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1 List of Council Members for 2015 & 2016

2015 Designation 2016

Mr G V Sethuraman, Director, Enfab Industries Pvt. Ltd., C-2, Shantiniwas, Mettuguda, Mr Shyam Bang, Executive Director, Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd., 1A, Sector 16A, Noida Secunderabad – 500 017, Andhra Pradesh, [O] (040) 2782-4343, 2782-0010/2782-3073, President - 201 301, Uttar Pradesh, [R] (011) 2922-9999, [Mobile] (0)9810106660, [R] (040) 2733-4321/5363, [Mobile] 9849028854, [email protected] [email protected] Prof Ch V Ramachandra Murthy, Department of Chemical Engineering, Andhra Univer- Immediate Past Mr G V Sethuraman, Enfab Industries Pvt. Ltd., Plot No. 138-A, IDA Mallapur, Hyderabad sity, Waltair, Visakhapatnam 530 003, [O] (0891) 2754871 Extn.496, [R] (0891) 2504520, President 500 076, Andhra Pradesh, O] (040) 2782-4343, 2782-0010/2782-3073, [R] (040) 2733- [Mobile] (0)94403 89136, [email protected] 4321/5363, [Mobile] 9849028854, [email protected] Mr D M Butala, 5, Mohak, B/h. Manisha Society, Behind Raja’s Lavkush, Bunglow, Near Prof S V Satyanarayana, Department of Chemical Engineering, JNTUA College of Upendra Bhatt’s Bunglow, Syed Vasana Road, Baroda 390 015, [R] (0265) 225-3977, Engineering, Anantapuramu Dist., Andhra Pradesh – 515002, [O] (08554) 272325 Ext: [Mobile] (0)9979853514, [email protected] Vice 4602, [Mobile] (0)9849509167, [email protected] Presidents Prof V V Basava Rao, Plot No; 184, Tirumala Nagar Colony, Meerpet (V), Moula-Ali Hous- Prof G A Shareef, 9, 2nd Stage, 2 Block, R M V Extn. Poojary layout, Bengaluru 560 ing Board, Hyderabad - 500 040, Telangana State, [O] (040) 27098901 Ext:244/210,[R] 094, [Mobile] (0)9448087556, (0)7259848001, [email protected] (040)27427014, [Mobile] (0)9989156705, [email protected] Prof P De, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Calcutta, 92, A P C Road, Prof P De, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Calcutta, 92, A P C Road, Honarary Kolkata-700 009, [R] (033) 2511-1332 [Mobile] (0) 9433010927, Secretary Kolkata – 700 009, O] (033) 2350-9937 Extn.217, [R] (033) 2511-1332, [Mobile] [email protected] (0)9433010927 Dr (Mrs) Alpana Mahapatra, Professor & Former Head, Chemical Engineering Depart- Dr D Mandal, Head, Materials Section, Chemical Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Honarary Joint ment, D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, U-15, JVPD Scheme, B.S. Marg, Vile Parle Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai 400 085, [O] (022) 25593938, 25594937, Secretary (W), Mumbai 400056, Maharashtra, [M] (0)9920832421, [email protected] 25594929, [R] (022) 25589409, [Mobile] (0)9969102839, [email protected] Mr Dipak Dutta, Managing Director, Oster Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works Pvt Ltd., Honarary Mr Dipak Dutta, Oster Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works Pvt Ltd., 124/4A, 124/4A, Manicktola Street, Kolkata 700 006, [R] (033) 2571-1052/7294, Treasurer Manicktola Street, Kolkata 700 006, O] (033) 2350-8577, 2360-4062, [R] (033) [Mobile] 9433161735, [email protected] 2571-1052/7294, [Mobile] 9433161735, [email protected]

Dr Anil Kumar Saroha, Associate Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Indian Honarary Prof V K Rattan, Dr S S Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Institute of Technology, Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, [O] (011) 2659-1032, [R] Editor Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, [email protected] (011) 2659-1661, [Mobile] (0)9871360500, [email protected] Dr C Karthikeyan, Department of Technology, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar Prof M Venkateswara Rao, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Controller of 608 002, [Mobile] (0)9865356561, [email protected] Dean,Examinations, RVR & JC College of Engineering, Chowdavaram, Guntur-522 Examinations 019, Andhra Pradesh, [email protected]

Prof S V Satyanarayana, Department of Chemical Engineering, JNTUA College of Honarary Prof Radha Das, Department of Chem Engineering. , Haldia Institute of Technology, Engineering, Anantapuramu Dist , Andhra Pradesh – 515002, [M] (0)9849509167, Register Haldia 721 657, [email protected] [email protected] Dr M K Jha, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Dean, Academics, Na- Dr C Karthikeyan, Department of Technology, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar tional Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144 011, Punjab [Mobile] (0)9417290668, Member 608 002, [Mobile] (0)9865356561, [email protected] (0)8283937139, [email protected] Mr K Sahasranaman, Vice President (Engineering), ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions Dr M K Jha, Department of Chemical Engineering and Dean, Academics, National (India) Pvt. Ltd., Dugal Plaza, Prem Nagar, Bibwewadi Road, Off. Pune - Satara Road, Member Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144 011, Punjab, [O] (0181) 2690301,Ext.2403, [R] Pune - 411 037, [O] (022) 66081135 (Direct), [R] (022) 2561-0272, [Mobile] (0)9820495800, (0181) 269-0668, [Mobile] (0)9417290668, [email protected] [email protected] Prof N M Surana, 103-A, Ganga Jamuna Society, Subhanpura, Vadodara 390 023, Dr P G Rao, University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya, Techno City, Kiling Gujarat, [R] (0265) 2399763, [Mobile] (0)9898934606 Member Road, 9th Mile (Guwahati-Shillong Road) Baridua, Ri-Bhoi District, Meghalaya – 793101, [O] (0361) 2895033, [R] (0361) 2349965, [Mobile] (0)9435052702, [email protected] Dr Subhash Hari Vaidya, 1/25/10, Akar Bunglow, Deepjyoti Colony, Karvenagar, Pune Mr Jayesh N Master, Laxmi Nivas, Ground Floor, 14, Church Road, Vile Parle Member 411 052, [M] (0)9423013835, [email protected] (West), Mumbai 400 056, [R] (022) 2617-1235, [Mobile] (0)9819017527, [email protected] Dr P G Rao, Vice Chancellor, University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya, Techno Prof V K Srivastava, B-71, Gyandeep Apartment, Mayur Vihar, Phase – I, Delhi 110 City, Kiling Road, 9th Mile (Guwahati-Shillong Road) BariduaRi-Bhoi District, Meghalaya Member 091, [R] (011) 22796422, [Mobile] (0)9818263545, [email protected] - 793101, [Mobile] (0)9435052702, [email protected] Mr Jayesh N Master, Laxmi Nivas, Ground Floor, 14, Charch Road, Vile Parle (West), Mr C P Ramulu, Chemical Engineering Sciences, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Mumbai 400 056, [Mobile] (0)9819017527, [email protected] Member Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad - 500 007, [Mobile] (0) 9700154404, [email protected] Prof G A Shareef, 9, 2nd Stage, 2 Block, R M V EXTN, Poojary layout, Bangalore 560 094, Prof S P Chaurasia, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Malabiya National Institute of [Mobile] (0)9448087556, (0)7259848001, [email protected] Member Technology (MNIT), Jaharlal Nehru Marg, Jaipur 302 017, Rajasthan, [Mobile] (0)9414446464, [email protected] Mr Shyam Bang, M-63, Greater Kailash-II, New Delhi 110 048, [Mobile] (0)9810106660, Prof M Srinivasarao, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Technology, [email protected] Member Dharmsinh Desai University, College road, Nadiad- 387 001, Gujarat, [M] (0)9427634725, [email protected]

Prof V K Srivastava, B-71, Gyandeep Apartment, Mayur Vihar, Phase – I, Delhi 110 Member Prof Vinay K Srivastava, Department of Chemical Engineering, MGM CET, Karnothe, 091, [R] (011) 22796422, [Mobile] (0)9818263545, [email protected] Navi Mumbai -410209, [Mobile] (0)9833621629, [email protected] Dr D Mandal, Head, Materials Section, Chemical Engineering Division, Bhabha Atomic Mr S I Thakar, 114, Avadhoot Society No.1, Bholav area, Bharuch, Gujarat 392 002, Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai – 400 085, [O] (022) 25593938, 25594937, Member [O] (02642) 663381, [R] (02642) 663381, [M] (0)9925231717, [email protected] 25594929, [R] (022) 25589409, [Mobile] (0)9969102839, [email protected] Prof. Radharani Das, Department of Chem Engg., Haldia Institute of Mr Dhawal Saxena, Executive Asst. Managing Director, Blast Carboblocks Pvt. Ltd., Member Technology. Haldia 721 657, Residence: Faculty Qtr : B-05 , HIT Campus, Haldia 721 505 Persipolis Bldg, Sector-17, Vashi, Navi Mumbai 400 705, [O] (022)2789-2927/ 657, [O] (03224) 255009, [Mobile] (0)9434453157, [email protected] 3890/1907/ 2032, [Mobile] (0)9323363077, [email protected] Mr C P Ramulu, Senior Principal Scientist, Chemical Engineering Sciences, CSIR-Indian Prof R Shyam Sundar, Dean, University College of Technology, Osmania University, Member Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad - 500 007, [Mobile] (0) Hyderabad 500 007, [Mobile] (0)9949979835, [email protected] 9700154404, [email protected] Dr M Venkateswara Rao, Professor & Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr K S Rajanandam, # 676/12, 14th B Main Road, Gokul 1 Stage, Phase-1, P.O. Dean,Examinations, RVR & JC College of Engineering (Autonomous), Chowdavaram, Member MSRIT, Bangalore 560 054, [R] (081) 2333-2599, [Mobile] (0) 9314421278, Guntur-522 019, Andhra Pradesh, [O] (0)9491073317 & 18, [R] (0863) 235-3678, [Mobile] [email protected] (0)9440010190, [email protected] Dr Bishnupada Mandal, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Prof N Balasubramaniam, Department of Chemical Engineering, AC Tech, Anna Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781 039, [Mobile] (0)9957181980, [email protected] Member University, Guindy, Chennai 600 025, [O] (044) 2235-9119, [M] (0) 9444954151, [email protected] Special Invitee - Prof V K Rattan, Chairman, Dept of Chemical Engineering & Tech., Prof Ashok N Bhaskarwar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Panjab University, Chandigarh – 160 014, [O] (0172) 2534919, 2534940, [R] (0172) Member Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, [O] (011) 2659 1028, [Mobile] (0) 2771498, [Mobile] (0)9815334198, [email protected] 9953535266, [email protected]

2 Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers Kolkata – 700 032

Annual Report for 2015-2016

1.0 Introduction latter two being senior executives from the Reliance Group, The report covers the major activities of the Institute during addressed the gathering. Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India) the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. delivered Shri Dhirubhai Ambani Oration on “Delights of Doing th 2.0 68 Annual Session and CHEMCON 2015 Research: Some Personal Lessons from Translational The 68th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Sciences”. At the end of the session, Chief Guest, Dr. Engineers (IIChE), i.e., Indian Chemical Engineering Congress Bhumidhar Barman, the minister of Assam, addressed the (CHEMCON 2015) was organized by Guwahati Regional present delegates. Centre of IIChE in association with the Department of Chemical During CHEMCON, around 1200 technical papers were Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati presented in 12 parallel sessions along with 15 Chemcon during 27 – 30 December 2015. The central theme of Distinguished Speaker (CDS) award lectures (listed in Section CHEMCON 2015 was ‘Chemical Engineering: From 8.0), around 35 keynote talks and 50 invited talks. Laboratory to Industry’. The four-day mega event was organized at the campus of IIT Guwahati. Joint Symposia: Two joint symposia were held during the session. The first one was Indo-US joint symposium on The conference was inaugurated by Shri Sushil Kumar “Carbon Capture - Sequestration, Utilization and other Goyenka (Managing Director, Emami Limited) in presence of Frontiers (CCSUF)”. Prof. W. S. Winston Ho from The Ohio Prof. Gautam Barua (Mentor Director, IIIT Guwahati), Prof. State University, USA delivered the Keynote address. The Gautam Biswas, (Director, IIT Guwahati) and Shri G. V. Second one was on “Enabling Process Innovation through Sethuraman (President IIChE). Prof. G. D. Yadav (Chair Computation (EPIC)”. Padma Bhushan Prof. J. B. Joshi National Organizing Committee and Vice Chancellor, ICT, delivered the plenary lecture. A number of eminent academics Mumbai, addressed the gathering while Shri G. V. Sethuraman from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, India, etc. also President, IIChE (2015) delivered the Presidential Address. enlightened the audience. Each symposium was followed by Prof. P. De (Honorary Secretary, IIChE) presented the IIChE a one-hour panel discussion. awards. Award Presentation The inauguration function was followed by presentation of the The IIChE Awards for 2015 were presented on December 27, three memorial lectures by renowned authorities in the field 2015 during the inaugural programme. A list of the awards of chemical engineering. Dr. HL Roy Memorial Lecture, and awardees is published in Section 8.0. Dr B P Godrej Life sponsored by Jacobs, was delivered by Prof. K.V. Raghavan, Time Achievement Award was conferred upon Mr Ashok A INAE Distinguished Professor and former director, IICT, Panjwani, Executive Director, UPL Ltd., Gujarat for his Hyderabad. The theme of his lecture was ‘Chemical Process exemplary services to the profession of chemical engineering Intensification: Paradigm Shifts to Make It Transformative’. The and chemical industry in the country. second lecture, Aker Powergas’s Prof. N.R. Kamath and 3.0 68th Annual General Meeting Mrs. Ruzena Kamath Memorial Lecture, on ‘Novel Unit Operations and Their Application in Chemical Synthesis and The sixty-eigth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Institute Manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)’ was was held on December 27, 2015 at the Mini Auditorium, IIT, delivered by Dr. Sanjeev Katti, Senior Vice President, Reliance Guwahati. Mr G V Sethuraman, President of the Institute for Technology Group, Mumbai. The third lecture, Shri C.K. 2015, chaired the meeting that was attended by 45 corporate Murthy Memorial Lecture, was delivered by Prof. A.B. Pandit members (a list is presented in the back cover page). Before from ICT Mumbai. commencement of the proceedings, the members stood in silence as a mark of respect to the following members who As in practice, December 28, 2015, the birth anniversary of expired during the Year : Prof P Dakshinamurthy (LM 02426), the late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani, was celebrated as Shri Mr K K Sundaram (LM 20001), Dr Asad Ali Khan (LF 06548), Dhirubhai Ambani Commemoration Day in association with Mr Manas Dutta (LAM 25696), Prof B B Konar (LM 27679), Reliance Industries Limited. Prof. G. D. Yadav, Shri G. V. Prof P V R Iyer (LM 00921), Prof P Sadasiva Rao (LM 00944) Sethuraman, Shri Pankaj Mehta and Dr. Sanjeev Katti, the Sri B R K Kumar (LM 08406), Dr S Ganguly (LF 00523),

3 Mr Sunil Baran Das (LM 25140) and Mr R L Bakhshi (LM As the existing Auditors M/s Nirupam & Associates, Rashkhola 02769). Para, Khardah, Dist. 24 Pgs.(N), Kolkata 700 117 has been working as Auditors of the Institute for 3 years, the meeting The Minutes of the 67th (Sixty-seventh) Annual General resolved to appoint M/s N Chatterjee & Associates, Chartered Meeting held on December 28, 2014 at Panjab University, Accountants as Auditors of the Institute for the Financial year Chandigarh were confirmed. 2016-2017 for the following services: i. Auditing of IIChE The meeting adopted the minutes of the proceedings of the Headquarters Accounts and Consolidated Accounts of IIChE. EGM of the Institute, held on December 28, 2014 at Dr ii. On-line filing of IT Return, Form 10B & Form 10 (declaration SSBUICET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, as circulated on of set apart). iii. Advice on Income Tax and other tax related November 14, 2015. matters at an annual remuneration of Rs. 22,000/- with an The meeting unanimously adopted the Annual Report of the additional 14% charge of Service Tax as per law. Institute as circulated earlier. The names of the newly elected Council members for the The meeting adopted the Audited Statement of Accounts for period 2016-2018 were announced. The Members welcomed the year 2014-15 of the Institute unanimously. the elected members for joining the new Council.

