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BITS SPARK 44
CONTENTS
BITS2BSCHOOL 46
BITS2MSPHD 48
BITS2MARATHON 50
OTHER INITIATIVES 55
CAREER
CENTER
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PROJECT PARIVARTAN 58
INVESTMENT COMMITTEE 62
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS
CHAPTER
ACTVITIES
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OTHER
INITIATIVES
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VOLUNTEER AWARDS 67
HOW TO DONATE 70
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 72
COVER STORY
BITSIANS DAY
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LIST OF DONORS 73
MEET THE ANNUAL REPORT TEAM
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CONNECT WITH US
PROJECT
PARIVARTAN
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CHAIRMANS ADDRESS
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MESSAGE FROM THE VICE CHANCELLOR
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BITSAA BOARD
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LEADERSHIP 2014
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CAREER CENTER
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SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
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CHAPTER ACTIVITIES
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SCHOLARSHIPS &
AWARDS
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Chairmans Address
CHAIRMANS
ADDRESS
Dear BITSians,
I hope all of you had a memorable 2014. The leadership team at BITSAA International, along
with the Board, had set out specific goals for the year 2013. Thanks to your active participation and support, our Alumni Association has made exellent progress.
Let me highlight some of the big achievements of 2014:
BITSAA International kick started the Bridges to the Future fundraising campaign in Dec
2011 and BITSAA set out to raise the $1 Million before BITSAA Global Meet 2014. I am extremely happy to inform you that BITSAA has exceeded the expectations and has crossed $1
Million thanks to generous donors like you. The funds raised has been supporting various
initiatives for BITS Pilani and its alumni. The leadership team at BITSAA has always pursued
programs that we believe will not only benefit BITS Pilani but serve as a model for other
colleges across India thereby benefiting the broader society. One such initiative is the BITSConnect 2.0. Spearheaded by alumni, this project has put BITS Pilani on the map of the finest
universities in the world for leveraging technology in education. It comes as no surprise that
BITSConnect 2.0 recently won the EDGE award from Informationweek.
offices across the globe, with Microsoft officially acknowledging the BITSians in their office
by re-tweeting a photo of BITSians at Microsoft. The event was held in 45 different chapters
across the globe, with more than 2500 BITSians coming together to celebrate. BITSians in
remote places such as Tanzania, Africa and Ganjam, Orissa, India also came together on this
day. Unfortunately, I was away from home but was lucky to celebrate the BITSians Day in
Columbus, Ohio which could have a chapter of its own soon. With the help of Balraj Varma
(74-79) and Shobna Varma (76-81), long time residents of Columbus and already very active
in the community, particularly with the BITSians, we were able to gather over 25 BITSians
on a very short notice.
BITS Pilani has been awarded the inaugural FICCI Higher Education Award 2014 for ICT
Integration 2014. The award was presented by Mr. Greg Clark, UKs Minister of State for
Universities, in the presence of Shrimati Smriti Irani, Minister HRD, and Ms. Niikki Randhawa Haley, Governor of South Carolina (USA), Mr. Mohandas Pai Chair, FICCI HE Committee. Among other things, BITS was recognized for use of ICT in online BITSAT exam since
2005, ERP integration for academic and administrative functions since 2013, TelePresence
based classrooms and conference facilities since 2013, and for recent efforts to introduce e-Attendance and edX based MOOCs/SPOCs courses. This is not to mention the massive ICT
infrastructure, portals and the various application services/software developed in-house and
run for several years.
All these achievements would not have been possible without the support of you BITSians,
and I wholeheartedly thank you all! I am confident that you will continue to support us and
BITSAA will scale greater heights.
I also thank all the volunteers for their tireless efforts which helps us realize our goals. Starting as a three member organization over a decade back, BITSAA International is now a 200
people strong global volunteer team and serves over 40,000 alumni across the globe.
Thank You
Jayan Ramankutty
Chairman, BITSAA International
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BITS Pilani forged a partnership with edX, a MOOC platform comprising a worldwide consortium of universities, including the prestigious MIT and Harvard University. BITS Pilani is
a contributing member, and will use edX to enhance its learning experience of its on-campus
courses and will also MOOC courses to students outside of BITS. This new initiative will
support the objectives of BITS in expanding its technology footprint in education using tools,
technology and platform from edX. I would like to thank all our Board Members, especially
Viggy Mokkarala, S P Kothari and Shashikant Kandhelwal, for their efforts to put this in
place.
BITSAA organized its second BITSians day on the 1st of August, 2014. The event saw tremendous participation from all you BITSians! BITSians day was celebrated across 100
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BITSAA Board
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Sarath Kolla (93)
Anupendra Sharma (87)
Brij Bhushan (60)
Arun Aravind (97)
Ramaswamy Nagarajan (61)
Krishna Hegde (96)
Trustee & Chair, New Scholarships and Endowment Committee
Advisor - Bitsaa
International`
Srikanth
Krishnamurthy (88)
Dr. AP Mathur (70)
Trustee
Advisor - Bitsaa
International
Venu Palaparthi (87)
Shashikant
Khandelwal (97)
Aalap Tripathy (04)
Trustee
Advisor - Bitsaa
International
Abhinav Khushraj (95)
Ashish Garg (97)
BITSAA BOARD
BOARD OF TRUSTEES - 2014
Jayan Ramankutty (75)
Chairman
Raju Reddy (76)

Trustee
Dr. SP Kothari (74)

Trustee & Chairman
Emeritus
Viggy Mokkarala (76)
Trustee
Trustee & Chair

Fundraising Committee
Trustee
Chandra Bhople (74)
Sandhya Prakash(87)
Trustee
Niranjan Bose (92)

Trustee
Deepak Sharma (91)

Trustee
Pradeep Sethi (72)

Trustee
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Aditi Pany (00)
Advisor - Bitsaa
International
Advisor - Bitsaa
International
Trustee
C S Goel (74)
Vice Chair, Bitsaa Chapters

Council & Trustee (ex-officio)
Sudeep Jain (86)
Vice Chair, Bitsaa Chapters

Council & Trustee (ex-officio)
Advisor - Bitsaa
International
Co-founder & Advisor Bitsaa International
Kaushik Subramanian (01)

Advisor - Bitsaa
International`
Advisor - Bitsaa
International
Trustee
Rajesh Chelapurath (88)
Co-Founder & Advisor, Bitsaa

International
BITSAA INDIA TRUST

Dr. Ashok Agarwal (60)
B Ramesh (63)
O P Jagetiya (66)
Shiv Kumar Tayal
Sanjay Khendry (82)
Shiv Shankar Asthana
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
Board Member
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Leadership 2014
BITS2BSCHOOL
LEADERSHIP 2014
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Rohit Koul (02)
Chief Executive Officer

& Trustee
Abhisheak Iyer (02)
Chief Financial Officer

& Trustee
Shwetha Kailash (08)

Chief Marketing
Officer
Chief People Strategy

Officer & Trustee
Suresh Sajja (03)
Chief Technology Officer
Kalyan Krishnamani (97)
Chief PR Officer
INVESTMENT
BITS2MSPHD
Hari Prasath (04)
Koti Mylavarapu (01)
Varsha Rajshekar (07)
Director
Manager
Reuben George (09)
Vasudha Nukala (07)
Adwait Gandhe (08)
Team Leader
Lohit Uppalapati (10)

Team Leader
Manoj Kambadur (05)

Volunteer
BITS SPARK
Rajesh Damarapati (96)
Director
Volunteer
BITS2MARATHON
Team Leader
Harshad Deshmukh (06)

Team Leader
Divesh Kumar (06)
Manish Kumar (05)
Siddharth Gupta (07)
Ishaan Biswas (07)
Director
Manager
Robin Garg (07)

Manager
Jyoth Kali Prasad

Bhogaraju (12)
Manager
Manager
Avneesh Singh (06)

Team Leader
Animesh Tambi (07)

Team Leader
Prateek Chaudhary (07)

Volunteer
CAMPUS RELATIONS
Utkarsh Mehrotra (09)
Director
GROWTH TEAM
Manager
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Raghu Raman (04)
Anurag VNVJ (06)
Team Leader
Team Leader
Apoorvaa Deshpande (08)

Team Leader
Manasa Gopal (09)

Team Leader
Ashwin Naik (08)

Team Leader
Shruti JP Mehta (03)

Manager
CAMPUS RELATIONS
(contd.)
COMMUNICATIONS &
MARKETING (contd.)
Angad S Oberoi (11)
Karthik Ganesh (10)
Member
Tanish Anand (11)

Member
Aditi Kulkarni (12)

Member
Amitabh Aggarwal (12)

Member
Anjali Sinha (12)

Member
Raghav Jajodia (12)

Member
Shivam Darmora (12)

Member
Team Leader
Varun Kumar Gampa (04)

Team Leader
Priyatham Dharmana (11)

Team Leader
SatyaviharKothamasu (09)
Team Leader
Kruthika Sundaram (04)

Team Leader
Hina Jain (07)

Team Leader
Akshit Sandooja (11)
Tushar Vatsa (13)
Dalan Mendonca (08)
Team Leader
Volunteer
Team Leader
Parth Goel (11)
Sourav Banerjee (13)
Kaveri Singhal (09)
Volunteer
Team Leader
Abhinav Gupta (08)
COMMUNICATIONS
& MARKETING
Keshav Parashar (10)
Rajarshi Sinha (11)
Kaushik
Balasubramanian (08)
Rahul Priyadarshi (11)
Team Leader
Team Leader
Team Leader
Nilesh Gaurav (07)

Team Leader
Rajdeep Pundir (11)
Director
Bharati Makhijani (09)

Manager
Team Leader
Lahari Uppuluri (07)
Chinmaya Patnayak (10)
Devashish Bansal (09)
Team Leader
Aditya Sharma (12)

Member
Manager
Manager
Team Leader
Team Leader
Yashaswy Akella (12)

Team Leader
Pradyumna Kiran (12)

Team Leader
Ankit Chaudhary (05)

Team Leader
Priya Venkitachalam (04)

Team Leader
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Leadership 2014
FINANCE
CHAPTER RELATIONS
PEOPLE STRATEGY
SCHOLARSHIPS
FUNDRAISING
OPERATIONS
Deekshith Vanamala (09)
Hari Kishore (03)
Anitha Alappat (00)
Aastha Mehta (07)
Ravi Sekhar Cherukuri (97)
Vishrut Shukla (05)
Director
Gaurav Kothari (07)

Team Leader
Abhirup Mishra (06)

Team Leader
Anmol Gupta (09)

Team Leader
Chandan Luthra (05)

Team Leader
Geethika Kilaru (09)

Team Leader
CAREER CENTER
Suhas Kashyap (05)
Director
Susheel Tatineni (05)
Vice President - Operations
Aishwarya Raghavan (04)

Marketing Head
Vivekananda
Murarishetty (08)
Technology Manager
Anvesh Gudivada (04)

UI Manager
Siddharth Biyani (09)

Team Leader
Rachit Agarwal (09)

Team Leader
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Director
Aditya Garg (06)

Director
Rohit Agarwal (08)

Manager
Aashish Takkala (07)

Manager
Anubhav Agarwal (06)

Manager
Ashish Rohil (06)
Vice President
Nidhi Gurnani (03)

Director
Nikhitha Punna (05)

Manager
Rohit Kulkarni (08)

Team Leader
Sumit Kumar (09)

Team Leader
Manager
Basant Choudhary (06)

Manager
Deepak Balaji (03)
TECHNOLOGY
Abhisek Rathi (05)
Manager
Director
Rahul Thakur (08)
Aditya Sharma (06)
Manager
Yogesh Kansal (08)

Manager
Pranshu Saxena (08)

Team Leader
Team Leader
Prathyush Reddy (08)

Team Leader
Prakhar Gupta (12)

Volunteer
Director
Surya Santosh (07)

Manager
Sowmyavadhana (04)
Manager
Padma Priya (10)

Team Leader
Shreeraman
Raghavan (07)
Team Leader
Pavan Kumar
Mullangi (08)
Team Leader
Tarin Bansal (08)

