 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to this brief valedictory function. You have had a busy time in last two weeks, I understand. I hope you have enjoyed the course since Prasadinesh Sharma and Prasadjan is here. Prasadjan Patil is out of town. Anyway, so without any further ado, we would conduct this function briefly. As some of you may be aware, we do not make a very big business of inauguration and valedictory functions in these workshops. Primarily, we engage ourselves with the main business, which is what we have been doing. However, it is in the order of things that we do spend some time both at the beginning to talk about what we plan to do and at the end to talk about whether we have achieved what we attempted to do at the beginning. Unfortunately, since there are 1300 participants and as was I mentioned at the beginning, this is the largest ever attended workshop in the series of workshops that we are doing, it is impossible at this juncture to interact with all the remote centers. However, I would like to choose a few to give their feedback on the occasion. But before I begin this small and brief interaction, I would request Prasadinesh Sharma to say a few concluding words on the course. Since I took the last class, I have actually said my concluding words and as Professor Phartak said, we would like to keep the formal part of this course to a minimum. It has been a pleasure interacting and indeed a source of great pride that so many teachers in India are concerned about quality of education and have enthusiastically registered for and attended this course. It has been a great pleasure. On behalf of all the instructors and so on, we are grateful for the enthusiastic questions, the energetic discussions that we have had and we hope to continue it. I would like to like the proceedings to continue. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. So, let me without further ado invite the chief guest of this brief function, my colleague and Professor Kannan Nautgaly the coordinator of the entire set of mission projects being conducted at IIT Bombay and may I also invite Professor Sharma, Professor John and madam to join us on the on the dash. No, no, no. It is only appropriate that the people who spend so much of their time and energy be seen visibly by everyone. As I said, we will try and get back to a few remote centers. Those who raise their hands will perhaps select some three arbitrary people out of those to get your comments and feedback. But before that, I would request Professor Kannan to say a few words on the validity function of the largest attended workshop in this series as I just mentioned. Professor Kannan. Good afternoon. I want to congratulate all of you for having gone through this course very successfully. I will be very brief. I have some feedback. I visited some of the centers during the last week or so, three centers to be precise and I was really delighted to see whenever question and answer session was happening in every center, local discussions were happening and the experts amongst you were leading the discussion, trying to explain the answers given by the instructor from here, challenging some of his views and then coming online and then asking and so on. I thought that was really incredible and that is something. In fact, it was an eye opener to me that we will create islands of excellence. In fact, to be precise, 38 islands of excellence in this course in the 38 centers. The other point is that improvements are required on all three fronts from the instructor's point of view, from the instruction side that is IIT Bombay, transmitting side that is the technology, a view has to improve and also the end user that is the participants in the 38 centers. So, we are working on that and then hopefully it will get better, but obviously, it takes time to reach, you know, we have to go in steps. I believe that in spite of all the difficulties we have had, you would agree that it was a good course and I was very happy. There is only one piece of information I wanted to give, but as I am getting old and I tried to locate only in the last minute, I could not find it. This is on virtual labs. I believe that many of you want to participate in virtual labs not only in the CPLD, but also in the national effort. I will get the people who are administering Moodle to post that information on Moodle. So, you will all get that information. So, with that I would like to conclude. Thank you, Professor Kaldan. I see a lot of raised hands. So, I will just go in the order in which I see them on my panel here. DOECC center Srinagar, I am very fond of this center because even in the times of turmoil, this center was very active and bubbling with activities and interaction. So, since I can see you all over to you for your comments, please. Hello, good afternoon to everybody here and there in Mumbai. I am Dr. Jeeja Kaurashe, one of the participants of this workshop. We feel highly elated by these workshops. It is an important effort. It is rather an invasion through skies by IIT, Mumbai, to break the gap between haves and have-nots in the academics to kill this illiteracy, to make India a knowledge-based economy and we welcome such initiatives taken by HRD ministry here in Srinagar. We feel pleased that when we here in Srinagar, where the national highway between Srinagar and the rest of the country remains cut off for most of the, most part during the winter, but we can still receive the lectures by eminent professors from IIT, Mumbai and other eminent people. And I will be