Speaker:
Mr. Varun Duggal, Industry Expert and Faculty, School of New Age Business, Pearl Academy
Ms. Falguni Shah, Industry Expert and Faculty, School of New Age Business, Pearl Academy
Date: May 16, 2020 / Time : 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Platform: Blackboard
Organized by Institution Innovation Council, JRU , Ranchi in Association with Pearl Academy
Ankit Singh, BTech student of JRU, Ranchi has been selected to work as a Marketing Strategist at Jaro Toppscholars Private Limited. He believes that success is followed by sheer hard work and vice versa.
Even though a young professional, he is mature about his approach towards career. He says, “Focus on what you want rather than what others are going after.”
True indeed. We decide our penchants. And what career we need to pursue according to our acumen and skills should be our decision. Taking the regular path, doing the done things does not benefit always.
Young Ankit further says, “Always update your skills, network, and work on your confidence and never feel defeated.”
This is what he said when asked about his experience at Jaro Toppscholars _ “The best part that distinguishes Jaro from other institutions is the time duration and its stellar panel of expert trainers. I would like to say that I made the right decision by joining Jaro.”
(Story contributed by Piyali Das.)
झारखण्ड राय युनिवर्सिटी, रांची में डिपार्टमेंट ऑफ़ कंप्यूटर साइंस एंड इनफार्मेशन टेक्नोलॉजी ने क्विज प्रतियोगिता क्विज ओ कोड 1.0 का आयोजन किया. प्रतियोगिता में 10टीमों ने भाग लिया।
प्रतियोगिता को तीन भागों में आयोजित किया गया था जिनके नाम मेंटल हैक, एरर टेरर और अल्गो क्राफ्ट था. प्रतियोगिता में शामिल होने वाली टीमों के नाम इस प्रकार थे – विंडोस, डॉस,लिनक्स,उबंटू, मैक ,एंड्राइड ,यूनिक्स ,सोलारिस, फेडोरा और आईओएस।
क्विज ओ कोड 1.0 की विजेता रहने वाली टीम इस प्रकार रही – क्विज प्रतियोगिता मेन्टल हैक की विजेता टीम रही विंडोज जिसमे शिवानी कुमारी- सपना कुमारी -वारुणी मिश्रा और आयुष्मान शमित थे। वहीँ अलगो क्राफ्ट की विजेता टीम रही एंड्राइड जिसमे – मिथुन कुमार – फरहा अंजुम- चन्दन मोदी थे। एरर टेरर के विजेताओं के नाम इस प्रकार है- आयुष्मान – बबलू कुमार और राकेश कुमार।
प्रतियोगिता का शुभारंभ युनिवर्सिटी के रजिस्ट्रार डॉ. पीयूष रंजन ने लाइटिंग कैंडल के जरिये किया यह कैंडल इलेक्ट्रॉनिक लाइट्स का बना हुआ था जिसे मोबाइल के जरिये ऑपरेट किया गया. अपने संबोधन में डॉ. रंजन ने कहा की “इनोवेशन हर कही है और इसे किसी भी रूप में अपनाया जा सकता है। डिपार्टमेंट ऑफ़ कंप्यूटर साइंस एंड इनफार्मेशन टेक्नोलॉजी का यह प्रयास बेहद सराहनीय है इस प्रयास को इंटर यूनिवर्सिटी लेवल तक ले जाने की जरुरत है। क्विज ओ कोड १.० के जरिये कंप्यूटर साइंस और आई टी से जुड़े कॉलेज स्टूडेंट्स को एक प्लेटफार्म मिलेगा अपनी प्रतिभा को दिखाने का और कुछ नया सिखने का भी. ”
क्विज प्रतियोगिता के सफल सञ्चालन में प्रो. अनुराधा शर्मा , प्रो. अमरेंद्र की भूमिका रही। स्टूडेंट्स वॉलेंटियर्स राजेश , शयाम, नंदिता, मुस्कान, शशिकांत, दीक्छा और विनीत का सहयोग रहा।
(Story written by Prof. Prashant Jaiwardhan)
The science club of JRU organized a Tech Fest 2019 on 15 September at the University Ranchi campus to encourage young engineers to think out of the box and to honour the contributions of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
India celebrates 15 September as National Engineers’ Day to appreciate the contributions of Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
Visvesvaraya is known for his contributions in the field of engineering. He installed an irrigation system with water floodgates at the Khadakvasla reservoir near Pune to raise the flood supply level and storage to the highest levels. Later, this system was also installed at Gwalior’s Tigra Dam and Mysuru’s Krishnaraja Sagara (KRS) dam. KRS created one of the largest reservoirs in Asia at the time.
