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Sunday, May 22, 2005

Posted 11:05 PM by Anurag

Harcourtians Meets and other HBTI activities

Lots happening on HBTI front.

# I just returned from Mumbai where I also attended the alumni meet. As recounted below by Ankush and Rajeev Singh, It was a great experience especially because we could meet some quite senior Harcourtians.

# Its also heartening to know of successful meet in NCR. Thanks Shubha (NCR) and Ankush (Mumbai) for taking leads in organizing the meets, and thanks to all the attendees.

# Good news seems to be flowing all around: HBTI is doing great on the placement front too. Getting 24 students placed in one day, that too one year ahead of graduation is quite something! Go, Harcourtians, Go!

# Moving forward, we need to have the alumni coordination/meets now in following cities too.
# Kanpur/Lucknow!
# Pune
# Hyderabad
# Chennai
# Kolkata
# Other(s)

#=======May15, 2005: An account of Mumbai Harcourtians meet by Ankush Kushwaha and Capt R S Gautam=======
-----Original Message-----
From: HBTI_Alumni On Behalf Of Ankush
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 12:16 PM
To: HBTI Alumni
Subject: [HBTI_Alumni] Yesterday's Alumni meet in Mumbai

hi all,

I am glad to share the Yesterday's Alumni meet at Hiranandani, Mumbai. The attendence was little short evenafter getting good amount of confirmation/ response on mails and phones. I am giving here the names of harcourtians who graced this occasion by their presence:

1) Capt. Rajeev S Gautam (Mech '88, Currently at Ispat Industries)
2) Mr. Sudhir Bhatia (Mech '89, Currently at BARC)
3) Mr. Ashok Tewari (Che' 78, Currently at Qatar Petroleum)
4) Mr. Anurag Jain (Che '94, Currently at IIMB)
5) Ms. Meenal Nigam (Che '03, Currently at NITIE, Mumbai)
6) Ms. Swati Agarwal (che '03, Currently at HLL)
7) Mr. Nikhil Anand (che '04, Currently at Reliance Petrochmicals)
8) Myself Ankush Kushwaha (che '03, Currently at L&T)

Well i am thankful to everybody for joining this meet and adding few more golden megabytes in my memory-chip.

it was a nice occasion to meet seniors of around 10-20 yrs old batch and learn about their life at this phase of life. We had discussion on changes in HBTI and glad to know that campus placement is getting better every year. Ofcourse better placement during this cut-throat competition is partially result of good reputation maitained by our seniors in industries and we have to carry it further.

We also enjoyed sharing some of the memories of college days. I was surprised to hear the name of our chemistry lecturer as 'Daku singh'. I guess its still in possession by Junior batches, however he is undoubtedly good teacher. Overall it was a good learning for me and my friends of 2003 batch.

Enough is to share. But all cant be put on mail. I hope we can make it live again on 11 JUne. I, further, request every harcourtian in mumbai to send me the names, batch and contact nos. of harcourtians around you. you can send me this info on my Email add instead of marking everybody on group. Later i will compile all and release it on group.

At last, I congratulate Banglore alumni on 2nd birthday of this successful group and request Anurag sir to invite Mr. Sudhir Bhatia of Mech '89 batch on board (HBTI_Alumni).

Thanks & warm regards,
Ankush Kushwaha
che '2003

-----Original Message-----
From: HBTI_Alumni On Behalf Of rajeeva singh gautam
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [HBTI_Alumni] Yesterday's Alumni meet in Mumbai

It was wonderfull experience to meet harcourtians old and new. I must confess that new generation of Harcourtians is more informed, more focussed,have higher awareness level and are better prepared for corporate world than what we were. Thanks to technology and tools available today. During our time we had to struggle a lot to find little info about any subject.But these guys are working hard so they are delivering better results. (even campus placement speaks about it )Goodluck to them.

I had attended few HBTI alumini meets in mumbai around 90's and has the opportunity to meet some very senior Ex harcourtian.I do remember Mr. Agrawal ( then adviser RCF ) passout 1941, Mr. Ahmed passout 1946 ,Mr.Tyagi passout of sixties something.One of the meets was organised in his lawns at RCF colony.It had around 50 alumini attending that meet .It use to be family meet.But it faded away with time.Those days I was a fresher.I was surprised to know that all top guns in paint , chemical, petroleum companies were harcourtians. ( Directors/ chairman / MD/ GMs at HPCl, BPCL, RCF,Juari agro, Nocil , likes were headed by our seniors )

I think we must revive the trend.Organise Zonal alumini meets ( at kanpur, lucknow, delhi, mumbai, Banglore etc, or wherever we can )Share the databank and information contact details of harcourtians to be made availble on request ( of the people who have no objection to it ).For example if some one visits mumbai he can find out harcourtian details in mumbai, can meet his friends/ batchmates or pass info abnout his visit and others in town can meet him.

If we will unite, we will be strong and we will be heard then we will be able to help our almamatter in more organised and effective manner.

Capt.R.S.Gautam
Mech '1988

#=======May15, 2005: An account of NCR Harcourtians meet by Shubha Agrawal =======
-----Original Message-----
From: HBTI_Alumni On Behalf Of SAgrawal
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 7:35 PM
To: HBTI_Alumni
Subject: [HBTI_Alumni]NCR_MEET

Gone are the days,We learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, we lost, We laughed, we cried, we fought, we thought. Gone are the days But not the memories, which will be Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and Ever and ever and Ever.

To Memorize the old days is always a nostalgic feeling as “Ramu Da ki Chai”Same happened in NCR_Delhi_Meet. From the cluster of 300 stars of NCR region only about 20 fortunate to be a part of an important milestone of the memorable journey of the Harcourtians ahead. The attendance is as follows:

Mr. Awanish Jaiswal (1999: TCS)
Mr. Mayank Bansal (2000: Dabur)
Mr. Anand Kr. Gupta (2000:Technip)
Mr. Digvijay Pratap Singh (2000: STM)
Mr. Shailesh (2000:IBAB)
Mr. Nityanand (2001:IOCL)
Mr. Shikher Kr. Gupta (2003:Induslogic)
Ms. Neha Jain (2003: HCL Tech)
Mr. Arvind Verma (2003: TCS)
Mr. Mihir Jha (2003:IPOLICY)
Mr. Shubha Agrawal (2003:Technip)
Mr. Girish Joshi (2004:BirlaSoft)
Mr. Kuldeep Chahal (2004:Motorola)
Mr.Anand Yadav (2004: Thomson Digital)
Mr. Satyajit Gupta (2004: Samtel Color Ltd.)
Mr.Ajay Singh(2004: BEL)
Mr. Pradeep (2004:Igate)

We have some minutes of meeting to discuss with the forum as:
To come up with a formal channel of communication between HBTI and HBTI_Alumni group. For example COPA or One representative from Training And Placement department can be assigned as prime person for contact in case of any information to be conveyed. For instance in NCR_Meet with us we have Mr. Mayank Bansal from Dabur who is interested in recruiting candidates from HBTI but have no clue to whom to contact.
No doubt Software and IT people are contributive and it is necessary too but we have to bring other branches of engineering in active participation too.
To come up with the database of NCR people out of which some of the people will be assigned for a committee to organize a chapter of HBTI_Alumini_Meet in NCR.
We have tentative plan to organize a Grand_AluminiMeet_NCR by 3rd Sunday of June’05. Last but not the least thanks to all Harcourtians and Digvijay Sir to make this event as a great success. Hope in future we will build up the strong bonding in between Harcourtian’s family and will come up with brilliant
potential.

Regards and Thanks.
Shubha Agrawal

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