 Just thought we will take two minutes to introduce the staff of NPTEL who are part of the IIT Madras NPTEL office. So I just request all of you to just come on stage for a minute and probably wave when we have your name announced so that people know who is who. I am sure many of you have interacted with lot of people here and so you are familiar. So to just put a face to the name that you hear or the email that you get, so this is probably just... So we would like to start off with Kandan Krishnamurti sir. He is the head of the studio and he is responsible for all the recordings and the varied timings that we all go through. Kandan is with us from 2005 right, 2005 or so. He is the national entire educational program integrator for all the video programs which have come up in the last 8 to 9 years. And all the 19,000 videos in NPTEL have been technically suggested by him with specifications, details and so on. So he is one of the fundamental pillars for the whole project. The studio staff Karthikeyan, Pradeepa, Karthik, Ravi Chandran, Shivajaya Prakash and Ram Kumar. They are mostly behind the camera. This is the first time probably they are in front of the camera. No, no, they are in front of the camera. They have learned all the chemistry lessons that I have been because every time I teach chemistry or every time Balakrishnan teaches physics, they have been in front of the camera. And most important they will tell us what's wrong when something is wrong and also the editing. So I think Kandan with this team and the past team, some of the staff members have actually left. They have gone to other IITs and other institutions to build that. So the team has been built by this group. So please these are the creators of a new model of learning. We have Dainis and Mohan Babu from the server maintenance team. I think Dainis has gone for a... Yeah, this is Mohan Babu who has recently joined us. Dainis and where is Dainis? No, Dainis has an MBA. Dainis, Mohan Babu run the server for you. So anything related to hard disk, abdition of contents that you want to do, you can please contact them. The hard disks are not working on your servers. They are not getting mounted. These are the guys who are working. All right. Therefore the front end of all of what you see on the IIT side is managed by this team. I have Mallar Viri and Jason Prasad who manage all the data on the NPTEL website maintenance. The complete courses, all that. The complete website maintenance is done by both Jason. And Jason is also very busy collecting feedback from the YouTube course wise and lecture wise. And therefore hopefully we will have some maps to tell you how individual lectures and individual courses are being seen by all parts of the world. What fraction is from India, what fraction is from which city, which course is more popular in which country and so on. So that feedback is being collected. Jason is part of the team and Mallar Viri also helps that process. Thank you. We have Krishnaveni, Gayatri and Kamala who hold this NPTEL local chapter together. I'm sure most of you have interacted with them either over email or over email. They are the reasons for all of your current questions. So this is Kamala, Krishnaveni and Gayatri. And Kamala is also the team. In a sense she supervises the entire text, the speech to text transcription process. And Kamala I think you are with us for several years now almost. I think she has seen virtually the Desi crew and other companies which are giving us the text from these spoken words from the professors. So she is managing also the text to speech, speech to text the website. We also have Mohan who is part of the text transcription. He comes with a humanities background. I am an IIT Madras student. Please go. I graduated from IIT Madras 2014 batch. I did my masters in English literature. One of my professors is just sitting behind me. So like I joined in NPTEL through one of my professor, Sris Chaudhary with whom I did my MAP. So when initially when I joined, I couldn't find the point of joining me there. But once I started working there, I got a freedom of not only like my majorly my part in was editing the transcription and quality check. So I have to make sure that the content is correct. Like what the professor is speaking, like before it goes online I have to make sure that it's correct. So I got a freedom of like learning like it's a when I'm doing a work I'm learning also. So like as many people say that like students getting finding the difficulty of catching the English like English part. But there are many basic courses like communication skills better spoken speak better spoken English. There are many online courses like through that we can pick up our English skills. So meantime I used to do that like I used to listen. I started learning the things in a while while working. So I got the platform of learning so and I think I improved a lot and I used to when I go to them. I come from the village background when I go to my village. I spread this news that why can't you just go when you go to the YouTube you watch some random videos. Why can't you you have the access to Internet just go to the imperial side. There are many courses freely available. So I spread the news and I just want to you people to say just spread the news. So it reached to the across the like the corner of the villages. So people get benefited through it. Thank you. We have Lakshmi and Jayanthi who manage the complete 10 people online certification portal from initiation enrollment to question paper creation to handling results. Everything final all the certification comes only from them. Not in the sense the integration of the project is done through even though there are individuals it's actually a seamless process. That's what makes the whole project. I think they are both very seriously involved in the completion part of issuing the certificates right up to the and also to the