It's past 11 in the morning, and the hall is all set to receive the delegates...

... while the registration desk outside the hall was buzzing with activity. Mrs. Sanghi led the registration team

After registration, its time to catch up with old pals. Poochi Venkat seems to be giving some tips to Sagar Tipnis

Mr. Verma from DLW posing for a photograph with Mr. Prakash Tendulkar

Contents of the kit are surely interesting. While Sandeep Koparde is going through Samit's Atlas, John Mani is flipping through the calender.

There were some on-site registrations as well. John Garcia flew in all the way from the US, just to attend this convention.

Lot of delegates showed interest in demonstration of train monitoring software SIMRAN developed by Railway Technology Mission cell of IIT-K

The chief guest, Dr Dhande, Director of IIT Kanpur arrives at the venue

View on the right side of the hall. Seen here is the gang from Mumbai, Karan Desai, Akshay Marathe and Abhishek Risbud in first row. In second row are Shantanu Kulkarni, Sagar Tipnis and Ajit Rao.

View from the left side of the hall. Seen here are Samit Roychoudhury, Saurab Basu, Buddhadeb Saha and Rajeev Shrivastava in first row. In second row are Anish Niranjan, Girish Gopalakrishnan, Amit Sadanshiv and Abhishek Salian.

Another section of the audience. Seen here are Hrishikesh Moghe, Poochi Venkat and Jayant Ramdasi. Saneep and Amruta Bhate are in second row

The convention kicks off with a opening address by Dheeraj Sanghi.

Sitting on the dais are, Mr. Ajai Banerji, Mr. R B Srivastava, ED (Research), RDSO, Prof S G Dhande, Director IIT-K and Joydeep Dutta

Ajai Banerji talks about history of IRFCA and its activities

Inauguration of the convention in a traditional way, lighting of the lamp by the chief guest, Prof S G Dhande