 In the remaining half an hour, I would like to share with you two new things that are happening here. Both of them are actually not new. Both of them were part of the approved project proposal at the beginning. We had hinted at this at various times but we had not implemented it because we wanted to stabilize the gamut of conduct of the workshop. Now the workshops are being conducted in a stabilized fashion. This problem that I have just mentioned, we will have to jointly solve them in some way or the other. But let me now mention the two things. There is an additional financial support that I had bargained with the government right at the beginning for two projects. One is the AKAS project where we went to our remote centers only to set up the AKAS centers, which many of you have done. And I do not know whether you are aware or not but the AKAS project has agreed to fund about a lakh of rupees to the AKAS project centers to purchase a low-end server and some Wi-Fi points. The idea there was that if the AKAS tablets were to be used by students in their hostels or in their labs and since Wi-Fi is a requirement, then wherever Wi-Fi points were made available and wherever a server was made available for the content and applications to be loaded, so we said we could do that. There are many remote centers which have come back to us saying that they already have a server and Wi-Fi points, so can they buy something else instead with this one? Now unfortunately something else cannot be bought. So you can buy an additional server, you can buy additional Wi-Fi points. There are questions saying do we need to buy a server only of this specified capacity? We said no. You can buy a larger server, you can buy a smaller server, you can buy an additional server, you can buy additional Wi-Fi points. So under the AKAS tablet project the kind of equipment that you need to buy is fixed. You can buy a different variation of that if you so wish. For example somebody says I have a server but I need to buy 30 Wi-Fi access points in my hostels, that is perfectly acceptable. All that you need to say your AKAS coordinator needs to say is that look we have this equipment but we are augmenting it by buying either this server or these many points etc. Because that is the specific kind of equipment for which the funds have been signed. Of course if your institution spends more than 1 lakh rupees then you just send us that certificate of having spent more than 1 lakh rupees we will adjust 1 lakh rupees that we have given to you. If you spend less than that money then you will have to refund the remaining. That is as far as the AKAS project is concerned. I had actually viewed the AKAS project and the T10 KT project in some kind of a coordinated thing because many of our institutions are, which of your institutions are participating in the AKAS also? Wrong question. Which of you are not participating in AKAS? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 2 there, about 10. Is Shaukat here? We know. Do you have about let's say 120 tablets per college, so about 1200 tablets to spare? You can. So those 10 remote centers which are not currently AKAS centers, if they wish to participate even at this end because the project was supposed to have closed on 30th September, fortunately the project has been extended up to 31st March by the Standing Committee. So I still have the authority to enroll these and then we could actually send the additional 1 lakh rupee financial assistance to these colleges also provided of course they agree to abide by the expectations of that AKAS project. The expectation was very simple. These tablets should be used in all T10 KT workshops for conducting quizzes, online quizzes. These tablets should be used in a classroom typically during the regular semester. And these tablets should be used by your final year students for doing any android based or Linux based software development or content development for education. So you, those remote center coordinators who are not participating, I mean whose centers are not participating in AKAS coordinators, this is an offer. You have to take a decision on this spot. Please feel free to talk to your head of the institution. But after lunch, during that tea break, my friend Vinu will be sitting here with the list. And if you want to sign up, you just have to sign and give your contact address. I will temporarily appoint you as AKAS coordinators in those new colleges and we'll go ahead with that. Is that okay? Fine. So that is about the financial assistance for AKAS project. Why I mentioned this is that while AKAS is an independent project, I would expect RC coordinators also to remain in touch with the AKAS coordinators and find out what are the activities that are going. This internal coordination should happen from within. What we have found is that many times we have to collect the workshop coordinator and the remote center coordinator in that college through IIT Bombay or IIT Kharagpur, that should not happen. Now I come to the T10KT. In T10KT, I have made a provision for a funding support for setting up an additional infrastructure in a classroom which is required for conducting this workshop. Please remember that all remote centers were identified as remote centers because they committed to provide the facility and they committed to provide everything including bandwidth and so on. But what we felt is that such a facility in the long run can be replicated particularly because more and more technology-based education, more and more online education, more and more online interaction will become the order of the day in coming years. So at that time I had got an approval to allocate funds for every remote center. In our first PRSG, the chairman and other people observed that please let this process stabilize and please identify the institutions which are running the remote center properly and which are conducting the workshop properly. It is subject to that that you should release this fund run. So we are waiting for it. We were identifying. We have a lot of problem cases. We also have a lot of cases where things are perfectly fine. Now I am sharing with you this support is for the following things. You have a server, you have provision for two video cameras, you have provision for a good quality audio mixer, you also have a provision for two AVU machines which are nothing but PCs. In short, whatever technology support you require within a classroom plus a backend server which may serve your Moodle or whatever. So this provision has been made. The total provision is about Rs. 5 lakhs. It is not an extraordinary provision but substantial. Would you agree that this money should be good enough to create a classroom with this kind of facilities? This is also as you know the graphic capture card etc. Whatever specifications that Sajjan and Subrata have given you, you can practically buy that equipment. We insisted on two cameras. In fact I was questioned by the Joint Secretary of Finance that for conducting a class you require only one camera. And I said suppose for some reason the camera is not functioning on that day what happens? You have stopped conducting the workshop. So critical component which has a problem. Secondly there are other things. We need to capture multiple things. We need to capture the classroom. We need to capture an individual when it is packed. So well I could argue and that provision was sustained. We shall soon be releasing the list of equipment that you need to buy. Now here we do not want you to say that we already have this equipment. The purpose of this equipment is not to fund you for creating the facility for the first