It is just not a creative fest but a ready platform for practicing leadership and life skills. This Event has been one of the crown jewels of the institute's cultural, art and literary activities. Mere technical knowledge is not enough for the overall growth of the youth and a platform that would showcase the talents of students in various fields is a must. The remarkable skill of expressing oneself and convincing people of the innovative ideas is thus achieved through this activity called Abhivyakti.
Bharat Asmita National Awards was incepted in 2005 by MAEER's MIT Group of Institutions, Pune, in order to inspire many a generation of management gurus, people involved in mass awakening and people in the forefront of Indian Parliamentary Practices for their meaningful contribution in the process of Nation Building.
Prof.Dr.Vishwanath D. Karad an eminent educationist, thinker, a devoted teacher and a dedicated social worker who is one of the pioneers in introducing the policies of privatization of education in the state of Maharashtra .On his birth day every year this award is given to those extraordinary contribution in the field of education as teacher, as Journalist, Best political Leader etc. The Bharat Asmita National Awards are meant to recognize the selfless and committed feats of leaders from the field of Management Education, Journalism & Mass Media, Science & Technology, Politics and Lifetime Achievement.
The purpose behind the Bharat Asmita National Awards is recognizing excellence and pointing the impressionable youth in the direction of selfless social service and contributing to nation building. We are certain that they will continue to provide inspiration to the future generations.
Award Category
| Award Name | Award Year | Name of the Awardees |
|---|---|---|
| Bharat Asmita Acharya Shreshtha | 2016 | Prof. Dr. Ashish Nanda - Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
| Bharat Asmita Jana Pratinidhi Shreshtha | 2016 | Shri. Kiren Rijiju - Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Home Affairs of India |
| Bharat Asmita Jana Jagran Shreshtha | 2016 | Shri. Milind Kamble - Chairman, Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries, (DICCI) |
| Bharat Asmita Vigyaan- Tantragyaan Shreshtha | 2016 | Padma Bhushan Shri. Madhav Gadgil - Renowned Ecologist, Founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences |
| Bharat Asmita Jana Jagaran Shreshtha | 2016 | Shri. Ilaiyaraaja – Was to be announced - Renowned Indian Film Composer |
| Bharat Asmita Acharya Shrestha | 2015 | Prof. Trilochan Satry - Professor Quantitative Methods and Information system, IIM, Banglore |
| Bharat Asmita Jana-Jagaran Shrestha | 2015 | Padmavibhushan Shri. Gulzar - Renowned Lyricist, Poet and Film Director |
| Bharat Asmita Jana-Jagaran Shrestha | 2015 | Shri. Dileep Padgaonkar - Eminent Journalist, Former Executive, Managing Editor, Times of India, Former Chairman, Group of Interlocutors for Jammu & Kashmir |
| Bharat Asmita Jana-Pratinidhi Shrestha | 2015 | Shri. Anant Kumar - Hegade Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, BJP Uttara Kannada, Karnataka |
| Bharat Asmita Vigyaan-Tantragyaan Shrestha | 2015 | Padma Bhushan Dr. K. Radhakrishnan - Former Chairman, ISRO, Chairman, Space Commission, Secretary, Department of Space, Govt. of India |
| Bharat Asmita Lifetime Achievement Award | 2015 | Padma Shri Smt. Anu Aga - Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Chairperson, Teach for India, Social Activist & Former Chairperson, Thermax Ltd. |
| Bharat Asmita Acharya Shrestha | 2014 | Prof. M. S. Pillai - Founder, Director, Sadhana Centre for Management, and Leadership Development (SCMLD) |
| Bharat Asmita Jana-Jagaran Shrestha | 2014 | Shri. Arnab Goswami - Journalist and Editor-in-Chief, Times Now |
| Bharat Asmita Jana-Pratinidhi Shrestha | 2014 | Shri .Kalikesh Narayan Singh - Deo Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha BJD (Bolangir, Odisha) |
| Bharat Asmita Vigyaan-Tantragyaan Shrestha | 2014 | Shri. D. R. Mehta - Founder & Chief Patron, Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) (Parent Body of Jaipur Foot) & Former Chairman, SEBI |
Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad (Indian Student Parliament) is brainchild of Prof. Rahul V. Karad initiated in 2011.
