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BECA 2011Published on the occasion ofth thREBECA 2011 (7 – 10 April, 2011)Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurHowrah-711103

BECA 2011 TEAMAnkit Maheswari (4th yr, CE)Ajit Biswal (4th yr, Met)Subhodeep Khan (4th yr, EE)Md Samuel (4th yr, CE)Samyajit Basu (4th yr, CE)Ami Saha (4th yr, EE)Shaon Ghosh (4th yr, ETC)Saurav Mukherjee (4th yr, CE)Abhishek Mukherjee (3rd yr, ME)Yatindar Kumar (3rd yr, Met)Rohan Lal Das (2nd yr, IT)Ishani Banerjee (2nd yr, CE)Kennedy Gayen (1st yr, CE)Krishanu Saha (1st yr, CE)Diptesh Sanfui (1st yr, Met)

In loving memory ofDebashish Choudhary02.01.1990 – 08.10.2010Saurav Swami28.04.1992 – 19.03.2011Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear,Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer.

M E S S A G EGovernor Of West BengalRaj Bhavan, Kolkata- 700 062April 7, 2011rdOn the occasion of the 73 Annual Cultural Festival and Reunion ofBengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur Alumni“REBECA 2011”, I convey my warm greetings and best wishes.I wish its annual publication “BECA 2011” all success.M. K. Narayanan

From the Desk of the Vice ChancellorI am extremely happy to know that the students of BESU, Shibpur are going to bringout BECA – 2011, a commemorative issue on the occasion of Annual ReunionREBECA -2011.Being part of a reunion is like crossing over into another dimension of time. Standing atthe fantastic Lords ground or gazing at the historic clock tower and meeting people withwhom you spent the most enjoyable part of your life, is indeed an incredibleexperience. It gives you a rare opportunity to step back for a moment to a time whenlife was simpler, devoid of any sophistication.The commitment and continued support of our alumni is our most treasured asset.Celebrating a reunion on our majestic and exquisite university campus provides anoccasion to welcome you back and thank you for all that you have done for your almamater. As you renew ties at this reunion with your alma mater, I wish that you can findour commitment to the highest quality of teaching and research at your alma mater.Let this festival of reunion represent a union of our faith in all that is noble and ourcommitment to achieve excellence, which is eternal.I wish that amidst this festivity, your dream for brighter sunny days ahead is fulfilled andmay you all be blessed with health, prosperity and a lot of happiness.I also wish that you find a purpose in our motto of unity and fraternity – now andforever.Professor Ajoy Kumar RayVice ChancellorBengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur

On the occasion of REBECA-2011I am extremely happy to know that the annual reunion and cultural festival of ouruniversity is going to be held soon. I wish all success to the organisers of the event. Letthe cultural evening bring unity and togetherness and be on the whole an enrichingexperience for all of our students. I hope the reunion is a success, that the alumni enjoythe walk down memory lane and that our students make the most of this opportunity tointeract with the alumni and learn from their professional experience. I wish on thisoccasion to see all our students, alumni, faculty members, and other employees takingpride in being a part of this age old institution, especially when it stands at the thresholdof a transformation into an IIEST.Every year, I myself feel nostalgic when I remember this event in my college days. Iextend my heartfelt appreciation to our students for their enthusiasm in making thisevent successful. I also take this opportunity to thank all those who wish well for ouruniversity.Dr. Biman BandyopadhyayRegistrar

M E S S A G ErdIt gives me immense pleasure to be a part of the 73 annual cultural festival and re-unionthof our university, which has entered the 155 year of its glorious existence. The name ofBengal Engineering College evokes a nostalgic memory in the hearts of its illustriousalumni. I myself feel proud to be a teacher of such a great institution. The alumni havealways come forward with constructive assistance and guidance for the upliftment of theUniversity and no doubt they will continue to do so in days to come. The students,teachers, officers and employees of this university have a great responsibility to give theirbest in order to achieve excellence, particularly at such an important juncture when ouruniversity is on the verge of being transformed into IIEST. Occassions like REBECAprovides the platform to take a pledge in this respect. I wish this programme a grandsuccess.Prof. B. K. GuhaDean, Faculty of Basic & Applied Science

M E S S A G EIn our college days in this campus there were two festivals REUNION and CollegeAnnual Cultural Events. When I returned to this campus I found that those two festivalshave been merged into one, REBECA preserving the essences of both.REBECA also experienced the ups and downs as did this college turned DeemedUniversity turned State University.The final year enthusiast of REBECA, Supriya, the Secretary General approached mesix months ago and expressed his and batch mates' desire to organise REBECA 2011.Initially I was bit apprehensive whether the students would be able to gather therequired strength and support, especially after the debacle of last episode. But their zealcharmed me enough to set aside my doubts. Their zeal was not only to overcome thespots on the images of students of BESUS as able organisers but to host a festival thatwill remain as a shining memory on every body's' mind.They have succeeded in mobilising the resources. Now time will tell whether they'll beable to organise the final show. If the organisers of REBECA 2011 succeed in putting upa memorable event, I can foresee that each one of them will achieve success in theirfuture ventures as efficient professionals.I've enjoyed working with them. I wish that the youth will be victorious and students ofBESUS will adapt to the challenges of the role they need to play in their owntransformed University.Prof. Aditya BandyopadhyayConvenorREBECA 2011

REBECA and BEingsYes the moment has arrived.The four days of fun and joy for which all the BEings wait throughout the year.It's REBECA.REBECA the annual reunion and cultural festival of our college depicts the image of thestrong senior-junior relationship. It is sheer hard work and commitment of BEings whichmakes REBECA so much special. It is our only platform to connect with the glorious pastof the B.E.College and we will do whatever we can to bring that glory back to ourbeloved Alma mater. This gala festival which stands solely on our alumni gives thedimensions of the bondage of our alumni and the University. It is also a platform forBEings and other students to exhibit their potential in various extracurricular and cocurricular activities.Our university is progressing day by day it has already achieved the status of Institute ofNational Importance. The whole campus is full of activities being performed by thestudent and various clubs (Drama club, photography club, music club, dance club). Theathletic club is also successful in organising theInvitation football, invitation crickettournament athletic meet and various others activities. I wish all the beings to maintainthis rhythm of activities.rdOur annual souvenir BECA is out in the campus on the occasion of our 73 AnnualReunion and we congratulate the BECA team for their hard effort for the successfulpublishing of the souvenir and also our student,faculty members and alumni for sharingtheir thoughts with us.We would like to thank all faculty members for their guidance and we would like to thankour Convenor Prof Aditya Bandyopadhyay for his help and support throughout theperiod.Lastly we would like to thank all our alumni for taking active part in REBECA. It isyour inspiration and support which helps us in organizing REBECA every year.Supriya GhoshSecretary GeneralREBECA 2011

AN ODE TO REBECA- The Durgotsav to the BEingsAs I retrospect, it immediately reminds me of the day when I had a bunch of bills andinvitation cards in my hand; along with a list bearing the names of the alumni to whom Ihad to pay a visit and invite the respective addressees to REBECA- the re-union and theannual cultural festival of this university: to which I was quite newly acquainted then. Idid my assigned job and met all the passed out seniors mentioned on that list and retiredback to the campus at the end of the day. The countdown had begun- sleepless nights,mind-boggling brainstorms and irresistible eagerness marked the build up to the firstREBECA that I was to witness.I gathered a bit of perception and idea about the fest prior to beholding it and only knewthat it was a four-day festivity. The release of the black T-shirt on that occasion yielded alot of enthusiasm in my mind- to which my friends were not exceptions. The essence ofREBECA was in the air and it only resounded louder with the tunes of the album Anuvutiplaying “Chaander barir theke elomelo aalo elo tar mane REBECA abar…..” Amidst allof this, the wait was over and it was the DAY-1 of REBECA 2009. I could only conceivethat all my pre-notions about REBECA were far from the practicality and to my surprise Ifound that it was overwhelmingly much beyond my expectations. The electrifyingambience on the campus, the bright colours of the apparels, the buzz in every passingbreeze, the great feast meals and the truss hanger in the Lords ground was much morethan a pleasant surprise to my astounded mind and jaw-hung soul. It appeared to memuch like an untimely Durgotsav on our campus. The autumnal delights manifesteditself a bit earlier in the season of the scorching summer itself. We all danced in harmonyon the floor to the acoustic beats of Euphoria.To commemorate the grand celebrations and the vibrant festivities of REBECA, thesouvenir BECA was soon published after the carnival got over. I attempted to scribblesomething legible with my pen but the pain was all in vain. I fumbled and faltered andstaggered and stumbled to eventually give up all my exertions and endeavours. But thistime, there is no excuse. I had to ink an article for the magazine and to my astonishment Ihave finally managed to write down a few words dedicated to all my fellow BEings andto the cheerful mirth and spirit of REBECA 2011- hip, hipp hurrah………!!!Abhishek PaulGeneral SecretaryREBECA 2011

Its REBECA time again..About a month back, who would have thought REBECA 2011 will even take place.But here we are, up against all odds, organizing another event that is full of zeal andrigour, energy and competitions, bidding to be an event of a lifetime.It has been of immense pleasure to have continually worked as a part of the BECATEAM for three consecutive years, which was truly an experience to cherish for. ThePublication of BECA 2011 is nothing but teamwork at its best. It feels great to haveexperienced the continuum of hurdles ultimately yielding success and I would like tothank all the members of the Publication Sub-committee for giving their best.Talking of the souvenir, a new section called “CAMPUSS BUZZ” has beenintroduced in this edition of BECA which brings about various achievements andother aspects of our university into limelight with the anticipation of inciting a feelingof unity and allegiance among its students.On behalf of the publication sub-committee, I express my gratitude to our facultymembers and alumni whose influence has brought up several preciousarrangements which made the occasion a reality. I also express my sincere thanks toall the sponsors and advertisers of the festival for their very important financialsupport. Very special thanks to Prof. Aditya Bandopadhyay and Dr. Partha PratimChatterjee for their constant support and guidance. We proved our mettle undertheir aegis. I thank all my friends and the juniors without whose selfless hard workand commitment this reunion festival would not have been possible. I would alsolike to thank the vibrant Architecture community of this college for their creativeefforts. Further I would like to thank the printers whose enterprising natureconstantly enlivened me in my hours of association with them.I further wish all BEings a very elating and energized REBERA 2011.Ankit MaheswariConvenorPublication Sub CommitteeREBECA 2011

Organising CommitteeDr AJOY KUMAR RAY- Vice Chancellor, BESUS, PATRONAdvisory Committee6Heads Of All Departments123456789101112131415Prof Sunil Kumar RoyPandit Budhadeb DasguptaProf S S ChakrabortyProf Arun DebSri Amitava GhosalSri Arun GhoshProf Amitava GhoshSri Santosh Kumar SinhaSri Jyotiranjan Sen GuptaProf Tapen MoulikProf AM GhoshProf S TalapatraProf Dipak SenguptaSri Santanu ChatterjeeProf T K Roy789101112131415161718Directors Of All SchoolsLt Col (Retd) A K Ghosh (PICSA)Dr Biman Bandyopadhyay (Registrar)Sri M N Sarkar (Finance Officer)Sri N Bhattacharyya (Deputy Controller ofExaminations)Chairpersons of All Sub-CommitteesSri Alok Maity (Audit Officer)Prof Aditya Bandyopadhyay (Convenor)Supriya Ghosh, Secretary General(4th Yr,CE)Abhishek Pal, General Secretary(3rd Yr,ME)Avishek Chandra, Treasurer (2nd Yr, ME)Satya Prakash, Joint General Secretary(1st Yr,IT)12345CORE Organising CommitteeSri S P Datta (President)Prof A K Das (Dean, FEAT)Prof B K Guha (Dean of Science)Prof M K Sanyal (Dean of Social Science)Prof S Chatterjee (Director, R&C)19202122Gouri S Murmu, Year Representative(4th Yr, IT)Prasenjit Sen, Year Representative(3rd Yr,CE)Soumyajit Pattanayak, Year Representative(2nd Yr,Met)Sourav Burnwal, Year Representative(1st Yr,IT)PUBLICATION SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Partha Pratim ChattopadhyayConvenor: Ankit Maheswari (4th Yr, CE)Members: Md Samuel (4th Yr,CE), Subhadeep Khan (4th Yr,EE), Samyajit Basu (4th Yr,CE),Ajit Biswal (4th Yr,Met), Abhisekh Mukherjee (3rd Yr, ME), Yatinder Kumar (3rd Yr, Met),Abhay Kumar Gupta (3rd Yr, ME), Rizul Malhotra(3rd Yr, Met), Ali Md Arshad Ayub (3rd Yr, ETC),Ishani Banerjee (2rd Yr,CE), Rohan Lal Das (2rd Yr,IT), Aikyadip Roy (2rd Yr,Met),Diptesh Sanfui (1st Yr,Met), Kennedy Gayen (1st Yr,CE)

FINANCE SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Sudipta MukhopadhyayConvenor: Anupam Shee (4th Yr, ME)Members: Tanmoy Sarkar (4th Yr,ME), Ramanuj Choudhury (4th Yr,ME),Aniruddha Sengupta (4th Yr,IT), Chandan Katua (4th Yr,CST), Santanu Paramanick (3rd Yr, MIN),Mantu Prasad (3rd Yr, ME), Diptya Sarkar (3rd Yr, ME), Rahul Tiwary (3rd Yr, IT),Khokon Sarkar (3rd Yr,CST), Nitish Chandra (2rd Yr,MET), Alik Das (2rd Yr,EE),Arka Musib (2rd Yr,EE), Milton Kirtonia (1st Yr,EE), Soumendu Mukherjee (1st Yr,EE)REFRESHMENT SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Pratip BandyopadhyayConvenor: Bikash Mandal (4th Yr, CE)Members: Utpal Biswas (4th Yr,CE), Soumik Dutta (4th Yr,CE), Prabir Adhya (4th Yr,CE),Barun Mandal (3rd Yr, ETC), Md Tausif Islam (3rd Yr, CE), Arnab Sarkar (3rd Yr, MET),Tushar Kanti Das (3rd Yr, CE), Dipankar Sarkar (3rd Yr, MET), Debanjan Biswas (2rd Yr,CE),Aritra Routh (2rd Yr,MET), Chandan Mandal (2rd Yr,EE), Shubhadeep Midya (2rd Yr,CST),Sourav Debnath (1st Yr,MET), Anand Sharma (1st Yr,IT)STAGE & DECORATION SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Amitava RayConvenor: Subhranil Kar (4th Yr, ARCH)Members: Ashish Dey (4th Yr,ARCH), Nilanjan Maity (4th Yr,ARCH), Rahul Dewan (4th Yr,ARCH),Somraj Sarkar (4th Yr,ARCH), Newton Basu (3rd Yr,ARCH), Yawar Ali (3rd Yr,ARCH),Arka Biswas (3rd Yr,ARCH), Arijit Debnath (3rd Yr,ARCH), Rounak Sen (3rd Yr,ARCH),Anirban Maity (2rd Yr,ARCH), Subhodip Majee (2rd Yr,ARCH), Debangana Roy (2rd Yr,ARCH),Nilendu Bala (1st Yr,ARCH), Tathagata Roy (1st Yr,MET)RESOURCE MOBILISATION SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Netai Chandra DeyJoint-Convenor: Saibal Sarkar (4th Yr, ME); Vishal Anand Bhagat (4th Yr,ME)Members: Arnav Sinha (4th Yr,ME), Nilendu Das (4th Yr,ME), Subhranta Kundu (4th Yr,ME),Indranil Sengupta (4th Yr,EE), Ashish Prasad (4th Yr, ME), Sankha Bhattacharya (4th Yr,EE),Ami Saha (4th Yr, EE), Shaon Ghosh (4th Yr, ETC), Sarbari Dutta (4th Yr, CE),Dwaipayan Mallick (3rd Yr, MET), Himadri Sekhar Mahata (3rd Yr, CE),Aranya Biswas (3rd Yr, ME), Avinash Barua (3rd Yr, MIN), Ranavijay Sengupta (2rd Yr,MET)

VOLUNTEER SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Lt Col AKGhosh (Retd)Convenor: Abhishek Mukherjee(4th Yr, EE)Members: Debasish Ghosh (4th Yr,EE), Sayan Dutta (4th Yr,EE), Subhankar Jana (4th Yr,EE),Md Sukur Ali (4th Yr,EE), Sukhdev Singh (3rd Yr,ETC), Saurav Das (3rd Yr,CE),Subhronil Manna (3rd Yr,IT), Safikul Alam (3rd Yr,MIN), Moloy Mandi (3rd Yr,MET),Chandradeep Mukherjee (2nd Yr,ME), Suraj Kumar Samal (2rd Yr,EE),Subhojeet Karmakar (2rd Yr,CE), Siddhartha Roy (1st Yr,ME), Kaustav Guha (1st Yr,MIN)CULTURAL SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Debasish MoitraConvenor: Md Firoze Khan (4th Yr, ME)Members: Avik Mukherjee (4th Yr,CST), Nabarun Bose (4th Yr,ME),Sambaditya Biswas (4th Yr,ETC), Subhankar Roy (4th Yr,CE), Sonnet Mondal (3rd Yr, MIN),Suvankar Bain (3rd Yr, CE), Amit Roy (3rd Yr,ME), Avradipta Das (3rd Yr,ME),Suresh Manna (3rd Yr,ETC), Anshuman Satpadi (2rd Yr,CE), Abhisehek kumar (2rd Yr,IT),Jyotirmay Barman (2rd Yr,MIN), Dibakar Mahato (1st Yr,CE), Manojit Ganguly (1st Yr,MET)EVENT MANAGEMENT SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Gopal Chandra RoyConvenor: Pratik Agarwal (4th Yr, ME)Members: Suprakash Sarkar (4th Yr,CE), Subho Mondal (4th Yr,ME), Aveek Mandal (4th Yr,CE),Saurav Mukherjee (4th Yr,CE), Agnish Mukherjee (3rd Yr, CE), Allolika Pattanayak (3rd Yr, CE),Soham Sinha (3rd Yr, ), Ratan Barman (3rd Yr, CE), Chandan Kumar Dwibedi (2rd Yr,ME),Tanuj Chakraborty (2rd Yr,ME), Samya Soren (2rd Yr,CST), Sunirmal Bardhan (2rd Yr,CE),Subhankar Saha (1st Yr,ME), Arghya Kundu (1st Yr,ETC)PUBLICITY SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Sudip Kumar RoyConvenor: Pankaj Kumar (4th Yr, IT)Members: Amit Pal (4th Yr,CE), Sankha Moulik (4th Yr,MET), Biswadeep Mandal (4th Yr,CE),Animesh Ghosh (3rd Yr, MET), Pranabananda Modak (3rd Yr, MET), Johirul Mondal (3rd Yr,MIN),Rajjyoti Mandal (3rd Yr, ME), Indranil Roy (2rd Yr,ME), Vivek Srivastava (2rd Yr,IT),Priyanka Mandal (2rd Yr,ETC), Ankur Patel (2rd Yr,ME), Soumyadeep Sanyal (1st Yr,IT),Arnab Goswami (1st Yr,ETC)

