 Good morning and warm welcome to all of you. It is beginning to cool here. I think before you leave, it is going to start raining, it will cool off, then warm welcome will be really nice. It is a great pleasure for us to organize this first time ever, possibly the first time ever in the world, a 10,000 teacher training program on research methodologies. And that is done, supposed to be done through about 160 centres, 150 plus, we were trying to get 200 centres, but whatever we have 150 is pretty good, 172 as of now. So, that is really good. So, this cannot be done without your participation, enthusiastic participation, in that sense warm thanks to all of you. My name is Kannan Maudgalyan. I coordinate the National Mission on Education Technology sponsored projects at IIT Bombay. This 1000 teacher training program, that is a official name given to this. Of course, now we are thinking about 10,000 teacher empowerment through this methodology. As a matter of fact, the government is so happy with this, we are also very happy with this. So, we have given feedback to the government. Government officials have seen them in person and now they want to extend this to 1 lakh teacher training. As a matter of fact, we expect that there would be many such programs happening in parallel, organized by several institutions, right, on different subjects. It may not happen from IIT Bombay, but what we have done is, thanks to the excellent infrastructure available here and the excellent staff support here, we have been able to conduct it smoothly and we have come up with a model that we think which will work if executed properly. So, we are in a position to hand it over to anybody who would want to organize such events from their own colleges and universities. It could be for their own university or nearby colleges or people with special interest, similar interest across the country. So, we have all the facilities available. The software for this is Avu which has been created by Amrita University and it has been funded by the same National Mission on Education through ICT. As a result, it is available free of cost for every academic institution to use. So, which means that if you are interested, you can certainly get hold of it and then organize it. The bandwidth required for this is also available through the National Mission on Education through ICT. It has already given funds for that. There is also another project called NKN. You may be aware of that. So, both of these together are working in tandem to provide a bandwidth to everybody who is interested. The mission National Mission on Education through ICT was started in 2009 with a total outplay of 4612 crore. Out of that, 60 percent was devoted to bandwidth provision. About 1800 crore were devoted to content generation. So, the 1000 teacher training program and now the 10000 teacher training program, these are all supported by funding available from the content generation part. I told you about the bandwidth. So, the bandwidth enormous money is provided for and because it is a huge purchase, BSNL gave a huge discount. In fact, 95 percent discount. So, the bandwidth was available at 5 percent of the cost out of which the mission paid 75 percent and the universities were asked to pay one fourth of that. Approximately 1.25 percent, approximately 1 percent of the cost to the university that it would be made available. So, that was a scheme. The idea was to make this bandwidth available to every university and then of course, every university was asked to give bandwidth to every affiliating college of its own. And the government said that in case a university demonstrated that it used all the bandwidth and effectively and that they are running out of bandwidth, the ministry would give more bandwidth. After all, we have lot of fiber running all over the country. So, there is no problem at all in giving more bandwidth. In content generation, there are actually a large number of projects are supported. One of the unique things about this mission is it has given projects to almost every institution in the country that came up with a good proposal, whether it is private or government, whether it is an affiliating college. So, whether it is a private institution or government institution, whether it is a state government supported or general government supported. The reason being that all the students who go to these colleges, private colleges for example, are our students. Why do these students go to these colleges? Because there are not enough seats in government college. So, it is not students mistake. So, the government took a stand that whatever we do should be made available to everybody. Only thing is whatever the government gives should be made available to the students to the learners free of cost. That is the reason that no charges are levied on any of these projects and those are made available to the students free of cost. Now, so let me just talk about. So, there are three things that are required. I mentioned two things. One is the bandwidth. The second one is