failing by devotees. If I do not appreciate the laudable role played by your team, very sikilful and the effectiveness they have displayed there in Mumbai as well as our youngsters, our technicians and engineers here in Srinagar. But I will be looking forward to future such programs, but I have a bit, I would like to add a bit here. I would like if these seminars, if these workshops will be highly poxed in a particular area, suppose there is a programming on certain area, but there will be not be CPLD programming and this basic electronics. I think this is too much in too little time, but at the end I feel elated that we are receiving lectures from the eminent people from Mumbai. Thank you sir. Thank you very much for your elaborate comments. We appreciate the observations that you have made and we will definitely take cognizance of the comments that you have made in all of our future endeavors. Let us try to go to Amal Jyothi College, Kerala. Good evening sir. Let me introduce myself. I am Shofira J. working as assistant professor in College of Engineering, Pune and I attended the course here at Amal Jyothi. First of all I would like to thank all for arranging a two big workshop like this. It was very good for all the beginning engineering teachers like us because it was a very good refreshing course and the questions and assignments helped us to understand the things in a greater extent. Once again I would like to thank all on behalf of all the participants of Amal Jyothi College. Thank you sir. Thank you very much. Thank you for your kind comments. Let us go over to the another institute, Vidya Pratishthan Bharamati. Let us see if we can get them, get to see them here. Yes, I can see the hall. May I request for your comments please. Over to you Bharamati. Good evening sir. It was a great journey from diode to CPLD and this is very special tool or special method or learning methodology for the rural colleges like us like Vidya Pratishthan. So I would like to thank all your team, specifically Sharma sir, Joseph John, then MB Patil sir and I convey my heartly thanks for Madhumita madam and Atre madam for their timely help which has concluded our workshop as a great success. Thank you IIT Bombay. Thank you very much. We still have some more users and I think I can spend another five minutes. Let me see if I can get over to MKSS Pune, this Cummings College. Yes, we see some people in the Cummings College hall. Over to you for your comments sir. Hello sir. I am Professor D.B. Gaikwar, participant from Cummings College Pune. Here I want to give some feedback. Here all we participants are very happy with the content, the speakers and the method of conduct of this particular workshop. As we discussed with the D.A.T.E. madam, madam were here yesterday about the virtual lab and I think we requested that the kits should be provided to the participants and madam agrees to provide the kits one per institute and also said that we can send a request for more kits so we assure you madam and entire team of the IIT for very effective use of this kit as well as the virtual lab. Then say in the complete year since modal account will be available to the participants we assure you on behalf of all my colleagues and friends that we will make best use of that modal account to benefit our colleague and the students learning this particular course. I will say about the M.K.S.S. Pune there is a Cummings College Pune that they provided us very quality infrastructure and all other facilities. I should say that our coordinator Professor Khadesar took a lot of efforts and his team also took very good efforts for planning the lab session as well as the this particular classroom for providing very good quality audio and video. Thank you sir. Once again I should say thank you to the all the faculty members and all of those for very good lecture. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. I have here MEP course link institute at Shivakasi. Let me see if we can connect to Shivakasi. Sir on behalf of the participants from MEP course and the Cummings College Shivakasi I am giving you the feedback. I think classes through the outreach project of IIT Bombay has made us as free electrons having excited with so much of energy level that on returning to our institutions I'm sure almost 70% of the teachers will opt for teaching electronics even if we have not thought once in their career. Professor K. Sharma sir you have made us biased to switch over to design our own circuits using P-MAS N-MAS etc. CPLD and FPGA with hardware language. When we leave this program as acceptors we will become donors of the fundamental basics of electronics to our students and I'm afraid many of our students will become entrepreneurs starting electronic industry in India. As I think now if I were fortunate to attend this program in the early 80s when I was a raw graduate then I would have become an electronic industrialist. The role of low RE in the biasing circuit of common emitter configuration making IC and IB to increase will never vanish from ourselves of memory. It has been amplified and stored in our synapse by exacting potential of professor F. J. John. The feedback topologies will never ever leave our mind. The reality theorems start by taught by professor M. B. Patel were very interesting through his lecture on decibel. We have an idea about the human perception of sound and light, loud thunder level, noise level of the atomic bomb blast at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan too. As professor John quoted we leave now taking