Name: Abhishek Raj
Department: Chemical Engineering
Year and Course: 2nd Year, Dual Degree (B.Tech. + M.Tech.)
Hall of Residence: Meghnad Saha Hall of Residence
Contesting For: G Sec, Sports and Games, TSG.
Profile:
Sports:
- Represented IIT Kharagpur in the Inter IIT Sports meet as a member of the table tennis team (2009-10, IIT Kanpur)
- Member of the Silver medal winning table Tennis in the Inter IIT Table Tennis (2009-10)
- Member of Silver winning Table Tennis team of MS HAll of Residence in inter halls 2009-2010
- Member of the inter hall athletics team representing MS HAll of Residence in 2008-09
- National level Tae-kwon-do player in light heavy weight category (Silver medal in majors championship and Gold medal in minors championship)
- Won Gold medal in the shot-put, Discuss-throw, hammer-throw events at School.
- Represented my school in many inter-school chess competitions.
Managerial:
- Indoor Sports secretary of Meghnad Saha Hall of Residence.Hall and under his tenure the results have been: Chess: Gold, Table-Tennis: Silver till now in the inter-halls 2009-10.
- Member of LTS (Leadership Training for Service) group which took the initiative of raising funds for flood relief in Bihar and raised an amount of Rs 41058/-.
- Member of the organizing team for the talent search competition in Bihar called “Brain of Bihar” for the year 2009-10.
- Secretary of my School in class 10th. Was the member of the committee that had organized an Inter Jesuit School BasketBall Championship in 2005.
Others:
- Member of ETDS, KRAIG.
- Took part in inter hall social and cultural events, like dramatics (Hindi, Bengali), choreo representing MS HALL in 2008-09.
- Took part in inter hall social and cultural event of dramatics (English), representing MS HALL in 2009-10.
- Took part in the inter hall Technology events of Ad-design and Chemical-innovation, representing MS HALL in 2009-10.
Proposals:
1. I propose the introduction of a completely sports-dedicated booklet.
As per the plan it would be distributed in two editions one in the autumn and the other in the spring semester.
Edition 1 (Autumn Edition)
This would contain information regarding the various events that will be held in the Freshers, Open-IIT, Inter-Halls and in Shaurya.
Edition 2(Spring Edition)
This would contain the information regarding the status of the various events in the Inter-Halls and also the result of the Inter-IIT and its analysis.
2. I propose to introduce a new “Skating club”.
Note:
Depending upon the response received at the workshops, initiating the formation of a “skating-rink”.
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