any of the other things you're doing but one of the things we wanted to do along these lines I mean this is again some initial thinking on our part students who qualify through this process we wanted to see if we can arrange for some sort of a mock interview sort of session say on IIT Madras campus instead of sending them directly off to Infosys we're not very sure how they will answer questions in an interview we may have done well in a course so we we wanted to see if we can bring them together here in IITM do like maybe a one-day session with the students on training them on how to talk how to attend an interview maybe even do a mock interview before they go off so something like that maybe you're doing it already in your college but it's sometimes we just want to be sure that they're ready for an interview also not supposed to just knowing some subject and doing that so we might do that there is some funding from a recent for that so we might do some effort like that but again this is still still in the initial stages there is a similar program of tcfignet detail email will come to you okay so the specific email will come to you they want one programming course and one database management and and both both have to be there minimum 60 percent they will have additional criteria saying this is an entry criteria they will have additional criteria they will do an interview people have to do well there also okay so so this is a program I think from from my point of view this closes the loop on what we are doing here you know we we do offer courses and we have to create opportunities for people who do well in our courses particularly students and particularly students who maybe don't have access to these kind of companies directly maybe or from a place where this company doesn't go to and there is hundreds of reasons why HR in a company decides why to go to a college believe me when I've seen enough companies do these decisions it's very random and and why not why not use a method which is proven and tested based on performance and even if there's one student in a college who is really good this has a way of reaching them so I think particularly from that point of view this is very exciting and we will show a bias to tier two tier three towns in these kind of things okay so you have to bear with us for that and that's that's how it will work okay so the last initiative is on translation I'll let Pratap talk about this so already I mean for all our courses we have been doing English transcripts so that's like a very well sort of find out activity that we do and we are able to as I think Bharti was mentioning and Desi Cruz to participation we are really turning things around very fast so what we are trying to do is actually do translation into Indian languages we've picked eight languages actually more based on you know volume of usage of those languages and 40 courses of 40 hours duration so about 1600 hours of video content we are trying to translate into eight Indian languages so that we will have notes available in the local language we'll also have subtitles available in Indian language so so that the reach really I mean there should be absolutely no barrier for somebody to learn so that's really what we are trying to do again MHRD has been very kind in supporting this initiative so we have actually received approval for this process we had actually tried a few things on our own and then we figured out some processes which made sense and we conveyed that and then MHRD has been kind enough to support it so we are just awaiting the funding but the proposal as such is approved this is something that where we will require a lot of assistance from the local chapters because clearly we need people to verify these translations and these are you know we are looking for people who are both technically you know knowledgeable in that subject area and also are very comfortable with that language and will help us do this so we are going to have a form to request faculty volunteers who know the subject as well as the local language and we will give one sample you know one hour for people to try it out and on that basis we will take that forward so we are ready with the form actually we'll put it out again this week so the help that we require from SPOC is please circulate this form amongst your colleagues and ask them to fill the form to say what subject so we list in our drop down some hundred courses that we intend to translate choose the course you wish to translate that you have a subject expertise in tell us which local language also you are comfortable in once we get that we are also going to approach the faculty members who have taken up exams for that particular courses and send them to the form and say whether yeah this for verifying the translation the base translation will be done by us we just need verification of the translated transcripts so that is what we are going to send across for instance in translating the transcript we don't want the technical words to be translated for example if you have something like face and velocity or something like that we just want that to be there or it has to be transliterated so velocity in hindi you write as well or city whatever that is fine but we don't want the equivalent word to come in because we want students to learn the technical terms so the faculty member who is verifying the translated transcript should know what should be translated what should be kept as is and there will be errors in translation when people are doing it they are not the subject experts there are going to be errors these errors we want to get corrected from the faculty members so please circulate this form among your colleagues get them to fill it and then we will get the process going as to do that this one are why we did was because some of them when we give them the entire thing they say takes too much time and we want you all to do the correction in the language itself you have to type out in the local language to correct it there are various softwares available for it which are comfortable with you can use but it does take time till you get used to the software so we'll send you a one hour first tell us if you're comfortable doing it you'd want to do it and you'd continue because we also have some timelines within a month or two we want the entire verified thing to come back to us and not sit with people for say six months and then say we couldn't get time to do it so check out one hour see if we are comfortable with it then agree to the others we'll give it you there is a hondarium component associated with this there is a certificate of appreciation that will go out with it and on the website we'll recognize the person who actually verified the transcripts for us this translated version will be used for subtitling we are planning to subtitle the video so that people when they watch the video can read the transcript in the local language and also we might give them notes so these are the two things that we are planning with the translation proposal okay i'll quickly get on to operations before we start off with discussion so as all of you know last time we tried that one exam mode one day four exams and all that and the feedback was not too great and positive so this time we've again gone back to the old model of let's have one set of exams in October first week and the last one in October last week these are the dates there are two sets of four week eight week courses that are opening again here we are opening it over a staggered period because as we keep saying all across India universities are opening over various months right from June first week up to September first week universities are opening their current semester which means if we want to accommodate them at least in some which way we have to stagger our courses so that is what we are trying to the max of a capacity but then if we open in September the guys open in June we'll be hitting into their semester schedule so we are trying our optimization methods this is what we've come up with and that's what you see on the portal another thing we have announced our courses and exam dates for this particular run in the month of march we put it out we finalized it and we gave the dates there are two three universities that have written to us who got the schedules like two weeks back and said our exams are overlapping with yours but they got the schedule just two weeks back and we cannot change our current exam semester schedule for now so this is what we have this is what we have finalized for January 2019 we will put up our schedule by say even September first week I'm expecting by then if we know we can change but if after we finalize we are booking centers with thesis in 100 cities we cannot change booking within three months or four months so you'll have to tell us max by October after that it will be freezing on this aspect we would like to say that we are also telling mh rd to try and see if there can be a kind of notification wherein universities across the country can open within a two-week window that will really help people take up MOOC courses otherwise it's not going to be possible for us to synchronize completely with all the universities so that's something that they have to kind of regulate and regularize but till then we will put up our dates three months at least ahead of the start of the course run six months ahead of the exam run that is our plan for now so this is what we have October 7th we have an exam going on morning afternoon shift October 28th we have exam going on morning and afternoon shift so that is the spread of the exams as Prasantu said the exam form is already open more than 3000 people have already registered so those of you still waiting to see whether i'm going to do it please go online now register for the exams today okay just to run through for the new people since we had a lot of hands who were saying that they are first time spoc local chapters i would like to say what are the steps in that what does an spoc do we have logins for you on local chapter nptel.ac.in slash local chapter portal as well as online courses portal on the online courses portal you get access to data dynamically as people enroll to the courses you get a total enrollment data you get a course wise data you can set mentors there so that is where you go and actually take mentors i'd like to just take a minute to show this so this is the online courses portal you have a login here the same login that you have shared with us for being the spoc is the login that is here once you log in there is a drop down where you can see local chapter spoc and once you'll go you'll get a dashboard like this you can see the course wise how many candidates are there you get a summary of enrollments from your college once you click on a particular