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Director Message From the Editor The special News General News Student's Corner Career Corner Research and developments Jokes Alumni Page Person of the month Gardens of NIST Technical University |
Advisors Mr. Sangram Mudali Dr. Ravi P. Reddy Dr. A. K. Panda Ms. Geetika Mudali Dr. C. Nahak Dr. S. Dasgupta Editor e-Designer |
The last one month was frantic - extra classes, labs, pre-final exams, sessionals, etc. The oppressive heat added to the woes of the students. Relax, it is time for a good summer break! The 5th semester students have done a wonderful job in arranging for their summer training programs with the help of our faculty member Mr. Basant Dash, Training Officer and staff of the Training & Placement department. Students are undergoing training in 94 organizations all over the country. I wish them all the best and remind them once again that this is an opportunity to impress the host organizations with your quality work and also to imbibe the industry culture.
Wishing everyone a cool Summer Vacation!! May 15, 2002 (Sangram Mudali)
In my first class, I convey to my students that they ought to be interactive in all my classes till the end of the syllabus and not to be mum. I feel that without interaction a teacher can never be successful in communicating his ideas. Interaction will let one know as to how much the listener has grasped the idea. Interaction between the student and teacher plays an important role for the success of teaching. I always keep an environment in the classroom so that students feel free to ask me. So, here also, my dear readers, let us keep this Newsletter interactive. I want more interaction from our readers.
I welcome the IDEA of our Placement Director, Ms Geetika Mudali about NACCS (NIST Alumni Career Counselling Services). NACCS is a platform which will bring our Alumni closer to us.
It's that time of the year again, Rising temperature!! So, Summer Vacation!! Let us enjoy its every moment. Wishing to see you all after vacation with the best of your health and spirit.
May 15, 2002 (Partha S Mallick)
Workshop on Enterpreneurship Development at NIST
A full-day workshop on Enterpreneurship Development was held on April 20, 2002 at the Octagon Building. Faculties, staff members and students of 3rd and 5th semester attended the workshop. The inaugural speech was delivered by our Director Mr. Sangram Mudali. The invited speakers were Mr. JB Pany (Managing Director, Radiant Telesystems Limited, BBSR), Mr. Rajiv Sahoo (Chairman of SRB & Associates), Prof. P.K. Sahu (Retd. Prof. of Commerce, Berhampur University) and Mr. MP Dubey (Additional Director of STPI). The speakers discussed on various aspects of enterpreneurship and its development. The most interesting part was the Q & A Session. The questions from the audience showed their interest on the topic. Finally our Director concluded the workshop by giving thanks to the guests and exhorting NIST students to become entrepreneurs and provide jobs to our countrymen.
NIST's Basketball ground
Dr. P.C Biswal inaugurated NIST's basketball ground on April 17, 2002. The inaugural match was played between the Director's team and Dr. Biswal's team. Faculties, staff members and students joined to play the inaugural match. It was Dr. Biswal's team that turned out as the winner. The game was played with much enthusiasm.
NIST Library....now at OCTAGON!!
NIST'S library has been shifted to the 3rd floor of the OCTAGON building on April 19, 2002. The library is a 15000 Sq. ft facility in two floors. Seating for more than 250 students will be available. Total number of books present in the library is 18,850. The Linux based library management software helps the students in finding books through title, subject and author. There are 36 national and international Journals, 40 Magazines, and more than 800 CD's. A suggestion book has been kept for the students.
It was an Excellent Table Tennis Tournament…
It was the tournament of all NIST Faculty and Staff. Almost all of them participated and all the matches starting from first round were exciting!! After the successful completion of the first round and quarter final matches, both Semifinal and Final matches were held on May 14, 2002 at our recreation Center in Lecture Hall building. The Semifinalists were Dr Partha S Mallick, Mr B K Dash, Mr P Chowdhury and Mr A K Barisal. After the exciting Semifinal matches and Final matches, Dr Partha S Mallick and Mr A K Barisal got the Runners-up and Winner prizes respectively. All the matches were played in presence of our Director, Dy. Director, faculties and staff. Our Director distributed the Prizes to the Winner and Runners-up. Mr Vinay Das, our Sports and Extra-curricular activities co-ordinator, played a key role in making the tournament successful. Thanks to all!!
