1. Outstanding Contribution to National Development

Dear Friends,

IIT Delhi Alumni Award

for

Outstanding Contribution to National Development

The IIT Delhi Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to National Development was instituted in 1999 to honour nominated and selected IIT Delhi Alumni. The award is conferred each year by the IIT Delhi Alumni Association on one or more alumni at its Annual General Meeting. It consists of a plaque and a citation

The Purpose:

• To recognize outstanding contribution of IIT Delhi alumni to National development.
• To enhance the awareness of achievement and contributions of IIT Delhi alumni in various aspect of national development.
• To develop greater networking and interaction with outstanding IIT Delhi alumni to further enrich the activities of IIT Delhi Alumni Association.

Selection Criteria:

• Exceptional achievement and excellence in the chosen field.
• Leadership role / Role Model Status.
• Impact on national development.
• Contribution in developing of talent.
• Pioneering effort.
• Commitment to ethics and values.

On behalf of the Selection Committee for the award, I have the pleasure to invite you to nominate one (or more) IIT Delhi alumnus who in your opinion has made outstanding contribution to national development, and should be considered for the prestigious award. All those who have obtained a degree from IIT Delhi are eligible.

The nominations may be sent by email / Post / Courier/ fax.

Kindly send the nominations in the enclosed format; together with a summary of his/her distinguished achievements/contributions. It would be helpful

if you would also send to us a resume of the nominee. Please feel free to contact me if you need further information in this regard.

We would appreciate your early response but the last date for receipt of nominations is 15^th February 2007.

A list of the previous awardees is enclosed.

With regards,

Yogesh Andlay
President, IITDAA

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FORMAT FOR NOMINATION FOR IITD ALUMNI AWARD FOR

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Name of the nominee:

IIT Delhi Degree (s):

Current position/ title:

Nominee address, phone, fax, email address:

Brief sketch of nominee’s career and achievements:

Proposed by:

Name:

Signature:

Address, phone, fax, email address:

Kindly send nomination to:

The Convenor, Selection Committee

“Outstanding Contribution to National Development”

IIT Delhi Alumni Association
Nalanda House,
Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016
Tel: 2686 8523/2659 7178/2659 6953
Fax: 2651 4177
E-mail: iitdaa@gmail.com or office@iitdalumni.com
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In the past, this Award has been conferred upon:

1999-2000
Dr. Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service
Mr. Pradeep Gupta, MD, Cyber Media (
India) Ltd.

2000-2001
Mr. Rohit Chand, Executive Chairman, IT&T Ltd.
Mr. Vijay Mahajan, MD, BASIX
Mr. Arjun Vinoo Caprihan, President, Caprihan Interscience
Mr. Nabankur Gupta,Group President & Wholetime Director, Raymond Group of Companies.

2001-2002
Dr. A.K. Chakravarti, Advisor Ministry of IT
Mr. Satish Tandon, MD, Alfa Laval (India) Ltd.
Dr. E.A.S. Sarma, IAS,
Mr. Prabhat Agarwal, CEO, Parsec Technologies
Dr. Satya Narayana Dasa, Chairman, Jiva Inst.of Vaisnava Studies

2002-2003
Dr. Prem Vrat, Ex-Director, IIT Roorkee
Mr. Satish K. Manocha, Chairman & Managing Director, ITI Limited
Mr. Ashok K. Manchanda, Director, NUCON Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
Mr. Surya Kant, Vice President, TCS

2004-05

Mr. Yogeshwar Kumar, Senior Consultant, DST & IREP

Mr. Pravin Kumar Purang, President & CEO, Global Consulting Associates.

Prof. Trilochan Sastry, Professor, IIM, Bangalore

Mr. Navyug Mohnot, Chief Executive Officer, QAI India

2005-06

Rear Admiral Ravinder Mohan Bhatia, Chairman & MD, Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai, (Retired on 31^st December, 2005)

Mr. Yogesh Kumar Singhal, Project Director, GSAT-2/Project Director, INSAT-4A

Dr. Ramesh Awasthi, Co-Convenor & Trustee of MASUM

Prof. Denis Therien, Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations), McGill University, on his visit to the Institute on 23rd November 2006.

His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, KG,KCVO,ADC, UK Special Representative for International Trade & Investment on his visit to the Institute on 30th October 2006.