The innovative platform Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad or BCS as it is known as, is a non-political platform to sensitize and harness the power of youth mainly the General Secretaries, Joint Secretaries and socially active & politically sensitive students from 25000 colleges of more than 400 universities in the Country. It is in a way is a classroom that provides political coaching to nearly 10,000 students in the age group of 18-25.
It provides lessons on the functioning of a democracy and encourages the students to serve the society by entering public life and assuming leadership roles. It is aimed at enhancing the roles and relevance of youth in democratic institutions like political parties, social organizations, colleges, universities and Public institutions.
What we do at 4-days annual national conclave. The platform has created a youth movement by connecting thousands of youth across the nation with hope and assurance. 10 to 12,000 student leaders are engaged in absorbing academic sessions for four days to discuss and deliberate on a wide range of significant issues. A number of political leaders, engaging thinkers, intellectual giants, industrial leaders and youth icons of national and international eminence, from all walks of life and spectrum of ideologies provide them the context, analysis, courage, insight and perspective so that they can dream bigger, see clearer and speak louder. They raise their consciousness and intellect, so that the youth have an opinion, a point of view and most importantly, a sobering thought about - what they will do to make a difference in the nation’s life. Direct Participation of Students: Politically and socially active students from 450 universities, 10,000 colleges of all states of India are subjected to go through a rigorous selection process adopted by the colleges independently and 10 to 12,000 of them finally make way to participate at the flagship annual conclave of BCS.
Eminent Speakers of 1st, 2nd , 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th editions of Indian Students Parliament
- Yoga-Rushi Swami Ramdevji Maharaj (Spiritual Leader, Founder, Patanjali Yogpeeth)
- M. Venkaiah Naidu (Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs)
- Hon'ble Devendra Fadnavis (Chief Minister, Maharashtra State)
- Shri. Nara Chandrababu Naidu (Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
- Dr. Mohan Bhagwat (Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS))
- M. Medha Patkar(Indian Social Activist and Founder of Narmada Bachao Andolan)
- Mr. Pravin Nikam(youth social activist, Founder and the Executive Head of ROSHNI)
- Shri. Dinesh Oraon(The Speaker of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, BJP)
- Ms. Sanjana Jon(Right Activist and a well-known Fashion Designer)
- Shri. Pu Hiphie(The Speaker of Mizoram State Legislative Assembly, I. N. Congress)
- Shri. Raju Shetti (Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha)
- Dr. K. M. Bujarbaruah(FNAAS - Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Assam Agricultural University,)
- Shri N. Santosh Hegde(Former Justice of Supreme Court of India)
- Shri. Sitaram Yechury (Hon'ble MP, Rajya Sabha)
- Dr. Ganesh Natarajan(Vice Chairman and the CEO of Zensar Technologies)
- Shri. Gaurishankar Agrawal(Speaker at Chhattisgarh State Legislative Assembly )
- Dr Vijay P. Bhatkar(architect of the first Supercomputer of India)
- Shri. Kavinder Gupta (speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly,BJP)
- Shri Kanwar Pal (Member of Legislative Assembly Of Haryana State)
- Hon'ble Shri Kuldip Nair (Former MP,Rajya Sabha, Human Activist)
- Shri. Dattatray Dhankwade (Hon'ble Mayor of Pune )
- Ustad Zakir Hussain (Indian Tabla Maestro, Musical producer and composer )
- A.P.J Abdul Kalam (Former President, the Republic of India)
- Abhay Firodia (Chairman, Force Motors) ,
- Abhijit Pawar (Managing Director, Sakal Media Group, Pune)
- Abu Taher Mondal (Speaker, Meghalaya State Legislative Assembly)
- Ajay Maken (Then Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India)
- Anna Hazare (Social Crusader, Leading Activist in Lokpal Movement
- Anu Aga (MP, Rajya Sabha & Former Chairperson, Thermax India Ltd.)
