 To begin with, let me invite my colleague, Professor Subashish Choudhury and the Deputy Director of the Institute, who is the Chief Guest for the function. So we'll have those photographs first and then we will request the Chief Guest to share his thoughts. I will then request some of you, maybe four or five of you to share your experiences and your expectations from the main workshop and then I will give my concluding remarks along with the vote of thanks. We'll try to finish by 3.30 or 3.45. Now before that, you all saw the AVU demo today morning. We're fortunate that the entire AVU team, the Senior Management at least is here today, led by Dr. Kamal Bijlani. So I thought I will use this opportunity to introduce him and his team to all of you. So may I request Kamal and his team to come on the stage please. So this is Dr. Kamal Bijlani and his team from Amrita University. I think I mentioned to you in my earlier remarks once that we started this distance education program when I started in 98-99 and we actually fructified it in 2000. We were using VSATs and VSATs were extremely costly. The bandwidth was very costly but internet connections were not very prevalent then and not very stable. As the internet started becoming stable, we were looking at some alternatives. I happened to be on the review committee of a project on behalf of Department of Science and Technology which was then being executed by Kamal's team under Dr. Venkat who is the Vice Chancellor of Amrita University in developing this AVU. The early version of AVU was developed then subsequently when we started the thousand teacher training program and then ten thousand teacher training program we decided to exploit that. There have been a lot of interaction. We have given a lot of feedback on the usage suggestions which they have been implementing system and as you know that is the tool that we are going to use. So I would request Kamal Bijlani to briefly introduce his team and say a few words to you. Kamal, all yours. We would like to profoundly thank Dr. Deepak Phatak for the support and the cooperation that we have had for him. We have been walking this, as he said, this road together for the last ten years and developing these things in distance education and we are very, very happy to see all of you here today and see how much this program has grown over the years. Professor Deepak Phatak first wanted, our dream was to have a thousand teacher workshop across India and we were finally able to do that and then from one thousand he directly jumped to ten thousand teachers. So you know he is jumping this program by quantum leaves and I think this program of having ten thousand teachers is probably a world record and it probably has a place in the world records and even though we have not formally done this yet but you know we will take it up at some point when we have a little time. So we are very pleased to be here. We are from Amrita University. Our Chancellor is Amma Mata Amrita Nandamai and she really encourages us to do social work and work on projects that are beneficial to society. It was her dream and vision that inspired us to take up this project and we are very glad to be walking with the national team and the ministry. Here we have some of the people from our team. We have almost you know fluctuating between 125 to 150 people on the A-view team and here we have Ashwini, Shivakumar, Vivek, Jai Hari and Kishore. So I would like to urge all of you and I would like to say that all of you are part of our team, of the A-view team and you know all of you are going to be using this tool and please give your feedback, you know please give your suggestions. We want this to be you know one of the best platforms in the world made by India, made in India and we want to be proud of this and we want to do this together with all of you and we all feel very strongly that we should do something in India by ourselves and Dr. Fartak and all of us strongly want to do this together so we feel all of you are our team and let's do this together. Thank you. I would like to add a few things. As I think I briefly mentioned that the A-view system is being made available free of cost to all educational training institutions including ITIs. In fact today only Kamal also does not know this but today we discussed with the additional Secretary, Ministry of Labor and they want to train one lakh teachers of ITIs on the new modules and they want to use this A-view etc. The more important thing is an understanding that we have reached last year the source code that has been developed by the enemy ICD funding is first being shared with IIT Bombay where we will be directly contributing to additional functionality but more importantly Amrita is seriously considering open sourcing the entire tool so that not only educational institutions but others will also benefit and everybody across the world and we have therefore decided that the day announced the day they announced the open sourcing decision we start working on integrating it with the global EDX platform so that an EDX A-view India version would be created for universal usage. So let's give them a big hand and thank you very much for being here. Shubhash Chaudhary is with us. Many of you may not know him well enough because he works in a different field. His expertise is actually signal and image processing. He is a professor of electrical engineering department which has been the mother department for computer science program anyway. I used to be a faculty member in the electrical at Pantai. He headed the department and currently he is the deputy director of the institute. He is also member of an extremely important committee set up by the director which has our other deputy director Dr. Pandalai also and several other people like head CD and head CEP and so on. And it is this committee under the mentorship of Professor Chaudhary and Professor Pandalai that has recommended the acceptance of offering of the MOOCs program globally through EDX platform and of the blended MOOCs program to the interested universities and colleges from next semester. And we have had great support from him and in fact the entire administration and that's why we are able to run this program line. So I'm very glad to invite Professor Shubhash Chaudhary to share some of his thoughts at this juncture. Shubhash Chaudhary. Thank you, Professor Fatak. Professor Kandan, all the teachers from various colleges all over India and the staff of the special program that teach 10,000 teachers. It's really a wonderful opportunity for IIT Bombay to be a part of a special program which actually was originated or conceptualized by Professor Fatak in terms of reaching out whatever the exporter is that IIT Bombay or many other IITs together that we have in terms of the quality of education and the betterment of the teachers that we have all over India. So in India we have today roughly about 1.2 to 1.4 million students every year getting admitted into