GTU Innovation Council

The Proposal for GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL
GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL
Gujarat Technological University

(http://www.gtu.ac.in/)
2nd Floor, ACPC Building, L. D. College of Engineering Campus,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad -380 015
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An Executive Summary
A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation
Introduction: Till 1197, when India’s last University of that era was burnt out1, Indian society
was highly innovative in both applied & social sciences and arts. Thus India had products,
which were used all over the world, known at that time. Students from all over the world
came to study at Indian Universities and Indian secular and religious thinking influenced the
world.
However when we did not set up any new University for 650 years and when the traditional
village Pathsahala system fell into disuse, a large part of our population became illiterate.
During 1850s, after the East India Company was able to establish itself, a new educational
system for India was planned by the then rulers and in 1857, three Universities at Calcutta,
Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai) were set up.
After independence, the University and the School system, with some modifications, was
made available all over the country. But this system continued to operate with shoe-string
budgets and without much of an inter-action with the society. Our university system has not
been able to nurture the creative abilities of the young and has not been an agent for
innovation. In addition to the traditional system, a number of new modern institutions were
set up by the central government. These institutions have been well-funded. But India’s
share in innovation in either products or thought-processes continues to be negligible, by all
metrics, used for measuring innovation. GTU is setting up the Innovation Council to help the
GTU community make its ‘due’ contribution towards making the world a better place
through innovation.
GTU innovation Council: While the first objective of the Council is to nurture creativity and
innovation within the University community, it is designed to act as a catalyst of change for
the whole of the society. The Council will send out its students and teachers to businesses,
industries and various organizations to continuously prepare projects and case studies for
changes, which may lead to improvement in products or processes. When 400,000 students
and 27,000 teachers (our likely numbers in 2013-14) start working as a force for innovation,
we expect that the education and research at the University will be rejuvenated through
anchoring it with the real-life problems in businesses, industries and the society. More
importantly it will make our SMEs, and our society more innovative.
Innovation through a new model of Collaboration: India had missed the industrial
revolutions of the nineteenth century and early part of twentieth century. Our industries
had not benefited from research at Universities and the two have not yet been able to come
together in any meaningful way, in spite of all the efforts during the last 63 years.
Innovation cannot occur at industries, which have no active inter-action with Universities.
Innovation at Universities, where the learners & researchers and laboratories & workshops
have no contact with the real world is very difficult. The Soviet Russian experiment has
proved that research laboratories, without an active relationship with Universities, may not
be as innovative as expected.
To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industries & businesses and the
students & faculties in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses like Engineering,
Management, pharmacy, MCA and Polytechnics and the faculty members in GTU, GTU, with
the help of TechPedia, has designed a joint action plan for creation of 25 communities from
the 166 industry clusters and 500 colleges of GTU. Each community will be managed by a
GTU Innovation Sankul Committee. The capacity of each Sankul will be built by involving
faculty members, professionals, students and owners & professionals of industries and
businesses. During the summer, thousands of students and faculty members will work
jointly with industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may relate
to improving the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems,
relating to the processes at the industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the
output from the students will be evaluated and it will be uploaded on the TechPedia.
GTU Innovation Sankuls will cut through the inertia of non-contact and will develop a new
model of Industry-Institute Collaboration, based on innovation at the grass roots level.
When in three years, every one of its more than 100,000 final year students and more than
20,000 faculty members are out in the field with the requirement that an innovative Final

Year project is to be completed and put on the TechPedia, when there will be no way to
hide the work, when good work will be awarded year after year, when thousands of small
and big industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with young minds and faculty
members about continuous improvements in their products & processes and when the law
students work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely new environment
of innovations will be created.
GTU Innovation Sankuls will cater to the following needs :
To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries (45,000 MSMEs of
Gujarat as well as the larger industries) through regular consulting cells at 500
colleges of GTU.
To help industry associations work better through students efforts.( ASSOCHAM has
presented this module to Finance Minister of India in its Annual General Meeting in
December 2010 and has proposed that it would contribute towards mapping the
IDPs in a big way.)
To help develop a relationship between GTU and industries for keeping the
employees of the industry more up-to-date through specially designed educational
programs (User Defined Education ecosystem).
To have summer internships in the industries. (The students will spend significant
amount of time in academic curriculum in mapping real floor issues)
To have engineers from the industry to regularly give seminars and inter-act with the
students. (A new trend of practical learning environment will be stimulated to
manifold the efficiency of the knowledge ecosystem.) and to work out exchange of
teachers and professionals from the industry to impart quality educations in even
the Rurban areas of state.
To map every SME with the corresponding GTU institutions, with which the SME can
inter-act to mutual advantage. To bring every one of the ASSOCHAM’s and other
chamber’s 200,000 members in touch with the corresponding GTU institutions, with
which the member may be able to inter-act to mutual advantage.( In 83 industrial
clusters for different vertical industry groups )

Management Architecture: The GTU Innovation Council: chaired by the Vice Chancellor. The
Council committee (CC) will include Professor Anil Gupta, Techpedia, Chairs of State level
Chambers and Vertical-associations, ASSOCHAM,GCCI and other associations, government
officers, Registrar of GTU and others.
Five Regional Committees: managed jointly by two co-chairs; –one would be a Director/
Dean and the other would be a prominent person from the industry; the Managing
Committee (MC) to consist of representatives from the Sankuls, associated with it.
Every one of the 25 Innovation Sankuls: managed by two Co-Chairmen: one from a GTU
College and the other from the industry, a Secretary and a Joint Secretary: an industry
engineer and a student; the Sankul Committee (SC) with representations from Colleges,
District Industry Officers, industries and prominent citizens.
An Udisha Executive Committee (EC) at each GTU College: will co-ordinate with its Sankul.
Excellent projects of students, faculties and colleges in all will be awarded jointly with
Techpedia and GTU at State level.( For the best projects in each field/For the best Mentor in
each field/For the best Sankul/For the industrialist, who contributes best towards industry-
institute inter-action/For the Principal/ Director, who contributes best towards industry-
institute inter-action/For the professional (Government Officer or Industry Officer), who
contributes best towards industry-institute inter-action/For the Professor, who contributes
best towards industry-institute inter-action).
The above will trigger a “Feel the difference” initiatives for teachers, students and others.
Inspiration driven knowledge based innovation ecosystem is key among the targets.
Strengthening Technology Education at Colleges and Polytechnics in Gujarat from 2011:
GTU wants every final year project to solve some real problem of businesses & industries or
of the society. To achieve the objective, during summer, at the end of the pre-Final year,
students will visit some industry and work out 3-4 problems, with the following output:
Define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined format.( Industrial Sodh

yatra will bench mark the technical issues at every single shop floor). The College
will evaluate the problems at the beginning of the studies at the first semester of the
Final year

The College will upload the problems in www.techpedia.in The project will be
executed by the students during both the semesters of the Final Year. The faculty
will try to understand whether there is a knowledge gap or technology gap or skill
gap and to document it
Some student or some students, under the guidance of their faculty members may select
the project/ research problem, without a reference to an industry. Such problems will be
called User Defined Problems (UDPs). The Consortium of GTU and Techpedia will attempt to
find mentors from industries or research institutions both for IDPs and UDPs by using web
based National mentoring network (NMN), which is an open source environment for
strengthening the knowledge ecosystem breaking the barrier of space and time.
More than 50% of the students in GTU Colleges are from families, which are sending their
first member for a University level education. GTU has nearly 30% Colleges in small towns
and rural areas. Hence innovation at GTU will be an inclusive process and it will encourage
progress at BOP level.
Sankuls will improve access, affordability, sustainability, efficiency, productivity and

competitiveness in the needy domain of socio-technical applications. This will foster an
innovation eco-system across domains and sectors to strengthen entrepreneurship modules
even among students.
GTU and Techpedia has conducted during the last four months successful experiments to
prove the viability of the project. GTU students have successfully cracked a number of
Industry Defined Projects (IDPs) posed by various MSMEs, bigger Industries and even by
grass root NGOs. A few students have converted their projects work to new enterprise
modules during the last few months and they are scaling up towards the effort in socializing
technologies. To execute the entire algorithm, Techpedia team has started visiting the GTU
colleges to interact its pre final and final year students and faculties guiding them.
Techpedia found out from initial GTU college survey that nearly 25% more students will
finish their prototypes within UG if they can be provided some resources. A virtual
incubation cell at GTU can play a vital role in nurturing the budding techno- entrepreneurs
of the technical domain even at the UG level.

CONTENTS
Sr.No. Chapter Page #

1 Introduction 8
2 Successful Innovation at GTU Colleges 9
2.1 Three layered System and Shodh Yatras 10
3 About GTU in brief 16
3.1 Culture of Innovation at GTU 18
4 Creating an environment of innovation at GTU 19
4.1 Processes in the Faculties of Engineering, 21
Computer Science and Pharmacy
4.2 Processes in the Faculty of Business Studies
21
5 The GTU Innovation Sankuls 23
5.1 Searching for IDPs 24
5.2 Execution of the Projects 24
5.3 GTU Innovation Sankuls 25
5.4 Micro-venture Innovation Fund 26
5.5 Annual Awards 27
5.6 A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation 27

6 Benchmarks and Outputs 28
7 Financial Requirements 29
Appendix 1: GTU’s Footprint 34
Appendix 2: Industry’s Problems Solved by GTU 35
students
Appendix 3: GTU and Techpedia 39
Appendix 4: Gujarat Technological University 42
Appendix 5: Industries Departments and Officers of 50
Government of Gujarat
Appendix 6: Time-line 51
Appendix 7: Clubs in GTU Colleges 53
Appendix 8: Mappings 58
Appendix 9: List of GTU Innovation Sankuls 60
Appendix 10: GTU – Skills Council for Marketing 61
Appendix 11: GTU – Council for Human Resource 63
Studies and Organizational Structures
Appendix 12: GTU – Financial Services Skills Council 65

1.0 Introduction:
Gujarat Technological University is a relatively new University, established with the

objective of developing the knowledge of science, engineering, technology, management,
pharmacy and environment for the advancement of quality of life of the mankind. The state
government by an Act has affiliated Degree and Diploma Engineering, Degree and Diploma
Pharmacy colleges and the post-graduate programs of MBA, MCA, M.E. & M. Pharm and
P.D.D.C courses all over the state with GTU. Its first regular Vice-Chancellor took charge on
8th June 2010. In January 2011, the University would be starting its Doctoral program.
Today the University has 495 Colleges. More than 90% of seats in the technology fields in
the state are with GTU (Appendix 1) and the share of all the other Universities, taken
together is less than 8%. Moreover since every year, the number of seats is increasing in
self-financed institutions only, the foot-print of GTU is expected to become larger. Therefore
the quality of learning outcomes and the quality of research work at GTU will largely
determine the health of education in this state in these disciplines. The conventional
universities and educational systems in our country have not been able to ignite the
inherent creativity and innovation of our young men and women. GTU is determined to
ensure that the spirit of innovation is fostered and encouraged in every possible way so that
the creativity of our young is able to contribute to building the world of tomorrow.
During the last few months, through a small successful experiment, GTU’s under-graduates
have proved that they can innovate in a creditable way. (Section 2.0 and Appendix 2) GTU,
therefore, has decided to scale up the experiment by setting up the GTU Innovation Council.
This platform will explore opportunities to improve access, affordability, sustainability,
efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in the needy domain of socio-technical
applications and key focus on BOP. This will foster an innovation eco-system across domains
and sectors to strengthen entrepreneurship modules even among students. To ensure
sustainability, durability and quality and to expand the space for dialogue and discourse on
innovation GTU have already started taking initiatives.

1.1 Objectives:
• To involve the entire society, along with the students and faculty members, in an
innovation campaign
• To create a management system, which uses the existing structures and facilities by
bringing them together for working for innovation
• To document every single success and to make the information available to all the
stake-holders to develop self-confidence in the whole of the system
• To develop inter-relationship for national and international collaborations for
innovation in the fields of Science, Engineering, Technology and Management.”
• To establish close linkages with industries and businesses to make research and
development at the University relevant to the needs of industries at national and
international levels.
2.0 Successful Innovation at GTU Colleges
That students at Engineering Colleges, even in non-metropolitan places, have creative

capabilities, which if tapped can lead to innovations, which have not yet been demonstrated
in India was brought out graphically by an experiment, done jointly by GTU and Techpedia.
Mr Hiranmay Mahanta, managing director of Techpedia.in visited many GTU Colleges and
presented some problems, posed by some industries, most of them SMEs. To the great
credit of the creativity of our students, these Industry Defined Problems (IDP) were solved
by our students, well within the time limits, prescribed by the industry (Appendix 2). Thus an
IDP, given by L&T was solved by an undergraduate student of a GTU College within 5 weeks,
whereas L&T had estimated that the problem would take about 4 months.
Probably in an effort to convey as much of information as possible to every student, the

space for innovation and creativity gets crowded out. One has to be able to experience faith
from the institution in a student’s capability. One has to have the space, consisting of
laboratories and workshops and temporality to be able to produce the kind of results, which
these students produced.

GTU proposes to create the necessary space and an eco system for innovation through the
GTU Innovation Council. The Council will architect an eco system, which would work on the
basis of both confidence in the ability of the young and the availability of the facility of
mentoring to every project, be it industry defined or student-defined. Innovation is
universal. But it is nurtured and permitted to grow in a local context. So GTU proposes to
use its Innovation Council to bring the processes of innovation closer to businesses,
industries and local institutions. To take up the challenges of innovation, the processes have
to be nimble enough that it is able to take up the smallest task with excellence. The
centralized structure along with the decentralized clusters will help achieve the right
balance.
2.1 Three layered System and Shodh Yatras
To have a close inter-action of GTU’s students and the industries & businesses, GTU has
created a new model, consisting of three different but inter-connected entities.
The first is an Udisha club, created at every College. The Club works to obtain student
internships at industries and businesses (I & B) and to arrange regular lectures by
professionals from I & B. In addition it challenges the creativity of young persons by asking
GTU students to help I & B by attempting to improve their products or processes. An Udisha
club is chaired by the Principal and consists of some of the faculty members and students of
the College.
In different areas of Gujarat, GTU is establishing 25 GTU Innovation Sankuls. The Sankuls are
designed to link 495 colleges ( engineering, polytechnics, pharma, MBA, MCA etc.) with 166
industry clusters (MSMEs) in collaboration with Techpedia.in, to create innovation zones
which will create a platform where industries can pose real life problems which would then
be solved by students as a part of their academic course. This will enrich the learning
process of students, inculcate entrepreneurship and provide industry with solutions to their
problems. An experimental study of this process was carried out by GTU along with
Techpedia.in in 2010 and it was observed that such a platform often brought forth low cost,
innovative solutions. A sample of the results are given in Appendix 2.
Each Sankul Committee is co-chaired by the Principal of a College and a leader from I & B. Its
other members will be all the other Principals from all the GTU Colleges/ campuses and
some of the prominent persons from industries and businesses of the area. A Sankul
Committee will work with the Udisha Clubs in its area to provide to every student some
experience at I & B. GTU expects that with excellent teaching in the Colleges and with a
close inter-action with I & B, its graduates will be well-prepared to work in the real world.
The GTU Innovation Council will work with the 25 Sankuls to make our Colleges as well as
the industries and businesses more innovative. GTU Innovation Council will have Sectoral
Advisory Council, consisting of vertical nation-wide or Gujarat-wide associations in the fields
of engineering, pharmacy, computer science or business studies.
Besides Sectoral Advisory Council, GTU Innovation Council has three GTU Skills Councils to
act as a bridge between the service industry and GTU and to enhance professionalism in
their respective fields. The three Councils are:
1. GTU – Skills Council for Marketing (Appendix 10 – Page 57)
2. GTU – Council for Human Resource Studies and Organizational Structures

(Appendix 11 – Page 59)
3. GTU – Financial Services Skills Council (Appendix 12 – Page 61)
Some key figures:
No. of GTU innovation Sankuls 25

Number of students involved during 2010-11 250,000
Engg., Pharmacy, MBA,
Disciplines:
Polytechnics, MCA
No. of faculties to be linked to SMEs for a week along
10,000
with students:
No of SMEs to be directly linked to students : 34,500
No. of Udisha Clubs in Colleges 495
A group of 6-7 students from multiple disciplines along with a core faculty will be linked
to a particular SME for a year

Phase I of the project involves 37000 graduate and 1900 post graduate engineers, 41,800
Diploma engineers, 6800 B. Pharma, 1900 M. Pharma, 12000 MBA graduates and 4900 MCA
graduates. Each GTU innovation Sankul will on an average involve 5000 students from 11
engg., 12 MBA, 5 Pharmacy, and 8 MCA colleges working with 3000 SMEs for a year.
Techpedia.in will provide an online real time platform where database of Industry Defined
Problems, past projects and current work in progress will be maintained. The platform will
help students select projects from the IDP database, review past progress on the problem
by other students and progress ahead from that point. The innovation ecosystem is
deploying a relay model to avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ problem and encourage original
work. Local customization of previous solutions along with new solution will be encouraged.
The best solutions will be nurtured for techno-entrepreneurship modules for wider socio-
technical needs.
To create a progressive knowledge ecosystem, Industrial Shodh Yatras are being organised
involving 1 lac technical youth and 10,000 faculties to map four aspects of technology, in use
at MSME clusters and in the neighbouring rural and urban communities. The first aspect is
benchmarking the current level of energy, material and technology youths in the enterprise.
To identify any innovation that the MSME unit may have tried is the second aspect. A set of
well-defined problems, which may be solved by the students jointly with the faculty may be
the third output. These problems may be taken up by students as their final year project or
as a challenge project. The last i.e. the fourth is to identify the policy bottlenecks which are
coming in the way of realizing fully the entrepreneurial potential. GTU has successfully
organized four industrial Shodh Yatras in different industrial estates in the state. Before the
end of this academic year, all institutes associated with GTU will kick start the process. Many
success stories have been created in linking the socio-technical issues of MSMEs and tribal
areas in Gujarat like Dang. During the very first Shodh Yatra, it was discovered that the
research work of a GTU faculty, done in the laboratories of an educational institute, could
satisfy the need of an SME unit. This has initiated the process of technology transfer. The
Shodh Yatras have brought the floor people of industries in touch with the faculty and
students. This may bring the professionals from the industries to the class rooms and may
pull faculty members into a closer embrace with the industries. Many UG Students’ instant

solutions to MSMEs during Shodh Yatras have started energizing the industry-institute
collaboration.
The respective Udisha clubs of GTU colleges connect with clusters of MSMEs in the
neighbourhood during the Industrial Shodh Yatras. The first Industrial Sodhyatra by GTU and
Techpedia was at Naroda Industries Association (NIA), Ahmedabad. Vishwakarma
Government Engineering College. Chandkheda, Gandhinagar sent 30 teams along with a
guide in each team to work with MSMEs. A Brief Training Session for students on Scouting
and Documentation was conducted by Hiranmay Mahanta, Prof M.G.Desai and Mr Ajay
Patel (from Industries) at NIA. The Industrial Shodhyatra was guided by Professors and SME
technocrats. It provided a real-life floor exposure of MSME issues to the students. On the
Spot Suggestions by students in improving product, process and suggestions for use of
innovative interdisciplinary strategies was well appreciated by the MSMEs. Students and
faculties had carefully focused on Documentation/mapping of IDPs (Industry Defined
Projects) from the shop-floors of MSMEs. The waste was defined as follows: “ Waste is that
whose optimum usability is yet to be found”. Students, faculties, floor persons and
technocrats brainstormed about efficient waste management processes. This exercise was
found quite effective when some research work done by Prof M.G Desai in waste
management of rerolling mills was well appreciated by rerolling mill SMEs in NIA MSME
clusters. The Shodh Yatra ended with a very positive Faculty-Industrialist interaction.
GTU innovation council believes even if only a few technology transfers happens from
academia to MSMEs via these Shodh Yatras and even if 1% of the research projects based
on industry needs turn out to be a success, then also GTU students would have delivered a
few hundred innovative technical solutions to MSMEs of the country. After the first Shodh
Yatra, it has been scaled in every week end involving both professors and students at
various innovation Sankuls like Rajkot, Boroda,Vatva, Naroda MSME clusters. The exercise
has got wider appreciation from both academia and industrial domain. GTU’s all 500 udisha
clubs will scale this exercise during weekends for the next two months. Major industrial
Shodh Yatras will be arranged during summer when each student will be assigned to map a
particular MSME in a specific Innovation Sankul. The industrial needs which are going to be
mapped as IDPs (Industry Defined Projects) will be converted to final year projects during

the academic year 2011-2012 at GTU’s 495 colleges. This will certainly increase the
efficiency of knowledge ecosystem via a need based evolution approach.
[A Brief Training Secession for students Faculty-Industrialist Interaction during

on Scouting and Documentation by industrial shodh yatra to map the floor
Hiranmay Mahanta, Prof M.G.Desai and issues of MSMEs.
Mr Ajay Patel (from Industries) at NIA.]
A hand on analytical experience for On the Spot Suggestions by students in

Students guided by Professors and SME improving product, process and Probable
technocrats. insertion of Innovative interdisciplinary
strategies.

A finishing touch on Students, Faculties, Floor persons,

Documentation/mapping of IDPs technocrats brainstorm in efficient waste
(industry defined projects) from real management
floor of MSMEs.
The initial work of establishing the GTU Innovation Sankuls has started cutting through the
inertia of non-contact and is developing a new model of industry-institute Collaboration,
based on innovation at the grass roots level. When in three years, every one of GTU’s more
than 100,000 final year students and more than 20,000 faculty members are out in the field
with the requirement that an innovative Final Year project is to be completed and put on
the Techpedia, when efforts of 15 million human months of work on the Final Year projects
are targeted to improve products and processes, when good work will be awarded year
after year, when thousands of small and big industries get the opportunity of thinking,
jointly with young minds and faculty members about continuous improvements in their
products & processes and when the law students work to make patent process and IPR
processes easy, an unprecedented and productive environment of innovations will be
created.

3.0 About GTU in brief:
GTU offers Bachelor’s and Diploma Engineering programs in 32 disciplines each. Its Master’s
program in Engineering 22 different specialized areas. Its M. Pharma program has six
specializations. It has four different elective areas and five different sectoral areas in
Business Studies.
It has the following Master’s programs:
(i) 2-year M.E. programs offered in 31 different fields of engineering

(ii) 2-year M. Pharm programs in 6 different fields of Pharmaceutical studies
(iii) 2-year M.B. A. program with 4 different elective areas and five different sectorial
specializationsng
(iv) 3-year M.C. A. program , offered at 49 different locations
On March 12th, 2011, the University conducted the first entrance test for 711 applicants for
its Doctoral program. By April, we expect to admit our first set of doctoral students. By
academic year 2011-12, The University is expected to have about 39,000 Master’s and
Doctoral students.
GTU has set up the Board for Rurban Technologies, consisting of GTU Institutions in rural
areas and mofussil, towns. The Board has met twice: On 1st October 2010 and on 29th
November 2010. The Board has been working with Rural Business Hub Foundation
(http://www.internationalholisticaction.org/)and will try to work jointly with Grassroots
Innovations Augmentation Network (http://www.gian.org/).
GTU’s Board for Environmental and Green technologies had meetings on 22nd December
2010, 7th January 2011, 5th February 2011 and 16th February 2011. This GTU Board is
organizing four Workshops during the period up to August 2011:
1. Potential of Recycling and Re-use of treated Sewage

2. Urban Air Pollution
3. Renewable Energy for Greener Gujarat
4. Cleaner Production towards Sustainable Development
In addition, it organized a workshop on Trends in Renewable Energy technologies on April 30,

2011. 85 students and faculty members participated.
GTU’s Board for Mobile Computing and Wireless systems is being set up.

GTU Center for nano Technology Applications has started working in January 2011.
GTU is setting up Centers for studies in the areas of

1. Business Ethics and CSR
2. Financial Services
3. Governance Systems in businesses, industries, universities, hospitals, mass
transportation systems, NGOs and governments.
GTU is offering a sectorial specialization in Retail Management in its MBA program. In 2009-
10, it was offered to 5,624 students at 83 colleges. GTU is planning to start a Center for
Retail Management at Gandhi Nagar.
GTU is working on offering an Aviation Engineering program at Indus with the help of a
University in USA.
GTU is offering a BE in Biotechnology program and is likely to offer an ME Biotechnology

program from the next year. It is offering both an ME and BE in Bio-Medical engineering.
GTU’s post-graduate students in M.E. Civil (Water Resources Management) program and
professors are doing creditable work in the area.
GTU is offering an ME program in Textile Engineering. It is also offering BE programs in

Textile Production and textile Technology.
Infrastructure is a major focus in GTU. Thus GTU is offering a Master’s program in

Transportation Engineering. At three places, GTU’s Colleges are leaders in Environmental
Studies and Research and they have helped study, understand and clean up operation in
Saurashtra, Ankaleshwar-Bharuch and Surat.
GTU is planning Centres of Excellence in various areas of technology, in which it has

expertise.
GTU has established a Center for Advanced Studies in Defense and Security at Vadodara.
GTU is working pro-actively for a step-improvement in Learning Outcomes. (Appendix 3),

and it is working to acquire a leadership position in this area.

3.1 Culture of Innovation at GTU:
GTU is expanding the space for innovation by involving its faculty and students in
continuous programs at its Colleges. Its web-site (http://www.gtu.ac.in) will show the
continuing programs of the following type:
1. Best Projects/Innovations/Thesis: We are developing a methodology to pick the best

1000 innovations in UG/PG and at polytechnic level from GTU to be developed for
solutions aiming to solve socio-technical issues. (The process is described in section 5.0.)
2. New Ideas/innovations/projects/prototypes/techno-business module: We are

continuously monitoring any progress in techno-innovation areas in the world. As soon
as our students or faculty are able to succeed in any of these areas, we acknowledge the
success on our website.
3. Media: GTU website is daily followed by thousands of students and faculties. We also try
to use other media for an effective dissemination of innovative happenings at state and
national level.
Techpedia is a partner in the above three processes.
4. Discussion (brainstorming) meetings on some issues of interest: Almost every day GTU is
having some such event in some of its colleges.
5. Debates: GTU colleges are encouraged to have techno-managerial debates. From the
next semester, in every program, one weekly hour is being set aside for discussing one
book, other than a text-book. Innovation can be one key agenda for such discussions.
6. Seminars: Every GTU college is usually having a seminar once a semester, having a wide
pool of audience who can be a part of discussion, development and discourse.
7. Conferences: Both inter and intra university conferences are regular events in GTU. The
context of innovation can start becoming an area of discussion at such conferences.

4.0 Creating an environment of innovation at GTU:
GTU has established an Innovation Council to scale up at all the GTU Colleges the successes
achieved by some under-graduate students at a few Engineering Colleges, with the help of
Techpedia (Please see section 2.0 and Appendix 2). The GTU Innovation Council will work
jointly with Techpedia and we propose that at the University level, the Council will have the
Managing Director of Techpedia.in as a member. The leaders of Sristi will also be invited to
join the Council.
Need for Innovation at GTU:
When GTU wanted to base the Final Year projects on Industry Defined Problems, it was
found that SME were busy 24/7 for survival and had very little energy or space for
innovation. This was a situation, unlike the one in the developed world. In societies, which
have been more innovative, than our Society today is, even when an innovative project is
taken up by a larger organization, most of the innovations in processes and components are
usually done by SMEs, as partners of the big organizations. An organization can be
innovative only when it provides the space for innovation and when it has individuals and
partners, who have successfully tried innovations and who have the confidence and the
ability to attempt innovations. GTU proposes to move towards making its students and
teachers, laboratories and workshops, its class-rooms, open spaces and libraries centers for
creating an eco system of innovations by working jointly with businesses, industries and all
the other stake-holders. GTU has institutions in not only all the bigger cities, it has its
Colleges and Polytechnics in small towns and rural areas all over the state. Its students come
not only from the bigger cities, in fact a majority of its students are from the rurban India.
When GTU works jointly with all the businesses and industries and other research and
governmental institutions on innovative projects, it would create an eco-system of
innovation.
On its part, GTU proposes to create a complementary system by joining together its
Innovation Council and its academic systems. The system will challenge all the members of
the University community to participate in innovation by asking for innovative thinking and

by providing a flexible but structurally sound framework for innovation and by providing for
the necessary mentoring by marshalling all the resources of the University and the society.
GTU Innovation Council will work:
• To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry, confidence in their ability
and innovation
• To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D
institutions with the help of Techpedia
• To facilitate innovations by SMEs by value addition through support by GTU students
and faculties
• To create appropriate eco-systems and environment to foster innovation.
More than 50% of the students in GTU Colleges are from families, which are sending their
first member for a University level education. GTU has nearly 30% Colleges in small towns
and rural areas. Hence innovation at GTU will be an inclusive process in that it would be able
to inculcate a spirit of innovation to young men, who are unlike the PLUs in metropolitan
cities. The work of students and more than 10,000 faculty members at 495 Colleges with
SMEs will encourage progress at BOP level.
GTU will facilitate the creation of necessary eco-systems for innovation through:
• 25 Innovation clusters at sub-university level (to be called GTU Sankuls), with each
Sankul to have oorganizational autonomy & flexibility
• Intellectual Property/ Patents (in association with Law students and faculties of the
Law University at Gandhinagar)
• Web & ICT as tools. (GTU bagged the award for the best ICT enabled University of
the Year in e-India 2009)
Techpedia web-site is being used by our students and we have given cross-
references to Techpedia on the GTU site so that Techpedia has been co-opted by
GTU, as far as the project work is concerned.
• Incentives & Awards

• By helping MSMEs of the state to foster innovation by supporting their R&D via
thousands of GTU technical students and faculties every year to scout and sustain
Innovation happening on the shop-floors of MSMEs.
4.1 Processes in the Faculties of Engineering, Computer Science and Pharmacy:
Excellence in education in technology is determined by excellence in practical work in

laboratories, workshops and businesses & industries. The Final year Project is considered as
the capstone of technology education since it integrates the study of different subjects for
designing and developing a product and it leads to a seamless transition from study at a
University to work in businesses & industries.
The issues involved in the Final Year project are of the same kind, that have not permitted
our businesses and industries to develop many new products or to improve the existing
products by using the proverbial ‘jugaad’ of our workers. The genius of ‘jugaad’ has been
essentially used for re-creating tools and fixtures and for making the machinery work
without bringing out many new products to the world’s markets. The issues are as follows:
• The systemic deficiencies in education in design;
• Non-experience of the faculty in the practical field;
• The abject weakness of the workshop and laboratory staff both in numbers,
quality and motivation;
• The absence of a challenging proposition put to our young by the educational

system and
• The non-provision of any mentoring by those, who have a practical experience.
4.2 Processes in the Faculty of Business Studies:
Excellence in education in the field of Business Studies depends upon a continuous research
in the business environment in the local context as well as in the global context. Though our
country has many renowned institutions, which offer MBA or higher degrees, the system
suffers from deficiencies, including the following:

