 Hello good morning everybody, all the teachers all around the country who are listening to me. First of all I am thankful to say Gaitunde who has given this opportunity to talk about the course that will be done in December this year. And the idea of this half an hour interaction that I would like to have with you is just to give a little bit of idea about the course. So, this course the title of this course is Solar Photovoltypes Fundamentals, Technologies and Applications and I will tell you a little bit about that in detail. This will run from 12th to 22nd December this year. And this course is jointly sponsored by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, National Information on Education through ICT, National Center for Photovoltype Research and Education. So, as I said I will give you a brief idea about this course itself and why we are doing this course and what is the need of this course. So, the first question is why course on Solar Photovoltypes, Solar Photovoltype courses are not so common in the institutes and university, but there is a strong need of main power in this area as it is failed by the ministry as it is failed by IIT Bombay. And as a result of this we are doing lot of training programs on Solar Photovoltypes and therefore, there will be a need of such course. So, just this you would already be knowing, but for example, limitation of convention energy sources can broadly put into three categories. One is that the source is available in limited quantities for example, coal and petrol and gas. And therefore, there is a need to find alternative sources to fulfill our energy requirement. And this has been the trend all over the world that people are trying to find out alternatives for to replace our convention energy sources from non-convention energy sources and solar energy is of course, one of them. So, the first limitation is the limited availability and we know that coal and other fuels are not going to last forever. Second is environmental pollution. So, we know that the use of fossil fuels like coal and oil and gas results in the emission of greenhouse gases which eventually results in what we know what we know it is now it is a climate change. And therefore, it is important to avoid use of those kind of fossil fuel based sources. And the third important aspect of convention energy sources is energy security. We know that these fuels are not uniformly available all over the world. So, we know oil for example, petrol is not easily not available in our country and we import almost 85 percent of the fuel and which can be which is not which may not provide stability and security in terms of the energy source itself. And we know that without the uses of these fuels we cannot survive long. Therefore, considering the limited availability environmental pollution and energy security all governments all around the world feels that we have to find alternative sources and solar energy is one solution. So, there are huge efforts that are being put worldwide on renewable energy sources to find appropriate solution for our energy requirement. And India is no exception. So, the Indian government is also putting lot of efforts to make this possible. So, for example, one such program of government of India is what is called Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, JNNSM in brief it is called. So, this program was launched in January last year and it has targets it is a very high targets. So, for example, it by the end of the program which is ending in 2022 the government of India is planning to install 20,000 megawatts of solar power. And this solar power will be of course, done in a various phases. For example, phase one is ending in 2013 where we will have 1000 megawatt phase two is ending in 2017 where we will have 4000 megawatts and eventually 20,000 megawatt. So, this is the scheme of the central government, but there are many state governments including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and several other states are having their own policies to promote solar energy in their states. And Gujarat is for example, one of the leading state where the 500 megawatt is shown in slide is little old number, but now they are targeting 700 megawatts of solar power in the state by 2014. So, what you can see here is not only in the world, but in India also there are large activities that is happening to install solar power. And this installation capacities are in huge number. Now, so the government is promoting this technology, but there are several things required to promote a given technology. For example, should there be kind of efforts to have the promotion of the manufacturing of the technology. And we know that solar energy is expensive, so should the government buy the electricity at the higher cost, in the scheme is known as Fedin tariff, should all the state government be also opting for the solar energy. So, there is a renewable energy purchase obligation, so what kind of applications this solar energy technology should be used and what scale it should be used. So, there are lot of efforts that are going under the national solar mission. And one such effort which is highlighted in green here is about training of a manpower. And if you consider the scale of the installation that will happen in the country, the manpower requirement the government estimates is about 100,000 people in very near term. Now, we know that the 100,000 people are not available and therefore, we need to train, but at IIT Bombay our personal calculation shows that it is not only 100,000 people, but we need something like 300,000 people in solar energy. And therefore, training must be done immediately in this particular area, because without that the technology promotion in the country will get hindered. So, as a part of the national solar mission, government of India is also established a center called national center for photovoltaic research and education at IIT Bombay. This center was established in October 2010 and as you can see from