a challenge to teach analog electronics. The lab sessions demonstrated by your team members and the team here with the team leader professor Kadir our coordinator at MEPCOS like engineering college Sivakasi were very interesting and we got the results both by doing hardware as well as by using SQL. We extend our congratulations to you all sir. Thank you. Thank you very much madam. I think this is the first time I am hearing not prose but poetry constructed using electronic terms. So is that what professor Sarma you taught them? But that was very nice. Thank you very much. We have the Don Bosco college at Gauhati. We go to the eastern most corner of the country from the south and let us see yes we see a lot of people assembled there at Gauhati. My compliments to you folks from Gauhati and over to you for your comments please. Good evening sir. Very good evening to you all. It is a very nice experience for participating in this workshop and we are very benefited by participating this workshop and I want to congratulate you and this remote center Don Bosco College of Engineering and Technology for conducting such type of workshop and I hope to participate such type of workshop in future also. Thank you sir. Thank you so much. There are still a large number of people who would like to say something. Let me is that okay if we spend another 10-15 minutes? Yes thank you. So since my colleagues here are quite enthusiastic to listen to comments from friends. Let's go over to SRM Kanchipuram now. Good evening to one and all. As a behalf of participant of SRM Kanchipuram I would like to thank you all. Actually we learned a cue point of this basic electronics as a teacher how to teach to the student which point we have to operate and which point we have to boost to the student that basic fundamental we learn from this tutorial as well as the information of the tutorial material is more informative and more fundamental. Fundamental is very very needed thing to build a floor and floor as a creative engineer. How to bring the innovative engineers even we are not able to bring the inventors but we can bring innovators that we can bring up with basic fundamental and one more point I would like to thank to the coordinators of SRM. They have treated like colleagues not a guest. He came from outside I am from Bharati University. So I felt that that also I would like to thank to the center. At one more point the duration of the course is long. We are not getting much. I am sorry to interrupt but your voice is breaking perhaps because of the fluctuating bandwidth but the points which we heard were eloquently speaking about your experiences. We have personally we have noted the point about the duration of this workshop. I will make a comment in my concluding remarks on that but thank you very much for your comments. We now go over to Mufakkamja College Hyderabad. Honorable Chief Guest. Honorable all the lecturers of the IITs. Honorable Principal Sir and HOD of the Mufakkamja College of Engineering. Myself Khajri Phasiruddin. I am assistant professor in Matushri Engineering College Nanded. On behalf of all the participants I am very much thankful to IITs team and also the MHRD that they have arranged such a very good workshop for us that we have learned so many new things so many new tools and also I am very thankful to the our M.J. College of the Hyderabad they are all the team they are coordinated the principal their HODs that they have provided such a good facilities they are unable of that facility we are unable to do this workshop and I am very much thankful to the principal Sir also of the M.J. College and I hope that in future also the MHRD will conduct like this workshop and in future that whatever the CPLD labs virtual labs we have seen so definitely we will implement this thing in our college Sir thank you thank you very much. Thank you so much for your comments we will go to some other institution now NJR Institute of Technology at Udaipur I can see the Udaipur classroom may I request for your comments please over to you Udaipur. First of all I would like to thank ISTE, IIT Bombay and especially Q Sir, Professor Phatak Sir, Dinesh Sharma Sir, MB Patil Sir, Jones Sir and Madam Datte. The important thing about the course content the content was really good the best thing about this course was that here included lab exercises actually in most of the engineering colleges the teachers are teaching subjects theory subjects clearly means they are taking lectures but sometimes the lab first not very good so by this exposure of labs the student will also learn since the teachers have learned many things here by these lab exercises so I request you that in future also you please conduct more specialized courses on embedded systems, VLSI design, DSP or some other specialized area with some practicals thank you very much sir. Thank you so much for your comments we seem to have some connectivity problem with the IPS Academy let me select another institution DKTS HL Karan ji. Good afternoon sir, it was a really nice experience going through a learning even though you cannot replace classroom teaching but still you know we used to have a dream to interact with IITs and came through this workshop certain events in this workshop were very informative for example the CPLD training was very nice such a beautiful build was designed and in very simple manner the training was given as far as CPLD is concerned effectively in learning should not be exceeded to two weeks that is what we feel I think one week is sufficient and the most