As a campus newspaper, we at The Scholars’ Avenue try our best to make sure that we address as many of the student issues as we can. In an effort to better ourselves in this regard we look to you, our dear readers, to pinpoint specific questions that you would like asked to the administration. We will be interviewing the Dean of Student Affairs for our next issue and we would love to pose your questions to him.

So if you have any questions that you think affects a sizable set of students, please do post them as comments here.

Thank You!!

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The Scholars’ Avenue Team

[For KGPians on campus] BLOOD DONORS REQUIRED URGENTLY: Debdatta Das, student of DAV Model School on campus lost both his parents in an accident yesterday. He is in a critical condition at Apollo Hospital, Kolkata and requires blood urgently. (ANY BLOOD GROUP WILL DO). Volunteers are requested to contact Celestine Joseph at 09933776373 as soon as possible.

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CRY – Child Rights and You exists today – to amplify the voice of children. We believe that children are citizens in their own right, entitled to the full spectrum of human rights.
At CRY, we do not believe in charity. Nor do we run schools, orphanages or dispensaries. Instead we partner grassroots-level NGOs working with children, their parents and communities. 30 years of working with and for children have taught us that resources have little to do with it. In over 6700 villages and slums across 18 States, we have witnessed transformational change happening. All it takes is communities becoming aware of their rights and coming together to ensure them. Not just by enrolling children in schools but by addressing the root causes that keep them hungry, illiterate, exploited and abused. Causes like gender, caste, livelihoods and displacement.
We are the IIT Kharagpur Volunteer Chapter of CRY. We aim to implement CRY’s objectives in and around IIT Kharagpur.
Do write or call us (+91 9775550295) to know more on child rights or share with us your suggestions, comments and queries. It’s the only way we’ll know how you feel about India’s children.
To join CRY IIT Kharagpur Volunteer Chapter, please apply online at: http://bit.ly/cryiitkgp
Know more about us.

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In an effort to create employment for rural women in BPL families, Gopali Youth Welfare Society will be providing Thonga (paper bag) making training to the mothers of students studying in its school Jagriti Vidya Mandir.  These paper bags will be sold in Tech Market as an eco-friendly substitute for plastic.
The bags will be made out of old newspapers which will be collected from all the halls of residence by GYWS members at the end of January.
The target areas of the Paperkraft initiative are Gopali, Rangamati and surrounding villages and west Midnapore. As of now 20 women have agreed to be part of this initiative.
Don’t throw away your newspapers!

The DBICA presents International Short Film Festival of India, now in its 4th year, is the largest and most highly attended short film festival in Chennai. The 2 day festival presents over 70 International and National Short films from more than 22 countries, to an audience of 42,000. SFFI is best known for its diverse and cosmopolitan balance of film that ranges from variety of genres like drama, documentary, animation, comedy, science fiction and mystery.

DBICA is the parent organization of the SFFI. It is a non-profit Media and Communication Arts organization that presents the best in world’s short film cinema to audiences in Chennai. The forthcoming 4th International Short Film Festival of India 2010 will be held on 13th and 14th February 2010. More Details can be found here (Mission & General rules of SFFI 2010) and here (Application Form SFFI 2010) .

Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today announced that the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) is the first institution of higher education in India to receive the Charles Babbage Grant from Synopsys. Through the grant, IITKGP receives licenses of Synopsys’ comprehensive electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property. The grant also enables the Institute to purchase compute hardware for the planned Synopsys CAD Laboratory at IITKGP, which would focus exclusively on core EDA and CAD research.

The following have been selected as Reporters for The Scholars’ Avenue.

Chirag Tibrewal

Hridya Ravimohan

Rishabh Poddar

Welcome aboard!