175 years of IIT Roorkee: Institute hosts alumni outreach occasion in Kolkata
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As a part of a hundred and seventy fifth anniversary, Indian Institute of Expertise (IIT) Roorkee on July 17 hosted an alumni outreach occasion in Kolkata, West Bengal.
IIT Roorkee – established as the primary school of Engineering within the British Empire and beforehand referred to as Thomason Faculty of Engineering and College of Roorkee – is in its a hundred and seventy fifth anniversary (1847-2022), celebrations for which began on November 25, 2021 and can proceed until November 24, 2022, an official assertion stated.
The institute has deliberate completely different educational, cultural, sports activities and outreach actions for college kids, college, workers, and alumni in the course of the yr of celebrations.
On Sunday, greater than 200 alumni of the institute participated within the outreach occasion together with their households, IIT Roorkee stated.
“Retired college members of IIT Roorkee who're settled in Kolkata joined this occasion. This was for the third time in a row that IIT Roorkee performed zonal outreach actions after Ahmedabad (West) and Kathmandu (Nepal) to facilitate alumni conferences to achieve out to all alumni and rejoice their achievements and bolster nostalgia and cohesive bonding.Additional, IIT Roorkee is striving to rejoice 175 years of excellence in additional cities comprising Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, and so on,” an officaial starement stated.
“The occasion was graced by the esteemed presence of Padmashri Shri Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman of Ambuja Neotia Group. Different dignitaries included Shri Manoj Pant, Principal Secretary and Finance Secretary West Bengal at Authorities of West Bengal. The occasion additionally witnessed a briefing by Prof. Manoranjan Parida, Deputy Director IIT Roorkee, Prof. Partha Roy, Dean of Sources & Alumni Affairs IIT Roorkee,Prof. Arun Kumar, IIT Roorkee and Mr. Santosh Kumar, CEO IIT Roorkee Improvement Basis,” it added.
Addressing the occasion, Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Director IIT Roorkee, stated, "In our a hundred and seventy fifth yr, that is the third outreach engagement geared toward instilling the significance of a close-knit affiliation inside college students, alumni, and school. All through historical past, lecturers and seniors who got here earlier than us paved a means for the current minds to climb to the highest. The occasion is geared toward creating an setting for all of the alumni within the community to attach with their alma mater and fellow alumni, each senior and junior to them.”
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