Department of Chemistry 110016
Transcript of Department of Chemistry 110016
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110016
Tel. No. (011) 26591501
Dated: 14th June 2021
Schedule for the PhD Interview (Sem-I; 2021-2022)
Applicants with “Inorganic Chemistry” as Preference
22nd June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Shauvik Biswas 24733 Nilutpal Dutta 20220
Souman Bhuin 15126 Alok K. Chand 06479
Ranay Kumar Ray 05273 Deewan S. Teja 07406
Soubhik Ghosh 18610 Rashmi 06517
Anindya Roy 06091 Parul Aggarwal 04225
Nidhi Kumari 17714 Amir H. Wani 08517
Amit 23936 Akashdeep 32150
Rahul Mondal 01042 Hasem Ansari 07799
Srijan Sengupta 22398 Poonam Gupta 03864
23rd June 2021 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Arpita Das 25767 Shubham 28864
Aranya Rej 18519 Karina 29920
Ankit 05900 Sagar 02480
Ajeet Kumar Rana 02521 Ramkishan 01231
Rahul Kalita 24413 Sohini Sarkar 14697
Sulekha Patel 01349 Bhupendra P. S. 05262
Anjana V M 25893 Kapil Kaushal 20207
Vandana V. 01106 Bikash K. Das 15732
Anwesha Mohanty 07781 Sonam 10650
24th June 2021 (Thursday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Poorvi Gupta 14813 Rishabh Dubey 07766
Surjyan Kumar Patra 20458 Indu Sharma 19419
Subhadip Dey 12096 Piyush Kumar 09696
Vishal Singh 10196 Subhajit Kar 34316
Neha Mathur 35357 Aasha Yadav 14162
Sk Imraj Uddin 21302 Gaurav Mishra 25087
Khushboo Yadav 23829 Pratik N. Kalode 16201
Shashi 18462 Simranjeet Kaur 13925
Ritika 07398 Bitasik Khatua 27051
25th June 2021 (Friday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Rupali Mittal 18441 Monika Soni 10135
Pankaj Das 03241 Srabani Nandi 27946
Neha Kumari 12162 Anubhuti 23955
Shivani Prakash M. 29926 Harhit Patel 13399
Ayushi Chaudhary 04682 Shrutika Agrawal 21892
Sai Rachana P. 23391 Sayani Barman 26994
Sunil Mahto 15163 Yogesh Kumar 14085
Nitish Gautam 12237 Riya Chaudhary 04892
Dipanjana Sarkar 29384 Bishal Boro 01627
Shivani 15670
26th June 2021 (Saturday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Bhavesh Upadhyay 24755 Arya R. 21463
Arti Yadav 04872 Riya 23711
Surbhi Sharma 05856 Nazrin Paraween 18444
Jyoti Devi 20029 Nivya Krishnan 21950
Ranjith Kumar R 14927 Prachi 31215
Abhinav 23744 Swarnima 29259
Lisa Nayak 22861 Rayantan S. 05299
V Vaidehi 13190 Nishanta Barman 34396
Diksha Garg 07629 Preeti Kang 29523
28th June 2021 (Monday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Komal Srivastava 11129 Sourav Ghosh 29090
Srijan Mukherjee 15752 Diksha Patel 35005
Dupal Bhagawati 29242 Faneesha A. 11537
Rajat Saini 06562 Khushbu 36277
Mukul 26234 Kamaldeep 12908
Divyansh Dhiman 29112 Anjali 29316
Tarun Kumar 13722 Dibyaranjan S. 12637
Annu 23746 Pooja 16923
Parul Loura 01809 Saiyyida F. F. 35716
29th June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Jyoti 01410 Sakshi Gupta 09095
Rajat Bharti 02096 Niva Ghosh 06058
Jasmine Bezboruah 00880 Chandrakanta G. 24703
Manisha 18319 Janaki Behera 00403
Manoj Pradhan 25630 Rajil Asati 32923
Harshita 25760 Santanu Shaw 00656
Pinky 07789 Rajvir Singh 07578
Gajbhare Y. S. 27922 Gaman Kumar 20918
Sangita Mondal 10201 Manjeet Dhama 19042
30th June 2021 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No.
