READING INSPIRATION DAY 2016 - REPORT

 READING INSPIRATION DAY 2016

 

 

“Vaachan Prerana Diwas‟ was celebrated at St Francis Institute of Technology to commemorate the birth anniversary (October 15) of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. As part of the celebrations, the library organized an “Exhibition of Books‟ and “Take Away‟ of selected books and magazines. The library received a very good response from students and staff as there were around 150 visitors. The Book Exhibition covered books on a variety of topics to meet the varied interests of the students and staff community. The library and the staff was happy organizing this event and marked the “Vaachan Prerana Diwas‟ by offering a tribute to the vision and knowledge of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

Following two initiatives were undertaken on this auspicious occasion:

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Bookworms rush to Khar on Oct 2 to connect with your first love @ The Reading Social

Bookworms,rush to Khar on Oct 2 to connect with your first love @ The Reading Social

Voracious readers Rashmi Baruah and Sandeep Malhotra, who kicked off The Reading Social,a series of gatherings at a pub or a cafe to engage in silent reading, in the city a month ago, have now launched an “anti-social initiative”, aimed at connecting readers with books without the constraints of technology. The novel initiative seeks to disconnect book lovers from social media and WhatsApp,giving them the opportunity to read in peace.
Speaking about the initiative, Rashmi said, “The Reading Social is a social movement aimed at giving readers the opportunity to enjoy downtime with a book. The platform encourages silent reading and allows book lovers to interact with other bibliophiles. Since reading sessions are held in a bar or cafe, book lovers can get their own books, grab a drink, disconnect from the world and read without interruptions for about three hours.”
After the success of the first session, the second session will be held on the morning of October 2 at Khar Social. Furnishing other details about the initiative,Rashmi said, “My friends and I were always on the lookout for peaceful corners in the city that would allow us to read without disruptions. We would even travel out of the city. After a few gatherings, the group grew in size. This anti-social form of reading was a hit! Around 20 book lovers from across the city attended our first session.”
Readers who join the group are given reading tips, including switching off communication devices and finding a comfortable reading spot. Co-founder Sandeep Malhotra said they were overwhelmed by the response they received for the first session. 
 
“The first session generated word-of-mouth buzz. We have increased the reading time to three hours for the next session. We have about 150 people inquiring about the event already.”


Source: Daily News Analysis dated 21 September 2016

Best Users of the LIRC (A.Y. 2015-16)

Best Users of the LIRC (A.Y. 2015-16)

Sr. No.	Member	No's.
1	SHAILIN SHAH	112
2	ASHOK MORE	108
3	SAWANT SHIVANI SANDEEP SUMEDHA	88
4	MANOJ MOLANKAR	88
5	SARVESH NARKAR	86
6	VINIT NEOGI	85
7	TEJASWARARAO MOTAMARRI	85

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Active Users - August 2016

Active Users of the LIRC
Period: July 1 to 31, 2016)

Active Users – Students

Sr. No.	Member	No's.
S.N.	Name of the Active User of LIRC	Nos. of transactions
1	UMANG BHATT	13
2	CHAUHAN AMAN	11
3	SAWANT SHIVANI	11
4	MANOJ MOLANKAR	10
5	KESARKAR KOMAL	10
6	IRAM KHAN	10
7	DEOKAR JAYITA	9
8	NITESH DEORUKHKAR	9
9	SHAILIN SHAH	9
10	MANDAL KUMAR AKSHAT	9
11	PANDYA RIDDHI	9
12	SUMEET SHARMA	8
13	SONI MAYUR	8
14	SONI AKSHAR	8
15	SHUKLA MANAN	8
16	SHARMA ANKITA	8
17	TIWARI ADARSH	8
18	GHOSHAL ARINDAM	8
19	HEGDE ABHISHEK	8
20	CHOVATIYA MEGHA	8
21	ABHIJEET PRABHU	8
22	ANUJ SHASTRI	8
23	SHREYAS MENON	8
24	JOSHI SHUBHAM	8
25	KOLE NAMRATA	8
26	PANKAJ CHAUHAN	8

Active Users - Faculty

S.N.	Name of the Student	Nos. of Transactions
1	ASST.PROF.KEVIN D'SOUZA (ExTC)	10
2	LECT.MAHIMA PHILIP (FE)	9
3	ASST.PROF.ALVINA ALPHONSO (INFT)	9
4	ASST.PROF.VAISHALI JADHAV (INFT)	9

