Satyanarain Goel

Beginnings of the second term: Rigorous academic schedules of the first term, blended with games, sports, literary and cultural activities, culminating in the annual week celebrations and prize distribution had provided considerable help in moulding the motley group of young, energetic and aspiring bunch of lads into a hardened group of students determined to surge … Read more

Physical buildup: Get up early in the morning and you can see people walking briskly on the streets. Go to any public place or park and you can find people busy on their tracks, gulping fresh air. Go to any gymnasium or fitness club and you may find all gadgets fully occupied by perspiring people. … Read more

Flashback: Before independence of the country, United Provinces was one of the best administered provinces of British India. The general standard of education in United provinces was considered the best in north of India and the other provinces drew inspiration from what was being done in U.P. English was taught from the earliest stages in … Read more

Institutional facilities: Main building of 26 Chatham Lines was the only place immediately available for the location of classrooms in the beginning. The existing tiles of the roof were brought down, supporting rafters and framework were strengthened and retiling of the whole roof was done. The internal partition walls between bedrooms and the attached dressing … Read more

Brief flashback of conditions in 1955: Before the commencement of the second world war there were only eight engineering colleges in the whole country. Thomason College of Civil Engineering Roorkee was the only public sector institution in U.P. running Civil Engineer Classes with an intake of 30 students and Overseer Classes with an intake of … Read more

Allahabad: Allahabad is one of the most prominent and fast growing cities of Uttar Pradesh. It is one of the five CABAL towns ( Cawnpore, Allahabad, Banaras, Agra and Lucknow) of U.P. It is situated in the south eastern part of Uttar Pradesh at the confluence of rivers Ganga, Jamuna and mythological Saraswati. It covers … Read more

Vishwamitra: Vishwamitra was a leading lawyer of Allahabad. He was very well connected with the social, political and academic circles of the town. He was a senior congressman and had rubbed shoulders with all time greats of the pre-independence era. He hailed from Bijnor a flourishing town in west U.P lying along the foothills of … Read more

New campus of Civil Engineering School Lucknow on Kanpur Road: One fine evening, Rai Bahadur Laxmi Chand, principal of Civil Engineering School Lucknow summoned me to his office. He was in the process of giving finishing touches to the building plans of a hostel proposed to be constructed in a residential area of the city, … Read more

Family: Family has different meanings for different people. In the good old days, joint families were very common and normally ten to fifteen members lived together. In the present context, family is expected to include husband, wife and one or two children. Times have changed and the concept of families has undergone a lot of … Read more

Rajvansh Biradari: Rajvansh Biradari is a comparatively small community of Vaish Agrawals. Rising initially from Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor and Morradabad districts of Uttar Pradesh they have gradually moved to almost all parts of the country and in most of the developed countries of the world. Members of the Rajvansh Biradari, by and large belong to … Read more