EEE Dept announces Winners of  ROOTS  Scholarship

EEE Alumni considers, Vidya  is always  the second home for them.The same belief was established by the diligence with which the co-ordinators of  ROOTS scholarship planned the announcement of the 12 scholarship awardees who are given the financial support of ‘ROOTS’ on Teacher’s Day  (05 September 2022) .The winners were announced in an online meeting conducted on 05 September 2022 at 8 pm.

The Winners

In the meeting , the Alumni gave assurance of complete mentoring support to al the ‘ROOTS’ applicants. Dr Sudha Balagopalan (Dean – Academics) also informed that the improvement classes along with fun-filled projects and activities on Mathematics, Programming and English would be commencing soon and all the classes would be handled by the alumni themselves. She added that the Alumni are being “made teachers by their own teachers on  the Teachers’ Day”

The students have a wonderful feedback and assured the responsibility they have towards the scholarship. The highlight during the feedback session was that even the students who didn’t get the financial support of ‘ROOTS’ also came forward to congratulate others and mentioned that the other aspects like mentoring and total support of ‘ROOTS’ scheme is its specialty.

The event was also blessed by the presence of Er G Mohanachandran (Non-executive Director, VICT), Mr P N Unnirajan IPS (Retd)( Administrative Director, VICT) , Mr Sankar Narayanan (Co-founder and CEO of Microgrids Limited) and Dr Jiby K Jose (HoD, AS Dept and VIBE Convenor). Dr Mary P Varghese  (HoD, EEE Dept ), Asst Professors Ms Akhila R, Krishnakumar, Praveesh P V spoke on the occasion. Er Aravind T ( 2004 – 08 Batch) , Er John Bennis  (2005 – 09 Batch) , Er Saranya Rajesh  (2003 – 07 Batch) also addressed the meeting . The event was a total success due to the large participation of alumni, staff and all roots applicants.

We consider our alumni to be our assets and ambassadors which was proved with the active participation of Alumni from Australia to US and Canada throughout the event

ROOTS is  a comprehensive scholarship scheme, instituted by the Alumni of the EEE Dept of Vidya can be considered as one of the noble gesture to uphold the traditions and to raise the bar even higher for the ultimate benefit  of engineering aspirants in EEE Dept .