Seminar presented by SUN MICROSYSTEMS
(Message sent by Mr. Shom Prasad Das)
Sun Microsystems Inc. USA, conducted a seminar on Careers in Sun Technologies at NIST on May 9, 2002. The seminar was delivered by Mr. Pankil Kumar Shah, National Manager - Channels of Sun Educational Services. Our Deputy Director Dr Ravi P Reddy who is also the Course Coordinator of C-NANCE Program was present in the Seminar. Our Dean, students and faculty members attended the Seminar.
Computer Center…..at OCTAGON!!
Now it is ready!! More than 50 PCs are working right now in the fully air-conditioned computer center at the OCTAGON. All the PCs are Pentium-III and all the important software are available. Summer courses will be held in the center.
Workshop on Teaching Methodology
A workshop on Teaching Methodology was held on May 13, 2002. Our Deputy Director Dr Ravi P Reddy was the speaker. He shared his teaching experience at the University of Houston, USA with NIST faculties. He explained the various ways of Developing Quality Education. He pointed out the practical problems that generally happen in classroom and discussed about their solutions. The workshop also discussed about the frequently asked questions (FAQs) of students and their answers.
Internet... at NIST Hostels
NIST has provided internet facility at Hostel 1 and Hostel 3. This has facilitated the students to a great extent in order to carry out their project work and be in touch through email. This facility will also be provided to Hostel 2 and Hostel 4 soon.
SEMINAR by IMS, BBSR on MBA
IMS, Bhubaneswar presented a seminar on April 27, 2002 at NIST. Mr Ashok Sahu, Branch Manager of IMS Bhubaneswar, was the speaker. He discussed about the importance of MBA degree for engineers and informed the students about the procedure of getting admission in MBA in India and abroad. The top institutes for MBA are six IIMs(Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode), XLRI(Jamsedpur), IIMC, J.M BAJAJ, SP JAIN (MUMBAI), MDI (GURGAON), XIM(BBSR), ICFAI (Hyderabad,Delhi), ISB (Hyderabad International Venture), TISS, NITIE (Mumbai), IIT SOM (Mumbai), IIT’s, IMT (Ghaziabad).
Some Inspiring Letters…..
To
The Director, National Institute of Science and Technology
Palur Hills, Berhampur 761 008, Orissa
Dear Sangram,
Thanks immensely for your Newsletter. I enjoyed going through it. It is both informative and extremely readable. Please do convey my complements to all for a very good job done.
I enjoyed my interaction with your students and members of the faculty. You are doing an excellent job. We have no options but to turn the country around, whatever be the degree of difficulty.
With warm regards
Yours Sincerely
(Signature)
From: "arun padhy" arun_nist@hotmail.com
To: smudali@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:32:07 +0000
Respected sir
I have gone through the e-news 3rd edition. I would like to congratulate all the GATE qualifiers especially Mr. Roy. He gave a new dimension to our mission by securing 99%. I hope many more students will get inspired by that and hope next year we may find new records being set. Also I would like to congratulate all the prize winners for their achievments outside Orissa. When some of the students who are doing their Masters over here from various parts of India (mostly from Bombay), they are of high opinion about our students and they are telling that when they will go to India they will like to visit our institute. In reality if I will summarise they are quite surprised when I bought the VHDL softwares and they were more surprised when they learned that our students are getting the education in these advanced courses. As per their opinion if your students will come for masters over here then definitely for them life will become more easy. I met with one boy in the Electronics Engg and as per him VLSI and VHDL is most essentail things over here and they have faced lots of difficulty initially.
