for 3700+ people including all students, faculty and staff.
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Additional link:
Google Apps Education Edition
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html
Google Apps Home Page
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html
Google Apps official blog
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/
Google Apps in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Apps
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Introduction:
The summer internship (or industrial training) is compulsory for the students in our institute. It is usually taken during summer break after 3rd year. However, because of the practical advantage of training in understanding the subject and for future career growth, students try to take training also after 2nd year or even after 1st year of study.
The summer internship is a burning question for our students, since it is compulsory and they are more worry of getting it than getting a job later. With number of students increasing each year at our institute and limited number of offers available from companies due to current economic downturn, any help shall be useful to students. In fact, many students get internship through sponsorship by alumni owned or managed companies.
Last year we admitted 600 students to our institute. In next 3 years, it will go up to 925 students after implementation of 54% OBC quota. That means 1850 students (counting both 2nd and 3rd year) competing for internships in the area of their interest and locations. This does not include students desire to get training after completion of 1st year.
As a first step, our alumni volunteers have contacted some of the alumni requesting to provide internship to their companies. Most of the internship is currently provided through TPO (Training & Placement Office) of our institute. Since internship/training is part of curriculum, all requests must finally go through our TPO.
The second and third year students will finish their semester exams by around the 10th of May (latest), and are advised to start with their internships immediately after that. For students left over without any training/internship in hand, we have provided the list of companies (mostly IT companies) who are still willing to take few students. The list is also posted on our website:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/angels/archives/2009/04/internships.php
The list is only partial list showing the still vacant positions, as most of the slots are already filled up in other companies. We advise our students to search for internship few months in advance. We shall publish more articles on summer internship with much more details later this year.
At the end, we have produced a news item about internship problem being handled by IIT-Bombay for its students. I hope it will be useful to our students and readers.
Company | Type of work available/ skills required/ Remarks | Duration | Location | Positions available | Acco- | Stipend | Contact |
The official alumni portal of ITBHU, | Web blog/ content management experience, PHP, mysql | 11-May-2009 to 30-June-2009 | Gurgaon | 2 | Yes | No | animesh@gmail.com |
binary mantra systems | .Net/Java/ Open source. Mobile/web 2.0 solutions development | 11-May-2009 to 30-June-2009 | Pune | 2 | No | No | anshul.gupta@binarymantrasystems.com |
BDI Systems & Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Prior Coding experience required | 11-May-2009 to 30-June-2009 | Bangalore | 2 | No | No | avin.jain@bdisys.com |
Management Trainee- HR/Training | 11-May-2009 to 30-June-2009 | Gurgaon | 1 | Yes | No | shubham@mind-matter.org |
Article:
IIT-B start-ups a big hit with students
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1249273
Mihika Basu
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:39 IST
Mumbai: Harsh Shah, a third year Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay student is all set to intern in a start-up, an experience he says will enable him to sharpen his entrepreneurship skills. He is one of the 100 students who had registered for "start-up interns", a platform to create summer internship opportunities for the institute's third year B. Tech and dual degree students.
"The work profile of an intern in a big company is usually at a superficial level. On the other hand, profiles in a start-up are more in-depth, so it's better from the learning point of view," said Shah.
Nearly two weeks after the initiative was launched by IIT-Bombay's Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell), 15 students have already been placed.
"Students are very happy that we initiated this event. About 100 students registered. There are 65 openings and so far 15 students have been selected. The interviews are on in full swing and the process will take another three weeks," said T Manoj, media manager, E-Cell.
The initiative was aimed at fostering entrepreneurship among students. The idea was also to benefit students in this slowdown. Around 30% of the students at the institute are still looking for internships, said Manoj.
Now students like Shah are using the platform as an opportunity to opt for different profiles. A student of metallurgical engineering, he will handle marketing and corporate communications.
"You take decisions as an entrepreneur when you work in a start-up. And since I want to set up my own venture, it'll help me acquire necessary skill sets," said Shah.
About 32 companies are participating. The openings are in core engineering, marketing, business strategising, finance and web development.
Rahul Singh, founding member of Ideaforge (start-up), said that the initiative provided a perfect and convenient platform for students and start-ups to connect. "Since a large group could apply, we could evaluate a better set of people than we could have otherwise done," said Singh.
Pravesh Dudani, director co-founder of GreenHat Ventures (start-up), said that cost is a crucial factor for start-ups. "Instead of hiring people on a long-term basis, we can hire interns for a short period, make them work on challenging projects while giving them the freedom to be innovative."
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