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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.

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!

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.

The Memorial on Raj Kapoor has been built at MIT Loni Rajbaug campus which is 30 kms away from the Pune city. It is the only museum of its kind in the country which celebrates the creative and passionate actor of all times, Late Shri Raj Kapoor. Raj Kapoor has a great contribution for enriching the Indian cinema. Mr. Kapoor won many awards throughout his career, including 9 FILMFARE AWARDS and 19 nominations. His films AWAARA (1951) and BOOT POLISH (1954) were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL. His acting in the former was rated as one of the "Top-Ten Performances of all time", by the Time Magazine. His film JAGTE RAHO (1956) also won the Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The life of Raj Kapoor and scenes from his films are depicted at this Memorial. This Memorial was developed under the guidance of Sanjay Sing, Sanjay Chatterji and Prashant Valukar, directors of Indian Traditional Cultural Centre; they have worked in the RAMOJI FILM CITY and in theme park in Chennai and Hyderabad. Its open for public and it’s not just Raj Kapoor, but statues of Amitabh Bachchan, Rajendra Kumar, Vaijayanti Mala, Nargis, Shashi and Shammi Kapoor and many others have been immortalized here. Scenes from AWAARA, JIS DESH ME GANGA BAHETI HAI and MERA NAAM JOKER have been displayed in the Memorial. The Memorial of seven pagodas is inaugurated on 16th May 2014 in the premises of Raj Kapoor’s bungalow inside Rajbaug Campus.