
- The Alumni Centre project plan was initialized, which needs to be fine-tuned for taking up the matter for approval of the Board of Directors;
- Alumni Talk 06 was successfully organized at NIT Kurukshetra on 01-10-2016 on the theme “Entrepreneurship and Start-Ups”. Six Alumni Guest Speakers participated in the Talks – Er Atul Lal (1973-78), Er Anil Chhikara (1983-88), Er Sanjeev Bindlish (1989-93), Er Shouvik Roy (1991-95), Er Kantanu Kundu (1994-98) and Er Aditi Bansal (2006-10), which saw a student attendance of over 250;
- 1987-91 batch (Silver Jubilee of exit batch) Get Together, a two day event was successfully conducted on 5/6 Nov 2016 at NIT Kurukshetra, which saw a participation of over 120 alumni from the batch. The batch donated Rs. 3,000/- towards their contribution to the association;
- Instituting of Khemka Award for best Innovation Project from B. Tech students;
- The Non-Teaching Employee Welfare Policy was finalized on 12-11-2016 with a budget provisioning of Rs. 20,000/- in the Financial Year 2016-17;
- Students Alumni Body was formulated and three committees of at least 5 students were constituted to support NITKAA in the areas of a) Website development & maintenance; b) Alumni Talks; and c) Annual Alumni Newsletter;
- The NITKAA Society got registered with Registrar of Societies, Haryana vide registration number 06-004-2016-01269 on 17.11.2016;
- Taking over of ROOH – EK MUHEEM, a social and cultural society incorporated in the year 2011 and working to provide a better life to underprivileged children, to expand the horizon of NIT KKR AA to society at large.
- Financial Aid covering 50% of the tuition fee and hostel fee are being provided to the needy and deserving students;
- Framed the Guidelines for Seed Funding of Incubates (entrepreneurs and start-ups) to encourage entrepreneurship and start-ups culture amongst the students/ alumni of the institute. This would also help in evaluation of the innovative projects of the students/ alumni in the long run. By this way, NIT KKR AA shall be able to: a) facilitate incubates/ students/ alumni and mentors/ faculty to carry out necessary market research and viability assessment of the projects; b) Provide seed funding to the identified Incubates for the initial development phase; c) Take up equity in the new start-ups to provide confidence to incubates, if required, directly or through other entities as may be permitted under the law; and d) Students would be encouraged to take up hands on live projects that add to their practical learning.
- Alumni Website www.alumni.nitkkr.ac.in was launched on 03-12-2016. The shortcomings of the same has been removed in this website with additional feature of Mentorship through KarmaCircles Platform;
- 1966-71 batch (Golden Jubilee of entry batch) Get Together, a two day event was successfully held on 3/4 Dec 2016 at NIT Kurukshetra, which saw a participation of over 102 families from the batch;
- The Association was allotted Alumni Office at NIT KKR;
- Alumni Talks 07 at NIT Kurukshetra was held on 8th Apr 2017 on the theme “Skill Development”.
- The period saw enhanced alumni participation into institute academic affairs including curriculum development and supporting the departments and schools of the institute;
- North-East Zone Meet of PAN NIT Alumni Forum was successfully held at NIT Shillong (Meghalaya) on 22-10-2016, in which emphasis was laid on increasing the memberships and involvement of mentors. Till now, out of 31 NITs, 10 NITs have subscribed to the Forum. Others are in progress;
- South Zone Meet of PAN NIT Alumni Forum at NIT Surathkal on 18-02-2017 and Governing Body Meet at NIT Surathkal on 19-02-2017