Presidential Council

IIT Kanpur

Mid Term Report 2012

October 2012

VIVEKANANDA SAMITI

Vivekananda Samiti is one of the oldest clubs under the Students’ Gymkhana functioning for over 40 years, thus spreading the

message of Swami Vivekananda among the campus residents. In present year we have conducted a plethora of events like talks on

Vedanta, ancient India, Sanskrit Language and Kargil War, Workshops on Personality Developments and Spoken Sanskrit Language,

Community Services like Cloth donation and Health Camps in and around the campus. Weekly discussions on Swami Vivekananda’s

life and teachings, Vedanta class, meditation sessions and distribution of Vivekananda literature among youth were also conducted.

Our Vision To spread Swami Vivekananda’s teachings on Vedanta, Community Services and Spirituality among campus residents.

Specific vision for the present year

Swami Vivekananda’s 150th

Birthday commences on January 12, 2013. The 150th

Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is a great

occasion for spreading his inspirational teachings among the youth of India. It is celebrating this august occasion with a 4 yrs. plan of

series of events during 2011 to 2014. Our nation requires people with high values and strong determination who will serve the

nation and solve its numerous challenging problems. The bright and talented students of this premiere institute have immense

potential which must be channelized for the betterment of the human society. Main celebration is taking place next year.

Vivekananda Samiti is celebrating Vivekananda Youth Convention 2013.

Events Organized: 1. Events under DRPG funding

Community Health Services (CHS)

Vivekananda Samiti, IIT Kanpur in association with Shiksha Sopan and Ramakrishna Mission Hospital has undertaken a project,

Community Health Services, through which we aim to improve the health standards of the under-privileged section of the

community in and around the IITK campus. We intend to achieve this by conducting health camps on a regular basis. With the

financial support of DRPG, we have planned to organize 4 camps in a Semester. Prof. H.C. Verma is PI for this project. So far we have

organized 3 camps in this semester in which more than thousand people have been benefitted. The details are as follow:

Camp 1: Opportunity School IITK Date: 19

th Aug. 2012

About 325 under-privileged children studying in School went through general health checkup. This camp was arranged with the help

of voluntary service of a team of eight competent doctors. Over 20 committed volunteers from Vivekananda Samiti and Shiksha

Sopan rendered their voluntary services to carry out the camp smoothly

Camp 2: Lodhar Village Date: 9

th Sept. 2012

An Eye Camp was organized at Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Lodhar Village near IIT Kanpur. Dr. Anju Mishra, an eminent ophthalmologist

with her team of refractionist examined over 160 patients from the village. While free consultation and medication was offered to

all, around 90 patients were provided with spectacles at subsidized rate and six cases of cataract were identified, which would be

operated upon at Ursula Hospital at free of cost.

Camp 3: Barasirohi Village Date: 30th

Sept. 2012

A general health camp at Shiksha Sopan Swavalamban Kendra at Barasirohi village near IIT-Kanpur was organized. A team of 4

doctors offer their volunteer services at Ramakrishna Mission Hospital examined 516 patients from village.

2. Events under Golden Jubilee funding

Personality Development Workshop Date: 6th

-7th

October

Student Gymkhana, for its Golden Jubilee Celebration, has given some fund to Vivekananda Samiti for organizing Talks and

Personality Development workshops. This PD workshop was the first event by Samiti in this connection. We have planned to

organize one more workshop in next semester. The details of this workshop are as below.

Day 1:

Session 1: Self & the World - Developing Skills to sustain harmonically in the World

Speaker: Dr. Alok Bajpai

Session 2: Group Discussion – Demonstration and Practice

Speaker: Dr. Prashant Jha

Session 3: Interview Skills - Demonstration and Practice

Speaker: Dr. Prashant Jha

Day 2:

Session 1: Presentation Skills

Speaker: Dr. Prashant Jha

Session 2: "Manav Jeevan Ka Uddeshya aur Prayojan" (in Hindi)

Speaker: Swami Sujayananda

Session 3: Time Management & Public Speaking Skills

Speaker: Mr. Niraj Prasad

Participation: 60

3. Events under Gymkhana funding

1) Old Cloth Collection/Distribution drive – June-July

Samiti conducted old cloth collection drive in all halls and residential areas during semester end. More than 500 pairs of clothes

were collected. These clothes were then distributed among the workers in construction sites at New RA hostel and Hall 11. A group

of 5-10 Students worked hard for this event.

