Proceedings of the Meeting of Action Committee

The meeting was held in the chamber of Dr.J.Thakur, Former Vice-Chancellor, H O D ,(PHY) P.G, P.U, starting from 1 PM and continued till 4 PM. The meeting was attended by the following personnel.

1 Prof. J Thakur, - Chairman
2 Prof. R.P.Sinha - Former V .C. Mithila University
3 Prof. R K.Sinha – Professor of Zoology, P. U.
4 Dr. B. K. Sharma – Head , Electronics, N.I.T., Patna
5 Dr U.N.L. Mathur – Head ( Physics), Science College, Patna
6 Prof. S P.Verma - Retd. Prof. of Physics, Science College, Patna
7 Shri S.N.Sandhwar- Manager (Operation) BBSC
8 Shri Vijay Sharan – P.R.O .BBSC

Agenda of the Meeting

1. Finalization of Letter for MPs for Demand of IISER & Strategies for further course of action
2. Formation of Scientific Council of BiharBrains
3. BBSC Gyan Kendra Project with DST ,Bihar

Excerpts from the meeting

At the outset Dr. Verma welcomed all the members present. Dr. S N Guha was contacted it was informed that he had been in the meeting some where else with the authorities of Govt. of Bihar hence he was unable to come. Dr. Dolly Sinha had a class during the day hours so she could not spare time. However, Dr. Verma appraised the agenda of meeting to all the members present.. Dr. Thakur said that the efforts of Bihar Brains in this direction has been continuous but as ill luck would have it , we did not get fruitful results.

Dr. Verma said that it has been proposed by the Global Chairman of the Bihar Brains to send a letter to all Members of Parliament for their endorsement of our demand for IISER and to give pressure on the Govt. A letter has been drafted by Chairman of BBrains Development Society.. The said draft letter was shown to all members. Each and every member read the draft letter. Dr. Rajmani Sinha and Dr. R.K Sinha said that simply writing of letters would not fetch the desired result. We will have to take support of high weight politician Like, Shri Laloo Prasad Yadav, Shri Ram Vilash Paswan, all Minister of Govt of India from Bihar , Shri Nitish Kumar, C M (Bihar).

Manager operation of BBSC, Shri Sandhwar, at the instance of Dr. Verma placed the print out the message in which it was mentioned about apathy of Govt. in response of the question raised in the Parliament by Shri Ram Kirpal Yadav. M.P (R J D) step motherly treatment of Govt has been condemned by all.


Dr. R. K sinha suggested that we should target one person/ some important (politician) who may be persuaded to push the project as it was done in the case of setting up of NIT. Dr. Verma concurred with his views and said that sustained effort is required. Members suggested that Shri Ram Kirpal Yadav M. P should be contacted afresh by B.B delegates and request him to move the matter with the help of his colleagues. The M P should be made fully appraised for the need of opening of IISER in Bihar and to make him convinced for the same with all justification and arguments. A suggestion emerged that a letter be drafted in Hindi addressed to Smt Sonia Gandhi and Dr. Manmohan Singh, P M which may be signed by all Members of Parliament from Bihar. The proposal was accepted by all. It has been decided that contents of letter already drafted in English are adequate which may be translated in to Hindi. A delegation of the action committee of IISER should meet Shri Ram Kirpal Yadav after seeking his appointment when he is available in Patna. It has also been decided that the Delhi Representative of Bihar Brains should be requested to keep watch over the progress. Dr. Rajmani Sinha further placed his views that let the NRIs of Bihar take a lead to start the establishment of IISER or similar R& D centre with support of their financial help at first instance so that base for our demand from the Government may be established. .He quoted example of Orissa and other states . A message with this objective should be sent to all concerned through BBrains Development Society by its Global Chairman..

2. Coming to the second agenda of construction of a Scientific council .of Bihar, Dr Verma placed that local level Scientific Council be formed under the leader ship of Dr. J Thakur . The proposal was accepted by the members. Dr. Verma further requested the members present to become the members of the Council and to give some suitable names of R & D personnel who may be enlisted in the Council In response to his request following names have been suggested for addition in the list of member of Scientific Council .

Dr. Gyan Mohan,

Dr. Ashok kr. Singh Delhi University (Geology),

ShriRajiv Sinha IIT Kanpur (Geology),

Dr.Santosh Kumar Dept. of Botany , Bihar University

Dr. B. N Tiwary, H.O.D, Biotech ,Chhatisgarh

Dr. L.C Prasad , Zoolagy Department , Bhagalpur University,

Dr. H.C Verma , Physics Department I.I.T, Kanpur

Dr. Anwar Ahmad Khan , Prof of Electronics and presently V.C. Ranchi Uninversity.

Dr. A. K Gupta Head , Department of Biochemistry, P.U.

It was also suggested by the members that a Seminar of all personnel engaged in active Research and Development in any field of Science & Technology be organized by the Bihar Brains Scholastic Centre. Dr R K Sinha added that In that Seminar Dr Hussnain should be called to preside. In order to have full data and details of such persons, it was proposed that a list which has been recently prepared by the Govt of Bihar be obtained with the help of Principal, Patna Science College.
The proposal has been accepted by all the members. The Venue date and time of seminar required to be fixed with due consultation with appropriate committee of BBSC and BBrains Development Society.

3. On the third agenda of the meeting. For Development of BBSC as Gyan Kendra with help of DST Govt. of Bihar. .Dr Verma . Explained the objectives of Gyan Kendra to all and sought their opinion. Members were of the opinion that we should select one or two objectives for its implementation to start with. Manager Operation of BBSC appraised that BBSC has received a positive response from the Principal Secretary of DST of the Govt of Bihar who has given consent to BBSC to provide space of 6000 sq ft at Mourya Lok Complex provided a complete proposal. is submitted to them . Dr Verma said that BBSC has developed a proposal to open an Authorised Training Center of CDAC,. For Chip Design Training, VSLI courses. . The civil and financial outlay of the proposal is to be designed and prepared
Dr Verma explained the validity and viability of the project. A doubt emerged in the meeting whether ATC will be able to issue Diploma which would be acceptable & valid commercially. It should be ascertained whether such of type training institute requires affiliation from University system of A I T U C

In response to the doubt raised by the members, Dr Verma explained that CDAC is recognized Institution by the Government of India, so there may not be any problem for validity of its diploma.

Dr B K Sharma that representative of Ni2 Logic Pune , had come recently and given demonstration of their product of chip design , micro and other thing related to the proposed training programme. He said such seminar and demonstration may be conducted in future also.

In the end it was decided unanimously that a full and concrete proposal for opening of Authorised Training Centre of CDAC should be prepared by BBSC staff with input from their authorities and put before the committee in the next meeting before its submission to D.S.T,.Bihar.

Since there was no other agenda the meeting ended with thanks to chair.

Patna
08.09.2007 S.N.Sandhwar
Manager (Operation)
B B S C , Patna