AAR part 1 - Alumni || IITKGP
Transcript of AAR part 1 - Alumni || IITKGP
Office of Alumni Affairs and International RelationsIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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An Initiative of the Institutional Development (ID) Program
lumniANNUAL REPORT 2010-11
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Message from Prof. Amit Patra, Dean, AA&IR 1
Diamond Jubilee in View of Director, Prof. Damodar Acharya 2
Progress Report of ID Program by Chinna Boddipalli 8
Details of Advisors and Executive Advisors of ID Program 9
Financial Statements, 2010-2011 10
Year-wise List of Contributors 16(Highlights: Leadership Gifts, Major Gifts and Sponsorships, Annual
Premium Contributors, Featured Donors, Campaign Contributors)
Other Contributors over the years 40
IIT Foundation India Contributors' List 44
IIT Foundation USA Contributors' List 45
Sustainable Fund-raising 46
Fund-raising Programs 48
New Constructions in the Campus 49
Sponsored and Industrial R&D Projects 2010-2011 51
Our Recent Activities 60
Publications 61
Institute Lecture Series 62
Alumni Events 63
Giving Back Campaigns - My Imprint 65
Mentorship Program 66
Institute Awards: Distinguished Alumnus Awards 68
Distinguished Service Awards 71
Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award 73
Past Awardees : Distinguished Alumnus Awards 74
Life Fellows 75
Alumni Network : IIT Foundations (India and USA) 76
Domestic and International Chapters 77
Our Commitment 79
Contents:
Dear Alumnus,
Good News:
Are you aware in 2010-11 your alma mater has been
ranked among the top 25 technology colleges in Asia
by QS Top Universities and the top engineering
college by Outlook India? But the potential is far
more. Let us work towards it together.
With the reputation of the Institute strengthening
itself in the world scenario, we decided to bring to you
how we are making this progress possible,
acknowledge your contributions and involvement
towards this end and what more could be done to
make your alma mater a top class global institution
and sustain it thereof.
Being associated with such an esteemed Institute as
a student, alumnus, faculty and presently as Dean,
Alumni Affairs & International Relations, has
helped me to perceive the Institute through multi-
dimensional aspects. As a result the need to address
dynamic requirements of the Institute and the
strategies thereof has become pristine. Throughout
this last year we have worked towards realizing this
process through a program called Institutional
Development (ID). The ID program aims to
contribute towards strengthening infrastructural
development projects, chair professorships,
scholarships, R&D projects and general
endowments. In order to compete with the best
technological universities in a global environment,
we must increase both long-term endowment and
current operating funds. Also priority for the
Institute is to provide more support for student
initiatives - and gifts from alumni and friends will
help us do that.
The Office of Alumni Affairs and International
Relations is the coordinating centre of ID Program
conducting all means of official communications,
events and activities pertaining to alumni. Round the
year the office publishes journals and newsletters for
updating the alumni. Preeminently, with every
department publishing annual reports, this time as
an initiative of the ID Program, the Office of Alumni
Affairs & International Relations took its maiden
approach bringing forward its own annual report to
proffer comprehendible transparency on various
projects from brand building to fund raising under
the ID Program on ascendable resource development
projects to overall growth of the Institute.
You are a part of our timeline, and your engagement
with the Institute is crucial in helping us reach our
vision. You are energetic, knowledgeable and
immensely talented with strong networks, you can
mobilize funds and resources for over all
development and expansion of our alma mater. So, be
proud to be connected, and make others proud by
connecting and contributing.
If you have any ideas on how we can engage with
you, please feel free to contact me at
We could do better . . . and we should!
Prof. Amit Patra
Dean, Alumni Affairs & International Relations
IIT Kharagpur
1Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
1. What are your recollection
highlights of the past 60 years?
Ans. The Institute started with 208 undergraduates,
12 research scholars and 42 teachers from the
historic Hijli Detention Camp in August 1951.
Research formed an integral part of teacher-centric
IIT system of education. A teacher was fully
empowered to design content of the syllabus, to teach
and to continuously evaluate the performance of the
students. The concept was unheard of in this
country. Masters and PhD level research
programmes followed. In last 60 years the Institute
has grown in size. The Institute currently has over
9,000 students and about 575 faculty, offering 15
B.Tech (Hons) programmes, a B.Arch. (Hons)
programme, 35 Dual Degree Programmes, 7
Diamond Jubilee in view ofProf. Damodar Acharya, Director
integrated M.Sc. programmes, 6 two-year M.Sc.
programmes and 52 postgraduate programmes. The
Institute besides pioneering the IIT system of
education has been introducing many new
programmes for the first time in the country and in
the IIT system that includes B.Tech (Hons) in
Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech (Hons) in
Energy Science & Engineering, B.Tech (Hons) in
Biotechnology, B.Tech (Hons) in Manufacturing
Science & Engineering, B.Tech (Hons) in
Instrumentation Engineering, Master of Medical
Science & Technology, Bachelor of Law with
specialization in Intellectual Property Rights, and
MBA. Research and innovation are being given push
through creation of several Advanced Technology
Development Centres, Research Centres and
Multidisciplinary Research Groups. This has led to
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three-fold increase in research output in terms of
publications in peer reviewed journals, PhDs and
Patents in last 10 years. The landscape of the
Campus is continuously being changed to
accommodate large number of students, faculty and
new academic initiatives. The basic structure and
strength of IIT system of education that centered
around close interaction between the teacher and the
taught, community living and holistic personality
development are being painstakingly maintained.
2. What are your initiatives in your
tenure as IIT KGP Director?
Ans. The academic initiatives taken during my
tenure as Director include:
i) Bringing major changes in undergraduate,
postgraduate and research programmes that
include introduction of slow pace programmes.
ii) Introducing Bioscience and Environmental
Science as compulsory subjects for all
undergraduates.
iii) Close monitoring of the programme and
evaluation of the same by the students through
ERP system.
iv) New initiatives to encourage research through
Joint M.Tech-PhD, Joint M.Sc-PhD and Joint
MS-PhD programmes.
v) New academic initiatives include :
establishment of RCG School of Infrastructure
Design and Management, School of Water
Resource Management, P K Sinha Centre of
Bioenergy and Rajendra Mishra School of
Engineering Entrepreneurship.
vi) Major initiatives have been taken to augment
the Campus infrastructure that include
doubling the student accommodation facilities,
creation of about 450 accommodation for the
faculty, about 100 accommodation for the
supporting staff, a mega Classroom Complex
that will have 83 classrooms in the first phase,
a First Year Laboratory Complex, a new Block
for Chemical Science named after the
Founding Director Sir J C Ghosh and a
Chemical Science Laboratory Complex named
after Sir P C Roy. Sports and Games and other
facilities are being substantially augmented to
meet the students' need.
vii) Other major initiatives include construction of
a Road Over Bridge at the entry, a new Water
Supply System, Widening of the Roads and
improvement in the Drainage Systems.
viii) Several Interdisciplinary Research Centres
that include : Centre for Railway Research, IIT
Kharagpur – DVC Research Centre on Power,
General Motors Collaborative Research
Laboratory in Electronics Controls and
Software are now functional.
ix) To have better involvement of the alumni and
to strengthen their connectivity, an
institutional development programme is in
place. This will increase transparency and
accountability. Results in the form of RCG
School of Infrastructure Design and
Management, School of Water Resource
Management, P K Sinha Centre of Bioenergy
and Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering
Entrepreneurship are visible.
3. Education in India in general and
IITs in particular in undergoing
major expansion and change. What
are the major highlights and
opportunities?
Ans. Expansion and change that were overdue in
education including in the IIT system are now taking
place. Such changes are inevitable. IITs have no
doubt created a global brand for the quality of
education that they offer particularly at
undergraduate level. The country requires good
quality Masters and Ph.D Degree holders in large
number to sustain its growing research and
education needs. Producing good number of Ph.Ds
and postgraduates is perhaps the most important
challenge to the IIT system. With opening of the
education sector, the competition for good quality
students is now a reality. Our quality of education
and research has to be at par with the best in the
world. The brand IIT now gives us opportunity to
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spread our wing to other countries and to attract
students from other countries to our Campus. This
gives us good opportunity to upgrade our facilities
and quality of education. The need for cutting edge
research is increasingly being felt. The Industries are
now willing to support such research to remain
globally competitive. This gives us plenty of
opportunities to augment both quality and quantity
of research. Major challenges are, therefore, for IITs
to harness the opportunities. They include hiring
good quality faculty in large number, providing them
attractive facilities and compensation packages,
upgrading the research and education infrastructure
and creating facilities comparable to the best
accommodation within the Institute for all. Good
quality schooling and healthcare support facilities
are also to be provided.
Generation, protection and commercialization of
Intellectual Property is key to our success in
globalized market. The country needs scientists and
engineers with specialization in Intellectual
Property Law. IIT Kharagpur has started a Law
School, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property
Law”. Its graduates have already made marks for
themselves.
While receiving the Nobel Prize in Medicine, the
Nobel laureate remarked that the technology and
medicine must become closer to each other, the two
diverse disciplines must merge. Keeping this in view,
the Institute is launching a new School, Dr. Bidhan
Chandra Roy Institute of Medical Science and
Research. The Institute will not be a run of the mill
Medical College. It will bring the technology and
medicine together to create new paradigm for
medical education and healthcare delivery. Students
studying medicine shall have opportunity to
specialize on certain aspects of technology and vice
versa.
4. IITs are known for technology,
education, research. But many ask
the questions about how IITs have
contributed to “Nation building”.
Can you give some examples of how
IIT KGP has contributed to the
nation (e.g. in rural, agriculture,
environment, poverty, health…)?
Ans. IIT Kharagpur has significant contribution to
the process of nation building. IIT Kharagpur is
fortunate to have an Agricultural and Food
Engineering Department that has significant
contribution at national level. It includes
technologies for modernization of rice mills,
technologies for post harvest processing of grains,
vegetables and fruits, developing new genetically
modified disease resistant cotton seed, developing
technologies for precision agriculture, developing
technologies for water harvesting and tea processing.
The Institute has a Department of Architecture and
Regional Planning that has contributed significantly
to develop Master Plans for growing cities including
New Town in Rajarhat in Kolkata, Bhubaneswar
and Cuttack Development Authorities, Durgapur,
Haldia and Regional Plan for the North-East. The
Department has contributed significantly to
renovation of Historic Monuments and Heritage
Buildings. IIT Kharagpur, being located in a rural
area, has been promoting rural development through
its Rural Development Centre for more than three
decades now. It has a strong footpoints of district-
based regional development, schemes for Intensive
Crop Farming, Forestry, Horticulture, and NTFP-
based Crafts. The newly added Regional Centre for
Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) has
contributed significantly in development and
introduction of more efficient and effective rural
technologies including Potters' Wheel, Ambar
Charkha, machines for rope making, machines for
processing of minor forest produce, water filters for
safe drinking water and bioenergy production. The
Institute is engaged in developing Environment
Impact Assessment and Environmental
Management Plans for cities, mines, coastal zones
etc. In the healthcare sector the Institute has
pioneered in establishing a School of Medical Science
& Technology that promotes interdisciplinary
research relating healthcare to other engineering
disciplines. The School has successfully developed a
Reversible Male Contraceptive 'RISUG' that is now
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undergoing third phase of its clinical trial. It has
helped production of quality Copper T – a female
contraceptive. India is now the largest exporter of
this contraceptive. The School has made significant
contribution to Therapeutic and Nutraceutical
Compounds, Non-invasive Testing Devices, material
for Jaipur Foot, Device for Heart Sound Monitoring
and Artificial Heart that has undergone trial on goat,
Medical Implants and others to name a few. IIT
Kharagpur is contributing at national level to key
sectors of economy such as Steel Industries through
Steel Technology Centre, Railways through Railway
Research Centre, Power through IIT Kharagpur –
DVC R&D Centre, Tea Industries through Tea
Engineering Research Centre, Telecom through
Vodafone Essar – IIT Kharagpur TCOE and to
National Security through Centre of Excellence in
Information Insurance.
5. Can you think of major inventions
of discoveries coming out of IIT
Kharagpur that we could highlight
or feature particularly some
inventions or products that
contributed to the country?
Ans. IIT Kharagpur has applied for 242 Patents and
received 109 Patents in last few years.
Over the years IIT Kharagpur has gained special
expertise in advanced chip design, CAD for VLSI and
MEMS, software development, planning,
management and ERP working closely with all major
national and international organizations. Research
has also been initiated on specialized areas such as
MEMS based components for RF application. The
large gamut of specialized software technologies
include power management software, telemedicine
software (currently used in several remote sites in
several States), communication empowerment
software for physically challenged, software for
medical measurements and tools for security and
biometric authentication.
Other important software developed include a
specialized bond-graph based technology, simulators
for biomechanics, and a fluid mechanics and ocean
dynamics based software for storm surge
measurements.
In the areas of Life Sciences, the Institute has an
artificial heart development program that is
undergoing phase II trial. A unique male
contraceptive, RISUG is undergoing third phase of
trial.
The major research initiatives in nanotechnology
and nano-materials include work on nano-
composites, nano-wires, semiconductors and metal
alloys. A major research initiative in the
development of MBE cluster tool nano-
semiconductor infrastructure and nano-devices has
been initiated. The area of micro-fluidics and bio-
nano-mems has developed new techniques for DNA
hybridization, micro-scale cooling for electronic
components and digital microfluidics.
The development of a solar powered aircraft as a
major student-led funded research project has
underscored the active participation of the students
in niche areas.
6. Can you point to some major IIT
KGP alumni contributions – to IIT
Kharagpur, to India?
Ans. Some of our illustrious alumni are :
§ Ajit Jain became president of Berkshire
Hathaway's Reinsurance Group.
§ A. K. Malhotra contributed significantly as CEO
in formative years of ONGC.
§ Arvind Kejriwal won Ramon Magsaysay Award
for his work on RTI.
§ Arjun Malhotra co-founded HCL Technologies.
§ Arun Sarin became the CEO of Vodafone and
received Knighthood.
§ Asit K Biswas got the Stockholm Water Prize
(equivalent to Nobel Prize in Water) and is the
Chairman, Third World Water Research Centre
in Mexico.
§ B. K. Syngal as founding Chairman of VSNL
contributed to the development in Telecom.
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§
Secretary, Dept. of Space.
§ Kirit Parikh, founder Director of Indira Gandhi
Institute of Development Research and a
Member of Union Planning Commission of India.
§ Mani Lal Bhaumik invented the Excimer Laser.
§ Praveen Chaudhury contributed to the
development of Amorphous Silicon, the base
semiconductor material.
§ Prith Banerjee has been appointed as the
worldwide Director of HP Labs.
§ Ramesh Chandra founded Unitech Group,
India's second largest real estate company.
§ R. Gopalakrishnan is the Executive Director of
Tata Sons.
§ Ravi Kant is Vice Chairman and former
Managing Director of Tata Motors.
§ Srikumar Banerjee is the Secretary, DAE and
Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
§ Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya was awarded
the CBE, a Knighthood and Padma Bhushan.
§ Suhas Patil founded Cirrus Logic.
§ V. C. Kulandaiswamy was awarded Padma Shri
and Padma Bhushan.
§ Vinod Gupta founded InfoUSA and established
Vinod Gupta School of Management and Rajiv
Gandhi School of IP Law.
7. What would you like to see the
alumni to do for the IITs for India?
Ans. IIT Kharagpur would like the alumni to be its
brand ambassador. The most important contribution
that the Institute looks from its alumni is their time.
They can use this time to work as Joint Faculty to
share their experience with the students, to forge
collaboration in research with Industry of their
choice and to mentor the students. Financially they
could contribute towards endowment, scholarship,
chair professorship, special programmes, learning
centres and towards Diamond Jubilee events that
include publications, mementoes, lecture series and
PanIIT 2012 Global Conference.
K. Radhakrishnan is the Chairman of ISRO and 8. What are the grand challenges for
the next 50 years?
Ans. Change in the mindset from being one of the
best Institutions, offering quality undergraduate
programmes to one of the best that excels in Masters
and Doctoral level education, creates new knowledge
and contribute to national and global development
initiatives is the major challenge. Scaling of
infrastructure and facilities to be at par with the best
in the world is the next important challenge. This
will be essential for the Institute to draw good quality
faculty and students from within the country and
from other countries. To become a global player in
higher technical education, the Institute needs to
generate sufficient resources apart from the
Government grant from within the country and
abroad. The Institute has to excel in research and in
quality education to meet the needs of the
Government, Corporate and Service Sectors. This in
turn will call for a major change in the facilities,
faculty profiles and research infrastructures.
Increasing global exposure of the students is also
going to be a challenge.
9. What are your future plans for IIT
Kharagpur? What are you most
excited about or interested in?
Ans. Keeping in view the vision of the Founding
Fathers like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Sir J. C.
Ghosh, the Institute shall strive to become an
excellent Centre of Learning with students and
faculty drawn from all over the world. The Institute
wants to have at least 10% of its faculty from other
countries and 20% of postgraduate and research
students from abroad on its roll. This shall call for
significant improvement in its infrastructure and
generation of financial resources. Interdisciplinary
education and research that could make a difference
will continue to be the effort of the Institute.
The Institute is planning to enter into the field of
Medical Education to bridge the gap between two
diverse disciplines of Engineering and Medicine. The
proposed Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy Institute of
Medical Science and Research within IIT Kharagpur
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will not be a run of the mill Medical College. It will
bring in a paradigm shift in Medical Education
incorporating scientific analysis and technology into
the teaching of medicine. Simulation and virtual
reality will supplement the current experiential
learning and skill development. The product will be a
technology and analysis savy doctor who will be in a
position to use technology in creating and sustaining
the healthcare delivery system with wider reach. The
programme will be supported by a Biomedical
Research Centre and a technology enhanced
outreach programme. Interdisciplinary research will
bring the engineering students and faculty closer to
the medicine and vice-versa. The programme will be
supported by a 1,000 bed tertiary care hospital with
necessary infrastructure. The Institute will produce
more postgraduates and Ph.Ds than the
undergraduate MBBS.
The Institute has considerable bioscience interest
offering programmes in Biotechnology, Medical
Science and Technology, Plant Genetics, Agriculture
Biotechnology and Food Processing besides Drug
Design and Delivery. To support these activities, the
Institute shall establish a School of Bioscience
basically focusing on Cell and Molecular Biology.
Design and manufacturing of quality engineering
products need serious attention, if the country as a
whole could remain globally competitive. Keeping
this in view, the Institute is creating a School of
Quality Engineering Design and Manufacturing in
collaboration with several Industries from such
verticals as automobile, aerospace and electronics.
This School will produce Dual Degree Graduates who
can bridge the gap between the demand and the
supply of engineers who could be an innovative
designer and a manufacturer of global products.
To produce a set of bright entrepreneurs and job
generators, the Institute has introduced a five-year
Dual Degree programme on Engineering
Entrepreneurship where a student gets a B.Tech
(Hons.) and a Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship.
Each student goes through an innovation process
from his/her second year onwards to develop an idea
into a commercially viable product or process. Each
student is mentored by a faculty and a successful
entrepreneur, preferably an IITian from across the
globe. The student is not encouraged to appear at
campus interview. However, deferred placement is
available to him if he fails as an entrepreneur. The
Institute helps him to arrange for venture capital
funding. It also provides him incubation facilities.
Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering
Entrepreneurship is first of its kind.
7Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
KGP is moving forward with renewed vigor and
excitement. As you are aware, IIT Kharagpur is
celebrating its Diamond Jubilee on this August 18th,
and immediately thereafter we plan to embark on a
new journey that shall take us to even greater
heights of excellence. The higher education policies of
Progress Report ofInstitutionalDevelopment (ID)Program
Message fromManaging Director
India are in a transition phase with foreign varsities
approaching the system and institutions like IIT
being recommended to be self sustaining. You must
be aware of the Rs. 200 crores grant in the budget of
2011-2012. However there is a condition to it. Every
penny granted by the Government has to be matched
by the Institute from an independent source. This is
the first signal towards self sustenance. Such
governmental strategies would require IITs to
function and in a comprehensive manner. IIT KGP is
committed to this transformation as evidenced by
launching of Institutional Development (ID)
Program and other initiatives. The ID Program
envisaged a grand plan for IIT KGP in the coming
years. This will include significant developments
across the Institute.
The ID team strives to create new methodologies of
work and ambience and 'Indianize' the program to
suit our requirements. Even though the top
universities in the world have development
programs, in India, IIT KGP has pioneered in
designing this program which will serve as the
guiding lamp for many others in the country.
Through this program the Institute will exert
towards self sustenance. To achieve this end the
Program has been fashioned to improve alum
connectivity, enhance communication and ensure
accountability.
The program's initial target is to raise the matching
Rs. 200 crores from alumni and corporate. Another
very important landmark for ID Program is to raise
funds for Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The
requirement is Rs. 7 crores. I would encourage all our
alumni to contribute towards this cause and also
assist us in reaching out to corporate and agencies
involved in investing for CSR programs, new
technology developments etc. Together we could
make this possible and take out alma mater to new
heights. The Institute has walked a long way and it
has a lot more to achieve in the future. It is a
renaissance for IIT KGP! Being a KGPian, I sincerely
hope you will be part of all activities.
Chinna Boddipalli (AE/72/Azad)
Managing Director, ID program
IIT Kharagpur
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9Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur has initiated the Institutional Development (ID) program to leverage the alumni and corporate
relations for the growth of the Institute. Approved by the Board of Governors on February 20, 2010, the
program was formally launched on July 1, 2010 with the recruitment of the Managing Director of the program,
Mr. Chinna Boddipalli ('72, AE).
Mission:
The program aims to support institute's offer to enhance its international ranking.
Vision:§ Provide support for all-round growth plans of the
Institute
§ Implement a Sustainable and scalable resource development program
§ Leverage the alumni and corporate relations for the growth of the Institute
§ Promote the KGP Brand
Key components of the program:
§ Alum connectivity
§ Sustainable Fundraising
§ R&D Campaign
§ KGP brand building
§ Recruitment and Retaining
Founding Donors
§ Arjun Malhotra
§ Prabhakant Sinha
§ Purnendu Chatterjee
§ Ranbir Gupta
§ Mani Bhaumik
Institutional Development Program
Our activities so far:
Recruitment:
Managing Director: Mr. Chinna Boddipalli (AE/72)
Advisors (discussed in next chapter)
Staff:
1. Corporate Communication Executive (on board)
2. Executive Officer (on board)
3. Campaigns Executive (in process)
4. Webmaster for alumni portal (in process)
Alum Connectivity:
Integrated Web Portal: An integrated web portal www.iitkgp.org has been developed. The portal was launched during the 8th Annual Alumni Meet, 2011 by Director Prof. Damodar Acharya and is currently at its beta phase. The portal aims to connect to the alumni and inter-connect them through online directory, communities, discussion forum, blogs etc. Also the portal offers services like job portal, market place, details of availing Degree / Transcript / Certificates, Information about Office of AA & IR, ID Program, IIT Foundations and Alumni Associations and Chapters, news and events, publications and book reviews, awards.
Emails & Newsletters – Regular mails on various activates and e-newsletters are sent to the alumni
Career Advancement tools for students and alumni: Keeping this in mind two activities have been undertaken –
I) Mentorship program – senior alumni mentor the existing students. Mentor and mentee is matched based on their requirements specified and they are connected for further communication
ii) Online job portal
Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Service Awards – to recognize alumni contribution to their
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fields, to the society at large, to the Institute; DAA have been in process for several years, DSA has recently been started.
Alumni Database – Currently connected to 11500 alumni and has involved 5000 among them with a target to connect to 40000 alumni and involve at least 50% of them by 2012. The same database will be used for networking by the Institute, fund raising, and inter-connectivity among the alumni themselves through the web portal. For ensuring this task a dedicated database manager is in the process of recruitment.
Designing Literature – developing content and designs for several promotional literatures – brochures, magazines, pamphlets, letter templates etc
Event management – in process of engaging professional who will organize and manage events across the country
Sustainable Fund raising
This is a continuous process. The alumni will be connected to at the 1st level, then encouraged to participate, make individual contributions, being recognized as a contributor, henceforth leading others to contribute and in turn getting connected to those alumni. The strategies will include creating endowment funds and funds raised for specific purposes e.g. diamond jubilee, alumni meet etc. Specific fund raising campaigns have been developed – corporate matching program, endowment funds, pledge program etc. The fund raising segment in this report details about the funds generated till now and being accounted for.
Brand building initiatives
The initiative aims to help acquire IIT KGP global ranking among the top institutes and maintain the position as a top ranking domestic institute. Some such initiatives are as below:
§ Centers of excellences
§ Brand Visibility Initiatives
§ Strengthening Media Relations – Domestic & International
§ Foreign University linkages
§ Thought Leadership and prominent faculty visits
§ Outreach programs
§ CSR programs
Some strategies already initiated – press coverage have been given on events like convocation, foundation day and Pan IIT, series of articles have been published in a systematic manner ensuring media visibility; engaged an agency for brand management and PR activities.
R & D Campaign
ID Program has been working on collaborating with industrial houses and foreign universities for R & D projects. We are in conversation with some such institutions for jointly projects. More details in the concerned segment.
Recruitment & Retaining:
Herein the program focuses on two distinct policies – faculty and students
Faculty:
§ Recruitment support
§ Chair Professorships for attracting international faculty
§ Encouraging experienced alumni to join as faculty
§ R&D participation
Students:
§ Scholarships – streamlining being done, MB Scholarship in process, a special program called 'My Imprint' has been launched with its primary focus towards supporting students (more will be discussed later in this report)
§ Campaign for reaching out to top JEE Aspirants
§ Placement Outreach
IIT KGP has committed itself towards implementation of this program and making a globally reputed position for the Institute. However, this would require a wholesome participation from its students and alumni who stand as the brand ambassadors. We look forward to your ideas and efforts for this endeavor.
It is fun to be part of the transformation process of KGP! KGP ka Tempo Hai hai!
Write to Chinna Boddipalli at [email protected]
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Advisory Board Members
Mr. R. Gopalkrishnan
Mr. Arjun Malhotra
(ECE/1967/VS) - Alumni (India):
(EC/1970/RP) - Alumni (US):
Mr. Gopalkrishnan is currently the Executive Director of TATA Sons Ltd, Chairman of TATA Honeywell and Rallis India , Vice Chairman of TATA Chemicals and a Director of several TATA Companies like TATA Motors, TATA Power and TATA Teleservices. As a member of the Group Executive Office of Ratan
Tata, he is deeply engaged in the management and growth of the prestigious TATA Group. He also serves as a Director on the Board of ICI Ltd, Castrol India and ABP Pvt. Ltd. He the President of All India Management Association, Member of the Managing committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Member of the National Council of CII and Public Representative, Board of Governors, Bombay Stock Exchange. He received the Bombay Management Association's Management Man of the Year Award in 2003. He is the author of The Case of Bonsai Manager, published by Penguin India.
Mr. Malhotra serves as Chairman of Headstrong Co. Board of Directors. A pioneer of the Indian IT industry, Mr. Malhotra has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded the HCL group, taking it from a six-person operation to one of India's largest Information
Technology corporations. He is a member of the Board of Governors of IIT - Foundation (KGP), member of Board of Governors of Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, and member of Indian Public Schools Society which runs the Doons School. He founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at KGP through a personal endowment. Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of IIT Khargpur in 2003. He is currently a member of the Executive Council of NASSCOM which is India's representative organization for thr IT&ITES industry.
Mr. Matt Ter Molen
Dr. Prabhakant Sinha
- Non-Alumni (US):
(ME/1970) - Alumni (US):
Mr. Molen is Associate Dean for Development and Corporate Relations of Kellogg School of Management and Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations and Development for the Northwestern University. Matt has extensive experience in development at
Northwestern, having been with the University since 1998, working closely with senior leadership in the University including President, Deans, and Trustees. From 1998 through 2003, Matt was the Assistant Dean for Development at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences of NWU, managing all aspects of development at the College. Prior to Northwestern, Matt worked in development roles at the University of Chicago . From 1987-1989, Matt was with the United States Peace Corps.
Dr. Sinha is co-chairman and co-founder of ZS Associates, a leading sales and marketing consultancy in the world. He is also director of Greenlight Planet, Inc., a company dedicated to bringing affordable solar lighting to the powerless around the world. He also teaches
in Executive Education programs at the Kellog School of Management, Indian School of Business as well as publishing a number of books and over 25 other publications. In addition to receiving number of awards from American Marketing Association and INFORMS Society, he has been honored as an inductee of the Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2005. Dr. Sinha established P.K. Sinha Center for Bio-energy, India's first such energy research center at IIT KGP, to undertaking research, teaching and technological implementation of conventional and non-conventional energy.
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Mr. B.K. Syngal(EC/1962/RP) - Alumni (India):
Mr. Syngal was the Chairman and Managing Director (1991-98) of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL Ltd). Mr. Syngal is regarded as the father of Internet and data services in India , which propelled the growth of software exports from India . In the international telecom
arena, he has held the positions of Chairman, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization
Executive Advisors
Arjun Sen
Anjan Bose
(AE/86/Patel) - Alumni (US): Executive Advisor
for Branding and Communication
(EE/67/RK) - Alumni (US): Executive Advisor
for Faculty Recruitment
Arjun Sen is president and founder
of Zen Mango. Arjun's diverse
background includes aeronautics;
restaurants; charities; launching
one of the largest online businesses
in the country. Arjun earned his
MBA from Brigham Young
University in Provo, Utah and has
worked for Fortune 500 companies in numerous
high-powered marketing positions and most recently
served as VP of Marketing and Operations for Papa
John's. Since 2002 he has been teaching at the
University of Colorado, Boulder. Arjun has authored
an enchanting book called 'Raising a Father' (the
book review is available at the Publications/Alumni
Books segment of www.iitkgp.org)
Dr. Anjan Bose has over thirty-five
years of experience in industry and
academia, as an engineer, educator
and administrator. He is well
known as a technical leader in the
power grid control industry, a
researcher in electric power engineering, an educator
in engineering, and an administrator in higher
education. He holds M.S. (1968) from the University
of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. (1974) from Iowa
State University, in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Bose
holds the endowed Distinguished Professorship in
Power Engineering at Washington State University,
and is the Site Director of the NSF sponsored Power
System Engineering Research Center. From 1998 to
2005 he served as the Dean of the College of
Engineering and Architecture.
Goyal is a researcher at the US
Department of Energy's Oak Ridge
National Laboratory (ORNL) in
Tennessee. Widely regarded as an
international leader in the field of
high-temperature superconducting
(HTS) materials, Goyal is known
for his contributions to the
practical use of HTS and development and
fabrication of wires that allow these superconductors
to be adopted in the marketplace. Goyal received
executive business training from Purdue University
and the Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has
published more than 300 papers, has more than
5,000 citations and holds 54 patents. Goyal has also
Amit Goyal(MT/86) - Alumni (US): Executive Advisor for
Research and Development
(CTO), London , Councilor for India INMARSAT Council, London , Vice Chairman and Director, ICO Boards, Chairman of Governance Committee ICO, Cayman Islands and Governor, INTELSAT Board, Washington DC . Mr. Syngal also assumed charge as the Chairman of Reliance Telecom. He has been recipient of many industry awards including Telecom Man of the Decade award by Wisitex Foundation, India, Partners in Progress award by Maharashtra State Government for his contributions in telecommunications both in India and abroad.
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been honored by the R & D Magazine whose awards
are touted as the 'Oscars of Innovation.'
Neerja Raman is a research
executive with over 25 years
experience in industry and
academia. Her interest area is
enhanced delivery of social impact
through international business.
Ms. Raman is a graduate of the
Kellogg Executive Program, Northwestern
University, and has Masters Degrees from S.U.N.Y
Stony Brook, New York and Delhi University, India.
She is Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Media X,
Stanford University, coach, mentor to entrepreneurs
and as Senior Research Fellow at The Digital Vision
Program studied barriers and enablers for over 100
early stage social entrepreneurs in residence at
Stanford University. Prior, at Hewlett Packard Labs
she was Director, Strategic Planning and founder of
the Imaging Systems Lab which delivered product
ideas and advanced research for Hewlett Packard's
flagship printing, imaging and multi-media
businesses.
Neerja Raman
– Non-Alumni (US): Executive Advisor for
Research and Development
Roy DaSilva
Joyjit Nath
(EE/76/RK) – Alumni (US): Executive Advisor
for Sustainable Fund raising
(ECE/87/RK) – Alumni (US): Executive Advisor
for Alum Connectivity
Roy DaSilva is Executive Director,
Corporate Services for Epson
Electronics America Inc., (EEA) a
wholly owned subsidiary of Seiko
Epson Corporation, Japan. Roy
r e c e i v e d h i s M a s t e r s i n
Management Studies (MMS)
Degree from the University of
Bombay. Roy has been associated with Industry
Organizations such as FSIA, Professional
Organizations such as TiE, & SIPA, and Community
Organizations such as India Community Center, and
Goa Sudharop, many from their inception in Silicon
Valley. Roy is also the President of IIT Foundation
USA. He has been a driving force in leading several
new chapter events.
Joyjit Nath is the Sr. Principal Engineer (Software
Architect) at Broadcom with specialties in Linux
Kernel/BSP/Drivers, Embedded Linux, Win32
Programming, C/C++, Web Programming --
PHP/MySQL/http. Joyjit is the single point of contact
for the IIT Foundation USA website.
Financial Statements 2010-2011
Reference Notes:
1. Funds transferred for Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
Particulars Amount (INR)
3, 34, 19,240.79
2, 93, 70,795.57
Opening Balance as of 01.04.2010 12, 61,753.79
Donation Received - 2, 94, 86,115.00
Interest 26, 24,482.00
Other Income - 46,890.00
Use of Funds -
Programs: MB Scholarship - 5, 60,702.00
84 Batch Endowment Fund 9, 46,163.00
Fund transferred to operative Account (Refer Note1) 2, 76, 00,400.00
Alumni Hospitality - 2, 08,268.00
Other expenses - 55, 263. 57
Closing Balance as of 31.03.2011 40, 48,445.22
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On behalf of IIT-KGP we would like to thank you for your generous gift. Your commitment towards the fundraising activity
will help us step closer towards our goal.
Since its inception IIT-KGP has worked diligently to meet the dynamic educative demands of the aspiring youth in this
country and changed lives for the better. It has been extensively supported by the HRD Ministry of the Govt. of India for
decades. However, the brilliant alumni also, through its strong support have proved itself as a strong pillar for various
development activities impacting KGP environment profoundly.
Each year IIT-KGP continues to advance in its mission as mentioned above. With the help of thoughtful contributions from
the alumni such as you we will continue to see the improvements.
Herein we have made a modest effort to thank your contributions over the years.
Office of Alumni Affairs & International Relations
IIT Kharagpur
Alumni who made a difference
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Rajiv Gandhi Schoolof IP Law
Vinod Gupta School ofManagement (VGSOM)
GS Sanyal School ofTelecommunication
PK Sinha Centerfor Bioenergy
Ranbir & Chitra Gupta School of
Infrastructure Design & Management
Vodafone Essar - IIT Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications
Advanced VLSIDesign Laboratory
Arun Sarin Laboratory for
Electronic Materials
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
LEADERSHIP GIFTS
Arjun Malhotra
As a pioneer in Information Technology, Arjun
Malhotra's (E&ECE '70) name has almost become a
byword for innovation and enterprise. Arjun
Malhotra, had a vision of Telecommunication needs
and its growth potential in India. Mr. Malhotra and
his wife, Mrs. Kiran Malhotra, made an invaluable
endowment for setting up the G S Sanyal School of
Telecommunications, named after his Professor and
former IIT Kharagpur Director, to function as a
center of excellence in the field of communication
technology. He has also helped actively in setting up
the campus communication network and VLSI
Laboratory.
Arjun is Chairman of Vision 2020, an alumni
initiative to create a $200 million endowment fund
for IIT Kharagpur by the year 2020. In recognition of
his outstanding contribution and services to the
Institute, Mr. Malhotra was declared Life Fellow of
IIT Kharagpur in February 2003.
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Mitrajit Mukherjee (CHE/86/RK) - Mitrajit Mukherjee is the Founder and President
of Exelus Inc. He has 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and
implementing new industrial chemical processes. In IIT Mukherjee was the Hall
President, General Secretary - Social & Cultural, Literary Secretary and Student
Representative for Gymkhana. He did Masters from Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale. Mitrajit made a significant contribution during the year 2010-2011.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
CONTRIBUTORS 2010 – 2011
Mitrajit Mukherjee
Featured Donor (2010-2011)
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Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)Mitrajit Mukherjee B Tech 1986 CH RK 500000Anand Deshpande B Tech 1984 CS PH 250000Krishan Khanna B Tech 1961 ME AZ 100000Upesh Mahadeva B Arch 2005 AR NH 10000Sushanta Kumar Ray B Tech 1961 CE AZ 10000Pradipta Das M Sc 1984 GG RP 10000Ajit Kumar Chakravarty M Tech 1981 AG RK 10000OP Khanna B Tech 1961 ME PH 10000Dr. V.R. Pavoor 10000VM Nagarajan B Tech 1961 EE RP 10000Anand Dattatraya Kurumbhate 10000Ramachandran Subramanyan B Tech 1961 ME PH 5000
On the occasion of 2010 Foundation day, MOU has been signed between the Technology Alumni Association (TAA), Bangalore and the IIT Kharagpur for the 'Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Program' to encourage faculty at IIT Kharagpur. Under the Program, the Institute would select the faculty annually who would be eligible for – a Citation, a Rolling Trophy and financial incentive to be decided by the selecting committee jointly with TAA-BLR on a yearly basis. The faculty should be below the age of 35 years to be eligible under the program. In 2010-2011 the fellowship has been conferred on Dr. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay of Computer Science Engineering. Dr. Mukhopadhyay joined the Institute in 2008. He also got the INSA Young Scientist Award (2010) and INAE Young Engineer Award (2010). His research areas are Cryptology, VLSI, Embedded systems for Cryptographic Systems, Side Channel Analysis.
Contributors (Rs.15000 each):
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS 2010-2011 Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Program
Varadu Seshamani 1969 ME NH Prof. Parameshwar P Iyer 1974 AGRKS Devarajan 1978 EE RP Dhananjay Collur 1981 ECRKAnup Varma 1982 EC AZ Rahul Bhalchandra 1989 NAPHJoseph Fernandes 1990 ME Shasikant Joshi 1990 CSPHKrishnaraj Venkataraman 1991 EE RP Rajesh Saligram 1992 METarun Kumar 1995 CH PH Krishna Mehra 2006 CSRK
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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LEADERSHIP GIFTS
Vinod Gupta
Vinod (Vin) Gupta (AGFE '67) is the Founder and
Chairman of InfoUSA, Inc., headquartered in
Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Vinod has always been
conscious of his Indian roots and generously
contributes to his alma mater for making him what
he is today. In early '90s he gave $2 million to
establish a business school at IIT Kharagpur which
is called the Vinod Gupta School of Management, the
first business school in the IIT system.
