Most students on leave, usual buzz missing

Roorkee, October 22 :  There have been no regular activities on the IIT campus over the past week as most of the students have left for their homes in view of Diwali.

Even most of the faculty members have gone to their homes to celebrate the festival of lights. With the institute going into the exam mode immediately after the festive season, the campus is bereft of its usual buzz.

However, a few students chose not to visit their homes this Diwali and instead celebrated the festival with their friends and teachers on the campus. Chander Tomqil, an MTech student, said his parents were abroad this year and so he decided to stay back on the campus and rather had a great time exploding crackers in the company of his classmates.

For those who had been longing to join their families to enjoy the festivities but could not go due to certain reasons, the campus Diwali was a pleasant experience. They got ample time to spend with their friends, said students.

Training programme

A one-week training programme on "Ground Water Resources Evaluation in Hard Rock Areas" is being organised by the Department of Hydrology at the Continuing Education Centre of the IIT this week.

A total of 15 officers of the Ground Water Department, Andhra Pradesh, have been attending this training programme, which focuses on the methods for assessment of groundwater resources in the hard rock areas of India.

Experts found that more than two thirds area of the country comprised hard crystalline rocks. As such, many of the groundwater experts found it difficult to locate new sources of groundwater and to estimate the total groundwater resources available within these rocks.

For the courses being undertaken during the training, several faculty members have been drawn from the Department of Earth Sciences, Hydrology and Civil Engineering of the IIT-Roorkee as well as from the National Institute of Hydrology.

Another training programme for officers of the Ground Water Department, Andhra Pradesh, is to be organised on "Stochastic Processing of High Frequency Piezometer Data" in the second week of the next month.

Dr DC Singhal of the Department of Hydrology is coordinating these training programmes.  Courtesy : The Tribune