Annual magazine (2008-09) of JGEC

Jalpaiguri Govt Engg. College is going to celebrate its golden jubilee ceremony in 2011 & we have started preparation to make this historical event more glorious.Keeping this point in view Annual magazine committee(2008-09) of JGEC is going to present a special section inside annual magazine fully dedicated to our 'ALUMNI'
SOME OF THE CONTENTS OF 'ALUMNI' SECTION ARE:
<1>Success story of our alumni(under this title we'll present one success story every year of well established & reputed alumni working on a higher post in a reputed companies.)
<2>Any events,memories or love stories related to jgec
<3>the most interesting one 'intro & message'
under this title
our alumni have to mention :
Name & place(bari)
session& dep
company& position
current location
memorable event related to jgec
ur message 4 students
favourite quotation
nick name
SOME MORE TITLES WILL BE ADDED LATER;
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An Amazing story of Non-IITian Who Made More Than IITian

K Prasanna From Kongu Engg College Is One Of Two Non-IITians To Make It To Auto Giant’s Open Recruitment This Year, Offered $92,000/Year

“I SAW the advertisement in the company website and applied for the same,” says K Prasanna, a 22-year-old final-year student of a rural college in Tamil Nadu. This smalltown guy has attracted none other than the iconic auto giant Rolls-Royce. After nine gruelling rounds of technical tests, the student of Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, has been offered a package of $92,000 per year. This pay package tops even that of IIT Madras, where the highest offer of $90,000 was made by German oilfield services provider Schlumberger last December. Prasanna has inked a five-year bond with Rolls-Royce, during which he is permitted to pursue Masters and Doctoral programme alongside his job. Moreover, he can also apply for patents for the research he does. Rolls-Royce is into manufacturing of gas turbines, power plants, cars, marine engines, aerospace engines and rocket propulsions. It may be noted that Prasanna had failed to get through any of the campus interview conducted by software companies this year. “Research and development is my interest area and some day I would like to take up teaching,” he said adding this Rolls-Royce offer is an opportunity to improve his knowledge in the field of engines, fuels and combustion. “I am interested in pulse detonation engines, which are used in aircraft and I would like to master in this area,” he said. A native of Periyanaickenpalayam, Coimbatore, he has been selected as a graduate trainee. Interestingly, Prasanna is one of the two non-IITians among the 120 selected from India by Rolls-Royce through an open recruitment this year. The other non-IITian is a student from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, (earlier known as Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute). When ET met Prasanna, he said of those shortlisted, only 22 are pursuing engineering. “The rest of them have either completed their Masters or Doctorate and few are even working in industry,” he said. Moreover, 14 girls have made it to the list, in which one 36-year-old woman with a doctorate in turbo engine has also been selected. “Basically, there is no age-limit and any qualified and knowledgeable candidate could apply,” Prasanna said. Annually, the company usually recruits around 300-700 candidates globally. But this year it had planned to increase the intake to 2,000 candidates and thus turned towards India for the first time. Though this is the maiden recruitment initiative in India, 3.42 lakh Indians were selected to take the tests after the initial filtration process by the company. Then came the sequence of nine technical tests, where a minimum of 5.33 aggregate was required to qualify for the next level. Prasanna made it to the final list with a total aggregate of 6.98. The questions were mainly technical and pertained to their industry. For example, Prasanna was asked to calculate the extreme power attained by a turbo dyne DC engine and the engine is yet to come into market. “The engine is still in their R&D stage and I was asked that question. So my extra knowledge and interest apart from curriculum helped me to solve such problems,” Prasanna said. Moreover, Prasanna said it is easier for IITians as they are given more liberty to specialise in their area of interest rather than attend classes regularly, whereas in Anna University, students are expected to have a minimum attendance. So far, Prasanna has presented 30 papers and also attended 13 conferences. “I have made Rs 68,000 from paper presentations,” he said. In fact, he had cleared the IIT and got a seat for BTech IT, but chose not to join, since he wanted to specialise in mechanical. He even got an opportunity to do internship with IIM recently, but voted against it as he was not interested in management either. His college encouraged him by giving access to their Technological Business Incubater (TBI), where research can be carried out. Prasanna has applied for three patents and he hopes he would get copyright for at least two. The previous year students of his college had won 19 copyrights and this year 122 applications have been sent.

