 we are we from LTTS in putting Dr. Bondar on the line already we are joined Dr. Bondar good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. So you guys have two different places at the same place that you should have masked. We are in different places Dr. Bondar. So these are the students we have in the studio here. They are supported by the class of 1982 and LNT technology services and two of them are classroom studios capable of hosting hundreds of students and one is a virtual studio where faculty can do something with special effects behind it. Enigmatically they have been named Phi E and Phi so keeping with our traditions in the campus. Phi E and Phi. So good evening everyone from LNT technology services we now request we request Dr. Kesheb Bondar CEO and MD of LNT technology services to please declare the classroom studio supported by LNT and technology services. Can you hear us? Yes we can hear you. Yes Prabhakar yeah I'm sorry I didn't get it what I'm supposed to do. Yeah can you please declare the studio supported by LNT and technology services as open. Yeah I declared the studio open. Thank you. Thank you. The next best thing we can have that you're all watching from wherever you are. So thank you very much for your support sir. We are going to first walk into your studio and you can see visuals from your studio. We're now entering the studio supported by LNT technology services. So this is a studio which can seat 100 people and we have a lot of audio visual support plus a green screen there. So when faculty make any presentations if they have slides those can be flashed behind them in the video. Plus a studio. Yes they can directly record. They can schedule the class here. The students get to see the displays which are up front. Yes we can just fill it up slot wise and the faculty gets to see the display back here so that they can get an idea of what they are seeing what they are presenting and how it is being presented. And the control room staff can view the classroom from behind. Is the air conditioning silent? Yes it's a little bit out but they said it is scheduled for it. It's got all the professional lighting which can be moved around as necessary based on manually. They don't need to keep moving it. Yeah they don't have to be moved around. We had the option of a drop down screen versus this but this was the largest we could fit in here at the moment. So we have done this for the moment. We'll run it by a few classes and just open. So we're now going to look at the control room of one of the studios. So this is the control room facility and so the audio visual staff can sit here and monitor the recording that's going on and make any changes. No there are more than one camera so they can do that. Yes they can go here. They can see multiple things and mix the video. Sir I now request you to inaugurate the virtual studio which is also a green matte studio. Next we'll have them. Yeah Mahesh. Professor Mahesh is our dean, alumni and corporate relations and this studio is the virtual studio or green matte studio. It has a special background so people can be surrounded by whatever. You can have ocean or graphies, whatever you want. The universe can be behind you and you can take a class. Please go ahead. So the intention of the studios with the full green background you can surround yourself with any audio visual basically. Yeah you can stand and if you remove this table basically you can surround yourself with anything. I mean any scenery from anywhere. Yeah and underwater scene or space scene. Yes that can be a complete yeah. Yeah you can have a video playing which is basically a background. So this is designed for that so there's no student seating here. This is almost movie quality. Yes this is movie quality production kind of thing. Yes. Yeah we can take a quick look. So this is the other controller. Identical but it's like. So these are representatives of the class of 1982. Mr. Venkat Raman, Subramaniam. Kankar. So we are now inaugurating the second classroom studio identical to the one which we just saw. The same 100 seater kind of studio. I request representatives of the class of 1982 who have supported this classroom to please do the honors of cutting the ribbon. So we now invite you all to the classroom. Please come. So this is identical to the other classroom. Same kind of seating. Same kind of facility. Sir I request you to join us on the cushion sheet. The official purpose of the cushion sheet is to absorb sound. That's the official purpose. Good evening to everyone. Good evening to everyone here and whoever is watching the live streaming of this event too. So we'll start off with the welcome address. It'll be given by professor Andrew Tangraj a brief profile about him. He is a professor in the department of electrical engineering IT Madras. He's a coordinator of NPTEL since October 2011. And he's been instrumental in initiating the NPTEL certification by offering courses online. He's a national MOOCs coordinator for NPTEL in the SWIME project. Alumnus of IT Madras BTEC 1998 batch, a PhD from Georgia Tech University. He joined as a faculty in ITM in 2004. He's one of the initiators of ITM's BSEEN programming and data science program. The latest initiative from us and is a coordinate of the program as well. So I invite him to extend the welcome address to everyone present here and those who have joined us on our live streaming. Thank you. Thanks for the introduction. Thanks to everyone who's here physically and thanks to everyone who's joined virtually as well. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Subhaskar Ramurthy, director of IT Madras is also the chairman of NPTEL's program implementation committee. And he's been really giving us good direction on what we should be doing and helping us out supporting us through tough times and congratulating us when we do good things. So he's been a pillar of support for us. Thank you, sir. I also have great pleasure in welcoming two of the sponsors of these studios. There are two studios that we have here. One studio sponsored by a class of 1982 to represent that class. We have Mr. Venkatraman Subramaniam who's here with us physically today. Welcome, sir. And we also have the other studio which is sponsored by LNT Technology Services. Dr. Keshav Panda, CEO and MD of LNT Technology Services. He's here with us virtually joining us on VC. You can see him on the screen right there. Thank you very much. Welcome, sir. Also joining us on stage is Professor Mahesh Panchagnola. He's Dean for Alumni and Corporate Relations at IT Madras. He's the man who's been quietly doing work behind the screens, behind the scenes and getting us all the funding that we need for building this fantastic infrastructure. Thank you very much for your support. And I would also like to welcome everyone who's present here. We have Chairman of our Continuing Education Center, Prof. Devanjya Jalihal, who's here in person. I would also like to welcome members of the engineering unit. Quite a few of them are here and without their support, this place wouldn't have been built up. I would like to welcome the coordinators of NPTEL. There are four coordinators today. You can see the sense of how much it has grown. There are four coordinators. There's Prof. Pratap, there's me, and then Prof. Vignesh, who's here. Vignesh Muthuvijayan of Biotech Department at IT Madras and Prof. Nikit Kaisare also here. And I would also like to welcome among the people who are watching this remotely, all the faculty who are involved in creating content for NPTEL. NPTEL started, as you know, all the way back in year 2000 or so as a very small project. Slowly, we started creating content in about 20 years now. More than 2,000 courses have been created. And particularly the last seven years have been very fruitful. We've offered online courses with certification every semester today. We offer more than 500 courses and 20 lakh students across the country do these courses. And more than 2.5 lakh students every semester write exams and earn certificates from my IT and further their careers, et cetera. So it's been a tremendous curling up that we've been able to do. And this wouldn't have happened without the support of the institute, support of sponsors and support of everybody involved. As some of you may recall, a few years back, April 12, 2017, to be precise, our older studios burnt down in a fire in spite of all the safety precautions that we take. There was a fire and burnt down. And this new studio has sort of taken the place of that. And in spite of fires and so many other setbacks, NPTEL has always grown in strength and numbers. And some of the important people behind that is the dedicated staff that we have under the leadership of Bharti. I would like to welcome all the staff of NPTEL who are here amidst us. Once again, I would like to welcome all the audience members who are watching this on the live streaming NPTEL team in other offices of NPTEL. NPTEL is an inter-IIT project, as many of you know. We have seven different older IITs and IASC where there are offices. And I would like to welcome them who are here. Definitely the faculty who teach courses on NPTEL. I think I have to mention them especially because all this is for them. They have to come here teach and benefit from this and help out everyone who's interested in learning. Last but not the least, I would like to welcome learners of NPTEL, members of the local chapter colleges who are maybe watching this program. Welcome to each and every one of you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Andrew. Next I would like to call upon Prof. Mahesh. Prof. Mahesh Panchagnulla, he is a professor in the Department of Applied Mechanics. He's the Dean of Alumni and Corporate Relations at IIT Madras. He's also a BTEC from IIT Madras batch of 1992, obtained his PhD from Purdue University. He's a faculty associate of IIT Madras Incubation Cell and National Center for Combustion R&D. Good afternoon and welcome to this evening's function. It's remarkable to see IIT Madras go through this evolution from being a very prestigious place to study when I graduated in 1992 to this really swanky world-class teaching facility, which has now been materialized thanks to the support of a lot of well-wishers. Teaching is good teaching. And centered teaching is part of the very DNA of IIT Madras. Thousands of alumni that I talked to vouch for it, that their lives have been impacted for the better. Thanks to professors here who went out of the way to make their stay at IIT Madras, their learning process at IIT Madras a little more fruitful and comfortable for them. Facilities such as this take that DNA to the world outside. We are now through programs like NPTEL, through programs like the BSc online BSc in Programming and Data Science, able to take that culture to the country at large and possibly the world. Facilities such as this are essential to make that transition in a seamless and in a scaled fashion. I particularly want to thank the support of the class of 1982 who have helped us create the studio that we are in right now. I also want to acknowledge the efforts of Vice President in our office of institutional advancement, Sujatha, who has diligently worked with the class to help them create this facility. I also want to thank Dr. Keshav