Participation in FDPs and National and International Conferences

	Associate Prof Dr T.P. Singh was selected and attended a FDP of one week duration on ‘RS and GIS for Earth Sciences’ conducted at national level by Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore.
	Associate Prof Dr T.P. Singh was the only person selected from India by Japan Aerospace Exploratory Administration Centinal Asia for an international one week duration Centinal Asia Step II Programme for Disaster Management, held at ICIMOD Kathmandu, Nepal and Macao, China from 28th February to 5th March 2011 .
	Dr T.P. Singh attended an international seminar of International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing conducted by IIRS at Dehradun on 7th and 8th March 2011, to represent SIG and present a paper written jointly by Dr. T.P. Singh and Brig K.K.V. Khanzode.

Participation in International Conferences

	SIG students participated in an international seminar on ‘Geospatial Technology in Biodiversity Management’ at IIT Kharagpur in December 2010. Our students team won the first prize for paper presentation, competing with participants from various IITs, engineering colleges and GIS institutes of repute.
	SIG students also participated in Map India 2011, a renowned annual national seminar on GIS and Remote Sensing held at Hyderabad, in January 2011.
	SIG student Ms Preethy Chandran’s paper on ‘Spatial Strategies for Sustainable Management’ was adjudged the best Powertech paper in the national seminar organized by Department of Environment Management, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli in January 2011.
	SIG student Ms Santha Rubini has been selected as a Research Scholar by the Oragon State University,USA.
	Ms Pallavi Srivastava, SIG student of 2006-08 batch and Shri Pratardhan Sakalkar student of 2010-12 batch have been selected for commission in the Indian Army through Officers Training Academy , Chennai.

	Students, staff and faculties visited Old Age and Orphan home Ishaprema-Niketan, in Nana Peth for Social cause.
	SIG staff, faculty and students undertook plantation of 800 saplings at Army Camp Aundh in August 2010.
	SIG donated 1000 saplings for planting at SIU, Lavale on the occasion of FEST workshop conducted at SIG in August 2010.
	SIG had organized a blood donatiojn camp at Atur Center under the aegis of SCHC in September 2010.
	Students and faculty visited Queens Mary’s Technical Institute for war disabled and physically challenged soldiers located at Aundh Road, Kirkee for conducting classes of IT skills.
	Students and faculty members also visited Kendriya Vidyalaya located at Range Hills to conduct classes in various subjects for underprivileged students.
	A short certificate course of eight weeks duration in Fundamentals of GIS and Photogrammetry has been introduced for the disabled soldiers of Queen Mary’s Technical Institute, at their request to generate interest amongst the members of the institute and to generate rehabilitation opportunities for them.