Vinod has been donating money to a number of
causes be it for events, Hall or Departmental
requirements. He has also played a pivotal role
towards the establishment of the Rajiv Gandhi
School of Intellectual Property Law again the first of
its kind in the IIT system.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS 2010-2011 MB Scholarship
MB Scholarship is being set up by batch-mates and friends from IIT Kharagpur, in the fond memory of
their friend Malayesh Banerjee. Malayesh succumbed to bullet wounds during the ghastly terrorist attack
in Mumbai on November 26, 2008. The Scholarship would be awarded to a UG student in the 3rd year on ndthe basis of his 2 year's performance. Donations from MB Scholarship Programme – Rs. 5, 60, 702
Contributors' Details
Donors Degree Year Dept Amount (INR)
Khushboo Jha B Arch 2005 AR 197,200
Chandan kumar 20,000
Aayush Jain DD 2005 CE 10,000
Amlan Chaudhuri B Tech 2006 EE 10,000
Kamal Kishore Parida B Tech 2004 EE 10,000
Rahul Sinha B Tech 2007 EE 10,000
Abhishek Ranjan B Tech 2010 CH 6,000
Jyoti Kumar M Sc 2004 GG 6,000
Piyush Agrawal B Tech 2004 CE 5,100
Himanshu Gupta B Tech 2001 EC 5,001
Abhinav Sinha B Tech 2003 CH 5,000
Ajay Mohan Rao Dharanipathi B Tech 2005 AE 5,000
Anirudh Reddy DD 2005 EE 5,000
Anuj Sethi DD 2005 CE 5,000
Anup Upadhyay 5,000
Ashutosh Shankar B Tech 2004 CH 5,000
Ayushman Sen B Tech 2005 EE 5,000
Chandan Ghosh DD 2004 EC 5,000
Deependra Mishra DD 2005 ME 5,000
Nishant Kumar B Tech 2009 CE 5,000
Parul Kulshreshtha B Arch 2005 AR 5,000
Rohit Sinha B Tech 2004 ME 5,000
Romila Pradhan M Sc 2008 MA 5,000
Soham Dutta DD 2006 IM 5,000
Abhijeet Kumar Singh DD 2005 MI 4,000
Sandeep Kumar Mishra B Tech 2004 CE 3,000
Saugato Dey B Arch 2005 AR 2,500
Anand Ladda B Tech 2003 IM 2,000
Kumar Saurabh B Tech 2008 BT 2,000
Sandeep Agarwal B Tech 2003 CE 2,000
Sandeep Prasad B Tech 2004 CE 2,000
Rohan Kumar B Tech 2003 CE 1,100
Piyush Singal B Tech 2003 CS 1,000
Raj Kumar B Tech 2003 ME 1,000
Sachin Shukla DD 2006 MI 1,000
Saurabh Roy B Tech 2006 MM 1,000
Soumen Chakraborty DD 2005 EE 1,000
Anurag Verma B Tech 2004 EE 500
Prem Shankar B Tech 2003 NA 500
Ankur Aggrawal B Tech 2004 AE 100
Vikram B Tech 2008 NA 20,000
Donors Degree Year DeptAmount (INR)
Aditya Prasad B Tech 2004 EC 12,000
Rajat Pal Singh Rosha B Tech 2004 MI 10,000
Shouvik Som B Tech 2004 CS 10,000
Srijith Mohanan B Tech 2004 EE 10,000
Upesh Mahadeva B Arch 2005 AR 10,000
Priyanka Dutta M Sc 2008 GG 6,000
Prasun Choudhary B Tech 2003 AG 5,500
Rishabh Raj DD 2004 GG 5,100
Gautam Kumar B Tech 2004 CH 5,000
Gautam Singh B Tech 2003 CS 5,000
Himanshu Shekhar M Sc 2007 CY 5,000
Joydeep Dutta Ph D 2008 AR 5,000
Kamlesh Tiwari B Arch 2005 AR 5,000
Kanwaldeep Singh Kahlon B Tech 2004 CE 5,000
Krishnaswamy T B Tech 2003 EC 5,000
Kumar Avijot B Tech 2004 MI 5,000
Mouneesh Sinha DD 2005 EE 5,000
Mustansir Doctor M Sc 2005 MA 5,000
Sachin Kumar Rastogi B Tech 2004 CE 5,000
Sahil Saurabh Gupta DD 2007 IM 5,000
Shalini Grace Runda B Tech 2004 IM 5,000
Shreeharsh Mallick B Tech 2004 EE 5,000
Satvik Sarwade B Tech 2004 CE 4,000
Saket Sameer DD 2005 CE 4,000
Varun Kishore B Arch 2007 AR 3,000
Shree Krishna DD 2005 NA 2,500
Nitish Prasad Bandi DD 2005 AG 2,000
Sajjan Kumar Soni DD 2005 CH 2,000
Shailesh Kumar Mishra B Tech 2003 CH 2,000
Subrat Kumar Panda Ph D 2010 CS 2,000
Nitin Mohta DD 2006 ME 1,000
Abhineet Nayak B Tech 2002 EC 1,000
Anurag B Tech 2005 CE 1,000
Birendra Kumar Singh M Sc 2005 MA 1,000
Madhuker Priyesh B Tech 2004 ME 1,000
Rahul Kumar Lodha B Tech 2004 EC 501
Ramesh Raman Jha B Arch 2007 AR 500
Sumeet Khanna B Tech 2002 ME 500
Sindhu Verma DD 2005 EE 100
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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LEADERSHIP GIFTS
Prabhakant Sinha
Dr. Prabhakant Sinha (ME '70), Founder and Co-
Chairman of ZS Associates in an effort of giving back
to his alma mater, laid the foundation of P. K. Sinha
Center for Bioenergy in the year 2009. Dr. Sinha, is
seed-funding the Center with 10 crore rupees (2
million USD).
We thank Dr. Sinha whole heartedly for establishing
this multidisciplinary center – which aspires to be
the nation's leading center for Bioenergy research
will help to tap the full potential of the country's
Bioenergy sources through a focused, integrated
approach.
In the fiscal year 2011-2012 Dr. Sinha has donated
another Rs. 90 lakhs towards this purpose.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 2009 – 2010 Featured Donor (2009-2010)
Himanshu Patel (B.Tech./84/Patel) – Himanshu is Manager – Gas Technology and Business Development,
Bechtel Corp. Texus. Mr. Patel has contributed significantly during the 2009 annual alumni meet. He was also
instrumental in coordinating with the US alumni for the meet.
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Himanshu Patel B Tech 1984 CH PH 2,46,163
Anand Deshpande B Tech 1984 CS PH 2,00,000
Ashok Kapur B Tech 1967 ME RK 10,000
Pradipta Kumar Das M Sc 1984 GG RP 10,000
Dev Ranjan Sircar B Tech 1960 CE AZ 5,051
Chiranjay Chaudhury M Sc 1985 GG RP 50H00
Yash Pal Singh Ph D 1969 EE NH 2500
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
CONTRIBUTORS 2008 – 2009 Featured Donor (2008-2009)
Rahul Jha (EC/ 1999) – Rahul is Associate at Millennium Capital Management, Singapore. He has
extensively funded the Soft Computing Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering for purchase of
computers, AC unit and other accessories and further development of the lab.
Sekar Srinivasan (CSE/84) – Mr. Srinivasan is a social entrepreneur. With close to 30 years of IT and
product industry experiencehe aims to create an innovative company which can deliver high-quality, scalable
education to both the underprivileged and the affording students of the world, relevant in achieving their
personal goals.
CONTRIBUTORS 2008 – 2009 Featured Donor (2008-2009)
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Rahul Jha EC 1999 ME
Anand Despande B Tech 1984 CS PH 2,50,000.00
Sekar Srinivasan B Tech 1984 CS LLR 2,50,000.00
DVR Rao 25,000.00
Santosh Kumar Mishra B Tech 1981 EE NH 24,099.00
Prabhat Kumar Pal B Tech 1959 NA 10,000.00
Hebbar Airodi B Tech 1984 AE AZ 10,000.00
Krishan Khanna B Tech 1961 ME AZ 10,000.00
Arnab Datta B Tech 1984 ME LLR 10,000.00
Asit Das B Tech 1984 NA LLR 5,000.00
Pabitro Kumar De Sarkar B Tech 1956 CE NH 5,000.00
Ashok Kumar Mandal B Tech 1983 EC NH 5,000.00
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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LEADERSHIP GIFTS
Ranbir Gupta
Ranbir (Ron) Singh Gupta (B. Arch '70) is the
Chairman of SIGMA7 Design Group Inc. with
leadership role for almost 30 years, developing
architecture in to a successful business enterprise.
Under his patronage the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta
School of Infrastructure Design & Management was
started in IIT KGP in 2008 with a seed-funding of
about 1 million dollar.
The school of Infrastructure Design and
Management is the first of its kind to be setup in the
IIT system and also in the country.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 2007 – 2008
CONTRIBUTORS 2006 – 2007
CONTRIBUTORS 2005 – 2006
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Anupam Shringi B Tech 1994 ME AZ 21000
Tata Power 20000
Ashok Kapoor B Tech 1967 ME RK 15000
N. Ganeshan 10000
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Ashok Kapoor B Tech 1967 ME RK 15000
Aniruddha Banerjee B Tech 1979 ME RK 2500
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Rabindra Nath Khanna B Tech 1962 EE 7500
Anuragi Raman B Tech 1993 AG RP 5000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
LEADERSHIP GIFTS
Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin (MMT '75) was the CEO of Britain's
Vodafone Group plc. a senior adviser at the private
equity firm KKR. He serves on the board of directors
of Cisco Systems and Safeway, Inc. He received an
honarary knighthood from the Queen at
Buckingham Palace on March 10, 2010.
Sarin donated $500,000 to the Institute for setting up
the Arun Sarin Electronic Research Laboratory. The
laboratory will be aimed at developing electronic
materials and research in allied field.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 2004 – 2005
CONTRIBUTORS 2002 – 2003
CONTRIBUTORS 2001 – 2002
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 320000
Anand Deshpande B Tech 1984 CS PH 50000
K P K Nair B Tech 1961 ME 40000
Ashok Kapoor B Tech 1967 ME RK 25000
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Arnab Sarkar M Tech 1969 CH AZ 30000
K Khanna B Tech 1961 ME AZ 24000
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Vinod Gupta B Tech 1967 AG RK 85,50,000
Anand Ashiya 10000
Debasis Mishra B Tech 1998 IM AZ 8000
Dr. Rajendra Nath Basu M Sc 1983 PH RK 5555
Kandavilli Rama Rao B Tech 1959 AG RP 5000
Prof T Ghatak, Kolkata M Sc 1969 GG RK 5000
Ved Prakash Sandlas B Tech 1967 EC VS 5000
Ivan Sindell 4000
Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 2000
Gude Mahesh Kumar 2000
M K Bhattacharya B Tech 1963 MI NH 2000
Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 1000
Bishwa Nath Mitra Ph D 1969 AG BCR 1000
Dr Debabrata Sen B Tech 1977 NA LLR 1000
E V Thomas B Tech 1982 AG RP 1000
Ujjal Mondal B Tech 1968 EE RK 1000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
MAJOR GIFTS & SPONSORSHIPS
Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee
Dr. Chatterjee (B.Tech. '71) is The Chairman of
Chatterjee Group (TCG), which makes long-term
strategic investments in public and private
c o m p a n i e s , w i t h p r i m a r y f o c u s i n
telecommunications and information technology
industries. Chatterjee Group is the lead promoter of
Haldia Petrochemicals, Ltd., a world-scale
petrochemical complex in India. Dr. Chatterjee is a
founding member of the AVLSI Lab and also
contributed significantly towards Hostel
Networking.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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Dr. Arvind Jain
Dr. Arvind Jain (ME/69/Azad) – Dr. Jain has been a pioneer of IIT Kharagpur
alumni activities in the U.S. for the past twenty years. Arvind was an outstanding
student and a keen participant in extra-curricular activities at Kharagpur. He was
on the editorial board of Impact, an independent campus magazine run by students
during the sixties, President of the Mechanical Engineering Society in his final year,
and the winner of his year's B.C. Roy Gold Medal.
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Arvind Jain B Tech 1969 ME AZ 26,00,000
Jane O' Connar 93000
B K Syngal B Tech, M Tech 1961, 1962 EC RP 11000
Raghuraj Ashiya M Tech 1963 EC JCB 10000
Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 8000
N N Narkhede DIIT 1967 AG BCR 5555
Bal Krishna Kaplish 5250
Rupal Fodia M Tech 1995 EC 5020
Commander S P Anand 5001
Subhas Ch Bose 5000
Sushama S Joshi 5000
Ujjal Mondal B Tech 1968 EE RK 4000
B B Pandey B Tech 1961 CE RK 4000
P Appans 4000
Prashant R Govil B Tech 1961 NA RP 3000
Dr Mayajit Majumder M Tech 1970 CE 3000
S. Majumder 3000
Prashant R Govil B Tech 1961 NA RP 1111
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
CONTRIBUTORS 2000 – 2001 Featured Donor
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
MAJOR GIFTS & SPONSORSHIPS
Dr. Suhas Patil
Dr. Patil (E& ECE '65) is founder and Chairman
Emeritus of Cirrus Logic Inc. a leading
semiconductor company in USA. He is the main
architect in the conceptualization of the campus wide
network and has been one of the major contributor
and fund-raisers for the same. The funds generated
by his team were also used for procurement and
distribution of subsidized computers to the students
of this Institute. An honorary doctoral degree was
conferred upon him in 1995 at the 41st annual
convocation.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 1999 – 2000 Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
K Rama Rao B Tech 1959 AG RP 20000
Amod Gujral B Tech 1958 ME RP 10000
Swapan Das M Sc 1980 MA 9929
Prof. Prabir Daripa B Tech 1978 ME NH 8000
P Sridhar B Tech 1983 EE 5501
Neeta Sharma 5500
Aniruddha Guha M Tech 1982 ME JCB 5050
A K Bandopadhyay 5000
Sharad Gupta B Tech 1968 EE RP 5000
Bhaskar Krmar 5000
K Balachandran B Tech 1988 AG LLR 5000
Swamy Rao Ajjampur 5000
Srijoy Kr. Ghosh B Tech 2000 IM NH 5000
A. P. Gupta 5000
Shiv Sharma B Tech 1966 MI AZ 5000
Krishna Kr Saxsena M Tech 1961 CY RP 3000
Manapuram Muralidhar 1000
Swarnendu Bhushan B Tech 1997 CH NH 1000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
MAJOR GIFTS & SPONSORSHIPS
Mr. Brijendra Kumar Syngal
Mr.B K Syngal (E&ECE '61) was the Chairman and
Managing Director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam
Limited, the leading provider of international
telecommunication services in India is actively
associated with IIT Kharagpur as a member of the
Advisory Committee of G. S. Sanyal School of
Telecommunications. He was instrumental in
setting up VSNL sponsored Chair on Information
Technology and a number of scholarships for
undergraduate students at IIT Kharagpur.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 1998 – 1999
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
H.P.C. Ltd, Mumbai 500000Subrata Sen B Tech 1980 CH 10600Debashis N. Mallick B Tech 1980 ME 10001Abhijit Ray B Tech 1972 ME RK 10000Nikhil Kr. Roy B Tech 1985 CH PH 10000Swapan Kumar Hajra B Tech 1968 ME 10000Chakresh Kumar Jain M Tech 1982 AG VS 10000Binoy Kr Singh M CP 1970 AR 8000Protip GhoshB Tech 1977 EC RP 6100Ajoy Kr Banerjee B Tech 1966 ME RP 6000T. N Tewari B Tech 1979 AG 5111Vipin Asja 5001V. K. Tewari B Tech 1979 AG 5000Firdose A Vandrevala B Tech 1972 EE PH 5000G. M. Hegde B Tech 1973 AG PH 5000Prabitra Lal De B Tech 1968 ME VS 5000Pranab Kr. Guha B Tech 1969 EE NH 5000Manoj K. Maity M Tech 1963 MA BCR 5000Nitin Tamhane B Tech 1975 MM LLR 5000R. S. Gupta M Tech 1956 EE PH 5000S. K. Bore 5000D. N. Bose 5000Surajit Amrit 5000Nijhum Biswas B Tech 1984 AG NH 5000Suraj P Varma 5000P. K. Gupta 5000P Joy Prabhakaran B Tech 1988 EC RP 5000O P Nangolia 5000P. Banerjee 4000C. R. Lahiri Ph D 1962 CY BCR 3000P. K. Ghosh 3000Tapojyoti Pal M Sc 1973 GG RP 2000P. K. Ghosh 1500Sunil Kapoor B Tech 1986 ME PH 1100Arup Kr. Paul B Tech 1968 ME AZ 1000Preshant R Govil B Tech 1961 NA RP 1000M. A. Parameswaran B Tech 1955 ME 1000N V K Dutta 1000M. Ratnaswami 600Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 2,00,00,000C. L. Puri 240000R. Gopal Krishnan 25000V. R. (Sivam) Parameshwaram B Tech 1960 MM NH 15000Sridhar Mitra 10000Ramen Chakraborty 9000Kamalendu Gupta 8750Pradip Dutta B Tech 1983 ME AZ 5000S. Bhattacharyya 5000Capt. N. S. Mohan Ram 5000Prof. Y. P. Singh 5000Anupam Goyal B Tech 1962 ME RP 5000Sekhar Nath Mukherjee M Sc 1993 PH RP 5000Abhijit Sett 5000A. K. Sen 5000Subrata Bhattacharyya B Tech 1985 EC RP 5000Paresh Rege B Tech 1982 ME RK 5000C. K. Harayan 5000Benu Bhushan Paul B Tech 1960 MM RK 5000
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
MAJOR GIFTS & SPONSORSHIPS
Mr. Ramnath Mukhija
Mr. R. N. Mukhija (EE '65) is the President
(Operations) and Board Member, Larsen &Tourbo.
He is a whole-time Director on the Board. Mr
Mukhija has founded Sushma Mukhija Memorial
Scholarship from 2011-2012. Mr. Mukhija is also an
Advisory Council member of VGSOM.
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 1997 – 1998Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Ujjal Kr. Mondal B Tech 1968 EE RK 3000
A. Haque Ph D 1986 CY BCR 3000
Dipankar Sarkar B Tech 1980 EC PH 2000
Nimai Ch. Dutta Ph D 1971 CY BCR 1000
Y. C. Puri B Tech 1965 ME 1000
Akhil Puri 1000
B. Radesh 1000
Sabyasachi G. Dastidar 1000
P . K. Ghosh 1000
H. V. Makthal M Tech 1974 EE GH 1000
Sukumar Chowdhury B Tech 1956 CE PH 1000
Chandi Maitra 875
E. Chackachery 551
Amit Kr. P. Parikh B Tech 1996 IM RP 500
P. P. Chowdhury B Tech 1996 CH RK 500
Ashok Kr. Sharma 500
Krishna Bahadur Singh B Tech 1993 AG NH 500
Jayanta Mitra B Tech 1965 EE RK 300
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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ANNUAL PREMIUM CONTRIBUTORS
Anand Deshpande
Anand Deshpande (CSE/84/Patel) - Anand
Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman and Managing
Director of Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE:
PERSISTENT), a Company that he founded in 1990.
