It was a proud moment for Heritage Institute of Technology Kolkata when one of its faculty members, Debjyoti Chowdhury, received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovations Award 2016 from the President of India on March 12, 2016.
Chowdhury was previously a student of the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation, of the institute and was guided by Madhurima Chattopadhyay, head of the department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation of the institute under whom he completed the project for which he received the award.
Chowdhury had created a “Cost effective self-stabilizing smart hand held platform (spoon/pen) for the elderly or Parkinson’s disease patients” under the guidance of Chattopadhyay. The project introduces an easy to adopt hand mount device that can be used to support the tremors in hands of old people with the disease for day to day normal activities like writing with a pen,having food with a spoon and also holding crockery/knifes.
More than 500 Institutions competed for the award and a total of 1,80,000 projects were submitted for the award.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Kolkata / by Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey / TNN / March 15th, 2016
It is also in news for shoddy affairs.nearly 100 of its outside students entered hostel and attacked hostel students .one student was severely injured and is hospitalized. Attackers roaming freely with blessing of college authority and influential fathers of those involved in attack. This is the same faculty which remained mute spectators to the attackers. An earnest request to all responsible citizen of India ,don’t let this episode die silently. Raise a campaign against all those who are involved.