Activities in Mahalaxmi Mandir

The Temple of Mahalaxmi in Kolhapur is an Ancient Temple, considered one among the Shaktipeeth’s in this Country. Constructed in “ Hemadpanthi” construction style, the Architectural Design is such that a very rare phenomena called ‘Kiranostsav’ occurs very year on 3 days during “Dakshinayan” and “Uttarayan”. The Dakshin Bhart Devasthan Committee had noticed that the alove ‘ Kiranotsav’(wherein sunrays fall over the Mahalaxmi Diety and Lighten in sintering thro a distance of @  feet long temple bldg’s narrow corridas opinion); was not occurring due to some obstacle’s during this natural process of sunset. According Shivaji University and KIT”s Civil Engg.,Dept. was called for technical Expertise and fact finding work.

The H.O.D. Civil Prof. K.G.Hiraskar and Prof.S.S.Varur were involved along with Shivaji University Scientist Shri.R.V. Bhosale and oferm last 2 years a detailed and complevsive Information was gathered; which indentified exactly the man made obstacles, their sizes, their heights of obstruction and angular inclination reqlilred for the occurance of the phenomana. The huge data collected over the period of two years; during various months of the year with the sophisticated Sunreying Instrument,nomely, Total station (SET 500), has helped to remove the obstacles and already the ‘Kiranotsav’ occure over the diety to a large extent. Only a few more obstacles stand in the way of achieving full Kiranotsav, which is just a matter of time. The above work has been commended by the College Management,the Kolhapur Society at large and people from all walks of lilfe students of Civil Dept. have contributed in this work immeusly.

The Dakshini Bharat Deosthan Committee impressed by the work done on ‘Kiranotsav’ phenomena, by the Civil Engg.Dept. entrusted the job of finding the Temperature heat along the pradakshina marag, due to Marble laid some 25 years back by an inthusiastic Devolee, with out actually delving over humuiditing the Technical aspects of rise in temperature, lerseng the naturalness of the stones and the ventilatrion effect maintained by the ancient sculpterer’s of the work.

The Kolhapur public at large has been complecining upon the uneasiness and Rerspiration Caused in the pradakshina marg (Gabhara),due to loss of veutilation and heavy humidity.

The HOD Civil Dept. Shri. K. G. Hiraskar, A. B. Sawant and S. S. Mane and there team from the Dept has worked with advanced Digital Thermometer’s and geological Aspects of the stones beneath the marble was studied! Different Readings of Temperature and humidity at diff. periods of the day and month were noted. Finally a conclusion was given to remove the marble cladding, the thick cement mortar lalyer and an expert Agency from Mumbai was called for doing the job meticulously.

A notable lowering of temperature and humidity by 3º C and 10% has been noticed by removing of the marble.
The above work has been commended by the Kolhapur public and people from all works of life.
Here also Civil Engg. Student’s Contribution was huge and noteworthy.
All leading Newspapers of Kolhapur have time and again highlighted the above issues

Every year Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments Combinly organize the Ganesh Idol Donation Camp at Rankala Lake and Bapat Camp, Ruikar Colony. This year KIT NSS group was joint with Civil Engineering Department for this camp.

B. GREENTECH-2009:-

Department of Civil Engineering; KIT co-organized-National Seminar & Exhibition on ‘Recent Trends in Green Building & Products’, with Shivaji University, Kolhapur on 8th 9th Feb. 2009.
Prof. M. M. Mujumdar, Prof. A.B. Sawant, Prof. S. S. Mane & Prof V. A. Swami were in the organizing committee.
35 students from Department participated in technical sessions in the seminar

C. SYLLABUS REVISION WORKSHOP:-
Third year Civil Engineering syllabus revision workshop was organized on 24th & 25th March 2009. In which 35 faculty members from different colleges under Shivaji University were participated.

E.     “Aavishkar 2010” A Shivaji University Level Project Exhibition Contest

F.             30^th January, 2010: One Day Workshop on, “B.E. Civil Syllabus Finalization” in the    

          Dept. of Civil Engg., KIT

G.     Extra and Co-curricular activities conducted / organized by the Dept.

EVENTS (SEMINARS/ EXPERT LECTURES/ WORKSHOPS/ FIELD VISITS ARRANGED

Faculty Achievements:

·        Prof. M. M. Mujumdar awarded Ph.D Title by NITK, Suratkal.

·        Mrs. V. A. Swami registered for Ph.D in January 2009.

·        Prof. S. S. Mane completed his M. Tech (Env. Sci.& Tech.)

·        S. S. Varur, A. R. Thorvat and A. B. Sawant are pursuing their Post Graduation Studies.

·        A. R. Thorvat and S. S. Varur delivering Expert Lectures for PGDISHE students on “Industrial Health and Safety” at Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

Students Achievements
      ·        Sagar Kariya (B.E. Civil) Scored 89.50 % in GATE Exam.

·        Amit Kharade, Pravin Kumbhar and Abhinandan Batkadali qualified for GATE.

·        Mr.  Onkar Powar and Mr. Mihir Ayyanchira won First Prize in “AAVISHKAR 2010”.

·        Mr. Ajinkya Patil and Mr. Shashank Ugave placed in Shapurji- Pallonaji Constructions Ltd.

·        Mr. Sagar Kariya and Mr. Tushar Samant placed in Billimoria Constructions Ltd.

·        Sangram Patil, Radhika Shinde and Vidyashri Koli won 1st Prize in “Block Smart”- Concrete Cube Competition at PVPIT, Budhgaon.

·        Nikhil Ingawale, Manjur Shendure and Poonam Karande won 2nd Prize in “Block Smart”- Concrete Cube Competition at PVPIT, Budhgaon.

·        Vikas Gingine and Nikhilesh Saundattikar won several prizes in “Cliptivity Contest”, at KIT, TKIET, Warnanagar, PVPIT, Budhgaon.

·        Ameer Hakim, Sheetal Redekar and Vidyashri Koli, Ruturaj Patil won 1st and 2nd Prize respectively in Concrete Cube Contest at Govt. College, Karad.

·        Atul Pawar and Vijay Shelake won 1st Prize in Concrete Cube Contest at TKIET, Warnanagar.

·        Rohit Patil and Tushar Jadhav won 1st Prize in Annual Social Gathering.

·        More than 1200 Ganesh Idols were collected during “Ganesh Idol Donation Camp” organised by CESA and NSS for social awareness.

·        13 Students were presented Technical papers in “GreenTech 2010”- A National Conference on Green Buildings Development, at Sangli. 

·        Department of Civil Engineering has received MODROBS Grants of Rs. 15, 00,000.

·        The Revenue generated through consultancy is worth of Rs. 1, 00,000.