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NITDAA Scholarship Review Committee 2012 |
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Dear Alumni
Since 2004, NITDAA has been awarding the Professor S.N.Ray Memorial Merit cum Means Scholarship annually to two undergraduate engineering students of our Institute. The present amount on offer is Rs. 1000/- per month per selected candidate. The selection is made from the first year undergraduate students of Indian nationality who continue to receive the amount through the tenure of the course (four years) subject to their academic performance.
The scholarships (outflow Rs.96,000/- annually) are paid from interest accrued from a corpus dedicated specifically to scholarships, which is invested in fixed deposits. Additionally, each year, part of the excess funds collected for the Global meet (if any), are assigned to the scholarship corpus, which has steadily grown to around 14 Lakhs.
In recent times, batches celebrating their Silver Jubilee have donated generously to the scholarship fund.
This year , there were 15 applicants out of which 12 persons appeared for interview and two persons have been selected.
In recent years , we are seeing a significant drop in the quality of the applicants for this scholarship, which is of concern. Secondly, there is very little ongoing interaction with these scholars post their selection for the scholarship. Perhaps, as a result, we have not been able to tap any of the scholars to become members of NITDAA. Neither have any of these scholars been known to keep in touch with the alumni association or give anything back to the institute.
The APEX committee is therefore setting up a committee under the leadership of Shri Subhasish Banerjee to review and recommend what needs to be done to make the scholarship attractive and prestigious as well as strengthen the bond between the association and the scholars.
Shri Banerjee will select his team.
The Committee will look into the following aspects:
1) Review the current structure of the scholarship and recommend changes, if necessary, to the eligibility criteria
a) Recommend whether the criterion should be on the basis of merit cum means or purely on merit
b) If merit cum means, should the annual income criterion be raised?
2) Recommend a detailed set of sub-criteria to be used for:
a) Initial selection (this year we looked at scholastic consistency, written and verbal communication, extra-curricular activity, financial need etc)
b) Periodic performance review (who, what, when)
3) Whether amount of Rs. 1000/- per month is sufficient or should it need to be increased
a) If it is to be increased, should it be in cash or
b) kind (such as fees waiver etc) or funding internships etc
4) Whether the no. of recipients needs be changed?
5) Any other actions to add value to the scholarship?
Please send your suggestions, if any, to
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The committee will submit their recommendations by 30th June, 2012.
(Hiralal Bhattacharjee)
Secretary,Apex committee,NITDAA |
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Reunion at New Jersey on April 14th |
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Dear all,
A re-union is being planned at Warren, New Jersey on April 14th, 2012. We expect all the NIT Durgapur Alumni (irrespective of batch/branch/organization) in the adjoining area to participate. For confirming your participation or for any questions please contact the following:
Dr Apurba Basak -
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Budhaditya Bandyopadhyay -
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/ 732-809-9800 |
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Saraswati Puja on January 28, 2012 |
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Saraswati Puja Day Programme:
Our team organised a Sit and Draw Competition in the little village of Bihari More. With little toddlers to pre-teens, the Sit and Draw Competition received a healthy participation. With fragile eyes, which might have hardly experienced ten summers; searching for crayons and pencils ,it was but sympathiZing to watch the little hands trying to give shape and vision to their subdued dreams. The occasional ‘entertainment’ by the otherwise self-effacing children was met with huge clamor and cheer from our part. The conclusion of the competition was met by the prize distribution ceremony at the Faculty Club.
Date: 28 January, 2012
Items:
1. Total No. of Bags - 49 (40 for bihari more children and 9 for Jhoops children)
2. Stationery Items
3. Chocolates and candies
4. Drawing copies (for Sit and Draw competition)
5. Sweaters (10 nos. for Jhoops Children)
6. Prizes (for Sit and Draw competition)
Teaching and Mentoring:
We conduct classes for Bihari More children on every weekend at their very own place. This year, we have taken a small step to delete Child Labour from our campus. With the help from Institute Faculty and NITDAA Alumni Association, we have started Project JHOOPS i.e the welfare programme of all Child Workers present in the Campus by conducting classes for these kids in our afterhours on weekdays.
A big day for the people of NIT Durgapur for the obvious reason, it was an even bigger day for the people involved in the Bihari More Project. Aimed To make NIT Campus and neighboring areas 100% literate zone, this two year old project, envisioned by Mr.Harshvardhan Singh, met its first major success.
The BMP team organized a sit and draw competition in the little village of Bihari More. With little toddlers to pre-teens the sit and draw competition received a healthy participation. We were also joined in by alumni (Mr. Sumit Pawar) who had been a key figure in starting this project.
With fragile eyes, which might have hardly experienced ten summers; searching for crayons and pencils ,it was but sympathizing to watch the little hands trying to give shape and vision to their subdued dreams. The occasional ‘entertainment’ by the otherwise self-effacing children was met with huge clamor and cheer from our part. The conclusion of the competition was met by the prize distribution ceremony at the Faculty Club.
We were accompanied by the professors of the college, who themselves were treated to performances by the children of Bihari More. It wouldn’t have been possible had there not been the support of our dear Professors, the unsung heroes!
We would be forever grateful to them for not only accompanying us but also for playing a huge supportive role in providing so much inspiration to the innocent hearts of Bihari More.
We would be grateful to our faculty advisor Dr. Joydeep Banerjee for motivating us and without whom this event would not have been successful.
This was also followed by the bag distribution ceremony. Each kid was given a bag, a geometry set and other stationery items, to prepare them for the lessons that the team of BMP would impart in the coming days. |
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Urgent Appeal for funds for treatment of Sonu Sharma |
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Dear Friends
You may have seen a flurry of mails about Sonu Sharma, a 2009 Mech grad from our institute.
For the past week, his classmates have been in discussions with doctors in various parts of the country to try to find a solution to Sonu’s problem as he has been under treatment for the past two years.
It does not appear to be a easy task, given the complexity of his case. In the meantime, Sonu’s father, who is on the verge of retirement from a low paying government job, has virtually wiped out his life savings in the treatment of his son.
The expenditure to date has exceeded Rs. 5 Lakhs.
I hereby appeal to all to generously donate funds to create a corpus for Sonu’s treatment.
If 200 of us can each contribute Rs.5000/-, we can create a corpus of Rs.10,00,000/-.
Ruchin Khare, YOP 2007 and Sumit Pawar YOP 2008 are coordinating the collection of funds. In order to keep track of the funds coming in, we are putting the money into Ruchin’s account and thereafter transferring to Sonu’s father’s account. We have so far raised 1.2 Lakhs but that is grossly inadequate.
Ruchin’s details are given below:
Account No. - 039101516331(ICCICI bank)
Name - RUCHIN KHARE
Branch - Hazira, Surat
IFSC Code - ICIC0000391
Time is short. Please donate generously and pass on this message to your respective networks.
I also request one and all to pray for Sonu’s quick recovery.
Thanks
Ashish Kole
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NITD Reunion at New Jersey |
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A reunion is being planned in New Jersey this February. This is for all members from all branches, all batches, all organizations who are in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania & Delaware area. Members from further states are also welcome to join if they can travel the distance.
Please let me know who all are willing to participate (and if you need to be picked up in car). Also suggest suitable dates for you (as long as it is on a weekend) so that we can plan a date with maximum participation. Also please spread the word to other alumni members (beyond this IT Department DL) who are located in these states and might be able to attend. Contact "
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