He served as the Diwan of Mysore and was awarded the title of ‘Knight’ in 1915 as commander of the British Indian empire. He received the Bharat Ratna in 1955 and became a member of the London Institution of Civil Engineers before he was awarded a fellowship by the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore.
The Tech Fest 2019 at JRU was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor, Dr Savita Sengar. During her speech, Dr Sengar reminded students of the invaluable contributions made by M Visvesvaraya.
Dr Segar added, “Tech Fest is an opportunity for students to showcase their innovative ideas, besides keeping the spark of science alive. Students presenting science models also need to remember that they have to become role models for society as well. The right combination of knowledge, science, wisdom and academics are important, but so are life skills that give us the emotional quotient to make life more meaningful. You cannot progress in life or career by ignoring these soft skills. Then progress will become imbalanced.”
Later Dr Sengar spent time with the students to inspect their science/technical models and interacted with the budding engineers to understand the idea behind their models.
Students from Faculty of Science – Engineering and Faculty of Computer Science participated in this fest. Some of the models created by students groups are – smart home, highway technology, rain water harvesting, wastage collection, waste plastic road, green building, smart city Ranchi, light fidelity communication, treatment of sea water, save water in poly house, automatic human counter and light control system, service robot, and eco-friendly cycle.
Later, University faculty members, staff and students from various departments came along to view the models and encourage the participants. The entire Tech Fest 2019 was organized under the mentorship of Prof. Raghuvansh Singh.
Have you ever solved the Rubik’s Cube? For those who don’t know what Rubik’s Cube is, here is a brief about it.
The Rubik’s cube (please see the image below) was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architect. However, it was never meant to be a toy. Erno just wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry.
The cube, made up of nine coloured squares on each side, can be rearranged in 43 quintillion different ways. That is 43,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Across the world, several “speed cubing” competitions are held, where people try to solve the cube as quickly as possible. This is no simple task. Why? Because the cube has completion paths numbering in the billions but only one goal state — each of six sides displaying a solid color — which apparently can’t be found through random moves. The current world record for solving the cube is held by Yusheng Du, who can solve it at an amazing 3.47 seconds.
That’s good enough. Eh!
Interestingly I came across this article on artificial intelligence by University of California, Irvine. They have created DeepCubeA. It is an artificial intelligence system created by researchers at the University.
It is a ‘a deep reinforcement learning algorithm programmed by UC Irvine computer scientists and mathematicians that can find the solution in a fraction of a second without any specific domain knowledge or in-game coaching from humans’. Moreover, this AI takes about 20 moves, most of the time solving Rubik’s Cube in the minimum number of steps.
The research is published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The researchers in the study demonstrated that DeepCubeA solved 100 percent of all test configurations, finding the shortest path to the goal state for Rubik’s cube about 60 percent of the time.
Therefore, the algorithm also works on other combinatorial games such as the sliding tile puzzle, Lights Out and Sokoban.
Senior author Pierre Baldi, UC Irvine distinguished professor of computer science is the man behind this AI. Baldi is involved in projects that research to build the next generation of AI systems.
People across the world are touched by artificial intelligence every day through apps such as Siri and Alexa. Besides, recommendation engines working behind the scenes of their favourite online services prompt suggestions and links that are based on your search history.
