About The Qatar Chapter
The
council of the Institution of the Engineers of India established on
an overseas chapter in the State of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf in
July 1991 for the benefit of its members residing and practising
engineering profession in Qatar. The jurisdiction of the Qatar
Chapter shall be the geographical boundaries of the State of Qatar.
The Qatar Chapter operates under the sponsorship of the Indian
Embassy in Qatar and under the patronage of the Ambassador of
India.
The
aims and objectives of the chapter are to promote the general
advancement of engineering and to facilitate exchange of opinion
and ideas in engineering profession amongst Members of the Qatar
Chapter and for that purpose
HISTORY ABOUT
FORMATION OF IEI – QATAR CHAPTER
On the
initiative taken by Mr. John Mathew and Mr. Animesh Sarkar, a group
of engineers met in Ramada Hotel to discuss about the possibility
and usefulness of establishing an overseas Chapter of “The
Institution of Engineers (India)” in Qatar on March 9,
1990.
After
useful discussions it was noted that in the absence of any
professional body operating in Qatar, establishment of an overseas
chapter of IEI in Qatar would have the following
benefits:
1. It
would provide a platform for technical interactions among the
engineering community of Qatar.
2. It
would provide facilities for the continuous professional
development of the engineering community of Qatar
3. It
would provide support services for acquiring professional
membership of IEI by the engineers in Qatar.
4. It
would provide facilities for the engineers in Qatar to publish
their technical papers.
5. It would provide opportunities for greater interaction
between the Indian Engineers and their Qatari counterpart which
would help in understanding the standard and excellence of the
engineering education and engineering professionalism
prevailing in India better and thereby helping Indian Engineers to
get due recognition in their professional fields in
Qatar.
The
engineers present on that day formed a preparatory committee and
selected Mr. John Mathew as its Chairman and Mr. Animesh Sarkar as
its Secretary. The Engineers authorized Mr. John Mathew and Mr.
Animesh Sarkar to pursue the matter with IEI head quarter in
Kolkata, India.
A letter
of request in this regard was sent by Mr. John Mathew to IEI Head
quarter in Kolkata. As Kolkata is the home town of Mr. Animesh
Sarkar, it provided an advantage to Mr. Sarkar to personally pursue
the matter with the then President and SDG of IEI. Mr. Sarkar’s
engineering batch mate and a council member of IEI Prof. Dr.
Samiran Choudhuri had rendered important support to Mr. Sarkar to
convince the IEI decision making body to approve an overseas
Chapter in Qatar. Prof. Dr. SamiranChoudhuri later became President
of IEI.
Approval
of the Chapter was received in the month of October 1990. However,
two constraints had delayed its inauguration such as sponsorship
issue as per local regulation and first Gulf war due to Kuwait
invasion by Iraq leading total uncertainty and exodus of
population. After a lot of exchanges with IEI HQ and Indian
Ambassador in Qatar, Indian Foreign Ministry on the request of IEI
HQ had authorized Indian Embassy of Qatar to sponsor this overseas
Chapter of IEI.
When first
Gulf war was over and situation was normalized, the preparatory
committee took further initiative to inaugurate the Chapter
formally. As a first step, the preparatory committee had organized
a meeting of the Indian Engineers in Qatar in the Al – Ghazal Club
auditorium of Qatar Petroleum on February 8, 1991. In that meeting,
the then Ambassador of India HE Mr. R, C, Shukla had formally
announced the news of approval of Qatar overseas Chapter of IEI by
IEI HQ and informed the engineers about the processes undertaken by
the preparatory committee to inaugurate the Chapter
formally.
The
first technical seminar was also held in that meeting. The Seminar
was presented by Mr. D. G. K. Murti an engineer working with Qatar
Petroleum on “Improvement of vessel design for processing of oil
and associated gas”.
The
preparatory committee then called for a meeting of the available
corporate members of IEI in Qatar and met in the house of Mr. S. K.
Agarwal an engineer working in Qatar Petroleum to elect its first
and founding committee. The committee elected Mr. John Mathew as
Chairman, Mr. Animesh Sarkar as Hon. Secretary and Mr. S. K.
Agarwal as Hon. Treasurer with eight other committee
members.
IEI Qatar
Chapter was formally inaugurated on July 26, 1991 by the then
President of IEI Mr. P. J. Mehta accompanied by SDG Mr. K. N.
Mazumdar.
The
duration of this founding committee lasted for three years during
which the committee could establish its office, library and reading
room and other facilities, engineers data base, membership drive
and database, byelaws etc. Since then IEI – Qatar Chapter have been
marching in excellence.
All the
members of the preparatory committee and the founding committee had
contributed greatly in the formation of this chapter but exemplary
contributions of Mr. John Mathew, Mr. Animesh Sarkar and Mr. S. K.
Agarwal would be ever remembered.
Engineers
met in Ramada hotel were:
1. Mr.
John Mathew
2. Mr.
Animesh Sarkar
3. Mr. S.
K, Agarwal
4. Mr. Y.
S. Javeri
5. Mr.
Bhaskar Mukherjee
6. Mr. M.
C. Pragasam
7. Mr.
Pradip Kumar Mukherjee
8. Mr.
P.K. Gupta
9. Mr.
Tarun Kumar Chakraborti
10. Mr.
Sujit Kumar Roy
11. Mr.
Satish Deshpande
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