1. FAREWELL-2021

For bidding adieu to the batch of 2019-21, Farewell 2021 was organised on March 15, 2021 at the NICMAR auditorium and it was live-streamed on the CISCO WebEx platform. The event began with speeches by the Student Coordinator of Student Council 2019-20 and the member of Student Committee 2020-21, Mr. Varun Khemaria, followed by a member of the Placement Committee 2020-21, Mr. M J Amruth Gowda and finally, a representative from the CRs, Mr. Jaiyant Sharma.

After the speeches by student representatives, our honourable Director General, Dr. mangesh G. Korgaonker addressed the students and boosted their spirit by wishing them success in their future endeavours. After DG Sir’s speech, Dr. Vishwanath Lele, Dean of Placement and Industry Relations and Dr. Amit Hiray, Head of Student Activities 2019-20, were felicitated. It was followed by the felicitation of the two student bodies at NICMAR; the Student Council 2019-20 who in turn formed the Student Committee 2020-21 and the Placement Committee 2020-21. The Class Representatives and Co-Class Representatives were also felicitated.

Additionally, all the students who excelled beyond academics, the members from the various clubs such as Sports Club, Dance Club, Music Club, Fashion Club, M.A.D Club, R&D Club and Start-Up Club of the institute were also felicitated. Farwell 2021 was concluded with a vote of thanks proposed by Dr. Amit Hiray, Head of Student Activities

2. E-Summit 2021

The second Entrepreneurship Summit (E-Summit) 2021 was organized on the theme “Dialogues for a resilient enterprise and a purposeful innovation” on March 7, 2021at the NICMAR auditorium and it was live-streamed on the CISCO WebEx platform. The objective of the E-Summit was to provide insights into how businesses can be made resilient with the help of sustainable practices. The summit aimed at serving as a platform for the student fraternity to have a broader outlook towards entrepreneurship and its growing need today.

The summit consisted of speaker sessions followed by a panel discussion.  The speakers deliberating on the theme were:

Mr. Swapnil Joshi - Founder and Principal Consultant at Intento Associates

Mr. Sachin Mohite - CEO at SPACE for ECE

Ms. Monika Jha - Founder of Cydee Technologies

Mr. Vikrant Bujbalrao - Director of Yoursathi

The day’s proceedings began with the inaugural address by the honourable Director General of NICMAR Dr. Mangesh G Korgaonker. Dr. Korgaonker set the tone for the summit by addressing the various challenges faced by today’s business sector. The dais was then handed over to the keynote speaker for E-Summit 2021, Mr. Swapnil Joshi - Founder and Principal Consultant at Intento Associates. This was followed by a question-answer session. The second speaker was by Mr. Sachin Mohite - CEO at SPACE for ECE; the talk was followed by a question-answer session as well.

The post-lunch session of the Summit commenced with an address by Ms Monika Jha - Founder of Cydee Technologies. This was followed by a question-answer session. The final deliberation was byMr. Vikrant Bujbalrao - Director of Yoursathi, and his talk was followed bya question-answer session.

After the perspicacious talks, a panel discussion was conducted which was moderated by Dr. Tapash Kumar Ganguli, Dean, Executive Education, NICMAR. Post the enriching panel discussion, the winners of Ideathon and the official members of the Technical Clubs for 2021 were declared. To formally conclude the E-Summit 2021, the vote of thanks on behalf of NICMAR, was proposed by Prof Srividhya Sridharan, Head of Alumni Activities at NICMAR Pune.

3. IDEATHON-2021:

Ideathon was organized online on March 6, 2021 on the MS Teams platform. The event was conducted in collaboration with the Association of Global NICMARians (AGNI). The objective was to provide a hands-on learning experience to our students and budding entrepreneurs. It encouraged the creation of new business ventures, development of entrepreneurial skills, and calculated risk-taking among the students. Ideathon was a platform that allowed students to showcase their innovative business plans and unleash their hidden entrepreneurial potential. After multiple review sessions, the students interested in pursuing entrepreneurial prospects were presented with an opportunity to develop contacts with experts in the field and expand their network.

The event officially started on February 11, 2021, where all the teams presented their ideas to a jury. After a thorough deliberation, the jury declared the 14 teams that moved forward to the next part of the event. The second round was held on February 28, 2021 where the jury focused on the team’s USP, clarity of financial model with timeline, marketing plan and execution plan.

The teams presented their final pitches in the final round conducted on March 6, 2021, with the following list of jury members for the event:

Mr. Jairam Panch - MD Turner International (Construction Specialist / Business Head)

Mr. Devesh Rajadhyax - Cere lab (IT expert, Artificial intelligence)

Mr. Amit Banka – Investor, Serial Entrepreneur

Mr. Piyush Kamal - Ex IRS

The winners were declared on March 7, 2021 after the E-Summit 2021. The overall winners were announced where team Bridge Connect was declared as the second runner-up. The first runner-up position with award money of six thousand rupees was bagged by team Marauders. Team C Trackers emerged as the winner of Ideathon 2021 and were awarded nine thousand rupees, to support their Start-up idea. The three winning teams i.e., C Trackers, Marauders and Bridge Connect were additionally given the opportunity to present their ideas on the forum of AGNI Business Connect (ABC) on March 20, 2021

4. Genesis-Cultural Night 2021

Genesis – Cultural Night was organized on March 4, 2021 in the MBH Mess Hall. The night was organized to showcase the various extracurricular talents of our students. The event was filled with enthralling performances by the members of the Music, Dance and Fashion Clubs.