(This was an interesting article for me and I thought of sharing it with my friends at the campus.)
Success knows no age. You may be 22, 32 or 42, if you have the right focus, you will know how to pursue your dream successfully.
Meet 22 year old Shyam Sundar, Founder – Managing Director, SP Web Care. A successful entrepreneur, Shyam is pursuing MCA from Jharkhand Rai University (JRU), Ranchi.
The start-up company SP Web Care has other members too. Out of these, 5 members (Devenand Pradhan, Prithvi Raj Pradhan, Shivshankar Pradhan, Rohit Oraon, Reshmi Kaibarta) are from the city of Saraikela, Kharsawan district of Jharkhand. The remaining two, Ajay Mehta is from Hazaribagh and Rohit is a resident of Lohaargadda.
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But, one thing is common to all – they are all students of JRU. Some of them are still students of JRU, and others are alumni. Together, they are pursuing their entrepreneurship journey and creating jobs for others too.
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Shyam says, ‘I had the dream of pursuing the best MCA Course at Ranchi. Moreover, I wanted to follow a different path in life. Rather than going the conventional way of completing MCA and then seeking jobs, I wanted to be a part of Young India and create jobs.’
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‘During the JRU admission camp in my district, I decided to become an MCA student of JRU. Consequently, because of that decision to become a part of JRU, I am able to pursue my dream here at Ranchi,’ Shyam narrates.
‘I developed my interest in computer science while on internship at Shine Technology. And I decided to make it my career,’ says Shyam, who is also ITI trained.
Ajay, who is also a leading member of this company, takes care of the business development.
Ajay says, ‘We founded this company in October 2018. All the founder members were clear about one thing – that we will not chase jobs. We will create jobs.’ While pursuing his MCA at JRU, Ajay stayed at the JRU hostel with others.
The start-up company SP Web is registered with Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). Not only that, the company has also got ISO certification.
Recounting the experience of working on their first project, Shyam says, ‘Our first project was for Baloonwala.com. It is an online gifting website.’
‘From there on, we have not looked back. Because of our sincerity and dedication, we have been getting a lot of work. Currently we are working on two big projects among others – one being the cctv installation at Yamaha Showroom in Ranchi and the other is cctv installation at a school.’
‘We have also provided internship opportunities to students of JRU and another college. And the way our work is progressing, we will soon hire people in marketing and hardware works.’
Shyam says, ‘We are all trying diligently that by 2020 we will grow to become a private limited company and increase the number of our employees to at least 50.’
It is no wonder that all the founding members are busy round the clock. They wouldn’t have it any other way. Simply speaking – they love what they do!
It takes courage to choose a different path in life. Young Prasenjit, a student of Jharkhand Rai University (JRU) trained in B.Sc Agriculture has chosen a different entrepreneurship journey.
No. He is not doing something with the digital or technology, like other entrepreneurs today. He is applying his agriculture knowledge to cultivate noni fruit, an indigenous plant found in coastal regions.
Besides, when Prasenjit started his journey, he knew that the road he has chosen will be difficult, because in India the noni plant grows wild in the coastal areas of Orissa, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands has the highest naturally grown populations of noni plants. But, Prasenjit is farming noni in Kasmaar district, Bokaro, which is in central India.
Moreover, given the climatic conditions of Bokaro region, it is difficult to grow noni in Kasmaar district.
Here’s why Prasenjit chose to cultivate Noni.
Noni, also known as Indian mulberry, awl tree, cheese fruit, nino, nona has immense medicinal potential. The tree is known as ‘Ach’ in Hindi. Moreover, the plant has been known as a medicinal and wellness plant for more than 2000 years.
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However, currently noni is an endangered plant and is listed in the Red Data Book.
Noni fruit juice is a health and wellness drink. Fruits and leaves are used for preparation of different nutraceuticals. Though the fruit is not edible as such. You have to process to consume noni fruit.
