H7 Hats Alumni - FY Action - Request for Rs. 1.5 Lakhs for GJ celebrations.

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Hemant Patel

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Oct 18, 2013, 9:13:14 PM10/18/13

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Hello Kumar, Suhas, Anshul,Karan Rai and other alumni on the H7 Hats core:

There is a request from Amit, H7 Gsec. & warden for HATS funds in support of the GJ kick-off.

They approached Dean Student Affairs requesting Rs. 1.5 Lakhs, but have been turned down. See attachment.

So now they are approaching us for HATS funds.

We have the requested funds,

I solicit your thoughts, suggestions, before approving

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tejas Kolhe <tejas.k...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: BD & DB - FY Action - Need your help for launching two HaTs projects at H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27
To: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>, Bakul Desai <bakul...@gmail.com>, Sandeep Pandya <san...@ieee.org>, hat...@googlegroups.com, "iitbaa.directors" <iitbaa.d...@iitbombay.org>, Namita Lobo <njl.i...@gmail.com>, mihir patel <mihirp...@gmail.com>

Hi Hemant,

Yes, there is a existing "Abhyasika" project (it is also an alumnus funded project) ! Mr. Avi Nash from 1975 batch have undertaken 7 student projects (with a annual total funding of 5.5 Lakhs).

Anyways,

We need to come up with another name. Also, I remember having long discussions over this idea with Mihir! (So CCing him in this mail) Being from H7, I think Mihir will be enthusiastic for getting involved in this!

Regarding reaching out to H7 alumni through Phonathon, we will be happy to do that,subject to your green signal !

Also,

Another important thing,

For GJ celebration, Amit sent a special budget application through Dean SA !
As this is a first time, any hostel is celebrating GJ, as per Dean sir's comments, "there are no special funds for such purpose. It may be advisable to use H7 HATS funds subject to availability and if permitted by HATS leadership team"

Attaching a application letter with comments from Dean SA and ACR sir.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello DB

Yes, Abhyasika is a great concept, although Kohle and SARC students tell me that there is another program with exactly same name.

So H7 will have to be more creative and come up with a different name.

OCt 24-27 is the kickoff, but the GJ celebrations will continue through January. So more alumni would be able to participate (i.e, visit hostel and interact with students.) They would arrange another event in January at the GJ conclusion.

For now we are ok to reach out H7 alumni by emails and yahoo/google groups. We might include Phonathon next 2 months..

Hemant Patel
Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)
Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India
Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Dear Hemant and H7 team,

I agree. Abhyashika sounds like an excellent initiative and congrats to you all for taking this forward. We will of course work with you all to make the event a success. One question - the dates for the Golden Jubilee event is Oct 24th-27th right? Is that enough time to get all the H7 junta to attend?

Also SARC contacts regular phonathons every month. Do you want to use that to reach out to H7 alumni?

Regards

Damayanti

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello Bakul Desai & Damayanti Bhattacharya

I am addressing to two of you since you are most aware about HaTs and MH*2. I am CCing to all directors to keep them informed.

---------------------------------------

H7 HaTs team need your help and guidance.

H7 is kicking off it's GJ celebrations on Oct 24-27. We want to inform and invite all H7 alumni. Would you please instruct our web team to send me a password protected distribution list. I am aware of the non-disclosure rules which I will strictly follow.

Secondly and more importantly, I need your help / pointers in getting media coverage for the event. H7 is launching two novel projects on Sunday, Oct 27 in the afternoon. Getting some publicity will be good because it will also set the stage for students of other hostels.

Abhyasika - The students are taking up this project to educate the CURRENT mess workers. The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. For More, click on this link. I am very impressed that the students thought about taking some time in their busy schedule to educate the msess workers! I think the media would get a nice article. It may be titled - " IIT students become teachers" or something catchy like that.

Make Hostel My Home - We have been talking about this for a while. Now we are ready to launch it.

Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs and alumni secs of all the hostels. I talked about HATS and MH*2. There was very high level of interest. Together, we decided to "pilot" MH*2 program at H7. Once we iron out the devilish details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. Amit (H7 G.sec) and Ranjan (H7 warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7.

You might have seen this (photo story) before. For the H7 Pilot, students are working out the implementation details, but at a high level this would be launched as an inter-wing competition. The council would conduct monthly audits and select the best wing. Every student in the wing will get 4-5 "free wash" passes. The first three winning entries would be given points (e.g., Gold 5, Silver 3, Bronze 1) and a running tally would be made. The wing that gets most points for the entire year would get a big prize. This could be given during the annual welfi event.

Once the students have drafted the "rule book", I will share with IITBAA directors for their comments and upgrades.

Hemant Patel
Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)
Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Subject: H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27 & other tidbits
To: hat...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>

Hello Kumar, Karan Rai, Anshul

I tried to contact the three of you yesterday regarding the Golden Jubilee event kick-off that Hostel 7 students are organizing. I still want to talk to you, but to save time and to reach broader H7 HATS, I am sharing the info details with the entire H7 core group.

Hello ALL:

The H7 GJ event is almost upon us. I just got the event details from Amit Kumar (current G.Sec,) a few hours ago and hence the lateness in contacting you.

This is a rather long message with a lot of bits of information and action items. Please take time to read carefully. Feel free to share your thoughts.. This request is to solicit help from all of you to roll up your sleeves and make the GJ event a great success. Feel free to share ideas/comments/thoughts.

The name of H7 core group (this group) is changed to hostel H7 HATS and the group ID is hat...@googlegroups.com. This change has been made in order to be consistent with the names of the HATS groups of other hostels. The membership & objectives remain unchanged. With the exception of Prof Ranjan Panda (H7 warden), Bakul Desai (IITBAA Chair) and Vishwas Goel (IITB HATS ALumni secy), all members are past or current H7 office bearers. If you would like to view group membership, here are the instructions

Karan Rai SIngh (78 ChemE) is my senior and was also H7 G.sec one year prior to me. Like me, he has recently retired from paid work and relocated to India (Uttarakhand). Even after 30+ years, he is passionately in love with the old Lady. Earlier this year he and several other batchmates organized a very successful reunion at H7. He wants to take an active role in this group. We all welcome him.

I have been to H7 several times in the past month. I also met the warden, Ranjan Panda, who came over to meet me late at night. I am quite impressed with the passion of the current office bearers and the warden. They have not only a lot of fresh ideas, but they have begun implementing of them. The team is very busy organizing the GJ kickoff.

Warden and the students recognized that since this is a short notice, not a lot of alumni would be able to come at the kickoff. So we decided to keep the event open for 3 months and the alumni could come whenever there schedule permits. The GJ celebration will last through January 2014. Here is the link for the GJ kick-off invite. This is a 3-day event packed with a lot of activities. Here is the link to the action packed 3-days. When I looked at how jam-packed the three days are, I started wondering how can the students have so much free time on hand - The educational rigour at IITB must have dropped off. Anyway, the alumni are invited to all three days, but I suspect that many will not be able to spare all three days. So we should make a pitch for attending at least the last day, Sunday Oct 27. This is when two new HaTS projects will be Kicked off at 4:30 PM:

Abhyasika - This is to educate the CURRENT mess workers. The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. For More, click on this link.

