Students Achievements

LANGUAGES

• Mr. Chillakuru Nagaraju, Assistant Professor, was bestowed with the Best Teacher

Award by HITS for the year 2020- 2021. • Dr. Akkara Sherine, Head, Languages and Rankings, produced 2 doctorates as

Supervisor: Dr. Sonu Joseph, Assistant Professor, Languages, HITS; and Dr. M. M.

Sastry, HoD - English, Sasi Institute of Technology & Science, Andhra Pradesh. • Dr. Sonu Joseph, Assistant Professor, defended her thesis titled “An Experimental

Study on Blended Learning Approach to Teach Presentation Skills to Tertiary Level

Engineering Students” during December 2020, and was awarded degree during the 11th

Convocation on 11 January 2021.

CHEMISTRY

• Dr. S. Sumathi has published 3 papers in Scopus Indexed Journals. She completed 14

Online Courses in Coursera and 1 Course in Edx. She arranged two guest lectures. • Dr. P. S. Raghavan has published 7 papers in Scopus Indexed Journals. • Dr. M. Prabaharan has published 4 papers in the Scopus Indexed Journals and 2 Book

Chapters in the international books. He has produced 1 Ph.D. in Dec. 2020. He completed 6 Online Courses in Coursera. Further, he edited an International Book entitled “Chitosan for Biomaterials-III & IV”, Advances in Polymer Science, Springer in 2021.

• Dr. S. Induja has published 13 papers in Scopus Indexed Journals. • Dr. M. Chandrakala has completed 32 Online Courses in Coursera and coordinated

Science Meet -2020. She has prepared video lectures and uploaded in you tube and attended National Online Quiz on International Yoga Day on 29 Jun.2020. • Dr. D. Sathya Seeli has completed 15 online courses in Coursera and 1 course in Edx.

She attended National Level e-Quiz on “Functional Foods, Nutraceuticals & Designer

Foods”.

• Dr. B. Gajalakshmi has published 1 paper in Scopus Indexed Journals and completed 19 online courses in Coursera and 2 Courses in Edx. She attended National Technology Day 2020 Awareness Campaign organized by MHRD Innovation Cell (Govt. of India) and secured all India rank 3 Out of 177. She participated World Telecommunication and Information Society Day - 2020 organized by MHRD Innovation Cell (Govt. of

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India) and secured all India rank 3 out of 90. In the National Technology Day 2020

Awareness Campaign organized by MHRD Innovation Cell (Govt. of India) held on 20

May 2020 she secured all India Rank 10 out of 174 in the digital poster making competition. • Ms. K. Kiruthiga has published 5 papers in Scopus Indexed Journals and completed 12 online courses in Coursera.

PHYSICS

• Dr. V. Parthasarathy has published more than 10 papers in reputed Science Citation

Indexed journals • Dr. Rajeswari Yogamalar submitted a Project Proposal on “Perovskite Solar Cell” under SRG-DST-SERB on 27 Feb. 2021

• Dr. J. Selvi published 2 papers in SCI journals • Ms. Annie Aureen Albert published 2 papers in Scopus Indexed Journals • Ms. Annie Aureen Albert has delivered an invited talk on “Recent Trends in

Nanomaterials – An overview” on 11 May 2020 at Er. Perumal Manimekalai College of Engineeering, Hosur.

STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENTS

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

• Soham Prajapati, IV Year Aerospace, got 38th rank in GATE. • 15 Students (Soham Prajapathi, Desai Manish, Mouli Baskar, Abinaya, Santhosh

Kumar, K. Naveen Kumar, Mahesh Reddy, P. Amarnath, Deebak Vijay, Syed Afraz,

Namratha, Jishnu, Lingala Venkata, Naga Vikas and Neelamsetti Yaswanth of IV year

Aero/Aerospace) were qualified in GATE. • Prenav Vimal, II Year B. Tech. Aerospace received Certificate of Achievement for winning First position in Youth Face Icon conducted by National Youth Council of

India, held on 6 Sept. 2020.