Anand did Masters (1986) and a Ph.D. (1989) in
Computer Science from Indiana University,
Bloomington (USA). He is member of the Executive
Committee of NASSCOM and serves on the Dean's
Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of
Indiana University.
Mr. Deshpande has been contributing towards his
alma mater diligently year after year.
2010-2011 – Rs. 250000
2009-2010 – Rs. 200000
2008-2009 – Rs. 250000
2004 - 2005 – Rs. 50000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 1996 – 1997Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Prof. S. Sarkar 43290
Jayashree Saha 30000
Krishen Khanna B Tech 1961 ME AZ 24000
R. N. Khanna B Tech 1962 EE 15000
Tapojyoti Pal M Sc 1973 GG RP 11000
Tilak Sarkar B Tech 1985 NA RK 10000
Narendra Goel B Tech 1973 ME RK 5100
Paul Varghese B Arch 1980 AR RK 5000
M. Srinivasa Rao 5000
Indrajit Bhowmick B Tech 1968 ME 5000
Basabi Mitra 5000
Dr. M. M. Maiti M Sc 1967 CY VS 5000
R. T. Arasu 5000
Subir Bhattacharyya B Tech 1980 NA LLR 5000
Jagjit S Kohli B Tech 1971 AG RP 5000
Prof. J. P. Kundu 5000
Prof. N. Mukherjee B Tech 1977 MI 4000
Sumana Roy B Tech 1993 EE SN 3000
Ronal Mascaren 2000
A. K. Ghosal 1001
Rajiv Bahl B Tech 1993 EC NH 1000
Bishwarup Bhattacharyya 1000
S.K. Wadhwa B Tech 1963 ME RK 1000
Bishal Prasad 1000
P. K. Ghosh 500
Pratik Banerjee B Tech 1996 ME LLR 500
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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ANNUAL PREMIUM CONTRIBUTORS
Krishan Mohan Khanna
Krishan Mohan Khanna (ME/61/Azad) – K M
Khanna is the founder of India Watch Foundation.
He is an engineer technocrat with 40 years of
experience in business and management – both
Ind ian and f o re ign , c onsu l tancy and
entrepreneurship. He is the recipient National
Citizen Award 1995-96, as Technocrat of the year,
presented by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India.
Mr. Khanna has been contributing towards his alma
mater for several years.
2010-2011 – Rs. 100000
2008-2009 – Rs. 10000
2001-2002 – Rs. 24000
1995-1996 – Rs. 24000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 1995 – 1996Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
C L Puri B Tech 1959 CE 18000
Sanjeev Sabharwal B Arch 1984 AR NH 5001
Prof. G L Dutta 5000
Debiprasad Ghosh B Tech 1995 CE PH 5000
P J J Raju B Arch 1958 AR
5000
Sandipan Bhattacharya B Tech 1967 EE RP 5000
Ahibhusan De B Tech 1965 MT VS 5000
William C Thompson 3000
Madon Gopal Sharma M Tech 1965 EC GH 1000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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ANNUAL PREMIUM CONTRIBUTORSAshok Kapur (ME/67 /RK) - Mr. Kapur is General Manager - Commercial, Finolex Pipes
Limited, PVC Resin Plant. Mr. Kapur has been contributing towards the developmental
activities of the Institute annually for more than a decade.
2009-2010 – Rs.10000
2007-2008 – Rs.15000
2006-2007 – Rs.10000
2004-2005 – Rs.25000;
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
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CONTRIBUTORS 1994 – 1995Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
U R Saha B Tech 1956 EE NH 30000
S S Teparia 15000
Subrata Senapati 10032
Pratul Kundu B Arch 1969 AR NH 10001
Brijendra Kr. Sanya l5000
Ballabh Seth 5000
Y V Dharma Rao B Tech 1958 CE RP 5000
Subrata Sengupta B Tech 1969 ME 5000
Ashok Jhunjhunwala B Tech 1972 CH PH 5000
M K Hamid B Tech 1955 CE BCR 5000
Arun Jindal B Tech 1966 ME RP 5000
Neeta Sharma 5000
Krishnendu Chatterjee B Tech 2001 CS 5000
R K Caprihan B Tech 1967 EE RK 5000
P V Purushattam 5000
Ajit Singh B Tech 1962 ME NH 5000
S K Mishra 5000
S M Bhalla B Tech 1959 EE RP 5000
Biswajit Sood B Tech 1959 ME PH 5000
Chandra Kumar B Tech 1963 ME RK 5000
Pramod Bangani 1054
Pramod Bangani 1002
Y C Puri 1000
Kuldip Sharma B Tech 1972 MI LLR 1000
R K Banerjee B Arch 1962 AR PH 700
Dr. Ramesh Garg 550
R K Banerjee B Arch 1962 AR PH 500
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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Other Contributors over the yearsDonors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Jitendra Nath Saha B Tech 1959 EC RP 132000
Dr Manilal Bhowmick Ph.D 1958 PHY 30000
Vinod Gupta B Tech 1967 AG RK 30000
S P Srivastava B Tech 1962 CE RK 25000
Prof N Mukherjee B Tech 1977 MI 20367
Peter Chen B Tech 1962 EE RK 20000
Tayi Sreeram B Tech 1994 EC NH 16120
K J Deshpande 10001
Ashok Kapoor B Tech 1967 ME RK 10000
Bata India Ltd. 10000
Lt. Col. M G S Khurana 10000
Prof J N Bandyopadhyay B Tech 1967 CE PH 10000
S K Kaushik Ph D 1971 CE GH 10000
Tilak Sarkar B Tech 1985 NA RK 10000
V. Ramachandra Moorthi M Tech 1967 EE JCB 10000
Vinod Sobti B Tech 1967 ME RP 10000
Dilip Nandi 8970
Cdr. R S Agawal B Tech 1959 EE NH 7500
Rabindar Nath Khanna B Tech 1962 EE 7500
Michael Yesudas B Tech 1989 ME AZ 6000
P N A P Rao 6000
M N Mahapatra B Sc 1957 GG 5100
S.Pavan Kumar B Sc 1994 CY RP 5100
Tejinder Singh Gill B Sc 1961 GG PH 5025
Srilata Mahapatra M Sc 1986 MSC SN 5021
Satish Chandra Parashar B Arch 1971 AR RP 5010
Brig K Handan 5001
A. C. Sanyal 5000
Anup Singh B Tech 1967 EE AZ 5000
Anwar Alam M Tech 1965 AG JCB 5000
Arvind Mathur B Tech 1972 EE RK 5000
AVM A K Roy 5000
B S Dhiman B Tech 1957 CE AZ 5000
Brig. P S P Sharma M Tech 1968 ME NH 5000
D Sitaremaich 5000
Debjyoti Mitra B Tech 1976 ME RP 5000
Dipti Maity Ph D 1980 CY SN 5000
I K Gokhar 5000
J Majumder 5000
Jitendra Prasad Shaw B Tech 1972 ME RP 5000
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Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Jyotirmoy Bandopadhyay B Tech 1970 EE RK 5000
K N Dutta 5000
K N Rai M Tech 1977 CE 5000
Karabi Chaudhury 5000
Mayur S Khokani B Tech 1971 CH 5000
Mukul Mitra B Arch 1970 AR PH 5000
N Gopal Krishnan M Tech 1962 ME AZ 5000
N Krishnan B Tech 1957 ME AZ 5000
Dr. Nawab Ali M Tech 1970 AG JCB 5000
Nirev Sampet 5000
Pankaj Dutta M Tech 1973 MM JCB 5000
Phalguni Kar B Tech 1972 CE LLR 5000
Prof D Acharya Ph D 1976 IM 5000
R N Khanna B Tech 1962 EE 5000
R N Mukhija B Tech 1965 EE RK 5000
Rabi Kanta 5000
S Bhattacharya 5000
S K Shrivastava 5000
S N Bhattacharya 5000
S Sagar Jain B Tech 1955 ME PH 5000
S Sankaran 5000
S. R Talwar B Tech 1962 ME RK 5000
Samarjit Chatterjee M Tech 1965 CE JCB 5000
Subhajit Roy B Tech 1991 CE NH 5000
T R Seshadri 5000
Vipin Popet 5000
Y C Rao B Tech 1955 ME PH 5000
Prof B N Avasthi M Tech 1958 CE RK 4000
Bhargal Maitra 3000
Debasis Roy 3000
K Srinivasa Raju 3000
L S Ramachandra B Arch 1991 AR AZ 3000
Jyothi Menezes 2325
Chaman Puri 2300
Kanai Dey 2300
Narendra Bhatia 2300
Ujjal Kr Mondal B Tech 1968 EE RK 2300
Dr D P Ghosh 2000
N Dhang M Tech 1985 CE AZ 2000
P J Pise 2000
Prof K S Reddy M Tech 1963 CE PH 2000
Prof P Chatterjee Ph D 1967 EC BCR 2000
S Dey 2000
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S P Dasgupta 2000
T I Eldho 2000
V R Desai 2000
Umesh A Korde B Tech 1982 NA PH 1500
M Kalani B Tech 1959 CE PH 1025
ChandidasGanguly M Tech 2001 CE 1001
Rajith L S M Tech 1998 ME PH 1001
Umesh Rashmi Rohatgi 1001
A K Dikshit B Tech 1992 MI NH 1000
A K Dutta Ph D 1994 AG BCR 1000
Anil Pradyumnarao Deshmukh M Tech 1975 ME JCB 1000
AdinPunyaMitra M Tech 1994 CH AZ 1000
B C Mal B Tech 1971 AG LLR 1000
BikramSankarDas B Tech 1988 CH LLR 1000
Chanchal KumarMukherjee B Tech 1974 NA LLR 1000
Chandra BhushanDubey B Tech 1994 ME LLR 1000
D J Sen B Tech 1985 CE NH 1000
Dr D K Baidya 1000
Hrishikes Das B Tech 1967 AG AZ 1000
HifjurRahaman M Tech 1985 AG VS 1000
Hemant Kumar 1000
JayantaBardalaya 1000
Keshaw PrasadPandey M Tech 1970 AG JCB 1000
M K Jha B Tech 1992 AE RP 1000
N S Raghuwansi 1000
NirupamaMallick 1000
P Pramanik 1000
PratimaMahanty 1000
Prof A K Sahoo B Tech 1985 CH RP 1000
Prof D Nagesh Kumar 1000
Prof Ligy Philip 1000
Prof NirjharDhang M Tech 1985 CE AZ 1000
R Singh 1000
Rintu Banerjee Ph D 1992 CH SN 1000
S Bandyopadhyay 1000
S Dutta 1000
S Kar DIIT 1966 AG JCB 1000
S N Pandey 1000
S Prasad 1000
S Srinivasan M Tech 1977 IM 1000
SatishBal B Tech 1966 AG PH 1000
Satya Hari Dey Ph D 1992 CH PH 1000
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
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Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Subrata Ganguly 1000
Sudit Roy 1000
Tridib Kumar Goswami Ph D 1987 CRY BCR 1000
Udhav Hotchand Varyani B Tech 1985 CE PH 1000
Virendra Kumar Tiwari M Tech 1984 AG VS 1000
MukulAsthna B Tech 1972 ME PH 750
Kiran Seth B Tech 1970 ME AZ 501
Sabya Sachi Roy B Tech 1982 CE RP 500
Tapan Kr Mondal B Tech 1993 CE NH 500
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall Amount (INR)
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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IIT Foundation India Donor ListDate Name Degree Year Dept Hall Rs. US$
06.09.05 Y.P.S. Suri B Tech 1975 ME 10,001
16.09.05 Chennai Chapter 10,000
05.10.05 Neeta Jain Sharma 10,000
05.10.05 Bangalore Chapter 4,00,000
05.10.05 Ramnath Mani B Tech 1969 EC PH 1,00,000
19.10.05 A.G. Rajadhyaksha B Tech 1982 EE RP 10,000
19.10.05 B.K. Syngal B Tech 1961 EC RP 51,000
19.10.05 D.P. Sengupta B Tech 1961 EE AZ 2,000
19.10.05 V. Venkataswaran B Tech 1961 EE RP 250
10.01.06 M. Chakraborty B Tech 1971 MT LLR 5,000
10.01.06 O.P. Khanna B Tech 1961 ME PH 5,000
15.02.06 R.N. Khanna B Tech 1962 EE 2,05,100
13.04.06 M/s Steel RX Corporation Pvt. Ltd. 2,00,000
13.04.06 Sundar Mohan Murmu B Tech 1979 AE 21,000
08.08.06 Niraj Bechketi 10,000
12.09.06 M/s Oil India Ltd. 2,00,000
12.10.06 M/s Bharat Petrolium 1,00,000
07.11.07 M/s ONGC 4,94,900
17.01.07 Mihir Biswas B Tech 1955 ME PH 1,000
17.01.07 Srikanta Bandopadhyay B Tech 1968 MT RP 10,000
17.01.07 S.M. Murmu B Tech 1979 AE 10,000
17.01.07 Subhash Ch. Mondal B Tech 1982 MT AZ 4,000
17.01.07 Samit Banerjee B Tech 1992 ME PH 20,000
09.02.07 A.K. Sarkar 3000
19.07.07 Davangere Prahlad Naganand B Tech 1970 EC AZ 25,000
06.08.07 TAA, Delhi Chapter 4,50,000
25.09.07 B. K. Syngal B Tech 1961 EC RP 21,000
01.10.07 M/s. Bharat Petroleum 1,00,000
01.11.07 Janaki Ramanan & Raghavan B Tech 1971 CH PH 20$
01.11.07 Manish Pandey & B Tech 1989 CS 75$
Madhulima Pandey
16.11.07 M/s. Hindustan Petroleum 1,00,000
26.11.07 Business World 1,11,250
06.12.07 Computer Factory 10,000
28.05.08 Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 5,000
06.03.09 R.N. Khanna B Tech 1962 EE 10,000
30.12.09 Arjun Malhotra B Tech 1970 EC RP 5,000
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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IIT Foundation US Donor ListApril 01st' 2010 – March 31st '2011
Your Alma Mater thanks you whole heartedly.
Donors Degree Year Dept Hall
Pradeep Kumar Thayamballi
Himadri Mayank B Arch 2007 AR
Smarahara Misra B Tech 2001 EC
Pranab K Ghosh Ph D 2003 CE
Deepak Kumar
Arup Kanti Paul B Tech 1968 ME AZ
Nachiketa Mitra B Tech 1992 MT AZ
Sundar K Sundaresan
Joyjit Nath B Tech 1987 EC
Rishiraj Das B Tech 2000 ME RP
Shekhar N Mukherjee M Sc 1993 PH RP
Ramakrishna Prasad Atluri
Ramakrishna Prasad Atluri
Arvind Deogirikar MTech 1974 EC
Ranganathan Gurumoorthy B Tech 1979 EC
Goutam Sinha B Tech 1979 MI NH
Sumit K Mitra M Sc 1977 GG
Ravi Krishna Budhia B Tech 1992 EC
Ramayya P Addanki M Sc 1981 CY
Rakesh Asthana B Tech 1979 EE AZ
Dave K Agarwal
Arindam Chaudhuri B Tech 1996 ME PH
Daljeet Singh B Tech 1969 EE
Sandeep Beotra B Tech 1995 EC LLR
Bikash K Mohanty B Tech 1982 AE
Indra Singhal B Tech 1981 MI PH
Amitava Mitra B Tech 1969 ME PH
Ph D 1987 RP
Ravi Mohan Seam B Tech 1967 ME VS
Debasish N Mallick B Tech 1980 ME RP
Abhinav Anand B Tech 2002 IM AZ
Rajan J Bhambhani B Tech 1974 NA NH
Amit Kumar Saha B Tech 1999 CS RP
Somnath Paul B Tech 1990 EC LLR
Santanu Basu B Tech 1968 EE NH
Madhusudhan Sarangi M Tech 1998 MT
Ranjan Bhattacharya B Tech 1980 EE LLR
Bibhuti B Banerjee B Tech 1985 ME AZ
Om Prakash Arora B Sc 1995 CY AZ
Prasad N Shastry
Koushik K Das B Tech 1998 EC
Kaushik Pal B Tech 1990 ME RK
Naveen Boyina B Tech 2001 MT
Abhishek Bose B Tech 2002 CE
Sreenivas Jayaraman
Arindam Ghatak B Tech 2004 ME
Chintan Thakkar DD 2007 EC
Reshma Patra DD 2007 CH
Surojit Mookherjee B Tech 1979 MT LLR
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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Sustainable Fund raising - scope, strategy, proportion
Leadership
Gifts
Major Gifts & Sponsorships
Corporations Foundations
Premium Giving - Annual
Campaign Contributions
IndividualsEndowment
600cr
Matching
200cr
Scope:Contributor Categories:
Endowments:
Matching:
Leadership Gifts
Key to achieving a
sustainable future is the need to develop and maintain a
robust and diverse funding base. Accessing a wide range
of funding opportunities will enable the Institute to
spread dependency across a range of funding sources
rather than few chosen alumni and the Government of
India. The ID program wants to encourage a shared
responsibility for fundraising. Here everyone is a
fundraiser for their beloved Institute.
In order to compete with the globally
well ranked schools, we must increase both long-term
endowment and current operating funds. Endowments
and rankings have a direct correlation. So we have
targeted on endowment which will provide us a strong
capital base in addition to sustainable source of funding
for various projects. Until now we have the policy of
creating endowments, 80% of the interest earned from
the endowment fund will be spend for the specific project,
the balance amount will be re-invested in the fund.
Many corporate houses have programs
through which they will "match" the charitable
contributions made by their employees. Through gift
matching, an alumnus, a chapter or a corporate can
multiply the value of the gift made to the Institute,
making it go further.
– Gifts made by leading donors to
the Institute. The ID program focuses to create more
such leaders. These funds could be utilized for new
constructions and new projects and creating
endowments for sustaining those projects.
Individuals – Alumni contributions majorly towards
developing varied aspects of the Institute
Corporations – ID Program is approaching corporations
for raising endowments as well funds for specified
purposes. We are in the process of roping in corporate
houses for this purpose.
Foundations – The Foundations, Alumni associations
and local chapters have been supporting several alumni
events every year. The same could be channelized to
support fund raising programs for the Institute, the
advantage being herein we will get dedicated group of
alumni who are aware about the Institute's goals and
status.
– Herein we will find a
perennial source of funds through systematic
donations. This fund can be used for sustaining annual
projects and programs, meeting operational
expenditure.
– Campaigns are the best
resource to raise small contributions from a
comparatively larger group. This will create a discipline
among the givers to donate towards their alma mater.
Major Gifts and Sponsorships
Annual Premium Giving
Campaign Contributions
47Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Strategy
Capital campaign Leadership Gifts / Intensive fundraising efforts to meet a certain
Corporations financial goal in a specified period of time for one
or more major projects, such as the construction
of a building. Contributors may be inspired by
the organization's vision or are motivated by the
naming rights.
Endowment campaign Leadership Gifts / Campaign to allocate funds specifically to create
Individuals / or supplement a fund. The principal is protected
Corporations and the income may be spent on operating
expenses. Contributors here should understand
the need for building the sustainability of the
organization in order to meet its mission.
Grants Leadership Gifts / Significant donations to a KGP for specific
Individuals / programs.
Corporations /
Foundations
Mass marketing Individuals/ Direct solicitation of funds by mass-mailing
Campaign (including email or other electronic means)
Contributions or telemarketing
Planned giving Individuals/ Pre-arranged gift, such as a bequest, life
Annual Premium insurance policy or gift annuity. Contributors
Giving should share the organization's vision, and / or
who want to take advantage of tax planning.
