BPPIMT has a rich tradition to inculcate in its students an attitude of inquiry in diversified areas. Technical Forum has been formed to nurture their technological know-how. It is the right platform where students can showcase their expertise in robotics, hardware modelling, software and app design.
Function of the Cell
The Technical Forum (Abhiyantran) functions as a platform to promote technical learning, innovation, and collaborative development among students of the institute. The key functions of the forum are as follows
- To provide a platform for students to explore and enhance their technical curiosity, enabling them to gain knowledge and satisfaction through practical learning and participation in technical activities.
- To create a collaborative environment where students can effectively apply their acquired technical skills individually as well as in teams, taking roles as members or leaders to implement innovative ideas successfully in a cost-effective manner.
- To encourage innovation and creativity among students by motivating them to transform their technical ideas and concepts into sustainable and practical products.
- To promote socially responsible technological development by inspiring students to design and develop solutions that contribute to the welfare and betterment of society.
- To facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development through workshops, seminars, competitions, and project-based learning activities.
Facilities of the Cell
The institute provides adequate infrastructure and technical facilities to support the activities conducted under the Technical Forum (Abhiyantran). These facilities enable the smooth organization of technical events, workshops, seminars, and student development programs.
Key Facilities
- Auditorium Facility: A spacious auditorium with a seating capacity of approximately 600 participants, suitable for corporate presentations, technical talks, seminars, and PowerPoint presentations.
- Audio-Visual Support: Modern audio-visual aids such as LCD projectors, Overhead Projectors (OHP), VCRs, televisions, and sound systems are available to facilitate effective presentations and technical demonstrations.
- Networked Computer Laboratories: Well-equipped computer laboratories with high-speed internet connectivity that can support online examinations or tests for up to 300 students simultaneously.
- Seminar Hall: A seminar hall with a seating capacity of approximately 200 participants, used for student interaction sessions, technical discussions, workshops, and result declaration events.
- Server Control Room: A dedicated server control room equipped with adequate IT infrastructure to manage and support network operations and digital activities.
- Power Backup Facility: 24/7 uninterrupted power backup is available to ensure smooth functioning of technical equipment and uninterrupted conduct of events and online activities.
Roles & Responsibilities
Coordinator
The Coordinator shall be responsible for the overall functioning and effective implementation of activities conducted under the Technical Forum.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- To motivate and guide students to actively participate in various technical events, workshops, and seminars.
- To coordinate and facilitate students’ participation in inter-institute and external technical competitions, seminars, and events.
- To supervise, plan, and coordinate all activities organized under the Technical Forum.
- To ensure smooth communication between faculty members and student members regarding forum activities.
- To monitor the progress and effectiveness of events organized by the forum.
- To encourage innovation, technical learning, and collaborative participation among students.
Faculty Members
Faculty Members associated with the Technical Forum shall support and guide students in organizing and participating in various academic and technical activities.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- To motivate and encourage students to participate in technical competitions, hackathons, and innovation-based activities.
- To organize seminars, workshops, guest lectures, and technical sessions for enhancing students’ knowledge and technical skills.
- To mentor student members in planning and conducting events under the Technical Forum.
- To coordinate and assist in the execution of various activities conducted by the forum.
- To provide academic and technical guidance for successful implementation of programs and initiatives.
Student Members
Student Members shall actively contribute to the development and functioning of the Technical Forum through participation, organization, and promotion of technical activities.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- To create awareness among fellow students regarding technical opportunities, competitions, and events.
- To actively participate in workshops, seminars, awareness camps, competitions, and skill development training programs both inside and outside the institute.
- To assist in organizing technical events, seminars, and workshops within the institute.
- To promote technical culture, innovation, and collaborative learning among students.
- To support the successful execution of activities conducted under the Technical Forum.
