e PG Pathshala: A Gateway to all Post Graduate Courses

1.What is e-PGPathshala?

e-PGPathshala is a one portal under which High quality, curriculum-based,interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts & humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being developed.An MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level. The content and its quality is the key component of education system.

2.Terminology in e-PGp and MOOCs

3.What is difference between e-PG Pathshala and SWAYAM?

e-PG Pathshala provides e-content for post-graduate courses in various subjects in four quadrant. It can be accessed as Open Educational Resource where no teacher support/hand-holding for students is available. SWAYAM is a web platform on which MOOCs shall be hosted. These MOOCs shall have teacher-student groups where MOOC coordinator/tutor/teacher will be interacting with the learner. A learner can earn certificate/credit on successful completion of course on SWAYAM

4.What is relation between e-PG Pathshala and SWAYAM?

e-PGPathshala hosts the content for PG students which can be used for offering courses through MOOCs (SWAYAM). Every paper in a subject can potentially be offered as a course by converting as per the guidelines.

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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)

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4	MANOJ MOLANKAR	88
5	SARVESH NARKAR	86
6	VINIT NEOGI	85
7	TEJASWARARAO MOTAMARRI	85

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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