Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association (WPAA)
Monthly Newsletter, February 10, 2003
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Greetings !
Last month, you had an opportunity to review WPAA account book and as a result, I was
expecting to receive some queries from some of you. Much to my surprise, not even a
single email showed up in my 'WPAA Mailbox' ! Not that there is anything wrong with
that but it does go on to reflect how much involved you are in activities concerning
WPAA. I was particularly looking forward to hearing from those who have contributed
via fee and/or donations but even that also did not turn out to be the case. In the
absence of any queries, I can only assume that either you trust us one hundred percent
(which is probably a long shot :-) or you just do not care :-(
The reason I brought this up today is because I received a few emails from some of you
who wanted to know what our long term plans are and, where do we see WPAA five years
from now? (These emails were not in response to my last newsletter.) One email even
mentioned the recent Golden Jubilee Celebration of IITs on 17th and 18th Jan in
California and suggested if we could get some cues from there to improve our situation.
Well, I was thinking about responding to these individual emails but then, it just
seemed a better idea that I share my response with all of you as well. Yes, we do have
our goals and objectives and are working very hard to achieve those but there is so
much a handful of us can do. To get beyond a certain level of achievement, everyone
needs to be involved - physically, financially, emotionally, in whatever way possible.
Until we have a much larger involvement, we are going to find it very difficult to get
over the hump.
Our initial goal was to establish WPAA and bring together as many Pantnagar alumni as
possible. We seem to be doing a decent job there, with WPAA being a familiar name in
all Pantnagar circles and having a membership of 1262 alumni in over 40 countries. The
next major goal is to have more participation from members and come up with
initiatives that would not only benefit the university but the whole community in
Pantnagar.
So long story short, we all first need to get much more involved in WPAA activities
through mailing list and other such avenues, collect much more funds through annual
membership fee and contributions, channelize much more communication with GBPUA&T and
once we are to accomplish it, we should then think about how we can play a more
significant role in achieving our goals and objectives.
Well, that brings us to the next segment of this newsletter - WPAA updates.
*** Many members have requested the ability to deposit their payments in currencies
other than US Dollars (USD). We are very pleased to extend the PayPal system to
support four additional currencies: Canadian Dollars, Euros, Pound Sterling and
Japanese Yen. You can use these currencies at PayPal's payment option at WPAA website.
Please feel free to write to 'admin at wpaa dot org' if you have any questions.
If sending by snail-mail, please make your payments payable to:
Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association
and send to
If sending in US Dollars ! If sending in Indian Rupees
Mr. Girish Solanki ! Mr. Joseph Dolphin
Treasurer, WPAA ! Representative, WPAA
7811 Chambers Rd #135, ! Flat 77 Pocket A3 Sector 8,
San Antonio, Texas, ! Rohini, Delhi - 110085
United States - 78229 ! India
You can also reach them via 'treasurer at wpaa dot org'.
*** Last month, another WPAA chapter was formed - 'WPAA - Foresters'. According to the
group coordinator, Manmohan Dobriyal, Forestry, 1994 batch, "This group is specially
created to keep up the flag of forestry flying in Pantnagar and around the globe. In
due course of time we will be publishing one newsletter and hold one alumni meet at
Ranichauri to celebrate first anniversary of this group in March, 2003". WPAA would
like to thank Manmohan Dobriyal for taking this initiative and wishes him all the
best. Manmohan, please let me know if you need to setup a separate web page, chat
room, mailing-list or any other such web presence for your chapter.
*** Yearbook 2002 - Another important project that is nearing completion is 'WPAA
Yearbook 2002'. Thanks to Somya Chaudhary, Home Science, 1987 batch, who was kind
enough to accept this responsibility of leading this project and putting it all
together. Special thanks go to Preeti (http://www.itweblink.com/) who is helping us
with some new logos for WPAA. If everything goes as per the plan, you should have a
copy in your mailbox sometime soon. Please visit the WPAA home page to check out the
complete details and exact schedule. Also, feel free to write to her at 'yb2002 at
wpaa dot org' if you have any suggestions, comments or feedback.
And now, getting back to regular fun activities,
*** An International Symposium on "Livestock Production Systems for Sustainable Food
Security and Livelihood in Mountain Areas" was held in Pantnagar on Dec 30-31. Dr. Vir
Singh, would you please share this experience with rest of us and if possible, send us
some pictures too :-)
And finally, a reminder that we love to hear from you - your feedback, comments and
anything that you would like us to know, is highly appreciated. Please write to us at
'admin at wpaa dot org'.
Here are the tasks that are either on-going or were accomplished in recent past:
*** Fund Drive ***
A sum of USD 3000 was collected for Computer Engineering Department, College of
Technology, during a 'Fund Drive' that lasted almost two years. The funds were
delivered to the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. J. B Chowdhury in Feb, 2002. Head of
Computer Engineering Department, Prof. R N Mishra later informed us via an email that
a decision had been made to purchase a LCD projector for the department.
WPAA would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed towards
this Fund Drive' and helped it make a success.
*** WPAA Chapters ***
If you are a Coordinator of a WPAA chapter, a member of another Pantnagar association
or know about one, please log your entry here and share it with rest of us. Also, do
let us know if you need to setup a separate web page, chat room, mailing-list or any
other such web presence for your chapter.