Additionally, the certificates and cash prizes for events were distributed to the respective students. The cash prize for the winners of E-Udhbhav 2020, the certificates for all the mentorsof E-Udhbhav 2020 and the cash prize for Chakravyuh 2020, were handed overto mark the closing of the event.

5. NICMAR Premier League (NPL)

The annual intra-college sports event NICMAR Premier League (NPL) 2021, was conducted on February 25, 26 and 28, 2021. The aim of the event was to promote sports in NICMAR, where more than 150 students participated in different sports competitions like Cricket, Football, Basketball, Table Tennis, Volleyball and Badminton. The event was launched on February 22, 2021 with the customary auction at the MBH Mess Hall. All the registered owners were given an opportunity to select players for their team from the given list in true IPL fashion. The event was launched with greetings from the anchors and was followed by the auction.

NPL began in full swing on February 25, 2021, where the students could showcase their sporting abilities during the Football, Table Tennis and Volleyball matches. The day ended with Badminton and Basketball matches. The second day consisted of Football, Table Tennis, Volleyball, Badminton and Basketball matched as well. The final day began with Cricket, which is one of the most favourite sports among NICMAR students. After a set of preliminary matches between different teams, a thrilling showcaseof the final matches of Basketball, Badminton, Volleyball and Football were also played.

The three-day sporting event filled with fun, enthusiasm and team spirit came to an end on February 28, 2021, with the felicitation ceremony held at the NICMAR Basketball Court. The felicitation ceremony was started with an engaging and thought-provoking performance by the MAD club on the importance of sports in our day-to-day life. This was followed by the felicitation of the all-rounder player Mr. Devashish Singh Thakurand the winners of the different competitions. The overall winners were also announced where team Sons of Pitches were declared the first runner-up.Team Pantars emerged as the winners of NPL 2021

6. Academic Conclave 2021

The 8th Annual Academic Conclave was organized on the theme, ‘Pivoting towards new horizons post-pandemic in the CRIP sector’ on January 30, 2021. The conclave was organised online on the Cisco-Webex platform. The panel of speakers comprised Mr. Vivek Jala - Associate Director - Deal Advisory, KPMG India, Mr. Ameya Gumaste - Country Manager at Turner & Townsend, India, Mr. Brij Nandan Yadava - Executive Director at DLF Limited, India and Dr. P.C Abraham, Head of Highways and Causeways, Kingdom of Bahrain.

The day’s proceedings began with the Inaugural speech and thematic introduction by Dr. Anil Agarwal, Dean of Post Graduate Programmes at NICMAR, Pune. Our first speaker Mr. Vivek Jala spoke about the general scenario of the Real Estate Sector. The title of his talk was COVID CAWACH. (C - Commercial Office will bounce back, A - Asset Light Way of Business, W - Warehousing - A ray of hope, A - Alternate business models, C - Capital - Has a new meaning, H - Housing - The Real Rockstar).

The second speaker Mr. Ameya Gumaste addressed the practices that have changed and have not changed in the course of this pandemic. He enlightened the participants about the future of the construction industry and the measures we must take to ensure a sustainable future. This was followed by a question-answer session and a panel discussion.

The post-lunch session of the conclave commenced with an addressal by Mr. Brij Nandan Yadava- the Executive Director at DLF Limited, India. Mr. Brij Nandan spoke about the end-to-end business management for the Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors.

The final talk was delivered by Dr. P.C Abraham- the Head of Highways and Causeways, Kingdom of Bahrain. Dr. Abraham explained thenew approaches being used to manage construction projects and addressed the paradigm shift in project goal realization.

The vote of thanks on behalf of NICMAR, Pune was proposed by Dr. Amit Hiray- Head of Student Activities. The 8th Annual Academic Conclave was an enriching experience in which various new advancements in the CRIP industry and the post-pandemic opportunities and challenges were deliberated upon by the speakers, students and faculty members.

7. REVERBZ 2.0 – Intra-college Cultural Fest

The annual cultural intra-college event REVERBS 2.0, was hosted from 21st December to 23rd December 2020 on an online platform. The tagline for the event was ‘Virtual Escapades’ where many new events were introduced to make it a memorable and joyful event for the students. This year saw a participation of around 500 students in the cultural, photography and informal domains.

The felicitation ceremony was conducted on the Cisco WebEx platform on the evening of 24th December. All the winners for each event conducted in Reverbs 2.0 were announced. This was followed by the declaration of overall winners where the ACM Sections 3 and 4 were declared the second and first runners up respectively. The ACM Section 1 emerged as the winners of Reverbs 2.0.

