Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association (WPAA)
Monthly Newsletter, March 11, 2003
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Greetings !
After a long gap, Mentor Program got a participant in Mr. Puneet Maheshwari, CBSH,
2000 batch. He has requested Mr. Amit Bhardwaj to be his mentor. WPAA would like to
extend its best wishes and all available resources to these and other participants of
this program to make it successful. WPAA Mentor program holds great promises for young
Pantnagarians and I would encourage you to get actively involved in the program and
take advantage of it. Registration can be done easily via WPAA website. Please feel
free to write to admin at wpaa dot org if you have any questions.
*** Last month, yet another WPAA chapter was formed, WPAA - New Delhi. The coordinator
for this chapter is Mr. Divya Prakash, Tech, 1996 batch. WPAA would like to
congratulate Mr. Divya Prakash for taking the initiative and wishes him the best.
*** Many members have requested the ability to deposit their payments in currencies
other than US Dollars (USD). We are very pleased to extend the PayPal system to
support four additional currencies: Canadian Dollars, Euros, Pound Sterling and
Japanese Yen. You can use these currencies at PayPal's payment option at WPAA website.
Please feel free to write to 'admin at wpaa dot org' if you have any questions.
If sending by snail-mail, please make your payments payable to:
Worldwide Pantnagar Alumni Association
and send to
If sending in US Dollars ! If sending in Indian Rupees
Mr. Girish Solanki ! Mr. Joseph Dolphin
Treasurer, WPAA ! Representative, WPAA
7811 Chambers Rd #135, ! Flat 77 Pocket A3 Sector 8,
San Antonio, Texas, ! Rohini, Delhi - 110085
United States - 78229 ! India
You can also reach them via 'treasurer at wpaa dot org'.
*** Yearbook 2002 - Another important project that is nearing completion is 'WPAA
Yearbook 2002'. Thanks to Somya Chaudhary, Home Science, 1987 batch, who was kind
enough to accept this responsibility of leading this project and putting it all
together. Special thanks go to Preeti (http://www.itweblink.com/) who is helping us
with some new logos for WPAA. If everything goes as per the plan, you should have a
copy in your mailbox sometime soon. Please visit the WPAA home page to check out the
complete details and exact schedule. Also, feel free to write to her at 'yb2002 at
wpaa dot org' if you have any suggestions, comments or feedback.
And finally, a reminder that we love to hear from you - your feedback, comments and
anything that you would like us to know, is highly appreciated. Please write to us at
'admin at wpaa dot org'.
Here are the tasks that are either on-going or were accomplished in recent past:
*** Fund Drive ***
A sum of USD 3000 was collected for Computer Engineering Department, College of
Technology, during a 'Fund Drive' that lasted almost two years. The funds were
delivered to the then Vice-Chancellor, Dr. J. B Chowdhury in Feb, 2002. Head of
Computer Engineering Department, Prof. R N Mishra later informed us via an email that
a decision had been made to purchase a LCD projector for the department.
WPAA would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed towards
this Fund Drive' and helped it make a success.
*** WPAA Chapters ***
If you are a Coordinator of a WPAA chapter, a member of another Pantnagar association
or know about one, please log your entry here and share it with rest of us. Also, do
let us know if you need to setup a separate web page, chat room, mailing-list or any
other such web presence for your chapter.
