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IIT Annual Dinner
By Surinder Sharma
Indian Institutes of Technology
(IIT) at Bombay, Delhi,
Kanpur, Guwahati, Kharagpur and Madras are reputed worldwide for their
excellent technical education program. The graduates from IITs
are holding senior management and engineering positions all over North
America. There are over 300 IIT graduates in Ontario
contributing to the development of Canada in the hi-tech fields. IIT
Engineers are also coming forward to do community service in Canada.
IIT Alumni Canada represented by Surinder Sharma is the Co-Chair of
Panorama India for 2001.
IIT Alumni Canada (IITAC) organized
their Annual Dinner at The Host on May 26, 2001, which was attended by
250 IITians and their guests.
Mr. Ujjal Mondal,
President, IITAC welcomed the guests which included Mr. N.D. Tiwari,
former Foreign/Finance/Industry Minister of India and Mr. Jim
Karygiannis, MP.
Chief Guest and Keynote
Speaker, Mr. Victor Menezes, Chairman & CEO, Citibank, N.A. gave a
presentation on the "Riding the Next Wave" in which Technology and
Finance sectors will combine for raising the standards of living of
common man. Victor did his Electrical Engineering from IIT
Bombay in 1970 and is on the Board of Indo-American Foundation.
Mr. N.D. Tiwari appreciated
the good work done by the IITians in North America and the projects
they are taking up back home for India's development and also the
positive image they have creating for Indo-Canadians here. Most
of the key positions in the Silicon Valley are held by engineers from
the IITs.
Mr. Surinder Sharma,
General Secretary of IITAC in his vote of thanks emphasized that IIT
graduates are not a "brain drain" on India but a "fixed deposit" which
has now started paying dividends for the Motherland.
The program ended with
entertainment, music and dance.
IIT
Alumni Canada organizes
social and cultural events, technical seminars, publishes a newsletter
and holds four major functions in the year –
Family Picnic, Charity Lunch, Golf Meet and the Annual Dinner. They
have also been hosts to visiting professors from IIT Alma maters and
have contributed generously to their fund raising efforts.
The Board of Directors of
IITAC meet often to organize various events. This web site
www.iitalumnicanada.com
is meant to facilitate dissemination of information among the members. |