course ID it gives you more details about each candidate whether they are student faculty member and so on it will give you the whether they are there and for faculty alone the box next to it under the mentor column will be available for you to say yes or no if you're setting them as a mentor here this is where you will be setting them as a mentor automatically within that course it will show as already said and being reiterated there is no choice for us to attach mentees to mentors you have to go and tell your students that there are mentors available for this course they have to go inside their login they'll see a drop down they choose the mentor then you can see data flow the data cannot come that attach these 50 to them we cannot do that this is the way it is designed enrollment data availability inside your login again a lot of requests we get we don't see people they're not enrolled we they have enrolled we can't see them and so on process will be that they have to on the enrollment form they have to say the minute somebody chooses role as student or faculty the first question we ask is do you belong to an NPTEL local chapter and yes all our colleges are local chapter so they have to say yes then they choose the state then they should get a drop down on the drop down you start typing the first few letters of your college they will see all the college names that are relevant so if it's say an SRM if there are five SRM colleges you'll see the five listed choose the appropriate college and then once they do that the SPOC can see the data inside his or her login if the candidate says no I don't belong to a local chapter if the candidate chooses some other college instead of the college they belong to or if they don't know this and they type out something random we will not be showing it inside your login so the process will be they say yes to local chapter choose the college correctly automatically the data will come inside the SPOC login for viewing okay so these are the steps new additions this time based on requests from SPOC from the last few interactions have been we've added a degree field we've added a discipline field we've added a year of study whether you're a first year second year third year student and so on motivation to do the course and there's one question there which says would you want to write the exam I mean this is just like a pre poll we are doing because we don't even have an idea of how many are going to write and if I'm in five courses right I might be taking two for just learning but actually I'm interested in doing the exam for probably two I want to at least know the probability of you writing an exam so some people come back and ask us if I say no here that means you won't allow me to write the exam it's not that we are just doing an initial survey to get some numbers counts which city he's from and we can get something for our operations and logistics that's all so they can go back and like professor Andrew wanted me to confirm there is an edit profile button for every user so anytime you can go there and you can change all this data at that particular point so you can change affiliations if you're not seeing candidate data inside your thing go back to the student tell them change these affiliations immediately you'll see the data so you don't even have to come back to the NPTEL office you can just tell the students to do that okay one debatable point I would like to open it after this once we say this there was a lot of go back and forth with many SPOCs on what data we are showing inside their logins for exam registration who gets access to scores where do the certificates go so this is what we have come down to finally this time on the exam form there is an extra question that we are asking are you taking this exam for credit transfer if the student says yes then automatically there is no option for him to say don't share my data with the college everything automatically becomes a yes for us we will share hall ticket we will share exam registration info we will share marks we will share e-certificates with the SPOC so credit transfer means it's an auto yes if they say I am not taking it for credit transfer in that case he gets an option we ask him a follow-up question do you want to share scores with your college we are giving him the choice him in the sense of him or her the choice and there they can say yes or no if they say yes again we share all the data but if they say no we are not going to share the data we are not going to show them inside your login as even registered we are not going to show them their marks their this one or whatever we are going to keep it this way for the sake of individual privacy here this is the terms in fact one question we are asking SPOC's inside your login is is your college taking exams for credit transfer have you approved if you all have said yes and the student says I'm not taking it for credit transfer we are giving him an alert are you sure your SPOC has told us that you're taking it for credit transfer beyond that also he says no yes we can't do anything and suppose he says that and he says I don't want to share we still say are you sure you don't want to share because then your college will not get the rating go discuss with the SPOC we have said to that extent we are giving pop-up messages but beyond that if they still stick to no we are going to respect that we are not going to show the data for people who have this one that there is an option this yes no can be toggled okay so whenever I fill the form you can keep toggling it the minute they say yes suppose previously had said no the minute he says yes the data will be dynamically available inside the SPOC login which means at any point of time you can go back to your students and you want them all to share go and I don't know internally you can even mandate and say all of you have to share they can do it from their side they can make everything into a yes you will see data but the last day of releasing marks after that two days time we will give after that we will freeze this option and whatever data is inside your SPOC login on that particular day will be taken for ratings any questions on this any doubts any debates if the candidate says no for credit transfer and no no so if they say don't share details with my college he will not be eligible for the fee waiver there is there is a fundamental right to privacy okay so this is a supreme court mandated fundamental right you know how serious it is if somebody violates you go to jail right so very important we don't want to go to jail so we cannot violate that okay so we give a lot of warnings to the student and tell them that if you're expecting support from your college if you're expecting what all these things then you should say yes but in on top of that after reading all of that the student says no then they really don't want to share and and for this can be for various reasons and believe me this option is available for every student it's not for just your college student alone so we look for every student and even even from your side i think you should support this because you might want to do a course without your college knowing right why not it's it's not wrong i think that's the that's the logic yes enrollment you will see the moment they have enrolled and said locals after the exam registration okay so let me put it this way so i don't want to make a decision or something your input is good i can take it to our committee we will have a committee meeting sometime in the first week of august this is a these are slightly critical sort of legal decisions it's very hard for me to overrule what many people say see one thing that will never happen is the person explicitly says don't share my information and we are violating something very fundamental if we actually share it okay so that we can never do but if you so maybe it's things like numbers are possible we can say there are so many students from your college who have registered but they don't want to share information about the exam it's how many maybe we could share so that that doesn't reveal any anything and do we include it in the lc rating is something we have to think about maybe we'll debate it once again we take that as an input yeah i understand i understand we'll debate this again but this is the thing we're going to follow for july we can't change it now for january we will debate it and see what we can do yes yes some people explicitly say in the next day if they go to court i mean like i said this is this is not this is way too sensitive so we have to be very careful so we cannot reveal the person's identity we can put number so that's what i said that could be possible which can potentially reveal so yeah so i one person yeah so it would be very careful so because when they enroll they put so much and if there's only one guy who's coming up you can go and figure out who that person so that's why i said it's complicated privacy is really really complicated and you know you might say you don't have to do it but as an institute premier institute in the country falls on our head to implement it actually so it's very hard for us to violate sorry yes two days after the marks are released this option can be toggled we'll debate this man our director is also going to come so we'll debate this a little bit we'll see how it goes so it's it's i know it's all with you i know it's a lot of things to debate here we have to think about it carefully so let me yeah so so see this this happens it's it's complicated for me to answer this question so when when you offer an online service right there are rules on on so many rules that you have to follow definitely privacy is an important rule today privacy means because this interaction in your college is with you what he does on the online portal so think of us as okay we are offering an academic service think of us like facebook or something right so that's also an online service right what that student is doing with facebook you won't have right and you it's private to him so that's that's where the issue comes no no so after announcing the result after the last result is out still we give two more days for the person to change their mind and if they can keep on changing from now till that time till that last two days after the result so if you just publicize to your students saying that you know this is useful for you and for us if you have the data in our database and you're able to convince them there's no reason so unless they have some very peculiar reason so so i think the issue with no no the issue with privacy is not based on complete rationalization of why they want the privacy so they cannot i mean i i we have to accept that everybody will not be able to convince us as to why they have a good reason for their not