engineering colleges alone. So if you look at the AICT norm, that means you have something like 350,000 teachers required for all these colleges. Then you also have other colleges, not everything is only engineering. There are so many other areas. So there is a large number of teachers that are required to fill up all these positions in all over India because finally our mandate as a part of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development is to teach or prepare the manpower for the next generation with the next type of technology that comes every day. There is a new technology coming up. Is the teachers their responsibility to update themselves to stay ahead with terms of what is being developed and impart the knowledge to our next generation because they are the one who would finally build I know of India. So this kind of thing is not possible in a one to one kind of situation that we have been doing earlier through our CEP program where you know how much of one person can do or one group of faculty members by reaching out only 30 or 40 or 50 faculty members from different colleges. It's not possible. So that way, this whole idea that we teach a large number of them so that there is a force multiplier effect. Okay, we use all the technology that is there today. And luckily, this technology has become very affordable. And our government is also very keen that this particular technology reaches everywhere. So in IIT Bombay, we have this Center for what we call CD Center for Distance Engineering Education. So this particular program is idea is that how can we enhance the outreach of IITs in terms of imparting knowledge to all kind of teachers as well as for the industry professionals is not only it doesn't have to be the only the teachers but even the others. So that finally, all our next generation can be taught with the letters that is being developed today. So with that, we have several programs and Professor Fatak is running one of the probably the largest number as I think Dr. Bijlani said that it is probably one of the programs which should go into some kind of a record book where you are teaching so many of them. So I definitely congratulate Professor Fatak for this initiative. And this has really been we are seeing the benefit and I am sure that with years to come, we'll see this benefit even more. And we are very happy to know that there are several other faculty members also in IIT who are really helping him in terms of developing programs which is actually meant for such kind of purposes. Of course, we have another person in our desk. If I don't talk about his contribution in our outreach program of IIT Bombay, then I'll not be doing the proper justice. And that's Professor Kannan. He's also been an old horse here in IIT Bombay. He has been trying, he was the head of CD Parliar. And even now he has this very interesting program where he runs office hours for all people all over the world. I think it's mostly for India, but there are many places where they can ask questions. So it's called ask a questions. So this is another way of enhancing our outreach. And just I think yesterday, he has inaugurated this program for the discipline of physics. Earlier it used to be only for electrical engineering. So I'm sure with more time we'll have several other such programs will be coming in. And students all over India will find this very useful. So I think today is your last day. And I think many of you I see you are here with your suitcases and bags you want to pack and go home. So I don't want to delay your departure from there. But I think I must say that it has been a pleasure having you here for this program. And I hope that the kind of program that we have started for last few years will continue. We'll start seeing you more and more such participants. We want you back again with maybe some other kind of courses that we'll be running here. And I hope that this has been very useful to all of you. So thank you very much. And wish you all the best in your future. Thank you, Professor Subashish. You already listened to Professor Kandan, one of the sessions. But I have greater pleasure in inviting him, not only as the creator of spoken tutorials and so many other things. He and I have worked shoulder to shoulder for last several years trying to take this outreach program to really reach out to people. Today, I have requested him to share briefly his future vision, what in next three to five years he expects the convergence of the technology, the efforts such as ours, and everything else to take this nation forward. Kandan. Good afternoon. So you actually are exposed to spoken tutorials and also this 10,000 teacher training program. From the instructional methodology point, these two are completely different. This 10,000 teacher training program is a synchronous program. Everybody listens to the same idea at a given time. That's a synchronous. As opposed to the spoken tutorial approach, where the students are supposed to use the side by side method and to learn on their own. If they don't understand the concept, they are supposed to rewind the tape, listen to the command again and try it out until it works. And because it is created for self learning, it will always work. Okay, so in a given classroom, each student will be at their own timeline, because somebody might have listened to it three times, somebody might have listened to it twice, somebody might have gone very fast, somebody might be listening to it in Hindi, somebody else in Bengali, Tamil, Hindi, English, and so on. So it's a completely asynchronous program. Okay, so these two, so I'm taking care of spoken tutorials, which is completely asynchronous. Because Fartek is doing a major synchronous program. And I have been thinking about the combination. Can we combine the two to produce something really good? One of the problems that happens in in a massive program of this type, is the feeling that the quality gets diluted, that you don't get individual attention. One of the reasons why such a program may get diluted, especially in a setting like this, where people have to come, people come here, get a certificate, they get the TA, DA paid, same thing is going to happen in the 10,000 teacher training program also, a lot of people are going to come. And our feeling is that quite a few people believe that it is a paid vacation. Right? Somebody is paying TA, DA, I just go there, have fun, go back. Right? I'm not saying that everybody, but there is a sizeable number. And often, the ministry and the audit section actually question us, you're spending so much money, but still some people are misusing it. What are you doing? So that is from the audit point of view. But from the point of view of the instructors, and also the serious participants, there is a problem. Because these are the people who will come and say, time's over, or this is too much homework, I will not do it, all kinds of things. So they, you know, create problems. And