Regular or annual giving Corporate Gift Fundraising program that generates funding
Matching/ Annual support to help sustain yearly budgets or general
Premium Giving / operations. This includes membership program.
Campaign
Contributions
Special event Leadership Gifts / Activities organized by the KGP or other
Individuals / supporting organizations to raise funds.
Corporations For example, Diamond Jubilee.
Sponsorship Corporations Deals that the KGP and sponsors (e.g.,
corporations) enter into with clearly defined
benefits to each party.
Gift-in-kind Individuals Donations of free or discounted goods and
services. Contributors are usually businesses and
professionals in the community.
Fee for service Corporations / Charges for services a KGP already provides
Individuals (or can provide) to clients who receive services
provided. For example, access to industry
knowledge centers.
Merchandising Individuals Sale of branded souvenirs by KGP
Method Kind of Donor Description
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Fundraising Programs and Proportions
Gift Categories Description Budget (INR) MinimumAmount(INR)
Special Programs
Diamond Jubilee Full Sponsorship of Event and Branding 7 crores
Mementos 1 crore
Publication 1 crore
Exhibition Train 2 crores
Inauguration and Closing Ceremony 1 crore
Technology Show 1 crore
Nobel Laureate Lecture Series andDistinguished Visitors 1 crore
The academic areas are the Institute’s most precious assets. These are the core of faculty-student relationship and center of knowledge exchange, create award-winning research, and develop innovative teaching curricula. The classrooms provide ideal forums for dissemination of knowledge by world-class faculty and lecturers. All classrooms will be outfitted with state-of-the-art technology. The Nalanda Complex is envisaged to
These residential complexes connect students with the rich resources which make them true KGPians. To facilitate the growing number student population several new halls are coming up and the existing ones are being extended as well.
Academic AreasNaming Rights
Proposed Plan of NewAcademic Complex
Hills of ResidenceNaming Rights
Proposed Plan ofChanakya Hall of
Residence
1. 4 Blocks, 8 Floors (8 floors - AG+7) 18 crores 2 crores/
2. Classrooms (Capacity: 120, 240) 75 crores 50 lakhs each
3. Food Court 3 crores 1 crores
4. Reading Room 5 crores 1 crores
1. Two Halls of 2000 capacity 100 crores 2 cr / wing
2. One ladies Hostel of 600 capacity 25 crores 2 cr / wing
3. Extension Block of Old Halls 30 crores
9 small blocks 1 cr / block
6 big blocks 2 cr / block
4. Renovation of Old Hall Common Rooms and Furnishing of 7 NewHall Common Rooms 50 lakhs
5. Convention Centre 30 crores 15 crores
Infrastructure
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New Constructions:
Nalanda Academic Complex
Plan of Entire Complex
Requirements:
Proposed Plan:
An Academic Campus requires facilities for
Academic Activities
Other Activities
CampusResidents
Students
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Hall of Residence
Chanakya Hall of Residence Gurukul-I (Faculty Enclave)
Nalanda Academic ComplexGuest House Zone
Faculty Residences
Commercial Area
Hospital Zone
Hotel/Amusement Park
Student Dining Facility
Academic Building
School Zone
Residences for Staff
Signature Building
Laboratories
Convention/Amenity Center
Café Coffee Day
New Student Residences
Class room details and students seating accommodation in
Block A Block B Block C Block D120 Capacityclass rooms 38 24 16 16240 capacityclass rooms 22 16 — —60 capacityclass rooms 96 48 28 56Total studentsseating 15600 9600 3600 5280Gross Nos. ofseating forstudents 34080Coverage of
2floor area (m ) 63641.8 39423.0 15136.0 31975.2
First Year Laboratory class for Electrical Technology, Electronics, Physics and Language, No. of floors: G+2
Total built-up area: 5022 sqm
(expected by June, 2011)
Laboratory Building
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Hall of Residence Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall of Residence Chanakya Hall of Residence
Dr. B. R. Amdedkar Hall : Room area : 24 sqm No. of boys accommodated: 2000 Expected by November, 2011
Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall : Land Area: 38833.50 sqm Total Built up Area: 43,377.16 sqm Ground Coverage: 9102.15 sqm No. Rooms Provided: 680 Room Area: 21 sqm Module Area 571.21 sqm No. of Blocks: 13 Floor Height: 3.15 m No. Floors: G+4 No. of Boys Accommodated: 2000.
Chanakya Hall : Build, Operate and Transfer Project - 33 years 400 rooms for Students and 50 number of Studio Apartment (Suite type)
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Additional Blocks in RK, RP, MT, SN and Azad Halls of Residence
Students’ Activity Centre (North)
Patel Hall of Residence: 49 rooms (145 beds) Azad Hall of Residence: 49 rooms (146 beds) Nehru Hall of Residence: 49 rooms (147 beds)| |
RK Hall: 96 rooms (288 beds) RP Hall: 160 rooms (480 beds) MT Hall: 56 rooms (168 beds) SN Hall: 20 rooms (60 beds) Azad Hall: 96 rooms (288 beds) (expected in March, 2011)
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Major Facilities: Multi purpose court Yoga Room Weight Lifting Room Billiards Court Squash Court (Expected by June, 2011)
A type Apartments: 63 nos., Allotted in November, 2010 B type Apartments: 81 nos., expected by March, 2011
1 BR Apartments: 5 Blocks, 80 nos. Apartments 2BR Apartments: 4 Blocks, 64 nos. Apartments (expected by June, 2011)
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Sponsored and Industrial R&DProjects: 2010-2011
Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
Development of SU-8 band Microstructuresfor Integrated-optic & Bio-applications. Development Centre GangopadhyayLarge Eddly simulation of AURA-type flyingwing configurations with Dragerons at operating Engineering Mahapatraspeed range.Autonomous Flight Control Design for AURA Aerospace Engineering Prof. Navtej Singh 2400000Interplanetary satellite orbit determination Aerospace Prof. Manoranjan 1219000using ground based observations. Engineering SinhaStudy of flow structures and associated in a Aerospace Prof. K. P. 816000weapon bay cavity using LES. Engineering SinhamahapatraStudies on Microalgal triacylglycerols Agricultural & Prof. Nirupama 17029560(TAGs) as a source of Biodiesel. Food Engineering Mallick1High rate algal biomass production for food, Agricultural & Prof. H. N. Mishra 6656000feed, biochemicals and biofuels. Food EngineeringRapid Soil Carbon Mappng using Soil Agricultural & Prof. Bhabani 6000000Reflectance in the Visible & Near infrared Food Engineering Sankar DasRegion Characterization.Region Characterization. Agricultural & Prof. Bhabani 6000000
Food Engineering Sankar DasDevelopment of cage for Mariculture thriugh Agricultural & Prof. C. K. 4687400numerical and physical modeling. Food Engineering MukherjeeFlood Inundation Zoning for different return Agricultural & Prof. Chandranath 3600000periods in Mahanadi River Basin. Food Engineering ChatterjeeCharacterization of soil reflectance in the Agricultural & Prof. Bhabani 1965000visible and near-infrared region for the Food Engineering Sankar Dasiron-rich soils of Easern India.Impact assessment of MGNREGA in one Agricultural & Prof. N. S. 1915000district of Madhya Pradesh (Mandla) & Food Engineering Raghuwanshi(AgFE)West Bengal (Paschim Medinipur). Prof. P. B. S.
Bhadoria (AgFE)Climate change & rice-based crop Agricultural & Prof. D. K. Swain 1572000production system of eastern & south Food Engineeringeastern India: Impact assesment &risk Magement through simulation study.Development of pod borer resistant ALPGE Prof. S. K. Sen 20971740transgenic pigeon pea & chick pea.Market Mechanism and the Drug Architecture & Prof. Banhi 442200Availability state of consumers Health: Regional Planning ChakrabortyAn Investigation Study.GaN/In GaN based light emitting diodes, ATDC Prof. Dhrubes 65609600solar cells photoelectrochemical (PEC) Biswasdevide by MOCVD process.Bioful from Marine Microalgae Biotech Prof. Ramkrishna 5933000(A NMITLI Project Sponsored by CSIR) SenReducing accumulation of Toxic metals or Biotech Prof. Mrinal 2981000metalloids in rice grains by Kumar MaitiRNAi-medicated gene silencing approach.Effects of Auxiliary Membrane Components Biotech Prof. Anindya 2476000on Biofilm Formation in Escherichia Coli Sundar GhoshBiofuels Production in a Biorefinary Concept Biotech Prof. Ramkrishna Sen 345000High rate algal biomass production for food, Biotechnology Prof. Debabrata 13828000feed, biochemicals and biofuels. DasBioprospecting of antarctic flore: Screening Biotechnology Prof. S. Dey 10596000of novel genes and healthcare molecules MRDM3
Advance Technology Dr. Pranabendu 500000
Aerospace Prof. K. P. Sinha 7020000
52 Alumni Annual Report 2010 - 11
Development of SU-8 band Microstructures
for Integrated-optic & Bio-applications. Development Centre Gangopadhyay
Large Eddly simulation of AURA-type flying
wing configurations with Dragerons at operating Engineering Mahapatra
speed range.
Autonomous Flight Control Design for AURA Aerospace Engineering Prof. Navtej Singh 2400000
Interplanetary satellite orbit determination Aerospace Prof. Manoranjan 1219000
using ground based observations. Engineering Sinha
Study of flow structures and associated in a Aerospace Prof. K. P. 816000
weapon bay cavity using LES. Engineering Sinhamahapatra
Studies on Microalgal triacylglycerols Agricultural & Prof. Nirupama 17029560
(TAGs) as a source of Biodiesel. Food Engineering Mallick1
High rate algal biomass production for food, Agricultural & Prof. H. N. Mishra 6656000
feed, biochemicals and biofuels. Food Engineering
Rapid Soil Carbon Mappng using Soil Agricultural & Prof. Bhabani 6000000
Reflectance in the Visible & Near infrared Food Engineering Sankar Das
Region Characterization.
Region Characterization. Agricultural & Prof. Bhabani 6000000
Food Engineering Sankar Das
Development of cage for Mariculture thriugh Agricultural & Prof. C. K. 4687400
numerical and physical modeling. Food Engineering Mukherjee
Flood Inundation Zoning for different return Agricultural & Prof. Chandranath 3600000
periods in Mahanadi River Basin. Food Engineering Chatterjee
Characterization of soil reflectance in the Agricultural & Prof. Bhabani 1965000
visible and near-infrared region for the Food Engineering Sankar Das
iron-rich soils of Easern India.
Impact assessment of MGNREGA in one Agricultural & Prof. N. S. 1915000
district of Madhya Pradesh (Mandla) & Food Engineering Raghuwanshi(AgFE)
West Bengal (Paschim Medinipur). Prof. P. B. S.
Bhadoria (AgFE)
Climate change & rice-based crop Agricultural & Prof. D. K. Swain 1572000
production system of eastern & south Food Engineering
eastern India: Impact assesment &
risk Magement through simulation study.
Development of pod borer resistant ALPGE Prof. S. K. Sen 20971740
transgenic pigeon pea & chick pea.
Market Mechanism and the Drug Architecture & Prof. Banhi 442200
Availability state of consumers Health: Regional Planning Chakraborty
An Investigation Study.
GaN/In GaN based light emitting diodes, ATDC Prof. Dhrubes 65609600
solar cells photoelectrochemical (PEC) Biswas
devide by MOCVD process.
Bioful from Marine Microalgae Biotech Prof. Ramkrishna 5933000
(A NMITLI Project Sponsored by CSIR) Sen
Reducing accumulation of Toxic metals or Biotech Prof. Mrinal 2981000
metalloids in rice grains by Kumar Maiti
RNAi-medicated gene silencing approach.
Effects of Auxiliary Membrane Components Biotech Prof. Anindya 2476000
on Biofilm Formation in Escherichia Coli Sundar Ghosh
Biofuels Production in a Biorefinary Concept Biotech Prof. Ramkrishna Sen 345000
High rate algal biomass production for food, Biotechnology Prof. Debabrata 13828000
feed, biochemicals and biofuels. Das
Bioprospecting of antarctic flore: Screening Biotechnology Prof. S. Dey 10596000
of novel genes and healthcare molecules MRDM3
Advance Technology Dr. Pranabendu 500000
Aerospace Prof. K. P. Sinha 7020000
Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
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Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
Enhanced production, purification andcharaterization of marine bacterial SenLipopeptide as potential broad-spectrumantimocrobial and anticancer agent forbreast cancer therapy.
Characterization of a novel short chain Biotechnology Prof. Amit Kumar 7670000dehydrogenase reductase (SDR) family Dasenzyme involved in fatty acid metabolismin Mycobacterium tuberculosis & structurebased inhibitor synthesis.
Silk Protein /Blend Matrics in Tissue Biotechnology Prof. S. C. Kundu 4133000Engineering & Biotechnological Applications
Exloration of diversity & microbial role in Biotechnology Prof. Pinaki Sar 2826000arsenic mobilization in As-contaminatedgroundwater of North Eastern States(Arunachal Pradesh & Assam).
Molecular characterization of DacD (a putative Biotechnology Prof. Anindya 2086000DD-carboxypeptidise) of Escherichia Coli. sundar Ghosh
Characterization of Mycobacterium exploration Biotechnology Prof. Amit Kumar Das 1686000of tubercilosis GTP cyclohyrolase and its role inmycobacterial physiology.
The Potential use of biosurfactants for Biotechnology Prof. Ramkrishna 414700medical applications. Sen
Creation of Integrated Development Centre for Educational Prof. Shyamal Kr. 4726000Environment (IDE) for Generation of Technology Das MandalPronunciation Lexicon for Indian Languages(PL-IL) in W3C Pronunciation LexiconStandard (PLS) & Example Lexicon inHindi & Bangla Languages.
Fabrication of Nanostructured Surfaces by Chemical Engineering Prof. Rabibrata 8039200Soft Lithographic & Non Lithographic MukherjeeTechniques.
Instabilty & Pattern Formation in thin Chemical Engineering Prof. Rabibrata 5220000Polymer Bilayers. Mukherjee
Droplet - Based Screeing of Amyloid Chemical Engineering Prof. Sunando 4344800B - Peptide Aggregation. Dasgupta
Foam-gel formation in thin layer with flow Chemical Engineering Prof. Somnath 3500000complexities affecting the placement Ganguly
Antimicrobial Coating on plasma treated Chemical Engineering Prof. Sudarsan Neogi 2000000substrates for Biomedical Application.
Modeling, Analysis and control of Reactive Chemical Engineering Prof. Amiya K. 926000Distillation columns. Jana
A Novel approach to a selective catalytic Chemical Engineering Prof. Sonali 700000procss for reducing thiophenic sulphur Senguptacontent from petroleum products.
Hydrolysis and Fermentation of Cellulosic Chemical Engineering Prof. Saikat 500250Substrates for Bioethanol Production Chakraborty
Optimization of Batch Cystallization Chemical Engineering Prof. Debasis Sarkar 500000Process Uncertainity.
Production of monodispersed nanoparticles Chemical Engineering Prof. Jayanta 500000for a large class of materials using heat Chakrabortytreatment based post processing technique.
Fabrication & Durability Studies on Chemical Engineering Prof. Rabibrata 3888000structured super hydrophobic surfaces. Mukherjee
J. C. Bose Fellowship Chemistry Prof. P.K. Cahattaraj 6800000
Development of silicon carbide supported graphene - Chemistry Prof. S. K. Srivastava 4982000polymer nano composites for EMI shielding applications.
Biotechnology Prof. Ramkrishna 10036800
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Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
Nanoparticles of copper and its oxides for enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) and catalysis.
Asymmetric Synthesis of y-Butyroctone Chemistry Prof. Soumen Hajra 2528000Natural Products.
Effect of π - interactions in chemiacal reactions: Chemistry Prof. Anoop Ayyappan 2135000
Computational study of Braverman cyclisation.
Characterization of Ionic liquid confining Chemistry Prof. Nilmoni Sarkar 1967000micrometerogeneous media & Investigation of ultra fast processes in these confined media.
Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for Chemistry Prof. Tarasankar Pal 961000Photocatalytic Applications.
Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanomaterials of Non- Chemistry Prof. Tarasankar Pal 600000Spherical Morphologies for Enhanced Heat Transfer
Computational study of Gold catalysed Chemistry Prof. Anoop Ayyappan 500,000cydoisomerisation of unsaturated Hydrocarbons.
Underwater non-contact explosive response Civil Engineering Prof. Nilanjan Mitra 7248000of marine grade sandwitch composite panels.
Electrocoagulation in continous Flow systems for Civil Engineering Prof. Sudha Goel 3590000removal of drinking water contaminants.
Improving Mechanical Performance & delamination Civil Engineering Prof. Nilanjan Mitra 2460000resistance in sandwich composite panels.
Smarter water resource management, Civil Engineering Prof. Dhrubajyoti 1809000Disaster Mitigation & Diabetic Retinopathy. Sen(CE) &
Prof. ChandanChakraborty (SMST)
Develop of Design Methodology for Civil Engineering Prof. Damodar Maity 1680000Chemically Treated Bamboo ReinforcedConcrete Members for Low Cost Housing
Effects of fines on behavior of Geosynthetic - Civil Engineering Prof. Koushik Deb 500000Reinforced Sands.
Developing a suitable methodology for Identifying Civil Engineering Prof. Sudehsna Mitra 500000accident Prone Sites in the Presence of Limited Data.
Ganga River Basin Management Plan. Civil Engineering, Prof. D. Sen, 2500000CORAL, Humanities, Prof. A. Gupta,RGSOIPL Prof. M. D. Behera &
Prof. N. C. Nayak
Setting up of three Virtual Classrooms in Computer Informatics Prof. P. K. Biswas 15500000IIT Kharagpur Centre
Design of side channel attack resistant Computer Science & Prof. Debdeep 7320000programable block ciphere on FPGA's. Engineering Mukhopadhyay
Creating Accessible study materials for Computer Science & Prof. P.P. Chakrabarti 5300000print impaired students Engineering
Preprocessing & Anlysis of degraded documents under Computer Science & Prof. Jayanta 3450000development of robust document image understanding Engineering Mukhopadhyaysystem for documents in Indian Script - Phase II.
Building Reliable Enbedded Real - Time System an Computer Science & Prof. P.P. Chakrabarti 3366000Approach Combining Formal Methods & Testing. Engineering
Statistical Structure and soft computing based Computer Science & Prof. Pabitra Mitra 2695000techniques for pattern recognition: Theory alogrithms Engineeringand application tobioinfomatics.
Image analysis for preservation and Computer Science & Prof. Jayanta 2300000archiving of Indian Cultural Heritage. Engineering Mukhopadhyay
Software Tools for Cryptanalysis of Computer Science & Prof. Dipanwita 1985000stream Ciphers Engineering Roy Chowdhury
Elderly Speech Recognition with Application. Computer Science & Prof. Pabitra Mitra 1396800Engineering
surface
π
Chemistry Prof. Tarasankar Pal 2824400
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Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
Model-based Regression Test Suite Selectionfor Object - Oriented Programs. Engineering
Degitization and web hosting of Bankim Computer Science & Prof. Anupam Basu 1000000Rachnabali in unicode format. Engineering
Design of a controller for finite field Computer Science & Prof. Debdeep 834000Arithmetic on FPGAs. Engineering Mukhopadhyay
Design & Analysis of a Light Weight Computer Science & Prof. Debdeep 792000Cryptographic System on FPGs. Engineering Mukhopadhyay
Design of an Integrated Code for Computer Science & Prof. Dipanwita 600000Authentication and Error Correction. Engineering Roy Chowdhury
Hardware security: Ensuring TRUST in Computer Science & Prof. Rajat Subhra 500000Integrated circuits. Engineering Chakraborty
IBM Faculty Award. Computer Science & Prof. Pabitra Mitra 471471Engineering
Study of Hadware Malware Vunerabilities & Computer Science & Prof. Rajat Subhra 900000Mitigation Techniques for FPGAs. Engineering. Chakraborty
Study of the surface and upper Ocean CORAL Prof. Mihir Kumar 3135750Mesoscale features of North Indian Ocean Dasfrom observation and Model.
