SINGAPORE ALUMNI CHAPTER UPDATES The new officer bearers of the TKMCE Alumni Singapore led by Mr Shaji Philips (Civil 1991) took over the alumni works in December 2020. Singapore Alumni committee was formed in Nov 2016 and was led by Mr Jovi Jacob (Mechanical 1988) since then. With the prevailing pandemic situation, Singapore alumni members withdrew some of our planned as well as pre-arranged gatherings in 2020. Amidst these COVID times, we had pulled through and managed to interact with each other and arrange few online gatherings to keep our alumni bond intact. TKM alumni members made voluntary contributions to help out the people stranded in Singapore during the COVID period with special mention to TKMCE Alumni Singapore Chairman, Mr Shaji Philips who was actively involved in ensuring adequate food supplies to workers and in assisting Indian students to return home during the COVID pandemic. Mr Shaji was bestowed with Social Excellence Award by Pravasi Express Newspaper (which has coverage in India, Singapore, Malaysia and Middle East) for his valuable contributions to the society through various social work activities for many years. He was instrumental in facilitating financial aid for the medical treatment of workers and for the dependents of those workers who met with accidents in Singapore. Towards the end of the year, the alumni committee decided to participate in TISFF (TKMCE International Short Film Festival). The team spirit to represent Singapore Alumni in the TKM global committee led the team to create a short film even though none of the members had previous experiences. The filming was completed in one day following the guidelines for gatherings provided by Singapore government. The Singapore alumni ended the year with one more online gathering, hoping to meet in the new year.