 May I request Professor Puranik and Prashant Sharma to come on the screen. So, I will quickly finish off the suite formalities. Let me welcome our guest for valetary function and thank you. And let me also welcome our host for the valetary function. Thank you. The God of thermodynamics cannot be sitting back. Come, come, come, Professor Gayathondey. Now I understand why there is an extra chair here. No, no, you can learn after taking the bookcase and showing your face to everybody. Some of you would recognize Professor Gayathondey who taught the first course. I am very, very happy to welcome you, please. So, I will be very brief. I had actually planned to give a long talk. I prepared that talk in the car journeys to ECGCC's hearing committee meeting in back. But I was told that some people have to leave early and in any case, the speaking on the spoken tutorial took most of the time. So, what I have decided instead is I have sent a two-page summary of my talk to my secretary and we should be receiving the printouts. So, please carry these printouts and if you feel like you can go through them. What I will do is, I will give this talk in the 10-day program in the month of June. So, without further ado, let me start first the distribution of certificates. Professor Umahesh Nanduri, NIT Varangal, Professor Nanduri has to leave. There is something waiting for him. Thank you very much, Professor Nanduri. Professor Satish Senoy, Manipalese, thank you so much. I think you won't be captured because either we should stand somewhere else or... Yeah, thank you. Professor Uday Singh Babkar, Kolhapur Institute of Technology. Thank you very much. Dr. Brahmara Panitapu from JNTUH College, Hyderabad. There are two people from Hyderabad there. Yeah. Professor Shilpa Monkar, MSES Pillay. Thank you very much. I will come here so that they can capture you on the video as well. Professor Sujata Vellore, thank you so much for coming. Professor Pradeep Hegde from Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore. Oh, you have come from Bangalore. Thank you so much. Professor Pugazhan, you pronounce it as Pugazhan, yes, yes. Periyar Manipur. Thank you so much for coming. Professor Praveen Surwade from KKW. Dr. Malayalam Murthy from Salem. So how is Salem doing? I have to come there one of these days. Professor Atul Lanjewar from MNIT Bhopav. From a long way. Get somebody from Gwalior to join the effort, I said. They are still missing. Professor Kedarsan from Vishwakarma Institute. Thank you, Kedarsan. Professor Paraj Chawri from Cummings College. Professor Fani Krishna from Vijaywada. Professor Senthil Kumar from Sona College. Sona has been working with us for quite some time. Ranvesh Ganyi from JS Institute. Professor Jay Kumar from Amrita School of Engineering. I just met Venkat and Kamal. Professor Rajesh Verma from Truba College of Engineering. Truba has a larger capacity and many colleges around. Get 100 participants next time. Professor Arvind Deshpande from Vijay Tia. Same thing about your hall can accommodate 300 people. And there are many colleges in Mumbai. Professor Ashok Chitranjan from Amal Jyoti. It's Kanjirapal. Thank you so much for coming. Professor Vinayak Gaikwad from DKTS. Yes. Yes, yes, I have come there. Professor Praveen Sarode from R.C. Patel, Sherpur. He is still able to get a good number of teachers in Sherpur. Professor Abhay Bable from Viswabhati Academy College of Engineering. Amandana. This is a new institution. All the best. Professor Amol Pitle from JS Raishoni. So Raishoni and the VRC, both are our centers. Very good. Professor Suhas Jagta from Shivaji University. Thank you so much for coming. Professor Mohammed Abdul Samad from Mufakkamja College. Thank you for coming. Professor Karthik Kothari from R.K. College of Engineering, Rajkot. Rajkot is another new center. So welcome to the gang. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Do you have enough engineering colleges in that region? Yes, yes. It's all the Radkot, we are having eleven engineering colleges. Get all the faculty members of all the departments here. Sure. And get some computers and faculty. Let them learn something about basic engineering. Professor Jilseh Sebastian, Saint Joseph College. Palai. Thank you very much for coming. Professor Umesh Ausermal from Kesi College at Jirgaon. Professor Praveen Somanshi from Vidyappatista and Bharamati. Thank you so much. Professor Jayraman from Shastra University, Tanjavur. You have a lot of centers in that vicinity. So you have to go deep down south and get faculty members from Tirunelveli and such places as well. Professor Ashwin Kumar Doble from VNIT, Nagpur. VNIT is here. Professor Santil Raja from E-Road. You should have wrote and transport technology. Thank you Santil for coming here. Professor D.N. Narish from Jaipur Engineering College, Kukas, Jaipur. Jaipur has been our partner for a long time. Good. All the best. Professor Chandrasekhar Sevatkar from COEP. COEP is one of the most well-known institutions in the country. I hope you do justice to that name. Professor Sudhakar Subodhi from NIT Calcutt. I am supposed to come there. I will come one of these days, maybe during that course. Professor Santil Kumar