of course, so large numbers, there is a problem that quality may be lower. Because if there are only 30 people in the class, I can pay individual attention, of course, it is not scalable. Imagine training all the 10,000 people through the normal QIP program that we conduct, in which we train only 30 people at a time. It would have taken 300 years to train all the 10,000 people. Right? So it is that 30 people thing is not at all acceptable. Okay, it will not, it is not a scalable method. So the method that I have been proposing is, I, in fact, I believe that it is possible to use this combination to make this 10,000 teacher training program, actually better than the 30 people contact program. That is my strong belief. I'll tell you how it is. So initially, in fact, Professor Fatak has already started creating things in the spoken tutorial form, self-learning modules, 10 minute, 15 minute. So that's going to be made available. So it is possible to make that available and say, the people who are interested in participating in the 10,000 teacher training program should go through this and appear in a test. And only people who pass the test will be enrolled in the synchronous program. You can have the passing mark very low. You could have it like 20 marks, 25 marks, whatever 15 marks. What will happen is, if you do that, all the people who are not interested, they just come there for certificate. They will all fail because they're not interested. So then you see, of course, the number will be smaller, let's say 5,000 or further matter, let's take even one third, let's say 3,500 or something like that. They will all be motivated people. And they would also have gone through the basics, would have a good grasp. And at that time, President Fatah can actually say, come up with the problem. We are going to convert this synchronous program into a problem solving session. That's it. Because you know the basics. Why go through the basics again? Basics are already there. Then what happens is, your problem is presented, it is addressed, answered, then there will be 100 different views. So the same problem will be addressed from at least say 10 different angles. Because there are lots of people, lots of ways of thinking, the same problem gets addressed at many different angles, which is not possible in a 30 people class. The 30 people class, you may have two, three views. So in that sense, if you have larger the number, the same problem will get analyzed in many different ways. And you get a very good perspective of the thing that is getting solved. So we could actually do that. It involves extra work. Of course, the people who fail first time need not worry because this can happen again. We don't have a shortage. Can do it again. Professor Fatah can go on giving these lectures again and again. You wake him up, you'll come and give a lecture. Right? You wake me up, I'll come and talk about spoken tutorials anytime. It doesn't cost anything. So the idea is that we need to finally at the end of this program, when you come out, you should be really good. And then if we, you know, teach, if we make our program in an effective way for 3,500 people, then, you know, there may be 10 Professor Fatah out of the 3,500 people who will come and do this in the future. Okay. Now, this program has been, you know, you saw in the morning, Director General, who is in charge of ITI, wants to follow this. Okay. We have schools, much bigger thing. Right? Of course, Polytechnic colleges want to do this. Science colleges, sociology colleges, I mean, this I think is interested in organizing something similar. So this methodology is fantastic. I think we have the great potential to to reach out to, to use technology to leaf frog, which sometimes may not happen in some countries where they may have difficulty in introducing satellite communication equipment in some dictatorial companies in countries, they may not allow free expression. Here we are a democracy, we can, we have the freedom. So we definitely can benefit by this technology. And this, the language dubbing that Professor Fatah is going to introduce, which we have been doing in Spokane tutorial, I believe many of you have given names to that. And I think it is, it's, this technology is extremely very good. Right now, right now we are doing it manually. But in the future, of course, we'll have better technologies. But what is important is, this is another technology that is going to, that is going to bring in the benefits of us being a large country. For example, I always say in Spokane tutorial, a person supposing a Spokane tutorial is dubbed into Bodo and somebody is listening to it in Bodo in Assam. And they will say, hey, the original was made by my brother in, say, Trivandrum or in Gujarat or somebody like that. So this kind of thing is possible where we have original being created by somebody, dubbing being done by somebody else. And we will see the benefits of us being a part of a large country, large country, lots of people, we can actually create lots of these good material. So the future looks very exciting. And some of you, I know that some of you are unhappy about that unhappy that this program is offered only for computer science or people who have been teaching programming. I already told you not to worry, because what is required is that you should have taught this course. Once you need not be a faculty member in computer science, so long as you have taught CS 101 in your college. But how do you do that? Every college has a shortage of such people. You may be in mechanical engineering, you may be in chemical engineering, physics, whatever. All that you have to do is to convince your administration that you can actually teach that course. After all, there is a shortage of people who can teach CS 101. How do you convince them? You have to know that. I'm saying, I told you that there are lots of material to learn this offline. Spark and tutorials are already available on C and C++. Please learn on your own and convince your department, your head, you can do that. And next year you can participate. So this is the message I would want you to give to all the people who may have registered, whom you might disallow, tell them that they can prepare and then come prepared maybe next year or the year after. It is definitely possible in our system. These are some of the small, let me say check points that we should establish to make sure our program gets better so that it is good for everybody because we are spending a lot of money, taxpayers' money. It is important that we put it to use. Okay. With these words, I would like to thank Mr. Farty for giving me this opportunity. He said five minutes but faculty members can't talk for five minutes. Thank you. I'm glad I provoked him to share his thoughts of future vision. So I don't think he's completely familiar with what we are attempting to do and all of you must be smiling because that is exactly the method that we are proposing to