 Good morning. Sorry for the delay. We got it started a little late We are really delighted to have mr. Sinha here We will have a quick round of introduction so that You know I don't want to spend too much time I don't want to take too much time So we'll first have Group wise we'll go like last time Professor Kavya are here. What do you want to quickly introduce your staff members? You met the program managers, Dr. Krishna Lala and Saraswati Krithivasan. So starting from left Mithul Saurav Shailesh Solanki Piyush Bhuvana Sachin and Tanmay at the back most of them engineers Bhuvana and Solanki support staff who've learned how to make videos and all that also and Sachin is also are he's doing video editing apart from programming and maintaining the website and all these kind of things So we have reasonably versatile team now Saurav and Piyush are veterans of many many workshops all over the country, right? So they are a core team of the of the Yantra team What about 20 projects happening? Righty Bombay and These three you see here are more in a system administrator sense the facilitators of activities networking and so on a lot of the Development content is actually generated by students of I.D. Bombay masters and undergraduate students No, actually several students are caught up in coursework Yeah, actually All the IDC E-Culper staff. Thank you so much for coming. I would please request you to Introduce yourselves quickly as you go by with your names Thank you so much. Thank you So I'm talking on behalf of Fossi which has two parts the python group and the Sylab group Bella is our manager and Actually, I'd be better if she introduces everybody else. I'll start with the Sylab team quickly. This is Shamika La Vita Then we have Anuradha Rupa Ganesh Manas Rakhi, then we have Priya here and With the python team Jovina Kiran Uddhav Lee Deepak Vishal Is Rahul Joshi there and Of course Anand the coordinator of Fossi Rahul Joshi, you're also part of Fossi open form. Okay, I'll also I'll also want to include Srikanth. He was part of the Fossi team, but he's been taken by the Akash team But he's still part So I would want 10,000 teacher training program here. Would you want to introduce your staff members? And then we will ask Sajjan to introduce Morning, sir. I'm Mukta Atre the project manager for the 10,000 teachers team. I have a large team here I'll start with Mahendra Parmar. He's a junior project manager Rachna Shiriskar Sarita Vitaal Rahul Kharat Ashok Bhavar Barnabas Timothy is not here Yogesh Python 8 Sanjay Kharat Hitesh Ajay Vishal Namrata Sushant Preeti Guhikar Hemant Katkar Suraj Jadhav Srati Poonam Archana Nagji Subhash Saloonke Atul Paitane and we have a new entrant Amit Gadgir. Thank you. I'll give it to Sajjan Yeah, I'm Sajandik Siddh, technical project manager This is my video team. So Sekhar Podel, Deepak Jangir, Pradeep, Saseekant Bhavalkar, Prakash, Sandeep, Kelaas and Krishna Susant Hi, Parmar. Hello, sir. This is Rajesh Krishalkar. I'm heading the clicker and the robot applications So I have a team here. So Dipthi, Varun, Hitesh and There are back Rajaval, Sandesh, Maitri, Sambhudra, Padmakar and Ashish. There is one more team, Chaitan. They are all distributed basically and Thananjay and Pankaj Patel. So these are the team So both the activities for the software and related hardware has been taken up with this people, sir. Thank you Okay, I'm not sure whether I have missed out anybody else. I'll come to the staff members of the spoken tutorial project, whom I will introduce myself Yeah, I'm a project manager for the content team of the teacher training program and my team consists of Tanushree, Nagesh, yeah, just stand up Nagesh, Firuza, Kashmira, Harish, Brindha, Shilpa and Deepak. I'm glad to point out Firuza has written many books. Maybe six books. How many? I am Jaya Gayathondey, working as a senior accounts manager on teachers training program in my team. I have Jannavi and Darshanam. Thank you. Hello, my name is Shweta. I'm part of the sysadmin team and our team members are Rahul, Vijit, Dastagir. Thank you. Actually, I also have a long team. 20 to 30 students and one is Pawan. They are all M.Tech students and B.Tech students and along with some project staff here. Are they here? Yeah. Some M.Tech students will be there. I'll just read out the names. Pawan, Rajesh, Arpit Jain, Subban Janalu Reddy, Ravi Raipurya, Anshita Garwal, Niraj Darival, Subhasmita Malik, Parmenta Rajput, Debasitarai, Gyanarajan Shial, Sonobar Nishat, Kastubh Keshkar, Anjali Singhal, Pratik Pathodi and Deepak Jain, Nitin Satpal, Nimit Kalaria. All of them are working in different aspects of the project. They are working in networking. They are working in security issues. They are working in educational applications, content visualization and core internals of the Android. Thank you. Good morning, sir. My name is Virender. I'm the manager absent today. I'm the junior manager in the Akash Lohistik team. Our team is like, Anita, Sital, Archana, Sneha, Dilip, Ajinkke and Siddharth and Thomas. We are a small team. Logistics team. Thank you. Every Akash is accounted for and they know where each number has gone. Thanks. Thank you. Positive to the Oscar team. Yeah, I can request the Oscar team to just stand up so that I don't miss out people then. Yeah, so we have three parts of this admin team consists of Rekha and Preeti and there is a software team also which consists of Aruna and Anjali and Praveen here and Arun and Prashant. Mostly look after the software part, but maybe you can put your hands up. Maybe. So the animators are Nitin, Pooja, Sneha, Pankaja and Amit in there and Sandeep is our web