 Good afternoon to all. Thanks for giving me this opportunity to give some feedback. Being a teacher, no point should be missed. So I've come up with the notes for the feedback itself. Learn anything anywhere. Only requirement is interest and enthusiasm. This is the motivating line you will find on the website of nptl.ac.in. This really motivates the learners in India. 4-5 years back, one person from IIT Bombay came to our institute and intention was to make awareness about nptl among the students. One line he said was, we have developed such quality contents and utilization of these quality contents are done by most of the European university students. So what is happening in India? Why they are not using? So awareness is not there. And then definitely appreciable efforts are taken through forming local chapters. And then on one fine day I got this news that there is one local chapter awareness workshop and there we started with the awareness I attended that workshop. And then I come to know about these things one year back. nptl started around in the year 2004-2005. We used to get the videos. I used to download those videos and make those videos available to the students. Being university affiliated college working in rural area, we were facing the problems. The main major intention of the students when they take admission to institute is for employability. I would like to share few points. How really the nptl help for our students? First thing was about employability. Though it is from last committee said that algorithm, data, algorithm, data structure and programming. These are the three important aspects to make the students employable. In our area we are finding the students are intelligent. They are comfortable with this programming data structure as well as what we can say algorithm. But somewhere where they were logging was soft skills. Fortunately on nptl I find the courses like enhancing soft skill and technical English or personality development such type of courses were there. And we motivated students to take these type of courses and as a result of it reflection of it we got. This year whatever placement we have got has got doubled from last as compared to last year. So 100 students got placed in infosit itself and then this was only possible because of this nptl courses. One more thing is those students were appearing for the gate examination. For them also many of the core courses are run by nptl. So those courses are very much useful to for the gate examination as well technical courses which are required. Most of the IT industries like programming C, C++ those courses were taken by the students and they also helped. So once few students are going for the foreign universities for post graduation studies. So two three students while writing their recommendation later. So they included means the course in which they want to take the admission. So related to that courses are already run by the nptl and they included that they have done these courses through nptl. So that has also helped them to get admission in good universities in foreign countries. As well alumnus not only I am motivating the students of my college as well as I am motivating alumnus also to go through this what we can say nptl courses. One of our alumnus is working in Samir lab in IIT Bombay. She was here itself for this workshop. She started doing means I just told that courses are going on. So she started doing course on antenna and she completed it successfully. That also was helping her a lot. As a faculty means not for student as a faculty. Most of you we people are faculty members and then for as a faculty also means in Marathi we say. Teacher should know the things and teacher should have the quality education. So this nptl provides a very good platform where we can get the quality contents affordable as well as evaluation is also available. So you get evaluated about what you have learned. Talking about my SPOC journey. So ma'am just ask how many new SPOCs are there. So my SPOC journey was I started with the nptl awareness workshop. Before that just I registered and then I gone through the website and all the contents self-explanatory contents are there. You have to send one application and you will get local chapter established. So local chapter was established. Then enrollment started. See one thing is when you are representing nptl to the students. So you should be involved in all the activities. That's why when enrollment started I started first enrollment of our institute was my enrollment. I enrolled for the student. I go through the form what information is required. And while doing the enrollment I come to know that for last experience was around 2000 students enrolled. But it was very difficult for me to manage the information about the student. Because in university affiliated college the colleges are run in different departments. So mechanical department student asked, head of the department asked how many students my students are registered. How I will come to know that. And then they have added such features like role numbers. So intelligently if you use role number of the student we requested nptl to make that field compulsory. And then intelligently if you are using role number. So from role number you can identify that student belongs to which branch which year what is role number and all those things. And then mentor. Mentor is one feature. So I become mentor also for one course. So I will come to know what what you can say features are available for the mentor. Then for the registration after doing mentoring registration. So I register for the examination. First registration was my registration itself. And then appear for the examination and for appearing for the examination. We were having the problem like from Sholapur there was no nearby city exam city available. So we requested nptl to make a city available exam city available as Sholapur. And then yes that city