Team Leader
Rama Satya Diwakar

Grandhi (09)
Team Leader
Naushik Desai (72)

Volunteer
Vice President
Rekha Somasundaram (04)

Manager
Manager
Manager
Bandan Jot Singh (05)
Hardik Tiwari (08)
Team Leader
Manager
Ajay Soni (97)
Ankit Surolia (10)
Team Leader
Gaelen Pereira (06)

Team Leader
Shubhra Sharma (07)

Team Leader
Abhinav Yadav (09)

Team Leader
Rohit Suvarna (09)

Team Leader
Shashwat Nandan (06)

Team Leader
Team Leader
Team Leader
Kokila Dular (08)
Nayan Goyal (10)
Team Leader
Director
Arun Vinayak (08)
Arjun Kamath (05)
Amey Limaye (08)
Saagar Gadhok (08)
Sashidhar Battu (06)
Sanjeev Ramisetty (06)
Team Leader
Vice President
Team Leader
Yatharth Chaturvedi (09)

Team Leader
Team Leader
Srikanth CS (06)
Team Leader
Sanket Jain (05)

Team Leader
Sujay Jain (06)

Team Leader
Sunalini Sinha (08)

Team Leader
Siddhartha Bahl (10)

Team Leader
Sandeep Murisetty (09)

Team Leader
Anirudh Sharma (09)

Volunteer
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Cover Story: BITSians Day
COVER STORY
Latentview, Chennai
The day all BITSians decided to go back to college. From fresh graduates to oldest BITSians
alive, across chapters and batches, every BITSian walked down the memory lane, to every
redi, every fest and every screwed up test.
Amazon, Hyderabad
Incidents and accidents and laughing riots resurfaced, crushes were reborn, every BITSian
was a campus trotting teenager this day. 4 (or 5) years packed into a day of nostalgia and
reminiscence. Such was BITSians Day 2014.
The second edition of BITSians day saw a jump of 150% in the number of participants, with
the day being celebrated in remote locations like Ganjam, Orissa and Tanzania. BITSians
everywhere sought up to meet fellow BITsians and connect with them, result being new
chapters springing up in new places. The BITSAA Hong Kong chapter got created in such
a way. BITSians volunteered to organize celebrations at workplaces. 45 chapters across
the globe organized large scale get-togethers, with some chapters having celebrations at
multiple locations within a city.
Social media went abuzz with BITSians recalled their fondest #BITSMemories on Facebook
and Twitter thus connecting online with their faraway mates.
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Nvidia, Bangalore
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ARM, Bangalore
Texas Instruments, Bangalore
Aruba, Bangalore
Thorogood, Bangalore
Credit Suisse, Mumbai
BITSians at EGL, Bangalore
eBay, Bangalore
Ericsson R & D, Bangalore
Google, Mountain View, CA

J P Morgan, Mumbai
BITSians in Bhopal
Broadcom, Bangalore
BITSians in Gurgaon
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Oracle, Hyderabad
Syniverse, Bangalore
Factset, Hyderabad
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Flipkart, Bangalore
IIM, Bangalore
BITSians in Singapore
Beckman Coulter, Bangalore
Z S Associates, Pune
XLRI, Jamshedpur
BITSians in Tanzania, Africa
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VMWare, Bangalore
S T Microelectronics
Cisco, India
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CAREER CENTER
With nearly 400 days since the
inauguration of the BITSAA
Career Center platform at
BGM 2014, we dedicate an
article to sharing its growth
and success so far.
The idea of creating such a
platform evolved with the intent to build a support structure related to career services
for BITSians. Those services
which dont exist so far are
being built from scratch and
for those that are already pres
ent; the team is consolidating the disparate sources into one centralised platform any BITSian would like to visit either on his desktop/laptop or his mobile device.
So far a methodology of continuous product improvement made significant development
efforts to build on top of the minimum viable product that was launched during BGM
2014. The successful team have acknowledged their success thanks to the support of its
partners from the B-School, MS-PhD, Mentoring teams, and the BITSAA Tech team. The
teams are spread across the world and are from all the campuses.
Overview of the platform

The Career Center currently comprises of the three wings of Jobs marketplace, higher
studies and mentoring. In terms of adding value to the community, the platform boasts of
multiple facets. With a user base of already thousands of BITSians, it is quite active. With
3 jobs and applications being posted every two days, an extensive B-School and MS-PhD
admit database already live and three on-campus mentoring sessions conducted in three
months it is enterprising as well. Forty top notch articles ranging from higher studies to
mentoring also have come out on the blog front.
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Scholarships & Awards
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

ANNUAL UPDATE
The scholarships team at BITSAA is dedicated to support and encourage students by
managing alumni supported scholarships and awards. The scholarships cover tuition
fees, international conference travel cost and graduate school application fees. The
awards recognize the excellent work done by students in various fields of academics and
entrepreneurship. The team aims to encourage the students to pursue excellence and
ensure that no student at BITS Pilani is denied a holistic educational experience due to lack
of funds.
BITSAA Merit-cum-Need Scholarships
The Merit-cum-need (MCN) scholarships are a category of scholarships offered by BITS
to students from weaker financial backgrounds based on their academic performance
and merit. Testimonials show that the students have greatly benefitted from the MCN
scholarships, as a part of their financial burden is alleviated and they are able to concentrate
better on their academics. This motivates us to look for more avenues for providing such
scholarships to deserving students.
Thanks to the generous donations from BITS alumni, BITSAA currently manages ten MCN
scholarships helping about 18 students in total every year. Below table presents the list of
winners of various MCNs in the academic year 2013-14.
Testimonials (MCN winners)

Tanveesh Inani: I am a student of B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical Engineering (2nd year). I was
a member of the Mechanical Association executive team as well as am a member of the
Dance Club. I am grateful to the generous founder of the Rakesh Chandra scholarship and
I appreciate his thoughtfulness in making it easier for students who aspire higher goals in
life and to encourage them to work even harder to fulfill their dreams by supporting them
financially. I belongs to a middle class family and it was difficult for me to continue studying
in BITS. This scholarship has helped me in times of my need and I take this opportunity to
express my thanks to you.
Tanmayee Kher: I thank the donors for instituting this scholarship for the students assistance.
Their help in lightening our financial burden is deeply appreciated.
Anurag Goyal: I would like to thank all BITSAA donors for providing me this scholarship. I
am currently pursuing BE (Hons.) Civil engineering. I was very happy when I came to know
that I am a recipient of this scholarship. It means a lot to me as I hail from a middle-class family
and my parents work very hard to fulfil my dreams. Receiving a scholarship instituted by our
own alumni has motivated and inspired me to do my best in all my endeavours. I further plan
to go for higher studies after my BE.
Bhanu Priya: I am Bhanu Priya, a 4th year student at BITS-Pilani, Pilani Campus, currently
pursuing M.Sc. (Hons) Biological Sciences and B.E. (Hons) Computer Science. Biosciences
fascinates me and I wish to pursue higher education in the same discipline. I am extremely
grateful to Mr. Suraj and the BITSAA Team for giving me this scholarship.
Deeksha Dadhich: I am writing this to thank you for granting me BITSAA scholarship. The
scholarship is very important to me and I am appreciative of your consideration.
I am enrolled in BE (Hons.) Electronics and Instrumentation in BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus and
wish to study Optoelectronics in active components post graduation if circumstances allow.
The scholarship has encouraged me to strengthen these plans.
Currently, I am paying my tuition fee mostly through a bank loan. Your support has allowed
me a relaxation in the strain caused by increasing fee. I shall strive to make this donation
count.
Manish Ojha: I am Manish Ojha, a 2nd year undergraduate student at Bits Pilani Goa. I am
from a small town Sahibganj in Jharkhand. I belong to a lower middle class family.
I was delighted to learn that I have been recognized as recipient of BITSAAs Merit cum
Need scholarship for Sem 2, 2013. Im very fortunate to benefit from your contributions. Your
contributions make a real difference!
Medha Pandey: I am a third year Chemical Engineering student. I have served as Joint Secretary
and Editor of the Chemical Engineering Association, BITS Pilani and I am also an active
member of the Hindi Drama Club, BITS Pilani. This institution has given me an opportunity
to explore and enhance my capabilities and flourish as an individual. I am honoured to have
been awarded the prestigious S.S. Sheshadri Memorial Scholarship and this has given me a
great deal of motivation to consistently perform and excel at my academics. I am extremely
thankful to BITSAA and express my gratitude to the donors for the same.
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Priya Agarwal:
Im Priya Agarwal, a third year student pursuing B.E. Civil in Bits Pilani. Im a proud
recipient of BITSAA Alumni Scholarship. This scholarship grants me the opportunity
to focus on higher studies and helping me in achieving my future goals. Scholarships of
this kind motivate girls to excel in every aspect. Im really thankful to BITSAA again for
considering me the deserving candidate for this scholarship. Motivated by your support
Ill also try to do something for quality education among girls in future.
BITSAA Awards
BITSAA bestows awards to meritorious students, alumni and faculty in various categories.
The categories include Research & Development, Arts & Literature and Sports for students.
For alumni, the list of categories is much more diverse to include Social Entrepreneurship &
Community Building, Entrepreneurship, Invention & Innovation and Leadership as well.
As many as 50 people receive awards from BITSAA every year, and this is only possible
because of the strong support and funding from the BITSian community.
The complete list of awards given by BITSAA are as below:
We highlight the awards in detail below
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Professor Suresh Ramaswamy Memorial Award

This award is to honor the memory and lasting impact of Professor Ramaswamy in the lives
of students he mentored. It aims to institutionalize his legacy, and promote activities that
embody his spirit and enthusiasm for nurturing students. A prize of Rs. 40,000 is awarded
every year to a team of students (max. 6 students) from any department of Goa campus,
in order to encourage and nurture them to work on a student project. The recipients of the
award will be chosen by a competitive peer-review process in the previous semester to the
award. Interested students have applied to the award with a sound proposal of the project.
For the year 2014-15, proposals were restricted to science and engineering. They were judged
on their innovation and feasibility.
Winners (2013-2014)
Project:
Mudra - A Braille Dicta
Students:
Sanskriti Dawle (2012A7PS083G)

Aman Karan Srivastava (ID No. 2012A7PS126G)

Shaikh Saif Ali (ID No. 2013A4PS183G)
Project description: Project Mudra aims to tackle the abysmal rates of
Braille literacy. A working prototype using a single celled refreshable
display and a non visual application has been developed. In the
future they plan to build smarter and more intelligent systems in
order to impart customised and tailored knowledge to the user. More
information can be found at http://projectmudra.com.
Testimonial (SuRa award winners): We are deeply honoured to receive the SuRa award. It
will really help us in our next step i.e. testing our prototypes in a school for the blind. Apart
from the financial support, the award will also enable us to use the Institutes 3D printer which is a major part of our prototyping. We feel very grateful for receiving recognition and
support from our own college - it will kickstart the next phase of Project Mudra.
BITSAA-IRU Partial Travel Grant supports the travel expenses of students participating in
academic events of International repute. BITSAA awarded two travel grants in 2014. The
winner details are given below:
Student Name
Amount
Conference
Talati Nishil Rakeshbhai
INR 25,000
ISOCC 2014, Jeju, South Korea
V. Neeharika
INR 25,000
2014 International Conference on

Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics,
Glasgow, Scotland
Zero Percent Loan scholarship is aimed at providing assistance for various academic purposes
such as under graduate studies at BITS, paper publications, attending international conferences,
seminars and competitions, MS/PhD applications etc. In the year 2014, Bitragunta Siva Prasad
was awarded 1,100 USD through our 0% loan scholarship.
Other scholarships and awards The BITSAA Graduate Application Scholarship provides
financial assistance to students for their applications to MS/PhD programs. This initiative is
a small step towards ensuring that the financial burden of applications does not get in the
way of the students for securing admission to an ambitious program at top universities. The
cost of applying to graduate programs has risen considerably in the last few years. Even for
people applying to just six universities, the cost of tests and application fees can be easily
over 1000 USD. There are additional costs for getting transcripts and applying for visas. Since
application process has become expensive, BITSians face greater financial pressure and are
often discouraged from applying to many of the top universities. The idea is for BITS alumni
to pay for a significant part of the costs, making the application process more affordable,
and encouraging more students to apply to top schools. The number of applications for the
Graduate Application scholarship increased significantly in the past year. (27 applications in
2014 compared to 16 in 2013).
Currently, BITSAA awards three graduate application scholarships of 500 USD each, in every
academic year. We hope that the program will eventually become self-sustaining, with people
who receive the scholarship in one year paying for the next generation of BITSians to apply.
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All students who are currently pursuing their undergraduate/graduate degree in any of the
BITS campuses are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
Winners (2014):
Apoorva Musunuri (2010B2A2096H)
Kratarth Goel (2011A7PS105G)
Vishaal Mohan (2011AAPS006H)
Prof. I J Nagrath Student Project fund
The Prof. I J Nagrath Student Project fund has been instituted by Brij Bhushan, an alumni
from the class of 1964 in honor of Prof. I J Nagrath, who served various roles at BITS from
1952 to 1999. Prof. I J Nagrath retired as the Deputy Director after serving at BITS in educational, administrative and managerial roles. He is an excellent academician who taught
many generations of BITSians and also the author of several well known books in Electrical
& Electronics Engineering. The project fund aims to encourage students and faculty in EEE
department at Pilani campus to undertake projects in labs of their choice and gain a handson experience.
Winners (2014)
Project:
Design and Development of Power Quality Improvement Circuit for

Household Applications
Students:
Navneet Tripathi (2013A8PS383P)

Ghazi Ahmed (2011A8PS319P)

Vaibhav Garg (2013A3PS587P)
Faculty:
Dr. Pradyumn Chaturvedi
Project Description: Due to massive use of non-linear loads (semiconductor devices) in
household applications, the power quality of the electrical network degraded because they
extract lagging reactive power from the source/grid. It results in poor power factor, less efficiency and increased cost of electricity generation. It also disturbs the neighboring supply
networks. Electricity distribution authorities also motivate for improving the power quality
indices such as power factor and supply current harmonics. Therefore, it is proposed to
design and develop a versatile power quality improvement circuit which can be used anywhere without much complexity in circuit implementation.
New initiatives: In the last one year, we have initiated a new travel scholarship, and started
a pilot project to support large student projects on campuses.
BITSAA BITSMUN Travel scholarship has been initiated with a purpose of supporting BITSians participating in leadership, public speaking, entrepreneurship events, both within India and abroad in 2014 by two BITS Pilani graduates Sachin Jain (class of 2011) & Aman
Gupta (class of 2012). The winner details are given below:
Name
ID No.
Amount
Event
Sahil Aggarwal
2011B1A2820P
INR 20,000 World Business Dialogue, Germany
Saurabh Maurya 2012A7PS055P
INR 10,000 Jagriti Yatra 2014
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Student Project Funding

This initiative is to identify and support potential ideas which are innovative and impactful
from the current batches of BITS. BITSAA has previously supported projects such as IFOR
and AcYut, which have bagged many awards in various international platforms. We initially
started with a Project Showcase which was conducted during BGM14, where selected proj-
ects from all campuses were showcased with prototypes. Our long term goal is to establish
Student Project Funding as an annual exercise where Scholarships team provides a platform to
shortlisted projects to publicize themselves among the BITS community and attract sponsorship for their projects.
Finalists at BGM14:
1. Project Magellan (Goa): Team: Vinit Gela, Tejas Gokhale, Chaitanya Modak, Ninad
Kulkarni, M. S. Suraj, Gaurav Baglekar
Project Description: To develop a vehicle that can navigate autonomously on a road in a combat scenario, differentiate between various kinds of vehicles (enemy tanks, civilian vehicles,
etc.), detect humans and navigate accordingly on a road to the desired destination. Finally the
robot will communicate the acquired information to a local server.
2. Project Sthairya (Pilani): Team: J. Krishna Murthy, Gourav Kumar, Bhargav Jha, Abhishek
Modi
Project Description: To build an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to aid in the Navigation of a Swarm
of Ground Robots in GPS-Denied Environments
3. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Pilani) Team: Tushar Anupam, Gaurav Kaushik, Vedant Sapra
Project Description: To develop semi-autonomous UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (quadcopters) which will be able to precisely navigate and coordinate with other UAVs, efficiently
communicate, process videos in real time to detect objects and transmit live data wirelessly to
a ground control station.
4. Project Anant (Pilani) Team: Hemant Kumar Singh, Akash Gupta, Parth Garg, Dr. Rikamntra Basu
Project Description: To develop and launch a nano-satellite but also to test two new emerging
and cost effective technologies, FPGA based on board computing and MEMS based microthruster propulsion system.
5. AcYut (Pilani) Team: Kaustubh Nawade, Tarang Shah, Akshay Morey, Shreyas P Dixit,
Pranet Verma, Anand Parwal, V Aditya, Pratyush Kar
Project Description: Design, Development and Engineering of a 28 DOF Humanoid Robot capable of stable walking, object detection and obstacle avoidance.
6. Robocon (Pilani) Team: B Naveen, SP Arjun Ram, Anirudh Ramesh, A Rushyant Reddy,
Srigiriraju V P S Sai Krishna, Shah Tejas Yogesh, Varun Prabodh Sharma, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Anumula Sai Venkat Reddy
Project Description: To design two robots which will perform a set of pre-defined tasks, one
being autonomous and the other manual controlled
7. Grease Monkeys (Goa) Team: Shashank Bassi, Akshay Agarwal
Project Description: To create a formula-style open-wheel open-cockpit racecar
8. Parallax Error Lens (Hyderabad) Team: Sampanna Kahu, Srijan Kumar Sharma
Project Description: Making laptops touchscreen in innovative, easy, cheap and eco-friendly
way.
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SC Rastogi Scholarship (Was not awarded in the year 2014-2015)

Prof. SC Rastogi Merit Scholarship is an award instituted for encouraging students in
Biological Sciences stream. Prof. SC Rastogi retired in 1993 as the Head of the Department
of Biological Sciences Group from Pilani. Prof Rastogi was involved with BITS, Pilani for
more than 35 years and published more than 60 papers and 13 text-books in his illustrious
career. He believes that biological sciences as a subject needs encouragement and that is
the motivation for instituting the scholarship.
Srikant Vishweswaraiah Analog Design Award
The award and the fellowship have been instituted in the memory of Srikant Visweswariah,
an alumnus of BITS Pilani. Srikant Visweswariah graduated with a degree in Electronics
Engineering from BITS Pilani in 1971. He lost his 2-year battle with cancer in April 2009.
Srikant graduated nearly at the top his class at BITS, chose a career in the Indian Air Force
when the whole wide world was open to him. While serving in the IAF he did his M.Tech
from IIT, Kanpur. He was persuaded to take early retirement from the IAF by no less a
person than Mr Abdul Kalam, the former president of India so that he could lead a team of
engineers to develop the avionics for the Light Combat Aircraft for the IAF. When Srikant
was satisfied that he had done his bit for the LCA project and the nation, he took on a
variety of assignments from being a co-founder of a software company to the group R&D
manager at General Motors, but most of all, he did, what he loved the most travel the
world.
Winners 2014-2015:
First Prize - Sakdeo Amogh Vivek
Second Prize - Karan Bhargava
Third Prize - Anoop Rajeev
Shashi Kishore Research Excellence Award (Was not awarded in the year 2014-2015)
Shashi Kishore Research Excellence Award is aimed at promoting research in the field of
Economics. Ankur Kumar, the winner of 30U30 Awards, 2012 (06B3A7G, M.Sc. (Hons.)
Economics & B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science Engineering) instituted the award in name of
his parents Mrs. Shashi Prabha (Mother) and Mr. Kishore Sah (Father) to honor students
who demonstrate excellence in research as part of academic research or independently
in the field of Economics. Mr. Sah currently works as a Deputy Regional Manager with
Central Bank of India and Mrs. Prabha is a homemaker.
R P Vaid Award
The R. P. Vaid Award was instituted by the alumni in
honour of Prof. Vaid. The first award coincided with Prof.
Vaids retirement. A cash prize of Rs. 5,000 is awarded to a
deserving Chemical Engineering student, studying in Pilani
campus.
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Winners 2014-2015:
Kaushik Raj - I am grateful to BITSAA and the Chemical
Engineering Association, BITS Pilani for bestowing the
R.P.Vaid award for 2014 upon me. It serves as a testament
to my passion for Chemical Engineering and will be an encouraging factor for me to pursue
higher studies in Chemical Engineering. This award comes as a result of hard work, persistence
and most importantly enjoying what I do. At this point, I would like to thank the faculty
of Chemical Engineering at BITS Pilani, my parents, my brother and my friends who have
continued to support and inspire me.
Prabhat Award
The Prabhat Award for Best Outgoing Student in Physics has been instituted by BITS
alumnus Mr. Amit Garg (89 Physics) from 2010 for a period of three years. The award will be
given out in the II Semester (January - May) and consist of a certificate and a cash award of
INR 10,000 to one student.
Winners 2014-2015:
Gorthi Bhavana Deepthi - I am honoured to have received the Prabhat award for the best
outgoing student this year. This award and recognition from the faculty and alumni of BITS
Pilani has inspired me in my attempt to pursue research in Physics. It has given me the courage
that I needed while stepping into the outside world. I would like to thank Mr. Amit Garg for
this excellent initiative, I am hopeful that this will encourage more BITSians to enter Physics
research in the future.
Ranvir Trehan Tennis Trophy
BITSAA announced the Ranvir Trehan Tennis Tournament Trophy
to be given to the Winner of the Tennis tournament at BITS Open
Sports Meet ( BOSM ) as a token of thanks for Ranvirs contribution
to the BITSConnect project. Ranvir Trehan, the founder of SETA
corporation, is the single biggest donor in the alumni history of the
Institute. He graduated from the erstwhile Birla Engineering college,
Pilani in 1961 and was the first ever student to attend college on a
sports scholarship.
Winners 2014-2015:
Shri Ram College of Commerce
Brij Bhushan Badminton Trophy
BITSAA announced the Brij Bhushan Badminton Award to be given
to the Winner of the Badminton tournament at BITS Open Sports
Meet ( BOSM ) as a token of thanks for Brijs contribution to the
BITSian ecosphere. Brij Bhushan is currently retired from Reston
Consulting Group, which he founded in 1986. RCG provides Systems
Integration services in the field of telecommunications to the US
Federal Government. Brij graduated from BITS Pilani in December,
1964 and subsequently taught there from 1966 to 1969 and had a
return engagement during Fall of 2006. Brij holds a Masters from
Auburn University (1970) and has completed course work towards
Doctor of Engg in EE at Concordia University, Montreal Canada. Brij and his wife Champa
(also a BITS alumnus) live in the suburbs of Washington DC and have three grown up children
Anju, Anita and Anup.
Winners 2014-2015: Shri Ram College of Commerce
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Leuna Herkawat Award

