Forth year of Engineering the Sight of Future

The forth year of engineering started with a very exciting note that yes the future is visible I started seeing myself contributor in Nation Building National Security. I am not going in the details of the engineering subject of fourth year there were the entire general subject which are taught in the fourth year courses today in the 2nd semester of third year or first semester of fourth year. As I mentioned in my earlier blogs that I was very keen to join the armed forces. In the beginning of this session there was are interview conducted by the Navy which was University Entry Scheme under this scheme the technical officers for Navy were selected, called for the Service Selection Board examination and if they were selected they were allowed to continue with the education with the condition of joining the force after completing the engineering degree. I was selected in the interview and later on in the month of January asked to face the Services Selection Board Roorkee. I am remembering the month of January clearly because while coming back from the Roorkee and catching train from Delhi to Rajnandgaon via Nagpur I stopped for one days at Delhi it was 26th January 1974. The services selection Board have got their own well established system of selecting officers for the armed forces it makes all kind of test the Physical Psychological Group Discussion Leadership of the candidate Any way I was not amongst the successful candidate as there was only one selected out of the three batches of ten each in the group. That fellow was from Bengal. Any way I enjoyed watching the Republic Day parade at Delhi near India Gate with a feeling of envy to see NCC cadets marching for which I was selected in the initial stages and could not make to the parade because of education
I continued with my studies with all the effort to get good marks, spending time in the library with the books and the subject not available with me It was easy to get the popular books of all the eight subjects from the bookshops in Raipur but still there were certain subjects for which we had to refer from the books from the large library of the college it must be containing more than a lakh of books and should have been one of the biggest library of any engineering college in the state at that time. The calculators and computers were not invented till then even if in they were invented they were not in regular production and use our dependency on calculation was on the SLIDE RULE. A sort of regular scale in which another sliding unit for incorporate and the calibrations there in facilitated the user to calculate all the variable like log, tan, sin, Multiple is of II whenever we forgot to take the slide rule in the class it was commented by professor –some students took help of the printed book called “log table” Continued in next Blog.