ISHAN VIKAS Programme 2016 for VKV Balijan was held at IIT Roorkee. The programme was to start from 5th of Dec’16, we left for Roorkee on 3rd Dec morning to reach Roorkee on 4th Dec. evening, a team of 10 students of 9th standard (8girls& 2boys) and Su. Dipshikha Biswas.

On 5th the registration of participants was followed by the sessions as Journey of IITR, Knowing yourself, wonderful world of engineers, leadership and personality development and then reading habits. On 6th formal inauguration was kept wherein Dr. P.K. Ghosh, Director graced the occasion with lighting the lamp and valuable speech. On 6th  to 9th & 12th to 14th the sessions included visiting labs, all the departments – architects, physics, chemistry, biotechnology, mathematics, humanities& social sciences, earthquake engg. labs, hobbies (technical) club, library , computer lab etc. In all the labs visits, departments practical demonstrations were given as well as students got chance to interact with the faculties.  Apart from these, there were sessions on ethical values, carrier guidance, better communication skills, art of living, sports, yoga, and SPICMACAY.

All the session were organized & conducted by the HOD’s, Deans, faculties, students got a chance to interact freely with faculties.

On 10th and 11th fields visit to FRI (Dehradun) Forest Reserch Institute, museam, solani Aqueduct, Haridwar & Hrushikesh was there.

Students got excellent exposure to the wonderful world of Science technology, mathematics  as well as human values / ethics of life.

The coordinator for the programme at Roorkee was Dr. Apurba Kumar Sharma (Assoe. Prof., MIED).