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Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering & Technology Vishnupuri, Nanded (Maharashtra State) PIN 431606 INDIA TANTRA-PRERANA A monthly newsletter of TEQIP-II of SGGS IE&T, Vishnupuri, Nanded. Volume-I No. 4 e-version available on : www.sggs.ac.in/gururuvani October-2015 Inspiration Hon. Mr. Baba Kalyani, Bharat Forge Ltd. Pune. Mentors Dr. SubhashBabu, IIT Bombay. Chief Patron Dr. Laxman M. Waghmare Editor: Dr. Anil B. Gonde Co-editors: Dr. Abhijeet V. Nandedkar Dr. Arun R. Patil Empower Youth .....Empower India Dr. B. Hosangadi, Retd. HoD of Chemistry Dept., University of Mumbai, guiding the youth Director's Message Over the past few years, institute has organized successfully a series of expert lectures, workshops, training programs and faculty development programs through TEQIP. I am very happy with the enthusiasm of talented faculty members, staff and students. Hence I am delighted to bring on record all those activities to a notice of all the stakeholders of SGGSIE&T, Nanded. I congratulate all the organizing teams and wish them a grand success in all their future endeavours. On behalf of our Board of Trustees and our staff, I wish you, your family and friends a safe and happy DIWALI. The seminar series on "Youth Empowerment" was inaugurated by Dr. L. M. Waghmare, Director of SGGS IE&T, on 10 th Oct. 2015, in presence of the expert speakers, all the heads, and faculty members in 'A' complex of the institute. Hon. Director narrated the very essence of youth empowerment and appealed the audience to take the utmost advantage of the seminar series along with its expert speakers. Dr. B. Hosangadi, Retd. HoD of Chemistry Dept., University of Mumbai, oriented the students towards research through his session on "Success and failure in Scientific Research". Dr. Chandan Kumar, Scientific Officer, BARC Mumbai focused on "Current researches in BARC". Mr. Harshad Pattarkine from John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. delivered an excellent session on "Maslow's Hierarchy of needs". On the second day of Youth empowerment programme, a session on "Substance and shadow" was conducted by Mr. S. C. Mohan, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. He enlightened all the audience with his session on "Mind your Mind". The day ended with a very essential talk on "How to face interviews" by Mr. Harshad Pattarkine. Around 47 students with many faculty members attended this programme. All the audience were delighted and gave a very positive feedback. Dr. B. M. Patre explained about "VOICE"- Vedic Oasis for Inspiration Culture and Education- an NGO that is performing various activities in reputed engineering colleges throughout India for inculcating character and competence in the students. He presented a vote of thanks to all. Dr. Anil B. Gonde giving guidelines of competition Project Competition : Design & Development of Innovative Appliances. 10 th October, 2015 In order to provide the students an opportunity to explore their creativity, ideas and to enhance their technical and manufacturing skills, a competition on "Design & Development of Innovative Appliances" was organized by Dept. of E&TC under the leadership of Dr. S. G. Kejgir and Dr. Lenia Birgale. Mr. Nilesh Pandit, IPR Coordinator, TCS, Pune, Mr. Padghane P. N., JTO BSNL, Nanded and Prof. Bansode, CSE Dept. looked after the competition as judges. The competition was inaugurated by the Hon. Director Dr. L. M. Waghmare along with the judges of the competition. Total 19 teams comprising of 65 students participated in the competition. Mr. Parag and his team won the first prize. The prize distribution and valedictory function was presided by Dr. L. M. Waghmare. The competition was a grand success with many teams registered and the positive feedback given by all the participants. Take risks in ypur life. If you win, you can lead ! If you lose, You can Guide !! - Swami Vivekanand. Page-1

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Shri Guru Gobind Singhji

Institute of Engineering & Technology

Vishnupuri, Nanded (Maharashtra State) PIN 431606 INDIA

TANTRA-PRERANA A monthly newsletter of TEQIP-II of SGGS IE&T, Vishnupuri, Nanded.