use in our workshop. So Mr. Subashish, you would like to know this. We have converted the conventional two week teacher training program for 10,000 teachers into two parts. The first week is online and that online work they do for about five weeks. In every week they have to do one day equivalent of work. So they have to listen to something like a spoken tutorial for 10 minutes and they have to answer quizzes centers and they have to do assignments. After doing all that they come face to face for one week. Now the traditional coordinators workshop, these are the people who coordinate 50, 60 teachers in each remote center. That used to be only a one week duration. It's the first time we converted that into a two week program and all the people that you see here have already worked for five weeks doing exactly the same thing that 10,000 teachers will do going through the material, looking at the assignments and solving some issue. And what Professor Kannan would like to note and I think Mr. Subashish would also like to note is a unique experiment that I have proposed to start with this year's 101. One of the assignments to these people was that there was a 10, 8 minutes spoken tutorial on explaining if than else. All the workshop coordinators were required to listen to that spoken tutorial, then write a script in their own choice of Indian language and dub it not necessarily the physical dubbing, but create a audiophile and submit that as an assignment. This has succeeded. I have some excellent scripts written in Tamil, Bengal, Tamil I could not, I assure you I can't read Tamil. But then I have 150 people on my team and the nation is a great nation. We have all kinds of language experts here. So people have certified that Tamil, Bengali, Marathi and Hindi I could read myself that good efforts there. And now I will tell you what we plan to do together. We just decided yesterday that for the 10,000 teachers training program, all the lecture modules which will be 8 minute, 10 minute duration, these 10,000 teachers will be requested to create like this spoken tutorial, the script in an Indian language of their choice and the audio and such groups will then be peer evaluated to find out what is the best. They themselves will throw up the best. And our ambition is that two weeks after the main workshop, the main workshop I think ends on 21st June. And as you know, all 10,000 teachers are required to complete one group assignment after the workshop which they have to submit. That's a group assignment. So within two weeks of the completion of the 10,000 teachers workshop, we believe that all fundamental CS11 lectures to be given to these students will be available in all major languages of the country. And I think that would be an achievement. So this combining of synchronous and asynchronous thing in fact has always been at the back of our mind in all the efforts that we have made. And we're happy that what we are attempting to do actually just well with the philosophy of both Prasikannan and the Institute of Philosophy as you mentioned. Incidentally as a trial to do a peer evaluation and group assignments, the 380 faculty members here who are going to be the co-ordinator, they themselves did that task for last two days. They worked in a group assignment in the first day. Then the peer evaluated the other group assignments. And today in the morning sessions, they made presentations of what they thought was the best. And what we have decided is all group assignments will be uploaded, shareable to all. So while there might be the so-called best selected by the peers, but all others are also visible and available. The only request they have made is to make available the email IDs and names of all participants in a file so that they can continue that interaction. So I'm very happy to see that things are coming to a fruition. We move with a greater listening. But before my closing remarks, I would like to invite a few of you to share your thoughts, experiences and expectations. Yes. Very good afternoon to all of the delegates present on the dyes and off the dyes. Myself Vikas Kamra, I belong to Sirissa city in Haryana state. My remote center ID is 1342. So I am teaching computer programming from last seven years. So when I got information about this workshop from my remote center coordinators, he said that are you interested to join this workshop? I simply said yes, I am interested. Even I have not checked about the contents of the workshop because I have heard the name of IIT Bombay and computer programming. That is my interest area. Then after that I checked the complete way of how this workshop will go on two weeks work, one week equivalent online work in five weeks. So I felt very happy. I did all my online assignments in last five weeks before attending this main workshop at IIT Bombay at on time. I taken help from my colleagues in my college and when I joined this workshop in this institute at IIT Bombay, I felt very great. It's great. I can say even up to now it's a lifetime achievement for me that I have joined this workshop under the guidance of Professor Pathak and so many other teachers, many technical experts from IIT Bombay. Like and one thing I want to say the simple CPV programming concept is very, very useful for me and I'm very sure I'm going to teach to my students personally even in the college time or after the college time I will call my students and I will teach them how to do programming with simple CPV. So that is motivation I take from here and I also met with so many of few people here from all over the country. I shared their experiences like teaching experiences or other professional experiences, taken the inputs from their students to them and I have learned so many things. Even I'm getting little short words to say but it's a great opportunity for me to be a part of this workshop at IIT Bombay and I must say that it's the beginning. The main workshop is my main objective and my aim to successfully complete the two weeks IST main workshop for the people or the person who are attending on my remote center. So I am sure I am assuring all the people here that I will totally cooperate with the people who will participate in my remote centers area on their online work as well as in face-to-face interaction at my remote center. So I will assure you, sir and it's my great pleasure to be here and thank you very much. Thank you all. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Amrut Pawar. I am from Swiris College of Engineering, Ponderpur. City of Lord Vithala. It is in Solapur district in Maharashtra only. It gives me main pleasure to be here with you all lovingly people and here I have only few lines to say and those lines are just for Patuxer. Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru Dev Maheshwara, Guru Sakshat Parabrahma, Tasmehasi, Guru Venerable. See friends, in our life we meet many people. It may be from different background but once we meet with them about very few people we feel that yes, this is the person to whom I should support. That's Patuxer. I felt here the only thing that I am experiencing right now. Patuxer, the day before yesterday you said about our Swiris College of Engineering, Ponderpur and I called our remote center coordinator professor Dr. Mukanesar and I told him about this thing. He told me the only one thing that you should take Ashirwad from him. That is the only thing. Because he, the only person who shows us such kind of new things and when we enter into the IIT campus every time they at my people, those who come here they experience the same kind of thing every time because there is something called as humanity and sir you speak speak with human kind of thing. Thank you sir, thanks a lot. Good afternoon to all present here. I am Dr. Sariqa Jain from IIT Kurukshetra, Haryana. I like to express my thanks to Professor Fatak, Professor Karnan and his big team. Actually, being a lady it was very difficult for me to move from Haryana till here leaving my family there alone for a week. But when I came here and I am going back with a big carry bag in my mind I am happy today. This is the first thing I wanted to say and thanks to Professor Fatak with all of his he overwhelmed us with I should say his real world experiences and not examples. With every question posed to him he has an experience of him to share with us. And thanks goes to his team that is always sitting there and supporting us in each and every way. They are there always and the jobs that have been assigned to them they have done in exceptionally brilliant way I should say. Thank you so much. Thank you first. Good afternoon to all of you for here in the auditorium. This is Dhanaraj Dhotre from Srisantakajaran Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegau a holy land of Srisantakajaran Maharaj and placed by him. I am very much thankful to IIT Bombay and specially Professor Fatak sir for giving this opportunity to attend this kind of workshop and definitely I will be benefited with the help of this workshop and I will be carrying out the same message to my institute and again I would like to say that I am very much thankful for the team of the Anan Institute sorry Ambedar Institute for making that software, AV software as open source because sir we are conducting the same kind of thing in our institute like CEP, Continuation Program and there we are calling the nearby institutes and we are giving time to them but I think with the best kind of software it's very easy for we people to conduct this kind of workshop and other members will be benefited out of this. Thank you sir, thank you very much, thank you. Dignitary on the dice of the dice. I remembered when I came here 2010 for the first computer programming workshop hardly there are 34-35 people are there and the same motivation, same inspiration still today we are getting the same motivational talks from Professor Phatak and let me tell you one thing Professor Phatak is not only telling you about computer programming and all that I remember one lecture of a nation building also from him he talks intensively, very small things are there I always show the that PPT which Phatak sir was using for their class CS 101 about one student's marks getting the grades and it wrongly given higher marks and all that I always share that particular thought with my student and tell that okay ethical learning by ethics is also important so not only programming but that ethics also I learned from here every time I got something new and every time I try to learn so that's why Phatak sir also told on that day that it's a perpetual person I am a perpetual person from my institute always so I always try to learn the new things and try to implement it at this in my college second thing I must thank the I think Professor Kamal Bijlani is there I must thank that AVU team because now we are the partner for the Amruta University and we got an administrative login for AVU and we are using the AVU for school level projects so we have our our institution have a 15 different schools and we are using it to train some teachers now in the vacation we have started that particular training and we are set up a small studio at my college and we are using that so thank to the AVU team also thank to all those TAs all those support staff every time because I have I was here from the first workshop so I know lot many people Sushant is there Sajjan is there so many people are there I always remember them and I always call them to for the support thank for all those them so let us have a big hand to all those so as they can also get an interest and last but not least saare jaha se acha hindosita hamara ye hindosita yaha pe betha hai aur isse bada hindosita ko 16 se 21 joon tak waha pe dikhne wala hai matlab IIT se dikhega so hats off to IITB hats off to Phataksar hats off to all his team thank you very good afternoon to one and all present here I am Dr. Jeena Ali Priya from Savitha Engineering College Chennai Tamil Nadu for the past six days we learned many things not only computer programming the discipline what the how the teacher must be actually in our regional language Tamil there is one saying room po to yosipangala audience long okay sir Phataksar has yes his thought process okay meaning that for every action we sit in the room you sit and discuss on each and every action that is the meaning of that thing sir has actually for each and every action he has made a great plan so I came to know that how to plan okay that is the first thing the second thing is for the six days we are apart from the family okay even for ladies we are just putting our children I feel it is very much worth for it then how to work so as a teacher we all know that we'll take class we'll share our feelings with the students but here is the place to discuss a great view about all the colleges and all the knowledges okay so finally what Phataksar told that you are your colleges IIT Bombay and you are the representative of Phataksar like that he told okay I'm very proud that I'll be Phataksar for my college and I thank professor Kannan okay he's a previous dbms workshop he's the inspector for our college I was wondering he was talking our regional language very nicely then he told he is belong to our state anyway India is India okay India is growing so I'm proud to say because of this workshop and because of this national building programs India is growing the last thing is I will come to know what is the importance of open software sources because for my project students hereafter I made one decision we should suggest only open source out to us for our project building right so with this few words I'll conclude thank you Jai Hind Good evening and I am Hari Shankar from Tamil Nadu Kung Engineering College and it's near to Coimbatore the first thing is I was highly inspired with Professor Phataksar that what I'm trying to say is at the age of 60 or more than plus he's still 20 you have to