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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK ........................................................ 1 

VC and New Era at BESU.......................................................... 1 

BESU ACTIVITIES ........................................................................ 2 

Appointment of VC at BESU ...................................................... 2 

A Message from the VC on March 30 ......................................... 2 

Unity, Solidarity & Fraternity at BESU! ........................................ 4 

Refreshing campus activities – photos and a report .................... 4 

GAABESU ACTIVITIES ................................................................. 4 

GAABESU Team Meets New VC ............................................... 4 

GAABESU Membership Update ................................................. 4 

Fund Drive for Dipak Majumder (‘74ME) ..................................... 5 

Fund Drive for Arindam Saha, PG, ETC Student ........................ 5 

GAABESU Emergency Fund Update.......................................... 6 

GAABESU EC Election 2009-11 ................................................ 6 

GAABESU Scholarships & Fellowship Update ............................ 6 

ALUMNI NEWS ............................................................................. 6 

Swami Vivekananda Award to Asim Chaudhuri .......................... 6 

Padma Shri Award 2009 to Shyamal B Ghosh Dastidar ('67ME) . 6 

CHAPTER / BATCH NEWS ........................................................... 7 

NORCAL Alumni Family Dinner, California, USA ........................ 7 

BECAA, East Coast Annual Dinner ............................................ 7 

COMING EVENTS......................................................................... 7 

REBECA09 – April 30 – May 3, 2009 ......................................... 7 

A. ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUEST FORM ..................... 8 

B. REQUEST FOR INFORMATION......................................... 8 

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Vol 10, No 2; April 2009. http://www.becollege.org 

VC and New Era at BESU 

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Alumni Web Site http://www.becollege.org 

BESU Official Web Site: http://www.becs.ac.in 

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK 

Although the three-member committee to select the new VC did not 

have a chance to take a look at the criteria we articulated in our last 

editorial, it has been a pleasant surprise to note that they picked a 

candidate who matches the criteria in almost all aspects. Thus, we 

believe that with the appointment of Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray ('74ETC) 

as new VC, the long nightmare at the campus will come to an end. 

But, we do not have any illusion to think that the task to regain 

BESU’s status as a premier engineering institution in India will be 

easy. Since Dr. B. Sen left, the situation at BESU had deteriorated so 

much during last 12/13 years, that it is now a “lost decade” in the 

history of our beloved college. 

With the appointment of new VC, we have noticed a remarkable 

positive change at the campus. Prof. Ray has already met with all 

stakeholders of the institute and articulated his vision to bring higher 

educational standards, discipline, peace, rule of law and camaraderie 

back to the campus to complete BESU’s journey to become an 

Institute of National Importance soon. He has already put into 

operations a no. of steps to make his vision a reality. 

We, at GAABESU, applaud his efforts and promise to help him in his 

endeavor to make our beloved college top technical institution again. 

We are happy to note that he has already taken some steps to 

implement a number of recommendations from the report prepared by 

the GAABESU representatives on the causes and remedies of recent 

student unrests in the campus. The said report was handed over to 

him during a recent meeting. GAABESU promised to work with him to 

make BESU a top technical institution. 

“Ajoy”, we at GAABESU welcome you back at our hallowed campus. 

We hope you will be the new architect of our “Grand Old College” and 

transform it to a grander place. We are happy to note that by 

becoming a member of GAABESU, you have accepted us and 

indicated your intention to work with us to take our Alma Mater to a 

greater height. We extend our good wishes and promise to help you 

to make our Alma Mater a world-class institution in both education 

and research in engineering and science. 

May God bless our Alma Mater! 

Note: The editorial is representative of the thoughts and beliefs that are solely 

the editor’s and is not representative of the official position of GAABESU.

BESU ACTIVITIES 

Appointment of VC at BESU 

Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray (‘74ETC), Professor and Director of School of 

Medical Science and Technology, IIT-Kharagpur, has joined Bengal 

Engineering and Science University [Click here for details] as its new 

Vice Chancellor on March 1. 