was available made available. And then our students appear for the examination. Huge tension was as a spoke I also appear for the examination result got declared. And in the medical image processing I got 91 mass gold medal. I was topper in first five percent. So then I take I take this opportunity to thank our principal as well as management who are given us this platform. These things are there but they are always supporting us to do this type of activities. At last means this is the more this is the modern era of netizens. So we all are using netizens. Most of we are online more than 20 hours. And in this era nptl I would like to say is a virtual Dronacharya virtual Dronacharya for the learner echelavya of this modern era of netizens where anywhere anytime nptl is available. So you can be echelavya and nptl will be Dronacharya for us. And at last at last I take this opportunity to thank Bhati ma'am Kamala ma'am who are supporting us. It's like if you send a query any doubt maximum at the max it will take 12 hours to get reply. Most of the times within one or two hours we get the reply for whatever doubt and always it is constructive with a positive approach. So at last can we have big round of applause for nptl team IIT Madras for the efforts and contribution in the enhancement in the quality education of the India. Jai Hind. Thank you sir for the feedback and I likely include all the nptl offices because though we coordinate without the support of the teams and all the other offices this would not be possible. Because we are getting lot of courses encouragement and coordination from all of them that this is happening. First of all I would like to introduce myself. I am Dr. Sariqa Dahima from the commerce college Latur. The SPOCs or mentors here are mostly from IITs, engineering or science. I am a bit shy so I have come to give you feedback. On the nptl website which is management courses our suggestion would be to add some courses to it. There is no subject of commerce there. So some subjects of commerce should come there so that it would be good for our children and also for the faculty. There are some courses which were there before but are not there yet. There is a need to rerun. There is a subject called operation research in commerce. If it is rerun then our children will be able to gain more knowledge. There is e-governance, e-commerce, risk management, banking and finance. Because nowadays most of our commerce children go towards banking, insurance or finance. So if some courses are available for them then they will be able to progress better. International business. There is a course that is going on here. The whole university is in our college. It is a foreign trade course. So our students have an occasional course in our college. So if there is an online course for international business then it would be better for their careers and job opportunities. The second thing is about some exam centres. We have just received a local chapter on 27th November. And I have two institutes in contact with SPOC and Mentor. In one place I am Mentor and in the other place I am SPOC. So both of them are in commerce college. Where both the students will have good benefits and we too will have it. I want to tell you that since we have informed the children about NPTEL, the response of the children is very good. And in just one month nearly 370 children have done it for different courses. Now they will do the registration for the exam. But when they saw that there is no Latour, they got scared. Madam, if there is no Latour then how will we go out of the exam? And your fees criteria for SCST, in which they have fees of Rs.550 and Rs.1100 for the rest of the categories. So if you want to go to Solapur then you might want to go to Kerala and you will need more money. So we have this request that if we get a course in Latour and also an exam centre, then our children will be able to give more and more exams. And the last important thing is that for the exam centre, we have a recognised exam centre of TCS. We have continued the exam for IBPS for 12 months. So maybe we will not have any problem in giving the exam centre to the TCS. There have been 5-6 local chapters in Latour. So thank you. So I don't know whether you had sent that request or something. Did you send the request with the exam? Did we reply to you? I think we have already replied, so TCS is working on it. We haven't gotten the confirmation. If we get it, we will put it in form and it will open in Latour. Maybe for the first time, we will give it for Sunday. We won't keep it for Saturday Sunday. We will give it for Sunday. Which college will come? I don't know. It is dependent on TCS. We will get it in Latour. One more thing I just like to say here is based on the fee waivers. So many of them were asking for fee waivers. So we got a budget from last year but the numbers have increased tremendously because the local chapters have increased. So we have kind of exhausted our early budget even in last semester because we couldn't budget it for two and put it. Or we have to change criteria like I was telling you. We have to make it 60%, 70% or something. So for April exams, as of today, now if you ask me, we do not have money for fee waivers. We have a very small sum so we don't know how to disperse it. But we are talking to 2-3 companies. So before the end of this month, we will be able to tell you whether it's a yes or no, how much we have and if we can put it in some manner. So that's about the fee waivers. Good morning everybody. I am Dr. Rohidas Nithonde. SPOC of MSP Mandalsri Shivaji College Parvani. Really it gives me immense pleasure to say that one of the historic moments in our college history is that last year our college got re-accredited for third cycle NAC assessment. And in the third cycle, we could achieve 3.52 CGPA with A plus grade which is till date highest in Marathwada region. The thing that why should I mention special thanks to NPTEL is that usually in any NAC peer team visit schedule most of the time is given to many other activities. Nowhere NPTEL local chapter schedule is mentioned. But during the visit to our college, it was 30 minutes duration the honorable NAC peer team gave to our college local chapter. During those 30 minutes, they examined so many things and how we conduct the courses. They even talked to some of our successful students and they noticed how rural and interior parts of country they are taking benefit of MHRDE learning initiatives and they appreciated the local chapter and also they forwarded the same thing to the NAC office. Another important thing is that the honorable vice chancellor of our university, he also took notice of the local chapter of Sri Shivaji College Parvani and he visited the local chapter along with that he specially sent two professors from the university department to visit Sri Shivaji College local chapter and after the visit officially we were asked to send a request to the university academic council about the credit transfer system which is to be implemented from this year. honorable vice chancellor put that in the academic council meeting and from this year itself academic council has accepted credit transfer system for our arts commerce and science students. I am happy to say that this year more than 150 students they have enrolled for business English communication course from a rural college. Our students this is the third run wherein our students got through the certifications. I know that it is not an easy thing for rural people to get employment but we are trying hard and many people like NPTL they are sharing their hands they are giving their resources for us. We are thankful to the NPTL, entire NPTL team for providing us such valuable resources. Thank you one and all. Have a great day. Next I would like to call upon Rishikesh Avtadi from College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, Loni and Madnagar. He will be presenting some, he has presented some, made some presentations so he would like to talk about it. Thank you. I would like to thank that given me opportunity to interact with you. So I am representing SPOC for College of Agriculture, Biotechnology, Loni. There are some technicals problem which I want to highlight here so that can be solved. The first is that video link should be present on the video page. That is also one of the technical problem that many colleges block the video downloading sites that is the YouTube or KeepVid. That link should be below the video window. Then student directly click on that and directly the video downloading will start. That should be a very user friendly. That is only one suggestion. Next is that this is a SPOC admin page. When I click on all local chapter students then you can see the red mark is there. You can see the course title there, Bioenergy. But when I download this into CVS file I cannot see the course name. I only see the yes only course. And that creates problem to sharing with the students because students don't know the code names. They know only the course name. That should be corrected. Then next SP should be able to see the assignment marks of all the students of the respective local chapter. Because many times the mentor if he fails to take a feedback then we will miss a link. Or maybe if mentor is resigned or transferred from that job then also it can be very difficult for SOP to find out the result is out. That student also can see. The progress tab is there. Yes, yes, yes. Many rural colleges, students are not knowing about much about checking the marks on the web page. Many, it's a problem in rural area. So SPOC should get an ID card or a badge from the respective IRTs. It will motivate us. Because proudly we can roam all over the campus and badge is there. We are SPOC. So that is also motivate us. And one of the major problem I want to explain I am representing agriculture college. State agriculture universities are far behind in e-learning. So need of awareness in agriculture universities. So there are 65 government agriculture colleges. Government agriculture colleges. There are 153 private colleges. And there are four agriculture universities. But I have checked the PDF file of all the active SPOCs. But I couldn't found two or three only except our college. Except our college. But I couldn't found any agriculture university involved in this SPOC. But we want to work in this agriculture. Because the answer for core courses. No, but general courses also there like business courses. But we have to make awareness in agriculture university. So thank you for the opportunity. Thank you for giving us so much detailed feedback. I mean it's very useful for us to have the detailed feedback. I am professor Prakash Khunari. I am also from Parvani from where Dr. Nitrunday is. I am representing Jnanopasa college of arts, commerce and science. Last year only we have been enrolled. We have started enrolling for different courses. So I am going to give you feedback about the troubles that we are facing at present. Particularly we find that the science students who enrolled for electrical engineering courses or computer science courses. So they find it difficult to cope up with the courses. So it may be because of the mathematical treatment that is given in the courses. So major student, major lot of the students who learn science courses. They basically lack the skills in mathematics. So maybe we can think of adding something essential mathematics, isn't it? For all such courses. What we find that the courses in communication, the courses from language like English or courses for biology. They are comparatively easy. When students are able to cope up with them, they are able to complete them. There are two worries that normally we face. One worry is that if all students are going to get IID certificates. If they pass the course, they are going to get