(i) The research relating to the local context is largely absent.
The great efforts by Honeybee (http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/index.php#) and

the Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and
Institutions (Sristi: http://www.sristi.org/cms/), the kind of which have never
before been made, is bringing a change at the grassroots level. This effort is led
by Professor Anil Gupta of IIM, Ahmedabad. But these efforts have not yet had
its impact on the educational system in Business Studies.
GTU has as many as 35 MBA Colleges in mofussil towns and rural areas. It has
convened special meetings of the Directors and trustees of these colleges on
October 1, 2010 and November 29, 2010. At the second meeting a forum called
Swa-Prabandhan has been set up, with six regional groups in Gujarat to study the
needs of these Rurban areas and to suggest changes, which have to be made in
the MBA program, applicable to all the 106 MBA Colleges affiliated with GTU.
GTU’s LJ Institute of Management Studies, located at Ahmedabad, asked its MBA

students to prepare hypothetical business models for sustainable rurban
businesses. The students were able to prepare magnificent models and these
were presented by the students on December 13, 2010 at a program called
‘Archetype- Reinventing Rural India’. The studies on Chestnut farming in Jhabua,
Eco-tourism, Village safari in Bhuj, corn and ethanol production, a self-sustained
village and Shiksha bus turned out to be excellent and were adjudged to be
financially viable business models.
(ii) The research relating to global business environment:
Our management institutions have done a good job educating our MBA students
by using Harvard case studies as well as similar material from other good
sources. Our management and business schools have also conducted many good
studies about businesses in China, USA and a few other countries. However
Indian Universities must study the business environment from the Indian
perspective for all the 270 countries of the world. A study from the Indian
perspective may lead to a significantly different understanding as compared to a
study from the American or European or Chinese perspective. Such studies may
be valuable to Indian businesses. But these may also add value to the world’s
store-house of knowledge by providing a study from the Indian perspective to
the available studies from the American, European and the Chinese perspectives.
GTU has 106 Management Colleges and more than a 1,000 faculty members.
Many of the faculty members are interested in the global business environment.
So GTU is uniquely placed to conduct such studies and become a store-house of
information about the business environment in the 200 countries of the third
and the fourth world. GTU proposes to encourage its students and faculty
members to conduct such studies and it proposes to put such case studies on its
cloud, so that the work may be widely disseminated for obtaining feedback.
When a student is encouraged to do an original case-study, it also helps him

become a more creative person.
The issues involved in the MBA program are that most of the programs in their syllabus
content and in the way these are delivered do not inculcate and encourage the spirit of
creativity and innovation. GTU is attempting, through both the design of its new MBA
program (i) to create a syllabus, which has an intimate relationship with the local context,
while it is designed to prepare managers for the ‘flat’ world of today and (ii) to deliver the
program such that the native creativity and spirit of innovation of a student is sharpened
and the student starts feeling comfortable in using his own ideas, along with the ideas of
great management thinkers, for solving practical business problems. The objective is that a
GTU MBA should be able to face the uncertainties and challenges at his work place by
calling upon his native creativity and spirit of innovation.
5.0 The GTU Innovation Sankuls:
GTU proposes to establish an Innovation Council to scale up at all the GTU Colleges the
successes achieved by some under-graduate students at a few Engineering Colleges, with
the help of Techpedia (Please see section 2.0 and Appendix 2). The GTU Innovation Council
will work jointly with Techpedia and we propose that at the University level, the Council will

have the Managing Director of Techpedia.in as a member. The leaders of Sristi will also be
invited to join the Council.
5.1 Searching for IDPs: When the issue of anchoring the Final Year projects on Industry
Defined Problems was discussed at GTU, it was found that SME were busy 24/7 for survival
and had very little energy or space for innovation. So most of the SMEs were unable to
define the problems. This general impression among the faculty at GTU was confirmed
when it was learnt that Techpedia also found that it took quite some time for SMEs to
define any problems, which they would like the engineering students to solve.
Solution: From 2011, during summer, pre-final year students –preferably in groups- will visit
some industry and work out 3-4 problems. The action plan will be as follows:
• Each group will define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined format.
• Each group will try to understand whether there is a knowledge gap or

technology gap or skill gap and will document it.
• The College will evaluate the above two outputs from each group at the
beginning of the 7th semester.
• The College will upload the problems to the University’s and Techpedia website.
Some students or some students, under the guidance of their faculty members may select
the project/ research problem, without a reference to an industry. Such problems will be
called User Defined Problems. (UDPs). The Council will attempt to find mentors from
industries or research institutions both for IDPs and UDPs.
5.2 Execution of the Projects: GTU wants every final year project to solve some real
problem of businesses & industries or of the society. GTU also wants to have a close inter-
action with businesses & industries or with the society by way of
• Identifying the problem,
• Designing and developing the product,
• Mentoring during the project and

• Evaluation of the project.
5.3 GTU Innovation Sankuls: GTU will establish 25 Regional Clusters of educational
institutions and businesses and industries. GTU will try to involve all industry associations
and government departments, associated with industries (Appendix 4) with the project. GTU
has talked to Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industries (GCCI) and the local unit of
Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM). GTU has also
established a contact with Gujarat Chemical Association and Vatva Industries Association.
Dr Rajesh Khajuria, Director of GTU-affiliated MBA College at Vadodara, has established an
active contact of GTU with Vadodara Chamber of Commerce & Industry (VCCI), Baroda IT
Association (BITA) and the Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGi). Shri Pravinbhai Maniar of
GTU-affiliated VVP Engineering College, Rajkot has connected GTU with Rajkot Engineering
Association (REI). With the help of Hiranmay Mahanta, Managing Director of Techpedia,
GTU has been able to establish a contact with Jamnagar Chamber of Commerce (JCCI), the
national president of ASSOCHAM, CII and FICCI. ASSOCHAM has decided at its AGM, held in
December 2010, to closely work with us in linking its 200,000 plus MSMEs to our academic
domain wherever there is a possibility. The SME problems of floor level will be addressed by
thousands of students of GTU to enable them to innovate and make it a sustainable
ecosystem .We have decided to classify different verticals of SME clusters and discrete
industries and to link them to respective engineering colleges and their subject experts.
Each such cluster will be called a ‘ GTU Sankul’. The objective of each GTU Sankul will be as
follows:
• To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industry and GTU
• To decide about the Final Year projects in consultation with industries
• To be able to seek and get the help of industries in execution of the project by
way of
o Mentoring
o Help by way of materials
o Help in evaluation of the project

• To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries through regular
consulting cells at institutes
• To help industry associations work better through student volunteers
• To help develop a relationship between professional associations and industries

for keeping the employees of the industry more up-to-date
• To organize continuing education program by assessing the needs of the

industry
• To have students and teachers visit industries
• To have summer internships in the industries
• To have engineers from the industry to regularly give seminars and inter-act
with the students
• To work out exchange of teachers and professionals from the industry
• To map every SME with the corresponding GTU institutions, with which the SME
can inter-act to mutual advantage
• To map every GTU institution with the corresponding SMEs, with which the GTU
institution can inter-act to mutual advantage
• To bring every one of the ASSOCHAM’s 200,000 members in touch with the
corresponding GTU institutions, with which the member may be able to inter-act
to mutual advantage
5.4 Micro-venture Innovation Fund: GTU Innovation Council will look at both the IDPs and
the projects, presented by research units to select excellent projects and provide support as
follows:
• 1,000 excellent BE projects (GTU has 34,079 seats at first year of BE in 2010.) @
Rs15,000 per project on an average

• 1,000 excellent DipE projects (GTU has 41,565 seats at first year of DipEin 2010.)
@ Rs10,000 per project on an average
• 1,000 excellent Master’s projects (GTU has 1,206 seats at first year of ME in
2010 and 1,546 seats in MPharma) @ Rs25,000 per project on an average
This may help the students develop their projects to completion by creating a workable
design, closer to a product, than may be the case without the support.
5.5 Annual Awards: GTU Innovation Council will give the following awards:
• For the best projects in each of the 32 fields of DipEngg and 32 fields of BE, 31
fields of ME,B Pharma, M Pharma, MBA and MCA (Awards to students)
• For the best Mentor in each field (Awards to professionals working in industries):
64 awards
• For the best GTU Sankul
• For the industrialist, who contributes best towards industry-institute inter-action
• For the Principal/ Director, who contributes best towards industry-institute

inter-action
• For the professional (Government Officer or Industry Officer), who contributes

best towards industry-institute inter-action
• For the Professor, who contributes best towards industry-institute inter-action
5.6 A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation: India had missed the industrial
revolutions of the nineteenth century and early part of twentieth century. Our industries
had not benefited from research at Universities and the two have not yet been come
together in any meaningful way.
Innovation cannot occur at industries, which have no active inter-action with Universities.
Innovation at Universities, where the learners & researchers and laboratories & workshops
have no contact with the real world is very difficult. The Soviet Russian experiment has

proved that research laboratories, without an active relationship with Universities may not
be as innovative as expected.
GTU Innovation Council along with its 25 Sankuls will cut through the inertia of non-contact
and will develop a new model of Industry-Institute Collaboration, based on innovation at the
grass roots level. When in three years, every one of its more than 100,000 final year
students and more than 20,000 faculty members are out in the field with the requirement
that an innovative Final Year project is to be completed and put on the Techpedia, when
there will be no way to hide the work, when good work will be awarded year after year and
when thousands of small and big industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with
young minds and faculty members about continuous improvements in their products and
when the law students work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely
new environment of innovations will be created.
6.0 Benchmarks and Outputs:
GTU Innovation Council will start its working with establishing 25 Sankuls by working jointly
with industry associations, industries, government’s departments of industries, Techpedia
and GTU’s educational institutions. The capacity of each Sankul will be built by involving
faculty members, professionals, students and owners of industries and encouraging each
Sankul to develop a methodology of working, which inculcates innovation through joint
working. At the end of every year, the working will be modulated after a review of the work
during the year is done. This will lead to a cycle of capacity building and renewal during the
year.
During the summer thousands of students and faculty members will work jointly with
industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may relate to improving
the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems, relating to the
industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the output from the students will be
evaluated and it will be uploaded on the Techpedia.

The synopsis of the projects will be studied and the Micro-venture fund support will be
provided to the proposed projects, which are adjudged to be the best.
When the projects are being executed, the Councils will work to map as many of the
projects as possible with mentors from the industry and businesses.
The GTU Innovation Council will work with industries and businesses to assess the need for
Continuing Education areas. It will also work with the Alumni to assess if GTU could help the
alumni by providing to him the continuing education in the area, required by an alumni. The
Council will provide the necessary Continuing Education Programs.
At the end of the year, when the students have completed the projects and these have been
evaluated, the projects will be uploaded on Techpedia.
The Council will work with the industry and the students and their faculty to see if the
project could be converted into a product, which can be commercialized. If so, it will work
with the Law students for developing an appropriate Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
agreement and for filing patents, where required.
7.0 Financial Requirements:
A) Young Technology Venture Funding System: This will help support conversion of students
ideas to prototypes/products
We are looking ahead at creating a micro innovation funding system to help the needy
students to develop their prototypes. (Hiranmay Mahanta, Managing Director of
Techpedia.in estimates that today more than 70% of UG thesis is not being converted to
prototypes/products.) GTU Innovation Council (GTU-IC) aims at improving this factor
significantly. Excellent projects of students will be given support. GTU-IC will encourage
students to develop prototypes into products. Students will be helped in developing
enterprise modules based upon innovative socio-technical solutions at BOP. Value addition
will be given stress for grass root Innovations. We are trying to transform the prevailing
environment into a system which harvests technology based entrepreneurship and
innovation. GTU-IC will help set up a transparent system for protection and transfer of IPR

of the innovators and contributors of the idea till it is transformed into a product even at the
BOP.
GTU would like to support the following:
o 1,000 excellent BE projects (GTU has 34,079 seats at first year of BE in 2010.) @
Rs15,000 per project on an average
o 1,000 excellent Dip. Eng. projects (GTU has 41,565 seats at first year of Dip Eng. in
2010.) @ Rs10,000 per project on an average
o 1,000 excellent Master’s projects (GTU has 1,206 seats at first year of ME in 2010
and 1,546 seats in MPharma) @ Rs25,000 per project on an average
Total= 5.00 Crores
Similar awards for Pharmacy (6 Branches), Computer Science and Business students (4
Electives) will be considered.
B) Awards at University Level: 32 vertical in Diploma and 32 verticals in Engineering;

Pharmacy (6 Branches), Computer Science and Business students (4 Electives):
Description-In 32 categories both in UG-PG/Polytechnic, awards for the best project will be
given depending upon uniqueness and distinctiveness of contribution. Relay of projects will
be managed so that new students take up selected projects for further work. Award
function costs may include travel of awardees, faculty guides, selected industrial
entrepreneurs/local communities leaders whose problems have been solved and other
distinguished guests, press conference, workshops at award function for two days and
boarding and lodging costs.
64*2=128 awards in an annum in engineering plus awards for Pharmacy (6 Branches),

Computer Science and Business students (4 Electives)
For the best projects in each field (Awards to students) 30 Lacs
For the best Mentor in each field (Awards to professionals) 20 Lacs
For the best Sankul (Certificate)
For the best contribution towards industry-institute inter-action
• To an industrialist (Certificate)
• To the Principal/ Director (Certificate)
• To the professional (Government Officer or Industry Officer) (Certificate)
• ¨To the Professor (Certificate)
50 lacs will be spent in over all arranging infrastructures and other expenses including
awards at University level.
C) Web architecture/ICT tool/Maintenance /Portal management/Database/HR expenses of

the concerned People: Portal development, maintenance, management & support
infrastructure, web architecture, database managements, Real time Mentoring Network
formation etc
25 Lac per year

D) 25 Persons to look after 25 Innovation clusters/ Innovation Sankuls
They will be coordinating to link all SME clusters (300 nearly SME clusters) linking some
50,000 MSMEs. Industry defined projects will be scouted from MSMEs and channelled to
40,000 students of GTU.
The MSMEs will be mapped based upon their exact technical Problems in various verticals in
the state.
Salary: 25*24,000*12 for each year=72 Lac @ 24,000 PM
TA/DA/Running Expenses /Managing Expenses of 25 clusters/Inter Process Communication
Charges etc=28 Lac for 25 clusters per year.
Team’s travel to different institutions, state government, state technical universities,

colleges, industrial clusters, local communities to document problems, connect them with
students, etc. Visits to industrial units in 166 industrial estates and 83 clusters, reaching out
to 50,000 SME shop-floors to map their technical problems ( industry defined projects).
Total= 1 Crore

E) Data Processing and Audio Visual Content creation of all Students projects and creating
a centralized Portal for 495 colleges and nearly 50,000 Students. Scanning, spell check,
typing in some cases, hard data on each project. Most of the data does not follow common
format and thus putting title, authors, guide, college name and abstract time to format,
editing of data entry, supervision, manual tagging will have to be introduced to facilitate
search.
50, Lac per year @ Rs. 10,000 per College on an average
F) Training and capacity building for developing innovation culture in 495 colleges in 32
verticals: 50 Lac
Capacity building for: Principals, Coordinators, grass root innovators, Best students,
Promising technology modules etc in 25 Innovation Sankuls . To provide a robust platform
for extensive sharing and dissemination of knowledge across all stakeholders of education in
general and higher education in particular under GTU.
G) Workshop, Seminars, Conferences, 25 Zonal Conferences including Industry Chambers,

Periodic review meetings with specific industry clusters etc.
Many chambers and industrial bodies like ASSOCHAM, GCCI, GIDC and VCCI have agreed to
help initially to locate the IDPs (industry defined projects) and we need to channelize them
to technical students and faculties in real time manner. One has to make at least 2-3 visits
prior to each workshop to the 166 existing SME clusters in different verticals. The cost of
venue, two tea, snacks and lunch for about 100 participants, AV aids, exhibition material
(posters, CDs and notebooks and pen), TA, DA in some cases, honorarium to experts, report
preparation, editing, publication and circulation to the participants)
25 Sankul, 2 times a year in each Sankul, capacity building of students, faculty and industry
professionals in IDP scouting:
4 Lac * 25= 1 crore

H) Coordinating the above process and contingency like the team of coordinators
and others who will be helping in segmental areas in different geographical locations: 50 lac
for 500 colleges in 25 Sankuls. We are aiming at Benchmarking, certification, codification
and replication for creating market and learning opportunities at every level. Periodic
interposes of communication with all academic and industry units, state government, other
state technical universities, colleges, industrial clusters and local communities to connect
them with students to keep them regularly in loop. Literatures and Documents printing and
periodically circulating and updating the literature.
GTU can solve / make a serious attempt to solve

• IDP (industry defined projects) scouting from MSMEs
• NMN (national mentoring network) creation on web where 10,000 faculties will
have web presence for vibrant participation in all process.
• BD: social business development modules.
• Creating awareness in scouting/value addition / module development for grass
root innovations.
I) IPR and Technology transfer: 500 Drafting* 15,000= 75 Lac (Students/faculties will be
helped in getting low cost patenting process on a wider scale. Workshops and awareness
campaign for prior art search, drafting, licensing, protecting IPR will be done for the above.)
Total 10.00 Crore per Year
For 3 Years= 10.00*3= 30.00 Crores
GTU will provide supervisory persons at the regional level and at the state level.
GTU will also provide the facilities and equipment like computers for the work. The costs for
these will work out to about 25% of the project costs. However these costs will be borne by
GTU through its budget.

GTU’s Footprint: Appendix 1_page1 of 1
Course Total Available No. of No. of seats with all Detailed break- up with
other Universities
Seats in Gujarat seats with the other Universities
at first year GTU in Gujarat
B.E. 37,103 34,079 3,024 Nirma: 600
DDIT(GIA): 345
(93) DDIT(SFI): 249
ChU: 660
GanU: 660
MSU: 510
B.Pharm 6,878 6,728 150 Nirma:60
MSU: 30
(85) DDIT(GIA): 60
D.E. 42,895 41,565 1,330 DDIT(GIA): 40
MSU: 690
(82) Nirma: 600
D.Pharm 840 840 - -
(18)
ME 1,897 1,206 691 ChU:72
DDIT: 162
(30) MSU: 385
GanU: 72
M.Phram 1,875 1,546 329 ChU: 36
MSU: 72
(32) SP: 30
SauU: 81
GanU: 110
MBA 12,070 10,830 1,240 GU: 90; BhU: 60; DDIT:
60; AhU:120; ChU: 120;
(106) Kadi SV: 120; GanU: 240;
MSU: 40; KU: 60; NGU:
60; SPU: 60; SauU: 90;
VNSGU: 120
MCA 4,900 3,960 940 GU: 30; BhU: 60; DDIT:
60; AhU: 60; ChU: 120;
(49) MSU: 20; KadiSV: 120;
SPU: 100; SauU: 60;
VNSGU: 60; NGU: 60;
Nirma: 60
Thus the total annual enrolment is 101,054 students. Besides, GTU is going to start its
doctoral studies program in August 2011 with about 350 doctoral students.
GTU has one of the largest graduate programs in the world:
2010: Total No of seats in the Master’s program: 39,044.
2011: Master’s seats may increase a little during 2011.
Every ME student has to complete a 2-semester dissertation. Every M.Pharm

student has to complete a 1-year project. Every MCA student has to work on her
project for one full semester. Every MBA student is required to write a major paper
in the last semester and she has to complete a number of case studies during the 3rd
and the 4th semester.
Doctoral program: to be started in August 2011; 350 applicants have cleared the
entrance test.

Appendix 2_page 1 of 4
INDUSTRY’S PROBLEMS
solved by
STUDENTS OF GTU INSTITUTES
Student Mithilesh Patel, from GOVT. POLYTECHNIC, DAHOD has successfully designed a
module to Run IC engines (vehicular, agricultural pump, generator ext.) with mixed water
injection. Though being a student from Civil Engineering has successfully experimented in
his bike for approximately 800km in 4.5 month with his so called h2o kit. He claims specialty
/unique benefit of his innovation is in improving mileage from 10 to 100% and h.p. 5 to 10%,
remove co2 and hc exhaust 70% up. He suggests that his models will be suitable where it
can be used in any place like agricultural automobile, medical, welding, cooking, etc.
An industry defined project (IDP) posed on online platform techpedia.in by Royal Solar,
Rajkot has successfully done by a student of AITS, Rajkot which can be used in tribal
people’s domain due to its low cost. Similarly a team led by Malav Kansara, an UG student
from Mehshana has successfully attempted in solving “Photo sensor based Sun tracking
system for Solar Power Plants” a problem posed by L&T. The attempt is to sense the sun
position within 0.1 deg accuracy. For this, the control system designed will continuously
change the sensor position till maximum radiation is sensed. This sensor system then can be
interfaced with solar reflectors to point them towards the sun.
A group of UG students of GTU including Mr Rashesh Dhave from AITS has cracked a
problem posed by again L&T on Infrared sensor based Vehicle Classification System for
wider applications. This project has successfully verified by a group of experts at SVNIT Surat
early this month. They have got wider applause to go for possible testing it in BRTS
application system in Ahmedabad in due course of improvements in precession. Similar
innovation modules have been nurtured in more than dozen places so that students can
develop new enterprise modules.
Hitesh Rana a final year student of Electronics and communication in ADIT, Karamsad has
put his hand on solving many real life socio technical issues and adding value to grass root
innovations. He has worked in areas like plough for farming on hilly regions, safety helmet
for 2 wheeler riders, portable helmets etc. This working process has taken a way ahead in
socializing our technologies that have remained unsolved since centuries in common man’s
life.

A Student project Guided by Mr Amit Degada on I-Wikipedia has progressed significantly

involving UG students at VVP Engineering College, Rajkot. The biggest advantage of this
project is that everybody is just one click away to the right information and we can connect
the pool of the knowledge and people can get immediate solution to their queries. Similar
innovative works has been guided by Mr Dhruv Dave, L.J Institute of Technology in areas like
fast Full search Algorithm for motion estimation and other related soft technologies.
Adjustable Multi-Spindle Drilling Attachment, String Milling Fixture, Fabrication of Plastic
Injection Moulding Machine, Non-Conventional Speed Breaking are a few of the innovations
developed at BIT Barnama .
Going way ahead a student of R. K. College of Engg. & Tech in GTU, Amit Siroya has applied
an innovative way to conserve energy. He has developed a linear motion system, using scrap
vehicle wipers and a timer linked arrangements. This system provides a way for addressing
the problem of dust cleaning on solar PV modules for solar street lights in remote places.
This increases the efficiency for this photovoltaic device in the longer run (an industry
problem posed by one solar industry at techpedia). Many Solar energy companies have
appreciated this innovative solution and a few of them are likely to use the solution in the
production environment. He has availed a great deal of mentoring support in furnishing his
idea via the mentors from online NMN (National Mentoring Network) of techpedia.in and
from other colleges of GTU.

Pharmaceutical project:
Evaluation of the CNS Activity of Ayurvedic Formulation “DHASARA” of Acorus calamus Root
in Mice and related work has been completed at S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot.
Development and evaluation of Polyherbal formulation for Cancer and other need based
research are undergoing in the institute to deliver a solution by March 2011. The work is
being supervised by Dr. Manish A. Rachchh.
Other Developments:
In a few cases students have gone one step ahead in converting their UG projects for their
new techno entrepreneurship modules. A UG students from Surat has successfully created
innovative green lighting system as a pre final year project and has now successfully
converted it into a profitable techno-entrepreneurship module namely “Angadia
Enterprise”. The students have successfully used the lab infrastructures after college hours
and started their ventures right from the labs to a significant market presence now. These
students are yet to pass out from their UG courses. This is motivating a wider range of UG,
GTU students to think out of box now and link their ideas and innovative spirit to industrial
needs.
Mentoring and Micro-venture Fund:

Many faculty members from GTU have been helping the students at various places in
converting their ideas to products and in realizing their dreams via online NMN (National
Mentoring Network) as an open knowledge pooling linkages breaking the barrier of space
and time. To cater to the need of assisting the students in developing their ideas in to
prototypes, Techpedia is looking forward to creating a micro venture innovation funding
system (MVIF) to help these students in shaping their models in a ripple funding manner.
This will raise the innovation quotient of the system and it can improve to a better ‘idea-
innovation-solution-enterprise modules’ algorithm in converting students’ work to fruitful
socially applicable technical outcomes than the existing situation.
LET’S POOL OUR SPIRIT AND RESOURCES IN CONVERTING THE EXPERIMENT OF TODAY TO
BE THE HYPOTHESIS OF TOMORROW.
EFFORTS IN LINKING THE TECHNICAL STUDENTS/FACULTIES OF GTU TO MSME TECHNICAL

ISSUES
BY
GTU AND TECHPEDIA
AGENDA: Breaking barriers between “Industries – Academia”; Endorsing innovation

fuelled Techno-entrepreneurship; Commandeering break-through solutions for Industries
and Society; Pioneering Open innovation and harvesting need based technological
evolution
Techpedia.in ( www.techpedia.in ) as a national platform for bridging the gap existing

between Industries, Academics and Innovation is trying to develop possible linkages
between the academic domain of GTU and MSME clusters of the state. The novel mission
has been able to amass an exhaustive database of more than 100,000 technical projects
and write-ups from more than 500 technical colleges (AICTE approved) across the country,
including IITs and NITs. Recently concluded NIT consortium’s meeting of its Deans at NIT
Surathkal on April 3rd this year has liked the concept to take it ahead at a faster pace.
Every year approximately 6 lac students graduate out of technical colleges in India and as
per the norms set by AICTE, 1.25 lac projects prepared by the students and guided by the
faculty are submitted to the college authorities. It is sad but true that no one knows about
the fate of these projects and their usability in industries. As noted by former director
general of CSIR, Padmabhushan Dr R.A.Mashelkar on Techpedia recently that over 3 million
human months of our Yuvashakti are being spent on solving real life problems on college
campuses. For the first time, Techpedia has an access to the outcomes of this huge
endeavor. Techpedia believes in transforming ideas into products and products to techno-
entrepreneurship modules keeping IPR linked to the innovators.
If out of these 1.25 lac projects which are submitted every year, even 1000 (1%) have the
potential to be developed into commercial products or solutions that could provide
breakthroughs in the fields of Science and Technology, it could be a phenomenal success in

itself. Techpedia is in the process of transforming the prevailing environment into a system
which harvests technology based entrepreneurship and innovation, and at the same having
a transparent system for protection and transfer of the due credentials to the innovators
and contributors of the idea till it is transformed into a product.
(http://www.techpedia.in/problem_search_details.php?problem_type=I) posed by
industries and management students address modules similar to developing ERPs to raise
the sick units of SMEs and others and new student developed Enterprises. An NMN
(National Mentoring Network) http://www.techpedia.in/nmn/ is being developed to guide
these students and faculties to address the industry projected problems/projects(IDPs)
consisting of retired scientists, policy makers, faculties and expert professionals from all
corners of industry and academics headed by Dr.R.A.Mashelkar.Muliple student and faculty
groups irrespective of time and space attempt these problems via the web and lead a relay
model in developing faster solutions saving the major R&D investments of many industries
as an open innovation virtual Lab.
Techpedia database has an exhaustive collection of more than 100,000 technical projects
but that accounts for only 4-5% of the total extractable data across all the technical colleges
in the country. By accumulating all these it is felt that one can provide a better interfacing
for the SMEs to get an idea of real research trend in the UG level even. The effective
solutions can be linked to corresponding SMEs keeping the IPR intact to the search students
and faculties.Techpedia is trying to develop smaller enterprise units based on technology
inputs in developing a wider knowledge society globally. The socio-technical problems of 50
most backward districts are being posed to these students to be taken up in July 2011 with
the hope that the problems that have remained unsolved for centuries could be cracked.
We are trying to create a collaborative culture and virtual knowledge network, by which
India can harness the full potential of young technological, legal and management minds in
an integrated approach.

Techpedia is aiming for benchmarking, certification, codification and replication for

creating market and learning opportunities at very bottom level too. There are lot of
traditional skills which with some improvement or blending of new skills, resources or
designs can create opportunities for employment and poverty alleviation. There are also
new skills required to be incorporated in polytechnics, ITIs, community colleges, etc., so that
local resources are linked with either existing or new skills such that viable markets can be
created for skills as well as skill-based enterprises Many chambers and industrial bodies like
ASSOCHAM, GCCI, GIDC and MIDC have helped initially to locate the IDPs (Industry Defined
Projects) and channelize them to technical students and faculties via a section called “
problems in search for solutions” at www.techpedia.in.
To execute the entire algorithm techpedia team has started visiting the GTU colleges to
interact its pre final and final year students and faculties guiding them. The following are
few of the notable outcomes found out soon after the 1st round of visits to some few dozen
colleges of GTU.The fact that has been found in this interaction with thousands of students
and faculties is that there can be a well trusted link possible between the MSME and
academia, specially GTU .Students have successfully attempted the Industry Defined Projects
(IDPs) posed by various MSMEs, Bigger Industries and even by Grass root Innovations. Few
students have converted their projects work to new enterprise modules in last few months
and they are really scaling up towards the effort in socializing technologies. If a little
resource could be provided to the students a handful of students can convert their
theoretical ideas to prototypes from where a better visibility of the innovation can be
created. Techpedia found out from initial GTU college survey that nearly 25% more students
will finish their prototypes within UG if they can be linked a very minimum resource. Highly
experienced faculties can explore in sharing their expertise beyond their own institutes to
link the needy students across the country via web based NMN which is an open source
environment in strengthening the knowledge ecosystem breaking the barrier of space and
time. A virtual incubation cell centralized at GTU can play a vital role in nurturing the
budding techno- entrepreneurs of the technical domain even in UG level.

Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has been established with the prime objective of developing
the knowledge of science, engineering, technology, management, pharmacy and environment for
the advancement of quality of life of the mankind. The University is required to create centers and
institutes of excellence in basic and applied science, engineering, technology and management.
GTU offers Bachelor’s and Diploma Engineering programs in 32 disciplines each, its Master’s
program in Engineering 22 different specialized areas and its M. Pharma program has six
specializations. Its Business Studies program has four different elective areas and five different
sectorial areas.
GTU has set up the Board for Rurban Technologies, consisting of GTU Institutions in rural areas and
mofussil towns has met twice: On 1st October 2010 and on 29th November 2010.
GTU’s Board for environmental and Green technologies has met on 22nd December 2010, 7th January
2011, 5th February 2011 and 21st May 2011. It is planning four workshops.
Objectives:
• “To create institutes and centres of excellence to impart state of the art education, training
and research in the field of Science, Technology and Management in general.”
• “To create capabilities to develop knowledge, skill and competence at various levels.”
• “To create capabilities to upgrade infrastructure to global standards for education, training
and research in the areas related to Engineering, Technology and Sciences.”
• “To provide inter-relationship for national and international participations in the fields of
Science, Engineering, Technology and Management.”
• “To establish close linkages with industries to make teaching, training and research at the
University relevant to the needs of industries at national and international levels.”
All the grant-in-aid and SFI colleges imparting education in Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA of
the state have been brought under one roof for establishing common standards, for promoting Inter
constituent collaboration and competition.

GTU start-up:
2008: Started Degree and Diploma programs in Engineering and Pharmacy
2009: Started PG programs: MBA (four electives and five sectorial specialization areas), MCA,
M.Pharm. (Five specializations), ME (Twenty two specialization).
2010:
• Continuous modernization of syllabi in all branches, with a major change in MBA teaching.
• Increasing the importance of practical work and attempting to have projects with the help of
industries and businesses.
2011:
• Starting Ph.D. programs in Engineering, Management, Pharmacy, and Computer Science.
Organizational Structure
GTU has a centralized examination process and a common syllabus across the state for all colleges in
a particular discipline and for a [particular program of study. This serves the following objectives:
o common standards;
o Inter constituent collaboration – for example between MBA and Engineering
students;
o Inter constituent competition
GTU’s administrative offices are being constructed at Chandkheda.
It also proposes to have University Colleges and Centers of Excellence at Gandhi Nagar.
GTU proposes to establish Regional Academic Centers at Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot. These will help
GTU have higher quality academic work by bringing it closer to institutions, businesses and industries
and it will enable it to use local strengths to build the university, since though universities are
universal, they derive their strength from their local connectivity. GTU is a big-sized University so
that it should be able to take up academic challenges for competing with the best in the world. At
the same time, it wants to be nimble enough that it is able to take up the smallest task with
excellence. The centralized structure along with the decentralized Regional centers will help achieve
the right balance.
GTU is offering a sectorial specialization in Retail Management in its MBA program. In 2009-10, it
was offered to 5,624 students at 83 colleges. GTU is planning to start a center for Retail
Management at Gandhi Nagar.

GTU is working on offering an Aviation Engineering program at Indus with the help of a University in
USA.
GTU is offering a BE in Biotechnology program and is likely to offer an ME Biotechnology program

from next year. It is offering both an ME and BE in Bio-Medical engineering.
GTU’s post-graduate students in M.E. Civil (Water Resources Management) program and professors
are doing creditable work in the area.
GTU is offering an ME program in Textile Engineering. It is also offering BE programs in Textile

Production and textile Technology.
Infrastructure is a major focus in GTU. Thus GTU is offering a Master’s program in Transportation
Engineering. At three places, GTU’s Colleges are leaders in Environmental Studies and Research and
they have helped study, understand and clean up operation in Saurashtra, Ankaleshwar-Bharuch and
Surat.
GTU has established a Center for Advanced Studies in Defence and Security at Vadodara.
GTU is planning Centers of Excellence in various areas of technology, in which it has expertise.
Steps for Leadership in Learning Outcomes:
To improve the teaching learning processes for the teachers as well as students, GTU has
initiated several activities.
• Continuously up-dated curriculum in all the fields: GTU is engaged in a continuous process of
updating the syllabi in all its fields for meeting the ever changing needs of society. It is
attempting to make the issues of human values in education and ethical working of
professionals, trained by it as its continuous focus.
• Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for PG Courses Gujarat Technological
University
(GTU) has as many as 40 PG level courses in various disciplines such as Master of Engineering
(ME), Master of Pharmacy (MPHARM), Master in Computer Application (MCA), and Master
in business management (MBA). GTU has decided to make cluster of more than 2500
courses websites for various PG level courses to achieve the following objectives such as
organizing and sharing resources; providing effective ways to reach remote learners and
connect them in a virtual course; to appeal to students' visual and interactive learning

modes; to help teach students real-world skills such as handling large volumes of
information, developing research skills, analyzing and evaluating information.
Such Learning Management Systems are today used in every University in the
developed countries. However in India, this may be the first large-scale use of
launching such a large number of courses website.
Please see: http://www.gtupgcourses.org/
• GTU Wikis
GTU Wikis (“using collective intelligence for improving Learning Outcomes”). GTU
Wikis are intended to serve teachers of GTU consortium colleges (PPP colleges) to
achieve the following objectives:
• Enable group of teachers teaching the same subject in different institutes to
share their experience.
• Building a community of learners located in different parts of the State, by

working on the same document and adding their own parts.
Please see: http://www.gtuwiki.wikispaces.net/
• Self-study Facility for Good Students:
GTU has provided at six Colleges, rooms with 12-15 computers connected to a
central server, on which the entire video course-set of IIT Mumbai has been
mounted. Thus any student can take advantage of any of the lectures to supplement
his study in the class room. By the end of April 2011, we shall estimate the usage of
the facility to see whether our students find the facility to be useful.
• GTU Discussion Boards (“Exchanging Tips and Discussing Topics”)

GTU Discussion Boards enable teachers, senior faculties and principals of GTU
affiliated colleges to interact with each other. GTU aims to achieve the following
objectives through discussion boards to get educational as well as administrative
inputs for decision making; to build relationship with institutes and among
institutes and to enable discussion and debate topics which will give each other tips
and ideas. The first four Discussions Boards for Principals/Directors of PG courses is
being launched.
Please see: http://www.gtucampusconnect.org/forum/
• GTU Campus Connect

For Continuous Feedback from Students and a help-site (“For the, Of the & By the
Students”)
Gujarat Technological University (GTU) enrols about 1.1 lacks students per year in
various courses from undergraduate level to postgraduate level. GTU Campus Connect
is the welcome website for students where they can simply register and post their
queries regarding grades, syllabus, previous papers and other exam related things.
Please see: http://www.gtucampusconnect.org/
• Faculty Development Programs:
GTU is making a huge and continuing effort, conducted through IIT Teachers, NITTTR,
Bhopal and local resources for faculty development. Thus its FDP program of 17-22Aug
2010 was probably the largest such programs, which updated 166 faculty members of
GTU affiliated colleges.
• Facilitation of Research:
GTU is in the process of setting up a Virtual Research Center to help its alumni and
existing students get quality research education through world-class master’s and
doctoral theses work. For this purpose, it seeks the collaboration of the research
community of the whole of the world.
GTU also wants to encourage its colleges to develop ‘Scholar in Residence for A Week’
programs so that its faculty members and the students may learn about the
methodologies of rigorous research work. It also encourages every College to develop a
regular mentoring and feedback mechanism. The University has devised a common
framework for the program. GTU has programs of teaching relating to technology.
Hence industrial collaboration is very necessary. GTU and its teachers and students are
making a major effort for an effective participation of competent professionals from
industries in the academic processes of the University.
Through Techopedia and the Foundation for MSME Clusters’ program for development
of Human Resource for Medical Devices, GTU is attempting to bring industry-oriented
problems for the Final Year projects to its Diploma and Degree Engineering students.
For MBA students during the fourth semester’s Global Business Strategy studies, the
students are being encouraged to study and prepare their own case studies about some
aspect of a country’s business for about 100 different countries.
GTU is going to give, in September 2011, the best principal and the best faculty member
award to the teachers to recognize both excellent teaching and research.
GTU: Efforts for all-round Growth of the young:
First Annual Sports Festival-2010:
The festival began on 26th October 2010 with Regional Football competitions at SPCE,
Visnagar & SIGMA, Vadodara. During the first year, 9 games have been included and the
festival will continue up to the last week of November 2010. More than 10,000 students and
775 teams are participating in the festival at 7 places across the state.

