Shaping lives...Empowering communities...

CUTM NEWSLETTER April 2014Issue No.1

CONTENTS

Editorial

Corporate News

Announcements

Faculty and Student Achievements

Seminars and Workshops

Conferences and Publications

Student Research

Culture, Sports and Responsibility

Gram Tarang and Urban Micro Business Centre

Other News

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Smita Mishra Panda Chief Editor

Abhinav Madan Member

Anubha Roy Member

Achyut Panda Member

Chinmoy Mohapatra Member

Prajna Pani Member

Sobhi Mohanty Member

Sangram Kesari Swain Member

Sibakripa Bose Member

Rajeev Roy Design - Illustration

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L The quarterly newsletter brings together major activities and events that happened in different campuses of the Centurion University and Gram Tarang group of institutions from January to March 2014. The University and its sister organisations have deepened and diversified the activities related to teaching, training, research, consulting and outreach. The University has experimented with innovative technologies for teaching such as use of tablets and outbound learning at Pegasus Learning Centre. New and fulltime courses such as Master of Development Management (MDM) and Bachelor of Architecture (B. Arch); in-company courses such as BBA (Finance and Financial Inclusion) and BBA (Retail and Hospitality); and sector specific skill development programmes in retail, refrigeration and air-conditioning, automotive, etc. have been announced.

In line with its goal of shaping individuals and empowering communities, Gram Tarang and the Urban Micro-Business Centre (UMBC) have expanded their activities for the socio-economically disadvantaged in rural and urban areas respectively. Sustainable livelihood security is significantly realised through technology-based and market linked skill development and income generating activities of Gram Tarang and UMBC. During this quarter, significant progress has been made to integrate skill with higher education under National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF).

Students and faculty brought together the Centurion family through a number of cultural activities. Visitors to the university enriched the learning environment on campus.

Dr. Smita Mishra PandaChief Editor

ABOUT CUTMCenturion University of Technology & Management (CUTM) is the first multi sector private state University in Odisha, established through an Act of State legislative assembly in 2010. The raison detre of CUTM is to shape lives and empower communities.

The University has created a Numero Uno and leadership status in the genre of modern universities though established in the rural areas, but with a global perspective. The out-of-the-box approach, i.e. the focus on experi-ence-based learning, hands-on knowledge and practice oriented pedagogy validated, designed, developed and delivered in partnership with industries has attracted the attention at national and international level because of which the University got a special mention in the report, Right to Education, which was presented to the UN General Assembly by the Secretary General on 30th October 2012 [bit.ly/1mUIwzO]. We were also cited prominently in The Econo-mist (September 2013) and recently in the KPMG report of McKinsey Global Institute (February 2014).

The uniqueness of the University is bolstered owing to its strength in establishing and managing public schools under CBSE, +2 colleges under State Council, ITIs under NCVT and University level schools for diploma, advanced diploma, degrees and PG and PhD.

In its endeavor to converge theory and practice for holistic, appropriate and relevant teaching and learning, the University has established the following social entrepreneurship outreach entities:

Gram Tarang Employability & Training Services (GTETS) is one of the first partners of NSDC. It engages in vocational education and training and skill building to provide alternate vertical and horizontal opportunities through customized, modular and sequential training programs in partnership with the participation of industries such as Ashok Leyland, Godrej, Caf Coffee Day, and various export houses.

Gram Tarang Inclusive Development Services Pvt. Ltd works in North East of India (Assam, Manipur, Tripura and Hyderabad) from October 2010 and has presence in over 500 Gram Panchayats. GTIDS opened over 2 Lakhs no-frills accounts till date and disbursing NREGS payments in the state of Tripura since Aug 2011.

Gram Tarang Foods (GTF) is a start-up company with state-of-the-art technology which uses CO2 supercritical extraction process but indigenously designed and developed plants and machinery. It focuses on strengthening the participation of local farmers in international quality organic farming, and access to international market.

Micro Business Center (MBC) - Building on nearly a decade of work in youth development and employability training, Centurion University has set up a Section 25 company (Centurion Entrepreneurship Facilitation Centre) to deliver a range of interventions focusing on the creation (and enhancement) of sustainable livelihoods and entrepre-neurship development in urban areas.

The University is committed to navigate a pathway for any individual through competency building, accreditation, validation, recognition of prior learning and experience irrespective of base level of education. Inclusive, integrated and outcome driven teaching and learning with adaptability and flexibility will remain the core strength and focus of the University.

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Sir James Bevan British High Commissioner to India 25th January, 2014

Mr. Sam Sharpe Head - DFID 25th January, 2014

Mr. Amitabh Verma Chairman Inland Waterways Authority of India 13th February, 2014 (Govt. of India)

Mr. Anirudh Kumar Executive Director, HAL, Koraput

Professor Piyush Trivedi Rajeev Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal 26th February, 2014

Professor Torbjorn Hobell Expert on Stress Management, Norway 14th March, 2014

DISTINGUISHED VISITORS

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Allahabad Bank has provided financial assistance of Rs. 15 Lakh to Centurion University under its CSR programme to set up an Integrated Centre of Excellence for Training cum Production Lab Apparel and Textile for the year 2013-2014.

CUTM has been empaneled by the Ministry of Labour and Employment (Govt. of India) as an assessing body for three years for the state of Odisha in the sectors of Automative Repair, Banking & Accounting, Chemical, Electrical, Electronics, Fabrication, Garment Making, Hospitality, ICT, Production & Manufacturing, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Retail, Construction, Security, Soft Skills, Industrial and Technical.

Centurion University has obtained the necessary approvals from the Govt. Of Odisha (Department of Higher Education) to launch new courses at the Universi-ty such as Bachelor/Master/Diploma in Physical Education, Bachelor/Master of any professional studies. In this connection, the University has initiated a partnership with Sports Education Development Australia (SEDA) for designing the curriculum for a sports academic programme.

Bank of India has sanctioned Rs 10 Lakh for skills development under its CSR initiative for the year 2014.

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LAUNCH OF NEW COURSES AT CUTM

INSTITUTE OF KNOWLEDGE STUDIES

MBA in Development Management (MDM) is a two-year residential programme planned to be launched in the coming session (2014) at the Parlakhemundi campus of CUTM. The basic objective of the MDM is to promote sustainable and equitable socio-economic development of the people in general and that of underprivileged sections of the society in particular and empower the communities through professionally managed institutions. The professionals graduating from this programme will be equipped to strengthen state, market and civil society organisations working for the above objective. The programme comprises two specific segments classroom and field-work. About 45% of the total programme duration is assigned to fieldwork segment for experiential and practice oriented learning. Centurion University with its qualified faculty, linkage with development organisations and practical experience of implementing development programmes is in a unique position to groom students opting for a career in the development sector.

In-company courses like BBA (Finance and Financial Accounting) and BBA (Retail and Hospitality) is being launched from the coming session (2014) at the Jatni campus.

