From the Desk of the Secretary
Dear Alumni,
It is my proud privilege to get an
opportunity to serve the Alma Mater and fellow alumni community. I am immensely
thankful to all those who thought it fit to give me this opportunity. We had the
meeting on December 23, 2018 where the Members present in the Annual General
Meeting of the Association handed over the baton to the new Executive
Committee. After taking the charge, the most tuff tusk was to re-design the Alumni
Website and making updated data base with self-edit option of each individual
alumnus data sheet. Putting active search engine to search our alumni from data
base was another target. I am pleased to inform that we are able to launch the
newly designed website. For individual log-in Registration please
mail me or Mr. Biswajit Kamila, as given details in the Contact page. Now it is your
term to log-in and update data base regularly directly through the site.
Alumni Association had launched some
important initiatives in the last few years and the same are informed in the
Alumni Website (please see the Navigation bars). Beside those, two more
significant things are getting more alumni in the data base and drive in
bringing new members to the Association. And as such we still have a long way
to go because a number of our alumni are not in touch with us. Our attempt
will be to bridge this gap. Having all members on board is the starting point
to make a vibrant community. I appeal to all alumni in this endeavour by help
in enrolling each and every alumnus in the data base.
Vibrancy of an association is
directly proportional to participation of its members in its activities. Though
we have thousands of alumni on the list, only about 400 alumni participated in
the Reunion 2018. I earnestly urge all alumni to participate actively in alumni
activities. Younger alumni may think that alumni activities are meant more for
senior alumni, either superannuated or closer to it. But the need is different.
The Association requires participation of younger people more than at any other
time. With increasing size of batches over years, young members are larger in
number. Further, they have more energy. We require combination of experience
and energy in the Association. I specially invite younger members to play
active role in the activities of the Association. On behalf of old guards, I
promise that you will have due space. One of my appeals is to see that
alumni sets up local Chapters in all those cities, all over the world, where
alumni number is more than 20. There will be many such Cities in India where we
have and can form Chapters. Local chapters are the backbone of parent
organization. They are the key to effective networking which is an important
goal of the Association. I urge our alumni spread all over to set up formal
local chapters and be in touch with the parent body. Together we can do a lot.
All individual chapters even may organize Seminar/ Workshop by their own,
taking aid from the parent body.
In this regard, I would like to mention the word ‘TEAM’
(Together
Everyone Achieves
More, defined by Dr.
Jayanta Bandyopadhyay-
alumnus 1986) which was proposed to be the motto of our Alumni Association.
The Institute is a very important
stake holder in our activities. The Department and as a whole the University
has played a major role in shaping our professional career. It is now time to
share our experience, in any form, for the Alma Mater. To return something to
the Alma Mater will be proud moment for us and sweet memory to reminiscence.
Presently we are publishing quarterly
newsletter, our endeavour is to bring out a newsletter once a month. It is
possible if all alumni and local chapters contribute in this effort. Please do
share news and events related to alumni. Let us give so much high quality
matter every month that we get tough time picking what to skip.
I once again thank you all to give me
this opportunity. I look forward to serve you.
Let us echo the word TEAM.
Asim Kumar De,
Secretary, CUChEAA N.B.: Convey sincere thanks to Mr. Tapas Mandal, an alumnus (2005) and Research Scholar of the Department who developed the site with a new look and facilities.
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