Volume-I No. 4 e-version available on : www.sggs.ac.in/gururuvani October-2015 Inspiration Hon. Mr. Baba Kalyani, Bharat Forge Ltd. Pune. Mentors Dr. SubhashBabu, IIT Bombay. Chief Patron Dr. Laxman M. Waghmare Editor: Dr. Anil B. Gonde Co-editors: Dr. Abhijeet V. Nandedkar Dr. Arun R. Patil

Empower Youth .....Empower India

Dr. B. Hosangadi, Retd. HoD of Chemistry Dept., University of Mumbai, guiding the youth

Director's Message

Over the past few years, institute

has organized successfully a series

of expert lectures, workshops,

training programs and faculty

development programs through

TEQIP. I am very happy with the

enthusiasm of talented faculty

members, staff and students.

Hence I am delighted to bring on

record all those activities to a

notice of all the stakeholders of

SGGSIE&T, Nanded. I

congratulate all the organizing

teams and wish them a grand

success in all their future

endeavours. On behalf of our

Board of Trustees and our staff, I

wish you, your family and friends

a safe and happy DIWALI.

The seminar series on "Youth Empowerment" was inaugurated by Dr. L. M. Waghmare,

Director of SGGS IE&T, on 10th

Oct. 2015, in presence of the expert speakers, all the heads,

and faculty members in 'A' complex of the institute. Hon. Director narrated the very essence

of youth empowerment and appealed the audience to take the utmost advantage of the

seminar series along with its expert speakers. Dr. B. Hosangadi, Retd. HoD of Chemistry

Dept., University of Mumbai, oriented the students towards research through his session on

"Success and failure in Scientific Research". Dr. Chandan Kumar, Scientific Officer, BARC

Mumbai focused on "Current researches in BARC". Mr. Harshad Pattarkine from John

Deere India Pvt. Ltd. delivered an excellent session on "Maslow's Hierarchy of needs". On

the second day of Youth empowerment programme, a session on "Substance and shadow"

was conducted by Mr. S. C. Mohan, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. He enlightened all the

audience with his session on "Mind your Mind". The day ended with a very essential talk on

"How to face interviews" by Mr. Harshad Pattarkine. Around 47 students with many faculty

members attended this programme. All the audience were delighted and gave a very positive

feedback. Dr. B. M. Patre explained about "VOICE"- Vedic Oasis for Inspiration Culture

and Education- an NGO that is performing various activities in reputed engineering colleges

throughout India for inculcating character and competence in the students. He presented a

vote of thanks to all.

Dr. Anil B. Gonde giving guidelines of competition

Project Competition : Design & Development of

Innovative Appliances.

10th October, 2015

In order to provide the students an opportunity to explore their

creativity, ideas and to enhance their technical and manufacturing

skills, a competition on "Design & Development of Innovative

Appliances" was organized by Dept. of E&TC under the

leadership of Dr. S. G. Kejgir and Dr. Lenia Birgale. Mr. Nilesh

Pandit, IPR Coordinator, TCS, Pune, Mr. Padghane P. N., JTO

BSNL, Nanded and Prof. Bansode, CSE Dept. looked after the

competition as judges. The competition was inaugurated by the

Hon. Director Dr. L. M. Waghmare along with the judges of the

competition. Total 19 teams comprising of 65 students participated in the competition. Mr. Parag and his team won the first prize. The prize distribution and valedictory function was presided by Dr. L.

M. Waghmare. The competition was a grand success with many teams registered and the positive feedback given by all the

participants.

Take risks in ypur life. If you win, you can lead ! If you lose, You can Guide !! - Swami Vivekanand. Page-1

A Training programme on

"Theory of Elasticity and Behaviour of concrete structure"

17th

and 18th

October, 2015

Prof. G. Rajesh Kumar, Prof. Rathishkumar, Associate professors from

Structure Division, Civil Engineering Dept., NIT Warangal, conducted

remedial classes for M.Tech. and B.Tech. students of civil and water

management dept. Dr. L. M. Waghmare inaugurated the function on 17th

of Oct. and advised all the students to take a due advantage of the

experts and their knowledge.