Panda, Dr. Ms. Kain Prabhakaran, Anuradha Basu from LNTTS for supporting this initiative. This is going to be a game changer for students and learners in the country at large. And I also want to acknowledge the efforts of Priya Sundaram, a Senior Vice President in our office of institutional advancement who has been very diligently working with LTTS against nearly impossible deadlines to make this facility happen for us. Thank you, sirs. Thank you for all your efforts and thinking of us to make this happen. Lastly, while we are all in the studio that's going to create a world, create a learning world for the students out there and a teaching world for the professors here, the scale up process going forward cannot happen without well-wishers like LTTTS and the class of 1982. Please do not stop with just being financial supporters of these, of the creation of these facilities. Please embrace the students that are going to come through the program, mentor them, help them be more successful citizens and individuals and positive contributors to the society. There are many ways by which you can become partners in this whole learning process for the students in this program, in these programs both in NPTEL as well as the BSc program. We welcome you to explore those opportunities as well. Thank you again and we look forward to a long and fruitful partnership with both the contributors. Thank you. Thank you, Professor Mahesh. Mr. Venkat Rahman Supramanian is here with us representing the class of 1982 of IIT Madras which has been generous enough to contribute to the building of these studios. Mr. Venkat is currently the VP of engineering Hitachi Vantara. He has been with Oracle for about 13 years and in various senior leadership positions in companies like SpiceSource, DataGuys, WaterlineData and the USA in the last couple of years. We invite him now to say a few words. Thank you for saying just a few words and I will keep it to a few words. First of all, I'm honored to represent the class of 1982 and I just start with a small story here. I've been thinking about, you know, what we are doing here and it kind of takes me back for almost 44 years and some of my cohorts here are in the audience and when we walked into the campus we actually had really no notion of what life is going to be like over the next five years we got about the best education possible and that's no amount of money can buy. And truth be told we also didn't pay very much thinking about the semester fees and the room rent and also the hostel mess fees and so on and so forth. At that point I don't think any of my classmates even gave any kind of thought to how this was possible, right? How this education was being provided to us. But when we went into the real world we realized that education is really a big business and especially quality education can cost a lot. That's when it hit us that somehow somebody made it possible. That's actually all the faceless people of India. So that's when you kind of realize that for all that they have done to you you need to do something in return, right? So which is kind of, you know, what brings us here to this place as well. So the challenge when you have such a sentiment is to actually find a channel that is trustworthy and is also doing a service that's kind of apt for what you have in mind. And I have to say that IIT Madras actually kind of meets all of those requirements, 100%, right? And there are so many options. And so a couple of years ago for the 35th year of anniversary for the graduation on campus some of us got together and we were talking about again giving back and we were not quite satisfied with what we had done after the 25th. So that's how this whole exercise started. So we started looking at, you know, what is it that we can contribute towards. So the one thing we kind of settled on is a water center that was, I think, coming up at the public campus. And as you all know, between climate and environment, you know, those are uppermost in everybody's mind, but water is a big thing. You know, it's quite possible that there could even be like a World War III, right, just on water. So until that moment we thought that's what we would actually be funding. And we are known about NPTEL. It's not like we didn't. But then we just heard that there was a fire that gutted the entire studio. And then it's almost like, you know, just flipping a switch. We said, that's the one we should really focus on. And why is that? That NPTEL, and Mahesh was talking about this and Professor Thangaraj was actually talking about this as well, is that the education that we all get here, it was just a select few, it's now being made available to the entire country. Anybody outside can get this. So that kind of brings this one full cycle, you know, circle for me. So that best education that no amount of money can, you know, can buy is not available to anybody who actually has the inclination to reach out and learn. So that's what NPTEL does. And also I think if I'm not mistaken, Pratap, I think between 30 and 40,000 faculty around the country also take courses in this. That means they're also upping, you know, their own skills. So we all hear about how some of the colleges produce students who are really not fit for employment and maybe using somewhat of an extreme terms. But it's somewhat true. But I think this kind of availability of courses to those students can only up the, you know, the levels at which they're going to graduate. So what NPTEL has actually done is really raised the level of technical education in India. So what started, I guess, as a vision for Professor Anand is now I think Professor Bhaskar Ramati's mission to actually