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List of Indians by net worth

Rank	Name	Net Worth (US$ bil)	Age	City	Main Source	Industry
1	Lakshmi Mittal	51	56	London	Arcelor Mittal	Steel
2	Mukesh Ambani	49	50	Mumbai	Reliance Industries	Diversified
3	Anil Ambani	45	48	Mumbai	Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group	Diversified
4	Kushal Pal Singh	35	75	Delhi	DLF Universal	Real Estate, Construction
5	Azim Premji	12.7	61	Bangalore	Wipro	Diversified but primarily software and IT-enabled services
6	Sunil Mittal	12.5	49	Delhi	Bharti Airtel	Telecommunications
7	Shashi Ruia & Ravi Ruia	12	63	Mumbai	Essar Group	Textiles, Steel, Shipping
8	Ramesh Chandra	11.6	68	Delhi	Unitech	Construction, Real Estate
9	Kumar Mangalam Birla	11	39	Mumbai	Aditya Birla Group	Diversified
10	Tulsi Tanti	10	47	Pune	Suzlon	Wind Power
11	Savitri Jindal	8.5	58	Hisar, Mumbai	Jindal Steel	Metals
12	Anil Agarwal	7.4	52	London	Vedanta Resources	Mining
13	Gautam Adani	6.7	45	Ahmedabad	Adani Group	Infrastructure
14	Grandhi Rao	6.2	57	Hyderabad	GMR Group	Infrastructure
15	Adi Godrej	5.2	64	Mumbai	Godrej Industries	Diversified
16	Uday Kotak	4.6	46	Mumbai	Kotak Mahindra	Finance
17	Indu Jain	4.4	71	Delhi	Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.	Media
18	Shiv Nadar	4.3	61	Delhi	HCL	Consumer electronics, ITES
19	Anand Jain	4	50	Mumbai	Jai Corp Limited	Real Estate
20	Dilip Shanghvi	3.9	50	Mumbai	Sun Pharmaceuticals	Pharmaceuticals
23	Jaiprakash Gaur	3.9	76	Delhi	Jaiprakash Associates	Infrastructure
24	Cyrus Poonawalla	3.1	67	Pune	Serum Institute of India	Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology
25	Kalanithi Maran	2.7	42	Chennai	Sun Network	Media
26	Subhash Chandra Goel	2.6	55	Mumbai	Zee Network	Entertainment
27	Baba Kalyani	2.5	56	Pune	Bharat Forge	Metals
28	Rakesh Wadhawan	2.35	55	Mumbai	Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd	Real Estate
29	Rahul Bajaj	2.3	67	Pune	Bajaj	Diversified
30	Malvinder & Shivinder Singh	2.25	NA	Delhi	Ranbaxy	Pharma
31	Venugopal Dhoot	2.2	52	Mumbai	Videocon	Consumer durables
32	Rajan Raheja	2.15	54	Mumbai	Rajan Raheja Group	Diversified
33	Niranjan Hiranandani	2.1	57	Mumbai	Hiranandani Developers Pvt. Ltd	Real Estate
34	Vivek Burman	2	70	Delhi	Dabur India Limited	Herbal consumer products
35	L. Madhusudhan Rao	1.9	41	Hyderabad	Lanco Group	Infrastructure
36	Gautam Thapar	1.8	46	Mumbai	Avantha Group	Chemicals, infrastructure & engineering
37	Anurag Dikshit	1.75	35	Gibraltar	PartyGaming	Online gambling
38	Vikas Oberoi	1.7	37	Mumbai	Oberoi Constructions	Property development
39	N.R. Narayana Murthy	1.69	61	Bangalore	Infosys Technologies	Software and IT-enabled services
40	Anu Aga	1.67	65	Pune	Thermax	Energy and environment engineering solutions
41	Gracias Saldanha	1.65	70	Mumbai	Glenmark	Pharmaceutical
42	Vijay Mallya	1.6	51	Bangalore	United Breweries Group	Beverages, Airlines
43	Naresh Goyal	1.55	56	Mumbai	Jet Airways	Airlines
44	Murali K.Divi	1.53			Divi's Laboratories	Pharmaceuticals
45	Jignesh Shah	1.37			Financial Technologies	Financial software
46	Yusuf Hamied	1.32	69	Mumbai	Cipla	Pharma
47	Nandan Nilekani	1.26	50	Bangalore	Infosys	Software and IT-enabled services
48	Pradeep Jain	1.25			Parsvnath Developers	Real estate
49	Siddhiprasad	1.24	34	Nagpur	Essel Propack	Diversified
50	Habil Khorakiwala	1.23	63	Mumbai	Wockhardt	Health
51	Rohtas Goel	1.20			Omaxe	Real estate
52	S Gopalakrishnan	1.18	51	Bangalore	Infosys	Software and IT-enabled services
53	Brijmohan Lall Munjal	1.12	83	Delhi	Hero Honda	Automotive
54	Rakesh Jhunjhunwala	1.10			Rare Enterprises	Investments
55	Keshub Mahindra	1.08			Mahindra & Mahindra	Diversified
56	Nimesh Kampani	1.05	61	Mumbai	JM Financial	Financial services