The members decided that the defaulting Regional Centre(s) As proposed by Prof. Vinay K Srivastava, Mumbai the meeting would be suspended and their bank A/c(s) would be sealed resolved to furnish certificates to the Students’ Chapters. till the defaulting centre(s) submit(s) the A/c. in the prescribed Members decided that anyone intending to publish research format. The members further decided that the Chairman, paper on the basis of investigation carried out using the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the defaulting centre financial assistance from the Institute, should declare himself/ should be suspended during the tenure. herself to be affiliated to the Institute as its Member.

The meeting decided to reappoint M/s Nirupam & Associates, 3.1 R&D Activities by IIChE HQ Rashkhola Para, Khardah, Dist. 24 Pgs.(N), Kolkata 700 117 During the concerned period of 2015-16, the following projects as Auditors of the Institute for the Financial year 2015-2016 have been undertaken. for the following services i. Auditing of IIChE Headquarters i. Adsorpotive Removal of Crystal Violet Dye on Low Accounts and Consolidated Accounts of IIChE; ii. On-line filing Cost Adsorbent in Orbital Shaker. of IT Return, Form 10B & Form 10 (declaration of set apart); ii. Adsorpotive Removal of Crystal Violet on Low Cost iii. Advice on Income Tax and other tax related matters at an Mixed Adsorbent in Orbital Shaker. annual remuneration of Rs. 22,000/-. iii. Adsorpotive Removal of Crystal Violet on Low Cost Adsorbent in a Bubble Column. 3.2 R&D Related Activities by Regional Centres Name of the Regional Centres R&D Related Activities

Ankleshwar a) Technical Lectures/Talks: 1) On ‘Working Principles, Technical and Application Details for Corken’s Line of Reciprocating Compressor and Industrial Pumps’ on 24.07.2015 . 2) On ‘Turnkey Value Added EPC Solutions & Advance Integrated Productivity and Efficiency Management Solutions (IT Enabled)’ on 21.08.2015. 3) On (i). ‘Linde’s Industrial Gases-based Technology Solutions for Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Specialities and Fine Chemical Industries for Productivity Improvement as well as Process Optimization, Cost Reduction and Improved Safety’ on 24.09.2015. 4) On ‘Efficient Heat Transfer Solutions’ and ‘Separation Technologies’ on 27.11.2015. 5) On ‘Thermal Energy Conservation Opportunities in Process Plants Using German Technologies’ on 11.12.2015. 6) On ‘Filtration and Drying Technologies’ on 29.12.2015. 7) On ‘Corning AFR-Process Intensification and Seamless Scaleup from Lab to Production’ on 08.01.2016. 8) On ‘Innovation in Chemical Industries’ by Padma Vibhusan Prof M M Sharma on 08.02.2016.

4 9) On ‘High Technology Agitators and Mixing Systems for Process Plant Using German Technology’ on 26.2.16. a) Round Table Discussion On ‘Know Best Practices by Industries and Share Your Improvement Requirement’ on 04.09.2015 Annamalai-Neyveli a) Technical Lectures: 1) On ‘Water Industry Perspectives in UAE’ by Mr Kumaravel, Dubai, UAE on 29.07.2015. 2) On ‘Essential Skill Set and Attributes for Engineering Graduates’ by Dr L Govindarajan, International Maritime College, Oman on 05.08.2015. 3) On ‘Career Guidance for Chemical Engineers in Middle East Countries’ by Dr N Rajamohan, Sohar University, Sohar on 12.08.2015 4) On ‘Orientation Programme for Chemical Engineers’ by Prof RM Bairavan, Formerly, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University on 31.07.2015. Bangalore a ) Seminar : On ‘Recent Advances and Developments in Chemical Engineering’ on 30.11.2015. b) Workshop: On ‘Safety In Process Industry’ on 03.11.2015 Baroda a) Technical Lecture: On ‘Safe Handling of Chlorine’ by Mr H.S. Sehgal, Ex-Deputy General Manager, Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals (GACL), Vadodara on 30.01.2016. Bhubaneswar a) Technical Lecture: On ‘Personality Development and Leadership’ by Mr D.P. Misra, former Deputy MD, Jacobs Engineering India, and presently Director, Development Consultants Private Ltd. on 22.03.2016. b) Seminar : On ‘Non-Ferrous Minerals Industry-Growth and Challenges’ on 02-03.12.15 Calcutta a) Technical Lectures: 1) On ‘Leading Coal Liquefaction Processes Developed In USA and their Viability in Using High Ash Coal In India’ by Prof Amalesh Sirkar on 02.11.2015. 2) On ‘Produced Water Treatment during Offshore Petroleum Production – the Influence of Interfacial Phenomena’ by Prof. Gisle Oye, Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering, Department, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim on 14.12.1015. 3) On ‘Climate Change and Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion’ by Prof Prabir Basu, Distinguished Professor and Director of Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion (CFBC) and Biomass Conversion Laboratory in Dalhousie University, Canada on 14.12.2015. b) Memorial Lecture : On ‘Novel Membrane, Membrane Process and Membrane Techniques’ by Prof Kamalesh K Sirkar on 28.11.2015. The lecture has been instituted in memory of Prof. D.K. Dutt. b) Workshop : On ‘Finance for Non-finance’ for the outgoing engineers under the title ‘10 Financial Applications for Engineers to Survive in Profession’ on 10.10.2015. It was held jointly with Indian Institute of Contemporary Management & Research, Kolkata. Chennai Memorial Lectures: 1) Dr B Jaganathaswamy Memorial Lecture on 21.08.2015. 2) Shri T S Narayanaswamy Memorial Lecture on 19.09.2015

5 Coimbatore a) Technical Lectures: 1) On ‘Utilization of Fish Waste for the Isolation of an Industrially Useful Enzyme Protease’ by Dr Anitha Subash, Dept. of Biochemistry, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore on 22.07.2015. 2) On ‘Importance of Biomaterials in the Present Scenario’ by Dr K Kannan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode on 22.07.2015. 3) On ‘Chemical Engineers – A Boon To India’ by Prof G D Yadav, Past President, IIChE and VC, ICT, Mumbai on 22.08.2015. 4) On ‘Employment Opportunities In IT Industries’ by Mr Rajkumar Chandran, Mr Rajkumar, Mr Durai Pandian and Mr Muralidharan on 09.01.2016. 5) On ‘Tips to Create Foot Prints in the World’ by Mr Anwar Ali on 04.02.2016 b) Seminar: 1) On ‘Process Analytical Technique for Bioreactor & Biomolectures From fungi’ on 20.07.2015. Dr K P Kannan, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam was the resource person. 2) On ‘Potential of Calorimeter as a Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Tool for Monitoring and Control of Bioreactor’ on 20.07.2015. Dr D Balaji, Associate Professor, Dept of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai was the resource person. 3) On ‘Tissue Engineering & Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles’ on 23.07.2015. Dr D Gnanprakash, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai was the resource person. 4) On ‘Biomaterials – A Boon to Mankind’ on 23.07.2015. Dr P Lalitha, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore was the resource person. c) Workshops: 1) On ‘Inspiration and Application of Biomaterials for Membrane Separation’ on 21.07.2015. Dr G Arthanareeswaran, Associate Professor,Dept of Chemical Engineering, National Institute Of Technology, Tiruchirappalli delivered the main lecture. 2) On ‘Biomaterial in Separations & Ultrasound for Biomaterial Synthesis’ on 21.07.2015. Dr. T Sivasankar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli delivered the lecture. 3) On ‘Electro Assisted Biodegradation Process for the Textile Dye Degradation’ on 24.07.2015. Dr K V Selva Kumar, Associate Professor & Head, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Adhiyaman College of Engineering, Hosur delivered the main lecture. 4) On ‘Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles & Electro-assisted Biodegradation’ on 24.07.2015. Dr K Sathish Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai delivered the main lecture. Damanjodi a) Seminars: 1) On ‘Latest Advances In Alumina Making Process’ on 24.07.2015. 2) On ‘Latest Developments of Flocculent Use In High Rate Thickeners for Red Mud Settling in Alumina Refineries’ on 09.01.2016. b) Workshop: On ‘Technology Advances in Fluidized Bed Calciners’ on 16.02.2016. Doaba a) Workshop : On ‘Application of Chemical Engineering in Alternative Sources of Energy’ on 30.10.2015. Guwahati a) Technical Lecture : On ‘Catastrophic Inversion of Agitated Dispersion of One Liquid in Another’on 19.02.2016 by Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, IISc, Bangalore.

6 Guntur a) Technical Lectures: 1) On ‘Chemical Engineers - Opportunities and Career Development’ by Mr O S Siddhrartha, Scientist ‘C’, SHAR, Sriharikota on 01.08.2015. 2) On ‘Smart Innovations in Chemical Sciences’ by Prof S V Satyanarayna, Department of Chemical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering (A), Anathapuramu on 01.09.2015. 3) On ‘Opportunities in American Universities’ by Mr D Phani Raj Kumar, East University, New Mexico on 21.09.2015. 4) On ‘Fundamentals of MATLAB & Simple Applications’ by Dr T Vinay Kumar, Asst Prof, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Warangal on 06.11.2015. 5) On ‘Computing with MATLAB’ by Dr V Hari Kumar, Asst. Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Warangal on 06.11.2015. 6) On ‘Introduction to SIMULINK and PDETOOL of MATLAB for Solving Moving Boundary Problems’ by Dr T Sunil Kumar, Asst Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT Warangal on 07.11.2015. 7) On ‘Optimization Using MATLAB’ by Dr Kishalay Mitra, Asst Prof, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IITH, Hyderabad on 07.11.2015. 8) On ‘Go Ahead’ by Mr B.S.S. Krishna Sastry, Engineer Operations – Process, Reliance Industries Ltd., Madhya Pradesh on 21.12.2015. 9) On ‘Go Ahead’ by Ms G Harini, Ph.D Scholar, IIT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat on 21.12.2015. 10) On ‘Overview of Offshore Oil Production, Processing and Distribution Operation’ by Mr M Uma Mahesh, Executive Engineer, Mumbai Offshore, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC), Mumbai on 07.01.2016. Haldia a) Technical Lectures : 1) On ‘Use of TiO2 Nano-particles for Bicarbonate-enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Pollutants’ by Prof R. Das, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology on 30.07.2015. 2) On ‘Proactive Leadership’ by Prof R.K. Behera, IIT-Patna on 04.02.2016. b) Seminar / Conference: 1) On ‘Safety In Process Industries’ on 27.08.2015 and 22.09.2015. A host of top industry professionals spoke on the following topics: On 27.08.2015: i) On ‘Safety in Confined Space - A Case Study’ by Mr Mrityunjoy Sil, Chief Manager (Safety), Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd., Haldia. ii) On ‘Disaster Management of Process Industry’ by Mr S K Bhowmik, Sr Manager (Safety), Electro Steel Casting Ltd., Haldia. On 22.09.2015: i) On ‘Safety Culture Improvement in Refinery’ by Mr T.K. Dasgupta, GM(HSE),IOCL, Haldia. ii) On ‘Process Safety Management’ by Mr G.C. Kundu, DGM (Safety),IOCL, Haldia. 2) On ‘Renewable Raw Materials - Opportunities and Challenges’ by Prof. M.M. Sharma (Padma Vibhushan, Bhatnagar Awardee, Ex-Director UDCT,Mumbai) on 21 – 23.01.2016. Hyderabad a) Memorial Lecture: 1) 8th M.P. Chary Memorial Lecture on ‘Research Opportunities in Non-conventional Energy’ by Prof J B Joshi, Homi Bhabha National Institute on 06.08.2015. Jaipur a) Technical Lecture : On ‘Graphite: Greener & Energy Efficient Material for Chemical Process Industries’ by Mr Praveen Saxena, Director & CEO, Blast Carboblocks Pvt Ltd., Mumbai on 23.11.2015. b) Seminar : On ‘Process Automation and Control (NCPAC 2016) on 28 and 29.05.2016.

7 c) Workshop: On ‘Safety & Storage of Explosives & Petroleum Products’ on 04 and 05. 12.2015. Kharagpur a) Technical Lecture: On ‘A Multi-physics Simulations Study of Sensitivity Analysis of Experimental Variables In a PEM Fuel Cell by Dr Ashish Lele, Chief Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on 27.01.2016. Kochi a) Technical Lecture: On ‘Environmental Management - A Way of Life’ by Prof. Shri Seetharaman on 26.02.2016. b) Memorial Lecture: Shri K Unnikrishnan Memorial Lecture on Understanding the Barriers in Renewable Energy Utilization In Kerala’ by Dr Sasidharan, Post-doctoral Fellow, Singapore University on 14.01.2016. Lote-Parasurm a) Seminar : 1) On ‘Tips to Improve Plant Performance’ on 24.10.2015. . Lucknow a) Technical Lecture: 1) On ‘Efficient Role of Chemical Engineers in Operation of Petroleum Refining Industry’ by Mr. Manish Kumar Jaisawal, Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi on 14.08.2015 2) On ‘Role of Bioprocess Principles to Excel In Biotechnology’ by Dr Dhananjay Singh, Honorary Secretary, Lucknow Regional Centre on 28.10.2015. b) Workshops: 1) On ‘National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning’ on 24.09.2015. 2) On ‘Opportunities and Challenges In Bio-Fuels & Bio-Lubricants’ on 21 and 22.11.2015. 3) On ‘Electrochemical Technologies In Hydrogen Production and Utilization for Electrical Energy’ on 08 and 09.10.2015. Mumbai a) Lectures: 1) On ‘Sustainability In Energy Resources’ by Prof Sunil S Bhagwat, ICT on 18.07.2015. 2) On ‘Technologies for Swachcha Bharat Mission: Recycle & Reuse Methodology For Waste Thermocol’ by Dr D B Naik, BARC on 24.10.2015. 3) On ‘Technologies For Swachcha Bharat Mission: Future of Waste Management In India: Proposed MSW Rules 2015’ by Suhas Dixit, Pyrocrat Systems LLP on 20.02.2016. b) Seminars / workshops: 1) On ‘Clean India – Role of Chemical Engineers’ on 10.10.2015. 2) On ‘Career Opportunities & Enhancing Skills towards Better Placements’ by Prof V.K. Srivastava, TPO, MGMCET, Chemical Engineering Dept. on 05.03.2016. c) Panel Discussion On ‘Perspective and Growth Opportunities for Chemical Engineering in the Framework of MAKE IN INDIA Policy’ on 25.11.2015. Mangalore a) Symposium : CHEMIGNITE 2K15, a national symposium on ‘Upstream & Downstream Processing in Petroleum Industries’ on 30 & 31.10.2015. Northern a) Technical Lectures: 1) 22nd Annual Lecture, organized in association with Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust, on ‘The Future of Oil’ by Mr. Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman, Brookings India on 18.11.2015. 2) On i. ‘Introduction to Process Hazard Reviews’ ; ii. on ‘Basics of Process Safety’; iii.on ‘Introduction and Principles of HAZOP’; iv. On ‘Risk Assessment and Criticality Matrix’. The

