from bands such as Underground Authority in Corona 2014 and Raeth in Corona 2015. The students of NIT Patna also celebrate Parakram, the annual intramural sport festival. Indoor and outdoor sports Every year in January, NIT Patna holds a week with events such as cricket, football, table tennis, badminton, carom, and discus throw. Managed by students, this event tests their organising and managerial skills. NIT Patna cricket team were runners up in 2018 inter NIT Trophy. The NIT Patna Strength Games team, which includes weightlifting, powerlifting and bodybuilding has won the overall champions' trophy consecutively in 2018 as well as 2019, while bagging the 'best lifter' trophy in both the years (Kumar Aman, mtech '18 and Rajendra Meena, btech '19) Societies The institute recognizes these major societies: The Cultural Society organizes a cultural extravaganza under the name Mélange – the melting pot of talents. The Common Room Society organizes indoor games competitions like chess, carom, table tennis, badminton, and Su-doku championship. The Outdoor Society conducts field events like cricket, football, volleyball, javelin, discus and includes the Athletic Society, which conducts the athletic events. The EXE-Extreme Engineering society provides lectures on robotics and embedded systems which is no more functional because of lack of administrative support. NIT-Patna started up student chapters with an internationally recognized societies like ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) for ME students and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for ECE and EE students. SANKALP Ghar Ghar Shiksha Ka- An organization established by the students of NIT Patna in 2007, to teach unprivileged kids from nearby slums. The organization comes under NSS. INCUBATION CENTER- Government of Bihar unveiled the Bihar & Start Policy 2017 to foster entrepreneurship and selected NIT Patna as one of the pilot institutes. Incubation Center is officially in the list of incubators under the Bihar & Start Policy 2017. Residential student halls The housing facilities (hostels) are: Boys hostels: Sone Hostel Block A (earlier known as New Engineer's Hostel) Sone Hostel Block B (earlier known as Engineer's Hostel-1) Kosi Hostel (new) Bagmati Hostel (earlier known as Engineers' Hostel-2) Brahmaputra Hostel (new) Girls hostels: Ganga Hostel (Blocks A, B and C earlier knows as Girl Engineer's Hostel – GEH ) These hostels now can accommodate all of the students because of the newly constructed Brahmaputra hostel making it a fully residential campus. Notable alumni Bindeshwari Dubey, Former Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar,