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Apr 5, 2012, 11:49:49 AM4/5/12
to urja-team, Beena Singh, Ayush Agarwal
A lot of ideas for our blog, fb page, etc. can be gathered from this website which keeps giving regular updates on such developments. Do check it out and please work on making urja's blog and fb page interesting.

If you have any project(s), you are welcome to discuss the same here and this is the best time to approach the appropriate prof. for the same.
If you have a project idea/came across one, that can be personalized or customized either for the campus or yourself, then bring it forward n post it on the group. If it concerns renewable energy, we'll approach MKD sir and if is related to chemistry/chemical more than EEE, then we can approach Krishnaswamy sir or Ponnani sir. To be able to convince one of the profs. you'll need to do some ground work and if it involves some kind of survey/audit data, then it would be certainly better if we work together in working it out.
We need ideas now and I urge each one of you to think of a good project for the campus..........be it of any scale!! If it is something that you think the administration should do, then please bring it to our notice here on this group. It isn't possible for me to remember all ideas we discuss in our meetings.

One more request from my side: please don't be hesitant to approach the right authority/person to ask them to change something or switch something off. If we don't tell them nobody would care to........but once people start noticing it, things will change. You don't have to go parading ........ you can always do your part as discreetly as you want it to be!!

Our job isn't over yet......putting up posters isn't it!! Keep it alive!!
Cheers!

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T.Vignesh
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