AWARDS AND RECOGNINATIONS
1. The Chapter Chair has been nominated as:

• Vice Chair for the APB Chapters’ Coordination Committee of IEEE Communications Society.
  
• Member to the ComSoc 2004-2005 Membership Programs Development Board:
  
• Member of the Program Committee of SYMPOTIC 2004.
  
• Member of the 9th biennial Vietnam Conference on Radio-Electronics (REV 2004) organized by REV and sponsored by Vietnam Ministry of Post and Telematics (MPT)
  
• Member of the 2nd. International Conference on Computing, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT ‘04
  
• Member of the World Congress on Lateral Computing Dec 2004.

2. The Chapter has supported the following Lectures/ Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshop and DLT’s both in terms technically and financially.

• International radio Science and India. Special Lecture by Dr. A. P. Mitra, Former DG, CSIR Jan,2004
  
• Annual technical festival, Tryst 2004 at IIT Delhi on the following topics: January 2004
  - Emerging ideas in Semiconductor Technologies
  - Nerual Networks and NeuroImaging
  - Wireless Communication
  
• Information Storage: Where are we heading far by Prof. D.K.Pandya, IIT Delhi, Jan. 2004
  
• Architectural Planning & Risk Assessment through e-Governnance for governments, large corporations and non-governmental organizations by Mr.James N.Richhman, Intel Corporation Feb. 2004
  
• Bridging Knowledge and Innovation Divide : within and among communities, and formal and informal science by Prof. Anil K. Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad, Feb. 2004
  
• Shared Services in Government by Mr. Steve Bittinger, Gartner, Feb. 2004
  
• A student festival “ AMITECH-2004” at Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Delhi, March 2004
  
• National Seminar on “Cutting Edge Technologies in Electronic Communications” at Sant Longawal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab, March 2004.
  
• One day seminar on Project Management – Latest Trends by IEEE DS EMS Chapter, March 2004
  
• One day workshop on WIRELESS NETWORKING & MOBILE COMPUTING (WNMC 2004) at Indian Institute of Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkatta, March 2004
  
• CDMA Technology : Advanced Wireless Services for Today & Tomorrow at IEE, April 2004
  
• 4th Annual International Conference on Governance, i Assurance and Forensic, by e- Information Systems, Security and Audit Association, July 2004 at New Delhi.
  
• Information Communication Technologies by Dr. K Subramanian DDG NIC, July 24th, 2004
  
• ENCOMIUM 04 two day national technical festival at Jamia Millia Islamia,. Sept. 2004
  
• Design Patterns in Software Engineering by Prof. V. K. Vaishnavi, Fellow of IEEE OCT. 2004
  
• 2nd Joint IST Workshop on Mobile Future & Symposium Trends in Communications Bratislava, Slovakia, October, 2004.
  
• Regional Student Awareness Congress (Regional SPAC) by The IEEE student Branch of National Institute of Technology Warangal Oct., 2004.
  
• The Fourth Biannual Student Meet organised by IEEE Student Branch, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, (A women engineering college) Delhi, October 2004
  
• The Legal & Policy Framework for Addressing Cyber Crime, Mr. Rishi Chawla by IEDP, Delhi Oct. 2004
  
• Digital Signal Processing: Road to Future by Prof.Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California Nov. 2004
  
• All India Seminar on Revolutionizing ICTs to attain Progress, Parity and Peace for all by IEI, Jharkhand State Center, Nov 2004
  
• International Conference on Speech and Language Systems for Human Communication by DIT and Oriental COCOSDA, Nov. 2004
  
• Organizing a workshop on ”Eembedded Systems” Nov -Dec. 2004, by Prof. Rajkamal at Guru Nanak Engineering College, Hyderabad.
  
• Seminar On Recent Advances In Optics And Photonics Organized By Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi, Nov 2004
  
• The sixth Annual National IT Seminar - IT in industry Verticals by XLRI Jamshedpur, Nov 2004
  
• Highlights on Product Reliability & Mfg Research by Dr. Bharat Thakkar, Adjunct Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Dec. 2004
  
• Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2004 (APMC’04) at University of Delhi, Dec. 2004
  
• Life and work of Shrinivas Ramanujan, The Mathematical Genius by Prof. K Shrinivas Rao, Dec. 2004
  
• Two days Professional Training program On DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) at Bombay and Bangalore
  
• Professional Training Program on Fundamentals of Fiber Optics, Optical Communication & Networking
  
• Professional Training Program On Fundamentals Of GSM/CDMA

3. The Chapter has arranged and participated in the major event Electronics & Information Technology Exposition-2004 (ELITEX 2004), the annual event of the Department of Information Technology (DIT) held during April 26 to 27, 2004 at India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi. The event, comprised an Exhibition and technology-focused seminars and showcase of products and services developed under the aegis of the DIT. The event was inaugurated by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, DG, CSIR & Secretary, DSIR. The keynote address was delivered by Shri K. K. Jaswal, Secretary, DIT. The Hon’ble Guest during their speeches mentioned the importance of Technology Vision : India in 2010. The role of close association between Academia, R&D institutions and industries have been very clearly emerged and emphasized.
Dr. Mashelkar has appreciated the efforts made by DIT in organizing ELITEX’2004 and showcasing their achievements in terms of products and services for commercialization.
The Honorable Minister visited the exhibition on the second day and appreciated the efforts in how casing technologies developed under the support from DIT. He desired the continuation of ELITEX as an annual feature of DIT.
The following products/technologies were transferred and released:

