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NEWSLETTER
FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK
HBTI ALUMNIwww.alumnihbti.com+91 512 2532571
Year 2
Vol ume XI
November 2019
Dear Harcourtians,
I feel delighted in sharing that the Alumni Association has been successful in maintaining the rich tradition of successful holding of the annual event namely International Alumni Meet under the aegis of the University on the last Saturday and Sunday of November every year.
The overwhelming participation of alumni from different geographical locations during 15th International Alumni Meet-2019 (November 23-24, 2019) has exhibited their affection and commitment towards the Institution. The commencement of centenary celebrations for being continued till 2021-22 during this event has sparked a sense of pride in all of us for being part of such strong legacy of nearly ten decades and also burdened the association and the institution to celebrate the completion of 100 years with utmost enthusiasm and fervour.
I am confident that the continued facilitation by the association for enhancing networking among the alumni as well as with the Institution will definitely bring in alumni contribution for betterment of the quality of education imparted by our alma mater.
On behalf of the Alumni Association, I strongly appeal to you all to please come forward for strengthening the brand Harcourtians in the best possible ways suiting you.
With warm regards.
With warm regards.
Prof (Dr) Onkar Singh
President Alumni Association, HBTI Kanpur
Email:[email protected]
Dear Harcourtians
Greetings
I feel delighted by the greater participation of the alumni in the 15th International Alumni Meet 2019, that was held on 23-24 Nov 2019 at HBTU Kanpur than the previous years. Over 300 delegates participated in this 2 days gala annual event. It was like uniting with the members of the extended family.
A very meaningful seminar on the clean energy was also conducted during the event. The role that engineers have to play towards the environmental issues was emphasized.
The batches that were felicitated participated in technical sessions and in the cultural programs. We will be coming with a separate special edition on the annual event.
Your cooperation & support to the alumni Association is the binding factor and keep the things running in right direction. Kindly keep giving us your valuable suggestion via email or messages to strengthen the common thread among all Harcourtians.
Warm Regards,
Balram Kumar Upadhyay
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15th International Alumni Meet was held on 23-24 Nov 2019. The Meet was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Minister of State, Smt Neelima Katiyar. Mr A S Khanna (Chem, 1948) was the Guest of Honour. Prof N B Singh, VC, HBTU Graced the occasion. A National Seminar on the 'Role of Natural Gas as Green Fuel in Nation Building' was held in which Mr. Jiledar Singh, Mr. G. U. Usmani, Mr. Sanjay Kumar and Mr. Sushil Kumar presented their expert views on the subject.
Students presented their ideas in the technical session and 3 students were selected for prize money. The Alumni Scholarship was granted to 3 meritorious students. Later in evening, cultural program was held.
Next day the AGM was held. Felicitation of 2009, 2004, 1999, 1995, 1990, 1985, 1980, 1975, 1970 and 1969 + pass-out batches was held.
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It is not easy t o sum up t he whole event s of 2 day Annual Alum ni Meet 2019. Hence Execut ive Com m it t ee w il l be br inging t he Special edit ion on t h is.
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Prof. Vinay Pathak, (CSE, 1991) Vice Chancellor of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, sharing dias with the Hon'ble President of India and Hon'ble Governor of UP at an event in PSIT.
Mr. Sushil Kumar, 1995 Electronics, participated as a speaker in the Distribution Utility Meet 2019 held on 7-8 Nov, 2019 in New Delhi.
Ms. Pranjal Tyagi, 2019 Paints Tech, GET at Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. won the Best Performance Award on her on job training.
Mr. Dharm Pal Singh, 2000 CT is Asstt. Professor at NIT Raipur
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Mr. Krishna Murari, 1985 Mechanical is a PhD Scholar at the Jain University. Photo 1 - Mr. Murari is invited as a guest of honour by the Garden City University Bengaluru. Photo 2 - Mr. Murari presenting a research paper at the Jain University on 31st October.
Stratbeans Consulting Private Ltd. is the company of Mr. Sameer Nigam (Mechanical 92)
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Get Together in NSUI, New Delhi on the arrival of Vipul Srivastava, 1974 Chemical, from the US. Mr P K Rjput (Elect , 1985) coordinated the event
96 Batch meet in Greater Noida on 30th November - L to R - Mr. Vinay Kakkar (Electrical); Mr. Sanjay Mahajan (Chemical); Mr. Puneet Gupta (Mechanical); Mr. Amit Sharma (Electrical); Mr. Rishiraj Bhaskar, (Oil); Mr. Prashant Saxena (Plastics ; Mr. Farukh, CT.
Get together of 1986 batch at the residence of Mr. Brijendra Rastogi (Foods) at Rajajipuram, Lucknow on 28th Nov. Photo -1 L to R Mr. Rastogi, Mr. D. S. Sachan (Foods), Mr. Anup Shukla (Paints), Mr. Sudhir Pandey (Oils), Kuar Pal Singh Prajapati (Paints). Photo -2 Spouses are also there.
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Pune Chapter meet on 3 Nov 2019. Chapter President Mr Ravi Murthy (ME , 1976), Secretary Mr Neeraj KUmar (Oil, 1990) and Treasurer Mr Praveen Gupta (Elect, 1993) taking lead in organising events in Pune Chapter.
Bay area , US - (L to R) Amit Grover (CSE, 02), Amitabh Jain (MCA 96), Shishir (EE 12), Ajeet Kumar (CSE, 93), Dharam Singh (CSE , 93), Rajeev Bisnoi (CSE,93), Manoj Agarwal (MCA 97) and Shivanshu (CSE,10)
1992 Batch Get Together in Delhi. From the Facebook post of Mr. Rajeev Singhal (Civil).
Harcourtians at the wedding function of daughter of Mr. Sanjay Garg's (Mech. 1989) on 30th Nov. in Faridabad.
