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Patna,(BiharTimes): They were all taken away by a spell of nostalgia. They converge to their alma mater––the Bihar College of Engineering, now the National Institute of Technology Patna––from far and wide. The occasion was like a family reunion.
Those who literally rubbed shoulders with each other was none other than the chief minister Nitish Kumar, a 1974 pass-out from the college. Despite repeated request by the organizers to come over to the stage he refused to be the chief guest and sat on the front row with old friends, seniors and juniors––and obviously their family members. They all were thrilled to find the chief minister among them.
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The college was celebrating the Golden Jubilee alumni meet for its 1961 batch, as well as the Silver Jubilee for its 1985 batch.
Bhim Singh, the rural works department minister in Nitish’s cabinet, also graced the occasion, as he too is a BCE alumni.
The Bihar College of Engineering has the distinction of producing some national assets. This includes the present director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Ratan Kumar Sinha, a 1972 Mechanical Engineering graduate. However, he was not present on the occasion. He visited Bihar a couple of months back.
One of the 1961 batch graduate, N P Singh, said that he had been meeting some of his friends after over three long decades. He had retired from the Bokaro Steel Plant.
The College organized a number of events on the occasion, including a friendly cricket match between the professors and engineers. Some of the alumni were felicitated.
Speaking on the occasion NIT Director, U C Rai, informed that placement record of the college is very good. About 80 per cent of students got placed this year. Some even got offers from multinational companies.
However, he highlighted the problem and added that the institute is going to start M Tech programmes in Architecture, Computers and other streams from the next academic session.
In 1886 a survey training college was established on this very campus. In 1900, it became Bihar Engineering School, Patna. It was renamed Bihar College of Engineering in 1931 and finally, in 2004, it became the 18th National Institute of Technology of India.
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