Shivani Garg (HOD, Civil) participated in an International Conference recently held in Bhopal, where she presented a sententious Research Paper on the topic “A Methodology for Structural Evaluation of in Service Flexible Pavement Using Falling Wet Deflect Meter”. While presenting her Research paper she told as to how one can carry out the structural evaluation of the road using an easier methodology. She demonstrated the methodology through a software, which has specifically been designed for this purpose. In Conference, approximately 150 candidates from various countries participated to present their Research Paper. The Research Paper of Shivani dragged the attention of the people, and was widely appreciated by them.  Management (AKSU) has congratulated Shivani for the Research Paper presentation. 

8^th semester students of B.Tech (Civil) visited the construction site of Satna -Fly-over, and observed the procedure being adopted in its construction. Divyani Singh, SDO, Skylark Company, guided the students during the training. As it is well known, Skylark Construction Private Limited has been given the contact of Satna-Fly over construction work. The training programme lasted for one month, where students received the extensive knowledge of Traffic volume, soil testing, construction of pile, pile cap, test of cement and concrete, slump test, concrete cube test and how to construct pre cast slab. Students named Lalit Dwivedi, Mrigendra Singh, Dharmesh Singh, Vikas Singh, Ankit Singh, Vinay Patel and Vivek Shukla participated in training, and carried out all practical works during the course of training. At the end, students were quite satisfied with the training programme as they were now equipped with the practical knowledge as well.

Approximately 100 Students of Saraswati Higher Secondary School, alongwith their teachers, visited the AKS University on Wednesday, where they were counseled and conveyed the valuable information pertaining to academics, course and career selection. On this occasion, OSD-RN Tripathi, Administrator-RK Shrivastava, HOD(Civil)- Shivani Garg, HOD(Pharmacy)- SP Gupta, HOD(B.Tech,Ag)-Ajit Sarhate informed the students about the existing educational system, Labs operationalised in various Faculty, security and evaluation system of AKS University. Principal and teachers of school, giving their opinion about AKS University said that the highest level of teaching facilities and the environment, being provided by AKS University, in a very shorter span time, is really commendable, and gives pleasant surprise to people as soon as they step in AKS University. During the visit, students viewed all the Labs, Herbal Garden, Cow ranch, Biotech lab, Pharmacy lab, Food tech lab, Work shop, Poly house, Agriculture field, Mushroom center, Gau-amrit, Chikitsa Kendra, IT center, and CCTV monitoring room. Faculty Members of AKS University guided the students during the visit.

With an objective to get the practical knowledge of electricity production, 6th semester students of B.Tech Electrical Engineering visited the 220 K B,Sub-Station situated in  Sitpura. Following the guidelines of Rama Sharma (HOD, EE), Er. RK Shriwastava and Er. DC Sharma, students visited the Sub-Station, where they learnt the intricacies of Electricity production from S P Sharma and R D Singh. Engineers employed there in Sitpura Sub-Station told the students as to how the electricity is controlled by Sub-Station to carry out its distribution in various places. Besides this, students were also informed about the various high tech instruments used during the electricity production. Speaking about the next segment of visit, Rama Shukla, HOD, EE told that the students will visit 765 Megawatt Lalpur Power Grid Corporation Limited in days to come. “A group of 15 students will participate in training scheduled to be held in Lalpur Power grid, which will be completed in certain number of phases” she further added. During the entire visit, students were guided by the Faculty Members from Electrical Engineering department named Diwakar Dubey, Acchut Pandey and Ravi Nagvanshi.

Vivek Kumar Singh, Faculty Member from Department of Horticulture, was felicitated with the Young Scientist Award in a National Conference held between 27^th to 28^th of January, 2018 in Veterinary College of Patna, Bihar. Informing about it, Vivek Kumar Singh told that the Conference had been organized on the topic “Livelihood and Food Security, 2018”, where he presented two papers along with one Review Paper. Working under the Indo-Iran joint project, Vivek Kumar Singh and Ali Jabbar Abdul of Firdausi University, Iran, Jointly presented the paper on the topic Effect on “Puttetteresian and Different Media on Vegetative Growth Florates and Some Bio-chemical Parameters of Gladiolus under Soil less Condition”. On the basis of his performance, Vivek Kumar Singh was selected for the Young Scientist Award. It is notable that all the papers presented by Vivek Kumar Singh, will be published in next edition of International Journal named Current Micro-Biology and Applied Sciences. On this achievement of Vivek, Management (AKSU), Dean, Directors, and all the colleagues have congratulated and wished him “all the best” for bright future. 