The University has no DPI. An Ad-hoc board with Professor Chaitnaya Sanghvi as the
Convenor was formed to conduct the Festival this year.. The advice of DPIs of the other
Universities in Gujarat was sought and a program to use the strength of all its Colleges was
developed. No more than 20 Colleges out of 495 Colleges have a regular qualified sports
teacher. It was decided that the Principal of the host institute will work as the Organizing
Chairman and that the sports In-charge will be appointed as the Organizing Secretary for the
sports being conducted at a College.
It is proposed to take up 20 different games next year.
GTU: Development of a Positive Outlook:
A new system of continuous meetings with faculty members of affiliated Colleges, both
senior faculty and new entrants to teaching, has been set up. Students, who have an
excellent academic record are continuously invited for discussions. The University officers
are continuously visiting Colleges to have meetings with teachers, students and their
parents and the Trustees. Regular meetings with Trustees, who have built the self-financed
institutions are being organized. Continuous efforts for inter-action with the government
officers, responsible for managing government’s engineering colleges and polytechnics are
being made.
This has resulted in a positive outlook, a hope for improvement in the system and a
confidence among the stake-holders. Thus the first conference, organized by GTU on
“Business Ethics for Global Success of Indian Businesses” jointly with a GTU Roundtable on
25th and 26th September proved to be a grand success, with widespread participation from
all over the country. Recently ISTAR, a GTU- affiliated College, organized a training
workshop, to which came 60 persons from IISc, Bangalore, IITs, NITs, BITS and many other
prestigious institutions to get training in NS 2. Three of the Summer Internship program
competitions, conducted by three of our MBA colleges, have attracted entries from MBA
Colleges all over India, including from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, considered to
be the best management School in India.

GTU: Leader in Examination Process:
Successful implementation of soft papers for exams across the state in professional
courses.
• Conventional paper printing is replaced by the encrypted CD’s by the university

• Safe delivery of question paper every day by electronic mode.
• Seven such exams spanning 400 plus exam centers have been successfully
completed in a span of two years.
• GTU declare the results in one month for degree programs and in five weeks for
diploma programs.
• First University to take online exam of GCET for MBA and MCA entrance to take
online.
Achievements:
The Gujarat Technological University has been awarded as ICT (Information Communication
Technology) Enabled University in Digital Learning Category of the year by the jury in the E-
India 2009. The E-India 2009 awarded at a glittering ceremony held at Hyderabad
International Convention Centre, Hyderabad on August 26, 2009.The Event was organized
by Centre for Science,
Development and Media Studies CSDMS and Co organized by the Ministry of

Communication and IT, Government of India as well as National E governance plan.
It is noteworthy that the University was established in August 2008, and just within a year,
the University has bagged prestigious awards.
GTU has also won prestigious MANTHAN AWARD SOUTH ASIA – 2009 for the innovation and
ICT content in its application.

Industries Departments and Officers of Government of Gujarat
1. Principal Secretary (Industries)
2. Industries Commissioner
3. GIDC :
166 functional industrial estates; 91 in various stages of planning in 25 of the 26

districts of the state.
GIDC is now establishing:
o Special Investment Regions and Special Economic Zones
o Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR), at the

Bharuch-Dahej Investment Region, through a joint venture company —
ONGC Petro Additions Limited (OPaL) — between Gujarat State Petroleum
Corporation (GSPC) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
Reference: http://www.gidonline.com/industrialresources/gidc.htm as of 6th

December 2010
4. Industry Clusters
o 83 industrial clusters for different industry groups exist in Gujarat.
o 22 clusters: being developed, through interventions such as technology up-

gradation, quality improvement, setting up of common facility centres, skill
development facilities, etc. with the active assistance of R&D institutions, as
well as industry associations
Reference: http://ic.gujarat.gov.in/Ind_guj/cluster_development.html as of 6th

December 2010

Appendix 6: Time-line
0-4 months Setting up 25 GTU Sankuls;
Recruiting officers for the Sankuls;
Capacity Building at College, sankul and industry, Sankul and Business &
industry started.
4-8 months Thousands of pre-final year students industries visit industries and
businesses and identify, define and parameterize each problem in a pre-
defined format.
8-12 months The first group of IDPs and UDPs uploaded on the Techpedia.
The projects, adjudged to be the best: supported through micro-venture

fund.
Mentors mapped to IDPs and UDPs

12-16 months The first Review of the first cycle started and capacity building at College,
Sankul and industry & Business level re-started.
16-20 months Projects evaluated
Awards declared.
Projects uploaded to TechPedia.
Second group of thousands of pre-final year students work in industries

and identify, define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined
format.
Working with Law students for IPR and patenting process initiated.
20-24 months The second group of IDPs and UDPs uploaded on the Techpedia.
The second group of projects, adjudged to be the best: supported through
micro-venture fund.
The second group of mentors mapped to IDPs and UDPs.
Product development for IDPs and entrepreneurial work for UDPs initiated.

24-28 months A review of the first cycle completed and Capacity Building at College,
Sankul and industry & Business level re-started.
28-32 months The second group of projects evaluated
The second group of Awards declared.
The second group of projects uploaded to TechPedia.
The third group of thousands of pre-final year students work in industries

and identify, define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined
format.
Working with Law students for IPR and patenting process for the second
group initiated, while the work for the first group may be nearing
completion. (If a patent application had been filed out of the projects of
the first group, it may take about 18 months. If a UDP project is being
incubated, it usually takes 3 to 5 years for the project to become mature
and move out of the incubator.)
32-36 months The third group of IDPs and UDPs uploaded on the Techpedia.
The third group of projects, adjudged to be the best: supported through

micro-venture fund.
The third group of mentors mapped to IDPs and UDPs.
Product development for the second group of IDPs and entrepreneurial

work for UDPs initiated.
36-40 months A review completed and Capacity Building at College, Sankul and industry
& Business level re-started.
Preparation of the Final Report; The completion seminar conducted.
By the end of this period, the third group of projects would have been
completed. Some of the first group of projects would be nearing
commercialization launch.
Awards for the third group declared.

Udisha Clubs in GTU Colleges
GTU Sankuls:
To bring industries, businesses and GTU Colleges together, GTU is setting 25 Innovation
Sankuls, as a part of the GTU Innovation Council. Each Sankul will represent a cluster of GTU
Colleges and the industries in the area. Every College, affiliated to GTU, will be associated
with one of the Sankuls.
A Club at every GTU College:
To take advantage of the Sankuls and to organize other placement activities at each College,
every GTU college is setting up a Club. The Club may be called the Udisha1 (Universal
Development of Integrated Skills through Higher Education) Club of the College.
General Guidelines for setting up a Club:
• Each club has an Executive Committee (EC).
• The Executive Committee will have some faculty and students of various branches as
members. One of the faculty members will act as its coordinator.
• Faculty Members: As far as possible, each Branch has one faculty member in the
Executive Committee.
• Student Members: As far as possible, from every Branch, there is one student from
each year. Thus for a 4-year degree program in a branch, there will be four students,
one each from the first, the second, the third and the fourth year respectively.
The members of the Executive Committee at a College will be nominated by the Principal/
Director of the College. The Training and Placement Officer of the College may be an
important member of the Club.

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The Principal/ Director will be the Patron of the Club.
Objectives:
a.To coordinate the activities of its Sankul at college level.

b. To establish a close and continuing inter-action between
the industries and the College
c. To help students decide about the Final Year projects in
consultation with industries
d. To be able to seek and get the help of industries in
execution of the Final Year project by way of
i. Mentoring
ii. Help by way of materials
iii. Help in evaluation of the project
e. To have summer internships in the industries

f. To work out exchange of teachers and professionals from the
industry
g.To participate in the activities of the industry associations for
developing a closer inter-action by helping the to
organize continuing education programs for industries
by assessing the needs of the industry and society.
h. To harness the effective potential of young technical
minds and faculties.
i. To have students and teachers visit industries
j. To identify and to help solve the problems of the industries.

Placements: The Club will work towards ensuring that every student gets an
excellent placement after she/ he completes his/ her studies. For this purpose, the
activities will be as follows:
a. providing information about career options and job avenues

b. career counselling and placement.
c. training for developing Soft skills
d. organizing motivational activities
e. organizing mock-interviews to equip students with interview
etiquettes at college level
f. arranging campus – interviews
The Club may consult the Principal if it wants to take up any other extracurricular activity.
Additional Activities for MBA Colleges: MBA students have to prepare studies on
strategies required for global businesses. So they have to study and prepare papers on some
specific countries.
When a student is encouraged to do an original case-study, it also helps him become a more
creative person. MBA students would require four different types of activities:
TYPE 1: Working with GTU-FSCC to study a financial service offered by some organization
and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in providing such a service.
TYPE 2: Working with GTU-CHRSOS to study an organizational structure or the HR policies of

some organization or of some large Department of an organization and to determine the
skills required for those, who are at various levels in the organization or for those, who are
providing a HR service.
TYPE 3: Working with GTU-SCM to study a marketing service offered by some organization
and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in providing such a service.

TYPE 4: GTU Objectives in developing country-specific studies: Our management

institutions have done a good job educating our MBA students by using Harvard case
studies as well as similar material from other good sources. Our management and
business schools have also conducted many good studies about businesses in China, USA
and a few other countries. However Indian Universities must study the business
environment from the Indian perspective for all the 270 countries of the world. A study
from the Indian perspective may lead to a significantly different understanding as
compared to a study from the American or European or Chinese perspective. Such
studies may be valuable to Indian businesses. But these may also add value to the
world’s store-house of knowledge by providing a study from the Indian perspective to
GTU Strength for becoming a leader in country-specific studies: Universities can conduct
such studies and keep them updated only through ‘relay studies’, whereby a student
performs the study and it is then carried forward, improved and updated by the next year’s
student. GTU has 106 Management Colleges and more than 1,000 faculty members. Many
of the faculty members are interested in the global business environment. So GTU is
uniquely placed to conduct such studies and become a store-house of information about the
business environment in the 200 countries of the third and the fourth world. GTU proposes
to encourage its students and faculty members to conduct such studies and it proposes to
put such case studies on its cloud, so that the work may be widely disseminated for
obtaining feedback.
The process for the study of global strategy:
a. During the visits to the businesses and industries, every student should learn about
linkages of these businesses with countries in the third and the fourth world. Then one
should try to locate an Industry Defined Problem (IDP) for a case study.
In case no business, with external linkages, can be located through visits to the industry,
one may take the help of trustees, teachers and friends to locate some such businesses.

b. During the summer after the first year, preparation of a report about a couple of
countries by a class. Each report should include the following for each country: (each
component may be taken up by a Group of about 6 students.)
(i) Its economic history and its historical context

(ii) Its trading partners and the products
(iii) Its economic linkages with India
(iv) Its major companies
(v) Any Indian-owned businesses
(vi) Any prominent Indians in the country
(vii) Good Business Colleges
c. Submission and Evaluation of the Report at the start of the third semester
d. Using the IDP, preparation of an “Intent to do- a Case study” about some business
aspect in the country of interest by every group of 6 students during the third semester
If possible, some students may plan to visit the country-of-interest during the term-break
between the third and fourth semesters for one to two weeks.
e. During the fourth semester, analysis of a global strategy problem currently or recently
facing a firm/country of interest. The case study should identify mechanisms for winning
the global strategy game overcoming cultural/social and institutional differences in the
country. The outputs should be a Case-study and a 30 minute presentation.
The issues involved in the MBA programs in our country are that most of the programs in
their syllabus content and in the way these are delivered do not inculcate and encourage
the spirit of creativity and innovation. GTU is attempting, through both the design of its new
MBA program (i) to create a syllabus, which has an intimate relationship with the local
context, while it is designed to prepare managers for the ‘flat’ and wired world of today and
(ii) to deliver the program such that the native creativity and spirit of innovation of a student
is sharpened and the student starts feeling comfortable in using his/ her own ideas, along
with the ideas of great management thinkers, for solving practical business problems. The
objective is that a GTU MBA should be able to face the uncertainties and challenges at his
work place by calling upon his native creativity and spirit of innovation.
1
The name has been borrowed from the Clubs, being promoted by the Commissioner for
Higher Education, through the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat.

Appendix 8
Mappings
Chetan, Chintan, Mayur, Prakash and Pratik have mapped the proposed GTU Sankuls on the
map of Gujarat. The following maps have been prepared:
1. Location of GTU Sankuls
2. Location of GIDCs (90 out of 166 operational GIDCs have been

mapped. The data for the remaining 76 is being collected.)
3. Location of Degree Engineering Colleges
4. Location of Colleges offering Master of Engineering programs
5. Location of Colleges offering MBA programs
6. Location of Colleges offering MCA programs
7. Location of Dip Pharmacy Colleges
8. Location of Colleges offering M Pharm programs
However we are attaching only one map as a sample.


Appendix 9
GTU INNOVATION SANKULS
1. Vadodara - 1
2. Vadodara- 2
3. VV Nagar-1
4. VV Nagar- 2
5. Godhra:
6. Ankeleshwar – Bharuch
7. Junagarh
8. Kutchh
9. Valsad-Vapi
10. Navsari
11. Mahesana
12. Himmatnagar
13. Chhatral
14. Jamnagar
15. Surendranagar
16. Rajkot-1 (Shaper Veraval)
17. Rajkot-2 (Aji industrial belt)
18. Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC)
19. Surat-
20. Morbi
21. Ahmedabad- Naroda
22. Ahmedabad- Vatva
23. Ahmedabad- Gandhinagar
24. Bhavnagar
25. Patan
.

GTU – Skills Council for Marketing
(GTU-SCM).
Objectives of GTU-SCM :
• to enhance professionalism and talent in the field of marketing across the

State of Gujarat and India .
• to act as a bridge between industry, government and GTU
Sectors GTU-SCM: The Skills Council shall have the following sectors
• Creative Advertising • Sales and Distribution

• Brand Building • On-line Marketing
• International Marketing • Marketing of Services
• Rural Marketing • Marketing Research Analysis
All eight of these sectors will have Sectoral Panels. The purpose of a Panel will be to
rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of requirements for certifying
professionals in its sector. Each of the Sector Panels will be Co-Chaired by a Co-
Chairperson (Academic) and a Co-Chairperson (Industry). The Co-Chairpersons of
the Sector Panels will represent the sector on the GTU- SCM.
Management : The GTU-SCM shall have a Board as a policy making body . The
board shall have top notch professional heads of various companies in the eight
sub-sectors and leading educationists and independent professionals . The size of
GTU-SCM Board could be broadly representative but at the same time manageable
.
Each of sub –sectors shall be represented by panels giving broader representation

to various segments of sub-sectors of GTU-SCM.
Activities of GTU- SCM:
1. to rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of skills, required for

professionals in each one of its sub-sectors
2. to develop standard manual for Summer Internships for MBAs
3. to advise GTU on various professional examinations that could be
undertaken by the students to be fit for industry absorption .
4. to design and to organize short training programs to enhance skills and
knowledge of professionals in the industry, faculty and students of GTU .
5.
6. to organize seminars, workshops, symposia and conferences jointly with

companies and GTU colleges
7. to help industry through knowledge and research partnership and by making
available faculty members of GTU for empanelment on various committees of
industry
8. to bring industry professionals as resource persons to Colleges in the area of
marketing
9. to give opportunities to GTU Innovation Sankuls to identify problems of sub-
sectors and to provide support to students for undertaking research projects
for solving problems of industry
10. to aid in curriculum development of various courses in Marketing area of the
MBA Program of GTU.
Each of the Sectoral Panels will take responsibility for the set of organizations falling
under its area of interest and start a study of its practices and its goals and the
requirements of skills for professionals in businesses and industries in the .
GTU’s Skills Council for Marketing is designed to be an association of Corporate

Professionals, Faculty members, researchers and post-graduate students. The
Council will actively register all the faculties having marketing specialization and
doctoral and MBA students who have opted for marketing at GTU. The association
of students and researchers with the Corporate Professionals will provide an active
platform for implementation of innovative ideas and for research and test the market
before commercialization stage of products or services. Let us all see that each of
the Panels is able to enroll all the major players in industries and businesses as its
members.
* * * *
Note: Discussion Paper: prepared for GTU by Professor Bhavin Pandya, Head of Department, S.V. Institute of
Management, Kadi, based on the GTU-FSSC paper prepared for GTU by Dr.P.G.K.Murthy, Professor & Director
- MBA Department, P I ET

GTU – Council for Human Resource Studies and Organizational Structures
(GTU-CHRSOS)
GTU-CHRSOS shall consist of Senior HR Professionals from industry and businesses as well as from
the academic fraternity.
Objectives of GTU- CHRSOS :
• to study the organizational structures of large organizations in the governmental or business

or NGO environment
• to study the deployment of human resources and design of organizational structures for
creation of dynamic and efficient systems.
• to act as a bridge between industry, government and GTU and to provide a platform for
professionals to interact on various issues in the area of HR
Sub-Sectors GTU- CHRSOS: The Council shall have the following sub-sectors
• Mfg Sector –Large • Mfg Sector –SMES

• Government , Quasi government sector • NGOS
• Co-operative Sector • Service Sector
• Agriculture and Agro-related sector • NGOs
All eight of these sectors will have Sector Panels. The purpose of a panel will be to critically study the
HR practices and the kind of organizational structure being used in the sector all over the world. Each
Panel will have businesses and industries working in the field and Professors and researchers in the
field as members. Each of the Sector Panels will be Co-Chaired by a Co-Chairperson (Academic) and
a Co-Chairperson (Industry). The Co-Chairpersons of the Sector Panels will represent the sector on
the GTU- CHRSOS.
Management : The GTU- CHRSOS shall have a Board as a policy making body . The board shall
have top notch professional heads of various companies in eight sub-sectors and leading
educationists and independent professionals . The size of GTU- CHRSOS Board could be broadly
representative but at the same time manageable .
Each of sub –sectors shall be represented by panels giving broader representation to various
segments of sub-sectors of GTU- CHRSOS.
Initial Activities:
A greater inter-action between professors of HR and researchers at GTU with the HR professionals in
industries and businesses may result in better research, anchored in the needs of today and
requirements of tomorrow. Its initial set of activities may be as follows:

1. To undertake research studies in various facets of HR through live projects and real life
problems:
• To study and to conduct research in Performance Management and appraisal
systems, Assessment Centers, Feedback systems, HR Score cards, competency
mapping for teaching and non-teaching staff of GTU affiliated institutes.
• To conduct surveys and researches on compensation management, Best HR
Practices, Right Sizing (Man power) of organizations, succession planning in different
industries, etc.
• To study and analyze the HR systems being used in our industry and to put them in
proper perspective with existing published knowledge in the area?
• To study the organizational structures in corporations, governmental organizations,
large NGOs to determine how well the structures
o satisfy the goals of the organization;
o motivate the employees and
o are perceived to be client-friendly.
• To research the measures for employee satisfaction in India (Reference: the best
employer studies, published in the popular press in North America and in the IT
magazines in India.)
• To develop a metric for measuring the performance of HR managers
Example: the GTU system:
i. We may start a study of the University admin systems in the world and determine
what the organizational structure in GTU should be.
ii. We may devise measures for measuring success of the University’s admin structure?
iii. As the University evolves and develops, can we continuously study and provide a
critique of what the University is doing and what changes in the organizational
structure would be required at every stage of its evolution?
2. To organize seminars , conferences , symposia etc. focusing various issues in HR
3. To organize training programs and undertake consultancy assignments .
4. To undertake collaborative exercises for enriching ties with Institutes of higher learning in
India and in other countries .
5. To work closely with industry bodies like FICCI , ASSOCHAM , CII etc. and professional
bodies like BMA, AMA , SMA , RMA , VCCI ,etc., in various projects undertaken by them .
6. To depute members to study various important issues of contemporary importance .
7. To organize Faculty Development Programs in the fields of HR and Organizational Structures.
The Council may become an important member of various National and International bodies like
National HRD Network, ISTD, NIPM, Academy of HRD (Ahmedabad)
Wherever HR is being offered as a specialization in a good College, the College may take
responsibility for one class of organization and start a study of its HR practices, its structures
and its goals. In other words the College may have the responsibility for one of the Sectoral
Panels. Let us all see that each of the Panels is able to enroll all the major players in
industries and businesses as its members.

GTU – Financial Services Skills Council
(GTU-FSSC).
Objectives of GTU-FSSC :
• to enhance professionalism and talent for finance, taxation , accountancy and

financial services across the State of Gujarat and India .
• to act as a bridge between industry, government and GTU
Sub-Sectors GTU-FSSC: The Skills Council shall have the following sub-sectors
• Accountancy & Taxation • Insurance

• Banking • Mutual Funds
• Project Financing • Capital and Money Markets
• Commodity and Currency • Venture Finance and Private Equity
Markets
All eight of these sectors will have Sector Panels. The purpose of a panel will be to
rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of requirements for certifying
professionals in its sector. Each of the Sector Panels will be Co-Chaired by a Co-
Chairperson (Academic) and a Co-Chairperson (Industry). The Co-Chairpersons of
the Sector Panels will represent the sector on the GTU- FSSC.
Management : The GTU-FSSC shall have a Board as a policy making body . The
board shall have top notch professional heads of various companies in eight sub-
sectors and leading educationists and independent professionals . The size of GTU-
FSSC Board could be broadly representative but at the same time manageable .
Each of sub –sectors shall be represented by panels giving broader representation

to various segments of sub-sectors of GTU-FSSC.
Activities of GTU-FSSC:
11. to rationalize and develop a widely accepted set of requirements for certifying
professionals in each one of its sub-sectors
12. to develop standard manual for Summer Internships for MBAs
13. to advise GTU on various professional examinations that could be
undertaken by the students to be fit for industry absorption .
14. to design and to organize short training programs to enhance skills and
knowledge of professionals in the industry, faculty and students of GTU .
15. to organize seminars, workshops, symposia and conferences jointly with
companies and GTU colleges.

16. to help industry through knowledge and research partnership and by making
available faculty members of GTU for empanelment on various committees of
industry .
17. to bring industry professionals as resource persons to Colleges in the area of
financial services.
18. to give opportunities to GTU Innovation Sankuls to identify problems of sub-
sectors and to provide support to students for undertaking research projects
for solving problems of industry .
19. to aid in curriculum development of various courses in Finance area of MBA
Program of GTU
Wherever Finance is being offered as a specialization in a good College, the College may
take responsibility for the set of organization falling under one of the Sub-Sectors and start a
study of its practices and its goals. In other words the College may have the responsibility
for one of the Sectoral Panels. Let us all see that each of the Panels is able to enroll all the
major players in industries and businesses as its members.
* * * *
Note: Discussion Paper: prepared for GTU by Dr.P.G.K.Murthy, Professor & Director - MBA Department, P I ET

moving towards establishing
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A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation
While the first objective of the Council is to nurture creativity and innovation within the
University community, it is designed to act as a catalyst of change for the whole of the
society. First, the Council is being set up as a collaboration between the technology
community in the University and the corresponding community in the society. Secondly the
very first task, set before the University community is to create a bridge, between the
learning community at the University and the outside world, through a specific time-bound
job, which is a requirement in the academic programs of the University. Thus from the
beginning, GTU Innovation Council will not only seek to imbue the spirit of innovation within
the ivory towers of the University institutions, it proposes to create an environment of
thinking about innovation in the societal systems so that the systems can break themselves
free from the cobwebs of past and move towards becoming creative and ever-new entities.
To establish a close and continuing inter-action between the industry and the students and
faculty members of Gujarat Technological University, GTU has designed an action plan for
creation of 25 Innovation Sankuls in Gujarat. (166 industry clusters+ 495 colleges of GTU
have been divided into 25 innovation clusters of GTU Colleges and industries, called
Innovation Sankuls). population of 250,000 in all the undergraduate and postgraduate
courses like Engineering, Management, pharmacy, MCA and Diploma and 10,000 plus
faculty members in GTU.
When in three years, every one of its more than 400,000 students and more than 20,000
faculty members are out in the field with the requirement that an innovative Final Year
project is to be completed and put on the TechPedia, when there will be no way to hide the
work, when good work will be awarded year after year, when thousands of small and big
industries get the opportunity of thinking, jointly with young minds and faculty members
about continuous improvements in their products & processes and when the law students
work to make patent process and IPR processes easy, an entirely new environment of
innovations will be created.

Management Architecture:
The GTU Innovation Council: chaired by the Vice Chancellor. The Council committee (CC) will
include Professor Anil Gupta, Techpedia, Chairs of State level Chambers and Vertical-
associations, ASSOCHAM, GCCI and other associations, government officers, Registrar of
GTU and others.
An Innovation Sankul: A Sankul is managed by two Co-Chairmen: one from a GTU College
and the other from the industry, a Secretary and a Joint Secretary: an industry engineer and
a student; the Sankul Committee (SC) with representations from Colleges, District Industry
Officers, industries and prominent citizens. Each Sankul have been created taking about 20
colleges from multiple fields for developing an inclusive innovation ecosystem.
Udisha (Innovation Club) at each GTU College: An Udisha Executive Committee (EC) at each
GTU College will co-ordinate with its Sankul.
Work In progress:
• Under this project 398 Udisha Clubs have been set up till today. The target is 495 by
30th April 2011.
• 25 Innovation Sankuls are at various stages of formation. This job will be completed
by 30th April 2011.
• About a thousand students have gone on Shodh Yatras in Rajkot, Ahmedabad,
Vadodara and Ahwa. Such Shodhyatras are conducted at the week-ends.
• About 30 thousand students are being mapped to industries and they will all be
going to industries in June and July (after their pre-Final Year exams in May).
Objectives:
• To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry and confidence in their
ability as innovators
• To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D
institutions with the help of Techpedia
• To facilitate innovations by MSMEs through support by GTU students and faculties
• To create appropriate eco-systems and environment to foster innovation by
identifying the problems, designing and developing the product or improving the
business / industrial processes, mentoring students/researchers during the project
and evaluation of the project.
Report on the meeting of 16th April 2011:
The three Innovation Sankuls at Ahmedabad had been planned at a meeting on 3rd March
2011. On 16th April, a meeting for working out of 18 more Innovation Sankuls in various
parts of Gujarat was organized. To the meeting were invited the Principals and Directors of
some of the Colleges along with the Managing Trustees of the Colleges. The managing
trustees of colleges were also key participant in this meeting along with Co-Chairpersons of
the Sankuls. The meeting was chaired by the Honorable VC, GTU.

The meeting of 16th April was initiated with a welcome address by Honorable VC, Prof
Akshai Agrawal. He discussed the purpose of creation of the GTU Innovation Council. He
outlined the action agenda for the Council for the next three months. A presentation on
GTU Innovation Council was presented to the Sankul authorities by Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta
from Techpedia. The stories of achievements and successes during the last six weeks of
work of one of the Innovation Sankuls at Ahmedabad were narrated by Prof M.R.Patel (Co-
Chairperson, Academic-Naroda Sankul). He presented both qualitative and quantitative
aspects of achievements during the industrial shodh yatras carried out at various industry
clusters in and outside the Sankul. An open discussion session involving the Sankul
authorities and Honorable VC, GTU brought out a methodology, which can help develop a
progressive knowledge ecosystem at GTU based on innovation. Prof K.N.Mistry, Prof J.V.
Desai, Prof M.R.Patel, Dr S.S.Pancholi and other principals of respective Sankuls shared
some significant ideas for further strengthening the innovation management system and for
bringing each Udisha club at every GTU college into the main loop of action agenda. Prof
Ved Vyas Dwivedi stressed on harnessing the technical potential of younger students even
at very 1st year level and shared some exciting success stories based on his experiments at
Junagarh. The managing trustees from various institutes like SCET, Surat, Parul Institute of
Engineering and Technologies shared some critical thoughts which will ensure the
productivity of each Innovation Sankul and help bring industries and academia a step closer.
A detailed discussion was held on involving pharmacy student in solving the real life issues
of related industry clusters. Prof Akshai Agarwal shared his thoughts on creating clusters of
MBAs and associated disciplines by bringing service industries and IT/ITES industries into the
loop. Mr Gandhi from SCET (Innovation Sankul at Surat) suggested the creation of new
motivational factors for both students and faculties. These can create an environment of
awareness on IPR so that the dream of bringing Laxmi and Saraswati together as envisaged
by Padmabhushan R.A.Mashelkar (President Global Research Alliance and former DG, CSIR)
may be realized. Every participant through this discussion agreed on creating a mindset for

innovation by informing each of the GTU student and faculty about the objectives and
action agenda of the Council at the college level. There was a consensus for making an effort
for better utilizing the summer of innovation agenda and linking students to industries
through industrial shodh yatras to obtain the Industry Defined Problems. IDPs will be
evaluated in August when the first semester of Final Year starts. The best 1000 IDPs will be
given awards by GTU. It is expected that the professionals from the industries will come
forward to both mentor and nurture the creativity of students during both the semesters of
the Final Year. GTU will assist the best student/faculty projects for protecting their IPR and
will help the students use the existing incubators and venture capital firms for converting
their projects to marketable products.
At the meeting, 18 Principals/ Directors of GTU Colleges, were appointed as Co-Chairpersons

(academic) of the 18 Innovation Sankuls. Prof G. P. Vadodaria, Registrar GTU gave away the
letters to various Sankul Co-Chairpersons (Academic). It was decided that the Chairperson
(academic) of each Innovation Sankul will nominate five directors (academic) from each of
the five domain: MBA, Pharmacy, Engineering, Diploma-Engineering and MCA, very soon.
GTU will nominate a Co-Chairperson from the industry zone in each Sankul to assist the
process of forging industry-academia relationships.
It was decided that the following meetings for disseminating the idea of GTU Innovation
Council may be arranged by each Sankul without any delay: (i) A meeting of all the College
Principals/ Directors in the Sankul: every College, which has not yet formed the Udisha Club
will be asked to form it without any delay. (ii) A meeting of all its faculty members by every
College Principal/ Director (iii) A meeting of the entire Sankul Committee consisting of all
the Principals/ Directors of the Colleges in the Sankul and the industry personnel (iv) A
meeting of all the Udisha Clubs of the Sankul to be hosted by the Co-Chairperson (industry
zone). It was also decided that the information about software industries in the region of
the Sankul will be collected by the two Chairpersons and sent to GTU. Moreover the two
chairpersons will take steps to bring the software industries into the fold of the Sankul.
In addition at the meeting of 16th April was discussed the design of a roadmap for
developing innovation culture in both industry and academia. It was decided that by the end
of May, through shodh yatras or otherwise, all the pre-Final Year students will be mapped to
some industry so that during June and July the students can all visit and study the processes
at the industries and develop their plans for the Final Year project anchored in improving
some product or process in some industry.
Prof M.R.Patel gave the concluding remarks and a vote of thanks.



