CBSE to provide copy of JEE answer sheets

NAGPUR: The Central Board of Secondary
Education ( CBSE) has finally decided to
provide students who appeared for the JEE
(Main) with a photocopy of the OMR sheet,
answer key and calculation sheet. There
was earlier reluctance on part of the board
to do so even though there was an increased
demand for the same.
TOI had reported last week about complaints
from students that many candidates scored
much lower than they had expected. Many
of these students can't appear for JEE
(Advanced) as they have failed to meet the
cut-off mark of 113.
Abhishek Bansal, who heads a coaching
institute in Nagpur, said, "Providing these
documents will increase transparency in
JEE. Once CBSE releases the answer keys
then students can verify it and be sure that
they have been marked correctly. While the
computer won't commit mistakes in
marking but this will help in ensuring that
CBSE had chosen the right answers."
Students have to apply for the photocopies
by paying a fee of Rs500 via a demand draft
(payable to Secretary, CBSE) at New Delhi.
The application has to be received by CBSE
before June 15 and the board will dispatch
the documents only by Speed Post. Even
those students who had applied for these
documents under the Right To Information
(RTI) Act will now have to reapply under
the new guidelines.
TOI had reported earlier that 15 candidates
who took the JEE (Main) and were unhappy
with their results had moved the Delhi high
court against the CBSE, which conducted
the exam. JEE (Main) scores are used for
admission to engineering colleges as well as
to shortlist students who can take advance
exam for admission to the Indian Institutes
of Technology . Their petition mentions that
"The respondents provided no mechanism to
redress the grievances of petitioners who
have secured a much higher score according
to the solutions of prominent coaching
institutions, but will be deprived of sitting
in the JEE (Advanced) Exam 2013 being
conducted by the CBSE as well as getting
admission in any reputed engineering
college, only because of institutional
arrogance of respondents who have chosen
to either not respond to the pleas of mercy
or replied in an arbitrary and mechanical
manner with patent absence of application
of mind".

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Canadian schoolgirl creates Hollow Flashlight powered by body heat-

Canadian high school student Ann Makosinski
demonstrating her body-heat powered Hollow
Flashlight
At the tender age of 15, Canadian high school
student Ann Makosinski has designed and built
a flashlight powered by body heat. Her Hollow
Flashlight secured her a finalist slot in the
15-16 age group of the Google Science Fair
ahead of thousands of entries from more than
100 countries. My science project in tenth
grade was a volcano that only worked about
half the time, so I think she has me beat.
The LED flashlight relies on the thermoelectric
effect, with tiles that generate electricity from
the differences in temperature to generate
electricity. The tiles are fixed to the outside of
a hollow tube so that when held, one side of
the tile is heated by the warmth of the hand,
while air flowing through the hollow tube helps
keep the other side cool. The electricity
generated by the temperature differential
between either side of the tile powers the LED
light.
Makosinski built two different flashlights. The
first was made using a tube of aluminum,
which is a good heat sink material thanks to its
high thermal conductivity, while the second
was built using a PVC tube.
Both models work better when the difference
between the ambient temperature and body
temperature is greater, which is to say, when
it's colder. So while the flashlights worked with
an air temperature of 10° C (50° F), they
emitted more light with the air temperature at
5° C (41° F). Still, she claims that both were
able to maintain a steady beam of light for 20
minutes, even in the warmer temperature.
The final cost of each flashlight came to only
just over CA$26 (US$25), but if mass-
produced, the cost would obviously be
substantially lower.
Makosinski and the 14 other Google Science
Fair finalists will travel to Google's Mountain
View, California campus in September where
winners will be announced in each of the three
age groups. One grand prize winner will also
receive a $50,000 scholarship from Google
and a trip to the Galapagos Islands.

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IITs to have common placement structure

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are
mulling a “semi-formal structure” comprising
placement heads across all IITs to help
coordinate and collate all placement-related
activities.
IIT placement heads across all IITs met at IIT-
Bombay (IIT-B) on Friday to discuss
placement-related experiences for this season.
So far, the institutes coordinated on an
informal level, though each follows its own
placement policy.
The proposed body would meet twice a year.
“We want to proactively ensure that students
and recruiters have a similar experience
regardless of which IIT they choose to go to,”
said Ravi Sinha, who is in-charge of placements
at IIT-B.
The semi-formal body would collect feedback
and placement data from all the IITs to
identify trends on changing student
preferences, emerging corporate trends and
opportunities in the economy.
The body would not impose a single, binding
policy across IITs but would coordinate
between them.
Placements at IIT-B began on December 1,
2011. Recruiters will be visiting the campus till
May this year.
Seven new IITs are going through their first
placement season this year or the next
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/
Mumbai/IITs-to-have-common-placement-
structure/Article1-813172.aspx

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IIT Bombay students go green

Contrary to the popular perception that IITians
do not give enough back to society, students at
IIT Bombay have come up with their own
unique way of spreading environmental
awareness.
With the backing of an institute that boasts of
momentous research in the development of
eco-friendly technology, these students are
willing to step beyond mere academic pursuits.
The IIT Bombay Green Campus Initiative was
launched a year ago with the objective of
transforming the institution of world-class
repute into a futuristic model of ecological
sustainability and energy efficiency.
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_iit-
bombay-students-go-green_1652009

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What is 3D Printing? | An Amazing Technology

So this time we are going to talk about 3D
printing. this word seems new to some guys,
while most are familiar with this word.
Umm.. let me give you an Idea.. Assume a
normal printer or a xerox machine. you can
tell me that they print on simply 2 axis.
this printer machines are made to print on a
piece of paper. and a piece of paper’s surface
is 2D. so this machines are 2D printers.
Now with the time.. the world changes. New
technology arrives. so here in printing case we
have a new 3D printing technology.
which simply prints on 3-axis. We just have to
give it data via CAD software likely SolidWorks.
so the model designed in solidworks we can 3D
print it in this printer.. you should watch the
video below.
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing[1] is a
process of making a three-dimensional solid
object of virtually any shape from a digital
model. this type of printing is using the fused
deposition modeling. Fused deposition
modelling (FDM), a method of rapid
prototyping: 1 – nozzle ejecting molten
material (plastic), 2 – deposited material
(modelled part), 3 – controlled movable table.

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The Amazing Mechanical Manta Ray: Engineers Copy Nature

The ease with which a manta ray can zoom
through the water has offered scientists and
engineers an incredibly challenging task: They
want to see if they can build a mechanical
substitute for one of nature's best performers.
An underwater robot that could travel great
distances at high speed while consuming very
little energy could be useful for a wide range
of projects, from carrying scientific
instruments into the ocean deep to measuring
pollutants in bays and waterways to, of course,
unobtrusively delivering explosives to a distant
target.
That's a long range goal, but first they have to
figure out how the ray works its magic.
CLICK FOR VIDEO: The Mechanical Manta
Ray
"We want to learn from the biology," Hilary
Bart-Smith, associate professor of mechanical
and aerospace engineering at the University of
Virginia, said in a telephone interview. "We
want to see how rays have found the optimal
solution for underwater propulsion, or if there
is another solution out there that could be
even better."
Bart-Smith leads an
interdisciplinary project
involving scientists and
engineers at four universities
whose collective effort has
resulted in a mechanical
version of a cownose ray that
looks remarkably lifelike as it
swims through the water in
the University of Virginia's
swimming pool. At this stage,
it's no match for the real
thing, but it will serve as an
instrument in an ongoing
effort to learn from the
Batoidea ray, a collection of
500 species in 13 families
including stingrays and
mantas.
This project is still in its early
stages. The mechanical ray is
controlled, for now, by a
joystick linked to the robot
through a tether, so it can
only reach a maximum depth
of 10 feet. The ultimate goal,
of course, is to build a robot
that performs at least as well
as a real ray and can be controlled remotely,
even at 10,000 foot depths, where some rays
live.
But studying rays in their natural environment
can be a bit tricky. They can deliver a real
punch, as Captain John Smith learned in 1608
when he was stung near Chesapeake Bay so
severely that his crew thought he was going to
die.
Marine biologist Frank Fish (that's really his
name) of West Chester University in
Pennsylvania, a member of the team, traveled
to the remote Micronesian island of Yap to
videotape rays in their natural habitat.
He has also studied rays in his lab as they
swam down a channel through water
containing particles highlighted by a laser, thus
showing some of the fluid dynamics at work.
The rays move forward through the water by
flexing their pectoral fins, commonly referred
to as "wings" because that's what they look
like. But how they do that is still something of
a mystery. An aircraft uses propulsion to drive
itself forward, creating lift as air passes over
its wings. A ray flaps its wings up and down --
but has no visible means of forward thrust.
Tetsuya Iwasaki, an expert on animal
locomotion at the University of California, Los
Angeles, has been addressing that question.
Animals, including humans, are propelled by a
linear series of electrical pulses from the brain
that cause us to put one foot in front of the
other, a pretty simple solution to a complex
problem. But rays flap their wings up and
down to produce forward thrust and maintain
proper depth instead of sinking to the bottom
of the ocean.