designer who creates the Oscar sites for any problems with that. He's the person. Excuse me. So we have I'm just going through a list that is given here so that I, it's a long list. First the events team. Jama, Payal, Madhukrithi, Tripthi, Vinitha, some people are not here. Pallavi, Meenakshi, Sharda, Kusum, Apur, Nagesh, Arjun, Swapnil, Amit. Amit is not. So they're all Moshmi, sorry. Not in this list. Moshmi. Okay. Thank you. They organize workshops in various parts of the country. Then the creation team, Nancy, Kiran Kosla, Sakina, Chambu, Sachin. Sachin is writing it. Arya, Praveen, Ganpur Pongal, Saurabh, Devendra, Pratamesh, Amit, Madhuri, Kripali, Ashwini, Ranjana, Pratibha, Thibhaswalanki, Aarti, Udaya, Manoranjan, Afrin, Sneha, Kaushik, Gyan, Manivel, Ganesh, Jaya, Mehsebeen. Okay. So they are part of the creation team. Did I miss out anybody? Okay. Kavita. Okay. Thanks. Then we will go to the team that support the transmission of live courses when we were C D and it is continuing the course effort and big blue button and so on. Rahul Deshmukh, Hari Prasad, Santosh, Selvarani, Madhulika, Direndra, Direndra, Sagar, Pratibha, Harish, Santosh, Suhasini, Charu, I think we've got everybody. Farsi is finished. Gunukata, is Krishnakant here? Krishnakant, somebody give a mic to him? No, you use it. Okay. So I got the answer. No, so that means I was audible. Anyways, we have Saili with us and there are other two programmers for Gunukata who actually did not come because they are giving their exams for Master's in FOSO. They had the exams today. So they are Ujwala and Trupti and we have Saili here. Okay, thanks Krishnakant. Other... Akash Gunukata team is here. Anybody? Okay, they are there. Nuthan, raise your hand. Ashwini and then Holi. Okay, thanks. So this is the brief introduction to some of our staff members being a Saturday. Last time in this hall was war-flowing. Some people could not enter, they went away. So in fact there were about 20-30 people standing on both sides. So I invite Mr. Sinha to say a few words. Thank you, Professor Kannan. It's also a great day for me to be meeting so many enthusiasts of various projects under NME ICT. In fact, I have come here to pay my gratitude to all of you because of you, the mission is progressing and progressing on strong footing. And as I have been telling the PIs, perhaps the first stage of the rocket has done its job. Now we have to go to second, third and fourth stage. And the fourth stage has to be that India in the field of intellectual profits takes over the world. That is the vision that we have to have. We should have the second phase, third phase. In the fourth phase, everybody should look up to India. Oh, India. That India, which we read in our scriptures that we were the leaders in the world. Again we have to achieve that glory and that glory cannot be achieved by doing some small work or doing some window dressing. It comes from very, very hard work. Those foundations have to be laid. And you are the people who are laying those foundations. You may not be known in the years to come that you laid the foundation. But then what I am going to suggest to the PIs and other members of the faculty is how to properly reflect your contribution to the job that you have done. We will very shortly discuss that. But please keep in mind, whether you are a faculty member, you are a member of the team for remuneration or you are a student. All of you are contributing your intellectual might to the nation building. It is our collective endeavor that will see us through. And actually, when I say that India has to be the world leader, I really mean it. When we conceptualized Akash, that time we were branded as lunatics. When we said ultimate aim is $10, but it should be available at around $35. See the internet. I have been called names. I have been called writer for the country. India cannot do it. I am taking India for a ride. These are the comments. Some of the comments written about me. Today when IIT Bombay makes Akash to a flying success, I think all those people who dare to write that kind of commentary will be silenced. So, if we are perseverant, we can reach the goals. We have the intellectual caliber, we can do it. The only thing is we should not get disheartened and sit down. In spite of all criticism from top to bottom, we said we will make it a success. I am really indebted to IIT Bombay that they carried this vision forward. And today everybody believes that yes, this kind of low cost access device is a certainty and the entire world market has crashed. The tablets which used to command a price of 30,000 or so are available openly at around 4,000, 3,000. And anyway Akash is at 2,263 rupees. The whole paradigm has been shifted because some people believed in themselves and carried it this far. In each and every aspect that you are doing, the same story is getting unfolded. People have known about Akash but very soon they will know about all the other things that have been done. It's only a question of how soon it gets publicized but then your contribution to this effort of nation building will not go unnoticed. I would just like to know from you how many times do you talk to your neighbors about what you are doing? Are you confident enough of telling them that I am doing something path breaking? If not, be confident enough and say, I am doing something path breaking. Let people laugh, they will say, oh, very proud and trying to push others down. But at least start believing in yourself and talk about it. Now the word should go. Now you have reached a critical mass. Now you can tell the world, yes, we are doing this and you will