2) Talk on "Relevance of Sanskrit in Today's World" Date : 7th

July

Speaker: Dr. P. Nanda Kumar, All Indian General Secretary of the NGO, Samskrita Bharati.

Participation: 30

3) Lecture Series on Vedanta Date: 11th

-13th

August

Speaker: Shri Sarvapriyananda Ji Maharaj, Belur Math

A three day lecture series on Vedanta was organized as per following schedule.

Day 1: Bhagwad Gita for Students

Day 2: A Purposeful Living with Vedanta

Day 3: Message of the Upanishads

Participation: 70 in each talk

4) Talk on “KARGIL-From Surprise to Victory” Date: 14th

August

Speaker: Major Rajan Saini, MTech. 1st

year IITK

Participation: 100

5) Sanskrit Classes

A 10 day Sanskrit Language speaking classes were organized in association with an NGO Samskrit Bharati, Kanpur from 21st

Aug. to

2nd

Sept., 2012. Classes were conducted in two batches to enhance the interaction and learning. More than 50 person including

faculty members attended the classes. After successfully completing the basic learning classes, weekly classes are being held for

advanced learning. Support from Satyashekhar and Gopinath is highly appreciated.

6) Introductory Lecture and Quiz Date: 31st

August

An introductory lecture was organized to make the institute junta aware of samiti’s activities and future events. This talk was

followed by Quiz.

7) Formation of Faculty Advisory Committee

Samiti has constituted a Faculty Advisory Committee for mentoring the activities and programs organized by Vivekananda Samiti, IIT

Kanpur. This Advisory Board shall help to guide and motivate the students to participate and execute samiti’s activities efficiently.

The following faculty members have kindly given their consent to be a part of this Faculty Advisory Committee:-

Prof. Jayanta Chatterjee Prof. D. P. Mishra

Prof. Raj Ganesh S Pala Prof. Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi

Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya Prof. Nirmalya Guha

Prof. T. V. Prabhakar Prof. Braj Bhusan

Prof. Shatarupa Thakurta Roy Prof. Amitabha Mukherjee

Prof. H. C. Verma

8) Two Day Lecture Series on Indology Date: 25th

-26th

Sept

Talk 1: “History of Ancient India over last 1 lakh years as revealed through Genetic Studies”

Speaker: Dr. Premendra Priyadarshi, New Delhi

Talk 2: “Computation in Ancient India” Speaker: Prof. H. C. Verma, IIT Kanpur

Participation: 100 in each talk

9) Regular Vedanta Classes

Apart from above events we are having or regular meetings for Vedanta classes on Tuesday and Thursday under guidance of Dr. Raj

Ganesh Pala Sir and Archana Madam.

Upcoming Events in this Tenure Vivekananda Youth Convention 2013

Vivekananda Samiti has been organizing Vivekananda Youth Convention for last two years. Since next year marks the 150th

Birth

Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, Samiti has planned to organize it on a bigger scale. We have started our preparation by forming

Core team and other functional teams. The proposal for this event is being finalized.

Eye camp under CHS project : 4th

November 2013

National Youth Day: 12th

Jan, 2013

Vivekananda Youth Convention 2012: 12th

to 20th

Jan, 2013

Temple Tour: Feb 2013

Invited Talks under Golden Jubilee Celebration

Personality Development Workshop under Golden Jubilee Celebration

Health Camps under CHS project

Our Team:

Coordinator: Rahul Jagtap PhD. Chemical Engg. Deptt.

Core Team:

Subhadip Mitra, PhD. Computer Science and Engg. Deptt.

Indramani Dhada PhD. Civil Engg. Deptt.

Koustuv Ray MTech. Chemical Engg. Deptt.

Abhinav Tripathi MTech. Computer Science and Engg. Deptt.

Deepak Ojha PhD. Chemistry Deptt.

CHS Team

Coordinators:

Asit A Naik BTech. Aerospace Deptt.

Salman Thind BT-MT Dual Civil Engg. Deptt.

PD Workshop Team

Coordinators:

Siddhartha Shrama BTech. Chemical Engg. Deptt.

Rahul Rao BTech. Electrical Engg. Deptt.

VYC 2013 Team

Event Heads:

Rishav Ranjan MTech. IME Deptt.

Deepak Arya BT-MT Dual Mechanical Engg. Deptt.

GE3

Coordinator Details: Avish Rana (10177, avish@iitk.ac.in )

Shashank Shekhar (10673, sshek@iitk.ac.in)

Vision of the Group: The vision of the group is to involve students to contribute towards environment and sustainability through activities that

provides encouragement and motivation to the people. Our aim is also to make the campus energy efficient by decreasing the

electricity and food wastage. We want to encourage students to search for and discover alternative and renewable means of energy

for a better future.