Further, I would like to thank Partha and his team for the nice compilation. In fact the comments that has been sent by several recognised persons is of great value and adds much more glory to the NIST colour. With regards, Arun
GRE for Engineers- Seminar Presented by TIME,Vizag
Geetika Mudali
A seminar was presented at NIST by TIME, Vizag on April 16, 2002. It covered the details of GRE Entrance Examination. TIME , Vizag has sent 1000 students abroad in the last 2 years. Most of these students are from the Private Engineering Colleges of Vizag like GITAM, GVPCE and some others from Andhra University. Most of these students in these colleges are taking the GRE exam in the 1st Year or latest by 2nd year as they reserve the 3rd Year for CAT and other MBA exams. TIME of Vizag covers two aspects of the exam – coaching for the GRE & TOEFL exam and consultancy for going abroad. In consultancy services they give support for getting admission to a University & getting financial aid for going to US. Consultancy includes the following
As per them a minimum score of 1500 in GRE ensures admission into one of the good colleges of US. There are about 200 colleges in the US that one can apply in the US. Top 20 colleges are the Ivy League colleges and only the best can get into it. Admission can be taken for Fall session (Beginning in July) or Spring Session (Beginning in January). Admission to any college depends on
1. Academic Performance or GPA ( Grade Point average) 2. GRE Score
3. Recommendation Letters 4. SOP
They also have support for providing the financial documents as required by the Universities.
A list of the students who have got into the various Universities is available in the Placement office/ Sagar Xerox. The email- ID's of the Student Network (Students who are in US and are available on e-mail) is also available. Those interested can send email for their queries. Interested students can also visit their Office in Vizag. They will give Free coaching for 3 days.
New Appointments
Mr. Suresh Nayak and Mr. Radhakrushna Dash have been appointed for the post of cleaner and bus helper on April 19, 2002 and May 1, 2002 respectively. NISTians welcome Mr. Suresh Nayak and Mr. Radhakrushna Dash to NIST.
Mr. Padhy's wedding...
Congratulations !! Mr. Subhash Padhy and Ms Madhumita Padhy for tying knot on April 18, 2002. Many NISTian's attended the marriage reception on April 19, 2002 at Golanthara, Berhampur. NISTian's covey their best wishes to the newly wedded couple.
Meeting of two hearts…Rabindra and Sanghamitra
Mr R K Shial got married with Ms Sanghamitra on May 5, 2002 at Bhadrak, Orissa. NISTians wish both of you a very happy married life. Congrats!! both of you.
AJAYA Weds PRATIVA
Yes!! Both of them are NISTians. They started their married life on May 9, 2002. The ceremony was held at NIST Community Center (NCC). It was the NISTian's function. Everybody enjoyed it. Congratulations!! Mr Ajoya and Ms. Prativa, NISTians wish a happy married life to both of you.
| I am giving this room for INTERVIEW with students, as per my students' request. This will continue in all the next issues. Thanks for the cooperation. Editor |
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Editor
Q. Where do you originally belong to?
Pradeep: First of all thank you Sir for giving me the privilege of being interviewed for NIST_eNEWS . I was born in Jamshedpur and have done my schooling from class 1 to class XII in Ispat English Medium School, Rourkela.
Q. Why did you choose NIST for engineering education?
Pradeep: I chose NIST , as it was renowned and I was bent upon studying Computer Science and Engineering.
Q. How did you manage GATE Exam, University Exam, Mid -Semester, Pre-Final, Assignment, Project , etc. simultaneously?
Pradeep: Actually , I had to make a choice. That called for sacrifices and so now my average is 65% in the semester examinations. This is my personal point of view. There are better students in NIST than me.
Q. Do you think preparation for GATE, GRE and TOEFL can hamper regular curriculum?
Pradeep: This is a difficult question for me to answer. I strongly believe in a single-minded approach for such examinations. Regular curriculum may take the back seat for a few months.
Q. How can the NIST faculty help the students for a good percentile in GATE?
Pradeep: NIST faculty are already helping. We have had separate clubs in the past for various competitions. It was Mr. B.K Dash who gave me the address of the Institute from which I brought the preparatory material. I take this opportunity to thank him for the interest that he has always shown for the welfare of students. The management can be a bit lenient with the attendance and marks from December to February.