ALUMNI MEET SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof PKRayConvenor: Dwaipayan Mukherjee (4th Yr, CST)Members: Subhro Mukherjee (4th Yr,IT), Sujan Saha (4th Yr,ME),Sreerupa Chatterjee (4th Yr, CST), Deepu Kumar (3rd Yr,CST), Anand Kumar (3rd Yr, IT),Naveen Burnwal (3rd Yr, CST), Litan Biswas(3rd Yr, EE), Sanath Adhikary (3rd Yr,CE),Gourab Hajra (2rd Yr,EE), Somnath Chatterjee (2rd Yr,CST), Somdutta Sinha (2rd Yr,CE),Mrinal Aich (2rd Yr,IT), Rajdeep Chakraborty (1st Yr,CE), Avinav Giri (1st Yr,ME)SEMINAR SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Apurna GhoshConvenor: Souvik Karjee (4th Yr, CE)Members: Suman Patra (4th Yr, MET), Suman palit (4thYr, CE), Abhishek Mandal (3rd Yr, CE),Priyabrata Das (3rd Yr, ME), Swarnendu Srimay (3rd Yr, ME), Deepak Kumar (3rdYr, ME),Debanjan Pal (3rd Yr, CE), Limba Ram Besra (2rd Yr, MET), Gourab Chatterjee (2rd Yr, MET),Joydeep Mandal (2rd Yr, CST), Subhranil Roy (1st Yr, ME), Nilupta Saharia (1st Yr, MIN),Soumyadeep Paty (1st Yr, MIN)TRANSPORT & LOGISTICS SUB-COMMITTEEChairperson: Prof Nityananda NandiConvenor: Apurba Goswami (4th Yr, EE)Members: Santanu Safui (4th Yr,CE), Anirban Sinha (4th Yr,ME), Beenit Bhagat (4th Yr,CE),Saikat Kumar (4th Yr,EE), Saibal Ghosh (3rd Yr,MET), Indrasish Roy (3rd Yr,CE),Asim Barman (3rd Yr,CE), Prasenjit Roy (3rd Yr,CE), Pramath Hansda (3rd Yr,CE),Abhishek Chaudhuri (2rd Yr,ME), Koushik Sinha (2rd Yr,ME), Ayan Giri (2rd Yr,MIN),Viswapratap Mukherjee (1st Yr,CST), Arindam Chakraborty (1st Yr,CE)

REBECA 2011Programme ScheduleDAY 1: Thursday, APRIL 7 th , 2011PROGRAMME VENUE TIMEInauguration Main Venue 03:00-04:00pmRakta Daan (Blood Donation) Netaji Bhawan 04:00pm OnwardsArt Mela (Inter College Drawing Competition) Main Venue 04:00-06:00pmBeings Classical Events& Rabindra Sangeetby a prominent classical singer Main Venue 05:00-07:30pmDance Troupe (Anita Mallick & troupe) Main Venue 07:30-09:00pmMime Main Venue 09:00-10:00pmFusion (Instrumental) Main Venue 10:00pm-12:00amDAY 2 : Friday, APRIL 8 th , 2011PROGRAMME VENUE TIMETechnical Seminar Institute Hall 03:00-04:30pmPhotography Competition Netaji Bhawan 04:00pmDRAMA performed by students of our Drama Club Institute Hall 04:30-06:00pmThe BESU Open (Quiz)Alumni SeminarHall03:30-06:00pmBeings Nite (Performance by college students) Main Venue 06:00-08:30pmBengali Band Main Venue 08:30-11:00pmBikram Ghosh & his Band (Rhythmscape) Main Venue 11:00pm-02:00am

REBECA 2011Programme ScheduleDAY 3 : Saturday, APRIL 9 th , 2011PROGRAMME VENUE TIMEA Seminar on CRY (Childs Right and You) Institute Hall 10:00-11:00amTechnical Seminar Institute Hall 11:00am-01:00pmTreasure Hunt ( Inter-College Treasure Hunt) Netaji Bhawan 01:00-02:00pmLive Wire (Inter-College Rock Band Competition) Main Venue 02:00-05:00pmAntakshari (Inter-College Antakshari Competition) Main Venue 05:00-06:00pmDivas (Inter-College Fashion Show) Main Venue 06:00-08:00pmHindi Solo Singer Main Venue 08:00-10:00pmHindi/Bengali Band Main Venue 10:00pm-12:00Juke Box Main Venue 12:00 onwardsDAY 4 : Sunday, APRIL 10 th , 2011PROGRAMME VENUE TIMEAlumni Welcome Institute Hall 10:00-10:30amPresentation “BESU-Then and Now” Institute Hall 10:30-11:00amRobibasorio Adda (Interactive Sessions betweenAlumni & Students) Institute Hall 11:00am-12:00pmShruti Natok (presented by Alumni) Institute Hall 12:00-01:00pmMIME Institute Hall 01:00-01:30pmLunch Guest House 01:30-02:30pmBusiness Meet Institute Hall 02:30-04:00pmOctave (Performance by Alumni) Main Venue 04:00-05:00pmMr & Ms Rebeca (A progamme for1st yr students) Main Venue 05:00-06:00pmFootball Match (Alumni v/s Present Student) Oval 05:00-06:00pmOscillations (Inter-College ChoreographyCompetition) Main Venue 06:00-08:00pmMUMBAI NITE Main Venue 08:00pm-12:00Performance by STEEL Band Main Venue 12:00-02:00am

CONTENTSAlumni SpeakThe Spirit Carries On……Saumava Dey 1Shift towards Discipline-Free Undergraduate Programme andIntroduction of Research in the Undergraduate CurriculumDr Gautam Biswas 2Women Managers in Indian Organizations: Some Critical IssuesDr Pradip Kumar Ray 9ßþº²À !˜îÅy¢˜Kaniska Biswas 17~„þ!Ýþ £z!“þîy‰þ„þ „þ!î“þyAArka Mandal 17Faculty SpeakA less used numerical technique for solving boundary value problemsProf D Sengupta 19~îyöìîûîû ö”yœ ç ö”yœy éôôé ~„þ!Ýþ xö짺¡ì’Prof Rana Roy 22Knowledge Economy: Old Wine in a New BottleProf Subhasis Bandyopadhyay 23Flood Management in Eastern and North-Eastern India and BangladeshDr Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya 25Students SpeakPoetry of the MorningNoel Roy Chowdhury 33Netaji, the forgotten HERODipayan Chakrabortty 33Rebeca- an experience of a lifetime… (Re-union & BE college annuals)8th April 2010-11th April 2010Ankita Bhattacharya 34Shakespeared (Shake-speared)Sonnet Mondal 35Faster Than LightRahul Nath 37Free at LastAnkit Maheswari 39

Immortal DiscoverySayandev Paul 39Thoughts Mused On…Ajit Biswal 40The Last RebecaSayantani Lala 42ßþ¿,!“þ öíöì„þLakshmi Hansda 43öìßþ¬öì£îû x!¦þöì¡ì„þ– ö“þy›yîû Ö„þöì”î ”yAbhishek Mallik 45x˜!•„þyîû ‰þ‰ÅþySubhadeep Khan 46öìîûöìî„þyîû “þöìîûTitas Belel 46¦þyîû“þî¡ìÅDipankar Sarkar 46Gþyþ¢yShambaditya Biswas 47‰þy!£”yAnupam Shee 47¢wy¢îy”Bikramjit Chanda 48„þ!îîû †ÒBiswadeep Gupta Bakshi 49xö옄þ!”˜ þîûSaikat Guha 50¼¼aNitish Chandra 50&FFWÎFFVaibhav Vineet 51ÙF˜FÑFÎFVikrant Kumar 51¼W&FFW! ùFW ;FÜFF õFæFWÞFChittransh Gupta 52E×+õFFÎFWSashi Kanta Barma 52=+FgáFW¡F =+U ÑFùáFU EáF=+Ram Sukhit Kumar 53Campus Buzz 55

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Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurThe Spirit Carries On……..Saumava DeyCE, 2010 BatchREBECA(En Memoire En Amitie En Verve), theannual Re-Union of Bengal Engineering &Science University is not merely a cultural reunionbut a celebration of togetherness, eagerlyawaited by the present BEings, the alumni and allothers having direct or indirect connections withthis “heritage” institute. REBECA demarcatesthe BESU calendar year. It brings emotions andsentiments to an acme. The end of one isaccompanied by a revival of responsibility andevocation of thoughts. It brings about a newinitiative on the part of the juniors so that theycarry on the legacy and uphold the honor,tradition and prestige of this auspicious occasion.I have been closely associated with REBECA forthree years during which I had variety ofexperiences which could never be forgotten andcan be proudly shared at any stage of my life.REBECA spells out “passion” in the heart ofevery BEing and it is this passion within themwhich turns REBECA into a success every year.The four days of REBECA with its various eventsand performances shows off the talent of theBEings, how they are different from others andthe zenith that they can achieve. Every year manynew challenges and hurdles are overcome tomake way for the REBECA saga to continue.The spirit of the BEings carries on…… 1

REBECA 2011Shift towards Discipline-Free Undergraduate Programme andIntroduction of Research in the Undergraduate CurriculumDr. Gautam Biswas (ME, 1979 Batch)DirectorCSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur – 713209On deputation from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur – 208016PreambleEnormous changes are taking place in alldisciplines of engineering and technology aroundthe world. The changes are so vast and rapid thatkeeping pace with them is becoming a challenge.An engineering education must include hardwareas well as soft engineering knowledge and skillsand also interpersonal skills. There is a far greateremphasis now to make the curriculum broad andflexible to meet the greatly increased diversity ofneeds. Over and above, it should have nationaland international perspectives covering theeconomic and industrial growth.The scenario of engineering education changedrapidly after the World War II. Significantadvancements in various branches of Sciencetook place within 15 years. As a consequence, theEngineering and Technology made an enormousimpact on the living conditions of the people via avariety of innovative consumer products. Itbecame imperative for the engineering educationto change its orientation and adapt the newerconcepts of science. A change in emphasis fromengineering practice to engineering science wasimplemented in all significant institutions acrossthe world. The developments in UG curriculum atthe IITs during the early years were very uniquein the Indian context.The educational strategy should help to develop aknowledge economy. The systems involved in thisendeavor should strive for excellence. It isneedless to say that the engineering educationshould equip the people with new and relevantskills to embark on innovation with the new ideas.The engineering education must reach beyondthe purely technical preparation of engineers. Theeducation must cover the following: A “liberal” engineering paradigm as aspringboard for other career pursuits. Exposure to realistic design problems,especially teamwork and social relevance Interdisciplinary undergraduateengineering education using crossdisciplinaryand multidisciplinary concepts Encouraging continuous and life-longlearningSome of these objectives are recognizable as thefamiliar virtues of the traditional liberal artseducation:disciplinary breadth, continuouslearning, and preparation for a wide variety ofcareers. Breadth at the level of undergraduatestudies associated with a liberal arts (humanities)education is absent in the traditional structure ofEngineering curriculum.The Humanities (with a window of liberal arts) inengineering is one solution for students who seeksome technological fluency, with their eyes set ona career path outside engineering. Theengineering requirements must be broader,allowing courses to be selected from the liberalarts. Most such thoughts are of recent origin, andare still not finding regular places in the overallcurriculum. For over five decades, the Humanitiescourses blended with Engineering Sciences havebeen the foundation for engineering education atIIT Kanpur. The major features of IIT Kanpurcurriculum are an interdisciplinary approach toengineering education and availability ofnumerous elective courses within the discipline.2

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurBy and large, IITs have successful UGprogrammes in Engineering. Even then studentsdo not take about one fourth of their coursesoutside mathematics, science, and engineering.They are not able to participate in foreign studyprograms as well as demanding extracurricularactivities like sports and performing arts. Theengineering major, comprising about half of thecourses needed to graduate, is focused andinvolved, requirements being a huge number ofchallenging assignments. Graduates have provedto be well prepared for further study inengineering and careers in the profession, or foradministrative services. Some of them aresuccessful in other disciplines such asManagement related fields leading to careersprincipally in business. Seldom are they found inlaw and medicine.CurriculumToday it is felt that the AcademicProgrammes should have enough flexibilityto cross the disciplinary boundaries, and toplay with the innovative concepts. Thestudents should be encouraged for creativeactivities, be it in the realm of esotericworld, or in the area of hands-onexperience and liberal arts. Subjects linkedto liberal arts are expected to bring aboutmental stability to a wider cross section ofstudents.The development of the UG program at IITKanpur was inspired and strongly influenced bythe “Report on Evaluation of EngineeringEducation, 1952-1955,” (Grinter [1]) by acommittee appointed by the American Society ofEngineering Education (ASEE). Later, the samephilosophy was adopted very successfully in otherIITs and the Engineering Education in IITsreceived a global benchmark.Grinter’s report recommended for a corecurriculum on engineering sciences (solidmechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,transport and rate mechanisms, electrical circuittheory, and materials science). The report placeda greater emphasis on cross-disciplinaryconnections. The introduction to strong sciencecourses (in fact the same courses are offered tothe science graduates admitted for integratedmaster’s programme in Physics, Chemistry andMathematics) empowered the engineeringstudents with a strong foundation of analysis.Grinter’s report stressed common methods ofproblem formulation and solution across multipledisciplines. Another remarkable feature ofGrinter’s report was to strengthen and integratethe philosophy and ethos of humanistic and socialsciences into engineering.It is desirable that the future engineers have to bemore analytical and creative. Engineeringpractices based on empirical studies and dataalone, will not be enough to give us cutting edgeadvantage. The engineers will be depending moreon general analysis rather than relying on specificfault identification. They will have to beinnovative; growth oriented and will have torespect entrepreneurship. The present generationhas greater inclination for informal learning and isfond of flexible job market.Definition of Credits:The academic load and the credit for a givencourse unit is decided by the following L-T-P-Ccalculation:where, the number of one-hour lectures per week=Lthe number of tutorial-hours per week =Tthe number of practical (laboratory) hoursper week = Pthe Credit point for the course = COne hour lecture in a week = 1 CreditOne hour tutorial in a week = 1 CreditTwo hours of laboratory work in a week = 1CreditThe Credit nomenclature of a course unit isdenoted by L-T-P-C3

REBECA 2011For example, the Credit nomenclature for the firstcourse in Mathematics may be identified as 3-1-0-4Brief Outline of the CurriculumThe Science Component in EngineeringEducation: The flexibility of any Baccalaureateprogramme is dependent on the innate potentialof the students to adopt a wide variety ofproblems in various fields. This quality isinculcated though a strong base of scienceeducation. The students learn newer topics,concepts, methodologies rapidly during theirundergraduate education. The graduates must beable to apply their ability, skill set, knowledge andgeneral educational experience in industry, placesof higher learning and challenges demandinginnovation. The domain knowledge ofmathematics, physics, chemistry, biology andengineering sciences are the sources of metalcapacity. Education in humanities and sciencesexposes the students to the work and thoughtprocesses of some of the best minds of the humancivilizations. Today biology and nano-sciences areplaying extremely important role in many of theemerging technologies.A minimum of 36 Credits of combination ofMathematics and Basic Sciences must be there inthe Curriculum. This means there should be threecourses in Mathematics each course having 4Credits (L-T-P-C: 3-1-0-4). Similarly two coursesare needed in Physics (each 3-1-0-4) covering atotal of 8 Credits. At least one course in Chemistry(3-1-0-4), one course in Biology (2-0-4-4) andone course in Earth and Environmental Sciences(3-1-0-4) would be the minimum requirement.The course in Earth and Environmental Sciencesshould be a precursor for “Green Technologies”.In order to accommodate the above mentionedcourses, the physics and chemistry laboratoriesmay be merged to one Laboratory course (1-0-6-4). This course is expected to cover the basicexperiments in Physics and Chemistry.Mathematics includes elements of linear algebra,differential and integral calculus, ordinary andpartial differential equations, statistics, numericalanalysis and discrete mathematics. The subjects inBasic Sciences are intended to impart anunderstanding of the laws-of-nature andrelationships through the use of analyticaltechniques.Courses in Humanities: A minimum of 16Credits in Humanities, Social Sciences, LiberalArts, Management, Economics andCommunication-skills should complement thescience and technology contents of thecurriculum.Some areas of study are considered to beessential in the education of an engineer. Thesocial awareness and knowledge on economicdevelopments are almost mandatoryrequirements. Among 16 Credits, eight (8) Creditsare to be completed within first four semesters,whereas other eight (8) Credits may be completedduring the remaining period of the curriculum.Among the eight (8) Credits that are to becovered during the first four semesters, onecourse should be on Communication Skills (2-2-0-4) and the other one is proposed to be a courseon Liberal Arts.Communication Skill: Students are supposedto do variety of technical writing during their stayin the Colleges/ Universities. Even otherwise,communication is the most important skill oneshould acquire. The students should improve theiroral and written communication skills during thefirst two years of their training. One dedicatedcourse is essential for this purpose.Provision must be made to develop capability ofthe individuals to communicate adequately, bothorally and in writing.Engineering Sciences (Compulsory),Practice Related Courses and EngineeringSciences (Options): Engineering sciencesubjects help the students to carry theirknowledge further toward creative applications.They may involve the application of principles ofmechanics, development of analytical/ numericaltechniques, modeling, simulation and4

