Message from the President

Lets touchtouchtouch base again!

Dear all, It gives me immense pleasure to share our very first issue of the Somaiya Alumni Newsletter – Somaiya Sparsh. The word Sparsh means ‘Touch’ and that is the objective of this news-letter; to be in touch with one another. You will be delighted to know that it is our 58th year running, and we have indeed come a long way. It is our vision to provide an education to our students in any subject that will reflect it’s timeless fundamentals, current context and applications. Our education should be experiential in nature, holistic in its ap-proach and above all, include the Indian tra-dition, its culture, depth and knowledge. It is our dream to build a world class research and training institution, that is global in the reach of its ideas and universal in its service. I see our alumni as our greatest source of strength.

While we work towards attaining our private university status, our goal is to integrate our alumni across all institutions while still retaining the individual allegiance towards the institutions. As we grow leaps and bounds, we look to our alumni to support, guide and assist us in our journey moving forward. We look for-ward to your active support in our endeavour in making the

Somaiya group a world class educational institution. For more details on our alumni initiatives, do write to us on alumnirelations@somaiya.edu or visit our page on Facebook Our second alumni reunion is on Saturday, 21st January, 2017 at Somaiya Vidyavihar and I would personally like to invite you to attend.

Best Regards,

Samir Somaiya

On 26th January, 2015, the statue of our respected founder Padma Bhushan Shri K J Somaiya was unveiled at an auspicious function on the campus. The event was graced by the presence of Pujya Swami Omanandji Saraswatiji and Pujya Swami Tradupanandji Saraswatiji along with our President Shri Samir Somaiya and his family & friends.

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Table of content

Message from the President

1

Campus Buzz 2,3

Alma Mater Shines

4

AlumNews 5

Alumni Activities

6

Fund Raising 7

Somaiya

Alumni Reunion

8

Email

Campus Buzz

Moment of Patriotism

On the occasion of 70th Independence Day, Somaiya Vidyavihar hoisted a 100 feet tall Indian National Flag in the campus. It is one of the highest among any private educational institutes in Mumbai. It was a great moment of pride and patriotism. The Independence Day function was covered by various news channels.

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Somaiya Sports Academy – Skating & Soccer

Somaiya Sports Academy inaugurated Mumbai's only Skating/Cycling bank track in the Ayurvihar campus at Sion in June. Mumbai Open Roller Skating Competition was also held here, where more than 180 skating enthusiasts participated from all over Mumbai.

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Karamshi – Book Launch

On the occasion of our 58th Foundation Day, we proudly announced the launch of the book – Karamshi – a fictionalized life story of our founder Padma Bhushan Shri K J Somaiya. Books are available for sale at Kitab Khana, Fort, Mum-bai.

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Foundation Day Celebration

On 9th September, 2016, Somaiya Vidyavihar celebrated its 58th Foundation Day with Chief Guest, Shri Rajkumar Hirani, a renowned filmmaker.

He spoke about finding your passion and turning it into an obsession and following it fearlessly to achieve success in life. The Somaiya awards were presented by Shri Rajkumar Hirani, during this event. This award ceremony was instituted to recognize and celebrate the hard work and talent of our students, teachers and staff.

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Campus Buzz

Panchkarma—Ayurveda Centre

The newly renovated Panchkarma and Ayurveda Centre was inaugurated on 13th August 2016 at K J Somaiya Hospital by Honorable Shri. Shripad Naik, Minister of State for Ayush, Government of India. The Special Guest was Padmashri Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi, a leading practitioner of Ayurveda. The occasion was also graced by Shri. Girish Mahajan, Minister of Medical Education & Water Resources Government of Maharashtra.

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Casualty Emergency

On 18th June, 2016, a new Casualty Ward (Emergency) at the K. J. Somaiya Hospital and Research Centre, Somaiya Ayurvihar was inaugurated. The Casualty ward is of world class design, which also has a small operating theatre, a consulting room and each bed is equipped with top quality equipment. One of the fewer private hospitals in the area to have a casualty/emergency Facility.

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Jetavan

Jetavan is an initiative of the K.J. Somaiya Centre of Buddhist Studies, Somaiya Vidyavihar. It was conceptualized two years ago when venerable Dhammadipa monk visited Sakarwadi. Architecture of the Jetavan center demonstrates the approach to using traditional materials and construction techniques to preserve the local, cultural diversities and, in turn, this promotes social inclusion and the buddhist principles.

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K. J. Somaiya Hospital – Super Speciality Centre

Inauguration of K. J. Somaiya Hospital & Research Centre- Super Speciality Centre by Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India.

We are extremely grateful to SBI, ICICI Bank, Smt Savitriben Hariram Daiya Charitable Trust and other contributors for the financial support provided to us. Without their support, the Super Speciality Centre wouldn't have been possible.

There are Super Speciality Clinics for: Diabetics and Endorcine Clinic | Leprosy Clinic | Rheumatology Clinic | Immunization Clinic | Asthama Clinic | De-addiction Clinic | HIV AIDS Clinic | Oncology | Pediatrics Surgery | Plastic Surgery | Neuro | Oncosurgery | Infertility Clinic | Pain relief services

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Alma Mater Shines

Somaiya among the best colleges in India

Proud to share with you that many of our institutions figured in the India Today's May 30, 2016 issue on 'The Best Colleges of India'. Our institutions figured in India Today's stands best for Arts, Science, Commerce, Medicine, Education, and Engineering. We will continue to do our best while creating an environment of learning, research, and service.