A Message from the VC on March 30 

My dear and esteemed Alumna/Alumnus, 

Please accept my personal regards and best wishes and convey the 

same to the members of your family. I consider it a rare privilege for 

an alumnus of B E College to be associated with this great University 

as its Vice Chancellor. This day reminds me of the contributions of all 

of you, including many others, who have built this institution/university 

over a period of one hundred and fifty three years, with dedication and 

tireless efforts. I consider it my humble duty to pay my respect to each 

one of you (along with many others) with gratitude. 

Immediately after joining BESU, I have met all the teachers and 

members of administrative staff of BESU. I have visited almost all the 

departments and this week I will visit the schools of BESU. I am 

extremely happy to note that I am getting excellent support from our 

teachers and students as well as the administrative staff in BESU in 

shaping our institution to make it one of the best in India. I have been 

receiving guidance from some of our great and eminent retired 

teachers, alumni and academic administrators, whose love and 

commitment to the cause of achieving excellence in BESU, is a 

driving force to all of us. On behalf of the university I am grateful to 

each one of them. Please allow me now to present before you the 

following tasks, which I feel needs immediate attention. In 

implementing some of these tasks I need your help, which will be 

gratefully acknowledged by all of us – teachers, students and staff of 

BESU. 

Task 1: Bringing back a sense of unity and fraternity amongst the 

entire students’ community, so that our academic programs can run 

smoothly, with accelerated vigor. 

I am happy to announce that the entire student community, in a rare 

display of solidarity and fraternity, took the following oath on 16th 

March, the Samhati Dibas, at Lords ground, in the presence of 

Professor In Charge of Students Affairs (PICSA) and all other 

professors and faculty members of BESU. 

(i) We feel proud to be a part of the rich and glorious heritage of 

one hundred and fifty three years of Bengal Engineering and 

Science University (BESU), Shibpur 

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(ii) We understand that we will achieve excellence in academics 

only when there is a resonance in our combined will of making 

our university, one of the best in the country. 

(iii) We take this pledge today that we will, for ever remain united 

and live with a sense of fraternity and solidarity to make our 

university a truly great one. 

(iv) We resolve not to do anything that tarnishes the reputation of 

our university. 

(v) We also pledge to dedicate the fruits of all our good work to the 

services of our nation. 

During many interactions with the students, I found the students 

community, both undergraduate and postgraduate, to be extremely 

cooperative and they are eager to work hard for achieving academic 

excellence. 

Task 2: To ensure that the students’ unity and solidarity is maintained 

for ever, we need to engage them through various cultural and sports 

programs. 

It is encouraging to note that those BESU students are doing well in 

various games and sports. PICSA along with our Superintendents of 

hostels/halls have done commendable job in promoting sports and 

games in BESU through various means. The students need avenues 

where they can demonstrate their creativity in cultural activities, such 

as, dramatics, music, photography, painting and so on. 

With the above objective in mind, we have decided to start various 

societies amongst the students, such as dramatics society, music 

society, photography society and so on. 

Also we are planning to start a "Students’ Technical Activity Centre", 

where they can design and fabricate models, gadgets and so on. I am 

extremely happy to note that a large number of students are meeting 

me to create facilities so that they can take up such projects. We are 

committed to providing all support and guidance in this regard. 

A ‘Space Planning Committee’, comprising of our senior Professors 

has been constituted to identify, amongst other things, the location 

where such societies can be located. The old Slater Hall or the Baby 

Slater Hall may be the possible locations. Your help in implementing 

these programs will be ever remembered by the students of BESU. 

Task 3: To create an academic calendar for the entire institute. 

We have already prepared the academic calendar (not a detailed one) 

for the current and next semester. Our Deans and Controller of 

Examinations have worked hard to complete this task. Now the 

complete academic calendar, showing the examination schedule, 

university holidays, reunion and students technical festival finalized, 

this will be presented to the students, teachers and staff members 

right in the beginning of the year. I have appealed to the students,

faculty and the staff to kindly cooperate in ensuring that this academic 

calendar is maintained with utmost seriousness and sanctity. I am 

happy that everyone has assured cooperation. 

Task 4: To encourage our young faculty to initiate more research, 

through sponsored research programs in BESU. 