Committee members
| Sl. No. | Name | Designation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Gitosree Khan | Associate Professor, IT | Co-ordinator |
| 2 | Mr. Subhasis Mallick | Assistant Professor, CSE | Member |
| 3 | Dr. Susmita Dey | Assistant Professor, CSE | Member |
| 4 | Mr. Suvadeep Bhattacharjee | Assistant Professor, CSE | Member |
| 5 | Ms. Ankita Indu | Assistant Professor, ECE | Member |
| 6 | Mr. Ramesh Kumar | Assistant Professor, ECE | Member |
| 7 | Mr. Arindrajit Chaudhury | Assistant Professor, ECE | Member |
| 8 | Ms. Raja Sarkar | Assistant Professor, IT | Member |
| 9 | Mr. Subhasis Dutta | Assistant Professor, IT | Member |
| 10 | Mr. Subhasish Das | Assistant Professor, AI & ML | Member |
| 11 | Dr. Argha Kamal Pal | Assistant Professor, EE | Member |
| 12 | Dr. Arijit Dey | Assistant Professor, MCA | Member |
| 13 | Ms. Pampa Ghosh Saha | Assistant Professor, MCA | Member |
| 14 | Dr. Kakali Karmakar (Sur) | Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Mathematics | Member |
| 15 | Mr. Joy Roy | STA, IT | Member |
| 16 | Md. Atif Khan | TA , IT | Member |
| 17 | Mr. Debasish Sarma | STA, ECE | Member |
| 18 | Mr. Ranjit Kumar Paul | SLA, EE | Member |
| 19 | Mr. Nabin Pal | TA, CSE | Member |
Student Members
| Sl .No. | Student Name | Department | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Shanwaj Gayen | CSE | 3rd year |
| 02 | Shougata Sikder | CSE | 3rd year |
| 03 | Rahul Das | CSE | 3rd year |
| 04 | Ishika Chowdhury | CSE | 3rd year |
| 05 | Debasrita Mukherjee | CSE | 3rd year |
| 06 | Biswajit Biswas | IT | 3rd year |
| 07 | Samprit Majumder | IT | 3rd year |
| 08 | Agamani Ghosh | IT | 3rd year |
| 09 | Aritro Dey | IT | 3rd year |
| 10 | Mouli Biswas | IT | 3rd year |
| 11 | Aman Jha | ECE | 3rd year |
| 12 | Anshuman Guha | ECE | 3rd year |
| 13 | Abdul Razzak | ECE | 3rd year |
| 14 | Saaloni Shaw | ECE | 3rd year |
| 15 | Debasmita Roy | EE | 3rd year |
| 16 | Arpita Das | EE | 3rd year |
| 17 | Swapnil Das | MCA | 2nd Year |
| 18 | Soudip Manik | MCA | 2nd Year |
Annual Planner
| Sl.No | Name of the Activity | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SIH Internal Hackathon 2026 | 10th September, 2026 |
| 2 | Inter-college events-SMART Coder 2.26 (Coding Competition) | 25th & 26st September, 2026 |
| 3 | Inter-college events-FORMA 2.24 (Hardware Model Design Competition) | 25th & 26st September, 2026 |
| 4 | Inter-college events- Technical Poster Presentation | 25th & 26st September, 2026 |
| 5 | Awareness Programme by GDSC | 18th September , 2026 |
| 6 | DIVYANTRA- The ROBOTICS CLUB Awareness Programme | 3rd October , 2026 |
| 7 | Techstorm 2.27 | March 11-13, 2027 |
Event List
| Sl. No. | Name of the Program | Activity Date | No. of Participants | Winners | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Year 2024-25 | |||||
| 1 | SIH Internal Hackathon 2024 | 7th September, 2024 | 367 | Rwik Kumar Dutta, Mohammed Azib, Ritwik Bhar | View Event |
| 2 | Inter-College Events – SMART Coder 2.24 (Coding Competition) | 20th & 21st September, 2024 | 312 | 1st: Gourav Dey & Sneha Lahiri – Cppros, Heritage Institute of Technology; 2nd: Sayan Sen & Amit Karmakar – Smart Coders, BPPIMT; 3rd: Arka Chatterjee & Arup Rai – Bit-Byters, BPPIMT | View Event |
| 3 | Inter-College Events – FORMA 2.24 (Hardware Model Design Competition) | 20th & 21st September, 2024 | 56 | 1st: VEDABOTS (BPPIMT, ECE) – Smart Wearable Cap for Blind People; 2nd: Covalent Innovators (JU + BPPIMT, ECE) – AI & IoT Smart Remote Health Monitoring System; 3rd: VANGUARD (CIEM) – Smart Sonar & LDR Missile Launch System | View Event |