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From gold, a new way to control blood clotting

Using gold nanoparticles, MIT researchers have devised a new way to turn blood clotting on and off. The particles, which are controlled by infrared laser light, could help doctors control blood clotting in patients undergoing surgery, or promote wound healing. Currently, the only way doctors can manage blood clotting is by administering blood thinners such as heparin. This reduces clotting, but there is no way to counteract the effects of heparin and other blood thinners. “It’s like you have a light bulb, and you can turn it on with the switch just fine, but you can’t turn it off. You have to wait for it to burn out,” says Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, a technical staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and senior author of a paper describing the new particles, which can turn blood clotting off and then restore it when necessary. Lead author of the paper, which is appearing in the July 24 issue of the journal PLoS One, is Helena de Puig, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering. Other authors are Anna Cifuentes Rius, a visiting student from Ramon Llull University in Spain, and MIT senior Dorma Flemister. Blood clotting is produced by a long cascade of protein interactions, culminating in the formation of fibrin, a fibrous protein that seals wounds. Heparin and other blood thinners interfere with this process by targeting several of the reactions that occur during the blood- clotting cascade. A better solution, Hamad- Schifferli says, would be an agent that targets only the last step — the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, a reaction mediated by an enzyme called thrombin. Several years ago, scientists discovered that DNA with a specific sequence inhibits thrombin by blocking the site where it would typically bind fibrinogen. The complementary DNA sequence can shut off the inhibition by binding to the original DNA strand and preventing it from attaching to thrombin. Hamad-Schifferli and her colleagues had previously demonstrated that gold nanorods can be designed to release drugs or other compounds when activated with infrared light. The size of the nanorod determines the wavelength of light that will activate it, so two rods of different lengths can carry different payloads and be controlled separately. To manipulate the blood-clotting cascade, Hamad-Schifferli decided to load a smaller gold nanorod (35 nanometers long) with the DNA thrombin inhibitor and a larger particle (60 nanometers long) with the complementary DNA strand. At first, they tried to get the DNA to chemically bond to the gold nanoparticles. However, they found they couldn’t load enough DNA onto each particle to make this process effective. Then, Hamad-Schifferli says, “We realized we could use a bad side effect of nanoparticle biology to our advantage.” That is, the particles tend to attract a halo of proteins that bind to gold, making them sticky. In previous studies, she has shown that this large cloud of proteins can be used to hold a drug payload. “If you do that, you can get way more drug on the nanorod than you normally would if you had to chemically link them together,” Hamad- Schifferli says. By soaking the nanorods in a solution of human serum protein and the DNA molecules, the researchers were able to attach six times more DNA than through chemical bonding. When the gold nanorods are exposed to the correct wavelength of infrared light, the electrons within the gold become very excited and generate so much heat that they melt slightly, taking on a more spherical shape and releasing their DNA payload. The researchers tested the nanoparticles using blood donated to hospitals, and found that the particles successfully turned blood clotting on and off in all of the samples tested. “It’s really a fascinating idea that you can control blood clotting not just one way but by having two different optical antennae to create two-way control,” says Luke Lee, a professor of bioengineering at the University of California at Berkeley who was not part of the research team. “It’s an innovative and creative way to interface with biological systems.” For the particles to be practical for use in patients, they would need to be targeted to the site of injury, which the researchers are now working on doing. Once they reached the site, they would need to be within a few millimeters of the skin surface for the infrared light shone on the skin to reach them. The researchers are also working on modifying the system so the particles can be activated using a continuous wave laser, which is smaller and less powerful than the pulsed femtosecond laser they are currently using. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Election of the Board of Trustees of the California

Narendra K. Gupta, cofounder and
managing director of Nexus Venture
Partners, has been elected to the Board of
Trustees of the California Institute of
Technology (Caltech). Dr. Gupta graduated
from IIT Delhi with B. Tech. in mechanical
engineering. He is a Caltech alumunus (MS
in aeronautics) and completed his PhD in
applied mechanics at Stanford University.

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Obama Appoints IIT Bombay Alumnus Wadhwani to Key Administration Post

The White House on Friday announced the
appointment of Romesh Wadhwani, a
graduate of the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) in Bombay, as a General
Trustee of the Board of Trustees of the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts.
In a communique announcing the
appointment of Wadhwani and nine
others, including Caroline Kennedy,
President Barack Obama said, “These
dedicated men and women bring a wealth
of experience and talent to their new roles
and I am proud to have them serve in this
Administration. I look forward to working
with them in the months and years to
come.”
Wadhwani is actively involved in Kennedy
Center initiatives, having served as Co-
Chair of the Maximum India Festival in
2011 and as a supporter of the 2010
Honors Gala.
Wadhwani is the founder, Chairman, and
CEO of Symphony Technology Group and
was previously the founder, Chairman, and
CEO of several software and IT companies,
including Aspect Development, Inc.

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A SDM (2009-batch IAS officer) leading crackdown on illegal mining suspended.

woman IAS officer, who had clamped down
on illegal mining and resolutely taken head on
the powerful sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh, has
been suspended barely 10 months after she
got her first posting in the State.
A 2009-batch IAS officer posted as Sub-
Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Gautam Budh
Nagar in September last year, 28-year-old
Durga Shakti Nagpal was penalised ostensibly
for the demolition of a wall at a disputed
place of worship.
“It is an administrative decision. She had
ordered demolition of the wall at a place of
worship,” Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said
in a post on Sunday on micro-blogging site
twitter.
Slamming the SP government, Opposition
parties alleged that the suspension order was
made under pressure from the mining mafia.
Reacting sharply to the SDM’s suspension, BJP
leader Kalraj Mishra said that the action of
the State Government showed “it is not liking
those officers who are leading drives against
the mafia“.
“What mistake has she made?... It is not
understood. But it is felt that she (Durga
Shakti) was suspended under the influence of
the mafia,” he said.
A senior official said, “Durga Shakti Nagpal,
the 2009-batch IAS officer posted as SDM
(Sadar) of GB Nagar, (was) suspended late on
Saturday by the Uttar Pradesh Government
after a dispute related to a religious place,” a
senior official said here.
Ms. Nagpal had led a crackdown on
unauthorised mining in the district and got
over two dozen FIRs registered against those
involved in illegally removing sand.
Special flying squads were formed by her to
stop the raging menace along the Yamuna and
Hindon rivers in western U.P.
Only last week the officer had asserted that
there will be no let-up in the fight against
unauthorised dredgers.
“The entire district has been affected and
illegal mining has become a huge problem.
The stakes are too high and those involved get
huge monetary returns. The act could lead to
serious environmental issues and, therefore,
needs to be stopped,” she had warned.
A Punjab cadre IAS officer, Ms. Nagpal had
led the seizure of 24 dumpers engaged in
illegal quarrying last week resulting in the
arrest of 15 persons.
She came into the spotlight through her no-
nonsense, iron-fist approach to stop the
illegal operations of the sand mafia in the
Noida region. “We are conducting raids on a
daily basis on sand mafia and their units. A
list of illegal sand mining units has been
prepared and action is being taken against
them,” she had warned.

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HC orders CBI probe into IIT appointments

The Madras high court has ordered a CBI
probe into all the faculty appointments made
at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
from 1995 to 2000.
Disposing a petition filed in 1996 by Dr
Vasantha Kandasamy the court on Thursday
ordered her elevation as professor in the Math
Department. Besides the promotion she will
also get 17 increments.
"I have fought the battle for the last 17 years.
If people with real credentials were given the
post, I would not have fought. It is
unfortunate that people with a second class
MSc and without any proper PHD guidance and
publications are being appointed to the post of
associate professor," Vasantha told HT.
Vasantha was appointed as assistant professor
in 1990. Despite being qualified she was denied
appointment as associate professor in 1995.
She was also ignored for the position of
professor in 1996.
"The high court has directed a CBI probe into
the correctness and the legality of the
appointments made in IIT Madras from 1995
till September 26, 2000," says M
Radhakrishnan, advocate for the petitioner.
Vasantha was the only eligible candidate to be
appointed as a professor in 1996 but she was
denied, he added.
Maintaining that the constitution of selection
committee was illegal, he said: " While no
criteria of selection was prescribed, two
persons who were even ineligible to even
apply were given faculty positions."
Registrar of IIT Madras VG Bhoma told HT that
they were waiting for the court order. " We do
not know the exact wording of the order. Once
we get the order, we will plan a further line of
action.

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IIT-KGP alumni end their 'PPC for director' movement

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur ( IIT-
KGP) alumni ended their "PPC for director"
movement Saturday, as Partha Pratim
Chakrabarti was issued an appointment letter
by the ministry of human resource
development.
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) gave a
clean chit to Chakrabarti Friday. Following the
CVC clearance, the President of India and the
IIT-KGP chairman Board of Governors (BoG)
also approved his appointment.
"We are delighted that the CVC has given
clearance to Prof. Chakrabarti and HRD
Minister, President of India and the Chairman
BoG have all approved his appointment as the
Director of IIT Kharagpur. We can finally put
the protests behind and focus on Vision 20-20
- a bold initiative to be a top-20 institute in
the world in the next 20 years," said Arjun
Malhotra, an alumnus of the institute who led
the "PPC for director" campaign.
Shiv Nadar, chairman, Board of Governors, at
the annual convocation ceremony announced
P.P. Chakrabarti's appointment to graduates
their parents, alumni and faculty members.
"This is a red letter day for IIT Kharagpur and
its faculty, staff, alumni, students and
partners. I want to acknowledge and thank all
the faculty members, students and alumni who
stepped up to make their voices heard and the
protests a reality," said Ramnath Mani,
president, IIT-KGP alumni association.
The alumni association of IIT-Kharagpur had
started the "PPC for director" campaign July
19, to press for the appointment of Partha
Pratim Chakrabarti as the institute's head.
Protests were held in Kolkata, Delhi and
Bangalore as members of the IIT alumni
foundation, teachers and students pressed for
Chakrabarti's appointment as director of the
63-year-old institution.
The appointment was stalled as there was a
delay in clearing Chakrabarti of charges of
wrongdoing in connection with the Coal Net
case, in which a Rs.28 crore project to enable
data sharing between the coal ministry, Coal
India Limited and its subsidiaries, awarded to
IIT-KGP was, in violation of norms, awarded to
a private firm owned by an alumnus of the
institute.

