Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Message from an alumnus

Message from Alumnus....

Hi Friends,

 

I think now we have to stop discussion and come to conclusion to do something concrete. 

 

Let me tell you that  in this cleaning operation We have done lot of investigation and came to know. that even Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has set up a VISION for all NIT for 2010 and 2025. There is also proposal that as IITans has Brand and having strong Alumni network called PAN-IIT. All the NIT will have the their own Brand and  strong data network which will be known as DAN-NIT. In this process SVNIT, Surat has already started on line voting etc as per details collected from net sites.( *Details as under  Annex- I )

 The points which came during discussion in various forum and can be concluded as-

 1. We have to ensure that actions as promised by MHRD are implemented .

2. Filing of RTI applications to put pressure for immediate action.

 AFTER this-

 

1. Formation of Strong Alumni with duely approved/recognised by MANIT.( This should be 

    taken care by Bhopal Alumni.Proforma Regist.attached Annex-II)

2. To put a Representative of Alumni on Board of Governors as per NIT act.

3. Sub Committee of Alumni at MANIT as per RTI act Chapter 9 Page 34.

4. Scholarship from Alumni.

5. Every year Alumni function at MANIT on 4TH September i.e. foundation day of MACT.

    ( Or can be discussed and finalised)

6.Every Batch should arrange their function at MANIT after completing 15 or20 or 25 years.

   ( Can be finalised by Batch-mates)

 

Any other suggestion and comments.

 

                             Annex- I   


From:-      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Technology

NIT act -  

http://rajyasabha.gov.in/legislative/amendbills/hrd/XLIII_2006.pdf

Student elections

All the NITs individually conduct annual student elections to elect a General Secretary and Vice President of the student body. These people are generally responsible for communicating with the college management and media, organising college festivals, and also for various development programmes in their college. Some NITs (like SVNIT,* Surat ) have recently adopted online voting process. Moreover, to promote student involvement in the management, it is mandatory to have a student body representative in the committee which monitors the flow of funds and suggests ways to invest them in the best possible way. This committee also consists of the Chairman of Board, an MHRD Representative, and NIT professors

 

·        http://www.svnit.ac.in/alumni/index.php

 

Alumni  

NIT alumni are working in all parts of the globe and many alumni associations exist in cities around the world. However, despite great achievements by NITians, the NIT brand is somewhat downplayed by the Indian media in favor of IITs. But with the newly found NIT status, NITs are no longer expected to keep a low profile. In fact, by 2010, NITs are expected to sit equally with the IIT brand. All the NITs have chalked out vision plans to make the NIT brand stronger.It is also proposed to set up a common DAN-NIT network on the association of the popular PAN-IIT network. This would include all the current alumni associations of individual institutes and would help in cretaing a more larger and accurate database and to bring together all NITians under a commmon umbrella with the intention of taking the NIT Brand ahead.

In most of the NITs, alumni sponsored scholarship programmes provide funding to poor students. However, NIT alumni need to be more active and show more enthusiasm in supporting their alma mater. Some of NITs alumni are working as professors in IITs, IISc, IIMs, NITs, and also abroad in colleges like Stanford and Caltech. Every year, a large number of NIT students carry on their education by joining prestigious institutes like IIMs, ISB, FMS, XLRI, IIFT, SPJIMR, IITs, NITIE, MDI, TISS in India and the likes of Stanford, Georgia Tech, and MIT abroad. Moreover, many former students from NITs occupy key positions in several global corporations.

See also: List of notable NIT alumni

 

 

 

Annex    II                 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Affix a passport size photograph

 

First Name - ______Middle Name ________Last Name­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________

 

Maiden Name:

Nick Name:

Gender:                                          Date of Birth:

 

ACADEMIC INFORMATION

 

Degree                     Department/Center     Year of Passing               Hostel/Day scholar

 

 

Details of Registration Fee*

 

Residence Address:

 

 

City:                                                           Pin code:

State:                                                          Phone

Country:                                                     Fax:

E-mail:                                                        Mob:

 

PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Occupation:

      Organization:

Designation:

Area of work:

 

Office Address:

City:                                                           Pin code:

State:                                                          Phone:

Country:                                                     Fax:

E-mail:

 

* Rs 500/- to be deposited by cash/DD in the account Section. Enclose photocopy of the   receipt/DD   with this Performa  and send it to Dean Alumni office MANIT Bhopal.( Exact details can be informed later)

  

 

 

Faculty updates

Hello all,

We now have the complete feedback & confirmed information received from various sources.Based on this,we now are in a position to pick the pieces and reconstruct what transpired on that day when the Chairman,BOG,Mr.A.N.Singh,visited the institute.We have crosschecked this from many of our sources.The details are here for all of you:

(a)As soon as our delegation headed by Dr.Gayatri Agnihotri reached the conference room to meet the Chairman,Mahamahim Ashutosh Sharma Ji called up all his agents(s.p.s.rajpoot,r.k.baghel,arvind mittal,jagdish singh,etc.who immediately became hyperactive)in different departments and through them spread a rumour amongst newly recruited faculty that Dr.Gayatri Agnihotri is having a meeting with Chairman wherein she has demanded that she be made the Dean(Admin).This should then be followed by an enquiry by her regarding all recruitments in 2005.It was also circulated that the chairman had agreed on this in principle and consequently the jobs of close to 60-70 people were at stake as she is totally biased and dead against them,unjustifiably.To oppose the sinister designs of Dr.Gayatri Agnihotri and group,it was essential to assemble in front of the director's room immediately.A panick-stricken mob of almost 80-90 people immediately gathered in front of the directors room,most of them out of sheer insecurity.

(b)The moment our delegation left,the mob entered inside the conference room and had a conversation with the chairman.What followed was very interesting as you would realize now.

(c)The most vocal speakers were expectedly Mahamahim Ashutosh Sharma Ji,Dr.Aruna Saxena,Dr.Alok Mittal,Mrs.Archana Saxena, Dr.S.P.S.Rajpoot,Dr.M.K.Gupta,Mr.R.K.Dwivedi,Mrs.Meenu Chawla,Mrs.Anupama Sharma,Rishi Singh,Amit Ojha,Pankaj Swarnkar and few others.We are still trying to ascertain the identity of some speakers but will definitely update you after seeking a confirmation.

(d)The discussion was kicked off by Mrs.Archana Saxena who stood up and declared in a threatening tone"Those agnihotri sisters have also been working in this institute,so what wrong have we done to join the institute? " What she meant was that everybody has a right to join this institute on the basis of his/her connections and without any ability.She conveniently forgot that the agnihotri sisters,she has been refering to,did join the institute on the basis of their ability,nothing else.The chairman looked at her and shook his head in disbelief as if to convey how could somebody like this lady be the librarian of an NIT!!!!

(e)Dr.Ashutosh Sharma said that these people were hellbent in defaming the institute which was likely to become an IIT(with such talented & corrupt people around,it's nothing more than a cruel joke!).He also said that if the house allocation by the former chairman Mr.Jhalani was cancelled,it will set a very bad precedent and in future,people will challenge the decisions of every chairman,including the present one.The chairman retorted that he is not going to allot any house to anybody,so there is no such danger.Dr.Sharma also insisted that in such a situation,why should we rakeup these allotments only ? We should rakeup all old cases as well in which situation a number of these disgruntled people will also be thrown out of their current houses.

(f)A visibly furious Dr.Alok Mittal vehemently defended the current administration and urged strong action against Dr.Gayatri Agnihotri,Dr.Ganga Agnihotri,Mrs.Tripta Thakur,etc.who in his opinion are maligning the institute for their own selfish interests and petty gains.He strongly urged the chairman to initiate strict action against savemanit blog which,according to him,was defaming him and other honest,hardworking and committed people.In hindsight,he was right partially,he is definitely committed but not to the institute but to that goon..sanjeev saxena and his well-known agent ashutosh sharma.

(g)Dr.Aruna Saxena talked about some faculty members(read the same three lady teachers again)who were casting aspersions on other faculty members' characters.She also told the chairman that these people are threatening honest & good people like us by saying that they will ensure a "Kaali Diwali"for them.She immediately invited Mrs.Anupama Sharma to prove the point that a character assasination campaign was going on.

(h)Mrs.Anupama Sharma was at her theatrical best as she pretended as if she was about to burst in tears.She also complained to the chairman that these people are putting a question mark on other's characters including her.She urged a very strong action against those involved in such activities.

(i)A paan-masaala chewing R.K.Dwivedi also decided to speak in order to justify his newly found responsibility of the position of REGISTRAR,a post that has come his way courtesy sanjeev saxena.As is always the case,the paan-masaala in his mouth made it difficult for him to speak clearly,yet he tried his level-best to mutter some words.The essence of what he said was that the instt.was on a development path(with his appointment as the Registrar,ofcourse!)and rather than highlighting all that,people like Dr.Agnihotri were highlighting the negative points to bring the instt.down.

(j)Dr.S.P.S.Rajpoot stood up and came up with a "nivedan" to the chairman that strict action be taken against all such people who are involved in this 'muheem' and who have made it very difficult for a sincere & honest person like him & others to concentrate on their work.

