Wednesday, March 30, 2016

PLANE PUT TOGETHER ON A CHARKOP TERRACE FEATURES IN MAKE IN INDIA

Plane put together on a Charkop terrace features in Make in India
Top: Charkop resident Amol Yadav at the Make in India Week venue in BKC with his flying machine. He started work to build the plane in 2009, and claims it can soar up to 13,000 ft; above: The aircraft being built on the terrace of Amol Yadav's flat in Charkop
Amol Yadav, a pilot with Jet Airways, spent six years building a six-seater aircraft in a house he shares with 19 family members.

Among a plethora of innovation marvels at the Make in India Week, commencing this evening at the Bandra Kurla Complex, is a six-seater aircraft entirely assembled in a three-BHK flat in Charkop, Kandivali (W).

That the product is no fly-by-night enterprise is certified by none other than the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which has given the plane the display space alongside some of its own flying machines at Narendra Modi's pet event that is hoping to earn investment to the tune of Rs 4.6 lakh crore.

The plane's maker is Amol Yadav, a 40-year-old deputy chief pilot with Jet Airways, whose obsession with aircraft began in school, found wings during a year-long flying training course in the US, and materialised piece-bypiece over a period of six years in his home in Sukant Society, which he shares with 19 of his family members.

"The terrace attached to our flat is spread over 1,600 sq ft, and has been my workshop. I have been living on the terrace for the last six years," he said. Yadav, an alumni of Patkar College in Goregaon, was inspired to try his hand at assembling planes after he saw flying enthusiasts in the US purchasing phased-out planes and turning them into customised six or 12-seater flying machines.

"I went to the US for training in 1995, and saw a lot of people in the US, middleclass families, assembling used planes to create customised flying machines. I was inspired to do the same in India, and the more I struggled, the more I got obsessed with singlehandedly assembling a plane right here in my home," he said.

Egged on by a supportive family ("My parents chipped in financially, the uncles and the aunts put up with the equipment lying all over the house, and the wife never complained about the noise that went on every night for the last six years"), Yadav has created a plane that can soar up to 13,000 ft at 1,500 ft per minute, and cover a distance of 2,000 km at the top speed of 185 nautical miles per hour.

He didn't want to reveal the exact amount spent on building the plane, but conceded that it cost him a "few crores". "I started building this plane in 2009, and finished work only a few months ago. The plane can accommodate five passengers, and weighs 1,450 kg," Yadav said.

Like all aircraft, Yadav's plane is made of aluminium. It measures 10-fteight-inches in height, and was put together under the guidance of Air Marshal Murali Sundaram, and an advisory panel of the IIT-B professors, under the banner of Thrust Aircraft Company, a firm launched by Yadav. He has applied to the aviation regulator DGCA for permissions to test the aircraft - named TAC 003 - but is yet to hear from them.

The struggle

Apart from the lack of space and paucity of funds, Yadav had to learn to ignore doubters: the so-called wellwishers and friends who ridiculed him for attempting to build a plane in a congested house. "A few of them thought I had lost my mind. I would only talk about planes. They thought I was crazy to be attempting to build one at home," he said.

The struggle could have easily turned bitter. His first effort, in 1998, and the subsequent one in 2001, didn't yield the desired results. "I'm working to build a plane for the last 17 years, considering I started assembling my first plane in 1998. Searching for equipment, arranging the money, and the sheer toil... I have lost count of the sleepless nights," he said.

The biggest challenge was the procurement of the basics: the engine and the navigation system. The family raised money by selling off ancestral jewellery to import the customised piston engine from the US. It is a 350-horse power engine manufactured by Proformance Unlimited, and Yadav's plane falls in the category of the single-engine land air plane (which means it cannot fly over water).

He also had to import the navigational suite -- which is an advanced touch-screen navigation technology - from America. "I dream of playing a part in setting up the Indian domestic air connectivity on the lines of America and Europe. After nearly seven decades of Independence, why are we still not able to build aircraft?" Yadav asked.

He is betting big on Make in India Week, hoping to attract investors. "I'm confident of creating custom-made aircraft. With some backing, I could revolutionise the Indian aviation history," he said. Inputs: Aditya Anand 





















Saturday, March 19, 2016

Display of books on Entrepreneurship


A week-long display from March 14 to 19, 2016 of books on Entrepreneurship was organized for the E-Cell event to be held on 19 March in the Institute. Students were happy to see these books and many were borrowed.
Some of the books are:

1 19595 ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTOR CYCLE MAINTENANCE(Book) On Display  
2 19608 GOOD TO GREAT: WHY SOME COMPANIES MAKE THE LEAP AND OTHERS DON'T(Book) Issued  
3 20592 STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH(Book) Issued  
4 19226 GO KISS THE WORLD: LIFE LESSONS FOR THE YOUNG PROFESSIONAL(Book) On Display  
5 19227 OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH PROJECT PROFILES(Book) On Display  
6 19230 HOW TO START YOUR OWN EXPORT BUSINESS(Book) On Display  
7 19228 SELECT AND START YOUR OWN INDUSTRY(Book) Issued  
8 19231 PROFITABLE SMALL, COTTAGE AND HOME INDUSTRIES(Book) On Display  
9 19232 BEST BUSINESSES YOU CAN START WITH ALMOST NO COST(Book) On Display  
10 19233 GROW RICH BY STARTING YOUR OWN BUSNESS(Book) On Display  
11 19234 FIFTY PROJECTS TO START WITH FIVE LAKHS(Book) On Display  
12 19235 BEST HOME BUSINESSES TO START WITH JUST FIFTY THOUSAND(Book) On Display  
13 19236 STOP DREAMING: START YOUR OWN BUSINESS(Book) On Display  
14 19237 WHAT NO ONE EVER TELLS YOU ABOUT STARTING YOUR BUSINESS: FACILITIES AND PROCEDURES FOR ENTREPRENEURS(Book) On Display  
15 19238 SECRETS FOR MAKING BIG PROFITS FROM YOUR BUSINESS WITH EXPORT GUIDELINES(Book) On Display  
16 19239 SELECTED PROJECTS TO START WITH THIRTY LAKHS(Book) On Display  
17 19241 SELECTED PROJECTS TO START WITH THIRTY FIVE LAKHS(Book) On Shelf  
18 19240 SELECTED PROJECTS TO START WITH FIFTEEN LAKHS(Book) On Display  
19 19242 DETAILED PROJECT PROFILES ON SELECTED HI-TECH PROJECTS(Book) On Display  
20 19596 PRINCE, THE(Book) On Display  
21 19597 REALITY CHECK: THE IRREVERENT GUIDE TO OUTSMARTING, OUTMANAGING AND OUTMARKETING YOUR COMPETITION(Book) On Display  
22 19598 GETTING THINGS DONE: HOW TO ACHIEVE STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY(Book) On Shelf  
23 19599 FOUR-HOUR WORK WEEK: ESCAPE 9 - 5, LIVE ANYWHERE AND JOIN THE NEW RICH(Book) Issued  
24 19604 LOSING MY VIRGINITY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY(Book) Issued  
25 19606 THE PRIZE: THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY AND POWER(Book) On Display  
26 19609 THE INFORMATION: A HISTORY, ATHEORY, A FLOOD(Book) On Display  
27 19610 BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY: HOWTO CREATE UNCONTROLLED MARKET SPACE AND MAKE THE COMPETITION IRRELEVANT(Book) On Display  
28 19612 THE KNOWLEDGE ENTREPRENEUR: HOW YOUR BUSINESS CAN CREATE, MANAGE AND PROFIT FROM INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL(Book) On Display  
29 19613 INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: PRACTICE AND PRINCIPLES(Book) On Display  
30 19614 ENTREPRENEURSHIP: NEW VENTURE CREATION(Book) On Display  
31 19615 ENTREPEDIA: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO BECOMING AN ENTREPRENEUR IN INDIA(Book) On Display  
32 19616 THE BACKROOM BRIGADE: HOW A FEW INTREPID ENTREPRENEURS BROUGHT THE WORLD TO INDIA(Book) On Display  
33 19617 BUILT TO LAST: SUCCESSFUL HABITS OF VISIONARY COMPANIES(Book) On Display  
34 19619 BRICK BY RED BRICK: RAVI MATTHAI AND THE MAKING OF IIM AHMEDABAD(Book) On Display  
35 19618 ENTREPRENEUR'S TOOLKIT: TOLS AND TEHNIQUES TO LAUNCH AND GROW YOUR NEW BUSINESS(Book) On Display  