giving that information so we may not even agree with the reason why they're not giving the information but they have the right not to give the information that's the that's the position we have to so sir i think one thing is this number is not very large i i i want to convince you that this will be like one or two in your college and probably a student who will not get a gold medal or something i i'm i'm convinced that that's true so let's not worry too much about it it is just that one-off case where they write an email saying i'm going to go to courts because you revealed my information it's just becomes too ugly at that point so that's that's the reason so what about the certificate the certificate will come to the college right even if they often no no it won't come to the college it'll go to their address the address that they gave so those candidates those are receiving certificates yes the residential address means they have opted for no yes yes if the person is used our college name for example our college name yes so we may know the particular details yes that is very important that person is used our college name they're putting in no means any of his may know that they're using our college but why are you writing the detail you have to ask your students so see there are two things here one is at the time of enrollment they say i belong to this local chapter so they are happy with that so there there's no problem there but they don't want to reveal anything about the exam i think that's it's difficult to say so you have to separate the two processes one is enrollment and doing the online course the other is writing the exam okay these two are two separate processes so in both processes they have to choose whether they want to reveal information about what they are doing to the SPOC these are two true processes and both processes they have to choose and you have to educate them about that choice we are also happy to educate them about that choice but they have to choose unfortunately they have to choose it's it's very hard for me to take that right away from them as you told the number is very less yes it's very you put a note saying that if you have a suffered mail please send for that thing otherwise you know if you're clicking it will be easy if you ask you to write a mail if those who are so particular about that they'll write a mail so our thing is yeah tracking see once yeah if you see our numbers we have you know now already nearly one lakh hundred thousand people are taking so it becomes complicated if you have this flood of emails amongst a whole bunch of other email where suddenly randomly in with all you know everybody wording it in a different way in the fifth line of his email will say after all this I'm not I don't want it and then we have to search through all that so it works better for us but we will put in enough pop-up so that they understand what it is that they're doing and they have an opportunity to correct it all the way to the end so these are the two things but please understand when they say no see a bottom line is as a private citizen they can anyway take so in a way they are not we are not I mean so that is always there as a private citizen they can take anything they wish on our side so they're additionally students of your college kind of thing so it's an added-on thing and they're going to lose something by not declaring that they are part of your local chapter so so they are it is not like you know they're going scot-free for it so they're going to lose something in the sense they're not going to have access to the you know the fee waiver that we're giving they won't even qualify for it so they are going to lose something in the process they are not going to get credit transfer because they have not shown that thing so they're at least having two significant monetary loss as well as credit loss both of which they and the after that they say no we don't want to share this we don't want to yeah internship also so many facilities are going to be denied to them because they are not there is very small numbers let's not bother about this but we are facing an issue but this is what we are doing I know I know this causes some heat when the ratings are released people fight with us so that but we will fight and keep going please okay thank you okay so for putting in mentors the faculty member who is nominated to be a mentor has to enroll to the course they should have chosen the role as faculty they should choose the correct local chapter and that's when that profile will be seen inside the spoc login and unless that is seen the spoc cannot nominate that faculty member as a mentor so we get many mails saying that you know I want to put him as mentor he's not there she's not there's something like that the base thing is this either they have said they're not a faculty member or they have not affiliated themselves to the correct college if these two happen automatically inside your login you will see it you can put the tick mark and say that they are mentors for a particular college so first step if you don't see them go back to the faculty member ask them to check their profile if required edit it and then put them in as mentors for the new spocs who haven't or who are going through the first run with us our suggestions would be enrolled to an NPTEL online course then you can know the portal where things different things are on the portal how the course runs how we send out announcements what happens on it and if possible do write the exam too so that you understand the exam process also how the form looks like how do you go write the exam how the results are released so that it'll be easier for you to handle queries from candidates from within your college about any part of the process next step for LC's publicize the courses inside your colleges we have already sent out brochures and posters to about 1800 of our LC's that is done hope all of you have you know put up the posters in places of prominence in your campuses and colleges so do that awareness workshops over tea and other times also we got a lot of requests saying can you come to my college and speak to my students with the current bandwidth we have with the number of people that we have available for this activity currently we are in no position to support awareness programs within a college for the students and faculty of that particular college what we can do is if 50 60 colleges participants can come at a particular place and you want to organize that workshop we'd be happy to come there and talk about NPTEL in fact in the next two uh one and a half months I should I think give you a schedule of what we are doing we've finished one in Gandhi Nagar we are going to we finished one in Coimbatore Gandhi Nagar next we are going to Dharwad we are going to Goa we are going to Nagaland we are going to Calcutta we are going to Bombay for the awareness workshop then we are in Trichy we got a request from Hyderabad which we might do so this is the kind of travel everything is at least two days three days for us the semester starts here to an IIT so it's a little difficult once classes start here for us so every month we try to do two or three awareness workshops from our side but beyond that we cannot do it for within a college so what we say is our presentations are available online all the PPTs that we present are there online under resources on our website take that down anyway you'll know all the information that we present to you y'all can conduct awareness workshops within your college for the students and for the in fact if you all see on the NOCSPC group many of them send us photos and video of what they did within their college for such awareness campaigns so that is there and yes as Andrew was saying please request start putting in your request for JAN 2019 courses you would want to see offered online we can start work on it okay issues we are aware of we are trying to correct exam centers are far away from the city this we have been addressing over the last five runs I think same things we give to TCS data one month ahead they book so many so in fact that's why six months ahead we have started booking centers so for instance Coimbatore last time we had 4,000 people take up exams we've already blocked five centers unfortunately the centers that TCS has is far away so but we have blocked whatever is best in Trichy we have blocked Chennai we have blocked Bombay Delhi about at least 80 cities we have already blocked the centers with some estimate capacities but beyond that if we get new requests and last minute we are able to give them numbers wherever they have possibility like Ram was saying 360 days they run exams you know through the year they are also doing which means people are booking ahead with them too so we may not get you know the best of centers in terms of location for us to be accessible so that may not be possible but normally all the TCS centers that are there the facilities are pretty good and feedback from the SPOC's whenever we get saying there is some problem with the center either through facilities infrastructure whatever we do go back to them we send them consolidated feedback our own IRs give us feedback and we tell them this is not good don't give us the center this time so that is definitely something we are giving us feedback to we work on it. Delhi in dispatch of hard copies of certificates last time we had a major issue it took us almost two months to do it this time I think April 28, 29 we finished exams May 10 our results went out to all the faculty members for signing off on scores May 28 we had released scores for 226 courses so that was thanks to our coding team who had done a lot of automation on signing off of scores that was the new thing that we got done this time so they had done that and within 18 days we completed 226 scores release and I think another 20 days from then we had finished printing and dispatch of certificates at least out of the 62,000 also we had done 60,000 there were about 2,000 pending of some missing some this one or whatever that is still being handled some stray certificates that didn't reach them so that is a thing. Delhi in disbursing fee waiver yes we have had this issue this time one was we did not get the funds from recent we only had a block of it we were waiting to see whether we'd get the second block so that all of them we could push it at one go in fact we have already started the process so there is about 12,000 students we have already we are sending out the fee waivers in another week to 10 days I think they should all be starting to see the waivers come in we follow the same policy though we tried to say that we'll go through the college for the fee waivers but last minute we said okay let's push it for those who paid online through the online mode