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurunderstanding experimental procedures. Aminimum of 12 Credits is recommended as theCompulsory Engineering Science courses. Theseare Fundamentals of Computing (2-0-4-4),Introduction to Electronics (2-0-4-4) andEngineering Mechanics (3-1-0-4). Two courseson engineering practices are needed for acquiringengineering skills. These are EngineeringGraphics (2-0-4-4), and Introduction toModern Manufacturing Practices (1-0-6-4).The Engineering Science (compulsory) and theEngineering Practice courses are to be taughtacross the disciplines. The Practice courses are tobe modified with the perspective of enhancingemployability.Engineering Science courses can be furtherextended. An integrated study of engineeringanalysis, design, and engineering system forprofessional activities are planned and carried outto stimulate creative and imaginative thinking andmaking full use of the basic and engineeringsciences.Application to the identification and solution ofpractical engineering problem are to be stressed.These subjects may be categorized as theEngineering Science Options. Such coursesinclude Thermodynamics, Solid Mechanics, FluidMechanics, Transport Phenomena, ElectricalTechnology, Elements of Materials Science,Geosciences, Data Structures, Analog Electronics,Digital Electronics, Environmental studies andother subjects pertinent to various disciplines. TheEngineering Science Options may also includesome subjects that impart an overallunderstanding of other engineering disciplines.There should be 16 credits for the EngineeringScience Options.Table-1 shows the courses appropriate for firstfour semesters of the B.Tech./ B.E./ BSc Engg.Program.Table-1Type of Courses CreditsMathematics and 36Science CoursesCommunicationand HumanitiesEngineering(Compulsory)EngineeringCoursesEngineering(Options)skillsSciencePracticeScience08120816The Professional Courses:Even though the main target of Education is toproduce Engineers who would be able to workacross various disciplines, each student will beassigned a department to start with. Somedepartment specific courses will be taught in thesubsequent four semesters. However, a significantemphasis on engineering design is needed for allthe disciplines. Engineering-design, integratesbasic sciences, engineering sciences and industrialaspects to meet specific needs. Many industrialprocesses need interactive and creative means toaddress the specific issues. Sometimes theengineering products are governed by standardsand rules of varying proportion. The economic,environmental and esthetic issues also surface inmany cases. The graduates should acquiresufficient design skills through well balance Designrelated courses in the final four semesters. Inaddition students will be encouraged to take theelective courses from various Departments. Theelective courses have to be framed so that theyenable the graduates to address new/ unsolvedproblems with imagination, courage andintelligence.Courses in Humanities, Social Sciencesand Liberal Arts:The students are to complete 8 credits inHumanities in the final four semesters. There willbe a basket of courses comprising of Economics,Sociology, Psychology and various coursespertaining to Liberal Arts. The courses in LiberalArts may include Fine Arts, Music,Cinematography etc. Engineering students are5

REBECA 2011suggested to fulfill the same general educationrequirements as all other graduates. The basketshould also include courses in creative writing andforeign languages. Total number of humanitiescourses taken by engineering students is expectedto be not fewer than four. More courses (a total ofseven courses) are possible if any engineeringstudent chooses to take a second Minor inHumanities and Social Sciences. There is norequirement to choose courses that is directlylinked to the Engineering Major; students are tobe permitted to follow their own interests.The Elective Courses and the concept ofMinors:The elective subjects develop the special talents ofthe individual students to serve the varied needsof society. These also provide flexibility ofopportunity for gifted students. Each student willbe encouraged for some electives in order toenable him/ her to cross traditional borders intheir future careers. Graduates with knowledge ofvarious areas of specializations will be wellpositioned to take the advantage ofinterdisciplinary developments. The concept of‘Minor’ may be introduced. The students may beprovided with the flexibility to credit six coursesfrom two different disciplines. As per thedefinition of ‘Minor’, a sequence of three coursesfrom any specific department would be formingtheir Minor. As mentioned above, a student mustbe allowed to credit at least six electives outsidehis own discipline. Therefore the students will beable to earn the Baccalaureate degrees with oneMajor and two Minors.The curriculum for the final four semesters isrecommended to have the substructure as shownin Table-2.Table-2Type of Courses1. Compulsory ProfessionalCourses2. Elective (Departmental)CoursesCredits(/Courses)36 or 9courses08 or 2courses3. Electives from other24 or 6departmentscourses4. Departmental Laboratory 08 or 2Coursescoures5. Humanities and Social Science 08 or 26. Baccalaureate Project(Interdisciplinary)08 or 2coursesThe final four semesters will have about 23courses, i.e. equivalent to 92 Credits. The totalCredit requirement for the Baccalaureate degreeis about 172. The above mentioned break-up is asample. The colleges/ institutes will have enoughfreedom to add or subtract the compulsorycourses.Baccalaureate Project:One of the most important activities of thepracticing engineer is the solutions of problemsthat arise in converting physical principles intouseful devices. This involves creativity,imagination and reasonably strong analyticalability. These qualities can be nurtured anddeveloped during the formative years ofengineering education. Realizing the importanceof training engineering students to think creativelyat the earliest stage of their holistic development,a Project Work required to be introduced. Thegraduates are able to apply what they learn in theclassroom to actual research. They learn by doingthings.The students are to be encouraged to selectprojects of manageable size and complexity.Preferably such projects are to be executed in agroup wise manner. The project should beginwith the submission of proposal generated by thestudents for authorization of the faculty-mentors.The groups should be encouraged to undertakeprojects involving multidisciplinary issues. It isstrongly suggested that each project is guided byat least two mentors from two different disciplines.Some ambitious students may be allowed to haveindividual projects. All students are expected tocomplete a research problem that will be carriedout as a course in seventh and eighth semesters.In effect, the students will be able to carry out a6

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurresearch problem over a year. The project can beextended over the summer in order to achieveextraordinary goals.Table-3 provides the number of courses underdifferent categories in a model curriculum.Undergraduate ResearchThe research in the usual university system ischaracterized as scientific and curiosity driven.Some paradigms of academic research are openendedand unconstrained. The academic researchis also linked to degree requirements andprimarily geared towards Human resourcedevelopment. Publication is a mandatory feature.More often than not, the scope of academicresearch is constrained by financial andinfrastructural resourcesThe paradigm of Engineering Research is on theverge of third Industrial Revolution. It is becomingincreasingly clear that in the future the machinesand devices will be guided substantially by theprincipals of life sciences. Quite a few newsubjects have started emerging. The Bioinspiredinterdisciplinary subjects, such as,Biomimetics, Microfluidics, Microsystemstechnology, Bottom-up fabrication,Bioenergetics etc are emerging fast. Thesesubjects require being included as the DepartmentElectives or the Free Electives in all disciplines.There should be some awareness programmes sothat Institutions and Universities start playing aproactive role in inclusion of such subjects in thecurricula.The students should be encouraged to conductscholarly inquiry, develop, create, innovate ordiscover something in the heretofore unknownareas yielding an intellectual outcome to enhanceour knowledge of nature in its various living andnon-living manifestations of processes andproducts. Study of natural phenomena and theirapplications in any area of science be it physical,mechanical, chemical, metallurgical, biological,medical, agricultural, cross-disciplinary,multidisciplinary etc which may lead to refereedpublications in respected journals. The work isexpected to create new knowledge, improveexisting engineering practices, processes orproducts, patents or a useful databankThe students may be asked to design/ develop/fabricate, on a laboratory/ pilot plant scale,processes, products, devices, equipment etc forteaching, research, industry or society at large.Students may be exposed to some novel workingpilot plants before starting UndergraduateResearch. The experiences are expected to begratifying. They may be asked to prepare a writeupof their understanding of various workingmodules. The main experience gained from thisexercise should be routed for growingappreciation for the difficulty of approaching aproblem on an intuitive largely empirical basiswithout the aid of analytical tools. They may alsobe asked to write a research plan. At this stage,one important lesson may be taught to many isthe importance of an early start, careful planning,and the need to include a contingency factor inany plan that involves experimental work.Student interest in the individual research projectscan be further increased if the model making/testing is followed by a mature analytical/numerical/ physical analysis of the problem. Also,it must be clearly understood that this analysis isonly one of several approaches that might havebeen taken and is merely representative of the7

REBECA 2011type of work that the student might do as agraduate of an engineering curriculum. Care mustbe taken to not frighten students with complexanalysis which they cannot follow in thebeginning.Some faculty members often suggest that asking astudent to design before he has all the necessaryanalytical tools is “putting the cart before thehorse.” However, it can be argued that a designernever has all the analytical skills he requires andthe question boils down to the following: When isit best to introduce the student to the real world ofdesign? The engineering students should beintroduced to open-ended design at the earliestpossible point in their training and on acontinuing basis.The selected readings are suggested from the textsdesigned to introduce the beginners to a numberof important topics, such as history ofengineering, socio-technical problems, teameffort, career in engineering, responsibility of theengineer, engineering design, the reduction andpresentation of data. The measurement and datahandling exercises may be designed to introducethe student to physical measurements and theproper presentation of data from the point of viewof significant figure, graphical representation, andelementary statistics.Another useful suggestion for “undergraduateresearch” is introduction of one “Self study”course during the senior years. The good studentswill be encouraged to credit such a course in lieuof an departmental elective course. The studentwill be given freedom to choose any subject of hischoice and then under the mentorship of a facultymember he/ she has to complete the study thatwas approved by the mentor at the time ofregistration. The focus of the self study should beon increasing flexibility within the mainstreamsystem yet allowing them to expand the dormantcapacity of an individual through innovativeideas.ConclusionsThrough a wide variety of subjects drawn fromscience, humanities, language, engineeringsciences, engineering hardware and varioustechnologies, this article provides a curricularframework for learning multiple disciplines whichrange from computer science to liberal arts. Thegraduates are expected to solve complexengineering problems, reach substantiatedconclusions using first principles of engineeringsciences. They will be able to recognize the needfor updating knowledge and have the ability toengage in independent and life-long learning. Thegraduate will demonstrate understanding of thesocietal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues.The Baccalaureate research offers the chance towork on cutting edge research. Somebody maylike to join research projects in a group.Somebody may pursue his/ her own ideasindependently. The undergraduates shouldexperience in each phase of standard researchactivity. Either as an individual or in a group wisemanner each graduate will get an exposure ofdeveloping research plans, writing proposals,conducting research, analyzing data andpresenting research report. The Baccalaureateprojects will be executed during the academicyear, as well as over the summer, and researchwill be done in any academic department orinterdisciplinary laboratory.The author has taken several ideas and textmaterials form the book [2] on engineeringeducation.References[1] Grinter, L.E., “Report on evaluation ofengineering education (1952-1955).” J.Engineering Education, Vol. 46, No. 1,1955, pp. 25-63. Reprinted in J.Engineering Education, Vol. 83, No. 1,pp. 74-95, 1994.[2] Biswas, G., Chopra, K.L., Jha, C.S., andSingh, D.V., “Profile of EngineeringEducation in India: Status, Concernsand Recommendations” An IndianNational Academy of EngineeringPublication, Narosa Publishing House, NewDelhi, 2010.8

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurWomen Managers in Indian Organizations: Some Critical IssuesDr. Pradip Kumar Ray (ME, 1979 Batch)ProfessorDepartment of Industrial Engineering and ManagementIndian Institute of Technology KharagpurKharagpur 721 302 IndiaIntroductionThe human resources are considered to be themost important asset of an organization. In orderto be an excellent performer, the management ofany organization is required to manage effectivelyboth men and women resources so that theirpotential and special talents are utilized towardfulfillment of organizational goals. However, inthe majority of Indian organizations, there aresignificant differences in perceptions betweenmale and female employees, including managers,on key gender issues. To develop a healthy,creative, and learning organization, it isimperative that such perceptual differences andtheir causes need to be addressed.It was not until 1970’s that a few organizationsand interest groups started addressing the issuesof women managers seriously. Since then, the socalled‘gender revolution’ has been sweepingthrough many organizations across the globe,including India. In almost all types oforganizations, women have been joining in largenumber at different positions and levels in theorganization structure. At present, womenrepresent more than 40 per cent of the world’slabour force. This has happened due to a numberof reasons. Because of pursuing specific policiesand programmes to help women participate andengage in various types of jobs, the organizationshave been committing themselves to the cause ofwomen development. A few statistics in thisregard is quite revealing. Women make uparound 30 percent of the official labour force indeveloping countries, and almost 47 percentworld wide. Also, rural women produce morethan 55 per cent of all food grown in developingcountries. History shows that women have alsoproved to be successful managers and owners ofbusinesses.There is no question that compared to the earlierdecades, women today are better educated andhold more jobs world wide. Companies andenterprises have started to recognize the uniquecharacteristics, attitudes, behaviours, andmanagement style that women bring to theprofessional world and which is different than thatof men. In this context, there are a few quiteinteresting views going round the corner. One ofthe catch phrase of modern management gurus is“why can’t a man be more like a woman?”! It ismentioned that the so-called feminine “soft skills”are necessary qualities for corporate success. Thischange in attitude is not a myth, but a reality. Thegrowing interdependence among the nations hascreated a demand for sophisticated managerswho are skilled in working with people of othercultures and who understand internationalbusiness. Women possess a unique “interactivemanagement” skill that needs to be utilized fullyin the organizations of the future if the economiesof tomorrow want to be prepared for competingin the 21st century.However, it is reported that women managers donot necessarily have a promising future in theorganizations they work. Many of them in mostparts of the world feel, albeit genuinely, that theirpossibility of advancement into the upper levels oforganization in senior management positions isvery less. This view has also been reflected in arelevant ILO study report which states that thereare only a few women managers holding seniormanagement positions at the top. There is nodenying the fact that there exits significant gender9

REBECA 2011gap at higher levels of organizations worldwide,and India is not an exception. An invisibleartificial barrier created by attitudinal andorganizational prejudices preventing evendeserving women managers to the executivepositions exists in many Indian organizations. Inthis context, some of the revealing statistics areworth mentioning in order to gaze the severityand enormity of the problem.The United Nations publications report that thewomen constitute half the world’s population,perform two-thirds of the world’s work, butreceive only one tenth of its income and own lessthan one-hundredth of its property. Even ininternationally-reputed organizations indeveloped nations, only 2 to 3 per cent of the topor executive-level positions go to the womenmanagers. One can well imagine the situation inIndia in this respect. Although the number ofwomen managers all over the world haveincreased at the lower and middle level positions,mainly in the so-called ‘non-strategic’ areas, suchas human resources, personnel andadministration in recent times, the women areunable to reach the top positions because ofinherent nature of these positions, as has beenmentioned in the ILO reports. In most Asiancountries, the situation in this regard is worse. Forexample, in Japan, although almost 45 per centof women are in the labour force, only around 10per cent of them are holding managerialpositions. In India, the number of female mangersholding managerial and executive jobs is justaround two per one hundred male executives.Historical PerspectivesAlthough the issues relating to women managersmay appear to be a relatively recent concern,research in this area may prove otherwise. Sincetime immemorial, women in India have beenmanaging not only the household, but also manyaspects of agricultural work such as milking, buttermaking, and even helping males in cultivation.Women have also been found running businessessuch as lodging houses and shops, often with theirhusbands, but also alone, when single orwidowed. In recent times, women are holdingmany kinds of managerial jobs in almost allnations of the world, including India, and therehas been a substantial increase in the number ofwomen managers in all types of industrialprofession.During pre-industrial economy of any nation,women tended to live in family units with theirhusband or father, and work for generations ofwomen was “one indivisible whole of husband,home and family”. The importance of the familyis reflected in conventions surrounding marriageand in the legal framework of the time. Familyrelationships were determined by law and/or byinformal local conventions. The law determinedthat on marriage a woman and her husbandbecame one person under the law. He becameher guardian and had custody of any children ofthe marriage. The whole family was expected towork, including the children, whose childhoodlasted only as long as they were unable tocontribute to the family income. In addition toworking each day, women were also responsiblefor household duties and “tended their children,washed, baked, cleaned and sewed, healed thesick, sat by the dying and laid out the dead”.However women were not a homogenous group.Their lives and work varied, dependent on, forexample, their class, age, region, whether theylived in rural or urban areas, were single, marriedor widowed, or had children of their own. Andamongst them were women who managedbusinesses and people. Upper-class women wouldnot have worked, but would have managed theirhouseholds on a daily basis. However, for almostall other women there was no question of themnot contributing to the family income. In ruralareas the wives of tenant farmers would haveassisted their husbands in the running of thefarms and might also have run businesses of theirown, while the wives of farm labourers wouldhave assisted their husbands in the fields, albeit inoccupationally segregated roles, perhapssupplementing their income through domestic10

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurindustry either of their own, or waged. In urbanareas, married women often worked in theirhusbands’ business. Women worked in domesticservice, laundry, nursing, needle trades andcatering, with younger women working primarilyin domestic service. Women were consideredcheap labour and their wages were between athird-and-a-half of men’s.What is interesting to note is that while womenparticipated in economic life and even ranbusinesses, on their own or with their malerelatives, they were largely excluded from civic orpolitical life, in contrast to medieval times. Inaddition to work, which was occupationallysegregated, women had full responsibility forrunning the home and were subjugated to menby law. Women had been involved in businessfor generations, as part of the family economy,often running these businesses in the absence ofmale relatives. The desire of women to establishtheir identity resulted in the separation of homeand work for them. This was to have a profoundinfluence on “women in management”. Therecame an emphasis on “appropriate” femalebehaviour, “suitable” occupations, and a viewthat women should be economically dependenton their male relatives. However, as enterprisesgrew and became more profitable, the women ofthe family withdrew from any formal role in thebusiness.During the past 50 years, there happened majorchanges in the work of women as well as in thestatus of working women all-over the world,including India. Two most important changes arethe increased participation of married women,and women with young children. These changeshave been due to abolition of the marriage bar inseveral jobs, and provision of rights to maternityleave and return to work after pregnancy.However, despite these changes, some aspects ofwomen’s employment have not changed. Womencontinue to be paid less than men. Women’s workalso remains occupationally segregated with themajority of women employed in just threeoccupational groups, viz., secretarial and clerical,personnel and protective services, and sales.Women’s participation in higher education hashowever significantly increased during this period.There exists a preference for studying arts,education, and languages among women,whereas studying engineering and sciencesubjects had been the choice of men even a fewyears ago. Today this segregation is reducing, andwomen in large number are now studyingengineering and science subjects in almost alluniversities in India. But still women account forjust around 10 percent of total number of studentsin these disciplines.Over the centuries, most societies haveculturally prescribed men’s and women’s work,and women’s work has traditionally beenconcerned with activities to do with the survivalof human life, while men’s has been concernedwith providing in order to sustain it. Women’sroles therefore include “to bear children; to feedthem and other members of the family; tocloth”. When occupational segregation isexamined over the last few centuries, it is clearthat large numbers of women have been and stillcan be found in occupations that are in line withthe culturally prescribed roles as mentioned. Itis therefore not surprising that women’sparticipation and role in organizationalmanagement is also culturally determined. Ashas been observed, whenever a major changehas occurred, the underlying institutionaldiscrimination within the society ensures thatold patterns of occupational segregation havebeen replaced by new ones. Of course, there areareas of women’s lives that have changed,including education, which is a key to theirparticipation in the labour market, particularlyas managers. In addition, women are not passiveactors. They have vigorously campaigned for anend to their subordinate status and to traditionswhich prevent their full self-expression in allsocieties. It is clear that, in a multitude of ways,they have challenged the limits on their livesprescribed by society, although they have notalways succeeded. However, while women,legally, are no longer second class citizens, their11

