Articles in SVNIT

Employees hold placards during the protest at SVNIT, Surat The employee association at Sardar Vallabhbhai Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, has been organising dharnas during their recess time since January 24. The employees carry out rallies in the campus and hold placards displaying their demands in front of the administrative building. 300 employees of the institute shout slogans everyday, in […]

On February 7, 2016, Sunday, the students of SVNIT, Surat organised a festival celebrating the joy of giving. Dumb and deaf, disabled, and orphaned children were invited to our college and we spent the day in taking care of, playing with and imparting joy to them. Zealous volunteers decorated the auditorium called ‘staff club’, and […]

Are you fond of watching movies? How about creating one, on your own?  We effortlessly watch a film oblivious of the sweat and time a team had to put in to make one. Next time you go for a movie, do give it a thought and I assure you that the movie would feel more dynamic […]

So you decided to go for engineering (or maybe you didn’t), but that does not mean you kill the rainbow haired artist in you – at least at SVNIT. The college offers a host of clubs and groups, all officially funded by the institute and run by the students, to kill non-college hours and non-examination […]

Ragging, as one of the most rampant college crimes a decade ago, led to many institutes in India devising innovative ways to curb the crime. In lieu of several ragging cases in the past, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, has implemented a rule that prohibits senior students from meeting the freshers upto the […]

Every year, major engineering institutes in India like IITs, NITs, etc. organise the students’ representative body through faculty selection or a general election process. In 2014, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) made a structural transformation in its students’ council process. The institute that was earlier indifferent to the idea of holding student body […]

How influential is a state’s culture on its students’ lifestyles? And what are the bearings when one state’s culture compels students from other states to modify their appetite? Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) in Surat, Gujarat, is the only NIT in the country to restrict students’ meals to vegetarian food. The institute does […]

Prof H.B. Naik is the Student Affairs Dean at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Gujarat. In the absence of a full time Director at SVNIT, he is the sole manager of integral student welfare decisions at the institute. In an exclusive interview with PaGaLGuY, Prof Naik spoke about various student issues like ragging, […]

The JEE 2015 Seat Allocation process for the NITs (National Institute of Technology) is finally over and the NITs are scheduled to begin their academic year in the month of August. So, let us now take a look at the cutoffs/closing ranks in 2015 for the different NITs. This series of articles will help you […]

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat Since the JEE Main 2015 exam is coming up shortly here is a look at the expected cutoffs of various NITs.  This will tell you which colleges you are likely to get through and what branches you may get. In this article, we look at the cutoff for Sardar […]