Active Users of the Library - March 2016

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Sr. No.	Member	No's. of transactions
1	SAWANT SHIVANI SANDEEP SUMEDHA	18
2	SARVESH NARKAR	14
3	POOJA PANDIT	13
4	SONI MAYUR ASHOK SANGEETA	13
5	TEJASWARARAO MOTAMARRI	13
6	DIVYA KAMAT	13
7	SHAILIN SHAH	12
8	MANOJ MOLANKAR	12
9	EKATA SINGH	11
10	SHINDE APARNA	11

PLANE PUT TOGETHER ON A CHARKOP TERRACE FEATURES IN MAKE IN INDIA

Top: Charkop resident Amol Yadav at the Make in India Week venue in BKC with his flying machine. He started work to build the plane in 2009, and claims it can soar up to 13,000 ft; above: The aircraft being built on the terrace of Amol Yadav's flat in Charkop

Amol Yadav, a pilot with Jet Airways, spent six years building a six-seater aircraft in a house he shares with 19 family members.

Among a plethora of innovation marvels at the Make in India Week, commencing this evening at the Bandra Kurla Complex, is a six-seater aircraft entirely assembled in a three-BHK flat in Charkop, Kandivali (W).

That the product is no fly-by-night enterprise is certified by none other than the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which has given the plane the display space alongside some of its own flying machines at Narendra Modi's pet event that is hoping to earn investment to the tune of Rs 4.6 lakh crore.

The plane's maker is Amol Yadav, a 40-year-old deputy chief pilot with Jet Airways, whose obsession with aircraft began in school, found wings during a year-long flying training course in the US, and materialised piece-bypiece over a period of six years in his home in Sukant Society, which he shares with 19 of his family members.

"The terrace attached to our flat is spread over 1,600 sq ft, and has been my workshop. I have been living on the terrace for the last six years," he said. Yadav, an alumni of Patkar College in Goregaon, was inspired to try his hand at assembling planes after he saw flying enthusiasts in the US purchasing phased-out planes and turning them into customised six or 12-seater flying machines.

"I went to the US for training in 1995, and saw a lot of people in the US, middleclass families, assembling used planes to create customised flying machines. I was inspired to do the same in India, and the more I struggled, the more I got obsessed with singlehandedly assembling a plane right here in my home," he said.

Egged on by a supportive family ("My parents chipped in financially, the uncles and the aunts put up with the equipment lying all over the house, and the wife never complained about the noise that went on every night for the last six years"), Yadav has created a plane that can soar up to 13,000 ft at 1,500 ft per minute, and cover a distance of 2,000 km at the top speed of 185 nautical miles per hour.

He didn't want to reveal the exact amount spent on building the plane, but conceded that it cost him a "few crores". "I started building this plane in 2009, and finished work only a few months ago. The plane can accommodate five passengers, and weighs 1,450 kg," Yadav said.

Like all aircraft, Yadav's plane is made of aluminium. It measures 10-fteight-inches in height, and was put together under the guidance of Air Marshal Murali Sundaram, and an advisory panel of the IIT-B professors, under the banner of Thrust Aircraft Company, a firm launched by Yadav. He has applied to the aviation regulator DGCA for permissions to test the aircraft - named TAC 003 - but is yet to hear from them.

The struggle

Apart from the lack of space and paucity of funds, Yadav had to learn to ignore doubters: the so-called wellwishers and friends who ridiculed him for attempting to build a plane in a congested house. "A few of them thought I had lost my mind. I would only talk about planes. They thought I was crazy to be attempting to build one at home," he said.

The struggle could have easily turned bitter. His first effort, in 1998, and the subsequent one in 2001, didn't yield the desired results. "I'm working to build a plane for the last 17 years, considering I started assembling my first plane in 1998. Searching for equipment, arranging the money, and the sheer toil... I have lost count of the sleepless nights," he said.

The biggest challenge was the procurement of the basics: the engine and the navigation system. The family raised money by selling off ancestral jewellery to import the customised piston engine from the US. It is a 350-horse power engine manufactured by Proformance Unlimited, and Yadav's plane falls in the category of the single-engine land air plane (which means it cannot fly over water).

He also had to import the navigational suite -- which is an advanced touch-screen navigation technology - from America. "I dream of playing a part in setting up the Indian domestic air connectivity on the lines of America and Europe. After nearly seven decades of Independence, why are we still not able to build aircraft?" Yadav asked.