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All-Time 100 Greatest Novels

The All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels was a list published by TIME magazine of the "100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present."
The Adventures of Augie March (1953) by Saul Bellow
All The King's Men (1946) by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm (1946) by George Orwell
Appointment in Samarra (1934) by John O'Hara
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
The Assistant (1957) by Bernard Malamud
At Swim-Two-Birds (1938) by Flann O'Brien
Atonement (2002) by Ian McEwan
Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison
The Berlin Stories (1946) by Christopher Isherwood
The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
A Death in the Family by James Agee
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
Deliverance by James Dickey
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Falconer by John Cheever
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Loving by Henry Green
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Money by Martin Amis
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
1984 by George Orwell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carre
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
White Noise by Don DeLillo
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

What a boss!

Scientists at the Rocket launching station in Thumba, were in the habit
of working for nearly 12 to 18 hours a day. There were about Seventy
such scientists working on a project. All the scientists were really
frustrated due to the pressure of work and the demands of their boss but
everyone was loyal to him and did not think of quitting the job.

One day, one scientist came to his boss and told him - Sir, I have
promised to my children that I will take them to the exhibition going on in
our township. So I want to leave the office at 5 30 pm.

His boss replied - O K, , You are permitted to leave the office early
today.

The Scientist started working. He continued his work after lunch. As
usual he got involved to such an extent that he looked at his watch when
he felt he was close to completion.The time was 8.30 p.m
Suddenly he remembered of the promise he had given to his children. He
looked for his boss,,He was not there. Having told him in the morning
itself, he closed everything and left for home.

Deep within himself, he was feeling guilty for having disappointed his
children.

He reached home. Children were not there.His wife alone was sitting in
the hall and reading magazines. The situation was explosive, any talk
would boomerang on him.

His wife asked him - Would you like to have coffee or shall I straight
away serve dinner if you are hungry.

The man replied - If you would like to have coffee, i too will have but
what about Children???

Wife replied- You don't know - Your manager came at 5 15 p.m and has
taken the children to the exhibition.

What had really happened was

The boss who granted him permission was observing him working seriously
at 5.00 p.m. He thought to himself, this person will not leave the
work, but if he has promised his children they should enjoy the visit to
exhibition. So he took the lead in taking them to exhibition

The boss does not have to do it everytime. But once it is done, loyalty
is established.

That is why all the scientists at Thumba continued to work under their
boss eventhough the stress was tremendous.

By the way , can you hazard a guess as to who the boss was????????