content generation. The third one is the connectivity and the device to do the computing. So, that is going to be done by Akash, which I am going to let professor Fater talk about when Eastern comes, because you know that the Akash project has come to IIT Bombay. We are really excited by this and then I am going to let professor Fater have the pleasure of describing that. I would want to briefly describe some of the content related projects happening at IIT Bombay. This is part of what is called talk to a teacher project. This 1000 teacher training program or now it is going to be called a 10000 teacher training program. It has a few other components. IIT Bombay's courses were transmitted live. In fact, about 5000 hours of lectures were transmitted live from IIT Bombay to C D, Central for Distance Engineering Education Program. And we are in the process of releasing these as open source. That is one of the activities. The other activity of the talk to a teacher project is spoken tutorials through which we have been training a large number of students around the country. Is there anyone who knows about spoken tutorials? I see that there are some people. Yes, thanks. In fact, we conducted more than 2000 workshops in the last one year. In fact, if there was time, I would request my staff members to come and talk to you about half an hour if you can spare time on this. So, these were the things done through the talk to a teacher project. Then we have NPTEL. NPTEL, you all know about it. So, I do not have to talk about it. Then the third one is Robotics Project E Yantra. It is done by our colleague Professor Kavya Ria of Computer Science Department. In fact, we might give a demo of that through Akash maybe during the course of this workshop. Then we have an animation project. It is called OSCAR done by Professor Sridharayar of Computer Science Department. Then he uses an open source animation software called Blender. We have excellent spoken tutorials on Blender. In fact, it is possible for us to conduct workshops on Blender in all your colleges. We have a project on free and open source software for science and engineering or FOSI. So, that is done by Professor Prabhu Ramachandran of Aerospace, Professor Madhu Belur of Electrical Engineering. I am also one of the investigators of the project. We are focusing on two software system in particular, Sylab and Python. In fact, we might have a workshop on Sylab little later. Maybe it may be there tomorrow. Then we have development of design courses by Professor Prabhu Poovaya and his team in Industrial Design Center. Now, all these projects I might have missed something, but I think I have covered most of the important ones. All these projects are collaborative in nature. We would like you to use them. We would invite you to also participate in them in creation of these. Because if you look at this project, there is only one story that I want to tell. There was a discussion of, remember I told you that one GBP as bandwidth has to be given to every university. And at that time, there was a discussion in project of the global board, which is the final authority that gives some money. And there was a discussion. There was somebody who said that to the director of this machine, Mr. Sinha, director of additional secretary M. H. R. D. and director N. M. A. I. C. T. So, there was a proposal to transfer 300 crores to BSNL, so that BSNL would give the bandwidth. So, there was this question. Somebody asked, Mr. Sinha, do not you think that we will be putting lot of money down the train, because many of these universities will not know how to use the bandwidth. They are just wasting money. So, why do not we run some pilots, give it to some 10 colleges, 100 colleges, 100 institutions, make them develop something very good and then we can roll it out. So, everybody thought it was a great idea. And Mr. Sinha replied. So, he said, there are two points. First, you can never perfect the technology. You do pilot, you keep on trying to improve it. The colleges that are institutions that are doing pilot will never be satisfied. So, wait, wait, wait. Another standard is coming 6 months from now. After that, it will get better. That is number one. You can never perfect. Second one is, even if you can perfect it, let us say after 10 years. By 10 years, in 10 years, so many generations of students would have gone from all these colleges. I want them to have the technology now, today. So, let there be only 5 percent who will benefit. So, let us give it to them. So, that motion to transfer 300 crore was passed anonymously by the PAB. So, what I want to say, I am telling you this story to tell you that this one is an egalitarian. We want to reach out to as many people as possible to all interested people that we want to benefit. Not that we want to select only some best, we will work only with them. Try to make it available to as many people as possible. Let all the people who are capable of using it benefit. So, I am really delighted that you are all here. It is a huge task. It is a mammoth