Senators BT/BS Y16

Change in the eligibility criteria for Means Scholarships !!

Hello people,
This is to inform you that the following clause of the SSPC (Senate Scholarship and Prizes Committee) manual which states:

“Any student who has received any punishment or disciplinary action by Senate/SSAC will not be eligible to receive an award/scholarship. Such student should be screened out beforehand and must not be presented to the committee for the consideration."

has been changed to:

"Any student who has received any punishment or disciplinary action by senate/ SSAC will not be eligible to receive any award/ scholarship (other than ones due to means). Such students should be screened out beforehand
and must not be presented to the committee for any consideration."

So, we request you to inform this to your friends and batch mates who earlier were not considered for the Means scholarship because of the clause to kindly nominate themselves in the next call.

Sharing the official logo of the Persons with Disabilities PwD Cell IIT Kanpur designed by Ekta Surender, a PhD student in Design program. The logo holistically represents the working and the principles of the cell as explained by her in the image.

The Students' Gymkhana has been going through an exciting phase consisting of several challenges accompanied by rapid changes in our structure and function. In order to address these challenges, we need a comprehensive re-evaluation of the way in which the Gymkhana functions. To ensure the same, a Gymkhana Review Committee (GRC) had been constituted in 2012-13 and 2016-17, which had made several recommendations to the Students' Senate. Though in order to make the decisions more robust, and to extend the several rounds of recommendations that were provided by the previous committee(s); it is now restructured to cover a broader spectrum.

Broadly, the new GRC committee will be working on various aspects of the Gymkhana, including, but not limited to:

- Students' Senate
- Cells
- Alumni Relations
- Bridging the Gap between Gymkhana and PGs
- Academic Help via the Gymkhana
- Finances and Sponsorship in Gymkhana
- Festivals
- Councils

The Gymkhana Review Committee (GRC) shall be a 5 membered committee which shall act as a managing committee to several sub-committees dealing with the above-mentioned aspects. The mandate of this GRC would be to review all the pertinent issues of the Gymkhana in the mentioned domain. Considering that the review is going to be more-over broad, we invite participation from students who would like to share their insights in any of the mentioned domains.

Students interested to join these committees may apply in the following form:
https://goo.gl/forms/rEjACIh8WMM7Ae6Z2
[Deadline 22nd August 1pm]

A detailed proposal for the Gymkhana Review Committee is mentioned in this link:
https://goo.gl/z1397j

We hope interested students join us in this process towards making our system more robust and effective.

Call For Nominations - Gymkhana Review Committee | PSG Office

Posters of students contesting for Senator BT/BS Y18 in the upcoming Mid Term Elections of Students' Gymkhana
The complete list of candidates can be found at: http://bit.ly/EcIITK_ListOfCandidates
Polling Date: 22 August 2018

Dear All,

The mid term and by-elections of Students' Gymkhana will be held on 22nd August 2018 for the following posts, the nominations for which shall be released today.

Executive:
General Secretary, Media & Culture

Senators:
BT/BS-MT/MS/MBA Y14
BT/BS Y15
BT/BS Y18
MTech (2-year) Y18
MSc (2-year) Y17 (including MSc-PhD Y17)
MSc (2-year) Y18 (including MSc-PhD Y18)
MSR
MBA and MDes and other two year programmes Y18
PhD Y16 and earlier batches (including MSc-PhD Y14)
PhD Y17 (including MSc-PhD Y15)
PhD Y18 (including MSc-PhD Y16)

Students thinking of filing nominations should start working on their manifestos and ensure that they submit a complete and well thought out manifesto along with the nomination form.