36 19828 THE INNOVATOR'S DILEMMA(Book) On Display  
37 19829 TEAM OF RIVALS: THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN(Book) On Display  
38 19830 THE POWER BROKER: ROBERT MOSES AND THE FALL OF NEW YORK(Book) On Display  
39 19831 THE TRIBAL LEADERSHIP: LEVERAGING NATURAL GROUPS TO BUILD A THRIVING ORGANIZATION(Book) On Display  
40 19832 FOUNDERS AT WORK: STORIES OF STARTUPS' EARLY DAYS(Book) On Display  
41 19833 ENCHANTMENT: HOW TO WOO, INFLUENCE AND PERSUADE(Book) On Display  
42 19835 THE HABIT OF WINNING: STORIES TO INSPIRE, MOTIVATE AND UNLEASH THE WINNER WITHIN(Book) Issued  
43 19836 UNUSUAL PEOPLE DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY(Book) On Display  
44 19837 MBA AT SIXTEEN: A TEENAGER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF BUSINESS(Book) On Display  
45 19852 MANAGEMENT IN NEW AGE: WESTERN WINDOWS EASTERN DOORS(Book) On Display  
46 19853 FUNDAMENTALS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP(Book) On Display  
47 19854 IT HAPPENED IN INDIA: THE STORY OF PANTALOONS, BIG BAZAAR, CENTRAL AND THE GREAT INDIAN CONSUMER(Book) On Display  
48 19855 FINANCE FOR ENTREPRENEURS(Book) On Display  
49 19856 CORPORATE CHAMPIONS: EXCELLENT COMPANIES OF INDIA(Book) On Display  
50 19857 OF POVERTY AND PLASTIC: SCAVENGING AND SCRAP TRADING ENTREPRENEURS IN INDIA'S URBAN INFORMAL ECONOMY(Book) On Display  
51 20168 BILL GATES SPEAKS: INSIGHT FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST ENTREPRENEUR(Book) On Display  
52 20436 ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT(Book) On Display  
53 20437 THE HIGH PERFORMANCE ENTREPRENEUR: GOLDEN RULES FOR SUCCESS IN TODAY'S WORLD(Book) On Display  
54 20438 PILOTING PALM: THE INSIDE STORY OF PLAM, HANDSPRING AND THE BIRTH OF THE BILLION-DOLLAR HANDHELD INDUSTRY(Book) On Display  
55 20456 VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTING: THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK FOR INVESTING IN PROVATE BUSINESSES FOR OUTSTANDING PROFITS(Book) Missing  
56 20457 PEAK: HOW GREAT COMPANIES GET THEIR MOJO FROM MASLOW(Book) On Display  
57 20493 CONNECT THE DOTS: THE INSPIRING STORIES OF TWENTY ENTREPRENEURS WITHOUT AN MBA WHO DARED TO FIND THEIR OWN PATH(Book) On Display  
58 20593 CONNECT THE DOTS: THE INSPIRING STORIES OF TWENTY ENTREPRENEURS WITHOUT AN MBA WHO DARED TO FIND THEIR OWN PATH(Book) On Display  
59 20494 LEAVING MICROSOFT TO CHANGE THE WORLD: AN ENTREPRENEUR'S QUEST TO EDUCATE THE WORLD'S CHILDREN(Book) On Display  
60 20594 I HAVE A DREAM(Book) On Display  
61 20595 FOLLOW EVERY RAINBOW: THE INSPIRING STORIES OF 25 WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS WHOSE GENTLE TOUCH CREATED STRONG BUSINESS(Book) Issued  
62 20601 WORLD CHANGERS: ENTREPRENEURS WHO CHANGED BUSINESS AS WE KNEW IT(Book) On Shelf  
63 20763 MAKING SILICON VALLEY: INNOVATION AND THE GROWTH OF HI-TECH, 1930-1970(Book) On Display  
64 21813 CII ENTREPRENEUR'S HANDBOOK(Book) On Shelf  
65 22205 HOW TO BUILD A MILLION DOLLAR APP: DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS OF OUR TIME(Book) Issued  
66 22223 E-INNOVATION: TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS(Book) On Display   

