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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Nirma University

of connecting 250,000 Gram Panchayats in the country, covering nearly 625,000 villages to improve
telecommunication in India and to reach the campaign goal of ‘Digital India’. He discussed the challenges and

hurdles faced in implementation and motivated the students to come out with appropriate solutions for these
problems.
The second session was by Sadhu Shri Vivekjivandas Ji,

Editor, English Magazine, BAPS, Shahibaug. He gave a talk
on ‘Managing Life’ and discussed the important pillars for
managing life, i.e. managing self, managing others,

managing time, and managing work. He stressed upon
conspicuous consumption, i.e. not to use anything if it is
not needed and asked the students to imbibe honesty,
integrity, humility, and morality in life. After the two

sessions, the students were divided into four groups
consisting of fourth and Sixth-semester students. Four
faculty members were assigned to each class, where the students were engaged in group activities, active

learning, and discussions to build the rapport between both the semesters. The idea was to increase knowledge
sharing and bring out more collaborative projects between them in the future.
Two sessions were held post-lunch break. The first session was
by an alumnus of EC, Mr Jonti Talukdar who is currently

pursuing his Masters at Duke University, USA. He addressed the
students on ‘Pathway to Post-Graduate Opportunities Abroad’.

He shared his experience of studying abroad, preparations
required, the concept of the academic journey, and how to
utilize the opportunities available at Nirma to shape their
academic journey and reach the desired goal.

The last session was by Dr Parth Vaishnav, Consultant
Psychiatrist & Deaddiction Expert, Samvedna
Happiness Hospital, Ahmedabad. The topic of his talk

was ‘Do We Need to Talk about Addictions’? He
discussed some important and serious issues related
to addiction, covering addiction to social media, cell
phones, increasing issues of drugs. He explained the

effects of such dreadful consumptions, made the
students understand the consequences, and
encouraged them to spread awareness in this regard.

All the sessions were very well received by the students. They appreciated the knowledge and information gained
from all the speakers as well as the interactions in the class activity.

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