Prof. Ryoji Noyori, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry), President RIKEN and Professor, Chemistry Department, Nagoya University, Japan. Prof. Ryoji Noyori visited the Institute on 30th October 2006.

Dr. Arden Bement, Director, National Science Foundation, USA Dr. Arden Bement visited the Institute on 16th October 2006.

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4. Dr. S. S. Kapdi,Ph.D., 2006, Innovative Student Projects Award – 2006

Dr. S. S. Kapdi, has been awarded Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in convocation on August 12, 2006. His thesis on “Development of Biogas Enrichment and Compression System for Rural Energy Applications” has been selected for Innovative Student Projects Award - 2006 by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), New Delhi. For this, he has been facilitated by a medal, a certificate and a prize of Rs.10,000/- by the INAE on 09/12/2006 during annual meeting of the academy at Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi110 002.

Dr. S. S. Kapdi is presently serving as Associate Professor & Head, Department of Bio-Energy, P.G. Institute of Food Processing Technology & Bio-Energy, Anand Agricultural University, Anand.

5.Shashi Tharoor wrote an interesting op-ed article on Brand IIT

The success story of 'Brand IIT'

The New Year is always a time to look forward, and few subjects warrant as optimistic a look to the future as Indian science and technology. Living as I am these days in the US, I have had the particular pleasure of seeing some of the prospects first hand, having been asked to address a global gathering of IIT alumni in Mumbai just before Christmas.

Demographic projections suggest that the next US Census will find more Indian-Americans than American Indians. When I was admitted to an American graduate school in 1975, not too many history honours students were making the journey to America.

Already, though, our counterparts at India's elite technological universities and engineering colleges - especially those from the Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs - had begun to snap up the fellowships that American munificence provided. They went on to form the creative backbone of the global information revolution with their quick minds and developed crucial innovations that changed the way Americans live.

IITians dominate what Americans call the ''honour roll''. Arun Netravali, former president of Bell Laboratories, received the Presidential Medal of Technology for pioneering the technology which enabled high definition television, HDTV and Internet streaming-videos.

Raj and Neera Singh, an entrepreneurial couple, pioneered the use of cell-phone and pager technology in 40 countries. Mohamed Zaidi, as president of Alcoa in Germany, pioneered the first aluminum-based automobiles for various models of Audi, Mercedes, Jaguar, Volvo and Porsche. Dr Mani Bhaumik invented the cold laser technique which is used for laser eye surgery machines and has benefited over 15 million patients worldwide. Padma Warrior as CTO of Motorola is creating more affordable mobile phones for the Indian rural markets. (These stars and many more - 101 global IITians in all - will be featured in a book by IIT alumnus Ranjan Pant, to be published early 2007)

The success of these IITians and several thousand more transformed the image of their homeland and its people. To the American mind, the stereotypical Indian is no longer a snake charmer but a software guru. For an aspiring Indian, nothing succeeds like the success of your compatriots. Today, an Indian student with decent grades has a better-than-ever chance of admission to an American university of his or her choice, with a substantial scholarship.

This blossoming of the Indian diaspora has happened because of seeds sown decades ago by the founders of great institutions like the IITs. When I wrote a short biography of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nehru: the Invention of India, 2003), I became conscious of the extent to which we have taken for granted one vital legacy of his: the creation of an infrastructure for excellence in science and technology, which has become a source of great self-confidence and competitive advantage for India today.

Nehru was always fascinated by science and scientists. He made it a point to attend the annual Indian Science Congress every year, and he gave free rein (and taxpayers' money) to scientists in whom he had confidence to build high-quality institutions. Men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai constructed the platform for Indian accomplishments in the fields of atomic energy and space research; they and their successors have given India a scientific establishment without peer in the developing world.

Nehru's establishment of the IITs (and the spur they provided to other institutions like Birla Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management) have produced many of the finest minds in America's Silicon Valley and Fortune-1000 Corporations. Today, an IIT degree is held in the same reverence in the US as one from MIT or Caltech. The next step is for IITians in India and IITians abroad to strengthen their bonds at events such as this month's conference in Mumbai to help combine their intellectual talents, resources and skills to help each other expand into each other's markets.

One can imagine IIT alumni abroad enhancing opportunities for their businesses by partnering with Indian companies led by IITians here, and vice-versa. Such ''IIT alumni to IIT alumni trade'' could apply to many industries and even to higher education, where IIT alumni professors from Indian institutions and those attending from abroad can plan to exchange students and faculty and collaborate across borders on research. IITians should take advantage of events like this one in Mumbai and other IIT events which are now being held globally with increasing frequency (such as the meetings planned for California in the summer and in Tokyo next fall) to pursue such collaboration.