CUTM has received a Letter of Intent from the Council of Architecture for starting a School of Architecture, Planning and Design. It is planned to be launched in coming July session 2014. The School will offer a five-year course for the degree of Bachelor of Architecture to start with. Subsequently it may offer Post Graduate degrees in Planning and Design. Prof. Ratnamala Misra has been appointed as Principal of the School. She was formerly associated with Piloo Mody College of Architecture, Cuttack from 2009 to 2014. Prof. Misra has 30 years of service (1978 to 2008) in various offices in State Govt. viz. Public Works Department, Directorate of Town Planning, Bhubaneswar Development Authority, Orissa State Housing Board in different capacities.

In 2005, UNESCO participated in the World Summit on the Information Societies (WSIS), suggesting a move from the information society to knowledge societies. In its World Report, Towards Knowledge Socie-ties, these were defined as societies benefiting from their diversity and their capacities for stimulating knowl-edge sharing. These offer many new opportunities for development, supported by technological innovation and by wide scale participation in the production and consumption of information. The report especially pinpointed four key dimensions of knowledge societies: freedom of expression and freedom of information, universal access to information and knowledge, quality education for all, and respect for linguistic and cultur-al diversity.

Based on the principles outlined above, and with a view to seek the status of UNESCO category II institu-tion, Centurion University has decided to create the Institute of Knowledge Societies on its campus. Prof. Chandrabhanu Pattanayak who presently works as Director of the CCTE and the University of Hawai at Manoas India programmes, will drive the project. The Institute will strive to draw together all wings of the Centurion Institutions to create a research hub and network them with a view to give direction to the larger mandate of a sustainable society through a true acknowledgement of the diverse and simultaneous sites of knowledge production.

The Department of English announces Summer Course: Learn English and organizes two orientation programs to encourage self-learning and give insights into using technology.

Students will:

Learn English beyond the classroom

Learn to use tools and technology to enhance

Language proficiency skills

Learn at your own pace Learn anytime, anywhere

Take multiple self-evaluation tests and get instant feedback

Get a self-learning package

DOCTORAL PROGRAMME AT CUTM

CUTM launched its Ph.D programme in 2011, and students enrolled for the programme are in the disciplines of Engineering, Business Management, Basic Sciences and Humanities. The 2nd Annual Review Presentation for 2011-12 batch was held at Jatni as well as Parlakhemundi campus on 11th, 12th and 22nd of March, 2014. Ms. Anima Naik, a Ph.D scholar of Computer Science delivered a pre-talk for submission of her Ph.D thesis before the University Research Committee on 22nd March at Parlakhemundi.

The University advertised for PhD Admission for 2014-15 for different streams of Management, Engineering, Basic Science and Humanities, for which the admission process is underway.

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First International Conference on Emergent Trends in Computing and Communication to be held at CUTM (Jatni Campus) on 3rd May 2014. Please check the CUTM website for detailed information.

First National Conference on Meaningful Education for the Excluded : Strategies for Higher Education Institution in India, to be held at CUTM (Parlakhemundi campus), 30th and 31st May 2014. Please check the CUTM website for detailed information.

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CUTM POLICY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF WOMEN (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal)The policy is in place and sensitization workshops have been conducted in the JITM and Jatni Campuses. A series of workshops is planned for the University meant for faculty, staff and students of all the four campuses.

Please see the CUTM website for more details.

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The research work by Dr. Achyut K. Panda on conversion of waste low density polyethylene plastics to liquid fuel has got massive media publicity on an interna-tional scale during January 2014. The University has acknowledged his work by issuing an Appreciation Certificate and cash prize during the Annual function Gajajyoti 2K14.

Mr. Arun Manohar Gurram and Mr. D. Raghuveer, faculty members of Depart-ment of Mechanical Engineering, SOET Parlakhemundi were acknowledged with an appreciation certificate and cash prize during Annual function Gajajyoti 2K14, for their effort in making a Campus Rider.

Professor Haribandhu Panda has been selected as a member of the Odisha State Financial Inclusion Forum created to support Poorest State Inclusive Growth Programme (SIG) of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and DFID (UK) and coordinated by ACCESS-ASSIST.

Ms. Monalisa Rath, B.Tech. 6th Sem ECE secured third position in the state level 7th inter University R.T.I English debate competition organized by Ravenshaw University competition on 01.02.2014.

Mr. Shivam Panigrahy and Mr. Debashis Acharya students of B.Tech. Mechanical Engg. secured second position in the technical presentation in Aspire 2K14 (28th & 29th March 2014), the Tech fest of AITAM Tekili. Topic of pesentation was Sustainable conversion of CO2 to alternative fuel.

B.Tech students Mr. Abinas Behera, Mr. Jyotirmayee Swaro, Mr. V. Gouri Raghava, won First prize in Robowar, a robotics event organised during the annual fest at Vignan Institute of Technology and Management Berhampur, 6-7 March, 2014.

Dhananjaya Behera (3rd yr Mech. Jatni campus), K. Tirupathi Behera (3rd yr Mech. PKD campus), Pratikshya Samantaray and Sonali Nayak (both 3rd yr EEE, Jatni campus) were selected as finalists of the Aeromodelling event (Laws of Motion) organized by IIT Kharagpur (31 Jan 3 Feb 2014), and won a cash prize of Rs 5000.

Ameeya Kumar, Ankit Yadav, Uday Kumar and Mukesh Kumar (all 2nd yr students of EEE Jatni campus) participated in the National Level Robotics competition held at NIT Jamshedpur (17-19 Jan 2014), and secured 3rd position winning a cash prize of Rs 10,000.

Anubhav Panigrahi (3rd yr EEE, Jatni campus) participated in the National Level Photography competition held at NIFT, Bhubaneswar, and secured third position.

Malaya Ranjan Swain, MBA 2nd yr student won the 2nd prize in photography competitions in Odissi Fest organized by IMIS , Bhubaneswar in Jan 2014.

Indrajit Baliarsingh , MBA 1st yr student participated in the National Conference on Research Methodologies on Cognitive Science organized by Department of Science and Technology (New Delhi).

12 students of ECE, Civil Engg, Mech Engg (JITM campus) and 5 students of Mech Engg (Jatni Campus) have qualified the 2014 GATE examination.

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S 12TH R&D SEMINAR TALKR & D Forum organised its 12th Seminar Talk on a recent study Waste Plastics to Fuel: A Sustainable Method for Waste Reduction and Energy Generation on 1st February 2014 at CSREM Conference Hall. The best

innovation in recent technology to convert plastic waste into fuel by Dr. Achyut Kumar Panda was highly appreciated. Dr. Panda opened the discussion with a slogan Say YES to Plastics. The talk highlighted on Plastic Waste Management, Chemical Recycling (Cracking/ Pyrolysis) and Process Design. Prof. Pandas achievement has become a source of inspiration to all faculty at CUTM.