raise it multiple levels. So that's what we're seeing now. So it is definitely an honor for us. And then actually I would like to thank the Institute for giving us this opportunity. So thank you all. Dr. Kesha Pandah is the CEO and managing director of LNT Technology Services. His bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering is from Anna Investi Chennai Postgraduate Degree in Aerospace Engineering from ISC Bangalore and PhD from the IIT Bombay in Aeroservo Elasticity. Dr. Pandah has over 31 years of experience and research, conceptualizing, creating, operationalizing and turning around complex technology and engineering businesses. Dr. Pandah was recognized as CEO of the year for 2019 by News Channel CNBC Awas in recognition of his contributions to the engineering and technology sectors over the last three decades. LNT is also another big donor, as we've heard previously, for the construction of our studios. Over to Dr. Pandah. Good evening, Professor Ramuti and all the professors. Before I say anything, I want to first compliment you all, all the professors in IIT and outside. What a great job you do. Nissan building requires the education, good education. I think this is something you are doing a commendable job. I'm here in New Jersey today and you know, I was about to become a professor, but life has taken a different direction. The audio is not yet, we're having some issues with audio. We request you to just wait for a moment. Sorry, is it, am I audible or no? The problems are there and Dr. Pandah, they are fixing it. Oh, there and okay. Because I can hear you. I think it's there and there. Are you audible now? Can you hear us in the studio? Yeah, can you? Am I audible? Oh, I'm sorry. Am I audible? Sir, I'm sorry, just please hold for a moment. Sure, sure, sure. Testing has been done, nothing has been done. I don't understand. Can you hear us, sir? Yes, I can hear you okay. All right, sir, just a moment, sir. Am I audible? Yeah, I will be your audible, sir. Wonderful. Excellent. So I start now. Priyanka, whether Dr. Pandah can start now, is he audible now? Yes, I can hear you okay. Priyanka, whether Dr. Pandah can start now, is he audible now? He's audible, sir. He's audible. I'm just changing it to another amplifier. Sorry. Please get started. Okay, okay. Professor Ramuti, good evening all of you. Professor Ramuti director, IIT Madras, and all the professors. Before I say anything, I want to first salute you, all the professors in IIT and outside. You have a big role in national building. You guys are doing a wonderful job, and whatever we are today, nation is today all because of your contribution. Last year, Tupura is a company. We have been involved last 80 plus years in national building. I always joke when I go to any customer around the world. I've been here last 22 years now, and you can't go to India without touching LNT. The airport you land built by LNT, the road you drive built by us, the power supply to the hotel you stay is by last year, Tupura, and earlier days, you know, the circuit breaker or the meters used in hotel built by LNT, and the car you drive, the refinery built by LNT, the petrol pump, and you go to gas station, you go to by last year, Tupura. This company, LNT Technology Services, we built around 2009, and I used to be a scientist and a show insider to satellite. I used to be a program after my education and very closely associated with Indian sub science. We do a lot of work in IAC, as well as IIT Madras as well, engineering work, technology work. I always believed next 100 years is for India. Now, the average of India is 28 years, 29 years compared to the western world 39 to 40 years, and China is also of the same range. The two areas we need to focus is a country, one is education and second one is the healthcare. Education and healthcare is so important for Indian system now. There are a lot of people, we see the stock market, we see people in Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore, there are a lot of people below poverty still. So it is important that if you want life you touch, educating them in a village and we change transform completely India as a whole. I see India 30 years ago, 30 years ago, every time go and come back and look at it. And same thing true in America as well. You will see New York and SFO, San Francisco we always talk about how US is the biggest country, richest country in the world. I have gone to the remote area in America they are no different from what is in India. So I think as a human being forget about whatever role we play we have a responsibility and nothing can replace that. I remember my father used to say I come from a village and I was in Chennai I have seen 40 Tamil movies I can speak Tamil as well have been there in Chennai for a long time but let me tell you my father used to say education is number one nobody can take what you learn. So I think that brought us to all the children in all my siblings everybody did very very well and I am very passionate about education today. Every time I talk to engineers do you know engineering do you know engineering? Today unfortunately more than teaching students I believe NPTEL can help the faculty in different engineering colleges lot of faculty I think they need education more than students need hundreds of engineering colleges around India today and those faculty if you don't have quality education I don't think future looks so good so my request to I think this is an excellent initiative I got a call from Prabhakaran and said I have been very closely associated with Indians of science for quite some time now and Prabhakaran called me and said IT Madras there is