Make Hostel My Home - I trust that most of you have heard about the MH*2 concept. If not, click here to watch a photo story put together by students. The idea is to empower students to improve their living environment. Some of the ideas to encourage students are:

• Periodic Audits and prizes (e.g. free washing passes for the winning wing)

• Promotion and encouragement - Post pictures on the web. (Good, Bad, Ugly)

• Press students and authorities to act
• Annual trophy for the “Homeliest Wing”
This concept has been languishing for ~3 years. Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs of all the hostels amongst whom I saw high level of interest. We have decided to "pilot" the program at H7 and once we iron out the details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. Amit (G.sec) and Ranjan (warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. Amit is putting together the implementation details and will share with us later today. (Amit - you are on notice...)

I will be discussing with Bakul (IITBAA chair) and Damayanti (IITBAA CEO) if we can get media coverage when these projects are kicked off.
Now coming to some personalized requests:

Kumar - Would you please send out an email and an invite to the Yahoo group. Please make a strong pitch for the bomayites to participate. I have created a web sign-up form so that Amit (G.sec) can have a rough count.

Balaji - Likewise, would you please send out to your group. Pl coordinate with Kumar to minimize duplicated effort.
ALL: We want to reach out to as many of H7 junta as possible, and as quickly as possible. One way is to ask past H7 office bearers to forward the invite to their H7 contacts. We have begun collecting the contact info of the office bearers. Would you please click here to access this google DB and provide any contact ifo that you might have. Please provide the info by Fri 18th.

Karan Rai - By 18th we should have contact info of past office bearers. Would you please send an email to this group by 19th, informing of this event and requesting them to forward it to all their H7 contacts. coordinate with Kumar/Balaji to avoid duplicated effort.

We can also extract the H7 distribution list from the AA database. I will contact Bakul and Damayanti for their help .

I think there is enough info for you to think about and start working. I will share more later.

Hemant Patel
Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India
1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

--
Damayanti Bhattacharya
Chief Executive Officer,
IIT Bombay Alumni Association
1st Floor, Gulmohar Building,
IIT Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai 400 076
Tel. No.: 022-25767086 / 9769868560

Regards,

Tejas Kolhe
Overall coordinator,

Student Alumni Relations Cell,

IIT Bombay.

9860828437 / 7208555100.

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Anshul Laad

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Oct 19, 2013, 10:08:18 AM10/19/13

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Hi Hemant/Core Group,

Agreed, I also think we should approve the funds. Do we know the total Alumni (with family) attending the GJ function?

Thanks.

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Kumar Vora

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Oct 19, 2013, 1:39:10 PM10/19/13

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Looking at the attached document, I don't understand the request for Rs 1.5L.ï¿½ The estimate calls for an expenditure of Rs 4.5L.ï¿½ Which activities are already funded (Rs 3L) and which ones are they requesting the money for?

Frankly, I am at best ambivalent about this.ï¿½ When the money was raised, MOST of the money came for the messworker fund.ï¿½ Some for the education initiatives.ï¿½ Many of the activities (funding gala dinner, T-shirts, laser tag...) etc sound more like entertainment than the kind of social initiatives for which the alumni had agreed to contribute their money.ï¿½ I would be willing to bet that if you go to the larger alumni pool and ask for money for such activities as funding dinners and T-shirts, it would be hard to raise ~$3000 that's being requested.

I don't think this is a good use of HATS funds - it is against the spirit through which the money was originally raised for "the lady of the lake".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/18/13 6:13 PM, Hemant Patel wrote:

Hello ï¿½Kumar, Suhas, Anshul,Karan Rai and other alumni on the H7 Hats core:

There is a request from Amit, H7 Gsec. & warden for HATS funds in support of the GJ kick-off.

They approached Dean Student Affairs requesting Rs. 1.5 Lakhs, but have been turned down. ï¿½See attachment.

So now they are approaching us for HATS funds. ï¿½

We have the requested funds,

I solicit your thoughts, suggestions, before approving

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tejas Kolhe <tejas.k...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: BD & DB - FY Action - Need your help for launching two HaTs projects at H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27
To: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>, Bakul Desai <bakul...@gmail.com>, Sandeep Pandya <san...@ieee.org>, hat...@googlegroups.com, "iitbaa.directors" <iitbaa.d...@iitbombay.org>, Namita Lobo <njl.i...@gmail.com>, mihir patel <mihirp...@gmail.com>

Hi Hemant,ï¿½

ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ Yes, there is a existing "Abhyasika" project (it is also an alumnus funded project) ! Mr. Avi Nash from 1975 batch have undertaken 7 student projects (with a annual total funding of 5.5 Lakhs).ï¿½

Anyways,ï¿½

We need to come up with another name. Also, I remember having long discussions over this idea with Mihir! (So CCing him in this mail) Being from H7, I think Mihir will be enthusiastic for getting involved in this!ï¿½

Regarding reaching out to H7 alumni through Phonathon, we will be happy to do that,subject to your green signal !ï¿½

Also,ï¿½

Another important thing,ï¿½

For GJ celebration, Amit sent a special budget application through Dean SA !ï¿½

As this is a first time, any hostel is celebrating GJ, as per Dean sir's comments, "there are no special funds for such purpose. It may be advisable to use H7 HATS funds subject to availability and if permitted by HATS leadership team"

Attaching a application letter with comments from Dean SA and ACR sir.ï¿½

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello DB

Yes, Abhyasika is a great concept, although Kohle and SARC students tell me that there is another program with exactly same name.ï¿½

So H7 will have to be more creative and come up with a different name.

OCt 24-27 is the kickoff, but the GJ celebrations will continue through January. ï¿½So more alumni would be able to participate (i.e, visit hostel and interact with students.) They would arrange another event in January at the GJ conclusion.

For now we are ok to reach out H7 alumni by emails and yahoo/google groups. ï¿½We might include Phonathon next 2 months..

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Dear Hemant and H7 team,

I agree. Abhyashika sounds like an excellent initiative and congrats to you all for taking this forward. We will of course work with you all to make the event a success.ï¿½ One question - the dates for the Golden Jubilee event is Oct 24th-27th right? Is that enough time to get all the H7 junta to attend?

Also SARC contacts regular phonathons every month. Do you want to use that to reach out to H7 alumni?

Regards

Damayanti

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello Bakul Desai & Damayanti Bhattacharya

I am addressing to two of you since you are most aware about HaTs and MH*2. ï¿½I am CCing to all directors to keep them informed.

---------------------------------------

H7 HaTs team need your help and guidance.

H7 is kicking off it's GJ celebrations on Oct 24-27. ï¿½We want to inform and invite all H7 alumni. ï¿½Would you please instruct our web team to send me a password protected distribution list. ï¿½I am aware of the non-disclosure rules which I will strictly follow.

Secondly and more importantly, I need your help / pointers in getting media coverage for the event. ï¿½H7 is launching two novel projects on Sunday, Oct 27 in the afternoon. ï¿½Getting some publicity will be good because it will also set the stage for students of other hostels.