WORKSHOP ON "ROLE OF DRDA,ZILLA PARISHAD, AGRICULTUREAND HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENTSOF GAJAPATI DISTRICT

A workshop was on role of DRDA, Zilla Parishad, Agriculture and Horticulture departments in respective developmental programmes of Gajapati District was organized by Agriculture Extension Department Parlakhemundi on 19 Mar, 2014, for all the students and staff members of School of Agriculture Science, CUTM. The DRDA & Horticulture Authorities presented their roles of respective departments in various developmental programmes in Gajapati District. Shri P.K.Mishra, Asst. Director of Horticulture, Horticulture office, Paralakhemundi, delivered a speech on Role of Horticulture departments in various developmental programmes i.e Plantation activities, NREGA activities. Shri D.K. Kar, Asst. Project Director (Training) ,DRDA, delivered a speech on various developmental schemes of DRDA i.e MGNREGS, IAY, BRGF, CC Road, 13th FCA, 3rd SFC. Shri Praveen Kumar Beborta, Prime Ministers Rural Development Fellow, DRDA, delivered a speech on various developmental schemes i.e. MGNREGS, Odisha Livelihood mission(OLM).

GIS SURVEY WORKSHOP ON"FLOWER & FRUIT BEARINGPLANTS INSIDE THEUNIVERSITY CAMPUS"

Two days GIS Survey workshop was held during 18-19 Mar, 2014, for all the B.Sc Agriculture students of School of Agriculture Science CUTM. 8th semester and 6th semester civil students presented the topic and explained how to conduct the GIS survey for Flower and Fruit bearing plants inside the campus. Finally small groups were formed to conduct a survey based on the learning.

BRITISH COUNCIL VISITORS AT CUTMAnand Shukla, Head Research Monitoring and Evaluation (India) and Debanjan Chakrabarti, Head Policy Research and Publications, English in Education Systems, (India) visited Centurion University, 22nd to 23rd January 2014.

Discussion on English for Employability, CSREM

A seminar talk was organized by School of Management on 24th Feb14 for MBA

students. Mr. Jayant Sinha General Manager-Sales, (South, East of India, Bangladesh & Nepal region) Parle Agro Ltd delivered a talk on Job Role

of Front Line Sales Officer in FMCG Industry. The session was useful for both

faculty and students of the School of Management.

A seminar talk was organized by School of Management on 4th March 14 for MBA students. Mr. Umakanta Patra, Project coordinator, Centre for Youth

and Social Development (CYSD), Bhubaneswar delivered a talk on the social sector in Odisha, especially focusing on social marketing in the

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Abinash Gaya participated and presented a paper Design and Experimental Analysis of Tapered Slot Antenna (TSA) to Testify the Capabilities of Low Array SKA Radio Telescopes at National Space Science Symposium 2014 organised by Dibrugarh University, Assam, ISRO, 29 Feb -1 Mar 2014 .

Prabhat Ranjan Sahoo, Binod Kumar Padhi and Harish Chandra participated in a Two Week Workshop on Signals & Systems organized by NMEICT, IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur at RIT, Berhampur, 2-12 Jan, 2014.

Nitesh Das presented a paper Micro-controller Based Digital Trigger Circuit for Inverter in the National Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Electrical Engineering (RAIEE 2014), VSS University of Technology, Burla, 6-7 April 2014.

Jagannath Padhi along with D.D. Das of IIT Roorkee was the Keynote Speaker (Optimising the Hydrogeneration) in the National Seminar on Renewable Energy and Grid Management, CVRCE, Bhubaneswar, 31 Jan 2014.

Manoj Kumar Kar participated as a speaker in International Teacher Educater Conference, at Hyderabad on 21-23 February 2014.

N.H.S. Ray, M.K. Mohanty, S. Ray, R.C. Mohanty, presented a paper in the All India Seminar on Recent Advances in Thermal Engineering (RATE 2014), Biogas Production from Kitchen Wastes; A Source of Renewable Energy and its Application as Alternate Fuel in I.C. Engines at the Institution of Engineers (India), Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar, 11-12 Jan, 2014.

Pratyusha Mohanty (2nd Sem Student) presented a paper Stability Analysis of Sepic Converter using Matlab/Simulink in the International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication, organized by the Raj Research Forum and Institute of Technology and Research, 6 April, 2014.

Sandipan Pine attended and presented a paper Design of a Smart Eye on FPGA at National Conference organized by IGIT Sarang, 12-13 Jan, 2014.

Vijay Miditana participated in the International Conference on Environmental Biotechnology and Biodiversity, organised by Department of Chemical Engineering, AU College of Engineering, 3-4 Mar 2014.

Sangram Keshari Swain participated in the Infosys Principal's Meet at Bhubaneswar DC on 20 Mar, 2014.

Sarat Chandra Patra, Devi Prasad Parija, Prakash Chadra Shaoo, Sanjjet Kumar & Priyanka Deka (all students) participated in the National Student Symposium Step Cone 2K14 Technical Fest at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, 7-8 Feb, 2014.

Subrat Kumar Pradhan participated in Recent Trends in Condensed Matter Physics (Rtcmp-2014), Organized by the Sikshya O Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, 8-9 Feb, 2014.

Susanta Kumar Biswal presented a paper in the International Conference on Functional Materials (ICFM -2014), organised by Materials Science Centre , IIT Kharagpur, 5-7 Feb 2014.

Susanta Kumar Biswal presented a paper in the International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM-2014), at CIPET, Bhubaneswar, 14-17 Feb 2014.

Tushar Kumar Dash presented a paper in the IEEE International Conference on Power Circuits Computing at Noor-Islam University, Tamilnadu, 20-21 Mar, 2014.

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Bhagabat Barik participated in the U.G.C. sponsored National Seminar on Issues and challenges of FDI in Indian Retail Sector and presented a paper A study on the Issues and Challenges of FDI in Multi Brand Retailing in India at Prananath College, Khurdha, Odisha, 23-24 Feb, 2014.

Bhagabat Barik participated in the National Management Convention on The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and Challenges and presented a paper A Critical Analysis on Education to Employment at School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 21-22 Feb, 2014.

Bhagabat Barik participated in the National Conference on Recent Issues and Challenges in Management and Technology and presented a paper Recent Issues and Challenges in Selling Banking Products-A Study in the Indian Scenario at the Gandhi Institute for Technology (GIFT), Bhubaneswar, 7-8 Mar, 2014.

Girish Prasad Rath, sponsored by British Council participated in the Pre-conference and 4th International English Language Teacher Educator Conference organized by British Council in collaboration with EFL, Hyderabad International Convention Centre Hyderabad, 20 23 Feb, 2014.

Haribandhu Panda participated in the De-Montford University (UK) and TERI sponsored workshop on Mini-Grid Development for Livelihood Opportunities, XIMB, Bhubaneswar, 3 Jan 2014.