see the result. Whatever is your capacity, tell that. I know if a job requires 101 participants each participant may not be in a position to comprehend the whole gamut of activities. If you are doing accounting, you will think I am doing accounting. If you are doing accounting for what? What is your criticality in that role? You may or may not know, but if you just come out of that role, try to see what is happening in totality, you will see what is your contribution. Have faith in yourself first. Also believe that there are hundreds and hundreds of people who are willing to do service to the nation. Whatever we might be reading in newspapers that moral values have gone down, I am sure 99% of Indians do have the moral values ingrained in them and it is only perhaps our timidity not to come up and say yes, we uphold the moral values because of which perhaps we are taken as a society that we are not assertive enough. So this is the time, a good beginning has been made by you and it should not only be maintained, it should be further expanded. I have just out of the hat, I have said these activities should be expanded 100 times. Money is not a constraint. Enthusiasm and belief in one's capability is the only constraint. If you think it can be done, I am sure 80% of the job is done and something very great is not done by people who are coming straight from the sky. It is done by people like us only. So don't be thinking at any point of time, not possible from my side, maybe somebody will lead us. Nobody is leading you, you start leading others. And if somebody is giving you that umbrella, fully support him or her. I must say, I am overwhelmed by the kind of results that I see. I can say that you have a midas touch, keep it up and make more midas from the population around you. A few suggestions I would like to give, I don't know, I have not seen on the websites that we have created for individual projects. Do we have the names of people who are contributing? There should be, this is the team. Maybe that team is 200, but name should be given and that name, whoever has participated at whatever point of time that name should appear. It should be a memento to you for the life. As long as the project remains, your name will also be there. You can take pride, I did something, my name is there. Wherever you are, you may be here, you may be somewhere else. But then as a token of gratitude, we should have your name there. I would go one step further. The students who are doing so much of work, they also have their career in front of them. So, be it students, be it other participants, we can write a small citation and the photograph which says so and so did this contribution. However, a small it may be and it is stuck there and this website will be replicated at hundreds of places on Sakshath and on all other places. So, as it is, it goes. If somebody needs your credentials to be established, this project website will speak for you volumes. This may be a small token of gratitude from the mission for all of you. I think we should be open to all ideas. Never ever one should think that the ideas are the monopoly of a chosen few. No, I will only say that you all have been working. You are living in the society. Everybody has some kind of opinion about how the society could be improved. My only request would be dream, dream big. No matter whether you are dreaming in your sphere of activity or in someone else's sphere of activity. How you can make India a great nation, just dream. Don't think about resources. Put your dreams, think through. I can also dream and say entire nation should reach moon. Yes, that is the first statement. But then write down the whole sequence from end to end. Submit your dream to whoever is near you. And if nobody is there, let's create a dream portal. Let all kinds of dreams be put there. Somebody will shift through them and say what all can be accepted in the given timeframe with the given resources. But we must acknowledge the dreams. Bright ideas are not limited to a chosen few. There might be spark anywhere. We want to capture the spark. You remember the three cardinal principles of enemy ICT. One was no talent in the country should be allowed to go waste. The talent includes you as a talent, your neighborhood, any talent in the neighborhood or your vision about nurturing talent in the entire country. That can happen only if you start putting your thoughts together and sharing it with others. What we can do is if your thoughts come, at least we can attribute it to you. So whenever somebody else borrows it from you, fine. At least you are attributed. But the first step in this direction is to have faith and dream. Proper dreams are there. Today or tomorrow, they will start rectifying. At least you will have the satisfaction of contributing your might to this mammoth exercise of nation building through education or through other fields. I don't have more to say. Thank you. We should have done this earlier. Let us formally welcome Mr. Sinha. I request Dr. Saraswati Krithivasan to present the book. So one request we have scheduled several meetings for Mr. Sinha. We are slightly delayed. So I would request all the PIs to restrict that, reduce the time from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. He has to meet, maybe 10, about 10 laps or so. Really delighted to be doing this on the, as we are celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. That thing positive. I think we are really wonderful to have Mr. Sinha here. And he will come and visit your labs and then see some other things that you are doing. So I think we can get started. So thank you all.