and for those who pay through college we'll do through the college so if it's not too hard we'll probably do that the only challenge we face there is when people come back and say I didn't get the money and they want the UTR number or the transaction number the bank does thousands of transactions every day for IIT through which we go so when we ask them for say 15,000 people give us UTR numbers it's a challenge for them also so that's a problem that we are facing but we have done the disbursal next time I think we should bring this down also to within two weeks of results we'll try for that we'll get it done next time fee waivers for this coming semester we do have money a recent has already approved for this year's budget so we will open on the portal application for fee waivers and I will come to that now itself probably so the criteria for the fee waiver would be we are keeping up the same criteria as before no fee waiver for faculty members currently no fee waiver to tire one city candidates unless we can get a very strong justification of why they require it yes we do know there are deserving candidates in Taiwan cities also but we need a kind of proof or y'all have to really certify that you require it tire two tire three cities and so on SPOC has to just mention the criteria used to identify the candidates and if the company requires proof we will come back to you at that point of time we will require so you don't have to submit it to us actively but you need to know on what basis you have qualified them on what you know what was the category criteria that you use that we definitely need to see waiver will be given for one exam currently that's all we have funds for from the LC side that we wanted to point out timelines this time there were not too many extensions asked for I guess all the SPOCs have got in the hang of how things work how the processes go and so on so that went very smoothly for us a request for exam center in city numbers not matching this was there for about at least 20 cities last time so SPOCs did put in requests and we did arrange for centers but finally when the exam registration numbers came in it did not match we had to cancel it reallocate them and go ahead so when y'all give us numbers just try to see whether y'all can give a basis for it and you really think that so many will write because we'd also take a lot of effort in arranging for the same bulk payment yeah some colleges y'all give a list of so many we'll pay through bulk so you'll say yes yes yes we expect say one lakh sixty nine thousand to come one lakh sixty seven thousand will come and we don't know who the two candidates who you've not paid for are then we have to contact call we are not able to reach SPOCs when you're in class males are getting missed so a kind of delay is happening so when y'all are making payments in bulk that three four days kindly been touched with us to see that your accounts are settled otherwise we have an issue and kind of you know collating the data and seeing whether it actually matches for us and again and again please instruct your students to check emails and sms's from us we are doing so many notifications to them about forms not being filled correctly if the photos are not good if the signatures are not good for them to check hall tickets we are sending so many emails and sms's but i don't know they don't seem to check it in fact to date if y'all can believe it we have 30 candidates whose scst certificates we had declared as invalid have not even come back to us with the correct certificates we have not given them the scores or the e-certificates i don't know what they are doing they have written the exam but they have not yet come back to us so this is the status we have been sending them repeated reminders on that so ask them to check for emails so this is what we said so many SPOCs had written that some candidates they can't see the scores on the e-certificates this is because we have blocked it for them when we get the correct they have already availed the 50% waiver that we give them while filling up the form but when we find the certificate it's some random thing and not the actual certificate in which case we have held it up for them we did not block the hall ticket but going forth we may do that for now we are still sending them the hall ticket we are allowing them to write the exam and post exam we are holding up on scores and thing but actually this should be done pre-exam we have not yet kind of lockdown audit but we may so if they are availing that please ask them to kind of give the proper documents interesting part this is the kind of photos we get for our certificates please tell your students these are certificates that go out with the IIT brand this is the kind we got a selfie guy on a phone green color photo certificate there's a Sachin Tendulkar photo I mean you want a certificate with Sachin's photo on it I don't know that's what we got there's a guy with a cartoon there and which says nice one that's the photo he gives for the certificate that is getting uploaded then we have this a multi-photo thing I mean if we people don't check you wouldn't believe 87,000 people when they submit forms our office just a manual check of 87,000 photos we have people for the day in and day out we are sitting and just taking photo tagging them incorrectly at the end of the day we are pushing out emails and people don't respond beyond the point we are not going to do this Sachin's photo comes you will get a certificate with Sachin's photo three photos come we are going to push with three whatever you have submitted it's going to go as is as of now we are trying to see whether we can do things but if it's not working and there's one more girl there's a girl's half face in that what are we supposed to do with Sachin's photo I mean we feel bad that IIT certificates are going out with these kind of photos and we are not living it currently so kindly tell your students to send some professional level photos for the certificates if they really value it I think it should be there I even tell students when they write in fact I send emails which might seem harsh I say if you come to me with a certificate that has a photo on this the first thing I will not recruit is because you don't even have the responsibility of giving a good photo that's the first thing for me when I see for the job recruitment so that's something that you want to say signatures again there are illegible signatures fingerprints I don't know how we are supposed to verify fingerprint on the day of the exam where we are you know verifying signature this is something they upload on the back side there's something then it's with some taglines and also some clear signature that they do that we want uploaded supplementary exams I just want to make a case in point here so we had a meeting in the MHRD wherein they were again we were discussing about how to do rerun re-exams and supplementary exams for people who do not clear the courses in case of credit transfer courses being taken for credit transfer so we are still working out on the methodology we have not yet finalized on it so for the current semester this is what we are proposing at least for the NPTEL exam so if a candidate has not passed or is absent for an exam which is very important one is yes when the courses re-offered they can take it that is one possibility we are re-offering most of our courses second is that we are saying that if the university can take charge of the re-exams assignments and solutions are public so you have at least say for an eight week course or 12 week course there are at least about 100 to 150 questions that have been given by the faculty member with the solution based on that if a local faculty member can set up a question paper internally run the exam for the student clear them and give them whatever they require that would be really great for this semester at least we are proposing this for the next semester if we have a policy on re-exams we'll update you on that so this is there currently we have a guidelines and timelines page that's been newly introduced so i don't know how many of you have written gate or je exams they have a page wherein all the timelines and data comes in any changes we make we make it there because people say i didn't get your mail it went to spam i didn't see this i didn't receive that so no more saying i do not get information information is going to be on our web page as we keep changing timelines we've updated there it is the job of the candidate to go there and see if anything has changed we will send emails we will send communication but if you don't receive it miss it or it you know for some reason you don't go through it it's always here so don't come back and say we don't have information so that is that the link is given here we'll share it with you shortly yeah i think we are done with the presentation part of it we can now open it completely for a discussion maybe 15 minutes we'll take 130 we will start with the plug distribution for the next set of colleges see you told that a particular student is absent are not passed right so you can consider that absentee is no so you can consider to the next academic year at least our next semester those who are actually they have to re-endroll to a course and go through the course again to write the exam because the faculty offering that course itself may be from some other institute in iIT the institutes are very different the syllabus for the course is also different though broadly same the way the course is treated may be very different from different iIT students so if i have a digital communications course the student has done from say iIT madras this time he's been absent for an exam the same course comes from iIT Bombay next time he may not be able to attempt it it's a little difficult so currently we are not keeping memory in the system for assignments we are saying re-endroll redo the assignments and you can appear for the exam nothing stops already paid already the thousand hundred we are paying to tcs the minute exam registration happens and we are generating a hall ticket for you we are already paying tcs we are paying gst we are paying our institute we are doing all that the only thing that we hold on is that hundred rupees for the certificate that's all okay an absent candidate that's all remains no no my suggestion is at least you can send half 50 percentage of the we are already paying ma'am thousand rupees we are spending already the minute a student registers that's what i'm saying the only part we have with us is the hundred rupees for the certificate copy so once you all register we are assuming they come to the exam right so we have to pay tcs otherwise they won't have a system there that day no no what they wrote the assignment and all at