Haribandhu Panda addressed the Workshop on Poorest Area Civil Society (PACS) Programme, organized by the Department of International Development (DFID), at Bhubaneswar, 15 Mar, 2014.

Kshitish Khuntia presented paper Trend and Patterns of Sectoral Linkages in Odisha Economy, in the 46th Annual Conference of Orissa Economics Association, organised at Remuli College, Remul,Odisha, 15-16 Feb, 2014.

Kshitish Khuntia presented a paper Health Sector Governance and Public Health Infrastructure: A Study on Odisha in the National Seminar on Governance: Issues & Challenges, organized by

Prajna Pani, presented a paper T-Learning for Educators: Where to Next and How?, 4th International English Language Teacher Educator Conference organized by British Council in collaboration with EFL, Hyderabad International Convention Centre Hyderbad, 21 23 Feb, 2014.

Prajna Pani participated in the National Conference on Use of Technology in Higher Education, Mainstreaming Technology Usage to Improve Quality and Expand Student Choice, Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 25-26 Feb, 2014.

Prakash Kumar Pradhan participated in the FICCI India Innovation Growth Programme 2014 organized by FICCI, Pal Heights, Bhubaneswar, 28 Jan 2014.

Prakash Kumar Pradhan presented a paper on A Critical Analysis on Education to Employability in the 7th National Management Convention organized by KIIT School of Management, 21-22 Feb 2014.

Shiv Sankar Das & Pooja Patnaik participated in the International Management Convention on Business of Being in Business: A New Perspective and presented a paper Redefining Business The HR Way- A Birds Eye View, at ASBM, 7-8 Feb, 2014.

Smita Mishra Panda participated in the workshop on Alternative Development: Unraveling Marginalisation, Voicing Change, organized by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 4-6 March 2014. She was a panelist in the workshop.

Subhendu Mishra participated in the National Conference on Dimensions of Public Policy and Rural Development at MNNIT, Allahabad, and presented a paper Measuring the Achievement Motivation of Small Entrepreneur of Gajapati district of Odisha. A reflection on the PMEGP Programme and its Impact, 7-8 Mar, 2014.

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NS PUBLICATIONS - ENGINEERING AND BASIC SCIENCES

Achyut K. Panda, R.K.Singh, Thermo-catalytic Degradation of Low Density Polyethylene to Liquid Fuel over Kaolin Catalyst, International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (IJEWM), Vol. 13, No. 1, 2014.

A. Nanda, S. Behera, Design and Implementation of Urdhva-Tiryakbhyam Based Fast 8x8 Vedic Binary Multiplier, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) Vol. 3, No. 3,pp:1857-1859, March 2014.

Amir Prasad Behera, Prajna Pani, Review of Emotional Intelligence Connecting EI and Communication, Vol. 4, No. 2, ISSN 2249-7307, Asian Research Consortium, Asian Journal of Research in Business Economics and Management, February 2014.

B. Nayak, S.K. Dwivedy, K.S.R.K. Murthy, Dynamic Stability of a Rotating Sandwich Beam with Magnetorheological Elastomer Core, European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, accepted and available online, March 2014.

Hemanta Ku Nayak, Debaraj Rana, Eye Localization using PCA Based Genetic Search, International Journal of Inventive Engineering and Sciences (IJIES), Vol. 2 No. 4, pp:28-32, March 2014.

Lilipta Kumar Bhatta, Debaraj Rana, Facial Feature Extraction of Color Image using Gray Scale Intensity Value, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 3, No.3, pp: 1177-1180, March 2014.

Lopa Ghosh, G.N. Tiwari & S.K. Biswal, Role of Water Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen to the Growth of Catla (Catla Catla) and Rohu (Labeo Rohita) in Green House Pond, e-Planet Journal, 2014.

M.K. Rath, S.K. Acharya, S. Roy, Thermodynamic Analysis of Compression Ignition Engine using Neat Karanja Oil under Varying Compression Ratio, International Journal of Ambient Energy (IJAE), Accepted and available online March 2014. Nabnit Panigrahi, M.K. Mohanty, S.K Acharya, S.R. Mishra, R.C. Mohanty, Experimental Investigation of Karanja Oil as a Fuel for Diesel Engine using Shell and Tube Heat exchanger, World Academy of

Science Index 85, International Journal of Chemical, Materials Science and Engineering (IJCMSE), Vol. 8, No. 1, pp: 91-98, Jan. 2014.

N.H.S. Ray, M.K. Mohanty, S. Ray, R.C. Mohanty, Biogas Production from Kitchen Wastes; A Source of Renewable Energy and its Application as alternate Fuel in I.C. engines, Proceedings of All India Seminar on Recent Advances in Thermal Engineering (RATE 2014), Jan. 11-12, Institution of Engineers (India), Odisha State Centre, Bhubaneswar, 2014.

N.H.S. Ray, M.K. Mohanty, R.C. Mohanty, Anaerobic Digestion of Kitchen Wastes: Biogas Production, Purification and Application in I.C. Engines, International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology (IJLTET), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 110-107, Jan. 2014.

P. Behera, S. Behera, Local Median Information Based Adaptive Fuzzy Filter For Impulse Noise Removal, Accepted for publication in International Journal on Advance Computer Engineering and Communication Technology (IJACECT) ,Vol.2, No. 3, April-May 2014, accepted.

Rasmi Ranjan Panda, A.M. Mohanty, D.K. Mohanta, Mechanical and Wear Properties of Carburized Low Carbon Steel Samples, International Journal of Multidisciplinary and Current Research (IJMCR), Vol. 2, No.1, pp: 109-112, Jan/Feb 2014.

Sumanjit Das, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Santoh Narayan Pati "A Novel Signcryption Scheme based on ECC with Public Verification and Encrypted Message Authentication" IJARCST, Vol 2, No.1, March 2014.

Santosh Kumar Behera, Debaraj Rana, System Identification Using Recurrent Neural Network, International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Vol. 3 No.3, pp: 8111-8117, March 2014.

S. Behera, P. Mohanty, A. Pradhan, A Real Time based Physiological based classifier for leaf recognition", International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), March 2014, accepted.

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PUBLICATIONS - MANAGEMENT AND HUMANITIES

Shahnaz, Aman, Performance of Reactive Routing Protocols in MANET N/W using GPRS based Data Traffic Application IJESRT, April 2014, accepted. Sunita Dalai, Manjushree Jena, Object Recognition using Higher order Moments and Comparative Study Between Shape Space and Moment Invariant Method, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp: 1029-1034, March 2014. Sunita Dalai, Manaswini Sahu, A Supervised Region Segmentation using Gabor wavelet Features in Smoothed Spatial Domain, International Journal of Research in Information Technology (IJRIT), Vol.2, No.3, pp:414-423, March 2014. Sunita Dalai, Manaswini Sahu, Texture Segmentation : Comparison between Clustering and Classification, Paper Accepted in International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies (IJCSIT) for Vol.5,

Susanta Kumar Biswal, Grafting Conducting Polymers onto Chitosan: Graft Copolymerization of Poly(metanitroaniline) onto Chitasan using Ammonium Peroxydisulfate as the Initiator Proceedings of International Conference on Fuctional Materials (ICFM - 2014), organised by Materials Science Centre , IIT Kharagpur, WB, India, 5-7 Feb, 2014.