Abhyasikaï¿½- The students are taking up this project to educate the CURRENT mess workers. ï¿½The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. ï¿½The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. Forï¿½More, click on this link.ï¿½ I am very impressed that the students thought about taking some time in their busy schedule to educate the msess workers! ï¿½I think the media would get a nice article. ï¿½It may be titled - " IIT students become teachers" or something catchy like that.ï¿½

Make Hostel My Homeï¿½- We have been talking about this for a while. Now we are ready to launch it.ï¿½

Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs and alumni secs of all the hostels. ï¿½I talked about HATS and MH*2. ï¿½There was very high level of interest. ï¿½Together, we decided to "pilot" MH*2 program at H7. ï¿½Once we iron out the devilish details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. ï¿½Amit (H7 G.sec) and Ranjan (H7 warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. ï¿½

You might have seen this (photo story)ï¿½before. ï¿½For the H7 Pilot, students are working out the implementation details, but at a high level this would be launched as an inter-wing competition.ï¿½The council would conduct monthly audits and select the best wing. ï¿½Every student in the wing will get 4-5 "free wash" passes. ï¿½The first three winning entries would be given points (e.g., Gold 5, Silver 3, Bronze 1) and a running tally would be made. ï¿½The wing that gets most points for the entire year would get a big prize. ï¿½This ï¿½could be given during the annual welfi event. ï¿½

Once theï¿½studentsï¿½have drafted the "rule book", I will share with IITBAA directors for their comments and upgrades.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Subject: H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27 & other tidbits
To: hat...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>

Hello Kumar, Karan Rai, Anshul

I tried to contact the three of you yesterday regarding the Golden Jubilee event kick-off that Hostel 7 students are organizing. ï¿½ï¿½I still want to talk to you, but to save time and to reach broader H7 HATS, I am sharing the info details with the entire H7 core group.

Hello ALL:ï¿½

The H7 GJ event is almost upon us. ï¿½I just got the event details from Amit Kumar (current G.Sec,) a few hours ago and hence the lateness in contacting you.

This is a rather long message with a lot of bits of information and action items. ï¿½Please take time to read carefully. ï¿½Feel free to share your thoughts.. ï¿½This request is to solicit help from all of you to roll up your sleeves and make the GJ event a great success. ï¿½Feel free to share ideas/comments/thoughts.

The name of H7 core group (this group) is changed to hostel H7 HATS and the group ID is hat...@googlegroups.com. ï¿½This change has been made in order to be consistent with the names of the HATS groups of other hostels. The membership & objectives remain unchanged. ï¿½With the exception of Prof Ranjan Panda (H7 warden), Bakul Desai (IITBAA Chair) and Vishwas Goel (IITB HATS ALumni secy), all members are past or current H7 office bearers. If you would like to view group membership, here are theï¿½instructions

Karan Rai SIngh (78 ChemE) is my senior and was also H7 G.sec one year prior to me. ï¿½Like me, he has recently retired from paid work and relocated to India (Uttarakhand). ï¿½Even after 30+ years, he is passionately in love with the old Lady. ï¿½Earlier this year he and several other batchmates organized a very successful reunion at H7. ï¿½He wants to take an active role in this group. ï¿½We all welcome him.

I have been to H7 several times in the past month. ï¿½I also met the warden, Ranjan Panda, who came over to meet me late at night. ï¿½ ï¿½I am quite impressed with the passion of the current office bearers and the warden. ï¿½They have not only a lot of fresh ideas, but they have begun implementing of them. ï¿½The team is very busy organizing the GJ kickoff.ï¿½

Warden and the students recognized that since this is a short notice, not a lot of alumni would be able to come at the kickoff. ï¿½So we decided to keep the event open for 3 months and the alumni could come whenever there schedule permits. ï¿½The GJ celebration will last through January 2014. ï¿½Here is the link for the GJ kick-offï¿½invite. ï¿½This is a ï¿½3-day event packed with a lot of activities. ï¿½Here is the link to the action packed 3-days. ï¿½When I looked at how jam-packed the three days are, I started wondering how can theï¿½studentsï¿½have so much free time on hand - The educationalï¿½rigourï¿½at IITB must have dropped off. ï¿½Anyway, the alumni are invited to all three days, but I suspect that many will not be able to spare all three days. ï¿½So we should make a pitch for attending at least the last day, Sunday Oct 27. ï¿½This is when two new HaTS projects will be Kicked off at 4:30 PM:

Abhyasika - This is to educate the CURRENT mess workers. ï¿½The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. ï¿½The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. Forï¿½More, click on this link. ï¿½

Make Hostel My Home - I trust that most of you have heard about the MH*2 concept. ï¿½If not, click here to watch a photo story put together by students.ï¿½The idea is to empower students to improveï¿½their living environment. ï¿½Some of the ideas to encourage students are:
ï¿½ Periodic Audits and prizes (e.g. free washing passes for the winning wing)

ï¿½ï¿½Promotion and encouragement - Post pictures on the web. (Good, Bad, Ugly)

ï¿½ Press students and authorities to act
ï¿½ Annual trophy for the ï¿½Homeliest Wingï¿½ï¿½ï¿½

This concept has been languishing for ~3 years. ï¿½Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs of all the hostels amongst whom I saw high level of interest. ï¿½We have decided to "pilot" the program at H7 and once we iron out the details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. ï¿½Amit (G.sec) and Ranjan (warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. ï¿½Amit is putting together the implementation details and will share with us later today. ï¿½(Amit - you are on notice...)

I will be discussing with Bakul (IITBAA chair) and Damayanti (IITBAA CEO) if we can get media coverage when these projects are kicked off.ï¿½

Now coming to someï¿½personalizedï¿½requests:

Kumar - Would you please send out an email and an inviteï¿½to the Yahoo group. Please make a strong pitch for the bomayites to participate. ï¿½I have created a web sign-up form so that Amit (G.sec) can have a rough count. ï¿½

Balaji - Likewise, would you please send out to your group. ï¿½Pl coordinate with Kumar to minimize duplicated effort.

ALL: ï¿½We want to reach out to as many of H7 junta as possible, and as quickly as possible. ï¿½One way is to ask past H7 office bearers to forward the invite to their H7 contacts. ï¿½We have begun collecting the contact info of the office bearers. ï¿½Would you pleaseï¿½click here toï¿½accessï¿½this google DBï¿½and provide any contact ifo that you might have. ï¿½Please provide the info by Fri 18th.

Karan Rai - By 18th we should have contact info of past office bearers. ï¿½Would you please send an email to this group by 19th,ï¿½informingï¿½of this event and requesting them to forward it to all their H7 contacts. ï¿½coordinate with Kumar/Balaji to avoid duplicated effort.

We can also extract the H7 distribution list from the AA database. ï¿½I will contactï¿½Bakul and Damayantiï¿½for their helpï¿½.

I think there is enough info for you to think about and start working. ï¿½I will share more later.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

--
Damayanti Bhattacharya
Chief Executive Officer,
IIT Bombay Alumni Association
1st Floor, Gulmohar Building,
IIT Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai 400 076
Tel. No.: 022-25767086 / 9769868560

--

Regards,ï¿½
Tejas Kolheï¿½
Overall ï¿½coordinator,

Student Alumni Relations Cell,

IIT Bombay.

9860828437 / 7208555100.

--
ï¿½

Kumar Vora

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Oct 19, 2013, 2:15:53 PM10/19/13

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Let me be more clear about this... If you are asking for votes, then based on what I read in the doc, I would say "no".

