These days we are making some real progress. Period! The collage has got a amazing speed net connection(100+ KBps per computer), and about 50 computers in the institute have been connected. We have a public WiFi hotspot near the collage with as good speed. And there is a plan to coonect all the hostels. What more can you ask?
Finally a ATM too was set up in the collage(SBI). God it was really needed.

College is Wifi enabled!

It seems that Wifi was in college from some time. Just that it is only in the collage and not in the hostels. But fortunately its a unsecured Wifi network with anyone able to login. So people from hostel 1 are using it, coz it is the only hostel where Wifi network reaches.
And it has amazing speed, too. But we are still using our trusty dial up. A wifi card is too costly, and we dont know till when the network will be unsecured.

These days wikipedia is the definitive source of information. So just for funs I checked wikipedia to find out what it has to say about our college. Oh no! It does not even list our college. Any one can put up an article in wikipedia. SO it really pained me to see no one from our college has bothered. So this is what I put up about our college there. Please add to it by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/. Search for bit mesra and you may read or edit this.
Contents

* 1 Birla Institute of Technology
o 1.1 Courses Offered
o 1.2 Extension Centres
o 1.3 External links

Birla Institute of Technology

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra polularly known as BIT, Mesra is a collage of engineering and related subjects, located in Mesra, near Ranchi, the capital of Jarkhand.It was established in 1955 by Mr. B M Birla. It is a "Deemed University" under Sec. 3 of the Indian U.G.C. act 1986.

Courses Offered

The college offers BE and ME degrees in following disciplines. 1.Civil Engineering 2.Computer Science & Engineering 3.Electrical & Electronics Engineering 4.Electronics & Communication Engineering 5.Mechanical Engineering 6.Polymer Engineering 7.Production Engineering 8.Remote Sensing 9.Space Engineering and Rocketry 10.Applied Mechanics It also offers the courses in pharmacy, architecture and manamgement.

Extension Centres

The college has extension centres in India and abroad at Ranchi,Allahabad, Kolkata, Noida, Jaipur and Chennai.

Which brach to study in Bit?

What is the best department to study in Bit. This is a question which every one grapples before joining BIT, when they have to decide the trade to take. But they know the answer as soon as they join. Obviously it’s the branch they are studying, because *they* are studying in that department.
Even after studying here for 7 semesters, I probably am ill qualified to comment on this. Coz there are just too many parameters. But it is possible if we judge on only one parameter, the holy grail, placement scenario.
Here is my ranking. Mind you its just my ranking, but Ill try to give reasons.
1.ECE
2.Comp. Science
3.Info. Tech
4.Mechanical
5.EEE
6.Production/Polymer/Civil
ECE had the best placements, both in terms of percentage of people placed, and in quality of placement. Computer Science too has equally good placement and it is probably a chiller branch than ECE, with less workload. But I rate ECE better for two reasons. One, because *I* am in this branch and two because guys with better AIEEE ranks generally choose this. So you will be in better company.
Mechanical is great branch with extremely good infrastructure, but it really looses in the placement wars. People with lower AIEEE ranks choose IT, and had a lower GPA, but still got better jobs. EEE had a poor placement record this year. I would have liked to rate it higher, but the placements do not warrant it. Then all other branches are equally good or bad, and also I do not know enough to make a choice there. Yeah polymer had a 100% placement this year. But it is not guaranteed every year,(polymer had only 6 people).

Mid Semester marks

Exams are going to start for BE from 23rd. The mid semester marks were declared yesterday, for most of the branches. This is a major problem here. The mid semester marks are declared about ten days before end semester examination.
It seems that everybody got more marks than they expected. I got my all time highest. This time the way marks were arranged on the notice board was really funny. You could call it numeric-alphabetical. It was like 1, 11, 112, 12, 21, 213, 22, 31. Got the idea? Weird? That’s life for us. He he. But it was lots of fun trying to find where your roll number was.
Blog is probably gonna be quieter till the exams end. Not that I am gonna study a lot, I just want to feel like I am trying to study.

Bit Mesra, Front

Bit Mesra

So finally its all in the papers. The drugs problem which bit so desperately tried to say does not exist, now every one knows it. But like the deceased parents accused people of murdering him, so the people here had to tell all.

And it was also not exactly drugs. The guy was into thinners and whiteners. You can get that in any stationary shop. It not something anyone can stop. So it was probably stupid of BIT to try to stop the news. And the matter is now quieter, not like two days when every newspaper and news channel had its reporter posted here.

Till now no FIR had been filed against BIT. Hopefully it will not be.

There was a drama competition, the laughter challenge organized by the Dramsoc. As usual humor full of porn, stale jokes. But this time I dint take the risk and dint go.

There is genesis being organized tomorrow. That’s annual competition by the Unesco. Then there is harditude, softitude and one bazillion other events coming up. Heck I hate being in the final year. You can’t participate in an event. And I am not a club president or that good that I judge. So long time I was involved with an event.

Oh and as usual I am a day late posting this.

Its getting nasty!

