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Trip to Pune . . .

After I came to NITIE and saw how the alumni network is managed, I understood one of the major things lacking in BIT (my engg. school) was this. Serendipitously Sallu (Manish Saluja) one day called Shubham and told him about invisionfree forum that he had discovered and gave the idea to make it a discussion forum for their batchmates; when Shubham discussed the idea with me - we thought of extending it as a an Alumni Portal for all alumni of BIT and thus started BIT Alumni www.bitalumni.4t.com the (un)official portal for BITans. Today we have become a 500 member strong site and the largest online conglomeration of BITans. The next logical step to this venture was organizing Alumni meets in different cities. As a small beginning we organized a reunion of all BITans of our batch in Mumbai-Pune (15 turned up) but our meet has fired BITans in other cities as well for such ventures . . . its really been 'main chalta gay kaarwan bantaa gaya' for 4 of us founding members - myself, Shubham, Manish and Nimish.
Posting some photos of the reunion outing below . . .











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  1. Whats In A Name5:16 PM

    I missed it... I missed it...
    I missed it.....:-((

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  2. COOLBUDDY1:10 PM

    the site www.bitalumni.4t.com doesn't work ................it says that they have changed their location and it takes to some other college site

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