least you can consider so currently the we are not keeping it going forward if the systems get integrated we may look into it but we are not too sure about that okay okay thank you one thing i want to discuss in the spoc login if a student is selected a mentor the mentor name should be appear at the along with the student details why because we are unable to track the student who are not selected the mentors if the mentor name also available with the student detail we can discuss with the mentor about his performance everything yeah no we wanted to show something here down yes okay this is for colleges who think about how to publicize NPTEL inside how to give information if your college has say 15 000 students how do you reach out to them this college has a whole dedicated sub website for NPTEL wherein they have similar to our home local chapter notifications who are the coordinators of departments events what are the timelines deadlines what happened they keep updating everything on their college portal itself so this is the way that they are reaching out to in a big way to their own students faculty and so on so we just wanted to showcase that this would be easy if y'all want to also you know give out communication within your college this is something that y'all can think of yeah so yeah i want to tell about one faculty is speaking sure mathematical faculty till now he registered for five courses in the all the five course is that tougher and one subject he's got 100 out of 100 five subjects only written five subjects tougher right sorry ma'am about mentor the mentor name should be appeared with the student details then only we can track the student how he's performing and who is the mentor for the particular student inside NPTEL.ac.in slash local chapter no no online courses portal okay our team is here we will tell them sure we can work on you can make note and one more thing about exam center in Hyderabad in the last semester the exam center is very too far from the city why because many tj science centers are available in the within the city but you are looking given the center which is very far please arrange the centers in the around the city within the city ma'am you told that students are uploading the photos different types of photos if the student is paid directly we are unable to check the photos and signature if you give the option to the SPOC if you paid directly also okay as SPOC has to as to check the photo and signature he has to give the approval. I think now the photo is seen inside SPOC. You can see but there is nothing is in our SPOC and directly it is going. I don't know if you want to get loaded with more work on your side i'm not too sure loaded but you are telling that the students are uploading the different types of photos but i think 18 plus they should take care of uploading a nice photos but years down they are gonna get into a job sometimes faculty also uploading selfies and different things ma'am I observed many times so that's why that's what enrollment it's like 10 lakhs we don't want to load that photo if they say no not a issue if they say yes that has to go with the go through the SPOC no means no that's why that's a privacy we are not looking into that but whether your will say even for when payment comes through SPOC we have to send so many reminders out to say please say yes whether you'll pay whether you'll pay because if the last date goes and supposing an SPOC says no we have to tell the student that he has not made the payment and you have to pay to register right that's more critical for us for that itself we have to call up at least hundred people and say you still haven't done it you still haven't done it so more so on photos and all I think we may not want to get it okay thank you on a lighter note I think this day and age they should know how to take a selfie yes sir when our academic council is sitting when we are observing some of the courses some courses of NPTEL are just superficial and some courses are going completely in-depth even if we take the IIT syllabus and the course names are same but the syllabus is not common with which what is happening we are unable to justify either in the board of studies meetings or in academic council meetings to say that these are the same things so let us take some IIT syllabus or NIT syllabus and if that some 80% matching is if it is available then credit transfer will be easy for every institution kindly have a look into it a few examples are engineering mechanics is the basic subject it has gone to two depth heavy depth in the NPTEL whereas all the JNT U Kakinada JNT U Hyderabad and JNT U Anantapur NIT Warengal if I take these courses their syllabus their syllabus is not too up to that depth similarly mechanics of solids that is also in the similar lines and other side design of mission members if I take the depth covered in the NIT and IIT and these university syllabus is full depth and whereas the course covered by NPTEL is only superficial so both the sides the things are seen so some corrective action is required what I feel sure I think so see course content specific feedback is very welcome this kind of feedback please write an email to us saying that this is the so for instance since you have looked at the syllabus and all closely if you send an email saying this is the syllabus and this is what's being covered maybe more should be covered that feedback we can easily take to faculty and that problem can be very easily fixed don't think that that cannot be fixed but it needs to come from you I think when it comes from you it's very very easy please please send such specific feedback very well what's up group is a bigger will be a bigger nightmares so we'll think about it maybe maybe a good solution is to have an app right an app in which you can participate which we build on our own so yeah so we can control that we know basically you're saying a better app for people to interact with sure can think of one suggestion from us from my side there's a last time I had it as a TSI on center coordinator so during that time in NPTEL exam I found that after one and a half hours all the students are gone out so why don't you make it right all two hours or three hours yes so that's that's a that's a site that has worried me also a lot of people are leaving at 90 minutes as soon as the exam is over so we are tracking that statistic also in case you want to tell your students you can tell them that we have the statistic of when people leave the exam hall and we are going to look at that very closely with how they are doing what marks they are getting etc and we will look at the data very very closely and we'll arrive at something thank you we are looking at it Hyderabad we have three centers ATC center three three are there three times more from our college went there and within two hours they're completely fatigue because AC is not there sweating every exam they could not write because they're getting headache so they left the exam hall yeah sure I mean I know that feedback you have to give us you have to write back to the centers but centers where AC yeah it's not compulsory but we will try to push a little harder on that please give us that feedback yes there can be multiple reasons why people leave the center so with respect to exam center since we visit a lot of exam centers for various exams from IT side there is a lot of variability in what infrastructure is available there and so an exam partner like TCS has some basic minimum things that they're looking for so and that is primarily with respect to conduct of exam so I mean AC I know in you know in places where it was kind of hot definitely on a personal level we do want it but from a conduct of exam thing it clearly is a second the second level of importance is given to AC more important is that there should be electricity there should be land connection whatever it is that they require for running the exam so I think they give and also you should also understand numbers have gone up so when we look at hundred thousand students and we want to provide enough centers for hundred thousand students to take their exam then eventually you will have centers where you know these kinds of comforts may not be there but maybe other things are being met and therefore we have to take that center and also you look at logistically it is a center that is closer to more candidates so that also becomes an issue so taking all that into consideration we end up with centers which may not be very comfortable but do the job so that's the reason why I'm asking this is the moment I give permission in my SPOC login I got a mail from them and they asked me to submit the entire college database so I just okay I uploaded that and immediately after our students started receiving mails to enroll in intern shallah courses and they're giving discounts to enroll in intern shallah course and all these students are approaching us whether to enroll for intern shallah course or to NPTEL course so I just want to know what is the intern shallah is just one of the biggest companies today providing at least facilitating internship opportunities for students so we had an MOU saying that whatever colleges are affiliated to NPTEL can also avail their services whether you want to do it you don't want to do it you want to pull out of it that is left to each local chapter's choice so the only thing we thought is if there are colleges that do not have access to companies who wish to offer opportunities this might be a good platform where students can go online and probably you know put in a form and try to get internship possibilities so beyond that we have nothing to do with them there's no preference as such but we just thought it's a good partnership to tell colleges that this is available that's all yeah so we are not doing anything that's why we say we just sent a request to LC saying that there's an opportunity here for you beyond this you can take it forward whatever you want to share you don't want to share that's all up to the LC we are not there beyond that we just have a partnership with them for that in fact we don't even get data from them we ask them how many NPTEL candidates actually have got an internship because of you and even that data they don't share with us they say privacy so we said okay one more thing I would like to suggest is international has this student ambassador program right so why can't NPTEL have a similar program because I did start off one but it didn't kind of pick up so we'll have to revisit that probably at some point because in my opinion in my college the student ambassador program is succeeding in a big way so we'll probably take it from madam we started the NPTEL local chapter in the year 2014 I think so at the time only the college sir I am Dr. Sindel Kumar from Sonakalai Salem