task. And let us all work together and let us spread the light of education. Thank you. Good morning and a warm welcome to all of you. I can see a lot of familiar faces, some very senior friends. Thank you so much sir for coming personally. Some of you have been participating in the workshop that we conduct for 1000 teachers at a time. The mandate that we had was to conduct some 12 workshops. But next year the ministry wants us to conduct workshops for 1 lakh teachers. And we cannot do that unless we increase the scale. So, we said that the last of the workshops of the current funded series we will try to conduct this as a mega workshop. We plan to do it in December, but the ministry wanted us to do it in June. So, that the lessons can be used in the subsequent workshops. That is why it is a bit of a rush as you can see in announcement, in organization and so on. Frankly, I wanted about 300 remote centers to be ready across the country. We could not do that, but I think our latest number is about 177, 172. These workshops are slightly different than normal workshop of this particular one, because it is on a subject which is currently not necessarily taught in all the colleges and university. So, it is a new course. That is the reason why instead of a five day program, we said a three day program is good enough, because we are actually starting from scratch in some sense. We have had some experience in conducting this course. We have research methodologies course in two disciplines already as a full-fledged semester course. And we had the privilege of inviting professor Karmarkar from IIT Madras, whose lectures on introduction to research were a great hit amongst the research scholars. He of course had addressed research scholars. We have requested him now to refine his lectures to address the teachers across the country. So, thank you very much for coming forward to doing this mega workshop with us. We will over the next two or three days do a dual task of first understanding roughly what contents we have planned. We are going to do that by getting sample lectures delivered to you which will be delivered later in the main workshop, so that we can interact. Two of the sample lectures, I mean two of the faculty members will deliver their sample lecture. They will do so in absentia. So, we will use their recorded lectures in order to check how effective the recorded lecture playing is, because that is part of our larger methodology of permitting teachers of engineering colleges to formally use recorded lectures as the lectures in their regular courses. The committee has been set up by the government to see how to incentivize teachers to use e-contents more effectively in their course, but that is a separate. There are of course logistic issues and the organizational issues. We will discuss all of them in due course of time, but an important part of this inaugural session is for all of us to get to know at least the names and faces of all participants. While I know many of you, but not everyone knows everyone else, so it might delay the tea break by about 10 minutes if you do not mind, but I would request all participants to just you please do not get up, because getting up on this structure is not very easy and comfortable. So, just be seated, a microphone will be passed on and please tell all of us your name and the institute that you come from and the discipline that you teach in your college. Good morning to all of you. Myself Basuraj Chokimund from KLE College of Engineering Technology. My subjects are network analysis, field theory and control system. Thank you. Good morning to all of you. Sir, I am Vinayak Joshi. From Angreenstof Technology and Management, Bilgam, I teach computer science subjects. My interesting area is network. Good morning, sir. Myself Rajesh Kumar Chakrodati. I am from the city of Vesnau Institute of Technology and Science in Dore. I teach compiler design and web engineering. Good morning, sir. My name is Shubrindu Govaniyogi. I am from Sair Padampat Singhhani University, Udaipur. I am in the department of computer science and engineering. I am teaching DVMS, networking and related subjects. Thank you. Hello all. From MPST, I am Sherpur. I am Ajay Joshi. I am from Civil Engineering Department. Dr. R.K. Singhai, coming from RGPV Bhopal State Technological University. I am teaching Distur signal processing etc. Hello. Good morning, sir. I, Jitansi Rathore from Thakral College of Technology, Bhopal. And I am belong to the department of information technology. And my interesting research areas are network security, network. And I am teaching computer network. Good morning to all. I am Veeresh Foskele from Central Oasis Institute of Technology, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. I am teaching thermal engineering subjects. Kedarsanta from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune. And I am from Mechanical Engineering Department. I am teaching cryogenics and refrigeration. Good morning, sir. I am myself Amit Dogher from National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh. And