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DIAT (DU) NEWSLETTER A Quarterly House Bulletin of Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, (Deemed University), Pune

Vol. 1 No. 4 Oct-Dec 2011

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ACADEMIC COLLABORATION BETWEEN DIAT (DU) PUNE & NPS (USA)

Dr. Daniel Trantham Oliver, President, NPS Presenting Memento to Dr. V K Saraswat, Scientific Adviser to the

Raksha Mantri & Chairman, Governing Council, DIAT(DU)

Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor DIAT (DU) with Dr. C.H. Kimzey, Director National Security Institute, NPS, USA

Dr. V K Saraswat ,S.A. to RM, Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU) and other members of DRDO-DIAT(DU)

Delegation with Dr. Daniel Trantham Oliver, President, NPS and NPS, USA team

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DIAT (DU) delegation headed by Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor with members Dr. K. Balasubramanian, Head,

Department of Materials Engineering and Dr. T. M. Bhave, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Physics

along with DRDO delegation headed by Dr. VK Saraswat, SA to RM, with members Dr. K. Sekhar, Dr. Krishnan

and Dr. B. Rao, visited Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, California, USA from 18th-29

th September

2011.

This was a combined initiative of DIAT (DU) and NPS for getting into

collaboration in defence and security. The delegates participated in a joint

workshop on “Defeating Terrorism”. The workshop was attended by people

from United States Pacific Command, Systems Centre Pacific, SPAWAR,

Defence Threat Reduction Agency, Space System Academics, Lawrence

Livermore National Laboratory, Institute of Defence Analysis, Office of the

Under Secretary of Defence, USA, Director of External Affairs, USA and

US Office of Naval Research(Global). The Indian delegates also interacted

with the heads of various Departments of Engineering and Science, Deans

and Research scholars for the future collaborative research activities.

Dr. VK Saraswat, SA to RM Addressing on

“Defeating Terrorism” at NPS, USA

Vice Chancellor Interacting with Faculty,

NPS, USA

The delegates of DIAT (DU) presented the tools like Tomorrow‟s Textiles,

Exploiting Self Organizing Network, and Wireless Sensor Network for

Automatic Identification Systems, Microwave generation and Intelligent

Sensors. During the visit DIAT delegation visited various research centers

like Adaptive Optics Centre, Centre for Mobile Devices &

Communications, Space Systems, Network Innovation, Applied Science

and Nano Centre etc. The visit has enabled building long term

relationships between DIAT (DU) and NPS. In the Workshop, Hon‟ble

Vice Chancellor, Dr. Prahlada, DIAT (DU) chaired the session on

Vice Chancellor with Dean and

Prof. Rudy Panholzer, NPS, USA

“Maximising Idea Generation for Defeating Terrorism” to develop cooperative research between DIAT (DU) and NPS. All these activities are pursuant to the Letter of Accord signed by Director General Research and Development and SA to RM, Dr.VK Saraswat and President Oliver on February 03, 2011. Also it was agreed that operational procedures would be developed to:

Vice Chancellor with Optics Team,

NPS, USA

Initiate or modify cooperative research projects Initiate or modify cooperative educational initiatives Manage funding requirements Assure mutual satisfaction of intellectual property and publications The faculty members of DIAT (DU) have already started interacting with NPS (USA) for combined projects.

Vice Chancellor in Rapid Prototype Lab,

NPS, USA

DIAT OPEN SQAUASH TOURNAMENT 2011-12 The DIAT (DU) Open Squash Tournament was conducted from 28

th September 2011 onwards in the DIAT

Squash Court. The tournament received a good response from the students and staff of DIAT (DU) in which 40 participants took part, including ladies and scientists. The finals were played between Lt Cdr V Venu (IN) and Maj Saurabh Choudhary (Army). In a keenly contested match, Lt Cdr V Venu won the championship 3-1 in the best of 5 sets. Mrs. Harish Sharma and Mrs Saurabh Choudhary were declared the winners and runners-up respectively in the ladies event. Maj Gen and Mrs Ravi Saxena, Dean (MT) graced the occasion and distributed the prizes to the winners and runners-up.