Q. What is your advice/guidance for the next NIST students who will be appearing for GATE?
Pradeep: Most important is to get the fundamentals. This can be done while the course is being taught in the class. For example, second semester students can pay more attention to C Programming, third semester students can pay more attention to Data Structures and so on. Having knowledge of the level and pattern of questions coming in GATE is highly recommended. Then a final slog has to be made before the actual examination. That can be started from November.
Q. Where will be your first choice for higher education?
Pradeep: IISC Bangalore.
Q. Do you want to share anything about yourself?
Pradeep: My father has been my greatest source of inspiration. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur. My mother has been vital in making home for studying. There has been a lot to learn here, at NIST. I feel privileged to have come into contact with Dr. Ravi Reddy. Finally I would like to thank our endeared Director, Mr. Sangram Mudali for taking note of my performance and giving a word of appreciation in the previous issue for NISTe_News. Thank you very much Sir!.
NISTians success at 'KITStronix - 2002'
Both of our groups were selected to present their papers at a National level technical paper presentation at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science (KITS ), Warangal, held on April 3 - 4, 2002. Ramakanta Rathore of 5th Semester(EIE) and Satyabrata Jit of the same Semester (ELE) were in one group and their topic was "VLSI Design & Embedded review". Arnab Kanti Das Pattnayak of 5th Semester (EIE) and Bhabesh Kumar Panda of the same Semester (ELE) were in the other group and their topic was "New trend in Biomedical instrumentation".
NISTians participated in the National Level Technical Paper Presentation
Believe it or not !! Sudhir & Suman (CSE)
Ever Thought??? Deepika Sahu,1st Sem(IT)
Ever thought, what life would be without friends?
Ever seen, Ocean without water.
Honey without sweetness.
Tree without leaves.
Moon without glow.
And, Life without friends.
Ever thought, what life would be without friends.
Ever felt happy,
to meet a person.
Ever felt a pleasure,
to help him in his need.
Ever felt grateful,
when you had someone you wanted the most.
Ever felt disappointed,
when misunderstood.
If yes, your life isn’t without a friend.
Job Sites(Continued …) Sushant Kumar Mahapatra
http://www.career-graph.com/(offers jobs
search in information technology)
http://www.e-careerprofiles.com/(job
search, resume posting, career counselling etc.)
http://www.career1000.com/(submit, search, and
review resumes and jobs)
http://www.careersandbusiness.com/(database
of jobs in India and abroad)
http://www.gecareersindia.com/(information
about the online job application form)
http://sites.netscape.net/kbschennai/(
software jobs in USA, India)
http://www.cidronpeoplebank.com/(provides
net based search)
http://www.csspl.com/(recruiting agency for software
professionals)
http://www.career-software.com/(software job
search, resume posting, employee search etc.)
http://www.compubrain.net/(offers manpower supply
and management consultancy)
http://recruitersindia.com/(manpower
consultancy, software solutions and allied activities)
http://www.continentalmanpower.com/(human
resources and manpower recruitment agency)
http://www.corecompt.com/(recruitment &
manpower consultants in Bangalore)
http://www.geocities.com/eureka/concourse/5685/(recruits
in power, and chemical industry)
http://www.cresson-line.com/(corporate
resources and executive search specialists)
http://career.hypermart.net/index.htm(an
online resource for job seekers and recruiters)
http://www.dakshinenterprises.com/(manpower
recruitments, overseas placements)
http://business.vsnl.com/datamaticsstaffing(recruitment
of software consulting companies)
http://www.datamaticsstaffing.com/(offers
higher level placement services for professionals)
http://www.devsolutionsindia.com/(search
for technology professionals of s/w companies)
http://www.espconsultant.com/(executive search
and placement agency)
http://www.edgeindia.com/(executive search and job
placement agency)
http://www.employindia.com/(the right candidates
for all recruiters)
http://www.clickitjobs.com/(IT related
recruitment services for companies in India & abroad)
http://www.exclusivesearch.com/(recruitment
consultancy)
http://www.exclusivesearch.com/(for software
professionals looking for jobs in India)
http://www.fitjobs.com/(recruitment consultancy.
