In the first session, Aru taught the children about mountains - how they were formed; the geographical spread of the Himalayas and some of the main peaks therein; how ice from the glaciers melts to give rise to the rivers. The learners were not entirely knowledgeable in this, but they listened intently and enthusiastically participated in the Q&A session that followed.

The next session dealt briefly with traffic rules, especially with regard to crossing roads. This was of practical relevance to the children, as many of them have to cross the road to come to the Parivartan classes. Those who answered questions correctly in this and the previous session were rewarded with a packet of Crax curls, pens and toffees.

The programme finally ended with the distribution of “Krack-Jack Biscuits” and “Mango bite toffees” among all the children. Dr. Indraneel Mandal accompanied and motivated the student volunteers. Prof. Lokesh Upreti guided the volunteers in the conduct of the programme as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club - Parivartan.

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Initially to get connected with the participants, ice breaking session was conducted to get affiliated with each other by introducing each other with sharing their feelings and disclosure of strengths and weaknesses so as to predict personality traits of the participants.

Prof. Shilpi Rana presented slide show in order to illustrate a systematic and organized over view of Time Management and Problem solving in day to day personal and professional life and how to balance work life of working females.

Time Management activity (Group Juggling Game) was conducted by Prof. Yachna Malhotra and Prof. Shilpi Rana among the participants to make them understand how to perform duties and responsibilities during the shortest time period judiciously without exerting stress with complete involvement and participants were over whelmed with the outputs and experiences they had during the game. Again this was followed by Simon Says activity, problem solving activities and ultimately by Query Handling , where participants shared their problems and got insight to resolve such problems.

Dr. M. K. Jha offered thanks to all participants for their patient listening and active participation during the session. The essential arrangements and hospitality hosted by school principal was praise worthy.

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The second part of the day was a practical session in the computer labs. The children were taken to Lab 1 and Lab 2 where the task was to search and explore about the Social Media and its uses. The children entered the designations into Google and read the details on Wikipedia.

The last part of the session was an Presentation Competition during which all the children shared their views declaring – ‘Importance of Social Media'.

For 10 small aged children, Dance Competition was organized as they were not able to discuss and understand about Social Media.

The Director Management – Dr. Ajay Kumar Sir also motivated the children through his inspirational talk. He not only motivated the students but also shared the ways they can be updated and gain knowledge through Social Media.

There was a Prize Distribution where 40 students were given prizes like Pencil and Pen kit, Geometry Pouch and Colors etc. for nicely presenting their views on Social Media and showed their talent in dance competition.

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The second presentation was from Dr. GarimaSrivastava. She had attended “Marketing Meet 2018” at GD Goenka University on 20th April 2018. The theme of conference sessions was onMarketing Technology and the Consumers and the sub theme was Leveraging Technology for Effective & Efficient Engagements with Consumers.

The conference had focused on the rampant use of digital media and about the changing eco-systems.

The discussions were highly informative.

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Mr. Tong initiated an interactive question-answer session with the faculty members. Dr. Sanjeev Tandon enquired about the various challenges faced by the company, while entering a new market. Mr. Tong talked about market research, competition, customer perception for a new product or the existing products, as a big challenge faced by the company. Dr. Garima enquired about the cultural limitations faced by the company. The response shared was about variety of food habits, taste preference of Singapore citizens, which is not matching Japanese taste and preferences. The company educated the people about cooking processes to be introduced in the market. A Cultural and religious challenge for Muslim tourists was also addressed to suit their eating habits in Singapore. Dr. Satish enquired about the similarity in culture of Japan, Singapore and China. Mr. Tong talked about product quality, service offered and product offering in these three countries. The differences on these factors were also shared by him. Dr. Sanjeev Tandon enquired about environmental consciousness of his company and the initiatives taken.

Mr. Tong explained Japanese culture and consciousness about clean energy. He shared about his experience with a bio-diesel company in Japan. He explained the consciousness of companies in Singapore regarding hygiene and clean energy. Singapore is not as strong as Japanese way of life regarding environmental consciousness. Dr. DK Pandey enquired, “Why should anybody work for WASABI Creation?” Mr. Tong attempted the question very intelligently stating that, “it’s on the employee to find reasons to work with them. The aim of the company is to grow together. The employee should not take his work as a burden. Dr. Surendra asked about collectivism, which was answered sharing various examples of Japan & Singapore culture.

It was a very interactive and informative session.

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The first session was started by Hitesh, who began by reminding the children that it was International Friendship Day. They were told to wish one another on this occasion. Hitesh also emphasized on what being a good friend is all about by telling the children a story.

In the next session Aprajita decided to explain the concept of solar and lunar eclipses to the students. To the wide eyed wonder of the students, she explained how eclipses occur and how we can differentiate solar and lunar eclipses.

Finally Samina came forward to hold a session on spellings. The children joined in enthusiastically to brush up on the spellings of words.

Despite the rain and the occasional disturbances from the kanwars on the adjacent road, it turned out to be a useful exercise for the children as they came to learn several new things.

The activity concluded with the distribution of “Butter Bite biscuits” and “Mango Bite toffees”. Dr. Indraneel Mandal accompanied and motivated the student volunteers. Prof. Lokesh Upreti guided the volunteers in the conduct of the programme as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club - Parivartan.

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The second speaker for the day was Dr. Shuchita Singh, who talked about the Second Edition of the CII Regional Insurance Conference 2018 on Customer Centric Insurance. 
The inaugural session of the conference was graced by luminaries like Mr. Trevor Bull, CEO and MD, Aviva Life Insurance Company India Ltd.; Mr.Joydeep K. Roy, Partner, Insurance and Allied Sectors, PwC; Dr SrinivasaRao N, Economic Advisor, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India; andNileshSathe, Member (Life), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). The deliberations revolved around digitalization of services. 
There were three plenary sessions Visualizing Professional Advice in a Digital World; Building Deeper Bonds with the customer in a Digital Era; and Data Science versus Actuarial Science – The Future. 
It was a very informative interaction covering myriad areas of interest for the assembled faculty members.