Friday, March 18, 2016

Select Table of Contents: March 18, 2016

Name of the Journal / Magazine
Vol. No.
Iss. No.
Table of Contents
ABHIGYAN: QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE 
33  
3  
BUSINESS TODAY 
25  
5  
[The best companies to work for: AT-People Strong Survey, in association with Naukri.com]
BUSINESSWORLD 
35  
14  
CARRERS360 
VIII  
3  
[Budget 2016: What's in it for education India's 100 best universities 2016 Entrance fever: reducing pressure Law Programmes: Environmental law]
COORDINATES 
XII  
2  
[GNSS Education: Issues and Challenges Few Institutions / Universities Human Resources Innovation and new values by Universities Surveyors are GNSS Experts Enabler of a virtuous value chain Industry academia interaction]
CSI COMMUNICATIONS 
39  
12  
[Digital Forensics - an enabler An intelligent prototype to lay the road to secure next generation networks Introduction, goals and challenges in Digital Forensic Process Practitioner Workbench: the secure shell - SSH Research Front: Purity of clusters: kernel K-means and beyond Security corner: Digital Forensics in cloud computing Environments: current challenges and solutions for effective forensic investigation]
CURRENT SCIENCE 
110  
4  
[Advancements in biotechnology Dietary spices against hepatocellular carcinoma Indian language families and their mutual influence]
DATAQUEST 
XXXIV  
4  
[Big Data: Demystifying big data]
DIGIT FAST TRACK 
11  
3  
DIGIT: YOUR TECHNOLOGY NAVIGATOR 
16  
3  
DRDO NEWSLETTER 
36  
2  
[DRDO at Indian Science Congress 2016]
EDUCATION WORLD: THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE 
XVIII  
3  
ELECTRONICS FOR YOU 
48  
3  
[Creating Magic with gestures Top 5 Do-It-Yourself: Infrared Sensor Based Power Saver Android Smartphone as Barcode/QR Scanner IoT Wi-Fi Temperature Logging System 4-Channel Multi-mode Audio Amplifier Introduction to Smart Wi-Fi]
ELECTRONICS OUTLOOK 
19  
1  
EXAMINER,THE 
167  
11  
FORTUNE INDIA 
6  
6  
[India's Most Profitable PSU's Walgreens' Quest for Global Dominance TCS Reloaded]
FRONTLINE 
33  
5  
[Fascism in the air]
INDIA FORBES 
8  
6  
[GenNext INDIA INC's Future Leaders The ride of his life: by combining his passion for bikes with a head for business, Sudarshan Venu, 26, is driving TCS Motor into faster, cooler terrains]
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION A: INORGANIC,BIO-INORGANIC,PHYSICAL,THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL 
55A  
2  
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B:ORGANIC INCLUDING MEDICINAL 
55B  
2  
INDIAN JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED PHYSICS 
54  
2  

INVENTI IMPACT ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION 
2016  
1  

INVENTI IMPACT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
2016  
1  

INVENTI IMPACT CLOUD COMPUTING 
2016  
1  

INVENTI IMPACT FUZZY SYSTEMS 
2016  
1  

INVENTI IMPACT HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION 
2016  
1  
[WozARd: A Wizard of Oz Method for Wearable Augmented Reality Interaction—A Pilot Study The Importance of Human–computer Interaction in Radiology E-learning Solving the Challenges of Pervasive Computing Modeling and Discovering Human Behavior from Smartphone Sensing Life-log Data for Identification Purpose Diffusion of the “Internet of Things” on the World of Skilled Work and Resulting Consequences for the Man–machine Interaction]
INVENTI IMPACT MACHINE VISION 
2016  
1  
[Multimodal Registration and Fusion for 3D Thermal Imaging Image Analysis Implementation for Evaluation of External Potato Damage Research on Workpiece Sorting System Based on Machine Vision Mechanism A Master-slave Calibration Algorithm with Fish-eye Correction]
INVENTI IMPACT MICROWAVE 
2016  
1  

INVENTI IMPACT SIGNAL PROCESSING 
2016  
1  

IUP JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT,THE 
XIV  
1  

IUP JOURNAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS,THE 


[Special Issue: Select Papers presented at the National Conference on "Advances in Microelectronics, Instrumentation and Communication" held at BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India on November 20-22, 2015.]
JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH 
75  
2  
ONE INDIA ONE PEOPLE 
19  
6  
OPEN SOURCE FOR YOU 
4  
6  
[HBase: The database for Hadoop Apache CouchDB: It's time to relax MySQL Cluster: A high Availability DBMS Setting up and optimizing Apache Cassandra An interview with Nitin Mishra, Senior VP, Products and Solutions, Netmagic]
PC QUEST 


[100+free and open source software to succeed in the digital era How face and voice recognition technology can transform PDS in rural India 5 popular apps to handle finances Nine free tools to manage social media for your business 8 ways IT is empowering teachers 6 plugins that help solve image problems in wordpress Three quick steps to set up an enterprise cloud network]
PC QUEST 



POOL 



PRAMANA: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 
86  
2  
[Proceeding of UNICOS -2014 International Workshop on Unification and Cosmology after Hiigs Discovery and BICEP2]
RESONANCE: JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION 
21  
2  
SCIENCE REPORTER 
53  
3  
[Landmark Discovery: Scientists see gravitational waves from black holes Interview with Prof. M.S.Swaminathan Embryo editing Food and Intelligence Quizzes, crossword and puzzles New elements Zika Virus Liver Health]
SMALL MEDIUM ENTREPRENEUR 
5  
1  

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS 
24  
1  

UNIVERSITY NEWS 
54  
9  
[Challenges of Open and Distance Education in India Issues and concerns in the ambit of inclusive classrooms comprising locomotor disability Reforms in higher education in the context of Uttarakhand Improving education to handle affluence for the sake of Mother Earth Changing agriculture from subsistence farming to commercial farming - convocation address]
VOICE AND DATA 
23  
2  
[Why Telcos must make convergent charging the new engine for growth The Smart City Bandwagon Internet Performance is key How smart cities can make India superpower When smart cities meet big data]
WEEK,THE 
34  
11  

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