yes sir at the time only the 200 colleges so the first 10 positions are rated as a triple A now the total number of NPTEL local chapters are nearly 1800 so my suggestion is you can increase the ratings up to 20 or 25 the first 25 position may be rated as triple A yeah we're going to revamp the entire system so this is the same thing we were thinking that we'll make it a variable thing so how many of us just like in IITs they grade wherever there's a big break in the points that is where they cut the S grade A grade B grade we thought instead of top 10 top 40 we will also change the thing the other thing that we were calculating and looking at for this semester is just adding up the raw scores of all candidates 60 plus and above up to 100 because a student who gets 60 and who gets 89 today in elite category gets only two points in our system while a 60 mark is very different from an 89 so we were we were working out a lot of things at least five six methods we brought about we said okay what do we do with these things we are reworking it we'll put out some information in the next two weeks on that so it is getting revamped yes same thing in the elite category also the 62 18 is a very large band 89 is very good mark but 60 is average but we are giving in the same category introduce one more slap in between 62 75 and 75 to 89 okay so we look into it thank you madam one small session yes when we are doing some of the courses like knowledge management innovation pedagogy and all some links were given to us those links are helpful in preparing the course structure and sometimes in pedagogy suppose they stated very clearly that this link will work for you in the future also but once we our course is completed that link is not working okay so please send us an email we'll check on that sir depends on where they have taken the link from or what is the validity of the link yes we'll have to check on that that is also that link is made from IIT madras itself it seems no that's what it could be a local reference link that they have moved documents from if it's an online thing it should work that's why I want to know saying you send me the exact thing we'll just see where it is if it's on the driver something that they've shared we would have closed the drive probably so we'll see that thank you madam yes ma'am actually recording assignments I have a on complying while submitting the assignment some questions will be mistaken one options or questions last time especially in programming subjects right while submitting the answers we have discussed also so some questions were mistaken options were mistaken they said we'll consider at last but at last they they didn't update this for the exam or the assignments assignments ma'am which course specifically a problem solving through programming in C okay yes so our sir is here from Kharagpur Das sir we look into that definitely but with regard to assignments yes we have been seeing some errors there wherein there is wrong configuration of answers or question itself is incorrect when we are doing so many things across the board we do keep telling the faculty for quality check so there are corrections that we are doing wherein if the incorrect option is set we can correct the option and we regrade the whole thing we send out an announcement if the question itself is wrong we do ignore that question recalculate send out an announcement so that's done and we will take this into account we will check on what has happened but ideally within the week we do sort out all issues that come out I don't think we have kept it open but we yeah we can talk over lunch maybe on what specifically the issue was for programming courses I would like to say that please ask the students to go through the type of code that has to be written to get the presentation out properly to be evaluated for instance if you have an ascending order the way it works is the code output should be if I'm giving an input of one two three four five and okay you want descending order it has to be five four three two one many times a student will write print def the order is and all that is not there in our back end we will have only five four three two one which has to be compared so all those will be marked wrong so ask them to just check the code properly so that it works for all cases that was one thing we saw in the C programming course last time big time especially we got for theoretical questions mom or theoretical questions yeah so sure really quick excuse me ma'am one thing we'd like to give us feedback here another reading that we are doing of all the scores is we were checking the failures in many courses when the results came out finally in some courses we had like bulk failure so we're seeing what is happening here and in a few cases at least we saw most of the students were from a local chapter assignment scores all 100 on 100 exam score is about five or 10 which means yes they have been helped or they have been kind of you know I don't know what has happened that they've all gotten 25 on 25 in the assignment but the exam score is not reflecting the learning that they have acquired during the course at that point we said okay we don't have to look into it more because overall otherwise the performance is good so one thing when colleges are helping students to learn please do not give them the correct answers and say put these answers you'll get your marks that's not what we want mentors or somebody else to do teach them how to do it let them explore for some time and then learn otherwise they can't do it yeah excuse me ma'am we have recently enrolled the local chapter we don't have any certificates from your side that we are there is an acknowledgement letter on the website inside the log just provided only acknowledgement yeah because you just become yeah right here but management asking certificates like a framed structure no we don't have that only the letter is the acknowledgement that's why don't you provide it like that the letter is there you can download and use it it's on our letterhead signed by the coordinate it's an official letter of us that we are providing yeah you're providing a letter but why don't you provide a certificate like we take it it's very difficult sir so many logistics it's just not workable already there is too many things that's going on so if y'all can just take it and use it it's fine because it's an authorized letter anyways okay thank you yeah madam ma'am Ravish from PSG College of Technology Koyambattur yeah so in our college we received more number of requests from research scholars yes there are more full-time research scholars as well as part-time research scholars yes so they are requested for offering research-based courses so that they can take up those courses for them as a coursework okay so we received please send us a list of we look into it definitely for Jan 2019 hello ma'am yes sir in SPOC local chapter speech in overall results please kindly include either the fellow student or faculty or either roll number they're asking while filling the form you're asking but in the overall result page it is not reflecting everything is being shown sir everything is now included in overall results pages yeah yeah complete data is now coming they have already pushed in all the data one more question ma'am yes sir somebody says to ring they are writing exams they are getting certificates without our knowledge college knowledge through local chapters they are registering they are getting certificates they're not showing their ID card they are writing exams with the government ID proof how we don't we know that they are writing that is the thing sir if they tag your local chapter college in that and they say share my scores with the college inside your login it will come yes but they are not sharing that's what that's what we discussed if they don't want to share we can't do anything third fellow is who is not related with college they are writing exams they are getting certificates without college knowledge they are not our college student they are they are third persons through this google account they are coming no no can you please repeat i didn't follow there there's somebody who's not your college student they are writing exams they are getting certificates yeah sure we should have verification yeah that is something that we have to look at we are aware of this particular problem so this time we are working on that also as to how to get an ID problem okay last question after this professor Bhaskar Ramurthy our chairman of big director of high-tip madras is here we'd like to start off with the distribution of plaques to the remaining colleges we will be available after during lunch post lunch everything here for more discussions we'll take up your questions and the last question we'll take no yes as a autonomous college of lbrca and some jn to tattnada anantpur hyderabad you have a nptl exam and our sem end exams is going to be parallelism we got the notification that's what i was saying only two weeks back we got this information from jn to anantpur and kakinada i think but our schedule is done six months ahead so now we can't change for this semester after this from january 2019 so for january we'll publish in september but if you tell us by september we can also change the schedule but beyond october when we start booking tc centers we cannot change schedules so y'all try to get the academic schedule for your university is ahead so that when we publish y'all can give us some dates one more issue is that you know the schedule of various universities is varying enough that it is impossible to actually find a date that will be clear for everybody so more or less one thing we can do is it's a sunday so expectation is somehow you know if the center is not too far students can manage that's really the best that we can do although we try our best not to clash we're not able to guarantee it that's that's the reality today in fact aict is trying to see if they can schedule it give some notification to encourage colleges to keep their exams roughly in the same kind of time frame it need not be exactly the same date but roughly the same time frame so that other dates become open and available for these kinds of exams so that's something that's going on in the parallel okay we'll close this session here for now but as I said we'll continue later I invite professor Bhaskar Amurthy on stage director of IIT Madras and chairman of NPTEL PIC program to kindly address and then we'll probably good afternoon to everybody assembled here you have to be chairman you have to be like this position I don't have to worry at all they handle everything and they just called me to come and say a few words program is you know really growing fantastically by leaps and bounds what we started in a cautious