Prof. G. Rajesh Kumar engaged remedial classes for M.Tech(I)

Structural Engg. and B. Tech. students on the topic of "Prestressed

Concrete". On the first day, he introduced the topic and covered "pre

tensioning" and on the second day, he taught post tensioning methods in

prestressed simply supported beams.

Prof. P. Ratish Kumar engaged remedial classes for M.Tech(I)

Structural Engg. and B.Tech students on the topic of "Theory of

Elasticity". On first day, he covered "Stress and Strain Tensor" and the

second day he covered "polynomial equations". 50 students along with

11 faculty members attended the sessions and were satisfied with the

expert and his content rich delivery in a simplified manner. All the

faculty members also appreciated the dissemination of knowledge by

the experts. The coordinator, Dr. A. U. Digraskar, presented the vote of

thanks.

Dr. Rajesh Kumar interacting with students

M.Tech. students attending Dr. Ratish Kumar's session

A series of Expert lectures on

Embedded Systems & VLSI Design

07th

, 11th

, 19th

and 20th

October, 2015

In a view of changing trends in embedded systems and VLSI

design, an lecture series by experts including Mr. Vishwas

Kurundkar, Mr. Rajiv Mantri & Mr. Shridhar Chakravarthi,

was arranged in the dept. of E&TC. The experts from

Eklaksha R&D Academy, Pune delivered the talks on

essential aspects of embedded Systems and VLSI Design.

Dr. Chakravarthi conducted a hands on training on

embedded C programming. All the UG/PG students of

E&TC dept. interacted with the experts and cleared their

doubts. The sessions were also attended by the faculty

members. There was a great deal of discussions throughout

the four days of lecture series. Dr. Y. V. Joshi and Dr. S. N.

Talbar coordinated for successful conduction of this lecture

series. Dr. Suhas Gajre, Head of E&TC Dept. presented the

vote of thanks to end up the successful series of lectures on

the last day.

One day workshop on

"Legal Compliances in Manufacturing Industries"

10th

October,2015

Dept. of Chemical Engineering conducted one day workshop on

"Legal Compliances in Manufacturing Industries", on10th

October

2015, for faculty members and students to understand the aspects of

legal provisions in designing process. Mr. Santosh Choudhary,

General Manager, Ampacer Ltd. Pune explained the details of various

industrial legal provisions and their utility in project planning and

designing section. Mr. Girish Kulkarni explained the Hozop analysis

and plant safety in his session. Both the experts supported their

explanations with case studies from industries. The faculty members

and the students interacted with the experts and discussed the burning

issues of safety and hazards.

All the participants and faculty members expressed their positive

feedback and satisfaction in the valedictory function. Dr. P. G. Jadhav

presented the vote of thanks to the experts and the participants for

making this workshop a grand success.

A two days expert lectures on

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) 24

th and 25

th October, 2015

With the aim of striving for excellence and Practical Understanding, an

expert lecture on "Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)" was held on

24th

Oct 2015 organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering. It

was financed by Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme

-II (TEQIP-II) of Government of India. The key speaker was Dr. C. M.

Sewatkar, Associate Professor from College of Engineering Pune.

During the morning session, he delivered fundamentals of

computational fluid dynamics and explained about governing equations

& Finite Volume Methods for discretisation.

Dr. C. M. Sewatkar guiding the students

In the second day of his lectures,the expert covered the topics like methodology of CFDHT for pure conduction, pure convection &

convection-diffusion. Lastly, he ended with the session on solution of Navier - Stokes Equations. This program was organized under

the guidance of Dr. J. V. L. Venkatesh and Mr. G. D. Jambhrunkar.

Your aim is yours, don't change it for others! But your character is not yours, change it for others ! Vivekanand Page-2

A two days workshop on

" Practical Aspects of Machine Design & Solar Energy"

18th

and 19th

October, 2015

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering organized a two days workshop on "

Practical Aspects of Machine Design & Solar Energy" during 18th

to

19th

October 2015 in M2 hall. Director, Dr. L. M. Waghmare

inaugurated the programme and felicitated the experts Dr. V. V. More

from IIT Guwahati and Dr. O. G. Kulkarni, a mentor, Advisor,

Technology provider & consulting engineer, specialized in Automation,

Instrumentation and energy management

Dr. V. V. More began his talk with the convention trends and current

market trends as well as future of applications of design and analysis.