- Anurag Singh Thakur (MP, Lok Sabha & National President, Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha)
- Aruna Roy (Founder of the Mazdoor Kishan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS))
- Ashutosh Gowariker (Film Director & Producer)
- Arnab Goswami (Editor-in-Chief, Times Now)
- Bhaiyyujji Maharaj (Rashtra Sant, Spiritual Guru)
- Bhavana Gawali (MP, Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena)
- Biman Banerjee (Speaker, West Bengal State Legislative Assembly)
- Brij Behari Lal Butail (Speaker, Himachal Pradesh State Legislative Assembly)
- Charnjit Singh Atwal (Speaker, Punjab Legislative Assembly)
- Dada J. P. Vaswani (Revered Spiritual Guru, Sadhu Vaswani Mission)
- Dalai Lama (Nobel Laureate & Spiritual Guru)
- Devendra Fadnavis (Chief Minister, Maharashtra)
- Dilip Walse-Patil (Then Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra)
- Fr. Joseph Chinnayyan (Revered Spiritual Guru, Deputy Secretary General, CBCI, India)
- Gagan Narang (Rifle Shooter)
- Gurdeep Singh Sappal (CEO, Rajya Sabha Television)
- Haribhau Bagade (Speaker, Maharashtra State Legislative Assembly)
- Harshwardhan Patil (Then Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Govt. of Maharashtra)
- Jabbar Patel (Eminent Film Director)
- Jayaprakash Narayan (Former MLA & President, Lok Satta Party)
- K. Natwar Singh (Writer, Former Union Minister for External Affairs, Govt. of India)
- Kapil Dev (Former Captain, Indian Cricket Team)
Participation of Eminent International Speakers
- Ahmad Alhendawi (United Nations Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth)
- Anders B. Johnsson (Then Secretary General, Inter–Parliamentary, Union, Geneva)
- Alan Haselhurst (Then Chairperson, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association)
- Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel Peace Laureate & Leader of Opposition, Myanmar)
- Ban Ki-moon (Secretary General, United Nations)
- Daniel Radcliffe (Eminent English Film Actor)
- Irina Bokova (Director General, UNESCO, Paris)
- Kamalesh Sharma (Secretary General, Commonwealth)
- Kiki Caruson (Associate Vice President, University of Florida)
- Liam Burns (Then President, National Union of Students – NUS, United Kingdom)
- Malala Yousafzai (Nobel Peace Laureate, Women Education Rights Activist, Pakistan)
- Mohammad Ibrahim Ghafoori (Then Director, SAARC, Afghanistan)
- Muhammad Yunus (Nobel laureate & Founder Bangladesh Grameen Bank)
- Sunita Williams (Astronaut, NASA)
Various Awards declared in Every Bhartiya Chatra Sansad
- Gargi and Maitreyee Awards
- Jeevan Gaurav Puraksar Life Time Achievement Award
- Ideal Youth MLA Award
- Uccha Shikshit Aadarsh Yuva Sarpanch awards
- Aadarsh Yuva Vidhayak Puraskar (Ideal Youth MLA Award)
- Yuva Adhyatmik Guru Puraskar
- Ideal Young Entrepreneurs Award
- Aadarsh Yuva Vidhayak Puraskar (Ideal Youth MLA Award) at the hands of Hon’ble Eminent Speaker
- Heroes of India Award
- Aadarsh Mukhyamantri Award (Ideal Chief Minister Award)
- BEST 5 student speakers awards
- Uccha Shikshit Aadarsh Yuva Sarpanch awards
- Uccha Shikshit Aadarsh Yuva Sarpanch awards
Robocon, short form for Robotic Contest, is an interesting game-cum- intellectual exercise for budding engineers and their enthusiastic instructors,
determined to innovate and create machines for producing desired results. Participation in this activity is an end-to-end competitive experience from concept design of a
system of robots programmed to perform according to rules of the game played on a high precision technical Contest Area and to score a victory beating the competitors; all
this according to a Theme declared by the Host Country. International Robocon are mainly sponsored by Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) which includes
Doordarshan (Prasarbharati) of India as a member which has been organizing all activities in India from last 9 years in collaboration with MIT academy
of Engineering Pune, India under the leadership of Prof.Dr.Sunil Karad. Below listed are winner team in past few years. Further details about ROBOCON 16 are given
on www.roboconindia.com
The next year’s ABU Robocon will be held in 2017 Tokyo. The contest theme is "Asobi : The Landing Disc”.