The importance of carrying out innovative research cannot be over 

emphasized in an Institute of National Importance. BESU is indeed 

blessed with the association of some of our country’s greatest 

teachers and researchers in various departments and schools. I am 

happy to announce that many eminent academicians, who are alumni 

of BESU, are now providing excellent services for BESU. They are 

actively engaged with our research and teaching programs. 

It is heartening to note that there exists an ocean of creativity and 

talent amongst the faculty and the students of BESU. Considering the 

fact that there are several constraints like space, infrastructure, fund 

and so on, the research being pursued by many faculty members is 

indeed praiseworthy. Yet, we must all agree that we need to do much 

more. On the part of the BESU administration, I am committed to 

provide all possible encouragement and environment to promote more 

research in BESU. The following actions have been initiated: 

(i) Our Library needs modernization with more reference books, 

research journals (both hard copy and on line). We are going to 

subscribe online journals including Science Direct, IEEE 

Transactions (multiple user licenses) and more, depending on 

the fund condition, which as you know is indeed meagre. 

(ii) A new sponsored research and consultancy cell will be created 

with sufficient number of administrative staff to ensure smooth 

completion of the sponsored and consultancy projects. We are 

motivating our faculty to take more number of such research 

projects from various government agencies, national and 

transnational industries. Several incentives have been declared 

during my meetings with the teachers for initiating sponsored 

and collaborative research at the institute. 

Here I will seek your assistance in many forms – direct or indirect. We 

need excellent researchers to guide and steer the research activities. 

We need many good teachers in a number of departments and 

schools to reinforce the existing system. I look forward to getting your 

support here. 

Task 5: BESU with its long and profound heritage of one hundred 

and fifty three years needs to create a museum where this remarkable 

and marvelous story of evolution can be preserved through 

photographs, documents, models and so on. This appears to me as 

an extremely urgent task, which can be initiated only with your 

assistance. 

programs etc is under preparation by this committee. The calendar 

will be circulated to everyone for opinion, before finalization. Once it is 

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Task 6: Need to create a robust academic administrative structure 

and amend some of the rules and regulations. We are in the process 

of amending some of the provisions in our statutes and regulations to 

ensure an enhanced level of academic activities. The university 

professors, registrar and the administrative staff have extended their 

full cooperation in all such matters. 

Also BESU had earlier initiated a project for automating the entire 

administrative procedures. We will ensure that the entire academic 

program, including students’ registration, research scholars’ 

enrolment, students’ attendance and so on will be done on line. 

Task 7: Need for augmentation of more industry – academic 

interaction. This is another prime area in which we should focus to 

ensure that more industry sponsored projects can be initiated here. 

We need active support of our alumnae/alumni in this effort. 

Task 8: During the post globalization era, it is extremely important, 

rather mandatory, to have more collaboration with universities abroad. 

Currently we are identifying our strength and weaknesses and we will 

be back to you again with details on this issue. I am sure that we will 

get your support in this effort as well. 

There are many other issues like creating a central research facility, 

ensuring more publications by the students, creating new areas of 

research and studies, solving accommodation problems for students, 

teachers, staff and also mess workers to make the university 

completely residential, and so on. I will surely not bother you with all 

the tasks ahead of us. 

All of us remember the old clock tower of B E College, which was a 

landmark during our student days. This symbolic tower reminds us of 

our obligations towards the older generation and our responsibilities 

towards the future generations in ensuring a healthy, strong & self 

reliant India. I will be immensely glad to have your feedback, 

suggestions and your active support in ensuring that we become one 

of the best in India. 

With support from all of you, we are determined to make our endeavor 

a success. In the words of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore – 

"Let all our songs 

Gather together their diverse strains 

Into a single current leading to an ocean of light 

- we salute thee". 

On behalf of myself and my family, let me once again convey our 

respects and best wishes to you all. 

March 30, 2009 Prof. Ajoy Kumar Ray, e-mail: vc@becs.ac.in

Unity, Solidarity & Fraternity at BESU! 