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• Sandeep Dutta, II Year, received Quality Performance Award for the event Theory to Practice, and also received RAPID Award among 28 colleges participated in the event conducted by Pals IITM. • P. Venkata Sreegeeth Varsha, III Year completed 35 Coursera courses in all category, 8 courses in matlab coding, attended 6 workshops in different technical subjects ,and attempted the guinness record in Python by guvi, completed internship as Campus

Ambassador from IIT Delhi, continuing internship in Bramhastra Aerospace as Space

Evangelist. • K. Hrudhay Rohit Reddy, III Year, Aparna ojha, II Year completed The Guiness World

Record event -Most users to take an online computer programming lesson in 24 Hours. • Divya M. 4th Year, published a research paper "Augmented reality in Aerospace

Engineering " at KCG, two consecutive year winner of Aircrash Investigation & Aero

Technical Quiz conducted by MIT Chennai (FLIGHT-18 & FLIGHT19). • Yashwanth C., II Year won Poster Design competition conducted by NEBULA Astro

Club, HITS. • Vaishnavee Verma, III Year won Poster Design competition conducted by NEBULA

Astro Club, HITS. • Sandeep Dutta, II Year leadership our college Pals Club received RAPID Award among 28 colleges. • Dhanush Datthathireyan participated in World Guiness Record online vediorelay performing a choreographed dance. • A Team of 9 Students "HELIX" got selected in the finals of CANSAT-2021

Competition organised by NASA Godard space Centre & American Astronautical society. The finals is on 18 June through online mode. • A team of 2 students’ experimental satellite was selected in Cubes in Space competition conducted by I-doodle Inc and NASA CSF and Launch is on August 2021. • Sandeep S Kudappa, II Year and Akhil M Nair, III Year won the IIT Ropar AWadh

Intership with the stipendium of 10,000 Rs. during the internship period. They were selected as the top 100 contestants. • Team Blue Thunder were selected for Final round in TOYCATHON organised by

ATAL.

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SPADE

• Nivetha S, I Year B. Des. (ID) for ‘Voices of Youth Illustration Challenge’ conducted by UNICEF- Selected for publishing.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

• Kamran Amin, II Year, received Certificate of Appreciation for participating in

Online Sports Quiz conducted by School of Physical Education & Sports HITS during 29 & 30 Aug. 2020 • Pranav Patil, II Year, received Certificate of Acheivement for completing "Build a

Face Recognition Application Using Python” as a part of AI for India event organized by GUVI India. • Pranav Patil, II Year, received Dakshin Bharat Indian Army Finisher certificate for completing 10kms race in the swarnim Vijay Run Chennai 2021. • Shahid Afrideen, Dorjee Yangzom, Anisha Singh, Mohammed Farid obtained the

GYAN

DISHA 2020 Award for the project titled ‘Flexural Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Slab’

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

• Mr. Naga Chakradhar Rao Rayasam, IV Year got Dream Offer in CISCO Systems with 15 LPA.

• Mr. Ammar K, B.Tech. IV Year got selected in CISCO Systems with 7.2 LPA. • Mr. Ujjwal Kumar, B.Tech. IV Year got selected in TCS with 7 LPA. • Ms. C J Jyothsna Reddy, B.Tech. IV Year got selected in SHELL with 6.4 LPA. • Ms. Poshini Ganeshkumar, B.Tech. IV Year got selected in SHELL with 6.4 LPA. • Mr. Avinash Mallick B.Tech. III Year won Dialogues of Love n Light, International

Youth Day competition. • Mr. Avinash Mallick B.Tech. III Year won Creative Writing Contest organized by

Department of Languages) from 03 Sep. 2020 to 05 Sep. 2020. • Mr. Akshansh Mathur B.Tech. III Year won Creative Writing Contest organized by

Department of Languages from 03 Sep. 2020 to 05 Sep. 2020.

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• Mr. Prasanna Kumar N, Mr. Manjunadh Chowdary Abburi and Mr. Manoj Kumar, IV

Year, B. Tech. have published paper titled “EEG Based Brain-Controlled Mobile

Robots” on 02 May 2021 in Journal of Annals of Romanian Society for Cell. • Mr. Ammar K., IV Year has published paper titled “Xreasyonboard – An Automated OS

Installation Tool” on 27 Mar. 2021 in Journal of Turkish Journal of Computer and

Mathematics Education.

MCA

• Bharath Kumar (BCA-II Year) received Internship Offer from Ulead Hydrabad.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• J. Jane Carolyn from III RF Year, participated in ET #PresentIn10 competition, an exciting virtual opportunity for young engineers and technicians (18-35) to pitch their 10-minute presentation about how engineering and technology can help to solve a realworld societal challenge to a panel of experts from UK.she has developed an app that would help to reduce "Unemployment", a major Economic Issue in India.

After going through papers and abstracts across the globe, she received an invitation that she was selected among few presenters from India.

She is a First runner up having a tie with another UK participant.