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1995 Batch - Mr. Amit Pandey, (Paints) who also became COPA. Others are from Literary and NSS teams. Photograph from September 1993.
1995 Batch - News clippings from 1994 and 1995
The snap from the records of an alumni which features the captains of the 1980-81 batch. Kindly share such more memories with us to share those magic moments in the institute.
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Mr. Sanjay Chandra (Elect r ical 1980) has written a book 'The Life & Tim es of a Com m on Man'. Following is a brief on the same.
I completed my Electrical Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur in 1980 and then joined the premier Indian Railway Services. I moved from the services to a government company on completion of 20 years of service. Ultimately, I quit government sector altogether to join the private sector, and then quit working for others to start my own consultancy. I also started writing as I realised that a substantial majority of the people went through similar experiences as I have underwent and I wanted my readers to understand that it is not a crime to dream ? for a life beyond the routine ? and then to work passionately to attain those dreams.
This gave birth to my book ?The Life and Times of a Common Man?. Excerpts from the preface of my book, reproduced below, give an overview of my book.
No child is born common. But its life can be common or extraordinary as it chooses.
I was born in a middle-class family, which might have been considered lower middle class. Those were the times in India when future of the children, and hence their destiny, was decided by the parents for want of adequate financial resources to indulge the child's fancies.
If the parent was working at lower levels in the state government services, the ambition of the parent for his children would be to become an officer in the state government. For the parent working in the officer cadre in the state government, the best-case scenario was for the children to join the Indian Administrative Services, failing which to land a central government job in the officer cadre. And an engineer 's son was expected to study to be an engineer, or doctor?s son to be a doctor.
Female children were being educated, but only with the intent for an early marriage to an eligible boy. The eligibility of the boy was decided by his educational qualifications and his having a government job. The boys were also brought up expecting that the girl would be fair, convent or English medium educated, so that she could comfortably move around in the social circle of the prospective husband.
My life also could have gone on these predictable lines, and I also would have remained a common man with the same aspirations or lack of aspirations, as those that my parents had for me. It was not to be so. I learnt from all my experiences - positive or negative. I rebelled against living a common man's life, and this made me go places, both literally and figuratively.
I had always been fascinated by David Copperfield, the immemorable character created by Charles Dickens. I also felt drawn towards the other two characters created by Dickens, namely Oliver Twist and Pip. Oliver?s story was the story of a child. Pip?s story in Great Expectations was that of a child till he is an adult. Copperfield?s story covered the life of a person from childhood to old age. But the common feature in all the three stories was their heroes? refusal to accept their circumstances, to go beyond their travails. As I read these three classics, I realised that I had a litt le of all these characters in me.
This set me on my journey to pen down the life of a common man over sixty years of his life. I realised that no one is born common, one is born a child. It is the person who makes the life common or uncommon. Life is made extraordinary by all the events that touch it, and all the people who flit through it.
I had always been fond of words and even wrote letters to my friends. However, the last of the letters that I wrote in my own hand were those written to my then wife to be, Neena. I think I wrote her one letter every day. Those were still the days when telephone calls were expensive, and one had to travel a long distance to get to a public telephone booth. Mobile handsets were nowhere on the horizon; the only way to express your love was to write, which is what I did most prolifically. I do not remember having written any more letters to Neena or for that matter to anyone else after our marriage. Now there are faster ways to communicate and should be used for communication. Communication should never break to the extent avoidable.
My objective in writing this book would be attained, if even a single person who reads it is inspired to make his or her life or the life of their children a litt le less common, even extraordinary.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Very nice and informative
If we can improve picture quality so that it will be better legible
On mobile devices that will be better
Yogesh Goel ("Yogi" )
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Dear President & Secretary,
This nice to see the continuity of the news letter and the cohesive working the new management committee. These news letters are connecting us to each other. HBTU is one of the oldest institution and veterans Alumni spread across the glove are making us proud of being part of this prestigious institution and showing us the way to succeed in life.
The must congratulate the new management committee of being vibrant and active in making strong bind among us.
I wish you all the best to alumni association for future endeavor.
Regards,
RK Shukla
Sr. Vice President (Customer Service)
M/s HeidelbergCement India Limited
Gurugram.
Thank you very much for the encouraging words. We have noted your concerns with regards to the picture quality and will try to find a feasible solution.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Executives of the Committee,
Greeting of the day.
It is highly appreciative efforts are being done by the Alumni Association
Committee. I am with you.
Regards
Jiledar Singh
Dear Team,
Nice to hear from you.Great Initiatives.
All the best for future endeavours.
Will be More than happy to help in any way.
Regards
Akash Srivastava ,BTech(2012' Batch) , MBA(2019-2021,IIFT Delhi)
Dear Sir,
Greetings. An excellent compilation. I am really delighted to see the progress of alumni association. I whole heartedly appreciate the efforts that you and
entire team is putting in to make this association a success.
My best wishes and full support with my alma mater.
Regards,
Kshitij Gupta
Hello,
I am very happy to hear from you and see such great progress in the initiative
and compliance of the same. It really helps HBTI live in our hearts.
Regards
Ayush Rastogi
Thank you very much for acknowledging our efforts which we have listed out in the Progress Report. We look forward towards your suggestions as well.
Mr. Asheesh Agarwal, Executive Member, Alumni Association is the lead coordinator of the Editorial board. If you have news that you think should be shared with the wider Harcourtian community through this newsletter then please reach out to the editorial board through him at [email protected]
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