Rayat-Bahra Formula car to compete at prestigious Formula SAE International competition at Fontana

After Super Mileage car, Rayat-Bahra team now vrooms in with formula car
Here comes India’s first 600 cc formula car with turbo charger
Rayat-Bahra students unveil formula car

Chandigarh, May 30

After having collected accolades for its Super Mileage car, unstoppable Rayat-Bahra team has now come out with its Rayat-Bahra Formula car that has 600 CC engine {Honda CBR 600 RR liquid cooled} facilitated with a turbo charger making it the first of its kind in Asia to be built by the students and compete internationally.

All decked with the new shiny and sleek beauty, team of Rayat Institute of Engineering & Information Technology will compete at prestigious Formula SAE International competition at Fontana, California, USA, which is to be held from June 17 to June 20, 2009.

S. Gurvinder Singh Bahra Vice Chairman, Rayat-Bahra group said, “We feel immense pride to unveil this formula car, which is first of its kind.” He informed that the car has a five speed gearing mechanism and can reach upto 110 km/hr within 4.4 seconds. Weighing 300 kg, this beauty on wheels gives speed of 260 km/hr. It has cutting edge maneuverability, has aerodynamic design, appreciable ergonomics and is brimmed with advance safety equipments. High tech creation was designed and analysed using software like Pro –E and AN-SYS.

S. Gurvinder Singh Bahra flanked by the team and Prof CM Behal, MD Rayat-Bahra group, Dr. T.P. Singh, Director Rayat Institute of Engineering and Information Technology unveiled Rayat-Bahra Formula Car today.

S. Bahra said that SAE - Society of Automotive Engineer, California organizes competition every year at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. It aims to discover best Formula car based upon handling, performance, manufacturability, design, cost and endurance.

This prestigious 29 years old contest will witness participants from 35 countries across the globe in various categories like U.K, U.S.A, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Germany Australia etc.

The team behind this car has 10 students of second and third year of Rayat Institute of Engineering & Information Technology. Nine students are from mechanical engineering and one student is from electrical engineering wing.

Team is led by Ashish Das. Other members of team are Kenneth Dean, Prasanjeet Das, Tarun, Parshant Kumar, Ashok Singh, Honey Sharma, Nitin Saini, Ramesh Chander and Jagatit Singh Parmar.

Faculty advisors of team are Mr. Jujhar Singh and Mr. Rajesh Chaudhary and Dr. Manoj Bali is legal advisor. The technical guide of team is Mr. Ranjit Randhawa, a Kharar based racing bikes expert. The team got their car’s engine from Mr. Amrinder Singh, a motorcycle racer by profession and also deals in sales of racing bikes.

Last year Rayat-Bahra Super-mileage Car participated in Super Mileage Competition hosted by Society of Automotive Engineer (SAE) at Marshall in Michigan (USA) in June 2008.

The car bagged first place in Asia and 13th position in world. It was awarded with Bir Davinder Singh Bansal Memorial Award for Best B-Tech Project, given by Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE).

It secured first place in Running Innovation National-Competition organized by Baba Banda Singh College of Engineering, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab.

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Rayat-Bahra Group of Institutions, IBM and Karrox Technologies Sign a MoU to Offer Training on IBM Technologies to Engineering Students

Chandigarh, May 25, 2009: Rayat-Bahra Group, the Leading Professional & Technical Educational Group, having 26 educational Institutions & an extensive presence in North India, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IBM India and Karrox Technologies Ltd. (IBM Training Partner) to offer a unique training program to its engineering students aimed at enhancing their professional skill-set and improving their chances of employability.

Under this model, the students studying in B.Tech 2010 batch at Rayat-Bahra Group Colleges will get an opportunity to undergo specialized training on IBM technologies under the IBM Career Education in IBM Software (CEIS) program. Keeping in mind the increased demand by the industry at large for skilled practitioners on new and latest technologies, CEIS is a concentrated effort by IBM to fill in the gap. Under this program , the students shall be trained by Karrox Technologies on the five IBM software brands – Tivoli, DB2, Lotus, Web Sphere & Rational. The training duration shall be 140 – 200 hours which will also focus on enhancing the soft-skills of the students to help them improve their chances of employment in the industry during these tough market conditions.

According to Nitin Singhal, Head South Asia Pacific, Software services Group, IBM Global Services, We are glad to extend our program to a large number of engineering students in Chandigarh through this MoU with Rayat-Bahra group. It has been our ongoing effort to equip the student community with the right skills and knowledge required to succeed in the global market which is becoming more competitive and demanding. We hope that the students here will gain from our unique program structure that combines industry-oriented course curriculum, hands-on training methodology and a deliberate focus on imparting soft skills.