- Submitted by PICSA 

Our new Vice Chancellor, Prof Ajoy Kumar Ray, expressed his desire 

to address all the students and administer oath to them for Unity, 

Solidarity & Fraternity at BESU in a ceremony on March 16. He asked 

PICSA to organize this ceremony. He also suggested the name of the 

programme to be “Chatra Sanghati”. 

On 15th March 2009 at about 1:00 PM, I called a group of students at 

Netaji Bhavan to share my ideas with them on “Sanghati”, which 

means – Unity, Solidarity and Fraternity and how to achieve our final 

goal of academic excellence. Though the time was very short and a 

lot had to be done, the students took it as a challenge. They assured, 

Sir, it will be done in time for the ceremony. 

By evening, the students had beautifully and appropriately crafted out 

the idea of representing “Sanghati”. 

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The word “Sanghati” was depicted as a painting of three symbols 

namely – The Human Fist, The Rising Sun and The Human Mind 

respectively on three separate scrolls of cloth. The Human Fist stood 

for Unity, Solidarity and Fraternity. The Rising Sun stood for 

Prosperity and the Human Mind engrossed in thought stood for 

academic excellence. 

Refreshing campus activities – photos and a report 

- Submitted by PICSA 

"....On 14th March, (Saturday), when I was taking an early morning 

walk around the campus, I saw some of our boys playing cricket at the 

Lords. I went ahead to enquire – why so early? They replied – “Sir, today 

is our last day of the tournament and we are so cramped up with 

number of matches to be played that unless we start playing early 

morning, the tournament would not be completed by 9:00 PM. I was 

quite touched and amazed to see the enthusiasm & dedication of the 

students. Therefore, I got all the reasons to believe that our students 

can do wonders...." [Click here for the report] 

GAABESU ACTIVITIES 

GAABESU Team Meets New VC 

A team comprising of the following GAABESU members met Prof. 

Ajoy Kumar Ray, Vice Chancellor at 2-30 PM on March 4 at the 

GAABESU office on the third day after assuming his new office: 

1. Arun K. Deb (‘57CE) – Vice President 

2. Amitabha Ghoshal (‘57CE) – EC Member and Past President 

3. Syama P. Datta (‘67CE) – Working President 

4. Amitabha Datta (‘74CE) – EC Member and Chairman, 

Membership Sub-committee 

5. Santanu K. Karmakar (‘83ME) – Hony. Secretary 

At first, the team extended hearty welcome to the new Vice 

Chancellor on behalf of GAABESU. Then the members introduced 

themselves. He responded very positively and expressed happiness 

to come back to the campus after 35 years to serve his Alma Mater. In 

his opening remark, he thanked all his predecessors for contributing 

to the development of BESU. He said that by third day of his taking 

over charge, he already met representatives of the BESU community 

[Click here for details]. 

GAABESU Membership Update 

We welcome the following alumni who joined GAABESU as members 

since our last publication:

Promode Ranjan Dutt (‘55CE); Indranath Sinha (‘82MinE); Nirmal 

Basu (‘74CE); Biman Bandyopadhyay (‘84CE); Ajoy K Ray (‘74ETC); 

Dipankar Mukherjee (‘74CE); Sujitendra Nath Chakraborti (‘71CE); 

Ritwik Datta (‘73CE); Sharbaroop Mallik (‘96EE); Anandapran Gupta 

(‘59CE); Amitabha Ghosh (‘62 ME); Amitabha Dasgupta (‘57CE); 

Pradip Kumar Ray (‘65CE); Arup Kumar Datta (‘89MetE); Sourindra M 

Bose (‘60EE); Pradip Saha (‘90EE). 

Fund Drive for Dipak Majumder (‘74ME) 

- Submitted by Amitabha Datta, ‘74CE 

Dipak Mazumder (‘74ME) is suffering from major kidney ailment. Both 

of his kidneys are affected badly. The condition is such that he is now 

in a stage to receive dialyses twice a week. As per the doctor, he 

needs to continue with this till he is in a state to undergo the kidney 

transplantation. If he can keep up with the present treatment the 

operation can take place some time in 2010. Considering the hardship 

and financial burden, the family is passing through, 1974 batch mates 

have created a medical help fund by raising money and we request 

GAABESU to coordinate this fund drive. For more information please 

click here. We thank the following donors (as of April 14) for helping 

Mr. Majumder. 