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IIT-Kharagpur to hold global semesters in term breaks

KHARAGPUR: With a director finally at its
helm, IIT-Kharagpur is all set to adopt
global academic practices. The premier
institute plans to have international
semesters on the lines of summer and
winter semesters at top foreign universities.
The programme will be held during the
summer or winter breaks and won't clash
with IIT-Kharagpur's academic calendar,
director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti said.
BTech and MTech students may earn credit
points from such programmes conducted in
collaboration with foreign institutes. The
credits will be added to the students' final
scores when they pass out.
The institute has already signed several
MoUs with varsities in Japan, Germany,
Canada, Russia, Taiwan and Columbia to
facilitate collaborative programmes,
revealed Chakrabarti's predecessor Shankar
Kumar Som. Holding summer semesters is
integral to the grand plan that is expected to
fetch handsome funds. Many corporate
heavyweights are interested in sponsoring
the programme.
"We may be in a position to start the
international semester programme from
next summer ," said a faculty member. The
director prefers to keep the details under
wraps. "I can't divulge the plan before I
share it with the faculty members and get it
through," Chakrabarti said.
Chakrabarti, a teacher of computer science,
joined office on Saturday after a year-long
controversy over his appointment. The new
director, however, isn't shifting his focus
from the medical education programme
under consideration.
"We hope to start the MBBS course from the
2016-17 session. We have to get affiliation
from the Medical Council of India,"
Chakrabarti said. The proposal is awaiting
Cabinet nod, former director Som revealed.
IIT-Kgp is in talks with Johns Hopkins
Hospital in the US, Imperial College in
London and with Tata Cancer Research
Centre in Kolkata for joint projects.
"My aim is to groom the medical college
into an ideal research and innovation-based
institute. The intake of doctoral students
will gradually go up to 30% from 10% at
the moment," the director said.
The effort will also allow IIT graduates to
take up medical engineering.
At the 59th convocation on Saturday, Utsav
Banerjee got the President's gold medal and
Mayank Shrivastav the Prime Minister's
gold medal.

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Brahmaputra bank party hub of IIT-G students

GUWAHATI: Lack of adequate vigilance by
the administration and IIT-G authorities has
turned the bank of the Brahmaputra in
North Guwahati into a favourite party
destination for students of IIT-Guwahati.
IIT-G student Ravindra Kumar Meena, who
hailed from Dholpur in Rajasthan , was
partying on the Brahmaputra bank , along
with six other students, on Monday evening.
He drowned when he decided to take a bath
in the river. While two of his friends were
saved by locals, Meena could not be traced.
On Friday morning, his body was found
floating near the river bank.
"For the last few years, students often
frequent the banks of the Brahmaputra for
enjoying drinking sessions. Since there is no
police patrolling in the area, students find
the riverbank a favourable destination for
partying and bathing, which is dangerous,"
said an eyewitness of the drowning
incident.
Police said beer bottles were recovered from
the site where IIT-G students were partying.
A senior official of National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF) said, "Students who
come from outside Assam are hardly aware
of the strong currents of the Brahmaputra
which is very dynamic. During the
monsoon, the current in the river is very
strong." He said IIT-G authorities should
sensitize its students, particularly those
coming from outside, about the
Brahmaputra and its hazards, especially
during the monsoon.
The IIT-G authorities , on the other hand,
said if students have been going for partying
on the bank of Brahmaputra by putting
their lives in danger, the local residents
should have at least apprised the matter to
IIT-G authorities. "Till today, none of the
locals of North Guwahati have informed us
that our students are going for partying
near the Brahmaputra river bank. We will
definitely act if such things occur. But one
should not make a sweeping statement
against IIT-students," said Labanu Konwar,
spokesman of IIT-G.
Konwar said there is strict instruction to all
IIT-G students to reach the campus by 10:30
pm, but the drowning incident took place at
9:30 pm on Monday.
Kamrup (Metro) deputy commissioner
Ashutosh Agnihotri said the district
authorities will be cautious so such an
incident doesn't happen again. "Students
need to act responsibly. It is impossible to
keep vigil everywhere," said Agnihotri.

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Intel selects IIT Delhi for 5G project worth Rs 16 crore

develop 5G or Fifth Generation Technology.
IIT Delhi was the only university from Asia that
was chosen.
It’s estimated that Intel is pumping around
USD 3 million (approximately Rs 16.30 crore)
into the project. Verizon is the industry
partner for the venture.
As it takes around 10 years for each
generation, chances are that you will only be
able to use 5G on devices in around 2020.
What will 5G mean for you?
There’s no fixed concept of what 5G actually
but it will result in higher speeds with better
coverage for you.
Battery life is expected to last longer than it
does with 4G and a higher number of devices
will be supported.
The other universities in the project include:
University of Southern California
New York University
Princeton
Stanford
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Texas at Austin
University Fabra Pompeu
Purdue University
Cornell
University of California at Los Angeles
Rice University
Macquarie University

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Dhwani, BRCA - IIT Delhi takes the lead!

William Shakespeare had truly said, "If Music be
the food of love, play on", and considering the
same we, at IIT Delhi, would like to take
forward his words and materialize the sense of
music to a new level.
Dhwani, the inter hostel event, the Eastern
music event is round the corner and is also the
first ever event organized under the newly
reformed Board of Recreational and Creative
Activities(BRCA) in the Academic Year
2013-2014, is here and will be live on 4th of
August. The Music Club reincarnated in its new
form under the newly elected team has sought
for the excellence in music and performances.
Dhwani, in its own & new avatar would endorse
upon the event that includes performance
ranging from Classical to Bollywood & semi
classical andFusion too. The event expects performances
from all the 13 hostels in the campus and a
ceremonial act by a Delhi based band RISHI
Inc.
RISHI Inc. would be performing in IIT-Delhi in a
much hyped fanfare that they have after their
2010's Last performance at IITD. The crowd,
and club as well, expects also the similar
professionalism in music from the participants
too.
Rishi Inc. was founded way back in 2010, the
month of August and never looked back, with
the soaring performances and singles becoming
popular. 'Rishi Inc.' has its life based inside the
core members viz. Rishi, Santa, Tarit, Ritesh,
Anugrah and Gautam – six fellows who could
hear nothing but the sound of music and speak
nothing but the language of melody – were
brought together by their love for music.
Since the whole institute anticipating for an
exciting experience after a lot of amendments
in
the BRCA, I believe we will have to wait and
watch till the truth is revealed on 4th August.
Till then the campus will be buzzing with the
music practice sessions and 'RISHI Inc.' of
course.

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IIT-D scholars patent prosthetic limb guided by good leg

Two young scientists from IIT-Delhi have
received a provisional patent for the
prototype of a prosthetic limb that will
enable amputees to walk “without having
to drag their leg”.
Deepak Joshi and Ramandeep Singh,
research scholars at the Centre for
Biomedical Engineering in IIT-Delhi, have
developed a control strategy for speed
adaptive walking in an above-knee
prosthesis. With the use of a transmitter,
people who have received below-knee
amputations will be able to walk with ease
and without disturbing their gait as the
prosthetic leg would mimic the action of
the good leg.
“To control the prosthetic limb, two
variables were measured, namely, knee
angle and the walking speed. Knee angle
(how much the knee bends) of the normal
limb was measured by using a
potentiometer fitted with the micro-
controller,” Singh said.
A heel switch placed at the shoe of the
normal limb identifies the walking speed,
converts it to an algorithm and transmits it
to through wireless module to the
prosthetic limb. “The radio frequency (RF)
wireless transmission is used to transfer
the data from normal limb to prosthetic
limb,” Singh said.
He said the algorithm has been successfully
implemented in a prototype. It consists of
three parts: knee joint, leg and foot. A
stepper motor is incorporated with the
knee joint itself. As the stepper motor
receives the signal from the circuit, it
rotates the knee joint.
The patent has been filed by Foundation of
Innovation and Technology Transfer (IIT-
Delhi) and complete provisional
specifications were received on February
13.
The two research scholars have been
mentored by Professor Sneh Anand from
IIT-Delhi and Dr U Singh from the All
India Institute for Medical Sciences. The
Centre for Biomedical Engineering, set up
in 1971, is a joint venture of the two
institutes.
“The project is unique not only in its
application, but also in its hardware and
software design,” Prof Anand, who heads
the Centre for Biomedical Engineering,
said.
The USP of the project is the use of
minimum number of sensors with
maximum accuracy in prediction that will
help increase a person’s adaptability to the
prosthetic limb.
PHOTOS

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Light completely stopped for a record- breaking minute