Susanta Kumar Biswal, Synthesis and Characterization of Tamarind seed polysaccharide PLA/MMT Film for Controlled Release of Anticancer Curcumin, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM-2014) CIPET, Bhubaneswar, 14-16 Feb, 2014.

S.K. Sethi, D.K. Mohanta, Effectiveness of Multilayer Coated Tool in Turning of AISI 430F Steel, International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology (IJRET), Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 350-353, Jan. 2014

Kshitish Khuntia, Health Sector Governance and Public Health Infrastructure: A Study on Odisha, IPSAR Management Review, Vol-XII, No-1, pp-97-103, 2014.

Prakash Kumar Pradhan, Customers Expectation towards Odisha Gramya Bank (OGB) in Banking Scenario of Rural Odisha: A Study in International Inventive Multidisciplinary Journal (ISSN 2348-7135) March 2014.

Prakash Kumar Pradhan, Credit Cooperatives: A Mile Away From Reality in GYANPRATHA - ACCMAN Journal of Management, Jan 2014.

Prakash Kumar Pradhan A Study on Perception of Students in Different B - Schools on Teaching Methods in IME Journal, Institute of Management Education, Jan 2014.

K.Kusakabe, R.Lund, Smita Mishra Panda, W. Yunxian, Resettlement in Lao PDR: Mobility, Resistance and Gendered Impacts, Gender, Place and Culture (forthcoming 2014).

Susanta Kumar Patnaik, Sustainable Leadership: A Key to Sustainable Future in Indian Organizations, in Global Journal for Research Analysis, Vol.3, No.2, pp: 10-11, Feb, 2014.

Ragnhild Lund, Kyoko Kusakabe, Smita Mishra Panda, Wang Yunxian (Eds), Gender Mobilities and Livelihood Transformation: Comparing Indigenous Communities in China, India and Laos, Routledge, London, 2014.

Smita Mishra Panda, Exploring Mobile Liveihoods among Tribal Communities in Odisha: Gendered Insights and Outcomes in R. Lund, K. Kusakabe, S.M Panda, W. Yunxian (Eds), Gender Mobilities and Livelihood Transformation: Comparing Indigenous Communities in China, India and Laos, Routledge, London, 2014.

Smita Mishra Panda, Right to Rights: Adivasi Women in the Context of Not-So-Silent Revolution in Odisha, India in C. Brun, P.Blaikie & M. Jones (Eds), Unravelling Marginalisatin Voicing Change: Alternative Visions and Paths of Development, Ashgate, England (UK), 2014

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The 3rd National student seminar on free and open source softwares was held on 10-11 Jan, 2014 by the Deptt. of ECE, CUTM along with CSI Division-II (Software) and Division-IV (Communication).

A training programme on "Android & web develop-ment" had been conducted on behalf of

the department of CSE from 20th Feb 2014 to 14th March 2014, under MTRTC certification. This course was delivered looking at the current

trend and technology requirement to make students competent.

Department of CSE and IT had organized a two days national technical symposium named Karukrit-14 on 7th and 8th Feb, 2014. The objec-tive of this event is to create a technical thirst among the students by organizing different technical competitions. Students from CUTM as well as other institutes participated in the symposium.

IEEE JITM Student Branch Organized Haze Vista the Technical Event on 4th Jan 2014 in association with Deptt. Of E.C.E CUTM, Paralakhe-mundi.

IEEE JITM Student Branch Organized Colloquia the Technical Event 1st February 2014 in associa-tion with Dept. Of E.C.E, CUTM, Paralakhemundi.

120 hours of student training programme on Advanced Embedded System(AES), PLC, and Robotic technically supported by Dept. of ECE under M.T.R.T.C was organized 12th to 25th March, 2014. Out of the five groups one group participated in tech-event conducted by EEE department, J.I.T.M and got the 1st prize in line follower robot.

Online certification course on "Programming, Data Structure and Algorithms" (beta testing of the course from Jan 20 to Feb23) was conducted for students in association with NPTEL and NASS-COM. Department of E.C.E taken the initiation for this online course. CUTM is one of 10 colleges in India selected by NPTEL for beta testing of the course. Duration of the course was 5 weeks. Students submitted the assignment each week Online in the portal and evaluated on the spot. Students who submitted all assessment questions

were eligible for Course Completion Certification.

Department of ECE organized Circuit Design and Simulation Challenge "ASSIMILATION" on 15th March 2014. The objective of the simulation challenge was to make students learn how to use Multisim/PSpice/Cedar Logic/LogiSim to design and simulate number of circuits of their own.

Department of EEE organised a technical Festival SYENA-2k14 on 15th to 16th Mar, 2014. A total of

257 students participated in the events like Paper presentation, Best Engineer, Wire Sprint, Quiz, Bot Zone, Treasure Hunt, Spot

Events, Short Films, etc.

The Department of Civil Engineering had success-fully organized Total Station workshop 8-11 Feb, 2014. The training was given by Mr. Malaya Mishra. Total Station Expert and his team. The course covered preparation of map/layout, generation of contour, Data conversion and compilation.

A workshop conducted by District Legal Society on Right to Education Act to sensitize the students at Rayagada Campus on 24 Feb, 2014.

The School of Management had organ-ized a 2 days workshop on Finan-cial Tools using Ms. Excel, 16-17 Jan 2014 for MBA 1st year students. Mr. Roopkumar Pradhan, Director, SmartFin Wealth Management Pvt. Ltd. was the resource person for the workshop.

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ALL AT C - STUDENT VISIT TO PEGASUSWhile teaching programming, it was found that classroom teaching is not enough if students have to learn to write code. Students stayed motivated or interested in the class but forgot all about it after 5pm. However, students need to discuss with peers and write code beyond the academic hours to learn programming. How to then change the culture so that

students inculcate the habit of thinking and programming in the evenings?

This led Prof. Kalyan Banerjee to plan a scenario where the teacher would

have control over the students time, beyond 5pm. The idea was to change from teaching or showing to motivating. If students are motivated, they will figure out how to learn.

This thought process led to a different plan. There was a need to take the motivated students away from it all to a different environment (with none of the usual constraints, nor the usual excuses) where the teacher and students will be together from early in the morning, till midnight. The purpose was also to make a difference to their habits, so they spend every hour (relaxation included) in a manner that is useful to their future. The objective is to get them motivated to programming and also enjoy it.