High resolution mesoscale prediction of land falling CORAL Prof. M. Mandal 1604200Bay of Bengal cyclones for coastal disaster preparedness.
Hfeature based study of the Indian Ocean CORAL Prof. Mihir Kumar 1542000Circulation using Saral Altika Observations Dash
Evaluation of atmospheric boundary layer CORAL Prof. A. N. V. 352800parameters for validating atmospheric flow Satyanarayanamodels at Kalpakkam.
Investigation on polymer nanocomposite for Cryogenic Engineering Prof. T. K. Dey 1076000electronic packaging applications. Centre
Design, Fabrication and Testing of Miniature Cryogenic Engineering Prof. Indranil Ghosh 1061000Heat Exchangers & Heat Sinks. Centre
Theoretical investigation of the transition metal CTS Prof. A. Tarafder 1872000dichalcogenides (TDMS), highTc cuprates and the alternative route for high Tc Superconductors.
SPIC MACAY Dean Prof. Joy Sen, 100000(Alumni Affairs & I R) Prof Pallab Dasgupta
INDO-CANADA Joint PDA on Nanoscale DEAN Prof. Souvik 800000process for clean coal & bioinspired water (Students Affairs) Bhattachryya& GHG efficient energy technologies.
Integrated Vehicle Health Mahagement Electrical Engineering Prof. Siddhartha 25960000(IVHM) for Automotive Engine Applications. Mukhopadhyay
Stability & Performance of Photovoltaic Electrical Engineering Prof. C. Ckakraborty 21850000
Design of an Embedded System for On-board Electrical Engineering Prof. Aurobinda 3960000Assssment of Level of Alertness in Human Drivers. Routray
Design & fabrication of SOI MEMS Electrical Engineering Prof. Siddhartha Sen 2861600Capacitive Accelerometer
Kinematic State Estimation of Multiple Electrical Engineering Prof. Siddhartha 996000Aerospace Targets Mukhopadhyay
IBM Open Collaboration Faculty Award Electrical Engineering Prof. A. K. Sinha 700000
Testing & Characterization of In - House Development Electrical Engineering Prof. Siddhartha Sen 500000MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer.
Synthesis of functional groups for immobilization of Electronics & Electrical Prof. T. K. 15701400functional proteins on MEMS based micro-sensor Communication Engineering Bhattacharyyasurfaces.
Degradation and Breakdown of Metal GATE/HIGH- Electronics & Electrical Prof. C. K. Maiti 3236860K/III-IV Semiconductor Structures Communication Engineering
Computer Science & Prof. Rajib Mal 1285000
Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
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3-D Image sensor for capturing Minutes Details and Visualizationg by Geometric Modelling. EngineeringAn embedded low cost portable color Electronics & Electrical Prof. Swapna 2491440doppler ultrasonography system Communication Engineering Banerjee
Sub Project of TIETS Electronics & Electrical Prof. Dhrubes Biswas 2000000Communication Engineering
Support of Entrepreneurial and Management Electronics & Electrical Prof. Dhrubes Biswas 1729000development of SMEs Through Incubators Communication Engineering
Design & full - wave greens function analysis of a Electronics & Electrical Prof. Bratin Ghosh 1308000COAX - Fed Two layer dielectric reonator antenne. Communication Engineering
Extraction of Radar Signals in the 70-500 MHz Band Electronics & Electrical Prof. Mrityunjay 1000000by Suppressing Interfering Communication Singals. Communication Engineering Chakraborty
Design, Simulation & Development of mm - Electronics & Electrical Prof. B. K. Sarkar 990000wave six port receiver Communication EngineeringModelling, Simulation & Fabrication of Split Electronics & Electrical Prof. Bratin Ghosh 982800Ring Resonators. Communication EngineeringDesign of planar compact high performance Electronics & Electrical Prof. Subrata Sanya l894000RF/Microwave filters for satellite application. Communication Engineering
Seismic Hazard Assessment, Microzonation Geology & Geophysics Prof. Sankar Kumar 37099000& Evaluation of Vulnerability, Risk & NathSocio-Economic Impacts for the City of Kolkata.
To Tobulate, compile & calculate the cross-sections of Geology & Geophysics Prof. Debashis 11040007the nuclear reactions for the nuclear reactor Senguptafuels, namely Thorrium, Plutonium & Uranium.
The Indian Continental Shelf as a Potential Geology & Geophysics Prof. Muruganka 9300000of Phosphate Kumar Panigrahi
Reservoir Characterization using Artificial Geology & Geophysics Prof. William K. 4572000Intelligent Techniques (Soft Computing). Mohanty
Monsoon driven changes as preserved in marine Geology & Geophysics Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta4199280 sediments of Gujarat and Konkan Coasts during the past 20 Kyr.
Phase relations in the Fe-As-An-S system and possible Geology & Geophysics Prof. K. L. Pruseth 3605000role of partial melting of ores in concentrating gold.
Thermal history of the inverted metamorphic Geology & Geophysics Prof. Santanu Kumar 1806000sequence from the northwestern Arunachal BhowmikPradesh: Constraints from Microstructure,Thermobarometry and P-T Pseudosection analysis.
Utilisation of Sar data for mineralexploration with Geology & Geophysics Prof. Amit Kumar 850000special reference to bauxite ore deposits under, Risat UP. Bhattacharya
Influence of S-fugfacity on the Minimum Temperature of Geology & Geophysics Prof. Kamal Lochan 500000Melting in the system Pb-Fe-Zn-S: Implication on sulfide PrusethOre Remobilization by Partial Melting.
Radiation Damage Pattern in Specific Geology & Geophysics Prof. D. Sengupta 366000Minerals and the Dose Distribution Due tothe Presence of Radionuclides from theSinghbhum Shear Zone, Jharkhand, India
"SMS-KSM Fellowship Bridge Project" Geology & Geophysics Prof. Sankar Kumar Nath 300000TEDx IIT Kharagpur. Geology & Geophysics Prof. S. Tripathy 300000
Groundwater - Sea water interactions and a Geology & Geophysics Prof. Abhijit Mukherjee 50000coastal aquifer adjoining the Bay of Bengal:Implications on Flux & Solute exchange.
Standardization Activity in 4G & Beyond in RAN. GSSST Prof. Suvra Sekhar Das 3275000
Expansion of Trade & Development of women Humanities & Social Science Prof. Kishor Goswami 551475Tntrepreneurs in Handloom Industry in Assam
Sustainability of Biodeisel Industry in North East India. Humanities & Social Sciences Prof. Kishor Goswami 914850
Institutional Development Project IIT Kharagpur Dean (Alumni Affairs & IR)1000000000
Surface Communication Electronics & Electrical Prof. P. K. Biswas 3000000
Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
57Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Developing Comprehensive supply chain indeces and Benchmarks for Indian Industry.
Multiple Access Array Antenna System at S-band Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. B. K. Sarkar 2450000using Digital Beam forming Techniques. Technology Centre
Analysis of diferent conducting & Dielectric Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. B. K. Sarkar 2231000Structures as EMI Sensors. Technology Centre
Design and development of high-speed Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. B. K. Sarkar 1970000miniaturized RS MEMS switched capacitor Technology Centre
Test Simulator for Sattellite based AIS Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. B. K. Sarkar 1685000Technology Centre
Synthesis of Satellite Footprints Patterns from Planar Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. B. K. Sarkar 1680000Array Antennas By Combination of Particles Swarn Technology CentreOptimization and Fast Fourier Transfor
Enhancement of Transport Layer Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. Raja Datta 1000000Performance for Inter Planetary Network. Technology Centre
Design & Development of ultra wideband Kalpana Chawla Space Prof. Somnath 341997EMI sensors Technology Centre Sengupta
Development of a low cost ceramic gas sensor system Material Science Centre Prof. S. B. Majumder 5000000prototype for monitoring the air quality of automotive cabin.
Development of Membrane Electrode Array Material Science Centre Prof. Basudam Adhikari 4150000Based Novel Sensing System for Rapid Tastwe Cjaracterization of Food Agro products.
Development of cotton Lap/Celulose pad Material Science Centre Prof. Basudam 4108000subsitute from Jute. Adhikari.
Development & Production of Wear Resistant Ceramic Material Science Centre Prof. Basudam 1212000Tiles From Nalco Fly Ash: An Economic Approach. Adhikari
High Strength Polymide - Siloxane Films Material Science Centre Prof. Susanta 998400with Low Heat Shrinkage. Banerjee
Synthesis of mixed metal oxide & porous oxide Material Science Centre Prof. Debabrata Pradhan 500000nanostructured materials by using hydrothermal technique.
Bulk and surface modified layerd-layerd and layerd - Material Science Centre Prof. S. B. Majumder 426500spinel composite cathodes forlithium rechargeable batteries.
On a class of pf doubly singular BVP arising Mathematics Prof. Rajni Kant 824340in Physiology. Pandey
A study on Quntum System with Position - Mathematics Prof. Asish Ganguly 310000dependent Mass in the content of Hermitian/Non - Hermitian Interaction.
Classification of the Actioms of Semisimple Mathematics Prof. Debapriya 165000Lie Groups on Homogeneous Spaces. Biswas
Development of Robust signal processing Mechanical Engineering Prof. A. R. Mohanty 6037000Technique's for detection of underwaterimpact and burst nase.
Pre-clinical Analysis of failure Mechanisms Mechanical Engineering Prof. Sanjay Gupta 2338000and Design Optimization of Acetabular Prosthesis.
Deep Drawing of Laser Welded Advanced Mechanical Engineering Prof. Susanta Kumar 1902000High Strength Steels. Panda
"Lab-on-chip device for Point-of-care Diognosis" Mechanical Engineering Prof. Suman Chakraborty 900000
Optimal design of human muscle like Mechanical Engineering Prof. Vikranth 814000electroactive polymer actuators Racherla
Optimal design of tough wear resistent Mechanical Engineering Prof. Vikranth 500000nanostructured coatings Racherla
DRDO Autonomous Ground Vehicle Project Mechanical Engineering Prof. Anindya Chatterjee 100000
performance & ManagementIndustrial Engineering Prof. Jitesh J. Thakur 494000
Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
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Feasibility of sequenstration of carbondi-oxide from industrial systems - phase I. Material Engineering
Atomistic Simulations of Gas Hydrates and Metallurgical & Prof. Tarun Kumar 3192000Stabilizer/Inhibitor Design. (sub-project MRDMS5) Material Engineering Kundu
Microstructure - Texture - Toughness Metallurgical & Prof. Debalay 285285relations in high strength automotive. Material Engineering Chakrabarti
1T1/T1B2 B1-Layered and Multilayered Metallurgical & Prof. Shampa Aich 1676000Coating on Steel Substate by pulsed layer Material Engineeringdepositions (PLD) Technique to ImproveTribological properties (High Wear/abrasionResistance Low Frictin Coefficient) andCutting Effeciancy
Study of correlation between processing - Metallurgical & Prof. Sujoy Kumar 500000microstructure - Microtexture & property in Material Engineering Kara Beta Titanium Alloy, Ti-5553.
Processing, characterization and Metallurgical & Prof. Jayanta Das 100000deformation of Ti-Fe(Sn) Ultrafine Eutectic composites. Material Engineering
Innovotive heat-treatment of cast Metallurgical & Prof. Debalay 1328000microalloyed steels for improving the properties. Material Science Chakrabarti
Euro-Indo Foeum for Nanomaterial Metallurgical & Prof. Jyotsna Dutta 741428Research Cooerdination & Cooperation for Materials Engineering MajumdarResearchers in Sustainable Energy Technology.
CO abatement in iron & steel production Metallurgical Prof. P. K. Sen 84360002
by process optimization. Engineering
Essar Steel Research Wing. Metallurgical Engineering Prof. P. K. Sen 2500000
Evaluation of Manganese Nodules Extration Metallurgical Prof. P. K. Sen 1512000Processes for optimal Performance: EngineeringA New Approach, Phase II
Invesigation of Bolt Behaviour in Mining Engineering Prof. Debasis Deb 22954000Development and Depillaring Panels underBlast Induced Dynamic Loading.
An Invesigation on Adsorption Mining Engineering Prof. Samir Kumar Pal 9007000Characteristics id Indian coals & to Ascertain recoveribility of CBM from deepseated coal & Lignite resources.
Study of the behaviour of Oil spill on Ocean Mining Engineering Prof. K. Pathak 7800000surface through laboratory experiments,modelling & Satellite images
Invesigation on Aug-mentation of the life of Mining Engineering Prof. Samir Kumar Pal 5328000dump truck tyres through the improvement of the tyre retreading compound & Development of an optimum road maintenanc management system.
Modelling Extent of overbreak & cracked Zone due to Mining Engineering Prof. Kaushik Dey 2084000blassting in tunnels of hydroelectric projects.
Use of Hyper spectral remote Sensing Mining Engineering Prof. D. Chakravarty 1426000imagery for mapping of minerals deposit
Coastal Protection in the Mahakalpara area Ocean Engineering & Prof. N. R. Mandal 4232000of Kendrapara District, Orissa. Naval Architecture
A investigation into the maneuvering performance of Ocean Engineering & Prof. Vishwanath 2711700ships in shallow navigation channels around Indian Naval Architecture NagarjanCoast under different weather conditions
FIST Project - To Strengthen the post-graduate Physics & Meteorology HEAD 36500000 teaching & research facilities in the department.
Generation of tunable mid-infrared coherent Physics & Meteorology Prof. P. K. Datta 2257100radiation in the range on 12.7-17 micrometerfor strategic spectroscopic application
Metallurgical & Prof. P. K. Sen 1236000
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Project Title Dept. Principal Project Investigator Cost (rs.)
Tuning of Structural & Electrical Properties Semiconductors by High energy light Ion - Irradiation.
Evaluation study of Beedi workers welfare Rajiv Gandhi School of Prof. Dipa Dube 210450Hospital. (Dhuliyan). Intellectual Property Law
Reliability Modeling, Analysis & Prediction Reliability Engineering Prof. V. N. A. Naikan 420000of 21 NA (Absolute) Pressure Transducers Centre
Creation of Multimedia based Courseware for E&IT RGSOIPL Prof. Indrajit Dube 11500000 Students to be implemented by IIT Kharagpur.
Development of Novel polymeric materials Rubber Technology Prof. Nikhil K. 1591000for self-healing applications. Centre Singha
Lab to land application of modified Rubber Technology Prof. T. K. Chaki 374880Bituminous binder using waste plastics. Centre
Adaptation of new technology for Rural Development Prof. P. B. S. 326400Ambar Charkha Center Bhadoria
Synthesis of Low Power High Performance School of Information Prof. Debasis 2543160Mixed VLSI CMOS Circuits. Technology Samanta
DST FIST for SMST School of Medical 8900000Science & Technology Head
Transcervical Delivery of Contraceptive in School of Medical Prof. Sujoy Kumar 4400000the Female. Science & Technology Guha
To Evaluate the clinical efficacy of the School of Medical Prof. Manjunathan 2023036fuctional Electrical Stimulatio (FS) Therapy Science & Technology M.in Stroke Survivors.
Separation and Electrical Characterisation School of Medical Prof. Soumen Das 8657000of Biological cells using Microfluidic device Sciences & Technology
Identification of potential biomarkers for the School of Medical Prof. Koel Choudhury 2520000diagnosis of endometriosis: a proteomics Sciences & Technologyapproach.
Assessment of Endometrial Receptivity and School of Medical Prof. Koel Choudhury 1757350its correlation with Sub-Endometrial Blood Sciences & TechnologyFlow (SEBF) in women with Latent GenitalTuberculosis Undergoing IVF.
Development of Statistical Analyzer based School of Medical Prof. Chandan 1308000computer Aided Diagnostic (CAO) System Sciences & Technology Chakrabortyfor Asthma.
Nano-micro polyelectrolytic magnetic & School of Medical Prof. Sujoy K. Guha 981559electrical conductor composite as intra vas Sciences & Technologydeferens reverible contraceptive.
Centre of Railway Research at Sponsored Research & Prof. Siddhartha 203844000IIT Kharagpur Industrial Consultancy Mukhopadhyay
Virtual Labs main Phase Sponsored Research & Prof. C. S. Kumar 103432000Industrial Consultancy
of Physics & Meteorology Prof. Anushree Roy 1838570
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Recent ActivitiesIntegrated Web Portal (www.iitkgp.org)
l Alumni Network – Information available about Office of AA & IR, ID Program, IIT Foundations and Alumni Associations and Chapters. Also there are communities for Departments, Halls, Batches, Societies and Chapters. One can create forums and interact with other fellow alumni belonging to that community, upload photos, create campaigns, promote events etc.
l Alumni Services – Institute Awards recognitions for Alumni including, past awardees' profiles downloadable forms and award criteria, Degree Transcripts, Collaborations
l Networking - Strengthening the alumni network and database through various communities – Hall wise, Department wise, Batch wise and Societies. Convocation data is available in the portal along with the user profiles of those who have registered in the old alumni site and the new portal.
l Online Job Portal – Filtered job postings are made available to the alumni and students regularly. These are job postings which are communicated either by the Company itself or a placement agency of repute. The job openings are communicated to the alumni via the e-newsletter once a month. The alumni may also post vacancies available with them which will benefit the young alumni immensely. Internships and Training opportunities may also be posted herein.
l News & Events – The latest updates and announcements about the KGPians (alumni, faculty and students) and the Institute or any information which may be of interest of these groups are posted in these sections under several categories.
Brand Shoppe Coming SoonThe Students' Alumni Cell has planned to launch a Brand
Shoppe on the occasion of Diamond Jubilee celebrations,
at the campus facilitating the students and visiting
alumni to buy customized merchandise. The shop is
planned to be located at Technology Students' Gymkhana.
It will have a wide range of merchandise starting from
apparels, accessories, show pieces and decoration items,
gift items, stationaries and many more. Each item will
carry registered logo and brand name of IIT Kharagpur
and will made available exclusively at the shop.
The shop will be managed by an outsourced vendor. Their
services will include – supply chain and logistics, shop
management, billing and customer care, stock taking and
replinshment. The Office of Alumni Affairs and
International Relations will look after the quality and
design of the products supplied and pricing mechanism as
well as IIT-KGP brand presentation.
An online version of the shop will also be there at the
alumni web portal www.iitkgp.org. For those alumni and
parents of students who cannot visit KGP campus but
would like to avail KGP merchandise, they can shop
online at the online market place of the portal.
We are open to ideas and wish list of the alumni and
students. For this purpose we have created a wish list on
the online market place. You may register at the portal
and add the products you wish for in the wishlist. We will
try to accommodate the same in our product range.
l Online Fund Raising – Three segments in the portal will facilitate this – Giving Back (Donations), Market Place (Shopping segment) and Events registration. The funds will be routed to our alumni fund account through the payment gateway integrated with the portal. In Giving Back segment fund raising campaigns are designed for donors to choose their preferences for each cause. Here we have tried to focus on all segments which will impact the Institute profoundly. The events section will have facility for online registration and payment facilities.
l Market Place – Institute mementoes, videos, photos are being made available through the market place. The alumni can place order for any number of mementoes by making online payment through the shopping cart.