The fastest thing in the universe has come to a
complete stop for a record-breaking minute.
At full pelt, light would travel about 18 million
kilometres in that time – that's more than 20
round trips to the moon.
"One minute is extremely, extremely long,"
says Thomas Krauss at the University of St
Andrews, UK. "This is indeed a major
milestone."
The feat could allow secure quantum
communications to work over long distances.
While light normally travels at just under 300
million metres per second in a vacuum,
physicists managed to slow it down to just 17
metres per second in 1999 and then halt it
completely two years later, though only for a
fraction of a second. Earlier this year,
researchers kept it still for 16 seconds using
cold atoms .
Stripy light
To break the minute barrier, George Heinze
and colleagues at the University of Darmstadt,
Germany, fired a control laser at an opaque
crystal, sending its atoms into a quantum
superposition of two states. This made it
transparent to a narrow range of frequencies.
Heinze's team then halted a second beam that
entered the crystal by switching off the first
laser and hence the transparency.
The storage time depends on the crystal's
superposition. A magnetic field extends it but
complicates the control laser configuration.
Heinze's team used an algorithm to "breed"
combinations of magnet and laser, leading
them to one that trapped light for a minute.
They also used the trap to store and then
retrieve an image consisting of three stripes.
"We showed you can imprint complex
information on your light beam," says Heinze.
Tens of seconds of light storage are needed for
a device called a quantum repeater, which
would stop and then re-emit photons used in
secure communications, to preserve their
quantum state over long distances.
It should even be possible to achieve longer
light storage times with other crystals, says
Heinze, as they have pushed their current
material close to its physical limit.

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IIT Mumbai, Roorkee willing to pitch in for Uttarakhand rehabilitation

Dehradun : Though incessant rains that
have been lashing Uttarakhand since June
in the aftermath of the Kedarnath tragedy
and showing no signs of receding, the focus
of the central government as also the state
is now on the rehabilitation and
reconstruction. The biggest bottleneck in this
task is how best to ensure environmental
safety and at the same time deliver the
goods.
Though the IITs of Roorkee and Mumbai
have chipped in to contribute the necessary
expertise in rehabilitation and
reconstruction works, experts feel that the
June 16 tragedy has hit this small mountain
state in its soft underbelly. Years of
haphazard construction and rampant
dynamiting of the fragile mountains have
only added to the woes of the planners.
The
latest
list
of
identified
danger
zones
to
aggressive
landslides
as
updated
by
the
National
Remote
Sensing
Centre
has now gone up to 1604 as 268 new low
and high hazard zones have been added
after the June 16 holocaust. Besides, there
are hundreds of villages that have also
come under the highly sensitive list and
need to be rehabilitated.
Experts at the Wadia Himalayan Geology
Institute here feel that before the
rehabilitation and reconstruction work is
undertaken, there is need for mapping the
landslide prone zones. The state government
planners also feel that this exercise should
be undertaken immediately so that
necessary corrective measures can be
adopted before any construction is
undertaken in such areas.
Experts of IIT Roorkee and Mumbai feel that
a prosperous and planned Uttarakhand can
be re-established after the tragedy, but
before starting there is a need for studying
its geological and topographical conditions.
Besides the aspirations and the causes that
led to the June 16 tragedy have also to be
taken into consideration, they observed.
Asserting that the two IITs have the
necessary wherewithal to undertake the
task, they said that houses and roads would
have to be constructed in a manner to
ensure that there is no repeat of the tragedy
in the future. “We are just waiting for the
nod from the Uttarakhand government to
take upon the gigantic task”, they claimed.
Meanwhile the planners of the Uttarakhand
government have also started preparing the
road map for the restoration and
rehabilitation of the devastated areas of the
state, though the concentration is still is on
connecting the villages that remain cut off
even after one month of the tragedy. The
rains have been the major reason for the
slow progress in the relief and
rehabilitation process.
However, as of now the focus of the
planners is that while rehabilitating and
reconstructing the state, special thought
will be given to the environment, forests
and wildlife and it will be anusred that the
statement given by the chief minister that
no construction will be allowed within 200
metres of the rivers and streams is
implemented in letter and spirit.
It has also been decided that keeping in
view the fact that this small mountain state
is in a high active seismic zone, all houses,
buildings and other constructions are made
using appropriate technology should there
be an earthquake of high magnitude on the
Richter scale in the near future. And before
any villages are rehabilitated the Geological
Survey of India (GSI) will be asked to
conduct necessary tests.
It has also been decided that the Central
Building Research Institute (CBRI),
Geological Survey of India (GSI), Remote
Sensing and other allied establishments are
kept in the loop during the entire planning
and construction stage and the roads are
constructed in a planned manner with due
thought given to drainage of water due to
rains and snow.
The planners were also of the view that the
villages of the hilly areas of the state will
be rehabilitated in the higher reaches only,
for which the state government will make
land available and the centre will also be
asked for necessary permission where forest
land is involved while the villages of the
lower reaches will be rehabilitated in the
plains.
Special development will be done of areas
which involve religious places that are
visited by lakhs of pilgrims annually.
To avoid a repeat of the Kedarnath tragedy,
as of now the state government is working
on how to regulate the number of pilgrims
to the important shrines of the state to
ensure that there is no overcrowding and
collection of large number of people at any
one time.

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IIT-B one of the best in world: US vice-president Joe Biden

MUMBAI: US vice-president Joe Biden today
hailed the premier Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay as "one of the leading"
technology schools in the world that left
him "extremely impressed".
"I have been extremely impressed. This is a
great university , one of the leading
universities in the world in the field of
technology," he said after visiting various
laboratories and interacting with students
on the campus. Biden's comments came
amid talk of declining standards of
education in the country.
After visiting the departments of Nano
Technology and Earth Sciences, he held a
closed-door meeting with female students
pursuing doctoral studies in multiple
disciplines.
"We are looking at India's future. I mean
it," he said, citing the oft-used quote
"women are half the sky". Biden, who
wrapped up his 4-day India visit with IIT-B
as his last port of call, particularly
appreciated the diverse work being done by
the female students he met in areas as
varied as transportation, education and
medicine.
Accompanying US officials said the meeting
was part of an Indo-US partnership on
'women in science'. "To see these women
engaged in science, technology and
engineering is something worth promoting
very heavily in the US.In the US, now more
women graduate from college than men and
still there are only 20 per cent or so
entering the science stream," he said.
Biden, the first US vice-president to visit
India in the last three decades, said the
future of the people of this country which is
"most open and most representative" is
much better.
"We have to take advantage of the collective
capabilities of our population," he added.

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CVC clears P P Chakraborty as IIT-Kharagpur director

NEW DELHI: After many months of
wrangling P P Chakraborty has been finally
cleared for the post of director at IIT-
Kharagpur.
The Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC)
clearance came late on Thursday. The HRD
ministry was under tremendous pressure
from IIT-Kharagpur alumni association and
other industrial bigwigs to get go ahead for
Chakraborty. On Saturday when the
convocation takes place IIT-Kharagpur
would finally have a director.
Chakraborty's name was cleared last year,
but later findings that he did not have the
vigilance clearance led to the delay.
Chakraborty was one of the three IIT
professors who were named by the CBI in
the Coalnet scam in which work given to
insititute was outsourced by the institute.
CBI had recommended minor penalty
against Chakraborty and major penalty
against two of his colleagues A K Bhowmick
and R N Banerjee . Even CVC has told IIT-
Kharagpur to chargesheet Bhowmick and
Banerjee.
Sources said CVC has accepted Chakraborty's
defence that when he took over as the head
of the Sponsored Research and Industrial
Consultancy the Coalnet project was in the
mature stage. He explained that the
outsourced company TCG was taken only
for manpower services to work under the
control of the IIT team. He also denied and
provided a sequence of events about the
allegation of writing a backdated letter.
The HRD ministry that requested the CVC to
give him the vigilance clearance first
accepted Chakraborty's defence. However,
CVC has said he should be cautious in
future.

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ISRO set to flight-test GSLV on August 19

More than three years after the heart-breaking
failure of flight testing of the indigenous
cryogenic stage in GSLV -D3 mission, Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO ) announced
today it's ready to undertake the high-stakes
venture again on August 19.
A national team of experts today gave the go-
ahead to ISRO after the Bangalore-
headquartered space agency presented it the
preparations that it had made after
rectifications and qualifications. The team
included U R Rao and Roddam Narasimha and
academics associated with ISRO's rocket
programme.
"The moment we are talking about is August
19 as a tentative schedule and the time is
around 5 PM," ISRO Chairman K
Radhakrishnan said here. "Vehicle (GSLV or
rocket) is already assembled and we have done
electrical checks on the vehicle," he said.
"We have done nearly 35 ground tests since
we had the April 2010 failure, on sub-systems,
on the engine and on a similar engine in high
altitude conditions." ISRO designed and
developed some components itself and not
sourced from outside. GSLV-D5 is now slated
for launch, with GSAT-14 satellite onboard
from the Sriharikota spaceport.
India's other operational rocket, PSLV , has
limitations up to what mass it can handle,
making the success of GSLV with indigenous
cryogenic engine extremely important as this
rocket can carry heavier communication
satellites to a much higher orbit. "Cryogenic
route has to be there for the future of the
larger communication satellites,"
Radhakrishnan, also Secretary in the
Department of Space, explained, noting that
ISRO took up indigenous cryogenic engine
programme in 1992.
It was noted that 50 per cent of velocity is
provided by the upper cryogenic stage. He
said, the August 19 mission is technically and
emotionally important as the previous venture
was a failure. "We have to see through. Stakes
are very high, seriousness is very high. Entire
organisation feels for it. For the last three
years, we have been at it."
The failure analysis committee concluded after
the unsuccessful April 15, 2010, mission that
the thrust build up did not progress as
expected due to non-availability of liquid
hydrogen supply to the thrust chamber of the
main engine. This failure was attributed to the
anomalous stopping of Fuel Booster Turbo
Pump (FBTP).
In the last three years, ISRO conducted
extensive failure analysis studies and reviews.
Cryo stage FBTP was modified as per GSLV-D3
failure analysis committee recommendations
and qualification tests carried out, ISRO
officials said.