THE PROGRAMMING EXCURSIONThe programming excursion took a group of Computer Science students to Pegasus, a Learning Center by the sea, 22 km north of Pondicherry, on the Chennai ECR. A 24-day marathon effort, where students spend 7 to 12 hours on programming, every day, and rest of the time is spent on other important but secondary goals, all aimed at creating exposure and inspiration. Primary goal is to discover the joy of programming, and become so inspired that one will continue with the habit. Just being with the same faculty or just doing programming will be boring, hence variety of exposure is needed. They were exposed to 10 faculty members from different organizations.

The learning journey in fast-forward left students motivated, who worked well beyond midnight (not their usual behaviour), and showed radical improvement, writing and debugging hundreds of lines of original code. Apart from programming, they also came back inspired, with a thinking and questioning mindset, and a clearer, more optimistic view of their future.

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SVISIT TO NORISHO - SUSTAINABLE ORGANIC FARMINGA group of 33 students of MBA IV semester (Jatni Campus) led by Prof. Smita Mishra Panda visited Norisho

village in Niali Cuttack as part of their Sustainable Development and Agriculture course on 11 Jan 2014. Prof. Sibakripa Bose also accompanied the group. The idea was to expose the students to organic farming being practiced by Mr. Natabar Sarangi. He is a retired school teacher 80 years old, who has take to organic agriculture after his retirement. Mr. Sarangi has so far

preserved 460 indigenous varieties of paddy seeds. His main objective is to promote poison free sustainable agriculture.

The students visited his farm where he grows a wide variety of indigenous paddy in two hectares of land. They also interacted with the farmers working in the field. According to Mr. Sarangi, the requirement of water in organic farming is 25% less compared with industrial farming. Indigenous paddy can grow in different types of lands and takes less time to mature. He explained to the students how to use organic nutrients (Panchakruta) for increasing the production of paddy, which is a mixture of cow dung, cow urine, butter milk, clarified butter (ghee), sugar cane juice, honey, jaggery, ripe banana, rotten grapes and green coconut juice in varying quantities. About 15 kgs of Panchakruta is enough to provide nutrition to paddy cultivated in 5 acres of land. The idea is to provide micro-nutrients to the crop which is

very important for its growth and productivity. He discussed in detail with the students on the advantaged of organic farming.

Although the uptake for organic farming in the village in low despite efforts by Mr. Sarangi, he continues to grow paddy year after year organically and has set an example for all to

understand and experience the benefits of conservation and organic farming.

REPUBLIC DAY65th Republic Day was celebrated in CIT Campus. The National Flag was unfurled at 8.30 AM by the Chief Guest Prof. Dr. D. Nageswar Rao (Vice Chancellor, CUTM) followed by the National Anthem. In his speech the VC highlighted the achievements of our Motherland and emphasized on certain areas for improvement. A thirteen platoon parade by students of CIVIL, CSE, EEE, ECE, EE, MECHANICAL, Int. MSc, MBA, SMO, ITI, CCD, Security Guards and Campus Cleaning Staff was conducted.

Guests distributed prizes to the winners of different events held for the occasion. This was followed by cultural activities by students of CIT and GTET. The programme ended with the vote of thanks by Dr A.M. Mohanty (Pro-VC, CUTM).

ASHA KIRAN HOME VISITOn the eve of Republic day, 100 students and staff went to Asha Kiran Home, Jatni (Old Age Home, Home for Disabled Persons and Orphanage) and spent around three hours with the inmates.

B-SCHOOL MEET ADYAJYOTI 2014 A grand B-school meet Adyajyoti 2014 was organized by School of Management (Jatni Campus) on 24th and 25th of January 2014. Several Management institutions and fifteen colleges participated in the event. The 2 days event

hosted 13 different activities in managerial and cultural domains such as Investment game, Business Plan, Business quiz, Best Business Manager, Ad-Mad Show, Best observation, song, dance, fashion show etc. Honble Vice Chancellor, Prof. (Dr.) D. Nageswar Rao graced the valedictory session and distributed prizes to the winners and runners up of each event.

COMPETITION FOR COVER PAGE DESIGNINGA cover page design competition for the book was organized by CSR for the students of CUTM. The book "Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Perceptions Practices and Policy by Supriya Pattanayak, Chandrabhanu Pattanayak and Jennifer Bayer, is to be published by Orient Blackswan, 2014.Out of more than 50 entries, the design given below was selected as the best by the authors. The student

designer Sri Pramit Mishra, 4th year Mechanical received a cash prize of Rs. 2000/- from Dr. Supriya Pattanayak (First author of the book).

Special mention of Sri Vivek Kumar, 4th year CSE and Sri Pradipta Kumar Saha, 4th year ECE for making the selection tougher.

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GAJAJYOTI 2014Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Jatni Campus celebrated its 3rd Annual Techno-Management-Cultural-Sports Fest Gajajyoti on 21st and 22nd Feb, 2014 in its campus. The 3rd Techno-Management Fest XPLORA and an Art & Craft Exhibition was inaugurated by Pro VC Prof. Kalyan Kumar Banerjee in the morning. There were 21 different Technical and Management events in which around 500 students from 50 different colleges have participated.

In the evening Dr. Mukti Kanta Mishra, President of the University graced the Cultural function as Chief Guest and inaugurated it by lighting the holy lamp. Pro VC Dr. Haribandhu Panda and Pro VC Prof. Kalyan Kumar Banerjee were present on the dais. The Wall Magazine "Dream Wavers", Annual Magazine "Satabdi" and a Wall painting was also unveiled by the guests on the occasion. President of the University distributed the prizes of more than 50 different intra- college cultural and sports events. Prof. P K Mohanty, Dean SoM gave the vote of thanks. CUTM students performed Odishi dance, Folk dance, Bihu dance, Sambalpuri dance, Music band, Comedy show, Skit, Fashion show and Live music etc.

On the second and closing day Prof. D N Rao, Vice President of the university joined us as chief guest and distributed the prizes of Techno-Management events. Colourful activities were performed by the students with much enthusiasm after the prize distribution followed by DJ night.

INAUGURATION OF GAJAJYOTI More than 25 numbers of different indoor and outdoor sports events (Cricket, Football, Basket ball, Volley Ball, Badminton, Carom, Chess, Table-Tennis, Lawn Tennis, Kho-Kho, Athletics and LAN games (Counter Strike, Far Cry-II, NFS, Pocket Tank, EA Sports) were organized during the sports fest. All the intra college events were completed before 15 Jan, 2014.

The Dance Club organized a mass flash mob as part of Gajajyoti 2K14 inside the campus.

WALKATHON FOR ROAD SAFETY AWARENESSThe Road Safety Club (a scheme introduced by Dept. of Commerce and Transport, Govt. of Odisha) under CSR club have organized a Walkathon to mark the 25th Road Safety Week from the University campus to R.. Sitapur village for creating awareness among the people regarding the safety aspects on 18 Jan, 2014.

