[Assam] Fake NASA Junior Scientist case : Kolhapur boy cons authorities to get money for fake NASA trip : Assamese boy ARNAB KAKOTI under suspect

[Buljit Buragohain]

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  Two Indian prodigies make it to NASA

(Link of the News : http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=134363)
    Two young Indian prodigies – one belonging to a middle-class family from Assam and the other being a son of a farmer from a village in Kolhapur – have made it to NASA, US, to train as an astronomer after NASA discovered their talents..
CJ: Sasidharan Nair ,  5 days ago   Views:791   Comments:5 
  THIS IS about two young Indian scientists who are in the news now. The first is a 20-year-old prodigy, Arnab Kakoti from Assam, and the other one is 17 years old Sridhar Kamble from Maharashtra.   

  Kakoti, the wonder boy, hails from Golghat, a small town in upper Assam. He is pursuing his mechanical engineering from Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology (GIET), besides heading a project in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is one of the seven project in-charges of NASA. Kakoti earned this distinct honour through his phenomenal research on asteroids.
  

  He is in India now, to appear for his mechanical engineering exam. During an interaction with students of Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya (VKV) in Dibrugarh, where he studied till class X, Kakoti said that he was working on building a satellite, which would detect calamities like Tsunami, global warming well in advance.
  

  At a young age, he listened to bedtime-stores of Swami Vivekananda, told by his mother, with curiosity, which had highly influenced him. The mysteries of the world used to amuse him and he inured to question himself, "What is god?" He believes that god is the power that balances the energy of the universe.
  

  Kokati was lucky to born to such high-minded parents, who taught him the moral values, ethics, culture and traditions that India cherishes. Though not rich, they gave best possible education to their son and significantly, influenced to mould his persona of a good human being. Kokati believes in respecting parents and teachers. He said that mediocrity was not a hurdle.. Hard work, dedication and a deep understanding of your passion will lead to break the path to victory.
  

  While studying in class X, Kokati had sent his hypothesis of 50 pages on 'Formation of Mars and Asteroids' to NASA. After 10 months, he received 20 e-mails from NASA. The first e-mail, from its director, said, "You are the only person who can save this world."
  

  He was not a brilliant student in school. Kokati was shy and used to score around 60 per cent marks, recalled his teacher, Bharati Thakur, a teacher who belongs to Nasik and had gone to Golghat to teach in Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya (VKV). 
  

  Kokati was interested in space science from a very young age. He had sent his research paper on the 'Big Bang' theory to the World Junior NASA Competition and was selected as a junior scientist of the space agency, which invited him to join them and study there. He also came in contact with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who guided and motivated him on his work.
  

  He has taken part in nine NASA seminars and two others with the European Space Agency (ESA).
  

  Kakoti was felicitated by Governor, Ajai Singh on April 15 at Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan in Guwahati, for being selected as junior scientist in NASA, America.
  

  The second young scientist is Shridhar Kamble, a farmer's 17-year-old HSC student from Tiravade village in Kolhapur. He has been selected by NASA, America, to train as an astronomer in one of the leading American universities.
  

  The selection was on the basis of a feedback sent by him on the NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab's scientists' findings on 'Evolution of Galaxy'. Dr RV Bhosale, an 83-year-old former NASA scientist and presently honorary professor at Shivaji University in Kolhapur, was impressed by Kamble 's theory on galaxy evolution and gave Kamble necessary guidance in writing his feedback.
  

  Kamble is the son of Dhulappa Kamble and Kanchan Kamble, who are from Dalit community and are small landholding farmers. He had earlier won young scientist award from Bhabha Research Institute when he was in eighth standard.
  

  His feedback was selected by NASA and awarded a scholarship of $ 10,000. The authorities invited him to join NASA as a junior scientist and also recommended direct admission to Colorado University to study galaxy evolution, high energy physics, astrophysics and astronomy without any entrance examination like Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). NASA offered full financial assistance for his third and fourth year in the four-year under graduation course and he had to arrange around Rs 40 lakhs for his first and second year studies, travel and living expenses.
  

  After reading an article on May 15 (Thursday morning), chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh told his principal secretary to write a letter to social justice minister, Chandrakant Handore, directing him to contact Kamble and give him the money he needs to pursue his dream. Now, the state government will take care of the expenses of his first and second year studies at the Colorado University.
  

  The swift and timely action by chief minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, for making the financial arrangement for Kamble for his studies is significant and commendable, where the so-called sole 'saviours' of downtrodden dalit community like Mayawati and company utterly ignored and miserably failed to acknowledge the merit and potential of a prodigy like Kamble.
   
  AND THE NEXT IMPORTANT NEWS IS:
   
  http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Kolhapur-boy-cons-authorities-to-get-money-for-NASA-trip/314254/
   
    Kolhapur boy cons authorities to get money for NASA trip
  AgenciesPosted online: Sunday , May 25, 2008 at 08:07:16
Updated: Sunday , May 25, 2008 at 08:07:16   Print Email To Editor Post Comments


Pune, May 25: Parading as a deprived talent recognised by the NASA with a research scholarship, a class 12 boy in Kolhapur managed to hoodwink authorities to get money by producing fake documents, official sources said on Saturday.   Sridhar Kamble, who has just appeared for the 12th standard exam from Vivekanand college, caught the attention of the media with the claim that the NASA had selected him as a junior scientist after he submitted a research paper. 
  Sridhar, according to reports carried by media, had sent his paper on milky way and black holes after he passed the 10th standard conducted by Kolhapur HSC board. 
  Taking note of the plight of a brilliant but poor student who was unable to go the US to avail of the NASA fellowship for want of money, the Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh assured all necessary financial assistance to Sridhar to undertake the trip. 
  The cat was out of the bag when the state social welfare department started scanning his testimonials and certificates to initiate the process for his US trip. 
  It was then discovered that he had faked his marks in the 10th standard Board exam as well as the correspondence with NASA. 
  Confirming that Sridhar had manipulated his 10th standard marksheet with an inflated score of 93 per cent while his actual percentage was only 83, Ujjwala Patil, Chairman of Kolhapur HSC Board said in Pune he had applied for a duplicate marksheet saying that he had lost the original. 
  "He must have forged the papers later," she added. 
  "We will take necessary action against him after we get the possession of the fake copies of testimonials submitted to the social welfare department," Patil said. 
  Meanwhile, the promising young boy is reportedly absconding from Kolhapur. 
  When contacted over phone, a neighbour of Kamble said he has gone to Mumbai and his parents are not in a position to talk. 
   
  or go through it: http://www.india-server.com/news/nasa-claim-fake-con-game-of-kolhapur-1395.html
   
  AND ABOUT the NOBEL NOMINATION "ARNAB KAKOTI" GOT :



The names of the nominees cannot be revealed until 50 years later because the procedure for nobel award nomination is something different. There are selective moninators who can select the nominees and even nominees donot get to know whether they are selected for nobel award nomination. There is nothing like the nominees would give a presentation and depending upon their presentation they would get selected for Nobel award. If I can recollect well, CV Raman didnot knew about his nomination for Nobel award. He got it in 1930 because there was a strong nominator group (Including famous scientists like Neils Bohr, C Febri, J Stark etc and he got total 10 proposal or nomination).
One would like to go through the following link.   http://nobelprize. org/nomination/ nomination_ facts.html

  Moreover,  There is nothing great that Arnab Kakati has discovered, while put his name in www.google.com. Generally, Google covers every news of any incident.
  But nothing is there about Arnab Kakoti, except some local media news.




       
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