statistics. I think they do the statistics to all of our faculty. And I also remember my course about 1400 students registered and finally about 60 students wrote the exam and the class distribution of Barth was exactly the same as the IAT Madrasi MSE class. There were about five SS and the A's and B's and so on. Everything all the statistics are provided by them. Thank you. We have Mohana, Jayashree and Anu who handle the certificates. Anu also is our go to person for everything related to UI, graphics, animation, anything that happens around. Anu is the graphic artist for the whole project at this point of time. They make sure that at the end of it faculty members are paid the honorarium, the students are paid the scholarship. All the accounting is done by both of them. Thank you very much. That is our complete NPTEL website. They are the developers, coders, data people of the entire NPTEL website. From NPTEL and slash NOC, local chapter, all of the features everything has been created from scratch. Why is this guy standing behind? He is the last one. I thought he should be right there. He is the server administrator and all in all go to person for the entire NPTEL online certificate. Every end to end job, they will do the connection between all of us. By the way, the organizers never get thanked. I think the organizers should come in to the front and all those who are giving thanks are the persons who never get thanked. They are obviously the reason why we are able to move everything together. This is the start. It has taken us about 12 years to get various ways of organization, various methods and so on. Now these two have really put forward a team which is reasonably coherent and is able to answer most of the queries. My only worry is when the 10,000 members become 10 million, the MHRD wants 10 million people to be simultaneously online in the books process. I think they will have to be prime ministers and this kind of a project. They have to get to that level. I hope you will build the largest team possible for absolutely clear and certifiable online learning. I think on record we would like to place here because we are here. Thanks to the coordinators. All three of them are faculty members who have the regular coursework in the institute. They also do administrative work in the institute apart from the NPTEL. They give us complete freedom in what we do and they support us. We do a lot of goof ups. We do quite a bit of mess ups too. They stand us through thick and thin, stand with us through thick and thin. They support us in whatever new things we want to propose. They help us in doing it. Some things we say, we argue with them saying we can't do certain things. They are okay with that too. We would like to actually thank them for all the support they have given us for the last three years for having gotten this up. There is only one standard phrase I have been telling this to everybody. You can make any number of mistakes but everything should be new. Never repeat the same mistake twice because if you do, you haven't learnt from the previous mistake. But any number of mistakes, you know the whole country is full of mistakes to correct the next step. But if you don't make the same mistake, it's the only thing that I keep telling all of them. I think that's the way all of us should hopefully build this as a team and eventually it becomes a family. Then it becomes a society and eventually NPTEL should become a country and also become a true international activity for everybody else. And I think that's a dream all of us are living on. And to the extent that everyone of us can contribute, it's bi-directional. It's not somebody delivers, somebody takes. No, it's somebody delivers, somebody takes and then the next person knows what to deliver and so on. So the feedback should be in both directions. Next we'll have the felicitation event. I invite Professor Mangal Sir, Pratap Sir and Andrew Sir to please come on to the stage and hand over the gifts and the plaques to all the guests. So we are going by alphabetical order. So I'm calling first. And I belong to the College of Engineering. All the representatives from the college please come on to the stage sir. Principal please Ram Subramaniam, SPOC Sir Raja Winston, Professor Rajesh Kumar, Professor Grayson. Please come over to the stage sir. So I think there is a plaque for the college for being an active local chapter. There are certificates of recognition for the SPOC and the mentors. And we have some gifts for everybody. Thank you professors. Dronacharya College of Engineering. We invite Ms. Deepthi Giridhar and Ms. Ashur. Please come over to the stage, ma'am. Dronacharya group of institutions. Professor Ashwini Kumar, the SPOC and mentors Gunjit Kaur and Priyanka. From G Pula Reddy Engineering College we have Praveen Sam, the SPOC. Please come over sir. From KSR College of Technology. Principal K. Thyagraya, SPOC Sir Prem Kumar Sir, Mentors Prabhagran Sir, Mutthu Mohan Sir and Gopinath Sir. Next is Kalasilingam University. We have Dr. Jai Krishna, SPOC and Ms. Shannugap Mentor. From Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology. Principal Dr. Anand Achary and SPOC Dr. Nagalakshmi Ma'am. Next NEC College, Kovilpatti. We have Principal Shat and Mentor Pandirajan Sir. I think we have two students also. Panimelar Engineering College. Principal K. Mani, SPOC, Ms. Vinmati and Pritap Murugavalli. Next Panimelar Institute of Technology. SPOC, Joshi and Mentor Arun. Priyadarshini Engineering College. Mentor Satish Ji and Thamare Selva. Ritesha Institute of Technology and Management. SPOC Sir, Mutthalagasar, please. Rajalakshmi Engineering College. We have SPOC Prasanna Kumari. Sausury Academy of Engineering Co-Empathol. We have Principal Thyagarajan, SPOC Chentil and two students, I believe. Vasanth Kumar and Narendra. Savita Engineering College. SPOC Valar Madhi, Mentors Mervin Ajitha Nithya. Sethu Institute