Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 29: The sixth edition of “Sammilan 2014”–the premier technical-cum-cultural student festival of J&K was organized at the Model Institute of Engineering and Technology.
Prof Desh Bandhu, Director Colleges Development Council, University of Jammu was the chief guest who inaugurated the festival. The function was presided over by Dr Arun K Gupta, Chairman MIER Group of Institutions.
Prof Ankur Gupta, Joint Director MIET delivered the welcome address and described Sammilan as proof of the caliber and potential of MIET students.
Dr Arun K Gupta in his address placed on record the tremendous support from the University of Jammu to MIET and assured the chief guest that MIET will continue to push the boundaries and meet the high expectations of the University and people of the Jammu region.
Prof Desh Bandhu in his address expressed his delight at visiting MIET and experiencing first-hand the rapid strides that MIET had made in academic and extra-curricular domains.
Other dignitaries present were Dr Renu Gupta, Director MIER Group, Dr Adit Gupta, Joint Director, MIER, Prof GS Sambyal, Former Registrar, University of Jammu, Sachin Mahajan, Cluster Head, HDFC Bank, ML Mir, Deputy General Manager, PNB, etc.
On the occasion, dignitaries also released the MIET newsletter.
The inaugural ceremony was kick-started by a rocking performance by the MIET music club and MIET Rock Band. Anmol Jaswal the runner up at Indian Idol Junior 2013 was the star performer at the show.
Retd Major General and Prof SK Sharma, Principal, MIET presented vote of thanks.
Later more than 2500 students participated in varied technical, literary and management related events throughout the day. As a lead up to the event workshops on Remote Controlled Plane designing and flying (AeroTrix), web-development, mobile application development and Electronics Systems Design and Modeling (IETE) workshops for over 500 students were conducted.
The festival was sponsored by HDFC Bank (Platinum Sponsor), Punjab National Bank (Silver Partner), IETE, SanDisk (Technical Sponsors), Fortune Inn Riviera (Hospitality Partners), 92.7 BIG FM (Radio Partner), U4U Voice (Online Media Partners), Zebronics (Goodies Partner) and INIFD, Size Zero, Naturals and AeroTrix.
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