way you know this because there's a lot of talk about MOOCs and of course like everything else people who are coming from abroad and telling us how MOOCs should be done which is okay except that we felt some of the method you know there's directly simply doing it the same way will not work here and so we started trying to feel our way forward and I think now we have got a methodology and an approach which seems to be working we are offering a very large number of courses I would say compared comparable now to any other MOOCs program in the world yeah both in terms of number of courses and number of resistance and more in terms of the number of people writing the exam the fraction we are anticipating that will go up very fast now and also but more important I think in all of this we want to make sure values delivered you know it's not just numbers and showing that oh this is happening that's happening we want to make sure that in this process something that is very difficult to do which many of us are very cautious and I would say to some extent on the side of skepticism you know will it work can you actually teach large numbers through this medium will it actually deliver the same value that you get from a good teacher in a face-to-face classroom all of us have been concerned about these things and we are seeing that it is moving in the right direction that yes we can figure out how to do this and in this I'm grateful to all the colleges all the teachers from the colleges the local chapter through the local chapters all the students who are because we are learning this whole process we're trying to figure out this process together it's very important in this but that when we do this that at every stage while we figure our way forward how to do everything how to ensure that you know how we have to make sure that in the end we can very confidently say that not that the course is taught very well that you can of course anybody can go to the video and see but that the students are benefiting that that benefit is translating in terms of performance in the exams in the actual knowledge that they have and finally in terms of the placements jobs higher studies everything that they are able to pursue so this is this chain we have to ensure and there and in this process you know everybody is benefiting the students the colleges that the whole educational ecosystem this is very important because otherwise you know you can have you can have a program that is simply not really meaningful you can also have a program that appears meaningful but not really that meaningful and then you can have a program that is actually takes all the boxes you know something that shows how the new methods can be used properly shows how numbers can large numbers can be done and shows how value can be delivered this is very important if we proceed in these lines I think we already had very good progress we would have actually died in my view done something for the first time in the world in a very significant way because if you look at the potential impact of this kind of approach in solving a huge problem of scaling which we have in the country and other parts of the world also have at very very you know affordable cost with no with no but you know when you very often in general in an abstract way I'm saying when you something is done at very low cost some some other price is being paid except we don't count for it typical example is in manufacturing in industry you pollute a lot but if you we are trying to do this in such a way that actually no but nothing is being exploited that everything is being taken care of all the costs are being taken care of whatever has to be paid for is being paid and still it is affordable so this is there are many potential big gains from getting this right so I urge all of you to stay with us in this exercise in this learning process just from the few questions I was hearing now I can see there are many concerns but in all of these figuring the way out we must make sure that all these things happen that is we do something you know we offer very good pedagogy very good teaching inspirational teaching we offer very good outcomes learning outcomes and in finally in terms of outcomes to the students especially the youngsters in terms of their job or slightly older people they want to go into higher studies or simply learn for becoming more knowledgeable that this value is delivered and in the process everything our entire education system improves so I want this partnership that is exhibited by this full hall here and of course there are 1700 uh so we don't have a hall if everybody decides to come we don't have a hall but in fact okay we are living in four zones so so they are meeting everybody I want this I hope that this part and of course all the IITs all the IS everybody's involved but also all the education institutions so many colleges are involved we are seeing contributions increasingly from the teachers across the board and soon alumni will be starting to play a role I'm very sure about this because if something is good everybody retains the connection for their life so they will come forward to contribute so this can become a movement people talk about movements very easily but movements actually don't come because they're created movements happen so this can become movement so I want to you know convey this to all of you that you might be part of something which is can be very good and very big so don't let go thank you very much so now I would like to invite she permission on stage to also be there when we give away the plaques to the local chapters I would also request professor Godandaraman director of UGC Human Resources Development Center and Head University of Madras Chennai to also be there before we start with the college things I would like to say that you know our team has been kind of changing a lot every six months we see maybe even when SPOC has come here there are very few regular faces but a lot of our team keeps getting overhauled but we've had three people with us who have stayed with us for five years now completed five years at NPTEL and are one of our strongest pillars you know upon whom we have actually built upon I would like to first felicitate them and then get on to the colleges so I'd like to call upon Kamala Ramakrishna here who has been with us from 2013 so this is a surprise to them that's I had to do all the groundwork for this she was first initially in text transcription now she plays a huge part in the operations part coordinating with TCS the local chapters and everything next I'd like to call upon Jayanti she has also been with us for five years she was mainly handling the question paper part of it and now she's joined the IIT Kharagpur team to also manage operations there so she has also played a big role in stabilizing one part of NPTEL putting processes in place I'd like to call upon Lakshmi Priya she's also completed five years with us one of the one who knows our online courses portal in and out one who handles our svayam portal for us all the scoring the certifications local chapter ratings and so on okay so now we'll start with the local chapters that have been rated AA so next comes techno india salt lake that will be in Kharagpur BP Poddar Institute of Management Technology Calcutta we call upon Shree Krishna College of Engineering and Technology Professor Sunderajan is a SPOC but he's not there so there is another faculty member from the college who's come to collect the plaque on his behalf so they have 1031 present for the exams 440 successful 365 elite five toppers next I call upon national engineering college Mr. Karunai Raghavan so again NEC has been with us from 2014 I think four years now they have 736 present nine toppers four gold next I would like Satyabhama Institute of Science and Technology RV College of Engineering VNR Vignan Jyoti Institute please SPOC has come forward Satyabhama Institute Ms. Sundereshwari is she not there you have marked it okay techno india college of engineering technology is next then we have RV College of Engineering they're not here VNR Vignan Jyoti Institute of Engineering and Technology Dr. Ravi Kumar next we have Ramaya Institute of Technology then I call upon JNTO Anantapur College of Engineering Dr. Murli please come forward then we have Goodlava Leru Engineering College G. Narayana Institute of Technology and Science for Women who are not here I call upon Sagi Ramakrishnam Raju Engineering College next Mr. N. Gopala Krishnamurthy is here to collect the plaque then I request PSG College of Technology Mr. Sunderajan Sona College of Technology Sendil Kumar Vardaman College Madhu to kind of step forward next I call upon PSG College of Technology Coimbatore Mr. Sunderajan is the SPOC he's not here today to collect next we call upon Sona College of Technology Dr. Sendil Kumar kindly please come they have 19 toppers seven gold 337 present for the exams next we request Vardaman College of Engineering Dr. Madhu to come forward 19 toppers four gold again then we call upon Shri Krishna College of Technology R. Maheshwar is the SPOC I think in his place somebody's come to collect I request next RVRJC College and Shri Sairam Engineering College SPOC to come forward MVP Channasekara Rao and in Sivagami next is RVR and JC College of Engineering Gunturantra Pradesh RVRJC Dr. Channasekara Rao is collecting the plaque then I call upon Ms. Sivagami to collect on behalf of Shri Sairam Engineering College I request Rajalakshmi Engineering College Pani Malar Engineering College VIT University Velour SPOC to please come forward I request V. Prasanna Kumari faculty of Rajalakshmi Engineering College to please come on stage I request Ms. Vindmati of Pani Malar Engineering College to please come forward Mr. Govinda of VIT University Velour then I request Kongu Engineering College SSN College of Engineering Aditya Institute of Technology SPOC to please step forward Mr. Navanita Krishnan of Kongu Engineering College there's somebody instead of them to pick up the plaque Mr. Seturaman for SSN College yeah I'm just changing it request Mr. Gandhar Dasari of Aditya Institute of Technology and Management I request SRM university Ramapuram and Maharaj Vijay Ram Gajapati Raj College of Engineering SPOC to also step forward Mr. Madan and Mr. Kona Mahesh Madan this is Aditya Institute of Technology and Management so they have 15 toppers five gold 158 present for the exam Mr. Madan for SRM University Ramapuram okay instead of him some of the faculty members collecting the plaque request Mr. Mahesh Yadav of Maharaj Vijay Ram Gajapati Raj College of Engineering to kindly come forward then I request Sethu Institute of Technology RMK Engineering College SPOC to please step forward Professor Nagalakshmi and Professor Vijaya Professor Nagalakshmi Sethu Institute of