| 4 | Inter-College Events – JUNO 2.24 (Arduino Programming Competition) | 20th & 21st September, 2024 | 66 | 1st: Binary Bosses – Kuntal Mondal, BPPIMT; 2nd: Codeplay – Aditya Jaiswal, Bharati Mishra, BPPIMT; 3rd: Quickfix – Harsh Singh, Bapan Banik, BPPIMT | View Event |
| 5 | DIVYANTRA – The Robotics Club Awareness Programme | 1st March, 2025 | 178 | ||
| 6 | TechStorm 2.25 | 17th, 18th & 22nd March, 2025 | 412 | Code Bee: 1st – Abhishek Saha, Sougata Seth; 2nd – Abhishek Tiwari, Ashish Singh (Dhruv). Appmania: Winner – Team SARATHI (Suryanshu Paul, Sujal Agarwal, Srijeeta Dutta); 1st Runner-up – Team FALCON (Upama Das, Mayank Jha). Tech Writing: Winner – Team ULTRON (Md Danish, Md Sayeed Anwar, Afridi Hussain); 1st Runner-up – Prerna Singh, Nerula Institute of Technology; 2nd Runner-up – Tanushka Joshi, BPPIMT; 3rd – Ashwin Kumar, Aman Raj, BPPIMT. Tech Hunt: Winner – Autistics (Rahul Kumar Shaw, Prashant Jha, Yash Kr Singh, Sudiksha Singh); 1st Runner-up – Astros (Aahana Chatterjee, Dishari Anuja Deb, Debosmita Paul, Divyasha Halder); 2nd Runner-up – Byte Buddies (Harsh Jaiswal, Ayush Raj, Adarsh Kumar, Debjeet Kumar, Pata Rani Nandini De). Omegatrix: Winner – Abhir Dutta; 1st Runner-up – Sayan Jana; 2nd Runner-up – Srijan Manna. PES: Winner – Argha Ghosh, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up – Arkajit Mitra, The Heritage Academy. FIFA: 1st – Abhishek Palu; 2nd – Abhishek Singha. KNET: Winner – Rohit Kumar Mahato, Anish Poddar; 1st Runner-up – Amit Das. Passion with Reels: Winner – The Anonymous Smile (Team Dristikon). Creative Canvas: Winner – The Hands that Forgot to Paint (Team: The Silent); 1st Runner-up – Sriti (Team: Godhuli). Creative Canvas (Team OP): Winner – Protyoy Bhandary, Olivia Sikdar; 1st Runner-up – Shubham Srivastava; 2nd Runner-up – Sania Dhar, Adrija Ghosh (Wings of Fire). RO Terrain: 1st – Unity Vayu (Amitabh Daripa, Tridesh Jha, Anirban Bhandari); 2nd – Unity Akasa (Debayan De, Ritwika Saha, Anirban Bhandari); 3rd – Devta. Aqua Race: 1st – Devta (Rishav Thakkar, Debosmita Paul, Anamika Bhunia, Anwesha Mahapatra); 2nd – Blackbird (Ayan Kumar Mahato, Souvik Mitra, Abhishek Verma, Subhajit Dutta). RO Soccer: Winner – Unity Rudra; Runner-up – T-Rex (Arindam Nandi, Raghunandan Deb, Francis Sayan Majumdar, Nilanjana Dutta, Archisman Mallick). RO Navigator: Winner – GIGABYTES (Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Akash Kundu); 1st Runner-up – GLITCH (Shaswata Mondal, Debashish Dey, Soumil Paul); 2nd Runner-up – ARES (Tiasa Mahanty, Sudiksha Singh, Akanksha Kumari, Soumili Majumdar, Subhankar Sarkar). RO Combat (8 kg): Winner – Devta (Sagnick Rout, Rishav Thakkar, Anamika Bhunia, Probuddha Bikash Chatterjee, Debosmita Paul); Runner-up – Bloodfire (Bilana Chakraborty) | Techstorm 2025 |
| 7 | Budding Genius | 4th April, 2025 | 105 | Technomania Junior: 1st – Sithi R.B.T. Vidyapith (Santu Naiya, Emon Sil, Supriyo Porel); 2nd – National English School (Deeptanshu Chandra, Sayan Samanta, Saksham Roy); 3rd – Patha Bhavan (Archisman Mukherjee, Arghya Roy, Aryaman Banerjee). Code Bee Junior: 1st – St. Augustine’s Day School, Barrackpore (Dwaipayan Paul, Sayan Pal); 2nd – National English School (Aditya Raj Gupta, Sai Siddharth Maharana); 3rd – Narayana School, Sodepore (Aayush Sen). iLLumIZen: 1st – Sumon Sarkar, Chittaranjan Colony Hindu Vidyapith; 2nd – Aritra Karmakar, Chittaranjan Colony Hindu Vidyapith; Joint 3rd – Md. Mobasher Javed, Chittaranjan Colony Hindu Vidyapith & Soumyajoy Chakraborty, St. Augustine’s Day School, Barrackpore | View Event |
| Academic Year 2023-24 | |||||