Donations received by GAABESU office: 

Kaustubh Dasgupta; Pradipta Sinha; Prosenjit Chakraborty; Dipta S 

Mallick; Sudip K. Mukherjee; Saurav K Chakravorty; Alok Gupta; 

Bhaskar Ghosh (‘98 MetE) and following members 0f ’74 batch: 

Nirmal K Bhattacharyya (EE); Dipankar Mukherjee (ETC); Nirmal 

Basu (CE); Sankar N Banerjee (CE); Dhrubes Basu (ME); Manik C 

Banerjee (CE); Jagat M Ghosh (ME); Sanjoy K Chakraborty (CE); 

Abhijit Datta (CE); Subhankar De (EE); Ajoy Sarkar (CE); Ansuman 

Bhattacharya (CE); Alok K Bhattacharya (CE); Aniruddha Banerjee, 

(ME); Goutam De (CE); Amarnath Mallik (ETC); Ajoy Kr Ray (ETC); 

Pradipta banerjee (CE); Ashish Dutta (ME); Saibal Chatterjee (ETC); 

Swapan Deb (CE); Parimal Ghosh (CE); Sandwip Guha Niyohi (CE); 

Shyamal Kr Chaudhury (CE); Subhankar De (EE) 

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Donations received by USA Organization: 

Ashesh Banerjea, VA and Shyam S. Ganguly, CA 

Note: GAABESU Office reimbursed INR 1 lakh to Dipak Majumder on March 

31. 

Fund Drive for Arindam Saha, PG-Student, ETC 

- Submitted by Lt. Col. A.K.Ghosh (PICSA) 

Arindam Saha, a first year PG student in the ETC Department, is 

suffering from Kidney failure and likely needs transplantation. Some 

students of his department recently met me and told me that his father 

is a school teacher and does not have enough financial strength to 

meet the entire cost. Presently he is admitted in SSKM hospital under 

Dr Pandey. I have told my students to raise some fund from amongst 

the students but it will be a great help if GAABESU can do something 

for Arindam Saha [Click here for details]. 

Funds Received by GAABESU Office as of April 14, 2009: 

Swapan Sarkar (Faridabad, India); Class of 1977; Samit Datta (‘81 

ME); Sambaran Mitra (‘98ETC); Saibal Chatterjee (‘74 ETC); Ajoy Kr 

Ray (‘74ETC); Sanjoy Kr Adhikari (‘88ME) 

Funds Received via On-line Payment as of April 14, 2009: 

Joy Varughese (‘98EE, NV); Asis K Das (‘80ME, TX); Bhaskar 

Thyagarajan (‘83EE, VA); Sombuddha Chakraborty (CA); Saswata 

Misra (‘94CST, NJ); Neelanjan Bandyopadhyay (‘07ETC, Kolkata); 

Susobhan Ghosh (‘69CE, TX); Niladri Sannigrahi (‘01CE, CA); 

Swapan Saha (‘88EE, CA); Siddhartha Basu (‘78ETC, NY); Rajib 

Maitra (‘97CST, CA); Ayan Basu (‘01CE, Bangalore); Baljeet Dhaliwal 

(‘92ME, British Columbia); Amitabha Bhaumik (NY, USA)

GAABESU Emergency Fund Update 

GAABESU Emergency Fund Committee sincerely appreciates funds 

received from the following donors since our last publication (as of 

April 14). 

Canada 

Samir Basu (‘64EE); Dilip Dasmohapatra (‘66CE); Amalendu Basak, 

(‘71CE); Dipak Bhattacharyya (‘74CE); Arunava Mitra (‘74EE); Tapas 

Das (‘78CE); Rupak Bhattacharyya (‘79CE); Dipankar Raykarmakar 

(‘80EE); Somnath Basu (‘81ME); Pradip Goswami 9’81MetE); Bijit K 

Dutta (‘83CE); Sankha Roy (‘83CE); Debal Banerjee (‘84EE); 

Sushanta Pandey (‘87ME); Mrinal Mandal (‘89ETC); Pradip Saha 

(‘90EE); Shovini Dasgupta (‘01CE); Souvik Guha (‘01EE). 

