SAIL launches Story Writing Competition
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has launched a story writing competition on the theme “SAIL Steel – Building Nation, Transforming Lives. As a part of better people engagement initiative, SAIL is organising this country wide competition to motivate people to pen down stories on SAIL’s contribution towards Nation building and people’s lives. To invite participation, SAIL has issued a detailed notice on its website www.sail.co.in and is also publicising it through social media. As per details available on SAIL website, any Indian citizen including employees of SAIL and their families can participate in the competition. The word limit for the story is 800 words only. The story is to be sent at sailstory2021@gmail.com latest by 3rd May, 2021. Attractive prizes & certificates will be given away to 5 winning entries in each language (Hindi & English). The award-winning stories will be published in SAIL’s publications.
Freight Development Portal
Indian Railways is a major step in the expansion of Digital India. The formation of ‘Freight Business Development Portal’ is a step in this direction. This portal has been launched to motivate new customers to freight through railways and to provide better facilities to existing customers. Several steps have been taken at the Divisional and Headquarters level so that the freighters of East Central Railway jurisdiction can also get the benefit of this. In this series, ECR has invited the freight customers to join the railway. Interested customers can register and take advantage of the special facilities being provided at freight terminals. For this, the customers can register by following a very simple process. Under this, there will be a need to go to the nearest Goods Shed and submit a signed service request letter, after which authentication will be done through the registered mobile number and email id. After registration, customers can digitally contact their customers through the RailSugam App and the FOIS webportal.
BAU ranked 3rd in AMS
Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) has ranked 3rd in country’s 51 agricultural universities in implementation of online Academic Management System (AMS). AMS facilitates in automation of various academic processes of the university and enhances the efficiency of the overall system by saving time and efforts involved in manual processes. National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) in collaboration with Delhi-based Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) of ICAR is overseeing the implementation of AMS for management of courses, students, faculty, administration and e-learning.
MUN at BIT, Mesra
UNESQUO organized a Model united nation which was held on 13th and 14th March 2021 at BIT, Mesra. The MUN was organized on the Zoom video conferencing platform and Discord. More than 30 students from colleges all across the country represented the nations of the MUN to speak on matters of global concern. The agenda of the UN general assembly was “Transitioning into a post-pandemic world- challenges and preparedness with the changing global dynamics”. In the first session countries like Italy, Belgium and Maldives discussed the raising concerns about vaccine nationalism and monopoly. The delegates also expressed their views on cybersecurity and the raising of mental health issues.
Webinar at SBU
A webinar was organized by the Department of Commerce and Management at SBU. The webinar was a fireside chat with Prabhakar Lingareddy, who took many questions from students and tried to solve their doubts. Lingareddy explained the students how Covid has affected ITC and many other business organisation. How it broke the myth that we need to be physically present for the work to be done. He also put forward his views on how covid has affected female workers. Lingareddy also took a question regarding e- choupal how it has become so successful . He also cleared doubts of students regarding being an entrepreneur in agriculture sector. The most important thing he said a student should possess before getting into this field is knowing the basics of agriculture and being patient enough, because as we know agriculture in India is quite volatile.
IIT Kgp holds Spring Fest 2021
IIT Kharagpur organised the 62nd edition of Spring Fest 2021 from 19th to 21st of February, 2021. This year, Spring Fest has scheduled Hitch Hike, the Nationwide Prelims for its Dance, Drama, Music, Fashion, and Literary events in 21 cities across India, namely Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Guwahati, Chennai, Vizag, Raipur, Indore, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Kolkata, Pune, Dehradun, Patna, Lucknow, Jaipur, and Chandigarh. With the budding enthusiasm of the participants and the organizing team and the palpable excitement in the air, this edition of Spring Fest was grander than ever. Spring Fest conducts a multitude of events encompassing 12 genres and more than 130 events are contested among the best in India with a total cash prize worth around Rs 35 lakhs at stake. As always, a boatload of new events is here to tickle your senses and bring out the hidden talent in you. These events aim to provide a battlefield for the best of the best and also to have the participants experience the time of their lives. This year, Spring Fest witnessed enthralling performances by Amaal Malik, Indian Ocean, Bassjackers, J Trix X Subspace, and many more, making our 3 days better than they could not be.