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| KHAG L | No. 117 - JANUARY 2019 | 08 IUCAA-NCRA Radio Astronomy Winter School 2018 Radio Astronomy Winter School (RAWSC) has been organized every year jointly by IUCAA and NCRA. The school is largely meant for under-graduate students in science pursuing BSc (Physics/ Electronics/Astronomy) and Engineering (BE/BTech). Through lectures and hands-on radio astronomy experiments, the school exposes participants to various astronomy fields in general and radio astronomy in particular. Over last ten years, the school has been immensely popular, and so far such schools have been organized since 2008. The schools such as this are extremely important for attracting bright students to astronomy, particularly in the wake of Indian astronomical community embarking on several mega-projects such as SKA, TMT, and LIGO - India. The 11th RAWSC was organized during December 14 - 24, 2018. About 30 students from various colleges across the country participated in the school. The school was inaugurated by Somak Raychaudhury, Director, IUCAAand Yashwant Gupta, Centre Director, NCRA The main focus of the school was the hands-on experiments set up at IUCAA and NCRARadio Physics Labs, which were: (i) Observations of the Sun using the 4 m telescope to determine the antenna power pattern, (ii) Observations of HI 21 cm line to observe neutral hydrogen from the Galaxy (using 4 m telescope and conical horn antenna), (iii) Characterization of super- heterodyne receiver, and (iv) Understanding noise fundamentals through Johnson noise. For these experiments, the students were arranged into five groups. The school also had lectures on astronomy by Joydeep Bagchi (IUCAA), on GalaxyClusters, DivyaOberoi (NCRA), on Sun, SurhudMore