REBECA 2011lives remain culturally constrained. Forexample, although women managers no longerhave to resign from work on marriage ormotherhood, it is clearly difficult for them tomaintain a career, marriage, and familysimultaneously. In addition, women aresubjected to conflicting messages about whetheror not they may be harming their children byworking, just as in the mid-nineteenth centurythe high levels of infant mortality in Yorkshire’stextile towns was attributed to the high levels offemale employment in these areas, yet furtherstudies showed that other factors, such as poorliving conditions, were also importantcontributory factors.Important IssuesIn view of the existing scenarios of women inmanagement, in general, and the status of womenmanagers in Indian organizations, a number ofrelevant issues need to be considered informulating and implementing appropriatestrategies for making the workplaces better forwomen managers in near future. There is nodoubt that the so-called ‘glass ceiling’ (differentkinds of barriers to prevent women to reach at thetop or executive positions) is a reality, and itbecomes pertinent to know the magnitude of thisproblem in India. The next important issue is toknow if a male manager feels comfortableworking under a female manager as hersubordinate. There may be different kinds ofcultural barriers existing for women executives inIndia that prevent them from advancing tocorporate leadership positions. These barriers aswell as the kinds of prejudices and cultural biasesagainst women managers and their root causesneed to be identified.Other important issues to be considered are asfollows:(1) Quality of work environment for womenmanagers with respect to several pertinentfactors, such as policies relating to theirrecruitment, retention, pay and advancement,physical environment, attitudes of malemanagers, and work organizational issues.(2) Levels of the managerial competencies, andthe types of societal expectations of womenmanagers.(3) Types of coping strategy or strategies womenmanagers may use against gender-biasedorganizations where they work. How are thewomen managers adopting to the state-of-the-arttechnologies of the workplaces, and what are thespecific ‘human factors’-related problems theyneed to overcome are two important issues in thiscontext.(4) Special talents and traits of women asmanagers bring to their workplaces, such asinteractive and interpersonal skills and wellplannedmindset.(5) Factors that prevent women from advancingto corporate leadership positions, and kinds ofinitiative the organizations may take to helpwomen advance to such positions.Since independence, women in India in generalhave been playing a significant role in all walks oflife including social organizations andadministration. Their contribution to the successor failure of an organization remains significant inmany cases. Hence, there is a need to study thestatus of the female executives in theorganizations. This study is important from theperspective of both participation of women inseveral executive ranks as well as the number ofwomen managers in these ranks. A few relatedstatistics are relevant in this context.In India, whereas the average annual growth rateof economically active men population during1970-90 was 2.3 per cent, it was just 1.2 per centfor women during the same period. Womenconstitute around 30 per cent of the totaleconomically active population at present.However, their presence and contribution in theworld of business has been limited. As reported,the number of women administrators andmanagers per one hundred economically activemen in India has been around two to three, the12

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurlowest even when compared to all other countriesin Asia and the Pacific. It is essential that thestatus of women mangers in India is improved asquickly as possible so that women are able to takemore meaningful role and decision in the businessand economic entities of the nation. A fewencouraging scenes for women in this respect areworth mentioning. During recent years, a largenumber of female students have been graduatingfrom business and engineering schools andinstitutes, and taking up new and challenging jobsin the areas of information technology, e-commerce, engineering design, and systemanalysis and design on graduation. Many of thesejobs require special talents and interpersonal skillsthat most women possess naturally.Leadership Style of Women ManagersAs has been mentioned in the publishedliterature, and it is also a common belief that maleand female managers differ in the ways they thinkand approach business problems. However, it isalso reported that they are similar in nature inrelation to several leadership traits, such as vision,intelligence, charisma, commitment, and drive.Dissimilarity exists in leadership style. Womenmay adopt different leadership styles than men. Ingeneral, women are more relationship oriented,and usually pay more attention to processes ofthe tasks while focussing on results and outcomes,support innovation and change more than men.They emphasize collaboration more than men,and like to build consensus to a greater degreethan men. In this context, it is pertinent tomention a few perceptions of men about womenmanagers. Many men feel that women see poweras a symbol of prestige, and personal goalfulfillment rather than as a tool for getting thingsdone. They also hold the view that women do notempower their subordinates, and treat them badlyin many cases. There seem to be somediscrepancy between men’s perception ofwomen’s use of power in the organization andwomen’s management style. A study in thisregard suggests that women in general exhibit orprefer ‘interactive’ leadership style, and menexhibit or prefer ‘command and control’leadership style. Most male managers believe thatwomen cannot lead in command and controlstyle, which may not be effective for womenmanagers. In the present-day complex businessenvironment and fast-changing dynamicsituations that a manager invariably faces, it is thevalued opinion of the experts that the ‘commandand control’ leadership style has becomeoutdated, and hence, is considered to beineffective for both men and women managers.The ‘interactive’ leadership style with which awoman manager is naturally powered and whichis the primary requirement for resolution ofconflicts among complex and multipleinterrelationship-oriented highly educated egocentricindividuals, women managers mayperform better in future.Management RoleThere are several ways the management of anorganization may assist women managersadvance on the corporate ladder. As has beenmentioned in the literature and on the basis ofresults of empirical studies on this aspect, themost important ones are as follows:(i) Women managers need to be ex posed tothe policies and procedures as followed atthe corporate management level. They needto know how top management thinks andmakes decisions in varied situations andunder constraints.(ii) The specific achievements of womenmanagers in their work need to berecognized by the top management, andmade known to all employees of theorganization in a formal and professionalmanner.(iii) Job rotation and job enrichment are twowell-proven techniques which can be usedquite effectively for increased job knowledgeand improved managerial skills in varietiesof situations for women managers. This will,as a direct positive consequence, enhancethe capability of women managers.(iv) Special training programmes for career andleadership development for women13

REBECA 2011executives should be a top priority for anyprogressive and forward-lookingmanagement.(v) Women managers should be provided withadequate and good child care facility attheir workplaces. Whatever may theposition of a woman manager in herorganization, her role as a loving and caringmother cannot be undermined in anyculture or society.(vi) Review of the status of women managersvis-à-vis the current women issues ofconcern should be periodically,systematically, and scientifically undertakenby the management. This will also show thelevel of commitment on the part ofmanagement towards gender issues.(vii) If possible, management should launchformally a special recruitment programme tohire and place women at senior levelpositions of the organizations. This will helpestablish gender equity in course of time atexecutive or higher levels of theorganization.Recommendations for Better ManagementIn today’s industrial and business world,potentials of both men and women need to beeffectively utilized and nurtured so thatorganizations are benefited by the specialqualities and talents of both. Indian organizationsmust not ignore this aspect while formulating apolicy on women participation in management.Although there are significant differences inperceptions between male and female managerson key gender issues in corporate India, suchperceptual differences need to be addressedaggressively to develop a healthy, creative andlearning community within a corporation. In thiscontext, organizations may have a number ofactions and implementation programmes. Someof the important initiatives are as follows:(i) Men and women managers shouldcommunicate with one another on existinggender differences in their organizations,and learn about the important issuesaffecting the work environment.(ii) Appropriate educational and trainingprogrammes for men and women should beconducted at periodic intervals to learn howto effectively manage the gender diversity inorganizations.(iii) As far as practicable, there should be‘reengineering’ of human resourcemanagement practices so that womenmanagers get convinced that theirorganizations are ‘women friendly’.(iv) Organizations make periodic survey toassess job satisfaction levels of womenemployees.(v) There has been in recent times quite a largenumber of women organizations emergingin Indian scene. This is a healthy trend.Professional bodies such as ‘Association ofWomen Managers’ must come forward tocarry out serious studies and research onthe pertinent gender issues as mentioned.ConclusionsAs has been mentioned in several empiricalstudies, gender is an important issue in corporateIndia. While women managers have the requisitequalification and experience for the jobs wherethey are engaged, their advancement to theexecutive or corporate decision making bodydepends on many other factors related to genderand societal perceptions. Although the careerpath of women managers is critically influencedby all these factors, a woman manager hasvirtually no control over them in most industrialsituations in India. Management of anyorganization must understand the implications ofsuch factors on women’s morale and motivationat the workplace. Job satisfaction among womenis significantly low in most jobs. Employment ofwomen must not be based on gender, but onmerit. However, given the prevailing scenario andconstrained work environment in which thewomen managers have to work in mostorganizations in India, they need to work harder14

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurthan men and need also to prove theircompetence and capability more often than theirmen colleagues do. Obviously, to be a successfulmanager, women must also have sound health,physical and mental fitness, and a highlysupportive family. Organizations in India musttake a holistic view of the worksystems and jobcharacteristics and its environment whereinwomen feel comfortable and motivated to offertheir services. Success as a manager will followautomatically.Suggested Readings[1] Alimo-Metcalfe, B. (1995). “Aninvestigation of female and male constructsof leadership and empowerment”. Womenin Management Review, 10(2), 3–8.[2] Alimo-Metcalfe, B. and Alban-Metcalfe, R.J.(2001). “The development of a newtransformational leadership questionnaire”.The Journal of Occupational andOrganisational Psychology, 74, 1–27.[3] Bartram, S. (2005). “What is Wrong withCurrent Approaches to ManagementDevelopment in Relation to Women inManagement Roles?”.Women inManagement Review. 20(2). 107-116.[4] Bateman, T.S. and Zeithaml, C.P. (1993). “Management Function and Strategy”. Irwin,New York.[5] Boddy, D. and Paton, R.A. (1998).“Management: An Introduction”. PrenticeHall Europe, London.[6] Burns, J.M. (1978). “ Leadership”. Harperand Row, New York.[7] Burr, V. (1998). “Gender and SocialPsychology”. Routledge, London.[8] Calas, M. and Smircich, L. (1996). “TheWoman’s Point of View: FeministApproaches to Organisational Studies”. InHandbook of Organisation Studies, ed. C.Clegg. Sage, London.[9] Durden Smith, J. and Desimone, D. (1983).“Sex and the Brain”. Arbor House, NewYork.[10] Eagly, A.H. and Johnson, B.T. (1990).“Gender and Leadership Style: a MetaAnalysis”. Psychological Bulletin 108(2),233–257.[11] Eagly, A.H. (1987). “Sex Differences inSocial Behaviour: A Social RoleInterpretation”. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.[12] Handy, C. (1996). “Understanding Power:Bringing about Strategic Change”. BritishJournal of Management. 7, 3–16.[13] Huczynski, A. A. and Buchanan, D. A.(2001). “Organizational Behaviour: AnIntroductory Text” (4th ed). Prentice HallEurope, London.[14] Gordon, S. (1991). “Prisoners of Men’sDreams: Striking Out for a New FeminineFuture”. Little Brown, Boston.[15] Gray, J. (1992). “Men are from Mars,Women are from Venus”. Harper Collins,New York.[16] Kanter, R.M. (1993). “Men and Women ofthe Corporation”. Harper Collins, NewYork.[17] Kimura, D. (1987). “Are Men and Women’sBrains Really Different?”. CanadianPsychology 28(2), 133.[18] MacDonald, I. (2004). “Women inManagement: An Historical Perspective”.Employee Relations. 26(3). 307-319.[19] Moir, A. and Jessel, D. (1991) “Brain Sex”.Carol Publishing Group, New York.[20] O’Boyle, W.M. (1987). “Gender andHandedness: Differences in Mirror TracingRandom Forms”. Neuropsychologia 1–6.[21] Paton, R, and Dempster,L. (2002 ).“Managing Change from a GenderPerspective”. European ManagementJournal 20(5), 539–548.[22] Paton, R.A. and McCalman, J. (2000).“Change Management: A guide to effectiveimplementation”. (2nd edn). SagePublications, London.[23] Rajan, S. and Krishnan, V, R. (2002).“Impact of Gender and Influence, Power,15

REBECA 2011and Authoritarionism”. Women inManagement Review. 17(5). 197-206.[24] Rosener, J. (1990). “Ways women lead”.Harvard Business Review, 1, 103-11.[25] Rosener, J. (1995). “Americas CompetitiveSecret”. Oxford University Press, New York.[26] Shaywitz, B.A. and Shaywitz, S.E. (1995).“Sex Differences in the FunctionalOrganisation of the Brain for Language”.Nature, 373, 607.[27] Vinnicombe, S. (1987). “What Exactly arethe Differences in Male and FemaleWorking Styles?”. Women in ManagementReview, 3(1), 13–21.[28] Vinnicombe, S. and Colwill, N. (1995).“The Essence of Women in Management”.Prentice Hall International, HemelHempstead.16

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Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurA less used numerical technique for solving boundary valueproblemsProf. D. SenguptaDepartment of Aerospace Engineering and Applied MechanicsIntroduction:In many problems of physics and engineering weencounter boundary value problems whichnecessarily amount to obtaining a differentialequation with a set of additional constraintsknown as boundary conditions. There is anothercategory of problems known as initial valueproblems. The difference between an intial valueproblem and a boundary value problem is that aninitial value problem has all the conditionsspecified at the same value of the independentvariable in the equation and that value is at thelower boundary of the domain, thus the term“initial” value. On the other hand, a boundaryvalue problem has conditions specified at theextremes of the independent variable. Forexample, if the independent variable is ‘ time ‘over the domain ( 0 , 1 ), an initial value problemwould specify a value of y(t) and y’ (t) at time t =0, while a boundary value problem would specifyvalues for y(t) at both t = 0 and t = 1. A solutionof the boundary value problem is a solution of itsguiding differential equation which simultaneouslysatisfy the specified boundary conditions.In many cases, the general solution of thegoverning differential equation is not known andeven if the general solution is available, theboundary conditions cannot be satisfied. In suchcases, it becomes imperative to seek anapproximate numerical solution of the problem.Finite Element Method being a versatile andpowerful technique, the method has beenextensively applied to solve a variety of boundaryvalue problems in many branches of engineeringwith great success, the accuracy being remarkablygood. Another method, Finite Difference, is alsovery well known which reduces to constructing aset of algebraic equations by writing thedifferential equations in difference form. This hadbeen used by scientists and engineers since a longspan of time and is known to yield satisfactorysolution for boundary value problems despitesome shortcomings and inconveniences.There is, however, another method that has beenobserved to be extremely powerful at least tosolve a certain class of boundary value problems.This is known as Point Matching Method. Thistechnique was utilised as early as in 1934 by J. C.Slater who used it in obtaining an approximatesolution to the problem of calculating electronicenergy bands in metals. Later, it has been usedwith success in problems of solid mechanics andelectrical engineering.Point Matching Method:Briefly, the Point Matching Method consists ofusing a truncated series solution of differentialequation to satisfy the boundary conditions of aselected finite set of boundary points of theregion. It is hoped that the solution thus foundwill also approximate satisfactorily the boundaryconditions for points on the boundary othetr thanthe selected set. The approach appears to bequite straight forward and is a very natural way ofobtaining an approximate solution of a boundaryvalue problem. To utilise the method, it isimperative to start with a known series solution ofthe basic differential equation for the problem. Itis clear that if we select an arbitrary set ofboundary points and write a set of equations forthem, the resulting simultaneous equation setwhen solved will yield the constants which willsatisfy the boundary conditions exactly at eachnumber of the selected set of boundary points. Ithas, however, been observed that overallaccuracy of the solution depends very critically on19

REBECA 2011the choice of boundary point locations. Thereason for this is that the values of the terms ofthe chosen function and its derivatives will varyconsiderably along the boundary. The higherorder terms of the series will attain a number ofmaxima and minima along the boundarycontributing to a similar variation to the boundaryconditions of the problem also.Altman in 1957 suggested a modification whichleads to the well known normal equation andeliminates almost entirely the problem ofmatching the boundary conditions mentionedearlier. In short, the modification consists inwriting many more boundary conditions thanthere are unknown constants in the selectedtruncated series. The resulting set of simultaneousequations containing the unknown constants isthen satisfied in the least square sense to get thevalues of the parameters.Formulation:If we write m boundary conditions for a functionwith n unknown constants (m is greater than n),in matrix form we get,A m n X n = R mwhere A m n is the coefficient matrix, X n theunknown parameters and R m is the m – foldvector of constants constituting the right hand sideof the boundary equations. We find a solutionvector X i of the equation system which minimisesthe sum of the squares of the residuals W m ,whereW m = A m n X n R mwhich can easily be shown to yield the final resultA T m n A m n X n = A T m n R m ……. ( 1 )which will be employed in the presentinvestigation. We shall demonstrate the efficacy ofthe method by solving a few plate problems withdifferent boundary conditions and thencomparing the results with exact solutions. Forthe problems of transverse bending of plates, wehave the basic differential equations, with theusual symbols as w s =qDwhere is Laplace’s operator.Since the general solution of this fourth orderpartial differential equation is available in polarcoordinates, we use the same for the solution ofproblems.w s = w 0 + R 0 +m 1Rm/cosm R sinm…….. ( 2 )m 1where w 0 is the particular solution andR 0 = A 0 + B 0 r 2 + C 0 log r + D 0 r 2 log rR 1 = A 1 r + B 1 r 3 + C 1 r – 1 + D 1 r log rR m = A m r m + B m r – m + C m r m + 2 +D m r – m + 2Application to plate problems:In the present illustrations, the method has beenused to solve the transverse bending of thin plateswith uniform loading and with the followingboundary conditions.Case I : Rectangular plate with three edgessimply supported and the fourthedge fixedCase II : Rectangular plate with two oppositeedges simply supported, the thirdedge free and the fourth edge fixed.Case III : Rectangular plate with three edgesbuilt-in and the fourth edge free.Case IV : Rectangular plate with three edgessimply supported and the fourthedge free.The origin is chosen at the centre of the plate andx – axis is taken as the axis of symmetry. With thischoice and noting the axis of symmetry and alsobecause the deflection and stress will be finiteanywhere in the plate, the final form of the series( 2 ) , writing B m in place of C m , reduces tow s =4qr A64D0B0r2m 1( AmRm Bmrm 2) cosm…. (3)20