-- Kumar Vora

Anshul Laad

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Oct 19, 2013, 2:34:45 PM10/19/13

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just curious... wouldn't it present more opportunities to raise funds for the hostel from the Alumni attending? That's what I am thinking, that this expense could serve its purpose in the long term. In any case, we need to make sure that there will be enough attendance from Alumni side (who could be potential donors)

Hostel team, do we have an idea who all have confirmed to attend the GJ functions?

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Kumar Vora <ku...@vora.com> wrote:

Let me be more clear about this... If you are asking for votes, then based on what I read in the doc, I would say "no".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/19/13 10:39 AM, Kumar Vora wrote:

Looking at the attached document, I don't understand the request for Rs 1.5L. The estimate calls for an expenditure of Rs 4.5L. Which activities are already funded (Rs 3L) and which ones are they requesting the money for?

Frankly, I am at best ambivalent about this. When the money was raised, MOST of the money came for the messworker fund. Some for the education initiatives. Many of the activities (funding gala dinner, T-shirts, laser tag...) etc sound more like entertainment than the kind of social initiatives for which the alumni had agreed to contribute their money. I would be willing to bet that if you go to the larger alumni pool and ask for money for such activities as funding dinners and T-shirts, it would be hard to raise ~$3000 that's being requested.

I don't think this is a good use of HATS funds - it is against the spirit through which the money was originally raised for "the lady of the lake".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/18/13 6:13 PM, Hemant Patel wrote:

Hello Kumar, Suhas, Anshul,Karan Rai and other alumni on the H7 Hats core:

There is a request from Amit, H7 Gsec. & warden for HATS funds in support of the GJ kick-off.

They approached Dean Student Affairs requesting Rs. 1.5 Lakhs, but have been turned down. See attachment.

So now they are approaching us for HATS funds.

We have the requested funds,

I solicit your thoughts, suggestions, before approving

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tejas Kolhe <tejas.k...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: BD & DB - FY Action - Need your help for launching two HaTs projects at H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27
To: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>, Bakul Desai <bakul...@gmail.com>, Sandeep Pandya <san...@ieee.org>, hat...@googlegroups.com, "iitbaa.directors" <iitbaa.d...@iitbombay.org>, Namita Lobo <njl.i...@gmail.com>, mihir patel <mihirp...@gmail.com>

Hi Hemant,

Yes, there is a existing "Abhyasika" project (it is also an alumnus funded project) ! Mr. Avi Nash from 1975 batch have undertaken 7 student projects (with a annual total funding of 5.5 Lakhs).

Anyways,

We need to come up with another name. Also, I remember having long discussions over this idea with Mihir! (So CCing him in this mail) Being from H7, I think Mihir will be enthusiastic for getting involved in this!

Regarding reaching out to H7 alumni through Phonathon, we will be happy to do that,subject to your green signal !

Also,

Another important thing,

For GJ celebration, Amit sent a special budget application through Dean SA !

As this is a first time, any hostel is celebrating GJ, as per Dean sir's comments, "there are no special funds for such purpose. It may be advisable to use H7 HATS funds subject to availability and if permitted by HATS leadership team"

Attaching a application letter with comments from Dean SA and ACR sir.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello DB

Yes, Abhyasika is a great concept, although Kohle and SARC students tell me that there is another program with exactly same name.

So H7 will have to be more creative and come up with a different name.

OCt 24-27 is the kickoff, but the GJ celebrations will continue through January. So more alumni would be able to participate (i.e, visit hostel and interact with students.) They would arrange another event in January at the GJ conclusion.

For now we are ok to reach out H7 alumni by emails and yahoo/google groups. We might include Phonathon next 2 months..

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Dear Hemant and H7 team,

I agree. Abhyashika sounds like an excellent initiative and congrats to you all for taking this forward. We will of course work with you all to make the event a success. One question - the dates for the Golden Jubilee event is Oct 24th-27th right? Is that enough time to get all the H7 junta to attend?

Also SARC contacts regular phonathons every month. Do you want to use that to reach out to H7 alumni?

Regards

Damayanti

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello Bakul Desai & Damayanti Bhattacharya

I am addressing to two of you since you are most aware about HaTs and MH*2. I am CCing to all directors to keep them informed.

---------------------------------------

H7 HaTs team need your help and guidance.

H7 is kicking off it's GJ celebrations on Oct 24-27. We want to inform and invite all H7 alumni. Would you please instruct our web team to send me a password protected distribution list. I am aware of the non-disclosure rules which I will strictly follow.

Secondly and more importantly, I need your help / pointers in getting media coverage for the event. H7 is launching two novel projects on Sunday, Oct 27 in the afternoon. Getting some publicity will be good because it will also set the stage for students of other hostels.

Abhyasika - The students are taking up this project to educate the CURRENT mess workers. The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. For More, click on this link. I am very impressed that the students thought about taking some time in their busy schedule to educate the msess workers! I think the media would get a nice article. It may be titled - " IIT students become teachers" or something catchy like that.

Make Hostel My Home - We have been talking about this for a while. Now we are ready to launch it.

Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs and alumni secs of all the hostels. I talked about HATS and MH*2. There was very high level of interest. Together, we decided to "pilot" MH*2 program at H7. Once we iron out the devilish details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. Amit (H7 G.sec) and Ranjan (H7 warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7.

You might have seen this (photo story) before. For the H7 Pilot, students are working out the implementation details, but at a high level this would be launched as an inter-wing competition. The council would conduct monthly audits and select the best wing. Every student in the wing will get 4-5 "free wash" passes. The first three winning entries would be given points (e.g., Gold 5, Silver 3, Bronze 1) and a running tally would be made. The wing that gets most points for the entire year would get a big prize. This could be given during the annual welfi event.

Once the students have drafted the "rule book", I will share with IITBAA directors for their comments and upgrades.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Subject: H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27 & other tidbits
To: hat...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>

Hello Kumar, Karan Rai, Anshul

I tried to contact the three of you yesterday regarding the Golden Jubilee event kick-off that Hostel 7 students are organizing. I still want to talk to you, but to save time and to reach broader H7 HATS, I am sharing the info details with the entire H7 core group.

Hello ALL:

The H7 GJ event is almost upon us. I just got the event details from Amit Kumar (current G.Sec,) a few hours ago and hence the lateness in contacting you.

This is a rather long message with a lot of bits of information and action items. Please take time to read carefully. Feel free to share your thoughts.. This request is to solicit help from all of you to roll up your sleeves and make the GJ event a great success. Feel free to share ideas/comments/thoughts.

The name of H7 core group (this group) is changed to hostel H7 HATS and the group ID is hat...@googlegroups.com. This change has been made in order to be consistent with the names of the HATS groups of other hostels. The membership & objectives remain unchanged. With the exception of Prof Ranjan Panda (H7 warden), Bakul Desai (IITBAA Chair) and Vishwas Goel (IITB HATS ALumni secy), all members are past or current H7 office bearers. If you would like to view group membership, here are the instructions

Karan Rai SIngh (78 ChemE) is my senior and was also H7 G.sec one year prior to me. Like me, he has recently retired from paid work and relocated to India (Uttarakhand). Even after 30+ years, he is passionately in love with the old Lady. Earlier this year he and several other batchmates organized a very successful reunion at H7. He wants to take an active role in this group. We all welcome him.