time. You are expected to have created that facility already. So this is an additional facility that I would expect you to create. That means you can take another classroom and create this facility. Or if you have an existing facility which let us say is not the most recent and current technology and is not complete, then you can transfer that into some other classroom and install this new equipment in this classroom. But once this is done the ministry would expect that for next three years you will provide support for conduct of these workshops. And during the conduct of this workshop the facility including that classroom will be exclusively made available for conduct of the workshops. Rest of the year of course you are expected to use it for your own educational purpose. Do you think it is a fair expectation? So this is something immediately after the PRSG meeting sometime in December or January. We shall be releasing this funds. But the guidelines for the kind of equipment that we have will immediately issue. In fact one of the reasons why we are thinking of sharing that information very quickly with you within a few days we will send a mail to all RC coordinators is that you can discuss it with your colleagues there. And if you have any suggestions on any modifications etc. then you can make those suggestions. We will pass them through the PRSG. Any the PRSG approves any minor changes we will be able to. Is that okay with you? So this is we believe I believe that this would be a good incentive for an institution which has shown that on its own it is able to conduct and sustain workshop. But with this we expect that any equipment related problem should not arise. Because this equipment and there will be only one request. None of this equipment which we install in a room should ever be moved for any reason. The problem is that in that college somebody else requires a camera, it takes it away. Somebody else requires the amplifier, it takes it away. Somebody else requires three microphones so it takes it away. It takes it away but it does not. It does back in time. So this is a common logistics nightmare. We face it in IIT regularly. You would also be facing it. So if you say that this is the rule under which we have got this grant probably you can use IIT Bombay and IIT Kharagpur name to say that this equipment shall remain there. Maybe we can add a how much does a cupboard cost about 4000 rupees or something? 5000? Is ordinary steel cupboard? Storage cupboard? 5000. So we might add a 5000 rupees cupboard so that the movable equipment can be kept inside that cupboard under lock input. Okay. Let me put it this way. While 5000 rupees is a good amount, 5000 rupees is not a lot of amount. Now if you want we can do the following. We can add a set of equipment and we'll say whatever you don't have from this you purchase. That is one possibility. So that you can truly augment whatever. But you have to guarantee that that facility is made available for conduct of this workshop. Sir I have one query regarding that being a remote center coordinator I always face a problem called bandwidth. Because most of the time whatever happened that my network administrator never giving a lease line. I face many times this problem. I request all the time. Please preserve your questions for the discussions. We are going to have a two hour discussion. We are already aware of this point. I have raised it with NKN. What the ministry says is that the provision of bandwidth is not part of this project funding support. So this project will not do anything for it. Secondly every institution you may not recall but every institution has guaranteed that they undertake the responsibility of providing unadulterated unvarying bandwidth for conduct of this workshop. So this question should be raised by you to your own institution not to us. That is one thing. So of course we know the problems. Quite independently all institutions are encouraged to log in on I mean to join the NKN effort where a 10 Mbps internet line is being provided at some subsidy. But the colleges have to take that up from NKN. IIT Bombay cannot unfortunately help it. Please understand we also have severe bandwidth problems. Do you know how the AVU architecture currently requires a sigma bandwidth at our place. So if you are using one to two Mbps let's say one Mbps guaranteed and I have 300 remote centers. I require 300 Mbps bandwidth to conduct the workshop. We have a one Gbps link and when I take 300 Mbps from that my computer center head and I have perpetual fights. You are hogging all the bandwidth from IIT Bombay. So these problems I also face you also face but I am solving my problems you solve your problems. These problems will have to be resolved individually there is no generalized solution. Sir can we add two things in this list one is we currently have one LCD projector and AVU have a facility have a multiple windows. So if we can add two LED projectors or LCD projectors and one was to four VGA card then it will be easy for to display it in window. If you ask me I would have added a whole lot of things. I have been limited by this amount. Now I would like to add a mini cloud for example because that is what we are going to use I am going to tell you about the next wave of MOOCs and how we want to integrate it with T10KT. So this is the limitation. Now what is a sensible session which has just emerged is that instead of giving a fixed list of equipment we could add this we could add a projector for example. And what we could then say is that this grant is being given to augment your infrastructure. So that means whatever infrastructure you have you can either replace or add any equipment from that list. We will give you the list of equipment. So that is where we would like you to comment back immediately after receiving our list. Already I will expand that list to include these two things that have been mentioned and we can talk. But this grant will have to be settled in time very quickly or to do all the procurement installation and certify that this has been done because it is MSRD money. Let me tell you I had many problems in convincing the government to give this money. This crores of rupees of government funds going to private institutions was the objection of one particular bureaucrat who happily for us has retired. Because I hate people who distinguish between private, public and government and this and that. That doesn't make sense. Indians are Indians, Indian institutions are Indian institutions. But still this was approved and there were better thinking bureaucrats in the ministry who said this is correct. So as I said it's not too big a sum but it's a substantial amount and the government has approved this as part of this program. Now what I suggest is that not all of you but many of you are, no now all of you will be the Akash project centers because those 8 or 10 I have suggested that we'll send you at least 100 tablets immediately, 120. This is a substantial amount of development work that has been done by students and teachers of the 300 colleges who have been participating plus our own teams plus teams at other IIT. So you already have a rich amount of applications and content on Akash. You have to just download and start using them. Now what I was suggesting is that 1 lakh rupee for the Akash project which is being given and the 5 lakh rupees which is being given this. Use this judiciously. For example you can have Wi-Fi connectivity points in that classroom through Akash and you can use this money for something else. So that I leave it up to you and your institutions. You agree? So these are the two things that I wanted to mention.