WORKSHOP ON ANDROID APPSA student driven workshop on Android Apps was successfully organised in JITM seminar hall on 25th Jan 2014. Students from B.tech and Agriculture B.Sc. were enthusiastic to know and explore more of the usage of android based application learning and share their best application they have used so far.

REPUBLIC DAY CELEBRATION65th Republic day was celebrated in the open air auditorium of the University campus, Parlakhemundi. The Honorable Vice President of the University Prof. D.N.Rao unfurled the tricolor national flag. In his Republic day message, Prof. D.N.Rao made an attempt to signify the day and revived the history of how India being sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic, assuring its citizens of justice, equality, and liberty, and endeavors to promote fraternity among them, which is gradually declining among the new generation. Republic Day was celebrated formally by a ceremonial parade by 5 troops of 74 members including NCC of JITM Campus, B.Tech, B.Sc. Ag. M.B.A and security personnel. The occasion was made memorable and significant by other activities such as patriotic song perfor-mance by Music Club and Blood donation camp by CSR Youth Red Cross, JITM Parlakhemundi and different athletic events.

CAMPUS CLEANING NSS under Culture, Sports and Responsibility, CUTM organized a CAMPUS CLEAN UP DRIVE at the University Campus on 2 Feb, 2014 with an objective to awaken the students on how to keep the surroundings safer, cleaner and healthier.

BLOOD DONATION CAMPA mega blood donation camp organized on 21st March 2014 in Jatni campus, which was inaugurated by Prof. DN Rao, Vice President-CUTM. The camp collected 259 units of blood at the 6th blood drive of the University. The Central Redcross Blood Bank, Cuttack was the prime mover of the camp with support from ATHA Group, Odisha.

AKANKHYA 2014 AT RAYAGADA CAMPUS Annual function at Rayagada Campus was held onthe 12th and 13 of feb, 2014. Prof D.N. Rao and Dr. Shashi Bhusan Padhi District Collector and District Education officer were present in the function. Students performed a number of cultural

activities during the function.

PHOENIX 2014 AT BOLANGIR CAMPUSAnnual function at Bolangir campus was held in Feb, 2014. Prof. D.N.Rao was the chief guest of the function. Students performed a variety of cultural events in the function.

NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONDifferent clubs under Culture, Sports and Responsibility celebrated New Year 2014 and made resolutions to excel in different activities in the name of Centurion University through different extra-curriculars along with their academics.

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GAJAJYOTI 2K14The Third Techno-Management-Cultural-Sports fest of Centurion University of Technology Gajajyoti 2k14 was celebrated in the University Campus Parlakhemundi from 24th - 25th Feb, 2014. The fest was inaugurated by the Chief Guest Shri. Basudev Bahinipati, Collector and District Magistrate of

Gajapati along with the other dignitar-ies of the Centurion University such as Prof. (Dr.) D.Nageswar Rao, Honorable Vice Chancellor, Prof. D.N Rao, Vice President and Prof. Supriya Pattanayak, Member Governing Body of the University. The Chief Guest in his inaugural speech encouraged the students for their participation in different extracurricular activites along-side their academic programmes. He also emphasized on the promotion of

social-cultural development among the people of Gajapati district.

The fest comprised a series of 50 intra-college, 2 intra-university and 25 inter-college events. Students from different college such as GIET Gunupur, MITS Rayagada, IACR

Rayagada, CVRCE Bhubaneswar, College of Engineering Bhubaneswar, NIST Berhampur, Vignan Institute of Technoology and Management, Berhampur, AITAM Tekali etc., participated in the events.

All these events were followed by a cultural night performed by students from different deptts/sections of the University such as B.Tech, MBA and

B.SC. Ag, Centurion Public School, Centurion ITC, a dance group from Jai Jagannath Dance School, Parlakhemundi, and also by star night singers Ms.

Navya, Mr. Kuldip Patel, Mr.Sagar Tripathy and Aryance Dance Group.

In addition to the intra-college sports events 25 number of literary (Just A Minute, Poster Competition, Idea Generation, Quiz, Creative Writing, Debate), technical (Circuit Designing, C-Coding, Tech-Quiz, CAD Explorer, Technical Paper Competition, Technical Poster Competition), cultural (Solo/Duet Song, Competition, Solo/Duet, Dance Competition, Rangoli, Movie-Making, Antakshri, Group Dance, Laughter Challenge, Mono-Action/Drama, master-chef competition) and management events (Business Plan, Marketing, Biz-Quiz, Product Launch) were scheduled from 16 Jan 15 Feb, 2014.

DEBATE COMPETITION ON FEMALE FOETICIDECenter for Community Development (CCD) an NGO, Parlakhemundi, organized a debate competition on Female Foeticide on 20 Feb, 2014. Ms. Monalisa Rath, B.Tech, Mr. Abhijit Upadhyaya, B.Tech, Mr. Mousam Mishra, B.Tech won prizes from the District Collector, Gajapati at Parlakhemundi.

VISIT TO NIYATEE SCHOOL FOR THE MENTALLY CHALLENGEDIn the words of Helen Keller, "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it." As a part of CSR programme, 49 students from 6th semester EEE visited NIYATEE on 9 March, 2014, a school for the mentally challenged with the message WE CARE. This was a life-changing experience for them. The students presented a

Memento and a certificate of honor on behalf of Centurion University to Shri. Bichitranand Beborta for his dedicated service to Niyatee.

ORPHANAGE VISITAbout 40 B.Tech students of First year visited the Jagannath Nikatan, an orphanage at R.Sitapur, and distributed T-shirts and snacks to all its residents.

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ODISHAGTETS has partnered with Godrej to share ideas and make innovative change among students. It will explore the key areas on the Material Handling, Power transmission, Hydraulic Systems, Auto electrical etc. The first batch is in pipeline and classes will commence from June 2014.

Bharat Earth Movers LTD. (BEML) too have partnered with GTETS to share thoughts on the knowhow on machines and field work in Mining.

Sewing Machine Operator Course, is currently a Flagship programme that has become a boon for rural youth in and around Odisha. Initially the course was for 30 days, but it has been extended to 60 days along with one month On Job Training (OJT) to acquaint the Trainees with language, Soft skill, Health hazard and Hygiene classes at every step during their Training period and during their OJT to enable them to cope up with the professional as well as personal life once they are placed in various cities and well know companies. This has improved

the success of the SMO programme manifolds.

JAMSHEDPUR, JHARKHANDThe Gram Tarang centre at Jamshedpur has implemented the Swarna Jayanti Sahri Rojgar Yojna under Urban Development Department, Govt. of Jharkhand and has successfully trained 346 trainees so far in various trades such as Turning, Electricals, Welding and Milling. Out of the trained, 196 have been placed at Yazaki India Ltd, Pune.

HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESHGTETS call centre has been set up at Hyderabad and is allocated the Standard Training Assessment and Rewards (STAR) enquiries call. The centre is engaged in sensitizing prospective students about STAR programme. It also encourages them to acquire training in their area of interest at their convenience. This was implemented in the month of March 2014, and a total of 1484 students have been trained which includes details on training centers, course availability and contact details.As on date, more than 2100 students have enrolled themselves under STAR scheme in GTETS in the year 2013 -2014.

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To bridge the gap between theory and practice, the Centurion University works in close association with its Gram Tarang Group of sister organizations involved in social entrepreneurship outreach activities.

SUCCESS STORIESGurudev Hansdah, an 18 year old differently-abled boy from Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, entered the Caf Coffee Day Lab enquiring about the course and to check his eligibility. He has only one hand and his chances seemed slim. After lot of deliberations and special approvals, he was selected for the course. The rest is history. He successfully completed his training and won the title of Gram Tarang Barista Champion. He is presently working as a Brew Master in Caf Coffee Day, Richmond Road, Bangalore, one of the high volume cafes.

A determined 17 year old Mr. Kanchan, from a poverty stricken family of five, registered himself under SJSRY Project with Electrical Trade. Despite living 150 kms away from the Training centre, he never missed a single class during the 60 Days Training at GTETS. Currently he is placed with Yazaki India LTD (Pune) and is earning a gross salary of Rs. 10,000 p.m.

Jharana Mallick, a Scheduled Caste widow, with 3 children to look after and no income to survive made her look out for an option in the form of free training course. She came across the Gram Tarang Employabili-ty Training Services, Jatni, Khurda, completed her course successfully and has been placed at Shahi Exports, Bangalore and is earning around Rs. 6700 p.m.

GRAM TARANG FOODS (GTFs)The extraction plant was commissioned in Nov 2012 and was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik. Commercial production includes Ginger Oleoresin for the Bangalore market, a repeat export order of Ginger Oil to the USA, Turmeric extract. Flaxseed, Jyotismathi, Kapurkachri and Ginger extracts have been tried so far. A pilot plant installation for R&D and fragrance extraction is also planned.

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The Urban Micro Business Centre (MBC) is an initiative started in March 2013 to assess, conceptualise, and implement effective models of entrepreneurship development for urban poor slum dwellers in Bhubaneswar. The project is a public-private partnership venture between Centurion University, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (Government of India), and the Housing & Urban Development Department (Government Of Orissa). On-ground support during the start-up phase was provided by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation.

The MBC has set up an Entrepreneurship Training & Production Centre across the apparel and food sectors, with a focus on women. Services include training in use of machines, business ideas and marketing training and develop business and project management skills.

It has also started a Digital Learning based After School for children from slum communities, between the ages of 5 - 12. The MBCs long term goal is to start inculcating an entrepreneurial spirit and a

broad range of livelihood and life skills in every urban poor individual. Our digital learning after school has grown out of an informal daycare centre that the MBC has been running right from the start, as an important support service for urban poor working women.

SUCCESS STORIESGurudev Hansdah, an 18 year old differently-abled boy from Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, entered the Caf Coffee Day Lab enquiring about the course and to check his eligibility. He has only one hand and his chances seemed slim. After lot of deliberations and special approvals, he was selected for the course. The rest is history. He successfully completed his training and won the title of Gram Tarang Barista Champi-on. He is presently working as a Brew Master in Caf Coffee Day, Richmond Road, Bangalore, one of the high volume cafes.

A determined 17 year old Mr. Kanchan, from a poverty stricken family of five, registered himself under SJSRY Project with Electrical Trade. Despite living 150 kms away from the Training centre, he never missed a single class during the 60 Days Training at GTETS. Currently he is placed with Yazaki India LTD (Pune) and is earning a gross salary of Rs. 10,000 p.m.

Jharana Mallick, a Scheduled Caste widow, with 3 children to look after and no income to survive made her look out for an option in the form of free training course. She came across the Gram Tarang Employabili-ty Training Services, Jatni, Khurda, completed her course successfully and has been placed at Shahi Exports, Bangalore and is earning around Rs. 6700 p.m.

ART EXHIBITIONThe Department of CSE and IT has organized an Art exhibition on 08 Jan 2014 to generate creativity skills and to identify the internal capabilities of the students.

INAUGURATION OF IEEE JITM STUDENT BRANCH (IEEE JITM SB)IEEE JITM STUDENT BRANCH(IEEE JITM SB) of Centurion University was inaugurated by Hon'ble Vice Chancellor on 4th January 2014 in association with ECE department. Presently we have 15 Student Members and 3 Faculties (Prof. Prabhat K. Patnaik,Prof.Abinash Gaya and Prof. SatyanarayanPadhy)with IEEE Membership. This is the 6th Student Branch in the state of Odisha.The Inauguration program started with the brief details on Formation of IEEE JITM SB and its objective.Then benefits to student Member of IEEE and student branch were highlighted. The Calendar of Events(Jan 2014-Apr 2014) under the banner of IEEE JITM SB also published. The dignitaries appreciated the students,faculty and organizing team and Dept of E.C.E for the initiation and advised for maximum participation of students and faculty of all branches in IEEE.

SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF B AND C CERTIFICATION OF FIRST BATCH OF NCC CADETS First batch NCC cadets of JITM (BATCH 2012) comprising of 15 cadets have successfully completed B and C certification Examination.

BRAHMOTSAVAI IN CUTM CAMPUSBrahmotsava ceremony of God Vidya Venkateswara was celebrated during 25th to 27th Jan 2014 in a grand way in the temple premises of the University campus. All the students, staffs, faculty members, and a large number of disciples from nearby villages have attended the ceremony to get the blessings.

SENSITIZATION PROGRAM ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND GENDER ISSUES A sensitization program on Sexual Harassment and Gender Issues was organised on 12.02.2014 in the university campus, driven by Mr. Sibakripa Bose, Chief Mentor and Life Coach & Dr. Smita Mishra Panda, Professor and Director (Research). All faculty and staff of School of Engineering, School of Management, School of Agriculture Science and School of Vocational Education & Training have participated in the participate in the programme. A similar session was also organized at the Jatni Campus for faculty on 14 Mar 2014.

MEDITATION AT CUTMA beginners short course on meditation was organized in the University campus 8-12 Mar 2014, by Prof. Sibakripa Bose, and Prof. Torbjorn Hobbel from Norway. The 5 days training on meditation started with the general talk on the subject in a specially convened meeting in JITM seminar hall, which was followed by immediate practice session for the interested persons. Prof. Torbjorn Hobbel initiated the member of the newly formed group into the tools of the Acem Meditation. The crash course came to an end with the commitment from all the members that they will be practicing it in their daily life. Some useful books and printed materials brought by Prof. Torbjorn Hobbel were distributed among the members and they were advised to log on to some useful websites for broadening their knowledge. Prof. Hobbel also conducted a short meditation session on 14-15 Mar 2014 at the Jatni Campus. He also inaugurated a Meditation Club under the CSR programme of CUTM.

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