| 1 | Info Session | 27th August, 2023 | 102 | ||
| 2 | Cloud Demo Day | 1st September, 2023 | 124 | ||
| 3 | Demo Day | 2nd September, 2023 | 119 | ||
| 4 | SIH Internal Hackathon 2023 | 16th September, 2023 | 232 | View Event | |
| 5 | Tech Tide Coding Ninjas with Google DSC BPPIMT | 4th October, 2023 | 200 | ||
| 6 | Smart Coder 2.23 (Part of TechStorm 2.23) | 4th October, 2023 | 525 | Winner: Devil – Aman Raj & Aditya Kumar Sahu, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up: Gojo – Dipnarayan Sen & Anushka Mukherjee, BPPIMT; 2nd Runner-up: ThroneHolder – Affan Ahmed, Amity University Kolkata | |
| 7 | Inter-College Events – SMART Coder 2.23 (Coding Competition) | 6th October, 2023 | 306 | Winner: Devil – Aman Raj & Aditya Kumar Sahu, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up: Gojo – Dipnarayan Sen & Anushka Mukherjee, BPPIMT; 2nd Runner-up: ThroneHolder – Affan Ahmed, Amity University Kolkata | ABHIYANTRAN Report 2023 |
| 8 | Inter-College Events – FORMA 2.23 (Hardware Model Design Competition) | 7th October, 2023 | 65 | Winner: Velocita – Sohom Das, Rishita Biswas, Shruti Singh, Pramit Nandi (FIEM); 1st Runner-up: Inspiron – Anuska Das, Mookul Paul, Sabuj Bhattacharya, Rohit Yadav (BPPIMT); 2nd Runner-up: ROTO Phantoms – Abir Kundu, Avirup Bhunia, Anish Das, Dibyamoy Roy (BPPIMT) | ABHIYANTRAN Report 2023 |
| 9 | Inter-College Events – JUNO 2.23 (Arduino Programming Competition) | 7th October, 2023 | 37 | Winner: Qwikfix – Swastik Kumar Tripathi, Sakshi Singh, BPPIMT; 1st Runner-up: led-pin-13 – Md. Miran Jawed, Fahmid Raza (Techno India & Aliah University); 2nd Runner-up: UNO Electronauts – Soumyajit Dey, Subhankar Kolay, BPPIMT | ABHIYANTRAN Report 2023 |
| 10 | DIVYANTRA – The Robotics Club Inauguration | 7th October, 2023 | 55 | ||
| 11 | Microsoft Azure Fundamentals | 13th October, 2023 | 77 | ||
| 12 | Website Launch | 25th November, 2023 | 33 | ||
| 13 | Solution Challenge BPPIMT | 27th December, 2023 | 147 | ||
| 14 | Android Talk | 30th December, 2023 | 45 | ||
| 15 | Glimpse of Advancement | 18th January, 2024 | 77 | ||
| 16 | The Power of Unity in Game Development | 28th January, 2024 | 32 | ||
| 17 | TechStorm 2.24 | 3rd & 5th April, 2024 | 245 | Techstorm 2024 | |
| Academic Year 2022-23 | |||||
| 1 | Hackathon – Pre-Winter Coding Contest | 4th November, 2022 | 52 | ||
| 2 | Intro to Google Cloud Career Practitioners | 15th November, 2022 | 72 | ||
| 3 | Info Session – Flutter Forward, Firebase | 11th March, 2023 | 65 | ||
| 4 | Valorant (Online) | 21st March, 2023 | 263 | ||
| 5 | TechStorm 2.23 | 22nd & 23rd March, 2023 | 450 | ||
| 6 | Introduction to Offensive Security | 8th April, 2023 | 64 | ||
| 7 | Introduction to Kubernetes | 8th April, 2023 | 53 | ||
| Academic Year 2021-22 | |||||
| 1 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Hardware Model Design Competition 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Arduino Programming Competition 2.22 | 26th March, 2022 | Event Report | ||
| Academic Year 2020-21 | |||||
| 1 | Webinar on PLC Programming and Python with Robotics | 30th – 31st January, 2021 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.21 | 30th – 31st January, 2021 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.21 | 30th – 31st January, 2021 | Event Report | ||
| 4 | Online Inter-College Coding Competition – Smart Coders Challenge 2.20 | 20th December, 2020 | Event Report | ||
| 5 | 3-Day Web Workshop on Android Application Development in collaboration with Ardent Computech Pvt. Ltd. | 4th – 6th August, 2020 | Event Report | ||
