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The following is the report for fund-raising lunch event at Bangalore and meeting with our institute director on Nov 21, 2009.
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The Bangalore chapter of the IT-BHU Global Alumni Association (IBGAA) organized its Alumni Luncheon and IT-BHU fundraiser on Saturday, November 21, at the house of V. L. Narayanan (Electrical 1983, President, ITBGAA) in Jayanagar.
As luck would have it turned out to be a sunny day as the city was having one of its worst rainy weeks in years. Must be the blessings of the Kashi Vishwanath!
About 70 alumni showed up and they had a great time. The occasion was made special by the presence of Shri S. N. Upadhyay, Director of IT-BHU who flew in from Varanasi specially to meet alumni. He brought along with a box of Prasad from Sankat Mochan Mandir. Special guest was Prof V. V Challam, former head of Dept. of Electrical Engineering, who retired in 1988 and lives in Bangalore. The surprise participant was Shri Natarajan from the 1946 batch, who looked good for his age and reminisced fondly of Morvi and Rajputana hostels.
Food was excellent and by popular choice one of the local caterers (who happened to be from Banaras) made kachoris and jalebis on the lawns itself. Paan made the occasion memorable.
This being a fund-raiser occasion, we raised an all voluntary sum of Rs. 40,000 INR; checks were made out to the ITBGAA fund in Varanasi.
Quite a few of the alumni showed up from the 70’s and 80’s batch and they made it a point to schedule the next get together sometime in March.
The director made a short speech and gave us an update on the progress towards IIT-BHU. He added that if all goes well we expect the 2010 incoming batch of JEE entrants to be admitted to IIT-BHU.
Special Guests Included:
Prof. S. N. Upadhyay, Director, IT-BHU
Prof. V. V. Challam, former Head, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IT-BHU
Pankaj Chandra, Mining 1983, Director, IIM-Bangalore
Vish Narayanan, Electrical 1983 President, ITBHU Global Alumni Association
Mr. Natarajan (1946 batch)
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Photos of Bangalore meet on Nov 21, 2009
From left: Prof. S. N. Upadhyay talking with Prof. V. V. Challam and Vish Laxmi Narayanan (in white T-shirt) looking over
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