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The second session was taken over by the volunteers Abhishek and Ankit. They first explained to the children the security features on the notes of different denominations in order to protect them from counterfeiting. They made the children aware about how to distinguish between a real and a fake note. Finally they involved the children in solving sums related to expenditure of money using currency notes.

Despite the uncomfortable weather there was a marked sense of enjoyment among the children throughout all the sessions.

The activity concluded with the distribution of “Butter Bite biscuits” and “Mango Bite toffees”. Dr. Indraneel Mandal accompanied and motivated the student volunteers. Prof. Lokesh Upreti guided the volunteers in the conduct of the programme as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club - Parivartan.

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He explained that supply chains could exist for both perishable and non-perishable products. Similarly they could be judged on the basis of both financial and non-financial measures. He also pointed out some of the inconsistencies in existing supply chains. In addition, he spoke about potential issues in his research.

Prof. ShikhaArora then came forward to talk about her experiences while attending a Summit on Gender Equality. She spoke of how women’s programs werenot up to mark in India. She mentioned how India’s ranking had dropped from 87 to 108. The gender pay gap had risen in the rural areas. Even in the corporate world there was a lot that was still to be done.

The summit had three plenary sessions. These were on Gender mainstreaming, Accelerating and implementing gender specific initiatives and the transition to policy development, respectively.

Both the talks were followed by lively discussions among the faculty members.

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The session was conducted on 26th July 2018 , The session was started with Introduction to Hadoop framework and its basic terms then the session was conducted in demonstration cum discussion mode with very simple examples and use cases using Hadoop and Map Reduce. The basic rationale behind using duo is to parallelize the processing of computation extensive data. 
It was a wonderful experience to take session on recent technology and innovations in area of Big Data, it was an interactive and mutual learning experience session . I am thankful to our Director IT Dr. Sunil Kumar Pandey and top management of our institute for their never-ending encouragement and support.

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Dr. Ajay Kumar discussed the issues which students faced during interviews and the objective of the activity and expected outcome.He also discussed the plan and schedule of the sessions. Prof. Nitin Saxena shared the problems faced by the students for technical opportunities and advised students to get guidance from industry mentors for final interviews. Mr. Prawan discussed the causes of failure in final interview. Mr. Arun Pathak suggest that capsule module should be organized in line with the opportunities available in the industry. Mr. Varun Singhal Suggest that there are lots of opportunities for becoming an entrepreneur in the market. Mr. Pushank suggested that regular workshops/sessions to be conducted for the students. Mr. Shamshad discussed that attitude of students should be moulded from day to accept the challenges in first job.

Meeting ended with vote of thanks.

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The talk of the day was on ‘Swachh Bharat Ka Irada Kar Liya Humne….’ during which the efforts to be put in for swachhta were discussed. The session was started by Prof. Nitin Saxena with explanation of blue and green dustbins and their uses. Bad effects due to plastic bags were also discussed. After this, Mansi Saxena of PGDM I showed them a video on sanitation and discussed the diseases caused by bad sanitation condition.

The second session of the day was a practical session in the computer labs. The children were taken to Lab 1 and Lab 2 where the task was to search and explore about the garbage management and ill effects of bad garbage management. The children entered the designations into Google and read the details on Wikipedia.

The last session of the day was an Extempore Competition during which all the children shared their views declaring – ‘Steps to be taken for Swachh Bharat and our responsibilities in implementing it’. They not only praised their country but also identified the areas of concern and accepted the challenges.

The day ended with the motivation talk by Director Management – Dr. Ajay Kumar Sir. He not only motivated the students but also shared the ways they can keep themselves healthy and clean. At the end, 33 little speakers were chosen as winners of fabulous prizes like School Bags, Pencil Box, Geometry Pouch and Colors etc.

The activity concluded with the snacks and the cold drinks served to all. All the children were gifted with Crax, Biscuits and chips. Prof. Nitin Saxena & Prof. Shilpi Rana guided the volunteers and enjoyed the activity as the faculty coordinator of Utthan.

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Dr. Vidushi Singh requested Prof. Satyaki Roy to consider Ghaziabad also for the Examination Centre of NPTEL Online Examination. Prof. Satyaki also informed that AICTE has signed a MOU with NPTEL that faculty members doing 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks NPTEL courses will be considered as faculty member has attended ½ FDP of one week, Full FDP of one week and 1 ½ FDP of one week respectively.

At the end SPOC of various colleges were felicitated by Prof. Satyaki Roy National Coordinator, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur, Ms. Lalty Dutta, Project Manager, NPTEL, IIT Kanpur and Ms. Angana Sengupta Coordinator, Local Chapter, IIT Kanpur.
It was totally an interactive session where SPOC from various universities and institutes of repute discussed about the various courses provided by NPTEL and also gave their suggestions to make these courses more effective for masses.
Overall it was a good learning experience about operation of NPTEL online courses.

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The second session dealt with basic math skills – specifically addition and subtraction. Once again a lot of enthusiasm was noted among the children as Shaswat and Aprajita put up a number of questions, all of which were satisfactorily answered by the little students.

The activity concluded with the distribution of “Crax curls” and “Mango Bite toffees”. Prof. Lokesh Upreti accompanied and guided the volunteers as the faculty coordinator of CSR Club - Parivartan.

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