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ISRO Navigation Centre Inaugurated

The ISRO Navigation Centre (INC), established
at Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) complex
at Byalalu, about 40 km from Bangalore, was
inaugurated today (May 28, 2013) by Mr. V.
Narayanasamy, Minister of State in the Prime
Minister's Office, Ministry of Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions. INC is an important
element of the Indian Regional Navigation
Satellite System (IRNSS), an independent
navigation satellite system being developed by
India.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Narayanasamy
appreciated the commitment and dedication of
Indian space scientists in realising the

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Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C22) flight delayed by a fortnight

IRNSS-1A, the first Indian Navigation Satellite,
was scheduled for launch onboard PSLV-C22
on June 12, 2013 at 01:01 hrs. from Satish
Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. IRNSS-1A
Satellite has gone through all electrical checks
and is ready for propellant filling. The PSLV-
C22 vehicle was fully integrated and was
undergoing electrical checks.
During the electrical checks of the launch
vehicle, an anomaly was observed in one of the
electro-hydraulic control actuators in the
second stage. It has been decided to replace
this actuator.

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NASA Chief visits ISRO Centre at Ahmedabad

Charles F. Bolden Jr., Administrator of National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
of United States, visited Space Applications
Centre (SAC) of Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) at Ahmedabad today (June
25, 2013).
The NASA Administrator had a meeting with Dr.
K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO/ Secretary,
Department of Space along with senior officials
of ISRO to discuss the on-going cooperative
activities between ISRO and NASA and also the
potential areas of future cooperation.

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Prof. Satish Dhawan Endowed Fellowship Established at California Institute of Technology

The Department of Space/Indian Space
Research Organisation has established an
endowed fellowship at the Graduate Aerospace
Laboratories of the California Institute of
Technology, California, USA. This fellowship is
established in honor of Prof. Satish Dhawan,
who was the former Chairman of Indian Space
Research Organisation during its formative
period 1972-1984.
Prof. Satish Dhawan was an alumnus of the
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at California
Institute of Technology (Caltech) and obtained

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Won’t change our stand, IIT- Delhi director

Did the JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced)
serve the purpose of a single entrance
examination?
IITs never agreed to a single entrance test.
All along, ours was a different system from
AIEEE. We've always maintained that
logical reasoning can't be tested through an
objective test but through subjective
questions. We did not want to mix Class XII
results with the JEE (Advanced) score. So,
we agreed to give weightage only to the top
20 percentile of each board. Intellect is
equally distributed and the Class XII marks
reflect board marks only, not intellect.
Seventy-nine students who could've got
IIT seats have been turned away because
the Boards got the 20 percentile
calculations wrong. What went wrong?
There is a mistake in understanding . The
Boards did the calculation voluntarily. On
top of that, they calculated it on the basis
of those who appeared instead of those who
passed the Class XII examination . Right
from the beginning , the JEE website has
been saying 20 percentile has to be on the
basis of those who passed the test. So we
had to recalculate.
What happens to students who have lost
out?
It is unfortunate. But nothing can be done
now.
You met with the HRD minister also on
this.
Yes. But we'll not change our stand. If we
do anything now it'd be seen as being
subjective.
Do we see any changes from next year?
We can look into the 20 percentile
criterion as well as number of students
who can appear for JEE (Advanced).
What about single exam?
Personally, I think it would not work. The
example being given is of SAT/GRE. But
these tests are about score, not ranking . In
an entrance examination , ranking is
everything.

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Life of Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical branch is the hard branch ,it
needs strong people
as it is believed by a large number of people .
generally people think that boys are more
stronger than girls
thats why generally boys take mechanical
engineer,so chances of getting gals in
mechanical is very rare and even if by chance
u found any gals they may not be females
(that is they may be non males ) . i think you
can understand what non males means (less
attractive and arrogant gals).
In mechanical engineering ,there are a lot of
course which a mechies needs to read as
compared to other branches ( although
electronics and electrical guys also needs to
study a lot of course,but atleast mechanical is
better as compared to these branches in the
fact that mechanical involved practicals which
are really happened means even you can feel
them to happen),means mechanical branch is
close towards reality (one of the best things in
mechanical),because all the practicals
involved in mechanical course are generally
some shops (like welding ,machining shop etc)
or related to fluid dynamics or heat and
thermodynamics and also automobile
application is already there in
mechanical .force analysis ,velocity
analysis ,analysis of vehicle
dynamics ,efficiency of vehicles and shape and
all that are real ,means a mechanical engineer
can feel all these from inside ( and infact he
has to feel these from inside in his
engineering days ).
when a guy is in first year of
mechanical ,teacher started making his habbit
of regularly attending class, regular study
( because there are a lot of classes for
mechies )
as he passes first year ,teacher becomes more
weird ,they increase burden of syllabus on
mechies ,means in whole B.TECH. , a
mechanical guy have to be ready for anytime
classes ,regular study(or atleast regular
classes).
now lets talk about conditions in
practical ,generally all mechanical practicals
involved some heat or temprature , so a
mechies have a habbit of living in room
temprature (if even it is hot),that makes
mechies more stronger than any other branch
guys.
during b.tech days ,since approx no gals are
there in mech. so mechies are generally very
frustrated about gals (plz dont laugh or
comment at this , i am saying this after seeing
a lot of mech guys ). generally all mechies
generally run after gals ,some are even so
much frustated that they started join various
chat sites ,join various courses (where gals
also come ).they started making freindship
with other branch guys in search of gals by
reference ,means in all every thing they can
do they generally do . some guys started
travelling in good condition transport(so that
chance of seeing any gal is increased like in
AC III teir , or in any A.C . bus).
I have noticed a lot of guys ( i m in b.tech.
final year ), in all my four years i saw life in
mechanical is even so much depressing in
case of gals that many mechies are become
fooled by sum fake chat ids , or by som
peoples,but a mechies never give up (like in
some cases , a boy can also goes to some
place far only bcz of chatting and he became
fooled ), he always keep trying like he start
bodybuilding, join some personality
development classes , start living with guys
who are more flirt , in some cases even starts
read sum books related to wooing gals (really i
have seen sum of my frndsdoing all above
mentioned things).
But yes mechies are weak only in case of gals
(that is true mostly,sum exception like me are
always there ),you can not fight them in other
fields like in fighting ,gossiping( bakar kaatne
mein ) and persisting (habbit of never give
up ).
Now lets have a look on some habbits of
mechies like it is said that smoke shud be
there to show the presence of mechanical ,
mechies always remain in group try to make
fun of one another , some make their thinking
that as they cant have gal frnds so no one can
have ( means all those guys who r saying that
they have a lot of gal frnds are fake ), some
make their thinking that when we will be in
job,then we make galfreinds,some smart guys
of mechanical dont want to join core
companies only bcz of this , they know they
have scope of wooing gals so they join
software or some other companies (mnc's).but
yes you cant get talent any where more than
mechanical . some mechies have habbit of
screwed themselves ,they can beat any
competition .
i think i have already bored you too much ,
see i am not writting this intentionally to any
one so if anyone get gurts by this i m very
very sorry , but this is what it has to be
if u like to discuss any thing ,u can discuss
with me or with others

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Seven IITs, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant and Nasscom team up to provide free online courses

MUMBAI: Seven leading IITs, Infosys
BSE 0.43 % , TCS BSE 0.64 % , Cognizant and
industry lobby Nasscom are coming together
to launch a bunch of free, online courses that
could potentially help 100,000-150,000 people
a year get high-quality education and make
them job-ready.
The courses will be offered using the model of
massive open online courses (MOOCs), which is
globally creating an upheaval in the world of
higher education. The first three courses in
computer science are expected to roll out this
October.
"This programme is particularly relevant to
India because of the high number of young
students who need to be educated and
trained," says Lakshmi Narayanan, vice-
chairman of Cognizant.
MOOCs make high-quality education from top
universities accessible to anyone, anywhere in
the world, online and for free.
The model was rolled out in early 2012 back-
to-back by two start-ups, Udacity and
Coursera, both emerging out of Stanford
University. This was followed by edX, MIT-
Harvard's online courses platform.
About 15 faculty members from the seven
older IITs will form the faculty and are
currently designing the course.
The participating IITs are Delhi, Madras,
Kharagpur, Kanpur, Roorkee, Bombay, and
Guwahati.
"We are currently working out the details of
the programme in consultation with Nasscom,"
says Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, director, IIT-
Madras. "We are also hoping to rope in more
than 500 mentors on a voluntary basis from
industry and academia," adds AK Ray,
professor of the Centre for Educational
Technology at IIT-Kharagpur.
This is the biggest industry-academia
partnership to help students and professionals
access top-quality course content and meet
specific industry demands. "For the first time,
students from both rural areas and metros will
have access to the same content, channel,
tests, experts and certification," says
Cognizant's Narayanan.
People who take the courses will be eligible to
write proctored exams for a minimal fee and
get certificates. For the computer science
courses, IIT will give certification. For the
foundation courses, industry will give
certificates. It could also be a joint
certification with IITs.
"Students from the second year onwards in
science and engineering from any college can
take the courses that will be offered multiple
times a year," says Andrew Thangaraj, associate
professor of electrical engineering at IIT-
Madras. "It will make a difference in their
career progress."
Google is providing its Course Builder platform
for hosting MOOCs. HackerRank will provide
their web portal, where students can practise
their programming assignments and get them
verified and graded.
Till now, IITs have been offering open
courseware on the National Programme on
Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). This is
a repository of video lectures created by
professors of the seven older IITs and IISC-
Bangalore available to anyone, anywhere in the
world on Youtube etc. However, NPTEL does
not give any certification; neither does it have
any interaction or synchronised classes. In the
next phase of NPTEL, all these seven IITs and
industry have joined hands to offer courses on
the web-based MOOCs platform, which will
also offer certification.

