Er. Ramesh Joshi : Cementing Excellence

The concept of Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) was very new then and its establishment in the market was still a crux of the matter for many Indian Industries. As someone said “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”, it was the time for The Aditya Birla group to introduce something big to the industry audience. Soon a small team of some experts with idiosyncratic methods and ideologies, led by a frisky Engineer headed towards the bustling crowd of talented competitors where failure was not a big deal every day and success were stories that ruled the market. This enthusiastic leader with vibrant personality and lots of energy was none other but 1987 batch pass out Civil engineer from MBM Engineering College Er. Ramesh Joshi and the tough grind that the team was going to tackle was “The establishment of the first RMC plant at Hyderabad in 1998″. It was spirit of Er. Joshi and his team that led to the stupendous success of this innovative venture. Er. Joshi built the Aditya Birla Group’s RMC business from the establishment of very first RMC plant to training and recruiting RMC employees to making over 130 RMC plants across 50 cities in India. With the experience of more than 30 years in Cement Industry, which includes Grey Cement, White Cement and Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) verticals in diverse geographies and versatile roles, Er. Joshi has been spearheading the RMC division of Ultra Tech Cement as Senior Vice President.

Er. Anand Sharma – Demolition is his Profession

But embracing each challenge in his life as an opportunity for self-transformation helped him to start what he dreamt of, his own company aptly named EXIQUDE (Ex-Explosive , Qu- Quarrying , De-Demolition) .He started his journey by getting into small contracting projects of national highways and blasting from all across the India. For the first time in India 92m high chimney was demolished by an Indian without any foreign expert , which was small contribution of Er. Anand Sharma to “Make in India” campaign.He also developed a technique to demolish huge buildings within seconds. His resume is full of great achievements of demolition and blasting . Serene Twin towers Kochi, Cooling Towers, Pre Heaters demolition at ACC Chanda, Demolition of Cooling Towers at Panipat refinery, Structural demolition of ULTRATECH, control blasting for Nagarjuna Construction company were some projects that were successfully completed by Er. Sharma . He made success his habit and left no stone unturned to achieve more. In January 2020 ,he received a letter of appreciation from the government of India for his work of demolishing 17 storied building with such a great precision and proximity.

Er. Jhilmil Kochar: The woman of Substance

She represented the school and Jodhpur district in the high jump, 400m relay race, and 200m in classes VII, VIII, and IX. Got the opportunity to represent Rajasthan in class X in National level sports camp, but her father refused due to Boards that year. She was the school sports captain in Class XI. Since childhood, an avid fiction reader, and sketcher, all the walls of her house used to be decorated with her sketches. She would draw cartoons of her teachers in class, and get punished. Just before the examinations of the XI-th board, she suffered from Typhoid and was forbidden to touch books for more than 25 days. Everyone thought she would barely scrape through the boards. But when the results were out, lo and behold, she not only cleared the examinations with 94%, but bagged 3rd rank in the merit list in the science stream in Rajasthan Board. Earlier, in the X-th board she bagged 7th rank in merit list with 90% aggregate; in B.Sc. First-year, she was the topper of her class. The protagonist of our story is immensely talented, versatile and an accomplished professional Er. Jhilmil Banerjee Kochar. MBM alumnus, Er. Kochar completed her BE in the year 1990 with a gold medal in Electronics & Communications branch. In this edition, we have chronicled the fascinating and inspirational journey of Er. Kochar.

Interview of Er. Rohit Soni : AIR-4, GATE (P & I) -2021

He completed his Schooling from Barmer, After 12 th went to Kota for preparations of JEE, could not get the required ranking for IIT. Joined MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur in 2015 and completed BE in Production and Industrial Engineering in 2019 with modest GPA 6.82. Attempted GATE, 3 times in a row, in his first 2 attempts could not get the college of his choice, he did not loose his heart. He again worked hard, worked on the weak areas, appeared for the GATE-2021 and when the results were out, he was on cloud-9 as defying all odds, he secured an all India 4 th rank in Production and Industrial Engineering. The protagonist of this edition of MBM Story is Er. Rohit Soni, an alumnus of 2019.