something like this opportunity we have do you want to do that I said please go ahead education and healthcare any opportunity comes we have lot of ambulances we have donated we do a lot of work for one thing but engineering technology using for the benefit of people betterment of people I think we all have a responsibility we are very fortunate to be what we are today but I think all of us in this and especially the professors in IIT and you guys are doing I have seen a lot of professors with professors in IIT, IAC at Gonda IIT Kanpur very recently we do some work with them as well and I think it is an amazing job I think the future of India more than anything anybody else depends on you and you are doing amazing job selflessly very passionately what you do keep it up and industry collaboration I think much more has to be done you need to be much more and today I see IAC director is much more involved we had a committee earlier Randurai was there director IAC was also there so lot more we can do money is not a problem today I don't think money is a problem companies are doing well and willing to support but we support in the right place and not support give the money to people but create something where the future looks good so it is great honor to be here on behalf of my 17,000 employees in 30 countries around the world it is a great honor and thank you very much for this opportunity and we look forward to associating ourselves with you on time not just this initiative but much more exciting work engineering technology we can do together which will take us to the next level and India will continue to sign thank you thank you for sharing your thoughts on this next we invite Professor Bhaskar Ramurthy director of IIT Madras who is also the chairman of NPTEL project he started writing a profile for him then we said he needs no introduction so we are not going to introduce him today so he can come and share am I audible Dr. Panda yes I can hear you well okay and all the others maybe there are other people from class of 1982 also watching so on behalf of the institute and all my colleagues and all students known and unknown of NPTEL I want to first straight away thank LNT technology services and the class of 1982 for their generous contribution to make this classroom NPTEL possible see we have always had studios in fact we had one classroom like this I think before the thing got burned down which was not built for this it was built as a normal classroom but got converted to NPTEL studio and we now need to actually create the facility where more teachers can offer an NPTEL course even while they teach their regular class here otherwise you have to do it separately you know you have to these two rooms actually enable that and you know we can run 4, 5, 6 courses a day so you can this enable straight away something like 12, 15 courses a year semester to be taught simultaneously to the class at IIT and to students at large we will create more such facilities as we need them so that is really the crux of this facility just to teach online you don't need such a big classroom small studios enough and as people have pointed out I think the NPTEL program which is jointly run by the IITs, ISC and a few other institutions I have chipped in also is a very, very major program you know many things in India when we do things at scale we don't talk about it too much others don't realize it okay people talk about a lot I mean this is true of everything whether it's Kumbh Mela or whether it is NPTEL right or even UPI so this is really happening at scale and different students are and colleges are benefiting from it to the level they need and I think that's where it's all sort of offered like an ala cart and people take what they want we have partnerships with almost 2,000 institutions we call them local chapters we therefore have feedback loops we understand what they get what they don't get it's not that we just broadcast it and forget about it it's not like that 4,000 so I'm not kept track we have not had a review meetings recently so I think the point is we are therefore actually the IIT system therefore is connected very closely to the engineering education science education system in the country there are only 30,000 colleges in the country we already have 4,000 who are partners so you can see the level of connect okay and now we have launched this online BSE program so that's really the learnings from all of this you know figuring out how to do this right we are now reaching out to students across the country and maybe across the world ultimately to offer them a really high quality degree program in something that will also be a knowledge and skill set which will also make them highly employable and it's a few days I don't want to talk too much about it but it looks very good looks like we are on the right track and I'm very happy that LNT Technology Services has also contributed significant amount for scholarships to students in that program because you know that program is not subsidized by the government and in a way I'm happy it's not I think it will find we are finding already that I think we'll probably raise more money from philanthropy for supporting those who need than the government ever spent without you know in an untargeted fashion over the whole population so this is actually working out very well it's very exciting I think I'm looking forward really to the very carefully curated online programs not across the board in everything under the sun but very carefully curated programs where employment potential is high where interest among the students is high and where we can therefore reach out and provide to people