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurFor fitting the boundary conditions, theexpressions for M x , M y , V x , V y and also x , y are needed.Dividing (3) by4qa64D, the equation can bemade non-dimensional, where a is any dimensionof the plate. If R = r / a , the guiding series in thiscase is obtained asw = R 4 + A 0 + B r 2 +m 1( ANoting thatmRmBmRm 2) cosm…… (4)Table showing the results of plates with differentboundary conditions x =wx; y =wy22w w M x = D 2 2 ; Conclusion: xy22w w M y = D 2 2 yx22 w wV x = ( 2 )22 D andx xy22 w wV y = D (2)22y yxthe above expressions necessary to fit theboundary conditions can be easily evaluated fromthe series (4). In the present case, the series (4)was truncated by considering 12 values of m.Total 68 boundary points were selected and usingequation (1), the 68 equations obtained at theboundary points were reduced to 26 which is thefinal number of equations. The results thusobtained and the exact solutions are compared inthe table below. The exact solutions wereobtained from the book Theory of Plates andShells authored by S. P. Timoshenko and S. W.Krieger, a very standard book on the subjectpublished by Mc Graw Hill Book Company. = ratio of the sides b/a of the plates, dimensiona being taken parallel to x-axis.The Point Matching Method as highlighted aboveis easy to use once the series solution of thegoverning differential equation is known. Hulbertsolved a number of problems of infinite platessubjected to in-plane forces in presence of a seriesof symmetrically placed circular holes. Themethod is observed to work well as long as theequations obtained does not exhibit illconditionedproperties. For example when a finiteplate in transverse bending is attempted to besolved with a rectangular hole therein, theequations obtained are ill-conditioned and doesnot yield stable results. This happens because theinner and outer boundaries are attempted to besolved simultaneously where the radius vectorsand its higher powers vary considerably. It issuggested that a singularity function of the natureA 1 r 1 -1 cos n + B 1 r 1 -1 sin nmay be incorporated in the deflection functionwith the origin at the corner of the hole. However,for the type of problems solved here, the madecan be used in a straight-forward way with varietyof other boundary conditions including mixedboundary conditions.21

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Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurKnowledge Economy: Old Wine in a New BottleProf. Subhasis BandyopadhyayDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, BESU, Shibpur, HowrahHardly any concepts introduced by theeconomists of late have been more flourishingthan that of a ‘knowledge-based economy’. Thisassumption of a qualitative transition in economicconditions has become commonplace amongpolicy-makers, academics and industry leaders.For example, the European Summit of March2000 in Lisbon was specifically held “to agree[on] a new strategic goal for the Union in order tostrengthen employment, economic reform andsocial cohesion as part of a knowledge-basedeconomy”. The findings of this meetingconcluded that, among other things, “…the shiftto a digital, knowledge-based economy,prompted by new goods and services, will be apowerful engine for growth, competitiveness andjobs. In addition, it will be capable of improvingcitizens’ quality of life and the environment.The image of a ‘knowledge-based economy’ hasraised a number of hitherto unansweredquestions. For example, can such a hefty impacton the real economy be expected from somethingas elusive and poorly defined as the knowledgebase of an economy? Is there any form ofeconomic activity that does not have a knowledgebase? Should one consider this concept purely asa rhetorical reflection of the overstretchedoptimism regarding the potential impact of ICTduring the latter half of the 1990s? How would aknowledge-based economy be expected to differfrom a market economy or a political economy?More importantly, how can a process such as theeconomy be based on something as transient as‘knowledge’? Furthermore, ‘knowledge’ and‘information’ should be more carefullydistinguished by analyzing the development of aknowledge-based economy (KBE) in terms ofcodification processes.Knowledge enables us to codify the meaning ofinformation. Knowledge can be considered as ameaning which makes a difference. Someinformation can be more evocative than other ina particular context. However, meaning isprovided from the perspective of hindsight.Providing meaning to an uncertainty can beconsidered as a first codification. Knowledgeenables us to discard some meanings and retainothers in a second layer of codification.Knowledge itself can also be codified and codifiedknowledge can, for example, be commercialized.Thus, a knowledge-based system operates inrecursive loops that one expects to be increasinglyselective. But the same holds true in case of theother non-knowledge-based systems. Then whatis so unique about KBE as such?Before the emergence of a knowledge-basedeconomy, the economic exchange of knowledgewas first developed and stabilized as distinct fromthe exchange of commodities within the contextof the market economy. For example, the patentsystem can be considered as a typical product ofindustrial competition in the late 19 th century.Patent legislation became crucial for regulatingintellectual property when knowledge marketsemerged increasingly in chemistry and later inelectrical engineering. Patents package scientificknowledge so that new knowledge can function atthe interface of science with the economy and be23

REBECA 2011incorporated into knowledge-based innovations.Patents thus provide a format for codifyingknowledge contents for purposes other than theinternal requirements of quality control inscientific communication. Nevertheless, thisexample does not state ipso facto that KBE is anykind of qualitative shift from the normal economy.Rather, if anything, it continues to walk on thepath of market driven logic of every other sphereof economic activity.The production and control of organizedknowledge has existed as a subdynamic of thesocioeconomic system in advanced capitalistsocieties since approximately 1870. Schumpeter(1939) is well-known for his argument that thedynamics of innovation upset the marketmechanism. While market forces try to findequilibrium at each moment of time, noveltyproduction generates an orthogonal sub dynamicalong the time axis. This has been modeled as thedifference between factor substitution (the changeof input factors along the production function)versus technological development (a shift of theproduction function towards the origin).Technological innovations enable enterprises toreduce factor costs in both labor and capital. Aknowledge-based economy is continuouslydisturbed by interactions at various interfaces andfails to be at rest. Fine. However, since the adventof scientific and technological revolution ofseventeenth century England, this feature hasbecome an integral part of the industrial economyin general. Interactions among the subdynamicsgenerate an evolutionary dynamics of transitionwithin the system. And KBE is no exception in thisregard.The development of a knowledge base isdependent on the condition that knowledgeproduction is socially organized. Using ICT as itsmain medium, the knowledge-based economycan be expected to continue to expand and growfor some more time, and not infinitesimally.Particularly in the context of its present use as asupra-organic entity that is self-evolving, selfsubscribing,and self-servicing. Each knowledgebasedsubdynamic operates by reconstructing thepast in the present on the basis of representationsthat contain informed expectations (e.g., curvesand functions on sheets of paper and computerscreens). As the intensity and speed ofcommunication among the carrying agenciesincreases, the codification of knowledge becomesa functional means to reduce the complexity inthe communication. The expectations can beimproved upon as they become moretheoretically informed. On the contrary what wehave is some sort of an epistemic crisis, i.e.emergence of ICT as an academic discipline (atleast in India) which is in no way distinct from thescience and technology of computation.Theoretical reorientation is replaced here by anoverarching need of job outsourcing for businessprocesses.For example, in a knowledge-based economy theprice-mechanism of a market-based economy canincreasingly be reconstructed in terms ofprice/performance ratios based on expectationsabout the life-cycles of technologies. The overalleffect of KBE is, then, reduced only to theincrement in the level of systemic efficiency in afiercely competitive market mechanism. This is asituation even the postmodernists would refuse toaccept as a “paradigm shift” and at most can beconsidered as one very transient but thrivingextension of the neoliberalist principle, only fewmore of which is left to appear in the midst of amultidimensional and irreversible crisis of theglobal market systems.24

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurFlood Management in Eastern and North-Eastern India andBangladeshDr. Amartya Kumar BhattacharyaBCE (Hons.), MTech, PhD, CEng(I), FIE, FACCE(I), FISH, FIWRS, FIPHE, FIAHAssociate Professor, Department of Applied Mechanics, Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurHowrah – 711103, West Bengal, INDIA.E-mail: amartyakumar@yahoo.co.inAbstract:This paper studies the causes, features andmanagement measures for floods in eastern andnorth-eastern India and Bangladesh. Anexposition of the climatic, topographical,hydrogeological, riverine and other relevantfeatures of the region, placed in the context offloods and flood management, is present in thispaper. The paper is a sequel to Bhattacharya andRahman (2008) and Rahman, Hossain andBhattacharya (2007) and is a comprehensivestudy of floods and flood management in the areaof interest. The ambit of the paper is northeasternIndia, West Bengal and Bangladesh.Introduction:The north-eastern region of India comprisesseven states, namely Assam, Meghalaya,Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura andArunachal Pradesh and the region borders thecountries of Bhutan, China, Bangladesh andMyanmar. The entire region is one of the mosthazard-prone regions in the Asian continent, withdifferent areas being prone to multi hazards likeearthquakes, floods, landslides and cyclonicstorms. The rivers Brahmaputra and Barak drainthe region. The Brahmaputra river has acatchment area of 5,80,000 km in China, Bhutan,India and Bangladesh and in terms of discharge isthe third largest river in the world, in terms ofsediment load it is second after the Hwang-Horiver of China. The river originates in China, thenflows for a length of 918 Km in India of which720 Km is through the plains of Assam, and thelower stretch is in Bangladesh. Thus, the centralportion of the Brahmaputra is in India. In Assam,about 20 major tributaries on its North bank andabout 13 on its South Bank join the riverBrahmaputra. The precipitation here is mainlydue to the South-West monsoon. Heavy rainfalloccurs from June to October. The average annualrainfall in the region is very high and ranges from1750mm in the plains to about 6400 mm in thehills, this huge volume of water rushes throughthe narrow bowl shaped valley of Assam throughBangladesh to the Bay of Bengal ravaging thearea through floods and land erosion. Therecurring floods on an average devastate about20% of the total area of the plain districts of thestate of Assam and in the high floods years thedevastation has been recorded to be as high as 67%. The region lies at the junction of theHimalayan arc to the north and the Burmese arcto the east. The monsoon in the region normallycommences around the months of April, May,and is active until the end of October. The premonsoonperiod is often marked by severecyclonic storms and hailstorms.The state of West Bengal lies in the eastern part ofIndia and is flood-prone with floods occurringwith a depressing regularity. A number of factorscombine to cause floods in southern West Bengal.There is extremely high rainfall in the monsoonseason. The seaward slope of southern WestBengal is very low and the Ganga delta is tidal innature. There are several low-lying areas wherewater lies stagnant. There is silting of severaloutlet channels reducing carrying capacity. Inaddition, there is human encroachment on somechannels hampering renovation of thosechannels.25

REBECA 2011Bangladesh stretches between latitudes 20o34'Nand 26o38'N and longitudes 88o01'E and92o41'E. The country contains the confluence ofa distributary of the Ganga (the other distributary,also called Ganga, passes through West Bengaland drains into the sea at Ganga Sagar),Brahmaputra, and Meghna Rivers and theirtributaries, which originate in the Himalayas (except the Meghna, which in its upstream portionin north-eastern India is called the Barak) anddischarge into the Bay of Bengal. The terrain ismainly flat, and with 90% of its landmass, up to10 meters above the mean sea level, is a primarilylow-lying riverine country. It is frequently hit bynatural disasters, particularly floods, riverbankerosion, cyclones and droughts. Each affects thelivelihoods of those affected, but with differentseverity. Displacement due to flood, erosion, andinadequate facilities during and after majorfloods, as shown in Fig. 1, can create majorhardship and health problems. The climate ofBangladesh is tropical monsoon. High monsoonrains, associated with Bangladesh's geographicallocation in the eastern part of the delta of theworld's second largest river basin, make itextremely vulnerable to recurring floods. Thedominant land usage in the country is foragriculture, covering about 59% of the land; riversand other water bodies take up another 9%(Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2002).River Erosion due to FloodLack of Flood Shelter FacilitiesFig. 1: Erosion and inadequate facilities duringand after major floods in Bangladesh(Source: The Daily Prothom Alo, 2004)Fig. 2: Flood in Assam, India(Source: Assam_Disaster_Management.htm)India – Bangladesh and India-China Cooperationin water resources:India – Bangladesh Co-operation in WaterResources (http://www.wrmin.nic.in):The signing of the Treaty between theGovernments of India and Bangladesh on sharingof Ganga water at Farakka on December 12,1996 ushered a new era of co-operation in waterresources sector. The signing of this Treatygenerated tremendous goodwill between the twocountries. As a follow up, a Joint Committeeconsisting of equal number of representativesfrom both the countries was constitutedimmediately after signing the Treaty forimplementing the arrangements contained in theTreaty including setting up of joint teams atFarakka in India and Hardinge Bridge inBangladesh to measure and record the flows forthe purpose of monitoring the sharing of waters.Secretarial and Ministerial contacts through theJoint Rivers Commission are also made from timeto time between both the Governments. Since thesigning of this Treaty in December 1996, sharingof the lean season (January to May) flow ofGanga Waters at Farakka during 1997 and insubsequent years has been carried out to thesatisfaction of both the countries. The existingsystem of transmission of flood forecasting dataon major rivers, that is, Ganga, Teesta,Brahmaputra and Barak during the monsoonseason from India to Bangladesh was continued.The transmission of flood forecasting informationfrom India during the monsoon has enabledBangladesh to take appropriate measures.As a follow up of the 34th meeting of India-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission meetingheld at Dhaka, Bangladesh in January, 2001,26

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurdiscussions were held on the unprecedentedfloods of September, 2000, which had affectedWest Bengal and adjoining areas of Bangladesh.In this connection, a Joint Task Force for FloodManagement in the Ichhamati Basin was set up toformulate an Action Plan for tackling such floodcalamities jointly.India - China Co-operation in WaterResources (http://www.wrmin.nic.in):A Memorandum of Understanding was signedbetween India and China on January 14, 2002,for provision of hydrological information namelyrainfall, water level, discharge and other relevantinformation on Brahmaputra river in respect ofthree stations, namely, Nugesha, Yangcun andNuxia in the flood season by China to India. Theinformation is furnished from June 1 to October15 every year and is useful for flood forecastingpurposes in the north-eastern region of India aswell as Bangladesh. As a follow-up of thisMemorandum of Understanding, anImplementation Plan has also been signedbetween the the Central Water Commission,Ministry of Water Resources of India and theBureau of Hydrology and Water Resources, TibetAutonomous Region of China. The Chinese sidehas transmitted data to India for the abovementionedthree stations during the year 2002and thereafter. Considering that the floods inBrahmaputra affect the states of ArunachalPradesh and Assam in India as well asBangladesh, very accurate data on streamflowinto India from China is important.Types of Floods:The term flood is generally used when the flowsin the rivers and channel cannot be containedwithin natural or artificial riverbanks. By spillingthe riverbanks, when water inundates flood plainsand adjoining high lands to some extent or whenthe water level in the river or channels exceedscertain stage, the situation then termed as flood(Hossain, 2004).Fig. 3: Ganga Basin in India,Bangladesh and NepalFig 4: Ganga River Basin in India(Source: http://www.wrmin.nic.in)Fig. 5: Brahmaputra and BarakRiver Basins in India(Source: http://www.wrmin.nic.in)27

REBECA 2011Fig. 6: Confluence of a distributary of theGanga, Brahmaputra and Meghna (lower Barak)River Basins in Bangladesh(Source: Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre,Dhaka, Bangladesh)Fig. 7: The Indo-Gangetic Basin (Source:International Water Management Institute,Colombo, Sri Lanka)Flash Floods in Mountainous and HillyAreas:Flash flood prone areas of the India andBangladesh are occur in mountainous and hillyareas. Intense local and short-lived rainfall, oftenassociated with meso-scale convective clusters, isthe primary cause of flash floods. These arecharacterised by a sharp rise followed by arelatively rapid recession. Flash floods can occurwithin a few hours and are particularly frequentin. the pre-monsoon months of April and May.Floods during Monsoon:Floods during Monsoon are a commonphenomenon in India and Bangladesh. Of thetotal river flow, around 80% occurs in the fivemonths of monsoon from June to October (WaterResources Planning Organisation, 2004). Asimilar pattern is observed in case of rainfall also.Therefore, to these skewed temporal distributionof river flow and rainfall, India and Bangladeshsuffer from abundance of water in monsoon,frequently resulting into floods and water scarcityin other parts of the year, developing droughtconditions. In the Brahmaputra, maximumdischarge occurs in early monsoon in June andJuly whereas in the Ganga maximum dischargeoccurs in August and September. Synchronisationof the peaks of these rivers results in devastatingfloods in India and Bangladesh.It may be mentioned that India has a River-Linking Plan (National Water Policy, 2002) toensure equitable distribution of water andmanage floods. With reference to Fig. 3 and Fig.7, the Indus River Basin and the Ganga RiverBasin are separated by a low watershed. As perthe India-Pakistan Water Treaty, 1960, the watersof the Indus River Basin are to be shared by thetwo countries such that India gets the full share ofwater flowing through the Sutlej, Beas and Ravirivers while Pakistan gets the full share of waterflowing through the Chenab, Jhelum and IndusRivers. It is envisaged to construct a canalconnecting the Sutlej River in the Indus basin withthe Yamuna River in the Ganga basin so as todivert some water from the Indus Basin to theGanga Basin without, in any way, impinging onthe water rights of Pakistan because the waters ofthe Sutlej are fully allocated to India. Theobjective is to augment and increase thedischarge in the Ganga to meet the needs of theGanga basin fully.Floods Due To Storm Surges:This kind of flood mostly occurs along the coastalareas of Bangladesh and West Bengal. Thecontinental shelf, in this part of the Bay of Bengalis shallow, and extends upto about 20-50 km fromthe coastline. Because of this, storm surgesgenerated due to any cyclonic storm arecomparatively higher compared to those due toan equivalent cyclonic storm in several other partsof the world. In case of super-cyclones, themaximum height of surges are found to be 10-1528