He brought us all to the same page of basic understanding along with

the data.He discussed how Design & Analysis is very much important

and the factors/parameters affecting it. Students were given insights

about what an engineer or designer has to think when a new product is

being developed. He further moved on to the scenario of opportunities

in India and applicable internationally. Students gained in-depth

knowledge about the applications which are presently used in design

and analysis and were also completely responsive about the further

possibilities of alternative application and their advantages over

conventional applications being used today.All the students and faculty

members interacted with the expert and cleared their doubts. A very

good exchange of ideas took place in an interactive discussion at the end

of the day. About 55 students and faculty members participated in this

session. Mr. V. S. Deshmukh presented vote of thanks to all.

Dr. V.V. More interacting with students

Dr. L. M. Waghmare felicitated Dr. O. G. Kulkarni

Dr. O. G. Kulkarni, an expert in Renewable energy sources, began his talk with the history of use of Solar Energy and current market

trends as well as future of applications. He brought all the participants to the same page of basic understanding along with the data.

And then he began to widen knowledge and informed about the research and development that he and his team has been conducting

over the years and how it has affected the present energy need, that we see on today.He discussed how Solar Energy is very much

important and the factors/parameters affecting it. Students were given insights about what an engineer or designer has to think when a

new product is being developed. Sir further moved on to the scenario of electricity production in India and applicable internationally.

Also, the action taken by environment and pollution control departmentfor reduction in harmful exhaust pollutants, visa-a-vie its

effects energy production, use of conventional fuel etc.

Students gained in-depth knowledge about the applications which are presently used in electricity production and were also

completely responsive about the further possibilities of alternative application and their advantages over conventional fuels being

used today. Mr. S. S. Deshpande expressed vote of thanks to end the program.

Dr. P. G. Solankar felicitated Mr. Deepak Karad

One day workshop on "Textile Wet-processing"

10th

October, 2015

Department of Textile Technology organized the expert lectures by A.

T. E. Enterprises Private Limited Mumbai, on 10th

October, 2015.

Mr. Deepak Karad, Sr. Sales Manager, Textile Div.-Processing

delivered expert lecture with live power point presentation on textile

wet-processing covering all new machinery. Mr. Shubhasis Sur, Sr.

Sales Manager, Textile Div.- Garment, delivered expert presentation

on latest technology and equipments in Garment Industry. They

guided the students on new textile careers and entrepreneurship

opportunities. Also, the experts briefed on upcoming textiles centers

and scope. One local entrepreneur Mr. Appasaheb Patre, MIDC,

Nanded, participated in the discussions.

There was a interactive discussion with experts. The experts also guided about the job oriented training and placement of the students

in the present batch. The program was coordinated by Dr. P. KAR, Professor and Dr. P. G. Solankar. HoD, Textile Engg. Deptt. Near

about 75 students from SY, TY, B.Tech. classes attended this workshop along with faculty members. All the students expressed their

positive feedback about the experts and their contents.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as yours thought leads , and dare to carry that out in your life ! -Vivekanand Page-3

Three Days visit of TEQIP-II Program Mentor

15th

- 17th

October, 2015

Prof. Subhash Babu from IIT Bombay, mentor for our TEQIP -II

programme visited our institute on 15-17th

October, 2015. Dr. L. M.

Waghmare, Director, SGGS IE&T Nanded, welcomed and felicitated

Dr. Subhash Babu. In a meeting with Director, Mentor, Deans, Heads

and TEQIP unit cell chairmen, Dr. Anil B. Gonde presented a progress

report on all the activities conducted under the banner of TEQIP-II

during the academic year 2014-15. As per the guidelines given by

NPIU, Mentor conducted meeting with all the stakeholders including

UG-PG-PhD. students, faculty and non-teaching staff members. Dr. L. M. Waghmare felicitated Dr. Subhash Babu

Also, he visited Center of Excellence in Signal & Image Processing and had a discussion with the Research Scholars. He visited the

departmentallaboratories and interacted with the students and concerned faculty members of those laboratories. On the last day of his

three days visit, he conducted a meeting with the Director, TEQIP Coordinator and other Nodal Officers of TEQIP-II programme and

guided for further improvement in TEQIP-II programme.

