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B I A S
N E W S L E T T E R
VOLUME 9
ISSUE 01
JANUARY, 2015
CONTENTS
REPUBLIC DAY
CELEBRATIONS
1
CAPMPUS
PLACEMENTS
2
SEMESTER FINAL EXAMS
COMPLETED
3
FAREWELL TO
MCA FINAL
YEAR STUDENTS
3
MEETING WITH
BISR OFFICIALS
3
DIRECTOR IN
STATE PLANNING
3
DIRECTOR INVITED AS CHIEF
GUEST
3
JURY IN
MAHINDRA &
MAHINDRA
AWARDS
3
THE REGION
ENJOYS WINTERS
4
FROM DIRECTOR’S PEN
4
EDITORIAL
COMMITTEE
4
BIAS SEEN FROM JONES STATE HILLS, BHIMTAL
FLOWERS AT BIAS
SNOW IN HILLS
BIAS
INDIAN ARMY SHORLISTS BIAS STUDENTS FOR SSB
REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATION
66th Republic Day was celebrated at BIAS with great enthusiasm. Chief Guest on this occasion was Brigadier Hari Mohan Pant; a highly decorated retired officer of Indian Army and a
resident of Bhimtal. Flag hoisting was followed by singing National Anthem. Brig. Pant was appreciative of the initiatives taken by BIAS on many fronts. He called for discipline, hard work,
intelligent approach and sincerity as the key factors for progress.
Director Prof. B. S. Bisht presented progress report of the Institute for the year 2014. The
major events highlighted were: significant improvement in campus placement of students by
renowned companies, improvements in Students mess facility, installation of 19 solar lights in
the campus, commissioning of Solar Water Heaters for hostels (10,000 lit. capacity), completion of CC pathway from main gate up to boys hostels, lectures in “Parvatiya Vichar Manch Series”, a number of lectures by experts under “Techno-Forum”, strengthening of Computer labs,
enrichment of Central Library, Commissioning of new canteen, commissioning of Solar Radiation Resource Assessment and Automatic Weather Station funded by Centre for Wind Technologies, Govt. of India, complete repairs and face lifting of all the hostels and staff houses,
facelift of the BIAS Guest House, starting of Counseling Cells for Boys and for Girls, engagement of lady Medical Doctor for girl students, training on Cyber Security, Self Defence Training
for Girls, excellent performance of BIAS students in sports, cultural activities, robotics etc. at
IITs, NITs and other institutions. Also, the Director had been invited in Selection Committees of
ICAR, New Delhi, DRDO, and ARIES besides as Lead Speaker and Chief Guest in Seminars,
conferences held at Moradabad, Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Bhimtal, Kosi Katarmal and Bhopal.
The programme concluded with the distribution of sweets, and expectations that the year 2015
will bring in greater number of achievements for the Institute, its students and staff.
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CAMPUS PLACEMENTS
During the period September -December, 2014, a number of well known companies visited BIAS campus for recruitment. These included: TCS, WIPRO Technologies, Indian Army, CAPEGEMINI, NIIT Technologies Ltd., Megrisoft Technologies, Maintec Technologies Ltd. etc. Most exiting has been the performance of
M.C.A. Final Year students with near 80 percent of all getting at least one job six months prior to their completing the degree. This performance was followed by B. Tech. (CSE), and B. Tech. (ECE) Final Year students.
With few more companies to visit the Campus during February—May, 2015, BIAS expects near 80% of all eligible students to get jobs well before completion of their degree programme by June 2015. Organization wise
placements have been given below.
TCS: Aditya Prakash Srivastava, Atmajay Singh, Dhyan Ranjan, Gagan Kumar, Kartik Tewari, Udit
Pathak, (ECE Final Year), Ms. Anugya Kanswal, Arun Kumar, Basu Bansal, Dewang Pant, Himanshu Joshi,
Himanshu Pandey, Mridul Saran, Priya Singh, Shikha Rawat, Taraun Sahni, (CSE Final Year); WOXA TECHNOLOGIES: Pradhumna Kumar Bharadwaj, Sashish Malik (ECE Final Year), Abhishek Pasi, Priya Raj, Rahul Gupta, (CSE Final Year), Ranjana BIsht, Suditi Pant, Aditya Bisht, Jiten Bhushan, Manoj Vameta, Neha
Punetha, Prenana Bisht, Swati Sharma, Tanuja Mungali, Udita Rajwar, Mahima Pathak, Yogesh Tiwari (MCA
Final Year), MAINTECH TECHNOLOGIES: Ajay Kumar, Shashwat Piwaari, Shree Govnind Mishra, Viresh
Pratap Singh, Vivek Kumar, (ECE Final Year), Neha Verma, Sagar Kaul, Shakti Malhotra, Kalpana Chauhan
(CSE Final Year), Nishtha Joshi, Prerana Bisht, Shubhra, Toshita Tripathi, Vinay Bhatt, (MCA Final Year), COINCERGE TECHNOLOGIES: Pooja Sharma, (ECE Final Year), Jaipal Singh Rana, Vikrant Singh Rawat,
(CSE Final Year), INFOGAIN: Abhash Amit, Kriti Anand, Menash Negi, Prateek Kumar Singh, Shashank
Joshi, (CSE Final Year), HIGH TECH SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS: Sudhansu Kumar (CSE Final Year), MEGRISOFT: Alok Kumar, Bhupendra Singh Samant, Deepika Bisht, Pawan Singh Chauhan, Abhishek Verma
(MCA Final Year), BANKS: Hitika Singh, WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES: Anita Fulara, Arti, Lipika Tiwari, Neha
Dhariyal, Nikhil Pant, Priya Futela, Pushkar Pandey, Riya Joshi, Seema Gunsola, Shashank Mishra, Shivam
Vats, Shivraj Singh Rautela, Vikram Singh
(MCA Final Year), TECH MENTRO: Yogita
Kandpal, Honey Kumar (MCA Final Year),
NIT: Jyoti Rautela (MCA Final Year). Results of the second round of TCS Recruitment Tests are awaited. Besides above, 10
students
have
been
the Indian Army for SSB.