8 lectures were delivered by Mr Umesh Goel, Director, USP Trading and Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd. on 12.12.2015. 3) On ‘Solarizing India: An Overview of the Nation’s Vast Solar Potential’ by Mr Anurag Mishra, Director, Sun Shine Technocon Pvt. Ltd. and ‘India’s Choices and Options for a Clean, Resilient & Equitable Energy System’ by Dr Ritu Mathur, Professor, TERI University & Senior Fellow, GGRE Division, TERI on 16.01.2016. b) Seminar: On 21 & 22.07.2015 on ‘Materials of Construction in Chemical Process Plants’. The following speakers spoke on various aspects of this central theme: i) On ‘Considerations In Material Selection for Process Industry’ by Dr. A. K. Lahiri, Consultant, New Delhi. ii) On ‘Materials of Construction for Chemical Process Plant’ by Mr Suresh Nayar, Outokumpu, Mumbai iii) On ‘Graphite is Green and Energy Efficient Material of Construction for Process Equipment for Chemical Process Industries’ by Mr Dhawal Saxena, Executive Asstt of MD, Blast Carboblocks Pvt Ltd, Navi Mumbai. iv) On ‘MOC for High Pressure Section of Urea Plant – Past and Present’ by Dr A K Lahiri, Consultant, New Delhi. v) On ‘SAF 2304: Cost Effective Solution for Ammonia Service In Fertilizer Industry’ by Mr Mohan Gawande, Sandvik Asia, Pune. vi) On ‘Production Scale Silicon Carbide Reactors for Aggressive Chemical Applications’ by Mr Praveen Gosain, Regional Director-India, S.E. Asia & Australia, Corning, Gurgaon. vii) On ‘Fitness for Service (FFS): Utilizing Full Potential of Plant Equipment beyond Serviceable Life’ by Mr Paresh Haribhakti, Managing Director, TCR Advanced Engineering, Vadodara. viii) On ‘Materials of Construction for Refineries’ by Dr A K Lahiri, Consultant, New Delhi. ix) On ‘MOC for Reliable Operation of Phosphoric Acid Plants’ by Mr TNV Satyanarayana, Joint General Manager & Chennai Tech Head, Technip India Ltd, Chennai x) On ‘Material Selection in HCL Acid Environment’ by Mr Digvijay Charan, Material & Corrosion Specialist, and Vikram Tamer, Process Engineer, Fluor India, Gurgaon xi) On ‘MOC for Acid and Complex Fertilizer Plants’ by Mr G.M. Patel, Director, CFIC, New Delhi xii) On ‘MOC For The HP Critical Equipment’s in Fertilizer Plants’ by Mr G K Sadekar, Ex-Vice President, L&T, Mumbai xiii) On ‘Failure Study of 3rd Stage Ejector of O/H Condenser in VDU Complex’ by Mr Deepak Bhat, Deputy Manager, BPCL, Mumbai xiv) On ‘Failure of Sulphuric Acid Pipeline’ by Mr Anup M Madkaikar, Manager (PES), ZACL, Goa. c) R&D Meet: On 24 and 25.07.2015, NRC-Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust R&D Meet, 2015 was held. The following academics and scientists made the following presentations: i) Review Paper on ‘The Pilot Scale Development for Establishment of Coal (& Other Solid Fuels) to Liquid (CsTL) Technology in India’ by Dr R Sonde, Thermax. ii) On ‘Gasification of Coal-biomass Blends In Fluidized Bed Gasifier’ by Dr Sudipto Datta,CIMFR, Dhanbad iii) On ‘Synthetic Fuels Production From Syngas; BPCL’s Research and Development Efforts’ by Dr V Ravikumar, BPCL R&D iv) On ‘Multifeed Gasification: Concept to Demonstration’ by Mr Rajesh Badhe, IOCL R&D

9 v) On ‘HPCL Experience on Development and Commercialization of Refinery Process Technologies’ by Dr N.V. Choudary, HPCL R&D vi) a. On ‘Studies on Effects of Metal Loading and Calcination Temperature on Co/A1203 Catalyst for Fischer Tropsch Reaction’, and, b. On ‘Effect of Varying Support on Fisher Tropsch Process’, both by Prof S Dasappa, IISc Bangalore vii) On ‘Development of Multifunctional Catalysts for the Conversion of Syngas to Liquid Fuels’ by Prof K K Pant, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi. viii) On ‘Kinetic Studies for Indian Coals’ by Prof. Preeti Aghalayam, IIT Madras ix) On ‘Feasibility of Reactive Distillation for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis’ by Prof S Srinivas, IIT Mumbai. x) On ‘Study of RWGS Reaction Over Supported Alumina Catalysts’ by Dr P D Vaidya, UICT Mumbai xi) On ‘Operational Experience with Gasification of Biomass Pellets’ by Mr D Satya Mohan Rao, BHEL R&D, Hyderabad xii) On ‘Aspects of CTL Process with High Ash Indian Coal and Efforts towards Development of CTL Technology’ by Dr R. N. Maiti, EIL R&D xiii) On ‘Hydrodeoxygenation of Fast Pyrolysis Oil over Pd/A12O3 Catalyst’ by Dr Vimal Kumar, IIT Roorkee xiv) On ‘Synthesis of Alternative Chemicals Like Dimethyl Carbonates by Greener Routes’ by Dr V.C. Srivastava, IIT Roorkee xv) On ‘Computational Modeling of Coal Gasification: Above & Underground Systems’ by Mr Ankit Jain, NCL Pune & Mr Akshay Singan xvi) On ‘Modelling and Simulation of Small Scale Methanol Synthesis in a Multi-tubular Packed Bed Reactor’ by Prof. P. Mondal, IIT Roorkee xvii) On ‘Monetisation of Unconventional Gas Resources: Role of Oxymethylene Ether’ by Mr Ankur Bordoloi, CSIR-IIP. xviii) On ‘Experiments and Modelling Studies of Hydrodynamic Behaviour of Coal-Ash Mixtures’ by Prof S Roy, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT, Delhi xix) On ‘Development of First Ever Indigenous Process Model For UCG’ by Mr R K Sapru, IRS ONGC Ahmedabad xx) On ‘Three Dimensional Full-loop Simulation of Coal Gasification In Circulating Fluidized Bed’ by Dr V K Agarwal, IIT Roorkee d) Conferences: On 21.02.2016, on a central theme of ‘Emerging Dimension and Challenges for Polymer And Chemical Engineers’ In association with Delhi Technological University. The following speakers made presentations: i) On ‘Innovation in Chemistry and Polymers - Key to Success’ by Dr. S N Chakraborty. ii) On ‘Career Option for Chemical Engineers’ by Mr Abhijit Bikas Pal. iii) On ‘Non-Core Career Options for Chemical Engineers’ by Mr D.D. Maheshwari. e) Workshop: On 10 & 11.03.2016, in association with Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust, Workshop-2016 was held on ‘Processing of Heavy Crudes and Upgrading of Heavy Residues’. The following presentations were made: i.) On ‘Challenges In Sourcing, Transporation and Processing of Heavy Crudes’ by Mr S.N. Pandey, Indian Oil Corp Ltd. ii) On ‘Transporation of Heavy Residues’ by Mr Ashok Singh, Engineers India Ltd. iii) On Operation & Maintenance Challenges In Handling/Storage /Transporation of Heavy Crudes.

10 iv) On ‘Delayed Coking for Maximum Crude Flexibility’ by Mr Satish Mathur, Bechtel Engineering & Construction India Pvt Ltd. v) On ‘Experience with Operation of Delayed Coking Unit’ by Mr N Venkatesh, Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (Gujarat) vi) On ‘Experience with Operation of the Delayed Coking Unit and Approach Followed for Revamping the Same’ by Mr Hardeep Singh, Bharat Oman Refinery Ltd. vii) On ‘Delayed Coking Technology’ by Mr Srini Srivatsan, Amec Foster Wheeler. viii) On ‘Solvent Deasphalting Technology Development & Performance’ by Dr M.O. Garg, IIP, Dehra Dun. ix) On ‘ROSE: An Economic Option to Improve Refinery Margins’ by Mr Samir Saxena, KBR x) On ‘Gasification of Heavy Residues – The Lurgi MPG Technology’ by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, Air Liquide. xi) On ‘Status of Residue Upgrading Technologies’ by Mr Jean Paul Margotin, Axens India. 1 xii) On ‘Bottom of Barrel Upgrading – RFCC Synergy with Hydro Treating’ by Mr Sakthivelan Durai, Honeywell UOP. xiii) On ‘Feedback on Performance Of RFCC Unit’ by Mr P.S. Munda, Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. xiv) On ‘Feedback on Performance of FCC Unit’ by Mr M Nagaraju, Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (J) xv) On ‘Eni Slurry Technology (EST) In Combination with Topsoe Upgrader Technology Offers an Innovative and Reliable Solution to Convert Bottom of the Barrels to High Value Distillates’ by Mr Raju Chopra, Haldor Topsoe. xvi) On ‘Slurry Hydrocracking Technology for Upgrading Vacuum Residue’ by Mr Neeraj Tiwari, Honeywell UOP xvii) On ‘Slurry Phase Residue Hydrocracking: Comparison of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts’ by Dr Samir Maity, IIP Dehra Dun xviii) On ‘Recent Advances in Heavy Oil Processing Technology’ by Mr Opinder K Bhan, Shell Oil Company xix) On ‘Choosing the Right Conversion Scheme for Heavy Crude Processing’ by Mr Vincent Duverne, Axens India xx) On ‘Advances In Residue Hydrocracking Via LC Fining’ by Mr Ujjal K Mukherjee, Chevron Lummus Global xxi) On ‘Flare Mitigation Strategies for Refinery’ by Mr Tanmay Taraphdar,Technip KT India. xxii) On ‘Flare Mitigation During Design Case Studies’ by Ms. Jayati Ghosh, Engineers India Ltd. xxiii) On ‘Flare Load Mitigation through Dynamic Simulation’ by Mr Sheo Raj Singh, Engineers India Ltd. Nadiad a) Technical Lectures: 1) On ‘Introduction to Reactor Design’ by Dr S Ramamoorthy on 05.09.2015 2) On ‘Introduction to Variable Volume Reactions’ by Dr S. Ramamoorthy on 15.09.2015 3) On ‘How to Face Interview and Group Discussion?’ by Mr Maulin Pandya on 09.07.2015 4) On ‘Yoga and Meditation’ by Mr Mihir P. Dalwadi on 20.08.2015 b) Conference: ‘Collision 2016’ was held during 08 – 11.03.2016. Under this umbrella, a host of activities were organized. Pilani a) Technical Lecture: 1) On different mathematical programming approaches for modeling and solution of process planning & amp; scheduling problems for chemical batch and continuous process operation with applications in refinery, petrochemicals, polymers, pulp & amp: paper, bio- pharmaceuticals, pipeless plants, and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturing. It was delivered by Prof (Dr) Munawar A Shaik, Associate Prof, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi on 13.08.2015.

11 2) A Motivational talk by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, Director, Technology; Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions India Pvt Ltd. (Formerly known as Lurgi India Company Pvt Ltd. on 12.09.2015. 3) On ‘Evolutionary Computation’ by Prof B.V. Babu, Vice-chancellor, Galgotias University, Greater Noida on 19.09.2015 b) Symposium : 1) On ‘Sustainable Technology Development In Polymer (SSTDP-2016)’ on 11 and 12.03.2016. Workshops that included 8 expert lectures, panel discussions and poster presentation, were held under the symposium. Pune Technical Lectures : 1) On ‘Energy Recovery from Natural Gas Hydrates: Prospects and Challenges’ by Prof. Praveen Linga, Asst. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore on 18.12.2015 2) On ‘Sustainable Energy: Need, Challenges and Opportunities’ by Prof Shripal Revankar, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA on 18.02.2016. Rourkela a) Seminar : On ‘Sustainable Technology for Cleaner Environment’ on 13 and 14.02.2016. Vapi a) Seminar : 1) On ‘Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD)’ on 25.02.2016.

4.0 Council Meeting Highlights Constitution of Committees The Council had the following meetings between 1 April 2015 The Council decided to constitute the following 13 (Thirteen) and 31 March 2016. Standing Committees for the year 2015 on the basis of Clause 26 of the Constitution. 4.1 3rd meeting for 2015, held at Dr. H. Roy Building, IIChE HQ, Kolkata on 2 May 2015. Name of the Committee Chairmen Conveners Members

1 Regional Centre Affairs Committee Prof N M Surana Mr D M Butala Mr Jayesh Master Prof V K Srivastava Prof M K Jha Prof S V Satyanarayana Prof G A Shareef Mr Dipak Dutta - Invitee Dr (Mrs) Radha Das – Invitee

2 Education & Examination Committee Prof V K Srivastava Dr C Kathikeyan Dr R Parthiban Dr N Balasubramanian Prof M V Rao Dr M Rajasimman Dr Alpana Mahapatra Dr Radha Das

3 Admission Committee Prof M V Rao Prof S V Satyanarayana Dr Shishir Sinha Dr G Pugazhenthi Dr Sriram Devanathan Dr Anil Khadse

4 Annual Awards Committee Mr G V Sethuraman Prof P De Prof D V Khakhar Prof K S Gandhi Prof B K Dutta Dr B D Kulkarni

12 Prof V K Srivastava Prof. G D Yadav, Chairman- NOC, CHEMCON 2015

5 International Relations Committee Mr Shyam Bang

6 Student Chapter Affairs Committee Dr. S H Vaidya Prof V V Basava Rao Mr. C P Ramalu Prof. C Karthikeyan Prof. S V Naidu Prof. Z V P Murthy Prof. K C Ghanta

7 Honorary Fellowship Committee Mr G V Sethuraman Prof P De Prof G D Yadav Mr D P Misra Prof A K Mitra Prof S K Sharma Prof Ch V R Murthy

8 Chemcon Distinguished Mr G V Sethuraman Prof P De Prof G D Yadav Speaker Committee Dr P G Rao Prof B K Dutta Mr Shyam Bang Prof B P Mandal

9 Legal Committee Mr. P. R. Dutta Ray Mr. Dipak Dutta Prof B N Srimani Prof V K Rattan Mr D M Butala Prof M K Jha Prof S K Das Mr S Das Dr Asim K De Prof P De

10 Website Committee Prof. V. K. Rattan Prof. P. De Mr D M Butala Mr K Sahasranaman Prof M V Rao Dr S H Vaidya Mr C P Ramalu

11 Chemical Process Safety Group Mr K Sahasranaman Mr. D. M. Butala Mr Shyam Bang Mr S Das Mr C P Ramulu Dr D Mandal Ms Sheela Mr B P Baliga

12 Chemcon Protocol Comittee Mr. G. V. Sethuraman Prof. P. De Prof G D Yadav Dr P G Rao Prof V K Rattan Prof Pallab Ghosh Prof B P Mandal

13 Industry Institute Interaction Mr. D. M. Butala Prof. M. K. Jha Mr Anand Kumar Dr. S Bajpai

13 Administrative the accounts for the stated financial year. The members also On-line Election to the Council approved the excess expenditure incurred on some items. The Council decided for: Income Tax: The Honorary Treasurer, Mr. Dipak Dutta, (i) On-line voting by the regular members having valid appraised the status of the IT cases lying with High Court and mail IDs with the institute, and Income Tax authority. The Honorary Secretary also narrated the discussion he and Mr. Dipak Dutta had with the lawyers (ii) Voting through postal ballot by the regular members on 17.04.2015 regarding problems being faced on income tax having no valid mail IDs. matters. Membership The members decided the following: Honorary Fellowship: The Council decided to award (i) Regional centres would be requested to submit Honorary Fellowship of the Institute to the following persons: audited statement of accounts in the format approved (i) Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati & Professor by the Finance committee by 7th of July 2015 failing of IIT Kanpur, (ii) Prof. Basudeb Barman (LM, IIChE), Former which operation of their Bank accounts would be Vice-Chancellor, Kalyani University and former Member of stopped, and also the recognition would be Parliament (Lok Sabha); and Mr. Harsha Bhogle (Chemical suspended. Engineer). (ii) A competent authority / person would be appointed Admission to Fellowship: The Council approved applications as Internal Auditor as recommended by the Finance from (i) Dr S N Chakravarty (LM 10168), Managing Director, Committee. Polym Consultants, New Delhi, and (ii) Dr. Sanjeev Katti (LM 20067), Sr. Vice President (R&T), Reliance Technology Group, The members requested the Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Navi Mumbai for the Fellowship of the Institute. Secretary to take appropriate action on the stated matters. They further requested the Treasurer and Secretary to do the Financial needful for amicable settlement of income tax matter as Quarterly Accounts: The Honorary Treasurer presented the decided by the Legal committee. financial statement of quarterly accounts for the quarter ended Examination March 2015 and also the accounts for the financial year 2014 – 15. He also pointed out excess of expenditure over AMIIChE Results: the budget provision on certain items. The following 39 candidates came out successfully who The members after discussion noted the financial statement appeared in September 2014 Home Paper Examination of accounts for the quarter ended 31st march 2015 and also (Results published on 21.02.2015):