efficient we want to give to you is it will be better if we have mixture of let us say two or three days classroom teaching plus in learning thank you sir. Thank you so much you made your points well we will definitely keep those in mind let us go to Anna University Chennai. I hope it's covered from the senior purposes or very in depth the explanation and the interpretation they gave um are really very good we cannot get it from any of the standard books other than they are we can get it through their experiences really um the work for that CPLD is very interesting we enjoyed the work the program affected by you thank you so much for both your comments and for your good wishes we also look forward to doing many things in future I'll comment on that later there are still so many universities and we are losing time very quickly let's go to our neighbors here KJ Somia College Mumbai. Hello a very good afternoon sir it was a great pleasure or it was a great experience of being a IIT student for at least 10 days in this 10 days we have we have covered or you have covered all the part of basic electronics from semiconductors to VHDL so it was a great experience to all of us and we will definitely we will definitely benefit would be beneficial in our coming days of this course and thanks a lot for IIT Bombay as well as our remote center KJ Somia for this great experience thanks a lot thank you so much let's go to VNIT Nagpur hello sir this is Abhandar from VNIT Nagpur and we are meeting after a long time professor Partha and professor Kannan and this time I'm participant from this end and it was very interesting and information informative workshop from IIT Bombay and this time I find very large number of participation all over India and it is very nice to see and hear all about that so I I heartily my heartily greetings are also to professor Joseph and professor Sharma miss Madhavita and Atre madam as well it was very interesting to go through all the practicals and theory and interact with the staff thank you very much over to you sir thank you sir for your observations we'll we'll now go over to VIT Vellore yes we can see participants assembled in the Vellore Institute may I request you for your comments please over to you okay sir so I am from Menachi College of Engineering the end of two weeks program is good okay we enjoyed a lot and we expect the same thing to be written we expect the same thing to happen in winter also sir thank you so much thank you so much thank you for your comments there is another small place in Maharashtra RC Patel College at Sherpur let me try to go over to Sherpur and request for some comments from them I can see you over to you friends for your concluding remarks on the course good evening sir today we are such a so happy sir because in our ruler area there are a number of participants from our ruler area so it is a very useful for us and definitely it is a very technical point of view we are definitely useful our teams and your methodology and also there are certain different aspects related to our technical point of view we are definitely useful for us so we are just very thankful for such a nice program and definitely in future we are again participant in such a such type of big program but as per ruler point of view it is definitely useful for us thank you thank you very much sir thank you so much NIT Kurukshetra last time I tried there was some problem in the connection let me see if I can I can see them at NIT Kurukshetra this yes I can I can see our friends from NIT Kurukshetra very clearly I request you to make your observations and comments over to you sir sir I am Mr. Pune Kosip from NC police and get this workshop at NIT Kushetra first I will give congratulations to IIT Bombay team for organizing this workshop with a grand success and also congratulations to our RK Sarmasar professor in NIT Kushetra with his team for facilitating so that we get this workshop and also I give one suggestion regarding this workshop if the workshop is going on we also focus on the different trains so that the faculty get facilitated and more benefited for their career also we have special program in so that we can focus on the research work on which topic is going on and how we perform for that thank you very much I think you have made an important point about including some aspects of research activities in that area we will definitely keep that in mind I think I will I will stop this interaction at this juncture because we need to close by by five o'clock I have noted the points and I will try to say a few things on the points that were mentioned by colleague participants here in my concluding remarks but before that while Professor Sharma says that he has already spoken his concluding words and he would not add anything to it may I request Professor Joseph and Madhumita to say a few words please over to you thank you Professor Phatak for me this was the first experience in this kind of a remote interaction with teachers and this is the first time in my life I am speaking to an audience with empty chairs so it was it took me some time but I think after about two three days with some good feedback from the audience regarding the non-visibility of my font and so on I could improve but I really enjoyed teaching and I also really enjoyed in fact there are very good questions from the participants and we were extremely happy that they have been thinking about these topics and asking good questions so we look forward to interacting with similar colleagues from all over the country thank you