• Sandya Jalesh Kumar, III Year won the IET-Leadership Award for the year 20192020 (Most Prestegious Award Network Level) • Mr.Shijo, III Year has gone for Semester Exchange Programmeto Dongguk University for the duration of 5 months (Mar. to July 2021). • Ms. Samitha Ramesh Babu and Ms. S. Meenakshi partciapted in the virtual

International Summer Program in University of Surabaya, Ubaya, Indonesia from 1 to 5 Feb. 2021.

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

• Mr. Tejeswar Reddy, IV Year won Cost Evaluation Award in SAE INDIA BAJA 2020

• Mr. Tejeswar Reddy, IV Year won the title Champions of Champions in the event organized by ISIE India- Venue-KL University, Vijayawada.

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• Ms. Honey Pandey, IV Year participated and won Second place in PALS QUEST 2020 held at Aalim Mohammed Salegh College of Engineering, Avadi, Chennai. • Ms. Fathima Afshan, IV Year represented Tamil Nadu and won the 4th All India

Championship of Mixed Martial Arts held at Lucknow. • Ms. Honey Pandey, IV Year won the IET Young Professional Trend Setter Award. • Ms. Honey Pandey, IV Year won the Position 3 in the NASA International Space App

Challenge conducted by NASA & IET. • Students completed around 200 MOOC courses during the period. • Students were able to obtain admissions for Higher studies in reputed Universities abroad with good merits and scholarships in various funding schemes such as Erasmus

Mundas Scheme.

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

• Mr. Alla Eswara Rao, III Year has successfully participated in “The Guinness World

Record Event - Most Users to Take An Online Computer Programming Lesson In 24

Hours” from 24 to 25 Apr. 2021. • Mr. Rachakonda Surya Satya, and Mr. Alla Eswara Rao, III Year participated in Virtual

Bootcamp Series NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 during 19 Sept.2020 – 01

Oct.2020 on behalf of IET Chennai Local Network.

• Mr. Rachakonda Surya Satya, III Year was an active participant of QPL 2.0 E-RYLA conducted during 31 July 2020 to 02 Aug 2020 sponsored by Rotary Club of Madras

Central.

• Mr. Vijaya Simhan Venkat and Ms K. Malini, IV Year attended AUAP-UBAYA

International Virtual Summer Program titled “Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic:

Best Practices from Indonesia” from 1 to 5 Feb. 2021.

• Mr. Vijay Simhan Venkat, Sane Chaitanya Kumar, M.S.P. Abhishek, Abhinav Das

Pradeep Lumar, Deepak Sharma, IV Year and Alla Eswara Rao, Madaka Pavan,

Kalyan, III Year participated in Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards and were selected to third round

• Mr. Rachakonda Surya Satya, III Year published an article in Edex (New Indian

Express) dated 30 Nov. 2020.

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• Mr. Alla Eswara Rao, III Year has successfully completed online International Quiz on e-learning conducted by BIET, Telangana on 20 June 2020. • Mr. N.Guru,Mahesh Yadav, Palash Medhi, Rahul Kumar got Firstprize for the project entitled - IoT Based Microgrid Automation for Optimizing Energy Usage and

Controllability on Gyan Disha 2020 (Project Expo for Final Year Students)

AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING

• Shivnandan Khatari & R. Christu Paul, IV Year won Best Paper Award - 3rd

International Conference on “Advancements in Aeromechanical Materials for

Manufacturing”: ICAAMM2020, KLR Institute of Technology, Andhra, on 24 & 25

July 2020 and published in AIP Conference Proceedings. • Mr. A. Ramana Johannes Bachmann, IV Year, obtained SAEINDIA Section Award for the year 2019-20 with cash in SAE Convention 2020.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

• Mr. R. Balaji, set a record in India book of records for "Youngest Scientific Research Reviewer and Editor", with 35+ Research articles to his credit in reputed journals. • Mr. Anil Ashok Desai, published a paper titled "Experimental Analysis of Cooldown Characteristics of an Automobile Air Conditioner Using Alternative Refrigerant", in International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Management. • Dr. M. Nagaraj, Research Scholar, received his Ph.D.for the thesis titled "Experimental Investigation on Modelling and Analysis of Machining Characteristics of Machining Characteristics in Drilling of NIMONIC C-263 Alloy Under Different Machining Environment" guided by Dr. John Presin Kumar. • Ms. Lindsay Shantha Rubia, completed 34 online MOOC courses. • Mr. Balaji R and Ms. Lindsay Shantha Rubia K, student, were awarded for their Outstanding Performance in the “Social Innovation Challenge” hosted by Indian Institute of Science, and Keio University, Japan, in Jan. 2021. • Mr. Payyavula Venkatram, Alakunta Ganesh, and Thota Thrinadh Devasen Royal, has won the Interdepartmental Quiz competetion conducted on 23 Feb. 2021.