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SIGNING OF MOU BETWEEN THE DIAT (DU) AND THE CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY (UK)

Addressing the Delegates

Presenting DIAT(DU) Memento

to Prof. Walesh

Prof. Walesh CU, UK Presenting University Memento

A high level Cranfield University (UK) delegation visited DIAT (DU) Pune, on 1st November 2011, with a

mission of collaboration of high quality, defence technology education and research programs. Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU) initiated activity to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between Cranfield University, UK and DIAT (DU), Pune.

Prof Walesh & Dr. Venkata Shastry making Presentation on Cranfield

University and e-Learning

The delegates were Prof. Walesh, Dr. Venkat Shastry and Ms. Ann Marie Frank. The visiting team discussed about possible academic collaboration in M.Tech., and Ph.D programmes, short courses, students and faculty exchange, joint workshop/ conference, e-learning modules,

Library & Information resource sharing etc. The team visited department of Materials Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Chemistry & Physics and Library & Information Centre.

MOU BETWEEN DIAT(DU) AND VEL TECH Dr. RR & Dr. SR TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DIAT (DU) has entered in to an MOU with Vel Tech Dr. RR & Dr. SR Technical University, Chennai to pool their resources and jointly work on the following R&D and academic activities which will be designed to fulfill the needs of Indian Defence forces. Trust areas include;

Joint research on science and technology

Joint development of products

Joint publication of papers

Holding joint IPRs

Jointly guiding Ph.D students

Joint work for industry

Joint supervision of R&D academic activities

These activities will not attract any financial commitment from either side.

MURTHI STHAPANA AT DIAT TEMPLE

A pooja ceremony was organized at DIAT (DU) Temple for Murthi Sthapana of „Radha Krishna‟. The event was held on 6

th October 2011 between

1000 to 1300 hrs. All DIAT (DU) staff attended the ceremony.

VOLLEYBALL MATCH

Upholding the traditions of high standards of physical fitness and regular co-curricular activities, Army Wing organised a volleyball match between Officers and JCOs/OR of DIAT (DU) on 24 Nov 2011 at DIAT (DU) Volleyball Court. The match was evenly poised till the last game and finally won by JCOs/ORs, the final score being 14-25, 25-18, 25-20. The Chief Guest, Maj Gen Ravi Saxena, Dean (MT), distributed the prize to the winning team.

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VALEDICTORY FUNCTION OF POINTS -16

Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Dr. Prahlada Presenting

Memento to Dr. BN Suresh

The Valedictory Function of directly recruited Scientists of POINTS-16 was organized on 7

thSep

2011 at Dronacharya Auditorium DIAT (DU), Pune. Dr. BN Suresh, Vikram Sarabhai Distinguished Professor and Senior Advisor, Human Space Program, was the Chief Guest for the Valedictory Function. Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU), presided over the function. Dr. SK Panigrahi, Programme Director, POINTS welcomed the guest and presented the training report. Dr. Prahlada, introduced the Chief Guest and addressed the gathering. Feedback on conduct of POINTS-16 was presented. Dr. BN Suresh distributed the certificates to the Scientists of POINTS–16 programme and then delivered the Valedictory Address. Dr. R. Prem Kumar, Registrar proposed the vote of thanks. Dr. BN Suresh, Chief Guest, Dr.Prahlada, Vice Chancellor and Dr.SK Panigrahi, Programme Director attended the press conference.

The Chief Guest, Dr.BN Suresh, Distributing the Certificates to POINTS-16 Scientists

AWARDS

Dr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Scientist „E‟, Department of Aerospace Engineering was elected as the Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences for his significant contributions to Physical and Material Sciences. The induction ceremony of the new Fellows and Young Associates was held on 20

th October 2011 at National

Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune.

