IIITM Gwalior is among Top 8 Institutes of Higher Education in India

Another feather in the cap for IIITM Gwalior is here.
IIITM Gwalior has been listed among Top 8 Institutes of Higher Education in India by High Commission of India, London.
Here is the complete list :

Institutes of Higher Education:

Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Gwalior Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai

*For more details, you can see here.
*To read more about High Commission’s view about IIITM , you can click here.

Ashok Kumar Dwivedi@Aurora-06,IIITM,Gwalior

Memoirs of a student – Last days at IIITM

My five years at IIITM, it felt like a lifetime, and passed too quickly. 

I was one of the few residents who stayed at the hostel even during holidays and breaks. And wherever I went; a holiday, an internship, a field study; no matter how hard things were, I was always with the insurance that no matter what, I always have IIITM to go back to. It was a haven, a sanctuary. 

It was frightening how events began to break loose at an alarming rate when those final days approached: exams, projects, cases, presentation, farewells, placements, celebrations, and the biggest of them all, the thesis! All of us running hither and thither, giving a last touch to everything. 

Dear reader, may you never feel what I once felt during those last days of parting at the end of my five year integrated post gruaduate course. It was the culmination of a lifetime of fun, friendship and learning. And to realise that it was to end so soon, I wanted nothing more then to leave the place, not take a second glance back, and never to think of it again; not because I was happy to go away, but because, to have a glance back would have broken my spirit and dissolved me into tears. 

I miss the security, the fun, the friends and the learnings, all of which I had taken them for granted to be a part of my life, and I well know how it feels to have suddenly taken those away and see them deserting me. Till this day, I remember what it felt like to be a IIITMian. I remember. 

The writer is an alumni of IIITM, and a student at IIMB

ACM-ICPC comes to ABV-IIITM, Gwalior

And it arrives, in about time.

ACM, The Association for Computing Machinery, is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession.

The ACM-ICPC, is the Inter-collegiate Programming contest, which is held annually, for teams of 3 university/college students involving algorithmic programming problems. The contest is considered to be the “Olympics of Computer Programming”.The Regional Finals would be held on the 3rd and 4th October, 2009. Each Regional finals selects one team as winner of the site and will be eligible to participate in the world finals This year, the world finals will be held in April, 2010 at Harbin Engineering University, Harbin (China).

After the immense success in the previous year’s ACM-ICPC held at the Kanpur site, (team brute force from ABV-IIITM, Gwalior wins the Regional finals to land in the World Finals, held at Stockholm, Sweden) the South Asian Kanpur-Gwalior site regionals would be held at ABV-IIITM, Gwalior. IIT-Kanpur has held the regional finals for ACM-ICPC for the past 10 years, and this is the first time that ABV-IIITM, Gwalior would be holding a regional finals for ACM-ICPC. (and many more in the future, hopefully)

A few details about the Regional finals, and how they go about it. Each participating team consists of at most 3 contestants and a coach from the same institution. Generally each team gets 6 to 8 problems to be solved within 5 hours. A team can submit the programs in C, C++ or in JAVA. As my experience as a participant, the tension is immense, and there’s excitement throughout the 5 hours, which reaches its peak during the final ending minutes, when last minute submissions lead to a huge change in positions on the scoreboard. ( and as engineering students, we all know how that works! )

IIITM MBA admission, A major Change: Successfull completion of GD/PI @ Three different locations

Experimenting with new format, maintaining it’s competitive edge, first time in the history of admission IIITM Gwalior conducted interviews at locations other than Gwalior.This year the MBA interviews were conducted at Hyderabad, Bangalore & Guwahati on 13th June, 2009 (Saturday).

This is also the first time when IIITM Gwalior started accepting MCA as qualifying examination. Following is the official press release for the recently concluded MBA admission .

“MBA ADMISSIONS 2009-2010

Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior, an autonomous Institute of Govt. of India, has invited applications for admission to its MBA Programme for 2009-11.

Those with valid CAT/JMET score and Bachelor Degree in any branch of Engineering/Technology or Master Degree in Computer Applications (MCA) recognized by AICTE with at least 60% marks or its equivalent grade (6.75 CGPA on a 10 point scale), are eligible to apply.

Those appearing for their final examination in the academic session 2008-09 are also eligible to apply. Relaxation to SC/ST/OBC/PH candidates will be as per GOI rules.

Those having CAT percentile 75 and above for General, 65 percentile for OBC and 55 percentile for SC/ST and JMET score of 60 percentage and above for General, 50 percentage for OBC and 40 percentage for SC/ST, may download the application form from www.iiitm.ac.in.

Duly filled application form should reach ‘Assistant Registrar, ABV-IIITM, Morena Link Road, Gwalior-474010′ along with a Bank Draft of Rs. 500/- (Rs. 250/-for SC/ST candidates) drawn in favor of The Director, ABV-IIITM, Gwalior payable at Gwalior, latest by 6th June,2009

Interviews for selection will be conducted at Hyderabad, Bangalore & Guwahati on 13th June, 2009 (Saturday). Those who have applied earlier need not apply again.