SEMESTER EXAMS IN PROGRESS
STUDENTS AND FACULTY CELEBRATE ENCOURAGING
PERFORMANCE IN CAMPUS PLACEMENTS
selected
by
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SEMESTER FINAL EXAMINATIONS COMPLETED
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Semester-end examinations for
the I, III, V, and VII Semesters of B.
Tech. and I, III, and V Semesters of
MCA programmes started in December, 2014 were over without any
problem by 10 January, 2015. Results are expected by March, 2015. It
is vacation time for students during
11January to 01 February, 2015. The
new Semester would commence on
02 February, 2015.
FAREWELL TO M.C.A. FINAL
YEAR STUDENTS
With completion of their in-campus course work, students of M.C.A. Final Year would proceed for training in different organizations for the remaining one Semester. A farewell function was organized for them on
6 January, 2015 at the Rose Garden by the Director and the faculty members. The students and faculty Members shared their experiences. Most of the faculty members rated the outgoing batch as one of the best in
recent years in academics, discipline and co-curricular activities. Director, Prof. B. S. Bisht addressed the students and wished for their success in life.
MEETING WITH BISR OFFICIALS
DIRECTOR INVITED AS CHIEF GUEST
Director had a meeting with Shri S. S. Jajodia and
Shri Yogesh Goenka of BISR Kolkata (parent body) on 14
January, 2015. Matters related to progress, financing,
further developments were discussed and decided. It was
decided that the construction of boundary wall and side
wing of Academic Block - B should be started early.
Prof. B. S. Bisht, Director was invited as Chief Guest
in Seminar on Advances in Microscopy at the Central
Research Institute for Cotton Technology, Mumbai on 21
January, 2015. Key note address was delivered by him.
DIRECTOR BIAS IN STATE PLANNING
Prof. B. S. Bisht, Director was invited as Jury Member
in national level Awards Committee of Mahindra & Mahindra
Ltd., Mumbai and Zee TV. It was to select the national level
winners in different categories for receiving Mahindra
Samridhi Awards for the year 2014-15. Meeting of this seven
members Jury was held on 23 January, 2015 at M&M Office
in New Delhi. Awards will be presented to the selected
institutions, companies, NGOs, scientists, entrepreneurs and
farmers on 24 February, 2015 at Hotel Ashok, New Delhi.
Prof. B. S. Bisht, Director has been nominated as a
Member of the Uttarakhand State Planning Committee.
First meeting of the Committee was held at Dehradun on
30 January, 2015. It was Chaired by Shri Harish Rawat,
Chief Minister of the State and co-chaired by Dr. (Mrs.)
Indira Hridayesh, Finance Minister. Prof. Bisht presented
an overview. It was also circulated in print form.
JURY IN MAHINDRA SAMRIDHI AWARDS
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THE REGION ENJOYS WINTERS
01
JANUARY, 2015
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With minimum temperature hovering
near freezing point, the whole hilly region of
Kumaon around Bhimtal has been shivering
in cold. It was pleasant time for cold and
snow lovers. Some of the higher reaches
have experienced snow fall 2-3 times in
January. Much more excitement still remains for next one month. BIAS Campus is
in silence in the absence of students who
have gone on semester- end holidays.
MOUNTAIN RANGE FROM RAMGARH—NEAR BHIMTAL
NEARBY HILLS ON NEW YEAR EVE
COLD WINTER MORNING — MOON OVER BIAS
SNOW IS ENJOYABLE
FROM DIRECTOR’S PEN — MATURITY OF ORGANIZATIONS
Organizations could be defined as set of people working systematically for a common cause with defined
line of command. Most organizations are born with trading as focus.– ideas or services or tangible goods. This
facilitates keeping the risks at low level with low fixed costs. With maturity, focus shifts to manufacturing/ production, followed by marketing and finally the concerns for society. The questions of profitability and sustainability
are answered as by-products of operations. At the childhood end, one can cite the examples of a vegetable vendor, milk vendor, street corner shop keeper, a preacher/ priest, a tuition teacher and so on. Manufacturing/ production orientation can be better explained by a fabrication workshop, fruits processing unit, a rice mill, component manufacturer, publishing house, film production unit and so on. In marketing orientation, greater thrust is on
knowing the requirements of the consumer and design on the products and services accordingly. The examples
could be a large food processing company, mobile phone company, NGO working for rural development, educational institutions, healthcare centres etc. The organizations finally reach state of maturity like in human life with
societal orientation. There are several examples such as TCS, BHEL, Birla Groups, Mahindra & Mahindra,
AIIMS, IITs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank and many more. At this state, social concerns such as
improving the quality of life, environmental issues, food security, social security, regional development, leadership in innovations could be the focus areas. Educational institutions those still struggling in the process of evolution may like to brainstorm, visualize their pathway and set milestones on their way towards maturity.
Prof. B. S. BISHT
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