we used to conduct various short term and long term program for faculty members of Polygenics and Engineering College. So I belong to computer science. And my areas are Linux, open source, web technologies etc. Good morning to all. I am Ajish S.S. working in Carmel Engineering College in Computer Science Department. My research area is image processing. I often retake classes in image processing. Good morning to all of you. Myself, S.S. Udnayana. I am from Vrindu Varalakshmi, Ankatrav Institute of Technology from Bhimvaram, Anur Pradesh. And I belong to Computer Science Department. My research area is data mining. I often retake the classes in operating systems and computer organization. Thank you. Good morning to all. I am Ramesh Babuyan from Nittayam Institute of Technology. I am from Mechanical Engineering Department. And I teach finite element methods as well as sphere of elasticity. Myself, K.N. Rajan from RBS College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. I am teaching triply subjects and management subjects. Especially in my research area is renewable energy sources. Good morning. I am Dr. K. Bala Murugan from Institute of Road and Transport Technology, E-Road. I am from Mechanical Engineering Department teaching manufacturing engineering subjects. Good morning. Myself, Dr. C. Govindraju. From Government College of Engineering, Salem, Tamil Nadu. I am teaching the subjects with the specialization of power electronics and drives. Good morning all of you. I am Srinivasan Malan from Banari Minister of Technology, Satyamangalam, E-Road. I blanks to Electrical Department. From Research Area, Sir, Energy Conservation and Management. Good morning to all of you. I am Dr. Madhuri Shakti from NIT Bhopal. I am from the Department of Mathematics and teach mathematics to all the engineering and MBA classes. Good morning to all. I am Dr. Chitra Desai from Rathoda Institute of Technology Engineering College. And my subjects in the area of research are Software Engineering and Network Security. I am from S.J. College of Engineering, Mysutra, Nathapuram. I belong to Computer Science Department. I take data structures, software engineering, object-oriented design. And my domain of interest is basically machine learning and data mining. Good morning, one and all. My name is Chakravarti. I am from Gokaraju Rangraju Institute of Engineering Technology, Hyderabad. I belong to Electrical Discipline. And my areas of interest are automation and SCADA. Good morning, Sir. My name is Parth Sharti Mallik. I am from Valoran Institute of Technology, VIT University. I teach normally Nano-electronics and Opto-electronics. Myself, Dr. Uday Dabde, Valchin College of Engineering, Sangli, Maharashtra. I am from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. I am related with the Production Engineering branch. Good morning. I am from D. Y. Patil College of Engineering, Abhijitwane. I belong to the Production Department. My subjects of interest are Quantity to Techniques and Manufacturing. Myself, Ajit Patil. I am from Collaborative Institute of Technology, College of Engineering, Kolhapur, Maharashtra. I am from IT department. And I teach mobile communication and computer network subjects. Myself, Naveen Aswani. I am from the Asable Institute of Technology. My interest in the wireless sensor network. Myself, Chivai Dumar from KCE Zalgawa. I work in the Computer Department. And my area of interest is DBMS. Myself, Manoj Patil. I am from SSBJ College of Engineering, Zalgawa. And my area of interest is network security. Good morning, everybody. I am Anurag Jain from Geetha Institute of Management and Technology, Krukshetra. I am from Computer Science, Discipline. I use to teach subjects like discrete maths, compiler design, automata. Myself, Puneet Goswami. I am from Lexi Global Group of Institutions, Sambala. I am from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. And my area of interest is Software Engineering. Good morning. I am Sunil Divakar from Cummins College of Engineering, Puneet. Mechanical department. Good morning, all. I am Suresh Babu from Madatari Science and Technology, Satupalli, Andhra Pradesh. I am from EC department. My interesting areas are digital design, VLSI design and electronics. Good morning to one and all. I am Dr. Kumarak Swami Gupta from J&T College of Engineering, Hyderabad. I belong to Mechanical Engineering department. Good morning, sir. I am Krishnayas from Gagini Polybair Engineering College, Hyderabad. I am in EC department. I teach VLSI subjects and wireless and mobile communication engineering, digital speaking and processing. Good morning to all. I am Ram Prasad from Lourd Mada College, Trivandrum. I belong to EC department. My areas include digital communication and electromagnetic theory. Thank you. Good morning. I am Mr. M.R. I am taken from Rishweshwara National Institute of Technology in Agpur. I belong to electrical department and I teach power electronics. And we are in almost all the short term process transmitted under national