Approximately three kilos of noni fruits when processed will yield 1.0 kg noni juice.
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It is considered to be an immuno-modulator plant in its activity on man. Noni is effective against a wide array of diseases such as type-2 diabetes, arthritis, filariasis, skin infections. In fact, noni has a positive influence on AIDS treatment. Research shows that noni is non-toxic to blood, blood elements and also to vital organs such as lever and kidney and has a broad range of therapeutic effects such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-hypertensive, immune-enhancing, anti-cancer, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-tuberculous, anti-protozoal, anti-oxidant anti-stress and sedative effects. These effects of noni has made it a popular health enhancer and food supplement world wide.
In February this year, he procured 50 noni plants from Odisha and planted in one acre field. Out of these, only 17 trees survived to bear fruit. From these trees, he now plans to expand his cultivation.
Prasenjit says, ‘Noni seeds are sold in the market for Rs800 per kilo.’
He is the first person in Bihar, Jharkhand and North India to be cultivating this plant in his village. His efforts has surprised the locals.
Enterprising efforts run in his family. His father Vivekananda, back in 2005 had cultivated spirulina in this region, surprising everyone with his produce. His mother is a famous medicinal practitioner. Their family nursery grows several unconventional plants and fruits that include – red-lady papaya, aloe vera, night-flowering jasmine (harshingaar in Hindi), dragon fruit and others Being different and unconventional is what makes an entrepreneur after all. And Prasenjit is proving it to be true.
What does a team of 6 B.Tech Computer Science final year students do when asked to do a project?
Make a robot! Unbelievable right!
But that is what the team of JRU students comprising of – Ankit Singh, Kiran Baral, Arati Sahu, Chandani Kumari, Suman Kumari and Bismillah – are doing.
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These successful B.Tech final year students from Jharkhand Rai University, Ranchi have just completed making a robot guided firefighting system. This kind of robotic system is extremely useful in tackling/extinguishing fire in tall buildings and sky-scrapers.
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JRU B.Tech Robots Team in Ranchi
Using an Arduino Uno board and connecting it with fire sensors, the robot can detect temperatures as they rise. The robot gets activated as soon as the temperature crosses a certain mark. Guided by its ultrasonic sensors, it then reaches the place of fire and activates the fire extinguishing systems. Because, this robot is equipped with a navigation system it can make its way through obstructions in path. In case of fire, the system guides the robot to reach the zone of high temperature caused by fire. A robot like this is enormously useful in handling fire at places where it is difficult for humans to reach easily.
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Project based, hands-on learning is an important aspect of teaching at Jharkhand Rai University. It is the perfect way of guiding students to experiment on ideas. Moreover, any project lets you ask several questions/problems that you want to solve. Project-based education system help students develop scientific bent of mind and makes them solve problems which need answers.
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The team of six students from JRU believes that engineering or science is not just about memorizing facts. It is about solving problems. And in this scientific journey, teachers are important mentors, who guide you towards the right direction.
For a world dominated by technology and digital, these students have glorious future waiting for them ahead.
Meet Vishal Sahu from Ranchi – alumni of JR University and an entrepreneur. What Vishal, the entrepreneur from Ranchi loves is to eat chicken. Today, he is also the founder of emurga.com. Well, it was not just his love for savoury chicken that led him to open emurga.com. It was his need to get fresh raw chicken anywhere, anytime that gave Vishal Sahu the idea to open an online fresh-raw chicken delivery shop. To order fresh organic chicken, all you need to do is order online at emurga or call and place your order.
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Vishal at his shop in Ranchi.
Vishal at his shop in Ranchi.
Well, what gave this boy from Ranchi the idea to build a start-up? When asked this question, Vishal says, ‘The idea for this business came to my mind one day when I had guests at home. They especially wanted to eat chicken. I was busy with work and couldn’t go to the market to get fresh cut chicken. Nor was there anything available from where I could have ordered reliable fresh-raw chicken at reasonable price.’
