VAJRA 2019, the annual sports festival of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra is scheduled to take place from 8th to 10th November, 2019. However the pre-events have already started from Wednesday. The grand sports festival is being organised by the Core and Organizing Team of the fest with Aishanee Patnaik, Aadarsh Shrivastava and Vikash as the convenor. Dr. Virendra Singh Rathore is the esteemed faculty advisor of VAJRA'19.The cricket tournament of VAJRA'19 commenced here on Wednesday. The matches in the first half started from 9:30 A.M. at Oval Ground and BIT Polytechnic Ground simultaneously. Cricket teams of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra battled against Birla Institute of Technology, Lalpur at the Oval Ground while at the BIT Polytechnic Ground, the match between CIT and B started simultaneously. While Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra defeated Birla Institute of Lalpur by 88 runs. At 1 P.M., the second set of cricket matches started at both the venues. At Oval Ground, the cricket squad of Birla Institute of Technology, Patna competed against Asansol Engineering College's cricket team. At BIT Polytechnic Ground, Amity University, Ranchi, battled against RTC Institute of Technology from 1 P.M. With this the first day of cricket tournament concluded.
Also, the Fine Arts Society of BIT Mesra (FAS), organised a two-day "Water Colour Workshop" on 5th and 6th November, 2019. The workshop kicked off at 5:30 P.M. in Room No. 207 of the Main Building with around 50 enthusiastic participants. The Chief Guest for the event was Professor Mrinal Pathak, the Faculty Advisor of FAS, BIT Mesra who encouraged the students to express their creativity on the paper by participating in such events.
The Workshop was conducted by senior member of FAS, Nilotpal Alda, of the K16 batch. He guided the attendees of the workshop through the basics of water colours including basic wash technique, and its proper usage.
All the attendees were then provided with sheets, and water colours, by FAS. They were asked to make a painting using the same. Throughout the two-day workshop, the students completed two paintings under the guidance of the FAS members.
The second day of the workshop was based on advanced techniques used in water colour painting that includes "wet on wet" and "wet on dry" techniques. The workshop came to a successful completion at 8:00 P.M. on Wednesday.