Several more sections like Blogging facility, Knowledge Center and Continuing Education are in the process of development. Also the portal will be connected to several sites like mentorship program, chapter websites etc.
61Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Publications
KGP Connection E-Newsletter
KGPian
Yearnings of Yore
Spirit of IIT Kharagpur
This is newly launched fortnightly e-newsletter. The
newsletter comprising news about IIT KGP students,
alumni, faculty and the 'Insti' has been welcomed by
the alumni community. It is a connecting platform for
all the launus to their beloved alma mater.
The quarterly newsletter
KGPian is a connecting
platform for all students,
alumni and faculty. Here
w e r e p o r t I n s t i t u t e
d e v e l o p m e n t s a n d
activities, alumni and
faculty achievements,
students' news, Institute
and chapter events and a varied range of topics related
to the KGPians.
This Annual Alumni Meet Souvenir
connects the reminiscences of the
Golden and Silver Jubilee batches
and also other alumni to the current
students. You will find some rare
photos here.
The coffee table photo book celebrates the 60th
anniversary of IIT Kharagpur. In this book Roy has
attempted to capture the spirit of our magnificent
institution, which for the past sixty years has been
helping buds to bloom. With one hundred photographs,
this superbly crafted book enhances our pride and
respect for our beloved alma mater while invoking fond
memories of the IIT Kharagpur spirit.
Price: Rs.990/- (without postage) Rs.1100/- (with
postage)
For your copy of any publication please contact:
[email protected] Or Call us at : 03222 282236.
Postal Charges Additional.
A nostalgic collection of articles, essays and
photographs form the alumni of the class of 1961. The
book is a journey through the memories which have
become more promonent in 50 years, the youthful
dreams and aspirations of the young college-goers and
the dynamic paths they have travelled in these 50
years. Additionally the book has archived important
facts and achievemnts about the 1961 class goers, their
family and professional details. This book is collector's
item for not just those belonging to that class but of all
belonging to that era.
Priced at Rs.750/-
The book “I was reborn on
August 18, 1951" consists
of four parts viz. PURVA-
KAHINI (Autobiography),
UTTAR KATHA (Photo
Gallery), PARIKALPANA
(Planner) and Diamond
Jubilee KGPian in a 3-sided hard bound jacket cover.
Priced at Rs 500/-
This Diamond Jubilee
C o m m e m o r a t i v e
Volume brings the
sixty-year journey of
IIT Kharagpur to life,
in full colour. It invites
everyone to join in the joyous celebration of the
landmarks, the growth and prosperity of the Institute,
the dreams and aspirations of its students and
teachers, and their devotion and dedication that has
made the Institute what it is today.
Priced at Rs. 795/- (Available to all IIT students,
faculty and ex-students at 25 per cent discount)
Golden Jubilee Reunion - Class of 1961
Diamond Jubilee Canonical Book by Technology
Alumni Association, Kharagpur
Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Volume
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Institute Lecture Series
Interactive Panel Discussion
Institute Lecture (1)
Institute Lecture (2)
Institute Lecture (3)
Institute Lecture (4) – Science Day Lecture
Institute Lecture (5)
Speakers: Smt. Kumod Joshi, Chairperson Khadi
and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Ministry
of MSME, Govt. of India, Mumbai.
Shri S.K. Bandyopadhyay, Padma Bhusan, Member
(East Zone), Khadi and Village Industries Commission
(KVIC), Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India.
Prof. D. Acharya, Director, Indian Institute of
Technology Kharagpur
Moderator: Prof. C. Chakraborty, Dept. of Humanities
& Social sciences, IIT Kharagpur.
Topic: Relevance of Gandhi Today in the Economic
Development of the Country
Speaker: Prof. Stefan Bengston, Professor and
Head, Department of Paleobiology Swedish Natural
History Museum Stockholm, Sweden.
Topic: “Early Life on Earth”
Speaker: Swami Paramanand Giri Ji Maharaj,
Vedant Shiromani Yug Purush Maha Mandeleshwar,
Brahmn Gyani
Topic: “Vedanta Darshan”
Speaker: Prof. David Blair, Winthrop Professor and
Director Australian International Gravitational
Research Centre, University of Western Australia,
Australia.
Topic: “Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe with
Gravitational Waves”
Speaker: Prof. Bidyendu Mohan Deb, D.Phil
(Oxon, 1969), FNA, FASc, FTWAS Thereotical
chemistry, chemical Physics, Atomic and Molecular
Physics - IISER Kolkata
Topic: “Glimpses into Indian Heritage in Science and
Mathematics.”
Speaker: Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi, Director Nimbkar
Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Maharastra.
Topic: “Nation Building, IITians and Happiness”
Institute Lecture (6)
Institute Lecture (7)
Institute Lecture (8)
Institute Lecture (9)
Institute Lecture (10)
Institute Lecture(11)
Speaker: Prof. S. Krishnaswami, Department of
Chemistry Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedabad.
Topic: “Natural Radionuclide's in Aqueous Systems:
Tracing and Timing Biogeochemical processes and
particle Dynamics”
Speaker: Acharya Saumendra Nath
Brahmachari, Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur (B.Tech,
ME, 1968) Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medalist, President
Dev Sangha Seva Pratisthan Deoghar
Topic: “Value Education”
Speaker: Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Departments of
Physics, IISC Bangalore
Topic: Graphene: The Rising Star of 2D
Nanomaterials
Speaker: Prof. David L Kaplan, Professor and
Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering Tufts
University, USA – Director: NIH Tissue Engg.
Resource Centre.
Topic: “New Strategies for Tissue Engineering”
Speaker: Prof. Bruce Ellingwood, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA.
Topic: “Assessment and mitigation of risk from
competing low- probability, high-consequence events”
Speaker: Prof. Kumbakonam Rajagopal -
Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, Forsyth
Chair in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of
Mathematics Texas A &M University, USA
Topic: “Continuum Mechanics: The Eternal Well –
spring”
63Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Events8th Alumni Meet, 7-9 January 2011
The 8th Annual Alumni Meet
was held from January 7-9,
2011. This year the special
batches were classes of '61
(Golden Jubilee) and '86
(Silver Jubilee). The Chief
Guest
was the illustrious Kanwal
Rekhi of IIT-B. The 3 day meet
had a wide variety of activities.
Day 1 saw a rush in the
registration counters, sale of
mementoes, visit to the
Departments and Halls and
Nehru Museum. The alumni even participated in the
evening entertainment program by WTMS and
ETMS.
The second day started with the inaugural event. It
started with Distinguished Service Award and
Outstanding Young Faculty
F e l l o w s h i p A w a r d .
Presentations were made by
Director, Prof. Acharya, Chief
Guest, Prof. Amit Patra,
Dean AA&IR, Prof. Nirjhar
Dhang, Professor In-charge -
Civil Works and Chinna
Boddipalli, Managing Director, ID Program. The
new alumni portal www.iitkgp.org was launched
during this event by the Director. Also two new
programs for the alumni were
launched– Mentorship
program and My Imprint (a
pledge program). The second
session featured the premiere
of the short film on alumni
nostalgia – KGP Connection.
The alumni also had the scope
of exhibiting their athletic side through a miniature
cricketing tournament – Hong Kong Sixes. The
evening was ornamented with
a musical concert. There was
a late night bonfire program
as well.
The final day had the batch
presentations by '61 and '86
b a t c h e s a s w e l l a s
presentations by Students' VP, Alumni cell and
Training & Placement cell. Also mementoes were
presented to all outstation
special batches' alumni by the
Director. The final event was
the Fine Arts Exhibition by
the students and photo
session. This meet was
organized by the Office of
A A & I
R, Students' Alumni Cell and
TAA, Kharagpur. The grand
fiesta was welcomed by over
125 alumni from KGP, rest of
the country and abroad. The
2012 Alumni Meet is
scheduled on January 6-8; the
special batches will be the
Golden and Silver Jubilee
batches and the batch
completing 10th year.
S o u v e n i r s : 7 0 0 h i g h
resolution photographs -
priced at Rs.1000 (includes
shipping in India) or USD 20
(Shipping $5); Video - Rs. 2000 (includes shipping in
India) or USD 40 + Shipping $10; For your copy
please write to You can
make payment online at the below mentioned bank
details: A/c Name: Annual Alumni Meet, A/c No.:
95562200012031, IFSC Code: SYNB0009556; Bank
Name: Syndicate Bank, Branch: IIT Kharagpur,
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PAN IIT 2010
The 3 day long Pan IIT 2010
Conclave was organized at
India Expo Center in
Greater No ida , Ut tar
Pradesh, India between
October 29 -31. The event
saw participation from about
4000 people. The Conclave was planned as a
vignette of multifaceted activities - globally
recognized thought leaders, eminent panelists and
speakers and peers offered
a n o p p o r t u n i t y o f a
co l laborat ive learning
environment. Some among
the key speakers were Dr.
S a m P i t r o d a , A r v i n d
Kejriwal, B Muthuraman,
Mr. Nandan Nilekeni, Arjun
Malhotra, Pulitzer awardee
T h o m a s L F r i e d m a n ,
Pradeep K. Khosla, spiritual
p e r s o n a l i t y S r i R a v i
Shankar, Dr Montek Singh
Ahluwalia, Ministers - Dr C
P Joshi, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Dr.
Farooq Abdullah.
Several IIT Bands and professional performers
entertained during the 3-day
m e e t . T h e W T M S
represented from KGP.
T h e r e w e r e v i b r a n t
interactions, networking
opportunities and chance to
reconnect with friends.
Special Programs for the
families of the alumni were also organized. The
publications included issue
o f P i T e c h m a g a z i n e
featuring all IITs and a
documentary on social
change 'Pathik' featuring
some non-conventional
IITians. From KGP the
l a t t e r i n c l u d e d
Soumyendranath Bannerjee, Peter Chan, Dr.
Kiran Seth and Late V K Jain.
A special meet was organized
for KGPians on October 30.
S e v e r a l i s s u e s w e r e
addressed in this meeting.
Alumni wanted to know
m o r e a b o u t t h e
developments taking place
at IIT KGP in regard to Diamond Jubilee
Celebrations; the Director
updated them accordingly.
Prof. Patra, Dean AA & IR,
communicated about the
Institutional Development
(ID) program which was very
well taken by the alumni
who look forward to engage
themselves for the same. Alumni expressed a deep
concern about IIT KGP not
remaining the first choice
amongst Toppers of JEE as it
used to be; this was a direct
indication towards brand
building of IIT KGP as an
immediate step.
Announcement
Annual Alumni Meet 2012 : January 6-8
Pan IIT 2012 : December 7-9
Giving back campaigns – My ImprintFor the Students – By the Students
This is a students' pledge
program organized along
with the Students' Alumni
C e l l , w h e r e i n f r e s h
students takes pledge to
give back a percentage of
their annual income to
their alma mater to
support several causes:
1. Student Participation at Global Competitions
2. Financial Aids to Needy Students
3. Stundet Amenities/ Infrastructure
4. Brand Building activities of the Institute to
enhance students' career opportunities
5. Institutional Development Endowment to
facilitate consistent developmental activities
Community - My Imprint focuses on the student
community and recent pass-outs within the last 10
years.
'My Imprint' program reflects the exact KGPian
tempo. The assistance which could have made your
project, studies and research, and living, better in
IIT KGP, My Imprint aims to resolve those to the
very next generation of KGP inmates- Through this
program, you will be able to directly make imprint
towards the progress of our revered Institute.
My Imprint ceremony is organized twice a year,
during Alvida (students' farewell program) and on
the occasion of Convocation. On these occasions
you can fill up the 'My Imprint' pledge form and
submit to the Office of Alumni Affairs &
International Relations. You can also sign up
online: log on to www.iitkgp.org and click on
'Giving Back'
We had a modest launch with 23 students signing
up for the campaign during Alvida. Herein below
we acknowledge the gifts from all the students who
have signed up for the program:
F Name L Name Year Hall Dept Degree
Abhishek Gupta 2011 JC BBM MBA
Aditya Vasudivan 2011 MS CE B Tech
Ankul Anand 2011 PH MI B Tech
Ashesh Kr. Sinha 2011 HJB IM B Tech
Ashish Awasthi 2011 PH ME B Tech
Batthula Tharun 2011 RP EE B Tech
Gorvachne Pothal 2011 MMM CS M Tech
Harkanwal Singh 2011 RK EC B Tech
Jatin Khera 2011 MMM PH M Tech
Khamithlcar Babu Rao 2009 MMM ME M Tech
Kumar Utsav 2011 MS CE B Tech
Manoher Ravuhi 2011 MMM ME M Tech
F Name L Name Year Hall Dept Degree
Paramjeet 2011 PH HSS M Sc
Rohit Jain 2011 RK EC B Tech
Sanjeet Kumar 2011 PH ME B Tech
Satish Chennoju 2011 MMM ME M Tech
Shatrughna Tripathi 2007 PH EE B Tech
Siddharth Doshi 2011 PH AE B Tech
Sourav Agarwal 2007 MS CE B Tech
Sumeet Mohanty 2011 AZ BT B Tech
Sushant Sinha 2011 RK EE B Tech
Tushar Mahapatra 2007 PH ME B Tech
Vijay Kiran Cheruvu 2011 HJB ME B Tech
Come and Join Us: Make your Imprint Right Now!Just log on to www.iitkgp.org (Giving Back)
65Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
66 Alumni Annual Report 2010 - 11
Mentorship ProgrammeThe mentorship program aims at a healthy interaction between an interested mentor and an eager
protégé. This program matches the profiles of the applicant and the alumni based on common goals and
career interest. The mentors would advice the protégé on any sort of problems faced by them and would be
able to provide information related to professional and career development. Issues related to career path,
resumes, course selection, international perspectives and work/family could be discussed with the
mentors. The students have the opportunity to remain in contact with the mentors even after graduating.
Registrations for Alumni Student Mentorship Programme will be open once every semester. Registered
students will be allotted a Mentor through a well defined allotment process considering various factors like
department, interests, year, etc. Assistance will be provided by Students' Alumni Cell -
[email protected]. To register log on to www.iitkgp.org
Here is the list of mentors for the year 2011
Name & Year Designation Company
Nawang Chhetan (2005) Student IIM Calcutta
Varun Arora (2005) Software Engineer Aster Data Inc., USA
Subhendu Panigrahi (2010) Shelf Life Engineer Infratab
Abhishek Choudhary (1953) KK BK
Anjani Singh (2005) Senoir Engineer NTPC Limited
Ramanathan Narayanan (2005) Associate Goldman Sachs
Soumya Kundu (2009) PhD Pre-candidate University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Souvik Majumdar (2001) Partner TuneSpray
Vidhu Shekhar (2004) Investment Manager QVT
Rahul Lodha (2004) Senior Software Engineer Sonus Networks India Pvt. Ltd.
Aroosh Sohi (2006) SMTS Oracle
Priyank Jain (2010) Analyst Avendus Capital
Himanshu Sharma (2008) Director Sarita Equipments India Pvt. Ltd.
Anurag Mark Topno (2010) PGP Student IIM Ahmedabad
Saurabh Harnathka (2010) Student IIM Bangalore
Ashish Sharma (2007) Systems Engineer IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Shubhrayan Dasgupta (2008) Asst. Executive Engineer ONGC ltd
Anirban Banejee (2002) Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Husain Kapadia (2010) Iviz Technosolutions pvt ltd SaaS Developer
Yashwanth Reddy (2010) Student IIM Calcutta
Rohit Sinha (2004) Manager - Acquisitions ACWA Power Internationaland Project Finance
Sriganesh Sundaram (1995) Director, Software Development Sabre Holdings Inc.
AnishKhadiya (2006) Junior Associate Mckinsey & Company
Aditya Garg (2010) Student - PGP IIM Ahmedabad
Balram Suman (2003) Staff Research Scientist Chevron
Anil Gourishetty (2008) Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Souvik Adhya (2005) Operations Manager Schlumberger
67Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Name & Year Designation Company
Mayank Tayal (2006) Field Service Manager - Wireline Schlumberger
Rohit Mahapatra (2009) Student IIM Calcutta
Avinash Ranjan (2007) PGP Student (MBA Program) IIM Ahmedabad
Jatindra Das (2007) Geophysicist NTPC Ltd.
Avinash Ranjan (2007) PGP Student (MBA Program) IIM Ahmedabad
Amit Sharma (2010) PhD Student Cornell University
Lakshmikanth Reddy M (2010) Deputy Manager Essar Steel Limited, Hazira,Gujarat.
Vijay Agwan (1975) Proprietor Vee Ai Associate
Pappu Bharti (2009) Junior Manager SAIL
SagarGoel (2007) - -
Subhajyoti Mukherjee(1990) Sr. VP and Head Plant-A (5 MTPA Essar Steel LtdSteel Plant)
Arijit Ghosh (2010) Junior Research Fellow Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Nitish Bandi (2005) Associate Williams Capital Advisors
Khyati Sharma (2008) Tata Consultancy Services ASE
Krishan Khanna (1961) Chairman i Watch, see www.wakeupcall.org & i2K Solutions, see www.i2k.in
Gaurav Bhadoria (2010) Business Management Analyst JP Morgan Chase
Parijat Banerjee (2006) Consultant - Financial Services Oliver WymanPractice
Arnab Bandyopadhyay (2002) Senior Design Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD)
Nitin Goyal (2008) SDE Microsoft
Sandipan Chowdhury (2008) Graduate Student University of Wisconsin, Madison
Pankaj Sharma (2009) Executive Tata Steel
Soumyajit Mandal (2002) Postdoctoral Research Scientist Schlumberger-Doll Research
Siddhartha Priya (2004) Entrepreneur Entrepreneur
Anant Tripathi (2005) Consultant Feedback Ventures
Subhajit Sarkar (2010) Junior Research Fellow Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre forBasic Sciences
Naveenji Arun (2009) Doctoral Student University of Saskatchewan
ChandraSekhar Yadala (2010) Engineer - R&D Solar Semiconductor Pvt LTD
Alokesh Das (1999) Senior Project Manager Tavant technologies
Byomkesh Kumar (2003) R & D engineer II; SMTS; Synopsys; Mentor Graphics; Reliance Handset Engineer Communications
Pravin Kaushal (2010) Student IIT Kharagpur
Prabodh Sharma (2010) Assistant Manager Vodafone
Robin Kalia (2009) Research Engineer Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
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Institute AwardsDistinguished Alumnus AwardsIIT Kharagpur recognizes the professional
excellence of its alumni through the Distinguished
Alumnus Award. So far about 43 alumni have
received this prestigious Award, the details of
whom are available herein below. However, it is
believed that many others are also deserving of
such recognition and we need the help and
cooperation of all alumni of the Institute to identify
and nominate them for the same.
Details regarding the eligibility and the process of
selection of these awards along with a nomination
form, are available at 'alumni services' segment of
www.iitkgp.org, alumni web portal. You are
requested to help us identify those alumni of this
Institute, who, in your opinion should be
considered for these Awards and get the
nomination form filled up and submitted to the
Office of the undersigned by 31st March, every
year. A soft copy of the nomination form should also
b e s u b m i t t e d b y e m a i l t o
[email protected]. Nominations
received after this will be considered for the next
year.
Mr. Subrata Biswas
Mr. Amit Chatterjee
Prof. Mihir K Chaudhuri
Prof. Sujoy K Guha
Mr. Subrata Biswas - Mr.