The theme revolves around the word “asobi” (play), which is also a fundamental philosophy behind Robocon. In “asobi,” playful, unique, original show of skills is often more important than winning or losing, as everyone – friend and foe alike – can applaud and enjoy them.
So, in the “asobi” spirit: we encourage playful, unique, original robot designs and strategies!
| Year & Host City/Country | Logo | Theme | ABU Winner | National Winner | Indian Contest Organised by |
| 2002 Tokyo, Japan |  |
"Reach for The Top of Mt.Fuji" | Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | IIT Kanpur |
| 2003 Bangkok, Thailand |  |
"Takraw Space Conqueror" | Sawangdandin Industrial and Community Education College, Thailand | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | Nirma University, Ahmendabad |
| 2004 Seoul, Korea |  |
"Reunion of Separated Lovers, Gyeonwoo & 90Jiknyeo" | Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam | VESIT, Mumbai | Nirma University, Ahmedabad |
| 2005 Beijing, China |  |
"Climb on the Great Wall Light the Holy Fire" | The University of Tokyo, Japan | IIT Bombay | MIT, Kothrud Pune |
| 2006 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |  |
"Building the World's Tallest Twin Tower" | Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | |
| 2007 Hanoi, Vietnam |  |
"Halong Bay Discovery" | XI an Jiaotong University, China | IIT, Delhi | |
| 2008 MIT Pune, India |  |
"Govinda Touch the Sky" | XI an Jiaotong University, China | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | |
| 2009 Tokyo, Japan |  |
"Travel Together for the Victory Drums" | Harbin Institute of Technology, China | IIT Chennai | |
| 2010 Cairo, Egypt |  |
"Robo-Pharaohs Build Pyramids" | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China | MAEER's MIT, Pune | MIT AOE, Pune |
| 2011 Bangkok, Thailand |  |
"Lay Krathong, Lighting Happiness with Friendship" | Dhurakij Pundit University Thailand | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | |
| Hongkong (Scheduled on 19th August 2012) |  |
"In Pursuit of Peace and Prosperity" | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China | MAEER's MIT, Pune | |
| Vietnam (Scheduled on 19th August 2013) |  |
"The Green Planet" | Kanazawa Institute of Technology, JAPAN | MAEER's MIT, Pune | |
| MIT AOE Pune, India (Scheduled on 24th August 2014) |  |
"A Salute to the Parenthood" | Lac Hong University, VIETNAM | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | |
| Yogyakarta – Indonesia (Scheduled on August 2015) |  |
"ROBOMINTON: BADMINTON ROBO-GAME" | Hung Yen University of Technology and Education,Vietnam | Institute of Technology, Nirma University | |
| Bangkok, Thailand (Scheduled on August 2016) |  |
"Chai-Yo:Clean Energy Recharging the World" | "To be announced" | Scheduled on 3rd-5th March 2016 |
Abhivyakti is an inter-collegiate literary festival organized at MIT Group of Institutions at Pune campus. The peculiarity of this festival is, it is totally executed by the students for the students under the MIT faculty guidance. This festival comprises of competitions of 'Painting', 'Debate', 'Extempore', 'Poetic Verse recitation',' Quiz', 'Movie Making',' One Act Play' in English as well as Marathi language.
These literary events bring out the expressions of the students and nurture their social and interactive skills.
Events such as 'Treasure hunt' and 'Snap hunt' not only make the participant to think and act quickly but also develop a feeling of competitiveness and physical endurance against time. Students enjoy such high order riddle solving games and always learn something before they leave the campus which being the prime motto of the entire festival.