Following 17 Pantnagar associations are registered so far:
- WPAA-Bangalore - Manish Tyagi (manish at bellsoftech dot com)
- WPAA-Europe - Rajesh Kumar (RajeshDear at aol dot com)
- WPAA-Mumbai - Manjit S Yadav (manjeet at hotvoice dot com)
- All India Pantnagar Alumni Association (AIPAA) - Pradeep K Garg
Emails: aipaa_delhi at yahoo dot com, aipaa_delhi at hotmail dot com
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/aipaa_delhi/aipaa_page.html
- WPAA-Hyderabad - Shekhar Awasthi (shekhersawasthi at hotmail dot com)
- Pantnagar Alumni Association - Dehradun - Amardeep Baliyaan
Email: amardeepsingh at hotmail dot com
- WPAA-Gujarat - Sanjay Gauba (sanjaygauba1 at yahoo dot com)
- WPAA-Kolkata - Arya Shekhar Sanyal (aryasanyal at rediffmail dot com)
- WPAA-Haryana - Bhawani Shanker Pandey
Emails: bspandey at yahoo dot com, rinipande at yahoo dot com
- WPAA-U.P. - Rajesh Sharma (sraj1971 at yahoo dot com)
- WPAA-Singapore - Shashi Rautela (shashi at rautela dot com)
- WPAA-Punjab - Pradyuman Kumar (pradyuman2002 at hotmail dot com)
- WPAA-Manila - Amaresh Chandel
Emails: amareshchandel at sify dot com, chandelamaresh at yahoo dot co dot in
- WPAA-Pacific - Prashant Srivastava
Emails: psri0762 at mail.usyd.edu.au, ps_soil at hotmail dot com
- WPAA-Jharkhand - Vishnu Dixit (vishnud at telco.co.in)
- WPAA-Malaysia - Sandeep Kumar Goel (drgoelsk at hotmail dot com)
- WPAA-Foresters - Manmohan Dobriyal (manmohandobriyal at yahoo dot com)
Check out the complete details about these associations at WPAA website. Do not forget
to check out the 'Members Directory' for each association.
*** Mentor Program ***
Total Mentors: 39
Total Mentees: 13
WPAA would like to thank all the participants in the Mentor Program and wishes them
the best.
And for all those who have volunteered to help in this Program, please update your
mentor-comments and put in how exactly you can contribute. Please provide your contact
details and convenient times so that potential mentees can get in touch with you.
*** WPAA Quiz ***
Pawan Nayal won the second quiz scoring 90%. There were 38 responses with an average
score of 64.21%. Congratulations Pawan !!!
The third quiz is up for grabs. So far, there are 11 responses with an average score
of 45.45%. Do you want to take a shot at it ? Check out http://www.wpaa.org/ for
complete details.
Narendra Pratap Singh, Technology, 1993 batch, is the brain behind this periodic quiz.
WPAA would like to thank him for his continued effort and time.
*** WPAA Poll ***
After completing your studies, how many times have you visited Pantnagar ?
Please visit WPAA web site and let us know.
*** ONE MORE THING ***
"To a man with empty stomach, food is God." - Gandhi
*** And finally, here is a list of new members ***
Total members as of today: 1262
Total nos. of mailing-list subscribers: 883
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Following is the list of 33 members who joined WPAA in the month of January. Please
join me in welcoming them on board.
Mr Ratnesh Singh, 1990 batch, Technology
Ms Kavita Suri, 2002 batch, Technology
Other Virendra Yadav, 1995 batch, Technology
Mr Jitendra Kandpl, 2000 batch, Technology
Mr Hitesh Shakya, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Sunil Chaudhary, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Sadashiv Samantaray, 1981 batch, Technology
Mr Manish Bhatt, 2000 batch, Technology
Mr Manoj Juyal, 2002 batch, Technology
Mr Sudhir Sharma, 1982 batch, Technology
Mr Bhanu Jain, 1998 batch, Hill Agriculture & Forestry
Mr Digvijay Singh Rajput, 2001 batch, Technology
Mr Vishvambhar Kundani, 1966 batch, Technology
Mr Sunil Sikka, 1982 batch, Technology
Mr Manu Tandon, 0 batch, Technology
Dr Arif Quraishy, 1986 batch, Basic Science & Humanities
Mr Praveen Singh, 1991 batch, Technology
Ms Parul Arora, 2002 batch, Technology
Mr Harshit Joshi, 2002 batch, Technology
Mr Ashutosh Shukla, 1991 batch, Technology
Mr Rajeev Kamal, 1999 batch, Technology
Mr Arun , 1999 batch, Technology
Dr Sushil Pandey, 1987 batch, P G Studies
Mr Sandeep Verma, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Ajay Rao, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Nitin Aggarwal, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Sandeep Singh, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Gaurav Agarwal, 0 batch, Technology
Mr Manish Srivastava, 1990 batch, Technology
Mr Ashish Avasthy, 1998 batch, Technology
Mr Deepak Pant, 2000 batch, Technology
Mr Siddharth Gupta, 1997 batch, Technology
Mr Jalaj Sharma, 1990 batch, Technology
Have a great day !
Administrator, WPAA
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