Ipshita Majumdar 22302
M. Aamir Khan 04588
M. Chosenyah J. 15230
Varsha Kumari 25073
Applicants With “Organic Chemistry” As Preference
22nd June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Vijay Oli 14973 Vishali 00996
Surender Ram 10245 Suvendu Panda 27189
Arijit Chakraborty 05016 Amit Kumar 16227
Vustela Sandhya 31983 Golap Das 07260
Rajni Kumari 04207 Anshulata 13147
Ritvika Kushwaha 24882 Pravedra Kumar 13886
Shamsad Ali 17313 Shashank S. R. 08120
Harshita Gupta 00418 Preeti Kapri 14842
Yashika Thakur 01536 Ashwani Kumar 11912
Priya Mahaur 04122 Sarita Kumari 19157
Pallavi 06760 Hansal Paresh K. 12810
Archana Rai 29135 Abdur R. S. M. 31894
Deeksha Sharma 07495
23rd June 2021 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Abhipsa Ghosh 18948 Preeti 12631
Rosalin Bhanja 00369 Sanjeev Kumar 17808
Kachgunde H. Gulab 29874 Mahesh D. V. 09407
Rohit Kumar 29611 Abhishek 18021
Simra Faraz 02826 Mukesh Kumar 05999
Kamya Rao 20763 Sagar 16026
Gayatri Meena 32535 Himanshu Parmar 26324
Surbhi 16231 Geetanjali Singh 15801
Souvik Dutta 24589 Honey Tyagi 33757
Simran Gupta 00187 Sidhant Yadav 18255
Anjali 19156 Abhay Srivastava 23986
Nishant K. C. 11444 M. Saim Raza 04342
Arun Kumar 08062
24th June 2021 (Thursday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Sarita 10466 Vishnu Dutt 10908
Mohit Kumar 24023 Manisha Mangla 01411
Krishn Kumar 31786 Ahmad Ali 10177
Rinkey Gupta 10641 Bunty Mudi 35023
Diksha Kundu 15451 Gayatri Meena 32535
B Sharmistha 26558 Shiv Dutt 02069
Dinesh Kumar.G 03868 Debashis Barik 25677
Nupur Jain 17270 Chinmayee P. 18913
Manish Kumar 03769 Kirti Chhabra 26968
Susmitha Kumar 05722 Abdus Samad 11334
Sunidhi Singh 10030 Nitish Kumar 00263
Sonakshi Bedi 05283 Hariprasas C K 34859
Pallavi Malhotra 11197
25th June 2021 (Friday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Subrat Vishwakarma 01025 Ankur K. Tanwar 21957
Md Badirujjaman 04231 Vishnu Dutt 10908
Rajkamal 08895 Sonu Yadav 18127
Swapnil Ghule 33299 Sumedha Gupta 20620
Saista Afreen 08066 Epsheeta Baruah 12722
Mumtaz Ahmad 08399 Muskan 07225
Payal Rani 34157 Mokilla R. R. 27782
Dharmendra Adak 07538 Shammy Suraj 23636
Asit Kumar 10793 Sudhir 12909
Roshan Singh 10306 Neeraj Chagathia 01138
Navjot Kaur 02988 Haridutt Sharma 20940
Kirti 34862 Shiv K. Soren 26522
26th June 2021 (Saturday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Mohit Kumar 21452 Anurag Verma 00765
Surya K. Bhardwaj 27101 Peeyush Pandey 07483
Sagar Munjal 22204 Manasi Mallick 21958
Kiran Arora 32163 Yogendra Singh 28422
Kailash Mohar 21417 Jyoti Chauhan 12905
Akash Dutta 25530 Nisha Yadav 30432
Pooja Thakral 24022 Aditya Kumar 33834
Vikrant Vini 15989 Maniya V N 32538
Nikita Goel 10060 Avishek K. Jha 18565
Akansha Pandit 16591 Gagan Deep 19431
Nivrutti B. Tarmale 19625 Kirti 15075
Pratik S. Pansambal 20715 Navneet K.P. 12753
Rohan C. Das 22321
28th June 2021 (Monday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Neetu Rani 25683 Supriya Ghosh 30870
Archana Chutia 11818 Ritika 18606
Deeksha 27172 Gaurav Yadav 26823
Tusar Santra 13300 Deepak Yadav 30460
Trisha Chakraborty 24611 Akash Nandgaye 28186
Parvez Alam Khan 07389 Akhil Patter 08459
Neha Pradhan 15601 Anirban Datta 17275
Ramesh H. C. 28713 Simran 11786
Sahil Kumar 01524 Maitery Yadav 08160
Atanu Mahato 32487 Kriti Mehta 16218
Sunil Gangwar 18048 Ravindra K. K. 17611
Atanu Mahato 32487 Sapna 25171
Manashi Dutta 33665
29th June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Renuka Tomar 08546 Manoj Kumar 34326
Ankit 26109 Virendra R. K. 01767
Panaha 24994 Padariya Aelvish 07581
Mohit Rautela 13807 Ramji Meher 34346
Sucheta Mondal 28482 Vinjamuri S. 07739
Avinash Sharma 23381 Arvind Kumar M. 18464
Astha Gupta 03101 Kalyan S. Naskar 01563
Rittwika Pan 13316 Shivam K.Pandey 00228
Jatin Patra 01230 Gulenur N. K. 00847
Soumya Koner 17170 Paru Jamwal 07142
Jakkula Naveen 20546 Suparnak Midya 21591
Ankur Malik 15357 Birjesh Kumar 25889
Akshay J. G. 00385
30th June 2021 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No.