Handle all IT positions)
http://www.firstselect-group4.com/(a
dedicated professional placement company)
http://www.firstselect-group4.com/(recruiters
for finance, human resources, software etc.)
http://www.fischerconsulting.net/(global
executive search and recruitment company)
http://www.focusonit.com/( recruitment agency)
Conference Papers
New Arrival: Software/Hardware
Friday Seminar Series
An interesting short story
I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father, who visited us quite often, fell in love with my step-daughter and married her. Hence, my father became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother. Some months later, my wife gave birth to a son, who became the brother-in-law of my father as well as my uncle. The wife of my father, that is my step-daughter, also had a son. Thereby, I got a brother and at the same time a grandson. My wife is my grandmother, since she is my mother's mother. Hence, I am my wife's husband and at the same time her step-grandson; in otherwords, I am my own grandfather.
(This story was collected by Mr Dev Prasad Padhy, our System Administrator from a Data Structure book where it is quoted by N. Wirth from a Zurich newspaper of July 1922).
NIST Alumni Career Counselling Services(NACCS)
We have started the NIST Alumni Career Counselling Services. This is a voluntary service offered by the alumni of NIST. Students currently studying at NIST can send queries through email on careers – jobs, higher engineering education, management education, entrepreneurship etc. to the following listed members. The alumni will also provide any key information about Job Prospects in the city in which they are located.
Geetika Mudali
Name |
Batch |
Email ID |
Company/Institute |
| 1. Ashwin Agrawal (CS) | 1997 |
ashwinagrawal@hotmail.com |
Jataayu Software, Bangalore |
| 2. Uzma Naz Rahim (ECE) | 1996 |
urahim@cisco.com |
Infosys, Bangalore |
| 3. Reshma Rout (CS) | 1996 |
reshma_rout@infy.com |
Infosys, Bangalore |
| 4. Aasish Behera (ELE) | 1997 |
aasishbe@in.ibm.com |
IBM, Pune |
| 5. Rohitav Samanta ( ELE) | 1996 |
rohitav_samanta@rediffmail.com |
Convasys, Chennai |
| 6. GV Srichandan (ECE) | 1996 |
srichandangv@rediffmail.com |
University of Texas, Arlington, USA |
| 7. Anshuman Panigrahy (ELE) | 1996 |
anshuman_9@rediffmail.com |
MBA, XIMB |
| 8. Lenin Sahoo (ECE) | 1996 |
leninsahoo@yahoo.com |
TCS, New Delhi |
| 9.Ritesh K. Agrawal (CS) | 1997 |
riteshag@in.ibm.com |
IBM, Bangalore |
| 10.Manas Ranjan Das (ECE) | 1996 |
ranjan_manas@yahoo.com |
NTCS, BAM |
| 11. Bapi Dash (ECE) | 1997 |
bapi_dash@yahoo.com |
Entrepreneurship, BBSR |
| 12. Sumeet Ghosh (CS) | 1997 |
g_sumeet_in@hotmail.com |
Higher Studies |
| 13. Ashutosh Gupta(CS) | 1997 |
ashutosh_gupta@rediffmail.com |
NTCS, BAM |
| 14. Gargi Pattnayak(ECE) | 1997 |
me_gargi@yahoo.com |
TCS, Hyderabad |
| 15. Smruti K Mohapatra (CS) | 1997 |
smrutimo@in.ibm.com |
IBM, Pune |
| 16. Manoj K. Agrawal (CS) | 1997 |
manojagr@in.ibm.com |
IBM, Pune |
| 17. Swastik Mishra (CS) | 1997 |
swas555@yahoo.com |
Higher Studies |
| 18. Manoranjan Mishra (CS) | 1996 |
mishra_mano@yahoo.com |
Reisys, Washington DC, USA |
| 19. Rakesh Kumar Jena (CS) | 1996 |
rakeshjena@yahoo.com |
Polaris Software, Chennai |
| 20. Asma Ara (ECE) | 1996 |
asma_ara@yahoo.com |
Dexcel Electronics,Bangalore |
| 21. Pragnjyajeet Monhanty (ECE) | 1996 |
prag_mohanty@rediffmail.com |
Satyam, BBSR |
| 22. Y. Venkateswarlu (CS) | 1996 |
yrajesh50@yahoo.com |
Reisys, Washington DC, USA |
Gradually some more Name's and their mail ID's will be included with this list. We request Alumni to kindly become members of NACCS.