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Golden Jubilee – Somaiya Vinay Mandir Somaiya Vinaymandir celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2015. Recognizing the need for imparting value-based education S.K. Somaiya Vinay Mandir High School (Gujarati Medium) was established in the year 1965 and its Jr. College (English Medium) in the year 1975. The Jr. College is one of the biggest Jr. College in Maharashtra having 39 divisions, with a strength of more than 3000 students in different streams (Arts, Commerce, Voc.Com., MCVC, Science, Voc. Science with Computer & Electronics.)

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SIMSR — Institute of the year 2016 — MCA

K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, added another feather in its cap on being selected as the Institute of the year 2016 - MCA by Higher Education Review Magazine, August 2016 issue. It praised the institute's updated curriculum, teaching pedagogy and exposure to industries through various workshops and conferences calling it a ray of new hope in the education system.

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KJSCE— Ranked in the Formula

International Racing Competition

Students of K J Somaiya College of Engineering, of Orion Racing India, participated and ranked in the prestigious Formula International Racing Competition in Germany. They also stood first in the Cost Analysis Category.

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KJSIEIT — Robo Fest

80 students participated and presented their robots in the Robo Fest competition organized by K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Infor-mation Technology. These kids were from various schools in Mumbai and villages in Maharashtra and Karnataka. They were mentored by the students of KJSIEIT over the past few months. View Video

AlumNews

Somaiya Alum Represents India in 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate

Meetings

Nischal Dwivedi, alumnus of K. J. Somaiya College of Science & Commerce (BSc Phys-ics-2012 and MSc Physics-2014), was nominated for the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings - 2016, held at Lindau, Germany to represent India in the Physics field. Has been awarded ‘The President of India, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, Gold Medal of Excellence’, by the University of Mumbai. He was also awarded the “Founder's Day prize for Excellence in Sciences” at Somaiya

Vidyavihar by the then Honourable Governor of Reserve Bank of India Dr. Raghuram Rajan on Founder's Day of Somaiya Vidyavihar for academic year 2013-14. Read more

Somaiya Alum shortlisted the new BCCI CEO!

Ashutosh Khanna, Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry, also a K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR) alum (Batch 1986-88) headed the search operation that led to the selection of Mr. Rahul Johri, the CEO of BCCI. Mr. Khanna carries with him deep insights about multiple businesses and is a sought-after speaker at various HR forums for his views on the future of various industries. He also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Balaji Telefilms.

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Book Launch– Dhirendra Tiwari

Love never

exists without

pain. And pain

paints stories.

K. J. Somaiya

College of

Engineering

alumnus,

Dhirendra Tiwari

(Electronics, 2000 batch) is the author of “Punk Sunk

Love”- a tale sunk in the darkness of love.

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Music Launch Proud to share our performers at the Somaiya Alumni Reunion 2016, Neeraj Arya's Kabir Cafe, which

has two of our alumni on their team, Mukund Ramaswamy (KJSCE) and Sujeet Ramanna (KJSCSC) have launched their album, Panchrang. It is now available on iTunes for download,

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Dreamers turned Achievers

Alumni Activities

Start Up Saturdays

We are extremely proud of our Alumni who have been successful entrepreneurs in variety of sectors. K. J. Somaiya college of Engineering celebrate their success through the 'Start Up Saturday' initiative. Through this initiative, their story is shared on social media. Their ambition, drive and tenacity serves as an inspiration to rest.

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KJSCE New York Meet

K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering had its first Alumni Meet-up in New York. Mr. Dhananjay Parchure, alum’89 batch, KJSCE, now Secretary of ASECA interacted with the alumni overseas. Over 35 alumni across various batches attended this reunion, and made it a huge success.

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Enriching Expression

The Department of Microbiology, K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce successfully organized an alumni lecture series ‘Enriching Expressions’. Some of the topics covered included Competency based approaches for challenges facing Microbiology and Biotechnology graduates’ , Stem cells and Scope of Stem cell research in India’ , “Innovative therapeutics: Today, Tomorrow and There-after” etc. This was a huge success with the students and also encouraged alumni to come forward.

AlCheMy - Placement Mentoring

The Alumni committee of SIMSR takes great pleasure in announcing the success of our new initiative, AlCheMy – a placement mentoring program. The program aims at turning SIMSR students’ 'mettle' into something more valuable with the help of our alumni. 59 alumni mentored 125 second year students for their placement process. Alumni helped students with their resume building, career choices, mock PI, etc. SIMSR Alumni Committee has received appreciation for this initiative from the students and alumni.

Fund Raising

About Nareshwadi Learning Centre

Girivanvasi Educational Trust (GVET) was founded by Padma Bhushan K. J. Somaiya in 1991.

GVET runs the Nareshwadi Learning Centre (NLC ), located on a 12-acre campus in the lush green environs of the

experimental farm of Girivanvasi Pragati Mandal (GVPM) which Shri Somaiya founded in 1974 as an integrated ru-

ral development model.

Children, aged 5 to 17 years, mostly from underprivileged Warli Tribal communities study from 1st to 10th grade

at NLC. Many of them stay in our hostels which are fully subsidised by the Trust.

About 10% of them are children of single parents or no parents, HIV infected and affected families.

NLC nourishes the physical, intellectual, emotional as well as spiritual development of each child by providing

adequate care and fostering community involvement.

Please support NLC in its journey of providing quality education to these children and enhancing livelihood oppor-

tunities for tribal women and unemployed village youth.

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Somaiya Alumni Reunion

Glimpses of SAR 2016

SAR 2016 in a Nutshell

Previous year Sponsors

4.2 Lakhs

70000 IDs 11000+ 5000+ 1

Social Media Reach

Email Blast RSVPs Attendees Grand

Reunion

Should you wish to sponsor SAR 2017, please write to us at

sar.sponsors@somaiya.edu