IITians prefer start-ups over company jobs

Student’s choice has been changed at IITs. Students are rejecting company jobs. They prefer to join startups as they gives an opportunity to implement ideas and experiment too.

Harish Rawat a graduate from IIT Kanpur and IIM Ahmedabad has opted for the start-up Jabong.com over Nokia. Harish is currently the head of offline marketing and brand management at Jabong.
Graduates from premier institutes are joining the start-ups for bigger responsibilities, wide experience, exposure and good growth prospects not possible in big companies.

Delhi students wins competetion, designed Ápp ‘Mumbai Local Navigator’ for Mumbai’s local train commuters

Team of Management students from Delhi have designed a new android application for Mumbai local train travellers. The App name is Mumbai local navigator. Earlier they have also designed a similar application for Metro users. The team name Tilzmatic Tech, won the annual B-Plan competition, Eureka! organised by the entrepreneurship cell (E-Cell) of IIT-Bombay and also a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh.

Features of Mumbai Local Navigator:
1. Detailed Map
2. Fare Calculator
3. Route,Schedule
Team Members: Mehtab Ahluwalia and Vikash Kumar from International Management Institute (IMI)-Delhi
Their metro application allowed users to see the route of Metro stations in Delhi, the source and destination time and even parking areas near the stations. Their metro application was downloaded by two lakh metro commuters.
“After downloading the app, our product will not need internet connection. The size of our application is small as compared to other ones. Also, we are going to include several other features on taxi, autorickshaw, bus fare and routes,” said Vikash Kumar.

Take advantage of extra 15 minutes- that is given to read question paper: says expert

CBSE 2013 board exams are scheduled to held in month of march this year. Pre-board exams are now over and most of the students are now ready for board exams. Student’s exam performance will depend upon his/her composure and mental strength.

This year CBSE has also started its own helpline to provide Psychological support to students and reduce their stress during exam time.
“There is absolutely no need to panic and go into depression only because you are going to appear in the Boards,” pointed out Dr R Pandey of department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University. “It is important that students maintain their composure and hold on to their nerves as strong will power is the only to success. Relaxing exercises like yoga and counselling by teachers and parents can put them at ease as it is a crucial time for the students,” he added.
Experts also feel that generally students do not utilise additional 15 minutes that are given to students to read the question paper carefully. “It not only relaxes them but also provides scope for time management and they can plan their answers accordingly,” says Dr R Pandey

CBSE will support schools to generate online question papers in major subjects

Earlier CBSE has authorized schools to set tenth board question paper internally, but noe the Central Board of Secondary Education ( CBSE) has decided to provide sample paper for setting summative assessment-II question paper.

The exams are scheduled to be held in March, CBSE will provide a set of two question papers for the paper. “A circular from the board has clarified that it will be providing sample papers for SA- II. Although it is not mandatory to follow the same questions as proposed,” said Sahodaya Indore cluster chairman Sriniwas Rao. The board will provide the sets of question papers to schools in order to ensure standards, he added.
“The board will support schools to generate online question papers in major subjects with effect from this session,” the circular states.

CBSE Helpline is active now – Important numbers and sites for students

CBSE board exams are scheduled to begin from March 1. CBSE has started its counselling helpline for students 1800118004 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1800118004 FREE  end_of_the_skype_highlighting from 1st February, it will be active till April 17. CBSE has took this initiative to reduce stress of students during exam period. This helpline will provide psychological support to students.


The toll free number 1800118004 can be accessed by students from any part of the country. Reportedly the general queries will be answered by the operators, students will be connected to the principals or counselors in case of exam related anxiety or stress.
Students can also log on to the CBSE website and interact with chairman on exam related issues. The professor and director (Academic, Research, Training and Innovation) and controller of examinations, CBSE can also be contacted for on-line counseling on: sadhanap.cbse@nic.in, . Information related to examinations and techniques to cope with exam related anxiety is also provided at the CBSE website .
The counseling will be offered by trained counselors and principals from within CBSE affiliated schools located in and outside India. This year 66 principals, trained counselors from CBSE affiliated government and private schools and few psychologist will participate in tele-counseling and address exam related psychological problems of the students.

Centre Information for Private Candidates for Main Exam 2013 (Delhi, Panchkula, Guwahati, Allahabad Region)

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E-Summit at IIT Bombay for school students with exclusive workshop for students

For the very first time school students participated in IIT Bombay’s entrepreneurship summit — E-Summit that started on Saturday.In this summit students were introduced to the basics of entrepreneurship .


TeenTrepreneur, an exclusive workshop for school kids at the event, had Sabirul Islam, founder of Inspire 1 million Campaign, UK, encourage teens to start their own start-ups. Islam said, “Our goal is to ensure that youth worldwide are able to break the perception barrier that business requires an office, employees and even large sums of money to get started.”
Like past years this year also E-Summit had innovative start-ups on display, such as a shield from mobile tower radiation and spy surveillance robot for homes.