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurm, which cause flooding in the entire coastal belt.The worst kind of such flooding was onNovember 12, 1970 and April 29, 1991, whichcaused loss of 300,000 and 138,000 human livesrespectively (Flood Forecasting and WarningCentre, 2005). Coastal areas are also subjected totidal flooding during the months from June toOctober when the sea is in spate due to themonsoon wind.Flood Management in Bangladesh:Bangladesh tries to deal with flood and disasterwith structural and non-structural measures.Systematic structural measures were begun byimplementing flood management projects afterthe flood of 1963. Non-structural measures havebeen introduced in the seventies. Flooding is anatural phenomenon, which cannot beprevented. Resources should be allocated to helppeople adopt a life style that is conformable totheir natural environment. Indigenous solutionssuch as changing the housing structures and croppatterns can help reduce flood damage.Moreover, good governance, appropriateenvironmental laws, acts and ordinances arenecessary to achieve sustainable economicdevelopment and to reduce any environmentaldegradation. In addition, implementation of animproved real-time flood and drought controlwarning system can reduce the damage causedby floods. In recent years, improved forecastingand early-warning system and disasterpreparednessmeasures have helped to reduce thenumber of lives lost by natural disasters.Flood Management by Structural Measures:The structural option provided some benefits,especially in increase in agricultural production(Bangladesh Water Development Board, 2005and Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2002),initially but some adverse effects were observedlater on. Notably, the construction of highembankment along both banks of rivers resulted,in some cases, in rise in bed levels due to siltationcausing obstruction to drainage. In the coastalareas, although the construction of poldersprevented saline water intrusion, some adverseeffects were restriction in the movement of thetidal prism, sedimentation of tidal rivers andobstruction to gravity drainage. An importantimpact on agriculture was that the farmers, inmost cases, opted for production of cereal crops,especially HYV rice, after enjoying a flood-freesituation, rather than going in for cropdiversification. Structural measures caused manyadverse effects on aquatic life, especially on openwaterfisheries.National and regional highways and railways, tothe extent feasible, have been raised above floodlevel. Raising feeder and rural roads will bedetermined in the context of disaster managementplans.River maintenance and erosion control: Rivermaintenance through dredging is also going on ina limited case due to the high cost. Erosioncontrol efforts are continuing in medium andsmall rivers.Flood control and drainage project: Wherepossible Flood Control, Drainage and/or Irrigationprojects have been constructed. Flood Control,Drainage and/or Irrigation projects are of twotypes, namely (i) full flood control facilities; and(ii) partial flood control. Until date Flood Control,Drainage and/or Irrigation projects providefacilities in about 5.38 million ha which is about59% of the country’s net cultivated land(Bangladesh Water Development Board, 2000-01). Flood control and drainage structures havealso been provided in major cities to make thecities flood free.Flood Management by Non-StructuralMeasures:Introduction of non-structural option, i.e. FloodForecasting and Warning System, was started inBangladesh from the early 1970s and contributedto the improvement of the capacity for floodpreparedness and mitigation/minimisation offlood losses. Other non-structural measures arediscussed in what follows.Flood cum Cyclone Shelter: School buildings areso constructed that they can be used as flood-cumcyclone shelter especially in the coastal zone with29

REBECA 2011highest risk of flood and storm surge. Thesestructures are not intended to change the floodregime, and therefore, considered as no-structuralmeasures of flood management.Flood proofing: Efforts have been made toprovide vulnerable communities with mitigationby raising homesteads, schools and marketplacesin low-lying areas (rather than flood control) sothat peasants can save their livestock and foodstuff.Concept of flood zoning and flood insurance arenot practiced in the country until date. Floodzoning will facilitate development in a cocoordinatedway to avoid expensive investmentsin vulnerable areas. Proper land developmentrules need to be developed based on the floodzoningmap.Other non-structural measures practiced are: Working with communities to improve disasterawareness. Developing disaster management plans. Relief and evacuation.Flood Forecasting and Warning inBangladesh:Flood warning is concerned to reduce sufferingsto human life and damages of economy andenvironment. Flood Forecasting and WarningService of Bangladesh was established in 1972 asa permanent entity under Bangladesh WaterDevelopment Board. Initially co-axial correlation,gauge-to-gauge relationship and Muskingum-Cunge Routing Model were used for forecasting.From the early nineties a numerical modellingbased approach has been applied for floodforecasting and warning. Using the principalconcept of mass transfer based on the continuityand momentum equations, dynamic computationhas been used in this method. Very briefly, itcomprises of estimating water levels using ahydrodynamic simulation model. Research onModelling System and capacity building in theforecasting is currently emphasised. During thesevere flood in Bangladesh and West Bengal,India in 1998, loss of lives and damage of FloodControl, Drainage and/or Irrigation projects inBangladesh were minimum mainly because offlood forecasting and early warning (Islam andDhar, 2000).Disaster Mitigation:Disaster management (including disasterpreparedness) involves prevention and mitigationmeasures, preparedness plans and relatedwarning systems, emergency response measuresand post-disaster reconstruction andrehabilitation. The main aims for water-relateddisaster management are to provide the means bywhich, through a combination of structural andnon-structural measures and to the extent feasibleand affordable, people are adequately warned ofan approaching disaster, and are adequatelysupported in rebuilding their lives thereafter. Thevulnerability to natural disasters combined withsocio-economic vulnerability of the people livingin the different states of India, poses a greatchallenge for the government machinery andunderscores the need for a comprehensive planfor disaster preparedness and mitigation. TheGovernment of India since the last decade hasbeen actively supporting programs for reductionof vulnerabilities and risks. The United NationsDevelopment Programme has been a partner ofthe Government of India in such efforts.Vulnerability reduction and linking withsustainable development efforts has been one ofthe key approaches of United NationsDevelopment Programme. Strengtheningcapacities for disaster risk reduction andsustainable recovery process across the countryand bringing together skills and resources formaking communities disaster resistant is one ofthe first steps taken in the long term for achievingreduction in loss of lives and protecting thedevelopment gains.Quite a few measures may be taken to reducefloods in West Bengal. The network of drainagecanals is to be increased and silted drainagecanals are to be dredged to augment channelcapacity and allow free flow of excess waterthrough those channels. More dykes are to be30

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurbuilt to prevent floodwater from entering low-lyingareas and existing dykes are to be strengthened toprevent their breaching. If possible, humanhabitation is to be evacuated from flood-proneareas. Pumps of adequate capacity are to be kepton stand-by to pump out water particularly fromlow areas. Better meteorological forecasting isnecessary so that the water levels in the DamodarValley Corporation reservoirs can be broughtdown early enough to accommodate high inflowsfrom upstream in flood periods. Adequatedischarge channels are to be provided in thelower Damodar basin; this area is suffering fromflood due to inadequate discharge channels. Thecapacity of the Mayurakshi river also needs to beaugmented. Floods in West Bengal can beprevented or reduced by taking adequatestructural and non-structural measures.The Disaster Management Department,Government of West Bengal, Kolkata, WestBengal, India (Monograph on FloodManagement, 2006) has emphasised that duringfloods, large tracts of land get inundated and,thereby, disconnected from the adjoining areasresulting in disruption of normal day- to-dayactivity in that area. Though natural calamitieslike flood cannot be avoided, its impact in termsof loss of lives and damage to properties can beminimized by undertaking appropriatemanagement practices for preparedness,prevention and mitigation measures. Thisconstitutes a holistic approach towardsmanagement of flood with emphasis not only onthe traditional post disaster response; but also onpre-disaster preventive/mitigation preparedness aswell, thereby, laying down a Standard OperatingProcedure for flood management(http://www.wbgov.com).The Government of Bangladesh established theDisaster Management Bureau in 1993, which hasprepared comprehensive Disaster ManagementPlans. The Disaster Management Bureau isworking under the Ministry of DisasterManagement and Relief. Standing orders onDisaster has been prepared in 1997 andupgraded in 1999 by the Disaster ManagementBureau (Chowdhury, 2003). A National DisasterManagement Council has been formed headedby the Prime Minister. This includes Ministersfrom different ministries as members. Inter-Ministerial Disaster Management Co-ordinationCouncil has also been formed which guided bythe National Disaster Management Council.Beside this, District, Thana (Area underjurisdiction of a Police Station) and Union (lowestlevel of local government) level committees havealso formed with the participation of localcommunity for post-disaster management andmitigation. Task and responsibilities of eachcommittee are stated in the standing order(Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief,1997). By all these steps the Government ofBangladesh has strengthened the disasterresponse capacity through institutional capacitybuilding activities; community disaster responsesimulation drills; and stockpiling of essential reliefitems.Conclusion:Structural as well as non-structural measures arebeing emphasised for flood management in bothIndia and Bangladesh who have very significantco-operation in water resources management. Ithas been proved that non-structural measureshave significant effect on flood damageminimisation. Flood and disaster cannot fully becontrolled, prevented or eliminated, but damagescan be reduced significantly by integration ofmeasures and co-ordination of agencies. Floodforecasting and early warning are very important.Co-operation is needed at all levels for researchand development for improvement of floodmitigation measures.References:[1] Assam_Disaster_Management.htm[2] Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2002,Ministry of Planning, Government ofBangladesh.[3] Bangladesh Water Development Board,2000-2001, Annual Report, Dhaka,Bangladesh.[4] Bhattacharya, A.K. and Rahman, M.M. An31

REBECA 2011Analysis of Flood Control in Eastern SouthAsia, IETECH Journal of Civil andStructures, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008. Pages 59-66.[5] Chowdhury, J.R., 2003, Technical Paperpresented in the 47th Annual Convention ofthe Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, 5-7 January, 2003, Chittagong, Bangladesh.[6] Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre,2005, Consolidation and Strengthening ofFlood Forecasting and Warning Services,Final Report, Volume II – Monitoring andEvaluation, Bangladesh Water DevelopmentBoard, Dhaka, Bangladesh.[7] Hossain, A.N.H. and Akhtar, 2004, FloodManagement: Issues and Options. Presentedin the International Conference organisedby the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.[8] India-Pakistan Water Treaty, 1960, NewDelhi, India and Karachi, Pakistan.[9] Islam, S.R., and Dhar, S.C., 2000,Bangladesh Floods of 1998: Role of FloodForecasting and Warning Centre,Bangladesh Water Development Board,Dhaka, Bangladesh.[10] Monograph on Flood Management, 2006,Disaster Management Department,Government of West Bengal, Kolkata, WestBengal, India.[11] National Water Policy, 2002, Ministry ofWater Resources, Government of India.[12] Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief,1997, Standing Order for DisasterManagement, Dhaka, Bangladesh.[13] Rahman, M. M., 2005, Geo-InformaticsApproach for Augmentation of Lead Timeof Flood Forecasting- BangladeshPerspective, Proceedings of InternationalConference on Hydrological Perspectives forSustainable Development in Department ofHydrology, Indian Institute of Technology,Roorkee, Uttaranchal, India, Feb 23-25.[14] Rahman M.M., Hossain, M.A.,Bhattacharya, A.K., 2007 FloodManagement in the Flood Plain ofBangladesh, Proceedings, InternationalConference on Civil Engineering in the NewMillennium: Opportunities and Challenges,Bengal Engineering and Science University,Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India, Jan11-14. Paper No. WRE 015.[15] Water Resources Planning Organisation,2004, National Water Management Plan,Ministry of Water Resources, Governmentof Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.[16] http://www.wrmin.nic.in[17] http://www.wbgov.com32

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Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurPoetry of the MorningNoel Roy Chowdhury2nd Yr, ITNetaji, the forgotten HERODipayan Chakrabortty3rd Yr, MinAs the dark shades of night-sky fadeGradually,and the peering stars loseTheir brillianceThe moon hides herself in theShadow of the earthDoes the sun make his appearanceCasting his warmthFrom the crest of mountains toThe mouth of riversEnwrapping nature with his cosinessThe camarederie of the gentle breezeIn the kiss with a dewdropAssures the dry leaf of a refreshingTouch of wetnessAs the droplet wiggles from the tip of the grassAnd finally gets lost in the vastnessThe eagerness of an imprisoned budPays off as it blooms into blossomAnd the abundance of the flowersUnfurls the green,dotted with coloursIn a newly discovered magnificenceYou did what you couldBut alas was your work understood?You gave everything for thatWe got it atlast;You first shown the rays of freedomFrom the outside of the home;Our leaders are busy day and nightFor their own self they are even ready to fight:On the day of 23rd januaryYou are remembered with some memory;Your words remain as it wasBut to follow, no one is conscious;After a long time of freedomEveryone still not ready to say you were not wrong;This is the country you bornTo think of you there is none;Hero like you will we get ever?From the heart answer is never;Though you appeared as a heroNow you are left as a “Forgotten HERO”The gleam of sunshine awakens himWho hurries off to plough his fieldsHis gentle stroke sweeps the golden massTo exhibit a merry festive danceThe exquisite craft of passion incarnatesHis keen for creationIn the auspicious backgroundOf an invigorated morning33

REBECA 2011Rebeca- an experience of a lifetime… (Re-union & BE collegeannuals) 8th April 2010-11th April 2010Ankita BhattacharyaI’m not a student of BESU. Rebeca for me was just anotherannual college fest of another engineering college. Beingan engineering student I have had the good fortune toattend many of such fests. So I was not excited to thelimits when I was invited over to attend the fest by a verygood friend of mine who is currently a student there. Asper the planned schedule I reached the venue and the veryfirst sight at the place made me change my mind. It was afeeling as if I was in an unknown territory. The atmospherewas full of energy and zeal. The whole campus was alivewith the very spirit of rebeca. It was an alien feeling for meas I had never had a previous experience of being in anunknown land and feeling so much connected at the sametime. As the evening progressed the rebeca fever grewstronger. Temperatures rose and so did the energy level. Iwas so lost in the crowd but yet I felt as if I knew everyone,I felt as if I too stood out like everyone else. I danced withunlimited enthusiasm and screamed my voice hoarse alongwith all the ‘unknown’ people and yet I was having asmuch fun as anyone out there and in some cases perhapsa bit more. Rebeca had this trait of accepting every outsiderwith open arms and merging them into her its ownelectrifying madness. I felt a sense of belonging when Istared at the unknown faces. The feeling was strange as Ididn't have any concern or worries when I sat chattingwith people in the Lords ground. I wasn’t aware of thedegree of my indulgence till I participated in the lastperformance of the night by steel- the college band foundedby the pass out seniors. It’s a tradition that juniors cry fortheir most favourite senior who are about to leave thatyear when ever steel performs. I was warned about theemotional show-down but I was like ‘what the hell! Canpeople be so lame?’. But everything around me changedwhen the performance started. I was awed to see theemotional energy surrounding the place. Every songperformed by steel was a dedication to the students ofBESU and the seniors and yet somehow it touched myheart. As they sang their last song I could see people intears and strangely enough I had tears in my eyes too. Iwas at a fix regarding the possible reason for this but all Icould manage was to get carried away by the immenseenergy and emotional rendezvous. I came back to mycollege the next day and well rebeca is a memory now butthe experience that I had there has helped me realisesomething. I guess we don't need any reason to care. It isan involuntary feeling. I had nothing to care about thestudents or the seniors of BESU but still I was sad when Ithought about the seniors leaving; and I was jumping withjoy when a song was being dedicated to the students. Eachone of us crave for a bit of attention and care and we feelconnected to that place or person or the situation, as inthis case, which satisfies this craving. Rebeca is like afestival for the students of BESU; it’s an occasion whereone and all come together to celebrate the very fact theycare for each other. Rebeca is a promise that the studentscommit to themselves and each other that they’ll neverforget BESU and each other. I’m sure rebeca has a waygreater importance in the lives of BESU students thanthat I could possibly estimate but for me it was a learningexperience which taught me to care and accept everyonewithout discrimination. Rebeca for me was an experienceworth a life time. I’m sure I’ll love to be a part of rebecaas many times as I can and I know I'll be accepted andwelcomed as one of the family each time I participate.That’s the very spirit of Re- Union and BE College Annuals.That’s what rebeca is all about. Peace out.(P.S as mentioned above, this article has been submittedb a person not belonging to BESU legitimately but hersentiments are a part of it.)34

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurShakespeared (Shake-speared)Sonnet Mondal3rd Yr, Min“The Time is uncertain but it will certainly come.”How factual these words appear when we lose ournear ones and it pinches us harder if we lose theminopportunely against our biological fixations of anaverage human span. It falls heavier upon our headsif it’s a catastrophic death and more explicitly if thetragedy is a superfluous one. Moments seem to runout of the fingers as water and the mind seems todrown in a desert of quicksand with no one to sitbeside and endeavour to help you out. Even if weshare, our emotions remain unshared, our tearsremain unshared, or feelings remain unshared. Justa few shallow words of condolences do no goodbut one understands that one is all alone in thisworld and we belong to nothingness. This reflectioncan be well compared to the philosophical sayingsin Bhagwat Gita with slight modifications,“Yesterday I belonged to you, today I belong to meand tomorrow I will belong to someone else.”Life is akin to this; principally for those who havelived for others or whose ways of living have beenable to impress others or whose creations can beused for living or for pleasure by others. A few daysof tears which one won’t term as crocodile tears,for there are surely genuine emotions but the lastingperiod is too small. In fact public memory is dulland petite (Public here includes relatives and friendslet alone others) in the sense that very few peoplereally bother about the loss the society is bearingby losing great souls. A constant influx of creationsand lifestyle of those persons have to be broughtinto remembrances to make their eyes well up withtears, that make them comprehend the real loss.For example government organizations along withsome NGOs play a flexible role in hosting constantconcerts naming it, “In the Memory of X” or to payhomage and respect to them.But does it serve the purpose? Taking into accountIndian classical music over the last few years toomany concerts have been arranged by organizersin the memory of legendary figures like Ustad AliAkhbar Khan, Pandit Kishen Maharaj, BhimsenJoshi and others but has it been able to increasethe declining popularity of Indian classical music?The answer is a straight no. It has all been the same.Has death of great poets been able to diffuse poetryinto people's veins? The answer is they still preferstories and novels to verse. Digging into the rootsor a literary research into this subject will revealthat the real cause lies in the frame of mind of people,which is hard to cure just through deaths. Organizersfind deaths as a way to mint money and garnerfame. In the news-death of a legend, any concert inhis name will surely lure a greater audience but forjust a few days because of which concerts in thenames of these legends start becoming rarer withthe passing day. So the interest of people waverslike a musical fountain but at the end of the day itflows back at the same water level.Again, the blame game is an unending chain, sopreferably one will stop blaming here, but I can’ttake this factor as welcome to mint money out ofthe names of the dead without trying to establishthat the part for which they have become legends,striving for which they have passed their entire life.And why blame these organizations? For exampleIOS-Indo Occidental Symbiosis has organized aclassical music fiesta in the name of Ustad AliAkhbar Khan. If it hosts one more yet again it willhave the audience hurling several questions at them.They too have to survive. Perhaps that’s why theydesist. A few days ago, after the death of BharatRatna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi when a fan of hisadded some lines in Facebook. One of her friendscommented “Who was he, did he dabble rock?”When he was told about Bhimsen Joshi he justadded a further comment - “I am not into classymusic, am into softy and rock.”One would find it hard to cry, scream or laugh atthis and that’s a greater sarcasm on the conditionof one of the finest arts in the world. Taking intoaccount a much more sensitive and important issue- celebration of Netaji’s birthday as a nationalholiday or Gandhijayanti or Rabindrajayanti too35