Sl. Name Roll No. Sl. Name Roll No. No. No. 1 Mr Brijesh K Shastri 00/S4/381 21 Mr Mahesh Chandra Gupta 09/M9/238 2 Mr Dushant Ramrao Sarkete 02/S3/332 22 Mr Shani Raj Singh 09/S9/537 3 Mr Srinivas Gantla 02/S3/423 23 Mr Pramod Kumar Goyal 09/S9/538 4 Mr Vipulkumar C Kathani 04/M4/200 24 Mr Sushil Vasant Bhosale 10/M10/50 5 Mr Elumalai V 05/S5/267 25 Mr Neeraj Kumar Prajapati 10/M10/96 6 Mr Bhushan Prabhakar 06/S6/440 26 Mr J Jayabal 10/M10/209 7 Mr Samirkumar N Shah 06/S6/449 27 Mr Manish K Bidawat 10/S10/355 8 Mr Jigar B Rana 07/M7/103 28 Mr Gurpreet Singh 10/S10/369 9 Mr Alok Kumar Gupta 07/M7/175 29 Mr Pankaj Kumar 10/S10/429 10 Mr Jitendra Singh 07/S7/267 30 Mr Rohit Sharma 10/S10/434 11 Mr Siyaram Maurya 07/S7/358 31 Ms Geetha Jagu 11/M11/66 12 Mr Mulrajsinh C Jadeja 08/M8/16 32 Mr Dushyanveer Singh 11/M11/311 13 Mr Ashish Sah 08/M8/85 33 Mr Senhal Lalitbhai Davda 11/S11/437

14 Sl. Name Roll No. Sl. Name Roll No. No. No. 14 Mr Renjith Kumar A U 08/M8/89 34 Mr Abhishek Kumar 12/M12/191 15 Mr Parameshwar 08/M8/107 35 Mr Bishan Singh Rana 08/M8/151 16 Mr Subit Gupta 08/M8/120 36 Ms N Swarnalatha 12/S12/467 17 Mr Mool Chand 08/S8/281 37 Mr Sudhir Dattaram Bait 01/S3/314 18 Mr Vaibhav P Sawant 08/S8/291 38 Mr Suchendra Shetty 10/M10/105 19 Mr Asif Iqbal Jethva 09/M9/37 39 Mr Kuldeep 10/M10/106 20 Mr Yashpal Balaram Lokhande 09/M9/74

Regional Centres / Students Chapters 4.2 4th meeting for 2015, held at Central Leather New Regional Centres: Department of Chemical Engineering, Research Institute Auditorium, Chennai on July 11, 2015 BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa had FICCI – IIChE joint venture requested for approval to start a new Regional Centre at Goa. The members considered the proposal at length on Chemicals The Council decided in favour of opening a new Regional & Petrochemicals Sector Skill Council (CPSSC) and Centre at Goa. deliberated. They also had in-depth discussion with Mr. The Council also noted with pleasure the inauguration of Prabhsharan Singh, Head - Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Guntur Regional Centre, IIChE by the IIChE Presedent, Mr G FICCI and Mr. Mohan Reddy, Associate - Standards and QA V Sethuraman on 03.04.2015. from National Skills Development Corp. after a presentation New Students Chapters: The Council approved the formation made by Mr. Reddy on the subject. President Mr. G V of Students’ Chapters in the Department of Chemical Sethuraman suggested that Mr. Shyam Bang would represent Engineering, at MITS, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) and Shaheed IIChE in the Governing Council of CPSSC and the members Bhagat Singh State Technical Campus, Ferozepur, (Punjab). accepted the suggestion. Other Items The members also constituted a committee comprising Mr. D M Butala, Mr. Shyam Bang, Mr. K Sahasranaman and Dr. P G Joint Petition of Engineering Associations / Bodies on Rao to look into different aspects of the proposal where IIChE Engineers Bill: Prof. De informed about a communication sent would participate and also formulate the procedures for on 28.03.2015 to ECI regarding “Engineers Bill” as sent by implementing the same. The members further requested the various other member associations/bodies. He also mentioned committee to report the development of the matter to the that Mr G V Sethuraman, President, had signed a Joint Petition Council from time to time. and forwarded it to ECI for taking action at their end. The Hony. Secretary also updated the members about the progress of Publication work regarding Engineers’ bill. Appointment of Honorary Editor: Based on the The members were happy to note the progress of ECI recommendation of the Search Committee, constituted for rd enactment of Engineers bill. appointment of Honorary Editor during the 3 meeting of the Council in Kolkata, the Council decided that Prof. V K Rattan Industrial Clinic: Mr. D M Butala suggested constitution of would be appointed as Honorary Editor of IIChE for 2 years an Industrial Clinic for tackling problems faced by SMES and with effect from 1st January 2016. even big players in the various areas of plant operation. A group of experts from IIChE members could be formed at the Industrial Clinic / Polyclinic for MSMEs national level by networking through website, newsletter, The members considered a detailed suggestion given by Mr. Regional Centres, etc. for the purpose, which could offer D M Butala in this regard, made following detailed deliberation guidelines through weblinks for resolving operational problems. at the Baroda Regional Centre. The members accepted in This will be on ‘no profit no loss’ basis as a Service to Chemical principle the suggestion made by Mr. Butala and decided to Engineers, Mr. Butala suggested. implement the same phase-wise as it would be of great help Members accepted the proposal for industrial clinic and to the industry. It was further decided that the Regional Centres requested Mr. Butala to work out the modus operandi for would be requested to take initiative in implementing the implementing the proposal. proposal for which a guideline would have to be framed.

15 Other Items Institute. The decision of the members in this regard included The members considered a long-term plan, submitted by Prof. the following: Basava Rao, for raising interest among students about study (i) The Regional centres would be requested to pay the of Chemical Engineering in general and about the role of IIChE amount on pro-rata basis of the income tax withdrawn in nurturing the growth of Chemical Engineering as an from the Bank by the IT authority in March 2012 and academic subject and profession. The plan included the also of the tax which would have to be paid to the IT following aspects: authority, l Chemical Engineering Awareness Programs: Each (ii) Cases lying with the IT authority would be handled at student chapter has to conduct awareness camp in a minimum cost soliciting opinions from concerned Junior colleges for 10+2 students regarding the experts. importance of Chemical Engineering, Role of Membership Chemical Engineer in the Industry, in the development The Council approved the application from Dr. L V of the Nation, Opportunities for chemical Engineers Muralikrishna Reddy (LM 44439), Chair, National Design & etc., The IIChE has to prepare the schedule and Research Forum, Bangalore and President, the Institution of instruct the Student chapters through the Regional Engineers (India), for the Fellowship of the Institute. Chapters for creating interest among the engineering aspirant students after the 10+2. Examination l Industry Internships: IIChE will create internship Prof. P. De, on request from the Council, decided for opening programmes in collaboration with its Organizational a new Examination Centre at IET (Institute of Engineering Members from industries. Then IIChE will select few and Technology), Lucknow for conducting AMIIChE students from each student chapter through the examination there. regional centres and send them for training. This will 4.3 5th meeting for 2015, held at MIT Academy of develop the technical skill and problem solving Engineering, Alandi, Pune, on September 12, 2015 capacity among the chemical engineering students. Subvention to the IIChE Students’ Chapters l Remedial and Supplementary Teaching Materials:IIChE will enlist teachers as subject experts The meeting considered its earlier decision regarding payment to prepare lecture notes in each chemical engineering of subvention to Students’ Chapters and decided that 50% of subject and upload on the IIChE website. This can Rs. 400/- (Out of a total of Rs. 500/- towards compounding be accessed by each student chapter and thereby fees – Rs. 100/- towards admission fee) would henceforth students. This will be very much useful to the chemical be given as subvention to the Students’ Chapters through the engineering students who are academically weak. concerned Regional Centres. The members, in principle, accepted the proposal and SCHEMCON 2017 requested Prof. Basava Rao to do the needful for the benefit Prof. P De reported the receipt of a Bid Form from the Students’ of students in consultation with Student Chapter Affairs Chapter of IIChE, NIT, Rourkela for organizing SCHEMCON Committee. 2017 there. The Council discussed the issue and decided that Financial the SCHEMCON 2017 would be organized by the Students’ Quarterly Accounts: Hony. Treasurer Mr. Dipak Dutta Chapter of IIChE, NIT, Rourkela at their institute. presented the financial Statements of quarterly accounts for Financial the quarter ending June 2015. The members noted the present Matters regarding Income Tax: Mr. Dipak Dutta reported financial position of the HQ, and requested the Honorary receipt of the apportioned amount of Income Tax fror Secretary and Treasurer to curtail the expenditure to the possible extent. The members also discussed on the avenues 2008 – 09 from 5 Regional Centres, namely, Doaba, Kanpur, for increasing the income of the HQ, and decided that (i) the oimbatore, Annamalai-Neyveli and Nagpur, which had already Regional Centres would be requested to give a percentage of been paid by the HQ. to the IT authority. The members noted their income to the HQ, and (ii) Chemcon organizers would be with pleasure receipt of the amount and decided that the requested to release the due amount to the HQ at the earliest. amount received/receivable from the Regional Centres would Income Tax matter: Mr. Dipak Dutta apprised the members be utilized for repairing and maintenance of the HQ Building about the latest status relating to income tax, payable by the in Kolkata.

16 Organizational Member Undergraduate students would not be entertained to present Prof. De reported receipt of an application from Dr P G Jadhav, technical papers in CHEMCON. Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shri Guru Gobind The Council also decided that henceforth a minimum amount Singhji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nanded along of money (the quantum will be decided by the Council) should with a DD of Rs. 11,000/- for Life Organizational Membership be given to HQ by the Chemcon Organizers. of the Institute. The meeting considered the application and Engineering Council of India approved the same. Prof. P De referred to a communication received from Mr B R Regional Centre / Student Chapter Affairs Jain, Director, ECI through an e-mail dated 10.12.2015 Regional Centre: The Coucnil decided in favour of opening a regarding registration for Professional Engineer (PE) / Regional Centre at National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Associate Professional Engineer (APE) / Student Engineer. as it fulfilled the relevant guidelines. The members accepted in principle that the institute would Students’ Chapters: The Council approved in principle request its members for their registration as professional formation of the following Students’ Chapters subject to engineer/associate professional engineer/student engineer as fulfillment of the laid down criteria in the By-laws: indicated in the said communication. They also requested (i). Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering & Technology, the Honorary Secretary to take appropriate action on the Nagpur; (ii) Bharathidasan Institute of Technology, Anna matter. University, Tiruchirapalli; (iii) KLE Dr M S Sheshgiri College of Meeting of Professional Bodies and Educationists Engineering & Technology, Belagavi; (iv). Calcutta Institute Prof. P De apprised the members about the communication of Technology, Uluberia, Howrah; (v). Rajiv Gandhi University, received from Prof. Satyanarayana who participated in the IIIT, Nuzvid; (vi). K L University, Vaddeswaram. meeting of the professional bodies and educationists,arranged 4.4 6th meeting for 2015 held at Mini Auditorium, IIT, by the Institution of Engineers on 25th September 2015 at Guwahati on December 26, 2015 Kochi: Subvention to the IIChE Students’ Chapters The members discussed the issue at length and decided that In continuation of its earlier decision on the subject, the Council our representative(s) would attend the subsequent joint decided that Rs. 500/- (paid by student members as compound meeting/s, if held. fees) would not henceforth be adjusted with the fee for Life Publication Corporate Membership in case of one’s transfer from student Prof P De reported that IIChE-T&F publication agreement is to corporate membership. due for renewal in January 2016. The corresponding clause CHEMCON National Organizing Committee in the agreement reads as follows: With regard to formation of NOC for CHEMCON, Prof. De “The IIChE and the Publisher agree to publish the highlighted the relevant portion of the guidelines as reproduced Journal for a minimum period of five years from the below: first day of January 2011 (Volume 53) and this “The Council of the Institute shall hold the Congress through Agreement shall take effect on the date shown at the a National Organizing Committee (NOC) and a Local head of this Agreement and shall continue until 31 Organizing Committee (LOC) constituted for the purpose at December 2015, and shall automatically renew least one year in advance of the CHEMCON concerned. The thereafter for a period of three years unless either NOC will have one Chairman, one Vice-chairman, one party gives the other written notice of its intention Convener, (one Joint Convener if required), four zonal not to renew this Agreement at least twelve months representatives and other individuals that the Council may prior to the expiration of the current term”. add. The President, Vice-Presidents, Honorary Secretaries The members after threadbare discussion decided to renew and Honorary Treasurer of IIChE shall be ex-officio members the agreement for a period of 3 years as mentioned in the of the NOC. Besides, the Chairman, Vice-chairman and the clause. Organizing Secretary of the Local Organizing Committee will Awards also be ex-officio members of the NOC. The NOC is mainly Change of award name: Prof. P De informed the Council responsible for policy making and planning the technical events about receipt of an e-mail communication dated December of the Congress.” 02, 2015 from Mr Nandkumar Dhekne, Vice President Asia, The members after discussion decided that (i) The meeting Solenis requesting to change the name of the “Ashland CDS of the NOC could also be held through electronic media, (ii) Award” to “Solenis CDS Award” as the Ashland Water LOC should consist of at least 2 council members, and, (iii) Technologies had been taken over by Solenis.

17 The Council agreed and requested Honorary Secretary to do Membership the needful in the matter. Honorary Fellowship/Fellowship: The Council elected Prof Honorarium enhancement for Dr B P Godrej Life Time C D Gopalarathnam and Dr Ajay Bansal as Fellows of the Achievement Award: Prof. P De reported that Mr N B Godrej, Institute on the basis of recommendations made by the Managing Director, Godrej Industries Ltd., In response to a members of the concerned comiittee. request from Prof G D Yadav, Past President, IIChE, had been Organizational Membership: The Council approved the pleased to enhance the award money for Dr B P Godrej Life admission of Nove Iresc India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi and SSN Time Achievement Award from Rs. 1.50 lakh to Rs. 3.00 lakh College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu as Life (which includes honorarium of Rs 2.50 lakh and Rs. 50,000/- Organizational Member of the institute. for travel, felicitation along with the spouse). Examination The Council noted it with pleasure and conveyed its gratitude The following 50 candidates came out successfully out of 56 and thanks to Mr. Nadir Godrej for this kind gesture and candidates, who appeared for March 2015 Home Paper thanked Prof. Yadav for his endeavour. Examination.