Appendix 1
1. Vadodara - 1: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. S.S.Pancholi; Co-Chairperson (Industry): Ms. Abe Sabawala
2. Vadodara- 2: appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Vilin P Parekh
3. VV Nagar-1: appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.V N Kamat
4. VV Nagar- 2: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.F S Umrigar
5. Godhra: : appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Bharat B Mistry
6. Ankeleshwar – Bharuch: : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. J M Patel
7. Junagadh: : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi
8. Kutchh: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. N G Hiranandani
9. Valsad-Vapi: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Sh. N M Patel
10. Navsari: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic):
11. Mahesana: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Prahlad Kulkarni
12. Himmatnagar: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Natavarlal M Patel
13. Chhatral : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. M M Patel
14. Jamnagar: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. Siddharth B Jadeja
15. Surendranagar: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Gopal R Kulkarni
16. Rajkot-1 (Shaper Veraval) : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. J V Desai
17. Rajkot-2 (Aji industrial belt) : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.R B Jadeja
18. Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC) : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Sachin P Parikh
19. Surat: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. K N Mistry
20. Morbi: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. P C Vasani
21. Ahmedabad- Naroda: appointed on 3rd March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.R.Patel; Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Sailesh
Patwari
22. Ahmedabad- Vatva: appointed on 3rd March 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.N.Patel; Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Archit
Shah
23. Ahmedabad- Gandhinagar: appointed on 3rd March 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor J.V.Dave
24. Bhavnagar
25. Patan

Appendix 2
Unique features of GTU Innovation council
• Creating User Defined Innovation Eco-system- To create value for the research
work, that has already been done, and the research which is under process at GTU, a
User defined innovation ecosystem has been designed. Students and faculties at GTU
are now defining the user’s need (User: industry, society, business) through
Industrial Shodh Yatras which will be converted to a final year project /thesis in UG,
PG, PhD level at GTU from July 2011.
Around 40,000 projects will be attempted based on real industry floor issues at GTU
and even 1% success rate will deliver a few hundred solutions to MSMEs (Micro,
Small & Medium Enterprises) every year.
• Mapping of Industrial Needs and Academic research- All GTU research works in UG
and PG level are now being scouted from all colleges and are being put together at
www.techpedia.in .This will map the mind of 1 lac technical students every year and
innovation quotient of the university will go up in a single stroke. By scouting the
IDPs (industry defined projects) from the floors of MSMEs, GTU students and
faculties will map the industrial needs in 166 industry clusters of Gujarat from all the
engineering disciplines.
• Democratizing innovation management process- To ensure the active participation

of each student of GTU in various stages, GTU Innovation Council has devised a 3-
stage system by creating GTU Sectorial Council, GTU Innovation Sankuls/Clusters and
Udisha (Innovation) Clubs. 398 Innovation Clubs (Udisha) have already been
established in GTU colleges by now and by 30th April 2011, 495 innovation clubs will
be institutionalized in the entire GTU system. An udisha club consists of students
and faculties of each stream of engineering. Sectorial Council at University has all
vertical industry association representatives, who will take care of specific branch of
engineering and technology in innovation clusters/Sankuls.
• Industry-Academia cluster development involving GIDCs and GTU colleges-

Involving GTU colleges and MSME clusters, 25 GTU Innovation Sankuls are being set
up in various parts of Gujarat. Every Innovation Sankul will have 18-25 colleges of
engineering / MBA / pharmacy / polytechnic / MCA and a thousand MSMEs.
Some industrial clusters have been created to address the need of specific sectorial
industries in state. However every technology college caters to a broad spectrum of
industries and businesses. Hence in case of such clusters, the students of more than
one Sankul may be associated.

• Creating sustainable motivation for students and researchers - GTU will reward 2
credits in its academic system to define the real floor issues (Industry defined
projects, IDPs) of MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) of the State. Best
1000 problem proposals which will be submitted to University in August after
industrial Shodh Yatra in the summer will be supported by the university to drive the
ideas to product format. Four academic credits will be rewarded for attempting to
solve these IDPs (industry defined projects) in the final year of GTU students.
• Developing relay model of innovation and student entrepreneurship module

development- Techpedia and GTU will document the progress of all research works
at GTU for every industry defined project in real time. This will make it possible to
crack the problem through a few cycles of attempts of research. Some set of
students will be able to convert the raw IDPs (MSME industry problems) to products
or solutions. GTU will support the best solutions to reach a product level
conceptualization. Students will be encouraged to develop entrepreneurship at both
the UG as well as the PG level. As a pilot project, some UG students were able to
successfully solve some IDPs during august –December 2010. This proved that our
students have the talent to be able to do what they have not yet been challenged to
do. GTU Innovation Council will foster innovation fueled student enterprise modules
and a few dozen student startups can certainly be realized at the end of the
academic year 2011-12.
• Emphasis on process innovation – For the very 1st time GTU Innovation Council will
not only focus on the desired production solution for industries but it is also
emphasizing on documenting the best ways to succeed in specific type of research
work and to note down the ways which increase the time cycle of developing
solutions in corresponding research areas. Multiple teams of students and faculties
at multiple places will attempt similar industry problems to develop a model of
collaborative research and product designing in innovative ways. This will reduce the
time cycle of developing innovative products and processes for industries.
• Socializing Technologies- GTU Innovation Council is not only addressing the floor
issue of industries but also scouting and documenting the socio-technical issues of
tribal people and the most backward districts of the State like Dang. Through Shodh
Yatras, GTU students are interacting with the rural and tribal people to map their
socio-technical needs and converting them as research projects like designing low
cost solar application for tribal areas and designing machines to process Chironji
seeds in Dang districts.
• Protecting IPR, Intellectual property rights and bringing Saraswati and Laxmi
together (promoting knowledge economy along with innovations.)-GTU Innovation
Council will help the best thesis/projects attempted by students and faculties to get
promoted and the University will help them in protecting their intellectual property
rights(IPR) so that research will lead to sustainable knowledge economy with proper
credit protection for the innovators. Awareness will be created among students and
faculties about IPR issues to increase the efficiency of the system at each Innovation
Sankul and Udisha Club.
• Promoting Frugal/Gandhian Innovations- In an attempt to promote the concept of

Gandhian engineering at university level in the state, Techpedia.in, in association
with Gujarat Technological University (GTU), has initiated one of its kind of award to
honour the best cost effective innovations at academic level that could benefit the
masses. The categories for the awards have been instituted after the 32 engineering
disciplines offered at GTU. Two awards will be given in each category of under-
graduate, post-graduate and diploma courses. The awards will encourage and
support students and faculty to design cost-effective and eco-friendly products and
services for the larger section of society. The innovators will be motivated to put
their efforts together in socializing technologies. Students and researchers at GTU
will not only innovate to create value for money but also to create value for many.
The innovation clubs will streamline the attempts aimed at creating more from less
for more and more.
• Harnessing the numerous months of efforts of research for productive innovation

creation- GTU students are putting some 10 months of effort in their final year in
attempting to solve projects as a part of the curriculum. Around 1 lac students while
putting 10 months of effort per year constitute nearly 1 million human months of
efforts. Through this process GTU Innovation Council will effectively harness the
students’ inputs guided by some 15,000 faculties at GTU in a collaborative
environment to create a sustainable knowledge ecosystem in a period of the coming
3 years with a “feel the difference approach”.
• Exchanging mentors from industry and academia- GTU innovation Sankuls will
exchange floor engineers from various MSMEs with corresponding faculties of
particular stream which will further lead to design a road map in academia for a
need based evolution. Students will get a practical insight and feedbacks from
industry floors. This will enable them in blending their thoughts with proper
orientation to adapt innovative approaches in solving real life issues.

GTU appoints 7 more Co-Chairmen from industry and academia for GTU Innovation Sankuls
Date: 27/4/11
Venue: GTU Conference Hall
GTU Innovation Council appointed seven more co-chairmen for industry and academia in a meeting
chaired by Honourable Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akshai Agarwal held at GTU Conference Hall. Prof.
Agarwal assessed the work of various sankuls which were set up in the first phase. Dignitaries like
Prof. N.G. Hiranandani , Prof. J.K.Rathod, Shri Dipak Shah, Mr. Ashok Panjwani, Prof. Jivraj Patel, Dr.
K.N.Mistry, Dr .Hiren Patel and Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta were present, who shared their views based
upon the initial experiments carried out at various Sankuls.
Prof. Ashok R. Pandya has been nominated as the Sankul co-chairman (Academic) in the Vadodara 1
Sankul . He shared some innovative strategies in linking institutions of various streams under each
Sankul to harness the optimum potential of technical minds. He also shared his thoughts on inclusive
Innovation Sankul development by appointing directors from all streams like Engineering, MBA,
Pharmacy, MCA and Polytechnic. Mr. Deepak P.Shah was appointed as Co-Chairman (Industry) for
Surendranagar Innovation Sankul. He shared his vision and thoughts in linking small industry clusters
of central Gujarat and mapping their industry-defined problems from various floors. He stressed on
the need for special efforts at the grass root level when the professional students start their
academic work even at the first year level. He also said that he would be able to bring all the
associations and chambers in the area into the Sankul. He also said that he would be able to use all
the media for disseminating the information about the GTU Innovation Sankul widely.

Mr. Ashok Panjwani has been nominated as Co-Chair (Industry) for Ankleshwar-Bharuch Sankul. He
pointed out innovative strategies for reaching out to SMEs and scouting Industry Defined Projects
(IDPs). Prof. Jivraj Patel suggested that in addition to the Principals/ Director, the managing trustees
should also be invited to the Sankul meetings.
Dr. K N Mistry has been nominated as Co-Chair (Academic) of Surat Sankul. He shared his attempts
for improving innovation quotient and skill parameters of each student. He suggested initial support
to innovative works based upon the problem thesis submitted after the summer industrial shodh
yatra.
Dr. Ajoy P. Bhattacharya (President, SGCCI) has been nominated as the Co-Chair (Industry) for Surat
Innovation Sankul. Ms. Avi Sabavala (President, VCCI) has been nominated as the Co-Chair (Industry)
for the Sankul Innovation at Vadodara -1.

Kutchh Sankul Co-Chair (Academics ), Prof N.G. Hiranandani stressed the design and development
of solutions for local needs in various part of the state and to to develop viable as well as sustainable
projects for the industry. Professor Aggarwal appreciated the excellent work by Tolani Institute for
Industry-Institute interaction and he said that Prof Hiranandani was required to play a bigger role in
leading all the Colleges in the Sankul to have a closer inter-action with the industries.
Hiranmay Mohanti suggested creating sector-specific Sankuls (moving from geographic dividend to
vertical dividend). Empathetic model of innovation scouting and development was widely discussed
in the meeting. In needy areas correlations will be drawn to find out possible linkages between
public policy, industrial requirement and ongoing research trend. Steps to avoid repetition of the
same project without considerable value addition were widely discussed. The relay model of
innovation was also discussed upon.
The Honorable Vice Chancellor, Prof Akshai Aggarwal suggested the following points while sharing
visions and action agenda:
• To arrange a meeting of all college Principals/ Directors under each Sankul as soon as
possible to design a road map for inclusive innovation agenda pertaining to a need
based evolution.
• To ensure that all the Principals/ Directors are made aware of the concept fully and
share their inputs while designing action agenda at each Sankul level so that every single
faculty and student can be involved.
• To involve the industry co-chairman and his nominated members in each Sankul so that
industry views point maybe known while forming concrete action agenda.
• To have periodic meetings of the Sankul Committee and regular meetings of each
UDISHA Club Executive Committee.
• 30-40 students of pre-Final Year class may be allocated to a faculty member of each
college for developing a strong linkage during the summer of innovation agenda. These
6-7 teachers of each college will act as focal connecting points for communication along
with the Udisha coordinators of the respective college.
• Problem statements (industry defined problems, IDPs) scouted from industry floor have
to be assessed within the first month of submission at college (internal) level in a well-
defined and transparent manner.
Mr. Ashok Panjwani, Co-chairman Prof Akshai Aggarwal, VC, GTU welcomes
(industries), Ankleshwar – Bharuch Mr. Deepak P.Shah as co-chairman
innovation Sankul is sharing his views (Industry) for Surendranagar Innovation
and strategies for developing inclusive Sankul.
innovation agenda.

Appendix 1
1. Vadodara - 1: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-chairperson (Academic) Prof. Ashok R. Pandya
Co-chairperson (Industry) Ms. Avi Sabavala (President, VCCI)
2. Vadodara- 2: appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Vilin P Parekh
3. VV Nagar-1: appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.V N Kamat
4. VV Nagar- 2: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.F S Umrigar
5. Godhra: : appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Bharat B Mistry
6. Ankeleshwar – Bharuch: : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. J M Patel
Co-Chairperson (Industry) : Mr. Ashok Panjwani
7. Junagadh: : appointed on 16th April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi
8. Kutchh: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. N G Hiranandani
9. Valsad-Vapi: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Sh. N M Patel
10. Navsari: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic):
11. Mahesana: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Prahlad Kulkarni
12. Himmatnagar: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Natavarlal M Patel
13. Chhatral : appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. M M Patel
14. Jamnagar: appointed on 16th April 2011


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15. Surendranagar: appointed on 16 April 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr.Gopal R Kulkarni
Co-Chairperson (Industry) : Mr. Deepak P.Shah
16. Rajkot-1 (Shaper Veraval) : appointed on 16th April 2011

17. Rajkot-2 (Aji industrial belt) : appointed on 16th April 2011

18. Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC) : appointed on 16th April 2011

19. Surat: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Dr. K N Mistry
Co-Chairperson (Industry): Dr. Ajoy P. Bhattacharya (President, SGCCI)
20. Morbi: appointed on 16th April 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Prof. P C Vasani
21. Ahmedabad- Naroda: appointed on 3rd March 2011

Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.R.Patel
Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Shailesh Patwari
22. Ahmedabad- Vatva: appointed on 3rd March 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor M.N.Patel
Co-Chairperson (Industry): Sh. Archish Shah
23. Ahmedabad- Gandhinagar: appointed on 3rd March 2011
Co-Chairperson (Academic): Professor J.V.Dave
24. Bhavnagar
25. Patan

ORGANIZING INNOVATION SANKULS
Report
A Conference
for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at
Surat, Ankeleshwar – Bharuch, Valsad-Vapi and Navsari

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Conference for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at
Surat, Ankeleshwar – Bharuch, Valsad-Vapi and Navsari
at SCET (Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat,) Surat
A conference for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at Surat, Ankeleshwar – Bharuch, Valsad-Vapi
and Navsari was organized at SCET, Surat on 3rd April 2011. Prof. Akshai Agarwal, Honorable
VC, GTU, Principals/ Directors of Colleges affiliated with GTU from Navsrai, Vapi-Valsad,
Surat and Ankleshwer-Bharuch participated in this meeting. An equal participation was
from South Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industries and MSMEs & Bigger industries
from the region.
from the Industries

Dr.Ajoy Bhattacharya, president, Southern Conference of GTU principals, industry
Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry chamber authorities, various discrete
(SGCCI), welcoming Prof Akshai Agarwal , VC, industry leaders and representatives from
GTU. SVNIT Surat, GCCI and Techpedia.
The session started with a welcome address by Shri Rajani Kant Marfatia, Chairman of SCET,
Surat and Prof K.N.Mistry, Principal, SCET. Prof Akshai Agarwal described the concept of GTU
Innovation Council, Innovation Sankuls and Udisha Clubs. Dr.Ajoy Bhattacharya, President,
Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SGCCI), welcomed honorable VC for the
initiative of GTU Innovation Council. Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta from Techpedia shared the agenda for
the Innovation Sankuls and briefed about a few successful pilot cases of Innovation Sankul attempts
under GTU Innovation Council. Mr. Tanmay Mehta, Secretary GCCI promised that GCCI would work
for strengthening the Innovation Sankuls and assured of cooperation from MSMEs and industries to
this excellent initiative. Some of the Industry leaders shared some valuable insights pertaining to
specific vertical and geographic industry clusters in the region. Prof K.N.Mistry presented the work,
already done by the Udisha club at SCET, Surat. A Principal from a College in Valsad-Vapi region
shared valuable inputs especially in the pharmacy sector. To promote a user defined research
ecosystem and to map the MSME issues of southern Gujarat industry leaders from GCCI and SGCCI
and others strongly recommended the proposed Industrial Shodh Yatra by faculties and students
coordinated by each Udisha clubs at GTU colleges. The industry defined problems will be converted
as real project work by students and faculties at GTU from the next academic year. Some of the
Principals from polytechnics suggested relay model of innovation where a product/service can be
conceptualized and realized via a few cycle of research and development work in multiple
places and multiple groups. A few principals strongly recommended to create awareness
about IPR and associated culture so that even at UG level research works will lead to some
significant solutions. An empathetic model of innovations was the common tone shared by
each participant in the conference. Industry leaders shared thoughts on distributed
product/solution development via GTU students by modularizing the bigger problems into
smaller ones and sharing it with multiple groups of students, guided by mentors from inside
and outside of the college. General manager (HR) from L & T, Hazira industrial zone, Surat
shared thoughts on moving ahead of conventional industry visit/training to a model where
students and faculties will realize and document a problem from industry floor via
interaction with shop-floor workers. He said that this will provide a better insight of the IDP;
(industry defined problem).GTU will evaluate these IDPs in early part of the final year and
give awards to the quality proposals of students. Principals who participated in this
discussion said that this inverted model will at least enhance the innovation quotient among
each faculty/student. Dr Bhattacharya offered full co-operation from SGCCI, the leading industry
chamber in southern Gujarat, and offered meaningful partnership with each of the Innovation
Sankuls and Udisha Clubs in the region. He along with Mr. Rohit Mehta , VP & IPP of Surat
Diamond Association promised to provide all possible help to the youth of the colleges in
the Innovation Sankuls of the region through continuous monitoring and feedback.
Principals of respective Sankuls proposed to make sector specific objectives and approaches
in various verticals of engineering and specially in designing ecosystem for interdisciplinary
research works. Prof K.N.Mistry gave vote of thanks at the closing of the meeting and
wished to design an action plan for the SCET-based Sankul with inputs from both industry
and academia within a few weeks.

Appendix 1
1. Ankleshwer-Bharuch Innovation Sankul: 14 GTU colleges and businesses and
Industries of the area
2. Navsari Innovation Sankul: 14 GTU colleges and businesses and Industries of the
area
3. Surat Innovation Sankul: 19 GTU affiliated colleges and businesses and Industries
of the area
4. Valsad-Vapi Innovation Sankul: 11 GTU affiliated colleges and businesses and

Appendix 2
List of a few participant from the Industries
Sr.
Name of the Organization Name of the Participant Designation
No.
1 GJEPC, Surat Mr. Chandrakant R. Sanghavi Chairman
2 Sanghavi Exports,Surat Mr. Aagam Sanghavi Director
Sahajanand
3 Mr. Dhirajlal Kotadia CEO
Chemicals,Surat
4 Indian Diamond Inst., Surat Mr. Samir D. Joshi Dy. Director
5 Venus Jewel, Surat Mr. Sevanti P. Shah

Fairdeal Filaments Shahlon
6 Mr. Nitin Shah Director
Ind.,Surat
7 SGCCI, Surat Dr. Ajoy Bhattacharya President
8 RIL, Hazira Mr. Suresh Lachhwani Asst Vice President

9 Lexus, Surat Mr. Janak Mistry CEO, MD
10 Himson Groups, Surat Mr. R.S. Bachkaniwala Director
11 RIL, Hazira Mr. Rajendra Mehta AVP

Guj. State Elect. Co. Ltd.,
12 Mr. D. N. Panchal TPS
Ukai
VP& IPP of Surat Dimond
13 SGCCI, Surat Mr. Rohit Mehta
Asso.
14 ONGC, Hazira Mr. Ajay Garg Chief Engineer (P)
15 ONGC, Hazira Mr. Rajan Asthana Chief Manager

16 UPL, Surat Mr. Ashok Panjwani Ex. Director
17 Rachna Group, Surat Mr. J. P. Aharwal Chairman

18 Garden Silk Mills, Surat Mr. Kamal Desai G.M. Mktg.
19 L & T, Hazira Mr. Atul Desai Head HR & Adm Sec.
Sargam Const. Pvt. Ltd.,
20 Mr. Bharat Shah
Surat
Surat Manav Seva Sangh,
21 Shri Bharat Shah Vice President
Surat
22 SIECC, Surat Shri Rajendra Chokhawala Director

Minutes of First Meeting of Udisha Club
Held at S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College , Rajkot on
30th April, 2011, Saturday (12:00 to 01:00 pm)
S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot has organized first meeting of ‘Udisha Club’, framed as
per the direction of GTU, on 30th April, 2011, Saturday during 12:00 noon to 01:00 pm. Following
Staff and student members were remain present in aforesaid meeting (Annexure – I)
Sr. No. Name of member Designation

1 Dr. Manish A. Rachchh Chairman
2 Mrs. Parula Patel Executive members
3 Mr. Pinakin Jadav Executive members
4 Mr. Mehul Rana Executive members
5 Ms. Jagruti Vaghela Coordinator
6 Mr. Bipin Patel Committee members
7 Mr. Hardik Bhalodiya Committee members
8 Mr. Hitesh Prajapati Committee members
9 Mr. Vishvesh Kanabar Committee members
Following agendas were discussed during this meeting.
Agenda – 1 Objectives of Udisha Club
Dr. Manish A. Rachchh, chairman of this club welcome all the members and give idea regarding
inception and actualization of ‘Udisha Club’ policy framed by GTU.
Agenda – 2 Presentation about “Innovation Sankul”
Ms. Jagruti Vaghela, co-ordinator of this club gave the oral presentation about ‘Innovation Sankul”
sent by GTU and elaborate it among the members. All the members appreciate the innovative task
initiated by GTU.
Agenda – 3 Identification of Industry Defined Project (IDP) and arranging „Shodh Yatra”
Dr. Manish A. Rachchh discussed with all club members regarding policies which are at
discussion level at GTU regarding final year student projects by identifying Industry defined
problems (IDP) and to do so arrange ‘Shodh Yatra” in upcoming 7th and 8th semester of B. Pharm.
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Agenda – 4 Pre-preparation for „Shodh Yatra‟
Dr. Manish A. Rachchh suggested that, we have to first approach indirectly to different pharma
SME and MSME by sending a letter highlighting our objectives for IDP as well as for ‘Shodh
Yatra’. Faculty and student members were given responsibility to compile, collect and co-ordinator
with different pharma industrial cluster, which are mentioned as per below.
Sr. Regional of Pharma Faculty Member Students Member

No. SME / MSME
1 Ahmedabad Dr. Rina Gokani Mr. Bipin Patel
2 Baroda Ms. Jagruti Vaghela Mr. Hardik Bhalodiya
3 Rajkot Mrs. Parula Patel Mr. Mohit Rokad
4 Surendranagar Mr. Vipul Jambukiya Ms. Khyati Jobanputra
5 North Gujarat Mr. Mehul Rana Mr. Vishvesh Kanabar
6 South Gujarat Mr. Pinakin Jadav Mr. Hitesh Prajapati
Ms. Parula B. Patel has suggested to send college brochure highlighting skill and potential of
college for positive feed – back from Industries in this regards.
Finally meeting was ended with vote of thanks of chairperson and each members agreed to
schedule such meeting on last Saturday of each month.
(Ms. Jagruti Vaghela) (Dr. Manish A. Rachchh)
Co-ordinator Chairperson
Udisha Club, Udisha Club,
S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, (264) S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, (264)
Rajkot – 360 005 Rajkot – 360 005
Mo. : 9904230519 Mo. : 9099063164
Emial : jagruti_910@yahoo.com Email : manishrachhh@gmail.com
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Meeting of UDISHA Club Members
Chairman addressing members
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Handover of Pamphlet of “Innovation Sankul” to Mrs. Parula B. Patel
Handover of Pamphlet of “Innovation Sankul” to Ms. Jagruti P. Vaghela
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Udisha Clubs
creating the
SummerofInnovationAgenda
SummerofInnovationAgenda
Linkages between MSMEs and Academia
GTU Innovation Sankuls have started the process of developing roadmaps for inclusive
innovation based upon the need of local industry clusters through Udisha clubs. A few
Sankuls have done significant progress in conducting some brief industrial Shodh Yatras and
mapped a few dozen industry defined problems (IDPs) which will be converted as the Final
Year projects by GTU Students. Industry clusters across the state have shown significant
enthusiasm. The authorities from floor engineers to top authorities have cooperated open-
heartedly in the mapping process.
Looking to the objective of mapping MSME issues during summer 2011, the GTU’s Udisha
Clubs, jointly with GTU Innovation Sankuls, have started training its young pre-final-year
students who will map the industry issues and look for a better product or process while
working upon it in the final year project/thesis.
Meeting was held at Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application
(SRIMCA) on 28.04.2011 where the Udisha members brainstormed for designing an innovation
ecosystem in the Indian context.
Similarly the inaugural meeting of all pre-final-year students and Udisha coordinators was
held at MLIDS Bhandu. In this discussion faculty coordinators and students took part in
sharing their own views in addition to the context proposed by GTU Innovation Council. The
students and faculties suggested in co-creating innovation clusters including all verticals of
applied sciences, engineering and other disciplines. Prof K.R.Patel shared a brief agenda
based upon the inputs taken from each stake holder in the entire discussion. A decision was
taken to inform the concept and action agenda to each of pre-final year students so that the
optimum potential of technology youth can be harnessed in GTU in the innovative process.
Similarly the meeting of UDHISA Club members & HODs, Directors –ME, CE, E&C, EE and
R&D was held at Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama chaired by Dr. S.S Pancholi. He
briefed about the working of GTU Innovation Sankuls & UDHISHA Clubs under it thru a
PowerPoint presentation. The specific point of discussions was about Shodh Yatra for
identifying the projects for final year students of 2011-2012. After a detailed discussion, it
was decided that, with the help of the database of VCCI (Vadodara Chamber of Commerce &
Industry) Directory, all the four departments will identify at least 15-20 industries per
department. These industries will be approached in the first week of June (i.e. immediately
after the examinations of the Pre Final Year of Sem VI (degree engineering programs) of
each department are over. This process, it was decided, will be supported by staff members
of respective departments. The Club will have to collect an adequate no. of projects from
industries. They will also find out about the technical personnel from the industries, who
can provide help for working on the projects.
The list of industries to be approached will be submitted by 30th April and the list of
students (at least 2/industry) who will carry out the Shodh Yatra along with the staff
members for support will be submitted by 3rd May 2011 to the T&P Department (office of
the UDHISHA).This information along with the future plan of action for Shodh Yatras will be
forwarded to GTU and Techpedia immediately after 3rd May 2011. Prof H.G. Rajput shall
provide guidance to the team of each department for proper approach to industries; if
requested by each department. The Schedule of concluding the Shodh Yatra has been
delayed due to less availability of students & staff members in recent weeks, due to term
work preparation and semester-end teaching effort.
Similarly at C. U. Shah College of Master of Computer Application, the meeting of the GTU
Udisha Club was chaired by Dr. G. R. Kulkarni, Principal of CCET, and & CoChairperson of the

Surendranagar Sankul. Dr. H. B. Bhadka, Patron of UDISHA Club of CCMCA, Wadhwan also
shared his valuable inputs in this meeting. The meeting started with a welcome address by
Dr. H. B. Bhadka and sharing inputs regarding the Objectives of UDISHA club, an initiatives
by GTU, Ahmedabad. The PPT presentation was discussed by Dr. G. R. Kulkarni and shared
with the UDISHA club materials & documents to all the members. As a part of the Club
activities, Dr. H. B. Bhadka met District Director Officer (DDO) Shri K. K. Nirala, IAS of
Surendranagar on dated 31-3-2011 at DDO Office, Surendranagar and they are ready to
extend their support to invite students/faculties to develop the real-life IT applications
needed to be implemented across the villages of Surendranagar District. Shri Nirala is
impressed with the initiatives and he has assured to work together regarding such creative
activities. Shri Nirala assured that they would make arrangements for financial support,
appreciation to the students, faculties, institute in the form of shield/award & certification.
Shri Nirala also assured that they would definitely extend their cooperation as the society &
students will be the most beneficiary. The team also met Shri Prakashbhai Varmora, CEO of
Varmora Group of Industries & President, GIDC Wadhwan and briefed him about the
objective of UDISHA club and GTU Innovation Council.
Dr. G. R. Kulkarni, Principal of CCET & Co- Chairperson (Academic) of Innovation Sankul is
addressing the students and faculty members during the conference.

Ms Trupti Pandya Co-ordinator Udisha Club, MGITER, Navsari conducted a meeting with
faculty members & student members of the Udisha Club. It was the 4th meeting of the Club.
R K University team is brainstorming in designing an effective innovation ecosystem with

excellence.
Principals/Directors of GTU Colleges interacting with their pre final year students and faculty
members.

Majority of Innovation clubs at engineering, pharmacy, diploma, MBA, MCA colleges under
GTU have significantly progressed significantly in developing their own roadmap suitable to
local context .This has significantly pushed the mission ahead with scaling in both inputs and
outputs with proper orientation.
Prof Sudeeb Bagchi is sharing his views with his Udisha Club members on the theme of GTU
Innovation Council to bind industry-academia and innovations.
Mr. Kaushal Patel, faculty of Shree Samanvay Pharma Education & Research, BOTAD &
Coordinator of GTU’s Udisha Club discussed an action plan at a meeting on 27 April 2011
with the students and faculty members.
A meeting of the UDISHA Club at A. D. Patel Institute of Technology was held on at 4:00 pm
on 27th April, 2011, at Computer Dept. Lab. Twenty eight club members (faculties as well as
student members) attended the meeting. Members were briefed about the objectives and
activities of the Club by Institutional Coordinator, Dr. Dhaval Jani and Principal R K Jain. The
presentation "Innovation Sankuls" was circulated to the members and discussed. It has also

been planned to boost activities of "Shodh Yatra" through training and placement cell of the
institution.
GTU Innovation Club members attending a meeting at A. D. PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.
As per the discussion at the GTU Innovation Sankul meeting on 16th April, 2011, Udisha
Club at VVP Engg. College has geared up with the activities of the Innovation Sankul at
Rajkot-3 (Metoda GIDC). Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta of Techpedia.in had visited the colleges
during the last semester and he had held inter-active sessions with the students to map the
academic need factors.
Mr. Amit Degada, Convenor of UDISHA club and his team is in regular touch with
students and their corresponding industries since last 4 months for initial level mapping and
have already established the coordinators from each department. Mr. Ashvin Karemore, Dr.
Krishna Joshi, Mr. Bhavesh Dobaria, Mr. Sachin Rajani, Mr. Dipesh Kundalia, Mr.
Girish Mulchandani and Mr. Kunal Khimani are the Co-coordinators from the different
branches. For the ‘Shodh Yatras’, the students of 6th semester Mechanical and Electrical
have linked with Kadvani Forge LTD., Metoda since 1st week of March, GIDC. They are
working with Mr. Jayant Jamuvar (Head, Designing Department) with two projects. Milap
Vadi, Nishank Dholakia, Hiren makwana and Rahul Kundnani of 6th Semester are making
progress on the project of Power Factor Improvement and Pneumatic Control of a forging
machine to improve Efficiency of the Forging Machines. Prof. Sachin Parikh, Co-Chairman
(academia) of Rajkot Innovation Sankul-3 has guided the above teams for linking maximum
possible MSMEs of nearby GIDCs to the student groups.

The above Udisha Club and a team lead by Mr. Utkarsh Mehta and Mr Rashesh Dave
have successfully arranged a dozen industrial Shodh Yatras involving students of various
colleges and disciplines in different colleges. They have successfully linked around 100
industries in 4 GIDC estates with various departments of respective colleges where a few
students and faculties have started working, based upon the IDPs taken from the floor of
MSME and larger industries and business.
Prof. Mitesh Dadhania has added a similar effort at Sri Aurobindo Institute of
Management, Rajkot. They have explored many frugal ways for socializing the
technologies and management applications with impact at BOP and MSMEs for whom these
young management students can be a great resource person.

64 GTU Udisha Clubs at various MBA colleges

in different GTU Innovation Sankuls have
started working under the guidance of their
Udisha coordinators and Innovation Sankul
authorities. GTU Innovation Council is soon
going to integrate the vertical specific clusters
and service sectors with these MBA Innovation
Clubs to provide a practical case to each of
GTU’s young student guided by mentors both
from MSMEs and academia. A holistic and
inclusive innovation agenda is being
articulated looking to these 10,000 plus
students who can significantly add to BOP.
The GTU Innovation Council-enabled UDISHA clubs in various colleges prove that ‘Practice
is the best of all instructors ‘by facilitating industrial visits in an empathetic manner where
the user defined issues are being taken as the key target to be solved. These ‘Shodh Yatras’,
as the name suggests, are quests for innovation. On 21st March 2011, the students of
Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot had visited Rainbow Technocast
industry for the same and subsequently a half a dozen industries after this visit.. The
industries were visited under the guidance of Prof. Ashish Kothari and lead by Mr.
Rashesh Dave and Mr. Utkarsh Mehta. There were 24 teams from various disciplines of
engineering who returned with a rich, first-hand, practical experience of industrial practice
and started working upon the located issues even in multidisciplinary context. They have
mapped around 4 dozen industries basically from MSME sectors during the past 3 months
and 13 attempts have been made to design the prototypes of the proposed value added
solutions for corresponding industries either in improving a product or process parameter.