India 

Mr. Sujitendra Chakraborti (‘71CE) 

USA 

Arindam Mukhopadhyay (‘90ME) 

GAABESU EC Election 2009-11 

EC in its last meeting held on 28th February, 2009 formed an Election 

Commission of 3-member team comprising of the following Alumni 

(Life Members): 

(i) Prof. Jamini Kanta Das (‘62EE) – Chairman 

(ii) Dr. Somnath Chakrabarti (‘78ME) – Member 

(iii) Dr. Apurna Kumar Ghosh (‘93MinE) – Member 

Nomination in a prescribed form needs to be submitted latest by April 

30. Last date of withdrawal of nomination is May 8. The Election 

Commissions will verify all nominations and the final list will be sent to 

all members by May 12. If needed, election will be held on June 06. 

Valid ballot paper will be dispatched by May 15 to those alumni 

residing in India, having no e-mail ID. Postal ballots must reach to the 

GAABESU office by 5:00 PM on 6th June, 2009. If number of 

nominations is less than the total number of seats of 27, all valid 

nomination will be declared elected. The result of the election shall be 

declared by the election commission at the Annual General Meeting to 

be held on Saturday the 13th June, 2009. 

Immediately after the Annual General Meeting on the June 13, the 

outgoing Honorary Secretary shall convene a joint meeting of the 

outgoing and newly elected Executive Committee for handing over the 

charge and Pro-tem President will be selected. The Pro-tem President 

will conduct election for seven office-bearers, from amongst members 

of the Executive Committee, for the duration of two years of the Office 

of the Executive Committee on June 20. Office-bearers will take 

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charge of the office immediately after their election [Click here for 

details]. 

GAABESU Scholarships & Fellowship Update 

- Reported by Rajdeep Dutta, ‘88EE 

GAABESU is pleased to announce the winners of alumni fellowship in 

excellence (AFE) for 2008-09. The objective of this new category of 

award is to promote excellence in academics, leadership and extracurricular 

activities at BESU. With this announcement, GAABESU 

concludes the selection of all our student awards which started with 

admission grants and then scholarships for 2008-09: 

1. Prof. Naresh Chandra Bose Award for Excellence in Civil 

Engineering - Pamela Chakraborty (‘08 CE). 

2. 150 Years Commemorative BECAA-Maharashtra Prize for Best 

Sport Person of the Year - Shivtosh Kumar, 2nd Year, IT. 

3. 150 Years Commemorative BECAA - Maharashtra Fellowships 

(2) - Aritra Saha, 1st Year, ME & Rajen Madan, 2nd Year, ETC. 

4. Class of 1990 Award: “Excellence in Leadership” - Sabyasachi 

Mukherjee, 4th Year, MinE. 

Click here for additional information. 

ALUMNI NEWS 

Swami Vivekananda Award to Asim Chaudhuri 

- Submitted by Achyut Ghosh, ‘61ME 

It is a great privilege for me to inform you that our friend and 

member BECAA57-61, Mr Asim Chaudhuri (‘61 MetE) of Arizona, 

USA, got the coveted Swami Vivekananda Award from Ram Krishna 

Mission for the year 2009. The award function took place at Ram 

Krishna Mission Institute of Culture Golpark, Swami Vivekananda 

Hall, on March 18 in the evening. Ram Krishna Mission has already 

uploaded the video of the function (about 1 hr 6 min) at 

http://www.sriramakrishna.org/x-video.asp?Page=T005 

Padma Shri Award 2009 to Shyamal B Ghosh 

Dastidar ('67ME) 

Shyamal B. Ghosh Dastidar (‘67ME) is one of the recipients of the 

prestigious 2009 Padma Shri Awards in Civil Service. Mr. S.B.Ghosh 

Dastidar, who held the post of Member Traffic, Railway Board and Ex 

Officio Secretary to the Government of India from July 2005 to March 

2007, is one of the exceptional few who spearheaded the recent 

resurgence of the Indian Railways. Born in April, 1947, he joined the 

Indian Railways Traffic Service in 1969, after completing his Bachelor

of Engineering (Mechanical) degree from Calcutta University [Click 

here for details]. 

