Status Update from Urjit Yagnik (Jul 2006)

Begin with developments since April end :

1. MOU has been signed!!
Director signed it. I signed it on behalf of our class.
A few more classmates will sign it.

2. Uday Sheth visited IIT on Sunday April 30.
The two of us took a tour of the Lake.
Uday’s suggestions and possible timeline :
a) About 1 km of the lake front from behind Convo upto White House
(where theroad turns towards Devi Temple and Lakeside qtrs. begin)
can be made into a nice walkway.
b) Some silted land can be recovered near the
Convo end and converted into a park / garden.

That was summary till May 2. After that people were traveling
for business and next steps should begin in July.

3. As of mid-summer I got charged as IIT faculty member
to look after the project. Hope I can manage the “double role”
without being “caught.”

4. Need to coordinate with the Institute to get the Project Manager hired.
In IIT he will be referred to as OSD = Officer on Special Duty.

5. He should recruit a Civil contractor to get the work started.
We hope this will be done latest by Aug 1.

- Urjit Yajnik

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