the IID certificates. And are they going to get the job? So this is an issue, isn't it? Because ultimately when we ask our students, isn't it to enroll for a course? What we say is that you enroll for a course because your chances of getting employment will increase. Because you are going to get an IID certificate, isn't it? With almost no cost. And if these courses become popular, isn't it? Then what is going to happen with the existing quality system? One small solution is that, that SMOM has prepared their own app, isn't it? App is being available on the mobile phones. So why not NPTEL app? And the last thing is again the examination thing. Because our nearest center is Aurangabad. So a student has to travel from Parboni to Aurangabad and then again has to come back. So there is some, means financial, they have to spend at least say 500 rupees in a day, isn't it? Apart from the regular examination fees. So I think we should come out for some solution, isn't it? Actually we don't have that much enrollment. Because enrollment is much more, but students who are willing. If we put together four together, then we can come up to 300. That's why we publish the list of all the LCs on our page. And you have a contact person also. If you all can just contact the nearby colleges and say together we will do this. The problem is that... The problem is that last time I entered about 200 students. And only 11 students appeared for examination. And all the elements got certificate. But only 11 were able to go to the examination center. So 11 is a very small figure. Even if we count for other colleges. But I think why not to have an examination on like this? Ultimately we have to go something like that. See examination is still a very sensitive matter. Because if you are going to transfer the grade to the university. The university should have trust in their examination. That examination was conducted with a full sort of no copying or no other practice. So if you go online just like that. We are not sure whether we can guarantee it. At this point of time. Maybe someday there will be some people who will be taking you and monitoring your picture all the time. Till you are writing the exam that might happen. But as of today I think the proper examination is the one. I think it will be more acceptable to the university. And that is what I think. Thank you for giving me that point. So maybe we will have a few comments on the exam center allocation. Because I think several of you have questions or comments on exam allocation. Even during the break that was a major issue that many felt strongly about. So I will just share with you what our processes and why we end up doing what we do. So the first thing is we are using an exam partner. You are aware of this. We are using right now the exam partner is TCS. I mean it does not have to remain TCS. But they are the ones who are coming L1 in whatever quotation process we start. So they are the exam partner. And they are quite good in the sense that they are running major exams. They are running GATE, so many other exams they are running. So they are quite established. So they have arrangement with lot of colleges as centers. And so what they are doing is they just they this exam fee that we charge is primarily because they have a fee associated with arranging the center, arranging the infrastructure at the center, having invigilators day there on the exam day. They take their you know their own staff is there setting up the server which communicates to their main office, you know collects all the answers, collects the questions and delivers to the exam hall. All this is being done by them. So for this they have a charge. Then so essentially that is the charge that goes to the main part of the charge in the exam fee. Now to keep that cost low, I mean already we are saying 1100 is high and all that. But to keep it even at that level they want at least 50 people at a center, minimum 50. Only then they charges for 50. Whether we even if you have only two people in the center they will charges for 50 people. So naturally you know if you have many centers where you are only having two three people taking the exam, that cost has to get distributed across all students. So we want to avoid that. They also want to avoid that. So what they are doing is they collect the data of how many are appearing in each city and then they open the center. So they are not upfront telling which center is going to get opened. So that is why as Bharti was pointing out and as actually several of you also pointed out, if you can come together and tell us that in your city there are going to be 100 students who are going to take an exam. If you are confident of it, if you can back yourself tell us that you have to back yourself. Because as we just pointed out you know you may have 200 students and only 11 will take. Then it is a problem. If you can back yourself collectively that you would say at least 100 students will take it. Definitely we will work with TCS to get you a center close to you. That is definitely something that we will try. There is another logistical thing that they are trying to do again to take care of the quality of the exam. See right now they work with many colleges. So the infrastructure in each college is slightly different. So if they have a software that is supposed to run sometimes in one college it will not run properly. So on exam day you know a half an hour into the exam suddenly things will start going wrong in that one center. It becomes a big problem during the examination. So what they are doing is they open their own centers called ITZs which they have opened in some specific places. Then it becomes a business thing because they have now opened it they do not want it to sit idle. So when they have you know some number of within some radius of that center whatever college is there they will try to first fill the ITZ then they start filling the