Lubhanshi 26624
Suman Ghosh 17297
Applicants with “Physical/Bio-Physical/Material/Computational Chemistry” as Preference
22nd June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Gourav Chakraborty 00891 Divya 25202
Devender Singh 28536 Yogesh Kumar 14085
Ritu Gupta 36273 Yogesh Kumar 00231
Subhajit Dan 03238 Aliha Naqvi 01128
Ayishwarya Dutta 14728 Saptarshi Paul 18299
Debasis Pal 10249 Harish K.Trivedi 22066
Deepika 24533 Pankaj K. Jangid 26909
Ramneet Kaur 11028 Soumya Mondal 34778
Mona 33474 Khurshid Ahmad 06965
Nadar Allwyn 19839 M. Athar Pervez 00935
Teena 15125 Ponnada Y. Naidu 00498
23rd June 2021 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Gaurav G.Padval 33448 Sunita K. Malla 24213
Vikash Kushwaha 15149 Shashank Mishra 15304
Athul S 25667 Nishant Tiwari 01558
Haribrahma Singh 05967 Pranti Sutar 13152
Shashikant 23074 Dimpy Bhardwaj 12576
Singh M. Udaypratap 19376 Keshav Malhotra 22104
Bhupendra Singh 25703 Priyanka 19530
Neha 16414 Sumit Kumar 29099
Nandita Sharma 05119 Arkaprabha Sen 29423
Kavita Verma 23107 Ankita Paul 09522
Abhilipsa Sahoo 01240 Priyanka Jain 29230
24th June 2021 (Thursday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Kirti . 00430 Amit Tevatia 23831
Mrinal Kanti Panda 26053 Jyoti 08639
Preeti 05689 Jyothilakshmi S 25765
Md Nadim Akhtar 19352 Sonali Seth 07421
Prateek Saini 14908 Shubham 09974
Saeedur Rahman 10911 Deepanshi 28381
Shweta Kaushal 16178 Pradeep Rawat 03367
Bibhas Das 00143 Sarita 04138
Aarti Gautam 14892 Priyanka 08338
Reha Panigrahi 03701 Himanshi Mishra 07497
Partha Dutta 24874 Radhika V. 20223
25th June 2021 (Friday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Shilpa Debnath 25655 Amit 22829
Sakshi Bajaj 23044 Aejaz Ul Bashir 00363
Akanksha Sharma 26101 Svastik Jaiswal 29915
Vikas Lohan 22800 Tarun 07991
Priyam Bajpai 12011 Kavya S Mony 21274
Raj Shekhar 06670 Arzoo 15608
Bhojkumar Nayak 13888 Sahil Dev 14711
Bhavya Jain 31373 Nidhi Kushwaha 14400
Bhabani Malakar 21603 Tanisha Singhal 29847
Anneswa Paul 09880 Akanshi Gupta 31006
Sandeep Singh 17443 Nitesh M. T. 12102
26th June 2021 (Saturday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Debasish Paul 32572 Vikash Kumar 30174
Vinay Maithani 33830 Ashish Kumar 25167
Rohan Yadav 24515 Preeti 26809
Ashi Singh 19328 Soham C. 25787
Chanchal Solanki 30933 Ajay 19671
Dharmendra K. V. 16076 T Aashish 05894
Kumar Gourav 19206 Pragyan 34695
Binodini Panda 16494 Pooja 23610
Shubham Sinha 28239 Kankana B. 19483
Shruti Gupta 33540 Ankita 24747
28th June 2021 (Monday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
Gulnaaz 34142 Palak Majithia 31418
Isha 03522 Ritika Rani 24297
Hemjot Kaur 14856 Satyapriya Nath 25726
Rahul Kumar 29276 Amit K. Verma 33242
Manu Kumar 23288 Annu 33714
Indrajit Mahto 16271 Charchita Gautam 27011
Vedprakash Meena 09811 Tribani Boruah 23279
Sajal Kar 21187 Upasana M. 31051
Mrityunjay K. Jha 21460 Amresh Kumar 28516
Samaun Saifi 34876 Mridusmita S. 31008
29th June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Parul 5626 Bhaskar Giri 34872
Tannu 9894 Ashwini Anshu 451
Athira S Babu 2921 A Vamshi K. 28362
Tarun Kumar Sahu 11336 Motilal Chhatria 28446
Archita Kar 10153 Vaishali C. 22515
Om Kumar Mehta 21912 Vaishali Taneja 25467
Debasmita Sarkar 21165 Mrityunjay K. Jha 21460
Swati Jain 29583 Sampanna P. 12556
Applicants with “Bio-Chemistry” as Preference
29th June 2021 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM Onwards 2:30 PM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No. Name Application Ref. No.