From the Mailbox
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:07:49 -0800 (PST)
From : rakeshm22@sify.com
To : geetika_nist@hotmail.com
Subject : regards from rakesh
Date : Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:11:57 +0600 (IST)
respected madam. how are you? convey my regards to all the faculty members. we are fine here. we are undergoing training now. our training will be over on April 19th. then we will be put into different projects in different locations. We are under going all type of training. Basically we have to concentrate both on tech & life skills(personality development).life skill is nothing but like a mini MBA course. They teach us about communication skills, presentation skills, personal grooming, dress code, different etiquette etc. the tech portion is very easy for us. because we had gone thruogh all those things in B.E.here we have s/w engg , computer nenwork,c,c++,dbms,data structure,algorithm.now i am realising that how important role the course in B.E.plays in real life.we are well ahead of all non C.S. background trainee from other colleges.thanks a lot for providing a good course. here we are given a small project to submit at the end of training.at the end we have to give exit test.although exit test plays a significant role in the starting of our carrier,but it is not so important. Anyway we are trying to have a good score. here we are put into a good hostel.life is very enjoyable here. Only thing we are missing is our friends and parents.we used to talk about our old days in NIST where we were all students and now we are all professionals. we all are missing you and all the faculty members a lot. yours sicerely rakesh mishra(1996 batch), TCS, TECHNOPARK, TRIVANDRUM.
From : "Satyanarayan_dash" <Satyanarayan_dash@infy.com>
To : "Mrs. Geetika Mudali" geetika_nist@hotmail.com
Subject : Hello Madam..
Date : Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:00:07 +0530
Respected Madam,
Hope every thing is cool there. Convey my compliments to Sir and others. Currently I am in Infosys, Chennai since One and half year. My stream is Open System and working in a project (Client 3COM) on Win2000 platform, J2EE Architecture, and SUN techn. (Java, EJB, BEAN, Servlet...). Mam , What about NIST ??? How are Sangram sir, Reddy sir and others? What are the current happenings in NIST?? I'm really thankful to you for all of your good advices, guidance & blessings. Although we people got job due to our own labour & performance, but the credit goes to NIST as We have started and built our base from there only also it might have been a dream without our dearest faculties.
All the best NIST and NISTians.
Thanks&Regards,
Satyanarayan Dash, Software Engineer, ITL Infosys, Chennai, India
From: "amar prusty" <amarprusty@hotmail.com>
To: akpanda62@hotmail.com
Subject: Amar Prusty from NETGEAR.
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:19:39 +0530
Sir,
I have joined an MNC called NETGEAR which manufactures networking equipment and sells it worldwide,i am in its India technical support centre ,my job involves troubleshooting networks having wireless lan, hubs, routers, switches, laptop cards, nics, etc for worldwide clients on ip phone.I am learning a lot ,i am preparing for Cisco certification(CCNA) along with it. I really learnt to work hard during final year and got 75% and 70% in final yr i have an aggregate of 64.76% .i am satisfied with my result but i did try very hard.now i work 8hrs/day and study after it, hardwork really pays off.
