IIT-Patna students will groove to Hindi-pop band Euphoria's numbers at Anwesha, the annual festival that begins on January 22.

Euphoria, whose first album, Dhoom, was launched in 1998, will perform on the last day of the tech-cultural fest, January 24. The band's popular numbers include Phir Dhoom, Mantra and Mehfuz. The event will take place on the new campus in Bihta (35km southwest of Patna), which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in July.

Mayank Garg, a third-year electrical engineering student at IIT-Patna, said: "A huge stage will be erected for the live performance. We expect around 4,000 students from 350 colleges to take part in the event." Students from NIT-Jamshedpur, IIM-Indore, NIFT-Calcutta, KIIT-Bhubaneswar, IIM-Bodhgaya, Nalanda University and some colleges of Patna are also expected to take part in the fest.

Apart from Euphoria's live concert, other events include fashion shows, classical dance performances, sand art and a science exhibition. Auditions for the cultural events were conducted in Calcutta, Lucknow and Indore. The ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) will have stalls of groups associated with the ministry. Around 15 such groups, including those associated with Madhubani painting, bronze utensils and furniture and crafts made of bamboo, are also expected to take part.

Garg said: "It is the first time that MSME will set up stalls at the fest. The basic idea of having such stalls is to develop a link between the workers involved with small and medium industries with the outside world."

Explaining further, Garg said: "Students of IIT-Patna have developed small machines that would be beneficial for people involved in the profession."