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A dinner reception for the Vice-Chancellor of our University, Prof. Dhirendra Pal Singh was hosted on May 8th at Royal Albert’s Palace, New Jersey. The event was organized to honour our VC, who was visiting US during April 21-May 9. He visited State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, New York; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Georgia. Besides New Jersey, VC was also honoured by alumni group at New York and Maryland. VC was accompanied by his wife and his friends, Mr. Pradeep Sengar, Mr. Vijay Kumar Pandya and Mrs. Ritu Pandya.
The reception was jointly organized by IT-BHU Global Alumni Association (IBGAA), BHU Alumni based in US (BHU Parivar) and BHU Pharmacists’ Alumni Association of America (BHUAAA). About 60 alumni and their families/friends attended the meet. It was a great success.
The program started with singing of BHU Kulgeet and introduction about our Vice-Chancellor. His brief bio-data was also read out. Then a Plaque commemorating visit to New Jersey was presented to our VC by Prof. B. D. Nautiyal (retired Civil Engineering Professor from our institute). This was followed by classical dance program.
Prof. D. P. Singh made a PowerPoint presentation about BHU, its glorious past and future plan. He stated that several new faculties/programs will be introduced at the main campus in Varanasi as well as at Rajiv Gandhi South campus at Barkachha in Mirzapur district. He stressed that development of South Campus will also result in the development of this economically poor area. He appealed for help for establishing international guest house/hostel on the main campus in Varanasi.
The presentation was followed by question/answers from the audience. Regarding conversion of IT-BHU to IIT, he replied that it will happen soon as the formalities are continuing. About upgrade of Institute of Medical Sciences to AIIMS level, he assured that this will result in more central govt. funding and improvement of facilities but the institute will not be separated from the university.
The event was made possible by the help of the following volunteers: Manu Goyal, Anil Singh and Anand Maharana from IBGAA (www.itbhuglobal.org); Sushil Srivastava, Mrs. Vijaya Keshari and Arvind Srivastava from BHU Parivar (http://www.bhuparivar.net/); Chandrakant Trivedi and Dushyant Desai from BHUPAA. The sound and video systems were arranged by Chandrakant Trivedi.
Photos:
The photo album of the event is loaded on PicasaWeb by Sushil Srivastava and can be viewed at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/110349515185954648441/DinnerWithVCBHU
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 Mrs. Vijaya Keshari offering bouquet to Mrs. D. P. Singh |  Yogesh Upadhyaya introducing VC |
 Sushil Srivastava introducing VC |  Chandrakant Trivedi introducing VC |
 Prof. B. D. Nautiyal honouring VC with a Plaque |  Classical dance by Khyati Pandya |
 Vice-Chancellor conducting PowerPoint presentation |  Audience |
 Audience |  Photo-opportunity with VC |
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Association of IT-BHU Alumni (AIBA) is a New Delhi based organization of alumni of our institute. AIBA held its 8th Annual General Meeting and 4th Alumni Awards on May 8th at Air Force Auditorium, New Delhi.
For report and other details, visit www.itbhuglobal.org at:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chapters/geo/delhi/archives/2010/05/report_agm2010.php
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Report: AGM-2010
Full Report Secretary's Report Event Photos Office Bearers-2010-12
The 8th IT-BHU Alumni AGM was hosted by AIBA (Association of IT-BHU Alumni) and was held at Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi (more details, see archived Invite). The evening witnessed a huge turn up and turned out to be a great evening for those who attended.
The Chief Guest for the event was Rajkumari Ratna Singh (Hon'ble Member of Parliament, Pratapgarh Constituency).
The evening started with the rich tradition by honoring the great founder of Banaras Hindu University, Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya ji with a floral tribute followed by lighting of lamp and the BHU Kulgeet. The aura created made everyone feel as if they were attending some event at the BHU Campus!
After a brief welcome address by AIBA President Prof. B. B. Dhar, Mr. Onkar Gupta, Vice-President AIBA spoke about the progress being made globally by IT-BHU alumni. This was followed by the Secretary's report by Mr. Rajeev Gupta and then the Treasurer's report by Mr. Sanjai Sorick.
Then came a stunning performance by the cultural programme group consisting of young prodigies from Amity University, who enthralled the distinguished gathering of senior government officials, seasoned technocrats, renowned academicians and alumni members of the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University by the mellifluous vocals & scintillating performances. The group took the audience on a melodious and memorable musical journey, as they performed some classics from his Indian and contemporary repertoire of melodies. The assembled dignitaries and their families responded enthusiastically by giving the young and talented group a standing ovation.
The stage and the evening's proceedings were flawlessly managed by Mr. Pramod Joshi. His shuttle sense of humor made the proceedings more interesting. The cultural programmes were continued in-between and every time the group stunned everyone in the auditorium with their performances.
The star-studded evening witnessed the 4th Annual Awards of Excellence, 2010being bestowed upon six of IT-BHU's distinguished alumni. These were:
1. Shri Mahendra K. Modi, IT-BHU Alumni Life Time Achievement Award 2009-10 for his outstanding contributions in the field of Management and Entrepreneurship. View Citation
2. Shri Deepak Pahwa, IT-BHU Alumni Life Time Achievement Award 2009-10 for his outstanding contributions in the field of Entrepreneurship, Management and Development of HVACView Citation
3. Prof. Pankaj Chandra, IT-BHU Alumni Award of Excellence 2009-10 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Teaching, Research and Academic Management. View Citation
4. Shri Shriprakash Shukla, IT-BHU Alumni Award of Excellence-2009 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Wireless Mobile Communication and Management. View Citation
5. Shri Jaswinder Singh Ahuja, IT-BHU Alumni Award of Excellence-2009 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Information Technology and Management. View Citation
6. Shri R.G. Rajan, IT-BHU Alumni Award of Excellence-2009 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Chemical Engineering and Project Management. View Citation
Hon'ble Chief Guest addressed the audience.
The Souvenir was released by our esteemed guest along with the recipients of the awards of excellence. The evening ended on a high note, with all attendees enjoying a lavish spread of cocktails and dinner.
Read 48-page AIBA Souvenir online on Google docs:
Photos can be viewed at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/puneetbindlish/ITBHUAGM201002#
 Inauguration by Prof. S. N. Upadhyay |  Seated (from Left to Right): Rajeev Gupta, Onkar Gupta, Rajkumari Ratna Singh, Prof. S. N. Upadhyay, Prof. B. B. Dhar |
 Prof. Pankaj Chandra receiving award |  Cultural program |
 Audience |  Photo-opportunity |
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http://www.biproinc.com/building_india.pdf
The article “Building India 2.0” in March 2010 issue of Indian Management was published by Dr. R.K. “ravi” Pandey (Mechanical 1989). The journal is published by AIMA (All India Management Association).
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About AIMA (http://www.aima-ind.org/)
Founded in the year 1957, All India Management Association (AIMA) is an apex body of management with over 30,000 individual members, 3000 institutional members and 60 Local Management Association across India and overseas.
AIMA undertakes a host of management related activities and initiatives such as Distance Management Education, Management Development Programmes, Special Conferences, Research & Publications, Testing Services and Competitions.
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About BIPRO, Inc (http://www.biproinc.com/)
BIPRO INC IS SOLUTIONIZATION AT WORK. From corporate development, strategies, executive coaching, and risk management to business, engineering, healthcare, and manufacturing process improvement, from Six Sigma (Lean, DFSS, DMAIC) to engineering quality, from financial restructuring to restructuring of operations and portfolio, Bipro people have worked with large and small companies in providing cost effective world class solution.
Bipro Inc is working with government, academic, and business institutions towards their green transformation and improvement of energy footprint while reducing the operational cost.
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About Dr. R. K. “ravi” Pandey, MBB
Dr. R. K. “ravi” Pandey is a strategist, business performance specialist, speaker, published author and patent holder. Currently he serves as President of BIPRO Inc., a business consulting company with services in finance, operations, engineering, strategy, and healthcare. Prior to this, he led Sector Sustaining Engineering for Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies and business performance improvement for Siemens.
Dr. Pandey has experience in working with Fortune companies like GE and Siemens. Ravi’s experience includes development of global footprint, business restructuring, creation of global engineering teams, turnaround of supply chain performance, streamlining of engineering and order-to cash operations. He has been credited for successfully introducing Design for Six Sigma and Risk Management in Fortune 50 companies. Ravi also has managed and participated in the successful launch of several consumer and high technology OEM products in energy, security, and medical fields.
Ravi has experience with cultures around the world from places such as South-East Asia, Middle East, Europe, North America and Latin countries. His business experience includes entertainment, energy, education, security, insurance, automotive, consumer products, building and construction, aviation, medical, IT, and healthcare industries.
Ravi attended one of the premier engineering schools, IT-BHU in India. He subsequently came to USA and finished his Ph.D. in engineering from Purdue University. He is listed in “Who’s Who in the World” and “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.”
He currently advises several companies and publishes an online journal “The Healthcare Transformation” (http://blogs.biproinc.com/healthcare).
Ravi lives in Florida, USA and can be reached at Ravi.Pandey@biproinc.com or at +1 407 574 2008.
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Friday, 30 April 2010 01:32 YourStory Team
Entrepreneurs - TECH ENTREPRENEUR
(Saurabh Chandra)
Before starting Neev together with Santosh, Saurabh Chandra worked in Talisma as a Program Manager where he played a key role in the Web client strategy of the company and later in a crucial platform release, which opened up the product to endless customizations. From there he moved to being the first employee in India for Pi Corp (now Decho, an EMC company) where he was creating new ways for people to interact with personal information. His first entrepreneurship lesson came in school when creating and selling a school magazine at no budget. Many of those lessons are still handy. He is an alumnus of IT-BHU.
http://www.neevtech.com/neev/wcms/en/home/
Neev is an expert in web, social and mobile applications. It started out as a complete product outsourcing partner for startups creating portals, marketplaces and SaaS applications. Now it has evolved as a trusted development partner for the enterprise while retaining its start up client base. One of the few companies of its size with a strong client base in Europe (it has a subsidiary in Sweden) in addition to US and India. Neev's development strengths are reflected in its own content management system and cloud-based load testing product apart from various games and applications on the mobile.
The last entrepreneur to be featured on this series, Saurabh shares his take on entrepreneurship with Indian Startup EMERGEOUT initiative by NASSCOM.
1. Why did you take up entrepreneurship journey?
Saurabh: My first stint at entrepreneurship without realizing it was at school when I tried creating a low budget school magazine. After that I tried multiple failed attempts in college and later when I was working before finally it worked with Neev. So there was no conscious decision of taking this journey. It always seemed to be there.
2. What keeps you going (how and where do you find your motivation levels)?
Saurabh: Wealth creation that happens through an enterprise is extremely motivating. Clients who benefit, end-users who are enriched or employees who grow together are all sources of immense satisfaction which keeps you looking for more.
3. What is your advice to wannabe entrepreneurs in India?
Saurabh: In a country growing at this crazy rate, there is opportunity in every nook and corner. Don't go after the herd but find your passion. There is potential in everything!
4. What success means to you and your organization?
Saurabh: We have to seek success every day and help our clients win. Our success is measured in our client's success. But the clock resets every day, yesterday's laurels are not guarantee for tomorrow's victory. We need to strive hard each day.
5. What are your learnings from the failures?
Saurabh: There are no failures I think, only course corrections. You do, learn and do some more. I never focus on failures and quickly leave them behind. The most important thing is to fail quickly and decisively. Wrong decisions dragged on are the worst.
Saurabh’s perspective is that hard work is the essential ingredient of success.
So we sign off with this last view in this series of 30 entrepeneurs for Indian Startup EMERGEOUT Initiative by NASSCOM. We thank Avinash Raghava, Region Director, NASSCOM – North, Vijay Rayapati, Gizapage (who originally conceived this idea), and Kunal Kashyap from NASSCOM Bangalore for making this happen every day from April 1, 2010. It was a team effort and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Akash Das at YourStory gave that fantastic look on the home page slide show. We hope you too enjoyed our presentation. Do send us your feedback to shradha@yourstory.in
The other 29 entrepreneur line up is here for you to savour:
1. Kishore Mandyam of PK4 Software
3. Ajay Sharma of Shristi Software
4. Pallav Nadhani of InfoSoft Global (FusionCharts)
5. Manoj Srivatsava of Hanu Software
7. Sushil Chaudary of Mann-India
9. R. Swaminathan of Matrix Business Solution
10. Suresh Sambandam of OrangeScape
12. Prasad Guntupalli of Attra
16. Yadu and Naresh or Robust Designs
17. Ananth Seshan of Fifth Generation
18. Shoma Bakre of EmPower Research
22. Rohit Singal of Sourcebits
24. Srish Agrawal of A1 Future
26. Sanjay Vijayakumar of MobMe
27. Sanjay Prasad of MindRiver
28. Akash Takyar of LeewayHertz
Join us for the conclave today and expect more from YourStory!
--Contributed by Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, chief evangelist, YourStory
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About Saurabh Chandra
Saurabh Chandra is the Co-Founder/CEO of Neev Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore-a software services company focused on cutting edge web applications development. He graduated as a mechanical engineer from IT-BHU in 2001. Saurabh also writes a blog on bootstrapping.
Saurabh can be reached at: chandrasaurabh@gmail.com
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Yogendra (Yogen) K. Shah is our Electrical 1977 alumnus. He did his M. Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 1979 and joined Tata Consultancy Services, Bombay. While working at TCS, he was involved at senior management level and posted at Middle East, Europe and USA sites. He is among the three founding partners of Hexaware Technologies, which has currently about 5,000 employees worldwide. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
Yogendra has been appointed as President of APAC (Asia Pacific), India and Middle East effective from April 1, 2010.
He can be reached at: yshah@hexaware.com.
(Yogendra K. Shah)
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Company website: http://www.hexaware.com/
Profile of Yogendra Shah, http://www.hexaware.com/management.htm#s
Yogen is responsible for Hexaware's business and operations for the APAC, India and Middle East Region. He has business development experience in North America, Asia Pacific, India and Middle East and he has managed multi-year multi-million dollar large IT projects globally.
Yogen has been working with Hexaware right from the inception of the North American operations in 1995. He has opened new territories like Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Dubai. He has commenced the Global Airlines Practice for providing IT services to global aviation industry. Yogen has strong IT project delivery as well as IT business development background.
He has over 30 years experience in IT industry. Prior to joining Hexaware, Yogen was the General Manager of Unisys in Bahrain for 13 years and Senior IT Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services, India for 4 years.
Yogen has a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering, and M. Tech. in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay.
Hexaware is a specialized IT and BPO service provider, ranked as the fastest growing mid-sized company in India. It has leadership positions in PeopleSoft, HRIT, Airlines, and BFSI. It specializes in Business Intelligence and Analytics, Legacy Modernization and Independent Testing, and has over 5000 staff in 11 countries serving 145 clients globally.
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PTI, Mar 22, 2010, 05.34pm IST
Three convicted in Satyendra Dubey murder case
(Chronicle note: Satyendra Dubey was an alumnus of our college, who lost his life 3 years ago while fighting corruption in his native state Bihar. He was murdered on 27 Nov, 2003 by mafia after he exposed deep-rooted corruption in construction of the Golden Quadrilateral Project.