Interview of Er.Riya Chordiya: AIR-18, GATE-2021

It was a nice 4-year life at MBM. Although almost 2 years went by in Covid, the initial 2 years in MBM were the best time period of my life. I had a very good time with my friends in Jodhpur. The memories of celebrating birthdays, exploring Jodhpur, bunking classes, and every memory attached to MBM are very special. Also a twinning arrangement of MBM with Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu gave me the opportunity to do my summer internship in CIT. I went for a research internship in the Communication and signal processing domain and also published a paper. We used to work for 5 days in the lab and on weekends, we were free to explore the places nearby us. There I improved my time management skills and realized that you can enjoy and work simultaneously. Many seniors of mine performed extraordinarily. They are very supportive and always ready to guide you.

Where there is a will, there is a way

Words might fall short to describe his achievements, at a very young age he achieved a lot and we wish he continues this journey of fulfilling his dreams. During the preparation, he attended NPTEL courses starting from very low scores but with his consistent hard work, he even ranked among the top 2% .In 2019, he cleared GATE and secured AIR 205 and even in GATE 2020, he secured AIR -216. Amid these two dreadful years (2020 & 2021) which were marred by pandemic, he joined IIT Mumbai in Aug 2020 for Specialization in Communication and Signal Processing and got selected in the Airport Authority of India in 2021 ( Posting is still awaited).

Er. Suresh Chandra Modi – Sad demise of an eminent alumnus

It was with deep regret that we learned about the sad demise of one of the eminent alumni of MBM Engineering College, Er. Suresh Chandra Modi. Born in Jodhpur, Er. Suresh Modi completed his graduation in Mechanical Engg. from MBM Engineering College of the University of Jodhpur in 1971. Er. Modi, joined his family business […]

Story of an Engineer who conquered the Mount Everest

It was the time to face his fear in a very real and dangerous way. But he was mentally prepared, He was confident to reach the top. He continued on and climbed the Hillary Step, pushing himself to the summit. Finally, the long wait was over. He stepped on the summit on 22 May 2019, the feelings and emotions were out of control and time slowed down for a while. That moment was inexpressible in words. Then he took out the Indian flag with alma mater MBM and his employer Reliance logo and fluttered on the summit at the height of 8848 m. He handed over his camera to Sherpa to get a few but great pictures on the summit. With the sheer grit, determination, and passion Er. Sharma became the first mountaineer from MBM Engineering College to scale the World’s highest summit The Everest.”It took 55 days to complete this adventurous and memorable expedition but it was worth taking the risk and spending a lot of money as in the end, I could able to fulfill my childhood dream of conquering Everest” quips Er. Sharma.

Man of Mettle

His rare blend of managerial and technical skills enabled him to rise to the highest post of Chief Executive Officer and Whole Time Director – and lead HZL from 2012 to 2015. Under his strong fundamentals of the core subject- Mining, HZL took giant strides transforming the latter into the largest integrated zinc producer in the world producing over 1 million tonne Zinc and Lead smelting capacity from a sleeping PSU trailing over 0.3 mtpa (million tonnes per annum). It bears testimony that a Company having its Lead (CEO) with expertise in the core subject (mining) can grossly change footprints of DNA of progress. His “out of the box” thinking and global vision manifested to exponentially ramp up (tripling-up) the production capacities of all its captive mines. Production of Rampura Agucha Mine (RAM) was ramped up to 6.5mtpa in 2011-13 making it the largest Lead Zinc producing mine in the world. Similarly, the Sindeswar Khurd mine was steered to produce more than 5mtpa thus becoming the largest and most mechanized underground metal mine of India. Similar blueprints were made for the phenomenal ramp-up of production of Zawar Group of mines and Kayad mines.

Professor at the age of 31, Industrialist at the age of 41

Dr. Kothari completed Ph.D in 1974, the Ph.D. In those years there was no need for the formal interviews for the IISc Ph.D. degree holders since most of the higher education academic faculty knew the Ph.D. degree holders personally but in the year 1975 IISc council decided to stop the recruitment of Ph.D. pass out to become permanent faculty which made him quit his IISc life. He got an appointment letter from IIT Kanpur as a lecturer in the year 1975. After that Dr. S M Sen, Dean, Faculty of Technology, M S University offered him the post of Reader in Electrical Engineering directly and he joined in 1976. ORG Baroda provided him to use their computer facilities free of cost. In the Year 1977, he organized a training course for the System Engineers from the State Electricity Boards. Engineers from 15 State Electricity Boards attended that course. Many of the State Electricity Boards used the software prepared by him till the year 2000 for their operational and planning studies. In the same year, he developed the testing facility for the 400KV CVTs at Hindustan Brown Bovary, Baroda.

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