I have been to H7 several times in the past month. I also met the warden, Ranjan Panda, who came over to meet me late at night. I am quite impressed with the passion of the current office bearers and the warden. They have not only a lot of fresh ideas, but they have begun implementing of them. The team is very busy organizing the GJ kickoff.

Warden and the students recognized that since this is a short notice, not a lot of alumni would be able to come at the kickoff. So we decided to keep the event open for 3 months and the alumni could come whenever there schedule permits. The GJ celebration will last through January 2014. Here is the link for the GJ kick-off invite. This is a 3-day event packed with a lot of activities. Here is the link to the action packed 3-days. When I looked at how jam-packed the three days are, I started wondering how can the students have so much free time on hand - The educational rigour at IITB must have dropped off. Anyway, the alumni are invited to all three days, but I suspect that many will not be able to spare all three days. So we should make a pitch for attending at least the last day, Sunday Oct 27. This is when two new HaTS projects will be Kicked off at 4:30 PM:

Abhyasika - This is to educate the CURRENT mess workers. The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. For More, click on this link.

Make Hostel My Home - I trust that most of you have heard about the MH*2 concept. If not, click here to watch a photo story put together by students. The idea is to empower students to improve their living environment. Some of the ideas to encourage students are:
• Periodic Audits and prizes (e.g. free washing passes for the winning wing)

• Promotion and encouragement - Post pictures on the web. (Good, Bad, Ugly)

• Press students and authorities to act
• Annual trophy for the “Homeliest Wing”

This concept has been languishing for ~3 years. Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs of all the hostels amongst whom I saw high level of interest. We have decided to "pilot" the program at H7 and once we iron out the details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. Amit (G.sec) and Ranjan (warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. Amit is putting together the implementation details and will share with us later today. (Amit - you are on notice...)

I will be discussing with Bakul (IITBAA chair) and Damayanti (IITBAA CEO) if we can get media coverage when these projects are kicked off.

Now coming to some personalized requests:

Kumar - Would you please send out an email and an invite to the Yahoo group. Please make a strong pitch for the bomayites to participate. I have created a web sign-up form so that Amit (G.sec) can have a rough count.

Balaji - Likewise, would you please send out to your group. Pl coordinate with Kumar to minimize duplicated effort.

ALL: We want to reach out to as many of H7 junta as possible, and as quickly as possible. One way is to ask past H7 office bearers to forward the invite to their H7 contacts. We have begun collecting the contact info of the office bearers. Would you please click here to access this google DB and provide any contact ifo that you might have. Please provide the info by Fri 18th.

Karan Rai - By 18th we should have contact info of past office bearers. Would you please send an email to this group by 19th, informing of this event and requesting them to forward it to all their H7 contacts. coordinate with Kumar/Balaji to avoid duplicated effort.

We can also extract the H7 distribution list from the AA database. I will contact Bakul and Damayanti for their help .

I think there is enough info for you to think about and start working. I will share more later.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

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Unless we have concrete plans to turn this into a fundraising opportunity (which I have not seen), I don't think it makes sense to invest $3000 in the name of fundraising.ï¿½ To put it in perspective, our fundraising expenses to date have been near $0.

I mean absolutely no disrespect for the H7 junta that's planning this event.ï¿½ I think it is an EXCELLENT idea and I am thrilled that they are organizing this event to celebrate the 50th birthday of the lady.ï¿½

My views are solely based on appropriateness of redirecting HATS funds (which were originally raised under H7 program that had nothing to do with HATS, by the way) into this activity.ï¿½ We are custodians of H7 funds, and they were raised based for a set of activities and causes.ï¿½ This one seems rather different, that's all.

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/19/13 11:34 AM, Anshul Laad wrote:

just curious... wouldn't it present more opportunities to raise funds for the hostel from the Alumni attending? That's what I am thinking, that this expense could serve its purpose in the long term. In any case, we need to make sure that there will be enough attendance from Alumni side (who could be potential donors)

Hostel team, do we have an idea who all have confirmed to attend the GJ functions?

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Kumar Vora <ku...@vora.com> wrote:

Let me be more clear about this... If you are asking for votes, then based on what I read in the doc, I would say "no".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/19/13 10:39 AM, Kumar Vora wrote:

Looking at the attached document, I don't understand the request for Rs 1.5L.ï¿½ The estimate calls for an expenditure of Rs 4.5L.ï¿½ Which activities are already funded (Rs 3L) and which ones are they requesting the money for?

Frankly, I am at best ambivalent about this.ï¿½ When the money was raised, MOST of the money came for the messworker fund.ï¿½ Some for the education initiatives.ï¿½ Many of the activities (funding gala dinner, T-shirts, laser tag...) etc sound more like entertainment than the kind of social initiatives for which the alumni had agreed to contribute their money.ï¿½ I would be willing to bet that if you go to the larger alumni pool and ask for money for such activities as funding dinners and T-shirts, it would be hard to raise ~$3000 that's being requested.

I don't think this is a good use of HATS funds - it is against the spirit through which the money was originally raised for "the lady of the lake".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/18/13 6:13 PM, Hemant Patel wrote:

Hello ï¿½Kumar, Suhas, Anshul,Karan Rai and other alumni on the H7 Hats core:

There is a request from Amit, H7 Gsec. & warden for HATS funds in support of the GJ kick-off.

They approached Dean Student Affairs requesting Rs. 1.5 Lakhs, but have been turned down. ï¿½See attachment.

So now they are approaching us for HATS funds. ï¿½

We have the requested funds,

I solicit your thoughts, suggestions, before approving

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tejas Kolhe <tejas.k...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: BD & DB - FY Action - Need your help for launching two HaTs projects at H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27
To: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>, Bakul Desai <bakul...@gmail.com>, Sandeep Pandya <san...@ieee.org>, hat...@googlegroups.com, "iitbaa.directors" <iitbaa.d...@iitbombay.org>, Namita Lobo <njl.i...@gmail.com>, mihir patel <mihirp...@gmail.com>

Hi Hemant,ï¿½

ï¿½ ï¿½ ï¿½ Yes, there is a existing "Abhyasika" project (it is also an alumnus funded project) ! Mr. Avi Nash from 1975 batch have undertaken 7 student projects (with a annual total funding of 5.5 Lakhs).ï¿½

Anyways,ï¿½

We need to come up with another name. Also, I remember having long discussions over this idea with Mihir! (So CCing him in this mail) Being from H7, I think Mihir will be enthusiastic for getting involved in this!ï¿½

Regarding reaching out to H7 alumni through Phonathon, we will be happy to do that,subject to your green signal !ï¿½

Also,ï¿½

Another important thing,ï¿½

For GJ celebration, Amit sent a special budget application through Dean SA !ï¿½

As this is a first time, any hostel is celebrating GJ, as per Dean sir's comments, "there are no special funds for such purpose. It may be advisable to use H7 HATS funds subject to availability and if permitted by HATS leadership team"

Attaching a application letter with comments from Dean SA and ACR sir.ï¿½

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello DB

Yes, Abhyasika is a great concept, although Kohle and SARC students tell me that there is another program with exactly same name.ï¿½

So H7 will have to be more creative and come up with a different name.

