Alumni get-together was held on 7th July 2007 at 6 PM. Altogether 16 alumni participated in the event. Considering the schedule of the alumni, this time the meet was organized on a Saturday evening, at 6 PM. A large number of alumni had expressed their willingness to attend the meet. Many of them had even confirmed over phone and e-mail that they would participate in the get-together. But unfortunately there was a heavy shower on that evening, which started at around 5:45 PM and continued till 7PM. Due to flood, many of them got stuck in their way to the institute, and some of them had to drop their idea of participating in the event. There were only 16 participants, though we had expected more than 50 participants in the event.

Shri Pratul Ch. Kalita, Chairman alumni relations committee welcomed the participants. He gave a brief description of the alumni meet, held in the year 2005 and 2006. He also described about the different activities, achievements and future plans of the institute. Shri Kalita pointed out the areas where our alumni can play an active role in achieving institute's objective. He asked the alumni for their active participation in Industry Institute Partnership Cell( IIPC) of the institute.

Shri Shantikam Hazarika, Director of the institute said, "It is the alumni, that build the brand of any institute". He explained about the challenges the institute is facing due to internal and external environmental changes. He urged that the alumni must constantly update the institute about the present skill requirement of the industries, so that the faculty members can tune the syllabus and teaching methodology to satisfy these needs.

Shri Migam K.K. Pegoo ( 2001-2004 Batch) Sales Manager of Indian Oil Corporation(AOD) emphasised on promotion of AIM Brand. He expressed his satisfaction over the institute's initiative to publish AIMULET, the institute's quarterly newsletter regularly. He said that the institute can take best advantage of the presence of the major oil PSUs in the state to generate funds.

Shri Pankaj Bezbaruah (first evening batch:1994-97) Field Manager( NE region) of BASIX, shared his experience among the participants. "From my experience of working with IIM, XLRI graduates very closely, I can tell you that AIM's course is no way inferior to that of those institutes, and that is why I never feel inferior to them", He said.

Shri Dipankar Bhattacharjee ( 2005-2007 Batch), Management Trainee of Berger Paints, said that the institute should try to make its presence felt in the national level. The institute should also try to attract applicants from states other than North Eastern region.

Shri Manish Agrawal (2005-2007 Batch) Management Trainee of ACC Cements, suggested that the institute should try to be more media savvy. " Our institute organizes so many events, conducts so many seminars but seldom we get response from the media.", he regretted.

Shri Jitendra Achit Chutiya ( 2003- 06 batch) of Gup-Shup FM said about the increasing demand of management professionals in the FM radio segment. He requested to include the business aspect of FM radio channels in the course curriculum of the institute.

Shri Shantikam Hazarika, Director and Shri Pratul Ch. Kalita, Chariman, Alumni relations committee, responded to the queries of the participants. They also urged the alumni to frequently visit the institute's website ( www.aimguwahati.edu.in) and suggest changes/improvement they feel necessary. Also any news about alumni that is worth disseminating ashould also be brought to the notice of the alumni coordinator. We still don not have information about many of our alumni. The existing members of the alumni association may try to keep us updated about the same. Alumni in organizations outside the NE region may also help in placement by giving requisite information to the institute about vacancies, contact person etc. All the participants felt that there is a need of organizing alumni get-together more frequently. It was decided that in the Month of December, 2007 the committee will organize another get-together.

The get-together ended with the vote of thanks from the director of the institute.

Pratul Ch. Kalita
Chairman, Alumni relations committee