If you are reading newspapers, by now you will be aware that parents of amit lal have filed a case against bit. And it seems life that the police is going to get an warrant against our Vice -chancellor. Now, I no big fan of our VC, In fact you may say I hate him. But still its gonna hurt the reputation of out collega like anything. So we can only hope that it doesnot snowball into anything major.
Yeah and BTW, the stupid rules are still here. Be have to sign, get permission for going out, all the works.

So called suisides at Bit

Ah, one more of our college-mates has passed away, falling to drugs. And again the BIT management is trying to save its ass by not letting the name of Institute be dragged into anything related with drugs. So it is trying to project this death again as a suiside. But everyone here at the college knows, and now the world too knows that all this is sham and the drugs problem is being highlighted by the media.
This pressure from the media has put tremendous pressure on the Bit management and so they have to do something. So in their infinite wisdom they have made more rules. Draconian and 100% non enforceable rules. Like noone can go outside the college campus without permission. That there will be a roll call for every one in the evening. Rules which can in no way hamper the sale or procurement of drugs, but rules which will just cause discomfort to the average guy. In short, just the rules you will expect BIT to form.

Our Glorious College

Placements at BIT, Mesra

After Satyam, so many more companies have come and many more yet to come. Birlasoft came and took an unexpectedly large number of people. The second rounds have started for ECE and Computer Science. The approximate numbers are

• Birlasoft 61


• Relaince Industries: 4


• Mindtree Softwares: 6


• Amdocs: 13


• CSC: 14

Mindtree offered a very unsatisfying package of 2.5 lacs p.a. Amdocs gave 3.6 lacs plus other perks. Google placement proceeding are still going on. They probably will offer 7 lacs. Wow, even IndusLogic is giving 4.25 plus perks. And 95% of ECE is already placed. With about 20 people having two jobs. That’s just one month of placements done.

How could this happen? Here in BIT?

Yesterday a student died of overdose of Drug addiction. God! Here? I was not even aware that we have a drug problem in our college. But seems like this is a major problem here. Not that major though. But some people are using it.

Lota: Life O To Aisi

Life O To Aisi
That was the name of the team we played with in BItotsav 04. We came Fifth. But we had a blast of a time. See the pictures here.

Extension Centres
Bit has extension centres at various places. The first extension centre was opened at Lalpur, Ranchi in 1984. At present there are six extension centres at Lalpur, Allahabad, Kolkata, Noida, Jaipur and Chennai.
Courses offered there include MCA, BCA, MBA and some others. Neither BE nor ME is offrered at any extension cente.
Though the course there be not at par with the Main Campus ( I am not saying they are bad), the students from there get degrees from Bit Mesra and it is equal to a degree from main campus. The students may switch from one campus to other by permission from the VC.
Apart from these BIT has overseas centres at Bahrain, Muscut and UAE

Companies which visted our collegein the last years...
The placements last year too were prettty good. Almost everyone got placed. The average salry must have been in the range of 2.5 lacs pa cost to company.
SOME OF THE CAMPUS RECRUITERS
ACCENTURE
MOTOROLA INDIA ELECTRONICS LIMITED
AGILENT TECHNOLOGY LTD
NATIONAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LTD
ALSTOM
NATIONAL THERMAL POWER CORPORATION
ASHOK LEYLAND
NDPL
ASSOCIATED CEMENT COS LTD
NIIT TECHNOLOGIES
BHARAT PETROLEUM CORPORATION
ORACLE (INDIA) (I am placed here)
BHARAT REFRACTORIES LTD
PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD
BIRLA SOFT
PHILIPS SOFTWARE LTD
BLUE STAR INFOTECH LTD
RAMCO SYSTEMS
BLUE STAR
RANBAXY LABORATORIES LTD
CASTROL INDIA LTD
RELIANCE INFOCOM
CA-TCG SOFTWARE LIMITED
RENUSAGAR POWER PLANT
CMC LIMITED
SAMTEL COLOR LTD
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED
COMPUTER SCIENCE CORP (I) LTD
SCHINDLER INDIA LIMITED
CROMPTON GREAVES
SHRIRAMBEARINGS LIMITED
EICHER GOODEARTH
SIEMENS INFORMATION SYSTEM LTD
EICHER MOTORS LIMITED
STERLITE
ELECTROSTEEL CASTINGS LTD
SUN PHARMA INDUSTRIES LIMITED
ELI LILY RANBAXY LTD
SYNTEL
ESSAR LTD
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
EXIDE INDUSTRIES LTD
TATA CONSULTING ENGINEERS
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR LTD
TATA CUMMINS LTD
gE mEDICAL dIVISION
TATA ELXSI
HALDIA PETROCHEMICALS
TATA HONEYWELL
HCL COMNET
TATA INFOTECH LIMITED
HCL INFOSYSTEM LTD
TATA INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS
HCL PEROT SYSTEMS
TATA MOTORS
HCL TECHNOLOGIES
TATA RYERSON
LTD
HINDALCO INDUSTRIES LTD
TATA Steel
HINDUSTAN MOTORS (CALCUTTA)
TATA TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION LTD
HEWLETT PACKARD
TATA TELECOM
FLEXTRONICS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LTD
TAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LTD
I-FLEX SOLUTIONS
TCG Software Services
IBM GLOBAL SERVICES
Telcon
INDIAN AIRLINES
The Tinplate Company (P) Ltd
INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Timken India Limited
ISPAT
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd
ITC INFOTECH
UshaComm INDIA LTD
ITC
TRIBENI TISSUES DIVISION
Usha India Limited
JAYPEE REWA CEMENT LTD
Usha Martin Industries Ltd.
JUSCO
VSNL
KANBAY
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (ISRO)
L & T INFOTECH
VERIZON DATA SERVICES INDIA LTD
LARSEN & TOUBRO ECC
VOLTAS LTD
LARSEN & TOUBRO, POWAI
WIPRO SYSTEMS
LUPIN LABORATORIES LTD
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
MAHENDRA BRITISH TELECOM LTD
ZENSAR LTD
MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Placements at Bit, Mesra
The placement scene here is pretty good. Almost everybody who is any good gets placed in a reasonable company. Curretly 82% people of our department(ECE) are already placed. The scenarion might not be as good in other departments but it is not so bad either. And a lot many companies are stil to come.
The companies which have already come are:(And number they recruited aprox.)
Tata Motors(25)
Freescale India,A susidiary of Motorola(2)
Oracle India(13)
TCS(200)
CTS(100)
Wipro(40)
Infosys(30)
Satyam(20) Plus they took about 30 with a scheme where topers of each branch were taken without any test.
And so many more to come. Wow even google is coming.