M. Sufyan Ansari 17084 Jaykumar K. Patel 20523
Braja Kishor Saha 16483 Kavita Singh 21775
Parul Chauhan 32545 Bibhuti B. Das 15562
Renu Devi 01261 Subhashini M 35742
Bushra Qazi 09421 Tasneem Fatima 26959
Kuntala Dey 16489 Gaurav Sharma 29866
Arpita Panda 18986 Debashree Borah 12048
Devansh Swadia 03281
30th June 2021 (Wednesday)
9:00 AM Onwards
Name Application Ref. No.
Shweta N.Nikhar 18566
Suman Mishra 19802
You are invited to attend the interview (as per the schedule mentioned above) through “Google Meet”
videoconferencing. It is mandatory to go through the instructions regarding the rules, regulations, and
the use of videoconferencing. Please visit department webpage (http://chemistry.iitd.ac.in) frequently
for any updates. Before appearing in the interview please ensure that you meet the shortlisting criteria.
DRC, Department of Chemistry
General instructions for online interview:
1. Interview will start from 9.00 AM onwards every day with a lunch break from 1.00 PM – 2:30
PM.
2. Desktop or laptop computer or smart phone with good quality camera can be utilized for the
interview. Make sure that your device is configured with good internet speed.
3. Check your slot in the interview schedule in the Chemistry Department website.
4. Each interview would typically be ~15-20 min long, thus you are suggested to be online at least
30 mins before your interview.
5. As we are handling a large number of applications, no extra time slot will be provided to you
if you are not able to connect to us with in your designated time slot.
6. You have to be in an isolated room during the time of interview and once you are connected to
the examiners, you have to show them through your device that nobody is present in that place.
7. During interviews via videoconferencing, candidates are not supposed to record the
proceedings of the interview or indulge in any malpractice during the course of the interview.
In case violation of any of this is found at a later date, then it may lead to cancellation of the
admission.
Academic Units may however record the interview, if desired, using the videoconferencing
software, for future record and reference, in case the Academic Unit decides to record the
interview.
8. You should be have blank papers and pen ready with you as examiners might ask you to
explain some mechanism or to derive some equations.
9. You will receive a link through your email on the day of interview either at 8.30 AM (for
morning interview slots) or at 2.00 PM (for afternoon slots). You can appear in the interview
by clicking on that link.
10. You will receive a phone call just before your interview to apprise you to click on the link or
you might be instructed for some other process. (Please do not click the link until you get a
phone call from a committee member)
11. A setup as shown in the picture below is suggested in case you are asked to write
something on the paper. An arrangement like this will enable the interview committee
to see you write on the paper in the absence of a board.
(Note the mobile phone should be kept at a required height of about 6 inch by using a stack of books
while running the Google Meet app through the rear camera)
12. We will be using Google Meet for the online interview. If you are using a
desktop/laptop, the link mailed to you will directly take you to the video chatting page
(you may need to sign in with your Google account). If you are using a mobile, you
need to download an app (Google Meet) from the Play/App store. Please enable your
audio and video before entering the chatroom.