Activities Done: Green Opus Current Progress:

Green Opus Phase I was conducted in the month of September 2012. In Phase I, the hostels were judged on the basis of reduction in energy consumption in each hall. Readings were taken three times during the month of September and currently calculations are underway to calculate the ‘effective reduction’ in the energy consumption in each hall after incorporating the hall scaling factor (HSF). The results of Phase I will be announced in December, before Phase II.

Future Plans: Green Opus Phase II will be conducted in January 2013. In the second phase, the halls will be judged on the basis of their

respective reduction in the mess food wastage and also the reduction in energy consumption. Along with these, the month long

event will include activities such as Quizzes, Poster designing, Environmental Awareness Video making and Case Study competitions.

The details of these events have been submitted in the Pre Conduction report for Green Opus 2012-13.

Guide to Green Living:

We are working on a guide to green living which will establish a few basic and abstract criteria for IIT KANPUR people to judge

themselves on the basis of their contribution to campus pollution, wastage and energy resources, help them improve upon it and

help them check their level of improvement. It would serve as the reference ‘book’ for the subject of improving the campus

environment and deal with the problem at an individual level, informing us of our duties while reminding us of the advantages we

derive from the institute. It will be the “CONSTITUTION” for “ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY”!!!

We have planned to release it with the final Green Opus results.

Gymkhana Golden Jubilee Solar Tree

Current Progress:

We have been working on developing a solar tree to be installed in the campus. Prof S S K Iyer from the department of

Electrical Engineering is guiding us. A solar tree is a tree shaped structure which has solar panels attached to on the top which

generate electricity. This tree will be the first ever to be designed by a student’s group. We have already completed the preliminary

ground work required and have finalized the design. We are now working with some people from the Design Department to make

refinements in our original design to add greater aesthetic appeal to it.

The tree will consist of 12 solar panels generating a total of approximately 200W of electricity. Lights would be attached on

the solar tree and would draw their power entirely from batteries charged by the solar panels on the solar tree.

Future Plans:

Once the design is finalized in next week, orders will be placed for the various parts and the solar panels, batteries, etc. by

the end of November. We will be commencing with the assembly of the solar tree in the winter vacations in December.

E-Cell

VISION The E Cell, IIT Kanpur envisions a society of self-motivated individuals kernelled with constructive and intense entrepreneurial drive. Our sole aim is to let the concept of entrepreneurship burgeon and evolve. We aim at building people with a strong work ethic who conceive and organize business ventures guided not by mere profit making fervency, but by the inbuilt urge to innovate, take risks, shoulder social responsibility and indulge in creative execution of vibrant business concepts. Motivated by this vision , we at IITK E- Cell believe in getting down to the brass tacks right away, create individuals and enterprises that are ready to take on the challenges in this cut-throat competitive world and do not melt down under the broad daylight. This objective is effectively met through our ground- level processes of networking student enterprises from campus to incubators, seeding funds and angel investors in order to support the newly born enterprises in their endeavours, and gradually lead them to figure as “GROUND BREAKING STARTUPS OF THE WORLD”

ACTIVITIES DONE/ ACTIONS TAKEN

1. Entrepreneurial BOOTCAMP:

18-19 August

Saw the participation from all the years excluding UG Y11, Y12

50 participants (selected) prepared Blue Print for their idea

Taken by Krishna Uppuluri from Silicon Valley

Best presentation style and best bootcamp gather prize money Rs. 12,500/- each

2. LEM, IIM-A Workshop:

24-25 August

A two day workshop taken by Prof. Sunil Handa, IIM-A

Held at Outreach Auditorium

About 200 students attended the workshop

3. Deferred Placement Program

Draft of DPP was prepared which was passed in the student’s senate

Would be applicable from this academic year if cleared by SPC

4. E-Cell Newsletter “Accendo”

First ever newsletter of E-Cell published and distributed to over 7000 campus residents

5. Presentation by Venture Nursery

5th

October

Mumbai based VC

Described its programme and other details

6. TAKNEEK

1000 Rs Venture -: Teams from pools were given 1000Rs each to build upon a venture

Technopro – Teams from various pools had to work upon various technical problems and pitched its B-plan.