The Leuna Harkawat award was instituted in memory of Leuna
Harkawat, an alumni of the 1987 batch, one of BITS Music Clubs
greatest voices, who lost the battle to cancer on April 19, 2003.
Leuna, who worked at UNICEF, was an enthusiastic supporter
of many worthy childrens causes including Asha. An annual
award of Rs. 5,000 is given to the winning team of Tarang, a music
competition at Oasis, the annual cultfest of BITS Pilani.
Winners 2014-2015:
Shiv Nadar University
Mantra Awards
The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) at BITS Pilani
aims to create future leaders at BITS Pilani. CEL not only seeks to
create all-round leaders, but also focuses specifically on students
who break new grounds in the field of entrepreneurship,
innovation and social ventures. In addition, CEL aims to empower
and inspire BITSian women to play a significant leadership role.
The Mantra awards were instituted by CEL, in 2009, to recognize
and reward outstanding students who have demonstrated
extraordinary leadership potential and/or entrepreneurial
initiative. Anupendra Sharma, co-founder of CEL, Investment
Partner at Siemens Venture Capital in Boston, and CEL Alumni
Advisor had initiated the creation of the Four Mantra Awards
namely Mantra Award for Outstanding Leadership, Mantra
Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Mantra Award for Social
Leadership and Mantra Innovator of the Year Award.
Winners 2014:
Sahil Aggarwal Mantra Award for Outstanding Leadership
Chandeesh Gurajala Mantra Award for Outstanding Leadership
Shreyansh Jain Mantra Award for Innovator of the Year
Prannoy Pilligundla Mantra Award for Innovator of the Year
Distinguished BITS alumnus Award
BITS Pilani Distinguished Alumnus Award is awarded to the alumni in recognition of
their significant and outstanding contributions.The selection was based on the impact of
ones contribution to (a)dissemination or creation of knowledge, (b)enrichment of lives
of people, (c)distribution or creation of wealth, or (d)promotion or establishment of high
ethical standards in private or public life, as also upon the persons integrity and stature,
and who thereby makes his alma mater proud.
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Winners 2014:
Prof. Anil Pahwa (Professor at Kansas State University) for Academic Teaching and
Research
Prof. Gurindar Sohi (Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison) for Academic Teaching
and Research
Dr. Chandrashekhar (Director, CEERI, Pilani) for Professional Management of Businesses

Mr. Pradeep Kashyap (Founder and CEO, MART) for Social Entrepreneurship
Mr. Raju Reddy (Founder and CEO, Sierra Atlantic; Chairman, BITSAA International) for
Entrepreneurship
S Venkateshwaran Faculty Excellence Award (Was not awarded in the year 2014-2015)
The award is instituted by the generosity of BITS Alumnus Mr. Karthik Krishna in the name
Prof. S Venkateswaran, former Director & Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani who was very close
to his heart. In Karthiks own words, The biggest issue faced by educational institutions
today is the lack of faculty. Faculty are the key part of student development and hence it is
important for alumni to do their maximum to help retain, encourage and develop faculty.
This is my humble effort to contribute to this thought.
Prof. S Venkateswaran joined this Institute on 30th January, 1974 as a faculty member and later
served in various capacities as Dean, Deputy Director, Director, Vice Chancellor and Advisor
till 31st December 2009. During his tenure, the Institute expanded and also established new
campuses in Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad. He was an outstanding administrator, excellent
human being and was highly respected by students, staff, faculty and alumni of the Institute.
He was a well-known personality in education in India and abroad.
BITSAA 30 under 30 Awards (Still in progress, the results are expected to be out only in the
month of October 2015)
At the end of 2005, BITSAA instituted the 30 under 30 awards, to be given every three years,
to recognize and honor outstanding BITSians under the age of 30 who have demonstrated
excellence in one or more of many areas. These awards are dedicated to all those young
BITSians who thought and acted differently, who challenged the status quo, rewrote the rules,
and created their own paths, to the best examples of what it means to be a BITSian.
Batch of 2006 Excellence in CS award
Batch of 2006 Award for Excellence in Computer Science - commenced in 2013, aims to
recognize students from BITS Pilani, (Pilani campus) who exhibit a consistent streak of
technical accomplishments in the field of Computer Science. The award offers a citation and
an initial cash prize of INR 30,000 to the winner. In addition, additional prize money of up
to a maximum of INR 70,000 would be available to the awardee for one year from the time of
declaration of the award.
The additional prize money will be provided depending on the awardees current nature of
work and future goals. For example, it can sponsor part of an undergraduate thesis, a visit to a
stellar conference, or support towards scaling the awardees startup. The awardee is required
to work out details of how the additional prize money will be utilized and be prepared to
justify them to the alumni who have contributed to the award. The alumni reserve the right
to not sponsor any request which does not align with the awardees individuality which
contributed to him/her receiving the award and which do not contribute towards his/her
technical growth. For example, this money cannot be used for vacation, for personal expenses
or for general purpose education related expenses like graduate school application/ graduate
school fees/simply attending a conference. Unlike the first round money of 30K, this reward
needs to be accounted for by the awardee.
Winner 2014-2015: Joel Moniz (2012A7PS106P)
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S.E.Iyer Scholarship
Santha E. Iyer Scholarship is instituted by Suraj E. Krishnan, who
graduated from BITS, Pilani in June 1993 in Physics and Chemical
Engineering.Suraj is currently a Management Consultant and
resides in the US. He is proud to be a BITSian and is glad to have
the opportunity to give back to his alma mater.
The Santha E. Iyer educational scholarship is initiated in memory of his mother Smt. Santha
Iyer who fondly cherished the day that all girls across India would have full access to a
holistic education. She believed that Education for girls is the most critical foundation for
a society to truly progress. The scholarship is merit cum need based and is available only
to female students from the Pilani campus.
Winners of I sem 2014-15: Vrinda Poddar 2014B4PS802, Bhanu Priya 2011B1A7515, Priya
Agarwal 2012A2PS517, Neha Agarwal 2013A3PS493
S.S Seshadri Scholarship
This scholarship was instituted in honor of S S Seshadri (BITS 1992) who died in a tragic
accident a few years ago. The first award was announced in the first semester of 2002-03.
The scholarship sponsors full tuition fee for a III year student on merit-cum-need basis.
Winners of I sem 2014-15: Harsh Kumar 2012A7PS065
Class of 1966 - 1971 Scholarship
1966-71 batch collected funds at the time of their Silver Jubilee reunion for instituting various
scholarships and awards to benefit students of BITS Pilani. Currently the accumulated sum
amounts to 16 lakhs INR. The annual interest from the corpus is to be utilized to award
MCN scholarship for female students. Apart from MCN scholarship, the Class of 1966-71
initiatives also support the following:
- 4 awards, each of Rs. 10,000 for BITS students for their outstanding contribution at
APOGEE
- 4 grants, each worth Rs.5,000 for undergrad students and 2 grants, each worth Rs.10,000
for post-graduate students for publishing papers in reputed journals.
Winner of I sem 2014-15: Ramya Mittal 2013A2PS630
Pendyala Vamsi Krishna

This scholarship was instituted by BITSAA International in honor of
Pendyala Vamsikrishna or Vamsi (92). Vamsi died in the September
11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. The scholarship was
instituted in the first semester of the academic year 2002 - 03. The
scholarship sponsors full tuition fee for a II year student on meritcum-need basis.
Winner of I sem 2014-15: Roshini Chhabra 2013A1PS661
Arun Kumar Agarwal Scholarship
he Arun Kumar Agarwal Scholarship has been instituted by a 2012 graduate to honour his
father. Mr. Arun Kumar Agarwal always believed in helping the needy of the society and
facilitating the basic necessities by providing help in every possible way. In continuing his
efforts and vision, this scholarship is aimed at helping the young students to remain dedicated
to the academics and helping them continue climbing the ladder by reducing a hurdle in their
path to success.
Winner of II 2013-14 scholarship: Abhishek Kathuria 2013B2PS802P
Bhushan Bhatia Scholarship
The Bhushan Bhatia
Scholarships
have
been instituted by Brij
Bhushan, an alumni from
the class of 1964. The
name of the scholarship
has been derived from
Brijs surname and his
wife Champa Bhushans
maiden surname Bhatia.
Winner of I sem 201415 scholarship: Hardik
Verma 2014A1PS674G,
Ganisha
Bhawsar
2014B3PS800G
Rakesh Chandra Scholarship

The Rakesh Chandra Scholarship has been instituted by Rakesh Chandra, an alumni from
the class of 1964.
Rakesh Chandra graduated from BITS Pilani in December 1964
with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Rakesh did his
Masters (Operations Research) from Illinois Institute of Technology
in 1967 and completed course work towards Ph.D from New York
University. He joined IBM Corporation in 1967 and has worked in
US, Mumbai, London, and Paris with IBM. He currently works with
IBM in US and lives in Wilton, Conn in US.
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Winner of I sem 2014-15: Davinder Pal Singh 2013A3PS010
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Ashok Agarwal Scholarship

The Ashok Agarwal Scholarship has been instituted by Dr. Ashok
Agarwal.
Dr. Ashok Agarwal graduated from BITS,Pilani in December
1964 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering. Earlier
he did his I.Sc and B.Sc also from Pilani. He did his MS and Ph.D
from the University of Minnesota. He worked at Bell Labs from
1966-1969 and was a Professor at IIMC from 1969- 1987 and Ford
Fellow to Sloan School MIT and University of Minnesota . Ashok
is the Founder of SQL Star International ltd, Cyber Media India
Ltd, ACS Techonologies Ltd.and Era software systems (P) ltd.
He is now Chairman of Special Interest Group on e-governance
of Computer Society of India and the Indian Representative on
IFIP TC8. He is now settled at Hyderabad India. He is married to
Deepa and they have two children, Achal and Ekta both settled
in USA.
Winner of II sem 2013-14 scholarship: GSSKP Teja 2013AAPS323H
Hiralal Agarwal Scholarship
The Hiralal Agarwal Memorial Scholarship has been instituted
by Bhasker D. Agarwal (70). This scholarship is awarded to a
student who is a native of Faizabad, UP.
Bhasker is Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Information
Systems and Services, Inc. (ISSI), which he founded in 1987. ISSIs
VisualHOMES software products provide complete property
management and real estate software solutions for affordable
housing programs. The companys customers include some
of the largest and most well-run housing agencies in North
America, managing over one million residents and hundreds of
thousands of residential housing units. Bhasker graduated from
BITS Pilani in 1970 and holds a Masters in Computer Science from
the University of Maryland. He has recently founded the Hiralal
Agarwal Foundation to provide web-based skills development
opportunities to students of low income families in the city of
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Bhasker and his wife Sarla live in the
greater Washington, DC area and have two grown-up children,
Rajan and Anurag.
Winner of II sem 2013-14 scholarship: Ayush Gupta 2013A3PS493P
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Chapter Relations
CHAPTER ACTIVITIES
OASIS 2014 IN BOSTON
Reunions are always nostalgic and short but leave profound and everlasting memories.
The year 2014 witnessed another glorious Bitsian reunion in the US Oasis 2014 in Boston.
Oasis was recreated this time, not in Pilani but in Boston on 9th Nov 2014. This was the
first Oasis organized outside Pilani with more than 160 people attending the event. There
were representations across all the four campuses from different batches. The idea was to
cast the magical spell of Oasis in Boston as it used to be celebrated in Pilani and provide a
platform for socializing and bonding among BITSians of all batches.
We were not sure how the event would turn out nor did we know how many people
would come as it is the first time in history that Oasis is conducted outside BITS. However
the support and attendance which we got was overwhelming says Ajay Koul, BITSAA NE
Chapter Head (Batch 98)
This Gala event kick started with a warm reception and the BITSian Junta who came with
their families were served their favorite dishes like bread pakoda, banana rabri and paneer
maggi with shikanji grabbing the maximum attention. This was followed by powerfully
nostalgic music and dance performances and some entertaining musical games all steered
by hilarious emceeing. For more coverage of the event, do checkout the following YouTube
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62wFKrjhn4I
BITSians across various batches and campuses bonded well and together put up an
extraordinary performance and made the event a very memorable one. The amount of fun
and excitement this Boston Oasis has created gives us hope that this tradition will continue.
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Chapter Relations
BITS 80s REUNION