all over the country and anywhere actually very high quality education we are also learning how to do it combination of face to face meetings as well as online lectures it's not ideologically bound that it has to be only online or only this only that we are we'll use whatever works but I think we'll get the thing right to LNT Technology Services supporting both this classroom as well as that scholarships for the needy students in that program class of 1982 what can I say they're all you know just two years behind me I am the class of 1980 I know many of them personally I hosted a few of them and I was a student in the US when they landed up there I this class is close to me so I'm very glad they took this opportunity to be part of this to actually sponsor one of these NPTEL classrooms and very grateful to them I hope to look forward to their engagement in any way you know funding is one part of it but actually in different ways to engage with us engage with the students of the upcoming generation you know this is the next 20 years I think Dr. Pandar talked about 100 100 is too long next 20 years are going to transform the face of this country and it's very difficult I mean I just really look back last 20 years and see how little of what has happened I foresaw I just extrapolated what was 1990 like and thought little bit faster little bit better never understood what was going on and therefore never really planned my own outlook what was going to happen we should make that mistake twice I think we should understand what is going to happen in this country in the next 20 years and make our own outlook and our own focus of activities such that it aligns maximally with that so that we can do for the country before we go so in that sense I would say all of us are at a very exciting point in time people younger than us are even more at the right point in time in this country and therefore I thank the class of 1982 also for this wonderful gesture we are actually going to there's a huge ambiance improvement program of the institute now as part of the institute of eminence in fact all the old all the buildings built in the 60s the big buildings are all going to be air conditioned centrally classrooms are going to be air conditioned also so most of the classrooms in which class of 1982 and class of 1992 and class of 1980 all of us I really I'm relieved that I'm not having to teach in these classes these are frightening I like the old class where with the chalk piece in hand and blackboard I can walk about and teach but not used to this but it's going to change I think now faculty will want to teach face to face but also want to record everything and put it up on the website students want to be able to revisit when they don't understand in class or they slept off in class as all of us did it's not going to be the same after this pandemic when they come back everybody will expect all the class recordings to be available everybody will expect they'll expect all the pluses that they got from the online education without the negative that there's no face to face they're going to expect both so we have to enable may not be broadcast quality because you don't have to record it for broadcasting but all the classrooms across the institute will have a huge step up so will the buildings the buildings are nice buildings there's no doubt about them they're all lovely buildings structurally they're very good but we need to really we are basically upping the level of finish level of facilities and so on they're also finally making them monkey free so no monkeys in classrooms anymore coming too much to allow what's used to have Allah have been given students now the faculty are complaining the students are complaining so they're all going to become monkeys are going to be on not in the class so thank you again to we are a very close partner of LNT in many programs in the civil engineering department and we run programs with them a lot of joint work with them on lean manufacturing lean construction and other things so um the LNT group is a very close partner in any case they're very pleased that they have significantly in this program also also the class of 1982 thank all of you for coming this is the first face-to-face program I am participating in after the lockdown started last year thank you sir coming down to the last part where we would like to thank the multitudes of people who helped make these studios happen I'd like to call upon professor Pratap Haridas he's a professor in the department of metallurgical and materials engineering in IIT Madras he did his metallurgical engineering from IIT Madras batch of 1992 he got his PhD from University of Wisconsin Madison USA he's a coordinator of NPTEL and the IIT MBSC program he's been a key factor in the studios which we see here today right from the design stage working with the architects finalizing every component of furniture and equipment that you see here ensuring that the work is completed on time by helping coordinate between the various vendors and stakeholders involved he has been literally on the side the last I think one week or 10 days from when we finalized this date and he's been driving everybody saying that we have to complete we have to complete I mean we had to mention this because he has been one driving force for getting these studios up and running and be ready for the inaugurations today so Pratap for the move we have thanked you you can thank the others so once again good evening everyone I apologize for the audio problems we had a little while earlier while trying to connect up to the CEO of LNT technology services it's my pleasure to you know propose vote of