missions of technology. Thank you. Good morning, sir. My name is Vishrinath. I am from the National Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad. I belong to electrical and electronics engineering department and I teach power electronics, drives, machines. Good morning, sir. I am Ashok Patwale from Pillai Institute of Information Technology, New Pannuvel Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. I am teaching in mechanical department and other subjects are automobile engineering, manufacturing, planning and control and all other subjects. Good morning, sir. I am Anand Patel from VPMP LDRP Institute of Technology, Gandhi Nagar. I belong to EC branch and I am interested in signal processing. Good morning, sir. My name is Rajaramesh from Regency Institute of Technology, Aanam. I am UTI of Pondicherry. I belong to Computer Science and Engineering department. My research area is data mining and... Good morning, sir. I am Anand Kumar from SVP Engineering College, Visakhapatnam. My area of interest is cloud computing. Good morning, sir. I am Narayan Parthik Rathore from Prova College of Engineering and Technology, Indore. And my teaching subjects are DBMS and software engineering. I am Pankaj Porwal from Techno India Institute of Technology, Udaypur. My areas of interest are solid mechanics and applied mathematics. Good morning to all of you. I am Zaheer Alam from Thakur College of Engineering, Kandivali, Mumbai. My research areas are wireless networks and securities. I belong to IT department and IT is wireless communication operating system subjects. I am Shamsheer Singh. I am from MediCAPs Institute of Technology and Management, Indore. Sometimes I teach distributed computing. Good morning, everybody. I am Dr. Pradeep Bhakde. I am from Amruta University, Bangalore. I am from Mechanical Engineering department and I teach software engineering subjects. Thank you. Good morning, all of you. This is Dr. Sudhakar Rao. I am from Vignan Institute of Technology and Science. And I specialize in embedded systems and image processing. I am Joshi C. Heran from Amruta University, Coimbatore campus. I teach mechanical engineering, thermal engineering subjects, basically thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. Good morning. I am Ravi Chandra Kulkarni from N.I. Institute of Technology. I am from electrical department and I teach control theory and its applications. I am P. Bamsi Chaitanya. I am from N.H.C.D., triplet Hyderabad. We conduct a course called Certificate in IT program. And my interests are open source web technologies. Good morning, all of you. I am from S.B. Patil College of Engineering in Dabur, Pune district. I belong to mechanical engineering department. And my teaching subjects are mostly related to thermal engineering. Thank you. Good morning, all of you. I am Dr. Satish Kumar Shahajirao. I am from IIT Bombay only, alumni of IIT. I am working at Walshan Institute of Technology in Sulapur, Maharashtra. And teaching water resources, engineering, computer programming, numerical methods, etc. Good morning, everybody. I am Abhishek Rajbanshi from Mahakal Group of Institution of Jain. I take DBMS and theoretical computer science. Good morning to all of you. Myself, Dr. Sudhir Tiwari. I am from GS Institute of Technology Science in Dore, MP. And I am in mechanical engineering department. And I used to take the machine design material science subjects. Good morning to all of you. Myself, Iman Makwana from AVLA University in Dore. My subjects are data structures and computer graphics. Thank you. Good morning. My name is Ayanil Kumar Aman. And I am from Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Kochin. I belong to EC department. And I teach cryptography. Good morning, everyone. I am Vijay Ukani from Irma University, Ahmedabad. I am from computer science and engineering department. And mostly I teach subjects related to data mining and computer networks. Good morning to all. I am Nandukumar from Aaraj Institute of Technology, Mysore. I belong to CS department. I teach all subjects related to computer networks. Good morning, all of you. Myself, Deera Jain. Sanga, Mun City, Bilwara, Rastan. And my department is electronic communication. My area of interest is low-power VLSI designing nanotechnology and nanomaterials. Good morning to all. I am CM Rakesh Kumar from KNM Institute of Technology and Science, Tirupati. I like to teach electrical machines. Good morning to all of you. I am Gaurish Ankaranthi from SVU Color Engineering, Tirupati. I am from EC department. And my area of research is artificial intelligence. Good morning, all. Myself, Dr. Ajay Koteta. I am from Puneema College of Engineering, Jaipur, Rastan. My research area is real-time system and high-performance computing. Thank you. Good morning to everyone. I am PC Bhaskar from Shivaji University's Department of Technology. I belong to M.Tech Electronics Department and especially in embedded systems. And it is related to computer networkings. Good morning, everyone. I am Mrs. Jyothi Ratte. I am from MS Bidra