OCt 24-27 is the kickoff, but the GJ celebrations will continue through January. ï¿½So more alumni would be able to participate (i.e, visit hostel and interact with students.) They would arrange another event in January at the GJ conclusion.

For now we are ok to reach out H7 alumni by emails and yahoo/google groups. ï¿½We might include Phonathon next 2 months..

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Dear Hemant and H7 team,

I agree. Abhyashika sounds like an excellent initiative and congrats to you all for taking this forward. We will of course work with you all to make the event a success.ï¿½ One question - the dates for the Golden Jubilee event is Oct 24th-27th right? Is that enough time to get all the H7 junta to attend?

Also SARC contacts regular phonathons every month. Do you want to use that to reach out to H7 alumni?

Regards

Damayanti

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello Bakul Desai & Damayanti Bhattacharya

I am addressing to two of you since you are most aware about HaTs and MH*2. ï¿½I am CCing to all directors to keep them informed.

---------------------------------------

H7 HaTs team need your help and guidance.

H7 is kicking off it's GJ celebrations on Oct 24-27. ï¿½We want to inform and invite all H7 alumni. ï¿½Would you please instruct our web team to send me a password protected distribution list. ï¿½I am aware of the non-disclosure rules which I will strictly follow.

Secondly and more importantly, I need your help / pointers in getting media coverage for the event. ï¿½H7 is launching two novel projects on Sunday, Oct 27 in the afternoon. ï¿½Getting some publicity will be good because it will also set the stage for students of other hostels.

Abhyasikaï¿½- The students are taking up this project to educate the CURRENT mess workers. ï¿½The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. ï¿½The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. Forï¿½More, click on this link.ï¿½ I am very impressed that the students thought about taking some time in their busy schedule to educate the msess workers! ï¿½I think the media would get a nice article. ï¿½It may be titled - " IIT students become teachers" or something catchy like that.ï¿½

Make Hostel My Homeï¿½- We have been talking about this for a while. Now we are ready to launch it.ï¿½

Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs and alumni secs of all the hostels. ï¿½I talked about HATS and MH*2. ï¿½There was very high level of interest. ï¿½Together, we decided to "pilot" MH*2 program at H7. ï¿½Once we iron out the devilish details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. ï¿½Amit (H7 G.sec) and Ranjan (H7 warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. ï¿½

You might have seen this (photo story)ï¿½before. ï¿½For the H7 Pilot, students are working out the implementation details, but at a high level this would be launched as an inter-wing competition.ï¿½The council would conduct monthly audits and select the best wing. ï¿½Every student in the wing will get 4-5 "free wash" passes. ï¿½The first three winning entries would be given points (e.g., Gold 5, Silver 3, Bronze 1) and a running tally would be made. ï¿½The wing that gets most points for the entire year would get a big prize. ï¿½This ï¿½could be given during the annual welfi event. ï¿½

Once theï¿½studentsï¿½have drafted the "rule book", I will share with IITBAA directors for their comments and upgrades.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Subject: H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27 & other tidbits
To: hat...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>

Hello Kumar, Karan Rai, Anshul

I tried to contact the three of you yesterday regarding the Golden Jubilee event kick-off that Hostel 7 students are organizing. ï¿½ï¿½I still want to talk to you, but to save time and to reach broader H7 HATS, I am sharing the info details with the entire H7 core group.

Hello ALL:ï¿½

The H7 GJ event is almost upon us. ï¿½I just got the event details from Amit Kumar (current G.Sec,) a few hours ago and hence the lateness in contacting you.

This is a rather long message with a lot of bits of information and action items. ï¿½Please take time to read carefully. ï¿½Feel free to share your thoughts.. ï¿½This request is to solicit help from all of you to roll up your sleeves and make the GJ event a great success. ï¿½Feel free to share ideas/comments/thoughts.

The name of H7 core group (this group) is changed to hostel H7 HATS and the group ID is hat...@googlegroups.com. ï¿½This change has been made in order to be consistent with the names of the HATS groups of other hostels. The membership & objectives remain unchanged. ï¿½With the exception of Prof Ranjan Panda (H7 warden), Bakul Desai (IITBAA Chair) and Vishwas Goel (IITB HATS ALumni secy), all members are past or current H7 office bearers. If you would like to view group membership, here are theï¿½instructions

Karan Rai SIngh (78 ChemE) is my senior and was also H7 G.sec one year prior to me. ï¿½Like me, he has recently retired from paid work and relocated to India (Uttarakhand). ï¿½Even after 30+ years, he is passionately in love with the old Lady. ï¿½Earlier this year he and several other batchmates organized a very successful reunion at H7. ï¿½He wants to take an active role in this group. ï¿½We all welcome him.

I have been to H7 several times in the past month. ï¿½I also met the warden, Ranjan Panda, who came over to meet me late at night. ï¿½ ï¿½I am quite impressed with the passion of the current office bearers and the warden. ï¿½They have not only a lot of fresh ideas, but they have begun implementing of them. ï¿½The team is very busy organizing the GJ kickoff.ï¿½

Warden and the students recognized that since this is a short notice, not a lot of alumni would be able to come at the kickoff. ï¿½So we decided to keep the event open for 3 months and the alumni could come whenever there schedule permits. ï¿½The GJ celebration will last through January 2014. ï¿½Here is the link for the GJ kick-offï¿½invite. ï¿½This is a ï¿½3-day event packed with a lot of activities. ï¿½Here is the link to the action packed 3-days. ï¿½When I looked at how jam-packed the three days are, I started wondering how can theï¿½studentsï¿½have so much free time on hand - The educationalï¿½rigourï¿½at IITB must have dropped off. ï¿½Anyway, the alumni are invited to all three days, but I suspect that many will not be able to spare all three days. ï¿½So we should make a pitch for attending at least the last day, Sunday Oct 27. ï¿½This is when two new HaTS projects will be Kicked off at 4:30 PM:

Abhyasika - This is to educate the CURRENT mess workers. ï¿½The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. ï¿½The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. Forï¿½More, click on this link. ï¿½

Make Hostel My Home - I trust that most of you have heard about the MH*2 concept. ï¿½If not, click here to watch a photo story put together by students.ï¿½The idea is to empower students to improveï¿½their living environment. ï¿½Some of the ideas to encourage students are:
ï¿½ Periodic Audits and prizes (e.g. free washing passes for the winning wing)

ï¿½ï¿½Promotion and encouragement - Post pictures on the web. (Good, Bad, Ugly)

ï¿½ Press students and authorities to act
ï¿½ Annual trophy for the ï¿½Homeliest Wingï¿½ï¿½ï¿½

This concept has been languishing for ~3 years. ï¿½Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs of all the hostels amongst whom I saw high level of interest. ï¿½We have decided to "pilot" the program at H7 and once we iron out the details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. ï¿½Amit (G.sec) and Ranjan (warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. ï¿½Amit is putting together the implementation details and will share with us later today. ï¿½(Amit - you are on notice...)

