Friday 31 January 2014


Vijay Bhatkar lesson
 Short answer questions

--->Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.
1. When and where was Dr. Vijay Bhatkar born?
A:- Vijay Bhatkar was born in 1946 in Akhola district of Maharashtra.
2. What subject did Vijay Bhatkar take his basic degree in?
A:- Vijay Bhatkar took up Electronics in his Engineering degree.
3. What award was Vijay Bhatkar presented in the year 2000?
A:- Vijay Bhatkar was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000.
4. In how many years was the supercomputer Param developed?
A:- Vijay Bhatkar took just three years of time to develop Param computer.

---> Answer the following question in 100 words.
1. Why did Dr.Bhatkar develop the supercomputer?
A:- Dr.Vijay Bhatkar is one of the initiators of the electronic revolution in India. He was best known as the architect of India's national initiative in the development of Param supercomputers. When India was denied the supercomputer by U.S.A., Dr Bhatkar took the challenge of developing an indigenous supercomputer in a record time of 3 years and delivered Param 8000 in 1991. With this, and with terascale Param 10,000, he propelled(moved) India into the exclusive(only) club of select nations who have this technology.
2. Give a brief account of the work of Dr. Bhatkar.
A:- Dr.Vijay Bhatkar contributed to the beginning of the electronics revolution in India. He introduced Param 8000, India's first supercomputer in 1991. He, later developed Param 10000 in 1998. He also created several national institutions, notably; Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), the Electronic Research & Development Centre (ER&DC). He also started a path-breaking(revolutionary) project, called Education via broadband.
             He led the development of several innovations such as- India's fully solid state color television, color T.V.broadcast during Asiad in 1982, distribution of control systems for Indian power plants, traffic control systems, automation of security systems, defense simulators etc.
3. Mention some grassroots level applications of technology.
A:- Dr.Bhatkar is widely known for bringing ICT to the masses through a wide range of path-breaking initiative. One of them is, applying technology at the grassroots level, such as for weather forecasting, disaster prediction, resource mapping for agriculture etc.
4. What makes India an IT super power?
A:- Dr.Vijay Bhatkar is one of the initiators of the electronics revolution in India. He is best known as the architect of India's national initiative in supercomputing.
               The designing of petascale supercomputers, besides param series of supercomputers, made India an IT superpower. Because, very few countries like USA and Japan are able to design petascale computers, which create tremendous wealth. That's why the designing of petascale supercomputers is the crowning glory of India's advanced computing and IT capability.

---> Answer the following questions in 150 words.
1. What were the circumstances under which C-DAC was started?
A:- Dr.Vijay Bhatkar is one of the initiators of the electronics revolution in India. Of his many path-breaking initiatives, the best known are, the Param supercomputers and GIST multilingual technology.
              Vijay Bhatkar, through the creation of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, had an opportunity to lead India's national beginning in supercomputing. With C-DAC, India developed Param 8000, India's first supercomputer in 1991 followed by Param 10000 in 1998.
2. What does India need to do to stay ahead in the global supercomputer race?
A:- Dr.Bhatkar contributed to the beginning of the electronics revolution in India. He created Param supercomputer 8000and Param 10000. He also introducejd GIST multilingual technology.
         Dr.Bhatkar opines that in order to stay ahead in the global supercomputer race, India requires several breakthroughs, and in the development of new creations for multi-core chips(with thousands of cores on a chip). A billion nodes need to be connected, for which we require a new network, new software, new applications. However, we, the Indians have to create new applications in the field of IT & Electronics sector. As yesterday's supercomputers are only today's laptops and tomorrow's supercomputers will only be commoditised. Hence, we need to focus on innovations to stay ahead in the global supercomputer race.
3. What were the path-breaking initiatives that Dr.Bhatkar led?
A:- Dr.Vijay Bhatkar is one of the initiators of electronics revolution in India. He was greatly praised global leader in computing.
       Of his many path-breaking initiatives, the best known is the param supercomputers. Some other are;
a) GIST multilingual technology, covering India's 22 official languages.
b) MKCL's computer literary programme that made a world mark by creating 7.5 million computer literates within a decade.
c) 'Education To Home' (ETH) initiative to spread education via(through) broadband in learning, teaching, administration, governance and communication and collaboration.
d) Applying technology at the grassroots level such as for weather forecasting, disaster prediction, resource mapping for agriculture etc.

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