India's extraordinary emergence in new-age industries - software, Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing - is the indirect result of Jawaharlal Nehru's faith in scientific education. Nehru left India with the world's second-largest pool of trained scientists and engineers, integrated into the global intellectual system, to a degree without parallel outside the developed West.

His legacy is not one we can afford to be complacent about. After all, the roots of Indian science and technology go far deeper than Nehru. The Rig Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together 24 centuries before the apple fell on Newton's head. The Vedic civilisation subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth at a time when everyone else, even the Greeks, assumed the earth was flat. And yet, we lost the global lead in science and technology for over a millennium.

This New Year's, it is time to resolve that we will never allow ourselves to slip behind again. That will require resources - serious money for research, world-class lab facilities. But above all it will require one commodity India is not short of - brains (and the determination to use them). ''Brand IIT'' has shown the way. In 2007, we must start to scale this up to the point where one day ''Brand India'' becomes synonymous not with cheap products or services but with the highest standards of scientific and technological excellence.

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Special Discount for IITD : The Registration charges for the IITD community reduced from Rs.2000/- to Rs 1000/- only.

We are once again pleased to invite you and the members of IITD Alumni Association to the Third International Conference by India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), to be held at PHD House, 4/2 Siri Institutional Areaq, August Kranti Road (about 1 Km fro IIT Delhi) on January 10, 2007. The conference is organized to promote networking, learning together and working together to transform India from the grassroots. For further information and registration forms please visit our website: www.idc-america.org .

The conference will start at 9 AM with registration. The Inaugural session will start at 10 AM. In the afternoon we will have 4 parallel Sessions from 2 PM, and the Concluding Session will be held from 5 PM. Delicious and healthy Lunch and dinner will be served along with tea/coffee during the day.

The conference theme is:

Empowering Grassroots for Sustainable Development in India

We are planning parallel sessions on four basic human needs:

Water, Education, Healthcare, and Sustainable Livelihoods.

Additional topics may include: Governance, Agriculture, Energy, and Environment.

Invited Keynote speakers include:

Honorable, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, Dr. Nandita Pathak, Deendayal Research Institute, Chitrakoot, MP; Dr. Devinder Sharma, Professor P. V. Indiresan, Ms. Sunita Narayan, Center for Science and Environment, Mr. Bhaskar Save,Kalpvriksha Farm, Gujarat, and Professor V. S. Raju, Byrraju Foundation.

We are inviting NGOs from all parts of the country and hope many will be able to participate to network, collaborate, and develop good friendships based on common concerns and hopes. We are also inviting NRIs/PIOs who are planning to come for Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas in Delhi from January 7-9 or visiting for social or business reasons during that time of the year. We are hoping to attract about 50-100 NRIs from various parts of the world. We have plans to come with a souvenir of the conference, and we hope to share this with the NRIs at Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas to spread the message. We want to promote partnerships between governments, private sector, NGOs, NRIs and communities to make a real difference in the lives of the people.

IDCA was started in Chicago in 2004, after a 2003 conference of 15 NGOs representing a diverse group of people and activities.

The Mission of IDCA is to Empower NPOs/NGOs and individuals to help accelerate sustainable development in India.

Its is an Illinois Not-for-profit, 501(c) (3)) Corporation. It is a membership organization of NPOs and individuals. We are working on developing 5-10 chapters around US and 5 chapters outside US and India.

Since 2003, we have organized 5 conferences in Chicago and 3 in India, one each in Delhi, Hyderabad and Jaipur. These events were well received by the NGO leaders who participated and it has helped them to build new friendships and cooperation to better do their work.

We have been organizing seminars and forums in Chicago on Water, Education, Healthcare, Livelihoods, Environment, and Governance.

We also organized meetings in New York and Washington DC. Most recently, we organized our Fourth International Conference, and International Water Summit in Chicago. These meetings were well attended by delegates from India, Canada and many parts of US. We are now developing several projects to help solve some of the pressing problems in various areas of India. We have established some contacts with NRIs in UK, Dubai, singapore, Australia, and Malasiya. We have been visiting NGOs and learning about their work and needs and sharing with the NRI community in the US and elsewhere to seek their support.