8. CHAKRAVYUH-2020

The annual techno-managerial intra-college event Chakravyuh 2020, was hosted online from 25^th November to 30^th November 2020. The tagline for the event was ‘Unite. Battle. Conquer’, where more than 500 students participated in different domains like Technical, Business, Design, and Literary. A new domain IT and Digital Media was introduced which also received an overwhelming participation from students. There was a range of 21 events across the domains that included the mega multi-tier event called ‘The Ultimate Showdown’; which was the major highlight of the Chakraview 2020. On 30th November, the prize distribution took place on Cisco WebEx, where A-maze (REUIM & IFDM) were declared as the runners up, and ACM 2 emerged as the winners of Chakravyuh 2020

9. E-UDBHAV-2020

Udbhav is an annual ice-breaking event organized for the new students who enroll in NICMAR to pursue various programmes. The event was organized from 10^th September 2020 to 16^th September 2020. It provides them a platform to interact with seniors, socialize with fellow batchmates, and showcase their talents by participating in various activities. Due to the outbreak of pandemic this year, the event was hosted online for the first time and hence, was renamed E-Udbhav 2020. It was a week-long event with 20 events across 7 event genres namely Technical, Business, Cultural, Literary, Design, Informal, and Photography. The last day of the fest marked the closing of the vibrant event via an address from the Student Council with the announcement of winners for the individual events conducted during the week, and Group 12 was declared as the overall winners for E-Udbhav,2020

10. Technikala 2020:

The 15^th edition of the annual inter-college techno-cultural fest, TECHNIKALA 2020 was organized from 21st February to 23rd February 2020. The fest was a phenomenal success with three days of fun-filled events, activities, concerts and much more. Over 30 events in different genres such as cultural, sports, business, technical, informal, literary, design, photography and gaming were organized. Technikala 2020 saw an overwhelming participation of over 3000 students from various institutes from across the country. The theme of the fest was “A Portal into Paradise”. This theme was visible all around the campus through various exhibits and installations. The events were conducted along this theme.

As part of promoting Technikala 2020, a number of prelude events were organized such as cheering at the Pune Half marathon, Proshow artist reveal, tug of war, arm wrestling and lemon spoon race, the event ‘Singletine’, a flash mob and a musical performance at Westend Mall, Cyclothon, Bike Rally, and a one day sporting event called Technikala Premier League to promote the event. For the first time at NICMAR, Pune, a blood donation camp was organized as a prelude event to Technikala 2020. The blood donation camp received a good response as about 130 students donated blood for a cause.

Technikala 2020 concluded with a Pro-show by Mr. Akhil Sachdeva, a popular singer from the Indian film industry. Over 2000 students attended the pro-show.  Thus, like every year, Technikala 2020 was a grand success.

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INTRA-COLLEGE CLUB EVENTS

1.  The Start-Up Diaries- NICMARStart-Up Club (April 27, 2021)

The Start-Up Diaries, an intra-college competition hosted by the Start-Up clubwas conducted on April 27, 2021. The registration for the event closed on April 13, 2021, where a total of 13 teams registered to participate in the event. The teams were asked to make a poster and write a descriptive article on any existing start-up of their choice. The last date for submission was April 17, 2021. The entries were evaluated by three NICMAR Alumni namely, Mr. Sachin Amarnath, Mr. Arpan Bansal and Mr. Vishal Mehta. After a considerable deliberation, the start-ups known as Taral Tech and Infra. Market were declared as the second and first runners-up respectively. The start-up called Bounce won the competition. All the winners were awarded certificates.

2.  The Info Knot- Fulcro: The Research and Development Club (March 20 to 31, 2021)

The Info Knot, an intra-college competition hosted by Fulcro: The Research and Development Club was conducted between March 20 and 31, 2021. The competition aimed to let the students showcase their creative skills by creating posters on specified topics. A total of 15 teams participated in the event judged by Mr. Sai Kiran Valluri, Technical Coordinator of Student Council 2018-2019. At the end of the competition on April 10, 2021, all the participants were given participation certificates and the team PRR was declared as the second runner-up. The team Panchniti was declared as the first runner-up and the teamRockets was declared as the winners of the competition.

WINNERS OF INTER-COLLEGE EVENTS

1.     AMRITA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, COIMBATORE - PRAGATI'21 (BOOGIE FEVER GAME)

Conducted on April 24 and 25, 2021.

Sridevi Bhandary– First Runner-up        

2.    RICS SCHOOL OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT- VIDEOGRAPHY EVENT

Conducted on September 24,2020

Shreyas Kothawde - First Runner up

3. BHARATI VIDYAPEETH'S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING NEW DELHI - BANDISH (MUSIC EVENT)

Conducted on November 4,2020

Anuja JS – First Runner up

Niranjana Manoj  - Second Runner up

4. IBS HYDERABAD- SPY YARD STICK (INFORMAL EVENT)

Conducted on January 6,2021

Pooja H Panicker and Manoj Kumar K - First Runner up