"AKIN to the Indian Premier League and the Karnataka Premier League, students from a city-based engineering college have started the MPL, which stands for Mechanical Premier League. While the first two leagues see fireworks on the field, the latter involves a click on the mouse or a tap on the keys of their computer or mobile phone"
- The MPL is a brainchild of students from BMS College of Engineering who call themselves the Consortium of Naveens and Ganesh (CoN-G). It has over 100 followers and counting since its inception on August 24 this year.Three Naveens - Bhat, Yadav and Kumar - and Ganesh Kamath started a group on social networking site Facebook, called CoN-G TV.
“It began with our group taking the lead in sharing funny snippets of college life on Facebook via posts on the fan page. Soon, the entire class would come online at around 8.15 pm every day when such posts were uploaded,” said Naveen Bhat.
- MPL teams follow the Champions League T20 match that is on right now. Fifteen students own a team each and compete against each other by predicting winners of the ongoing matches.
- The teams predict on the Toss (1 run), Who Bats First (2 runs), Man of the Match (5 runs) and Winner (6 runs) and gain the allocated runs on getting them right.
- “The team members message their predictions via an SMS, which are then updated in a special form we have developed,” says Naveen Yadav. The MPL has teams such as Ghost Riders, KARBANGIANS and Brats 11, each with a unique log. The followers of CoN-G also have specially designed T-shirts.
- “With only seven more matches to go (Champions League), there is nail-biting curiosity among the players and their followers,” says Naveen Kumar, who is constantly bombarded with ‘What’s the score’ since he heads the score calculation team. There is stiff competition for the top three slots.
- “I have to constantly follow up on the matches, keep a record of a particular cricketer’s performance and then predict a winner. It involves making clever choices and applying probability concepts,” said Nikhil Hulamani, the owner of Thunderbolts, which is in the third position with 282 runs. Meanwhile, everyone has their eyes on the coveted prize, a hand-drawn certificate that Bhat is still trying to draw.
"WE HAVE TO KNOW THAT THERE IS NO AGE LIMIT FOR LEARNING,WE CAN DO ANYTHING AFTER 50 ALSO.THAT IS THE SPIRIT SHOULD BE NEEDED"
- A 65-year-old man, grandfather of two, personifies the adage that it is never too late to learn.Almost six years into his retirement, Dr Murali Manohar Saxena was tired of his sedentary post-retirement life at home. He was also very upset to witness people dying of cardiac ailments, only because they failed to get treatment at the right time due to want of doctors.
Last month, He left behind his comfortable life in Lucknow to start a new career. Dr MMS, as fondly addressed by his classmates and doctors, got selected for a two-year diploma course in clinical cardiology at Jupiter Hospital in Thane. “Heart patients do not have much time when they suffer an attack. So, I want to save as many lives I can,” He says.|
- Having served as a medical officer in a public sector unit in Lucknow for over 20 years, Saxena could not pursue specialised medical courses, given his family commitments. “My priority was that I had to look after my family. Now that everyone is settled, there could not have been a better time to get started a fresh,” he said. Incidentally, he has asked permission not to attend classes for a few days for his younger son’s marriage in December. Though he has been participating in the wedding preparations, he is concentrating more on the classes and seems to be rather glad to have his “student life” back.
- Saxena shares a hostel room with two students, younger than his children. However, their age-gap, he says, did not come in the way while forging new bonhomie as they are “friendly and cooperative”. “Many of them call me ‘uncle’ out of respect,” He said. Saxena, however, admitted that he was initially apprehensive about chasing his dream at this age.
"WE HAVE A TIME SCHEDULE FOR EVERY WORK , BUT WHILE TRAVELING WITH YOUR VEHICLE TO OTHER PLACES YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL .THIS IS MAINLY APPLICABLE FOR THE STUDENTS "- On Tuesday, like most other days, the 19-year-old electronics engineering student of BMS College of Engineering was on her way to college on her two-wheeler. As she neared Krumbigal Road, she swerved to avoid a rotting pile of garbage, skidded and a private bus coming from behind hit her vehicle. When she fell to the road, the bus ran over her. She didn’t stand a chance.
Bhanupriya is the only daughter of Badarinarayana and Kokila, both BHEL employees. Around 7.30 am on Tuesday, she dropped her father near Poornima Theatre on Lalbagh Road on her twowheeler and then proceeded to college. Her relatives said she was a bright student and had got the engineering seat on merit this year. She’d started going to college a fortnight ago.- Residents of VV Puram pointed out that the turning was an accident spot, but ward corporator S Anil Kumar played it down. “There is no link between the garbage and the accident. The accident happened early in the morning when there was no garbage. She tried to avoid a pit at the junction dug by Bescom. I had alerted Bescom officials several times to close the pit but they ignored it. That place has been a garbage collection point for the past three years but there was no garbage there this morning,” said Anil Kumar.
- But neighbouring Siddapura ward corporator Udayshankar, who visited the spot immediately after the accident, said garbage was definitely the cause. “The death occurred due to the negligence of BBMP, ward corporator, and Bescom. Earlier, the garbage collection centre was in Mavalli and it was close to the corporator’s house. It was shifted to Krumbigal Road three months ago after he became the corporator. Garbage on this main road has been a public nuisance,” said Udayashankar
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