TTC PASSING OUT BASKETBALL MATCH

Keeping the tradition and ethos of the University a Basket ball match was organized between the passing out students of Tank Technology Course – 39 and Rest of DIAT (DU) on 14

th Oct 2011 at the

DIAT Basketball Court. The young officers of TTC set the ground ablaze right from the word go. However, after the first half, experienced players of the DIAT (DU) team over took the lead and finally won the title by 58 – 32.

DIAT (DU)’s EXTERNAL AGENCIES LINKAGE

Dr. Prahlada, delivered a Talk on "Aerospace Technologies as Force Multiplier" in the conference at New

Delhi on 20.10.2011.

Dr. Prahlada, released the „MTRDC Lab Manual‟ and Distributed Foundation Day Awards and

Presidential Address, at Microwave Tube Research & Development Centre, Bangaluru on 30.10.2011.

Dr. Prahlada, delivered Keynote Address in the „Area of Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace

Vehicles’ at the 5th Symposium on „Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles’ (SAROD-

2011) held at ADA Bangaluru on 16.11.2011.

Dr. Prahlada, delivered plenary talk on "Cyber Security: Role of Academy", at CSI Conference on 'IT in

Defence' held at Bangaluru on 18.11.2011.

Dr.Prahlada, attended review of “SARAS Program” held at NAL Bangaluru on 25.11.2011.

Dr. Prahlada, delivered invited talk on „Value to Soldier and Power to Forces’ at the seminar on „Defence

Education for the 21st Century’ (A joint Cranfield University- Hindustan University Conference) held at

Hindustan University, Chennai on 28.11.2011.

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INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CHEMISTRY (IYC) 2011

Dr. K.N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune and

Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor Lighting the Lamp Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor welcoming the Chief Guest

International Year of Chemistry (IYC) 2011 was celebrated in DIAT (DU) on 7

th December 2011. On this

occasion Eminent Scientists lectures were arranged -- Dr. K.N. Ganesh, Director, IISER, Pune on “In Praise of Chemistry … Our Life, Our Future”. Dr. Haridwar Singh, Former Director, HEMRL, Pune on “Chemistry for Defence Applications”, Dr. C.V.V.V. Satyanaarayana, NCL, Pune on “Energy and Fuel from Biomass”, and Dr. A.S. Kumbhar, University of Pune on “Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry.” Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, Dr. Prahlada delivered the Inaugural Address. Dr. P.K. Khanna, HOD Department of Applied Chemistry welcomed the audience and Dr. P.S. Kulkarni proposed the vote of thanks.

Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor delivering Inaugural Address

Dr. K.N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune, Delivering the Lecture on “In Praise of

Chemistry … Our Life, Our Future”

Dr. Haridwar Singh, Former Director,

HEMRL, Pune Delivering the Lecture on “Chemistry for Defence Applications”

VISIT OF VICE ADMIRAL SEKHAR SINHA

Vice Admiral Sekhar Sinha Addressing on “ Functioning of HQIDS & where are we on

jointness”

Vice Admiral Sekhar Sinha, AVSM, NM & BAR, CISC, HQ IDS visited DIAT (DU), Pune on 29

th & 30

th

November 2011 and addressed on “Functioning of HQIDS and where are we on jointness”. He discussed with Vice Chancellor and Dean (MT) and visited Applied Chemistry & Physics, Materials, Electronics and Armament Engineering labs.

Dr.Prahlada, Vice Chancellor DIAT (DU) presented DIAT memento to Vice Admiral Sekhar Sinha. Capt Vikram Sharma, Head Department of Navy welcomed the audience and Gp Capt SZ Hussain, Head Department of Air Force proposed the vote of thanks. The Vice Admiral interacted with the Faculty members, Scientists, Service staff and Student Officers.