Dr. Chile, Dr. Patre, Dr. J Arun, Dr.Waghmare, Dr.Asutkar

Participants of the workshop

Two days workshop on

"Essential of Process Control" 23

rd and 24

th October, 2015

Dr. L. M. Waghmare, Director of SGGS IE&T, inaugurated the Two

days workshop on 23rd

October, 2015. The inauguration

accomplished in the presence of the invited expert Dr. J.

Arunshankar, Associate Professor, Instrumentation and Control

System Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Dr.

B. M. Patre and Dr. R. H. Chile, workshop co-ordinators and Dr. V.

G. Asutkar, Head, Department of Instrumentation Engg.. The

workshop began with the session on Basics of Process Control. The

expert covered the various aspects like open loop and closed loop

control, servo and regulatory control, direct and indirect control,

degree of freedom etc. He covered the characteristics of physical

systems, model & modelling approaches, PID Controllers in this

workshop. Also, he discussed on various control strategies like

feedback control, feed-forward control, cascade control, split range

control and ratio control. The workshop gave a brief exploration to

few of the essential aspects of process control Instrumentation and

helped the students to correlate the theory with practice followed in Industries.Around 45 students from Final Year B.Tech.

Instrumentation, 30 students from Final Year B.Tech. Electrical and 10 students from M.Tech. (Part I) Instrumentation actively

participated in the workshop.The workshop was planned and coordinated by Dr. B. M. Patre and Dr. R. H. Chile.

Remedial classes on "Engineering Geology"

6th

,10th

, 12th

& 13th

October, 2015

Director of SGGS IE&T Dr. L. M. Waghmare inaugurated the expert

series of lectures and felicitated Dr. R. D. Kaple, Professor, School of

Earth Science, SRTMU, Nanded. Dr. R. D. Kaple engaged remedial

classes for TY B.Tech. ( Civil& Water Management Engg.) students on

the topic of Engineering Geology. On the 6th

October, 2015, the expert

introduced the topic. On 10th

Oct., he covered the topic of Strike & dip,

Fold and its various types. He explained Geological maps and problems

on the same day.

On 12th

Oct., the expert taught faults and its various types, identification

of faults and folds in the field. On 13th

Oct., Dr. Kaple delivered a

lecture on uniformity and its various types, inliers and outliers, overlaps

and joints with their types. Around 50 students attended this remedial

classes and all of them were highly satisfied with this series of high

contents and value. Faculty members also appreciated the sessions. The

Head of Dept. Dr. L. M. Waikar presented the vote of thanks and.

promised the audience to continue such a series of remedial classes in

the most essential subjects for better conceptual understanding.

Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme

The following students joined the institute for Ph.D .

course under the Visveswaraya Ph.D. Scheme of

Department of Electronics and Information Technology,

Ministry of Communications and Information

Technology, Govt. of India.

1. Mr. Ujjwal Baid ( Full Time)

2. Mr. Manish Narnavare (Part time)

3. Mr. Vikas Bhangadiya (Part time)

Dr. S. N. Talbar, the nodal officer of this Scheme reported

that the Govt. has sanctioned three research scholars in the

very first phase of this scheme. The institute has applied

for further increase in the intake of Ph.D. scholars under

this scheme and most probably another five research

scholars will join SGGS IE&T for PhD in the second

phase of this scheme. This scheme has added another

feather in the cap of SGGS IE&T Nanded.

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them" -William Arthur Ward Page-4

Inaugural Function of the workshop

Hands-on-Training session on Mi-Power

Three days workshop on

" Power system Analysis and Simulation: Hands on Training

on Mi-Power" 15

th-17

th October, 2015

Department of Electrical Engineering in association with Power

Research and Development Consultant (PRDC) Pvt. Ltd,,

Bangalore, India organized a three days workshop on “Power

System Analysis and Simulation: Hands on Training on Mi-

Power” during 15th

to 17th

October 2015. It was sponsored by

Technical Education Quality Improvement Program phase-II

(TEQIP-II) of Government of India.The inaugural function was

held on 15th

October, 2015, in the presence of Chief Guest Mr.

