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| Message from Your Executive
Committee |
From my first day on the Roorkee
campus, I knew that Roorkee was not just about changing myself but a much
broader change. Shared by many of us is the excitement  and pride of walking the same
halls as the ones recognized as leaders not just in India
but in countries across continents.As
individuals we achieve success through our personal commitment and hard work.
Now, we have an opportunity to come together and build an ecosystem where we
combine experience with energy, resources with enthusiasm, maturity with risk to
exceed
our wildest expectations.
I am excited by the
possibilities and in my heart, I know we can do it through everyone's continued
support, collaboration and great ideas.
- Anoop
To achieve this, one of the
objectives for your Executive Committee ("EC") is to "setup open and frequent
communication forums among chapters for alumni activities". Details..
However, due to structural
challenges, we fell short of meeting this goal. We were remiss in our commitment
to be transparent, keep you updated and incorporate your feedback in refining
our direction. We were called out on this and we are committed to correcting
this.To ensure that we provide
periodic updates, we are establishing this Newsletter. It may  remind you of "Mutifaria", the newsletter published by
the alumni association
in the early eightees and we have
a similar goal to regularly
share variety of
content, like chapter events, news
highlights, achievements, events.
With focus on two-way
communication, we are also instituting regular communication forums with other
alumni bodies - Chapter Presidents and PAN IIT to make sure that we are not only
promoting higher synergies across alumni of different geographies but also
setting up a structure for continued growth.
Your continued feedback and
guidance is the only way for us to be successful in serving you, and we look
forward to it.
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News &
Events
We need your suggestions and news
/ articles about chapter events, appointments, promotions, awards, scholarly
achievement, academic accomplishment or any such items related to Roorkee alumni
and their family members for publication in the newsletter and IIT RAANA
Website. Please send these to iitraanasa@gmail.com.
Dr Jagdish Narain (Oct 1926-Jan 2012) (BE '48 Civil,
Vice-Chancellor '77-'81)
 Dr Narain passed away on January 5th, 2012. He took over
the Charge as Vice Chancellor of University of Roorkee 1977-1982. Dr. Narain was
a true Thomsonian having passed BE(Civil) in 1948, the first batch as University
of Roorkee. In 1985 he was conferred Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Hon. Causa)
by The University of Roorkee and the honor of Distinguished Alumnus Award was
conferred on him by IIT Roorkee in 2007.
A memorial service will be held
on Sat, March 3rd, to include Roorkee alumni, faculty, and family members
sharing memories of Dr Narain.Reception Party to honour
Shri Mangu Singh (BE'79)
Our Chairman Board of Governors, Padma
Bhushan Shri Analjit Singh took a very welcome initiative of hosting a reception
party in honour of Shri Mangu Singh (1979 Batch Alumnus) who has recently taken
over as MD, Delhi Metro Raill Corporation from the legendary Shri E. Sreedharan.
Read
More..
 Amit Singhal (BE'89 CST), Google Fellow, Elected to
National Association of Engineers
Congratulations to Mr Amit
Singhal, BE Roorkee, Google Fellow, on yet another honor – election to National
Association of Engineers, which is among the highest professional distinctions
accorded to an engineer. Read
More..Spotlight on Sumit
Chandwani (BE'89
IE)Mr Sumit Chandwani (BE'89 IE) Mr.
Sumit Chandwani is a stalwart in the Private Equity industry in India.Sumit
Chandwani BE ’89 Industrial Engineering, was till recently an Executive Director
at ICICI Ventures. Read
More..
 Events
SAVE THE DATE National Alumni Reunion Aug 11 &
12
IITR North America is organizing
the Pan IIT Roorkee Alumni reunion in Chicago on August  11th & 12th 2012. We hope a
large collection of alumni spanning batches, departments and regional chapters
will participate and make this a grand success. It will be a great time to catch
up with old friends, make new ones and a fun-time for all with family. More
details will be forthcoming shortly.Call for
volunteers
Do you have experience in leading
Registration, Outreach, Programming, Marketing, Communication, Sponsorship,
Financial Management in an event like this? We need your
help
Do you have passion or want to gain experience in such
organization? We need your help
Please contact Anoop Verma, Sanjay Keswani, Imran Mohammad, or Deepak
Goyal.
IIT Alumni of Greater
Houston Charity Event - Rock for Charity Night April
7
Horizon Fusion Band, a motley
crew of talented musicians, who have feverishly pursued music while being a
doctor or engineer or a professional, brings a wide diversity of classic rock
from Pink Floyd to Dire Straits, Clapton to Santana. Read
More..
IIT Roorkee Midwest Holi
Milan 2012 (Midwest - Chicago)
Dear Roorkee friends, You, your
family and friends are invited to attend a Get Together to enjoy light-hearted
fun with friends, on Saturday, March 31 at 3:00 PM. Read
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Organizational Update & Call
for Nominations
IIT RAANA Formal
Structure: IIT RAANA Executive Committee
("EC") is making good progress in establishing a formal legal structure with a
Board of Directors, Advisors, and a core team of leaders to align with our long
term goals. It is leveraging lessons from other leading organizations of similar
nature.
With the legal structure in place, the process is under way to
build short term and long terms assets to support our organizational goals.
Thanks to Roorkee Midwest Chapter, over $5,000 have been funded as seed money.
Formal controls and structure, which are consistent with an organization like
this, are being instituted to ensure adequate disclosure and
provisioning.
Call for IIT RAANA Board
Member Nominations: Five positions for members of the board are
reserved to ensure representation across all batches of graduation. The
current groups are 1987-91, 1992-96, 1997-2001, 2002-06, 2007-11. Please send
your nominations to any of the EC members or through your
Chapter Presidents. Read
More..
Induction of non-Indian
alumni in IIT Roorkee Alumni Association Executive Committee: Based on
the discussions with Anoop Verma (President IIT RAANA) on the need for the
alumni association to have global considerations, Prof Banerji (Director IIT
Roorkee) asked him to form an interim board of non-Indian alumni. This board
will work with the alumni association to incorporate the changes necessary for
it to have a global nature. This board consists of Mr Vipin Gaindhar
(Australia), Col Ham Bahadur Karki (Nepal), Mr Sanjay Keswani (US), Mr. Rakesh
Pande, Europe, Mr Vivek Varma (US), and Mr Punit Varmani
(Canada).
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