Farm fresh chicken from emurga.com. Vishal, the founder.
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“That is when it struck me – to offer freshly sourced, farm fresh chicken to those who have sudden chicken cravings and also offer them the convenience of home-delivery.”
Vishal shared his business idea with a few friends and advisors. He got encouraging feedback from all. With confidence, he went ahead and laid the foundation of his start-up along with a friend.
Today, emurga.com is selling more than 80 kgs of fresh raw chicken everyday. The business is growing and it has become very successful with youngsters and families alike in Ranchi city.
Farm fresh chicken from emurga.com. Vishal, the founder.
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The best part of this business is, Vishal believes in the concept of farm to table. He has a network of more than 50 poultry farmers from around Ranchi associated with him. So that makes his raw chicken safe and fresh.
Vishal is an MBA student from Jharkhand Rai University. During his MBA years, he had always imagined working in a corporate. But now, having experienced his entrepreneurial journey, he encourages MBA students to be job creators, than job seekers.
Vishal agrees that his education has helped him a lot in his career. That he did his MBA came in handy when he was planning his business model. And his management knowledge comes to rescue when he has to make key decisions.
He is ever grateful to his MBA professors from JRU, Dr Vishal and Dr Abhishek, who have been constantly guiding him in his journey.
Today, Vishal is not just successfully running his emurga.com, but he is a self-declared brand ambassador of ‘entrepreneurship’ too. ‘More than a job, entrepreneurship is the best career option,’ he says.
इब्तेशाम श्रीन झारखण्ड राय यूनिवर्सिटी रांची में एमबीए सेकंड ईयर की स्टूडेंट है. हाल ही में इन्हे कोलकाता में आयोजित फिल्म फेस्टिवल में स्टोरी टेलिंग के लिए पुरस्कृत किया गया था।
इब्तेशाम की कहानी हमने उनसे ही सुनी। उसने अपनी कहानी कुछ यूँ बयां की “मेरा जन्म एक माध्यम वर्गीय परिवार में हुआ था जहां जेंडर को लेकर प्राचीन मान्यतायें थी.”
“बचपन से ही पढ़ने में मेरी रूचि थी और मैं पढ़ने में तेज भी थी. वह दिन मुझे आज भी याद है जिन दिन मेरे 10 वीं के रिजल्ट आने वाले थे, मैं उत्सुक भी थी और नर्वस भी.”
“रिजल्ट के दिन सुबह के समय मेरे अब्बू दौड़ते हुए आये उनके हाथ में अखबार था उसमे मेरी फोटो छपी थी मैंने अपने स्कूल में टॉप किया था। मुझे लगा जैसे मैंने दुनिया जीत लिया हो.”
“मैंने अपने पापा से कहा मैं अपनी आगे की पढ़ाई किसी अच्छे स्कूल से करना चाहती हूँ.”
“उन्होंने मुझसे कहा तुम परिवार में एकलौती नहीं हो हमें तुम्हारे भाई को भी पढ़ना है.”
“मैंने कहा आप परेशान न हों मैं अपनी पढ़ाई का सारा खर्च खुद उठाउंगी पापा तैयार हो गए. मैंने कड़ी मेहनत करते हुए बच्चों को ट्यूसन पढ़ाकर अपनी पढ़ाई का खर्च उठाया.”
“मैं अच्छे नंबरों से पास भी हुयी लेकिन परेशानियाँ अभी ख़त्म नहीं हई थी। अच्छे नंबरों के साथ साइंस स्ट्रीम में मैंने एग्जाम पास किया था और अब इंजीनियरिंग करना चाहती थी.
पापा ने कहा ” तुम लड़की हो” परिजन मेरे पिता से कहने लगे “इसे बाहर पढ़ने मत भेजिए ये लड़की है ” मैं पूरी तरह टूट चुकी थी।
काफी जदोजहद के बाद मुझे दादी के घर पढ़ने के लिए भेजा गया जमशेदपुर, “वहां मैं सुरक्षित थी.” मैंने यहीं अपना ग्रैजुएशन पूरा किया एक छोटे से कॉलेज से जिसकी मैं टॉपर थी. यह मेरे लाइफ की दूसरी अचीवमेंट थी.