Sl. Name Roll No. Sl. Name Roll No. No. No. 1 Mr Dineshchandra R Patel 00/S7/383 26 Mr Narasimha Murthy 09/S9/530

2 Mr Arupananda Mohanty 00/S8/551 27 Mr Hemant Hindurao Thorat 09/S9/556

3 Mr V Chandra Sekhara Reddy 04/S4/24 28 Mr Avdesh Bansal 10/M10/42

4 Mr Sanjay Singh 05/S5/264 29 Mr E C Mohanan 10/M10/227

5 Mr Devang G Bhojak 05/S5/382 30 Mr Veenu Kumar 10/M10/284

6 Mr Rama Kant 06/S6/331 31 Mr Nilesh M Chichpane 10/M10/297

7 Mr Narottam Kumar 06/S6/341 32 Mr Jaswinder Singh 10/S10/370

8 Mr Nishant Kumar Undwar 07/M7/100 33 Mr Chirag J Bhavsar 10/S10/376

9 Mr Chaganti Srinivasu 07/S7/280 34 Mr G Prakasa Varma 10/S10/408

10 Mr Manish Kumar Sinha 07/S7/304 35 Mr Mani Prasad Mishra 10/S10/410

11 Mr S Rajkumar 08/M8/18 36 Mr Bhavesh N Gurjar 10/S10/427

12 Mr Sanjeev Kumar 08/M8/91 37 Mr Vishal Vilvas 10/S10/474

13 Mr Mahendra Singh 08/S8/225 38 Mr Pallapu Praveen Kumar 10/S10/509

14 Mr Nilesh Anant Joshi 08/S8/283 39 Md Shamsad Alam 10/S10/512

15 Mr Ashish 08/S8/362 40 Mr Neeraj Kumar 10/S10/546

16 Mr Tarang Mathur 09/M9/5 41 Ms Jyoti 11/M11/29

17 Mr Prafulla M Madhavi 09/M9/54 42 Ms Poonam 11/M11/30

18 Mr Pritesh M Pandya 09/M9/77 43 Mr Mahesh Chand 11/M11/95

19 Mr Raj Kumar Mehta 09/M9/104 44 Mr Mahadev Mahapatra 11/M11/251

20 Mr Jagdish Prasad Singh 09/M9/155 45 Mr Buddha Vijay 11/M11/298

21 Mr Manoj Kumar Singh 09/M9/191 46 Mr Tapas Kumar Mandal 11/S11/347

22 Mr Shiv Pratap Singh 09/M9/192 47 Mr Narayan Prasad G K 12/M12/126

23 Mr Umesh Kumar Tiwari 09/M9/196 48 Mr Gautam Kumar Pandey 12/M12/413

24 Mr Shail Jit Singh 09/S9/376 49 Mr Reddi Sai Kumar 13/M13/49

25 Mr Tarashi N Vekariya 09/S9/513 50 Mr Hem Chandra Joshi 13/S13/323

18 Regional Centre / Student Chapter Affairs would require amendments of certain clauses in the Regional Centre: The Council approved in principle formation Constitution. The Council discussed the issue and the of a new Regional Centre of IIChE in UPES, Dehradun, subject President thereafter suggested formaion of a sub-committee to fulfillment of criteria laid down in the Constitution and By- consisting of the following members: laws of the Institute. Mr. G V Sethuraman (Chairman), Prof. P. De (Convener), Prof. Students’ Chapters: The Council approved in principle V K Srivastava (Member), Dr. P G Rao (Member), Mr. D M formation of the following Students’ Chapters subject to Butala (Member), Mr. D P Misra (Member). fulfillment of the laid down criteria in the By-laws: The members were requested to forward their suggestion for (i) Delhi Technological University, Delhi and (ii) Parul Institute better functioning of the Institute. of Technology, Vadodara. Publication 4.5 1st meeting for 2016 held at Conference Hall No. 3, Prof V K Rattan presented an email dated 19.2.2016 received IIT, Guwahati, on December 28, 2015. from Robinson Raju, Publishing Editor, T&F Group as given Election of the President below : The members elected Mr Shyam Bang as the President of “In our mission to be environment-friendly, reduce the Institute for the year 2016. wastage and become energy-and cost-efficient, Taylor & Francis is proposing to print issues less Election of two Vice-Presidents frequently beginning this year. Since the institute Prof. S V Satyanarayana and Prof. G A Shareet were elected prints the issues to supply to its members, we are unanimously as the Vice-Presidents of the Institute for the therefore seeking your approval to initiate this year 2016. process. This means that T&F will send the institute Co-option of Members to the Council (not more than 3) as two print files for two print copies of four issues for provided in Rule 24.1 of the Constitution the Indian Chemical Engineer (each print copy will The members decided unanimously to co-opt Prof. N. be a double issue). Are you happy printing two times Balasubramanian, Department of Chemical Engineering, A C a year instead of four?” Tech Campus, Anna University, Chennai to the Council for The members considered the issue and expressed their regret 2016. to accede to the proposal. The members, however, suggested Election of Other Office Bearers printing the journal in A-4 sized paper. For the year 2016, the members unanimously elected Prof. Awards P. De as the Honorary Secretary of the Institute; Dr. D. Mandal Honorary Secretary reported that the announcements for the as the Honorary Jt. Secretary; Mr Dipak Dutta as the Honorary Awards and Prizes would be displayed in the Website of the Treasurer; Prof. Radharani Das as Honorary Treasurer; Prof IIChE soon. V K Rattan as Honorary Editor; and Prof. M. Venkateswara Fellowship Rao was unanimously elected as Honorary Controller of Examinations. The Council elected Mr G V Sethuraman, Immediate Past President, as a Fellow of the Institute as per prevailing practice. 4.6 2nd Meeting for 2016 held at Dr. B A Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar on March 5, Student Chapter Affairs 2016 The Council approved in principle formation of the following FICCI - IIChE Students’ Chapters subject to fulfillment of the laid down criteria The President Mr Shyam Bang informed the members that (i) in the By-laws: the MOU between the CHEMCON 2016 organizers and FICCI (i) NIT, Hamirpur, and (ii) Beant College of Engineering & would be signed very soon, and, (ii) some programmes of Technology, Gurdaspur. IIChE would be organized jointly with FICCI during the year. Associate Membership Examination Constitutional Amendments Mr. Shyam Bang informed the members that he along with Prof. P De reiterated that certain clauses in the constitution, Prof. V K Srivastava and Prof. M K Jha had met the Chairman based on the recommendation / suggestions, would have to of AICTE on 26th February 2016 and requested through a letter be changed for the overall growth of the Institute keeping pace dated 25th February him to consider the passed out candidates with requirement of the day. Such change(s) in the constitution of AMIIChE from IIChE along with M.E/ M.Tech.degree

19 acquired through contact mode (regular/part time) to be eligible e. Heat Generation & Heat Transfer Equipment Sub for the appointment as faculty in Technical Education, similar committee to that being enjoyed by Institution of Engineers (Vide Principal Nominee - Prof K J R Sarma Extraordinary Gazette notification, part III, Section 4, where Alternate Nominee - Dr V K Srivastava under item (E), Miscellaneous issues, sl. no. 67,page 31: the f. Crushing & Grinding Equipment Sub-committee passed out candidates of AMIE offered by Institution of Principal Nominee - Prof N Subrahmanyam Engineers, along with M.E./ M.Tech. degree acquired through g. Size Separation & Filtration Sub-committee contact mode (regular/part time) is eligible for the appointment Principal Nominee - Mr Sunil Kapadia as faculty in Technical Education). Alternate Nominee - Prof S Basu Syllabus revision: Some members suggested for developing h. Drying Equipment Sub-committee a model syllabus of Chemical Engineering course for the Principal Nominee - Mr Jai Uppal undergraduate students. The suggestion for scrutiny of the Alternate Nominee - Dr M K Bhattacharjee existing syllabus for the said course offered by the institutions i. Packing & Gasket Sectional Committee in the country was also discussed. Prof. V.K.. Srivastava (Ex- Principal Nominee - Dr Amalendu Datta IIT) informed the members that NRC, IIChE had been doing the same. j. Refrigeration & Airconditioning Sectional Committee Principal Nominee – Dr D Sathiamoorthy Prof. Chaurasia briefed the Council about suggestions being Alternate Nominee - Dr Sudip K Das made by UGC and AICTE for introduction of two industry related courses in the syllabus for UG Chemical Engineering 2) Asia Pacific Confederation of discipline. Chemical Engineering - Prof G J V J Raju 3) Engineering Council of India - Other Items Prof V K Srivastava Prof. P De reported the receipt of an Email dated 24.02.2016 4) World Council of Chemical Engineering - from Prof G D Yadav requesting the President and Honorary Mr K Venkataramanan Secretary to take strong initiative for inclusion of Chemical Engineering discipline for Engineering Services Examination 5) Technical Advisory Board – Chemical Science & (ESE), conducted by UPSC for recruitment of Engineers Technology, CSIR - Prof A K Mitra against vacancies in Government Services. 6.0 Membership Position The President informed that the request through a letter dated Number of applications received for membership during the th 25 February 2016 on the above context had been made to period under review (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016), the the Chairman, AICTE and apprised the members about the number approved by the Council and the actual enrolment conversation he had with the Chairman. The members decided during the referred period was 3856, 3864 and 3864, to make a request to the Chairman, UPSC for inclusion of respectively. Chemical Engineering discipline for ESE. Membership position as on 31 March 2016 is given below 5.0 Institute’s Representatives on Various Bodies along with the corresponding figures as on March 31, 2015 1) Bureau of Indian Standards and March 31, 2014.

a. Chemical Engineering Plants & Related Equipment March 31, March 31, March 31, Sectional Committee 2016 2015 2014 Principal Nominee - Mr G V Sethuraman Organisational Member (Life) 61 58 58 Alternate Nominee – Mr A K Saxena Organisational Member (Annual) 60 60 58 b. Chemical Division Council Honorary Fellow 128 126 122 Principal Nominee - Prof S K Sharma Fellow (Life) 112 99 100 Alternate Nominee - Dr S Mukherjee Fellow 22 32 32 c. Basic Chemical Engineering Standards Member (Life) 5163 5001 4737 Principal Nominee - Prof K D P Nigam Member 753 759 757 Alternate Nominee - Dr R N Trivedi Life Associate Member 2512 2378 2122 Associate Member 939 947 912 d. Process Vessels Sub-committee Principal Nominee - Dr P G Rao Student Member 12368 12157 13824 Alternate Nominee - Prof B K Guha

20 The number of members attached to each of the Regional The following organizations were admitted as Organizational Centres (as on March 31, 2016) are as follows: Members of the Institute upto March 31, 2016:

Sl. No Regional Centre No. of Members Permanent Organisational Members – Industry 1. Ahmedabad 180 2. Ankleshwar 718 1 Alkyl Amines Ltd 3. Annamalai 376 2 Artemis Biotech Ltd., Mumbai 4. Bangalore 806 3 Asian Paints Ltd., Mumbai 5. Baroda 382 4 Avon Organics Ltd., Hyderabad 6. Bhubaneswar 275 5 Bentley Systems India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai 7. Calcutta 957 6 Birla Cellulosic, Bharuch 8. Chandigarh 514 7 Blast Carboblocks Pvt. Ltd., Navi Mumbai 9. Chennai 1689 8 Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation 10. Coimbatore 223 Ltd., Pune 11. Damanjodi 128 9 Development Organization for Sustainable 12. Dehradun 198 Transformation, Chandigarh 13. Doaba 132 10 Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., Hyderabad 14. Durgapur 110 11 Excel Industries Ltd., Mumbai 15. Guwahati 85 12 Firechem, Faridabad 16. Goa 92 13 Golden Chemicals (I) Ltd., Mumbai 17. Guntur 389 14 Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd., Baroda 18. Haldia 308 15 Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd., Veraval 19. Hyderabad 865 16 Haldor Topsoe International A/S, New Delhi 20. Jaipur 227 17 Heavy Water Board, Mumbai 21. Kalpakkam 85 18 Hercules Speciality Chemicals (India) Pvt. Ltd., 22. Kanpur 184 Bangalore 23. Kharagpur 72 19 Herdillia Chemicals Ltd., Mumbai 24. Kochi 538 20 Hetero Drugs Ltd., Hyderabad 25. Lote 82 21 Hikal Ltd., Taloja, Maharashtra 26. Lucknow 127 22 Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd., Mumbai 27. Mangalore 177 23 Hindustan Latex Ltd., Thiruvanantapuram 28. Mumbai 1410 24 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Refinery Division, New 29. Nadiad 382 Delhi 30. Nagpur 491 25 Jacobs H&G Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai 31. Northern 654 26 Kavaerner Powergas India Ltd., Mumbai 32. Paradeep 25 27 Kavin Engineering & Services Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore 33. Pilani 138 28 Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., Thane 34. Pondicherry 48 29 Llyod’s Register of Shipping, New Delhi 35. Pune 581 36. Rourkela 71 30 Mecon Ltd., Ranchi 37. Trivandrum 407 31 MMTC-PAMP India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 38. Vapi 71 32 National Organic Chemicals Industries Ltd., Mumbai 39. Waltair 427 33 Novo Iresc India Private Ltd., New Delhi

21 34 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Dehradun Ordinary Organisational Members – Industry

35 Pidilite Industries Ltd., Mumbai 1 Andhra Sugar Ltd., Tanuku 2 Aventis Pharma Ltd., Bharuch 36 RPG Life Sciences Ltd., Mumbai 3 Beta Concepts, Hyderabad 37 Sartorius India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore 4 Bharat Aluminium Co. Ktd., Korba 38 Sud-Chemie Inda Ltd. (United Catalyst India Ltd.), 5 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Mumbai Mumbai 6 Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Ltd., Ankleshwar 39 Themis Medicare Ltd., Mumbai 7 Birla VXL Ltd., Porbandar (Saurashtra Chemicals 40 Toyo Engineering India Ltd., Mumbai Ltd.)

41 TUV Suddeutshland Ltd., Mumbai 8 Chemfab Alkalies Ltd., Pondicherry 9 Cheminova India Ltd., Bharuch 42 United Phosphorus Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat 10 Chemplast Saanmar Ltd., Chennai 43 Vical Inc., USA 11 Coromondal Fertilizers Ltd., Secunderabad Permanent Organisational Members – Research & 12 DCW Ltd., Dharanghra, Gujarat Educational Institutes 13 Deepak Nitrite Ltd., Nandesari Gujarat 1 Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai 14 Diamines & Chemicals Ltd., Baroda

2 Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, 15 Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi Bhavnagar 16 Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., Secunderabad

3 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, 17 Garg Lab Glass Industries, Vapi, Gujarat Hyderabad 18 Gas Authority of India Ltd., New Delhi 4 Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata 19 Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., Kodinar 5 High Energy Material Research Laboratory, Pune 20 Gujarat Insecticides Ltd., Ankleshwar 6 Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, 21 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertlizers Co. Ltd., Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu Narmadanagar 7 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad 22 Gujarat Sidhee Cement Ltd., Veraval 8 Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat 23 Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd., Vadodara 9 National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 24 Heavy Water Plant, Tuticorin

10 National Productivity Council, Chennai 25 HEL India Ltd., Thane

11 SSBT’s College of Engineering & Technology, 26 Heubach Colour Pvt. Ltd., Ankleshwar Jalgaon, Maharashtra 27 Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pune 12 Sathyabhama Engineering College, Chennai 28 Hindustan Insecticides Ltd., New Delhi 13 Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering & 29 Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd., Rasayani, Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra Maharashtra 14 St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai 30 Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd., Calcutta 15 SSN College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu 31 Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., Baroda 16 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, 32 Indian Rayon Ltd., Veraval, Gujarat Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu 33 Kevin Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai 17 Swami Ramananda Tirtha Institute, Nalgonda 34 Mafatlal Industries, (Navine Flourine Industries – 18 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvanantapuram Chemical Division) Mumbai

22 35 Narmada Chematur Petrochemicals Ltd., Varuch Year No. of Candidates

36 Nuchem Ltd., Faridabad 2006 1676

37 Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad 2007 1529 2008 1749 38 Saurashtra Cement Ltd., Gujarat 2009 1999 39 Sayantan Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta 2010 2222 40 Search Chem Industries Ltd., Jhagadia 2011 2406 41 Shriram Alkali & Chemicals, Bharuch 2012 2495 42 Shriram Fertilizers & Chemicals, New Delhi 2013 2283 43 Southern Petrochemical Industries Corp. Ltd., Chennai 2014 1872 2015 1427 44 Sun Pharmaceutical, Panoli

