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VP Opinion Poll

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Name : Digvijay Gagneja
Department : Department of Electrical Engineering

Year and Course : 3rd Year, Dual Degree

Hall : Nehru

  1. Head incharge of Finances of Kshitij 2009.
  2. Conducted Successful Guest Lectures by ‘Mr.Prahlad Kakkar’ and ‘Dr. Philip Emeagwali’ who captivated an audience of jam-packed TOAT.
  3. Conducted workshop on Forensic Science by CBI and the workshop on Filmmaking.
  4. Initiated and was instrumental in the creation of the online payment gateway for Kshitij.
  5. Soc-Cult Participation: Won GOLD in Inter-Hall Western Vocals, Open-IIT Elocution, SILVER in Inter-Hall Western Groups, Western Vocals, English Elocution, BRONZE in Inter-Hall Choreography, Open-IIT English Dramatics.
  6. Tech Participation: Won SILVER in Inter-Hall AD-Design, Part of Inter-Hall Case-Study Team of Nehru hall.
  7. Sports Participation: Part of Basketball team of Nehru Hall of Residence.
  8. Member of the Western Technology Music Society.
  9. Offered an Internship in ITC, the first company visiting campus for selections.
  10. Anchored Kshitij’s Internal Workshop by iVIZ and External Workshop in Kolkata
  11. CGPA of 8.49 in the department of Electrical Engineering.

Clarification from TSA : The Elocution Gold was Open IIT and not Inter Hall

  1. Establishment of a body for student’s welfare with 3 major objectives:

    a) To establish a centralised mechanism for providing students an opportunity to work under professors in their projects during summer and winter breaks.

    b) Providing a stipend for such students.

    c) Formalising a training procedure for final placements by means of GDs, Assessment Tests and Interviews.

  2. Collaboration with NGOs to educate students and provide internship opportunities
  3. Introduction of Department Representatives in the Traninig and Placement Committee to make the placement process more effective and penetrative. (Proposal clarified by candidate)
  4. Streaming of news channels on the LAN

Name : Shubham Matah

Department : Department of Chemical Engineering

Year and Course : 3rd Year, Dual Degree

Hall : Azad

  1. Sponsorship Head of Kshitij 2009; brought Sponsorship worth INR 9.25 Lacs.
  2. Brought Incubation worth INR 25 Lacs for BPlan competition.
  3. Incharge of Fest’s Audio-Visuals, Photography & Videography.
  4. Soc-Cult participation : Won GOLD in Inter-hall Western Groups ‘08, SILVER in Inter-hall Choreo ‘09.
  5. Tech participation : Won GOLD in Inter-hall Ad Design ‘08.
  6. Sports & Games participation : Won SILVER in Inter-hall Cricket.
  7. Anchored National Education Day celebration of IIT Kharagpur & Kshitij’s Kolkata workshop.
  8. Interned in Ranbaxy after 2nd yr; going to Bharat Petroleum after 3rd yr.
  1. Formation of the “Alternate Careers Group” under the TSG in order to provide students with information about alternate career paths.
  2. Introduce changes to improve the placements in IIT Kharagpur
  3. Provide additional infrastructure to student groups for conducting meetings.
  4. Tie-up with Big Bazaar for home delivery of merchandise at discounted prices via tele-shopping.
  5. Get Sponsored Industrial B.Tech and M.Tech projects for students


UPDATE: The poll has been taken down due to people casting multiple votes. We will try to start a more representative poll soon. Please bear with us.

DISCLAIMER : Information regarding the proposals and achievements has been reproduced exactly as given to us by the candidates. The Scholars’ Avenue is not responsible for any misinformation contained therein.

UPDATE: The VP SOP videos are available on DC++. Search “[ScholsAve] SOP 2009″.