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MECHATRONICS

• Mr. Lena Sekar, established a startup company, YAGEN Robotics LLP and it was inaugurated by Dr. D. Dinakaran, Head, ANRO, HITS on Feb. 2021 • Mr. S. Gowtham, IV Year, participated and successfully made it to the Final round in

“e-Yantra Robotics competition”. His performance in the e-Yantra Robotics competition is rewarded with 2 months e-Yantra Summer Internship Programme (eYSIP) at IIT Bombay. • Mr. S. Gowtham, Mr R Praveen, Mr P Saicharan and Mr M Parthiban, IV Year students presented the paper in the International Virtual Conference on Robotics, Automation,

Intelligent Systems and Energy (IVC-RAISE 2020) and won Best Paper Award. • Mr. D. Andrew, III Year, and Neeraja II Year have participated in International Virtual

Training programme organized by the Ubaya’s First Online Summer Programme 2020 titled, "All You Need to Know About Covid-19”, Indonesia • Mr. Lokeswaran, Mr. Nikhit Mathew, Mr. K M Adithya Krishna and Mr. Taarun Srinivas, IV Year participated in the IITM - Shaastra- Tech and Innovation Fair orgainised by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and placed in Top 5 amongst 90 Teams competed, Feb. 2021. • Students selected for pursuing Higher Studies Abroad: Mr. M. Lokeswaran - TU Dortmund University, Germany: Mr. R. Harshavadana - Cranfield University, UK; Mr. S.P. Nikhit Mathew - University of Strathelyde, UK; Mr. S. Gowtham - University of Genova, Italy; Mr. R. Praveen - TU Dortmund University, Germany; Mr. Haran Pragadeesh - Cranfield University, UK. • Mr. K M Adithya Krishna, IV Year got admitted in Virtual Hamburg International

Summer School with full scholarship.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

● Ms. Rajana Rivetha, IV Year B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 5 in the Online quiz competition on “National Association of Software And Service

Companies (NASSCOM) held on 5 May 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution

Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Mr. Maharajan, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 4 in the "Online quiz competition on New opportunities for youngsters in bioenergy space" held

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on 17 May 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Ms. Nandhini B., IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 10 in the "Online quiz competition on New opportunities for youngsters in bioenergy space" held on 17 May 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Ms. Priyanka, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 9 in the "Online quiz competition on New opportunities for youngsters in bioenergy space held on 17 May 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Ms. Neha Sudev, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 5 in the "Online quiz competition on New opportunities for youngsters in bioenergy space" held on 17 May 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Ms. Shaheen Hussain, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 5 in the "Online quiz competition on New opportunities for youngsters in bioenergy space" held on 17 May 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council,

Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Mr. Maharajan, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 2 in the "In online quiz competition on Innovating Self- Screen and Identify Right

Opportunities" held on 16 May, 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Mr. Maharajan, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 2 in the "In online quiz competition on Student Innovators and Entre-preneurs from Smart India

Hackathon" held on 25 May, 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Mr. Maharajan, IV Year, B.Tech. Biotechnology secured All India Ranking 1 in the "In online quiz competition on Idea, Business Model & Business Plan" held on 20 May, 2020 by MHRD Innovation Cell, Institution Innovation council, Gulzar group of

Institutes, Ludhiana. ● Poulami Patra, IV Year, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering completed Indo Universal

Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE) Soft Skills Course conducted by Dr.

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Manu Vora, Business Excellence, Inc., Chicago, USA during 06-30 August 2020 and received Certificate of Completion with Distinction. ● Poulami Patra, IV Year, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering participated in Petr-O-Probe,

International Level Online Quiz Competition conducted by AC Tech, Anna University

SPE Student Chapter during 25-26, May 2020 and won Certificate of Appreciation. ● Vignesh K., IV Year, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering secured All India Ranking 1 in the "Online quiz competition on opportunities in the auto-sector in the post-COVID-19 world and Leadership Talk Series: Learn from Leaders with Shri Mahesh Babu, CEO

Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd, organized by Gulzar Group of Institution, Ludhiana,

Punjab held on 26, May 2020. ● Vignesh K., IV Year, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering secured All India Ranking 2 in the "Online quiz competition on Student Innovators and Entre-preneurs from Smart

India Hackathon and Leadership Talk Series: Learn from Leaders With 1. Pulkit Jain,

Team - Vidyut, 2. Lokesh Goswami, Team - SLICK, 3. Arpit Nandi, Team- Quarks &

Leptons, organized by Gulzar Group of Institution, Ludhiana, Punjab held on 25, May 2020.