45 Surya Organics and Chemicals, Ankleshwar The number of candidates who appeared at the final part (Part 46 Standard Industries Ltd., Mumbai III) of the Institute’s Associate Membership Examination during the last 10 years was as follows: 47 Standard Certification Council Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai Year Semester No. No. % of 48 TCP Ltd., Chennai Appeared Passed successful candidates 49 Tata Chemicals Ltd., Mithapur 2005 March 41 39 95.1 50 Textile Rubber & Chemical Co Pvt Ltd., Bhadohi September 30 28 93.3 51 Trident Alco-Chem Ltd., Ludhiana 2006 March 27 21 77.8 52 Vihita Chem Pvt. Ltd., Ankleshwar September 60 58 96.7 53 Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd., Zuarinagar, Goa 2007 March 33 30 90.9 54 Zandu Chemicals Ltd., Ankleshwar September 38 34 89.5 2008 March 35 33 94.3 Ordinary Organisational Members – Research & September 39 36 92.3 Educational Institutes 2009 March 22 22 100.0 1 Dalmia Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research, September 34 31 91.1 Rajganpur, Orissa 2010 March 56 48 85.71 2 S M Engineering Institute, Kymore September 32 25 78.12 3 St. Peter’s Engineering College, Chennai 2011 March 53 51 96.22

4 MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore September 40 40 100.0 2012 March 56 51 91.07 5 Sriram Engineering College, Tamil Nadu September 48 36 75.0 6 Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering, Tamilnadu 2013 March 80 68 85.0 September 82 70 85.36 2014 March 48 46 95.83 7.0 Associated Membership Examination September 44 39 88.63 The number of candidates who appeared at the Institute’s Associate Membership Examination during last 10 years was 2015 March 54 50 92.59 as follows: September 30 25 83.33

23 8.0 IIChE Awards 2015 Prof K K Pant Following is the list of IIChE Awards, presented annually in IIT,Delhi, New Delhi recognition of eminence and excellence in various sphere of CHEMCON Distinguished Speaker Award chemical engineering profession. Also included is the list of Solenis Bharat Ratna Prof C N R Rao Medal and recipients of the awards, presented at CHEMCON 2015, held Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award during December 27 - 30, 2015 at Guwahati, Assam. Dr Girish Sahni, DG, CSIR

Dr.B.P.Godrej Life Time Achievement Award RPG Life Sciences Padma Vibhushan Prof M M Sharma Mr Ashok A Panjwani Medal and Chemcon Distinguished Executive Director, UPL Ltd., Gujarat Speaker Award National Awards Dr Ashish Lele, NCL, Pune Lala Shriram National Award for Leadership in Chemical Asian Paints Padma Bibhushan Dr R A Mashelkar Medal Industry and Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award Mr Chandrakant V Gogri, Aarti Group of Companies Prof G D Yadav, Vice-chancellor, ICT, Mumbai Mumbai Deepak Group’s Padma Bhushan Prof L K Doraiswamy Herdillia Award for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award Chemical Engineering Prof Ranil Wickramasinghe, University of Arkansas, USA Professor B C Meikap, IIT, Kharagpur Chemical Weekly’s Padmashri Dr G P Kane Chemcon Hindustan Lever Biennial Award for the Most Distinguished Speaker Award Outstanding Chemical Engineer of the Year under the Prof Geoffrey Evams, Univercity of Newcastle, Australia Age of 45 years Hetero Drugs Prof G S Laddha Chemcon Distinguished Dr Sundergopal Sridhar, Principal Scientist, CSIR-IICT Speaker Award Hyderabad Prof W S Winston Ho, Ohio State University, USA NOCIL Award for Excellence in Design or Development of Process Plant and Equipment IICT-Avon Padmashri Dr G S Sidhu Chemcon Prof (Dr) B N Thorat, ICT. Mumbai Distinguished Speaker Award Amar Dye-Chem Award for Excellence in Research and Prof Rakesh K Gupta, West Virginia University, USA Development in Chemical Engineering below the Age of Sartorius India’s Chemcon Distinguished Speaker 35 years Award Dr Venkat Padmanabhan, IIT, Kharagpur Prof Ranjana Chowdhury, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Shah-Schulman Award for the Best Ph.D. thesis in the United Phosphorus Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Area of Colloid and Interface Sciences Award For the year 2014 Dr (Smt) S B Roy, BARC, Mumbai Dr Hemalatha Annepu, Lead Scientist, EGOMA Technologies Pvt Ltd Hikal’s Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award IIT Kanpur Shri Prakash D Hirani, NTPC Ltd, New Delhi

For the year 2015 CSMCRI Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award Dr Siva Rama Krishna Perala, Post Doctoral Associate, Prof Sirshendu De, IIT, Kharagpur Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CLRI Padmabhushan Dr Y Nayudamma Chemcon Cambridge, USA Distinguished Speaker Award Dr A V Rama Rao Foundation’s Best PhD Thesis and Prof B K Dutta, Former President, IIChE Research Award In Chemical Engineering/Technology DOST Professor S K Sharma Medal and Chemcon for the Year 2015 Distinguished Speaker Award Dr Pravakar Mohanty, Scientist-C, Science & Engineering Prof. A. Ghatak, IIT, Kanpur Research Board CHEMCON NEERI Distinguished Speaker Award New Delhi, and Prof Vimal Katiyar, IIT, Guwahati

24 NCL’s Professor K Venkataraman Chemcon Dr Mayank Agrawal, Dr Raju Mishra and Dr Raj Ganesh S Distinguished Speaker Award Pala Prof Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, IIT, Guwahati IIT, Kanpur Other Awards Mr.M.H.Shukla Prize for Best Tech Paper presented in The Chemical Weekly Prize for Best Research Paper preceding year CHEMCON (2 Prizes) Published in a High Impact Factor International Journal 1st Prize by an Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Student Dr Manoj P Kamble and Dr G D Yadav (First and Second Prizes) ICT, Mumbai st 1 Prize 2nd Prize Mr Chitresh Kumar Bhargava Dr S K Sharma, Dr Pankaj Chawla and Dr Amrit Pal Toor Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna Panjab University, Chandigarh nd 2 Prize Mrs.Chinnamaul Memorial. Prize for Best Tech Paper Ms R Narmadha presented in preceding year CHEMCON ICT, Mumbai Dr Manoj P Kamble and Dr G D Yadav Chemical Weekly Award for the Best Paper Published in ICT, Mumbai the Institute’s Journal (ICE-2014) Acharya P C Ray Award for the Best Home Paper at the Mr Deepak Bisht Final Degree Examination (2 Prizes) UOP India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana and 1st Prize Mr John Petri Mr Sagar B Udyavara UOP LLC, USA ICT, Mumbai IIChE NRC Award Best Paper in “Indian Chemical 2nd Prize Engineer” 2014 Mr Shrinath D Ghadge Mr Deepak Bisht ICT, Mumbai UOP India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana and Mr John Petri Ambuja’s Best Home Paper or Design Project Report UOP LLC, USA Awards (3 Prizes) 1st Prize The Kuloor Memorial Award to the best technical paper Mr Sai Krishna Chaitanya Sastry published in the journal of the Institute in the issues of the preceding year School of Chemical & Bio Technology, Sastra University, Thanjavur Mr Deepak Bisht nd UOP India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana and 2 Prize Mr John Petri Mr Ashish Jayaraman UOP LLC, USA ICT, Mumbai 3rd Prize IIChE NRC Award 2nd Best Paper in “Indian Chemical Mr Swapnil D Deshmukh Engineer” 2014 ICT, Mumbai Dr S B Jonnalagadda, and Dr S Nadupalli Pankaj P Patel Trust Essay Competition Prize University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Ms K Divya Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore Sisir Kumar Mitra Memorial Award to the second Best Technical Paper Published In The Journal of the Kishore K Das Memorial Prize for securing highest Institute in the issues of the preceding year marks in Part-III (Home Paper) Associate Membership Dr S B Jonnalagadda, and Examination of the Institute Dr S Nadupalli AMIIChE Exam held in September 2014 University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Mr Bishan Singh Rana IIChE NRC Award 3rd Best Paper in “Indian Chemical Mathura Refinery Nagar, Mathura Engineer” 2014 AMIIChE Exam held in March 2015 (Jointly awarded) Mr Ashish Dr Nitin Somkuwar Dr Nitin Kolhe and Dr Virendra Rathod IFFCO, Allahabad ICT, Mumbai

25 Prof D K Guha Award for the Most Outstanding AMIIChE 2nd Prize Candidate securing Highest Percentage of Marks in IIChE Student Chapter AMIIChE Examination amongs Candidates registererd National Institute of Technology Warangal ,Warangal during the Last Four Years Pidilite’s Best Student Chapter Award Mr Hem Chandra Joshi IIChE Student Chapter Panipat Refinery Township, Panipat, Haryana RVR & JC College of Engineering (A),Guntur N R Nandi Memorial Prize for Securing Highest Marks in Best Regional Centre Award (3 Prizes) AMIIChE Examination Category “A” Best Mr Hem Chandra Joshi Mumbai Regional Centre, IIChE Panipat Refinery Township, Panipat, Haryana VICAL Award for best Students Activities for the Best Category “B” Best Paper Presentation during the previous SCHEMCON (3 Bangalore Regional Centre, IIChE Prizes) Category “B” Second Best 1st Prize Haldia Regional Centre, IIChE Mr Avijit Ghosh Prof.P.Sen Gupta Award for Best Employee (IIChE) of Haldia Institute of T, Haldia the Year 2nd Prize Mr K C Mondal Ms Indumoni Das and IIChE, Kolkata Ms Swapnali Hazarika CSIR-North East Inst of Sc & Tech 9.0 Students’ CHEMCON Jorhat, Assam The 11th annual session or SCHEMCON 2015 was organized 3rd Prize (jointly awarded) by the MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi, Pune and the Mr Vishwajit Salunkhe, Mr Pratik Rathi and Vaibhav Sawant Pune Regional Centre on 12 and 13 September 2015 . & With ‘Sustainable Development for Better Tomorrow’ as the Mr Ankush A Patil, Akshaykumar Pharate and Mr Mayur A central theme for this year’s SCHEMCON, the focus was on Chaudhari newer aspects of sustainable development, such as, Energy MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi, Pune and Environment, Catalysis, Chemical Reaction Engineering, M P Chary Memorial Award Thermodynamics, Mass/Heat/Momentum Transfer. Herbal Mr Pankaj N Patil Extraction, Renewable Energy, Modeling and Simulation, Global Institute of Technology, Taluka Safety, Bioprocess and Biotechnology, Process Control, Late Lakshmi Nandakumar Awasrd of the Institute for Process Development & Design; etc. There was immense best presentation in Schemcon 2015 by a Lady Student interest among the budding chemical engineers as evident Ms Mouna H M from the fact that as many as 407 abstracts were shortlisted BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa for oral / poster presentation. Four abstracts were shortlisted for M P Chary Award presentation. The abstracts were Gouri Dutta Award for the Best Paper presentation in segregated into different thrust areas and 10 parallel sessions Schemcon 2015 of the Indian Institute of Chemical were held for these thrust areas. Engineers Mr Amir Bombaywala, Mr Shubham Phalle and Mr Shubham SCHEMCON 2015 was inaugurated by industry bigwigs in Wankhede the presence of the senior authorities of IIChE. Mr. Pramod Sinhgad College of Engineering, Vadgaon Chaudhuri, Executive Chairman, Praj Industries Ltd., Pune was the Chief Guest; Dr. R.R. Sonde, Executive Vice Ambuja’s Young Researcher’s Awards for doing Post- President, Thermax India Ltd., Pune was the Guest of Honour; Graduate Studies in India after GATE Examination (Ten Prof. V. D. Karad, Founder, Executive President and Managing Prizes) Trustee, MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions, Pune; Mr. G.V, st 1 Prize Sethuraman, President, IIChE; Prof. P. De, Hony. Secretary, IIChE Student Chapter IIChE; Dr. Sunil Karad, Executive Director & Trustee, MAEER’s Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Pennalur, MIT Group of Institutions, Pune; Dr. Y.J. Valerao, Principal, Sriperumbudur MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi and Chairman,

26 Organising Committee, SCHEMCON 2015; Dr. S.H. Vaidya, The event was entirely sponsored by various funding agencies Chairman, IIChE, Pune Regional Centre and Vice Chairman, and industries, such as, Department of Chemicals and Organising Committee, SCHEMCON 2015; Prof. N.M. Rane, Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, Convenor, SCHEMCON 2015; and Dr. S.V. Taralkar, Government of India; Thermax India Ltd.; IIChE, Pune Regional Organising Sectretary, SCHEMCON 2015 were the dignitaries Centre; IIChE Hyderabad Regional Centre; IIChE Northern present during the inaugural function. Regional Centre; Vansum Industries; IIChE Bangalore Regional Centre; KSB Instruments Co. Pvt. Ltd.; HES SCHEMCON 2015 was dedicated to Prof. V.D. Karad on the Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; Equinox Software & Services Pvt. Ltd.; occasion of his 75th birth day. The souvenir for SCHEMCON etc. 2015 was released at the inaugural programme in presence of the dignitaries. The inaugural address was delivered by Mr. 10.0 Institute’s Library Pramod Chaudhuri, who, in a motivational fashion, spoke on The library at the HQ of the Institute in Kolkata currently has a various ways of achieving sustainable developments for stock of 995 books. It has received 60 issues of weekly betterment of mankind and society. The inaugural session was journals, 7 issues of quarterly journals, 9 issues of bimonthly followed by a key-note address by Dr. R.R. Sonde on the journal and 55 issues of monthly journals during the intervening recent trends in sustainable developments. He asked the period. students for choosing a correct area of research for their future 11.0 Regional Centre Affairs career. The HQ did not receive Annual Report for the year 2015-16 A total of 390 papers out of the selected 407 abstracts were from the following Regional Centres: segregated on the basis of various thrust areas. They were chosen for oral (215) and poster (175) presentations in various i) Ahmedabad, ii) Chandigarh, iii) Durgapur, iv) Dehradun, parallel sessions. A total of 32 best papers for oral and seven v) Goa, vi) Kalpakkam and vii) Kanpur. best papers for poster presentation from each of the thrust A. Executive Committees (EC) 2015-16 areas in each session was awarded the Best Paper Trophy 11.1 Ahmedabad Regional Centre and Certificate of Merit. All the Technical Sessions were chaired by experts and authorities from academics, industry EC list has not been not received. and research organizations. Four young chemical engineers 11.2 Ankleshwar Regional Centre who have completed PhD or are doing PhD with their age Chairman : Mr D M Gandhi, Vice-Chairman : Mr S Thakar, below 35 years presented their research work for M P Chary Mr M A Hania, Mr S Sankaranarayanan, Mr A K Jain, Mr Award. Dr. Pankaj N Patil from Gharda Institute of Technology, Kamlesh Sukhvani, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr N B Lavel, Chiplun was declared the award winner. The session Saraiya, Honorary Ex-Secretary: Mr Nitin Patel, Honorary was chaired by IIChE Vice Presidents Mr. D.M. Butala and Regional Treasurer : Mr M I Shamsi, Honorary Regional Prof. V.V. Basava Rao. Jt.Secretary-Jhagadia : Mr Sunil Motiramani, Jt Secretary- For the Valedictory Session of SCHEMCON 2015, Prof. G.D. Dahej : Mr Yusuf Hussain, Jt Secretary-Valia : Mr Snehal Yadav, Vice Chancellor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Tralsawala, Jt Secretary-Ankleshwar: Mr K H Pandit, Jt Mumbai was the Chief Guest. Dr. V.S. Sapkal, former Vice Secretary – Bharuch: Mr R R Khandpur, Jt Secretary : Chancellor, Nagpur University, was the Guest of Honour. Mr. Panoli : Mr Satyan Pandya Members: Mr Manoj Kamalia, Kumar Mulemane, Director-Engineering, Techniti; Mr. G.V. Mr A K Sahni, Mr B D Dalwadi, Mr P G Dave, Prof S J Wagh, Sethuraman, President, IIChE; Mr. Yogesh Mistry, General Mr A I Shaikh, Mr Jayen Mehta, Mr Rajesh Kumar, Mr P B Manager-Piping, Techniti; Dr. S.H. Vaidya, Vice Chairman, Shah, Mr B J Patel, Mr R S Senjalia, Mr Ganesh R Sharma, SCHEMCON 2015; Prof. N.M. Rane, Convenor, SCHEMCON Mr Dinesh Patel, Mr Shashi Shekhar, Mr Rishabh Sheth, Mr 2015; and Dr. S.V. Taralkar, Organising Sectretary, Rilesh Mehta, Immediate Past President : Mr V K Nema SCHEMCON 2015; and Dr. M.B. Patil, Treasurer, SCHEMCON 2015 were present at the session. 11.3 Annamalai-Neyveli Regional Centre On the occasion, Prof. Yadav delivered a special talk on ‘Role Chairman : Dr C Kartrhikeyan, Vice-Chairman : Dr V of Chemical Engineers in Make in India’. All the winners of Vijayagopal, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr R Saravanan, Technical Sessions were awarded with the Best Paper Trophy Honorary Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr M Rajasimman, and Certificate of Merit by the dignitaries present during the Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr R. T Viruthagiri, valedictory function. Members: Dr Rm Meyyappan, Dr R Dhanasekar, Dr B Suresh,

