5th Institute Day

5th Institute Day of IIT Palakkad

Unlike the previous years, the Institute Day was held over Zoom and live streamed on YouTube.The programme began with the Invocation song by Ms. Tripti and Ms. Shweta, MSc students.

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Dean (Administration), delivered the welcome speech to the audience. The General Secretary of IIT Palakkad, Mr. Muhammed Yaseen, presented the report on the student activities of IIT Palakkad (compiled by the Student Affairs Council) in the past year. As a new addition to the Institute day tradition,we had Mr. Vishal Choudhari, an alumnus of IIT Palakkad second batch, was invited to deliver a speech. This was followed by the Director’s address by Prof. P.B. Sunil Kumar, our Director. Also joining the occasion was Shri. Ramesh Venkateswaran, Chairperson, Board of Governors, who addressed the viewers with his warm wishes.

It was then time for the chief guest of the occasion, Padma Bhushan Prof. P. Balram, Former Director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore to address the members of IIT Palakkad. He explained how the fields of engineering and science go hand-in-hand when it comes to research and developments that benefit humankind. We also had a message from Shri. Sanjay Dhothre Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Education, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India on the occasion of the 5th Institute day. In his message, he congratulated IIT Palakkad for actively participating in research and for making good progress in the development of the institute since its inception . The message was delivered to the audience by Dr Ganesh.

As always, students who had achieved excellence in academic and extracurricular activities were awarded. The list of awardees is as follows:

Awards for academic excellence for students who secured the highest CGPA in their respective disciplines:

Undergraduate Students:

B2019

Mr. Naren Loganathan, secured the highest CGPA among the first year Btech Students.

B2018

Mr. Abhiram Manoj K V, 2nd year Btech, Civil Engineering

Ms. Parul Sangwan, 2nd Year Btech, Computer Science and Engineering,

Mr. Tarush Mehta, 2nd year Btech, Electrical Engineering

Mr. Anoop A, 2nd year Btech, Mechanical Engineering

B2017

Mr. Pamu Abitez, 3rd year Btech, Civil Engineering

Mr. Ahmed Zaheer Dadarkar, 3rd year Btech, Computer Science and Engineering

Mr. Roshan P Mathews, 3rd year Btech, Electrical Engineering,

Ms. Sangadala Gayathri, 3rd year Btech, Mechanical Engineering

Masters Students:

M.Sc

Ms. Arpita Panda, 1st year M.Sc, Chemistry

Mr. Suganthan S, 1st year M.Sc, Physics

M.Tech

Ms. Arya Krishna, 1st year Mtech, Geotechnical Engineering

Mr. Sidhin Tom, 1st year Mtech, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering

Prof. Valsakumar Memorial Endowment Award:

Mr.Narendran Chandramouli, M.Sc, Physics (Based on the highest JAM rank)

Mr. Suganthan S, M.Sc, Physics (Based on the highest CGPA)

Achievements in Co-Curricular and Extra-Curricular activities

• Co-Curricular and Innovation events

• Smart India Hackathon

The IIT Palakkad team which reached the finals in the hardware round of Smart India Hackathon

• Divyansh Khare

• Abhinav Kumar

• Sandra Mary Jacob

• Gautham G Kumar

• Sushil Kumar

• Arjun K Vikram

• Competitive Coding

Winners of QUARHACK,the competitive coding competition conducted by the ISTE chapter of CET,Trivandrum

• Sirpa Sahul - First Prize

• Ahmed Zaheer Dadarkar - Second Prize

• Certificates of Appreciation

CSquare Pre-Summer ideation Program:

• Saurabh Kumar Pandey - Sanitizing environments through UV

• Kailas S Vel - Sanitizing environments through high voltage

Innovation Lab Contests:

• Dilip Kalyani - Projection of phone screen using a magnifying screen

CSquare Innovation Lab Web-Development team:

• Joel Joy,Jerry John Thomas,Naren Loganathan

Innodeate Bootcamp Poster and Graphics design:

• Gautham Giri

• Cultural Events

Vadya,the IIT Palakkad music club,stood third at the events conducted at NSS College,Palakkad an GEC,Palakkad.The team members are:

• Benhar R

• Rithwik P

• Ashwin Krishna

• Aswin S Vijay

• Anand Kumar Sharma

• Raj Surya

• Jayant Suresh

• Divyansh Singh

Storytelling and Quiz competitions

• Kanabar Shrujan - winner of the story telling competition conducted by Akshar,the literary club, in collaboration with “Tape-A-Tale”

Third place in the regional round of Jogo Bonito inter-Collegiate quiz competition

• Abhishek M S

• Anoop A

Winners of the Design-a-logo competition for Kadambini,the women’s forum

• Deepu George Kurian

• Priyankka G R

• Shah Sparsh Mukedhbai

• Sports

• IIT Palakkad came 5th in overall position in the WIN (Wellness Indoors Now) PAN IIT movement

• Winners of the Circuit Challenge by Fitness Club

• Shreya M P

• Gourav Nishad

• Maanas Rokkala

• Ananthakrishnan

Based on the performance in Sportacus(Intra IIT Sports Meet) 2020,the most valuable players are:

• Athletics : Rakesh Kumar and Meghana Nenavath

• Badminton : Chaitanya Reddy and Maria Rose Joseph

• Basketball : Purav Kothiya and Suchitra Yechuri

• Volleyball : Satish Chandra

• Chess : Arjun Thangaraj

• Table Tennis : Arjun Thangaraj

• Throwball : Nimmala Shirisha

• Cricket : Shankar

• Football : Antony Paulose

• Powerlifting : Gourav Nishad

• Virtual General Championship

Winners of online Chess competition : Batch 2019

• Atul Kumar

• Harsh dubey

• Raj Goel

• Saransh Kumar

• Sayandeep Chaudhary

Winners of Sports Quiz : Batch 2019

• Gautam Giri (Batch 2019)

• Jose George (PG)

• Pushkar Yadav (Batch 2017)

• Naren Loganathan (Batch 2019)

• Anand Kumar Sharma (Batch 2017)

• Notable performances in the FIT India run

Staff and Faculty :

• Col.S.Chakraborty, Registrar

• Rohit M

• Vinayak M

• Rex

• Dr.Krishna

Students :

• Sakila

• Manoranjan

• Shubhangi Chauhan

• Greeshmanth

• Naman Purohit

• Nishant Singh

• Alfred Antony

The event came to an end with the Cultural programmes by the students, where they started with the Institute Anthem followed by an array of wonderful performances from both Vadya and Sync to Beat, the Dance club.

The Vote of thanks was delivered by Col.S.Chakraborty, Registrar.