TCS to Power New Government Initiative to Double India’s Covid-19 Testing Capacity through Supply Chain Solution

 TCS through its supply chain solution is helping the Indian Government’s C-CAMP build, manage and scale an ecosystem of MSMEs to indigenously produce a million Covid-19 test kits a day

TCS recently announced that it has deployed a blockchain-based digital supply chain platform that powers an ambitious new project launched by the Government of India’s Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) to scale up indigenous Covid-19 diagnostic test-kit production capacity to a million test kits a day.

C-CAMP’s newly launched project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, is called Indigenisation of Diagnostics (InDx), and aims to build a robust, scalable supply-chain ecosystem of Indian MSMEs capable of producing large quantities of reagents and other components needed for RT-qPCR-based and other diagnostic test kits for Covid-19. The project entails eliminating supply-chain bottlenecks, and handholding MSMEs to help them bridge capability gaps, meet necessary quality standards and expand capacities to be able to indigenously produce a million test kits a day.

As C-CAMP’s technology partner, TCS has developed and deployed a dynamic digital supply-chain platform to manage the MSME ecosystem, powered by the TCS Data Marketplace solution. The solution enables organizations to embrace new ecosystem-based business models, giving them the ability to democratize data and monetize it to create value. It facilitates standardized, controlled data exchanges across ecosystem participants with the necessary security and privacy protection, using blockchain at the back-end to ensure the immutability of audit logs, says a statement from the company.

This capability has been harnessed in the InDx project to build a supply-chain platform that aggregates test kit supply data of Tier 2 and 3 manufacturers of kits, enzymes, primers and antibodies, and provides ready visibility to Tier 1 suppliers as well as to C-CAMP on supplier-specific quality levels, capacities and inventories across the ecosystem, enabling the latter to respond to the demand for those test kits from the Government as testing programs are ramped up across the country.

“As a purpose-driven organization, we are delighted to partner with C-CAMP in this bold new initiative to scale up India’s testing capacity, and make Covid-19 testing accessible to every Indian who needs it. The TCS Data Marketplace solution is the lynchpin that anchors InDx’s supplier ecosystem of micro, small and medium enterprises, democratizing supplier data, enhancing supply-chain visibility, and driving superior outcomes for all stakeholders. The success of this initiative sets an example for how ecosystem-based partnerships can be put to work for other mission-mode programs of national importance,” said Dinanath Kholkar, global head – analytics and insights, TCS.

Source: https://www.dqindia.com/tcs-power-new-government-initiative-double-indias-covid-19-testing-capacity-supply-chain-solution/

GATE 2021 MOCK TEST LINKS and PAST QUESTION PAPERS

Mock Test Links: https://gate.iitb.ac.in/mock.php

Previous Years Question Papers: https://gate.iitb.ac.in/prev_qp.php

Previous Years Question Papers are also on our Institute Repository at:

http://dspace.sfittest.online:8004/jspui/handle/123456789/843

UPDATE TO SPECIAL FACILITIES FROM LIBRARY DURING COVID 19 LOCKDOWN

EXTENDED ISSUE PERIOD

1) Books borrowed by all students have been renewed till 15/01/2021.

2) Books borrowed by all students have been renewed till 31/12/2020.

2) Book Bank books have been renewed till 15/01/2021.

For other online facilities, please access:

https://www.sfit.ac.in/pdf/library/SPECIAL%20FACILITIES%20FROM%20LIBRARY%20DURING%20COVID%2019%20LOCKDOWN.pdf

IIT Bombay invites applications for Free Online Course on Programming Through C++ via NPTEL

IIT Bombay has organised this course while keeping in mind the value of basic programming to all. According to IIT Bombay, C++ allows one to design very fast programs and access low-level machine features. At the same time, its libraries provide a very high-level programming model. Some even consider C++, a modern, safer version of the C language.

This course provides an approach to problem-solving and programming using the C++ programming language. The topics include basic programming notions, control flow, variables and assignments statements, conditional execution, looping, function calls including recursion, arrays and structure, an elementary aspects of classes, heap memory, program design. It further ventures into the array of how human beings solve problems manually.

Moreover, the course includes strategies to translate manual strategies to computer programs, organizing large programs into units such as functions and classes, introduction to assertions and invariants, programming applications, arithmetic on polynomials, matrices, root finding, sorting and searching, design of editors and simulators, including graphical editors; elementary animation, a rudimentary graphics system, standard Library of C++ and the string, vector and map classes.

Who can enrol in the course?

This is an Undergraduate computer science level course which the first and second-year students can easily take. But anyone can enrol in the course. The only prerequisite is you should have had Science in Class 12.

Timeline of the course

This Elective course has a duration of 12 weeks. It will start from 18 January 2021 and end on 09 April 2021. If you want the certificate, you have to give a proctored exam on 25 April 2021. The last date to enrol is 25 January 2020.

Source: https://www.ciol.com/iit-bombay-invites-applications-free-online-course-programming-c-via-nptel/

In 5 Days, You Can Get a Certificate From ISRO With This Free Online Course

 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is offering a free course on Advances in SAR-Polarimetry and Interferometry, which is scheduled to be conducted from 14 to 18 December 2020.

Things to know:

• This course being offered by ISRO is free of any charge.
• The course is open to all and will be conducted online.
• Upon completion participants will also be awarded a certificate of completion.
• There will be an examination conducted upon the completion of the course.
• There will be a self-assessment that will be conducted for the participants.
• Participants can also take the online quiz for enhancing their learning.
• Certificate will be awarded on the basis of the participation as well as a minimum of 70 per cent attendance.
• The working language of the course is English.
• Undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and faculty members can apply for this course.
• The registration for the course has already begun.

For guidelines, please have a look at: https://eclass.iirs.gov.in/assets/guidelines_for_participants.pdf

READING INSPIRATION DAY 2020: Report

 READING INSPIRATION DAY 2020

LIRC celebrates Reading Inspiration Day or Waachan Prerana Diwas every year on 15 October to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam – our ex-President and the Missile Man of India. Every year, we organize various activities such as Exhibition of books and Take Away of Donated books. 

This year due to the COVID 19 lockdown, we  conducted an Online Quiz which judged the respondent’s knowledge through guessing the book by the given description. 61 responses were received. The favourite genre of books was Fiction followed by True Stories and Autobiographies. Many varied book recommendations were received which we will compile and a selected few will be soon added to the library’s collection. A big thank you to Asso. Prof. Bidisha Roy (CMPN) and Asst. Prof. Jovita Serrao (ExTC) for the creative digital bookmarks.

Ms. Bidisha Roy

Ms. Jovita Serrao

                                    Department Wise Participation for the Quiz

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