A Brief History of Bit Mesra

B.I.T. Mesra is a "Deemed University" under Sec. 3 of the U.G.C. act 1986. It functions under the overall supervision, direction and control of a high power Board of Governors, comprising representatives of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, the U.G.C., the State Government, The Chancellor, the A.I.C.T.E., The Hindustan Charity Trust and the Institute Faculty. Shri G.P. Birla is the Chairman of the Board of Governors. The Governor of the state of Jharkhand is the Chancellor of the Institute. The Technical Council decides the academic policy of the Institute.

The Birla Institute of Technology was established in the year 1955 at Mesra, Ranchi, by the Philanthropist- Industrialist Mr. B M Birla with a vision to be recognized as a world-class learning institution for engineering and technology by providing the highest-quality academic programmes that foster student development and connect knowledge, practice, and outstanding scholarly research.
Over the last fifty years, the Institute has not just kept pace with the times; it has often taken a lead in introduction of programs in emerging areas. The Institute today offers Under Graduate, Post Graduate as well as Doctoral level programmes in Engineering & Technology, Applied Sciences, Remote Sensing, Computer Applications, Information Science, Bio-Medical Instrumentation,Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Business Management & Hotel Management & Catering Technology. A rich heritage of academic excellence; a strong commitment towards creation and constant upgradation of academic infrastructure; an unremitting interaction with the industry; an unrelenting endeavour to develop effective teaching skills of its faculty and to provide an environment that promotes productive research and most of all a stringent intake of the best talent have placed BIT amongst the frontrunners in the domain of technical education and research. With students drawn from all the States of our Country, the Institution has endeavoured to maintain its all India character. BIT has graduated over 15,000 Degree holders in Engineering & Technology and over 2000 Post graduates. The active research programmes of the Institute have produced a number of Doctorates (PhD's) in various areas.

BIT was the very first Institute to establish a Department of Space Engineering & Rocketry in the year 1964. BIT also introduced the concept of Small Industries Entrepreneurs' Park and became the first and the only Institute in the country not just to provide 'nursery sheds' and central designing and workshop facilities to young entrepreneurs, but also to facilitate the initial project funding. BIT became the very first technical University to establish overseas extension centers in the year 2000. It is one of the few Universities to be accorded a Super Computer at the core of its ultramodern IT infrastructure.
The Institute has also been active in initiating as well as becoming a part of International ventures and tie-ups. It has collaborative arrangements with Universities in the USA, UK & Canada. It is an active member of the EAGER NETWIC Project of ASIA LINK programme of European Commission for establishing a world class academic network of Higher education in the rapidly growing field of Wireless and Mobile Communication between the five partner Universities.
BIT has been catering to the manpower needs of almost all the major sectors of the economy since the last five decades. BIT alumni have made the Institute proud of their achievements, many of whom are amongst the leaders of the Industry, both in India and abroad.
The Institute along with its extension centres at present has more than 7500 students enrolled for different Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes. It also has more than 150 registered students for the Ph.D. Programmes.

Birla Istitute of Technology is a premier enginnering college located in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand. It is one of the best engineering college in India. There are 8 engineering departments here
1.ECE Electronics and Communications
2.EEE Electrical and Eclectronics
3.Comp Science
4.IT
5.Mechanical
6.Production
7.Polymer
8.Civil
Apart from this we have a pharmacy, architecture, MCA, MIS and various other disciplines taught here.

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.