General information:
For Organic Chemistry candidates: The questions from the following topics are going to be
asked by the faculty at the time of interview.
• Stereochemistry
• Pericyclic reactions
• Spectroscopy
• Reaction mechanism
• Enolate chemistry
• Heterocyclic Chemistry
• Organometallic chemistry
• Reactive Intermediates
• Reagents in Organic Synthesis
• Biomolecules
For Inorganic, Physical and Biochemistry candidates: No specific topics are suggested for the
interview. The candidates can expect general questions from their subject.
DRC, Department of Chemistry
Ph.D. Shortlisting Criteria for Academic Session Semester-I 2021-2022
Criteria No Direct admission
criteria
(Only Full Time M. Tech. /
M. Pharm. / M. Sc.)
Interview short-listing criteria
GATE
Score
Discipline wise GEN/
EWS
OBC* SC-
ST
PH GEN/EWS OBC* SC-ST PH
Chemistry - - - - ≥ 550 ≥ 500 ≥ 450 ≥ 450
Life Sciences - - - - ≥ 550 ≥ 500 ≥ 450 ≥ 450
Degree % Aggregate or
CGPA on 10 point
scale**(without a
valid JRF but with
GATE or
M.Tech./M.Pharm)
M. Tech./
M. Pharm./M.Sc. $
B.Sc.
-
-
-
-
60% or 6.0
60% or 6.0
55% or 5.5
60% or 6.0
60% or 6.0
55% or 5.5
55% or 5.5
55% or 5.5
50% or 5.0
55% or 5.5
55% or 5.5
50% or 5.0
% Aggregate or
CGPA on 10 point
scale **
(with a valid JRF)
M.Tech./M. Pharm.
/M.Sc.$
B.Sc.
-
-
-
-
60% or 6.0
55% or 5.5
60% or 6.0
55% or 5.5
55% or 5.5
50% or 5.0
55% or 5.5
50% or 5.0
*Only non-creamy layer candidates are eligible. If you have applied as GE (General) category but
eligible under OBC (non-creamy layer) with the above short-listing criteria, you can appear for the
interview with relevant documents.
** % marks conversion to CGPA (on 10 point scale): Divide percentage by ten.
$All candidates, whether M.Sc. or M.Tech, must have M.Sc. in Chemistry or
Biochemistry/Biotechnology/Life Sciences/Material Science/Chemistry or related discipline.
NOTE:
• If the candidate has JRF (CSIR/UGC/ICMR/DBT/Inspire) and M.Sc., B.Sc. marks as
mentioned above in the table, he/she qualifies for the interview.
• The candidates, if successful in the recently awaited CSIR/UGC-NET etc examination, may
appear for interview provided they fulfil the above short-listing criteria.
• Candidates, whose M.Tech./ M. Pharm./M.Sc. results are not yet declared, will be
provisionally short-listed for the interview, provided they have secured the necessary
aggregate marks or equivalent CGPA in the results declared so far for the qualifying degree.
• Candidates with CSIR/UGC-LS are NOT qualified for the Ph.D. entrance interview.
• Requirement of qualification in GATE / National Exam is waived for the following categories
of applicants:
(i) Currently registered students in Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) pursuing
B.Tech./B.E./ Integrated M. Tech/ Integrated M. Sc. Programmes (or any other
programme of minimum four year duration, admission to which is on the basis of JEE),
who have completed 6 semesters or more, and have CGPA of 8.00 or above (on a 10 point
scale). Such students must obtain a CGPA of 8.00 or above at the time of graduation, and
before they formally register for the Ph.D. programme (80% aggregate marks, if marks are
the primary mode of evaluation);
(ii) Graduates of CFTIs (in the programmes marked under (i)) with a final graduation CGPA
of morethan 8.00 (80% aggregate marks, if marks are the primary mode of evaluation);
(iii) M.Sc. graduates from IITs with CGPA 8.00 or above
• Admission on a Part-Time (PT) basis will be as per Institute norms. An additional short-listing
criteria is 60% or 6.0 CGPA in B.Sc. and 60% or 6.0 CGPA in M.Sc. PT candidates do not
require GATE qualification. There will be no admission on a self-sponsored basis, and there
will be no direct admission to the above programme.