Students of B.Arch, Harshali, Ananya Swarna, Pavan Amarakonda, Girish Devireddy, Krishna Teja, Ruchith Rao and Doma Ashish participated and got shortlisted for finals (top 10 in India) at the “Directors cut” (Short film contest conducted by NIT WARANGAL).




IVth year B.Arch students, Anusha S won 2nd position, Abhishek C won 3rd position, Girish D and Ruchith M received special mention at the “Earthquake Resistant design Competition” conducted by IIT KANPUR.








IVth year B.Arch. students, Ruchith Rao, Abhishek C, Girish D and Anusha S participated and won 2nd prize at the “HOSMAC Global Architectural Student Competition for hospital design”.


IVth year B.Arch. student Anurag Verma, received Special mention in 11th Prof. S A Deshpande
Studio Design Competition 2019 for “The gulliver project, Habitat of future nomad”.




PhD scholar Vishal Chettry and Dr. Meenal Surawar presented a research paper titled “Land cover Change Detection and Urban Sprawl Assessment of Raipur Urban Agglomeration” at International Conference on Recent Issues in Civil Engineering and its Sustainable Solutions (RICESS-2019) organized by Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur (27-28/12/2019).


PhD scholar Pavan Teja, M.Tech scholar Jenil John and Dr. Pankaj Bahadure presented paper entitled “Assessing spatial accessibility to amenities, facilities and services from public transit using non-motorized transport: a case of Nagpur city” at 5th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India held at Bhopal, India (18-21/12/2019).


PhD scholar Vishal Chettry and Dr. Meenal Surawar presented a research paper titled “Investigation of Urban Sprawl Dynamics in Peri-Urban Areas: A Case Study of Trivandrum Urban Agglomeration” at 3rd Asian Regional Conference on Peri-Urbanization organized jointly by SPA Bhopal, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University(China) and Pusan National University (South Korea) at SPA Bhopal (17-20/12/2019).


Dr. Sarika Bahadure won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Singles matches of Table Tennis respectively at Inter- NIT National Faculty Sports Championship held from at MNIT Jaipur (16-20/12/2019).




Dr. V. S. Adane and team won Chess Gold Medal at Inter- NIT National Faculty Sports Championship held from at MNIT Jaipur (16-20/12/2019).


Dr. Sameer Deshkar and Dr. Amit Deshmukh attended the “Urban Thinkers Campus” organized by UN-HABITAT, National University of Malaysia, IGES, Japan and RIKA India, held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (07-09/12/2019).




Students of B.Arch participated in the “Departmental Gathering (DG)”, and Ar. Ashok Mokha, Chairman, IGBC – Vidarbha Chapter inaugurated the event. Being the alumnus of VNIT (then VRCE) and Gold Medalist, he shared his experience and motivated students to be updated in the multiple aspects (29-31/11/2019).








Under the IGBC Students’ Chapter a lecture on “Emergence of Green Technologies towards Sustainable Growth”was delivered by Dr. Tapan Chakravarty, retired Emeritus Scientist CSIR NEERI, Nagpur (29/11/2019). The event was coordinated by Dr. Sarika Bahadure.




IVth year B.Arch. student, Shreya Jaiswal won Gold medal in “50th annual NDRF Design Competition” organized by National Design and Research Forum along with the Institute of Engineers, India (November 2019).




Pledge on “Samvidhan Divas” (Constitution Day) to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India; was taken by all the faculties, PhD scholars and departmental staff in the department meeting room (26/11/2019).




STTP on “Extreme Events, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management” under R&D project funded by DST under HCB programme of CCP-SPLICE was coordinated by Dr. Rajashree Kotharkar and Dr. Ratnesh Kumar (21-23/11/2019).


PhD scholar Y Pavan Teja and Dr. Pankaj Bahadure presented paper entitled “Assessing spatial accessibility to educational facilities from public transit using distance measures: a case of Indian cities” at IEREK’s International Conference, Future smart cities (FSC) held at Xiamen University, Kuala lumpur, Malaysia (05-08/11/2019).


Pledge on “Rashtriya Ekta Diwas” (National Unity Day) to foster and reinforce our dedication to preserve and strengthen unit, integrity and security of nation on the Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhai Patel; was taken by all the faculties, PhD scholars and departmental staff in the department meeting room (31/10/2019).




Pledge on “Vigilance Awareness Week” to encourage all stakeholders to collectively participate in the prevention of, and the fight against corruption and to raise public awareness regarding the existence, causes and gravity of and the threat posed by corruption; was taken by all the faculties, PhD scholars and departmental staff in the department meeting room (28/10/2019).


A “Guest Lecture by Prof (Dr) Surinder Suneja on Landscape Design” was organized by Dr. Meenal Surawar (24/10/2019).


TEQIP-III funded “Guest lecture and interaction program for M.Tech. (Urban Planning) and Seventh Semester B.Arch. students with Dr. P. S. N. Rao” was organized by Dr. Pankaj Bahadure (14/10/2019).




PhD scholar Vishal Chettry attended One-week workshop titled “Land Use Land Cover Modeling Using Open Source” organized by IIT Kharagpur (13-19/10/2019).


Dr. Akshay Patil and Dr. Amit Deshmukh participated as speakers in “Mutations 2019,Exhibitions, Lectures and Workshops” conducted at Pillai College of Architecture, New Panvel (04-07/10/2019).


Pledge on “Swachhata hi Seva– a jan andolan for Swachhata”, was taken by all the faculties, PhD scholars and departmental staff in the department meeting room (27/09/2019).




One day Workshop cum Guest Lecture on “Basics of Photography” by Mr. Rohit Gupta (Nikon India, Gurgaon) organized by Dr. V.K. Bakde(13/08/2019)



Guest Lecture by Dr. (Prof.) Ravindra Deshmukh on “Profession and Disaster Management with emphasis on building retrofitting and restoration” ( 01/08/2019 )






Workshop on “Quest for Best” Enhancing Design Thinking (17th to 21st July 2019)




Meeting Room Inauguration by Director (17th July 2019)






Departmental Meeting with Director








Anti Terrorism Day Pledge





