Day 1 Images

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

Joydeep does his bit...

... while Dheeraj does his.

Prof S G Dhande delivering the inaugural address

The audinece listen to the director's speech, in rapt attention

Mr. Ajai Bannerji presents a book to Prof S G Dhande as a token of appreciation

Mr. R B Srivastava, ED (Research), RDSO delivers the key note address. He talked about the Research initiatives undertaken by RDSO

Dheeraj presents a gift to Mr. R B Srivastava as a token of appreciation

Delegates in rapt attention, try to understand the working of derailment detection device, demonstrated by the delevelopers at IIT-K

After the inauguration, its lunch time. Ranga cracks a joke, while Sandeep Sharma, Joydeep and Rahul Biswas help themselves

Delegates enjoy the hot food on a cool afternoon.

John Mani seems to be discussing some finer points about photography with the chennai gang of Anand Krishnan, Krishna Kumar Sr., and Adwait Rajwade.

There was a variety of dishes and they were tempting too.