Industrial Shodh Yatras are aiming to 4 basic aspects: 1) To benchmark the current level of
energy, material and technology youths in the enterprise.2) To identify any innovation that the
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) unit may have tried 3) To locate a set of well-
defined problems, which may be solved by the students jointly with the faculty and floor persons
from MSMEs/Users.( These problems may be taken up by students as their final year project or as
a challenge project).4) To identify the policy bottlenecks which are coming in the way of realizing
fully the entrepreneurial potential of 1 lac young minds at GTU.

The first meeting of the Principals/Directors of
GTU Innovation Sankul-Mehasana
Date: 26/4/11
Venue: Board room of Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering Visnagar
This Innovation Sankul consists of a significant no of Engineering, Pharmacy, MBA, MCA and
Diploma institutes and a few clusters of MSMEs. Prof. Prahlad T. Kulkarni (Principal
Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering Visnagar) has been nominated as the Co-Chairman
(Academics) for this Innovation Sankul.
The very 1st meeting of Principals/ Directors of this Sankul was held at Sankalchand Patel
College of Engineering for developing a road map of inclusive innovation in the ecosystem. Prof.
Prahlad T. Kulkarni chaired the discussions and initiated the Sankul activities.
Dr Kulkarni welcomed all those, present at the meeting. Since it was the 1st meeting of the
Principals/Directors of Mehasana Sankul, all the members were requested to introduce
themselves. Dr Prahlad Kulkarni made a presentation on GTU Innovation Council. It led to a
nice brainstorming session. Many Principals/Directors shared their ideas & gave useful
inputs for the successful implementation of this dream project of our honourable Vice
Chancellor.
As proposed by GTU Innovation Council, each Innovation Sankul has to nominate directors
from each vertical like engineering, diploma, MBA, Pharmacy and MCA. The following
authorities were nominated as Directors in the respective verticals of Mehasana Innovation
Sankul:

Field Name of the Director College
Degree Engineering/PG Dr D J Shah LCIT, Bhandu
Diploma Prof. K C Patel Merchant Polytechnic

College, Basna
Pharmacy Prof. R D Bharadia B S Patel Pharmacy College,

Linch
MBA Prof. J Sethi Nootan MBA College,

Visnagar
MCA Prof. Vikram Kaushik Nootan MCA College,

Visnagar
All the members were requested to offer suggestions for the Co-Chairman (Industry) and for
other members from industries. In the next meeting (to be organized by Prof. K C Patel -
Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna), each group will meet separately and share their
experience/success stories and help the other members of their group. GTU Innovation
Council will provide the list of Industries & the contact persons for need sooner. The
Principals/Directors who were involved in the above meeting agreed to make joint efforts to
explore the maximum possible collaboration with industry/business/MSMEs.
Prof Kulkarni proposed a vote of thanks to all the esteemed Principals/Directors present,
for their cooperation and active participation.

Appendix 1
GTU Innovation Council has set up an Innovation Sankul at Mehasana consisting of

following colleges.
Sr. College
No. Code INSTITUTE NAME ADDRESS
Laljibhai Chaturbhai Institute Of Mehsana-Unjha Highway, At & Po:

1 029
Technology, Bhandu Bhandu,Dist: Mehsana - 384120
S. P. B. Patel Engineering College, Holiday Resort At & Po. Linch,

2 039
Saffrony, Mehsana Ta. & Dist. Mahesana - 285720.
Sankalchand Patel Sahakar Vidyadham,

3 040 Sankalchand Patel College Of Kamana Char Rasta, VISNAGAR – 384 315.
Engineering, Visnagar
Visnagar - Mehsana Highway, Basna,

4 065 Merchant Engg. College, Basna. Ta.Visnagar,Dist. Mehsana.
Visnagar
Sardar Patel Institute Of Tech., Visnagar-Mehsana Highway, At. Piludara,
5 068
Piludara, Mehsana Ta. & Dist. Mehsana.
SHRI SATSANGI SAKETDHAM `RAM At & Post: Vadasma ; Ta & Dist: Mehsana,
6 091 ASHRAM` GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, Pin: 382708.
Vadasma
P. Sahakar Vidyadham, Kamana Crossing,

7 232 Nootan Pharmacy College, Visnagar
Ambaji Road, Visnagar - 384315.
Radhe School Of Pharmacy & Bio-

8 238 HIRPUR, TA: VIJAPUR, DIST : MEHASANA.
Research Institute, Hirpura
B. S. Patel Pharmacy College, Linch, Nr. Saffrony Holiday Resort, At & Po.
9 240
Mehsana Linch, Ta. & Dist. Mahesana - 285720.
10 245 Sarvjanik Pharmacy College, Mehsana Nr. ARVIND BAUG, MEHSANA - 384 001.
KRISHNA CAMPUS, SHANKHALPUR,

11 255 Shree Krishna Institute Of Pharmacy, BECHRAJI, TAL & DIST: MAHESANA
Shankhalpur
K. J. Patel Jeeva Deep Education Trust -
The College Of MCA, Rampura AT & PO: VADASMA, TA: MEHSANA,
12 512
MEHSANA - 382708
LALJIBHAI CHATURBHAI Institute Of LALJIPARK, BHANDU, VISNAGAR,

13 515
Technology , Bhandu MEHSANA - 384120

Nootan Sarva Vidyalaya Kelavani SAKANCHAND PATEL SAHKAR

Mandal Sanchalit, M.C.A. College VIDYADHAM, GANDHINAGAR- AMBAJI
14 524 Visnagar STATE HIGHWAY, LINK ROAD, VIANAGAR
- 384315
Sankalchand Patel College Of Sankalchand Patel Sahakar Vidyadham,

15 529
Engineering, Visnagar Kamana Char Rasta, VISNAGAR – 384 315.
16 548 Patel Group of Institutions (SFI)

Village-Moti Dau,Tal-Di:Mehsana MOTI DAU, MEHSANA - 384002
NALANDA VIDHYA SANKUL, NR. RUPABEN
Shree Marutinandan Institute of
RIVER, UMTA, VISNAGAR-384320,
17 550 Computer and Management
MAHESANA
Studies,Nalanda Vidhya
Sankul,Mehsana-(SFI)
VJKM Institute of Management and AT & PO: VADU, TA: KADI, MEHSANA -
18 552 Computer Studies,VADU, TA- KADI, 382705
DIST- MEHSANA (SFI)
Nootan Sarva Vidhyalaya Kelavani
Sankalchand Patel Sahakar Vidyadham,
19 739 Mandal Sanchalit Mba College
Gandhinagar Ambaji Link Road, Visnagar.
Visanagar
Sakalchand Patel College Of "VASANT VAGDO", NR. K-7 CIRCLE,
20 752
Engineering Visnagar GANDHINAGAR- 382026
Sardar Institute Of Management And Near Visnagar-Bhavsor Link Road, At &
21 754 Computer Application, Vijapur Post. Vijapur, Ta. Vijapur Dist. Mehsana,
Pin 382 870
Shree Sarswati Education Sansthan

22 764 AT & PO: RAJPUR, TA : KADI, MEHSANA
Group Of Institutions, Rajpur, Mehsana
Nr. Saffrony Resort, Ahmedabad -

23 779 SPB Patel Engineering College Mehsana Mehsana Highway, At & Post - Linch,
Dist. Mehsana - 384435.
Pathdarshak Campus, Mansa-Vijapur

Swami Vivekanand Mba College ,
24 783 Road, B/h. Veda Bus-stop, At Veda, Ta.
Mansa,Gandhinagar P.G.Rao
Mansa, Dist. Gandhinagar - 382855.
Oxford School of BLOCK NO. 214/B,, B/H. WATER PARK, AT

25 800 Management,Baliyasan,Dist: Mehsana- & PO: BALIYASAN, MEHSANA - 382732
(SFI)
Patel Group of Institutions (SFI)-Moti MOTI DAU, MEHSANA - 384002
26 803
Dau,Tal-Dist-Mehsana
M. L. Institute Of Diploma Studies, Lajipark, Unjha-Mahesana Highway,
Bhandu At & PO : Bhandu, Ta. Visnagar Dist.
27 635 Mahesana.

28 636 Mehsana Visnagar Road, AT & Po. Basna

Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna Ta. Visnagar, Mehsana-384315.
B. S. Patel Polytechnic, Kherva, Ta. Limdi, Dist. Surendranagar.
29 644
Mehsana
Gandhinagar Ambaji State Highway, Link
Swami Sachchidanand Polytechnic
30 650 Road, Kamana Char Rasta, Visnagar -
College, Visnagar
384315.
31 668 Narayanbhai Bhikhabhai Patel Piludara, Ta & Di. Mehsana Pin. 384 380.
Polytechnic,Piludara, Mehsana
Savitaben Dahyabhai Patel Polytechnic, At & Po. Gadha, Ta. & Di. Mehsana - 384
32 669
Mehsana 380.

List of Participants in the meeting
April 26, 2011 at 3 PM
Venue: Board room of Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering Visnagar.
1 Prof. Hitesh Panchal LCIT, Bhandu
2 Prof. Gudeb Bagchi S P B Patel Engineering College, Saffrony
3 Prof. P T Kulkarni Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering, Visnagar
4 Prof. Y C Joshi Merchant Engineering College, Basna
5 Prof. J K Patel Nootan Pharmacy College, Visnagar
6 Prof. P D Bharadia B S Patel Pharmacy College, Linch
7 Prof. S S Patel LCIT, Bhandu
8 Prof. Vikram Kaushik Nootan MCA College, Visnagar
9 Prof. Bijendra Agrawal VJKM Institute, Vadu
10 Prof. J Sethi Nootan MBA College, Visnagar
11 Prof. R M Patel M L Polytechnic, Bhandu
12 Prof. J D Patel Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna
13 Prof. K C Patel Merchant Polytechnic College, Basna
14 Prof. S K Patel Swami Sachidananda Polytechnic College, Visnagar
15 Prof. V P Lunja S D Patel Polytechnic College, Gadha

Frugal and Gandhian Engineering
Innovations: the unique strength of GTU Innovation Council
The students and faculties of GTU are being encouraged and supported to design and develop
products and services with more performance, from less material, less cost, less time, less
environmental pollution and for the benefit of the four billion people, whose income levels are
even less than two dollars a day. The concept of Gandhian Engineering & sciences /Frugal
Engineering & sciences and innovation for “Creating more from less for More and More" is
being insisted to focus on socio-technical needs of the country.
GTU has become the 1st such large scale university in the world to take a lead in this challenge.
Mr Hiranmay Mahanta from Techpedia represented a team to benchmark such
frugal/Gandhian innovations at various colleges at GTU including polytechnic. The study reveals
that a huge potential of young students and researchers in these colleges can be tapped and
from which meaningful solutions/products can be developed. A few labs of GTU colleges were
visited to map the innovation quotient of the diploma students and it was revealed that a
decent quality research trend is propelling the innovation agenda at even UG level. The key
challenge is to protect the IPR of the corresponding innovators at various GTU colleges and look
forward to either possible technology transfer or entrepreneurship modules development even
at UG/Diploma level. GTU innovation council found a great deal of possibility in patenting such
innovations at University and a low cost channel is being developed at GTU for filing 1000
patents for those frugal and efficient innovative projects/solutions for these students and
faculties. Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta visited a few college labs in Mehshana Innovation Sankul like
LCIT and similar colleges and found a great possibility in creating sustainable knowledge
ecosystem fuelled by innovation in the coming days.

Present work from LCIT by Shaikh Shehbaj G is

for New Innovative solar cooker called
“Portable Solar cooker”. This Project shows
the analysis of portable solar cooker.
Temperature was measured with the help of
thermocouples as well as Suryamapi. The
efficiency of the portable solar cooker is found
to be higher than that of the conventional
solar cooker. No tracking mechanism is
required in this innovation. Concentration
ratio is obtained up to 3. Students claim an
advantage of flat as well as concentrating
collector, which optimizes the efficiencies.
While many stepper based NC packages are

available, in this project, drivers have been
developed to drive the motor up to a specified
distance and rotation. Using this machine
developed by Chavda Bhupendrakumar P.,
Gambhva Govindbhai B, Suthar Sureshkumar
R, Bihari Mahebilkhan M, Panchal Chiragbhai
V, and guided by Prof. M. K. Modh and Prof. Y.
L. Raol, human effort become very less as
compared to manual operation. It can be used
for cutting design, milling, drilling and reaming.
Three axis movement of the cutting tool is the
USP of the machine.

An attempt has been made to fabricate the

Turbocharger for Two Wheelers in this
project. The exhaust gas is used to rotate
the turbine with blower arrangement.
Exhaust gas is used to rotate the blower and
this air is given to the ignition input supply.
It is a low-cost system, which improves
engine efficiency. Detonation is greatly
reduced by use of this turbocharger.
Turbocharger can be easily made by locally
available material. The output can increase
as much as 25% as compared to the output
from conventional two stroke petrol
engines.
Students have designed a multi nut remover

system in approximate 2000~3000 INR. The
ordinary spanner removes one nut in 60sec and
multiunit remover removes the entire nut in
60sec. so time is saved. Multinut remover is the
device which reduces the time and human
effort. The device is very useful in H-Bag car.
The function of Nut remover can be summed
up “to provide the most effective spanner
tools system” at low cost. Prof. M.K. Modh
and Prof. V. K. Pandya guided this innovation.

LPG Refrigerator is designed to work up to

a capacity of 125 Liters. It was found that a
fall of temperature of -5 degree inside
refrigerator could occur within a short time
in testing. It is very handy as well as
portable. Payback time is also good
compared with conventional refrigerator.
It can also be used in low temperature
application like pharmaceutical industry,
dairy industries, cold storage etc. Prof. A. B.
Patel guided the student group led by Patel
Birenkumar K and Patel Chintan D .
An improved solar Distillation method has been
designed by Prof. D. M. Patel and a group of
students. It can receive radiation from all sides and
hence no tracking is required. Maximum distillate
output of 4.2 Liter per day/meter square area can
be achieved. The output can be increased up to 40%
by varying parameters like using coal, fins,
perforated plates etc.
We have not yet been able to explore all possible opportunities for improving access,
affordability, sustainability, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness in the needy domain of
socio-technical applications and for focusing on bottom of the pyramid of our society. These
innovations are one more step in that direction. The students and faculties are being
encouraged and supported to design and develop products and services with more

performance, from less material, less cost, less time, less environmental pollution and for the
benefit of the four billion people, whose income levels are even less than two dollars a day.
The Innovative flexible arm designed by GTU

students can be used to lift heavy materials.
Loading and unloading of tools and parts are
possible quite easily. USP of the device are-
(1) Versatility: One Flexible Arm Does All Your

Tapping
(2) No need for additional tooling, since the
necessary tooling is included in the system
(3) Multiple Operations: It can perform
various operations like drilling, tapping,
boring, screw tightening/loosening,
welding.
(4) Can operate in 720°.
(5) cost effective
The aim of this project developed by GTU

students is to reduce the burden on farmers
and to spread maximum mass flow rate from
the spray pump. Hence it has been named as
the push operated spray pump. It costs less
than Rs 6000. It can be used in hilly areas,
home, and field, for the purpose of sprinkle of
water, pesticides and other liquids. It can be
easily handled by any unskilled person. This
innovative product has been guided by Prof.
H.N. Panchal along with Bhambi Vikaskumar
P. as the team leader.

Peddling washing machine is an innovative

product designed by Prof. V. K. Pandya and
his team. It is very useful in rural areas. It
saves detergent and gallons of water. It is
very easy to operate with less effect of
chemicals on the women’s hand. Physical
exercise is also done while using the pedal. It
is very cheap and compact as compared to
other washing machines. It is non-polluting
and saves electricity.
GTU Innovation Council is tapping the best innovations which have been developed by GTU students
and faculties at various colleges and monitoring the ongoing research works by the Innovations Sankuls
and GTU’s Udisha Clubs at GTU colleges. To create awareness among students and researchers at GTU,
the Council is developing modular programs so that a few hundred best innovations can be tried for
patents, at PG, UG and Polytechnic levels. GTU Innovation Council will support such frugal and socially
viable innovations to get patented for preserving credentials and IPR of the innovators. GTU Innovation
Council will support the innovations with some novelty to enable the possibility of mind to market
journey .This will lead innovation fuelled techno-entrepreneurship modules in GTU colleges.
• * * * *

Appendix
PATENTS GRANTED TO INNOVATORS FROM DIFFERENT STATES OF INDIA BETWEEN 1976 and JULY,
2004 AT UNITED STATES PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE (Total patents granted to Indians at USPTO:
1819)
Sr. State No. of patents filed

No.
1. Maharashtra 545
2. Delhi 226
3. Karnataka 251
4. Andhra Pradesh 176
5. Uttar Pradesh 166
6. Tamil Nadu 65
7. West Bengal 61
8. Gujarat 51
9. Kerala 50
10. Haryana 45
11. Himachal Pradesh 22
12. Goa 17
13. Madhya Pradesh 12
14. Others 132

GICEA joins hands with GTU Innovation Council
for creating
Innovation Ecosystem in Civil Engineering at GTU
3rd May 2011
After establishing UDISHA clubs successfully in all the Sankuls, GTU Innovation Council has been
establishing working relationships with state-wide associations in different vertical areas. Dr Rupesh
Vasani organized a meeting of the Executive Committee Members of Gujarat Institute of Civil
Engineers and Architects (GICEA) with Dr. Akshai Aggarwal at GTU Conference Hall on 3rd May 2011.
Dignitaries like Mr. Bharat Modi, Mr. Vatsal Patel, Mr. Bhadresh Shah, Mr. Dilip Patel, Mr. Mukesh
Majeethia and Mr. Bakul Desai from the GICEA and Prof. Rupesh Vasani from SAL Institute were
present.
GTU Innovation Council expects GICEA to join hands with Civil Engineering (CE) departments of GTU
Colleges to create an ecosystem for teachers and students to revolutionize the present state of
education in CE and Architecture. Most of the Builders and many of the CE firms lie outside the
conventional industrial estates. It was decided that GICEA will give one or two senior members for
each of the 25 Sankuls so that every Sankul Committee may be able to deal with the requirements of
the students in the fields of interest of GICEA. Mr. Modi said that GICEA has around 5000 members
across the state and hence few members would be nominated in each Sankul form GECIA.
During industrial Shodhyatras, 4-5 students and faculty will be linked to dedicated industry of this
sector to define their flow issues and problems scouted from the floors of industries by professors
and industry people. The field engineers may support the students work as mentors when the
students are working on the Final Year project during the next two semesters.
Mr. Bharat Modi, President, GICEA said that GTU Innovation Council could effectively use the
infrastructure of GICEA for optimum benefit by various civil engineering departments. Mr. Bhadresh
Shah emphasized on the need for creating experts in every niche field in civil engineering, especially
transportation and environment. He also suggested benchmarking the present curriculum with
respect to the present industrial needs and joint evaluation of the problem statements.
GICEA members suggested that small modular courses during holidays/week-ends could be designed
for civil engineering students and faculty, based upon the need of cutting edge demands at present.
Dr. Aggarwal said that any Innovation Sankul could take up Continuing Education programs, in
consultation with the Council.
Some experts suggested breaking bigger problems into smaller modules and sharing it with multiple
student groups for a better innovation process. Also, a mindset of ethical, innovative research work
has to be brought about.
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A few industries may also support students financially in shaping their theoretical ideas. At the
meeting an emphasis was laid on more practical work at polytechnics and engineering colleges.
GECIA offered to profile labs for material testing, CAD and other state-of-the-art facilities available at
their premises. A top team of GECIA authorities will support GTU Innovation Council in the civil
engineering vertical
Prof. Rupesh Vasani pledged to take a lead role from the academic side for designing the required
framework.
Prof Akshai Aggarwal , VC, GTUdiscussing with industry leaders and authorities from Gujarat
Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects,GICEA for creating innovation ecosystem in these
fields at GTU Innovation Council.

Appendix 1
Meeting with the Executive Committee Members of
Gujarat Institute of Civil Engineers and Architects
(GICEA)
3rd May 2011
at GTU Conference Hall
Name Organization (with which the person is affiliated)
Mr. Bharatbhai Modi President, GICEA
Mr. Vatsal Patel ex-President GICEA, Deputy Town Planner, AMC
Mr. Bhadresh Shah ex-President GICEA
Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta Managing Director, Techpedia
Mr. Dilip S Patel Vice-President, GICEA
Mr. Mukesh Majeethia Vice-President, GICEA
Mr. Bakul N Desai Secretary, GICEA
Principal, SAL Institute of Technology & Engineering

Dr. Rupesh P Vasani
Research, Ahmedabad

Naroda Industries Association
hosts
Naroda Innovation Sankul Committee
meeting at Paryarvaran Mandir , Naroda
28/4/2011
The Naroda Industries Association (NIA) hosed a dinner for all the college prinicipals of the Vatva
and Naroda Sankuls at the Paryavaran Mandir, Naroda. The meeting was chaired by Shri
Shaileshbhai Patwari, President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda Sankul.
The ‘Shodhyatras’ carried out, by the professors and students at Naroda had proved to be hugely
successful. Both the industries and the academia realised that the interaction between the industries
and industries through the Sankuls should be promoted further. The objective of the meeting was to
have an open discussion with principals of various colleges of Pharmacy, Engineering, MBA and MCA.
Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari has played a leading role in the GTU Innovation Council from the very
beginning. The welcome address by Mr. Patwari was followed by a short presentation. Dr. S.
Sharma, Director, Indus Institute of Technology suggested that more floor persons or workers at the
basic levels in industries and students should interact with each other as intensively as possible.
Dr. Rupesh Vasani, Principal, SAL Institute of Technology & Engineering Research, Dean
Engineering at GTU and Director Engineering at the Naroda Sankul said that one needs to find out
various sector wise needs of industries and then determine the sector wise strength in GTU and co-
relate the two by modular programs.
Dr. Subhash Shit from CIPET offered to take a lead role in linking the industries related to plastic
engineering to the corresponding academic establishments/institutions under GTU.
A review of the past activities in the Naroda Sankul was given by Prof. M. R. Patel, Principal, VGEC
LDCE and Co-Chair (Academic) for the Naroda Sankul. He also demonstrated how many students
benefitted from the Shodhyatras.
Mr. Ajay Patel from Akash Dyes and Int., Naroda, pointed out how the industry would benefit by this
new interaction where the user is the key focus. Various industry personnel praised this empathetic
model of scouting and documenting problems and innovations from various sectors.
Prof. M. N. Patel, Principal, LDCE and Co-Chair (Academic) for the Vatva Sankul, shared his vision and
thoughts on increasing the efficiency of the above process.
Mr. Sailesh Patwari offered the infrastructure and human resources of NIA for use by the Sankul. He
also offered to nominate 20 persons from industries of various disciplines who would be members of
the Sankul Committee. Both trained/untrained, educated/uneducated industry workers at all levels
could help evaluate the problem statements. He requested all the Principals to motivate students
and faculties to visit the industries and document their observations. He narrated a few successful
cases wherein waste was converted into useful raw material for producing energy and economy.
Dr. Akshai Aggarwal and Hiranmay Mahanta shared the vision of a progressive university and
Techpedia, which jointly with industries can create a research ecosystem where academia will map
their industrial needs directly. Dr. Aggarwal stressed on the importance of linking as many SMEs as
possible to GTU students during the summer vacation so that every pre-Final Year student at GTU is
able to obtain an Industry Defined Problem for his Final Year project.
Principals of various pharma colleges requested to be linked with the pharma-related industries so
that the interested students could start hunting for problems and work towards possible solutions.
Malav Kansara, one of the student co-ordinators, shared his experience of various Shodhyatras and
suggested ways to improve and develop the process. Shahzad Karkhanawala, another student co-
ordinator, said that he had been able to select four problem statements in the environment sector
for the students of LDCE.
It was decided that periodic meetings of the Sankul Committee will be arranged either at a college or
at so that formal as well as informal relationships can be built up within the entire innovation
ecosystem.

GTU Innovation Council Nominates Directors for Degree Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy,
MBA and MCA for Innovation Sankuls
6th May 2011
A meeting to welcome the Directors of various Innovation Sankuls was held at GTU conference
room on 6th May 2011.
Every Sankul Committee has two Co-Chairmen, one from the industry and the other from a GTU College.
The Principals of all the Colleges in particular Sankul area are members of the Committee. Other
members of the Committee will be some prominent industry leaders and industry chamber authorities
for facilitating the process. Every Sankul has Directors (preferably the Principal of an institute under the
Sankul) for sectors like Degree Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA in each Sankul who will
represent their respective sectors in the Sankul activities. The Directors of the various verticals will have
to take care of the following activities:
1. To arrange periodic meetings among other Principals of the same vertical under a particular
Sankul to design branch-specific road maps.
2. To ask the Principals to allocate specific teachers to 30-40 students of each College who will take
care of Industrial Shodh Yatras.
3. To develop an implementation protocol for ensuring that every Pre-Final Year student gets and
understands the Form for scouting and documenting of IDPs (Industry Defined Projects) from
industries during Industrial Shodh Yatras during the months of June and July. (For this purpose, a
draft Form can be obtained from GTU Innovation Council. However the Form may be modified
or redesigned, if required)
4. To design an algorithm to map every 3-4 student (along with their faculty, if possible) to a
specific industry / MSME.
5. To monitor evaluation of IDPs in early final year and to submit them to GTU.
6. To maintain healthy interaction with nearby industries of the same vertical through periodic
meetings both at industry chambers and at various colleges under the respective Innovation
Sankul.
7. To provide periodic updates / reports of activities / research developments / needs / meetings
and associated things to GTU Innovation Council. These will be shared in the public domain so
that Sankuls can learn about best practices from one another.
8. To locate innovative ideas / projects of your domain and Sankul, which need support in IPR,
product designing support and any further requirement which can be directly taken care of by
GTU Innovation Council.

9. To arrange periodic interactions with Udisha Clubs, students and faculties of various institutes to
take their inputs in designing the local policies and disseminating information about the
progress and programs of GTU Innovation Council and respective Sankuls.(The objective is to
motivate the faculty members to participate in the industry-institute inter-action and to help
make it more intensive.)
10. To work for ensuring that all the Udisha Clubs in each of the Colleges are activated and that they
play a significant role in policy designing and executing it.
Honorable VC, GTU, Prof Akshai Aggarwal felicitating the nominated Directors for Degree
engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA of respective of Innovation Sankul of Boroda-1
and Mehshana .

A Report on the Progress of Udisha Clubs in Colleges all over the State
GTU‘s Udisha Clubs have achieved significant progress during last week. Many Innovation clubs have
attempted to build the capacity of students and faculties who will lead the Industrial Shodh Yatras
during summer 2011. At these Shodh Yatras, students will map the industrial needs (Industry Defined
Projects, IDPs) across the MSMEs and business sectors. GTU is the first university to establish more than
350 innovation clubs inside the university, consisting of faculties and students of Engineering, Pharmacy,
Diploma, MCA and MBA.
Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot has organized the first meeting, of the UDISHA Clubs at
‘GTU Innovation Sankul – Rajkot- 1’ on Saturday, 30/04/2011, from 11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. Dr. J. V.
Desai, the Principal of Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, welcomed the delegates from various
GTU institutions and a vibrant discussion was held to explore the available possibilities and
opportunities.
Dr. J. V. Desai (Principal, Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot), Dr. T. R. Desai (Principal,
R.K. Group of Pharmacy, R.K. Group of Colleges), Dr. M.V. Garach (Principal, Government Engineering
College, Rajkot), Dr. Abhay Dharmsi (Principal, Atmiya Institute of Pharmacy, Rajkot), Dr. Vikas Arora
(Dean MBA/MCA, Atmiya Institute of Pharmacy, Rajkot), Prof. D. D. Shukla (I/C Principal, Atmiya
Institute of Technology & Science for Diploma Studies, Rajkot.) and Prof. A. M. Kothari (Faculty
coordinator UDISHA club, Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot.) took part in the discussion
to develop a locally relevant framework for the Innovation Sankul.
Similarly C. K. Pithawalla College of Engineering and Technology, Surat arranged a meeting between
4:00 to 5:30 pm at the institute seminar room. Dr. A. H. Gandhi shared the necessary info and
appreciated suggestions from pre final year students and their faculty members. They decided to keep

each of the students in a direct loop of information networks on innovation. This will inspire them to be
more innovative both in product and process designing.
Dr. H N Shah, Coordinator of UDISHA club at CSPIT, discussed about the aim and vision of innovation
Sankuls and informed the participants about coordinator of each Sankuls as recently announced by
GTU.The participant among student and faculty members appreciated the inclusion of industry defined
projects and practical learning approach based on innovation into academic system.
A meeting of UDISHA club executive committee was conducted on 28 April 2011 in the presence of Dr.
Abhijeet Chatterjee at Dr. J. K. Patel Institute of Management where all executive committee members
along with faculty coordinator were present and took active participation at the institute. The most
encouraging part of the meeting was all the members are quite confident on the initiative of University
and support. Apart from the routine industry visit the member suggested that they could generate some
additional leads with industry for Innovation.

Prof. Chintan Modi, UDISHA club coordinator, GCET arranged a similar meeting on 29th April, 2011 at
the college level.
GTU Udisha club at GOVT ENGG COLLEGE, SURAT arranged an interactive discussion secession led by
Prof. Jayesh Patel and udisha members.
Dr. S. T. Rajan, Principal, Om Shanti Engineering College and Prof. A. K. Dhandhiya , co-ordinator
Udisha club organized an Awareness Program at the college on 30th April at 10:00 AM in conference
Room.
LDRP – ITR - Gandhinagar organized first formal meet of the Executive Committee of the UDISHA Club
of LDRP –ITR on 28th April – 09. Prof. Keyur Shah welcomed all those, present at the meeting. A
decision was taken to inform the whole of the student community about the oncept and action agenda
of the GTU Innovation Council so that the optimum expertise of technical community can be harnessed
in GTU. Dr. Gargi Rajpara (Principal – LDRP ITR) presented detailed guidelines of activities under
UDISHA Club. As a part of future planning, initiative steps were decided like spread awareness about the
club activities amongst the students; identify the industries of various engineering field during summer
vacation, plan for industrial visits during the next semester etc.
Mr V.P.Lunja Chairperson of the GTU Innovation Club at S.D.Patel Polytechnic-Gadha arranged a

meeting of the Club last week. Mr. Akshay Kansara, Co-ordinator of this club gave an oral presentation
about the ‘Innovation Sankul” to the members. All the members appreciated the innovative task
initiated by GTU.

Dr. Gargi Rajpara (Principal – LDRP-ITR) and Prof. Keyur Shah (Coordinator-UDISHA Club) are sharing
their views with their Udisha Club members on the theme of GTU Innovation Council to bind industry-
academia together.
Mr. Pravesh Bhadviya (Director – Project and Corporate Affairs, Sabar Institute of Technology for Girls
and Mr. Rajesh Lavingia, Coordinator of Udisha club arranged a meeting on 29th April, 2011 . In this
meeting, following decisions were taken:
(1) To plan a ‘Shodhyatra’ in due course of time till 30th and to make it a regular practice from the
upcoming semesters.
(2) To affiliate the institute with 4-5 industries in the region within a short duration for regular
Industrial visits & summer training etc.

(3) To upload the presentation on the institute’s website to make students and their parents aware
about the initiatives taken by GTU and its affiliated Colleges
Ms. Mansi Patel, Ms. Kruti Lavingia, Mr. Jigar Shah, Ms. Neelu Kanabar, Mr. Ajit Pujara and Ms. Atashi
Ajmera were the key faculty members who participated in the above brain storming secession.
Shantilal Shah Pharmacy College has conducted

the meeting and presentation to all pre final
year students and faculty members on 30th
April 2011 about GTU Innovation Council.
Dr.Pankaj H. Prajapati of Shri Sarvajanik
Pharmacy College, Mehsana conducted a
seminar-cum-presentation and shared his ideas
on innovation-driven pharmacy education
ecosystem.
Silver Oak College of Engg & Tech arranged a conference chaired by Principal Dr. P. K. Shah on 29 April
2011 at 12.15pm. Udisha Co-coordinator Prof. J .B.Sarvaiya , T & P Officer Mr. Jagat Shah, Faculty
members Ms. Krupa Patel, Mr. Aashish Kacha, Mr. Amit Agrawal, Mr. Jagat Shah, Ms. Hasumati Patel
and student members were invited to share their thoughts and inputs.

S. J. Thakkar Pharmacy College, Rajkot has organized the first meeting of ‘Udisha Club’, framed as per
the direction of GTU, on 30th April, 2011, Saturday during 12:00 noon to 01:00 pm. Dr. Manish A.
Rachchh, Mrs. Parula Patel, Mr. Pinakin Jadav, Mr. Mehul Rana and associate team participated in
discussion on developing innovating innovation ecosystem in pharmacy education sphere. Dr. Manish A.
Rachchh discussed about GTU policies regarding the final year student projects by identifying Industry
defined problems (IDP) and to do so by arranging ‘Industrial Shodh Yatras” during the upcoming
summer. Dr. Manish A. Rachchh suggested approaching directly to different pharmacy SMEs and MSMEs
by sending a letter highlighting our objectives for IDP as well as for ‘Shodh Yatra’ in the beginning stages.
Faculty and student members were given responsibility to compile collect and co-ordinate with different
pharmacy industrial clusters across Gujarat and specific faculty members were assigned for each
pharmacy cluster of Gujarat.