It was a chilly November in the San Francisco Bay Area. There was palpable excitement in
the air. Suvashish Ghosh (83 batch) the master mind sowed the seeds which bloomed
to this beautiful reunion. Suvashish along with a group of energetic BITSians Vijay (83),
Vikas (83) and Ratnesh (82) Nivi Padhy (85) Anu Murari (86) Rajiv (80) Venu (80)
Sriram (87) and Sudha (86) formed the core committee spanning the batches 80 to 89,
championed this reunion.
Having lived years not knowing ones own batch mates, the notion of motivating and
uniting BITSians several degrees apart was a tall order. And if you thought biking to Pahadi
was hard, this was a step harder. But the rewards and the descent after the accomplishment
paralleled the same heights and sights that Pahadi had injected into our BITSian lives.
The Reunion clocks started ticking fast and the core committee got into the full swing of
preparations, right from scouting for venues, figuring out events to crafting the agenda.
Elaborate thoughts and endless lacha sessions resulting in getting the where, when and
who questions answered. The team decided that the reunion had to be a long weekend
and they all settled in on the Thanksgiving holidays. Thanksgiving would allow families
to travel together and also meet the extended BITS family.
The committee also got together and whipped up music, drama and ELAS/HAS for starters.
Creative one-off activities with local attractions were thrown in as optional choices. Armed
with a decent agenda the committee were all ready to jump into action.
Initially the core team did face hiccups in getting registrations with enthu meters very
low. However it was the exact opposite with the music gang, whose enthu caused needlebending readings. The spotlight was on the music night which was to be the crown jewel
of the reunion. The feverish pitch towards the music night began earnestly in the month
of October. Virtual rehearsals, conference calls etc. indicated that music night was going
to rock on Reunion. The enthusiasm infused video clips of music night practices acted as a
catalyst in turning around the re union registration. It served as the perfect trailer to build
momentum. It was further bolstered by another music event, a karaoke night in Los Altos,
Bay Area with an open invitation to the larger BITS crowd.
Finally all the planning paid off and the celebrations kick started from Nov 28th to 30th
2014 in San Francisco. RAF night was organized and Amitabh Bachans Don was screened
which added more excitement. It was enjoyed by BITSians, their spouses and the kids too.
A series of events like fashion show, ELAS/HAS plays, antaskhari, and dumb charades
engaged all the BITSians thoroughly. This was followed by Photo-shoots which provided
a nice break between ELAS/HAS events and the music night. Set in a beautiful location
of Presidio in SFO, the customary group and batch photos turned up some interesting
nuggets like the Bookends of the Reunion: 80 + 89 batch photo
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As the final evening of the reunion rolled out,

the excitement and anticipation towards the
Music night continued to climb higher every
minute. The melodies started rolling out with
Deewana Hua Baadal Neele Neele Ambar
Par intertwined with the rocking tunes like
Jaane Jaan, Piya Thu. The audience got
into the groove heading out to the dance floor.
The music night went on for 4 plus hours
with nonstop hits that kept coming like a juke
box set on automatic. It was a blast from the
past with great song selection and brilliant
performances. Challenged by geographies
and very little practice time, the music night
team put up an amazing show.
All good things come to an end. This reunion perfectly resonated nostalgic memories, unlimited
joys, boundless happiness of good old college days. The BITS80 Reunion was one such reunion
which was a journey in itself and truly lived up to the tagline: Reconnect, Relive and Renew the
Bitsian Bug.
For more details on the event Check out (https://www.facebook.com/BITS80s)
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Chapter Relations
KHWAAB
BITSAA Delhi Chapter team comprising of members from 1960 entrants to 2010 were feeling
restless after the hiatus post the tremendous success of the first ever BITSAA Global Meet hosted
in January 2011. They were looking at another exciting event that could attract maximum participation of alumni from the region. Over many brain-storming sessions and feedback from a survey sent to all members, the idea of an event that combines the charm of a musical evening with a
celebration of a landmark event emerged.
As BITS Pilani celebrated its Golden Jubilee, the Delhi NCR chapter decided to host Khwaab- an
event that would be a Musical tribute to 50 years of incarnation of BITS Pilani as a deemed university on August 29, 2014. On this occasion, they planned to honor the Super Stars who founded the
association. They also felicitated the first batch graduates who entered Birla Engineering College
or Birla Arts & Science College, all affiliated to Rajasthan University, in 1960 and graduated with
a degree from BITS Pilani in December 1964. Maj. Gen. K B Narang (Retd.), an alumnus of first
ever 1946 Entry batch of Birla Engineering College was among them on this momentous occasion
and addressed the audience. He was honored by the VC, Dr. B N Jain & later by General (Dr.)
Vijay Kumar Singh, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, (Retired), Minister of State for External Affairs Minister
of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region & Minister of State with
Independent Charge Overseas Indians' Affairs, Government of India who had graciously accepted
our invitation to grace the occasion as the Chief Guest.
Prof. R N Saha, Director, BITS Pilani Dubai Campus & Dr. R K Metal Director Special Projects
BITS Pilani who had last minute engagements that kept them from joining the event and sent their
best wishes. Dr. K M Birla Chancellor, who had to travel out with the PMs delegation to Japan on
the same day, also sent his best wishes.
It was finally a dream come true for the BITSAA Delhi NCR Executive Committee.
As mentioned by Mr. Pradeep Sethi (President BITSAA Delhi NCR), in his personalized message:
Our next Khwaab: May BITSAA DELHI NCR have the privilege & honor to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of BITS Pilani with BITS Pilani brand being recognized as an Ivy League Institution
of Learning & Research across the globe in the year 2039!
An emerging star from the Indian Idol Talent search Anuj Sharma was shortlisted for the Live
In Concert of about 60-90 minutes duration. They had the good fortune of having our own Atul
Mishra ( '77) who came in as a guest from Mumbai as our very versatile singer.
The BITSAA Delhi team worked tirelessly to plan & meticulously execute the plan, with generous
support from sponsors Mahagun the Platinum sponsor, World Trade Centre Manesar & Ambuja
Cements Limited as Gold sponsors, Sesa Sterlite as a Premium sponsor, MapmyIndia as Seat Sponsor, NTPC Limited, Ashiana Homes, VE Commercial Vehicles Limited & Srijan Technologies as
Silver Sponsors, and many other BITSians who supported this event as partners in their individual
& corporate capacities. The team met face-to-face almost every week to go through the planning
aspects of the event.
For the first time in the history of BITSAA Delhi Chapter, the event was fully booked almost fifteen
days before it started. There were confirmations from 470 alumni & their spouse based out of Delhi
NCR region, with distinguished BITS guests & faculty members and & representatives from BITSAA chapters across the country the total attendance exceed 550 plus children below 12 years!
Dr. B N Jain Vice Chancellor BITS Pilani & Mrs. Madhu Jain graced the occasion as Guests of Honor; Prof. G Raghurama Director BITS Pilani Campus & Mrs. Geetha B, Prof. K E Raman, Director
BITS Pilani Goa Campus & Prof. Meenakshi Raman & Dr. Arya Kumar President BITSAA Pilani
joined the event as Honored Guests. Prof V S Rao, Director, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus &
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BITS Spark
BITS SPARK
INVESTMENT ROUND 4
The steering committee picked the 3 startups Nayi Disha, Targeting Mantra and Top Talent after
two levels of filtering. The 3 start-up finalists pitched to the entire BITS Spark Angel Network
that currently has about BITSian angels and other early stage funds. The 3 start-ups received
$1.2 million in investment interest.
The start-ups were doing remarkable on the funding front as well. Grey Orange Robotics raised
$10 million in Series A funding from Tiger Globzl, Blume Ventures, Alok Rawat (President of
FG Wilson FZE), Dileep Nath (Co-founder of Kanbay acquired by CapGemini). Target Mantra,
one of the 3 IR finalists, raised $1.1 million from three investors, namely, 500Startups, Nexus
Venture Partners and One 97 Mobility Fund. Gigstart, IR 4 applicant raised $210 thousand from
Rohit Bansal and Kunal Behl (Snapdeal Founders), Alok Sawhney (GSF Accelarators). Interestingly enough, Alok Rawat from BITS Spark was the largest investor in the syndicate.
Another IR finalist, Nayi Disha is in the final stages of raising $300 thousand from BITS Spark
Angel Network. The BITS Spark Portfolio companies include Tabtor, e-GMAT, SolarTown,
Frame Bench, Grey Orange Robotics, Exotel and GigStart.
BITS Spark is an initiative by BITS alumni, supported by BITSAA, which mentors budding
BITSian entrepreneurs. It comprises of three pillars - Spark Angels, Spark Mentors and
Spark Connect. The website of the Spark team is bitsspark.org
Spark Angels
Spark Angels is the funding arm of the BITS Spark initiative. It comprises more than sixty
angel investors and six angel groups and syndicates.
The BITS Spark Investment Round 4 received a notable 43 number of applications from
BITsian start-ups in the months of June and July. The entire process, that is, from the invitation of applications to the finalists pitching to the network, stretched across a duration
of six weeks.
The evaluation of the applications was looked over by a 14 member steering committee
comprising of a subset of angels from the BITS Spark Angel network. A few prominent
BITSians in the entrepreneurial space who are part of the committee include Preetish Nijhawan Co-founder of Akamai Technologies, Anupendra Sharma Co-founder of Startup Leadership Program, Phanindra Sama Founder of RedBus, Satish Gupta Executive
Chairman of SenSen Networks and Sundi Iyer of Indian Angel Network.
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Alumni Database
BITS2BSCHOOL
INITIATIVES
BITS2BSchool is a closed group of more than 3000 BITSians. Over time we have started
many initiatives to bring the alumni together with the purpose of increasing the BITSian
intake in the top business schools of the world.
The initiatives range from organizing coffee meet ups, audio conferences, writing blogs,
publishing e-interviews, maintaining and sharing alumni databases and forums for MBA
admit related discussions.
It also includes a holistic analysis of the BITSians admitted to business schools and
understanding the admission trends.
Coffee Meet-ups
Team usually organizes one coffee meet up every 2-3 months. Recent invitees of the meet
ups include alumni from Duke, Kellogg and INSEAD MBA programms. Every coffee meet
up sees a participation of around 8-10 MBA applicants.
We continuously strive to update our database with the latest MBA admits. So far we have
captured more than a total of 430 BITSian admits across the globe. Last application year saw
around 30 BITSians enter the top 20 global schools such as Wharton, LBS, Tuck, Darden, Duke
etc.
Currently the online data base has the following features:
List-view report of the entire directory
Detailed view of each BITSian on a single click
Search to the directory based on specific criteria
Blogs / e-interviews
We aim to publish one blog entry/ e-interview each month and share it with the BITS2BSchool
group. In the recent past alums from LBS, Wharton etc have contributed in such interview
sessions. Thanks to WordPress technology of the Knowledge Center platform, publishing
articles is now a self-administered job handled by BITS2BSchool independently.
Forums / BITS2BSchool Portal

Going forward we will provide an extra push to the go-digital goal. We intend to publish
more interactive content, enhance existing functions and ultimately, engage with users in a
sustainable manner.
InterviewBay Deal
With support from the Fundraising Team, we have signed an agreement with InterviewBay.
com to assist BITSians with B-school interviews and also act as a FR avenue to BITSAA.
Salient features of the deal include:
10% discount offered to BITSians on services offered by InterviewBay
10% sale proceeds donated to BITSAA
Going Digital
We have collaborated with the Career Center team to leverage the technology platform
provided them. Primarily BITS2BSCHOOL has shifted its alumni database onto the
Wordpress platform and is also using the Knowledge Center (KC) platform to engage
with audience through blogs, application advice and e-interviews.
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13 articles published for the Fall 2015 application cycle

4th successful year of running this initiative
BITS2MSPHD
Application Support Webinars

Cross - campus talks by BITS2MSPhD, which were attended by hundreds of BITSians from all
campuses as well as online. These talks address a range of topics from the decision to apply to
grad schools to the minute details of the application process.
INITIATIVES
Our Vision
Provide guidance and support to BITSians who apply to MS/PhD programs
Establish an active community of BITSians comprising of graduate program alumni,
current graduate students and graduate school aspirants
Increase awareness among undergraduates about graduate school and research
3 such webinars were held in 2014

BITS2MSPhD Forum
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bits2msphd
A forum that allows BITSians aspiring to join graduate schools to connect with BITSians
who are currently in graduate schools or have completed their graduate study.
Grad School Ambassador Articles and Chat Sessions

A first time initiative where BITSians at various graduate schools volunteer to be BITS2MSPhD
Ambassadors for their universities and provide university-specific advice and information.
Ambassadors write articles providing an overview about their university based on personal
experiences
The article is followed up by a live online chat session with the ambassador where he/she
addresses a range of questions asked by participants.
12 such sessions were organized in 2014 with overall positive feedback from ambassadors and
applicants!
More than 4800 members comprising MS/PhD applicants and alumni

