Dear Alumna/Alumnus,

Greetings from REC/NIT Trichy Alumni Association!!! (RECAL).

Please find below the virtual meeting link for the RECAL AGM to be held virtually on Oct 24th 2020 from 10AM to 12 PM Indian Standard Time (IST).

https://nitt.webex.com/nitt/j.php?MTID=mcd3c468155d6666ce425a6a03125763a

Meeting number: 154 644 6865
Password: 24102020

The following documents are made available in the google drive link for your perusal:

1) AGM Agenda & RECAL Annual Report 2019-20
2) GAM 2020 Summary Video
3) Audited Financials of REC Alumni Association
4) Audited Financials of RECAL Foundation
5) RECAL AGM Presentation

Google Drive Link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GjGxCVFaMN_QaiTxxuOCDdlxfVtLfaBL?usp=sharing

With regards,
RECAL Team

INVITATION FOR DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD - 2020

Dear Alumni,

Our Alma Mater would like to honor her outstanding Alumni by presenting them with the Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA) for Academic, Research, Managerial Contribution, Entrepreneurship, Public Administration, Social Service etc.

Nominations for the DAA can be made by alumni, faculty (retired / in-service) of REC-T/NIT-T, Head or an appropriate person of the organization where the alumnus/alumna concerned has been working or any other person of eminence. Those alumni who have completed 20 years after their post graduation / 25 years after under-graduation from REC Tiruchirappalli are eligible for the DAA.

A committee constituting persons of eminence shall evaluate the nominations. Nominations are invited as per prescribed format through post/email. Last date for nominations for Distinguished Alumnus Award 2020 is Tuesday, the 30th June 2020.

All the relevant details are available at:
https://www.nitt.edu/home/id/Call_for_DAA-2020.pdf

RECAL - The Alumni Association of REC/NIT Trichy.

RECAL Scholarships 2019 distribution happened yesterday in the presence of our pride, First (1969) Batch of Alumni. Our Beloved Madam Director was there to grace the occasion.Mr Krishna Sai President RECAL Dr Parthiban Treasurer RECAL also were there. Mr Velmurugan 2001 represented his batch. To brief the process of Scholarship selection - There is a portal created by the Student Council members for the students to submit the applications online. For 2019 we received 467 applications. After screening 156 applications were taken for Personal Interview. Mr Mohanamurali 1976, Mr Vijayarajan 1976, Mr Vigneshwaran 2001, Dr Parthiban Treasurer RECAL and Dr JayaNirmala Joint Sec RECAL conducted the interview for 3 days in Campus. With their great effort 51 deserving Students were selected under 15 different heads of Scholarships initiated by 15 different groups of Alumni across the batches. Total amount disbursed is 11.92 lakhs. This amount is the interest on the Corpus with the RECAL Foundation Account.

VANAKKAM GAM 2020

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Attend GAM to:
• Revisit all the important friendships
• Listen to Pullela Gopichand
• Meet our Current Director, Past Directors, Deans, Professors & Students
• Listen to interesting panels on AI & Finance
• Talks by Distinguished Alumni & Networking with them. 
• Donate to our Alma Mater
• Workshop on Entrepreneurship
• Top Notch entertainment, beer/cocktails (at cost), sumptuous food & gala dinner. 
• DJ & Dancing Floor (9PM Onwards)
• Event Manager Organising games and events for kids and spouses 
• Kids & Spouses Corner
• Spectacular Pyrotechnics Show (art and technology of fireworks) for 15 Minutes
• Interesting Game Stalls
• Current Dance Troupe 

Most of all tons of memories…

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Registrations will close on Dec 26th

Vanakkam GAM 2020

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Did you know?

NIT Trichy USA Alumni Chapter was incorporated as a non-profit organisation in the State of California, USA recently. The chapter received its “exemption” for Federal Income Tax under the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and is officially a Registered 501 (c)(3) organisation in USA.

Mr. Raja Renganathan (Class of 1990), Alumnus spear headed this effort with the help of other Alumni in USA.

RECAL is happy to inform that the first donation was received from our Alumnus, Mr. Krish Venkat (Class of 1974, ECE). He has contributed US$ 2500 towards Scholarship Fund. RECAL thanks Krish and the Class of 1974 for their generous contribution. May his tribe increase.

The Class of 1974 lead the way in giving back to our Alma Mater. They have already donated Rs. 30 Lacs to the RECAL Foundation towards Scholarships and have taken a pledge to increase their total contribution to our Foundation to Rs. 1 Crore in the next 5 years. The effort is spear headed by G Chandrasekar, Rajasekar & Srinivasan from the Class of 1974.

*Nearly 50 Alumni from the Class of 1974 will be attending GAM 2020.*

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Jan 4th 2020 @ MGM Beach Resorts Chennai

Group Photo taken by the Class of 1974 with the Director during their Reunion at our Institute in Aug 2019 to celebrate their 50th year of friendship.

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Life at REC around 1985

Just 10 hostels for only 350-400 students, movie screening in EEE-auditorium every week, good mess food, NITT or more appropriately RECT was quite different in the 70s and 80s.

Agate, Diamond, Pearl, Lapis, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald, Ruby, Coral and Opal: there were 9+1 hostels. Before the Opal hostel was built, girls were allotted what are now the staff quarters. The first years’ accommodation in Agate is similar to now, 4 per room randomly chosen but 2nd year onwards, when people were allowed to choose their wingmates, the interaction between students, inter-branch and across the years was a very strong bonding.

Topaz marked the boundary since there was nothing behind it but a jungle and people dared not venture near it.

The Shopping Center (SC) had a departmental store selling groceries & stationary, Bank, Post Office, photocopy shop, Juice Bar, Food stalls, Cycle Repair shop and a Cobbler shop.

All the girls shared a single hostel irrespective of the year. Initially their hostel was an extension of the staff quarters near the temple. Subsequently, girls were admitted for post-graduate programmes too and the requirement of a hostel precipitated. Thus the famous Opal was built. 

Opal was even more cut-off much to the dismay of the guys. But the number of regular devotees to the temple increased significantly after the construction of Opal hostel!!!

Courtesy of Feeds NITT

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VANAKKAM GAM 2020

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Did you know?
We have a very interesting Panel on AI disrupting Mankind and Future of Work
Moderator
Raja Renganathan (1990), Vice President and Global Head of Cloud at Cognizant

Panel Members
Rear Admiral Sreekumar (1985), Ministry of Defense, Navy
Rajeswari Sridhar, HOD, Computer Science, NIT, Trichy
Srikanth Gopalakrishnan (1990), Senior Vice President, SAP
K S Ganesan (1987), Global Technology Lead and Head of Automation, Cognizant

Don’t miss GAM 2020 and regret… Register Today!!!

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