S u b r a t a B i s w a s i s t h e
Chairman, Damodar Valley
Corpration. He started with
CEO in 2006 and took over Chairman from
Oct.2009. As a leader he transformed the
corporation from a regional to national player.
Biswas was born on April 13, 1959. He did B.Tech. in
ME in 1981.
Amit Chatterjee is currently
General Manager for the Visual
Studio Team Test Business at
Microsof t . Amit leads a
distributed development team located at
Hyderabad, Redmond, and Raleigh, on a mission to
establish Microsoft as a key leader in the Testing
Industry. He did graduation and post-graduation
from IIT Kharagpur completing B.Tech (Hons.) in
E&ECE in 1994 and M.Tech in CSE in 1985. He
was winner of the President of India Gold medal
award in 1984 and the Technology Alumni
Association Gold Medal in 1985.
Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri is Vice
Chancellor of Tezpur University.
He is well-known for his
outstanding and significantly
useful contributions in the field of inorganic chemistry.
Prof. Chaudhuri did Ph. D. from IIT, Kharagpur.
Sujoy K Guha is the Professor of
Biomedical Engineering in the
School of Medical Science and
Technology, IIT KGP. He did
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering in1961 (4th
rank, Institute merit scholar all years) and M.Tech.
in EE in 1962 (1st rank). He joined IIT-KGP in 2003
as Chair Professor bridging the gap between
academia and research in b iomedica l
instrumentation, new drug molecule continuing
and a clinically accepted medical product.
Uttam Chand Jain is a
renowned architect-planner. He
is the principal partner of UCJ
Architecture & Environment
since June 2008 developing several landmark
projects. He graduated in Architecture (B.Arch.)
with 1st Class Hons. on a scholarship from IIT-
KGP in 1958.
Prof. Narendra Kumar is the
Homi Bhaba Distinguished
Professor in Raman Research
Institute. He is also an Honorary
Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru
Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. He
graduated in B.Tech in E&ECE from IIT KGP in the
year 1962 and secured 2nd rank. In 1963 he
completed M.Tech in Electronics & ECE with
specialization in UHV & Microwave Engineering
and secured 1st rank.
Mr. Uttam C Jain
Prof. Narendra Kumar
.
Malay Mukherjee is the Chief
Executive Officer, Essar Steel
Business Group. Previously he
was a member of the Board of
Directors of Arcelor Mittal and COO of Mittal
SteelMukherjee did B.Sc. in Physics (1964-67). He
was a resident of Nehru Hall
Mr. Malay Mukherjee
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Mr. R. N. Mukhija
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
Prof. Kailas C Sahu
Mr. R. N. Mukhija is the President
(Operations), Whole time-Director
and Board Member, L&T. with a
glorious career in L&T spanning
over 45 years. He did B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering
in 1965. He was awarded Freedom of Hall and
President of Electrical Engineering Society.
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan is the
Chairman, ISRO and Space
Commission and Secretary, Dept. of
Space, GOI and a key man in the
Chandrayaan mission with a career of more than 38
years in space technology, applications and space
programme management. He did Ph.D. in IEM from
IIT Kharagpur.
Prof. Kailas C Sahu is presently
academic advisor in VGSOM,
IIT-KGP. He has an extensive
teaching career in various
organizations of repute on various topics. Prof.
Sahu did B.Tech. (1957) and M.Tech (1963) in
Mechanical Engineering and PHD in Industrial
Engineering (1968).
Dr. Prabhakant Sinha
P r a b h a k a n t S i n h a i s a
consultant and Co-chairman
and co-founder of ZS Associates
the leading Sales Management
Consultancy in the World. He is also Director in
Greenlight Planet, Inc. P.K. Sinha did B.tech. in
ME in 1970. He has seed funded the P K Sinha
Center for Bioenergy at IIT-KGP.
Ranbir Singh Gupta is the
Chairman of SIGMA7 Design
Group Inc. He has been in
leadership role for almost 30
years, developing architecture in to a successful
business enterprise. Mr. Gupta did B. ARCH in
1970 and won Silver Medal. Under his patronage
the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of
Infrastructure Design & Management was started
in IIT KGP in 2008
Ranbir Singh Gupta
Distinguished Service AwardsIIT Kharagpur has started a new Award called
Distinguished Service Award to recognize the
contribution of alumni to the Institute or the
alumni community. This contribution could be in
the form of taking up organizational activity
among the community, giving back to IIT
Kharagpur in any form like mentoring students,
supporting research through collaborations or
funding support, etc.
Details regarding the eligibility and the process of
selection of these awards along with a nomination
form, are available at the 'alumni services' section
of www.iitkgp.org, the alumni web portal. You are
requested to help us identify those alumni of this
Institute, who, in your opinion should be
considered for these Awards and get the
nomination form filled up and submitted to the
Office of the undersigned by 31st March, every
year. A soft copy of the nomination form should also
b e s u b m i t t e d b y e m a i l t o
[email protected]. Nominations
received after this will be considered for the next
year.
Institute Awards
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Dr. Arvind Jain
Sundar Mohan Murmu
Ramnath S Mani
Dr. Arvind Jain (ME '69, Azad)
has been a pioneer of IIT
Kharagpur alumni activities in
the U.S. for the past twenty
years. Arvind was an outstanding
student and a keen participant in extra-curricular
activities at Kharagpur. He was on the editorial
board of Impact, an independent campus magazine
run by students during the sixties, President of the
Mechanical Engineering Society in his final year, and
the winner of his year's B.C. Roy Gold Medal. Arvind
is a strategic consultant in the aluminum and
resource industries based in Pleasanton, California.
He is currently Vice President of Rio Tinto Alcan,
Montreal.
Sundar Mohan Murmu (AE '79,
Nehru) is a social engineer,
sportsman, environmentalist,
philosopher and a change maker.
However, he is foremost a
visionary social thinker. Murmu is the Deputy
General Manager of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. now
heading CRM. He is an active alumnus of KGP and
Pan IIT body. He is an inspirational force behind the
alumni movement in TAA Delhi, Hyderabad and
Bangalore. He raised more than 1.5 million INR for
TAA Delhi & Foundation. Murmu has been a key
person in availing 80G tax exemption for IIT
Kharagpur Alumni Foundation.
Ramnath S Mani (E & ECE '69,
Patel) is one of the pioneers in the
field of Industrial Automation in
India. He is instrumental in
creating India's first portal on
industrial automation, www.automationexcellence.com.
He is the founder member and current vice president of
IIT KGP Alumni Foundation India. He has been an
extensive networker and fund raiser for his alma
mater. He has also been an Adjunct faculty and
research collaborator. Mani has been following up for
the railway over bridge and road form Kolkata Highway
to KGP campus.
Dr. Hitendra Ghosh (E & ECE
'58) was a merit scholar. He was a
topper in his class and was
awarded fel lowship from
University of Illinois where from
he did MS and PhD. In 1998 Dr
Ghosh co-founded the first Pan IIT alumni chapter,
Capital IIT Alumni Corp in Greater Washington DC
area and organized the first Pan IIT alumni
conference in 2002 on IP. During his tenure as co-
president of Pan IIT USA, Dr Ghosh started the
Pitech magazine, Pan IIT logo and Pan IIT credit
card. Together with Dr Raj Dave, Dr Ghosh also
helped establishing 'Rajiv Gandhi Memorial IP
School' in IIT KGP – first of its kind in India.
Puran Dang (Civil '59, RP) is one of the earliest and proudest graduates of IIT Kharagpur. Puran Dang was the Founder and President/CEO of his company, Minuteman Group Inc, for three decades and is now a Senior
Advisor. Hundreds of Indian-Americans and many IIT-KGP alumni have been beneficiaries of his professional expertise and humanitarian assistance. Founder of the first ever IIT Alumni Association in the world: Indian Institutes of Technology Society of New England (IIT-SINE) was founded by Puran Dang in 1991. He is the Founding Charter Member of TIEBoston, ensuring IITians achieve heights in innovation and creation of new companies. He also facilitated meetings of the Directors with renowned professors, local alumni, fundraisers for IIT KGP and involved in Faculty Hiring & University Coordination.
Dr. Hitendra Ghosh
Puran Dang
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Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award
In a bid to encourage and promote technical
innovation, the Institute announces the Nina
Saxena Excellence in Technology Award. The award
commemorates the spirit and memory of its
illustrious alumna Dr. Nina Saxena, B.Tech (Hons.),
ECE 1992 who passed away tragically in 2005. Open
to all Technologists who are Indian citizens, the
award was announced at the IIT Kharagpur
Foundation Day on August 18th, 2006. The award
will be conferred every year on the same day to an
individual who embodies the drive for technical
excellence that Dr. Nina Saxena personified.
The award is funded through an endowment of the
Nina Saxena Memorial fund that has been
collected through IIT Foundation (a non-profit
organization and a US 501(c) organization). The
intent of the fund is to perpetuate excellence
despite all odds. The charter of the Fund is to
provide facilities, mechanisms and opportunities to
enable individuals to rise above expectations and
better serve society.
A distinguished committee will be formed by IIT
Kharagpur to confer upon this award. The award
will be conferred on August 18, 2008. The award
committee will be chaired by Director of IIT
Kharagpur and will be comprised of Deans and
selected faculty members of IIT Kharagpur and
well known alumnus, based in India and the US.
Nominations for best application of technological
practices or a technological breakthrough will be
decided on the basis of the following dimensions
and in the following order of importance:
a) Innovation above and beyond well known results
b) Novel Application of a well known result
c) Societal improvement
d) Benefit to India
e) Application of Technology to underdeveloped
areas and causes
2010
Dr. Jagannath Nayak and Team
Research Centre Imarat, Vignyana Kancha,
Hyderabad
Innovation : Development of State of Art Fiber
Optic Gyroscope technology for Aerospace System
2009
1. Prof. Milind V Rane,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT
Bombay
Innovation : Tube-Tube Heat Exchanges (TT_HE)
2. Smart and Innovative textile Materials
Research Group
Department of Textile Technology, IIT Delhi
(Mr. Kartick Kumar Samanta, Mr. Prateek
Sabharwal, Mr. Rohit Lohani, Dr. Ashwini K.
Agrawal Dr. Manjeet Jassal)
Innovation: Atmospheric pressure glow discharge
plasma reaction technology for functionalization of
textile substrates
2008
Dr. Subhash P. Andey, Dr. Prakesh S. Kalker,
Dr. Madan V. Nanoti
Scientists, Geo-Environment Management
Division, NEERI, Nagpur
Innovation: Household Multi Pollutant Water
Treatment Unit
2007
Dr. S. P. S. Khanuja and Team
Director, Central Institute of Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
Innovation: Anti-malaria treatment through plant
genotype development
A first of its kind, India-wide award to encourage and promote technical innovationEntries open to all Indian Technologists
Distinguished Alumnus AwardsPast Awardees
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Dr. Biswadip Mitra
(B.Tech. E&ECE/85,
Ph.D CSE/93)
Dr. Arun Phadke
(EE /59)
Mr. Ravi Kant
(MT/66)
Dr. Kiran Seth
(ME/70)
Dr. Amit Goyal
(MT/86)
Subir Chowdhury
(AE/89)
Arvind Kejriwal
(ME /89)
Dr. A. K. Malhotra
(B.Tech. President
Gold Medal 1961)
Dr. P. Kr. Roy
(MT/64)
Shantanu Mohapatra
(Bsc. GG / 1997)
Dr. Duvvuri Subbarao
(B.Sc. Physics/69)
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh
(M.Tech
Structures /57)
Shri Ravinder Nath
Khanna
(EE/62)
Dr. P. Banerjee
(E&ECE/81)
Dr. Panjab Singh
(Ph.D /69)
Dr. Pradip. Kr. Roy
(MT/64)
Prof. Asit K Biswas
(CE/1960)
Dr. Supriyo Datta
(EE / 1975)
Dr. A R
Upadhya (A)
Sir Arun Sarin
(MT/75)
Shri R. Gopalakrishnan
(E7ECE/67)
Prof. Anjan Bose
(EE/67)
Prof Prem Vrat
(ME/66
M.Tech. /68)
Prof S K
Bhattacharyya
(ME/60)
Dr. S. Banerjee
(MT/67 1967,
Ph.D /74)
Dr. P. Chaudhari
(MT/ 61)
Prof. V. C. Kulandaiswamy
(M.Tech in Civil
Engineering in 1956)
Mr. Vinod Gupta
(AGFE/67)
Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee
(B.Tech.)
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Life Fellows
Past Awardees
Sri B. K Syngal,
(B.Tech/61
and M.Tech /62)
Dr. Satyendranath Das Dr. A S Gupta
Ph.D/Maths/ 58,
D.Sc./Maths /66
Mr. Arjun Malhotra
(E&ECE/70)
Mr. Bijoy G. Chatterjee Dr. Suhas S. Patil
(E&ECE/65)
Prof. G. S. Sanyal
(1922-2011)
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IIT Foundations
IIT Foundation India:
To act as a centre for networking of the alumni of
the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
in order to promote bonding and fellowship
amongst the alumni and, thereby, create a pool
of knowledge, skills and experience to be utilized
for adding to the strength and reputation of the
alma mater, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, India by contributing to the
scientific, technological, industrial, managerial
and economic development of India and for the
progress of science and technology in the world
in general.
Elected office bearers are:
Ramnath S Mani, President, EC, 69,
Abhijit Ray, Vice President, CE, 69,
Pronob Guha, Secretary, EE, 69,
B K Mathur, Treasurer, PH, 77,
Alumni network
IIT Foundation USA:
The IIT Foundation is a non-profit organization
devoted to enhancing the capability of Indian
Institute of Technology ("IIT"), Kharagpur. The
main purpose of The IIT Foundation is to raise
funds for IIT Kharagpur, primarily from alumni
based in the US and Canada. The IIT Foundation
is registered as a non-profit organization with
the U.S. Internal Revenue Service under section
501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code. All
contributions to the IIT Foundation are tax-
deductible for U.S. taxpayers.
Executive Committee:
§ Roy Da Silva, President, EE, 74
§ Dave Banerjee, Treasurer, CE,76, NH
§ Vasan Raman, Secretary, EC, 68
Directors:
§ Hitendra Ghosh, EC, 58
§ Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, CS, 87
§ Purnendu Chatterjee, ME, 71
§ Prith Banerjee, EC, 81
§ Anjan Bose, EE, 67
§ Puran Dang, CE, 59
§ Sunil Gaitonde, EE, 83
§ Pradeep Khosla, EE, 80
§ Joe Srestha, NA, 72
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Domestic Chapters
Chapter Name Designation Name Email
Aligarh Mr. Pradeep Mittal [email protected]
Bangalore President Mr. S. Devarajan [email protected]
Bangalore Secretary Mr. R. Ravichandran [email protected]
Chennai President Mr. K. R. Subramaniam [email protected]
Vice President Mr. Sekhar Priyadarshee [email protected]
Secretary Mr. S. Chandrasekharan [email protected]
Delhi President Mr. YPS Suri [email protected]
Hyderabad President Mr. C.K. Jain [email protected]
Hyderabad Secretary Mr.M.N. Gupta [email protected]
Jamshedpur Mr. Manzer Hussain [email protected]
Kanpur Mr. Abhijit Ghosal [email protected]
Kharagpur President Prof. G. Bandyopadhyay [email protected]
Kharagpur Secretary Dr. Dilip K Nanda [email protected]
Kharagpur Jt. Secretary Prof. Kajal Biswas [email protected]
Kharagpur Treasurer Dr. Joy Sen [email protected]
Kolkata President Mr.Biswajit [email protected]
Kolkata Secretary Ranjoy Ghosh [email protected]
Kolkata Treasurer Arun Prakash Das [email protected]
Mumbai Mr. M. Balachandran [email protected]
Mumbai Mr. Krishan Khanna [email protected]
Pune Secretary Saumyasanta Choudhuri [email protected]
Pune President J. P. Banerjee [email protected]
Ranchi S. N. Bandopadhyaya [email protected]
Roorkee Prof. V. K. Gupta [email protected]; [email protected]
Surat Chapter Mr. Hemant M. Raste [email protected]
Vadodara Mr. Ashis Ranjan [email protected]
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
Chapter Name Designation Name Email
Atlanta Ms. Mondira Deb Pant [email protected]
Atlanta Mr. Rajan Sriram [email protected]
Atlanta Mr. Sandip Dutta [email protected]
Atlanta Mr. Manas Bajaj [email protected]
Bangkok Dr. S. K. Bhatnagar
Boston Mr. Sriketan Monhanti [email protected]
Boston Palaghat A Balasubramanian [email protected]
Chicago Mr. Ramu Ramachandran [email protected]
Chicago Mr. Saurabh Bagchi [email protected]
Chicago Mr. Shailendra Verma [email protected]
Chicago Mr. L Ramachandran [email protected]
Chicago Mr. Vikram Vuppala [email protected]
Dubai Mr. K.V.Rajah
Dubai Mr.Ashwini Jain [email protected]
Houston Mr. Partha Chatterjee
Houston Mr. Hemant Jha [email protected]
Kuwait President Mr. M.V.Babji Rao [email protected]; [email protected]
Kuwait Mr. Indrajit Bhowmick [email protected]
London Mr. Rajeev G Nair [email protected]
Malaysia Mr. Subroto Haldar [email protected]
Malaysia Mr. Dipanjan Majumder [email protected]
Melbourne Mr. Mouli Ganguly [email protected]
Michigan Prof. Subrata Sengupta
Minneapolis Mr. Rajiv Tandon [email protected]
Minneapolis Mr. Balram Suman [email protected]
New England Mr. Puran Dang [email protected]
New England Mr. Anoop Kumar [email protected]
New York Mr. Ajit K Agrawal [email protected]
New York Mr. Subhodev Das [email protected]
Ohio Chapter Mr. Jacob Mathew [email protected]
San Francisco Mr. Joy Bhattacharya [email protected] Area
San Jose Mr. Roy daSilva [email protected]
Seattle Mr. Pankaj Sethi [email protected]
Singapore Mr. Devashish Dutta [email protected]
Singapore Mr. Biswajit Khan [email protected]
Southern President Mr. Alok Chatterjee [email protected]
SOCAL Treasurer Mr.Debasish Banerjee [email protected]
Sydney Mr. Davender K Jain [email protected]
Toronto Mr. Ujjal Mondal [email protected]
Washington DC Mr. Raju S Dave [email protected]
California
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International Chapters
Contributing alumni whose details are missing please contact us with their alum details at [email protected]
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Our Commitments§ The Alumni Annual Report will be released in the month of August
every year on the occasion of the Foundation Day of the Institute.
§ It will have details of funds generated, expenditure made and
channels of expenditure, progress in work, fund planning and closing
balance.
§ The report will reflect how your imprint made a difference.
§ We will also ensure proper and on-time completion of project
undertaken.
§ Individual project briefs will be provided to the sponsor on request.
During these 60 years, the Institute has come a long way. A sub-urban
pre-independence detention camp where the Institute was established, it
has rose to the stature of a great institution producing world-class alumni
over the years. From initial student strength of 224 and 10 departments
today we are at a student strength approximating 10000 with 33
departments, schools and centres, including multidisciplinary
programmes. In this transformation process a key role has been played by
possible the alumni, students and faculty have for their beloved Institute.
Now that we have an excellent track record of delivering results with
consistency, we are doing it again through the introduction of our 2020
Vision. There is a long way ahead and we urge your whole hearted support
and co-operations. United we stand.
KGP ka Tempo High hai