Sankalchand Patel College of Engineering - UDISHA Club has organized a meeting at “Techsat Seminar
Hall, S.K.Campus- Visnagar on 27th April, 2011 during 4:00pm to 5:00pm. At the beginning of the
meeting Mr. Krunal K. Patel - Training and Placement Officer gave a brief introduction regarding
objectives of “UDISHA CLUB” set-up by GTU. Dr. P.T. Kulkarni – Patron of the Udisha Club and Co-
Chairman of GTU’s Mehasana Innovation Sankul, gave an oral presentation about the ‘Innovation
Sankul”. All the members of the club and students appreciate the new initiative introduced by the GTU.
All Club Members including students jointly worked on an Action Plan to conduct Shodh Yatras, as
proposed by GTU. The Training and Placement Cell has been given the responsibility to develop a full
project report up on “Shodh Yatras” by 15th May, 2011. Finally it was decided to schedule such
meetings on 15th of each month.
Mr. Shailesh K. Patel (i/c Principal of SSPC) and Mr. Sanjay K. Soni (L.E.E. & Co-ordinator of UDISHA
club) arranged a meeting of the Club at SSPC College on April 29/04/11.

Dr. Jayeshkumar S. Patel, Principal, VADODARA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, KOTAMBI & Patron –
UDISHA Club arranged a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Club and Professors and HODs on
30/04/2011 at the institute. Prof. Praful P. Chudasama, Prof. A. S. Mandot, Prof. Pranav Bhagaonakar,
Prof. Praful P. Chudasama & Prof. Amit Chuahan shared their views on research ideas and the role of
UDISHA members. Prof. Pradip Rana , Prof. Spruha Lad and Prof. Ajaysinh Rathod discussed the issues
of innovative projects and models to the members . It was proposed to establish a research centre on a
specified field in the college campus.

G.P.Rajkot arranged a meeting chaired by Shri K.R.KHATRI ( I/c Principal G.P.RAJKOT) . Shri K.V.Dave,
Institute Co- ordinator –UDISHA Club, Shri V A Chikhalia, Shri K L Makwana, Shri N R Suchak, Shri N N
Hansalia, Shri T P Chanpura, Shri J B Vala and Shri V N Kaila were key participants in the discussion.
Shri K.V.Dave Institute Co- ordinator –UDISHA Club explained the implementation of Shodh Yatra. The
mechanism for sending the pre final year students during the summer to various industries of Rajkot
zone and to start finding out prevailing technical problems in industries was which can be solved by
Diploma Level students. At the same time it was decided to strengthen the Industry Institute Interaction
of institute at staff level with integrated efforts of Training & Placement Cell and all Exe. Committee
members.
Similarly the first meeting of Udisha Club was organized at H.J.D. College on 3nd May, 2011. Dr.Ashok
Kandya, the chairman of Udisha Club addressed the members of executive committee. The concepts
like Innovation Sankul, Industrial Shodh Yatra were discussed by the Coordinator Ms. Maitry Vyas .The
meeting ended with question-answer session. The chairman appreciated this step of GTU and said that
this type of activities will surely benefit students in their career.

The first meeting of UDISHA Club of N. G. PATEL POLYTECHNIC, ISROLI-AFWA was held on 4th May,
2011, Wednesday during 12:45 pm to 2:00 pm. Mr. J. B. Misty, Chairman of this Club described the
process of inception and actualization of ‘UDISHA Club’ policy framed by GTU. Mr. M. B. Dhangar,
coordinator of this club gave the power point presentation about ‘Innovation Sankuls” sent by GTU. All
staffs and students showed their enthusiasm and discussed with Mr. M. B. Dhangar the guidelines given
by Dr. Akshai Agrawal, at SCET, Surat where industrial persons were also present. Students were given
the guidelines about the Industrial Defined Problem (IDP). Mr. M. B. Dhangar gave information about
‘Techpedia.in’ website and preparation of documentation.
S.T.B.S.College of Diploma Engineering organized the first meeting of ‘UDISHA CLUB’, under the
Chairmanship of Prof. Y.S. Choupare, Patron of UDISHA Club. Mr K.K. Joshi, Coordinator of UDISHA
Club gave an oral presentation about ‘Innovation Sankul”.

Principal/ Patron of UDISH club NSIT, and all other branch wise Coordinators of UDISHA Club arranged
a meeting on 2nd of May. In this session participants discussed the future plan of the Club. As a part of
Shodh Yatra they arranged one site visit for all 6th semester students of Electrical and Mechanical to
Saradar Sarovar dam. The institute arranged one site visit for 4th semester civil students at Bopal site
for Bakeri Infrastructure. A group of 4th semester civil engineering students is also working for one
project "How to minimize the cost of energy of college building and reduce the temperature inside the
building in summer", under the guidance of Prof Shakil Malek of NSIT.
A meeting of UDISHA club of Government Engineering College, Rajkot was held on 4 May 2011 at 11.30
a.m. in Seminar Hall of E.C. Department. 25 club members (faculties as well as students) attended the

meeting, chaired by Prof. M.P.Jani, Institute UDISHA Coordinator. The presentation on ‘GTU Innovation
Sankuls: Building a new Collaboration Model’ was delivered by Dr. S. S. Singh. Prof. A.J. Mankad
discussed the role of institute and students in UDISHA club. She also discussed the possible ways to
achieve the objectives of the club. The members also discussed about future course of action regarding
GTU innovation Sankuls, final year projects and Shodh Yatra.
The below points were appreciated as the unique features of GTU Innovation Council after interacting
with around 5 dozen GTU’s Udisha clubs (Innovation Clubs ) and their members in last week.
1) Creating User Defined Innovation Eco-system- To create value for the research work, that has
already been done, and the research which is under process at GTU, a User defined innovation
ecosystem has been designed. Students and faculties at GTU are now defining the user’s (industry,
society, and business) need via Industrial Shodh Yatras which will be converted as final year project
/thesis in UG, PG, and PhD level at GTU from July 2011. Around 40,000 projects will be attempted based
on real industry floor issues at GTU and even 1% success rate will deliver a few hundred solutions to
MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) of country every year.
2) Mapping of Industrial Needs and Academic research- All GTU research works in UG and PG level
are now being scouted from all colleges and are being put together at www.techpedia.in .This will map
the mind of 1 lac technical students every year and innovation quotient of the university will go up in a
single stroke. By scouting the IDPs (industry defined projects) from floors of MSMEs (Micro, Small &

Medium Enterprises) GTU students and faculties will map the industrial needs in 166 industry clusters of
Gujarat from all engineering disciplines.
3) Democratizing innovation management process- To ensure the active participation of each

student of GTU in various stages, GTU Innovation Council has devised 3 stage systems by creating GTU
Sectorial Council, GTU Innovation Sankuls/Clusters and Udisha (Innovation) Clubs. 370 Innovation Clubs
(Udisha) have already been established in GTU colleges by now and by April 2011, 495 innovation clubs
will be institutionalized in the entire GTU system. An udisha club consists of students and faculties of
each stream of engineering. Sectorial Council at University has all vertical industry association
representatives, who will take care of specific branch of engineering and technology in innovation
clusters/Sankuls.
4) Industry-Academia cluster development involving GIDCs and GTU colleges- Involving GTU
colleges and MSME (Micro, small and medium enterprises) clusters, 25 GTU innovation Sankuls have
been created in various parts of Gujarat. e.g.- Ahmedabad, Vatva, Gandhinagar, Naroda, Vadodara,
Godhra, Vallabh Vidya Nagar, Surat, Vapi, Ankleshwer, Rajkot, Morbi, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh,
Kuchchh, Surendranagar, Mehshana, Patan etc. The Innovation Sankuls will have 18-25 colleges of
engineering / MBA / pharmacy / polytechnic / MCA and a thousand MSMEs. Some clusters /Sankuls
have been created to address the need of specific sectorial industries in state.
5) Creating sustainable motivation for students and researchers - GTU will reward 2 credits in its
academic system to define the real floor issues (Industry defined projects, IDPs) of MSMEs (Micro, small
and medium enterprises) of the State. Best 1000 problem proposals which will be submitted to
University in July after industrial Shodh Yatra in summer of 2011 will be supported by the university to
drive the ideas to product format. Four academic credits will be rewarded for attempting to solve these
IDPs (industry defined projects) in the final year of GTU students.
6) Developing relay model of innovation and student entrepreneurship module development-

Techpedia and GTU will document the progress of all research works at GTU of each industry defined
projects. For the very 1st time GTU will document the progress of its all research works in real time so
that a few cycles of attempts of research in coming year will lead the raw IDPs (MSME industry
problems) to products or solutions which can be absorbed by industries. GTU will support the best
solutions to reach a product level conceptualization and then students will be encouraged to develop
entrepreneurship at the UG level as it has been successfully done in experimental module in august –
December 2010. This will foster innovation fueled student enterprise modules and a few dozen student
startups can certainly be realized at the end of the academic year.

7) Emphasis on process innovation – For the very 1st time GTU Innovation Council will not only focus
on the desired production solution for industries but it is also emphasizing on documenting the best
ways to succeed in specific type of research works and to note down the ways which increases the time
cycle of developing solution in corresponding research areas. Multiple teams of students and faculties at
multiple places will attempt similar industry problems to develop a model of collaborative research and
product designing in innovative ways. This will reduce the time cycle of developing innovative products
and processes for industries.
8) Socializing Technologies- GTU Innovation Council is not only addressing the floor issue of industries
but also scouting and documenting the socio-technical issues of tribal people and the most backward
districts of the State like Dang. Through Shodh Yatras GTU students are interacting with the rural and
tribal people to map their socio-technical needs and converting them as research projects like designing
low cost solar application for tribal areas and designing machines to process Chironji seeds in Dang
districts.
9) Protecting IPR, Intellectual property rights and bringing Saraswati and Laxmi together
(promoting knowledge economy along with innovations.)-GTU Innovation Council will help the
best thesis/projects attempted by students and faculties to get promoted and the University will help
them in protecting their intellectual property rights (IPR) so that research will lead to sustainable
knowledge economy with proper credit protection with respect to the innovators. Awareness will be
created among students and faculties about above issues to increase the efficiency of the system at
each Sankul and Innovation Club level.
10) Promoting Frugal/Gandhian Innovations- In an attempt to promote the concept of Gandhian

engineering at university level in the state, Techpedia.in, in association with
Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has initiated one of its kind of award to honour the best cost
effective innovations at academic level that could benefit the masses. The categories for the awards
have been instituted after the 32 engineering disciplines offered at GTU. Two awards will be given in
each category of under-graduate, post-graduate and diploma courses. The award will encourage and
support students and faculty to design cost-effective and eco-friendly products and services for the
larger section of society. The innovators will be motivated to put their efforts together in socializing
technologies. Students and researchers at GTU will not only innovate to create value for money but also
to create value for many. The innovation clubs will streamline the attempts aimed at creating more from
less for more and more.
11) Harnessing the numerous months of efforts of research for productive innovation
creation- GTU students are putting some 10 months of effort in their final year in attempting to solve

projects as a part of the curriculum. Around 1 lac students while putting 10 months of effort per year
constitute nearly 1 million human months of efforts. Through this process GTU Innovation Council will
effectively harness the students’ inputs guided by some 15,000 faculties at GTU in a collaborative
environment to create a sustainable knowledge ecosystem in a period of the coming 3 years with a “feel
the difference approach”.
12) Exchanging mentors from industry and academia- GTU innovation Sankuls will exchange floor
engineers from various MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) with corresponding faculties of
particular stream which will further lead to design a road map in academia for a need based evolution.
Students will get a practical insight and feedbacks from industry floors will enable them in blending their
thoughts with proper orientation to adapt innovative approaches in solving real life issues.
GTU Innovation Council will work
•To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry, confidence in their ability and innovation
•To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D institutions with the help
of Techpedia and existing R&D infrastructures and ecosystem.
•To facilitate innovations by MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) by value addition through
support by GTU students and faculties
•To create appropriate eco-systems and environment to foster innovation by identifying the problems,
designing and developing the product or improving the business / industrial processes, mentoring
students/researchers during the project and evaluation of the project.

GTU innovation Sankul Vadodara-2
Report of the 1st Meeting of the Members of the Sankul Committee
29th April 2011
The first meeting of the GTU innovation Sankul Vadodara-2’s Committee was held
at Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology on Friday, 29.04.2011 in the presence of Dr.
Akshai Aggarwal, Honorable Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Technological University.
AGENDA
The Agenda for the meeting with Honorable Vice Chancellor of GTU, Dr. Akshai Aggarwal at
Parul Campus, At. Limda, Tal. Waghodia, Dist. Vadodara scheduled on 29-04-2011 at 02.00 P.M
1. Consideration of objectives of Innovation Sankul (IS)

2. Design activities for attainment of objectives of IS
3. Selection of modality for activities of IS
4. Determination of planning, phasing & scheduling of activities to be undertaken.
5. Delegation of duty, responsibility & authority of members of the IS.
6. Formation of task group for accomplishment of the activities.
7. Design & delegation of assignment of task group members.
8. Design instruments for implementation & assessment of the scheme.
9. Finalization of Projects to be undertaken by Final Year students of Degree / Diploma
Engineering, MBA, MCA students. Projects should be live and useful to the industry.
10. Finalization of co-chair person from industry & members of industry for the GTU
Innovative Sankul.

Following Illustrative objectives & activities of GTU Innovation Sankul were discussed in the
meeting with the Honorable Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Technological University
Objectives:
To make the Industry – Institute Interaction meaningful, clear understanding of educational

objectives is essential on the part of teachers, industry and the students. These educational
objectives could be:
• To make technical teachers aware of the engineering needs of the industry, working
environment of the industry and latest industrial techniques and practices.
• To incorporate industrial training and some other inputs from the industry in technical
curriculum so as to make the students fit for industrial environment and to develop
capabilities of becoming self employed.
• To inform the industry about the programs of technical education and have their ideas
for system improvements, thereby benefiting both the systems.
• To provide assistance to the industry in the selection of suitable candidates in campus
interview and otherwise.
• To undertake Research and Development facilities at institutional level for developing
new products, processes and technologies for the industry.
• To offer suitable training programmes for working personnel from the industry and to
offer consultancy for solving some of the industrial problems.
• To organize campus placement for mutual benefit of institutes & industries.
Activities:
Over the years, several Research Institutions in the country have conducted a lot of research in
the field and chalked out some of the areas for improving industry – institute interaction.
• Technical Institutes should invite experienced engineers from the industry at all stages
of design, development and review of appropriate curricula.
• Technical institutions should organize periodic visits of the students to the industry for
achieving curricular objectives.
• Engineering Colleges / Polytechnics should plan to send their teachers for industrial
training in order to make them aware of the changing technological scenario.

• In order to promote involvement of teachers with the world of work, the institutes
should undertake consultancy services and research and developmental activities to
help industry in developing new products, processes and technologies.
• Technical Institutions should organize industrial in-plant training during summer
vacations in a planned manner. Actual industrial problems should be given to the
students. Such projects can develop entrepreneurial qualities among the students.
• Technical Institutes should organize campus interviews in cooperation of MNC & large /
medium / small scale industries.
Advantages:
The close collaboration of industry and institute will greatly benefit both the systems. The
major outcomes will be better teaching – learning with relevant curricula and instructional
resources producing better quality technicians with appropriate level of practical knowledge
and skill required by the industry. The education system will have technical teachers with
improved awareness of industrial techniques and practices, emerging technologies and actual
problems in the industry related to production or otherwise.
Industry will be benefited through enhanced quality of technical manpower and easy selection
of right type of persons. As engineers working in the industry will be actively involved in design,
development and revision of technical curricula, they can make it according to the needs of
industry. Consultancy and testing facilities provided by the instate will also be beneficial to the
industry. The research and development facilities undertaken by the institutes will be an
additional advantage to the industry and the industry will willingly sponsor and finance such
projects. By rendering Research and Development services, the technical institute will have
additional budget which can be spent for the betterment of quality of education. .
Decisions:
1. To see that an Udisha Club is made active at every College
2. To arrange periodic meetings of the Sankul Committee either at a college or at an industry so

that formal as well as informal relationships among the Committee Members can be built up
3. To organize meetings of teachers (and of 3rd Year and 4th Year teachers in particular) and
students (pre-final year students in particular to inform every pre-final year student about the
requirement of finding an Industry Defined Problem during June and July.

Appendix 1
The following members were present during the first meeting of GTU Innovation Sankul
Vadodara-2 held on 29-04-2011 at Parul Campus, At. Limda, Tal. Waghodia, Dist. Vadodara
scheduled on at 02.00 P.M:
Sr. No. Name Designation Institute / University
1 Dr. Akshai K. Aggrawal Vice Chancellor Gujarat Technological University
Parul Institute of Engineering &

2 Dr. Vilin P.Parekh Principal
Technology
3 Dr. Tolaram L. Popat Principal Parul Institute of Technology
4 Dr. Rajesh K.S. Principal Parul Institute of Pharmacy
5 Dr. Vandana B. Patel Director Baroda College of Pharmacy

6 Dr. PGK Murthy Director Technology –
MBA Programme
7 Dr. Abhijeet Chatarjee Director Dr. J.K. Patel Institute of Management
Prof. Narendra K.
8 Director Parul Institute of Management
Kapoor
9 Prof. Shital T. Shah Principal Technology –
(Diploma Studies) - 1st Shift
10 Prof. Archana Nanoty Principal Technology –
(Diploma Studies) - 2nd Shift
11 Prof. Jatin S. Vaidhya Principal Parul Polytechnic Institute – 1st Shift

Sr. No. Name Designation Institute / University
12 Prof. Devang Shah Principal Parul Polytechnic Institute – 2nd Shift

Associate
13 Prof. Varang Acharya Technology -
Professor
MCA Programme
Assistant
14 Prof. Nikunj Patel Parul Institute of Pharmacy
Professor & TPO
Associate Parul Institute of Engineering &
15 Prof. Amod Kolte
Professor & TPO Technology
Assistant
16 Prof. Akshay Palvankar Parul Institute of Management
Professor & TPO
Assistant
17 Prof. Sudeshana Pai Dr. J.K. Patel Institute of Management
Professor & TPO
Prashant & Mittal Kansara Pharmacy
18 Dr. M. Geetha Principal
College
19 Dr. S.S. Pancholi Principal Babariya Institute of Pharmacy
20 Dr. Ashok R. Pandya Director Babariya Institute of Technology
Assistant
21 Prof. Samip S. Shah Pioneer Institute of Pharmacy
Professor
22 Dr. Dhanajay Meshran Professor Sigma Institute of Pharmacy

Appendix 2
During the first meeting of the Sankul Committee (SC), it was decided to request the following
persons to join the Sankul Committee of GTU Innovation Sankul Vadodara-2 as members
representing the industries.
Sr. Sankul
Name Designation Name of Company
No. Designation
1 Ms. Geeta Goradiya President Federation of Gujarat Industry Co -Chairman
2 Mr. Brijesh Patel Director Makcur Laboratories Ltd. Member
3 Mr.Ambalal Patel Director Centurion Laboratories Member
Baroque Pharmaceuticals Pvt.

4 Mr. J. D. Patel Director Member
Ltd.
5 Mr. Ketan Parekh CEO Astral Pharmaceutical Industries Member
6 Mr. Himanshu Jani Sr. HR Manager Alembic Ltd. Member
7 Mr. Anand Swaroop AGM - HR Torrent Research Centre Member
Sun Pharma Advance Research

8 Mr. Dayaram Damle Manager HR Member
Company Ltd.
Gujarat Liqui Pharmacaps Pvt.
9 Mr. J. J. Chaudhuri Director Member
Ltd.
10 Mr. Mitul Patel Manager- CSS Ambuja Cements Ltd Member
Mr.Durba Cube Constructions Engineering

11 Manager HR Member
Bhattacharya Ltd.
12 Mr. Paresh Patel Head - Technical Jaypee Cements Ltd. Member

Sr. Sankul
No. Designation
13 Mr. Prerak Joshi Manager HR Ceat Tyres Ltd. Member
Sayaji Tempo
14 Mr. Rajesh Varghese Head - HR Member
(Force Motors)
15 Mr. Jiten Jesing Director Utility Power Test Member
Net Xpert Web Solution Pvt.

16 Mr.Bhavin Rana Director Member
Ltd.
17 Mr. Deep Trivedi Project Leader I-Soft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Member
Mr. Ramchandra
18 HR- Manager Hirel Electronics Pvt. Ltd. Member
Bhatt
Manager -
19 Mr. Prajose John E-Infochips Ltd. Member
Training
21 Miss Rinku Patel Manager HR System Level Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Member
22 Mr. Nitin Paranjape Director Edutech Systems Pvt. Ltd. Member
Technical -
23 Mr. S. Sunder Matrix Comsec Pvt. Ltd. Member
Manager
Huawei Telecommunications
24 Mr. Harshvadan Jani Head - Technical Member
Ltd.
Manager –
25 Mr. J.J Pandya Essar Steel Ltd. Member
T&D
26 Mr. G.T Patel Director Twin Engineers Member
27 Mr. R.B.Patel Head - Technical Twin Engineers Member

Sr. Sankul
No. Designation
28 Mr. Richard Pintoo Head - HR Danke Power Ltd. Member
Shailey Engineering & Plastics

29 Mr. Kiran Pradhan. Manager - HR Member
Pvt. Ltd.
Chartered
30 Mr. Yash Thakkar Shirish Desai & CO. Member
Accountant
Manager HR &
31 Mr. Priyanshu Singh Collabera Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Member
ERP
Company
32 Mr. Ashutosh Sandhe A. A. Sandhe & Co. Member
Secretary
Manager- Site
33 Mrs. Sonali Mungale People Areva T&D India Pvt. Ltd. Member
Development
34 Mr. Rajesh Palkar Head - HR Rubamin Ltd. Member
Executive Vice
35 Mr. Nitish Shah Kotak Securities Ltd. Member
President
36 Mr. Hardik Dave Project Manager Gujarat Maritime Board Member
37 Mr. Hiren Antani Resident Editor Gujarat Samachar Member
38 Mr. Anil K. Kapoor GM-HR Transpek Industry Ltd. Member

Appendix 3: A few photographs
Members of Management & Engineering Faculty
Members of Pharmacy & Engineering Faculty

Honorable Vice Chancellor addressing the
Members of GTU Innovation Sankul

Appendix 4: A few press clippings
Media Coverage of the first meeting of GTU Innovation Sankul
Sandesh Vadodara Edition, 30-04-2011

Divya Bhaskar, Vadodara Edition, 30-04-2011

Gujarat Samachar, Vadodara Edition, 03-05-2011

GTU Innovation Sankul Rajkot-3

Report of meeting between GTU Innovation Sankul Colleges and GIDC Lodhika at GTU
Innovation Sankul Rajkot-3 Hosted by VVP Engineering College.
On 12th of May 2011, VVP Engineering College invited the representative of all the colleges and
GIDC (Lodhika), Kalawad Road Rajkot. The Agenda of meeting was to quick start the activity
of GTU Innovation Sankul Rajkot 3 and gear up UDISHA Club at each and every college. This
meeting was organized under the guidance of Co-chairman of Sankul, Dean of GTU Academic
and Principal of VVP Engineering College Dr. Sachin Parikh by UDISHA Club VVP
engineering College. Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman of VVP Engineering College was
especially present to attend and inspire the activities of GTU Innovation Sankul.
The program was attended by the Mr. N H Kantesariya and Mr. Uttambhai Patel of GIDC
(Lodhika), Kalawad Road, Rajkot and various representatives of the Sankul Colleges. The
program was attended by SJ Thaker Pharmacy College, LTIET, Christ Inst. Of Polytechnic,
Christ Inst. of Management, KNV Inst of business Management, KNV Inst of Pharmacy,
Aurobindo Inst of Management, Shri Sunshine Education Trust etc and staff members of VVP
Engineering College.
The main point we discussed in the meeting was;
1. How the Concept of GTU Innovation Sankul emerging.

2. To make the colleges of the Sankul familiar about concept of GTU Innovation Sankul.
3. What is the objective of GTU Innovation Sankul.
4. Why India need to tie the academy and industry.
5. The various awards at International level for the concept of GTU innovation Sankul.
6. Features of GTU innovation Sankul.
7. Role of Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MCA and MBA colleges.
8. Role of Industry.
9. Final Year Projects.

10. Success story of students at GTU.

11. Activities for the Sankul Hosted by VVP Engineering College.
12. Next Goal of the Sankul Activities.
13. Industrial Sodh Yatra.
The program was anchored by Dr. Krishna Joshi, UDISHA Club member, Bio-Technology
Department. The program was started by giving the bouquet of flowers to the representatives of
GIDC (lodhika), Chairman of VVP Shri Pravinbhai Maniar and Principal of VVP Engineering
College and Co-chairman of Rajkot 3 GTU Innovation Sankul.
The welcome speech for the Program was given by Co-chairman of the Sankul Dr. Sachin
Parikh. He had given the idea for what is the basic logic of Foundation behind the idea of GTU
Innovation Sankul. He said that Indian Society is highly innovative and educated. In past, the
products of India were widely used across the globe as India had some of the unique products
available from the society due to innovative and scientific background. But gradually due to
collapse of the Great universities of India and failure of traditional ‘Pathshala’ system. The
universities, established by the English and after Independence by us, have failed to make their
students more practically sound. He emphasized on Practical Knowledge of the students and said
that for that we can take the maximum advantage to change this scenario by the novel concept of
GTU Innovation Sankul and invited all to work together to strengthen the activities of the
Sankul.
Prof. Amit D Degada, UDISHA Club Convener, VVP Engineering College gave a presentation
about GTU Innovation Sankul and UDISHA Club. He presented the idea of GTU Innovation
Sankul and Key factors behind it. He conveyed the Vision of GTU VC Dr. Akshai Aggarwal and
Techpedia MD, Mr. Hiranmaya Mahanta about Final year Projects. He briefly presented the idea
of “Shodh Yatra” and said how the shodh yatra can be helpful to nurture the creativity and
innovation of the Students and what the GTU wants from every Final year students of

Engineering, Diploma, Pharmacy, MBA and MCA. He informed all the invitees about the 9th
April, 2011 Meeting between GTU VC and Leading Industrialist of Rajkot Hosted by the VVP
engineering College and GIDC Lodhika Industrial Association. He also presented the role of
UDISHA Club to realize the concept of GTU Innovation Sankul. Finally he gave the idea of
some of the success story of GTU students. Finally Prof. Amit Degada and One Techpedia
member, Mr. Shrey, sent from Ahmedabad by Techpedia.in, addressed the questions of the
invited members. In the Question answer session, the following questions were raised.
Q. Can we go to any industry, if any Industry Specific to the branch is not available in city?
Ans. Yes. With some examples and said that GTU has tied-up with ASSOCHAM, Electrical-
Electronics Association, Pharmaceuticals and Civil Engineering Association. This would
facilitate GTU students visit the Industries
Q. Can we go to industry that is not falling in our Sankul e.g. Morbi ceramic Industries?
Ans. Yes.
Prof Amit Degada, also emphasized to academician that we should work with positive
mind set and make Industralist more ‘feel Good’ by the efforts of the faculties and the students.
He said that it’s said that in 21st century whole world looks for progress it look at India and
when India look for progress, it looks at Gujarat but we should make this further that
when Gujarat looks for progress it will look at GTU Innovation Sankul. Let’s make the #1
state further strengthen its position.
In that session it was suggested by one faculty that GTU should try to omit some first
year subjects which is not useful for students in future (e.g. MOS is not useful for EC, IC, CE, IT
and Electrical) and introduce some subjects that will enhance the creativity of the students.

Mr. N H Kantesariya, Secretary of GIDC Lodhika Industrial Association (GLIA), in his

speech gave full assurance to all academicians that the GLIA would be ready to take any steps
for advancing the concept of GTU Innovation Council. He also asked to put more emphasize on
long term training of the students in terms of 30 to 45 days in between semesters. He praised the
effort of Dr. Akshai Aggarwal of GTU Innovation Sankul for the first time in INDIA.
Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, who is the source of Inspiration for VVP engineering college also
praised the efforts of GTU VC Dr. Akshai Aggarwal. He also said that GTU also knows the
importance of Rajkot as Educational and Industrial hub and that’s why Dr. Aggarwal has given 3
GTU Innovation Sankuls. He also presented the concept of ‘DARSHAN YATRA’, in which we
should take our first year students to visit the local industry as soon as they come to the first year
and develop the atmosphere from the first year itself. For Second year Students, he suggested to
organize ‘ANUBHAV YATRA’ in that all the second year students should be taken into the
industry which was visited in the first year for a longer duration. He wished his feelings towards
GTU VC Dr. Akshai Agrawal by saying that ‘May God make the novel ideas of GTU VC A-
kshaya (which will never end)’.
At last Vote of thanks was given by Mr. Kunal Khimani, UDISHA Club member, IT
Department, VVP Engineering College.
To make this program successful Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Dr. Sachinbhai Parikh (Co-chairman of
Sankul), Prof. Amit Degada, Convener UDISHA Club, Prof Ashvin Karemore, Co-convener
UDISHA Club, Dr. Krishana Joshi, Prof. Girish Mulchandani, Mr. Bhavesh Dobaria,
Mr. Kunal Khimani, Mr. Kuldeepsinh Rathod, Prof. Dipesh Kundalia and Prof. Jay Joshi had put
the efforts.

Dr. Krishna Joshi, Anchor, Member of From Left: Mr. N H kantesariya(

UDISHA Club, Bio-Technology Secratery GIDC Lodhika ind Asso.),
Department Mr. Pravinbhai maniar (Chairman
VVP Eng College, Mr. Uttambhai
Patel (GIDC Lodhika), Dr. Sachin
parikh (Pricipal VVP and Co-
chairman of GTU Innovation Sankul
Rajkot 3)

Invited Guest Invited Guest
Guest Welcome by Prof Amit Degada Guest Welcome by Prof Ashvin

Karemore
Guest Welcome by Prof Bhavesh Guest Welcome by Prog Girish

Dobaria Mulchandani

Welcome speech by Dr. Sachin parikh GTU Innovation Sankul Presentation

(Co-Chairman, Rajkot -3 GTU by Prof Amit D Degada, Convener
Innovation Sankul) UDISHA Club, VVP Engineering
College, Rajkot
GTU Innovation Sankul Presentation GTU Innovation Sankul Presentation

by Prof Amit D Degada, Convener by Prof Amit D Degada, Convener
UDISHA Club, VVP Engineering UDISHA Club, VVP Engineering
College, Rajkot College, Rajkot

Mr. N H Kantesaria, Secratery GIDC Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman

Lodhika Industries Association VVP Engg. College inspiring efforts
of UDISHA Club
Mr. Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman Mr. Kunal Khimani, UDISHA Club

VVP Engg. College presenting the Member giving Vote of thanks.
concept of ‘DARSHAN YATRA’

UDISHA Club, VVP Engineering College.
From left: Prof Dipesh Kundalia (Mech), Prof Jay Joshi (Mech), Prof. Bhavesh
Dobaria (Elect), Mr. Amit D Degada (Convener, UDISHA Club VVP Eng College),
Dr. Sachin parikh (Co-Chairman, Rajkot 3 GTU Innovation Sankul), Mr. Ashvin L
Karemore (Co-convener, UDISHA Club VVP Eng College), Prof Girish h
Mulchandani (Computer Science), Mr. Kunal Khimani (IT), Dr Krishana Joshi (Bio-
Technology Dept). Behind-Mr. Kuldeepsinh Rathod (Elect).

GTU Innovation Council nominates Directors for Various Innovation Sankuls
12th May 2011
GTU Innovation council has nominated 24 Directors for various Sankuls in Phase 2 and they will be
taking care of the following activities.
1. To arrange periodic meeting among other principals of the same vertical under a particular
Sankul to design branch specific road maps.
2. To work for ensuring that all the Udisha Clubs in each of the Colleges are activated and that they
play a significant role in policy designing and executing it.
3. To ask the Principals to allocate specific teachers to 30-40 students of each college who will take
care of Industrial Shodh Yatras.
4. To distribute (and to redesign, if required) process formats of scouting and documenting of IDPs
(Industry Defined Projects) from industries during shodh yatras.
5. To design an algorithm to map every 3-4 student (along with their faculty, if possible) to a
specific industry / MSME.
6. To monitor evaluation of IDPs in early final year and to submit it to GTU.
7. To maintain healthy interaction with nearby industries of the same vertical through periodic
meetings both at industry chamber and at various colleges under the respective Sankul.
8. To provide periodic updates / reports of activities / research developments / needs / meetings

and associated things to GTU Innovation Council. These will be shared in the public domain so
that Sankuls can learn about best practices from one another.
9. To locate innovative ideas / projects of your domain and Sankul, which need support in IPR,
product designing support and any further requirement which can be directly taken care of by
GTU Innovation Council.
10. To arrange periodic interactions with Udisha Clubs, students and faculties of various institutes to
take their inputs in designing the local policies and disseminating information about the
progress and programs of GTU Innovation Council and respective Sankuls.(The objejctive is to
motivate the faculty members to participate in the industry-institute inter-action and to help
make it more intensive).