A rich repository of 10000+ messages on application processes, profile development etc.
Between 100-200 messages posted per month with 1800+ messages in 2013-2014
Admit Database
A vast collection of BITSians who have been admitted to various graduate school programs
in the world since the last 8 years.
Total number of students admitted: 232 (Highest documented number of admits in
BITS2MSPhD records)
Monday Learning Articles

A popular weekly article series for the graduate school applicants to throw light on all
aspects of the graduate school application process
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BITS2Marathon
BITS2MARATHON
ANNUAL UPDATE
POWERED BY
The BITS2Marathon team profusely thanks Hiree for the success of the event.
It wouldnt have been possible without Hirees valuable contributions.
The BITS2Marathon was held on the 30th November 2014 in memory of Late Prof I. J.
Nagrath. The marathon which comprised of a 5kms and 10kms category stood out due
to the fact that unlike many marathons, it was held across multiple cities in India, China,
UAE, USA, Europe and Australia which saw over 500 participants.
It was however interesting how things got into swing for the preparations of the event.
With dedicated representatives for the tech team, communications team, fundraising team,
volunteers from each city and a race director heading over all matters, the planning and
execution for the event were done in perfect sync. The Tech team were responsible for
designing the registration page and successfully restarting the BITSAA merchandise page.
The communications team worked on the publicity front doing the mailers and also was
instrumental in strategizing the whole event. The fundraising team was able to raise an
amount of INR 50,000 from a BITSian start-up MyNoticePeriod.
As mentioned earlier, the marathon was held across multiple cities which included
Mandawa, Chennai, Mumbai, London, Nagpur, New Delhi, Bay Area, Shanghai,
Bangalore, Hyderabad and Paris with a 500+ registration count. The marathon did see a
participation from BITSians and non-BITSians alike and post its completion there was a
mechanism put into place wherein a form was circulated to confirm from runners if they
ran and to also collect their running time which was co-ordinated by the respective city
volunteers. People who successfully completed the distance were issued certificates as a
mark of acknowledgement. The most noteworthy thing though is that an archive of all run
pictures collected based on location has been made on the BITS2Marathon Facebook page.
After an overview of the BITS2Marathon event from its very start to the end has brought
forth the point that the creation of a strong, constant and active BOTS2Marathon is crucial.
The team will will focus on finding alternative ways to influence healthy lifestyle amongst
BITSians. The BITS2Marathon is also bound to work closely with the BITSAA chapters in
various cities to build momentum leading up to events and to effectively coordinate the
run day and post run logistics.
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5K/10K Run, Mumbai
5K/10K Run, Nagpur
5K Run, Bangalore
5K Run, Delhi
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OTHER INITIATIVES
BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE
5K Run, Mandawa
A multi-million dollar initiative, with its genesis in BGM 2011, to support alumni led
programs in four key areas.
Faculty Enrichment
Student Enrichment
BITS Connect2.0
Community Enrichment : AtmaNirbhara
NAMED TRAVEL & TUITION GRANTS

BITSAA International Scholarships is an initiative to encourage the pursuit of excellence
and to ensure that no student at BITS, Pilani is denied a holistic educational experience
and the opportunity to compete with the best due to a lack of funds. BITS, Pilani
alumni have donated over $65,000 to BITSAA International over the years to create 10+
scholarship initiatives spread across all the BITS Pilani campuses.These scholarships have
sponsored tuition fees, travel expenses for attending conferences and application costs
towards pursuing graduate studies for the students apart from encouraging excellence in
academics,sports and liberal arts.
Alumni Connect
5K Run, Chennai
ALUMNI CONNECT
BITSConnect 2.0 enabled BITS Pilani to set up the largest deployment of Webex for any
University and this technology is also available for the alumni to use and connect with
one another. (Alumni Connect) The infrastructure can be used by alumni in two ways.
(Alumni-Alumni & Alumni-BITS)
BATCH AMBASSADOR PROGRAM
Batch Ambassador Program
Soliciting you to be a BITS Pilani Batch Ambassador. The Batch Ambassador program aims
to create batch-wise groups for each batch starting from 1956. Batch wise groups would
provide a platform for enabling lost friendships, having intellectual discussion, selforganizing trips, fund-raising, discussing opportunities, learning latest of BITS activities
and giving something back to the society together.
BITSAA MILLION MILES CAMPAIGN
BITSAA Million Miles Campaign
5K/10K Run, Richmond Park, London
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5K Run, Shanghai, China
BITSAA-SVC will consolidate donated Airline Frequent Flyer Miles and award travel
tickets to deserving candidates in BITS for international travel to present technical papers.
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Other Initiatives
BITS ALUMNI MENTORING PROGRAM
BITS Pilani - Alumni Mentoring Program
BITS Alumni Mentoring Program (BITS-AMP) helps students and alumni navigate and
AMP-lify and enrich their lives beyond BITS. Through mentoring interactions facilitated
by BITS-AMP, a student or alumnus will be able to meet and benefit from life experiences
and advices provided by alumni mentors.
BITSAA Credit Card
BITSAA CREDIT CARD
BITSAA International has partnered with Capital One to launch its newest fundraising
program a BITSAA branded credit card for BITS alumni in the US. This custom credit
card has the most memorable and favorite campus picture on the background.Capital One
will make valuable cash donations to BITSAA for every purchase you make.
BACK TO BITS - SABBATICAL
Back to BITS : Sabbatical
BITSAA International and BITS Pilani bring to you a unique and fulfilling way to give
back to your alma mater. Back to BITS is an effort by the BITSAA Campus Relations
Team to connect alumni with the BITS campuses to have a sabbatical at BITS Pilani. We
have to warn you that all the nostalgia and being around students can make you feel much
younger than you are.
HOST A BITSIAN
Host a BITSian : Hospitality for Fundraising Initiative
This Initiative aims at making use of the opportunity provided by an alumni offer to
accommodate a BITSian individual or family on holiday or work for Fundraising for
BITSAA. The money raised goes as a donation to BITSAA for its various other initiatives.
BITS2IAS
BITS2IAS
BITS2IAS is an initiative for BITS Pilani students and alumni who aspire for Indian Civil
Services. The Indian Civil Services is considered as the backbone of India and carries
great respect and responsibilities. Even though corporate jobs offer lucrative salaries with
incentives, a majority of youngsters still compete and crave entry into the prestigious
Indian Civil Services held by the UPSC.
BITS Embryo
BITS-75 CHARITABLE TRUST & CENTER FOR

BITS-75 Charitable
Trust and Center for Emerging
Technologies
EMERGING
TECHNOLOGIES
BITS-75 Trust aims to promote technology entrepreneurship among BITS students and
faculty and inculcate in BITSians the mind-set of Job Creators rather than mere Job Seekers
in the society. One of the major initiatives is to work closely and help BITS set up a 21st
century Center for Emerging Technologies in Pilani. The trust was formally launched in
April 2008 but was conceptualized in 2006. Its members have been proactively interacting
with the BITS administration in refining the ideas and action plan. By the time the 70-75
class met for their 35th Coral Jubilee Reunion at BITS during 24-27 Oct 2009 they managed
to raise approx. INR 23 lakhs from just 35 contributors. Other members of the BITS 70-75
class continue to pitch in and the class has now raised over Rs. 30 lakhs from 50 contributors.
The trust envisions contributing both in Cash and in Kind.
CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL

LEADERSHIP - CEL
Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership(CEL)
The vision of this initiative is to Inspire BITSians to play a prominent role in leading
diverse entrepreneurial activities in the Country and make a significant contribution in
global entrepreneurial innovation. The idea for CEL was seeded by the BITSAA Center for
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (CEVC), with the vision of promoting the spirit of
entrepreneurial thinking among the BITSian community . The students and the Institute
shared this vision and came together in record time to set up the center. The concerted
efforts of the students, alumni and faculty resulted in the Centre (set up within a short span
of 6 months) being named as one of the top 5 centres of Entrepreneurship among Indian
Universities.
BITSAA LINKEDIN GROUP
BITSAA LinkedIn Group
BITS Pilani is the first Indian University to have a network on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is being
used by most business schools and universities in the USA to network efficiently. As a
BITS Pilani Alumni, wed like to invite you to make use of a valuable, sophisticated and
growing networking/job-search tool available to our alumni: the BITS Pilani Alumni Group
on LinkedIn.
BITS EMBRYO
Embryo is a project to foster strong collaboration of BITS students and faculty with the
alumni and friends of BITS Pilani.
Through lecture series and collaborative projects, the students can get exposure to the
cutting edge technology. It also gives an opportunity to network with the Alumni and
friends of BITS, who are reputed academicians and industry leaders.
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Project Parivartan
PROJECT PARIVARTAN
The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS),

Pilani has had the benefit of visionary leaderships in
its founding chairman Dr. GD Birla and later Dr. KK
Birla as the Chancellor, who wished to see a great
institute in the desert town of their inheritance. The
earlier Directors Prof. Lakshmi Narayanan, Dr. CR
Mitra and Vice Chancellor Dr. S Venkateswaran created and led committed teams to convert the vision
into reality, and BITS Pilani is today acknowledged
as one of the best educational institutes in India.
However, in the changing world scenario, the Institute needs to develop a well-defined strategy to realize its dream of being one of the leading universities
in the world.
With this aspiration in mind, Prof. LK Maheshwari,
who took over as Vice-Chancellor in 2006, formed
a task force to outline the strategies to be adopted
towards Vision 2020, with an aim to be among the
top 3 Science & Technology institutions in India by
2015, and among the top 25 in Asia by 2020. In our
journey towards Vision 2020, we have identified
specific near-term goals to be achieved by 2012. The
Mission 2012 project, launched in 2009 under the
Institutes new strategic plan, focuses on six thrust
areas:
1. Academic Programs and Pedagogy: Steps are being undertaken to redesign the BITS academic curriculum to meet the requirements of the changing
environment while retaining its key strengths. BITS
will continue to focus on enriching the Work-Integrated Learning Programs (WILP) and the Practice
School (PS) program in the coming years and devise
new programs for the human resource development
needs of the Industries. The Institute is also nurturing Entrepreneurship through business incubation,
with Rs. 7.55 Cr funding for Technology Business
Incubator (TBI) at Hyderabad or augmenting TBI in
Pilani.
2. Research and Consultancy: The research infrastructure in the campuses will be upgraded. Faculty
members will be encouraged to seek greater funding and support from government agencies and industries to take up research in advanced areas.
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At the Goa campus, total funding for ongoing research projects is over 680 lakhs, with
funding agencies such as DRDO, DST, CSIR etc. The Institute aims to increase PhD student strength from 400 in 2010 to 1800+ in 2020.
3. People: A focused effort to recruit talented research-focused faculty is being put in
place. A new performance appraisal system is also under preparation. The Institute
aims to increase faculty strength from 650 in 2010 to 1540+ in 2020.
4. Campus Life: Steps will be undertaken to increase the overall engagement and satisfaction of faculty, staff and students, including eco-friendly campuses and improved
quality of life through access to quality health care, schooling, recreation, security,
transportation etc.
5. Infrastructure and Facilities: The institute has started 3 new campuses in the last decade. These campuses will require constant maintenance and upgrades of infrastructure.
On his visit to BITS Pilani on 12-14 Nov 2011, Chancellor KM Birla announced a 400 Cr.
Modernization plan for the Pilani campus. This ambitious plan, called Project Parivartan, will include the construction of an underground academic block designed by a
leading architect; construction of new hostels, new staff flats, recreational zones, pedestrian bridges, sunken zones, an amphitheater with a capacity of 4500; and renovation of
existing infrastructure. The new Academic Building is a state-of-the-art building, and a
major addition to the campus in recent years. This building has 23 modern classrooms
(capacity 70 to 200 seats), a 200-seater auditorium, and will host the Institutes computing lab & facilities, the departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, Management,
Economics & Finance, and Humanities & Social Sciences. Built in a sunken plot in front
of the Institutes historic clock tower, the facility has a rotunda and landscaped avenue
adding to the grandeur. This has a total built up area of about 1,60,000sq ft. and has
been built at a cost of Rs. 75 Crores. The building has been designed by the well known
Architect Mr. Hafeez Contractor. New student hostel with a capacity of 201 single bed
room, new faculty housing with 121 houses and 33 KVA substation works are almost
complete. Major renovation and augmentation of student hostels, academic blocks and
faculty housing is planned over a period of three years and work is in progress.
6. University Administration: The multi-campus nature of the institute poses unique
challenges in administration. A comprehensive review of the existing administrative
and academic structure is underway. New non-teaching positions are being created to
help the faculty to reduce their involvement in routine administration and thereby focus on teaching and research. With active support from sponsors, senior management,
staff and students, along with passionate alumni wholeheartedly participating in all
these efforts, Vision 2020 is on its way to becoming a reality.
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INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
ASSET STATUS
As stewards of excess capital and various endowed funds for BITSAA International, the
BITSAA Investment Committee (BIC) has the primary objective of generating proceeds (via
investment income and/or capital appreciation) to administer BITSAAs current endowed
(fully or partially) initiatives. The BIC endeavors to achieve its objectives via appropriate
investments within a combined investment portfolio called the BITSAA Endowment Fund
(BEF). The BEF currently supports the following endowments, with a current annualized
obligation of around USD 7,000:
Publication of Investment Policy Statements