I will be discussing with Bakul (IITBAA chair) and Damayanti (IITBAA CEO) if we can get media coverage when these projects are kicked off.ï¿½

Now coming to someï¿½personalizedï¿½requests:

Kumar - Would you please send out an email and an inviteï¿½to the Yahoo group. Please make a strong pitch for the bomayites to participate. ï¿½I have created a web sign-up form so that Amit (G.sec) can have a rough count. ï¿½

Balaji - Likewise, would you please send out to your group. ï¿½Pl coordinate with Kumar to minimize duplicated effort.

ALL: ï¿½We want to reach out to as many of H7 junta as possible, and as quickly as possible. ï¿½One way is to ask past H7 office bearers to forward the invite to their H7 contacts. ï¿½We have begun collecting the contact info of the office bearers. ï¿½Would you pleaseï¿½click here toï¿½accessï¿½this google DBï¿½and provide any contact ifo that you might have. ï¿½Please provide the info by Fri 18th.

Karan Rai - By 18th we should have contact info of past office bearers. ï¿½Would you please send an email to this group by 19th,ï¿½informingï¿½of this event and requesting them to forward it to all their H7 contacts. ï¿½coordinate with Kumar/Balaji to avoid duplicated effort.

We can also extract the H7 distribution list from the AA database. ï¿½I will contactï¿½Bakul and Damayantiï¿½for their helpï¿½.

I think there is enough info for you to think about and start working. ï¿½I will share more later.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India ï¿½

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

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IIT Bombay Alumni Association
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IIT Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai 400 076
Tel. No.: 022-25767086 / 9769868560

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IIT Bombay.

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Good point Kumar. I did not think it through. I will try to think of some viable plan.

Hemant/Suhas.. any thoughts on how to use this opportunity to raise some more funds.. or fully/partially replenish the H7 Alumni fund (if we finally decide to fund the event)?

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Kumar Vora <ku...@vora.com> wrote:

Unless we have concrete plans to turn this into a fundraising opportunity (which I have not seen), I don't think it makes sense to invest $3000 in the name of fundraising. To put it in perspective, our fundraising expenses to date have been near $0.

I mean absolutely no disrespect for the H7 junta that's planning this event. I think it is an EXCELLENT idea and I am thrilled that they are organizing this event to celebrate the 50th birthday of the lady.

My views are solely based on appropriateness of redirecting HATS funds (which were originally raised under H7 program that had nothing to do with HATS, by the way) into this activity. We are custodians of H7 funds, and they were raised based for a set of activities and causes. This one seems rather different, that's all.

-- Kumar Vora
On 10/19/13 11:34 AM, Anshul Laad wrote:

just curious... wouldn't it present more opportunities to raise funds for the hostel from the Alumni attending? That's what I am thinking, that this expense could serve its purpose in the long term. In any case, we need to make sure that there will be enough attendance from Alumni side (who could be potential donors)

Hostel team, do we have an idea who all have confirmed to attend the GJ functions?

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Kumar Vora <ku...@vora.com> wrote:

Let me be more clear about this... If you are asking for votes, then based on what I read in the doc, I would say "no".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/19/13 10:39 AM, Kumar Vora wrote:

Looking at the attached document, I don't understand the request for Rs 1.5L. The estimate calls for an expenditure of Rs 4.5L. Which activities are already funded (Rs 3L) and which ones are they requesting the money for?

Frankly, I am at best ambivalent about this. When the money was raised, MOST of the money came for the messworker fund. Some for the education initiatives. Many of the activities (funding gala dinner, T-shirts, laser tag...) etc sound more like entertainment than the kind of social initiatives for which the alumni had agreed to contribute their money. I would be willing to bet that if you go to the larger alumni pool and ask for money for such activities as funding dinners and T-shirts, it would be hard to raise ~$3000 that's being requested.

I don't think this is a good use of HATS funds - it is against the spirit through which the money was originally raised for "the lady of the lake".

-- Kumar Vora

On 10/18/13 6:13 PM, Hemant Patel wrote:

Hello Kumar, Suhas, Anshul,Karan Rai and other alumni on the H7 Hats core:

There is a request from Amit, H7 Gsec. & warden for HATS funds in support of the GJ kick-off.

They approached Dean Student Affairs requesting Rs. 1.5 Lakhs, but have been turned down. See attachment.

So now they are approaching us for HATS funds.

We have the requested funds,

I solicit your thoughts, suggestions, before approving

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

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From: Tejas Kolhe <tejas.k...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: BD & DB - FY Action - Need your help for launching two HaTs projects at H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27
To: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>, Bakul Desai <bakul...@gmail.com>, Sandeep Pandya <san...@ieee.org>, hat...@googlegroups.com, "iitbaa.directors" <iitbaa.d...@iitbombay.org>, Namita Lobo <njl.i...@gmail.com>, mihir patel <mihirp...@gmail.com>

Hi Hemant,

Yes, there is a existing "Abhyasika" project (it is also an alumnus funded project) ! Mr. Avi Nash from 1975 batch have undertaken 7 student projects (with a annual total funding of 5.5 Lakhs).

Anyways,

We need to come up with another name. Also, I remember having long discussions over this idea with Mihir! (So CCing him in this mail) Being from H7, I think Mihir will be enthusiastic for getting involved in this!

Regarding reaching out to H7 alumni through Phonathon, we will be happy to do that,subject to your green signal !

Also,

Another important thing,

For GJ celebration, Amit sent a special budget application through Dean SA !

As this is a first time, any hostel is celebrating GJ, as per Dean sir's comments, "there are no special funds for such purpose. It may be advisable to use H7 HATS funds subject to availability and if permitted by HATS leadership team"

Attaching a application letter with comments from Dean SA and ACR sir.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello DB

Yes, Abhyasika is a great concept, although Kohle and SARC students tell me that there is another program with exactly same name.

So H7 will have to be more creative and come up with a different name.

OCt 24-27 is the kickoff, but the GJ celebrations will continue through January. So more alumni would be able to participate (i.e, visit hostel and interact with students.) They would arrange another event in January at the GJ conclusion.

For now we are ok to reach out H7 alumni by emails and yahoo/google groups. We might include Phonathon next 2 months..

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Dear Hemant and H7 team,

I agree. Abhyashika sounds like an excellent initiative and congrats to you all for taking this forward. We will of course work with you all to make the event a success. One question - the dates for the Golden Jubilee event is Oct 24th-27th right? Is that enough time to get all the H7 junta to attend?

Also SARC contacts regular phonathons every month. Do you want to use that to reach out to H7 alumni?

Regards

Damayanti

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org> wrote:

Hello Bakul Desai & Damayanti Bhattacharya

I am addressing to two of you since you are most aware about HaTs and MH*2. I am CCing to all directors to keep them informed.

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H7 HaTs team need your help and guidance.

H7 is kicking off it's GJ celebrations on Oct 24-27. We want to inform and invite all H7 alumni. Would you please instruct our web team to send me a password protected distribution list. I am aware of the non-disclosure rules which I will strictly follow.

Secondly and more importantly, I need your help / pointers in getting media coverage for the event. H7 is launching two novel projects on Sunday, Oct 27 in the afternoon. Getting some publicity will be good because it will also set the stage for students of other hostels.

Abhyasika - The students are taking up this project to educate the CURRENT mess workers. The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. For More, click on this link. I am very impressed that the students thought about taking some time in their busy schedule to educate the msess workers! I think the media would get a nice article. It may be titled - " IIT students become teachers" or something catchy like that.