In India we have organized meetings of several NGOs IIT-Delhi with cooperation of the Faculty of the Center for Rural Development and Technology. In our Delhi conference in 2004, we had the pleasure of inviting Professor Indiresan, who shared his ideas about the concept of Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Area (PURA) project. Following this we organized a Learning Journey to visit NGOs in Haryana and Rajasthan, and Madhay Pradesh. We have several IIT alumnae also working with us.

Personally, I have been supporting, Shikshantar Andolan ( www.swaraj.org/shikshantar) , an Education and Development Think Tank, based in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Its Mission is to Rethink and Transform Education and Developmet for the good of the masses. It was started by our son Manish Jain (Ed. M., Harvard 94') and his wife Vidhi in 1998, barely a year after their wedding in India. Our daughter Shilpa Jain (A. B. Harvard, 98') joined them in 1999. It is funded by The Swaraj Foundation, a US based 501(c)(3) Not for profit Corporation also founded in 1998 in Illinois. You will be happy to know that Shikshantar is supporting organic farming. They have published a small booklet in Mewari, "Jaso Anna Vaso Manna" to promote organic farming. They have publis hed extensively in Hindi and English, and most publications can be downloaded for free from their website.

We hope you will join us, and also inform and inspire your members/colleagues/friends.

Please rush your registration.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

With best regards,

Sincerely,

mohanljain

Mohan L. Jain, Ph.D.
President,
India Development Coalition of America
www.idc-america.org
m.jain@idc-america.org

2. TGF Self-Encounter Programme at IIT Delhi- 13th and 14th Jan 2007

Dear Alumni,

Namaste !

We are writing to you to invite you to participate in “Self-Encounter Intensive” – a 2 day workshop being organised on 13^th and 14^th January 2007 (Saturday and Sunday) as part of Youth Week at IIT Delhi.

Over the last one year, the National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering has organized such workshops for students and faculty of IIT Delhi. The response from participants has been very encouraging. The current programme is being organized for students, faculty and alumni of IIT Delhi. The programme empowers participants to achieve conflict-free fulfillment in all spheres of life, viz, personal, professional and social. The purpose of this programme is to elevate the understanding of our true goals and gain access to harmonious fulfillment.

We invite you to explore “Self-Encounter” alongwith the present batch of students at IIT Delhi. We assure you that this will be a very welcome workshop based on interaction, exercises, video clippings, etc. which would enable you to discover higher levels of congruence in all aspects of life.

This is an event which the entire family can joyously benefit from. Children of alumni aged over 20 are also welcome. Contribution Fee (inclusive of lunch, tea etc for 2 days) is Rs. 250/- per person.

This programme is conducted by Tej Gyan Foundation, Pune. For more details about this, kindly refer to the attached flyer.

To register for this event, please contact Satish at IIT Delhi Alumni Association Office. We would appreciate if you could kindly register by 5 pm of 11^th January 2007 (Thursday).

Prof R R Gaur Dr M R Ravi

Head, Coordinator

National Resource Centre for NSS-IIT Delhi

Value Education in Engg

Intensive Self Encounter Technology

Energize! Elevate! Express! Expand

Instead of converting negative thoughts to positive thoughts, UNRAVEL the freshness of inspiration - Khulna

Instead of moving between effectiveness and efficiency, UNLOCK the genius of creativity - Khelna

Methodology

The workshop follows a three-step methodology:

Instruction : Lectures, videostapes, etc.

Interaction : Q&A, Challenging participants

Intervention : Exercises, Personal feedback

Workshop designed and delivered by Tej Gyan Foundation in association with IITD

3. NSS - Voluntary Blood Donation Camp

National Service Scheme

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Youth Week’07

12^th January- 19^th January

Voluntary Blood Donation Camp

NSS IITD is organizing Blood Donation Camp during Youth week inside IIT Delhi Campus, as per the schedule given below. On behalf of IIT Delhi student community, you are kindly requested to contribute in this noble cause by donating blood and spreading the word about Blood Donation Camp.

For information on the blood donation procedure and various facts and myths related to it, please refer to the document attached. For any further queries/information contact

Deepak Goel

General Secretary

NSS IIT Delhi

Ph: +91-9810036726

email: deepakgoeliitd@gmail.com

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4. Invitation - DMS (Parivartan - management festival)

Dear All,

We invite you to Parivartan'07,the managemenmt festival of Department of Management Studies,IIT Delhi.