Vice Admiral Sekhar Sinha During a

Discussion with Dr. Prahlada,Vice Chancellor

Visit of Vice Admiral Sekhar Sinha to

Armament Engg Lab

Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor Presenting Memento to Vice Admiral Sekhar Sinha

DRDO TECHNICAL TRAINING PROGRAM

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Dignitaries on the Dias During the Inaugural

Function

DRDO Technical Training Program on “Multi Sensor Data Fusion and Digital Signal Processing” was conceived and conducted by the Department of Electronics Engineering from 14th to 18th Nov, 2011. The Course aims was to give exposure to DRDO Scientists, DIAT (DU) faculty and students on various aspects of sensor data fusion techniques and DSP

Dr. Subrata Rakshit, from the CAIR

Addressing the Participants

algorithms for image fusion for solving variety of engineering problems. The technical Program was inaugurated by the Vice Chancellor, DIAT (DU). The topics covered include Introduction to Multi-sensor Data Fusion; Signal Processing in Data Fusion; Digital Signal Processing Flow in FPGA; GPU and Cloud Computing in Data Fusion; Sensor Network and Data Fusion; Multi-Sensor Image Fusion: Theory and practice; Information Fusion for Situation Assessment; Principles of Pattern Recognition and Multimodal Biometrics; Image Fusion: Case Studies; Image Fusion Technique for Enhancements. The invited guest speakers, Dr. CA Murthy from ISI, Kolkata, Dr. Subrata Rakshit from CAIR, Bangalore, Dr. Dipti Prasad Mukharjee from ISI, Kolkata and Dr. Madhuri Joshi from COEP, Pune delivered lectures and shared their work experience with participants. Dr. C Bhattacharya, Dr. Arati Dixit, Mrs Manisha Nene, Mr. MT Abhilash all from DIAT (DU) delivered lectures on relevant topics. The course was concluded on 18th Nov 2011 with distribution of certificates during the valedictory function by the Chief Guest Dr. Madhuri Joshi, Professor & Dean (R&D), COEP, Pune. The report on technical training program was given by the Course Director, Dr. C Bhattacharya.

Chief Guest Distributing Certificate

DRDO Technical Training Program

Participants

ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON CHALLENGES ON CLOUD COMPUTING

Dignitaries on the Inaugural Session

Dr. Prahlada,Vice Chancellor Delevering the Presidential address

Chief Guest Shri VS Mahalingam, DS & Director, CAIR, Addressing the Audience

Dr. Prahlada, Vice Chancellor

Presenting Memento to Shri VS Mahalingam DS & Director, CAIR,

16 Dec 2011

Department of Computer Engineering conducted a one day workshop on “Challenges in Cloud Computing”. The workshop was attended by more than fifty participants from different DRDO establishments, Services and Academic Institutions. Shri VS Mahalingam, Distinguished Scientist and Director CAIR, inaugurated the workshop and delivered lecture on “Defence Perspective of Cloud Computing”. The Vice Chancellor delivered the Presidential address which highlighted the significance of „Cloud Computing‟. Eminent speakers from CRL, HP, Microsoft, ICERTIS and Uniken were invited to delivered lectures in the workshop on the topics of Cloud Computing fundamentals and Technology, Architectures and Platforms of Cloud Computing, HPC and Cloud Computing, Defence Applications of Cloud Computing, Security Issues and Future of Cloud Computing. The Invited talks were followed by a demonstration of “Open-Stack” an Open Source Cloud Computing tool. Shri Mizaji Lal, Sc-F, Convener of the Workshop and Head, Department of Computer Engineering gave a welcome address and Shri Madhav Kuber, Sc-F, Workshop Coordinator gave a brief Introduction about the Workshop and proposed Vote of Thanks.

CEP PROGRAM ON ‘VACUUM TECHNOLOGY”

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Dr. S.N. Kale Program Director Dr. PS Alegaonkar Course Director giving an

introductory overview of the programme

Dr. P.K. Khanna Dean (Aca) Inaugurating

the Program.