He was A P J Abdul Kalam.

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Success Story of Dhirubhai Ambani

Born in an impoverished village, at 16 he goes off to Aden to learn business. He returns 10 years later and starts a small company. By canny trading around the textile bazaars of Bombay, he corners the market in imported polyester, starts his own factory, outwits sclerotic bureaucrats in New Delhi who are trying to run the economy by regulation, and ultimately ignites the moribund Indian stock market with his vision of turning Reliance into a petrochemical and oil refining empire—a dream he realized not long before he died.

Mohandas Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani were the two most famous scions of the Modh Bania, a Hindu commercial caste based in the arid Saurashtra peninsula of India's western Gujarat state.

Each changed India. Ambani's public wore his textiles as durable suits and glittery saris. Indians invested by the millions in his Bombay-listed Reliance Industries, a sprawling conglomerate with $12.3 billion in annual sales that recently became India's first privately owned entrant to the Fortune 500. When Ambani died on July 6 at age 69 after nearly two weeks in a stroke-induced coma, the country's media recounted his rags-to-riches life as an Indian morality play.

Ambani's his great achievement was that he showed Indians what was possible. With no Oxford or Yale degree and no family capital, he achieved what the Elite "brown sahibs" of New Delhi could not: he built an ultramodern, profitable, global enterprise in India itself. What's more, he enlisted four million Indians, a generation weaned on nanny-state socialism, in an adventure in can-do capitalism, convincing them to load up on Reliance stock.

Still, Ambani seems destined to be remembered as a folk hero—an example of what a man from one of India's poor villages can accomplish with non-shrink ambition.

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Success Story of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Born on 15th October 1931 at Rameswaram, in Tamil Nadu, Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, specialized in Aero Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology.
He initially worked in DRDO in 1958 and then joined ISRO in 1963. Dr. Kalam has made significant contribution to Indian satellite and launch vehicles of ISRO and also in the missile programme of DRDO. As project Director, SLV-III, he contributed for the design, development and management of India’s first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III) to inject Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit. He was responsible for the evolution of ISRO’s launch vehicles programme and configurations. He rejoined DRDO in 1982 and conceived the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) for indigenous missiles.
He was Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister and Secretary, Department of Defence Research & Development from July 1992 to December 1999.As Chairman, technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), he generated the Technology Vision 2020 documents – a road map for transforming India from Developing India to Developed India. He provided overall guidance to a number of Homegrown Technology Projects and major technology missions such as Sugar, Advanced Composites and Fly Ash utilization.

Dr. Kalam has served as the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, in the rank of Cabinet Minister, from November 1999 to November 2001. He was primarily responsible for evolving policies, strategies and missions for generation of innovations and support systems for multiple applications. Also, generating science and technology task in strategic, economic and social sectors in partnership with Government departments, institutions and industry. Dr. Kalam was also the Chairman, Ex-officio, of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C).
Dr. Kalam took up academic pursuit as Professor, Technology & Societal Transformation at Anna University, Chennai and involved in teaching and research tasks.

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Success Story of Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla First Indian woman in space ...Born on 1962, in Karnal, India. Kalpana enjoyed flying, hiking, back-packing, and reading.

Kalpana completed her Graduation from Tagore School, Karnal, India, in 1976. Bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India, 1982. Master of science degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas, 1984. Doctorate of philosophy in aerospace engineering from University of Colorado, 1988.

Also she held a Certificated Flight Instructor's license with airplane and glider ratings, Commercial Pilot's licenses for single- and multi-engine land and seaplanes, and Gliders, and instrument rating for airplanes. She enjoyed flying aerobatics and tail-wheel airplanes.

In 1988, Kalpana Chawla started work at NASA Ames Research Center in the area of powered-lift computational fluid dynamics. Her research concentrated on simulation of complex air flows encountered around aircraft such as the Harrier in "ground-effect."