from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. Vellore has been our partner for a long time. Professor Karthik S. from Hamruta Coimtore. Coimtore is where Venkat normally resides, isn't it? I just met him. He was here. He was just going to there. That's how I was delayed. Dr. Mishra from Jabalpur Engineering College. How are you? Good to see you. Professor Ravindra Edelabadkar from PVG, COEP Pune. Professor Gaurang Shah from KJ Somia. Thank you, Professor Shah. Professor Nilesh Sabnes from... Oh, this is the new institute. So did you enjoy the course? So let's say how you conduct the workshop then. All the best. Thank you so much. Professor Madhav Bhambere from Sanjganj Maharashtra. All the best. I've been coming there for ages. Someday I've come. Professor Neera Shah from Nirmal University. Nirmal again has been our partner right from the first year. Thank you so much. I had already mentioned that this workshop is planned in June and we propose to conduct a two-day workshop on SyLab on the weekend just before this main workshop. So I would request you also to become coordinators for that workshop because somebody who is both knowledgeable and who is going to use that subsequently is the best person. The second thing as I promised you I'll share some of the thoughts for the future, ongoing future. As I mentioned, MHRD has asked us to continue this model all by with some changes in funding and we'll be proposing additional centers. Today there are about 78 centers out of which 50 have come. Obviously not all centers participate in all courses depends on the strength at the center itself. There has to be a senior faculty member to conduct that role. But the mandate is to increase this number to 200 centers covering entire country. So those of you who know either your friends or other ex-colleagues or whatever who have gone across to the country and they are elsewhere in other places and if you know about their institutions please advise them to join this project as coordinating institutions. We'll be independently doing that as well. But going forward for 200 centers if we have to conduct a program at 200 centers we would not be able to conduct the co-ordinators program physically in IIT Bomb. Now we have multiple models. One model is we conduct the co-ordinators workshop on AV itself. The second model is we conduct this workshop at two or three places and we may request one of you to come forward. We'll of course spend I mean buffet the expenses but we could collect say 60 to 70 co-ordinators at one place and at other place and so on or we could do the same as a composite model we'll still conduct the workshop using AV and we may call a few co-ordinators from these two or three identified centers at our place for a few days and then conduct the workshop in those three centers. These are the models going forward we'll do that. But it is very clear that the ministry believes that this model has proven successful and the scale-up they want is that instead of catering to 1000 teachers at a time if we could cater to 10,000 teachers at a time without diluting the intent and the coverage. We believe it is possible we'll have to try out something we'll be making proposals for the next five year plan shortly and we'll request your participation. The other is that a proposal has already been made some of you may be aware that IIT Bombay has been asked to take over the AKAS tablet project for the first phase the first phase consists of getting 100,000 tablets and to deploy them in the field and get a feedback the next phase has 60 lakh tablets for which the tender preparation is already going on but which will benefit from the feedback that is gathered from the first phase and the subsequent third phase to be executed in the same five year plan will consist of at least 2 crore tablets and of course there will be additional things for the school education and so on. Our limited mandate is to get these tablets delivered as early as possible to distribute them across the country and conduct pilot studies and collect feedback. I have proposed to MHRD that we would like to use all our remote centers as one of the test beds as I mentioned last time and we will probably distribute a fixed set of tablets to all of you. To begin with I want to do that for the course that will be conducted in June we expect to get adequate number of tablets for experimentation we will put on that tablet minimally the attendance software and the quiz conducting software. So if Professor Puranik gives a quiz from here all individuals can answer that quiz online we will put a Wi-Fi access device in the classroom we will provide you with all the details what is important is when you go back please tell your center coordinators who usually take care of all the technology issues and so on you are after all subject specific coordinators some of you may also be center coordinators but please tell the center coordinators to expect a detailed mail from us once the project is approved and we will be starting this. Each one of your institutions if the project is approved and the proposal is approved would be getting about 100 tablets for experimentation and giving feedback for one of the courses that you will