(k)Then started the histrionics of Rishi Singh,Lecturer,Deptt.of Electrical Engg.He put his hand on his bulging,massive tummy and informed the chairman that his "bhookh" and "pyaas" were gone because of the constant vilification campaign by Dr.Ganga Agnihotri,Dr.Gayatri Agnihotri and Mrs.Tripta Thakur.He also informed the chairman that these women were constantly threatening him of dire circumstances and are even talking about going to "Mahila Aayog" against him.He also said that these women are threatening him that they will see to it that he loses his job("Hum tumhara job khaa lenge,aisa kehti hain").He wanted to know what will happen to him if he actually loses his job.The chairman responded back that in that case,he will have to look for a new job and does he expect the chairman to arrange this for him ?

(l)Pankaj Swarnkar,another faculty in the Deptt.of Electrical Engineering and a coaching expert,complained to the chairman against the same set of women faculty and informed him that these women never take classes.In fact,he was the only one who takes classes in final year was what he conveyed.

(m)Amit Ojha,a waiting-list selected faculty in the same department,also urged the chairman to take a strong action against some of the lady faculty members of his deptt.who are engaged in these defamatory activities.He also informed the chairman that these women are putting pressure on him to join their newly formed faculty association in which case he will be spared by them else he will have to face the music.The ladies were also threatening to expose him regarding his selection.

(n)All through this turbulence,Dr.M.K.Gupta was working on a single-point agenda.He was constantly appealing to the chairman to save him in case Dr.N.D.Mittal makes another attempt aimed at "deh-tyaag".He also threatened the chairman that he would also take some pills if no action is taken but immediately realized that it requires some "himmat" to take such pills,so changed his stance dramatically by saying that he will take peppermint candies only and will get himself admitted in a hospital,so typical of him.He proved it again that he had an axe to grind against a sincere faculty like Dr.N.D.Mittal and if Dr.Mittal actually makes another attempt at suicide,he would be the one almost wholly responsible for it.

After all this hullabaloo ended,the faculty came out and outside the room,a faculty member of Electrical Engg.Deptt.Anoop Arya was virtually reprimanded by Mrs.Aruna Saxena in front of so many people.She warned him against meeting and paying any respect to Dr.Gayatri Agnihotri and hobnobbing with those people.

Dr.M.K.Gupta was also heard shouting loudly,abusing Dr.N.D.Mittal and cursing Dr.G.Dixit in the same breath,who in his opinion was the real culprit and wanted to trap him by literally forcing him to write a complaint against Dr.N.D.Mittal.

In short,it was another shameless show organised by Mahamahim Ashutosh Sharma Ji who is constantly blackmailing the new faculty members by telling them that those who are fighting against him are actually against the recruitment process 2005 and are hellbent on getting their appointments cancelled.This way he is able to create a panick wave amongst new faculty and able to use them to hide his wrong doings.

We would like the newly joined faculty members to understand that we are not against them per se.Once they have joined,they are as much a part of this MANIT family as us.Our crusade is aimed at cleansing this system by getting rid of parasites like ashutosh sharma & sanjeev saxena and their shameless cronies.We are striving for establishing a clean,transparent and fair system and till the time we succeed,the fight will go on.

The new faculty also need to understand that these people are loyal to none.They can go to the extent of arranging a strike by galvanising lumpen elements amongst students with the active involvement of praveen saxena or can go to the extent of suspending all new joinees en-masse to create a real turbulence in the institute and divert the attention of public from their own wrong deeds.Beware,you should not allow them to use you.You interest is also the same as us.We all need to join hands to take this institute to heights of excellence from abysmally low depths it has plunged into.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Update from Bhopal

Understand that our Blog has been Blocked in MANIT campus since 12/11 and it opening rarely and also up to the activity dt 12/11. 

To file the RTI application the details available on MANIT official website and Chapter  concerned to us for filing the application are Chapter 1,17,18.
The URL-

Request people should visit to site and advise comments to file application at the earliest.
Secondly there is a rule as per NIT act that Alumni can have their Representative on Board of Governors in MANIT. The details of such rule  arranging and will be informed to all.  

News from HT Bhopal

MANIT for students' rustication

final decision by Monday likely ; about 10 students involved


THE PROCTORIAL Board of the Maulama Azad National Institute of Technology on Friday recommended rustication of about 8 to 10 students involved in the brawl at a liquor shop that later on got converted into a murder case owing to death of the Shop Manager.


Dean ( Students' welfare) Dr Shushil Mittal confirmed to Hindustan Times that Proctorial Board had taken decision on rustication of involved students but said that details can not be divulged unless the decision is approved by the Director. When contacted Director Dr K S Panday said that the meeting was held but he had not yet received the the report from the Board.


Sources said rustication of 8 to 10 students - all of them from III rd year - had been recommended during the meeting. These included four students -Nitin Taneja, Suresh Mehta, Vishwajeet and Rahul Sakya- who have already been arrested by the T T Ngr police.Other students of III rd year were also involved in the incident and their rustication has been recommended , but their names could not be gathered.


News from HT Bhopal Live of Dt 17/11.