give a great applause so everybody says that that Professor Phataksar is doing it he's it's his work he has to but we have to learn that from him that he has quite dedicated with his work and whenever a person is doing a session or even our own presentation has been taken by today's morning everybody is supposed to be doing our mobile chatting or things like that even I have to do it but Professor Phataksar has did sincerely he is watching what what he is for that's I what that's we have to learn this really really thank you sir and most probably I often say is that we teachers what is what is the credit for us and moreover VN that is quite low when comparing the industry people that always I say that the more than of your salary your student getting twice or thrice of your salary is your credit for you could you accept this that's and so we proud that to be a dedicated why I'm saying this most of the people that in Tamil Nadu if you are not getting a job in industry we supposed to go for the teaching job probably so but it should not be that the the teacher should be always dedicated with this teaching and as well as prominent towards teaching and whatever it may be so anyway thanks to it bb giving this opportunity and Professor Kannan and Professor Phatakand overall in the days and as well of the days thanks for giving this bigger opportunity and anyway thanks Good afternoon to all I am Shumon Dev from National Institute Technology Agartala Professor Phataks that is total overall impression is becoming universal constant so not to speak on that matter I am putting my all devotion to him I have a special request to Professor Kannan that special request is when we talk about biology we have a nice structure of food chain and also ecology but there is no structure of education and there is an ecological structure of education or a education chain maybe if we think of right now lion is sitting here maybe we are the small vegetarians sitting over there so I want sir as sir is very great in formalizing things sir make a formal structure of ecology of education system or a food chain of education system where you can show it to everyone so that we can have a striving so from lower we can go to higher because right now lions are only one not two and everyone is talking about lion only but we are not thinking of a system will eat up after sometimes unless we are not preserving the eco chain or the whole system will go down sometime thank you all I am Premine Gupta from VIT college Jaipur I have 20 plus years experience in teaching plus industrial experience last two and a half years I am working as a head of department in computer science the major difference which I have found here after coming this workshop most of the colleges like our college nobody pay attention how the student is learning whether it is learning or not learning including myself or my staff members I always see this teacher ne proper paraya ne paraya course pura hua niva all attention is the activity of the teachers here the major difference the major major difference I have found that all attention is on the learning of the student major major attention all the faculty members or the professors here teaching they are paying attention to whether student learning or not learning this is the major most thing we should learn it and I promise that I will also learn this one and most of us we should follow this one and pay emphasis whenever possible I know many of them it is not feasible nobody will listen your talk in your institute but those who are having in the capacity that they can implement it or their colleagues if they are working as a senior faculty member then they can implement it the most important thing is the learning of the student and this is the one thing that I will carry with me and pay attention with on my students that whether they are learning computer programming and other things or not and I am very glad I am very thankful for all the faculty members staff of this this program making this successful thank you all thank you a pleasant good afternoon to one and all gathered here and it is my privilege to stand in front of you to give few words about this program and for the past six days we have grasped a lot of ideas from this computer programming and only one thing I have to convey in this program as our professor Fateh said the queries which are triggered from the students has to be convinced from the faculty okay for this only one aspect what we need is command over the subject and we should be expertise in the platform then only we can able to welcome the queries because as a faculty we may have certain hesitation that if a student is going to rise for the query we will tell him that you can just come later or we will have certain hesitation to accept the query so only one thing you have to keep in mind is just learn the language learn the subjects and try to implement it so you have to understand the applications whatever we are going to use so that we can able to convince the students in a better manner and as far as we can able to accept the queries the interaction will be better and as far as we can make the students a good citizen and good engineer tomorrow and thank you for the things whatever is given by the IIT Bombay and thank you for that thank you very much for those nice words in my concluding remarks I would like to share my thoughts only on two aspects some of which were mentioned by you but before that I must do something which is very important and which many of you have already voiced namely to profusely thank the large team of people who have supported conduct of this workshop and who will support our workshop later I hope you agree that's very difficult to find such a dedicated team which work day in and day out arranging for everything if there has been any shortcoming I apologize to you on their behalf and on my behalf but I believe that this the work by this team has been excellent in all aspects so let's give them a big hand there's couple of differences that people quoted between the other colleges in IIT Bombay let me also share with you one important difference although I have seen the spirit properly followed in some other institutions but not everywhere else the distinction between the technical administrative staff and the faculty is very significant in most colleges it probably happens because hierarchically the technical and administrative staff is always at much lower grades than the faculty and unfortunately the behavior of people at many places is what I call often great dependent I'm very proud of the fact that in IIT Bombay the respect that is given to the technical and administrative staff the care with which their words and advice is listened to is extraordinary and let me tell you my experiences and your experience will be you respect someone else as a human being and that person also lives up to that respect I would like you also to take this back at least amongst your colleague