| 6 | Inauguration of Developer Student Club (DSC) BPPIMT under Google Developer Technologies | 26th September, 2020 | |||
| 7 | Git and GitHub | 4th October, 2020 | |||
| 8 | 30 Days of Google Cloud | 15th October – 5th November, 2020 | |||
| 9 | Android Study Jam | 30th November, 2020 – 25th January, 2021 | |||
| 10 | Career Beyond Academics | 7th December, 2020 | |||
| 11 | DSC WOW – DSC India Collaboration | 7th – 14th December, 2020 | |||
| 12 | 30 Days of Web Development | 21st December, 2020 – 21st January, 2021 | |||
| 13 | Hash Code | 25th February, 2021 | |||
| Academic Year 2019-20 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.19 | 5th November, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.19 | 5th November, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.19 | 6th November, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.19 | 15th & 16th March, 2019 | Event Report | ||
| Academic Year 2018-19 | |||||
| 1 | TechStorm 2.18 | 12th & 13th April, 2018 | |||
| 2 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.18 | ||||
| 3 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.18 | ||||
| 4 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.18 | ||||
| 5 | Smart India Hackathon 2018, Govt. of India, Panipat | 31st March, 2018 | |||
| 6 | Techniche 2017, IIT Guwahati | 9th July, 2017 | |||
| 7 | INSTRUO 2017, IIEST Shibpur | 13th – 15th October, 2017 | |||
| Academic Year 2017-18 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.17 | 20th September, 2017 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.17 | 20th September, 2017 | Event Report | ||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.17 | 13th September, 2017 | Event Report | ||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.17 | Event Report | |||
| Academic Year 2016-17 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.16 | 29th September & 1st October, 2016 | Event Report | ||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.16 | 1st October, 2016 | |||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.16 | ||||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.16 | ||||
| Academic Year 2015-16 | |||||
| 1 | Hardware Model Design – JUNO 2.15 | ||||
| 2 | Arduino Programming – FORMA 2.15 | ||||
| 3 | Smart Coder Challenge 2.15 | ||||
| 4 | TechStorm 2.15 | Event Report | |||
Clubs
Google Developer Student Club (GDSC)
Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) has been initiated by Google developer technologies on Sep 26, 2020. Google Developer Student Club (GDSC) are university based community groups for students interested in Google developer technologies. This community conduct webinars, hands-on workshops, tutorials, informative talks and more to engage with the audience and grow the community at large. To connect with GDSC and help to promote the peer-to-peer learning culture.
Robotics club-DIVYANTRA
Abhiyantran – The Technical Forum of B. P. Poddar Institute of Management & Technology, Kolkata inaugurated the institute Robotics club-DIVYANTRA on 7th October, 2023 at Seminar hall. Divyantra is a platform where passionate minds converge, share ideas, and work together to turn their visions into reality. It is a space where the students nurture their creativity, cultivate technical skills, and foster a spirit of teamwork. The club organize workshops, competitions, and events that not only challenge the intellect of the young minds but also ignite the passion for robotics. This robotics club pledge to use the knowledge and skills for the betterment of humanity, to tackle challenges in healthcare, environment, and beyond.