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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.
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