REBECA 2011do no good to prop up national integrity or poetrybut they are just a bit better placed due to the massrecognition of the highest level and their tremendouscontribution, which has been well recognized,particularly by governments, which has made thesedays as national or state holidays or days ofcelebration. So the neat factor in promoting anyart through the death of their masters be it poetry,music or painting touches zero in this post modernworld. The fact that ‘Julius Caesar was morepowerful after his death’ is not at all universal evenfor legends and leaders in this era. Shakespeareanconcept suffers a setback here.Now coming to another issue of lost heroes, thefocus will be on those people whom people can referto as ‘nameless heroes’. On each 23rd January, oneor more articles come up with the heading Netajitheforgotten hero. It’s funny of people to give suchheadings, when each Indian remembers Netaji quitewell as a national hero. The Jaipur Literature Festival2011 presented several issues about show casingregional writers, while none of the present daylitterateurs present, remembering the tragic anduntimely death of Subhas Ghoshal, an awardwinning Bengali novelist. The reason one felt, wasthat he never promoted himself in the way otherwriters of his age did. There were dreams in hiseyes and mind but he preferred to keep themsuppressed and his fellow writers too could notrecognize the death of such a stalwart. No one caredto take his name even in any national seminarsfollowing his death and no newspaper published it,for few people had the kismet of knowing this man.Without going into details one can only mentionthat if his life history and the causes leading to histragic death are recorded or published in a book orpresented in the form of a documentary it couldjust revolutionize the popularity of poetry, regionalliterature as well as be a lesson of life for all.Another name is Abhijit Dasgupta, the founder ofthe Calcutta Times and Deputy Editor of IndiaToday magazine. I have come across very fewdynamic people like him. His dream was to publishhis novel on which he has been working for yearsand editing it again and again, in keeping with theinsatiable hunger of publishers. A man who keptsaying ‘promote yourself vigorously’ forgot topromote himself, while promoting others throughhis writings.In constitutional terms, the country might notremember them but if the country means a land inwhich each of its inhabitants have equal share thenthey will always be remembered by those people,who have known them, and in turn the country willrecognize them. The world does not lack JuliusCaesars, perhaps the organizers and the governmentor established people dreaming of becoming legendshave not prepared themselves for such noble workto recognize those who can or are such, otherwiseone would not have shed tears with just a few peoplein respective corners of our rooms but the wholecountry would have - for their existed such people.If we go back to the the last century then one mightadmit that the Sepoy Mutiny was able to trigger anuprising but movements like ‘Feminism or Hunger’were less keenly felt in later years. Though one mightquote instances from India but the scenario is thesame all over the world. No death of Martin LutherKing Jr. or Roosevelt has been able to implementtheir principles of usher in world peace in the mindsof people. Even Roosevelt’s own nation takes theleading role in inter-country wars and UnitedNations plays its role in only declaring world peacedays doing little else. So sharp transformations frompast centuries have taken place with the advent inthe 21st century. Even if a few decades ago thetradition of uprising could have been possiblethrough deaths and sufferings but now even deathshardly touch people.The finale should be very well made through thewords that Shakespeare fails in the post modernera. Rebellion to achieve something comes into playonly when years of trials and tribulations and yearsof suppressed anger erupts like a volcano out ofhard rock like social customs or set laws of society,but here a rebellion or movement cannot take theform of a volcano to change the structure of landsbecause people have learnt to belong to themselves,only they no more belong to the nation, they nomore belong to poetics, they no more belong toclassical music and so on and so forth. Surely thereare Julius Caesars alive in the world but people nolonger belong to their kings. Antony or Brutus tooexist perhaps but are not in touch with their leaders,which kill even their realization to lead movements.36

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurFaster Than LightRahul Nath1st Yr, METhe standard time travel paradox is the one inwhich a time traveler travels back in time and killshis or her grandfather, so that the time traveler isnever born, so the time traveler doesn't travel backin time! This closed loop produces a contradiction.The time traveler both exists at some time and anddoes not exist at the same time.This is not strictly speaking the same as thestatement that nothing can travel faster than light.It is in principle possible that particles exist whichmove faster than light from the moment they arecreated. If such particles did exist, however, SpecialRelativity impliesthat they couldnever be sloweddown to velocitiesbelow the speed oflight. The existenceof such particles,called tachyons,has not been totallyruled out, buts e v e r a lexperiments have tried, without luck to detect them.Ifthey did exist, and they interacted with ordinarymatter, it would give us the means to communicatewith the past.Although it is commonly believed that Einstein’stheory of relativity says nothing can go fasterthan light, that is not quite true. Relativity does forbidordinary matter from ever reaching the speed of light,because it would require infinite energy.But someresearchers,noted that light has no trouble movingat the speed of light. Furthermore, objects with masshave no trouble converting to light. Light has notrouble converting to objects with mass.The existence of tachyons is allowed by themathematics of special relativity, one of the basicequations of which isE = m /Ö(1 - v 2 /c 2 )What about a particle for which v is always greaterthan c? In this case, v 2 /c 2 > 1, so that thedenominator in the equation above is an imaginarynumber - the square root of a negative real number.If m has a real value, E is imaginary. If m takes animaginary value, however, then (because oneimaginary number divided by another is real), E isreal. Tachyons are allowed, therefore, providing (a)they never cross the light barrier and (b) they havean imaginary rest mass (which is physically moreacceptable since the rest mass of an object that neverstops is not directly measurable).So, if there wassuch a thing as imaginary mass, it would look likenormal mass but it would always travel faster thanc, the speed of light.Because a tachyon moves faster than the speed oflight, we cannot see it approaching. After a tachyonhas passed nearby, we would be able to see twoimages of it, appearing and departing in oppositedirections.Because the object arrives before thelight, the observer sees nothing until the sphere startsto pass the observer, after which the image-as-seenby-the-observersplits into two-one of the arrivingsphere and one of the departing sphere.One curiouseffect is that, unlike ordinary particles, the speed ofa tachyon increases as its energy decreases.Tachyons are forbidden from slowing down to belowc, because infinite energy is required to reach thebarrier from either above or below.Tachyons could literally be sent outwards, bounceoff a tachyonic mirror, and return before they were37

REBECA 2011sent. This in turn would give rise to a great manylogical problems. For example, if you sent a messageback in time that caused your grandfather to bekilled before your father was conceived, then youwould not be around to send the message thatprevented your birth....etc.More worryingly, as the physicist Gregory Benfordand his colleagues first pointed out, tachyons seemto lead to a time paradox because of their ability tosend messages into the past. Suppose Alice on Earthand Boole on a planet circling around Sirius cancommunicate using what has been called atachyon “antitelephone”. They agree in advancethat when Boole receives a message from Alice, hewill reply immediately. Alice promises to send amessage to Boole at noon her time, if and only ifshe has not received a message from Boole by 10a.m. The snag is that both messages, beingsuperluminal, travel back in time. If Alice sends hermessage at noon, Boole’s reply could not reach herbefore 10 a.m. “Then,” as Benford and colleagueswrote in their 1970 paper called The TachyonicAntitelephone, “the exchange of messages willtake place if and only if it does not take place...”.From a special relativity dynamics perspective atachyon is a particle with space-like fourmomentum.The existence of such particles wouldpose intriguing problems in modernphysics.Tachyons appear in many works of fiction.It has been used as a standby mechanism uponwhich many science fiction authors rely to establishfaster than light communication. The wordtachyon has become widely recognized to such anextent that it can impart a science-fictional “sound”even if the subject in question has no particularrelation to superluminal travel.Perhaps not surprisingly, despite numeroussearches, no tachyon detection has so far beenconfirmed. The same istrue of anotherhypothetical faster-thanlightparticle called adybbuk, which wouldhave imaginary mass,energy, and momentum.Now, do tachyonsexist? If tachyons existthey can be easily detected by the presence ofCerenkov radiation in vacuum. Cerenkovradiation is radiation emitted when a chargedparticle travels through a medium at a speed greaterthan the velocity of light in the medium. This occurswhen the refractive index of the medium is high.Now, there have been a few studies looking forCerenkov radiation in a vacuum. This wouldindicate the reality of tachyons. Cerenkov radiationhas never been detected in vacuum. So, mostpeople believe that tachyons do not exist.The physical existence of tachyons is yet to beproven. No doubt its discovery will change thecourse of the human race when just its hypotheticalexistence has caught so much global attentionworldwide.38

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurFree at LastAnkit Maheswari4th Yr, CEImmortal DiscoverySayandev Paul2nd Yr, CSTI ran on the sand with bare feet,Death came upon with friendly care.Lying on the desert sand, dark & dreary,My body, heart & soul all weary.The struggle for existence in its dying moment,The chain of breath about to be broken.Faces swim in front from days gone by,“You’ll see them again”, my heart lies.“Dinner is ready”, her eyes are searching for me,“Hold my hands”, a warmth never to be.Night comes on ever so cold,Death’s pace, now quick & bold.I can hear its approach loud & clear,Oo Death, no longer do you I fear.A senseless laughter fills my ears,Pain overwrought, I can no longer bear.I pass into nothingness!Soul filled with pervading calmness.I see myself sprawled across,A miserable creature, Vain & gross.No one is crying, No tears are shed.Solitude is my comrade in DEATH.The mask cast off, all ties brokenFree I am,FREE at Last..The trance loomed high over the wicked seas,A dream a wish of life he had seen,The sailor drove on his way-An angel dwells in the distant landBeyond thy mighty vision-A land of loss.The rugged waves stood on his way.His dream a distant reality,As he looms high on the raging waters only to becarried away by thy mighty waters to the haven ofmortals.Serpent ocean breathed relief;“An impetuous fellow!My poison’s too strong!”Only his body failed to reach…The trance did not leave his eyes, it glittered;His soul wandered over the raging seasSought the angel of his dreams.Coveted crown of discovery still rode on the heavenhe had deceived,It now stood before him, but still the bizarre dreamsof lost island loomed before his eyes:He didn’t enter the dream of mankindAs his soul wanders on the repenting seas.39

REBECA 2011Thoughts Mused On…..Ajit Biswal4 th Yr, MetSometimes I start pondering over the society, itshubbubs, and human strategies evolving out of it.There are many questions that arise and I startsearching for the answers that would aptly suit thesituation. Psychologically every human being isbiased, but I try to think over these circumstanceskeeping myself in every possible reference framesof life. Here are some of my thoughts that follow.It is obvious that every conclusion starts with factsand assumptions followed by inferencesultimately leading to conclusions. Here are somequeries out of many which I am sure would behovering in many human minds. Here we go……Are all Human beings casuists?A casuist is a person who tries to solve or givessuggestions based on arguments which cannot beassured of being perfect. How often have youseen a farmer criticizing a scientist withoutknowing anything on science, a rickshaw pullercriticizing Indian cricket team without knowingany strategies of cricket. I believe that to judge onsomething one needs to go to that referenceframe or must have tasted that phase thoroughly.It is only then that you can decide or give asuggestion on that. As it is impossible for anyoneto taste every shade of life hence you cannot be adoctor, an engineer, a fashion designer, a lawyer,a judge etc with perfection at the same time. Thusits imbecile of someone who pokes his nose inevery matter with his comments ready to bedisseminated. Being a doctor u can propose onmedical facilities in India, but certainly can’t averon anything related to games or sports until andunless you are an aficionado of it. Despising ordiscouraging anyone to have an out knowledge isnot the intension. The point of accentuation isthat one must not comment on a topic until andunless he is quite inundated with the topic.What is the difference between assumption andconclusion and its impact on the society? Is aperson considered respectable because hefollowed the right path by default or because hechose to follow the right path after perceiving allthe wrongs?We perceive many things in our society which arecalled facts, we assume something which might bethe cause and term it as assumptions, then comefew inferences which suggests some channels andconveys that if we follow a certain channel wewould be led to a conclusion at the other end ofthe channel. We go wrong with the assumptionsof a cause leading to a conclusion which might bemisleading to a great extent.For example, ‘love marriage is a sin’ is a wrongassumption on the fact that ‘most Indians stilltoday get married by arrange marriages’. ’Indianwill never produce fast bowlers’ is a wrongassumption on the fact that ‘till now India has notproduced much of a fast bowling’ etc. Imagine ifwe assume in similar fashion what would be ourconclusions.A human being is respected of following the pathof truth only when he knows and understandshow tempting lies are. I will never be proud andcomplacent of having money if I have not seenwhat it is like to be poverty stricken. Wanna knowwhat are the benefits of an AC? Ask a farmer who40

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpurwas allowed to use it for a day.There is always acomparison that takes the helm of life and makesus taste the better in the best possible way. Aperson understands what commitment to his/hergirlfriend/boyfriend is when he truly feels whatpain a break-up can inflict.Most Indian parents restrict and impose theirchildren from tasting different aspects of life. Inthat case they have only one option. They shouldnever expose their children to the society(ha hawhich is not possible because with growthmingling with the society is inevitable). Hence oneshould guide them to learn to choose the goodout of the bad rather than telling “no son this isbad, don’t do it”. Instead should also explain whyit is bad and adverse. People think children are tobe kept in cages till adolescence and thenexposed to the society with the expectations thatthey would make the most out of their freedom. Isit possible? With the advent of freedom to one’slife he/she would do the same thing which wasrestricted to them, since their WHYs and HOWswere hardly entertained. WHAT YOU RESISTPERSISTS.Why do people drink when they feeldejected and land up as inebriates?…People start drinking with an assumption thatdrinking heals..(a common thought of the societywhich gets people biased into thinking alike).Once they taste they experience something whichtempts them to repeat in similar situations.Getting drunk is like going to slumber in everyfew moments, then guided by your subconsciousmind, to behave according to the commandsgiven before each small doze off. This is becausewhen you are drunk, your subconscious mindfunctions normally but your conscious mind doesnot which goes bleak depending on your dosage.If you are high the conscious mind stopsfunctioning for a long duration and if you are lowthe conscious mind goes to slumber for a shortduration. Hence the slumber time of consciousmind becomes the constant auto-run of thesubconscious mind initially set by the consciousmind before dozing off. Our subconscious cantchoose as it only follows the commands given byour conscious. We, becoming conscious at regularintervals direct our subconscious to lead when wedrowse. The conscious mind if wakes up gets theopportunity to change the direction of thesubconscious and accordingly a new auto-run isset for the subconscious mind when wesnooze(doze off). It is because of this reason thatwe become humble and start speaking somethingwhich has seeped deep down into us, thoughtswhich we want to convey but cant in normalcircumstances, because of the fear of theconsequences and effect in society (we choosenot to express). Hence we choose when we areconscious and we get ourselves run on an autopilotwhen drunk.41

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Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurAt the outset, we welcome you to yet another literary delight in the formof BECA 2011. As every other year, BECA remains a part of ourinitiative to motivate, mobilize, and inform all our esteemed readers ofthe ongoings in the college, of the latent and the eminent talent in thecollege, and to give an impetus to the cultural extravaganza calledREBECA.However, it is our observation, through our continued interaction withalumni, and other readers, that the ideas and ongoings at BESU that wewant to convey does not get across as well as we want them to; andhence is the introduction of this new section called CAMPUS BUZZ.CAMPUS BUZZ , as the name suggests, is all about the recent ongoingsat the campus, achievements in the past one year, major events takingplace, major placements recorded, and all other happenings thatcontribute to furthering the cause of our college; all under one singlebanner.This part of BECA has finally taken shape to reality, as a result of thetarried efforts of the publishers since a long time, and we hope that it issuccessful in achieving the results expected from such a section; i.e,letting one and all know about the giant strides BESU has taken of late,and will continue to take in the future.55

REBECA 2011PLACEMENTS.. 336 and counting...The first issue that comes to the mind of every person who has beenassociated with this college is, without any doubt, that of placements.The common question that rings across generations of our alumni is,“what has been the outcome of the present placement session?”Keeping this in mind, the first topic we present in the CAMPUS BUZZsection is that concerning placements.This year saw an unprecedented and burgeoning growth in both thenumber and level of placements. Spread across different departmentswere placements in the like of major Steel companies like TATA STEELand JINDAL, oil companies like INDIAN OIL CORPORATION, majormining firms like COAL INDIA LTD, metallurgical firms likeHINDUSTAN COPPER, automobile giants MARUTI INDIA LTD,machinery giants TATA-HITACHI, construction stalwarts LARSEN ANDTOUBRO,SHAPOORJI PALLONJI LTD,SIMPLEX and MCNALLYBHARAT ENGINEEERING, PSU’s like MECON, power sector giantsCESC, BRITISH OXYGEN COMPANY and numerous software andtechnology firms like MICROSOFT, IBM, ACCENTURE, COGNIZANTTECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, WIPRO, HEWLETT PACKARD etc.Another feather in the cap for the placement history of BESU was therecruitment by investment bank NOMURA HOLDINGS, and knowledgeoutsourcing firm MU-SIGMA, and recruitments by profession servicesDELOITTE and auditing and business services firmPRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS. These firms, with their hugereputation and strong pay packages have set new benchmarks inplacements for years to come.Going over the placement figures, out of a total number of 406 UGstudents, a total of 336 students have been offered jobs through theplacement department with quite a few more companies to come. Ofthese 336 students, about 50 students were offered more than one job.As a matter of fact, there were students this year, who had been offeredmore than 4 jobs apiece, a feat that is, in itself, an indicatior of theflourishing placement session this season.56

COMPETITIVESBengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurThe next indicator of the voluminous success this year is that of theresults in various competitive exams this year, like CAT, GRE andGATE.There were about 8-10 applicants for the GRE examination this year; allof whom had successful and impressive scores and percentiles. Thehighest score was 1430 by Sreyashee Mukherjee (EE), followed byscores like 1380 by Saurav biswas (MET), 1370 by SauravMukherjee(CE), 1350 by Atish Mukherjee(CE),and 1340 (MET)by D.Rkarthikeyan. This in turn reflects the huge possibilities by BESU studentsto make their mark in universities abroad.Then comes the performance by BESU students in CAT 2010, XAT2010 and other MBA competitives. In CAT, percentiles went as high as98.57(Ashish Prasad, ME), 97.7 (Subhro Mukherjee, IT), 97.68 (Durgasharan, ME), 96.88 (Sanchalak Basu, ETC), 96.05 (Pritam Saha, CST),95,71 (Soumik Sen, ME), 95.7 (Rajarshi Saha).In XAT,the performance was even better with percentiles of 99.8(Sanchalak Basu), 99.44(Atul Mishra), 97.75(Soumik Sen). Also worthmentioning is the score of 36.05 by atul prakash mishra in IIFT, whichwas a score well above the cutoff marks.Finally comes the performance by students in GATE 2011. Differentdeparments saw immense success in GATE ranks,which weresummarized as follows:- CST: Debmalya Mondal(16), Avishek Dan(26), Koustav Rudra (44),Ahana pradhan (85), and 3 more within ranks 200-300.ETC: Debopam banerjee(67), Pallabi ghosh (192), and 3 otherswith ranks within 500.EE: Saikat Subhra Ghosh (4), Avijit Dey (42), Sumit Pramanik(157), Susnato Chatterjee(387) and 3 other students within ranks1000.ME: Saikat Paik (77), Abhijit Chaudhury (236), SoumyadeepChakrabarty (280), Supriya Adak (450)CE: Sayantani Lala (35), Supratik Bose (75), Mariya Ahasan(249), Braja Gopal Dey(367), Novonil Sen (422),and 7 morestudents within ranks 1000. MET: Santhu Rauth (6), Subrata Deb (10), Sourabh Biswas (37),Saibal Modak (51), Suman Patra (78), Bholanath Singh (99,3 rdYear), And Many More Rankers Within 200. MIN: Sourav karwa (15), Arka Jyoti Das (50)57

REBECA 2011ATHLETIC CLUBAll work & No Play makes jack a dull boy… but we Beings are in no means dull. This is reflected in thenumber of sports activities that take part in the campus every year. This year was no exception.The annual Atheletic Meet that took place on the 3 rd of march alone saw hundreds of sporty studentssweat it out for honour in the 22 odd events. In the end, Bhabesh Mandi (2 nd Year) emerged theChampion of Champions amongst the boys while Silabati Soren (4 th Year) took the honour amongstthe girls.Other Intra-University Events included:Inter Department Football Tournament for 1 st semester under graduate boys where ElectricalDepartment boys emerged gloriousInter Year Football Tournament won by 3 rd Yr UG StudentsInter Department Football Tournament won By the Civil Engineeriong DepartmentInter Year Cricket Tournament won by the 4 th yr studentsThe Inter Hostel Football Tournament, The Inter Hostel Badminton Tournament and The InterHostel Table-Tennis Tournament are yet to be held.The University also participated and organized major Inter-University events. These were:The 19 th Chetan Devraj Inter Technical Institute Cricket Tournament at BIT,Mesra,Ranchi. TheUniversity Team won 3 of 4 matches, but cudnt make the finals due to stiff competition andgame rulesOrganized An Invitation Cricket Tournament:2011. The tournament was won by HeritageInstitute of Technology. The home team won 2 of 3 games,but again coudnot make the finalsdue to competition. Will organize An Invitation Football Tournament:2011 to be held from the 4 th of April, 2011.58

CLUBSBengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurOne of the most remarkable achievements of the university in the recent past has been theestablishment and consolidation of a cultural community under the aegis of different clubs like the quizclub, music club, dance club, drama club etc. However, the prime contribution to this effect has beenby the batch of 1979, with immense contributions to the makeover of the Slater Hall to officiallyaccommodate all the functioning clubs and give them each a space to develop their potential. Hence,at the starting of this section goes out a special thank to all those in the batch of 1979 who helped inthe transition of most of these clubs from paper to reality.QUIZMANIAC BEINGS- a journey re-toldThe humble beginning of QUIZMANIAC BEINGS, the quiz club of BESU is now perhaps a part ofBESU’s own glorious folklore. The beginning of the chronicles of the quiz club dates back to the timewhen we were in the first year. At that point of time, BESU was never considered as a serious entity asfar as quizzing was concerned. The first idea of having a quiz club in our university, in its present form,was perhaps conceived at Qriosity, the quiz fest of Jadavpur University simultaneously by few studentsof our batch and two of our seniors, Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Vijay Bhaskar Aleti, who took theinitiative in laying the foundation of the Quiz Club.With their help, final the d-day had arrived. April 9,2008 the quiz club of BESU, QUIZMANIAC BEINGS was born and with that perhaps the whole face ofquizzing in BESU changed forever.This first ‘rendezvous with fame’ at Qriosity was followed by similar success stories at IEM, NationalMedical College, Techno India, IIT Kharagpur amongst others and slowly and steadily we were on ourway in putting BESU Shibpur firmly on the quizzing map of Kolkata. Not only, have we beenconsistently doing well now, we at the quiz club also take great pride in organising high quality quizzesas a part of our tech fest, INSTRUO. Apart from that we have also conducted the BESU OPEN andfollowed it up with the recent CRICKET WORLD CUP QUIZ. Both of which met with great success.And going by the present crop of batches that follow us and duly respecting their unquestionableenthusiasm, we do hope there are many more to come…ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE PAST YEAR 2010-11i. 1 ST Position - REBECA – 2010ii. 1 st Position – BIZATHELON INSTRUO 2011iii. 3 rd Position – PRASHNAWALI INSTRUO 2011iv. 1 ST Position – BIZ-QUIZ SCINTILLATIONS – 2011FINALISTS at: IIT BHUBHANESHWAR; IEM, KOLKATA; TECHNO INDIA, KOLKATA and NETAJICOLLEGE OF ENGINEERING , KOLKATA59

REBECA 2011EUPHONY – Music and Dance clubOur university has a very active music and dance society namedEuphony. Situated in the students activity centre at the Slater hall, thedance club has a significant number of very enthusiastic studentmembers. The dance club in particular is very much visible as itsmembers routinely participate in cultural and classical events takingplace in our university premises as well as in various inter college dancecompetitions. While the last academic session saw the Cultural Nightorganized on the 11 th of February 2010, that saw the students of theuniversity and the members of EUPHONY performing in front of apacked crowd in the Institute hall, in this academic year it was theRabindra Night, held on the 2 nd of September 2010, which gave themembers of the club ample opportunity to showcase their talent at thesame time providing a good entertainment to the audience present. Amain highlight of these events is that even the first years activelyparticipate in them, displaying the immense potential that they possess,in the fields of both dance as well as music. The music club also boastsof number of very talented musicians and singers. A few members ofEUPHONY were also selected to represent our university in the finals ofa competition organized by CTVN Kolkata in both the singing andgroup dance competititon during the finals. Student choirs performingduring the Independence Day, republic day and in the annualconvocation of our university are all members of the music society.Apart from these, members of the dance club also formed groups toparticipate in the annual cultural festival of BESU, REBECA 2010, andalso won the first prize in the inter college choreography competitionorganized during the festival. The same is expected of the dance club torepeat the feat and bag the first prize this time around as well whenREBECA 2011 returns to enthrall the crowds.60

Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurCATHARSISCamera, that flashy little piece of machine has intrigued us ever since we were kids,always at the hands of fathers and uncles, creating impossibly real looking images,making their way into family albums. It was wanted by every child of our generationand heedlessly rejected by our parents. And when we did manage to sneak it from theelders, reels were washed, batteries drained, lenses were damaged, and for theunfortunate ones, the cameras were redeemed utterly useless, as we clicked our way toecstasy. Times changed, we grew older, from analog to digital cameras are launched,newer and cheaper cameras found their way everywhere, including our hands. A groupof such likeminded, enthusiasts came together at BESU and the photographic society,“CATHARSIS” was formed on August 2009 inside the Slater Hall (now centre forinnovation and creation, oonoashi), Prof Debasis Moitro being the heart and brains ofthis group.Since then CATHARSIS has come quite a way, if not a long one. New members joined,some passed out ar left, but a core group of loyal students became a mainstay of thisclub. A number of short trips in and around Kolkata were made such as Gallif Street,R.K.Mission Narendrapur and good old B.Garden to name a few. Religious events likeDurga Puja, Id, Chhat puja were documented. A day long trip was made to Gourdaho,a village known for its simple yet subtle scenic beauty. The biggest project was a oneweek trip to the Duars of North Bengal, during October 2010 in which five studentmembers of Catharsis participated in, accompanied by Debasish sir himself and a groupof young pro photographers. A one say seminar was conducted by eminentphotographer Joydeep Mukherjee in march 2010 and a 4 day long workshop wasconducted by our favourite D.M sir himself in November 2010. Exhibitions consistingphotographs taken by our students during various tours and trips, were presented at the1 st Lobby on more than one occasion.Here are some of the targets (future agenda) set for the upcoming year:-Another set of exhibitions each having a definite subjectA interuniversity photographic competition.A workshop on nature photography.Local tours to more picturesque places and another long tour.CATHARSIS has to be established as a known face among different studentphotographic societies.Les ThespiansThis is yet another club which is quite active within its domain and has been activelyconducting dramas,plays, skits and stage shows throughout the year.61

REBECA 2011MAJOR ON-CAMPUS EVENTSThis section covers the three major on-campus events that catapulted BESU to student-stardom and setthe campus ablaze and alive with fervour,vigor and a flurry of activity. These events have now beenemblazoned in the identity of every BE-ing.INSTRUO 2011INSTRUO 2011, the annual Techno-Management fest of Bengal Engineering & Science University,Shibpur was held from 4 th -6 th March, 2011 on its campus. The theme of this year’s edition of INSTRUOwas “REDUCE-REUSE- RECYCLE”.The festival saw myriad participation from enthusiastic participants from all over the country rangingfrom IITs, NITs to premier B-schools like IIMs & Symbiosis. The three day long festival hosted panoplyof events representing the diverse fields of Engineering & Management. Two new events- Glideleoand Open Soft were introduced this year in addition to the other 19 events.Glideleo- the glider making workshop cum competition surged past all expectations at its very debutand proved to be the flagship event of INSTRUO 2011 edition.The theme event- Open Design focused on the advent of Green Technology. The designs wereinnovative and appealing. The panel of judges from all walks of engineering was impressed with theexhibition of such designs at the Parade ground. INSTRUO staged these designs further for mentorshipand support from government bodies.The gaming freaks delivered phenomenal success to the Gaming events –FIFA, NFS and CounterStrike.The IBM Tech-Quiz was aggrandized and hourly puzzles, Junkyard Wars and Mathemaniaperplexed the most analytical minds. Competitions like B-Plan, Face-Off, B-Quiz& Prashnavalisaw students from non-technical background from colleges like Symbiosis & St. Xavier’s prove theirdialect and business acumen.All the events progressed seamlessly in parallel with the exhibitions and Guest lectures from eminentpersonalities from the field of industry and academia sharing their innovative thoughts and experiencesthrough interactive lectures.The festival proved to be a fun filled cognitive experience for all, the empyrean amongst all thetechnical & management festivals across the state and is bound to embellish with enthrallingperformances in the forthcoming editions of INSTRUO.62

SCINTILLATIONS 2K11Bengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurScintillations 2k11- A Short Learning Cum Activity Session on Entrepreneurship was organized onthe BESUS campus from 10 th -12 th March, 2011to ignite the spark of entrepreneurship withinStudents & Professionals from all walks of life. The three day long program was organized by theEntrepreneurship Development Cell of BESUS with the motive of creating a platform to inculcate andrecognize the inquisitiveness and creativity towards entrepreneurship, particularly amongst engineeringand management students.Under the mentorship of Prof M.K. Sanyal and Prof. B.N.Dutta and after a huge success ofScintillations 2010, Scintillations 2K11 was inaugurated on 10 th March, 2011. The entire program wasconducted for around 3 hours on the 10 th and 11 th of March, in the latter half and on 12 th March(Saturday) for around 8 hours, so as to ensure minimum disturbance to the general academics. Thecourse had sessions on relevant topics packed with fun filled activities and competitions in the form of:GREEN INCUBATION IDEAS, THE MEGA COMBAT, Ad-Enacting Competition, Bizquiz,Bplan, Street Play, Guest Lectures and many more.EDC has not stopped its activities here. It has many dreams to be fulfilled and miles to go. It is strivinghard with its core activists group to create a niche in the field of EntrepreneurshipXANNOSXANNOS is the celebration of 10 years of age of the department of Information Technology.The Event took place from 11 th to 13 th of March,2011.The Inaugural Day was marked with theauspicious Candle Lighting ceremony followed by introductory speeches from PICSA Lt. Col A. K.Ghosh, Prof. B. K. Guha and HOD of I.T. Dr. Hafizur Rahaman.On the Second Day, a special lecture was held by IBM on WEB 2.0 in the Alumni Seminar Hall. Afterthat a Quiz Session was conducted in the Institute-Hall that met with great response from the students.The evening was marked by a special performance put up by the students which comprised oftraditional dance, drama, stand-up comedy and many more.The 3 rd Day took off from where 2 nd day had left. First in queue was the ANTAKHSHARI event thatgarnered a lot of eyeballs. With this the event came to its final stage. The Closing Ceremony startedsoon after in the presence of our Vice Chancellor Prof. A.K.Roy, HOD Dr.Hafizur Rahaman and theConvenor Prof. Prasun Ghosal.63

REBECA 2011CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTSOver the past one year,the quality of life on the campus has improvedby leaps and bounds. There have been numerous facilities to make thelives of the students living in this university more fruitful and active; forexamplethe establishment of the Slater Hall as the cultural activity center,the laying of the foundation stone for the upgradation of the ovalground to a proper stadium with pavilions and changing rooms,and the building of a basketball court ,construction and upgradation of the swimming pool to name afew.But the most important addition to the campus of BESU has to bethe construction and creation of the “Rabi Kutir”,a completelyenvironmental friendly building that consumes solar energy for itsfunctioning and enlightens the area surrounding the pond at the firstgate. This is one of the most concrete steps that has been taken bythe university in its endeavor to strive for a green campus. This, andmany other activites, are in the process of making the BESU campusthe most pro-active and praise-worthy campus in business.“Rabi Kutir”, The Solar Hut64

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTSBengal Engineering and Science University, ShibpurLastly, but definitely not the least in the legacy of the “CAMPUS BUZZ”chronicles, is that of the achievements by the students of this college.There are numerous prodigies and meritorious students in this collegewho have numerous achievements and awards to their name. These arethe students who add to the glory of the college wherever they go, andmake sure that when the name of this university is taken, it is mentionedwith whispered pride and awe. Although it is not possible to mention allof those students and achievements (as that would,in its entirety, crossseveral pages), we make the effort of mentioning a few handful. (Pardonus if we missed out a few important ones)Sonnet Mondal a student of Mining engineering, 3 rd year has authored4 books of poetry namely “A Poetic Peep into the Post ModernWorld”, “The Curse of Atlantis and Other Poems”, “21 Lines FusionSonnets of 21st Century” and “Penumbra of Indian Verses”. He hasauthored a translation book named "Songs from The Ashes"(Bharavipublication 2010) and his poems have been translated intoMacedonian, Italian, Albanian and Telugu. He was bestowed PoetLaureate from Bombadil Publishing, Sweden in 2009, appointed as theSub-Secretary General of Poetas Del Mundo, Chile in 2009 and wasconferred Doctor of Literature from United Writers Association, India in2010. Sonnet is the first Indian to bag the “Azsacra International PoetryAward” sponsored from Russia and is the pioneer of the “21 LineFusion Sonnet” which are 21 Lines Sonnets unlike the popular 14 lineform. . The India Today magazine featured him among the “FamousFive of Bengali Youths” . He has been invited at the prestigiousInternational Struga Poetry Evenings, Macedonia to represent India in2011 in their 50th year ceremony to increase the cultural co-operationbetween the two countries.. His upcoming poetry books include“Diorama of Three Diaries” and a novel in verse.65

REBECA 2011The MetallurgistsStudents from the Department of Metallurgy & Material Sciences provedtheir METAL at Events like COMPOSIT 2011 organised by IITKharagpur and BTTD organised by TATA STEEL,NML,IIM jamshedpur.The results were:At COMPOSIT 2011 organised by IIT Kharagpur Saurabh Biswas(1 st ) and Madhumanti Mandal(2nd) in Technova(paper presentations:-physical and mechanical metallurgy) Sudipta Pramanik(1st) in Technova (paper presentation: materials/process modelling) Yatinder Kumar(3rd) in MetallomaniaAt BTTD (behind the teacher's desk) organised by TATASTEEL,NML,IIM Jamshedpur Madhumanti Mandal was one of fivebest speaker award winners on student seminarShubhajit Saha, 4 th yr, CivilWon 2 nd prize in BITM Eastern India Science and Engineering Fairans was invited to compete in INFOCOM(Kolkata), in Feb 2011. Won several Game and software design competitions at Tryst 2011,IIT Delhi Techfest; Troika 2011 Delhi Technological UniversityTechfest; Synapse 2011, DAIICT, Gandhinagar; Kshitij 2011, IITKharagpur Techfest.SAMYAJIT BASU AND TEAMThis is also a veteran team that has participated and providedimpressive results in junkyard wars and mechanical device-buildingcompetitions in different colleges and universities in the past 3 years.They stood first in the junkyard war competion at jadavpur university in2009,and have ever since had a podium finish in almost every junkyardwar competition they have participated in .Their most recent win was atIISER, Kolkata, where they finished 1 st in the junkyard wars competition.This team has samyajit basu(4 th year,Civil),Subhojit roy(4 th year,civil),Ayon mohon ghosh(4 th year,civil),supratik bose(4 th year,civil),andAtish Mukherjee(4 th year,civil) as its prime members.66

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