ACTIVITIES PLANNED/ ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN

1. Wacky Ideas Competition

Scheduled on 2nd

November

Both on the spot and online

Total 25 prizes worth 1000/- each 2. PRIME Launch

Scheduled on 2nd

November

Alumni from USA and India talks

Felicitation of Samsung Award Winners

Explaining PRIME 3. TEDX :

Global TED Talk (Theme: Connecting the dots)

International and national speakers

Motivational speakers

Technical showcase

On 3rd

november’12

Total estimated expenses : 3.5 Lacs

4. LEM, IIM-A Industrial Trip

12 Student team going to Ahmedabad to Prof. Sunil Handa

Various industries would be visited

Will give the future entrepreneurs a real time view of the industries from expert point of view!

5. Aadhar :

Social initiative by E-cell

In collaboration with Sana organisation of MIT.

It’s a technology in which mobile technology is used to telehealth in developing nations, e-cell plans to bring this technology to our campus.

Provide vocational training for construction jobs in India. Target market will be unemployed youth in rural areas( like “Pipal Tree”)

Training like recycling of paper and wastage will also be given.

Throughout the year

Structure yet to be finalized

Vague estimate: Rs 4L

6. E-cell magazine

Magazine and another newsletter for this academic year is schedule 7. Global entrepreneurship summit:

Pinnacle event of E- Cell IIT Kanpur.

Special talks by entrepreneur alumni of IIT Kanpur.

International and national Speakers (like our partner from Harvard business school, our mentors, members of

advisory board etc.)

Specific skill workshops on entrepreneurship ( like – Stock Simulation, start-up case studies , a day out with

entrepreneur ,workshop on advertising and promoting a product

Competitions (like- business venture, advertising video competition. , social entrepreneurship competition, Gear

up to become an entrepreneur (rapid fire quiz on decision making on finance, marketing etc.), empassion (product

design competition) etc.

Start-up+ start-up internship fair – Calling 20 Start-ups from Sequoia Capital like micromax etc.

In last week of march’2013

Expenses: Boarding Lodging and travel of past 50 years alumni 8. Product Design Competition

Scheduled on 2nd

February

GLDC

1st Talk A Workshop on Self – Confidence, Determination, Courage - Leadership Skills was organized on Sept 24, 2012 by the GLD

Club of the Students Gymkhana for the welfare of the students. The workshop was conducted by Sr. Savitri who is an

educator and has dedicated her life to serve others and inspire values in Life for a better society. At present she is a

senior faculty of PG Degree and Diploma Courses in Values and Spirituality & Values in Management which is run by the

Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, Mt. Abu in collaboration with the Anna Malai University, Tamil Nadu. The

workshop started with the Welcome address and intro of the speaker. Dean of Students Affair, Prof. AK Ghosh

welcomed the speaker with a Bouquet and encouraged the students to enlighten themselves in this area and

understand the difference between a good person and good personality.

The mood of workshop was set by a motivating song which was played at the beginning of the session. This was

followed by a multimedia presentation by the speaker which highlighted the distinct qualities of Confidence,

Determination and Courage. Confidence has to do with the ability to listen in to the voice of inner conscience and put

that into action. Determination is about the will to do a particular task and courage has to do with overcoming fear and

other obstacles to reach our goals. Building self-respect, good company, good literature, practicing meditation, positive

thinking were highlighted some of the key methods on how to inculcate these values in our day to day life.

Sr. Savitri highlighted these aspects with suitable examples from day to day life and her own life experiences. Interaction

with the students also cleared many of the doubts which students had about these Leadership Values. The practical

difficulties like how to overcome failures and improve a really low CGPA were discussed and new directions were

sought. The workshop ended with a highlight on the dynamic interplay of Mind, Intellect and Sanskar/Personality and

how to work on the self to overcome addictions or wrong habits.

2nd talk A seminar on “Make Mind Your Best Friend” was organized at 1100Hrs to 1230 Hrs on Oct 22, 2012 by Gymkhana

Lectures and Discussions Club (GLDC) in L-16 (LHC). The seminar was conducted by the articulate speaker E. V.

Swaminathan.

The Programme started with an inspiring song which was sung by BK Avinash. This was followed by a multimedia

presentation by the speaker which highlighted the distinct qualities of MIND. In the education system of Engineering and

Management students are taught to effectively manage men, material, money, machinery and methodology. It is

basically the optimum use of resources. But all these resources can only be managed when we understand to manage

the most important resource – MIND. The different functions of mind were articulately represented in an abbreviation

as TEAM i.e. Thoughts, Emotions, Attitude, and Memories. It was emphasized to understand MIND and to develop a

strong, powerful and a happy mind to manage Professional / Personal / Interpersonal challenges and also to become

emotionally intelligent. The environment was charged many times by clapping by audience during the talk.