THANX A LOT for making me learn what is hard work. bye take care
Amar Prusty
Dr. Chandal Nahak originally belongs to Gulehi, a
village of Hindol, Dhenkanal, Orissa. He did both his M.Sc and M.Phil in Mathematics from
the Utkal University, Orissa. Then he joined Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
(TIFR), Mumbai as a Research Scholar and was there for 2 years. After the successful
completion of Research Work at TIFR, he continued the research work at IIT, Kharagpur and
completed PhD in the year 1996. Dr Nahak is one of the first faculty members who joined
NIST in 1996. It was in the year 1997-1998 he got the BOYSCAST Fellowship from the Govt.
of India. From April 1998 to July 1999, he worked with a renowned research group at Old
Dominion University, Virginia, USA . He has published 12 Journal papers of International
repute and has presented his research papers in more than 10 National/International
conferences. Recently Dr. Nahak got a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology,
Govt. of India under the SERC fast track proposals for Young Scientists 2001-2002 scheme.
The title of his proposal is Studies on the unconstrained reformulation of constrained
optimal control problems. Dr. Nahak got married to Dharitri Parida who worked as a
lecturer of Botany in Banki College, Cuttack, Orissa. We congratulate the couple for their
newly born daughter DISHA who is about 1 month old. We are proud of Dr. Chandal Nahak who
is the recipient of Orissa Young Scientist Award in Physical Science area. The award will
be given by the Honourable Chief Minister of Orissa at Soochana Bhavan, Bhubeneswar in
June, 2002 . We convey our best wishes for his future.
Sudhir K Sahu, Gardener
We have been working hard Since 1997 to make 30 acre NIST campus "eco-friendly". The Gardens of NIST are being nurtured by more than 16 gardeners. Each garden is unique in nature and I invite all NISTians to enjoy their company.
Rose Garden: There are 216 varieties of exotic quality rose plants, which have been purchased from Bangalore. This garden always gets the "oohs" and "aahs" from the visitors.
Flower Garden: Located next to the rose garden, this garden grows Seasonal flowers in neat beds. It has a eye-catching NIST logo on grass background.
Rock Garden: This garden modelled after a similar garden at Ramoji Studio, Hyderabad, is located behind the Facility Center. The natural rocks and vegetation are being maintained in their pristine beauty.
Fruit Garden: Located behind the Octagon, there are 28 varieties of fruit trees like Mango, Jackfruit, Jamrol, Pomegranate, Peach, Guava. The fruits are borne on small size hybrid trees.
Forest Park: To keep the entire campus green, the J. K. Paper Mills has planted 11000 eucalyptus trees in front of the Lecture Hall complex.
Caesarian Garden: Located behind the Octagon, this garden reflects the natural vegetation of our close to sea campus.
Ornamental Garden: There are 600 flowering plants and shrubs in front of Lecture Hall right upto the Octagon.
Ringside Trees: More than 650 trees of 22 varieties including badam, kadamba, casia pistula, largestonia, have been planted on the edge of the campus. They are planted on both sides of our 2Km jogging track.
Nursery: To cater all our present and future requirements, we have a "green-house" and nursery where more than 1000 plants have been raised in flower pots and beds.
Ajit Kr Panda
The Orissa University of Tehnology Bill, 2001 was passed by the Orissa State Assembly on April 8, 2002. The University has been named Biju Patnaik Technical University with its headquarters at Rourkela. The University will start functioning from 2002-2003 academic session. The University will affiliate all Engineering Institutes, MCA Institutes, Pharmacy, Architecture, MBA, etc., of Orissa.
The University has the following objectives
(i) to promote education, research & training in engineering and technology
(ii) to improve the quality of education, research & training
(iii) to provide facilities and opportunities for graduate and post-graduate education.
(iv) to serve as a nodal agency for industry-academic interaction
(v) to provide industrial consultancy, exchange visits, etc
The creation of this University fulfills a long pending demand of all engineering colleges and students of Orissa to enable timely conduct of examinations and publication of results. We all owe a big thanks to the Hon'ble Industry Minister of Orissa Shri K. B. Singhdeo, who played a stellar role in the creation of the Technical University.
The next issue will be published on 15th July, 2002. Send
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