From placement stats to attendance, from college fests to city updates, Chandigarh's students are putting it all online

They know that the virtual world is as important as the real world. Which is why, if they are not on the web their existence is a mere shadow. Owing to the web, students are able to keep themselves updated through a common platform. Other than the official websites of colleges and departments, now students can access information through the websites that their classmates, juniors or seniors have created.

"The web is a great help not only to display regular information but also the kind of urgent news that may not reach each and every student," tells Anmol Batra, part of a five member team that has initiated www.uiet.info. The website has features like email service, placement statistics, reference projects, notice board, attendance and results (imported from college server), news (related to UIET or PU from newspapers, TV etc) and information about other extra-curricular activities and groups. "Recently an exam had been postponed, the information of which was put on the notice board and no student was informed personally. Through our website many students were saved from a trip to college to check the notice board," shares Anmol. He adds that there is an average of 250 users per day and the number of email subscribers is on a daily rise.

While these are regular websites, even events and fests get a temporary space on the web. Every year Punjab Engineering College updates a website dedicated to the PEC-fest. Amit Khurana, fourth year Computer Science student tells us more, "The website www.pecfest.in was a very dynamic website that had all the information about events of the fest. Each organizer had a log-in id so they could update on their own. We had information on the rules and regulations, registration, participation, accommodation et al." Abhinav Kumar, fourth year IT gives us on dough on another website that's being made with the integration of Google application. "The dramatics club has a page on wikepedia, space has also been given to us by Yahoo. The new website aims to combine the academic and cultural activities. Till now we only have unofficial websites of dramatics, literary or the robotics club. Very soon they will all come under the same 'roof'."

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