for being with all of you for last few days I assure the best cooperation from virtual lab team as well for the coming days thank you thank you friends although our other colleague Professor Patil is not here I will say a few words on his behalf he has also enjoyed teaching this course and he told me that he has understood that the fonts that he has to use have to be much larger in fact the same observation was made by Professor Joseph as well so thank you very much for your observations and comments as I said I have noted all of them let me just make a brief set of observations on these workshops and also indicate to you what we propose to do in future first of all all your observations have been noted we are glad that you like an appropriate mix of lectures and practicals arranged as part of this workshop let me comment on the duration that was spoken about most participants would like the duration should be to be cut down we we had deliberated a lot on this issue and indeed there would be a few focused one week workshops that we would launch in future after taking due clearance from both IST and the ministry please understand that there is a lot that needs to be done through the interaction not only between IIT faculty and the colleagues who assemble at remote centers but within the colleagues who assemble at one remote center also and it is this interaction which consolidates any learning any observation any new ideas that you would get in this workshop we believe that a one week workshop which would effectively reduce to only a total of five days will leave very little time for this interaction besides the idea is that a two week workshop roughly models the coverage in terms of number of lectures and lab hours which is equivalent to a regular semester course that is taught that was the reason for this decision but we are aware of the problems in taking leave and getting leave is concerned we also understand that planning workshops during the entire month of may month of may June and July as well as December is brought with danger because all the institutions across the country do not have their vacation period coinciding with each other we have therefore decided that we will in future run multiple workshops in the same time slot with the time slot being chosen carefully to coincide with the vacation time for maximum number of teachers we will probably have two such time slots in future during summer which would be towards the end of may and beginning of June this seems to be the feedback of most people as to the commonly acceptable and easily usable slots similarly in the month of December we will use only one time slot from 15 to 20 second I think 12 to 20 second and in that in these three time slots we would try to arrange at least two workshops each of course on subjects which are which are so different from each other that the participating teachers will not have any clash the second point which was made was about introducing some advanced topics particularly related to research the point is that the current mandate that we have is to empower our colleague teachers in teaching basic courses core engineering courses to the engineering students of course this success has been reverberating in the minds of all the people including the policy planners in Delhi let me assure you that the next plan period will attempt to extend this kind of activity to a much larger and broader scale I am proposing to the planning commission that we extend these kind of workshops and not limit them only to the core courses take them to the elective courses and take them even to the advanced level post graduate courses let us hope that the outcome of the deliberations in Delhi in planning commission and in M.H.R.D. would be corroborative of our expectations but let me assure you that I have seen personally that the government is not at all going to hesitate from making significant investments in this methodology which has proven itself in its usage let me very quickly say specific to this workshop something about virtual labs originally when this course was conceived virtual lab was not intended to be a part of it but when we began discussion Professor Dinesh Sharma and Professor Patil pointed out that this was an activity which was being independently pursued by them and we decided to examine whether we could meaningfully utilize those efforts for this course as well I am very glad to see that everybody has liked this experiment I would like to take this opportunity to thank the back end team led by Mrs.Date and her colleagues and of course supported by all of our faculty colleagues you may not know it but people have hardly slept for about eight days and nights before the workshop began both their team and some of the junior people to test the boards our original intention was to provide each faculty member with one board we could not get sufficient number of boards manufactured and tested in time but I am sure that they are in the pipeline and we have assured that we will give them so every teacher who has participated in this workshop will get a board and we hope that you will spread this culture this knowledge and this method and methodology and approach of virtual labs of designing more experiments of using these boards to a greater value in each of your colleges. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the center coordinators and their staff just as my colleagues have worked very hard to make this workshop a success in exactly the same passion whether it is the coordinating teachers and faculty members at remote centers whether it is their colleagues who provide the laboratory assistance for conduct of labs and tutorials or the technical staff which handles the AVU and audio video related things all of them have worked very well we have noticed a few glitches as was observed by professor Kandan we will definitely try to take care of them however one request to all the remote center coordinators ensure that you have at least one Mbps bandwidth without any faltering while the lectures are going on because a stable bandwidth would make the experience much better for everyone concerned ideally you should have a two Mbps bandwidth and hopefully the two Mbps bandwidth will be soon affordable available and we should be able to use those in all our future endeavors. In this connection I would like to mention that the national knowledge network which is connecting 200 remote centers to a gigabit network would soon be making that bandwidth available for usage with AVU and hopefully in December in the worst case from the next summer we would be using that high bandwidth to all the universities and colleges which are connected on that national network and we would request those of them who are not already our remote centers to become remote centers and we would request the government to make all existing remote centers connected on the national network this work is going on already. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues from the electrical engineering department as Professor John Joseph said it was his first experience to interact with people on this kind of medium and he seems to be fairly comfortable with it now so that when we request him to take another course may be next year he would not have any problems I would suggest that the information and communication technology is the only mechanism that this nation has which can scale up to a large scale the interaction between various people working in a similar area it is not only limited to engineering college education. I hope to see this culture this methodology spreading to even smaller groups in smaller places using technology to extend the reach and to extend the interaction. So, my thanks to my colleagues from electrical engineering department and of course a large number of people at the back end in the electrical engineering department labs specially Madhumita's colleagues who worked day in and day out to finish of things in time. I will also like to use this occasion to thank my own colleagues of course they are all part and parcel of this national mission and I am glad to tell you that they have never ever worried about whether it is a holiday or a working day whether it is morning evening or night whenever there was a problem they did rush to solve the problem you would have interacted extensively with Dr. Mukta Atre and Sajjan and his team Sajjan is there we you can see can you just span all of them they are they are the people who have helped us here. So, you can see them very briefly can you go over to the video team please yes Abhilash is sitting in a corner he is the one who runs all his moodle and everything and on my left here Professor Aute who is the program director of Aklavi project and some junior colleagues on the other side thank you very much thank you one and all I will just make one last comment on on on the approach that we are going to take in future. So, one thing was already mentioned and everybody seems to be aware that the moodle will be kept on it is not just the moodle there would be a portal and that portal will house not only the contents that have been created as part of this workshop, but it will also house contents that any one of you would like to contribute will soon be we are finalizing plans for setting up editorial boards opening up the registration to a much larger number of teachers and students in different subjects and the first set of automatic enrollment will be for those teachers who have participated in these workshops both from IIT side and from the participant side and I would expect that over the years the knowledge contents including audio video lectures that are delivered and recorded here, but even otherwise text contents descriptions of additional experiments additional circuit designs for example, in this workshop could all get accumulated on this national portal which could be useful to all others. We are slightly delayed in launching that portal originally we had planned to launch it on August 15, but we have realized that we will require much larger configuration of servers and bandwidth this may be delayed towards the October November time frame, but before we launch our next workshop in December hopefully we will have this infrastructure in place I would request you to participate in these workshops. I would also like to share with you one plan I do not remember whether I mentioned it at the beginning of this workshop or not. We would like to scale this up further particularly for shorter workshops as many of you have suggested that there could be topics there could be subjects where about a week of interaction is more than adequate and yet it will be very meaningful for participants. The first such workshop which we are planning in the summer of 2012 will be a workshop on research methodology a colleague of ours from the sister institution IIT Madras Professor Karmalkar had given that program which was a shorter program still for the benefit of our own research called as last year. As I had mentioned earlier this entire program is available in open source on the Eklavya