Veerabrahmam Bathini, Dr. L. M. Waghmare, Director of

SGGSIE&T, Dr. B. M. Patre, Head of Department, experts from

PRDC and faculty members.The aim of the workshop was to focus

on bringing out practical aspects of power system studies using

Mi-Power simulation software. Accordingly, Eminent speakers

and experts from Industries Resources were: Mr. Veerabrahmam

Bathini, Team Leader-Power System Studies, PRDC Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore. Mr. Praveen Gautam, Engineer- R&D,PRDC Pvt. Ltd.

Bangalore and Mr. Sri Kumar, Engineer- R&D,PRDC Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, conducted the theory lectures and practical hands on

sessions using Mi-Power simulation software. Beside, the workshop also aimed to enhance industrial and academic interaction and

provide base to the students for preparation of technical interviews. Total 60 students and faculty members participated in the

workshop and interacted with the experts to clear all their doubts. The workshop was planned and coordinated by Dr. B. M. Patre ,

Mr. G. B. Abande, M. K. Patil.

Three days workshop on

Local Features for Image Retrieval 27

th -29

th October, 2015

Dept. of E&TC organized a three days workshopon “Local Features for

Image Retrieval” during 27th

-29th

October, 2015. Dr. L. M. Waghmare,

Director, SGGS IE&T inaugurated the function and felicitated the

experts Dr. Subramanyam Murala, Asstt. Prof., Indian Institute of

Technology, Ropar and Dr. Santosh Kumar Vipparathi, Asstt. Prof.,

Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur.

Dr. Murala started the first session with a brief note onDesign and

Integration of Feature descriptors for Content based Image Retrievaland

explained CBIR System Architecture in his second session. Dr. Santosh

Kumar Vipparathi gave introduction to Feature Extraction and discussed

various applicationof Feature Extraction.

On Day 2, Dr. Murala explained the Local Binary Pattern and its

applications and discussed how participants can use them in their own

research applications. Dr. Vipparthi highlighted on Directional Local

Ternary Patterns for Multimedia Image Indexing and Retrieval and then

explained Integration of Color and Local Derivative Pattern Features for

CBIR Image Indexing and Retrieval.After completion of workshop, the

experts had a visit to the Center of Excellencein Signal & Image

Processing where they had a fruitful discussion with few of the research

scholars about their ongoing research and the experts guided them

further with regard to their research domain.

Dr. Gajre, Dr. Waghmare felicitated Dr. Murala and Dr. Santosh

Dr. Waghmare distributed the certificates to participants

On the third day of this workshop, Dr. Murala gave a talk on the Local Tetra Patterns and its practical implementation. Dr. Vipparthi

gave talk on Local Derivative Patterns and explained Multi joint histogram based Image Indexing and Retrieval. Total 56 participants

including M.Tech. students, PhD Research Scholars and faculty members attended this workshop. The representatives of participants

expressed their positive feedback in the valedictory function where Dr. L. M. Waghmare distributed the certificates to all the

participants. Dr. Anil Gonde, Dr. Abhijeet Nandedkar and Dr. S. V. Bonde coordinated this workshop. Dr. Abhijeet Nandedkar

presented a vote thanks to the all the dignitaries, experts and participants. The participant research scholars requested for the

workshops focusing on such key areas useful for research.

Talk to yourself once in a day, otherwise you may miss meeting an excellent person in this world. Vivekanand Page-5

Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme The institute is ever encouraging the research activities and fostering a research oriented academic

culture. Department of Electronics and Telecommunication, Instrumentation, Computer Science and

Information Technology are striving for excellence through research in Electronic Systems and

Information Technology with special attention to Signal and Image Processing, VLSI, Embedded

Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks. The institute provides the state of the art computing facilities at

ultra-modern “Centre of Excellencein Signal and Image Processing”-a part of an ambitious plan of NPIU,

under TEQIP-II, Govt. of India.