you see you individually might be very well very well respecting the technical staff and administrative staff but they should be they should feel that their word is cared for that they are cared for and I think that will help us because our dependence on the technical staff is extraordinary you saw the AVU team here okay Sushant Raktade for example he's not a PhD he can't do computer programming but none of us can adjust the video equipment as he can no matter what PhDs we have so that is why our interdependence is extraordinary and we should do that so thank you very much team great job well done as I said I will I will take this opportunity to comment on just two things that were mentioned here one was a mention about teachers somebody said that in Tamil Nadu you take up teaching only if you don't get a job anywhere else I think it's a deriding comment because this fact is true about practically every human being except a few just go back and examine the life of every individual does every individual always get to do what he or she desires to do four lakh people appear for joint entrance exam three thousand five thousand people get admission we know we have been handling JEE for decades I have been handling JEE data processing for decades we know 50,000 people are as good they don't get an opportunity they go somewhere else does it mean they become bad engineers nonsense they become as good engineers as anybody else now here is my take at any crossroad as a human I would have some desire some aspirations and I would have some compulsions and some happening based on that I get a certain path for my further progress whatever it is whether it is being compelled upon me whether it is because of the force of circumstances or whether I liked it but once I take that path what prevents me from dedicating myself to that path and doing something so extraordinary that it didn't matter what I thought before I come to the crossroad so here is my suggestion that you should share with all ten thousand teachers no matter whether when they come to your place no matter you tell them no matter whether you came here because you did not get any job no matter whether you have decided to stay in academics for all your career no matter if you have decided to stay here only for 10 or 12 years no matter if you have decided to stay for only one year no matter if you have decided to stay for only one semester and seek some other job no matter if you are going to be a teacher only for one day but live that day that semester that year such that you are nothing else but a teacher and I will tell you you'll make a difference now all that you need to do is if you spend more than one day you dedicate that second day also as many days as you spend you keep dedicating I became a teacher at the age of 23 I'm 66 years and every day I've been only doing that nothing else and I've been doing that extremely enjoyably so it is doable it is doable and you see so many colleagues of ours all of you the person who spoke here is head of the department is there for seven years eight years okay do you think he is not working to the best of his abilities he is the problem is in India it is not easy for us to understand what are the best practices elsewhere so that we can adapt and that is the importance of such workshops it please appreciate one thing when you come here it is not only that you take away something we also learn a lot you may not realize it but every I have never permitted any single human interaction not to teach me something and no matter what that human is because in every human being there is something different something new something interesting which you learn from and if you benefit from the point is most of our 10,000 teachers don't get an opportunity to interact with multiple people they have no chance of learning from others when they come to your remote centers as I said and I'm very happy that she repeated that that your institute is IIT Bombay for them and you are Dr. Phatak for them but there's something much more your institute also has several good points and there are takeaways that other people should come and take and if your institute does not have sufficient number of good points isn't it your job also to contribute IIT Bombay has a big name but IIT Bombay's name has been created by hundreds of faculty members and thousands of students in alumni who have built that name it's not a single individual who does that likewise you have to build your institutions and likewise you have to build a nation and therefore I come to the second point somebody said saare jaan se achcha so I have one problem which I must share with you you know all of us as we grow from childhood we fall in love with various places various people various institutions when we're born we fall in love with our mother then we know our father our siblings our relatives then we fall in love with our friends then we fall in love with somebody then we start working we fall in love with our institution for me my institution is the most important thing in this world so we fall in love with that to the extent that we become half mad like that we have intense love with variety of people but some loves are more intense than the other when I was a young student I fell in love with an entity called India and I fell in love with such madness that for me that entity is bigger than God I'm a reasonably religious person but even if my religious God was to come and say something or do something against my country called India I would fight with God and now I will tell you why I feel so strongly about India I have studied history like nobody else would have studied I'm an ardent follower of history and geography those were instantly my pet subjects I was driven into engineering and that is how I'm teaching computer programming and other things today but I'll tell you one thing in the earlier session I shared with you some of the weaknesses that our society has and which we need to overcome to be truly recognized as a developed country because a developed country is recognized by the discipline by the intellectual capability and by the social sensitivity of the people who comprise that development and we have to definitely move along but there is one thing in our India which is unbeatable and which cannot be paralleled by any other country now or ever and that is something very unique first the diversity all of us are aware of the diversity but how many of you know that there is absolutely no other nation in this face of this world which has this kind of diversity you look at all kinds of problems all kinds of characterizes ethnicities all ethnicities exist in India religions all major religions exist in it languages 17 major languages okay is there any other country which is like that China which is bigger than us has won or at the most two important dialects of the language they don't have language problem we have this problem we have to translate everything into