27 Dr S Dhanasekaran, Dr K Manikandan, Dr T R Manikkandan, Regional Treasurer : Mr P Sivakumar, Members: Prof.Dr T Dr P Elavarasan, Dr B Sivaprakash, Dr S Subhagar and Mr M Kannadasan, Dr M Thirumarimurugan,. Dr V M Sivakumar, Ebisankar. Mr S Ramachandran, Mr R Sri Prabu, Mrs Anitha Sri Prabu, Mr G Gnanavel, Prof K Senthilkumar, Dr Murali Rangarajan & 11.4 Bangalore Regional Centre Dr Udhaya Bhaskar Reddy. Chairman : Prof Y J Rao, Vice-Chairman : Prof G A Shareef, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Brijesh, Honorary 11.10 Chennai Regional Centre: Regional Jt Secretary : Mr V Venkatesham, Honorary Chairman : Dr N Balasubramanian, Vice-Chairman : Prof R Regional Treasurer : Mr K A Badarinarayana Members : Dr Dorairaj, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr K Sadanand, Anand B Halgeri, Mr P T Raghuram, Mr K R Ananth, Mr S Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr K Sadanand, Honorary Swaminathan, Mr G Kishore Kumar, Dr K S Rajanandam, Dr Regional Jt Secretary : Dr G Baskar, Honorary Regional Mohandas Bhat and Dr Archna. Treasurer: Mr B S Naveen Prasad, Members : Dr G Venkatarathinam, Mr S Sekar, Dr M P Rajesh, Dr D Joshua 11.5 Baroda Regional Centre Amarnath, Dr R Parthiban, Dr G Rajasekar, Dr S Renganathan, Chairman: Mr K Sudhakar, Vice-Chairman: Mr R K Desai, Dr K Muthukumar (Ex-officio) Co-opted Members : Mr Mr Nilesh Mangukia & Mr D Chakraborty, Honorary Regional Anantharaman,Dr K Ramakrishnan & Mrs Lakshmi Secretary : Mr Nikhil Tonapi, Honorary Regional Jt Vaideeswaran. Secretary: Mr Vipul Mehta, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof N M Surana, Members: Mr M G Patel, Dr Nitin Bhate, Mr 11.11 Doaba Regional Centre Brijesh Trivedi, Nikunj Parekh, Mr Manan Joshi & Sameer Bhatt Chairman : Dr M K Jha, Vice-Chairman : Dr Ajay Bansal, Honorary Regional Secretary :Dr Shailendra Bajpai, 11.6 Bhubaneshwar Regional Centre : Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Sangeeta Garg, Chairman : Mr Jagjivan Rath, Vice-Chairman : Dr P C Rath, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Kamoj Kumar Members : Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr Swagat S Rath, Honorary Dr A K Jana, Dr Renu Gupta, Dr Poonam Gera, Mr N K Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr Ranjita Swain, Honorary Regional Srivastava, Dr Neetu Divya, Ms Rubalpreet Kaur, Dr Rajeev Treasurer : Dr M K Ghosh, Members : Prof G K Roy, Dr Garg & Mr Manoj Jindal. Kadambini Sarangi, Dr Bisweswar Das, Dr C R Panda, Mr Rajesh Kanungo, Dr Swati Mohanty (Ex-officio) 11.12 Damanjodi Regional Centre Chairman : Mr Sharanan Chaudhuri, Vice–Chairman : Mr 11.7 Calcutta Regional Centre : Prafulla Kumar Patra. Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr N Chairman : Mr Asok K Das, Vice-Chairman : Prof Chiranjib Murali Sridhar, Honorary Regional Joint Secretary Mr Dillip Bhattacharyya, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr Sushanta Kumar Sahoo, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr B Viinod K Roy, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary :Dr Sharmistha Kumar, Members: Mr R S Dharman, Dr Ashalata Gantayat, Bose, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr Abhyuday Mullick Mr Prabhat Sahoo, Mr Sudhir Kumar Sahu, Mr Sk Md Ali. , Members :Prof B N Srimani, Prof N K Brahma, Prof Sarajit Bosu, Prof Swami Vedjnanda, Mr Ananjan Kr Bhattacharyya, 11.13 Durgapur Regional Centre Prof R K Saha, Dr Rajat Chakraborty, Prof Amalesh Sirkar, Dr Chairman: Prof T Kumar, Honorary Regional Secretary : Sangita Bhattacharyya, Dr Ranjana Choudhury. Dr J P Sarkar.

11.8 Chandigarh Regional Centre : 11.14 Dehradun Regional Centre Chairman : Prof S K Sharma, Vice-Chairman: Mr Sandeep Not received. Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof V K Rattan, 11.15 Guwahati Regional Centre Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Deepak Mehon, Chairman : Prof B P Mandal, Vice-Chairman : Mr P K Dutta, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Prof R K Chhabra, Members Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Vimal Katiyar, Honorary : Mr Amit Sobti, Prof Amrit Pal Toor, Prof Anupama Sharma, Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Prakash Kotecha, Honorary Dr Gaurav Rattan, Prof Ritu Gupta, Prof Seema Kapoor,Prof Regional Treasurer : Dr Pankaj Tiwari, Members: Prof Pallab Sushil Kumar Kansal & Mr S S Bhinder. Ghosh, Prof Prabirkumar Saha, Prof V S Moholkar, Dr Mihir K 11.9 Coimbatore Regional Centre : Purkait, Dr Animesh Golder, Dr Tapas K Mandal, Dr Ashok K Dasmahapatra, Dr Amit Kumar, Dr Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay, Chairman : Dr A Sivalingam, Vice-Chairman : Dr K Kannan, Mr Rahul Patwa,Mr Babul Prasad, Mr Narendren S and Prof Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr D Prabhakaran, Honorary R Choudhury. Regional Jt Secretary: Ms V P Mohanjeayavalli, Honorary

28 11.16 Goa Regional Centre Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr Santosh Kumar, Members Chairman : Prof Saibal Ganguly, Vice-Chairman : Prof : Dr R K Trivedi, Dr Pramod Kumar, Er Visesh Agarwal Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Honorary Regional Secretary : 11.23 Kochi Regional Centre Prof Saroj Sundar Baral Chairman: Mr S Anujan, Vice Chairman: Mr P K 10.17 Guntur Regional Centre Sureshkumar,Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Harinath V, Chairman : Mr J Murali Mohan, Vice Chairman : Mr P Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr T P Siby, Honorary Kanakaraju, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr M Regional Treasurer: Mr V Venkatesan, Members: Mr Venkateswara Rao, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr D Sudarshan Kumar, Mr M K Augustine, Mr Subhashis Roy, Mr Gokul, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr C V Tittu Alagu, Mr Hariprasad K R, Mr Rejith, Dr G Madhu, Mr R Subrahmanyam, Members: Mr M Raghavaiah, Dr V Laxman and Mr Manoj N. Madhusudhana Rao, Dr P Venkateswarlu, Mr G Ranga Rao, 11.24 Kalpakkam Regional Centre Dr V Govardhana Rao, Dr J S Rao & Ms N Sudha Rani. Not received 10.18 Haldia Regional Centre : 11.25 Lote-Parasuram Regional Centre Chairman : Mr A P Gangopadhyay, Vice-Chairman : Dr R N Chairman : Mr S S Patil, Vice-Chairman: Mr D C Patil, Jana. Honorary Regional Secretary, Dr S B Kuila, Honorary Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr R B Ghadage, Honorary Regional Jt. Secretary : Mr B MandaL, Honorary Regional Regional Treasurer : Mr Rajesh Manatkar, Members: Mr S Treasurer : Dr S J Sahu, Members : Mr D Kundu, Mr A K K Gandhi, Mr T D Desai, Mr S D Parthe, Mr R B Shinde, Mr Dey, Prof A K Saha, Mr A Sinha, Prof R Das, Prof T K Manna, Odol Krishnan, Mr V V Dhage, Mr P B Patil & Mr V V Dhotre. Dr S B Kuila, Dr R N Jana, Dr S J Sahu, Mr B Mandal, Mrs S Roy, Mrs K Rana, and Dr A Ghosh. 11.26 Lucknow Regional Centre

11.19 Hyderabad Regional Centre Chairman : Mr Prakash Narain Tandon, Vice-Chairman : Mr Rajata Mehra, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Dhananjay Chairman : Dr Vijay Kale, Vice-Chairman : Prof R Sreedhar Singh, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr Ranvir Singh, Rao & Mr M Ranga Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr Honorary Regiona l Jt Secretary : Mr D K Srivastava, M Misra, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr K Saravanan, Members : Dr Bhartendu Nath Misra, Mr Brijendra Kumar, Dr Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr C P Ramulu, Members : Sushil Kumar, Dr Gautam Narain Garg,Mr Mayur Tandon, Mr Mr E Venkatesham, Mr D M Reddy, Mr A L V Kumar Reddy, Manoj Kumar Chaurasia, Mr Sudeep Tandon, Mr Janki Prasad Mr M G V Chalapathi Rao, Mr Sunil Kumar, Mr V Sridharan, Chaturvedi. Prof Shashikala, Dr K Sainath & Mr K Ravichand. 11.27 Mumbai Regional Centre 11.20 Jaipur Regional Centre Chairman : Prof Alpana Mahapatra, Vice-Chairman : Dr D Chairman : Mr S L Arora, Vice-Chairman : Mr V K Jain, Mandal, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr T L Prasad, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Madhu Agarwal, Honorary Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Prof Aparna Tamaskar, Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Sushant Upadhyaya, Honorary Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr V Y Sane, Immediate Regional Treasurer : Dr Rajeev Dohare, Members : Dr R K Past Chairman : Prof Sunil S Bhagwat, Past Chairman Prof Vyas, Dr Pankaj Pandey, Dr A N Pathak, Dr D P Mishra, Dr V K Srivastava &:Mr Praveen Saxena, Immediate Past Kailash Singh, Dr Prabhat Pandit. Secretary : Prof Anita Kumari, Members : Mr Shreedhar 11.21 Kharagpur Regional Centre Chitanvis, Mr K Sahasranaman, Mr R K Ravindra Joshi, Mr Chairman: Prof Sirshendu De, Vice-Chairman : Prof Pratik G B Co-opted members : Dr Sanjiv Katti and Dr Sanjay Sudarsan Neogi, Honorary Regional Secretary : Prof Arnab Mahajani. Atta, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Soma Sekhar 11.28 Mangalore Regional Centre : Goud S, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Prof Pavitra Chairman : Dr D V R Murthy, Vice-Chairman : Mr Venkatesh Sandilya, Members : Prof Dibyendu Mukherjee, Prof Debdulal Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Keyur Raval, Kar, Prof Gautam Kundu, Prof Sonali Sengupta, Prof Swati Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr I M Sadanand, Neogi, Prof Venkat Padmanabhan. Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof S Sivasankaran. 11.22 Kanpur Regional Centre 11.29 Northern Regional Centre : Chairman : Dr S K Gupta, Vice-Chairman : Er Subhash Chairman : Prof S S Sambi, Vice-Chairman : Prof Anil Kumar Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary :Er Ashutosh Mishra, Saroha, Honorary Regiona Secretary : Mr Abhijit Bikas Pal, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Er Vinay Sachan,

29 Honorary Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr Sachchida Nand, 11.33 Pune Regional Centre Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr Anil Verma, Members : Not received Prof S Basu, Dr S N Chakravarty, Mr Shyam Bang, Mr D D 11.34 Pondicherry Regional Centre Maheshwari, Prof V K Srivastava, Mr Umesh Goel, Prof K K Pant. Not received 11.30 Nagpur Regional Centre: 11.35 Rourkela Regional Centre Chairman : Dr G K Ghosal, Vice-Chairman : Prof V S Sapkal, Chairman : Mr F C Sahoo, Vice-Chairman: Prof B C Ray, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr A N Vaidya, Honorary Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Hara Mohan Jena, Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr Y C Bhattacharyulu,Honorary Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr Santanu Paria, Members: Regional Treasurer : Dr R B Biniwale, Members : Dr T Mr Siddharth Acharya, Mr K P Mishra, Dr (Mrs) G Sunanda, Chakrabarti, Dr S D Dawande, Dr S Mandavgane, Dr S K Mr S C Padhi & Dr Manoj K Mishra Ex-officio Member : Dr Goyal, Dr K L Wasewar, Dr B Bag, Dr J S Mohite, Dr Vijay Pradip Chowdhury, Dr Sujit Sen. Kumar. 11.36 Trivandrum Regional Centre 11.31 Nadiad Regional Centre Not received Not received 11.32 Pilani Regional Centre: 11.37 Vapi Regional Centre: Chairman : Dr Pratik N Sheth, Vice-Chairman : Dr Suresh Chairman : Mr Hasmukh K Doshi, Vice-Chairman : Mr Gupta, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Amit Jain, Rameshchandra N Prajapati, Honorary Regional Secretary Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Utkarsh Maheshwari, : Dr Hiten M Bhatt, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Pradipta Chattopadhyay, Uday R Marballi, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr Maulik Members : Dr Hare Krishna Mohanta, Dr Arvind Kumar J Desai, Members : Mr J R Shah, Dr H M Hirpara, Mr S S Sharma, Dr Smita Raghuvanshi, Dr Banasri Roy, Dr Sonal Pokale, Mr U M Rao, Mr Vinod S Kashalikar, Mr Mukesh S Mazumder, Dr Raman Sharma, Dr Ajaya K Pani, Mr Subhajit Patel Ex-officio : Mr Jagdish U Parmar. Majumder & Ms Priya C Sande.

B. Regional Centre Activities not related to R&D Name of Regional Centres Activities

Ankleshwar a) Industry Visit : a) To the plant of Atul Aeromatics, Ankleshwar on 18.12.2015. b) To the plant of Godrej Industries Ltd, Valia on 19.02.2016. Bangalore Student Chapter Activities: 1. A new Student Chapter under Bangalore Regional Centre was inaugurated at the KLE Society’s College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum on 03.11.2015. Bhubaneswar Industry Visit: To Essar Steel Iron and Pellet Plant in Paradeep on 19.12.2015.

Calcutta a) Birth Anniversary Celebration: The 127th birth anniversary of Dr H L Roy, the founder President of IIChE, was celebrated on 02.11.2015 at the IIChE HQ Auditorium, Kolkata. b) Plant Visit : To Matix Fertilisers & Chemicals, Panagarh Industrial Park, Panagarh, Burdwan on 12.09.2015. c) Get-together Members and their families gathered at ‘Saha Villa’, Sarisa on 17.01.2016. d) Student Chapter activities : 1) CHEMATHLON-2016, a multi-event affair, was organized by Students Chapter of Jadavpur University in March 2016.