thanks I'm doing this on behalf of the NPTEL community the NPTEL office and staff here at IIT Madras as well as all the NPTEL offices across the country we have several of them and the NPTEL student community the local chapter community all of whom have a stake in this activity so I would like to begin first of all by thanking our supporters the LNT technology services and the class of 1982 today there are a lot of you know various causes that are worthy of support truly worthy of support and so we are particularly you know happy that you have chosen to support us in a journey that we have been along for a while and we and there's a lot of you know distance to go so we really thanks to you for taking the time and effort to look through what we are doing and deciding that this is something that is worthy of support at the institute we have had a lot of support Professor Bhaskar Ramurthy as Andrew mentioned he's the chairman of our program implementation committee he encourages us gives us lots of new ideas I mean naturally being a director it's a very tight schedule but still he's the person where you know you can meet him in an elevator and he'll quickly give you an idea that is worth looking at at a moment's notice and you're always taken by surprise by that I would like to thank Dean academic courses Professor Jagdish Kumar because when we when this studio was being thought of thought about he quite readily gave us these three classrooms we have we are kind of running full capacity in all our classrooms and these classrooms had to be kind of you know stopped from regular activities so that we could actually do some work on Dean planning Professor Liji Philip who has been supporting the entire construction activity there's a lot of construction on campus and so to support every new activity takes a lot of effort we thank her for that Dean alumni and corporate relations Professor Mahesh Panchak Nalla he's been actually guiding us that we have not really you know publicized our work enough and he always says that you know you should really showcase your work more there are a lot of people really keenly interested in providing support and we need to do more to you know reach out to them he and his team have worked quite hard to help us you know present our activities outside I would like to thank the engineer engineering unit chairman Professor Robinson he's personally come here several times including you know a sat in the furniture given his comments telling us that this is not you know enough length and all that so that level of detail he's participated in in this process I thank him for that from the engineering unit Mr. Manika Vasagam Mr. Ajay and Mr. Ravi Chandran I have endlessly called them on phone many times and regardless of the time of the day they have been happy to reach out to me and tell me what can be done what cannot be done and how it can be done and so I'm really thankful to all three of them for that continuous support. Our contactors a lot of contactors work here I briefly wanted to mention it three constructions who did the civil works here in space which did the furniture work here visual technologies which did all the audio visual equipment installation the carpeting from matrix electrical work actually we had a lot of electrical work through the last few days Mr. Shekhar and Mr. Narayana Swami Purushottam who did a lot of work for us the signage all the signage that you see here from new design display and the overall person who kept track of all of this this Kale Selvi from Mac Architects she's putting a lot of effort the entire studio look the feel the layout of the furniture the selection every stage she's been involved with us and she's given a lot of input so everything you see here from the first drawing that was seen to actually delivering it at this level we thank her for all those efforts to her and her team finally I would like to thank Mr. Kanan Krishnamurti and Mr. Sagar Ratnakar he's the last several days he's been here in fact last night he was here till I think four in the morning to just finish up all the final activities here and incidentally I think it's today's his birthday so he's somewhere here so we wish him a very happy birthday on this occasion and for being with us at midnight on his birthday until 4 a.m. on his birthday so thank you very much and I would like to close of course by thanking Ministry of Education and which was previously MHRD they have been supportive of this program now almost approaching 20 years consistently supporting us consistently giving us more to do challenging us and you know going along this journey with us so I thank you once again all of you for joining us this evening on this present occasion and I thank you for all the support thank you very much Dr. Panda I just wanted to thank you again for attending this event and I wanted to also see if Mr. Prabhakaran is also online along with Anirudh Basu hello sir thank you for working against near impossible deadlines thank you very much for making this happen I was going to suggest that one of these days you should come have your own leadership meeting in the LNTTS studio we can beam you to the world from here and we have the best facilities please come use this facility as your you know our campus is a resort in itself so please come stay on our campus and have leadership team meeting with this as your facility we welcome you and we look forward to having you on campus thank you sir look forward to thank you I wanted to thank Mr. Prabhakaran thank you again very much thank you thank you everyone we conclude this program thank you have a good evening thank you thank you everybody bye thank you