All of BICs/BEFs activities (including principles and parameters guiding these actions)
and obligations are published in detail via periodic reports that are available online at
www.bitsaa.org under the endowments section.
2014 Highlights
The BEF has grown over the years (since its inception value of approx. $10,000 in April, 2003),
via a combination of investment returns and new endowments, to $133,906 (12/31/2014
close) reflecting an average annualized return of +5.7% since inception.
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For the last five years ending 2014, the BEF had an investment rate of return of +6.3%. The
BEF, which has investments allocated in similar amounts into equities and fixed income,
generated a return of +3.4%, for an unrealized capital appreciation of $4,564 during 2014.
The returns were weighed down to some degree by the cash levels sitting in the account
(meant for BITSAA Operations and initiative disbursements). During the year, the rupee
depreciated marginally from 61.9/ USD on Dec 31, 2013 to 63.2/USD on Dec 31, 2014. The
academic year 2014-2015 saw an increase in tuition to the tune of +14% (from INR 1.57
Lakhs p.a. to INR 1.79 Lakhs p.a.), a significant rise in USD terms for our obligations tied
to tuition fees. We remain in decent shape to weather such storms in the form of USD
depreciation or tuition increases or a below expected performance in any given year.
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Distinguished Alumni Awards

BITS Pilani has decided to give the BITS Pilani Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2014 to
the following alumni in recognition of their significant and outstanding contributions.
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
AWARDS
The selection was based on the impact of ones contribution to (a) dissemination or creation
of knowledge, (b) enrichment of lives of people, (c) distribution or creation of wealth, or (d)
promotion or establishment of high ethical standards in private or public life, as also upon
the persons integrity and stature, and who thereby makes his alma mater proud.
Prof. Anil Pahwa
Prof. Anil Pahwa
(Professor at Kansas
State University) for
Academic Teaching and
Research
Prof. Gurindar Sohi

(Professor at University
of Wisconsin-Madison)
for Academic Teaching
and Research
Dr. Chandrashekhar
(Director, CEERI,
Pilani) for Professional
Management of
Businesses
Prof. Anil Pahwa received his Bachelors (Honors) degree in Electrical Engineering from BITS
Pilani in 1975. Prof. Pahwa came to the United States from India in 1977 to pursue graduate
studies in power and energy systems. Since 1983, he works at the Kansas State University,
United States. He is currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department. He is a very active IEEE member having 1 U. S. patent and over 150 publications.
Prof. Pahwa was selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by U. S. National Academies for the
year 2014-15. He was also elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 2003 for contribution to power
distribution system automation and restoration. He was awarded the IEEEs Power and
Energy Society (PES) Douglas M. Staszesky Distribution Automation Award for 2012. Prof.
Pahwa was awarded the Logan-Fetterhoof electrical and computer engineering faculty of
distinction chair in 2012. He has had extensive international experience. From 2007 to 2011,
he served as the electrical engineering coordinator for a World Bank-funded project to
strengthen higher education in Afghanistan.
Prof. Gurindar Sohi
Prof Gurindar S Sohi holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from
BITS Pilani in 1981. Prof. Sohi has been a faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
since 1985. Over the years in his work, Prof. Sohi focused on innovative techniques for finegrain and instruction-level parallelism in high-performance microprocessors and has had
stellar accomplishments in the field. He has received widespread recognition for his work.
He received the 1999 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award for seminal contributions in
the areas of high issue rate processors and instruction level parallelism and the 2011 ACM/
IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award for pioneering widely used micro-architectural techniques
for instruction-level parallelism. At the University of Wisconsin he was selected as a Vilas
Associate in 1997, awarded the WARF Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Researcher award in 2000,
and was selected as a WARF Named Professor in 2007. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and
the IEEE and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Dr. Chandrashekhar
Mr. Pradeep Kashyap
(Founder and CEO,
MART) for Social
Entrepreneurship
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Mr. Raju Reddy
(Founder and CEO, Sierra

Atlantic; Chairman,
BITSAA International) for
Entrepreneurship
Dr. Chandrashekhar obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from BITS Pilani in 1971
and 1975 respectively. Thereafter, he moved to CEERI, Pilani where, after serving as a post
doctoral fellow, he joined the institute as Scientist B in August 1977. He has been serving
as Director of CEERI since 2003. Dr. Chandra Shekhar has served as a member of Governing
Bodies of CSIR, AcSIR, BITS-Pilani, NIT Kurukshetra, UIET Kurukshetra University and
Mody University of Science and Technology. He has also been a member of CSIR Society,
Society for Semiconductor Laboratories of ISRO, and on the Board of Directors of Central
Electronics Limited. He is a Fellow of IETE, Honorary Fellow of Metrology Society of India
and a life member of Indian Physics Association, Semiconductor Society of India and IndoFrench Technical Association.
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Dr. Chandra Shekhar has been awarded UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist Award in 1986,
CEERI Foundation Day Merit award in the year 1988, ISHEER Science Councilor Award in
2005, Prof. L K Maheshwari Foundation Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2010, Doctor of
Science (honoris causa) by NIT Kurukshetra in 2012 and IETE Diamond Jubilee Gold Medal
award in the year 2013.
VOLUNTEER AWARDS
Mr. Pradeep Kashyap
Mr. Pradeep Kashyap graduated with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from
BITS Pilani in 1969. Mr. Kashyap co-created Project Arogya with Novartis to address TB
in rural India using local youth as Health Entrepreneurs which won several national and
international awards. Mr. Kashyap devoted his professional time on free basis throughout his
social work for public good. He has served on national committees of RBI, NABARD, SIDBI,
Ministry of Rural Development, etc., to represent the cause of the poor and recommend
schemes and strategies for addressing poverty through livelihood creation and marketing
support. He has pioneered new concepts of Inclusive Marketing, 3M model of Livelihoods
Promotion, 3i approach to innovation and participatory research tools which are recognized
globally and adopted by many NGOs, donors and companies.
Mr. Kashyap was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 by Rural Marketing
Association of India. He was honored by Star News with the Talent Management Leader
2011 Award. He was chosen for the Spandan Award 2011 for inculcating Human Values
in Management. He is a recipient of the Jamnalal Bajaj Award 1991 for his outstanding
contribution to rural development. In recognition of his knowledge leadership he was
invited to serve on Prime Minister Office and Chief Minister Committees on employment
generation in the informal sector.
Mr. Raju Reddy
Mr. Raju Reddy received his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
from BITS Pilani in 1981. Mr. Reddys Sierra Atlantic, a start-up in Silicon Valley bound
and grew to employ over 2400 people with operations in several countries within a span of
17 years. The company was ranked consistently among the best managed companies and
has won several Awards over the years for the product and business success. Sierra Atlantic
was recognized as one of the Top 10 Best Employers in South China, Silicon Valleys 75
Most Admired Companies and Top 25 great places to work in India. Mr. Reddy serves on
the BITS, Pilani General Body. He is the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors,
BITSAA International. He currently serves on the board of Grey Orange, EspressoLogic,
Seclore and Prizm Payments (a Hitachi company); and previously served on the board of
RedBus (acquired by Naspers) and Cognovision (acquired by Intel) and Hitachi Consulting.
Mr. Reddy is actively engaged in the community and serves in leadership roles in various
non-profits and enjoys working with young entrepreneurs in a mentorship role. He currently
serves on the Board of India Community centre in Milpitas, California. He also serves as a
Member of Advisory Board at India-West Publications, Inc. He serves as a Trustee of Puente.
He is a Charter Member of TiE. He also co-founded SIPA (Silicon Valley Indian Professional
Association) in 1987.
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In 2013, we launched the BITSAA International Volunteer Awards - our tiny way of
appreciating the excellent work put forth by our volunteers. We continued with the
tradition, with BITSAA Awards 2014 where the BITSAA International members were
recognized for their high quality work in the below categories:
Most Successful Team - Given to the team(s) that has shown remarkable commitment,
excellent execution beyond the listed goals, and credible collaboration across teams. All
BITSAA teams are eligible to be nominated in this category.
Exceptional Leadership - Given to the individual(s) who has proven to be an exceptional
leader with proven integrity, interpersonal skills, goal setting for team, and carrying the
team along with him/her. This category is intended for Managers and above, but exceptions
will be made if there is sufficient justification.
Outstanding Volunteerism - Given to the individual(s) who put in efforts outside of his
stated project tasks, has excellent communication skills, and is result driven. This category
is open to all Volunteers and Team leaders.
Outstanding Newcomer - Given to the individual(s) who joined BITSAA recently, but
proved to be an invaluable resource to the team, and the organisation, through his/her
dedication, leadership, and commitment. As the name suggests, this is open to any leader
who is a newcomer.
Executional Excellence: Given to the individual(s) who has been an excellent team player
and been consistent with delivering goal results in a timely manner. This category is open
to all Volunteers and Team Leaders.
I n an organization the size of BITSAA International, it is not easy to narrow down the list
of recipients for the BITSAAAwards, but choices we did make. The winners of BITSAA
International Volunteer Awards 2014 are listed in the next page. Also mentioned alongside
are selected commendations received from the winners colleagues for the excellent work
done by each winner.
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Volunteer Awards
Most Successful Team
Marketing & Communications

Set Social Media records for BITSians day
2013..Well executed BGM marketing campaign...
Well executed NASDAQ PR campaign
Career Center
For the utter dedication and determination with
which the team worked to roll out the BITSAA
Career Center, a portal that holds great promise to
BITSians around the world to support each other
in their careers.
Exceptional Leadership
ravan Menta, Chapter Relations

S
Built Ch-R team in India from ground-up....
Instrumental in Ch-R BGM 2014 deliverables...
Perfect Succession Planning
Suhas Kashyap, Career Center
...he would be a great asset to the organization
down the road
Aditya Garg, Chapter Relations
Exceptional contribution to Chapter
Relations.|Established e-Store as vibrant portal
Outstanding Volunteerism
Priya Yedlapalli, Scholarships

...a very enthusiastic person, always keen to take
up more tasks. She will soon be a great leader in
the Scholarships Team
Outstanding Newcomer
Priyatham Dharmana, Marketing &

Communications
...he is the sole reason that the Annual report
2012 went out...What he did in the next 10 days
was beyond his call of duty...I have not found a
more committed guy than him
xecutional Excellence
E
Surbhi Singh, Scholarships
...has taken complete charge...she has put in a
lot of effort in the streamlining the processes and
engaging with the donors
Susheel Tatineni, Career Center
Outstanding contribution and dogged
perseverance to operationalize a vision even
during trying personal times...Working with
tremendous professional mannerism within
deadlines
Bharati Makhijani, Marketing &
Communications
Long term planner... Seamlessly communicates
with all teams...Has always honored the deadline
ekha Somasundaram, Fundraising
R
Exceptional revival and management of e-store
Varsha Rajshekar, BITS2MSPHD
Smooth transition and takeover of
BITS2MSPHD group...successful management of
old and new initiatives
Sumit Kumar, People Strategy

Amazing commitment...Super responsive
Rohit Agarwal, Chapter Relations
Momentum for BITSAA Database project for 1
year
Sowmyavadhana V, Scholarships
Sowmya has been a great asset to the team in the
past one year, right from the time she joined the
team
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How to Donate?
HOW TO DONATE?
BITSAA International Donation Form (USD)
Donation from Rest of the World
DONATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please fill this donation form, scan it and email us at finance-team@bitsaa.org with subject
BITSAA International Donation and we will get in touch with you.