Satyendra did his B. Tech (Civil 1994) from IIT Kanpur and M. Tech (Civil 1996) from IT-BHU. His brother, Dhananjay Dubey (Electronics 2006) is also an alumnus of our college.)
NEW DELHI: Over six years after the murder of NHAI whistleblower Satyendra Kumar Dubey who exposed corruption in the golden quadrilateral project in Bihar, a court today convicted three accused in the case.
The special CBI court in Patna has convicted Mantu Kumar, Udai Kumar and Pinku Ravidas in the murder case of Dubey, a young engineer working in the Golden Quadrilateral Project of National Highway Authority of India, CBI spokesperson said in a statement, adding the quantum of sentence will be pronounced on March 27.
The young IIT-Kanpur alumni, who had blown the lid off various instances of large-scale flouting of rules in the Golden Quadrilateral Project was shot dead in the early hours of November 27, 2003 in front of Circuit House, Gaya, Bihar.
His murder sparked protests across the country amidst calls for a legislation to protect whistleblowers who expose corruption.
The CBI, which had taken over the investigation of the case from Bihar police on December 14, 2003 had filed a chargesheet in the case on September 3, 2004.
Mantu was convicted under sections for murder, voluntary causing hurt in committing robbery and the Arms Act for possessing unlicensed weapon, the statement said.
The other two accused persons were convicted for murder committed in furtherance of common intention and for voluntary causing hurt in committing robbery, it said.
"During the investigation, CBI arrested four persons, namely Mantu, Udai, Pinku and Sharvan Kumar, all residents of Katari village in Gaya, Bihar.
"They had all assembled near Circuit House, Gaya on the fateful intervening night of November 26/27, 2003. Around 3.30 AM on November 27, when Dubey was passing in front of Circuit House, Gaya in a cycle-rickshaw, the accused persons robbed him of his belongings and during the ensuing scuffle, Mantu shot him dead with a .315 country-made weapon," the statement said.
The CBI said a briefcase containing documents belonging to Dubey including his Identity Card were recovered from an abandoned well and also the country-made pistol were recovered during investigation.
The agency said Sharvan gave full and voluntary disclosure about the incident and was made an approver.
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Related old link from rediff.com 2006 issue
http://us.rediff.com/news/2006/nov/27dubey.htm?q=np&file=.htm
Satyendra Dubey: A forgotten hero?
Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna | November 27, 2006 20:31 IST
There was no formal function held in Patna and Gaya to remember whistleblower Satyendra Dubey on November 27, his third death anniversary. It was just another ordinary day.
In 2003, Dubey, a 31-year-old project director with the National Highways Authority of India, was shot dead near the Circuit House in Gaya after he exposed deep-rooted corruption in construction of the Golden Quadrilateral Project. The incident shocked the nation.
Dubey, a native of Bihar, was eliminated by people who feared that he will expose their corruption. It was proved beyond any doubt that Dubey was killed soon after he wrote a letter to the Prime Minister's Office and blew the whistle on the contract mafia.
Though he requested that his name not be made public, vested interests leaked his name.
When Dubey was killed, several promises and assurances were made to keep his memory and his cause of fighting against corruption alive.
But now it appears that Dubey's martyrdom was forgotten by people of his home state, if not others.
Soon after Dubey was killed, it was a readymade issue for politicians to blame each other to take some advantage out of it.
When Dubey was killed, the National Democratic Alliance was in power at the center and Rashtriya Janata Dal-led government was in power in Bihar.
But even after becoming Railway Minister in 2004, Lalu has not pushed the CBI probe into the killing of Dubey.
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Additional Links:
*Satyendra Dubey in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Dubey
* Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award-by IIT Kanpur Alumni Association
http://www.iitk.ac.in/drpg/sdubey_memorial/
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