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Placement at IITs 2013

IIT Bombay
A total of 1600 students would be getting
placed this year out of which 400 students are
currently going through the process. The
institute's placements coordinators have
refused to share salary details. However,
according to one of our sources, there is going
to be at least a 30 percent increase in pay
packages this year compared to last year.
Speaking to Gyancentral, IIT Bombay
Placement coordinator, Avijit Chaterjee said,
"Some companies that are expected in the first
phase are McKinsey & Company, Boston
Consulting Group, Deutsche Bank, Booz &
Company, Microsoft, Google Inc, Facebook,
IBM, LinkedIn, Twitter Inc, etc."
For the first time, this year at IIT Bombay the
US-based Blackstone Group and Digital
marketing company Rocket Fuel are also
expected to visit.
How is the job crunch scenario?
"What job crunch? The response from
companies has been pretty good. It does not
seem like there is a job crunch in the market,"
said Chaterjee.
A student from IIT Bombay last year had
bagged the highest job offer from Microsoft. It
was Rs 52 lakh which is $100,000. The position
offered to the student was for their
Washington office.
"Let's see what happens this year. We have our
fingers crossed. Hopefully, IIT Bombay will bag
the highest placement record this year too,"
says one of the members of the placement
committee.
IIT Madras
A total of 1263 students will be participating in
the first phase of the placements.
A source from IIT Madras told us that Samsung
Electronics Company Limited has proposed to
offer Rs 80 lakh (approx which is a whopping $
150,000 to one of their students. This will
clearly be the highest so far from any IITs.
Speaking to Gyancentral, a student
representative from the placement cell at IIT
Madras said, "Mercedes Benz, Rolls Royce and
Toshiba Corporation are among the first timers
on campus this year."
"We are expecting close to a 100 new
companies. This includes Procter and Gamble,
Walmart, Bajaj Auto, Hindustan Coca-Cola
Beverages, MRF Tyres, etc. These will come in
mostly by the second phase."
"Other companies participating in the
placement process at IIT Madras are Boston
Consulting Group, Deutsche Bank, Goldman
Sachs, ITC Ltd, Google India, Sony, Shell,
Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, IBM and
Samsung Electronics," he added.
IIT Guwahati
According to our source, "the placement
scenario so far is similar to last year."
"Last year the highest compensation package at
IIT Guwahati was Rs 80 lakh (approx) which is
$1,50,000. This year it might be the same or it
might even go below that, close to Rs 70 lakh."
However, IIT Guwahati will also be seeing its
own set of first timers this year namely
Goldman Sachs Strategy Group and Morgan
Stanley.
"Yes, they have never been to our campus
before. So we are hoping this year they will
pick considerable numbers and we are very
proud to host them," says a student from the
placement committee.
At IIT Guwahati, last time, this year was proud
moment as Facebook turned out to be the
largest recruiter on campus and Microsoft also
picked up maximum number of students.
"Honestly, this year doesn't look very good so
far. We do not know how it will go. But hoping
for the best. We have invited close to 100
companies but we seem to be getting a not-so-
positive response from many" Ten of them
have visited the campus in the past four days,"
said the student.
IIT Delhi
While IIT Delhi refused to comment of their
placement scenario, after repeated requests,
we did gather that the total number of
students participating in the placement process
if around 1300.
Speaking to Gyancentral, Kushal Sen, head of
training and placement and National
Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
(NPTEL) at IIT-Delhi, said, "About 25 firms
representing almost all the sectors will be
participated on the first day of the final
placement process. We have invited over 350
firms this year, which is the same as that of
last year. We are positive that most of them
will turn up and pick students."
IIT Bhubaneswar
Close 1200 students will be participating in the
placement process.
"We have invited close to a 100 firms and we
think that most of the students are interested
in core," informs a representative from the
placement cell, IIT Bhubaneswar.
"So far 14 companies have already visited and
made offers. We cannot divulge the offers
right now."
Last year, IIT Bhubaneswar's highest offered
salary was Rs 7.5 lakh per annum.
"We do not have numbers like IIT Bombay or
Delhi but we do understand one thing that
companies that have come here before, always
choose to come back. Which means they like
our students and see talent and capability in
them," said a senior faculty member.
IIT Kharagpur
Speaking to Gyancentral, a placement
committee member said, "Facebook, Google
and Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and IBM-IRL
have offered jobs for a number of students on
the very first day. Microsoft has offered eight
positions at Microsoft Research, Redmond,
Washington. This is amazing start to our
placement season as usually it's only one or
two students that they offer jobs to from every
IIT."
"The best thing about this whole process is
that all these students aren't department
pointers with 9 pointers but are 6-7 pointers."
At IIT Kharagpur, placements started at a very
high point this year considering that over 170+
pre-placement offers came along from more
than 50 companies.
"If this trend continues, then we will easily
have the record of the highest number of
placements in any IIT till date," says the
student from the placement committee.
Around 252 companies are expected to
participate this year out of which some first
timers like Credit Suisse (ENO Prime Services),
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Maximum salary offered at IIT- Guwahati placement Rs 65 lakh 2013

GUWAHATI: Placement season is on at the
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati,
since December and the maximum salary
package that has been offered to a student
till now is $1,19,000, around Rs 65 lakh.
The name of the company has been kept
confidential due to an agreement with the
institute. However, the maximum salary
offered this year was less than last year's,
which was around $150,000.
The placements are set to continue till
April. Some of the most reputed companies
from across the globe, many of whose
names feature in Fortune 500, have lined
up at the IIT-G campus for recruitments.
The placement drive, for technology, design
and other courses were held at both the
undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The
average salary offered at the graduate level
was Rs 10.8 lakh per annum. About 92 per
cent of the B Tech students were recruited
and 100 per cent of the B Design students
were recruited.
"International companies like Goldman
Sachs, Google, Samsung, PayPal, eBay,
Schlumberger, Microsoft, Directi, Amazon,
Adobe, Oracle, Morgan Stanley and
Facebook visited the institute for
recruitment. The Indian companies that
came here for placements were Tata Motors,
Flipkart, Nvidia, Reliance India Ltd, Wipro,
Infosys and Hero Motors. We are expecting
some more companies as the placement
season will continue till April," said Lavanu
Konwar, IIT-G public relations officer.
At the masters level, which includes
specialisations in technology and design, the
average salary offered was Rs 9.4 lakh per
annum. The reason for the difference in the
salary offered to graduate and postgraduate
students is that companies prefer young
graduates as it is easier to mould and train
them, explained Konwar.
(An earlier version of this story mistakenly
mentioned maximum salary offered at IIT-
Guwahati placement as Rs 5 crore. We
regret the error and thank our readers for
pointing it out.)

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JEE Advanced 2013 Eligibility Criteria :

Candidate must have appeared for the JEE
Main 2013 Paper 1 exam and scored a rank
below 1, 50,000 (including all categories) to be
eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) - 2013.
Admission Criteria for IITs and ISM
Dhanbad:
The category wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE
(Advanced) 2013 will be the basis for
admissions provided the following criterion are
met.
Candidates must figure in the top 20% of
successful students of their respective Boards
To qualify, they must have scored a minimum
score of 60% in the qualifying exam (Class XII
or equivalent) (for students who have passed
their Class XII in the first attempt in 2012.
Note:
In case the respective board does not provide
the cutoff information regarding the top
twenty percentile of successful candidate
Candidates will have to produce a certificate
from the board stating the same.
In case a student is unable to rpoduce a
certificate as above, the CBSE percentile will
be used as the criteria for deciding minimum
percentage of marks in the qualifying
examination.
JEE Advanced 2013 No. Of Attempts: A
maximum of two times in consecutive years.
Non eligibility Criteria : students who belong
to the following criteria cannot apply for the
JEE Advanced
Candidates who have attempted IIT-JEE in 2011
or earlier are NOT ELIGIBLE to appear in JEE
(Advanced) - 2013
Candidates who have taken /accepted
admission at any of the IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi
or ISM Dhanbad, are  NOT ELIGIBLE to appear
in JEE (Advanced) - 2013.
JEE Advance 2013 Rank wise Distribution of
top 1, 50,000 candidates as per Category :
Common Merit List: Top 75750 (50.5 %)
Other Backward Classes Non creamy layer OBC
(NCL): Top 40500 (27%)
Scheduled Caste (SC) Top 22500 (15 %)
Scheduled Tribe (ST) Top 11250 (7.5 %)
Note: As per GOI norms, 3% in each category
is reserved for PD candidates