He is betting big on Make in India Week, hoping to attract investors. "I'm confident of creating custom-made aircraft. With some backing, I could revolutionise the Indian aviation history," he said. Inputs: Aditya Anand 

Source: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Plane-put-together-on-a-Charkop-terrace-features-in-Make-in-India/articleshow/50969409.cms

Display of books on Entrepreneurship

A week-long display from March 14 to 19, 2016 of books on Entrepreneurship was organized for the E-Cell event to be held on 19 March in the Institute. Students were happy to see these books and many were borrowed.
Some of the books are:

1	19595	ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTOR CYCLE MAINTENANCE(Book)	On Display
2	19608	GOOD TO GREAT: WHY SOME COMPANIES MAKE THE LEAP AND OTHERS DON'T(Book)	Issued
3	20592	STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH(Book)	Issued
4	19226	GO KISS THE WORLD: LIFE LESSONS FOR THE YOUNG PROFESSIONAL(Book)	On Display
5	19227	OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH PROJECT PROFILES(Book)	On Display
6	19230	HOW TO START YOUR OWN EXPORT BUSINESS(Book)	On Display
7	19228	SELECT AND START YOUR OWN INDUSTRY(Book)	Issued
8	19231	PROFITABLE SMALL, COTTAGE AND HOME INDUSTRIES(Book)	On Display
9	19232	BEST BUSINESSES YOU CAN START WITH ALMOST NO COST(Book)	On Display
10	19233	GROW RICH BY STARTING YOUR OWN BUSNESS(Book)	On Display
11	19234	FIFTY PROJECTS TO START WITH FIVE LAKHS(Book)	On Display
12	19235	BEST HOME BUSINESSES TO START WITH JUST FIFTY THOUSAND(Book)	On Display
13	19236	STOP DREAMING: START YOUR OWN BUSINESS(Book)	On Display
14	19237	WHAT NO ONE EVER TELLS YOU ABOUT STARTING YOUR BUSINESS: FACILITIES AND PROCEDURES FOR ENTREPRENEURS(Book)	On Display
15	19238	SECRETS FOR MAKING BIG PROFITS FROM YOUR BUSINESS WITH EXPORT GUIDELINES(Book)	On Display
16	19239	SELECTED PROJECTS TO START WITH THIRTY LAKHS(Book)	On Display
17	19241	SELECTED PROJECTS TO START WITH THIRTY FIVE LAKHS(Book)	On Shelf
18	19240	SELECTED PROJECTS TO START WITH FIFTEEN LAKHS(Book)	On Display
19	19242	DETAILED PROJECT PROFILES ON SELECTED HI-TECH PROJECTS(Book)	On Display
20	19596	PRINCE, THE(Book)	On Display
21	19597	REALITY CHECK: THE IRREVERENT GUIDE TO OUTSMARTING, OUTMANAGING AND OUTMARKETING YOUR COMPETITION(Book)	On Display
22	19598	GETTING THINGS DONE: HOW TO ACHIEVE STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY(Book)	On Shelf
23	19599	FOUR-HOUR WORK WEEK: ESCAPE 9 - 5, LIVE ANYWHERE AND JOIN THE NEW RICH(Book)	Issued
24	19604	LOSING MY VIRGINITY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY(Book)	Issued
25	19606	THE PRIZE: THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY AND POWER(Book)	On Display
26	19609	THE INFORMATION: A HISTORY, ATHEORY, A FLOOD(Book)	On Display
27	19610	BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY: HOWTO CREATE UNCONTROLLED MARKET SPACE AND MAKE THE COMPETITION IRRELEVANT(Book)	On Display
28	19612	THE KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEUR: HOW YOUR BUSINESS CAN CREATE, MANAGE AND PROFIT FROM INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL(Book)	On Display
29	19613	INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PRACTICE AND PRINCIPLES(Book)	On Display
30	19614	ENTREPRENEURSHIP: NEW VENTURE CREATION(Book)	On Display
31	19615	ENTREPEDIA: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO BECOMING AN ENTREPRENEUR IN INDIA(Book)	On Display
32	19616	THE BACKROOM BRIGADE: HOW A FEW INTREPID ENTREPRENEURS BROUGHT THE WORLD TO INDIA(Book)	On Display