this chart the objectives of the center is one of the major objective of the center is to impart education on solar energy solar photovoltaics particularly. But also to conduct research state of the art research and lead Indian PV industry and this research we are doing in silicon solar cells, we are doing research on new materials and devices, PV modules, systems, product design, technology evaluation, power electronics. So, almost everything that touches the solar photovoltaic. So, and there are large number of faculty members involved at IIT Bombay who are doing research on various subjects under solar photovoltaics. And of course, research modeling and simulation is important part. So, as you can see from this the national center for photovoltaic research and education at IIT Bombay is having a strong thirst both on education as well as on research. So, what I am talking to you today is particularly about the education part. So, at in terms of education and training on solar photovoltaic at IIT Bombay we are doing several activities. One activities of course, which is part of our mandate is to run courses for our PhD students, MTECH students, BTECH students, MSC students and in a minor program for undergraduate level. So, we are of we are running a few courses which actually deals with the photovoltaics. We are also preparing the course material for other colleges. For example, many of our courses are being recorded in the form of video and this courses will also be available to you in the form of web. So, not so that you know people or teachers from other engineering college where the resource person will not be available or may not be available can access this courses and actually learn from this courses and use this material for a teaching material for their own students. Not only the course materials, but we are also preparing laboratory kids. So, many times when you when you conduct this kind of training programs or the courses in engineering colleges across the country, you do not get the facility to carry out the experiments and just to take care of that we are also developing laboratory kids which we are going to give it to the various centers where people are the participant can also do the experiment real experiment on solar energy. So, this is under the preparation of the course material we are also doing distance education. As I said the training on the web and satellites based we are also planning with not done it so far, but we may come up with the post graduate diploma for working professionals in solar energy. In terms of the training for the industry, we are conducting short term training programs which may be like 3 days program, 5 day program or 2 days program or targeting on one particular areas. For example, it may be on a basics on solar cells, it may be on grid connected photovoltaic system, it may be on power electronics for solar photovoltaics and things like that. So, a role of this programs are announced in on our website. Let me give the details of the website and many of this videos are already available on the website. So, the website is so, the website is www.ncpre that is national center for research and national center for photovoltaic research and education ncpre.iitb.ac.n. So, once you go to this web page, you will find lot of information about the training programs that is happening about the research that is happening at IIT Bombay and so on. So, these are the various activities that we are doing at IIT Bombay in terms of the training and education of photovoltaics. Now, this particular course which we are planning in December, which is a 12 day course including two holidays. So, it is 10 day course and as I said it will start from 12th of December till 22nd of December and the title of the course is Solar Photovoltaics Fundamentals Technologies and Applications. As you can see from the title, this course will be kind of introductory course on solar photovoltaics which will cover not only the fundamentals basics, but also the technologies and eventually the applications of solar photovoltaics. As you can quickly see here from this, we have divided this course in two parts. So, first part is on PV technologies and fundamentals, which will be about 20 hours of lectures and the part 2 is about application of solar photovoltaics, which will take another 20 hours. Altogether, it will be one full course of 40 hours. In the first part, we will mainly talk about the fundamentals including the semiconductor physics, p-injunction, solar cell design of solar cells, materials for solar cell technology, fabrication of solar cells and modules and effect of temperature and radiations. And these are the very important kind of information that any engineer or any teacher must know about the solar cell. And in the second part, we will more talk about the applications which will include power electronics devices for solar PV applications, grid connected and off grid PV systems, charge controllers, DC to DC converter, inverters, maximum power point tracking, estimation of solar radiation at a given location and the design of the off grid and grid connected system. And we will also touch upon the life cycle costing of the PV systems. So, this will be the overall content and it will be good introductory material covering all aspects of solar photovoltaic technologies. So, this course will be taught by two faculty members, Professor B. G. Fanandis. Professor B. G. Fanandis is a professor at Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. You can have a look at his profile and this is the email ID for his contact. And I will also be Myself Chetan Singh Solanki. So, I am from Department of Energy Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. And you can look at my profile at this particular website. So, the V2 will be covering the various aspect of the course that I have just shown you. The book for reference for this course will be this Solar Photovoltaic Fundamentals Technology and Applications published by Printize Hall of