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42 Things to do before you graduate from IIT Delhi

1. Make friends. Get close to them. Let the
boundaries dissolve. Let the ego melt.
Trust them. Understand them. Let them be
what they are. Be what you are
2. Fall in love. But don't let your boyfriend/
girlfriend cut you off from the remaining
world.
3. Do atleast one course with absolute
interest, such that it brings sparks to your
eye whenever you think about that course.
4. Find a mentor (senior/professor). Get
friends with him/her.
5. Climb on the hyperbolic-parabolic roof.
Lie down facing stars. Hear soft music
6. Go and sleep on your hostel roof, when
it's too hot or when it's drizzling. Don't
get caught.
7. Write a personal mail to each and
everyone who has touched your life in last
4 years. Thank them.
8. Go to the Himalayas with your friends on
a challenging trekking expedition. It
strengthens your friendship.
9. Participate in some highly competitive
cultural activity: Inter Hostel, Rendezvous
etc...Atleast go for the audition. You will
never get a chance to experience such fear
again; and an opportunity to overcome it.
10. Participate in some highly competitive
sports activity: Basketball, Water Polo,
Hockey. Try playing rough and soft; for
yourself and for your team. Experience
how different emotions does each thing
arouse in you and others.
11. Go to Chandni Chowk: Eat chaat, parantha,
lassi, sweets and kulfi. (Some of my visits:
Chawari Bazzar , Chandani Chowk )
12. Surprise your parents/close relatives with
a surprise visit. Invite them to IIT Delhi;
especially during some festival. Introduce
your friends to them. Give them a chance
to relive their college life.
13. Treat freshers (and all juniors) with love
and respect.
14. Go and visit the house of all your close
friends. Talk to their parents, siblings. Dine
with them. It strengthens your bonding.
15. Blog about your experiences, feelings,
ideas: anonymously or otherwise. Express
yourself.
16. Get access to the IRD conference room
and sneak through a door to its right. You
will find yourself on the unexplored Insti
Roof of IIT Delhi. Don't get caught.
17. Do a fascinating project. Something you
always dreamed of doing since your
childhood. Give the project everything.
Years will not be able to fade the joy of
working on your own ideas. I have heard
people who graduated 10-15 years back
talk with child-like joy about their college
projects.
18. Visit Delhi University (of course find
someone who you can talk to, once there!).
Apart from other things, they are awesome
in their right brains where we suck, and
can teach you a thing or two about arts
and literature among others...
19. Buy a good camera. Develop a good sense
of photography. Take a lot of picture of
your friends throughout your stay here.
Have a friend who can take a lot of equally
good pictures of you. But don't get
obsessed with it.
20. Watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S
21. Talk to Juniors. See where IIT Delhi's
future is going. Relive your past.
22. Devote yourself to at least one
organization within IIT Delhi. (For me it
was Technocracy)
23. Get out of your comfort zone: visit slums
in Delhi. Work with an NGO/NPO.
24. Write an anonymous letters to a professor
in the middle of a course: Critically
comment on his/her teaching methods and
how can they be improved. Note the
professor's reaction in the classes
onwards. If there is no difference write
another letter.
25. Go to India Gate with your guitar (or
someone who can play guitar well) and
your friends. Sing songs till wee hours.
26. Talk to people about their dreams. Things
they are really passionate about. Discuss
with them things which you are really
passionate about.
27. See people getting wasted. Make a
complete fool of yourself: once.
28. Try penning down a paper. It needn't be a
core technology paper. It can be
something on Environment, Literature,
state of education in India...Just try to
write an essay at some
competition...especially about something
you like doing. It makes you introspect a
lot.
29. Put a night out at Wind-T when the
weather is nice and breezy. Spend it
reading a book you like.
30. Write examination for someone else. Don't
dare get caught.
31. India is a very diverse country. Your peers
are the best people who can educate you
about real India. Talk to them about it.
Ask them to tell about their city. Discuss
the problems you think India is facing and
it's solutions. Discuss each others religious
believes. Try to understand others religion.
32. Don't get ill. The simple way of doing it is:
Get regular sleep. Eat proper food.
Exercise. I didn't do either in my 1st year.
I was constantly ill. After I started doing
all of these things: I haven't been ill even
once from last 3 years.
33. For once in a while, do what other tell you
to do. Let them decide. Let them lead.
Enjoy the joy of having no responsibilities.
34. Develop a habit of questioning. Try to find
how can you do it in a polite way so that
you don't put people on their defensive.
We Indians, as a culture, ask very little.
Change that.
35. Talk to kids who are yet in their school.
Visit your school sometimes. Talk to
principal. Don't worry - you will always be
treated very highly. It will bring back all
the fond school memories.
36. Don't do all spartan stuff. Do things in
group. Even when you watch movie or TV
try to do it in a group. You will anyways
watch movies alone for the rest of your
life.
37. Do some part time job. Don't do
something boring on computers. Go out
and do some intern/teaching/journalism/
marketing etc. Do something where you
will meet a lot of new people completely
different from what you get to meet here.
Don't make this work your priority. Just
try it for 1-2 months. Don't do it without
good pay.
38. Play kho-kho near WindT. And also all
those childhood games: Vish-Amrit, Unch-
Neech, Tipi Tipi Top, Chain Chain, Sitolia
etc.
39. Try appreciating things. It's hard to do
that. Give people credit for what they are
doing. They will do better. If you feel
things are not upto mark - give them
suggestions; don't criticize them.
40. Carve out time for yourself each day.
Think about your goals, priorities,
mistakes etc.
41. Hunt for home food. Day scholars make
excellent preys.
42. Decide a date when all of your closest
friends will meet, once a year, on a
vacation trip. This is something you should
do on the last day, the day when you are
leaving IIT Delhi. For ever. (We have gone
to several places, some of them being:
Laddakh, Har ki Dun & Dodital)
These 4/5 years are never going to return.
Ever. You will never be a free bird again.
Enjoy your freedom. Responsibly. And do
something that justifies your belonging to
this institute. To the least, become a good
human and a good citizen.

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My Life@Electrical IITD

Submitted by rahulkumar on Sat,
16/06/2012 - 12:06am
Hello all!
As the title suggests, what I shall write
would be my personal views and do not
reflect that of the general public. The
observations (of mine) may be a little
biased but do hold true. Life @ IIT Delhi
will be the best part of your life till now.
People say ' Jannat Hai IIT Delhi'. So be ready
for the enormous fun!
Hostel Life :
Hostel life is the best part of IIT Delhi.
You have good friends, opportunities and
the freedom to enjoy all of your days.
Further there are Inter-hostel cultural
activities, sports activities, poltu etc. All
these activities are like 'Sone Pe Suhaga' to
the hostel life. You have good interaction
with people from other hostels as well.
People do whatever they love to do in the
hostel, like watching movies, playing games,
practising Drama or Group Dance, or
magging (Studying)! Every day you will
find some or the other BRCA activities going
on - indulge yourselves in the ones you like.
One more thing about hostel life is that you
will find more and more of your friends
getting commited day by day week by week.
If you want to be one (commitied), hurry!
Because the line is so long, even some of
your (male!) seniors might also be in queue
for a small number of seats! :P
Electrical Dept. Life:
Life at Electrical Dept is full of
Equations, but full of fun as well! The work
is interesting and you will never feel bored
of it, though you may feel lazy instead!
Electrical Dept. is a broad dept. with a lot
of dimensions to explore. Broadly speaking
Electrical Dept. can be categorized in these
categories:
1. Information and Communication : This
category deals with stuff like
Communication Channels, Signal
Processing, Signal Modulation etc.
2. Integrated Electronics and Circuits :
This category deals with designing basic
transistor level efficient circuits, designing
IC's,chips etc.
3. Power, Machines and Power
Electronics (EE2) : This category deals with
designing various kind of motors,
transformers, power equipments etc.
4. Control and Automation : This category
deals with designing Feedback Control
devices, devices with required response etc.
Faculty at Electrical dept. is good. There are
many professors who know a lot and teach
in a good way. Besides that, there are a few
professors who don't teach well but at least
they have good knowledge.
Time Management and Planning :
You have a lot of activities,
opportunities to go for but not a lot of time
to do all you wish to do. So do some
introspection, think about what's good for
you, what makes you happy and choose that
activity / opportunity, and don't just follow
what others are doing or what the crowd is
moving towards. Decide what is good for
you, i.e. Is it the cultural activities like
Dance, Dramatics etc. that you would like
to pursue, or is it management work or
policy making work or research work that
you would love to pursue, and start putting
balanced efforts for all the things that you
need/love to do.
Have fun and don't make life boring
with only academics but don't leave
academics completely at the cost of other
activities as well. Your CGPA is also quite
important for your career. It is generally
seen that people become careless and loose
their CGPA in the first year, and then later
on they try to improve it (by studying
difficult things). It would be better to have
a good CGPA in the first year (by studying
easy things) and then after working on
reducing it! Getting a good CGPA is not a
difficult thing, the only thing you need to
do is attend all the classes and listen
carefully, ensure before coming to a class
that you are clear with the things taught in
the previous class with a REGULAR effort of
not more than 1-2 hours each day. If you
do this seriously no one can stop you from
having an A grade in that course.
Career :
To choose a career, don't follow the
money, your peers or the crowd in general.
Understand what work is good for you,
what work makes your life more full of fun
and fulfillment, and pursue that. At the end,
when you retire and have your
grandchildren around you, you ought to feel
that you have completely enjoyed this
journey of life. Take pride in whatever you
do, because after all, it is your decision and
future!
Have Fun!
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Open http://mech.iitd.ac.in/ for these information