CHAPTER / BATCH NEWS 

NORCAL Alumni Family Dinner, California, USA 

- Reported by Niladri Sannigrahi, ‘01 CE 

The Northern California Chapter of BESU Alumni Association 

(NORCAL BECAA) organized their 2009 Annual Family Dinner on 

March 7 at Aroma Cuisine of India in Castro Valley, California. We 

had a turnout of 22 pre- and post-millennium alumni. We started off 

around 7:00 PM with a warm welcome by the organizer, Niladri (‘01 

CE), followed by an informal introduction. 

Alumni ranging from early sixties (1962) to millennium age (2001) 

shared sweet memories of their beloved B E College. Raffle tickets 

were distributed to all the attendees. Kids were given a special 

recognition and were presented with classic chocolates. [Click here 

for details] 

BECAA, East Coast Annual Dinner 

- By Arindam Mukherjee, 90ME 

BE College alumni association of Tri -State area (NY/NJ/CT) 

organized its Winter Reunion celebration on February 14 in Princeton, 

NJ. Yes – it was the Valentine’s Day and that was an added charm! 

Like last few years, winter event was hosted in Crown of India 

restaurant. Unlike summer reunion, which typically has outdoor sports 

thrown in and is organized in a park, near sub-zero temperature of 

February forces all of us to head straight from the car to the banquet 

hall of the restaurant. But there is one common factor among all our 

reunion events – “endless adda” and performance by alumni & family 

members. Click here for additional information 

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COMING EVENTS 

REBECA09 – April 30 – May 3, 2009

A. 0BUADDRESS CORRECTION REQUEST FORM 

In case you did not send your recent address to GAABESU, please 

fill-up your information and send it to GAABESU. 

First Name*: 

Middle Initial: 

Last Name*: 

Address*: 

Address (Continued): 

City*: 

State*: 

ZIP/PIN: 

Country*: 

4 digits graduating Year*: 

First Degree at BEC/BESU*: 

Other Degree(s) at BESU or 

Elsewhere: 

Department*: 

Hostel Name(s): 

Home Phone: 

Work Phone: 

Cell/Mobile Phone: 

Company Name, in Any: 

Primary E-Mail : 

Secondary E-Mail: 

[* Compulsory Fields] 

Please fill up the form and send it either on-line or postal mail 

1) https://www.becollege.org/members/AddName.asp 

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2) Email: gaabesu@gmail.com 

3) Fax: 91-33-26684564 

4) Postal Mail: GAABESU, Guest House, Bengal Engineering 

and Science University, P.O. Botanic Garden, Shibpur, 

India, 711 103 

B. 1BUREQUEST FOR INFORMATION 

U(Tick relevant item(s)) 

i. [ ] I am not a member of GAABESU. I like to become a 

(life/annual) member. Please advise me how to become a 

member. 

ii. [ ] I am an annual member and I like to pay for another 

term/upgrade to life membership. Please let me know how 

to pay my membership fees. 

iii. [ ] I am interest to know more about GAABESU 

Scholarship Programme. 

iv. [ ] I am interest to know more about GAABESU 

Mentorship Programme. 

v. [ ] I am interest to know more about GAABESU 

Emergency Fund Programme. 

vi. [ ] I am interest to know more about GAABESU Corpus 

Fund. 

vii. [ ] I am interested in visiting BESU campus/delivering a 

seminar/workshop. 

UPUBLISHED BY 

UEDITOR:U 

TARUN BASU, ‘67CE, ‘70ME 

UASSISTANT EDITORSU: 

TANUSREE CHAKRABORTY, 91CE 

DEBARGHA SENGUPTA, ‘98ARCH 

GAABESU PUBLICITY SUB-COMMITTEE 

BENGAL ENGINEERING & 

SCIENCE UNIVERSITY, SHIBPUR 

HOWRAH – 711103 

WEST BENGAL, INDIA 

http://www.becollege.org 

E-mail: HUgaabesu@gmail.comU 

Phone/Fax: 91-33-26684564

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