Area of research include Signal & Speech Processing, Biomedical Signal &Image Processing, Computer

Vision and Pattern Recognition, Content Based Image/ Video Retrieval, Biometrics, Texture Analysis,

Medical Image Processing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things(IOT), Embedded & VLSI

Design, Soft Computing, Information Security.

The institute selects doctoral candidates for the prestigious Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Fellowship, instituted by

the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and

Information Technology, Govt. of India.

( For more information please visit http://phd.medialabasia.in )

Provisions for Full Time Candidate:

Fellowship of Rs 22,500 p.m. (I&II Yr); Rs 25,000 p.m. (III – V Yr)

Annual Contingency grant/support: @Rs30,000 per year for consumables etc.

Reimbursement of rent as per rules of Government of India.

Support for attending up to two renowned International Conferences, up to maximum support of Rs

50,000/- for each international conference

Provisions for Part Time Candidate:

Part-time candidates who do not avail of any PhD Fellowship/ Scholarship/ Stipend from any Central or

State Government shall be provided one time incentive of Rs 2.5 lakh on successful completion of the

Ph.D. degree.

ELIGIBILITY: M.E. / M. Tech. with (i) Valid GATE/ NET/ SET score OR

(ii) Valid PET score conducted by SRTMU, Nanded (www.srtmu.ac.in)

For more information, please visit : www.sggs.ac.in OR contact:

Dr. S. N. Talbar, Nodal Officer, Professor, Department of Electronics & Telecom. [email protected]

Pollution During Festivals and Health!

Indians usually celebrate their festivals and grand occasions with firecrackers which are becoming significant contributors to air

pollution in India. Fireworks contain chemical species such as sodium oxalate, aluminium, arsenic, sulphur, manganese, iron dust

powder, potassium perchlorate, strontium nitrate and barium nitrate etc. Air pollution levels along with Respirable Suspended

Particulate Matter (RSPM) – dust, fumes, smoke, and gases – is way above permissible limits in many of our big cities. Firework

activities during festivals are responsible for an increase in Total suspended particulate matter (TSPM) by an average of three times

higher in many locations. This level sees a quantum jump during festivals, the main culprits being crackers, inflammable substances,

and artificial colors. Studies by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) conclude that, RSPM levels doubled during Diwali in

all the big cities. Apart from the noise, crackers release a lot of toxic gases like Sulphur dioxide and Nitrogen dioxide which can lead

to many health problems. Air pollution during Diwali festival is found several folds higher as compared to the 24-h standard of

National Ambient Air Quality Standards of India (NAAQS) given by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), India.

Concentrations of metallic elements analysed in fireworks aerosol samples in previous studies in India reported its higher

contribution during Diwali festival as compared to the limit value of NAAQS of India. The noise levels in the Indian cities during the

night of Diwali festival were also found to be higher.Air pollution can lead to lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases, chronic

respiratory diseases, and allergies in adults. It can also cause acute respiratory infections in children. Suspended particulate matter

can cause asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory disease. Sulphur dioxide can damage lungs and lead to lung disorders like

wheezing and shortness of breath. Oxides of Nitrogen can cause skin problems, eye irritation, and cause respiratory problems in

children. Chemicals used in crackers like lead, magnesium, cadmium, nitrate, sodium, and others can have various harmful effects.

As rightly said by Swami Vivekanand "You can do anything and everything!", we can control ourselves and keep away from

involving fireworks and encourage others to stop polluting the air on our mother Earth. There are number of means by which we can

celebrate our joy. All the learned readers are expected and requested to make a serious note of our humble appeal to stop fireworks

and encourage others to do the same.

Suhas G. Sapate, Dr. Anil B. Gonde. On behalf of SGGS IE&T Nanded, Director, All teaching and non-teaching staff, we wish you all

A VERY HAPPY DIWALI and A PROSPEROUS DIWALI PADWA We expect you all to take care of our Nature and Environment by keeping yourself away from hazardous & polluting firecrackers.

“Diwali is a festival of lights, not crackers”, “celebrate an eco-sensitive Diwali this year”

Intelligence plus character- is the goal of true education." Martin Lither King Page-6