Hindaun Talent Meet, Karauli District Alumni Meet 2006

Karauli District Alumni Annual Meet:
All the talents of Hindaun City, Karauli and nearby town came on single platform with this event. Initially, this event was published on internet and advertised through yahoogroups, mails, Orkut community forums and phone calls among batch-mates. Many of you know that Hindaunias in Bangalore had a get-together in Wonderla (An amusement and water theme park near Bangalore on Mysore Road)in month of September and were very excited to make this event successful at Hindaun. Akshaya Kumar (working in Oracle India, Bangalore) called his father and asked for help in local arrangements. This informally started our preparations for get together. Ravi Gupta of Karauli (PhD student at IISc Bangalore) volunteered to give this event a flavor of a conference. He prepared a logo and registration form for the event. We emailed this form to all groups, friends and contacts. Then we started getting positive responses, which encouraged us to make this event as a good start and gave an idea of presenting a memento to every attendee. Hitesh (working as software engineer in Bangalore) wanted some special people to be invited as guests in the event. Now question was whom we can invite? Categories of guests to be invited were...
· Our favorite school teachers: to thank and acknowledge them for whatever we are today is because of them.
· Dignities and reputed alumni from school: these are the people who inspire us to dream, think and do BIG in our life. Experiences shared by them will be great source of inspiration to us.
· Local administrative officers: who take care of our Hindaun
So rough idea about the schedule of the event was divided as following…
1. Our guests speaks about their experiences, thoughts, expectations.
2. Each participant introduces himself/herself.
3. Some entertainment, lunch, prizes.




This was all about planning and date of the event that was fixed on 22nd October 2006, day of Govardhan Pooja. The actual preparations and activities of the events are described date-wise.
17/10/2006:
By this time most of us came to our towns on Diwali vacations and lost all email communications, mobile contacts. I had prepares a database of local contact numbers that helped us a lot. I have kept this docu ment at Hindaun yahoogroup database. Jitendra Bansal was communicating through internet and spreading the news of get together. Local team for in Hindaun including Akshaya, Hitesh, Krishanmohan, Girish, Jitendra had a small meeting. We decided to advertise the event through local cable channel, booked Punjab Resort for the event, finalized lunch menu, went to invite Narendra Ji, SolankiJi and surveyed mementos for the event.
19/10/2006:
Hitesh, Akshaya and Jitendra went to invite SatishJi, BSNL DTEO Ram Avatar GuptaJi, Hindaun SDO. Prepared news about event and submitted to Dainik Bhaskar and Rajasthan Patrika office.
20/10/2006:
We had a final meeting before the event to decide on schedule, anchor, teams, and gifts. Meeting was attended by Aks haya, Brijendra, Gaurav, Hitesh, Jitendra, Pankaj, Ankur and Shekhar.

Karauli District Alumni, Day of Get together:
Finally, 80 participants registered for the event. Responsibility of the registration was taken by Ankur Jain, Deepesh, Prateek and S atydev Gupta. Most of these participants were students of math-science background from Hindaun School. Some of these participants completed their engineering and are working in different parts of India. Many others were engineering students in different colleges like IITs, NITs and other colleges in Rajasthan. MBA, MCA students also participated in the event. Almost all participants reached the venues by 11:15AM. Most senior alumni were Dinesh Ji, Deshraj, Surendra Goyal. First Vinod Solanki arrived, then R.A. Gupta Ji, Sunil Singhal and finally Hindaun SDO Bhaagirath Lal ji arrived at the event. All the guests were welcomed by seniors. It was 11:30AM and we started the programs.

Parijat Bansal was the anchor of the event. He spoke about the purpose of the event and invited our guest Bhagirath Sharma to speak a few words. He spoke about education standard and recent development activities in Hindaun. RA Gupta talked about the importance of such get together and the need to make it a regular activity. Sunil Singhal talked about doing something for the Hindaun School and keeping contact with all the engineering community from the Hindaun. Vinod Solanki expressed his love and experiences of teaching with his Ex-students. He told to focus bright students of society on civil services. All guests were done with their talks by 12:00PM. Jitendra Agrawal spoke about the social initiative named as Kyari. He told Ex-students to visit their school and school teachers. There is a great opportunity for all of us to do something for our society and our roots. Then Ravi Gupta told to students for doing higher studies in engineering and spoken about research opportunities available. He also told about increasing awareness about NTSE and other scholarships available to students.

12:30PM:-Now it was the time for Lunch. Everyone was waiting for a special Thali from newly opened Punjab Resort restaurant. During lunch time Jitendra communicated on tree plantation idea. On this SDO promised to give land in outskirts of hindaun which can be used for dense tree plantation. He asked us to hire a caretaker/person and watering the trees and develop a infrastructure for watering. About the public library SolankiJi told as now school libraries are open to everybody with specific timing for librarian and also emphasized that awareness to use these libraries is needed among students as well as local residents. After the lunch we bid farewell to our guests and presented them memento of the event.
1:30PM:-It time for some Entertainment? No, first let’s know who all are we? Time for introduction, everybody came to stage and introduced himself/herself with his current designation, location, schooling, college details and some performance. Our seniors were really winners for their performances. Deshraj told us to take a vow that we will never do gender test for baby. DineshJi, a reputed educationist in Hindaun, asked us to meet each other frequently. It was so good to see so many toppers of Hindaun School, merit holders in Rajasthan board, IITians from Hindaun, all together. This was really a wave of Hindaun, City of talents.
4:00PM:-Everybody wanted to go back to their homes by this time. This was it; we completed a successful start of annual meet of Hindaun alumni.

It was a great day for all of us and will remain in our memories forever.
I really want to thank everybody who actively participated in the event and encouraged us to make this event as regular activity.

Thanks to all juniors who outnumbered their seniors in attendance and creating energy in the atmosphere on that day, you are the winners.

Thanks to all the seniors specially Surendra Goyal, Deshraj Verma and Dinesh Ji for attending this event. I hope from next year we will see more diverse age groups in our get together as news of this event will spread.

Thanks to all my batch-mate who always inspire and support me in all my activities. You are true friends.

Thanks a lot for all who could not attend this event due to unavoidable circumstances but their heart and blessings were with us.

Thank You All,

Jitendra Agrawal