33	19617	BUILT TO LAST: SUCCESSFUL HABITS OF VISIONARY COMPANIES(Book)	On Display
34	19619	BRICK BY RED BRICK: RAVI MATTHAI AND THE MAKING OF IIM AHMEDABAD(Book)	On Display
35	19618	ENTREPRENEUR'S TOOLKIT: TOLS AND TEHNIQUES TO LAUNCH AND GROW YOUR NEW BUSINESS(Book)	On Display
36	19828	THE INNOVATOR'S DILEMMA(Book)	On Display
37	19829	TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN(Book)	On Display
38	19830	THE POWER BROKER: ROBERT MOSES AND THE FALL OF NEW YORK(Book)	On Display
39	19831	THE TRIBAL LEADERSHIP: LEVERAGING NATURAL GROUPS TO BUILD A THRIVING ORGANIZATION(Book)	On Display
40	19832	FOUNDERS AT WORK: STORIES OF STARTUPS' EARLY DAYS(Book)	On Display
41	19833	ENCHANTMENT: HOW TO WOO, INFLUENCE AND PERSUADE(Book)	On Display
42	19835	THE HABIT OF WINNING: STORIES TO INSPIRE, MOTIVATE AND UNLEASH THE WINNER WITHIN(Book)	Issued
43	19836	UNUSUAL PEOPLE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY(Book)	On Display
44	19837	MBA AT SIXTEEN: A TEENAGER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF BUSINESS(Book)	On Display
45	19852	MANAGEMENT IN NEW AGE: WESTERN WINDOWS EASTERN DOORS(Book)	On Display
46	19853	FUNDAMENTALS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP(Book)	On Display
47	19854	IT HAPPENED IN INDIA: THE STORY OF PANTALOONS, BIG BAZAAR, CENTRAL AND THE GREAT INDIAN CONSUMER(Book)	On Display
48	19855	FINANCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS(Book)	On Display
49	19856	CORPORATE CHAMPIONS: EXCELLENT COMPANIES OF INDIA(Book)	On Display
50	19857	OF POVERTY AND PLASTIC: SCAVENGING AND SCRAP TRADING ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA'S URBAN INFORMAL ECONOMY(Book)	On Display
51	20168	BILL GATES SPEAKS: INSIGHT FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST ENTREPRENEUR(Book)	On Display
52	20436	ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT(Book)	On Display
53	20437	THE HIGH PERFORMANCE ENTREPRENEUR: GOLDEN RULES FOR SUCCESS IN TODAY'S WORLD(Book)	On Display
54	20438	PILOTING PALM: THE INSIDE STORY OF PLAM, HANDSPRING AND THE BIRTH OF THE BILLION-DOLLAR HANDHELD INDUSTRY(Book)	On Display
55	20456	VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTING: THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK FOR INVESTING IN PROVATE BUSINESSES FOR OUTSTANDING PROFITS(Book)	Missing
56	20457	PEAK: HOW GREAT COMPANIES GET THEIR MOJO FROM MASLOW(Book)	On Display
57	20493	CONNECT THE DOTS: THE INSPIRING STORIES OF TWENTY ENTREPRENEURS WITHOUT AN MBA WHO DARED TO FIND THEIR OWN PATH(Book)	On Display
58	20593	CONNECT THE DOTS: THE INSPIRING STORIES OF TWENTY ENTREPRENEURS WITHOUT AN MBA WHO DARED TO FIND THEIR OWN PATH(Book)	On Display
59	20494	LEAVING MICROSOFT TO CHANGE THE WORLD: AN ENTREPRENEUR'S QUEST TO EDUCATE THE WORLD'S CHILDREN(Book)	On Display
60	20594	I HAVE A DREAM(Book)	On Display
61	20595	FOLLOW EVERY RAINBOW: THE INSPIRING STORIES OF 25 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS WHOSE GENTLE TOUCH CREATED STRONG BUSINESS(Book)	Issued
62	20601	WORLD CHANGERS: ENTREPRENEURS WHO CHANGED BUSINESS AS WE KNEW IT(Book)	On Shelf
63	20763	MAKING SILICON VALLEY: INNOVATION AND THE GROWTH OF HI-TECH, 1930-1970(Book)	On Display
64	21813	CII ENTREPRENEUR'S HANDBOOK(Book)	On Shelf
65	22205	HOW TO BUILD A MILLION DOLLAR APP: DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS OF OUR TIME(Book)	Issued
66	22223	E-INNOVATION: TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS(Book)	On Display