Make Hostel My Home - We have been talking about this for a while. Now we are ready to launch it.

Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs and alumni secs of all the hostels. I talked about HATS and MH*2. There was very high level of interest. Together, we decided to "pilot" MH*2 program at H7. Once we iron out the devilish details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. Amit (H7 G.sec) and Ranjan (H7 warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7.

You might have seen this (photo story) before. For the H7 Pilot, students are working out the implementation details, but at a high level this would be launched as an inter-wing competition. The council would conduct monthly audits and select the best wing. Every student in the wing will get 4-5 "free wash" passes. The first three winning entries would be given points (e.g., Gold 5, Silver 3, Bronze 1) and a running tally would be made. The wing that gets most points for the entire year would get a big prize. This could be given during the annual welfi event.

Once the students have drafted the "rule book", I will share with IITBAA directors for their comments and upgrades.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

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From: Hemant Patel <h4...@iitbombay.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM
Subject: H7 Golden Jubilee Kickoff Oct 25-27 & other tidbits
To: hat...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Damayanti Bhattacharya <ceo.i...@iitbombay.org>

Hello Kumar, Karan Rai, Anshul

I tried to contact the three of you yesterday regarding the Golden Jubilee event kick-off that Hostel 7 students are organizing. I still want to talk to you, but to save time and to reach broader H7 HATS, I am sharing the info details with the entire H7 core group.

Hello ALL:

The H7 GJ event is almost upon us. I just got the event details from Amit Kumar (current G.Sec,) a few hours ago and hence the lateness in contacting you.

This is a rather long message with a lot of bits of information and action items. Please take time to read carefully. Feel free to share your thoughts.. This request is to solicit help from all of you to roll up your sleeves and make the GJ event a great success. Feel free to share ideas/comments/thoughts.

The name of H7 core group (this group) is changed to hostel H7 HATS and the group ID is hat...@googlegroups.com. This change has been made in order to be consistent with the names of the HATS groups of other hostels. The membership & objectives remain unchanged. With the exception of Prof Ranjan Panda (H7 warden), Bakul Desai (IITBAA Chair) and Vishwas Goel (IITB HATS ALumni secy), all members are past or current H7 office bearers. If you would like to view group membership, here are the instructions

Karan Rai SIngh (78 ChemE) is my senior and was also H7 G.sec one year prior to me. Like me, he has recently retired from paid work and relocated to India (Uttarakhand). Even after 30+ years, he is passionately in love with the old Lady. Earlier this year he and several other batchmates organized a very successful reunion at H7. He wants to take an active role in this group. We all welcome him.

I have been to H7 several times in the past month. I also met the warden, Ranjan Panda, who came over to meet me late at night. I am quite impressed with the passion of the current office bearers and the warden. They have not only a lot of fresh ideas, but they have begun implementing of them. The team is very busy organizing the GJ kickoff.

Warden and the students recognized that since this is a short notice, not a lot of alumni would be able to come at the kickoff. So we decided to keep the event open for 3 months and the alumni could come whenever there schedule permits. The GJ celebration will last through January 2014. Here is the link for the GJ kick-off invite. This is a 3-day event packed with a lot of activities. Here is the link to the action packed 3-days. When I looked at how jam-packed the three days are, I started wondering how can the students have so much free time on hand - The educational rigour at IITB must have dropped off. Anyway, the alumni are invited to all three days, but I suspect that many will not be able to spare all three days. So we should make a pitch for attending at least the last day, Sunday Oct 27. This is when two new HaTS projects will be Kicked off at 4:30 PM:

Abhyasika - This is to educate the CURRENT mess workers. The current mess workers are really kids - in their late teens and early 20s. The students want to provide them targeted training (e.g., police work) so that they can pass the exams and get better paying jobs. For More, click on this link.

Make Hostel My Home - I trust that most of you have heard about the MH*2 concept. If not, click here to watch a photo story put together by students. The idea is to empower students to improve their living environment. Some of the ideas to encourage students are:
• Periodic Audits and prizes (e.g. free washing passes for the winning wing)

• Promotion and encouragement - Post pictures on the web. (Good, Bad, Ugly)

• Press students and authorities to act
• Annual trophy for the “Homeliest Wing”

This concept has been languishing for ~3 years. Last month I had organized a meeting with G.Secs of all the hostels amongst whom I saw high level of interest. We have decided to "pilot" the program at H7 and once we iron out the details, we would roll MH*2 to all other hostels. Amit (G.sec) and Ranjan (warden) are very supportive of piloting MH*2 at H7. Amit is putting together the implementation details and will share with us later today. (Amit - you are on notice...)

I will be discussing with Bakul (IITBAA chair) and Damayanti (IITBAA CEO) if we can get media coverage when these projects are kicked off.

Now coming to some personalized requests:

Kumar - Would you please send out an email and an invite to the Yahoo group. Please make a strong pitch for the bomayites to participate. I have created a web sign-up form so that Amit (G.sec) can have a rough count.

Balaji - Likewise, would you please send out to your group. Pl coordinate with Kumar to minimize duplicated effort.

ALL: We want to reach out to as many of H7 junta as possible, and as quickly as possible. One way is to ask past H7 office bearers to forward the invite to their H7 contacts. We have begun collecting the contact info of the office bearers. Would you please click here to access this google DB and provide any contact ifo that you might have. Please provide the info by Fri 18th.

Karan Rai - By 18th we should have contact info of past office bearers. Would you please send an email to this group by 19th, informing of this event and requesting them to forward it to all their H7 contacts. coordinate with Kumar/Balaji to avoid duplicated effort.

We can also extract the H7 distribution list from the AA database. I will contact Bakul and Damayanti for their help .

I think there is enough info for you to think about and start working. I will share more later.

Hemant Patel

Contact number : +91 98 7911 0671 (India)

Muni Seva Ashram, Goraj, India

Excellent Renewable Pvt. Ltd., Valsad, India

1804 Key Blvd., El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 423-9823

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Chief Executive Officer,
IIT Bombay Alumni Association
1st Floor, Gulmohar Building,
IIT Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai 400 076
Tel. No.: 022-25767086 / 9769868560

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Student Alumni Relations Cell,

IIT Bombay.

9860828437 / 7208555100.

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Amit kumar

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Dear sir ,

This year we have merged 7up 3.o (Hostel cultural festival) with Golden Jubilee.

Some of the stats Would make this thing more clear.

Last year 7up 2.0 Budget was approx:- 2 Lakhs. And all those entertainment events Would be covered under 7up3.0 budget only i.e. 3 Lakhs

Rough bifurcation of additional cost because of Golden Jubilee is as follows

1. Decoration and Pandals : 50 K

2. Golden Jubilee T-shirts For alumni visiting Throughout the year : 10k

3.Transition 3D structure : 10k

4. Thematic Graphite Painting of Lounge and Pool Room : 30 k

5. Gala Dinner ( Guest ) 50*500 :25k

Sir as Institute has denied us any special fund and we are already spending approx 3 lakhs from Hostel Funds, It would be of great help if you people could sanction this 1.5 lakhs.

Looking Forward to your reply and suggestion.

Regards

Amit kumar

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Hostel -7

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