multiple languages and so on now what should normally happen to a nation which has 17 major languages 10 major religions of five major ethnicities and as an added attraction we specialize in fighting with each other we fight on language we fight on region we fight on religion tamir versus canada you go to banglore there is a problem in marashtra and madhya prasendi versus marathi hindu versus muslim whatever whatever we specialize in fighting and sometimes we fight very badly and madly resulting in even carnages that is shameful and yet we have lived as a single independent nation from 1947 we have lived as a growing republic with our own constitution since 1950 is there any other example in the country like that in in in the world no that is where i keep saying that there are enough things about our nation to be proud of we talk of research we talk of noble laureates we look off talk of western things we talk of if paper is accepted in i triple your s.c.m then only it is worth it not if it is accepted in siyesa why why are we shy of saying no we are proud of ourselves let me tell you two points of pride in our scientific research two areas i will mention these two areas are such that no developed nation would ever like to share the most recent research in those area because they don't want other countries to become powerful in research in that area and powerful in implementation of what comes out of that research you know what those two areas are one is the nuclear sciences and the other is the missile technology okay no country shares anything with you i will tell you one story when the great doctor abdul kalam visited my lab many years ago herontical development agency's lab and i just asked him sir do you know one kadham kadham used to be my batch mate from iit bombay in m tech and the club suddenly stopped and looked at me says are you talking about nv kadham i said yes sir he says if my missiles are flying straight for that it is because of the control system strategy of nv kadham nv kadham did not study in mit and stanford he studied in iit bombay and developed those control systems at it why are we not proud of abdul kalam of what he has done he's a nichalese indian he did not study anywhere else look at our nuclear capabilities pocher and to happen not because of some phirang scientists coming here and helping us or borrowing the research from elsewhere we did that ourselves the great kakor kaur was one of the leaders at that time is the chairman of buddha governor sufaiti bombay i'm extremely proud of such people and let me tell you you will find such individuals not necessarily the greatest accomplishes but ordinary people who will do something fantastic uh pro sufaiti mentioned the incident so i must take two more minutes to tell you that because i learned some additional fundamentals of ethics from that incident i don't know whether i have shared this with you but i was teaching a c s one one last class as you know and the midsame exam was concluded and in one of the classes i showed up a slide showing the names and the marks of the top performers in the mid semester and i requested everybody to stand up they were i think 45 marks people we always have all marks not 50 and they were and the highest score was uh uh 44 and then 43 42 etc etc i put those names up the that particular year i had conducted the course in convocation hall the 900 students we of course did that experience experiment and we started going back to 350 teachers so when i read these names i asked every person to stand up there was some clapping after all top performer etc etc as i finished that lecture and i was walking out of the convocation all the boys sitting in the front said sir my friend's name is not there but he will be there say what do you mean he says no he has resubmitted his paper for recheck you know sometimes there are mistakes in the checking 900 paper so we have what is known as a creep session creep session means people cry over the shoulders of our teeth so they generally submit those papers back the protocol was that if you feel that the question has not been correctly judged you should put a additional plane sheet write down why you think your answer is correct and submit it no discussion anyway and he says that his score is 41 and half but he's sure to get 43 and half two marks i said how are you so sure no sir the answer has not been corrected so he will definitely get i said five whenever he gets those marks let him write to me and i will be glad to include his name two days later i get a mail from him he said sir my friend told me that when i get the answer book back i should inform you if my marks have increased i have got my answer book today and as i expected two marks have been added because that question was not corrected so my score is 43 and half however i just scanned through the entire paper once again and i found that the original totaling done by ta was wrong and the total was two more than what i should have got so actually my score is only 41 and half which you may please note i was so pleasantly surprised please understand my tears had 43 and half recorded in their record the answer paper has been given back there's absolutely no reason or rhyme for him to come back with those marks or anything like that our record is 43 and half how much guts it takes for a first year student who is competing in a terribly competitive environment to say no i did not score 43 and half i scored only 41 and half in the next lecture i put up a slide saying additional honors list and put his name without showing the marks and recited this incidence and i asked the class do you believe that his name should be added to the honors list huge loud yes i asked him to get up he stood up sheepishly the loudest trapping i have heard in my life was for that boy and please note he missed his a grade by half mark isn't that a thick sir and who is teaching me that a young boy how many such boys and girls do we have as students in our college our problem is as teachers we are not sufficiently sensitive about students we do not sufficiently relate to them and we are not willing to learn from them that is why somebody rightly said our emphasis is on teaching and better teaching and still better teaching but not on students learning and more learning and one more thing we learning from students and all others it is possible to do so this country is 1.2 billion people strong believe me there is there is no nation on the face of earth which can stop our progress if we work together we work with some dedication and we simply do what we are charged with the responsibility of doing we need not worry about other thing if we are teachers let us be damn good teachers and let us make 10,000 very good teachers thank you very much can we all stand up and sing a national anthem for completion of this most welcome absolutely no problem we don't do that normally but national anthem cannot be refused it's a good idea you thank you