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Participants across
India attend ISTE national convention at RIST
RIST, RI BHOI DISTRICT, OCTOBER 28:
Over 1,000 participants including about a hundred from
across the country were present at the inaugural session of
the 20thISTE Students’ National Convention 2017, hosted
jointly by Regional Institute of Science & Technology (RIST)
and University of Science & Technology Meghalaya (USTM) at
RIST campus at Techno City on the outskirts of Guwahati on
Saturday. Incidentally, this is the first time that such a
national level convention of technical students is taking
place in the North East.
Following the inaugural and welcome address by Prof
Amarjyoti Choudhury, VC, USTM and Dr Bhabaranjan Sarmah,
Vice President, ISTE New Delhi respectively, Prof Pratapsinh
K Desai, President ISTE, New Delhi said that the Indian
Society for Technical Education (ISTE) is the leading
national professional non-profit making society for the
technical education system in India with the motto “Career
development of teachers & personality development of
students and overall development of India’s technical
education system.” He informed that present, ISTE has a very
large and effective membership base consisting of more than
one lakh life members, 5.5 lakh student members, 2410
institutional members (including IITs, IISs, NITs and other
leading technical institutions), 1214 faculty chapters and
1322 students’ chapters in addition to 17 sections
throughout the country.
In his address as the chief guest, Prof Dileep N Malkhede,
Adviser, AICTE, said, “AICTE and ISTE re working hand in
hand across the country for improving the infrastructure and
teaching methods in institutions imparting courses in
technical and engineering subjects. Now we shall stress on
augmenting resources for the North Eastern region for
scholarships, establishment of skills and personality
development centres, and sponsoring students to participate
in programmes at both national and international levels.”
Prof Dhiraj Bora, VC, Assam Science & Technology University,
stressed on the need for conservation of environment and
urged the student community to take a leading role in this
sphere.
Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor, USTM requested the ISTE
functionaries to invite corporates and technocrats at future
conventions so that students could interact with them. Many
such invitees, he said, could be the future employers of
these students.
The concluding remarks at the inaugural session were made by
Prof NK Choudhury, Chief Academic Adviser of ERDF. Earlier,
the dignitaries released a souvenir published to mark the
occasion. Several national and state level awards were also
presented at the inaugural session.
Robotics Football Competition, Quiz, Model Presentation,
Paper Presentation on the theme “Technological
transformation: a futuristic approach”, Posters Competition,
Circuit Design Competition, Build-o-Mania Competition for
Civil Engineering students and many other engrossing events
followed the inaugural session. |
