" PULSE " @ AIIMS, New Delhi Interesting Facts...

 

• 'PULSE' is South-East Asia's largest socio-cultural literary sports festival organized at AIIMS, New Delhi every year. 
• Pulse has a history of 47 glorious years and is one of the biggest and most awaited event in the calendar of a medical student in India as well as surrounding SAARC countries.
• A plethora of cultural, literary, fine arts, and sports competitions feature as part of this mega event. 
• The aim of 'Pulse' is to promote intellectual and cultural exchange among the young medical fraternity. The festival has grown by leaps and bounds over the years and presently about 40,000 students from 700 colleges participate and compete in 200 events and enjoy 7 days of this extravaganza.
  
  
  
•  Pulse also enjoys a lot of publicity (print, electronic, and web-based) throughout the 7 days of the fest.
• It is organized in September by the AIIMS student union who tries to make this event as one of the most memorable days of each participant's life.
• Events ranging from Pop Night, Rock Night, Laughter Night, Hasya Kavi Sammelan, Classical Night, Socio-Cultural Competitions, Sports Competitions, etc keep the audiences engaged for 7 consecutive days. Stalls of food items and various other local attractions also add to the Carnival atmosphere.
• The Femina Miss India auditions most often take place within the festival.
• Registration is required for participants from outside Delhi. Once registered, the delegates are provided accommodation and transportation at a nominal cost for the seven days.
• Participants in medical colleges from even the farthest corners of India eagerly await the invitation to Pulse.
• Pulse holds high class due to quality of participation as well as the judges. The best people in their fields available are invited to be the judge for the respective fields. Many of them are national level celebrities.
• Every evening on all seven days there is one mega event in addition to the regular competitive events. The central Foyer in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Auditorium - the heart of pulse activities - is generally decorated with a huge "rangoli" which stays for seven days.
• Pulse takes place by the coordinated efforts of the students at AIIMS. Preparations for which starts more than 6 months before the event. Team leaders are elected for different activities (like finance, conduction, internal publicity, external publicity, security, general arrangements, transport, central reception, accommodation, etc). These teams are under a Chief Co-ordinator and act in coordination with the teams under the Social & Cultural, Literary and Sports Secretaries (members of the Students Union, AIIMS) who host the competitive events. They all receive materials and instruction from the previous years' teams for the same activities, some of which are more than three decades of heritage. 
• The most laudable part is that AIIMS students take pride in executing most of these activities with the least hired professional help despite the small size of its student population. This is possible due to the high motivation and cooperation of all members of  the AIIMS community to let Pulse go on at its best.