Many questions were asked by students during the interaction session of the progremme. These questions include: how

to overcome anger? How to handle fear? How to keep mind stable during panic situations? The question about general

perception that practicing meditation leads to seclusion which, in turn detaches a person from his/her family

responsibilities. All the questions were answered by the speaker articulately. The feedback about the programme was

also conducted from audience.

Programme ended with a session on Raj Yog Meditation. The speaker was welcomed by Mr. Utpal Sharma, Acting

President Students’ Gymabhana and a token of remembrance was given to speaker by Prof. D. P. Mishra. The

programme was coordinated by Mr. Dhananjay Kumar Singh.

SPO

President Student Gymkhana remained in constant touch of Students’ Placement Office for discussions on various policy

and logistic matters regarding placements and Internships. The end term report of Students Placement Office shall come

in May-June’13 and should be discussed in Students Senate.

Efforts are being made towards preparation part. In future more and more efforts are to be made towards improving

career counseling and placements preparation.

PRAYAS

Coordinators: Ashutosh Sharma, Manoj Kumar, Anish Kumar

Team Size: 30 Volunteers, 120 Kids

PRAYAS was started in 2001 with a vision to help the kids in and around the campus, who do not have access to quality schools, in

their studies. Centered around this theme, the vision has steadily evolved to encompass the idea of overall development of the kids

which may not be possible in the environment which they come from. To realize this vision, in addition to regular teaching on 5 days

a week, PRAYAS has various daily/weekly/ yearly activities in its schedule, like daily assembly to inculcate speaking and listening skills

in the kids, ‘play day’ on Fridays, organizing in-house drawing competitions as well as encouraging and arranging their participation

in various competitions in the district.

The major highlights of the achievements/activities of the concluding session are as follows:

Annual Function: Prayas celebrated its 11th

Annual Function this year with cheerful performance of Dance, Drama and Music by kids

of Prayas, Jagriti and Apna School.

Prayas Premiere League: An intra- Prayas cricket tournament in which both kids and volunteers displayed their wonderful game of

the outer field of Football ground.

Health Talks: Two health talks were organized for kids and Volunteers of Prayas.

One was held during summer where a gynecologist Dr. from Kanpur shared her expert advice with girls of Prayas with their

mothers and resolved their doubts related to the health complications at their age.

Another talk was delivered in collaboration with PoWER IITK during Prayas hours by Dr. O. P. Mishra. In this talk he detailed

the common health issues around our campus and about the precaution, symptoms, and prevention of these problems.

Health Camp: A health camp was organized during summer which was attended by the kids of Prayas and their Parents. In this

health camp Dr. Sanjay Kapoor of ESI Hospital, Kanpur lent his generous help by examining kids and their parents and also prescribed

necessary medication along with helpful advices.

Medicine distribution: Medicines as prescribed by doctor in health camp were distributed to kids soon for free.

Venus Transition: Kids were taken to airstrip in summer for demonstration of rare Venus transition by Astronomy club of IITK using

telescope and other different methods. Kids were also explained about the significance and mechanism of this rare transition.

Quiz Competition: 9th

class student of Prayas secured 1st

rank in GK quiz based on a magazine “Ek sparsh nature ka” held by Sparsh,

IITK.

Home visits: Houses of kids are regularly visited by the volunteers of their class to exchange the detailed report of their behavior

and performance at Prayas as well as at home.

Coolers acquired: Two desert coolers were received this summer from DOSA office, so that kids don’t face the problem of heat

during their study hours at Prayas.

Purchase of new books: New curriculum text books of UP Board, question banks, previous year question papers and reference

books for various competitive exams have already been purchase for the library of Prayas for kids.

Rakshabandhan: The festival of “Rakhi” was celebrated cheerfully at Prayas where girls tied the knot of Rakhi on boys’ hands and

also sweets and snacks were distributed among kids on this occasion.

Workshops: During Antaragni’12: workshops were held for Prayas kids by fine arts cell in which they explored the art of mime, oil

painting and charcoal sketching. In these workshops they also learned a few tips and tricks of these arts.

New sport items: Friday has always been sports days for kids of Prayas. For them to play some new sports equipments have been

added to our stock so that kids can enjoy their favorite games and sports.

Orientation Program’12 presentation: A presentation about the works and motives of the Prayas was given to UG as well as PG

fresher batch of 2012 and most of the part of this presentation was presented by kids of Prayas.