other centers. So these are some logistical issues that go on in the background of the examination which is why not always you are getting a center in the most convenient possible manner. And the only other factor they keep in mind is as much as possible they are trying to allot students into different colleges. They do not want to take the same set of students and put them in their own college for the examination because that starts making it little difficult to ensure that everything goes off properly. So this is the other aspect of the exam process. But as I said we are trying our best to get you more centers closer to where you are. So please keep asking do not stop asking please keep asking. But in from your side the one homework we ask is try to get us about 50 to 100 students. Ideally 100 if you aim for 100 then I think logistics will work out quite conveniently. So I think that is any any other. Yes sir I have one question. In this entire gathering probably I might be one individual who belong to an institution called as government polytechnic. So we offer diploma programs. So a student who is getting who is that is enrolling for a course in diploma for a particular for example hydraulics will it be of the same difficulty level and same scope as he will be registering or enrolling a hydraulic course in degree college. That is one particular question I wish to place before you. And almost all engineering courses include practical work also. In this entire discussion we miss that particular aspect. So is he required to do some practical work under the supervision of the institution and whether it is how it is going to be assessed. So these are two questions I wish to follow these two questions I wish to know the answer from you people. This by the way is professor Andrew Thangaraj. He is the other coordinator from IT Madras. Thank you. So he was at a conference just below I think one floor below. We managed to pull him up from down below. Okay first of all it's really nice to see so many different people in this region. Actually Maharashtra as many of you might have heard in this brief meeting has about 262 local chapters. 67 local chapters which is second to I think Tamil Nadu. Oh really they were overtaken okay. It's amazing I think the education culture is very strong here. One can see across the state so many different type of people. And I think he see feedback from all of you. We're getting questions that are also troubling us. I will be very clear on that. First thing is there was concern about will it replace anything in the college. I think absolutely not. There's just no chance of that happening. First of all I think you know the students who are coming into your college and you have to get them out with a degree and make sure they are okay in life. And courses online are not going to do that. So much more they learn from you on a day to day basis. So this is you have to look at this program a bit differently. So how do you look at it? One way in which IITs and us as faculty at IITs look at it is it's what we would call as outreach from the IITs. So now IITs if you look at the budget etc. we get a lot of money from the central government. For various reasons I'm not saying it's wrong. I think we should get money and IITs use the money very wisely. But I think in a country like India when we invest in an effort which reaches out to so many people in a very efficient, nice way keeping the quality in place I think the impact is tremendous and all of you are testimony to that impact. With the small investment that we make and reaching out to everybody across the country. Now of course I think there was also a comment about 200 people enrolling but only 11 people writing the exam. That's probably also the result of the standard of the course. The rigor in the course. So I would say 11 is definitely not a small number. Don't think of 11 as a small number. Why do you say 11 is a small number? So going from 0 to even 1 is a huge step. From 1 you can go to 200 very easily. Going from 0 to 1 is very, very hard. So I think this program wasn't even there before. So nobody had this opportunity. This access was not there. So with this access from a remote area somebody has the confidence to say yes I can do a course which is maybe at the level of an IIT somebody is offering. I am able to get through that. That builds tremendous, that's a big step. It's a big leap in my opinion. After that growing will happen. It will happen in various ways. We are building mechanisms by which these courses will count as credit in your universities. That is added motivation. A huge added motivation will be if it enables more jobs, access to more jobs. So that I think is the next big step. There are challenges there. We are working on it. We have some industries on board. We are trying to make sure that part of it is covered a little bit. But it will take time. It's not an easy thing. First of all, the certificate that people are having in their hands has a certain reputation with it. So IITs are organizing it. It has a reputation with it. Does it also mean something good from an employment point of view? Are these people, when they go into jobs, are they doing well? All of that has to be established over time. It takes a little bit longer than the two and a half years that we've been in existence. So let's wait for that. Let's wait to do that. And you can see in your own college, the kind of students who are being pulled into doing more rigorous hard work because of this process is slowly increasing. So students who would otherwise be a little bit directionless to not knowing what to do, et cetera, are being pulled into an academic program and they're able to rigorously work very hard. You're able to motivate them. I think those are the big positive steps. And even for faculty, being able to access this material, knowing how a technical area, mostly on the technical side, how do you organize