Engineering College, Latur. I belong to electronics department. I teach subjects like analog communication systems, embedded systems, network and lines. Thank you. Thank you very much. There is a guy called my colleague and coordinator for this workshop. Actually, he keeps calling me the coordinator. I keep calling him the coordinator so there is some confusion there. What he has done is he has put all the remote centers that we have on the, I think it is Google map. While we are very happy to have a large concentrated set of remote centers which help us to conduct these workshops and they work jointly with us, you will see that most of them are on a left diagonal sort of the nation. We have a couple of remote centers in Uttar Pradesh. We have one in Assam. We have one in West Bengal but there are very few. And as Mr. Kannan said, the government is spending a lot of money in order to empower teachers across the country. And it is a no-brainer that it will not do if the concentration of these efforts or the advantages of these efforts reach only these college. Mr. Kannan asked me to talk about Akash project for which these centers are relevant and I will tell you how it is. These are the first ones outside IIT to see the Akash too which has not yet been launched. It will be launched hopefully coinciding with this workshop itself. So, these are those tablets. The brief history is that the project started about two years ago. It was awarded to IIT Rajasthan. They did a lot of hard work. They conducted a global tender and placed an order on the L1 process but then some problems came up and the project could not get along. IIT Rajasthan requested the ministry that due to intractable problems we are unable to continue. So, this project could be given to someone else. And they polled and we thought that we could do a good job primarily because we are engaged with many of you and through you to so many teachers. So, we said yes the mandate of this project is to procure 1 lakh Akash tablets and to use these to empower engineering college teachers and students. So, you might have read lot of press on Akash and this and that and school children and so on. There are lot of half truths circulating in the press. The first batch of Akash tablets are meant for empowering engineering college teachers and students in their education. The subsequent batches of the versions of Akash will come which will of course proliferate everywhere else right from school to other. Now, the way we have decided to address this mandate is to say that we will use these tablets in a two prong fashion. The first one we would like to allocate some of these tablets to chosen engineering colleges where we will give something like 60 to 80 tablets to be issued for a particular course which is being taught by a teacher. And we would like to collect a feedback by of course providing for that course the course contents which are available, the use of Moodle, the use of variety of things, new applications that we have developed etcetera. We will additionally give about 20 tablets to that college for researchers, B.E. students, M.E. students from C.S., I.T., Electro, anywhere for development of new applications and for development of new contents and these contents and applications which are developed by such researchers will not be limited only to engineering colleges. So, they must span the entire education spectrum from primary school education in Indian languages to high school education, all subjects etcetera. The idea is that while the procurement will probably continue up to November, it will start in July sometimes. So, some colleges may get it in the in the coming semester itself, but most of the colleges will get it sometime during October, November and they can start using it from the next semester. Now, how do we choose these colleges? Clearly, these colleges if we if we cannot do an RFP and tender for choosing colleges. Colleges have to be chosen in a fashion in which those colleges in I.I.T., Bombay have some rapport and have some relation. And then when we propose to the ministry that look the best bait for us and the greatest comfort level for us is to choose those remote centers which participate in this national mission workshops, because through these colleges being remote centers, there is a constant interaction with us. There is an understanding that we have ministry has approved this proposal, but they have said that you should also choose some other institutions. So, the announcement that I wanted to make is that before this workshop ends, we will collect your willingness or otherwise in participating in this and request for additional proposals. Please understand that these tablets are not to be given to students. One lakh tablets, this is not that partial funding scheme of Akash tablets by the government where 50 percent money is paid by students or some. 100 percent cost of the tablet is being paid by the government. The tablets will continue to belong to I.I.T. Bombay as its property. They are being loaned to these institutions. Of