(1) List of provisionally selected
candidates for the Ph. D. programmes-July
2013................... (2) List of provisionally
selected candidates for admission to the
M.S. (R) programmes............. (4) Notice
on fees for PG
students..................................................................
(5) Notice for waitlisted
candidates................................................................
(6) Revised List of provisionally selected
candidates for the M. Tech.
programmes................... (7) List of
candidates for M Tech programs on basis of
first-round of waiting list operation (8)
Wait List No. upto which Candidates for the
various MTech Programs have been offered
seats with (9) Wait List Number upto
which the Waitlisted Candidates for the
various MTech Programs in the Depa (10)
Wait List Number upto which the Waitlisted
Candidates for the various MTech Programs
have been (11) Wait List Number upto
which the Waitlisted Candidates for the
various MTech Programs with Insti

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History of Indian Institute of Technology

The History of Indian Institutes of
Technology refers to the history of the
IITs. It is a collection of events and
developments that had a bearing on their
past and will affect their future.
Pre independence developments
The concept of the IITs originated even
before India gained independence in
1947. After the end of the Second World
War and before India got independence,
Sir Ardeshir Dalal from the Viceroy's
Executive Council foresaw that the future
prosperity of India would depend not so
much on capital as on technology. He,
therefore, proposed the setting up of the
Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research. To man those laboratories, he
persuaded the US government to offer
hundreds of doctoral fellowships under
the Technology Cooperation Mission
(TCM) program. However realizing that
such steps can not help in the long run
for the development of India after it
gains independence, he conceptualized
institutes that would train such work
forces in the country itself. This is
believed to be the first conceptualization
of IITs.
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Developments leading to the
first IIT
Dr Humayun Kabir encouraged Dr B. C.
Roy, the Chief Minister of West Bengal to
work on Sir Ardeshir's proposal for an
IIT. It is also possible that Sir J.C. Ghosh ,
the then Director of the Indian Institute
of Science , Bangalore, prompted him to
do so. In 1946, Dr Kabir along with Sir
Jogendra Singh of the Viceroy's Executive
Council (Department of Education, Health
and Agriculture) set up a committee to
prepare a proposal, and made Sir Nalini
Ranjan Sarkar the chairman. The Sarkar
Committee was taking too much time, but
Dr Roy did not wait for the Committee to
finalise its report and started working on
the interim draft itself. The 22 member
committee (in its interim draft)
recommended the establishment of
Higher Technical Institutions in the
Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern
regions of the country. Possibly on the
lines of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA), these institutes were recommended
to have a number of secondary
institutions affiliated to them. The draft
also urged the speedy establishment of all
the four institutions with the ones in the
East and the West to be started
immediately. The committee also felt that
such institutes should not only produce
undergraduates but should be engaged in
research – producing research workers
and technical teachers as well. The
standard of the graduates was
recommended to be at par with those
from elite institutions abroad. They felt
that the proportion of undergraduates
and postgraduate students should be 2:1.
L. S. Chandrakant and Biman Sen in the
Education Ministry played significant role
in producing a blueprint for a truly
autonomous educational institution. Sir
J.C. Ghosh (later to be the first Director
of IIT Kharagpur ) ensured liberal
provisions of the IIT Act allowing the IITs
to work free from nitpicking interference
from the babudom . It is largely because
of the IIT Act that IIT directors were
granted authority superseding even some
parts of the government. On the ground
Bengal had the highest concentration of
engineering industries, the Committee
suggested that an IIT may be set up in
that state. This encouraged Dr. Roy. to
use that fragment of a report in order to
persuade Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to push
through a special Act to establish an IIT
in Bengal.
With the recommendations of the Sarkar
committee in view and on the basis of
blueprint made by L. S. Chandrakant,
Biman Sen, and Sir J.C. Ghosh, the first
Indian Institute of Technology was born
in May, 1950 at the site of Hijli Detention
Camp in Kharagpur , a town in eastern
India. Initially the IIT started functioning
from 5, Esplanade East, Calcutta [ (now
Kolkata) and shifted to Hijli in September,
1950 when Sir J.C. Ghosh offered the
place as a ready made place for the IIT.
The present name 'Indian Institute of
Technology' was adopted before the
formal inauguration of the Institute on
18 August 1951, by Maulana Abul Kalam
Azad . On 15 September 1956, the
Parliament of India passed an act known
as the Indian Institute of Technology
(Kharagpur) Act declaring it as an
Institute of National Importance.
Jawaharlal Nehru , India's first Prime
Minister , in the first convocation address
of IIT Kharagpur in 1956, said:
“ Here in the place of that
Hijli Detention Camp
stands the fine
monument of India,
representing India's
urges, India's future in
the making. This picture
seems to me symbolical
of the changes that are
coming to India." [1]
”
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The next four IITs
To counter the criticisms of setting up IIT
in West Bengal, the draft report
suggested that a second IIT may be
located in the Western Region to serve
the process industries concentrated
there. It also added that a third IIT
should be considered for the North to
promote the vast irrigation potential of
the Gangetic basin. Not willing to leave
South out (and to make it politically
correct), the draft report hinted that a
fourth one might be considered for the
South too. However, it offered no specific
economic justification for the same.
When the pressure started building up to
set up IIT in the West, Jawaharlal Nehru
sought Soviet assistance in order to set
up the institute in Mumbai. Krishna
Menon (the then Defence Minister) and
closest to the Russians, got Brig Bose
appointed the first Director of IIT
Bombay when it got established in Powai
in 1958. As a fallout of the prevailing
Cold War, the Americans offered to help
to set up yet another IIT. The way the
Sarcar Committee had suggested, it was
established in the North as IIT Kanpur (in
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh ) in 1959. Dr Kelkar
was the first Director of the institute.
At that time, the Germans had run up
large trade surpluses, and they were
persuaded to support an IIT in the South.
The Germans had initially decided on
Bangalore as the location but when they
visited Madras, C. Subramaniam , the
Education Minister, took them round the
Governor's estate with frolicking deer
roaming among hundreds of venerable
banyan trees, and offered the space
across the table. The visiting German
team was considerably impressed by it
and Madras got the fourth IIT in 1959
itself as IIT Madras.
R. N. Dogra the Chief Engineer of
Chandigarh persuaded Prof M. S. Thacker,
then Member of the Planning Commission
to set up an IIT at Delhi on the ground
that the country was divided into five
regions, and all but the North had an IIT
each. It was done on the basis of the
logic that Uttar Pradesh and Madhya
Pradesh constituted the Central Region.
Hence, officially, Kanpur was located in
the Central Region, not the North. This
led to the establishment of IIT Delhi in
1961. The Indian Institutes of Technology
Act was suitably amended to reflect the
addition of new IITs. [2]
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Establishment of IIT Guwahati
and IIT Roorkee
After the establishment of IIT in Delhi,
there was a long gap in any notable
development in the history of IITs.
However in the beginning of the 1990s,
widespread student agitations in Assam
led to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
promising another IIT in Assam. Rajiv
Gandhi agreed to it on the spot
considering it a minor request of ITI
although eventually it cost over Rs 1,500
crore. The IIT Guwahati campus started
functioning in 1987. In the beginning of
the 21st century, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi
(the Education Minister of India) made
University of Roorkee into an IIT, making
IIT Roorkee the newest IIT but the oldest
institution amongst the seven in 2001.
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Establishment of IIT (BHU)
Varanasi
In order to establish more IITs in India,
MHRD constituted Professor S K Joshi
Committee in 2003 and Anand Krishnan
Committee in 2005 to recommend names
of existing institutes that had the
potential of being converted into an IIT
institute, both of which had
recommended for the conversion of the
IT-BHU into an Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT). On July 17, 2008, the
government of India issued a press
release granting "In principle approval for
taking over the Institute of Technology,
Banaras Hindu University – a constituent
unit of the Banaras Hindu University, a
Central University, its conversion into an
Indian Institute of Technology and
integrating it with the IIT system in the
country." After the approval of BHU
Executive Council, a Bill was introduced
on 4 August 2010 a bill seeking to amend
the Institutes of Technology Act 1961 to
declare IT-BHU as an IIT. The Bill was
eventually signed by the President of
India on 20 June 2012 and notified in the
gazette on 21 June. The Central
Government released a notification on 29
June that as per the Act, the
transformation process was complete and
the erstwhile IT-BHU was rechristened as
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
Varanasi . [3]
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Establishment of eight new IITs
Establishment of the eight new IITs began
with decision of the cabinet, which was
announced by the Minister of Human
Resource Development (MHRD), Arjun
Singh, in 28 March 2008 that the
government planned to establish more
IITs, Indian Institutes of Management
(IIMs) and Central Universities across the
country. Six IITs at Bhubaneswar,
Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Jodhpur, Patna
and Ropar began functional from 2008
while other two at Indore and Mandi
commenced their sessions from 2009.

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