of Technology. Mentors Suresh. Anjali, next. Shreemati Kamala and Shri Venkappa Agadhi College. We have SPOC Shrikanth, Mentors Nagraj Telkar and Jagatishmethi and a representative station. Shri Shastra Institute of Engineering and Technology. SPOC Prem Kumar. Shri Sharda College for Women, Tirindalveli. See Vijay Lakshmi. Shri Vasavi College. Dean K. Ananda Patmanavan. SPOC Ramyadevi. Mentors Agalya Krishna Sudha. Kalai Mani Sasikala. SSM Institute of Engineering and Technology. SPOC Lingeswari Mentor Deepika. Thyagarajar Polytechnic College Selam. SPOC V. Karthigen. Mentor Selva Kumar. BH Innesen College. Vallakumar. Valliyamma Engineering College. Principal Chidambar Rajan. SPOC Anputchayyan. Mentors Ramesh Sudhagar. Vice Principal Murugan sir. Saram University, we have a representative. Sir Murthy sir. We request Professor Madhavan Mukan, Professor Rajesh Kumar and Professor Arun Thangiralla also to come. We have a small token variant. We have a diary. We've marked our NPTEL course schedules. You can fill up whichever courses you want to offer. Give it back to us. So it will be nice if you all can share whatever feedback you'll send here on that group so that we are aware of what's happening. During the course run also keep, please keep posting there saying that maybe whatever regarding the course, regarding our admin processes, regarding anything. Please keep posting on that so that we can all be in touch and everybody will benefit from your suggestions or comments or whatever. Since we are not doing the afternoon session, because I think we are run out of time, I'm just going to take two minutes to run over quickly some of the points. This is especially for the SPOC's. Just 10 points. So no shared email IDs. So multiple people cannot have the same email ID because email ID is our way of identifying one person uniquely. And the enrolled email ID that is given to us, please use that same email ID for any scholarship processing when you upload it. And so please do check for spelling mistakes, dots, gaps, hyphens in your, the student's email ID when you send it to us for bulk upload. And bulk upload for the Jan run, we will have the processes in place such that you finalize everything and put it together and upload it at one shot when you are ready before the deadline. So that through mails we find that we also tend to make multiple mistakes and we miss out on some data when we get it as email and there is another sheet in the backend and all that. So please try to avoid mails and just upload data in the portal. Things would be in place for it. And we have it such that multiple uploads can be done and we will pick up the last sheet you have uploaded. And if the deadline has passed and you have to tell us something by email, please just clearly specify what has changed. These people have dropped off and these people have joined. These are their email ID so that we don't miss on any critical information. And any Excel templates which are given for you to upload, we would prefer if it is in the same format. That way it is helping us consolidate when you put together 50 colleges and all together. So request you to kindly not change the Excel templates when you upload and give date of birth in the DDMMM which is M-A-R or J-U-L type of format. And please check if all data to the largest extent you can is complete before you upload and try and give us as proper spellings of the candidates. Then you give it to us because again going back and changing anything always takes a much longer time. So whatever name you give is what comes in the certificate. And for number exams if there are 50 plus students who have not provided, I mean we found that there were a lot of students who did not provide the details in the link that we opened. So please do tell your students also to adhere to deadlines. This makes it easier for us and to everybody else here also so that we don't have to extend too much. One or two days is always fine with us. And please ask your students to take active part in the assignments because that will add to the final score. And yeah after the just verify that the amount you're paying is for the final list of candidates. And if anything has changed please let us know via an email of who are the people who have dropped off or who are newly added so that it helps us to do checking at both ends. And for SCST candidates we do have a 50% off. So please mention as why against that column for each of that candidate when you send it to us and correspondingly pay us only 50%. So if that person has also got a scholarship it will be further 50% from that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here today. So I'm not going to end any program with the proposal of vote of thanks so I'll do that very briefly here and first of all I would begin by thanking each and every one of the participants who came here. I know there is a busy schedule all the time traveled all the way here and hope it was worth your while and hope working with us is we'll continue to be interesting and exciting to both you and us. Let's keep that going. And after that I would definitely would like to thank my faculty colleagues who came here in spite and spend some time with us. Without the faculty, you can imagine nothing will run. I mean, NPTEL is more or less a facilitator between the faculty and the students out there. And they are vital resource. And it's great to see them here. Finally, of course, the staff of NPTEL, they are the people who run everything. And you can see how efficiently everything runs. As you can see, even this program, when getting all the plaques ready, the bags ready for certification, it's not that easy. I mean, just knowing who's coming, what to give, et cetera. Everything coming, starting from there to the extent of opening 45 courses, running 45 exams. And they just manage the show. And it's incredible to have such fantastic staff. And thanks to them as well.