VNIT Alumni Association Presentation - 2013

VNIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Overview• YAR 2012• ACTIVITIES LAST YEAR• PROGRAMMES INITIATED BY VNITAA• APPEAL

YAR 2012

• YAR 2012 was attended by around 400 alumni and their families.• It was a day long event this time.• Healthy discussions were held regarding

VNITAA’s activities and its upcoming initiatives.• Dinner was based on a ‘Dhaba’ theme, all

decorations were made to give attendees the feel of an actual Dhaba (No drinks ).• Yes, we sang and danced this time too…

VNITAA ACTIVITES

• Several guest lectures were organized for the students, a few of them were as follows:1. Big Data Seminar by Kartik Vyas (Persistent Systems)2. Seminar by Milind Atre (‘84 Batch, Prof. at IITB)3. Seminar on film making by Milind Ukey (‘87 Batch, Director of movie Pathshala).

• Classical Music concerts by alumni:1. Morning Raga by Vishawas Sirgaonkar (‘80 Batch)2. Sangeet Sabha by Nandu Atre (‘74 Batch)

• Movie Screening:Special screening of the movie “Dehradun Diary” was done for VNITians, this movie was directed by Milind Ukey (‘87 Batch).

• VNITAA arranged part-time jobs for 5 students.• Weekly meetings were held in the Alumni Interaction Office

every Saturday.• VNITAA co-ordinated chapter meets at different places (e.g.

Mumbai, Pune, Lucknow etc.)• New Chapters added:

1. Dubai Chapter2. Singapore Chapter3. Kolkata Chapter4. Vidarbha Chapter

Concert By Nandu Atre

Concert by Viswas Shirgaonkar

Weekly Meetings @ Alumni Interaction Office

Movie Screening – Dehradun Diary

Kolkata Chapter – First Meet

VNITAA INITIATIVES

Scholarship Program• Scholarship For economically challenged but Academically

bright students. • This program gives scholarship to students who have 7.5

pointer and above but family income less than Rs.40000 /- annually.

• The expenses (fees+hostel charges+ sundry expenses) are in the tune of 85k per year. No way family can support their child.

• Last year 22 students were provided a scholarship of INR 22,000 each which is half of their tuition fees.

Internship Program• VNITAA realized that students need to be provided with good

internship opportunity to increase their employability and give them a good industrial exposure.

• These internship are offered by our own Alumni.• Last year VNITAA helped 67 students in getting a good

internship.• This year we are making an early start in gathering contacts so

that more students can benefit from this initiative.

Mentorship Program• Our own Alumni will be the mentors for our student mentee's.• We have received lot of applications from alumni for being

Mentors who want to give back to VNIT by sharing their experience and guiding students in various fields.

• The mentorship will be of 2 kinds:1. One-to-One mentorship:

Every student, as soon as he/she takes admission into VNIT, will be assigned an alumnus mentor (8-10 students can be assigned to one single mentor). This person will be responsible to guide and check regularly on his/her mentees. He will be easily approachable and can be consulted for personal guidance.

2. Career based/Interest based mentorship:

If any particular student feels that he/she requires career based or interest based mentorship, he/she can approach VNITAA which will then connect him/her to the correct mentor.

APPEAL

We Need Mentors• To make our mentorship program successful, we invite

applications from alumni for becoming mentors.• We can all do our bit to avoid any more unfortunate events in

the institute.• You can really help some student excel by providing him/her

guidance on your field of interest or motivate him/her just by sharing your personal experience.

• You can register at the following link: http://goo.gl/JDxAv

We Need Funds• A modest target of INR 2 Crore was set for the VNITAA corpus

fund at the time of Golden Jubilee Meet by looking at the response from alumni.

• We were able to collect only INR 55 Lakhs by now, which is only 25% of what we had estimated.

• All our activities are based on the interest which VNITAA gets on the corpus amount. In order to take up more activities and scale up the existing ones, more money is needed.

How to contribute

1. Visit vnitalumni.com. Click on Alumni fund option. Click on Pay online. We have integrated secured payment gateway in our site. You could pay Monthly, yearly or one time. You could pay from Rs. 1000 ~ 1000000. we have included guidelines of "how to pay online" in our site. you could use credit card and even pay small monthly amount.

• 2. Send money to account by Wire transfer, RTGS. Following are the details of Bank Account along with the information required for wire transfer.

Account Name : VNIT NAGPUR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION1. Account Number : 322039641512. Branch : VRCE3. Branch Code : 067024. MICR Code : 4400020055. IFC Code : SBIN0006702

You would also need to send email to [email protected] or [email protected]. Please include details of your name, date and transaction ID. This will help in reconciliation and also enable us to send you confirmation

3. Send cheque to Account name "VNIT Nagpur Alumni Association" at following address:

VNIT Nagpur Alumni AssociationAlumni Interaction Office, Second Floor New Library Building VNIT, South Ambazari RoadNagpur , Maharashtra, IndiaPin : 440010

4. Contributing through VNIT NAAM Fund, Inc.• This organization has been registered and has a Federal tax ID. • We are in the process of opening a bank account in that name

too and soon we will apply for getting tax-deductible status for it

• We will be starting the process to request a 501(c)(3) status for VNIT NAAM Fund, Inc with the IRS.

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