course, it is a long-term loan. Obviously, I mean otherwise if every six months I have to collect back that tablet, the cost of transportation may be more than the cost of it. But the idea is that people who agree to participate in this venture should truly be committed to do R and D, to do development, to use it and to give a constant feedback, continuous feedback. I am sure most of you would be interested but we will be discerning. We will ask for commitments and so on and so forth. So, that is the news. I think you will be the first ones in the country to actually deploy these in your colleges for teaching courses using them and in the process discover any weaknesses, discover something else that can be done and actually participate in doing it. In short, this workshop on research methodologies also opens up an important research paradigm for each one of the remote centers. Additionally, we would demand that all tablets given to these remote centers are used in each of the national workshops that we conduct because one application which we have ported here is called the clicker application where we can conduct quizzes. If you have seen Konmanega Karolpathy type, we had clicker devices. Actually, we designed clicker devices here. The first one cost us 600 rupees in the affordable solutions lab. We were very happy because the commercial clicker devices cost 2,500 rupees. Then we made a better one which cost 1,200 rupees to us. Now, we have ditched that effort because this tablet we have negotiated at 2,263 rupees each. So, we put that application here. There is a lot more about it. I will talk about it later. But before the tea break, I thought I will share with you the good news and the possibility of your teaming up with us, not only for the conduct of workshops but additionally for participating in this exercise. Professor Uday Gayathonde to offer some closing remarks and then we can break for tea. Professor Gayathonde spearheaded our first non-CS workshop that we conducted several years ago on thermodynamics. Some of you might have attended that workshop. I was quite happy and proud to get some of the comments from the participants. There were more than 1,000 teachers who participated. 800 plus. Yes, there were not each 1,000. So, he was called the God of Thermodynamics. And believe me, IIT Bombay does recognize him as God of Thermodynamics. So, Professor Gayathonde, all yours. There were only a few things. I created such a map for the centres for thermodynamics. That map was very sparse, only about 31 centres. Well, I am happy that the map is dense but the denseness hasn't spread across India. Now you will notice, one thing which was noticeable in the thermo workshop was that Karnataka was a washout. Now here Karnataka is reasonably densely packed. Andhra Pradesh had only one centre at Hyderabad. Now you will see a sort of a branch going right up to Vijayawada and Kakinada. There is a frontier mail route you can trace up to Ambala, Chandigarh, up to Srinagar. This was just a grab from the database which was on the Ekulovya site. So, I saw Gowati and Srichar and I have put them there. But I am told that the two centres are not there. So, we have a blank right from Uttar Pradesh. There are a few centres in Uttar Pradesh but they are essentially on the outskirts of Delhi. We would have liked something in Lucknow, Bareilly, Varanasi and something like that. So is Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, these are blanks for some reason. And I don't think in the days of ICT distance is really an issue. And for thermodynamics, I was informed that teachers from Bengal came and stayed at centres in Nagpur. And based on that, I expected a centre or two to come up in Bengal in that area but for some reason that hasn't happened. The historical definition of India was from Sethu to Himachal. And here we have Kanyakumari as a centre. Maybe not in this group but in the second group which comes. And Himachal will, well, Srinagar, we have Srinagar. The historical west to east spread from Sindhu to Irawati. Well, that is history. We neither have Sindhu with us. The major part of Sindhu is not with us nor is Irawati. We have, the west has been reasonably well represented but the east needs to be really represented. So I expect that the expansion across India should take place soon. And now that Professor Fatuk had shown the carrot that Akash will be available only if you are on this map. That should lead to an eastward expansion. May I intervene? For a few it may be so. I would like to intervene here. I don't know why you call carrot. It's an exciting opportunity to work. In terms of money value it is not much but in terms of excitement it is too much. But I would also like to add that I deliberately did not indicate this to people whom I wrote may say you are interested. Because I did not want people to register as remote centers primarily for participating in the Akash town. Their passion must be to help other teachers in conducting these workshops. The Akash one is an incidental advantage or other.