In 1993 Kalpana Chawla joined Overset Methods Inc., Los Altos, California, as Vice President and Research Scientist to form a team with other researchers specializing in simulation of moving multiple body problems. She was responsible for development and implementation of efficient techniques to perform aerodynamic optimization.

In December 1994, she was selected by NASA and reported to the Johnson Space Center in March 1995 as an astronaut candidate in the 15th Group of Astronauts. After completing a year of training and evaluation, she was assigned as crew representative to work technical issues for the Astronaut Office EVA/Robotics and Computer Branches.

In November, 1996, Kalpana Chawla was assigned as mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87. She flew on STS-87 (1997) and STS-107 (2003) and has logged 30 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes in space.

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AMAZING FUNDA

Here is something i used and doubt if many are aware of... This is a method to divide quickly (very Quickly) and get results with amazing accuracy...
But let me forewarn you, it needs good amount of practice before you can even think of trying it in exam hall...
And yes, this is not my creation.

so here we Go!!!

The approach would be to get the denominator to either a 100 or a 1000 because that is what percentages is all bout.
Simply focus on the fact that how do the given denominators reach 100/1000. I have left some blank because they are very obvious.

The following are the stations between 100 and 1000

100
111 - Reduce 10%
125 - Multiply by 8
133 - Reduce 1/4
150 - Reduce 1/3
166 - Multiply by 6
182 - Add 10%
200
222 - Reduce 10%
250
273 - Add 10%
300
333 - Reduce 10%
364
400
455 - Add 10%
500
555 - Reduce 10%
600
666 - Add Half
700
750 - Add 1/3
800
833 - Add 20%
875 - Add 1/7
900
910 - Add 9%
950 - Add 5%
1000

So Task (1) you have to mug up the values of these stations. It is very important that these values are memorized because this will help you in
knowing which number to reach from any given number. e.g. if the denominator is 887 you know you have to reach for 900 or 875 and so on.

Task (2) Practice!

Below is an approach to tackle (three digit /three digit) with consummate ease. We shall attempt to understand it with examples.

Example 1:
What is 145/182 ------------------79.5

Steps
1. add 10% to numerator and denominator...
2. it becomes 159/200 ...............which is 79.5
( the answer from the calculator is 79.6)

Example 2:
123/178....???

Step1:- which station is closest to it?.............................200?...or some say 150. Either is good. (identification took 2 seconds)

Step 2:- what do I have to do to go from 178 to 200/150..................add 22/subtract 28... (another 2 seconds.)

Step 3:- so if I add 22................i am actually adding slightly less than 13% of 178 to itself.

This part is tricky.. here is how I got it:

This is how u need to think---
Our number is 178. Thus, 10% of it is 17.8
22 definitely more than 10% .
if 10% = 17.8 then 5% = 8.xx

And 2.5% = 4.xxx (don't even bother to calculate xxx)
which means its around 12.5........or 13 or 12..........

Add same to numerator...........10% of 123 = 12.3
1% = 1.23 so 2% = 2.46

So 12% = 15?
So it becomes 138/200 = 69%?
(calculator answer is 69.1).

All you require to calculate is what is 10% 1%...and approx stuff...any damn calculation works in less than 8 seconds.

Some thing like (2456*4567 - 2134*3214)/2134*3214 will taken 10 seconds maximum...
it works coz I had that time 1.5 years ago..and I aint kidding..


Lets take one more.
Example 3: 532/745?
Tough???

This's how it can be approached:
# Nearest station.........750.................so add 5..............about 1% or less..add 1% damnit
# Numerator now is 537.............(added 1%)
# Fraction is 537/750 add 1/3 each...........it is 71 something.

Remember here don't even attempt to do...537/3. Because denominator is a 1000 and not a 100. So one digit is redundant. So all I do is........53/3 approx..18...plus..53 = 71%..(will do if answer are spaced...)

answers not spaced? Then 537 +537/3 = 537+179 = 716 which makes it 71.6 (calculator is 71.5)

Dont worry if the last few statements were difficult to digest. Try solving a few questions and you'll get the crux of it.



  



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