Or
Please fill this donation form and send it via postal mail to:

BITSAA International,

Attn: CFO, BITSAA International,

1560 Sunnyvale, Saratoga Road, Suite

200, Sunnyvale, CA 94087-4597, USA
DONATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please fill this donation form, scan it and email us at finance-team@bitsaa.org with subject
BITSAA International - India Donation and we will get in touch with you.

Or
Please fill this donation form and send it via postal mail to:

Office of Alumni Affairs

Attn: Prof. Arya Kumar,

BITS Pilani

Pilani, Rajasthan, 333031, India
DONOR INFORMATION (required)
Name: ___________________________________________________________
DONOR INFORMATION (required)
BITS Batch (year of entry) and Degree: _______________________________
Name: ___________________________________________________________
PAN Number: ___________________________________________________
BITS Batch (year of entry) and Degree: _______________________________
Stret Address: ___________________________________________________
Street Address: ___________________________________________________
City, State, Pin, Country: ___________________________________________
City, State, Pin, Country: ___________________________________________
Phone number: ___________________________________________________
Phone number: ___________________________________________________
E-mail address: ___________________________________________________
E-mail address: ___________________________________________________
DONATION DETAILS (required)
DONATION DETAILS (required)
Recurring donations

Yes, please send me reminders for donation every ___ months

No, I would prefer to make a one-time donation
Donation mechanism

Enclosed a cheque payable to BITSAA International

Want to deposit directly to BITSAA Bank Account. Please send
me instructions
Recurring donations

Yes, please send me reminders for donation every ___ months

No, I would prefer to make a one-time donation
Donation mechanism

Enclosed a cheque payable to BITSAA International

Want to deposit directly to BITSAA Bank Account. Please send
me instructions
ALLOCATION INSTRUCTIONS (required)

Please mark against each initiative that you would like to contribute to along with the
allocation amounts:

BITSAA General Fund
USD _____

Faculty Enrichment (Endowed Chair)
USD _____

Faculty Enrichment (Young Faculty Excellence Award)
USD _____

Student Enrichment (Student Projects Fund)
USD _____

Student Enrichment (Tuition Scholarships)
USD _____

Student Enrichment (Travel Grants)
USD _____

Other/Create Endowment (see below)
USD _____
CREATING A NAMED ENDOWMENT
A time-limited endowment in your name or in the name of a loved one can be created with a
reasonable sized donation. See http://bitsaa.org/?page=naming_rights for details. Please contact
finance-team@bitsaa.org for further details.
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BITSAA International Donation Form (INR)

Donation from India
DONATING SECURITIES
Have you thought about donating securities to BITSAA International? BITSAA can sell your
securities and apply the proceeds towards the initiative or program of your choice.

Yes, I am interested. Please contact me to discuss details
ALLOCATION INSTRUCTIONS (required)

Please mark against each initiative that you would like to contribute to along with the
allocation amounts:

BITSAA General Fund
INR _____

Faculty Enrichment (Endowed Chair)
INR _____

Faculty Enrichment (Young Faculty Excellence Award)
INR _____

Student Enrichment (Student Projects Fund)
INR _____

Student Enrichment (Tuition Scholarships)
INR _____

Student Enrichment (Travel Grants)
INR _____

Other/Create Endowment (see below)
INR _____
CREATING A NAMED ENDOWMENT
A time-limited endowment in your name or in the name of a loved one can be created with a
reasonable sized donation. See http://bitsaa.org/?page=naming_rights for details. Please contact
finance-team@bitsaa.org for further details.
DONATING SECURITIES
Have you thought about donating securities to BITSAA International? BITSAA can sell your
securities and apply the proceeds towards the initiative or program of your choice.

Yes, I am interested. Please contact me to discuss details
http://bitsaa.org/donations
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STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS
Beginning balance Jan 1, 2014

$143,705.00
Cash Flow In (Revenues/Donations)

Revenues

General Fund
$32,603.84

Student Enrichment
$7,520.00

Faculty Enrichment
$11,350.00

1983 Batch Help fund
$3,250.00

1985 Batch Help fund
$30,975.00

1988 Batch Go 2 BITS
$400.00

9T Fund

$3,200.00

BGM Fund - World Contributions
$4,841.35

BITSAA Seattle Chapter

$300.00
E-store
$670.89
Gift Matching
$6,018.62
Interest $0.07

NASDAQ bell ringing group
$13,000.00

Prof I J Nagrath Outstanding Teacher Awards
$10,300.00

Student Projects Fund
$2,025.00

Tuition Scholarships
$125.00

Total Revenue
$126,579.77

Cash Flow Out (Expenses/ Disbursements)

Operational Expenses

Yourmembership.com
$6,958.94

Bluepay Fees
$2,732.10

Business Cards

$488.32
Amex Fees
$482.20

Cauliflower
$200.00

Dropbox for 3 years
$297.00

Wire fee

$130.00

Flickr
$24.95

Miscellaneous
$630.69
$11,944.20

Disbursements: Non-Endowed Initiatives
2006 AECS Award $1,180.00

Anurag Jain Travel Grant Award

$1,100.00

BGM World fund contributions

$6,684.98

BITSAA Seattle Chapter

$3,178.46

BITSMUN Scholarship

$170.99
General Fund
$780.21

Mantra Award

$500.00

NASDAQ Frames

$2,885.89

Prof Suresh Ramaswamy Family Fund

$10,500.00

$26,980.53
Total Expenses

$38,924.73

Ending balance, Dec 31, 2014

$231,360.04
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LIST OF DONORS
Batch of 1960
Batch of 1984
Batch of 1965
Batch of 1985
Brij Bhushan
Champa Bhushan
Shivan Subramaniam
Batch of 1973
Damodar Periwal
Batch of 1974
SP Kothari
S Balakrishna
Sutapa Chattopadhyay
Batch of 1975
Mukesh Chatter
Priti Chatter
Batch of 1976
Yuhong Yu
Nasir Memon
Kartikeya Mayaram
Amit Mukherjee
Batch of 1978
Aditya Singhal
Batch of 1979
Suresh Kabra
Batch of 1980
Jai Shekhawat
Batch of 1983
Kishore K Bopardikar
Vijay Raghavan
Rajesh Gupta
Suriyanarayanan Rajagopalan
Srini Kopparapu
Sanjay Jain
Mayank Chopra
Ranjan Biswas
Smita Kolhatkar
Tarminder Sethi
Anoop Kumar
Maheshwar Umasankar
Sundar Vanchinathan
Ajoy Kodali
Doraiswamy Ramabadran
Rajesh Yannam
Dilip Mundkur
Batch of 1986
Amit Khandelwal
Sivaprasad Narahari
Batch of 1987
Uday Sreeram
Smita Brunnermeirer
Jaideep Mavoori
Sandeep Arora
Batch of 1988
Ujjalaksha Basu
Rajesh Chelapurath
Batch of 1989
Laxminarayan Chakrapani
Batch of 1990
Subramanian Rm
Harsh Honmode
Chinmoy Panda
Kingshuk Jagat Honmode
Pradeep Chennavajhula
Dharmarajan S
Anupam Adeeb
Monalisa Sahoo
Srikumar Kuttuva
Revathy Sreedharan
Srinivas Sridharan
Mahesh Hegade
Nataraj Ganapathy
Amitabh Chand
Rajesh Desingu
Batch of 1991
Siddharth Swarup
Rajesh Balakrishnan
Batch of 1992
Krishnakumar Sivasubramanian
Niranjan Bose
Batch of 1993
Karthik Kuppusamy
Viswadharani Kumar
Batch of 1995
Sovrin Tolia
Batch of 1997
Shashikant Khandelwal
Ajay Soni
Batch of 1999
Swarna Mohan
Neeraja Natarajan
Badhri Varanasi
Batch of 2000
Mayukh Saubhasik
Batch of 2001
Sakshi Arora
Nasrullah Husami
Ravi Subramani Ramakrishnan
Batch of 2003
Divya Nawale
Akhilesh Reddy Endurthy
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Batch of 2005
Bandanjot Singh
Deepak Varma
Batch of 2006
Ananth Dileepkumar
Anurag Vnvj
Gaelen Pereira
Harsh Yogendra Bhavsar
Jithin Parayil Thomas
Kannan Sankar
Krushidhar Lekkala
Mansi Verma
Onkar Dixit
Poorva Agrawal
Prakhar Prabhakar
Pranshu Sharma
Rajat Tibrewal
Rizwan Hudda
Sanjeev Kumar
Shashank Sharma
Batch of 2007
Prabhav Joshi
Sudeep Gupta
Batch of 2008
Avinash Kumar
Lakshmi Neeraja Vinjam
Nihar Todupunoori
Ragupathi Soundara Rajan
Others
Amar Kapadia
Anandh Haridh
Anish Seth
Ashok Gopalakrishnan
Ashok Roy
Deepthi Raju
Gautam K Nirmal And Vinuta
Nirmal
Gita Rao-Prasad
Himanshu Bhartiya
Jayesh Goyal
Jitender Sandadi
Kalpana Gopalkrishnan
Kaustabh Duorah
Mahesh Yalavarti
Malathi Bollampally
Nishet Dayal
Onkar Parrikar
Pamela Mummareddy
Prasad Lingareddy
Prasad Subramani
Prathap Paragi
Priya Jain
Rajagopal Raghunathan
Ram Venkateswaran
Ramesh Pasapula
Ranga Beeram
Ranjan Biswas
Ravi Nagabhyru
Roma Bose
Satish Polisetti
Savita Goel
Shankar Khadye
Shatajeet Gandhi
Sirisha Gopisetty
Sriganesh Karur
Srikkanth Sridhar
Srinivasa Reddy
Sundeep Gupta
Udaya Ravi Shankar Bhavanasi
Udayan N Borkar
Vikram Gupta
Despite our best efforts, we may have

unintentionally missed some of the names or
gotten the batches mixed up. Any inconvenience is
regretted. Please write to us at
comms-team@bitsaa.org and we will get it fixed
MEET THE ANNUAL REPORT

TEAM
Director - Marketing & Communications Team
Kaushik Balasubramanian (08)
Editor - in - Chief
Keshav Parashar (10)
Editors
Yashaswy Akella (12)
Pradyumna Kiran (12)
Priyatham Dharmana (11)
Thank you donors!
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SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

Anupendra Sharma (87)

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Arun Aravind (97)

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Krishna Hegde (96)

Trustee & Chair, New Scholarships and Endowment Committee

Dr. AP Mathur (70)

Venu Palaparthi (87)

Aalap Tripathy (04)

Abhinav Khushraj (95)

Ashish Garg (97)

Raju Reddy (76)

Dr. SP Kothari (74)

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Trustee & Chair

Chandra Bhople (74)

Niranjan Bose (92)

Deepak Sharma (91)

Pradeep Sethi (72)

Aditi Pany (00)

Vice Chair, Bitsaa Chapters

Sudeep Jain (86)

Vice Chair, Bitsaa Chapters

Co-founder & Advisor Bitsaa International

Kaushik Subramanian (01)

Rajesh Chelapurath (88)

Co-Founder & Advisor, Bitsaa

BITSAA INDIA TRUST

Shiv Kumar Tayal

Sanjay Khendry (82)

Shiv Shankar Asthana

Chief Executive Officer

Abhisheak Iyer (02)

Chief Financial Officer

Shwetha Kailash (08)

Chief People Strategy

Suresh Sajja (03)

Chief Technology Officer

Kalyan Krishnamani (97)

Hari Prasath (04)

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Reuben George (09)

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