Department of Applied Physics conducted a CEP programme on „Vacuum Technology‟ for DRDO scientists between 21-25 November, 2011. The participants from DRDO Headquarters and DRDO laboratories such as DMSRDE, NPOL, ASL, and SSPL attended the courses. In the CEP programme the Department tried to amalgamate the topics right from the basics of „Vacuum Technology‟ to its Industrial and Defence applications. Eminent academicians from Pune University, DIAT (DU) and various R&D institutes viz., NCL and ARI delivered the lectures in the programme.

Chief Guest Prof. S.A. Gangal, Professor Emeritus & ISRO Chair, Pune University

Distributing Certificate

CEP Program Participants with Chief Guest

Industrial people as speakers and personalities from Millman Thin Films Pvt Ltd, Oerlikon Balzers India Ltd and SMP Enterprises, which are leading vacuum technology companies in and around Pune were also involved in the conduct of the program. One full day Industrial visit and a half day visit to various labs of DIAT were also arranged. Dr. P.K Khanna inaugurated the function and Prof. S.A. Gangal, Professor Emeritus & ISRO Chair, Pune University distributed certificates during the valedictory function.

VISIT TO DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING Shri K. Doreswamy, Deputy Director General, Aeronautical

Quality Assurance, Ojhar, Nasik visited the Department of

Materials engineering on 11th November 2011. The purpose of

the visit was to have collaboration on research areas like

materials for tyres, alloys for fuel tanks, high temperature hoses,

advance composites and structural composites for Sukhoi 30

and MiG Series aircrafts. During the meeting it was agreed that

the young engineers of DGAQA will be encouraged to pursue

their PG degree at Materials engineering Department with

special emphasis on the above mentioned research areas.

Shri K. Doreswamy, Deputy Director General, DGAQA, Ojhar Nasik, interacting with Faculty members of Dept of Materials

Engineering

Superannuation

Dr. Sahab Prasad, Sc „F‟ Head Department of Materials

Engineering and Controller of Examination[DIAT (DU)] retired from service on 30.11.2011

Prof. V A Deshmukh, Sc „F‟, Department of Electronics

retired from service on 30.11.2011

New appointments

Name Designation Date of Joining Name Designation Date of Joining

Dr. K. Krishna Naik Ass. Professor, Electronics Engg 19.10.2011 Shri Shejwal Vishal B

Lab. Assistant, Data Centre 30.09.2011

Dr. Ajay Misra Asso. Professor Aerospace Engg 04.11.2011 Shri Prasad G. Joshi

Lab. Officer, App Chemistry 10.10.2011

Dr. Suthikshn Kumar CR

Asso. Professor Electronics Engg 15.11.2011

Resignation

Name Designation Date of Resignation Name Designation Date of Resignation

Shri Vishnu M. Pawar Lib. Assistant, ICL 19.09.2011

Dr. Rahul Shukla

Asst. Prof, ME 08.12.2011

Shri Sandeep H. Dani Lab. Assistant, AC 27.10.2011 Shri Rajesh Ranjan

Office Assistant, MMG 19.12.2011

Ms. Yogita G. Shirole Office Assistant, DR(E) 30.11.2011

PUBLICATIONS Editorial Board Members

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Dr. Shaibal Banerjee, “American Journal of Organic Chemistry”. Published by Scientific and Academic Publishing, USA.

Dr. D.G. Thakur, “Journal of Control Engineering and Technology”. Published by World Academic Publishing and “International Journal of Production Research” Published by Taylor and Francis.

Book

Sirurmath, SS and others (Editor). “Beyond Librarianship: Creativity, Innovation and Discovery.” BOSLA National Conference Proceedings, 16-17 September 2011, BOSLA, C-DAC, Mumbai, 2011.

Articles (Journal)

Renuka R Gonte, Balasubramanian K, Pramil Deb. “Adsorption properties of crosslinked mesoporous (styrene - maleic acid) - Zn (II) complexes”. International Journal of Industrial Engineering Technology. Vol.3 (3) 2011. Pp. 279-288.