Technology that comes next they have seven toppers three gold 298 who appeared for the exam they have also I think partnered with us for four years now getting rated every time in the top hundred then we have RMK Engineering College Professor Vijaya this is in Tiruvallur five toppers and one gold then I call upon JPR Mamalan Engineering College she Akilandeshwari Women's College Vasiredi Venkatadri Institute of Technology the SPOC of these colleges to step forward please Mr. Shakti Murugan of JPR Mamalan Engineering College Professor Selva Kumar for she Akilandeshwari Women's College Vandavasi Professor Banu Murthy of Vasiredi Venkatadri Institute of Technology Guntur five toppers and 206 present for the exam then I request Panimallar Institute of Technology Mahendra Engineering College SPOC to please step forward Professor Joshi and M. Kannan next is Panimallar Institute of Technology yeah give it Professor Joshi it's there and Professor Kannan of Mahendra Engineering College Namakkal BV no next BV RIT College of Engineering Professor Vasanthi okay they're not here Sheenvasar Ramanujan Institute of Technology there's a Pranil Kumar Peruru Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology okay and Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education so for Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology we request Prasanji ready to come forward please NG Murga Bhupati for Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education yeah so with this we complete the 100 local chapters for today I request you Parameshwaran to kindly share his views on how sir two words four words respected professor Ramurthy sir director IIT professor Andrew professor Haridas Bharti grateful for inviting me here to be with you today now you have all seen that the what started only as NPTEL has grown now to Swayam NPTEL all the other faculties are also coming in that in fact it's the level of energy of all the local chapters is very nice very good nice to be here and congratulations to all the local chapters who have done extremely well in fact you are the eyes and ears of this whole program as the director sir was just mentioning in fact you will be soon part of the whole movement for to be there and your support is very vital on this and a lot of good points have come out of this we also take note of that and thank you all very much thank you and since off-dice we'll still do that a small token for professor Kodindraman and and professor Bhaskar too for taking time off thank you so much sir okay so we come to the last part we are going to introduce our team so that you know who to take the phone and call who to mail who to shout at also we'll start off with the coding team I guess all the NPTEL members are here please ask them to assemble here if they're not here okay just before they assemble the TA checks I think will get processed you can just go and collect it there that is all being done same like last time we'll give you all checks that you all get deposited so that we finish it off today we don't want to delay the process that should get done lunch is available in the dining room and hopefully it's better organized that we don't have a rush like we did at snack time let's see and anything else we are open for discussion we'll be outside you can talk to us please give your feedback on video as we had requested fill up the feedback form 21 people have already filled up the feedback Niketh wants to say something yes please Niketh sure hi everyone I'm Niketh Kaisare from Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Madras some of you might have known me because for last three times I've run a course on matlab programming so when I started teaching the course in matlab we went from a class of 90 students to 10,000 enrolled students around 600 or so were registering for the exam and this May I started you know as one of the coordinators helping them with the NPTEL effort and you would have heard especially for the new local chapters you would have heard Bharti and Andrew many times talk about the scale of you know of the entire operation and you really don't get what that scale actually means I did not get it until I actually started you know working with them for NPTEL it's a very different ball game when you're teaching a class of 90 students versus you know 10,000 enrolled students versus you know a lack of students taking exam every time so that's what I really want to emphasize at this stage is the amount of the scale of the operation is so large sometimes that there are going to be you know things in which we would request your support and trying to you know help us conduct this in a more smooth fashion so that's really the only thing I wanted to talk about as we end this session okay so thank you very much and I look forward to working with all of you going forward thanks okay I think there's one SPOC who came in but we forgot we didn't kind of missed out in the list Pace Institute of Technology and Sciences Dr. Ramachaitanya is here can you just come up again sorry Pratap can you come up okay so if the coordinators can stay on stage please so I'd like to introduce the coding team Satya Jeffrey Prem Kumar please come on stage Swarna, Raja, Gopala Krishnan, Logeshwaran, Pune and Ambika so these are the guys who manage the entire NPTEL.ac.in portal your local chapter portal NOC portal they develop scoring tools for us they develop a question paper authoring tool for us a lot of analytics comes from them so they are the guys who code and keep everything up certification automation happens from them certification printing is taken care next comes the course builder portal management it's YM portal management team it's headed by Lakshmi Priya supported by Jagadishwaran, Raghavi and Srinath kindly come on stage then third we have the design team headed by Clifford and Hassan they do the certificates they do whatever posters you see brochures you see the booklet that you see and so on Hassan and Clifford please come forward okay then we have the hard disk copying guys any of you have brought hard disk for copying to us Sarvanan is the person to go to Sarvanan please come forward he will collect it from you copy it ensure that it reaches your college so that is Sarvanan for you Amudha and Manisha who handle the industry associate program newly formed there are one of our newest joinees so please come forward then we have Nivedha and Vasudha also supporting us in our operations please come forward if you're there okay then we have the NPTEL website content uploading and certificate print management person it's not a team Gokul he's a one-man army who does a lot of things he does this and that so any of you has not received certificates certificates are missing there he is catch him he will know what to do except that he seems missing now okay let him come in and then we have NPTEL the QP team the team that handles all the question papers we won't give you access to them so that you can get the question papers from them they're totally in secret protected away from your eyes but here they are today Anitha Vinodini Maria Purnika Parkavi Anupriya please come forward so they are the ones who translate the QPs given by faculty into the TCS system and do all that stuff then we have the social media team i don't know how many of you are following us on twitter facebook linkedin recently i think we're pushed a lot of campaigns there we are doing a lot of updates there and so on so we have a team actively working on it headed by Hemavati supported by Anjali Raghavi and Revati please come forward then we have the text transcription team which comprises Prabhakaran Ranjita Sumalata Tanu and Vasumati Divya is also with us currently she's working out of Bangalore so she's not here today then we have the translation effort which is going to be headed by Maren and another Divya Divya junior then we have the studio team who does all the new videos and course videos for us anybody is finding any changes in the videos put out by NPTEL IIT Madras we are telling ourselves we have improved in our presentation and the way we are doing it and it looks better we keep saying but i don't know if you'll have feedback so the guys behind that is Akshay Kumar Karthik Gomati Mahesh Kumar Mohanarangan Ravichandran Balaji Vignesh and Benjamin please come forward studio team in fact they're covering the event for us today and we are also webcasting this event it's live today on facebook and on youtube so they are the people responsible for it then we have our help and assistance without who most of things would not go in fact we had a small collection of pictures wherein if you'll had come to our office by maybe mid-june you'll would have seen us like a post office with some 50,000 certificates in our office we are packing and sending it brochures were going out booklets were going out the guys who are primarily responsible for that Madhu, Jabiraj and Krishna Kumar the people who made arrangements today banners that are out today the bags that you'll have gotten next to you the packing of those bags purchase everything these guys handle so Madhu, Jabiraj and Krishna Kumar I request them to come then we have a small data analytics team that is we are putting together for more analytics that comprises Jay Krishnan who's not here currently Yairthi and Yogesh I request you all to come forward okay and a surprise I see the accounts team already here which I'm hoping they've finished all the TA because they're coming in for the photos so that comprises Murli sir please come forward Renuka and Surya they handle the entire accounts of MHRD the recent accounts the exam fees we collect paper processing the tenders we do everything moves through these three people I'll keep the people you interact with for the last so that's why I've held back on the LC team so the LC team is here headed by Kamala Ramakrishnan Helen, Deepthi, Catherine and Niharika are part of the team so anything that you'll want with queries to LC you all can write to them one of our he'll get offended if I say that but one of our oldest not in terms of age but one who has been with us from the beginning I'd like to call upon Kannan sir Kannan Krishnamurti sir to join the team he is the one who actually set up the whole infrastructure for the studios here so most senior in terms of experience he sets up our studios in fact he's a consultant today I think almost all over India if any institute wants to set up a studio he's the person to go to he keeps abreast of all the latest technologies does everything with respect to recording and all that so that's Kannan sir we have our co-ordinators Pravizandru Thangaraj Pratap Haridas and Niket was joined us recently three co-ordinators and I'm Bharti also a part of the team yes


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