मेरी इस सफलता ने मेरे परिवार के सोचने का नजरिया बदल दिया। मुझे पढ़ाने में परिवार का सहयोग मिलने लगा और मेरी वजह से उनको एक गौरव का अनुभव भी हुआ।
इसके बाद मैंने झारखण्ड राय यूनिवर्सिटी रांची से मास्टर ऑफ़ बिज़नेस एडमिनिस्ट्रेशन (एमबीए) करने का फैसला लिया। मेरे पिता ने मेरे इस फैसले पर कहा था “तुम एक दिन एक अच्छी मैनेजर बनोगी मुझे ये विश्वास है.” एक लड़की होने के कारण मुझे इतनी मुश्किलों का सामना करना पड़ा.
राय यूनिवर्सिटी में एडमिशन लेना और एमबीए की पढ़ाई करना एक उचित फैसला साबित हुआ. फैकल्टी, फ्रेंड्स यूनिवर्सिटी कल्चर, ऐकडेमिक सेशन और यहाँ की एक्स्ट्रा एक्टिविटी ने मुझमे नया उत्साह भरा.
हर साल होने वाले बिज़ क्विज ,बिज़ स्प्री और कल्चरल इवेंट्स में मेरा शामिल होना मुझे कुछ नया करने की प्रेरणा दे रहा था. फिर वह दिन आया जब मेरा सेलेक्शन स्टोरी टेलिंग कम्पीटीशन के लिए हुआ और मुझे कोलकाता जाना था.
मेरा चयन जेंडर बेस्ड वायलेंस पर अमेरिकन सेंटर कोलकाता में आयोजित एक महोत्सव के लिए हुआ था जिसके लिए मैंने एजुकेशन टॉपिक चुना था। मेरा चयन मेरे लिखने के स्टाइल के कारण किया गया था, इससे पहले दो ऑनलाइन सेशन भी किये गए थे. आखिर कार मैं कोलकाता में थी जहाँ पाँच दिन के वर्कशॉप के लिए मुझे सारी सुविधायें मिली जिसमे आने -जाने, रहने और खाने की सुविधा शामिल थी.
इसमें बांग्लादेश,असम, रांची, नागालैंड और कोलकाता के प्रतिनिधि शामिल थे। इस वर्क शॉप के लिए हमारी गाइड थी अमेरिका की “ऐमी हिल” जिन्होंने ने हम सबको जेंडर वायलेंस पर एक शार्ट मूवी बनाने के लिए तैयार किया ये कहानी हमसब की अपनी थी। हमारी अपनी कहानी।
मैंने अपनी कहानी अपनी एजुकेशन के दौरान आयी परेशानियों लेकर बनाया था। मैंने इसे प्रस्तुत भी वैसे ही किया जैसे वो सारी घटनायें फिर से दुहरायी जा रही हो। सबने इसकी सराहना की। वर्कशॉप के आखिरी दिन हम लोगो की बनायीं मूवी को दिखाया गया और हम सभी को प्रमाणपत्र देखर सम्म्मानित किया गया। इस मूवी को सितंबर महीने में आयोजित फिल्म फेस्टिवल में प्रदर्शित भी किया गया.
यह अपने आप में एक अनोखा अनुभव था जिसमे सीखने और दुनिया को जानने का भरपूर मौका था. इब्तेशाम की इस प्रतिभा को पहचानते हुए यूनिवर्सिटी ने उसे पहले विमेंस अचीवर अवार्ड(2019) के लिए नामित करते हुए अंतराष्ट्रीय विमेंस डे(8 मार्च) के दिन पुरस्कृत किया।
(Story written by Prof. Prashant Jaiwardhan)