Newsdigest for the IITD Alumni Association

1. IDCA Conference Invitation

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

Introduction to “Intensive Self Encounter Technology”

Everyday we encounter the outside world and each encounter either enriches our life or takes away a part of it. We have walked this familiar, visible path carrying the accumulated baggage of perceptions, convictions, discomfort, and doubt throughout the journey.

Intensive Self Encounter is the path of joy and happiness through process of learning AND unlearning. All that is needed is to train ourselves to operate consistently from our original nature, which is natural happy state with immense opportunities for creativity, inspiring relationships, productive teaming, and unlimited growth.

The Intensive Self Encounter is a 2-Day workshop where participants lay the foundation for a simple, powerful and integrated life. They gain clarity about how to transcend limitations, live and work in joy and create a purposeful future.

The complete curriculum is available as an ongoing community program. It is meant for people who want to cause fulsome transformation – of themselves, their families and the community they live in.

UNLEARN what you have been told to change about yourself, and experiment with the wisdom of life

Instead of working to overcome your weaknesses, UNLEASH the blocked strengths within - Khilna

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

More detail click here

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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