website. However, we plan to conduct a regular five day program on research methodologies which should benefit teachers from all fields it has not restricted to electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering teachers who are pursuing research either at the masters level or at the PhD level including those who wish to pursue their research activities may not have begun yet all of them will find this meaningful. The difference will be that this one week program will be meant not for 1000 plus teachers, but for 10000 plus teachers and we would like to run it from 200 remote centers. My request to you all my dear participants is that you have worked at some remote centers I am not talking about people from the remote center, but other teachers. So, you have worked at the remote centers you know exactly what is required to be done at the remote center. Could I request some of you to go back and contemplate whether you would like to become remote centers not necessarily for all the basic core courses in engineering, but for such natural workshops which could be five day workshops if you could find adequate facilities at your place and if you believe that your current leadership in your college would be good enough to spare those facilities and spare the time and resources of some people to assist you. Then you may want to tell us whether you are interested in becoming a remote center which has soon be putting up on the same website a detailed information about what do we expect from any remote center, but if it is only with your help that I would like to take this process to 200 plus remote centers because that is the capability of the technology that we have a view can handle this my video team can handle this and my colleague teachers can definitely handle interaction albeit on a subdued level to 10,000 people. I look forward to actually that level of scale up of this effort. The last point I would like to make is that there is something else that this workshop or these series of workshops seem to achieve you know where we are here in Mumbai IIT we are often localized to this city the environment at the most of the state. When we interact with people from other areas of the country we come to know a whole lot of interesting aspects and similarities and differences between the way we handle not just academics but human interaction and the way other friends in the nation handle it. It is an accelerating experience for us when we meet people from east to west from Goahti to Surat from north to south from Srinagar to Vellore and Kerala. To me I genuinely feel that these efforts also help all of us in this country to feel united to feel one. Earlier there used to be a lot of distinction felt intrinsically by faculty colleagues across the country between say IIT system, NIT system, private colleges between say north, south, east, west between the Hindi speaking belt and Tamil speaking belt and Telgu's and others. But you have seen that this workshop has actually helped to provide a great binding to all of us. I do not know of any other mechanism which can bring people across the country in such large numbers together and keep them glued to a specific academic discussion for a long period of 10 days in the process learning so much about each other. I hope this is also an important achievement although it is a side achievement not the one which was originally planned or intended in our technical deliberation. With these comments I would like to extend my compliments to all of you and I look forward to far greater interaction on larger scale in different subjects not only in engineering but in other areas as well in the coming years. Thank you so much. I am sorry I hope you have not yet walked off. I would like you to witness our thanksgiving bouquets to our colleagues. I begin with Professor Dinesh Sharma. Thank you so much at least these are small things that we can give you. Professor John Joseph. Thank you so much. Mrs. Madhumita Datte. Thank you so much. And what about Professor Patil? So let me let me let me imagine that Professor Patil is somewhere here. Since Madhumita comes from his lab right so may I request Madhumita to please give this. Abhishek is here. Abhishek has been the designer of the board. So let me let me request him to take this bouquet on our behalf. Thank you so much for your participation. Thank you. I would like to add that our students have been very active in this and the initiative and the hard work that has been put. You have been very kind in your interaction about the faculty and indeed it has been a great pleasure to interact with you. But I am really really grateful to our students. The board that you are using was in fact designed by Abhishek and the intensity and the energy that they have put in getting it manufactured, getting distributed, insisting that anybody who is travelling takes along a box full of cards to its destination and so on. That has all come from these students and I am indeed extremely pleased to see this level of participation. It is a source of pleasure and it pays back for all the hard work put by faculty to see our students standing up to this occasion and contributing so very well to this effort. And I hope that this community of 1300 teachers who have seen each other, who have interacted with each other will continue to be a community and include enthusiastic students like this. Thank you Abhishek very much for your efforts. So with this we conclude the function. Thank you one and all and all the best for your future electronic endeavours.