Prof(Dr) M G Bhatt Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul (Degree Engineering)

Prof. Shyam Varghese Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul. (Diploma Engineering)
Prof. Himal Pandya Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul (Pharmacy)
Prof. Ms. Saroj Vatsa Bhavnagar GTU Innovation Sankul (MBA)
Dr. R G Kapadia Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul. (Degree Engineering)
Mr. M M Dalchawal Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul (Diploma Engineering)
Mr. Rajesh Dodiya Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul (Pharmacy)
Mrs. Trupti S Almoula Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul. (MBA)
Ms. Igna Joshi Bharuch GTU Innovation Sankul (MCA)
Prof. Kantibhai C Patel Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (Diploma Engineering)
Prof. P D Bharadia Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (Pharmacy)
Prof. Jayaashish S. Sethi Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (MBA)
Prof. Vikram Kaushik Mehsana GTU Innovation Sankul (MCA)
Mr. Jayprakash V Bholanda Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul (Degree Engineering)
Mr. A S Vyas Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul (Diploma Engineering)
Dr. Saurabh S Pandya Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul. (Pharmacy)
Dr. M S Trivedi Godhra GTU Innovation Sankul (MBA)


UDISHA INNOVATION CLUBS
A Report
17TH May 2011
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad ‐380 015
Phone: +91‐79‐2630 0499; +91‐79‐2630 0599; +91‐79‐2630 0699
Fax: +91‐79‐4020 0644
Contact: pstovc@gtucolleges.in | Tel: +91‐79‐2630 0699;


GTU’s Udisha Innovation Clubs
GTU Innovation Council has been working to rejuvenate the spirit of innovation and to
nurture and encourage creativity among more than 250,000 students and 10,000 faculty
members in all the undergraduate and postgraduate courses of Engineering, Management,
Pharmacy, MCA and Polytechnic.
Techpedia had been working to make the information about all the projects done by
engineering students widely available through its web-site. It had also been working on
developing a National mentors Network for student projects.
Since students projects are an important part of the strategies required for the work of GTU
Innovation Council, GTU readily agreed work jointly with Techpedia.in as soon as the
Managing Director of Techpedia.in met the new Vice-Chancellor in June 2010. On 13th July,
2010 GTU invited Prof Anil Gupta to address a conference of the Directors of the MBA
Colleges, affiliated with GTU. While a joint pilot project for offering industry problems to
undergraduate students was taken up in Rajkot region by Mr Hiranmay Mahanta, GTU
organized and participated in a number of industry meetings at Ahmedabad, starting from
August 2, 2010. Once the pilot project started bringing successful results, GTU Innovation
Council work was developed further.
GTU Innovation Council has created 25 Innovation Sankul in Gujarat involving 166 industry
clusters and colleges of GTU. The capacity of each Sankul is being built by involving
faculty members, professionals, students and owners & professionals of industries. Each
Sankul is being encouraged to develop a methodology of working, which inculcates
innovation through joint working. At the end of every year, the working will be modulated
after a review of the work during the year. This will lead to a cycle of capacity building and
renewal during the year. During the summer, thousands of students and faculty members will
work jointly with industries to determine the Industry Defined Problems (IDP). These may
relate to improving the quality of the products. Or these may be for solving some problems,
relating to the processes at the industries. At the beginning of the academic year, the output
from the students will be evaluated and the best proposals will be given awards. The project
problems will be uploaded on the Techpedia, the national knowledge portal.


To work with the Sankuls, GTU is establishing Udisha Clubs in every College. More than
300 Udisha Clubs have already sent the working reports. Some of the recent reports are
available on the GTU web-site at:
http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/11May/Report%20on%20Last%20week%20activit
ies%20of%20GTU's%20Udisha%20Clubs.pdf
http://www.gtu.ac.in/circulars/11May/meetings%20of%2024%20Udisha%20Clubs_30th%20April%2
02011.pdf .
Appendix 1 gives briefly the features of the GTU Innovation Council.
Appendix 2 is the note prepared for the College Principals/ Directors of GTU Colleges for
establishing Udisha Innovation Clubs.
* * *


Appendix 1
GTU (Gujarat Technical University) Innovation Council

Her Excellency, the President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil has declared the decade of Innovation
2010‐2020 for inclusive growth of the nation. GTU has conceptualized and implemented the
roadmap of innovation in the Indian context and created GTU Innovation council at University level.
 Creating User Defined Innovation Eco‐system‐ To create value for the research
work, that has already been done, and the research which is under process at GTU, a
User defined innovation ecosystem has been designed. Students and faculties at GTU
are now defining the user’s (industry, society, and business) need via Industrial
Shodh Yatras which will be converted as final year project /thesis in UG, PG, and PhD
level at GTU from July 2011.
Around 40,000 projects will be attempted based on real industry floor issues at GTU
and even 1% success rate will deliver a few hundred solutions to MSMEs (Micro,
Small & Medium Enterprises) of country every year.


 Mapping of Industrial Needs and Academic research‐ All GTU research works in UG
and PG level are now being scouted from all colleges and are being put together at
www.techpedia.in .This will map the mind of 1 lac technical students every year and
innovation quotient of the university will go up in a single stroke. By scouting the
IDPs (industry defined projects) from floors of MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium
Enterprises) GTU students and faculties will map the industrial needs in 166 industry
clusters of Gujarat from all engineering disciplines.
 Democratizing innovation management process‐ To ensure the active participation
of each student of GTU in various stages, GTU Innovation Council has devised 3 stage
systems by creating GTU Sectorial Council, GTU Innovation Sankuls/Clusters and
Udisha (Innovation) Clubs. More than 300 Innovation Clubs (Udisha) have already
been established in GTU colleges by now and all GTU colleges will be establishing
Udisha clubs by this academic year. An udisha club consists of students and faculties
of each stream of engineering. Sectorial Council at University has all vertical industry
association representatives, who will take care of specific branch of engineering and
technology in innovation clusters/Sankuls.
 Industry‐Academia cluster development involving GIDCs and GTU colleges‐

Involving GTU colleges and MSME (Micro, small and medium enterprises) clusters,
25 GTU Innovation Sankuls have been created in various parts of Gujarat. e.g.‐
Ahmedabad, Vatva, Gandhinagar, Naroda, Vadodara, Godhra, Vallabh Vidya Nagar,
Surat, Vapi, Ankleshwer, Rajkot, Morbi, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kuchchh,
Surendranagar, Mehshana, Patan etc. The Innovation Sankuls will have 18‐25
colleges of engineering / MBA / pharmacy / polytechnic / MCA and a thousand
MSMEs. Some clusters /Sankuls have been created to address the need of specific
sectorial industries in state.
 Creating sustainable motivation for students and researchers ‐ GTU will reward 2
credits in its academic system to define the real floor issues (Industry defined
projects, IDPs) of MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) of the State. Best
1000 problem proposals which will be submitted to University in July after industrial
Shodh Yatra in summer of 2011 will be supported by the university to drive the ideas
to product format. Four academic credits will be rewarded for attempting to solve
these IDPs (industry defined projects) in the final year of GTU students.
 Developing relay model of innovation and student entrepreneurship module

development‐ Techpedia and GTU will document the progress of all research works


at GTU of each industry defined projects. For the very 1st time GTU will document
the progress of its all research works in real time so that a few cycles of attempts of
research in coming year will lead the raw IDPs (MSME industry problems) to
products or solutions which can be absorbed by industries. GTU will support the best
solutions to reach a product level conceptualization and then students will be
encouraged to develop entrepreneurship at the UG level as it has been successfully
done in experimental module in august –December 2010. This will foster innovation
fueled student enterprise modules and a few dozen student startups can certainly be
realized at the end of the academic year.
 Emphasis on process innovation – For the very 1st time GTU Innovation Council will
not only focus on the desired production solution for industries but it is also
emphasizing on documenting the best ways to succeed in specific type of research
works and to note down the ways which increases the time cycle of developing
solution in corresponding research areas. Multiple teams of students and faculties at
multiple places will attempt similar industry problems to develop a model of
collaborative research and product designing in innovative ways. This will reduce the
time cycle of developing innovative products and processes for industries.
 Socializing Technologies‐ GTU Innovation Council is not only addressing the floor
issue of industries but also scouting and documenting the socio‐technical issues of
tribal people and the most backward districts of the State like Dang. Through Shodh
Yatras GTU students are interacting with the rural and tribal people to map their
socio‐technical needs and converting them as research projects like designing low
cost solar application for tribal areas and designing machines to process Chironji
seeds in Dang districts.
 Protecting IPR, Intellectual property rights and bringing Saraswati and Laxmi
together (promoting knowledge economy along with innovations.)‐GTU Innovation
Council will help the best thesis/projects attempted by students and faculties to get
promoted and the University will help them in protecting their intellectual property
rights (IPR) so that research will lead to sustainable knowledge economy with proper
credit protection with respect to the innovators. Awareness will be created among
students and faculties about above issues to increase the efficiency of the system at
each Sankul and Innovation Club level.
 Promoting Frugal/Gandhian Innovations‐ In an attempt to promote the concept of
Gandhian engineering at university level in the state, Techpedia.in, in association
with Gujarat Technological University (GTU), has initiated one of its kind of award to
honour the best cost effective innovations at academic level that could benefit the
masses. The categories for the awards have been instituted after the 32 engineering


disciplines offered at GTU. Two awards will be given in each category of under‐
graduate, post‐graduate and diploma courses. The award will encourage and support
students and faculty to design cost‐effective and eco‐friendly products and services
for the larger section of society. The innovators will be motivated to put their efforts
together in socializing technologies. Students and researchers at GTU will not only
innovate to create value for money but also to create value for many. The innovation
clubs will streamline the attempts aimed at creating more from less for more and
more.
 Harnessing the numerous months of efforts of research for productive innovation
creation‐ GTU students are putting some 10 months of effort in their final year in
attempting to solve projects as a part of the curriculum. Around 1 lac students while
putting 10 months of effort per year constitute nearly 1 million human months of
efforts. Through this process GTU Innovation Council will effectively harness the
students’ inputs guided by some 15,000 faculties at GTU in a collaborative
environment to create a sustainable knowledge ecosystem in a period of the coming
3 years with a “feel the difference approach”.
 Exchanging mentors from industry and academia‐ GTU innovation Sankuls will
exchange floor engineers from various MSMEs (Micro, small and medium
enterprises) with corresponding faculties of particular stream which will further lead
to design a road map in academia for a need based evolution. Students will get a
practical insight and feedbacks from industry floors will enable them in blending
their thoughts with proper orientation to adapt innovative approaches in solving real
life issues.
GTU Innovation Council will work
•To inculcate among students and faculty a spirit of enquiry, confidence in their ability and
innovation
•To encourage the students to work with industries and businesses and R&D institutions
with the help of Techpedia
•To facilitate innovations by MSMEs (Micro, small and medium enterprises) by value
addition through support by GTU students and faculties
•To create appropriate eco‐systems and environment to foster innovation by identifying the
problems, designing and developing the product or improving the business / industrial
processes, mentoring students/researchers during the project and evaluation of the project.



Appendix 2
Clubs in GTU Colleges
A Note for Colleges
GTU Innovation Sankuls: To bring industries, businesses and GTU Colleges together,
GTU is planning to set up Innovation Sankuls. Each Sankul will represent a cluster of GTU
Colleges and the industries in the area. One such Sankul of which your college would be a
member will be set up soon by GTU.
A Club at every GTU College: To take advantage of the Sankuls and to organize other
placement activities at each College, it has been suggested that every GTU college should set
up a Club. The Club may be called the Udisha1 (Universal Development of Integrated Skills
through Higher Education) Club of the College.
General Guidelines for setting up a Club:
 Each club will have an Executive Committee.
 The Executive Committee will have some faculty and students of various branches as
members. One of the faculty member will act as its coordinator.
 Faculty Members: As far as possible, each Branch should have one faculty member
in the Executive Committee.
 Student Members: As far as possible, from every Branch, there may be one student
from each year. Thus during this semester, from each branch, there may be three
students, one each from the first, the second and the third year respectively.
The members of the Executive Committee at a College will be nominated by the Principal/
Director of the College. The Training and Placement Officer of the College may be an
important member of the Club.
The Principal/ Director will be the Patron of the Club.
Activities:
1. The club will coordinate the activities of corresponding Navsarjan Sankul at college
level.
a. To establish a close and continuing inter-action
between the industries and the College
b. To decide about the Final Year projects in
consultation with industries
1
The name ‘Udisha’ has been borrowed from a similar project of the Commissioner of
Higher Education, Government of Gujarat and Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat


c. To be able to seek and get the help of industries
in execution of the Final Year project by way of
 Mentoring
 Help by way of materials
 Help in evaluation of the project

d. To identify and to help solve the problems of the
industries.
e. To have students and teachers visit industries
f. To have summer internships in the industries
g. To work out exchange of teachers and
professionals from the industry
h. To participate in the activities of the industry
associations for developing a closer inter-action by
helping the
i. To organize continuing education programs for
industries by assessing the needs of the industry and
society.
k. To harness the effective potential of young technical minds
and faculties.
2. The Club will work towards ensuring that every student gets an excellent placement
after she/ he completes his/ her studies. For this purpose, the activities will be as
follows:
a. Providing information about career options and job
avenues
b. Career counseling and placement.
c. Training for developing Soft skills
d. Motivational activities
e. Organizing mock-interviews to equip students with
interview etiquettes at college level
f. Arranging local campus – interviews
The Club may consult the Principal if it wants to take up any other extra curricular activity.


3. Additional Activities for MBA Colleges: MBA students have to prepare studies on
strategies required for global businesses. So they have to study and prepare papers on
some specific countries.
When a student is encouraged to do an original case-study, it also helps him become a
more creative person. MBA students would require four different types of activities:
TYPE 1: Working with GTU-FSCC to study a financial service offered by some
organization and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in
providing such a service.
TYPE 2: Working with GTU-CHRSOS to study an organizational structure or the HR
policies of some organization or of some large Department of an organization and to
determine the skills required for those, who are at various levels in the organization or
for those, who are providing a HR service.
TYPE 3: Working with GTU-SCM to study a marketing service offered by some
organization and to determine the skills required for those, who are engaged in
providing such a service.
TYPE 4: GTU Objectives in developing country-specific studies: Our management
institutions have done a good job educating our MBA students by using Harvard case
studies as well as similar material from other good sources. Our management and
business schools have also conducted many good studies about businesses in China,
USA and a few other countries. However Indian Universities must study the business
environment from the Indian perspective for all the 270 countries of the world. A
study from the Indian perspective may lead to a significantly different understanding
as compared to a study from the American or European or Chinese perspective. Such
studies may be valuable to Indian businesses. But these may also add value to the
world’s store-house of knowledge by providing a study from the Indian perspective to
GTU Strength for becoming a leader in country-specific studies: Universities can
conduct such studies and keep them updated only through ‘relay studies’, whereby a
student performs the study and it is then carried forward, improved and updated by
the next year’s student. GTU has 106 Management Colleges and more than 1,000
faculty members. Many of the faculty members are interested in the global business
environment. So GTU is uniquely placed to conduct such studies and become a store-
house of information about the business environment in the 200 countries of the third
and the fourth world. GTU proposes to encourage its students and faculty members to
conduct such studies and it proposes to put such case studies on its cloud, so that the
work may be widely disseminated for obtaining feedback.
The process for the study of global strategy:
a. During the visits to the businesses and industries, every student should learn
about linkages of these businesses with countries in the third and the fourth world.
Then one should try to locate an Industry Defined Problem (IDP) for a case study.


In case no business, with external linkages, can be located through visits to the
industry, one may take the help of trustees, teachers and friends to locate some
such businesses.
b. During the summer after the first year, preparation of a report about a couple
of countries by a class. Each report should include the following for each country:
(each component may be taken up by a Group of about 6 students.)
(i) Its economic history and its historical context
(ii) Its trading partners and the products
(iii) Its economic linkages with India
(iv) Its major companies
(v) Any Indian-owned businesses
(vi) Any prominent Indians in the country
(vii) Good Business Colleges
c. Submission and Evaluation of the Report at the start of the third semester
d. Using the IDP, preparation of an “Intent to do- a Case study” about some
business aspect in the country of interest by every group of 6 students during the
third semester
If possible, some students may plan to visit the country-of-interest during the
term-break between the third and fourth semesters for one to two weeks.
d. During the fourth semester, analysis of a global strategy problem currently or
recently facing a firm/country of interest. The case study should identify
mechanisms for winning the global strategy game overcoming cultural/social and
institutional differences in the country. The outputs should be a Case-study and a
30 minute presentation.
The issues involved in the MBA programs in our country are that most of the programs in
their syllabus content and in the way these are delivered do not inculcate and encourage the
spirit of creativity and innovation. GTU is attempting, through both the design of its new
MBA program (i) to create a syllabus, which has an intimate relationship with the local
context, while it is designed to prepare managers for the ‘flat’ world of today and (ii) to
deliver the program such that the native creativity and spirit of innovation of a student is
sharpened and the student starts feeling comfortable in using his own ideas, along with the
ideas of great management thinkers, for solving practical business problems. The objective is
that a GTU MBA should be able to face the uncertainties and challenges at his work place by
calling upon his native creativity and spirit of innovation.


GTU Innovation Sankul (VALSAD-VAPI SANKUL) Meeting Report
Date : 02/05/2011
Co-Chairman (Academia) Prof. N M Patel

Co-chairman (Industries) Mr. Ashok Shukla (Chairman, Vapi Industrial Association, Vapi)
The 1st Meeting of GTU Innovation Sankul (Valsad-Vapi) was held on 2nd May, 2011 chaired by Prof.
N.M.Patel at Valsad. Prof Patel introduced the members of the Sankuls and following things were
discussed and decided in the 1st round of Sankul meeting.
• Discussion for appointment of Co-Chairperson for Innovation Sankul from Industry.
• After discussion, Sankul committee has decided that the Sankul might recommend to GTU
Innovation Council the name of Mr. Ashok Shukla (Chairman, Vapi Industrial Association, Vapi)
as the Co-Chairmen from industry for the Valsad Vapi Sankul .
• The following Principals were appointed as the Directors (Academia) from different academic
disciplines.:
MBA & MCA: Dr. Kayur M Naik (Laxmi Institute of Management, Sarigam)
Engineering: Shri N S patel (Laxmi Institute of Technology, Sarigam)
Shri C S Rao (Dr. B.B.A. Govt. Poly, Karad)
Pharmacy : Dr. D D Santani (Shri G M Bilakhiya College of Pharmacy,Rofel,Vapi)
Shri Mittal Dalal (Shri G M Bilakhiya College of Pharmacy,Rofel,Vapi)
• Nomination of Committee members for the Sankul from industries will be worked out by the
Directors, jointly with the Co-Chairpersons. The tentative distribution may be as follows:
MBA & MCA: 08 Members
Engineering : 09 Members
Pharmacy : 08 Members
• The Sankul committee members from industry side may be Chairmen of different industrial
association of Valsad -Vapi district region and prominent industry leaders.

• Next meeting of the Sankul is planned after two weeks to review the progress of the Sankul and
it will be held at Vapi.

Appendix 1: The GTU Colleges in the Valsad –Vapi Innovation Sankul
Name of Principal/Udisha
Co-ordinator/ Email Address
Name of Institute
Representative
Dr. B.B.A. Govt. Polytechnic, Karad (D.P.) Shri. C. S. Rao dec659@gtucolleges.in
Laxmi Institute of Tchnology, Sarigam Shri N. S. Patel nspatelns@yahoo.co.in
Smt BNB Swaminarayan Pharmacy College,
Salvav-Vapi Shri J. B. Joshi jayeshjoshi2011@yahoo.co.in
Government Polytechnic, Waghai, Dist - Dang Shri N. A. Sangani gpwaghai2010@yahoo.co.in
Laxmi Institute of Management, Sarigam Dr. K. M. Nayal keyurdhuya@gmail.com
Government Polytechnic, Valsad Shri. S. R. Parikh gpvalsad2004@yahoo.co.in
Government Polytechnic, Daman Shri. A.T. Patel ashokkumarpatel123@yahoo.co.in
Rofel Shri G. M. Bilakhia College of Pharmacy Dr. D. D. Santani devsantani@gmail.com
Rofel Shri G. M. Bilakhia College of Pharmacy Shri. Dhaval Mittal dalalmittal@gmail.com
Government Engineering College, Valsad Prof. A. M. Patel gmpchangecv@gmail.com
Government Engineering College, Valsad Prof. N. M. Patel nm_chemldce@yahoo.c om
Government Engineering College, Valsad Prof. V. P. Pandya vipoolpandya@yahoo.com

Congratulations to Naroda Innovation Sankul for completing formation of its Sankul

Committee involving Co-Chairmen, Directors and Industry counterparts of various Sectors.
Naroda Innovation Sankul has geared up in setting up the complete architecture of

corresponding colleges and GIDC clusters with excellent cooperation from President Naroda
Industry Association. This Sankul have finished half a dozen industrial Shodh Yatras and located
around 50 industry defined projects by now.The faculties of the colleges have helped the
students in modularizing the problems and accompanying them in Industrial Shodh Yatras for
enabling the students to have a greater visibility and practical aspects of floor MSMEs.The
Industrial Shodh Yatras have been lead by Prof Uday Trivedi, Prof M.G.Desai and others from
various branches. The Service sector of industries has been brought into the loop for MBA and
associated streams.
Co-Chairman (Academia): Prof. M R Patel, Principal, Vishwakarma Govt. Engg. College,

Chandkheda, A'bad
Co-Chairman (Industry) : Mr. Shailesh Patwari, P resident, Naroda Industries Assn., A'bad
The Naroda Industries Association (NIA) hosed a dinner for all the college prinicipals of the
Vatva and Naroda Sankuls at the Paryavaran Mandir, Naroda on 28/4/2011. The meeting was
chaired by Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari, President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda
Sankul. The ‘Shodhyatras’ carried out, by the professors and students at Naroda had proved to
be hugely successful. Both the industries and the academia realised that the interaction
between the industries and industries through the Sankuls should be promoted further.
GTU Innovation Council has nominated the following Directors in their respective fields in
Naroda Innovation Sankul.
Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari, President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda Sankul has
provided excellent support to each Industrial Shodh Yatra and has hosted periodic meetings
with Principals and students. He has nominated members from various industry domains for
smooth functioning of the Innovation Sankul and has assured all cooperation for the excellent

cause. Naroda Industry Association and its members have shown extra ordinary support to GTU
students and faculties from the very beginning. For the Shodh Yatra led by Prof Uday Trivedi
and Mr. Hiranmay Mahanta in February 2011, NIA provided all possible infrastructure support.
The Principals and Directors jointly are working out an action agenda by this week end. The Innovation
Sankul is allocating specific faculty to specific group of students very soon so that proper mentoring can
be provided to all the students at all the stages of work starting from scouting floor issues and
developing them as part of the Final year project during the academic year 2011-12. It is expected that
dedicated sector specific groups of faculties will come forward to design and execute the local policies
relevant to the MSMEs/Colleges of particular Sankul.
Completing formation of the Naroda Innovation Sankul committee:
The nomination of the five Directors for each of the disciplines of MCA, MBA, Pharmacy, Degree
Engineering and Diploma Engineering (Appendix 1) was completed on 12th May 2011.
The 5th Meeting of Naroda Innovation Sankul for Director Nomination is being addressed by Prof.
Akshai Aggarwal, VC, GTU
The nomination of industry leaders (Appendix 2) to the Sankul Committee has completed the
formation of the Sankul Committee.

Mr. Sailesh Patwari has offered the infrastructure

and human resources of NIA for use by the
Sankul. He has also nominated 17 persons from
industries of various disciplines who would be
members of the Sankul Committee. He has
requested all the Principals to motivate students
and faculties to visit the industries and document
their observations. He narrated a few successful
cases in dinner meeting hosted on behalf of
Naroda Industry Association wherein waste was
converted into useful raw material for producing
energy and economy.
“We believe that workers and engineers from our industries can help evaluate the
problem statements / industry defined problems as desired by GTU. A vibrant
linkage between each stake holder of GTU Innovation Council including students,
faculties, Industries and Sankul authorities can certainly improve both the products
and processes of MSMEs and business units.”
Shri Shaileshbhai Patwari,
President, NIA and Co-Chair (Industry) for the Naroda Innovation Sankul

Appendix 1: Directors of the Naroda Innovation Sankul committee:
Name Institute Director
Dr A.R.Prasanna L. J. Institute Of Computer Applications MCA

Ahmedabad
Prof. Rupesh Sal Institute Of Tech. & Engg. Research, Degree Engineering
Vasani Ahmedabad
Prof.V.N.Soni R. C. Technical Institute, Sola , Ahmedabad Polytechnic
Prof. Ashwin Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute Of MBA

Mehta Management & Research Ahmedabad
Dr. K.N.Patel SAL Institute Of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad Pharmacy

Appendix 2: The member of Naroda Innovation Sankul Committee from industries
Name of the Unit Address Contact Person
AKASH DYES & PLOT NO. 1401/B, PH-IV PATEL AJAY

INTERMEDIATE DINESHKUMAR
DISHMAN PLOT NO. 1216, PH-IV ARVIND SUTHAR

PHARMACEUTICALS
BARODA MINERALS PLOT NO. 42, PH-III TEJAS PATEL
CONTINENTAL CHEMICALS PLOT NO. 632, PH-IV SATISH K AGRAWAL
MINAL INTERMEDIATES PLOT NO. 1405, PH-IV MAYURKUMAR K JANI
JAY MINERALS PLOT NO. 1003, PH-IV JAY SHAH
J B INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. 1304/1-4, PH-IV JATIN BHANUBHAI

PATEL
KINJAL CHEMICALS PLOT NO. 1606, PH-I BHAVESH PATEL
MERCURY DYECHEM PLOT NO. 184/8&9, PH-I MANSUKHBHAI D

INDUSTRIES MAKADIA
NARAYAN INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. 1303/1, PH-IV DAHYABHAI PATEL
SHIV CERAMIC PLOT NO. 404, PH-IV PATEL GOPALBHAI B
INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL PLOT NO. B-2/3, PH-III PRASHANT PATEL

INDUSTRIES
RADHA CHEMICALS PLOT NO. 25/1, PH-III SHAILESH I PATWARI
SHAH INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. C-1/257/270+271, PARAG SHAH

PH-I
AMBICA INDUSTRIES PLOT NO. 1305/5, P-IV DIPAK KANUBHAI PATEL
HALCYON LABORATORIES PLOT NO. 409, PH-IV MAHESH TALATI
SHREE ORGANO CHEMICAL PLOT NO. 143/3/154, PH-II J V SHAH

Appendix 3: The GTU Colleges in the Naroda Innovation Sankul
INSTITUTE NAMES OF GTU INNOVATION SANKUL, NARODA

College Code
632 K. P. Thakkar Institute Of Technology, Viramgam
730 L. J. Institute Of Computer Applications Ahmedabad
L. J. Institute Of Computer Applications Sarkhej Chokdi,
517
Ahmedabad
032 L. J. Institute Of Engineering And Technology, Ahmedabad
L. J. Institute Of Management Studies Sarkhej Chokdi,
519
Ahmedabad
227 L. J. Institute Of Pharmacy, Sanand Chokdi, Ahmedabad
633 L. J. Polytechnic, Ahmedabad
640 R. C. Technical Institute, Sola , Ahmedabad
277 SAL Institute Of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad
067 Sal Institute Of Tech. & Engg. Research, Ahmedabad
017 Vishwakarma Government Engineering college, Chandkheda
675 F. D.(Mubin) Institute of Engineering & Technology, Dehgam,

Bahiyal, Gandhinagar
746 R. B. Institute Of Management Studies Ahmedabad
Divaba Institute of Management & Computer Application
790
(DIMCA)- Dascroi
807 Sal Institute of Management (SFI) ,Opp. Science City,

Bhadaj,Ahmedabad
748 Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute Of Management & Research

Ahmedabad
Shri Chimanbhai Patel Institute Of Management & Research
535
Ahmedabad

Congratulations to GTU Innovation Sankul -Junagadh for startingd allocation of students to

industries so that the pre-Final Year students can work out the Industry Defined Problems (IDP)
during the months of June and July
GTU Innovation Council has created an Innovation Sankul in and around Junagadh consisting of 23 GTU
colleges. This Sankul has successfully congregated the team from both industry and academia.GTU
Innovation Council has nominated the following authorities as Co-chairmen for the Sankul:
Co-Chairman (Academia) Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi,

Director & Principal
Noble Engineering College, Junagadh
Co-Chairman (Industry) Mr. Shashi Thanki

Chairman and President, Austin Engineering Co.
Pvt. Ltd.
As per directives of the honorable VC Dr Akshai Aggarwal, a meeting of the UDISHA Clubs under the
GTU Innovation Sankul- Junagadh was held at Noble Group of Institutions, Junagadh on May. 11, 2011
at 02:30 under the guidance of Dr. Ved Vyas Dwivedi (Academic Co-chairman of Junagadh Sankul).
The representatives of different colleges including degree/diploma engineering, pharmacy, MBA colleges
from Junagadh district discussed many topics related to UDISHA Club activities.
1. Each college will submit the hierarchy of the committee members working in their UDISHA
CLUB by May 12, 2010, 5.00 pm.
2. Each college is going to make a list of industry persons who will help their students to improve
their practical aspects.
3. The students of 2nd & 4th semester (degree engineering) will be divided into groups of 20-25 each.
One faculty member will be allocated to each group for their supervision.
4. The students of 6th semester (degree engineering) are individually (or in a group of two/three)
going to have training of approximately 1 month after completion of their 6th semester final exam.
They will be monitored by one of the faculty members from the department.
5. The students are provided an NOC from their respective colleges for industrial training.
6. The students of 2nd semester MBA are having compulsory summer training after completion of
their 2nd semester final exam.
7. All the students will submit their training report after Industrial Shodh Yatras.

8. The presentation session will be conducted in the next semester to share their knowledge with
their classmates.
9. The students will take snaps of their training session if permitted and will submit the same to their
department.
10. The Pharmacy will plan for their students for summer training.
11. MCA institutions will prepare the same what has been discussed in the agenda.
12. The list of participating colleges is attached.
13. A sample NOC was distributed to these institutions.
14. Also a sample copy (roughly prepared) of report was given to all representatives.
15. All the students of semesters VI, IV and II to be informed/addressed in person especially during
GTU exams about the objectives of this Sankul.
16. They should be assigned with internal guides / supervisors for the visits, projects, training and
interaction in groups of 20-25 (Sem. II, IV) and 1-3 (Sem. VI).
The Innovation Sankul has started allocating students to industries so that the pre-Final Year
students can work out the Industry Defined Problems (IDP) during the months of June and July.
The Appendices contain the following useful information about
GTU Innovation Sankul Junagadh

Appendix 1 Directors for Junagadh Innovation Sankul Page 3
Appendix 2 Members from Industries in the Sankul Committee of Pages 4-6
Appendix 3 Sankul activities at Noble group of Integrated Technical Education- Page 7

Junagadh campus
Appendix 4 List of Colleges under GTU Innovation Sankul, Junagadh Pages 8-9
Appendix 5 Detailed plan of Sem VI EC Engg students for Summer Projects for Pages 10-
locating IDP 11
Appendix 6 Detailed plan of Sem VI Mech Eng. students for Summer Projects Pages 12-
for locating IDP 13

Appendix 1
The following authorities were nominated as Director for Junagadh Innovation Sankul:
Name Director
Prof. Megha Mehta Degree Engineering
Prof. Kaushal Thaker , MBA

Prof. Harsh Modha
Prof. Amit Modi Polytechnic
Prof. Mukesh Parecha MCA
Prof. Jayrajsinh Sarvaiya Pharmacy

Appendix 2: The following members were nominated as the members from Industry
No. Name of organization Address President/Person
1. Austin Engineering Co.

Chairman and President, Junagadh Shri Shashibhai Thanki
Pvt. Ltd.
2. Factory Owners Asso. – Plot No. 1101/1 GIDC Estate – II Shri Laljibhai Mavani
JUNAGADH
Sabalpur, Junagadh.
3. Gondal GIDC-2 Industries C/O Ball Teck Engineering, Shri Prafulbhai Tolia
Asso.
Shed K- 165-1/2,
GIDC – 2 Jamvadi, Gondal – 360 311.
4. Porbandar GIDC Off. Giriraj Lime Products Shri Jinubhai T. Dayatar

Industrial Welfare
Association Plot No. 282/6, G.I.D.C. Estate,
Dharampur, Porbandar - 360577
5. Vanana Industrial C/o. Bhagyesh enterprise Shri Dilipbhai R.