teach for those 100 students and we would like to use open source contents and open source applications which are fruitful for that particular course so it may be possible that you may decide to use this for the computational fluid dynamic course that you will teach in the subsequent semester if you have one or a similar course it's entirely up to you your center coordinator and your institute lastly when those teachers come to you in June please remember that your primary duty to them is to mentor them you will agree that many of the younger teachers in many colleges that you see around you are many times fresh graduates themselves they just join and they start teaching they have very little experience we can't blame them for that but that is where expertise like yours is required so getting lectures from the experts is very useful of course and that will happen in this program on all the mornings of the days of the workshop but in the afternoon they will be entirely be at your comma and we would expect that you conduct their tutorials their assignment sessions or whatever in exactly the same spirit and same rigor that you would have seen here and that will be important because then in turn those teachers will go back and hopefully teach qualitatively different course there is a lot that can be talked about I will just say this we know that we have about 320 million Indians for younger than 19 years the leading edge of this large window and the more competent edge and the more academically prepared edge in the form of students come to engineering college whether they are good bad whether they are academically well prepared whether they can speak properly English or any other language are moot issued but the fact is that they are probably the best and if they are mentored better the nation will deliver and that job has to be done by these thousands of teachers including you so keep that end objective in mind and do whatever best you can do towards this end I will just mention that one question was asked that what is the point in solving you know already solved problems what professor Kannan is trying and what many of us here are trying is to kick start the process of creation of large amount of open source knowledge contents not just knowledge contents but also in Indian language this process is not a commercial process this process is primarily based on volunteer input now if nothing exists how do you kick start it I would consider this to be a kick starting of the process please remember that in the developed world people do not work for honorarium and such thing they work truly as contributor they work on Saturdays, Sundays, whatever that is the spirit we would expect to happen so I will conclude by giving you a last challenge why can't you enthuse some of your students the top performers saying no money no nothing but it is a challenge take the unsolved problems take the more difficult ones use these silab solutions for the solved problems that you have and attempt to solve these problems cross check them and contribute that entire thing back as the open source resource forget 1000 teachers just 50 teachers 50 institutions every college has good students say 5 best performing students in your own disciplines you have 250 students you can go back and tell them this challenge now that in the summer whosoever does the best job will acknowledge that contribution by a special certificate of merit by some cash award some such thing but the job is take an existing textbook companion and solve unsolved problems from that book and add to the resource that is how we can enhance it you can think of umpteen number of such schemes but the open source movement entirely depends upon larger and larger number of contributors who form themselves into collaborative groups and work consistently we have such groups on linux side the lugs the linux user groups that you see across the country work in extremely dedicated fashion we want to extend that to the other useful material so that is the spirit with which we conduct this thank you very much for sparing your time and coming here and thank you in advance very much again for being ready to spare your time during summer months I know some of the places where summers are very hot so the fluid might flow in the wrong direction during that time and one might have to be careful but uh go back and start thinking about that workshop please note that while we have some experience in conducting these and my colleagues have a whole lot of expertise but there is no end to the possibilities that anyone even outside the system can think of making something better all of you are directly in that thing over the next month I would expect you to apply your mind to make suggestions even simple things a better way of conducting a tutorial additional problems that could help bridging the gap between what you know your teachers are how good and what is expected here if you could contribute that way we could make this entire workshop qualitatively much better for all of you thank you so much and thank you for coming and as I promised I had a one hour lecture prepared but I do not even see the already ok so I will take my lecture as read ok thank you