A seven day’s training programme, for the Civil Engineering students of AKS University was organized between 20^th of January to 27^th of January, 2018. During the training programme, Skyfy Lab’s trainer Vivek Singh conveyed the valuable information to students on Building Information Modeling and Construction Project Management using the Archicad software. In seven days programme, Vivek Singh touched the various topics like Generation of 3D Documents from Floor Plans and Execution, Learn how to work with resources by following deadlines, Learn Risk Identification, Monitoring and Controlling, Case Studies on Industrial Project etc. Informing further, Er Shivani Garg and Er. Vishutosh Vajpayee told that the training programme has helped the students in acquiring detail knowledge and applications of Archicad Software. Students also gained the knowledge about construction, Cost Analysis, Estimation of Project.3D Analyzer and Floor Plan. At the end of training session, giving the feedback, students told that the knowledge conveyed to them especially on topics like Building Information Modeling and Construction Project Management was absolutely incredible.

With an objective to encourage the students to perform well in future, a Chancellor Scholarship distribution programme was organized in AKS University on the occasion of Republic Day. During the programme, 333 students received the scholarship amounting Rs 11 lacks 59 thousand. On this occasion, Chancellor B P Soni announced to constitute a Chancellor Scholarship Club, and apprised the audience about the eligibility criteria needed to become its member, as well as the duties of its members. As it is noteworthy, the scholarship thus received by students will help them in monitory terms besides encouraging them to perform much better in days to come.

 Chancellor Scholarship Logo was unveiled:  On this occasion, symbol of victory; a bright logo, especially developed for the chancellor scholarship, was also unveiled. Logo unveiling ceremony was followed by the lecture of Dr Kamlesh Chaure, who informed at length about the duties and responsibilities fixed for the members of Chancellor Scholarship Club.

Excerpts from the lecture of Chancellor:  Quoting the lines from the book of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Chancellor BP Soni said that now a days, our country is beset with the problems like poverty, illiteracy and superstitions, and this is our collective responsibility to work for the eradication of these problems. Speaking about the importance of Chancellor Scholarship he said that its primary objective is to grade all talented students equally irrespective of their caste, creed and financial status.

Students, who were beneficiary: Through the Chancellor Scholarship approximately 333 students were benefitted, and the money amounting Rs 11 lacks 59 thousand was distributed among the students. Highest amount of scholarship was given to Mayank from B. Tech Mining followed by Neelam Dubey-12,900 from B.Tech Agriculture and Amar Pratap 12,900.

Under the supervision of Rajiv Gandhi College, District level Kho Kho Competition was held here on Sunday, which was inaugurated by Er. Anant Soni, Chairman AKS University. Before the starting of events, Er. Anant Soni had one one to one interaction with the players, and then he formally announced the beginning of games.  The first day of the competition was entertaining and full of nail biting contest. As it was a district level competition, so almost all the colleges of Satna such as Government Autonomous College, Commerce College, Swami Vivekananda College took part, and showcased the skills of their students. Finally, Government Autonomous College emerged as triumphant defeating Swami Vivekananda College in final. During the events, participants were accompanied by respective Sports Officers as well. Addressing to gathering, Er. Anant Soni said that the people should incultate the sports man spirit within them, and thus enjoy the games in fuller extent. He laid emphasis on maintaining required disclipine level while participating in games. Spectators present on AKS University sport ground enjoyed the nail biting events, and encouraged the participants through clappings and big round of applause. At the end of events, Er Anant Soni distributed the winning trophies to winners and wished them all the best for the future 

AKS, University, the educational pride of Vindhya region, has always been encouraging its Faculty Members to represent the University in national and international level, carrying forward the series, Dr.GK Pradhan, Dean, Engineering (AKSU) presented his research paper on topic Rock Blasting Technique on 38^th foundation day of Hindustan Copper, amidst the presence of hundreds of representatives from various other acclaimed organizations. The function was inaugurated by Santosh Sharma, CMD, Hindustan Copper, Rajasthan, and was presided over by Dr. GK Pradhan himself. Management, AKS University has congratulated Dr. Pradhan for his participation, with best wishes to present more research papers in days to come.

Satwik Visariya, the Faculty Member from AKS University, was felicitated with “Young Professional Award” in a function organized in Jhunsi, Allahabad. Informing about it, Satwik told that it was a national conference, which was organized by Sankalpana, The Multy Disclipanary Research Journal, under the theme “Promoting and Reinvigorating Agriculture, Extension Technological Innovations Sankalpana-2017”. Satwik Visariya was congratulated by Management, AKSU for the award.