the ideas? How do you present them in a nice way? All of that is interesting. So I think the benefits of this outreach from IIT is so nice in so many different ways. Let's not also narrow it down to just getting a job, just doing something in some sense. So let's think of the big picture and hopefully the long-term effects of this program will be there for everybody to see. And maybe in the next two years, three years even, we'll start seeing some of the initial parts of this. That's the hope. A lot of it rests in your hands. You see us standing here. We can do only a very little bit of it. So we organize the courses. We keep up this network of people. But all of you work so hard with little or no financial incentive. Actually, there's no financial incentive that we give you and all of you believe in this process and that is what is really making this happen. So I think that we do is ever going to bear fruit without the efforts that you are going to put in. So I would like you to be motivated. Continue this effort. Hopefully, you see that students and everybody in the college is benefiting from that. And give us feedback. I think that is what is most important. Keep telling us what we are doing wrong, what we can do better, and we are here to work with you. May enable this to continue. Thanks a lot for coming. No, just let me answer the question which I asked earlier. I think that question is not answered yet. See, actually the courses which are taught here, they are taught with the understanding that these courses will be used by engineering students. What that means is, you know, that it has adequate mathematical support and all that. Whereas when you go to Polytechnic, you have more experimental hands-on kind of activities, less mathematics. So our focus is not really to that level of students. We are still keeping engineering as a focus. Coming to your second question, whether the practicals are required or not. Of course, practicals are always required in engineering, and AICT has been saying, but AICT also has been saying that you should set up the laboratories, not in individual colleges, but maybe in a zone where students should be able to go and conduct the experiment. So if you form a cluster of colleges and say, well, here's the laboratory, anybody can come and conduct the experiment, these courses will give support. You can also use the material from the virtual labs, which is also available free of cost, you know, again, should be available on Swam. There are many experiments which are very nicely done, especially in electrical engineering, computer science and so on. So those experimental, they're not really hands-on in the hardware sense, but they also give you a good feel for the experiment we are doing in that area. So my suggestion would be the Polytechnic students should use virtual lab for your experimentation, and also if possible, in a city, if you can form a cluster of labs, where people can come and work, we can supplement this, you know. So NPTEL will not be able to do it, but if you want to help to set up that, maybe we'll be able to do it. Good afternoon. Myself, Jayesh Dange from Navi Mumbai, Lokmane Tilak College of Engineering. First of all, I appreciate the NPTEL team to execute such a task, where the parameters are very much variable, the quantity, the exam centers and all. Really, it is to be appreciated. As far as the feedback is concerned, what we have done this semester, in order to optimize the students working hours for this NPTEL course, what we have done, we have found the current semester subjects which are there, which they are going to appear for the current semester, and we put a notice as a guideline that these students, AC student, T student, B student, should do preferably this kind of courses. We have not restricted them, we have not said you do this course only, but we have given a guideline in order that their regular semester time and this additional hours of watching the videos, doing the assignments will be compressed and will be optimized. So that kind of exercise we are doing. One question to, sir, one statement was there, not all core courses are available as MOOCs. I don't understand that what it is. And one more thing, these core specific discussions, how student can join that forum, core specific. Please, sir, thank you. Okay, so the first point that I think you asked about was that all core courses are not available. What I meant is that at the moment, we have not managed to put all the core courses of all the engineering disciplines in the MOOC format every semester. We have not yet reached that stage. We are trying to do so, we have not yet reached. It is just a matter of availability of faculty in that, in each semester and the availability of that course. So we are working towards that. Now regarding the discussion, core specific discussion forum, actually every enrolled student has access to that in that respective course page. So there is a discussion forum. Once they log in, they will see one on the top, there will be one tab says forum. You would just go and join the click on that and just get into the forum. There is a place where they can post a question and get an answer. So this core specific discussion forum already exists and every student who is enrolled already has access to it. They may not have noticed it. That's all. They just have to click there and get into it. So I think what we will do is, we just take couple more comments. We will then halt. We will go ahead for a lunch break and most of us will continue to be there so you can ask us questions there also. Hello everybody. I am Radhika from Belgium and we are very new local chapter which enrolled in December 2017. Madam, basically we are an MBA college and when I was going through the courses, I agree with the madam that most of many, 90% of the courses are focused with engineering and technical background and all my management graduates ask