● K. A. L Mohamed Hasan, IV Year, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering secured All India

Ranking 3 in the "Online quiz competition on Scope & Opportunities during & after

COVID-19 and “Leadership Talk Series: Learn from Leaders'' With Dr. Anand

Deshpande, Chairman, Persistent Systems, organized by Gulzar Group of Institution,

Ludhiana, Punjab held on 15, Apr.2020. ● Ms. Meghana P., III Year, B.Tech. - Biotechnology excelled in National level e-Quiz on " Biofuels" at St. Xavier's catholic college of Engineering, Kanyakumari

FDA

• Ms. Fouzul Inaya, IV Year, B.Des. won First prize under the Solo category in "Flaunt Your Style Contest" conducted by Dept of Fashion Technology, KCG • Ms. Fouzul Inaya, IV Year, B.Des. won Third prize in speech competition on

National Youth Day 12 Aug. 2020 conducted by Sanjana Jon • Ms. Devi Kripa, N., III Year, B.Sc. won Third Prize A'la Mode Virtual Fashion

Show on 30 Sept. conducted by Dept Of Fashion Design, FDDI, Chennai • Ms. V. Srimathi, II Year, B.Sc. FD won First Prize in Snapshot Photography at

FIESTA 20 on 17 Dec.2020

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CHEMISTRY

• Mr. Rishi Karandikar, III Year, Aero, won First prize and Mr. K. Tarun, III Year, ECE, won Second prize in the painting competition conducted during science meet-2020. • Ms. J. Charulatha, II Year, prepared a video on “Green Technology in Agriculture” and uploaded in youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaI9cOzfiCc&t=16s) • Ms. G Sadhana, II Year, prepared a video on “Briquettes” and uploaded in you tube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9KYnhpRMPA&t=194s) • Mr. Aadithya and Mr. R.V.S. Vinay, III Year, Mech, prepared a video on “Waste

Minimization During Pandemic 2020” and uploaded in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2boPCq_nY) • Mr. Soumitra Dodkey, Mr. Rishi Karandikar, Mr. Shyam Tanna, III Year Aerospace, prepared a video on “Guide on industrial safety” and uploaded in youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU3UCAMz_I4&t=20s)

LANGUAGES

• Ms. Varsha S Nair, I Year, B.A. English secured the Runner Up position and a Cash

Prize of Rs. 2500 in an online Solo Singing Competition organised by National Institute of Fashion Technology in May 2020. • Mr. Neeraj Potdar, 1st Year, Aerospace Engineering bagged Winner title under

Western Solo & Hindustani Solo category of Azure organised on 27 May 2021. • Ms. Stuti Goyal, II Year, Aerospace Engineering, bagged Runner Up title under

Western Solo & Hindustani Solo category of Azure organised on 27 May 2021. • Ms. Dinaish Mistry, II Year, B. A. Triple Major (Psychology, English and Politics), obtained Second Prize at HOST 2021, Scrabble Tournament organised by Hindustan

Institute of Technology & Science on 24 April 2021. • Mr. Shehan Leroy, I Year, B. Tech. Aerospace Engineering, secured Third Prize at

HOST 2021, Scrabble Tournament organised by Hindustan Institute of Technology &

Science on 24 April 2021. • Ms. Varsha S Nair and Ms. Mansi Ashok Sharma, I Years, B.A. English attended an

Online Ubaya Summer Programme 2021 organised by the University of Surabaya (UBAYA) on “Dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic: Best Practices from Indonesia” from 1 to 5 February 2021. • Ms. Tharika, Aerospace, III Year, B. Tech. Aerospace Engineering; Mr. Rohit

Raghavan, 3rd Year, B. Tech. Aerospace Engineering; and Ms. Ruth Sheela, 4th Year,

B. Tech. Chemical Engineering participated in the “13th All India Korean Speech

Contest” on 27 November 2020. His Excellency Mr. Shin Bong- Kil, Ambassador of

Republic of Korea to India presided over the event as the Chief Guest.

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