PRESIDENT REVIEW
ditya Bhatt, President of the BITS Student Union 2013-2014, has the
constant expression of a man of action, answering phone call after
phone call while trying to fulfill all his duties. One look at his
manifesto, however, and you will realize how far he is from actually
fulfilling some of the points mentioned therein. On being asked about this,
he promptly says that, with two weeks left for the semester to end, the forgotten
manifesto points will be realized and taken to completion ‘soon’. We take a
look at the hits and misses of his tenure.
Meal
cancellation
Pre-fest meet
Career
Mentorship Cell
Aditya did try taking this up with
the institute, but the latter was
pretty adamant on not having it,
least of all this year.
The institute thinks
that the stability the
fragile mess system has
managed to achieve
should not be disturbed. True,
but Aditya should have known that
this was a major hurdle even when the manifesto
point was being framed.
A session happened in the
SAC amphitheater around a
month before APOGEE.
Oobleck and the robotics
exhibition were suggested
during this meeting.
The goal was to hold not only a “post mortem”
session, but also to have a pre-fest session along
similar lines where all students are invited. Although it
did happen before APOGEE, it was not adequately
publicized and the turn-out from the general populace
was poor. It ended up being a meeting of cocoordinators, which would have happened anyway.
The ‘BITSAA Career Center’
team has been set up, but
hasn’t started functioning.
Aditya says that all the work required from his part has
been done and that it can start functioning only after
the same amount of work is put in from the other
campuses as well.
Online Presence
and BITS App
The website has been
made; the team has been
set up. All that is missing
is a server for the site to
go online; missing for
quite a while now.
This was a major point in Aditya Bhatt’s manifesto, partly
because there were other points, like advertising club/
department events and voting for RAF movies which
depended on it. The server has been down for almost eight
months now, and you will hardly get anything but a ‘coming
soon’ from the president if you inquire about the same.
RO purifiers
The tenders have been
allotted and the purifiers
are on their way.
RO purifiers are expensive, and have now been snuck into
the SWD budget. The initial idea was to have a centralized
purification plant, but that was scrapped.
SR and MB Redis
NCC wing
Yes, they are finally here. The MB Redi is Vaibhav Singh’s achievement, the SR one is
Aditya’s. The delay of nearly two semesters seems to have
finally paid off, for the SR Redi is cheap and offers decently
good pleasures for the gastronomically adventurous.
The NCC wing inside the
campus simply could not
be set up.
The sole reason is the lack of a ground. He says it cannot
happen for another couple of years for the same reason.
Sounds like the kind of thing you would look into before
putting it in your manifesto.
When asked about the most challenging hurdle Aditya Bhatt had to face during his ongoing tenure, he said it was APOGEE
– a fest which had been running in losses north of 5 lakhs every year and very lowly participation. and The SU team led by
him managed to get 870 outstation participants along with profits in both Oasis and APOGEE. Aditya organized a boycott
against the rising ANC prices and was phenomenal in bringing them down, much to the delight of all BITSians. He also
screened India’s T 20 World Cup matches for all to see. Though some of his promises may not have come true, Aditya Bhatt
seems to have tried quite hard to please the students in matters which concern their daily lives.