India in 2009. Second edition is coming in, will come in about couple of weeks time 2011. So, this book will be given to all the participant as a reference book. Other than this book, you will also use some other material which materials which is not part of this book. This book as well as some other material will be used as a reference material for this course and this book will be given to all participants. To conduct this course, what we will be going to do which is for example, we will include lectures, tutorials and experiments. So, lectures will be done as being done for this particular course which you are attending right now. So, we will have we will try to give the lecture designs in advance to all the participants. For example, what will be the content of a particular lecture, what you are going to learn from particular lecture, what are the problems that may you know be part of a given lecture. So, that will be given to the participants in advance. We will also design tutorials and give it to the local coordinators. So, there will be a design problems and the tutorials that will be organized locally. But most importantly as I told earlier that many times when you offer this courses the experiments part are missing. In this particular case what we are doing right now is designing a laboratory which will have about 8 to 10 experiments on solar photovoltaics. We will kind of prefabricate this laboratories at IIT Bombay and then we distribute this laboratories to the various remote centers. And therefore, the participants of this course on solar photovoltaics will actually get the opportunities to have the first hand opportunities to conduct experiments on solar photovoltaics. And I hope this will be interesting part of this course. So, as I said there will be 8 to 10 experiment that you will be able to do on this on this laboratory. So, it will the laboratory will actually consist of hardware like solar photovoltaic modules, solar cells where you can do the characterization of cells and modules. It will also have the kind of quantum efficiency characterization, maximum power point finding. But there will be also few experiments on the simulation. So, you can one can characterize or simulate a solar cell one can simulate a module and one experiment on the system analysis as such. So, let us see how it goes, but we feel that it will be interesting part of it. So, the registration for this course starts from 15th July that is the next month. And you can for the registration you can visit this website which you already done for this particular course Eklavya. So, http slash eklavya.it.itb.ac.n the list of remote centers are listed here. I can actually give this presentation send around to the existing participant. So, that you can actually have a look at it. So, there are various remote centers that will conduct this training program, teachers training program on solar photovoltaics and these are the list of remote centers. So, several NITs are there and it actually covers the whole country. So, you can see almost all states are represented here. Sandhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Gujarat. So, almost all the states are part of it. So, you can actually go and make the registration from 15 July onwards. So, thank you for your attention and the basic information on this course. And if there are any questions you have, so I am willing to answer those questions. So, some information is already available on that webpage eklavya.it.itb.ac.in. So, once you go there you will find this information about the PV course. So, if there is any questions right now please ask. College of Engineering Pune, do you have any question for Professor Solanki over to you? So, basically it is difficult to fix the criteria for eligibility, but normally faculty members from electrical engineering, physics department, electronics engineering, many times people from mechanical engineering also do the research on solar area. So, as such there is no fixed kind of criteria depending on the college and sometime the solar energy research or people work in the various department including as I said physics, mechanical, electrical, electronics, sometime chemical also. So, it is open to teachers from many branches. Hello sir, can research assistants, P.G. students, teaching assistants can register for this course? So, I guess no right now, but we will discuss internally and we will announce it on our web page, but this is mainly targeted for the teachers, but what I know that if there are enough infrastructure and if there is enough capacity at a given remote center that it does not affect for example, setting of a teacher, then I guess it may be okay for the research scholars and PhD students to attend this. So, it may depend on the kind of resources and the facilities that a remote center is having, but we must give priority to the teachers particularly. Thank you sir, over and out. K.K. Wagnashik, Professor Solanki is here. Do you have any questions to him? Over to you. Hello sir, this is Satish Suryanshi from K.K. Wagnashik. Sir, in your remote center there is no place like Nashik. Will it be available in Nashik also? So, earlier we had a workshop of the people, coordinators from remote center, but if there is an infrastructure available and if there is an interest among people around and because you are already acting as a coordinator for this course, so I guess if either if you are willing and there are people, you may be approaching us and we may allow Nashik also to be one of the remote center. Hello. So, my colleague Professor B.G. Fernandes who will be teaching you the part of the solar photovoltaic course is here with me. He would like to just say hello to you and maybe share some thoughts. Hello, good afternoon. Fernandes from the department of electrical engineering. I will be covering the aspects of power electronics, the balance of systems for electronic interfaces that are required to process a solar power either to use directly or to connected to the grid.