Following 18 Pantnagar associations are registered so far:
- WPAA-Bangalore - Manish Tyagi (manish at bellsoftech dot com)
- WPAA-Europe - Rajesh Kumar (RajeshDear at aol dot com)
- WPAA-Mumbai - Manjit S Yadav (manjeet at hotvoice dot com)
- WPAA-Hyderabad - Shekhar Awasthi (shekhersawasthi at hotmail dot com)
- Pantnagar Alumni Association - Dehradun - Amardeep Baliyaan
Email: amardeepsingh at hotmail dot com
- WPAA-Gujarat - Sanjay Gauba (sanjaygauba1 at yahoo dot com)
- WPAA-Kolkata - Arya Shekhar Sanyal (aryasanyal at rediffmail dot com)
- WPAA-Haryana - Bhawani Shanker Pandey
Emails: bspandey at yahoo dot com, rinipande at yahoo dot com
- WPAA-U.P. - Rajesh Sharma (sraj1971 at yahoo dot com)
- WPAA-Singapore - Shashi Rautela (shashi at rautela dot com)
- WPAA-Punjab - Pradyuman Kumar (pradyuman2002 at hotmail dot com)
- WPAA-Manila - Amaresh Chandel
Emails: amareshchandel at sify dot com, chandelamaresh at yahoo dot co dot in
- WPAA-Pacific - Prashant Srivastava
Emails: psri0762 at mail.usyd.edu.au, ps_soil at hotmail dot com
- WPAA-Jharkhand - Vishnu Dixit (vishnud at telco.co.in)
- WPAA-Malaysia - Sandeep Kumar Goel (drgoelsk at hotmail dot com)
- WPAA-Foresters - Manmohan Dobriyal (manmohandobriyal at yahoo dot com)
- WPAA-New Delhi - Divya Prakash (prak_dp at yahoo dot com)
- All India Pantnagar Alumni Association (AIPAA) - Pradeep K Garg
Emails: aipaa_delhi at yahoo dot com, aipaa_delhi at hotmail dot com
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/aipaa_delhi/aipaa_page.html
Check out the complete details about these associations at WPAA website. Do not forget
to check out the 'Members Directory' for each association.
*** Mentor Program ***
Total Mentors: 40
Total Mentees: 13
WPAA would like to thank all the participants in the Mentor Program and wishes them
the best.
And for all those who have volunteered to help in this program, please update your
mentor-comments and put in how exactly you can contribute. Please provide your contact
details and convenient times so that potential mentees can get in touch with you.
*** WPAA Quiz ***
Pawan Nayal won the second quiz scoring 90%. There were 38 responses with an average
score of 64.21%. Congratulations Pawan !!!
The third quiz is up for grabs. So far, there are 14 responses with an average score
of 45.71%. Do you want to take a shot at it ? Check out http://www.wpaa.org/ for
complete details.
Narendra Pratap Singh, Technology, 1993 batch, is the brain behind this periodic quiz.
WPAA would like to thank him for his continued effort and time.
*** WPAA Poll ***
After completing your studies, how many times have you visited Pantnagar ?
Please visit WPAA web site and let us know.
*** ONE MORE THING ***
"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the
cloak of non-violence to cover impotence". - Gandhi
*** And finally, here is a list of new members ***
Total members as of today: 1278
Total nos. of mailing-list subscribers: 905
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Following is the list of 20 members who joined WPAA in the month of February. Please
join me in welcoming them on board.
Mr Sudhir Bhargava, 1970 batch, Technology
Dr Brijendra Yadav, 1995 batch, Veterinary Sciences
Mr Tarun Seth, 1995 batch, Basic Science & Humanities
Mr Hemant Agrawal, 0 batch, Technology
Dr Satish Verulkar, 1993 batch, Agriculture
Mr Dinesh Dwivedi, 1995 batch, P G Studies
Mr Pankaj Sinha, 0 batch, Agriculture
Mr Prashant Dubey, 1994 batch, Technology
Mr Manu Tandon, 2000 batch, Technology
Mr Alok Sahai, 1977 batch, Technology
Ms Rashmi Bhasker, 0 batch, Technology
Dr Balkrishna , 1993 batch, Agriculture
Mr Amul Singh, 1994 batch, Agriculture
Mrs Mamta Gupta, 1982 batch, Basic Science & Humanities
Mr Anuj Gupta, 2001 batch, Technology
Mr Ashutosh Shukla, 1987 batch, Agriculture
Mr Kapil Kant Tyagi, 2000 batch, Technology
Dr Pradnya Reddy (Kalle), 1980 batch, Agriculture
Mr Prem Reddy, 1978 batch, Technology
Mr Saurabh Verma, 1998 batch, Agriculture
Have a great day !
Administrator, WPAA
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