Association Sundavadara
F-14, Modern Complex,
Liberty Cross Road,
Porbandar – 360 375
6. Veraval Industries 201, GIDC Estate, Shri O. N. Sharma

Association
Veraval: 362 269.
7. Gondal (Part-2) GIDC-2 C/o. Ball Teck Engineering, Shri Prafulbhai R. Tolia
Industrial Association
Shed K- 165-1/2,
GIDC – 2 Jamvadi, Gondal – 360 311.
8. Dhoraji Vegadi G.I.D.C. C/o. Prashant Petrolium, Upleta Shri Arvindbhai J. Gajera
Industries Association Road, Dhoraji-360410

9. Junagadh Industries(GIDC- C/o. Aroma Paints Shri Bhurabhai J. Desai

1) Association
C/2-208/4, GIDC-1 Vasahat,
Junagadh
10. Vanana Industrial C/o.Bhagyesh enterprise, F-14,

Shri Dilipbhai R.
Association Modern Complex, Liberty Cross
Sundavadara
Road, Porbandar – 360 375
11. Porbandar GIDC Industrial Off. Giriraj Lime Products, Plot No.
Welfare Association 282/6, G.I.D.C. Estate, Dharampur, Shri Jinubhai T. Dayatar
Porbandar - 360577
12. Factory Owners Asso, Plot No.

1101/1 GIDC Estate – II Shri Laljibhai Mavani
Sabalpur, Junagadh
13. Amreli Small Industries , C/O Ghanshyam Tiles Ind., Plot No.
Shri Chandulal S. Chav
Association 51 GIDC Estate, Amreli – 364 601.
14. Dhoraji Vegadi G.I.D.C. C/o. Prashant Petrolium, Upleta

Shri Arvindbhai J. Gajera
Industries Association Road, Dhoraji-360410
15. GIDC Association Babra Plot No. 8/D, Rajkot-Bhavnagar

Road, GIDC-1, Babra-365421, Dist. Shri Devangbhai Jani
Amreli.
16. Gondal GIDC-2 Industries C/O Ball Teck Engineering,

Asso., Shed K- 165-1/2, GIDC – 2 Jamvadi, Shri Prafulbhai Tolia
Gondal – 360 311
17. Austin Engineering Co Ltd

Works Manager Mr. Dhariyawala
Junagadh
18. Creative Casting Pvt. Ltd,

Vice President, Mr. Siddharth
Junagadh
19. Gokul seeds Mr. Rakesh Dobariya

20. Sintex Mr. Dinesh Patel
21. N.Kamlesh Trading Mr. Jayesh Badani
22. Chemical Industry, Sahyog Tank

Mr. Chhagan Akbari
(Mangrol)
23. Mother Dairy Head, HR, (Junadadh) Mr. Ashok Malvia
24. C.A. (Chartered Account) Mr. Atul lakhani
25. Head, HR (Mahindra

(Saurashtra, Kutch) Mr. Harikrishna Sarvaiya
Finance)
26. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad Mr. Manoj Goswami
27. Production Manager,

Mr. Amit Vegad
Nicholas Piramal
28. Ultratech Cement Kodinar
29. Reyon - Aditya Birla Group Veraval
30. Sukum Porbandar
31. Empower solutions Ahmedabad Mr. Hardik Parikh
32. I square technologies Ahmedabad Mr. Saurabh Shiyara
33. Head, Planning: Austin

Junagadh
Engineering Co. Ltd.
34. Austin Engg Co. Ltd Mr. Hitesh Ajmera (B.E.

Junagadh Mechanical, MBA)

Appendix 3: GTU Innovation Sankul - Junagadh activated following activities at Noble group of
Integrated Technical Education-Junagadh campus
[1]. A Tacheometric project work was completed by 51 students of 4th semester along with 5 faculty
members of Civil Engineering on 4th March, 2011 at P.T.C. college campus ground, Junagadh.
[2]. An industrial shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 6th semester students of EC branch at BSNL
on 25th April 2011. Total 62 students and three faculty members visited BSNL Exchange
Junagadh.
[3]. An industrial shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 5th semester students of EC branch at
DOORDARSHAN, Rajkot on 26/09/2010. Total 62 students along with 6 faculty members
visited DOORDARSHAN KENDRA.
[4]. A shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 4th semester students of EC branch at SONIC,
Gandhinagar on 1st April 2010. Total 62 students along with 8 faculty members visited the
company.
[5]. A shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 6th semester students of IT branch at ISRO, Gandhinagar
on 28/02/2011. Total 50 students along with 4 faculty members visited the company.
[6]. A shodh yatra (visit) was conducted for 6th semester students of MECHANICAL branch at
JYOTI CNC, Rajkot on 10/05/2011. Total 60 students along with 5 faculty members visited the
company.
[7]. The students of semester 1st and 3rd sem (total 50) along with 4 faculty members of MBA visited
two companies named PRINT VISION PVT. LTD and AMBA OFFSET at Ahmedabad on 2-3
October 2010. They visited Akshay Patra (NGO) at Gandhinagar

Appendix 4: The following colleges are under GTU Innovation Sankul Junagadh
College
Code Institute Name Address
035 Noble Engineering College, Junagadh ’Parth Vatika’, Junagadh-
Bhesan Road, Bamangam,
Junagadh -362310.
083 Dr. Subhahsh Pethaljibhai Chavda Ahir Kelvani Mandal`s Group of Dr. SUBHAHSH PALACE, Dr.
Institutions-Engg, Junagadh shubhash road, nr. Railway
crossing, Junagadh - 362 001
619 Government Polytechnic, Junagadh Technical School Campus,

Junagadh – 362001
663 Balaji Insti. Of Eng. & Tech, Junagadh At. & Po. Makhiyala,
Junagadh - Dhoraji Highway,
Junagadh - 362014.
665 Om Insti. Of Eng.& Technology,Junagadh Bheshan Road, Chokli,

Dist. Junagadh - 362310
679 N.R.Vekaria Insti. Of Tech. , Junagadh Bikha Road, Junaghadh,
Junaghadh - 362001
231 N. R. Vekaria Institute Of Pharmacy, Junagadh C.L. College Campus, Bhikha
Road,
Junagadh - 362 001.
269 Vivek Bharti Trust Pharmacy College, Junagadh Junagadh, Bamangam,

Junagadh.
287 DR. SUBHASH PETHALJIBHAI CHAVDA AHIR KELVANI MANDAL'S Dr. SUBHAHSH PALACE, Dr.
GROUP OF INSTITUTION-PHARMACY Shubhash Road, Nr. Railway
Crossing, JUNAGHADH - 362
001
534 Shri Brahamanand Institute Of Computer Science,Junagadh C/O. Shri Brahmananad
Dham Education Campus,
Ta: Visavadar, Junaghdh,
Chparda - 362120
543 Dr. Bharat Barad Institute of Management & Computer Science, Veraval - Kodinar Highway,
Sutrapada, Junagadh (SFI) Ta: Sutarpada, Junagadh -
362275
544 Dr. Subhahsh Pethaljibhai Chavda Ahir Kelvani Mandal's Group of Dr. Subhahsh Palace, Dr.
Institutions,Khamdhrol Road, Junagadh (SFI) Shubhash Road, Nr. Railway
Crossing, Junagadh - 362 001

551 Smt. Vanitaben Bachubhai Nandola MCA College,Bhacha, Tal.Una, At & Po: Bhacha, Ta: Una,
Di:Junagadh (SFI) Junagadh - 362560
736 N. R. Vekaria Institute Of Business Management Studies Junaghadh Bilkha Road , Cl College
Campus,
Junagadh 362 001.
738 Nobel Engg. College (Integrated Campus) “Parth Vatika”, Junagadh -

Bhesan Road, Via. Vadal, Nr.
Bamangam, Junagadh - 362
310.
748 Shree S. P. Patel Mba College, Junagadh Tapovan Sheikshanik Sankul,

Bikha Road, Nr. Palasava
Patiya, Dungarpur /
Padariya,
Junagadh - 362001
767 Shri Brahmanand Institute Of Management, Junagadh At : Chaparda Tal: Visavadar

Dis: Junagath
777 Smt.Vanitaben Bachubhai Nandola Mba College, Una, Junaghadh At.Bhacha, Taluka: Una, Dist.
Junagadh, State: Gujarat Pin
- 362560.
793 Dr. Subhahsh Pethaljibhai Chavda Ahir Kelvani Mandal's Group of Dr. Subhahsh Palace, Dr.
Institutions, Khamdhrol Road, Di:Junagadh-(SFI) Shubhash Road, Nr. Railway
Crossing, JUNAGHADH - 362
001
627 Government Polytechnic, Porbandar C/O. Govt. Polytechnic, Opp.

Airport, Porbandar - 360
577.
810 Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Management & I.T.Porbandar. (SFI) Chhaya Main Road, At & Po.
Chhaya, Porbandar - 360
578.
C/o. Govt. Polytechnic, Opp.

627 Government Polytechnic, Porbandar Airport, Porbandar - 360
577.
Chhaya Main Road, At & Po.

810 Shree Swaminarayan Institute of Management & I.T.Porbandar. (SFI) Chhaya, Porbandar - 360
578.

Appendix 5: Detailed plan of Sem VI EC Engg students for Summer Projects for locating IDP
No.
Name of Student COMPANY DATE of
days
ACHARYA CHINTAN
MAHESHKUMAR AUTUS AUTOMATION,AHMEDABAD 1/6/2011 7
AMBALIYA TUSHAR HARSUKHBHAI AUTUS AUTOMATION,AHMEDABAD 1/6/2011 7
AMRUTIYA MANISH PRANJIVAN GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5
BABARIYA PRASHANT ARVINDBHAI INSDUSTRY SAGUNA,JETPUR 26/5/2011 7
BHANDERI BHARGAV
BOPALIYA KETANKUMAR
PRAGJIBHAI GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5
BORICHA KRUNAL KANABHAI GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5
CHANDEGARA DHARMIK
ARUNBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
CHAUHAN VIJAYKUMAR
SHANTILAL BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
CHOITHANI KIRAN TEKCHAND BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
DANGAR SANDIP BALVANTRAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
DAVE MANISHKUMAR RAMNIKLAL GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5
DHOLARIYA KAVITABEN
MANSUKHBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7
DOBARIYA PURVISHABEN
BABUBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
DODIYA JIGARKUMAR NANUBHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2011 28
DOSHI PARTHKUMAR
ASHWINKUMAR BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011
GODHASARA NIMESHKUMAR R. BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011
GOSWAMI PALLAV RAJESHPURI REAL INDUSTRIES,RAJKOT 25/5/2011 5
HERAMA CHANDRESH
BHIKHUBHAI
KADCHHA RAHUL SAVDASBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7
KAMDAR NIRALI
PRAKASHCHANDRA ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7
KANANI KALPESH BHUPATBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
KANERIYA NIKHIL DILIPBHAI GOBAIN CERAMIC,MORBI 25/5 2011 5
KARASALIYA JALDEEPKUMAR G. ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED, THERMAL 1/6/2011 7

POWER PLANT
KOTHARI KALPESH JAGDISHBHAI MICRO SHIV ELECTRONICS 25/05/2011 15
MAKWANA JAYKUMAR J.
MOJANIDAR FIROJ IQBALBHAI
MONANI SHRUTI
RAJENDRAKUMAR
MORI MEHULKUMAR
MAHENDRABHAI REAL INDUSTRIES,RAJKOT 25/5/2011 5
MUNJAPARA VIJAY RAMESHBHAI
PANDYA KINJAL HARESHBHAI
PATEL ABHAYKUMAR ULTRATECH CEMENT LIMITED, THERMAL
RAMESHKUMAR POWER PLANT 1/6/2011 7
PATEL HARDIKKUMAR
NARENDRABHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2011 28
PATEL MAYUR RAJESHBHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2012 28
PATEL PRIYANK SURESHKUMAR ELECTRONICS ESTATE,GANDHINAGAR 25/5/2011 28
PATEL RADHIKA DEINESHBHAI
PATEL RAJESH BHARATBHAI BSNL,AHMEDABAD 25/5/2011 28
PUROHIT HIRENKUMAR
PRAVINKUMAR AUTUS AUTOMATION,AHMEDABAD 1/6/2011 7
RAITHATHA NIRAVKUMAR
NILESHBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
RAJODIYA PRAJNIKKUMAR R.
RANK DIPEN RAMESHBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011

INSDUSTRY JANKESHWARI,JETPUR 26/05/2011 7
RATHOD SHAYAR RAMESHBHAI BSNL,JUNAGADH 25/5/2011 14
SAKHIYA RUPAL HANSRAJBHAI ULTRA CAB IND. PVT. LMTD 29/5/2011 7

Appendix 6: Detailed plan of Sem VI Mech Eng. students for Summer Projects for locating IDP
No Of
Student Name Name Of Company Adress Date Days
BALADHIA JANAKBHAI MADHABHAI 1/6/2011 21
BATHANI DARSHANKUMAR
VALLABHBHAI Jyoti C.N.C Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
BHATT JAYDEEP MANOJKUMAR Elecon Gear Pvt. Ltd. V.V Nagar 1/6/2011 21
DESAI DIVYESHKUMAR
MANSUKHBHAI Kalpataru Power Trans. Gandhinagar 1/6/2011 21
DOMADIYA NILESHKUMAR
DHANJIBHAI 1/6/2011 21
GADHIYA MAYANK MAHESHBHAI Ultra Tech Cement. Rajula 1/6/2011 21
JAVIA VISHAL HARSUKHBHAI Kalpataru Power Trans. Gandhinagar 1/6/2011 21
JOSHI JIGNESHKUMAR RAJNIKANT Max. Engg. Works Junagadh 1/6/2011 21
JOSHI SUSHILKUMAR RAMESHBHAI Indian Rayon Veraval 1/6/2011 21
KABARIA HIRENKUMAR BHOLABHAI Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21
KAPADIYA PIYUSHKUMAR
RAMESHBHAI Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21
KORADIYA BHARGAVKUMAR
AMRUTLAL Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
MAHETA AMITKUMAR
MAHESHKUMAR Saurastra Cement Ranavav 1/6/2011 21
MALAVIYA RAVIKUMAR FULABHAI 1/6/2011 21
MANDVIYA SMIT HIMATLAL G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21
MEHTA BHAVIN HARSHADBHAI Chirag Foundary Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
MEHTA NAVNEETKUMAR LALITBHAI Kadvani Forge Ltd. Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
NIMAVAT SANDEEP NARENDRABHAI Saurastra Cement Ranavav 1/6/2011 21
ODEDARA RAMBHAI BHIKHABHAI O.N.G.C Mehsana 1/6/2011 21
OZA PRATIK YOGESHBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21
PARMAR DHIRAJKUMAR MANILAL 1/6/2011 21
PATEL APLESHKUMAR
BHAGAVANBHAI 1/6/2011 21
PATEL APURVA RASIKBHAI Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21
PATEL DHAVALKUMAR JAYANTILAL Gujarat Apollo India Mehsana 1/6/2011 21
PATEL HARDIKKUMAR NAVINBHAI 1/6/2011 21
PATEL MEHULKUMAR BHARATBHAI Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21
PATEL NISHIT KUNJVIHARI 1/6/2011 21
PATEL PARESHKUMAR RATILAL Girnar Engg Works Ahmedabad 1/6/2011 21
PATEL SAGAR MANSUKHBHAI 1/6/2011 21

POSHIA SAVANKUMAR NATVARLAL 1/6/2011 21

RAFALIYA NIKSHITKUMAR BABULAL Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21
RAMANI JAGDISHBHAI HANSRAJBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21
RANPARIYA VISHALKUMAR
DAYABHAI Creatve Castings Pvt. Ltd. Junagadh 1/6/2011 21
RATHORE RAJENDRASINGH V. 1/6/2011 21
RAVAL KIRTILAL HARISHANKARBHAI 1/6/2011 21
SAHOLIA SAGAR RAJESHKUMAR Apple Internation Jamnagar 1/6/2011 21
SANGANI VISHAL RAMNIKLAL Apple Internation Jamnagar 1/6/2011 21
SARDHARA HITESH JAYANTIBHAI Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21
SATA ANKIT VATSALKUMAR Pipavav Shipyard Pipavav 1/6/2011 21
SAVALIYA PIYUSHKUMAR FULABHAI Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
SHYARA RAKESH KESHUBHAI 1/6/2011 21
SIROYA BHAVESH LALJIBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21
SONAGARA NIKUNJ KANJIBHAI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21
SORTHIYA DHANANJAY JODHABHAI Chirag Foundary Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
THUMMAR NARENDRAKUMAR
PUNABHAI Kalpataru Power Trans. Gandhinagar 1/6/2011 21
UKANI SAVAN PRAVINBHAI Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
VADSOLA GAURAVKUMAR JAYNTILAL Ozon Ceramics Pvt. Ltd. Morbi 1/6/2011 21
VARIA NIRVAKUMAR MANAHARLAL Elecon Gear Pvt. Ltd. V.V Nagar 1/6/2011 21
VASOYA BHAGYESH MANSUKHBHAI 1/6/2011 21
VYAS CHIRAGKUMAR RAVJIBHAI 1/6/2011 21
YADAV UPENDRA GOPALDAS Elecon Gear Pvt. Ltd. V.V Nagar 1/6/2011 21
DOSHI SAURABH G.N.F.C Bharuch 1/6/2011 21
MAKWANA KETAN 1/6/2011 21
MALAVIYA VIJAY Rolex Engineering Rajkot 1/6/2011 21
MAKHANSA RAVI G.H.C.L Sutrapada 1/6/2011 21
VORA MEHBUB G.F.L Limited Bharuch 1/6/2011 21
DOMADIYA ASHISH Essar Steel Ltd. Surat 1/6/2011 21
DAVERA ALPESH 1/6/2011 21

Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul gear up to finish Sankul committee formation
Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul consisting of 12 institutes has successfully formed the Sankul
committee. Looking to the diversified industry sectors in the region, the Sankul has tried to
bring the MSMEs and GTU Colleges together on a common platform.
Co-Chairman (Industry)- Shri Pankaj Pandya , President Saurashtra Chamber of Commerce
Co-Chairman (Academic )- Dr .G.D.Acharya, Sir Bhavsinhji Polytechnic Institute
The 1st meeting in this regard was held on 29-04-2011 at Bhavnagar. The first coordination meeting
of GTU innovation council (MBA, Pharmacy, Engineering polytechnic directors) was held on 20th may
2011. The key agenda were as below:
1 To fix up strategy to implement objectives of innovation council(ic)

2 To design IDP ( Industry Defined Project ) format for concerned area.
3 To set up mechanism for effective coordination between institute, industries and GTU.
4 To prepare format for submission of progress report to GTU Ahmedabad
5 To plan for summer vacation training and project work planning of final year students.
The Sankul committee decided to include 20 members from various industry domains for smooth
functioning of the Sankul with equal emphasize on each academic domain.

Directors of Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul
Name Institute Director Mail ID
Prof Shyam Varghese Principal, Dr J.N. Polytechnic shyamvarghese@yahoo.com,

Mehta govt drjnmgp@yahoo.co.in,
polytechnic Amreli
Prof Himal Pandya Principal -S.S Pharmacy himalpandya@yahoo.com

Pharmacy college
Bhavnagar
Prof Dr.M.G. Bhatt Head -Production Degree Engineering mangalbhatt@gmail.com

Engineering
Dpt.(T.P.O) S.S.
Eng. College,
Bhavnagar
Prof Ms.Sarojvatsa M.B.A. DPT. Shree MBA saroj_vats@yahoo.com

Sahjanand Institute of
Management,
The Sankul Committee arranged a meeting on 20th may 2011 to design the course of action to engage
the pre-final year students in Industrial Shodh Yatras to scout the industry floor problems/projects. The
Directors of each sector shared their thoughts to optimize the efficiency while harnessing the research
works of young minds.

Appendix 1: List of the GTU Colleges under Bhavnagar Innovation Sankul
College Institute Name Address

Code
256 Shri Samanvay Institute Of Pharmacy, At : Bhambhan, Tajpur Road, Opp. Maruti
Botad Ashram, Botad - 364 710, Dist. Bhavnagar.
043 Shantilal Shal Engineering College, Bhavnagar University Campus, Gaurishanker

Bhavnagar Lake Road, Bhavnagar
414 Shantilal Shah Pharmacy College Bhavnagar University Campus, Gaurishanker
Lake Road, Bhavnagar
652 Sir Bhavsinhji Polytechnic Institute, Vidhyanagar, Bhavnagar - 364002
Bhavnagar
761 Shree Sahajanand Institute Of C/O. SHREE SAHJANAND GURUKUL, GHOGHA
Management, Bhavnagar ROAD, BHAVNAGAR - 364002
762 Shree Samanvay Institute Of At Post: Bhambhan, Taluka: Botad,
Management And Business Dist: Bhavnagar. (Gujarat)
Administration, Bhavnagar
021 Government Engineering College, BPTI CAMPUS, BHAVNAGAR
Bhavnagar
611 Dr. J. N. Mehta Government Polytechnic, Dr. Jivraj N. Mehta Govt. Polytechnic,
Amreli Amreli - 365 602.
251 Shree Leuva Patel Trust Pharmacy Mahila Chakkargadh Road, Amreli - 3650601
College, Amreli Shaikshanik Sankul, Chakkarghad Road,
Amreli.
253 K. V. Virani Institute of Pharmacy And Savarkundla-Mahuva Road, At Badhada - 364
Research Centre, Badhada 522, Dist. Amreli.
760 Shree Leuva Patel Trust Mba Mahila Smt. Shantaben Haribhai Gajera Shaikshanik
College, Amreli - (Womens Only) Sankul, Chakkargadh Road, Amreli – 365601.
722 K. K. Parekh Institute Of Management DR. JIVRAJ MEHTA VIDYA VIHAR, LATHI ROAD,
Studies Amreli AMRELI - 365 601

ORGANIZING INNOVATION SANKULS
Report
A Conference
of
Stalwarts from Industries at Rajkot

Phone: +91-79-2630 0499; +91-79-2630 0599; +91-79-2630 0699
Fax: +91-79-4020 0644

Conference for organizing GTU Innovation Sankuls in Rajkot

A conference for organizing the Innovation Sankuls at Rajkot was organized at Decora Hall,
GIDC Lodhica Industries Association, Metoda, Kalawad Road, Rajkot on 9th April 2011. Prof.
Akshai Agarwal, Honorable VC, GTU and stalwarts from industries in Rajkot participated in
this meeting. Some of the Principals/ Directors of Colleges affiliated with GTU from Rajkot
were also present. (To discuss formation of the Innovation Sankuls, a meeting of the
Principals/ Directors of Colleges from Saurashtra region had been organized on 4th Feb 2011
at B.H.Gardi College of Engg and Technology, Rajkot by Prof. Siddharth B Jadeja. Hence only
those Principals/ Directors, who were associated with organization of the Conference of the
Stalwarts from the industries were present at this meeting of 9th April 2011.)
The conference started with a welcome address by Shri Pravinbhai Maniar- Chairman, VVP
Eng. College. Prof Akshai Agarwal shared the vision of GTU Innovation Council, Innovation
Sankuls and Udisha Clubs. He also described the success stories of the pilot project that was
executed successfully by students of the Saurashtra region in September 2010. Shri
Parakaram Sinh Jadeja suggested that GTU may implement a policy through GTU Innovation
Council in which industry can offer resource to the students. The deserving candidates can
be decided during the first year of curriculum. The students may have to come regularly to
the company/MSMEs and also have to attend classes and training specific to
company/MSME which provides the resource support. He showed keen interest in this
initiative and said that he is committed to accept 15 GTU students from the coming
academic year. Shri Vora, Co-chairman of Metoda GIDC (Lodhika) Association, praised the
effort of Dr. Aggarwal and the Techpedia team to link Industry, academy and innovation. He
put strong faith in the agenda and assured that GIDC (Lodhika) will provide all possible
support to GTU Innovation Sankuls at Rajkot and needy students and researchers. Prof
Girish Mulchandani, from Computer Eng department of VVP Eng College, offered to provide
various IT services to the Industry people free of cost in case of smaller and cottage
industries where GTU students can be effective resource persons to improve the efficiencies
of products and processes. Shri S.C. Mamtora (Secretary, Rajkot Electroplaters And Metal
Finisher Association) said that the area of Electroplating is required to be included in the
curriculum of engineering colleges in India. Dr Sachin Parikh pointed out that GTU has
already done it. Shri Jayant Jamuvar (Head, Designing, Kadvani Forge), offered to help GTU
in designing the curricula of GTU in the area of Material Science so that its graduates may be
able to satisfy the demands of the industries. Dr. Aggarwal welcomed the offer. Shri
Deepakbhai Sachde (Chairman, Management Association) and Shri Naresh Patel of Rajkot
Engineering Association provided assurance that they would extend all needed cooperation
in this industry-academia joint effort at every stage. From each industry/business association
of Rajkot, a few persons were present. Every one appreciated this first-of-its-kind initiative
by GTU. Dr Aggarwal appreciated the excellent work done by Pravinbhai Maniar and VVP
Engg College for organizing the conference. He added that the contribution of Utkarsh and
other students for the conference was praiseworthy. He asked the students to stand up to
receive the ovation from all. Prof. Amit Degada gave vote of thanks at the end of the
discussion.

Appendix 1
1. Rajkot Innovation Sankul (Metoda- Lodhika industry region): 18 GTU colleges and
businesses and Industries of the area
2. Rajkot Innovation Sankul (Aji industries cluster): 20 GTU colleges and businesses
and Industries of the area
3. Rajkot Innovation Sankul (Shaper-veraval industry region): 19 GTU colleges and
businesses and Industries of the area
4. Jamnagar Innovation Sankul: ?? GTU affiliated colleges and businesses and


Appendix 2
List of some of the Key Participants in the Conference
at GIDC Lodhica Industries Association, Metoda, Kalawad Road, Rajkot
Date: 9th April, 2011
Sr
No. Industry Name Contact Person
1 Jyoti CNC P.G.Jadeja
2 Seico International Dhansukhbhai R. Vora
3 Comfort Enterprise Hemant Kapadia
4 GRCCI Shirishbhai Batavia
5 Machine Tools Manufacturers Association Sailesh Kawa
6 Gujarat Lethe Mfg. Co. Pvt. Ltd Dinesh N Khambhayata
7 Tarak Machine Tools K J Gohil
8 UNIDO Jitendra Mehta
9 Creative Appilicationns Amrutbhai Patel
10 Creative Engg. Mahendra Patel
11 Swati Enterprise Nishu Shah
12 Asiantic Bearing Co. Karshanbhai Saparia
13 REMA Suresh C. Mamtora
14 Orbit Bearing Pankaj Varasada
15 TRD Bearings & Housed Unit Nilesh Ganatra
16 Spkra Aluminium Extrausion Pvt Ltd.
17 Pelican Rotoflex Pvt Ltd Uttam Javia
18 Angel Pumps Limited Ashvin S Adroja
19 Gokul Automanufacturers Gokul Patel
20 AGIGA and Suzuki Engineering Shirish Ravani
21 REA Amit G Jalavadia
22 REA Bhavesh Patel
23 Sensitive Industries Amrit G Jalavadia

24 Robin Precision Product Pvt Ltd Ramesh Vora
25 Kadvani Forging Jayant Jamuar
26 Vitagreen Kishor Kadvani
27 Vitagreen Ishan Kadvani
28 Gujarat Technological University Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor
Member of Parliament(Rajya Sabha)

Bhaveshbhai Patel
29 Rajkot
30 Aaji Vasahat GIDC Association Shirishbhai Ravani, Chairman
31 Aaji Vasahat GIDC Association & Nishubhai Shah, Co-Chairman
Rajkot Greater Chamber of Commerce Nishubhai Shah , Secretary
32 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Jamanbhai Bhalani, Chairman
33 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Mr. Vora, Co-Chairman
34 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Mr. Kantesariya
35 GIDC Lodhika - Metoda Engg. Association Jayant Jamuvar, Head Designing Dept
36 Rajkot Plastic Mfg. Association Kiritbhai Kanani, Chairman
37 Saurashtra-Kutchh Plastic Assocation Pravinbhai Patel, Chairman
38 Electroplaters & Metal Finisher Assn. S C Mamtora, Member Secretary +
Electroplaters & Metal Finisher Assn. 3 others
42 Kitchenware Association Savajibhai, Chairman
43 Rajkot Chamber of Commerce Jitubhai Desai, Chairman
44 Management Association, Rajkot Dipakbhai Sachde
45 VVP Engineering College Pravinbhai Maniar, Chairman
46 VVP Engineering College Prof. Sachin Parikh, Principal
47 GEC, Morbi Prof P C Vasani
48 HNShukla Group of Colleges Nehal Shukla, Chairman
49 VVP Engineering College Prof. C K Vibhakar
Prof. Amit Degada,Convener Udisha

50 VVP Engineering College Club
51 VVP Engineering College Prof. M A Popat

52 VVP Engineering College Prof. Ashvin Karemore
53 VVP Engineering College Prof.Girish Mulchandani
54 VVP Engineering College Prof. Adeshara
55 VVP Engineering College Kuldeepsingh Rathod
56 VVP Engineering College Kunal Khimani
57 Utkarsh and other students

Date:- 04.02.2011, Honorable Vice Chancellor and Principals Meet at B.H. Gardi Collage of
Engineering and Technology,
Sr
Name of Dignitaries Institute
No
1 Mr. Hiranmay Mahata Techpedia
2 Mr. Amit Degada V.V.P. Engg. College
3 Dr. Sachin Parekh V.V.P. Engg. College
4 Mr. Kaushal Patel Samanvay Pharmacy College, Botad
5 Mr. Ankur Bhogayata Marwadi Education Faculty of Engg.
6 Mr. Ashok Bhuva Om Shanti Diploma Engg. College Rajkot,( H.O.D. M.E.)
7 Mr. Ayush Srivastava Om Shanti Engg. College Rajkot,( H.O.D. I.T)
8 Mr. R.G. Dhamsaniya Darshan Inst.of Engg. & Tech.
9 Mr. M. T. Rupareliya K.N.V. Pharmacy College
10 Mr. J. R. Chavda B.K. Modi Govt. Pharmacy College
11 Mr. K.P.Modi B.K. Modi Govt. Diploma College
12 Mr. Mit H. Dave Om Shanti Diploma Engg. College Rajkot,( H.O.D. I.T)
13 Prof. S.B. Jadeja B.H. Gardi Collage of Engg.
14 Dr. Ashalata Kulshrestha K.I.T. Jamnagar
15 Dr.(Prof.) Vikas Arora Atmiya Inst. Of Tech. and Sci. Rajkot
16 Dr.(Prof.) J. V. Desai Atmiya Inst. Of Tech. and Sci. Rajkot
17 Mr. Suraj Parmar R.K. Group of Collages
18 Mr. Jay Teraiya G.K. Bharad Inst. Of Engg.
19 Mr. Dilip Kumar Brahma Matrushree V.B. Manver College of Pharmacy, Dumiyani
23 Mr. Hemal Rajyaguru Om Shanti Engg. College Rajkot,
24 Prof. P.C. Vasani L.E. College, Morbi
25 Prof. M.V.Garach Govt. Engg. College-Rajkot
26 Mr. Dipal D. Patel Dr. Subhash Group of Inst.-Junagadh


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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

Gujarat Technological University

Fax: +91-79-4020 0644

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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation

3 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

GTU Innovation Sankuls will cater to the following needs :

4 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

Strengthening Technology Education at Colleges and Polytechnics in Gujarat from 2011:

Define and parameterize each problem in a pre-defined format.( Industrial Sodh

5 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

Sankuls will improve access, affordability, sustainability, efficiency, productivity and

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Sr.No. Chapter Page #

5.6 A New Model of Collaboration for Innovation 27

7 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

Gujarat Technological University is a relatively new University, established with the

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2.0 Successful Innovation at GTU Colleges

That students at Engineering Colleges, even in non-metropolitan places, have creative

Probably in an effort to convey as much of information as possible to every student, the

9 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

2.1 Three layered System and Shodh Yatras

1. GTU – Skills Council for Marketing (Appendix 10 – Page 57)

2. GTU – Council for Human Resource Studies and Organizational Structures

3. GTU – Financial Services Skills Council (Appendix 12 – Page 61)

Some key figures:

No. of GTU innovation Sankuls 25

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12 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

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[A Brief Training Secession for students Faculty-Industrialist Interaction during

A hand on analytical experience for On the Spot Suggestions by students in

14 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

A finishing touch on Students, Faculties, Floor persons,

15 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

3.0 About GTU in brief:

It has the following Master’s programs:

(i) 2-year M.E. programs offered in 31 different fields of engineering

1. Potential of Recycling and Re-use of treated Sewage

In addition, it organized a workshop on Trends in Renewable Energy technologies on April 30,

16 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

GTU is setting up Centers for studies in the areas of

GTU is offering a BE in Biotechnology program and is likely to offer an ME Biotechnology

GTU is offering an ME program in Textile Engineering. It is also offering BE programs in

Infrastructure is a major focus in GTU. Thus GTU is offering a Master’s program in

GTU is planning Centres of Excellence in various areas of technology, in which it has

GTU is working pro-actively for a step-improvement in Learning Outcomes. (Appendix 3),

17 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

3.1 Culture of Innovation at GTU:

1. Best Projects/Innovations/Thesis: We are developing a methodology to pick the best

2. New Ideas/innovations/projects/prototypes/techno-business module: We are

Techpedia is a partner in the above three processes.

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4.0 Creating an environment of innovation at GTU:

Need for Innovation at GTU:

19 | Gujarat Technological University (http://www.gtu.ac.in/) |

GTU Innovation Council will work:

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4.1 Processes in the Faculties of Engineering, Computer Science and Pharmacy:

Excellence in education in technology is determined by excellence in practical work in