Arvind Kejriwal's daughter Harshita to enter politics, with AAP student wing in IIT Delhi

IndiaToday.In  New Delhi, September 28, 2014 | UPDATED 15:40 IST

 

Harshita KejriwalThe Aam Aadmi Party, which has suffered many setbacks since the time its mascot Arvind Kejriwal quit the chief minister post in Delhi, is getting a new face to revive the sagging morale of the party workers, following a string a leaders complaining of its leader's autocratic style and the Lok Sabha poll debacle.
The AAP national convener's daughter Harshita has decided to make her foray into politics by joining the party's student wing the Chhaatra Yuva Sangharsha Samiti (CYSS), which was launched on Sunday.
The daughter of the former Delhi chief minister will launch and expand CYSS in IIT Delhi, where she is currently pursuing her graduation.
The youth wing, which was launched on Sunday, will have its presence in 50 colleges in the national capital, apart from Delhi, Jamia Milia and Jawaharlal Nehru universities.
There were questions on whether Harshita would join the CYSS to which an announcement was made In Delhi at Ghalib auditorium that she would expand the student's wing in IIT Delhi.
Harshita scored 96 per cent in the board exams and cleared the JEE exam to get into IIT Delhi.
Arvind Kejriwal himself is an engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur. Besides, he even cleared the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) Exam before leaving the civil services to join social service and later politics.

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Students help young ‘techies’ innovate at IIT Bombay

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Written by Mihika Basu | Mumbai | Posted: September 29, 2014 2:25 am

The institute technical summer projects (ITSP), started by IIT Bombay’s Students’ Technical Activities Body (STAB) to explore the ‘techie’ among freshers, has seen a huge jump in registrations, from 16 projects in its inception year, 2010, to 121 in 2014.

The institute pays for the entire project and it has led to interesting innovations this year such as an intelligent walking stick for the blind that detects obstacles using ultrasonic sensors and generates audio commands to guide the user, a hovercraft which can changing the orientation of its propellers and convert into a helicopter for security surveillance, an all-terrain robot to help researchers, a gesture controlled glove that converts gestures into words for the mute, an ‘invisible’ Braille reader that is portable and helps the visually challenged to read books and a music player controlled by eyes.

The projects will be showcased next month on campus. “The STAB comes under IIT Bombay’s dean of students’ affairs. In April each year, we call for ideas from first year students and the idea is to give them hand-on experience. Instead of freshmen selecting any random project from any random field, this year we encouraged them to decide their interest first and choose the idea from that specific field, be it social or industrial. We saw students developing technologies in healthcare, agricultural, security surveillance and other industrial areas,” said Rahul Prajapat, overall coordinator of IIT Bombay’s STAB.

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He said STAB supervises the amount of funding required for the projects and each team is approved Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. “There is an initial demonstration in the May and the final demonstration takes place in June, before faculty members, doctorate students and Mtech students.

Further, the prototypes, which have the potential to be converted into marketable products, are reviewed at ‘Technovation’, an innovation programme under STAB, which encourages students to do real life application oriented projects,” said Prajapat. At Technovation, teams get larger amount of support in terms of funding as well as mentorship and infrastructure. A project can receive funding of up to Rs 1 lakh.

Among the ones being manufactured or in their final stages include a campus transport tracking system, which was initiated in 2012 and 20 of them will now be installed inside IIT Bombay’s ‘tum-tum’ campus buses, unmanned aerial vehicles capable of assisting in search and rescue operations during natural disasters, a Braille display for visually impaired people and a low cost CNC laser cutting machine, which are currently imported at high prices with added shipping and customs costs in India, and are used in manufacturing, fashion and textile, plastics, and rubber industries.

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ISM marshals hopes for IIT status

ISM, Dhanbad New Delhi, Sept. 28: It may be too early for students and teachers of ISM-Dhanbad to rejoice, but they can let their hopes for an IIT status soar. Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems set to keep his promise of converting the prestigious cradle into an IIT even though an expert panel formed to look into the plea is against an upgrade. According to highly placed sources in the Union HRD ministry, the Modi government is likely to overrule a report by the panel, headed by former director of IIT-Bombay professor Ashok Mishra, which has advised against conversion of ISM into an IIT. The argument of the panel, which also has IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthy and former director of IIT-Jodhpur professor Prem Kalra as members, is that such rampant conversions dilute the IIT brand. Besides, the report said past experiences of upgrading engineering institutions into IITs had not proved to be beneficial in terms of academic and research output. Incidentally, the report was to be discussed at a meeting of the IIT Council, headed by Union HRD minister Smriti Irani, last Monday. But, it was not placed because, insiders claim, Irani was not happy with the committee’s recommendation. “The report may be overruled,” said a source. This, perhaps because the same has gone against what Modi had promised to the people of Dhanbad in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls in April. Slamming the previous UPA government for not granting IIT status to ISM, Modi had said at an election rally: “ISM is one of the most prestigious institutions of Asia, but I can’t understand why people sitting in Delhi can’t give it IIT status.” The huge applause he received translated into votes later on, with the BJP winning as many as 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, including Dhanbad. Now, the state’s coal capital is expecting the Prime Minister to fulfil his promise. “I have heard that the expert committee report does not favour an IIT status for ISM. But the Union HRD minister’s decision will be final. We are keeping our fingers crossed,” ISM registrar Col (retd) M.K. Singh said. ISM’s conversion into an IIT has been in discussion for four years. The 12th Plan document, approved by the Prime Minister-headed National Development Council, had provided for the conversion. The Mishra committee was set up as a follow-up action. A centrally funded technical institution, ISM was set up by the British in 1926 and was accorded deemed-to-be university status in 1967, nine years after IISc Bangalore bagged the same tag. According to the institute’s website, it offers BTech, MTech and PhD programmes and has 18 departments, most of which are engineering branches. Known for its cutting-edge research in areas of mining and minerals, ISM admits students for BTech courses through the same JEE-Advanced exam as the IITs. This year, it participated in the international ranking process of London-based Times Higher Education.

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