me, madam, we are highly interested but please kindly suggest which are the courses suitable for us. I don't deny that we do not have any courses but we want more varieties and range. Example I tell you there is one course called as supply chain analytics. MBA student learns this course as supply chain management but when it comes to analytics, it is more of operations research which is a pure technical course which engineering students learn it. Maybe we as management students are not so well versed. So if we can have one stage level course like supply chain management at level one, then take it to analytics at the level two, it would really benefit the management students and we want more courses in finance domain, human resources and marketing. Thank you. Thank you for the suggestions. Your suggestions were useful. So one thing we request from you is very valuable for us to know what courses your students are seeking because as you all see and we also recognize we come from an engineering background and we are more ready to provide you courses from the engineering background but we do have management streams in some of the IITs and we are fully capable of providing you some of those courses, your students, some of those courses if it is necessary. It is very helpful to us if we have a list like this from your side. Of course, Bharti has noted down several of the suggestions that you had but you can still send us an email with those specific courses that you think are valuable for your students. Then it's easier for us to convey that they also understand that, you know, okay, they may have had some idea in their mind but now they see that from the things they were thinking of, there is something immediately somebody is interested in. Then they will focus more on it. So we will definitely convey this to them and this is a useful input for us. Science colleges are end-digits so they both are offering but we are targeting the other isers to see whether more of the faculty can come in to provide the science-related courses. And the tripleties are in, so we are trying to expand the number of institutes you are working with. Hello, everyone. I am Shatrugna Patil from Islampur. I am a SPSU of Dr. Ashok Goza Technical Institute, Karal. I want to mention here I am not faculty and not from engineering background. I am librarian and I have done my graduation in library and information science and post graduation in library and information science as well as I am qualified NET and CET exam from Maharashtra CET and I would like to thank for thank all the team for giving me opportunity to attend this. Just faculty members who have proven to be the best of SPOCs we have a lot of librarians and they have actually encouraged them to do very well. So nothing, you know, you can totally work on it and be proud of it. I think we will take one more and then with that we will hold for. Good afternoon, everyone. Myself, Azharuddin Mumin. I am SPOC of Maharashtra Academy of Nehvoli Education and Training, Pune. I think I am the only one person here from the Merchant Navy College. So I want to suggest two courses which is required for the Marine Engineering Department. One course is SHIFT stability and one more course is SHIFT construction. And these both the courses are already there provided by the IIT Kharagpur because my background itself I am a naval architecture from the IIT Madras and I have done these two courses and I have given this material to my students to these courses but these two courses is not available as a NOC. So if these two courses are provided so I can suggest my students to do these courses. Till now we have around this is the first session we are conducting as a this NOC. So around 467 students have registered for the courses. So thank you very much for giving the opportunity. Good afternoon, everyone. I am S.P.O.C. Vardhavan College of Engineering, Hyderabad. I want to share my personal experience while last time I written a control engineering examination. Of course. In that course actually in the final examination seven questions are linked questions. If you observe the gate pattern there may be two questions are interlinked. In the final examination seven questions are interlinked that is I think it's not correct way. Because seven questions are linked students are approaching me and they are saying that seven questions means it's difficult to solve. Three questions means it is okay. Seven means it's somewhat difficult and we are adding the mentors in the mentors list we are unable to find the students or selected their mentors. If they are meant in the global issue you are showing right. If the student is selected mentor the mentor name should be visible there. In the global list student globalist you are showing right. If it is I want like okay and one more thing is if the all the students performance is visible then we can motivate if those are not performing well we can motivate. No, no, no. For SPOC the same thing. Thank you. I think maybe I will just respond to one comment and then we will break for lunch. So I think the comment was on that linked question but actually we see that as a positive because that means the student is getting something like step marks because it's a longer problem instead of just saying only for the final step for multiple steps. That is why it's a linked question. So that's the reason we think that's a better way to incorporate it into the examination. There will be more linked questions going forward rather than this. So I think we will hold now. We will go for lunch break. We will all still be available. You are welcome to ask us questions there as well. Thank you so much. Thank you all the participants for attending this workshop on this event. I would like to thanks Professor today. Thanks IIT Madras coordinators for coming here and giving us speech. Last but not the least I would thank our team which is a backbone of this event.