Parivartan 2007:Ignite Innovate Transcend

It's a long cherished dream of every Management Student to make a difference to the corporate world; to venture out there into the big, bad, mean world of corporate competition and leave upon it a mark of his/her own. We all have ideas, we all have thoughts, but there is a fine line of daring to dream between a normal Management Student and the winner who eventually makes the world stand up and take notice of him/her. That is what winners are made of…

And we, at Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi, are in the business of grooming winners. We are in the business of instilling the attitude to win in each cell of the brain of each of us. We know what it takes to win and we want to nurture it in all of us and spread it across the world!

We need to ignite our thoughts into ideas. Everyone thinks, but not everyone takes them seriously. We often lack the confidence to take them seriously! That's what differs a prodigy from a plebeian. That's not all. Not every one who has an idea converts it into a process. Managers today are defined by the efficiency of their processes. What has Jack Welch done to GE which the other didn't? The answer is all in the processes, and efficient and successful processes emerge from Innovation. Every innovator doesn't turn a leader. Atom Bomb was an innovation, too! Every coin has two sides. One can turn his face off at your innovation or can stand up and take note of it. That's what is differentiates a Leader and a Follower. You need to foster the right innovations to transcend the hoi polloi and emerge a winner, a true leader, a complete person!

At DMS, we present you this process of emergence of a Complete Person of an aspiring Manager in two days through our annual Business Festival Parivartan on the 3rd and 4th of February, 2007. Parivartan 07 comes to you with the theme Ignite. Innovate. Transcend. We present you events that ignite your brains and plough up creative ideas, innovate them into efficient processes and thus, transcend the natural. Unleash the super power of Management in each one of you…

Ignite ideas in your brains with events like The Business Plan where we provide you a platform to present your plans for all types of Business, Best Consultant where you consult for real-time industry cases and see your ideas being given a shape, The Business Quiz. Innovate the existing process, add them your mark and value in events like The Apprentice where the rule is that there is no rule. How to make things work is all up to you. You are the master. ADD-vert is an event where the only rule is Innovation. Innovate or disappear is the only rule of the game. Make innovative ad campaigns and project your brand. Transcend your own self in the company of highly knowledgeable corporates and academia as they brood over the contemporary Managerial issues in Corporate Round Table. Realize how effective and important Media is and how to use it to Managerial success at the Media Conclave.

There's more to Parivartan! Many more events like Informals, Cultural Night, Dance Night are lined up to grab your attention and teach you how a Manager should chill out… Come to Parivartan, Unleash the fun….

Regards
Team Parivartan'07
http://parivartan07.blogspot.com

5.Third International Conference on SOLARIS 2007

I am very happy to inform you that the Third International Conference on SOLARIS 2007 is scheduled to be held during February 7-9, 2007 at Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi, New Delhi . This conference series was founded in 2002 at IIT-Napier University, Scotland (UK) and has traveled to Greece, Athens in 2005.

The information regarding SOLARIS 2007 International conference is being intimated to you for participation and financial support of this prestigious conference. There are twenty one international steering committee members comprising of scientists belonging to USA, UK, Germany , Greece, Swedan, Taiwan and India etc. There are twenty one national committee members formed for this conference which comprise of renowned scientists and faculties from premier institutes of India. I believe that this prestigious international conference shall provide a wonderful opportunity for your esteemed organization. Therefore, I strongly urge you to fully participate and finance this international conference being organized at CES, IIT Delhi.

The conference proceedings is proposed to include the papers received in the area(s) of solar thermal applications, PV/hybrid technology, solar radiation, greenhouse technology for agriculture and fish growth, climate change and all miscellaneous papers of renewable energy technologies. We have decided to publish conference proceedings in the edited volumes. You are requested to please visit the details about the conference and the papers accepted for the conference in the website www..iitd.ac.in/solaris07/ .

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has issued no objection for the conference and had sent approval letter for the international invited speakers to participate in this conference. Kindly acknowledge us for the receipt of this to Prof. G N. Tiwari ( gntiwari@ces.iitd.ernet.in ).

With regards,

Yours Sincerely,

[Prof. G. N. Tiwari]

Organizing Secretary, SOLARIS 2007,

Centre for Energy Studies,

IIT New Delhi – 110016.

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