New Furniture Acquired: As a part of shift from Old SAC to New SAC, Prayas obtained its new furniture which includes computer

tables, book shelves for library, Green boards and notice boards.

Visit to Blind school: Students of class 9th

to 12th

were accompanied by the volunteers to a blind school near railway station.

Prayas v/s Siksha Sopan: A friendly cricket match was played between kids of Prayas and Siksha Sopan during summer. Prayas kids

with their fabulous performance won this match.

Barcodes: Barcodes have been introduced on the ID cards of kids and library books to maintain a gentle record and database.

Specialized training: Special classes were held by the volunteers of Prayas during summer for English speaking and various

competitive exams like Navodaya, NTSE and ITI.

Blood Test: Blood group test of Prayas kids was conducted under the guidance of a Ph.D student of BSBE department of IITK. A

database of blood group of kids has been prepared for any future needs.

Fee Collection: PRAYAS is conducting its teaching activities on a regular basis but biggest problem that we face here is irregularity of

students. As solution of this problem we have planned to charge them with a nominal fee per month which Rs.10 for primary

classes, 20 for 6-10th and Rs. 30 for class 11th and 12th. Also, kids with attendance more than 90% will be exempted from this fee.

The purpose of this fee is to increase the concern of parents about their kids to attend the classes here and thus raising attendance

of kids.

Future Plans: 1. Arrange regular health talks, discussions and Health camps during each semester to keep kids aware about the health issues

and their cure.

2. Distribution of a kit to kids which would be useful in their studies. The details of this kit are as follows:

Item Use

Rechargeable Table Lamp Will cut down the problem of unavailability of

Electricity.

Study Table As it is recommended to use table while studying, a

small portable table will be given to kids which they can

use while studying sitting anywhere.

Dictionary English is the major problem among kids here, so

dictionaries will be provided to them as a part of this

kit.

Alarm Clock To keep track of time.

Skipping Rope To remain fit, kids need to pursue some physical

activity. Also this skipping rope will help in improving

their height

3. Like every year an annual excursion has been planned for this year too.

4. Hold an art competition in which kids will carve out their imaginations on a piece of paper or with some waste stuff like old

newspaper.

5. Distribute fruit to kids on sports day using the amount collected by their fee.

6. A social campaigning event will be organized in Techkriti’13, as a part of which some workshops will be arranged for kids.

Book Club

Coordinators: Shubham Gupta, Rajiv Krishna Omar

Team : Anirudh Kumar , Anurag Vaishnav, Aditya Tandon

Vision of the Club “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”

― George R.R. Martin

Our goal is to provide enriching and fun filling reading experience to the campus community. People read for various reasons. Some

read to broaden their perspective of the world and learn new things, others read to learn how to channel their thoughts, some read

to get inspiration, some read to get their mind free and see faraway places through the eye of their mind, some read to relax their

mind after a tiring day full of hard work, while some read just for fun, We provide all of them a platform. We also aim at promoting

literature and reading habits amongst the campus community.

Activities Done/Taken 1. Book Club has been now shifted from Old SAC to New SAC in order to improve the aesthetics appeal of the club. The club is

open 9PM-10PM everyday including Exams, holidays.

2. Including Donations, around 150 new books belonging to diversified genre have been added till now , taking the total

catalogue to 6625 Books & Magazines

3. 259 new members have been added during last 3 months.

4. An automated mail delivery system was initiated through which each member can track the books issued and fine levied on

him/her.

5. All new purchases were made by popular demand of the readers and the information was circulated to all the members

6. Magazine subscription like Digit were taken

Events Organized

1. Book Review Competition

The event saw active participation from the club members. Reviews submitted will be included on the book profile on the

upcoming website

2. Online Write-up Competition

To encourage the art of reading & writing, we organized an online write up competition which invited entries in the forms

of poems, articles, stories, haiku in English, Hindi. We received around 150 entries from around 100 participants. Winners

were given books and slots as prizes.

3. Lit Quiz

Book Club in collaboration with quiz club organized lit quiz which saw participation of around sixty teams. Winners were

given books and slots as prizes

4. Member of the Month

Recognition is given to most active member of the club of the month.

Activities Planed 1. A new user friendly website is under construction which would have an access to catalogue, user account, and discussion

platform.

2. Literary Discussion Meets , Read-Meets will be regularly organized in coming days

3. Regular reorganization of books & updating of the catalogue will be ensured

4. Lit quizzes, Continue the story, Fan Fiction Writing competitions will be organized

5. Plans for automation of the club are underway