• General Purpose Control System Developed By CDAC Trivandrum
  
• Distribution Automation System Developed By CDAC Trivandrum
  
• Solder Paste For Hybrid Circuits And Surface Mount Technologies Developed By C-MET
  
• Vehicle Underside Scanner (VUS) Developed By IIT Delhi Software Application System Entitled “Manus Granthavali” Developed By National Informatics Centre
  
• Shruti Drishti Software Developed By Media Lab Asia Cell Phone Jammer Both For GSM And CDMA Developed By SAMEER-Chennai
  
• 2RF Channel CDMA Receiver Developed By SAMEER-Chennai
  
• 2 Nos. Of Highly Calligraphic Fonts For Devanagri Language Developed By CDAC
  
• C-VPN Developed By CDAC
  
• Pressure Sensors Developed By SCL Ltd
  
• IPR Manual for Industrial Design
  
• Patent Sampler
  
• Cyber Law Book
  
• IPR Public Outreach CD’s
  
• Fine Tuned Search Engine
  
• Software Code Compliance developed by Centre For Reliability, Chennai
  
• Software Test Coverage Centre For Reliability, Chennai

The Seminar Sessions were held on the theme of ELITEX’2004 “Technology Vision : India in 2010” including Innovation Exchange; High Performance & Grid Computing; Human Computer Interface; Next Generation Wireless Technologies; India – a Global R&D Hub for ICTE; IT Security : Emerging Scenario; Software Technology Trends; Trends in Nano-Technologies; E-Governance: Implementation Issues & Strategies; and Broadband Economy. Besides creating awareness about DIT technologies, ELITEX 2004 promoted R&D industry linkages essential for the absorption of indigenous technology by the industry and for stimulating innovations. The Seminar deliberations were available online via direct webcasting on www.elitexlive.nic.in and www.elitexindia.com and also at all the video-conferencing centres of NIC. The video-conferencing centres attracted a large number of visitors to watch the proceedings.

PROMOTIONAL ACITIVITES
4. Worked in cooperation with IEEE Communications Society Karachi Chapter in Pakistan in the areas of Cellular Mobile Phone, Fixed Line Telecommunications [Long Distance & International (LDI) & Local Loop (LL)] & Satellite Communications

5. Supported and initiated a scheme for IETE networking and education in making IETE as a virtual institute of learning through IETE’s VPN connecting 50 and odd centres / subcentres all over the country.

6. Celebrated along with IETE -WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY and a special lecture was organised on “ ICTs: Leading the way to sustainable developments” by Dr. VK Aatre DRDO May 2004

7. Collaborated with Prof S. Durrani assisting projects abroad, which employ telecommunications to improve the quality of life and bring economic and social benefits to people living in remote areas. Typical examples are projects in telemedicine, distance learning, disaster relief, etc. Current focus is on six countries in South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

8. The Chapter has taken initiatives of form “IEEE Women Engineering Chapters”. The activities now has been picked up by other centers. The objective of Women in engineering affinity group (WIE) is to help, support the advancement of women in technical and scientific profession and recognize achievements of women in this field.

9. The Chapter has taken initiatives of renewing the membership of some of the members after a gap of 5-10 years. These members had discontinued their interest in IEEE that has been revived.

10. The Chapter sponsored the names of Prof.B Pal for the Distinguished Lectures Programme of LEOS and Communications Society.

11. The Chapter had sent its technical input to the Global Communications Newsletter, which have been published in IEEE Communications Magazine from time to time.

12. The Chapter has widely circulated the offers made by IEEE-LEOS Society for free membership and half year’s free membership of the Communication Society to students. 34 applications in this regard were sent to LEOS Office.

13. The Chapter sponsored 10 applications for the elevation to IEEE Senior Members.

14. The Chapter coordinated the DLT Programmes arranged by the Communications Society in India.

15. The Chapter has widely circulated the Notifications and New Conferences announcement from various societies of IEEE.

16. The Chapter provided the proceedings of different conferences organized by IEEE in India to some of the developing countries free of cost.

17. The Chapter motivated members from India to participate in the IEEE Annual Elections and also in the IEEE Communications Society and LEOS Society Elections.

18. The Chapter provided functional support to IEEE Communications Society for maintaining the Sister Society cooperation with Institution of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers, India.

19. The Chapter provided technical support in reviewing some of the articles of IEEE publications.

20. The Chapter Chair had participated in the RCCC meet organised by the AP Region of Communication Society and presented a presentation and initiated discussion on “How to Promote ComSoc Activities in AP Region” at AP Regional ComSoc Chapter Chairs Congress Beijing, Prc August 2004

21. The Chapter provided necessary inputs for the publication of IEEE India Council Bulletin and Delhi Section Magazine (BECONS).

22. The Chapter provided technical support in providing IT Education and training in Vietnam through the Indian Organization NIIT.

23. The Chapter donated free publications of IEEE Magazines to some of the Engineering Colleges particularly the Women Engineering Colleges.