S. Gurvinder Singh Bahra, Vice Chairman, Rayat-Bahra Group quoted “This Industry-Academia Tie-up is an eye-opener for the society & shall contribute skilled manpower to the talent pool of the software industry. Rayat-Bahra Group like always has continued to be a preferred recruitment hub for the industry with more than 40 companies visiting us during economic slowdown also.”

Dr. Sandeep Kaura, Asst. Managing Director, Rayat-Bahra Group said “Hi-Tech Software Training labs shall be set up at Rayat-Bahra Group’s Ropar & Mohali Campuses to ensure that the students will be provided the required training in campus itself and that after completion of their course, they are ready to compete in the marketplace and achieve the desired career-path.”

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Little creations at work in Small Wonders

Tiny tots display talent at exhibition in Small Wonders



Mohali, May 23
Tiny tots of Small Wonders School, phase VII Mohali today displayed their talent at exhibition-cum-parents teachers meet held at the school.

Creations from little hands were put on a spectacular display, which mainly included the handiwork of students done on Friday in the school. At school Friday is an activity day, which is most entertaining time for students when their creativity reaches its zenith. This academic year’s all activity day projects were shown around to the parents as well.

Students of C-III Shirin, Palakshee, Japharneet, Saanvi, Dharamanmol and Arsh briefed parents about exhibits taking them around collages on earth day, greeting cards for Mother’s day and colorful photo frames of international day for the family.

Children reflected a contagious enthusiasm while the elders looked around at coloring sheets, clay models depicting serious issue like pollution, hand prints, leaf prints and articles made out of paper such as dog, flower boatet al.

Parents’ reaction was a mixed bag of surprises ranging from surprise to pride to endearing.

“At Small Wonders our endeavor is to bring the best out of every child. Our emphasis is not only on academics, but on over all personality development of our children. Such activities of showcasing their skills instill confidence and sense of pride in children,” said director Sandeep Singh.

Rayat and Bahra students prove their mettle

Rayat Bahra College of Engineering & Biotechnology for Women shines in PTU results
13 students secure more than 80 percent

Chandigarh, May 22
The students of Rayat & Bahra College of Engineering & Biotechnology for Women, Sahauran campus, proved their mettle by securing high percentile marks in first semester of B Tech examination conducted by Punjab Technical University (PTU), Jalandhar in December 2008.

Jaspreet Kaur, Simran and Priya Madaan topped in their respective branches of CSE, IT and ECE by securing 87.23%, 85.07% and 82.61% respectively. The students said that teachers have been a constant source of inspiration for them. Burning midnight oil and focusing on target proved to be a yielding equation for them.

The overall pass percentage of students in different subjects was 98% in communication skills, 95% in FCPIT, 85% in physics, 80% in chemistry and 75% in mathematics.

Out of total 260 students that appeared for the exams, 13 of them have secured more than 80% marks and 43 students secured more than 70% marks.

Director of the Institute Dr. Piyush Verma congratulated students for their dint hard work, consistency and determination which played a vital role in success.

Attributing this success to dedication of teachers and students, Vice Chairman of Rayat & Bahra Group, Shri Gurvinder Singh Bahra said that such bright results encourage students to excel more. The success of these students is motivation for others as well.

Managing Director of institute Shri C M Bahl expressed his happiness and lauded efforts made by the students.

Cheema Medical Complex doctors come to rescue of NRI in pain

Cheema doctors succeed where Canadian counterparts failed

I am thankful to Indian doctors, says NRI

Mohali, May 22

Rahat Verma, a resident of Abbotsford in BC Canada, landed in India with a terrible pain and bleeding nose. After two months of unsuccessful medication by Canadian doctors, Rahat finally got respite in Mohali.

All thanks to the expert team of Cheema Medical Complex, Mohali, who not only zeroed in on Rahat’s ailment, but also provided him immediate relief.

For last two months, Rahat, who originally hails from Kharar, had been complaining of bleeding in nose. Also a foul smell discharged from his nostrils interfering with his daily working.

He went to the Canadian doctors, who failed to locate a simple foreign body that had intruded into his nose. Doctors abroad could not diagnose the real cause and opined to go in for super specialty treatment.

In the meantime, Rahat was put on medication, which failed to yield any result and the bleeding from nose continued. But before, Rahat could meet the super specialists, he came back to India on his family’s advice.