Balasubramanian K, Renuka R Gonte. “Hydrogen solution?” Materials World. Dec 2011. Pp. 26-28.

Chandel, S., Singh, S N and Seshadri, V “Effect of Additive on the Performance Characteristics of Centrifugal and Progressive Cavity Slurry Pumps with High Concentration Fly Ash Slurries.” International Journal of Coal Combustion and Gasification Products. Vol. 3, Nov 2011. pp. 67-74.

Articles (Conference)

Chandel, S., “Axisymmetric Slurry Flow Prediction in a Vertical Pipe”, Proceedings of the 11th

Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery (AICFM 2011), 21-23 Nov 2011, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

Gauri Shelar, Renuka Gonte, Andarge Ayalew Hailu, Balasubramanian. K. “Porous Biocomposite Beads of Saw Dust For Effluent Treatment”. International Conference on Nano Engineering and Advanced Computing (ICNEAC-2011), Vol. 1. Pp 451-454.

Misal, RD., Chandel, S., Sharma, Pankaj and Tegegn, D., “Conjugate Heat Transfer Analysis for Laminar Flow in Thick Walled Pipe”, Proceedings of the 11

th Asian International Conference on Fluid Machinery (AICFM 2011), 21-23 Nov 2011,

IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

Pradhan, Debasish. “On the Coupling of Non-Conforming Finite Element Methods and Boundary Element Methods for Second Order Elliptic Problems.” Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM-2011), 18-22 July 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Renuka R Gonte, Balasubramanian K, Pramil Deb. “Conducting Polymers for Industrial Applications.” International Conference on Nano Engineering and Advanced Computing (ICNEAC-2011), Vol. 3. Pp 248-252

Renuka R Gonte, Balasubramanian K, Pramil Deb. “Synthesis and characterization of Metal Organic Frameworks”. International Conference on Nano Engineering and Advanced Computing (ICNEAC-2011), Vol. 1. Pp 529-531

Renuka R Gonte, Balasubramanian K. “Hollow Polymeric Structures- Synthesis and Function.” International Conference on Nano Engineering and Advanced Computing (ICNEAC-2011), Vol. 1. Pp 253-258

Sunita V. Dhavale, V Sunita. “Walsh Hadamard Transform based Robust Blind Watermarking for Digital Audio Copyright Protection” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Information Technology, CIIT-2011, Nov 07-08, 2011,Pune.

Thakur, D G, Kumaraswamy, A., Ramamoorthy, B and Vijayaraghavan, L. “Effective High Speed Machining of Superalloy Inconel 718 Using MQL Under Pulsed Jet Mode Technique” November 17-19, 2011. SVNIT Surat.

Attended Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

Mittal, Nitika, Department of Aerospace Engineering attended the 5th Symposium on “Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles (SAROD - 2011)”, 16-18 November 2011, Bangaluru.

Sirurmath, SS attended the “Conference of Heads of DRDO TIRCs,” 29th Sep 2010, Circular Hall, Metcalfe House, Delhi.

Chaired Technical Sessions:

Sirurmath, SS. Chaired a Technical Session, on „Marketing of Library Services’ in the National Conference on “Beyond Librarianship: Creativity, Innovation and Discovery”, 16-17 September, 2011, C-DAC, Mumbai. Organized by C-DAC and BOSLA.

Thakur, DG. Chaired a Technical Session on “Industrial Design” and “Industrial Engineering” in the International Conference on “Industrial Engineering”. 17-19 Nov 2011, SVNIT, Surat.

The Editorial Team thanks all the Scientists, Faculty, Staff Officers and Staff members for their contributions

Chief Editor Dr. Sangayya S Sirurmath University Librarian Head, Information Center and Library, DIAT (DU), Pune 411 025 Members Mr. Vijay D Pattar Ms. Sweta Gupta Mr. Vimalesh Patel Mr. Vikrant Gurmitkal (Photographs)

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