Visit www.iiitm.ac.in for details.”

On a lighter note

Alma Mater on a lighter note Found this rare pic in one of the old repository.

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IIITM Alumni Meet’09 at Gwalior

Dear All,

The IIITM Alumni Association has been continuing on the lines of improvement in making the Alumni of the institute closer by providing platforms for interaction one after the other. The Association feels proud to have gathered success at the latest Bangalore chapter that started on the 14th of June this year.

The Alumni of the institute are the forefathers of learning for the students. Considering the fact, the institute is organizing an Alumni Meet in the institute premises for the second consecutive year starting from the 29th to 30th August’09. This would also serve as a motivation for the students to prepare themselves to face the corporate world.

It therefore, gives us immense pleasure to invite you at the Meet so that you could go back to the past times and recollect those past memories that have given you the respectable positions you hold. The Meet would be open for all the Alumni such that they could extend their relationships with the institute. The Alumni Association would certainly add a feather to its cap of success with the proceedings of the Alumni Meet. So, let’s leave no stone unturned in helping the institute face the highly competitive world of today.

• To register for the Alumni Meet’09 ,Click here .
• To see Alumni Meet’08 pic , Click here.
• To Read more about Alumni Meet’08 , Click here.
• If you are not a member of IIITM Alumni Association forum then register yourself here ,
• For more details, you can contact to,
  

Ravi Shankar (ipg2006) Mob: 9425734830 Email Id: ravi.shankar@students.iiitm.ac.in

Rohit agrawal (ipg2006) Mob:9981067493 Email Id: ipg.rohit@gmail.com

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IIITM Alumni Association

IIITM Gwalior is one of the centres of CCB

Here is the list of all 27 centers for AIEEE CCB 2009 Counselling. Admission centers will help you in doing online registration, filling choices and locking of the forms. Once the seat allotment is done candidates have to visit the admission center for remote reporting.

1) National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh
2) National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam
3) Tezpur University, Assam
4) Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Geetha Colony, Delhi
5) Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat
6) National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana
7) National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh
8 ) National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
9) Sri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu, Jammu & Kashmir
10) Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand
11) National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Karnataka
12) National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala
13) Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (M.P.)
14) Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, M.P.
15) Pt. Dwaraka Prasad Mishra Indian Inst. of Information Technology, Jabalpur M.P.
16) Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra
17) National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Orissa
18) Dr. B. R.Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jallandhar, Punjab
19) Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan
20) National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu
21) Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
22) M.J.P. Rohikhand University, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
23) National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengar
24) National Institute of Technology, Raipur,Chattisgarh
25) National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar
26) National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
27) National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura

For more detail, click here.

Upgradation of IIITM gwalior to IIT Gwalior…

This post was originally posted on Abhigyan Abhikaushalam Students’ Forum by the same author.

Guys !!!
there’s a proposal to upgrade IIITM Gwalior to IIT gwalior …
Bt the problem is in implementation …
May be we can see the such upgradation in future … :
Reference :
Gwalior’s institute may not be upgraded to IIT

But on another question on the issue of upgradation of ABV-IIITM (Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management), Gwalior to an IIT raised by Maya Singh in Rajya Sabha, Purandeswari, in a written reply to this question said that, “Madhya Pradesh is already having various centrally funded technical educational institutions viz MANIT (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology), Bhopal; ABV-IIITM, Gwalior; PDPM-IIITDM (Pt Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur and IIM (Indian Institute of Management) at Indore. Further, IISER (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) has been approved in Bhopal. Planning commission has given its ‘in-principle’ approval for setting up a School of Planning and Architecture in Bhopal. At present, there is no proposal to upgrade ABV-IIITMG, Gwalior to an IIT.

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Some comments to this posts:

Do we really need to be converted

On April 5th, 2009 ipg_200611 says:

What I believe is that IIIT gwalior should not be converted into IIT..IIITs are having their own identity and they are specialized institute of ministry of india. If we make them IIT their identity will be dissolved just like ROORKEE..which previously has its own importance. IIIT has potential students , funds and infrastructure to make themselves upto level of IIT.. but it would surely take some time.
IITs are brand because of their Alumni.

Once I met a guy in IIM-Ahmedabad his name was “Vaibhav Bhamoria ” h was ISM dhanbad passout. I just said that ISM should be converted to IIT ..he said that there is strong resistance from the Alumni as they dont want to liquefy the identity of being the best mining institute of india by making it IIT.

Government has plan to open around 15-16 IIIT’s all over india in different states ..this will surely give a momentum in the enhancement of the publicity of the IITs…And IIIT gwalior is the 1st among those IIITs…

Comments are Invited this is what I feel ,,
–Aniruddh Srivastav
President AASF

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Match the standards not the name:)

On April 5th, 2009 ipg_2008117 says:

I strongly disagree with the fact of converting the IIIT into an IIT coz what i persinally feel is that the name doesn’t matter, we rather need to match the standards. Alumni will always prove to be the magic. Also including Computer Science and Electronic engg will help us make a strong alumni. Better faculty is a need.
Arpita Kapoor
First year undergraduate
ABV-IIITM gwalior