Mysore :

‘The alumni play a vital role in building their alma mater,’ said S.L.Ramachandra, Hon.Secretary, NIE Managing Committee.

He was speaking at the 30th anniversary celebrations of NIE students of 1983 batch held at NIE premises in city recently.

Ramachandra said that in many Universities, more so in top-notch global Universities like Harvard and Stanford, the alumni’s involvement would be so impressive that some of those Universities have built corpus fund amounting to billions of dollars.

NIE, being one of the oldest engineering institutions started in 1946, is trying to build very strong alumni network across globe, he said.

The alumni of 1983 batch who attended the 30th anniversary celebrations included Dr. G.L. Shekar, Principal, NIE, S.B. Ravishankar, Investment Banker in London, Dinesh, Consultant in US, Rajshekar Bhat, Vivek Kutti and Mathew Joseph, entrepreneurs, Nataraj Krishnappa, General Manager (HR), BEL, R. Narayan and Sadananda Rao, ISRO Scientists and T.N.Ramesh, Executive at J.K.Tyres. About 70 alumni went around the college to see various facilities.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / December 26th, 2013