For taking guidance on preparing manifestos, please get in touch with the current senators. (Contact details: http://students.iitk.ac.in/ss/home/2018-19/senators_18-19/)

Regards,
Mayank Chauhan
Chief Election Officer

Hey guys,
Something interesting here 😃

Regarding Sponsorship in Students' Gymkhana
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Dear everyone,
This was to inform all the councils and cells. The policy for External Sponsorship to Gymkhana which was discussed 2 years ago in an executive committee formed by the Insitute Advisory Committee, has now been implemented. For the procurement of the sponsorship, the Chief Marketing Officer Gourav Patidar shall be posting a draft Gymkhana MoU on this group, following which all clubs/hobby_groups/cells can approach organizations for sponsorship.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g9R3tiHx-OKYvW3LjeYjyHbGAWijG5MI/view?usp=sharing

Marketing Guidelines can be found on the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmWH0qT_lBHl_KYg26CiZoYz3hzmXHnsCitd5TD6Wnw/edit

Sponsorship in Students' Gymkhana dated 30 July 2018.pdf

Hello friends,

Something interesting here!! 😃
This is regarding the Inter IIT Students' Council Su­mmit 2018.
As some of you might be aware that the Inter IIT Stude­nts' Council is a bo­dy aimed at promoting cooperation among the IIT commu­nity by facilitating discussion among st­udent representatives of all IITs and acting as a voice of the en­tire student fraternity of IITs to various bodies li­ke the MHRD and the IIT Council.
Last year, IIT Kanp­ur took the initiati­ve to host 11 IITs for the summit. The draft minutes of the meeting can be found here:
https://goo.gl/fHh5MP

The next Inter IIT Students' Council Su­mmit is going to be held in IIT Roorkee from 2nd - 4th March 2018 where two students from IIT Kanpur (nominated by the Students' Senate) will be representing us.

As there are tremen­dous possibilities that can emerge out of such a body, inputs are be­ing invited from the student community for the same. If you have any idea or proposal that you want us to take up in the summit, let us know, either by sending a mail at [email protected] or by filling up this form: https://goo.gl/forms­/dBhUStOUn7ntL6Kx2

You can also comment here your ideas or discuss with any of your batch senators..

Please try to send in your ideas by 26th Febru­ary so that we can compile them into proper proposa­ls. Looking forward to an enthusiatic re­sponse from all of you guys 😃

Read. Discuss. Comment.
Kudos !

Minutes of the Inter IIT Students' Council Summit 2017 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur IIT SPAN Minutes for Inter IIT Students’ Council Summit 2017 Date : 30th September, 2017 - 1st October, 2017 Time : 10 A.M. onwards Venue : Senate Hall, New S.A.C., IIT Kanpur INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR Minutes for the 2017-1...

Hey guys,
We hope you are enjoying your vacations!!!
The bittersweet first year is over and it's time to reflect back. There were a number of things which went overboard but at the same time we had our Batch bringing laurels for the institution.
What's important now is to make our beloved IIT Kanpur a better place for the future batches to come by contributing our two cents.
Okay so this POST IS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION. Comment your ideas, opinions, queries and critical views in terms of orientation, academics or anything you feel like is important like I had a number of great ideas during my campaigning from you guys. It would be great if you can bring about better ideas by comparing us with our sister IITs.
In the end, it's our institution and to make it a better place is definitely our responsibility.
Read. Comment. Discuss.
Kudos!!!

The 2nd Special Meeting for the Students' Senate 2017-18 will be held today 2 PM onwards.
All the agenda items can be seen http://students.iitk.ac.in/ss/home/meetings/agenda_2spl_17-18/ here.
If any agenda item interests/concerns you. Make sure to attend the meeting and contribute to the discussion!

The 2nd Special Meeting of the Students' Senate has been scheduled on 16th April 2017. Let us know, in case if you have any issues that you would like to be raised in the Senate.
Find all the agenda items and the relevant documents over here: http://students.iitk.ac.in/ss/home/meetings/agenda_2spl_17-18/

Updates since last post -
We had one meeting, i.e., the 1st Special Meeting which was held on 5th April 2017. Its agenda items can be found over here: http://students.iitk.ac.in/ss/home/meetings/agenda_1spl_17-18-2/
Minutes of the same can be found soon on the Senate website.