“When the patient came to us he was in terrible pain. We performed a simple endoscopy procedure and found a foreign particle embedded in his nose. It was removed with simple surgical procedure known as nasal endoscopy. The patient is hail and hearty now,” said Dr Sartaj Singh Buttar, ENT specialist at Cheema Medical Complex.

105 CIIS students to fly to Canada, UK & Scotland with dreams

1059 students already transferred to overseas parent campuses in the maple country Canada, UK and Scotland

Mohali, 21 May: As many as 105 students of Continental Institute of International Studies (CIIS), Mohali studying for at least one year are using the benefit of switching over to parent campuses in Canada, Scotland and UK for further studies as a part of the unique Overseas Transfer option.
CIIS which is running as an extension campus of premier Canadian, UK & Scotland & NZ colleges and Universities and offering various engineering, marketing and other courses is also having strategic tie ups with New Zealand, Scotland and British institutes on a reciprocal basis whereby students from CIIS can shift to any of the parent institute during their courses.
More than thousand students have already gone to Canada, UK, Scotland and New Zealand for further studies and this year CIIS students from various streams have taken transfer to overseas campus. 31 students of Mechanical Engineering Technology Automotive Manufacturing (META), are moving to Georgian College, Barrie, Canada after completing their 1 year study at CIIS. 30 students of Aeronautical Engineering are moving to University of Brighton, UK campus. Some of the students already transferred have done extremely well and have already got job offers even before completion of their course.
A good total of 44 students are moving to Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada to complete their Bachelor of Computing Science (BCS), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Marketing (PBDM). Infact the recently introduced Foundation Studies has also been a great success as 15 students are moving to AYR College Scotland to pursue Higher national Certificate and High National Diploma in Creative Studies, Business Management and Aeronautical Engineering & Biotechnology.
The promising students of CIIS who will be embarking upon further studies at the parent campuses shared an enthusiastic discussion with the expert faculty of CIIS as part of a pre departure counseling session organized at CIIS here today. The international faculty guided these students on nuances of their further studies and stay in Canada, UK & Scotland.
Informing about the pre departure briefing cum counseling session held today, Gurdeepak Singh, Principal International program – CIIS informed that the latest batch of 105 students will stay and pursue future studies in Canada, Scotland & Brighton(UK) and their decision to shift abroad holds a real promise and prospect of being gainfully employed there as well as doing further studies to improve their standing from qualification point of view. Mr. Gurdeepak added that till now as many as 1059 students of CIIS have sought transfer to UK & Canadian, NZ parent campuses ever since the institute’s inception.
Students openly discussed various points and queries which were duly answered and clarified by CIIS expert faculty including international faculty. Universal College of Learning, a New Zealand government funded institute of technology and AYR College Scotland are few institutes to reckon.
Talking to the media Col. B.S. Sandhu (Retd.), President, CIIS shared about the Co-operative Education program which formally integrates a student's academic studies with work experience in Co-operative employer organizations. “The Industry-Academia partnership is the most vital component to make any academic program more career oriented and successful in the job market. It is very important to have industry participation in shaping the future of the next generation technocrats. Co-ops undertaken by students help to shape the effectiveness of our programs and ensure that programs continue to meet the needs of both the students and the industry.”, he added.
According to one of the Co-op employers, Co-op work-term is a good concept that is followed in CIIS as it provides students with industrial exposure and practical experience. Such regular work-terms also facilitate the students to grow as confident professionals. CIIS students have been efficient and effective in the workplace, increasing the productivity of the organizations. The Co-op concept and regular industrial visits are accepted and warmly welcomed by the various industries.

Fancy dress competition held at Ashmah School

Mohali, 18 May: A unique fancy dress competition organized at The Ashmah
International School, Mohali, saw the superbly decked up students in their favourite fancy dresses. The tiny tots were seen portraying the character of doctors, engineers, Nurses, Indian leaders, different animals and characters of Ramayana. The colourful competition noticed vivacious and excited kids of nursery and KG classes eagerly participating in the competition. Student’s left audience spell bound with their superb performance and attire.
While speaking on this occasion the principal of the school Ms. Roopinder Ghooman said that the fancy dress competition which is the integral part of school curriculum provides the kids an opportunity to exhibit and explore their hidden talents. She said kids easily connect to such practical enactments and understand the concepts more effectively. She said that other than studies our focus is on overall grooming of the kids and help them in to face the future challenges of the life in a better way.
In the end the winning students were appreciated for their effort and the Principal gave away the prizes to the winning students. Saumya, Agamjot and Pranit won first prize under the Playway, Nursery and UKG category and Manav, Vidhi and Shubham won first prize under the Class I, II & III category.