30 2) A new chapter under Calcutta Regional Centre was inaugurated at Calcutta Institute of Technology (CIT), Uluberia on 26.09.2015. On the occasion, a half day Technical Session on ‘Plant & Laboratory Safety’ was organized. 3) CIT Uluberia held TECHMAKE – 2016 (Creative Model Presentation) on 27.02.2016. Chennai Special Day Celebration: 1) Engineer’s Day was celebrated by Department of Chemical Engineering, A C Tech, Anna University on 17.10.2015. Coimbatore Plant Visit : To ITC Paper Board Section, Karamandal on 19.03.2016. Doaba Student Chapter: 1) BCET Gurdaspur Student Chapter was inaugurated under Doaba Regional Centre. Damanjodi Get-together: 1) Gathering of members on 11.10.2015, 15.12.15 and 30.03.2016 Students Chapter :. Seminar 1. On ‘Environmental Pollution and Protection Issues and Challenges’ on 06.11.2015 by Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology (GIET), Gunpur. 2. ‘ALKEMY-2K15’ was organized by GIET in November 2015. Industry- Institute interaction was also arranged during this period. Guntur a) Students’ Convention: On ‘Assessment of the State-of-the-Art in Chemical Engineering Science’ on 22.02.2016. b) Donation : Deptartment of Chemical Engineering, RVR&JC College of Engineering, Guntur donated Rs.100,000/- (Rupees one Lakh only) to the Guntur RC to institute an Endowment Lecture in the name of Prof M Venkateswara Rao.

c) Students Chapter : 1) A seminar on ‘Application of Computational Techniques in Chemical Engineering’ was organized by RVRJCCE Student Chapter on 6,7 November 2015. 2) A seminar on ‘Novel Separation Technologies’ was organized by RGUKT NUZ Student Chapter on 25.01.2016 3) On ‘Need of Chemical Engineering Education and Growth of Chemical Industry in the near future’ was organized by Bapatla Engineering College during February 2016.

d) Plant Visit : 1) To KCP Limited (Cement Division and Sugar Division, respectively) as organized by Student Chapter of RVRJCCE under Guntur Regional Centre on 30.07.2015 and 30.12.2015. 2) To Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) as organized by Students Chapter of RVRJCCE on 22.02.2016. 3) To JOCIL Ltd.,Dokiparru as organized by Student Chapter of RVRJCCE on 27.02.2016.

Haldia a) Student’s Chapter Activity : 1) Quiz Contest: The programme was organized for the students of Chemical Engineering at Haldia Institute of Technology on 13.08.2015.

31 b) Plant Visits: 1) A trip was organized to Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Haldia on 03.11.2015. c) Publication: 1) A Wall Magazine ‘EXCESS ENTROPY’ was published on 09.11.2015 on the topic ‘Women Empowerment’. Hyderabad a) Student Chapter Activities: Symposium : ‘RASAYANIKA-2K15’ was organized by CVSR – Anurag Group of Institute. On the occasion, a seminar on ‘Application of Chemical Engineering in Alternate Sources of Energy’’ was organized as part of the event on 08 and 09.10. 2015. Jaipur Industrial Visit: A trip to Bharat Potteries Ltd. on 07.11.2015 organized for students of Chemical Engineering department, MNIT, Jaipur. Kochi a) Quiz Competition: Inter-collegiate quiz competition, ‘TATVA’, on 13.10.2015. Lote-Parasuram Get-together : Gathering of members and their families was organised in July 2015, December 2015. and January 2016. Mumbai a) Exhibition : CHEMTECH 2015 during 28 – 31.01.2015. b) Networking- cum- Picnic : To Malshej Ghat, Junnar, Pune on 23.08.2015. c) Student Chapter Activities: 1) Chemergence 2015 was organized by Students’ Chapter of Thadomal Shahani Engineering College on 01 and 02.10.2015. 2) OYCE BCB - THYSKRP 2016: A national level competition was organized by MRC in association with Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Airoli on 26 and 27.02.2016. 3) ChEQ 2016: The Late Prof. N R Kamath Memorial Engineering Quiz (CHEQ 2016) was organized on 12.03.2016 with participation by seven teams, representing different colleges and institutes in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Mangalore Quiz: Dr P K Karanth Memorial Quiz competition was organized on 31.10.2015 Northern a) Plant Visit : To National Fertilizers Ltd, Panipat, Haryana on 27.02.2016 b) Get-togethers : Two gatherings were organized on 04.09.2015 and 16.01.2016. c) Student Chapter Activities : Student Chapter in Delhi Technological University organized the following programmes: 1) Quiz Competition : On ‘Geek Roadies’, a Task-based Quiz’ on 28.10.2015. 2) Workshop: On ‘Case Study and Problem Solving’ on 28.10.2015.

32 3) Group Discussion: On ‘Battle of Words’ on 29.10.2015 4) Seminar : On ‘Learning with the Leaders’ on 12.12.2015.& 16.01.2016 5) Industrial Visit : To E-Pack Polymers, Greater Noida on 30.01.2016 6) TATVA’16 On ‘Hit your Treat’ on 19 and 20.02.2016. 7) Students Chapter at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology organised: i) Puzzle Quiz on 19.11.2015. Nadiad Industry Visits : 1) To Hunts Man Private Ltd., Baroda and Transpack Silox, Baroda on 09.02.2016 2) To GACL, Baroda and DNL, Nandesari on 23.02.2016. Nagpur Student Chapter Activities: 1) A new Student Chapter was inaugurated at Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur. Pune Student Chapter Activities: Various Students’ Chapters under Pune Regional Centre organized activities like courses, workshops, conferences, project exhibitions competitions and guest lectures. Trivandrum Student Chapter Activities : 1) The annual CGG Panicker Gold Medal and Mr Kurup Gold Medal Presentation function was organized on 27.02.2016. 2) One day seminar on ‘Novel Technologies for Sustainable Development’ was organized by Student Chapter of Mohandas College of Engineering Vapi Industrial Visit : To chemical factory of Tristar Intermediates Pvt Ltd., Sarigam on 11.07.2015.

Executive Committee list for 2016-17. Annamalai-Neyveli Regional Centre

Ahmedabad Regional Centre Chairman: Prof V Vijayagopal, Vice-Chairman: Dr M Not Received Karuppaiya, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr P Nagarajan, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr V Saravanan, Ankleshwar Regional Centre Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr P Elavarasan, Ex-Officio: Chairman :Mr D M Gandhi, Vice Chairmen: Mr S I Thakar, Prof R Saravanan, Members: Dr R Muthuvelayutham, Dr M Mr Manoj Kamalia, Mr Himanshu Gondalia, Mr A K Jain & Mr Rajasimman, Dr C S Rathnasabapathy, Dr P Saravanan, Dr A K Jain, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr N B Saraiya, Subhagar, Dr S Ramesh, Dr S Rengadurai Honorary Regional Ex Secretary: Mr Snehal Tralsawala, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr P B Shah, Honorary Bangalore Regional Centre Regional Jt Secretary-Jhagadia: Mr Sunil Motiramani, Chairman: Prof Y J Rao, Vice-Chairman: Prof G A Shareef, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Dahej: Shantanu Das, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Brijesh, Honorary Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Ankleshwar: Mr K H Pandit, Regional Jt Secretary: Mr V Venkatesham, Honorary Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Bharuch: Mr R R Regional Treasurer: Mr K A Badarinarayana, Members: Dr Khandpur, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Panoli: Satyan K S Rajanandam, Dr A B Halgeri, Mr K R Ananth, Mr P T Pandya, Members: Mr Nitin Patel, Mr A K Sahni, Mr B D Raghuram, Mr S Swaminathan, Mr G Kishore Kumar Dalwadi, P G Dave, Prof S J Wagh, Mr A I Shaikh,Mr Rajesh Baroda Regional Centre Kumar, Mr M I Shamsi, Mr B J Patel, Mr R S Senjalia, Ganesh R Sharma, Mr Dinesh Patel, Shashi Shekhar, Anupam Kansal, Chairman : Mr D Chakraborty, Vice-Chairman: Mr Nilesh Rilesh Mehta & Prof Dr Parimal A Parikh Mangukia, Mr R K Desai, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Nikhil Tonapi, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Vipul

33 Kumar, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof N M Surana, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Sangeeta Garg, Members: Mr Hitesh Shah, Mr Subhajit Sarkar, Dr Nitin Bhate, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Kamoj Kumar Members: Mr Brijesh Trivedi, Mr Manish Shah, Nikunj Parekh, Mr Pritesh Dr Poonam Gera, Dr Renu Gupta, Dr Jatinder Kumar, Dr Neetu Chauhan, Manan Joshi, Mr Pradhyumana Rana, Mr Mitesh Divya, Dr Pamita Awasthi, Dr Vipin Kumar Sohpal, Mr Rajeev Mehta, Mehul Patel & Mr Prashant Daggolu Arora, Dr Manoj Kr Jindal & Dr N K Srivastava

Bhubaneshwar Regional Centre : Damanjodi Regional Centre Chairman: Mr J Rath, Vice-Chairman: Dr P C Rath, Honorary Not Received Regional Secretary: Mr S S Rath, Honorary Regional Jt Dehradun Regional Centre Secretary: Dr Ranjita Swain, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr M K Ghosh, Members: Dr S K Tamotia, Prof G K Roy, Mr Chairman: Dr S J Chopta, Vice-Chairman: Dr Shrihari J N Mohanty, Dr Pratima Mishra & Dr C R Panda Honwad, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr I D Mall, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr M Gopinath, Honorary Calcutta Regional Centre : Regional Treasurer: Mr S Palit, Members: Dr S K Gupta, Dr Chairman:: Prof Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Vice-Chairman:Prof D N Saraf, Dr S R Das, Dr S K Nanda & Dr P K Das. Swami Vedajnananda, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof Durgapur Regional Centre Amalesh Sirkar, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Prof Asit Not Received Mazumder, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Abijit Kumar Mitra, Members: Prof Priyabrata Sarkar, Mr Sushanta Kr Guwahati Regional Centre Roy,Mr Abhyuday Mallick, Prof B N Srimani, Prof N K Brahma, Chairman: Prof B P Mandal, Vice-Chairman: Prof Mihir Kumar Mr Anjan Kr Bhattacharyya, Dr Rajat Chakraborty, Prof Sarajit Purkait, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Pankaj Tiwari, Basu & Prof Amitava Bandyopadhyay. Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Subrata K Majumdar, Chandigarh Regional Centre : Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Prakash Kotecha Chairman: Prof S K Sharma, Vice-Chairman: Mr Sandeep Members: Prof Pallab Ghosh, Prof Prabirkumar Saha, Prof V Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof V K Rattan, S Moholkar, Dr Mihir K Purkait, Dr Animesh Golder, Tapas K Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Deepak Mehon, Mandal, Dr Ashok K Dasmahapatra, Dr Amit Kumar, Dr Rajesh Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof R K Chhabra, Members: Kumar Upadhyay, Dr Vimal Katiyar, Mr P K Dutta & Prof R Mr Amit Sobti, Prof Amrit Pal Toor, Prof Anupama Sharma, Dr Choudhury Gaurav Rattan, Prof Ritu Gupta, Prof Seema Kapoor, Ms Hema Guntur Regional Centre Setia & Mr Vivek Gupta Chairman : Mr J Murali Mohan, Vice-Chairman: Dr V Coimbatore Regional Centre : Govardhana Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr M Chairman : Dr A Sivalingam, Vice-Chairman : Dr K Kannan, Venkateswara Rao, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr V Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr D Prabhakaran, Honorary Madhusudhana Rao, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr C V Regional Jt Secretary: Ms V P Mohanjeayavalli, Honorary Subrahmanyam Members : Dr J Srinivasa Rao, Ms N Sudha Regional Treasurer : Mr P Sivakumar, Members: Prof.Dr T Rani, Mr M Raghavaiah, Dr P Venkateswarlu, Mr G Ranga Kannadasan, Dr M Thirumarimurugan,. Dr V M Sivakumar, Rao, Dr B N Reddy, Mr Enjumuri Pardhasaradhi Mr S Ramachandran, Mr R Sri Prabu, Mrs Anitha Sri Prabu, Goa Regional Centre Mr G Gnanavel, Prof K Senthilkumar, Dr Murali Rangarajan & Not Received Dr Udhaya Bhaskar Reddy. Chennai Regional Centre: Haldia Regional Centre : Chairman: Dr N Nagendra Gandhi, Vice-Chairmen: Dr G Chairman: Mr A K Ghosh, Vice-Chairman: Dr S B Kuila, S Venkataratnam, Mr K Sadanand, Honorary Regional Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr T K Manna, Honorary Secretary: Dr G Baskar, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Regional Jt Secretary: Mr S Jana, Honorary Regional Dr R Saravanatamizhan, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Treasurer: Dr B Bej, Members: Mr A P Gangopadhyay, Mr A D Gokul, Members: Dr N Balasubramanian,Dr B S Naveen K Ghosh, Dr S B Kuila, Dr A K Saha, Dr R Das, Dr R N Jana, Prasad, Dr V Sivakumar, Mr S Sekar, Dr R Parthiban, Dr S Dr. S. J. Sahu, Mr. B. Mandal, Mr. A. Sinha and Mr. A. K. Renganathan, Dr K Tamilarazan, Dr B Bharathiraja Bhattacharyya Doaba Regional Centre Hyderabad Regional Centre Chairman: Dr Ajay Bansal, Vice-Chairman: Dr A K Jana, Chairman : Dr Vijay Kale, Vice-Chairman: Prof R Sreedhar Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Shailendra Bajpai, Rao, Mr M Ranga Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr M

34 Misra, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Sanjay Bhardwaj, Mumbai Regional Centre Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Srini Naik, Members: Smt Chairman: Dr M P Jain, Vice-Chairman: Dr D Mandal, Sheela, C P Ramulu, E Venkatesham, Mr D M Reddy, Mr M G Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Pratik Bhagat, Honorary V Chalapathi Rao, Dr T Balanarsaiah, Regional Jt Secretary: Prof Aparna Tamaskar, Honorary Jaipur Regional Centre : Regional Treasurer: Mr Y V Sane, Members: Dr Alpana Chairman: Prof S P Chaurasia, Vice-Chairman: Prof A N Mahapatra, Dr Anita Kumari, Dr Sanjeev Katti, Dr T L Prasad, Pathak, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Madhu Agarwal, Mr Ravindra Joshi, Dr Parag Gogate, Mr Praveen Kumar Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Pankaj Pandey, Saxena & Mr Shreedhar Chitanvis Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Rajeev Dohare, Members: Mangalore Regional Centre Mr V K Jain, Dr Sushant Upadhyay, Dr Kailash Singh, Dr Neha Not Received Sharma, Dr Manish Sharma, Mr S L Arora & Dr Dipaloy Datta Northern Regional Centre : Kharagpur Regional Centre Chairman: Prof S S Sambi, Vice-Chairman: Prof Anil Kumar Chairman: Prof Sirshendu De, Vice-Chairman: Prof Saroha, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Abhijit Bikas Pal, Sudarsan Neogi, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof Swati Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Sachchida Neogi, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Victor Avishek Nand,Honorary Regional Treasurer:Dr Anil Verma, Chatterjee, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof Sudipto Members: Prof S Basu, Dr S N Chakravarty, Mr D D Chakraborty, Members: Prof Debdulal Kar, Prof Gautam Maheshwari, Prof V K Srivastava, Prof K K Pant, Dr Anand Kundu, Prof Arnab Atta, Prof Pavitra Sandilya, Prof Bhim Mukherjee, Mr Amitava Banerjee, Dr Dinesh Kumar, Co- Charan Meikap & Prof Somenath Ganguly opted: Mr Shyam Bang, Mr Ranjan Goel Kanpur Regional Centre Nagpur Regional Centre: Chairman: Dr R K Trivedi, Vice-Chairman: Dr Arun Maithani, Honorary Regional Secretary:Dr V K Sachan, Honorary Chairman: Dr G K Ghosal, Vice-Chairman: Prof V S Sapkal, Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Santosh Kumar, Honorary Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr A N Vaidya, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Ashutosh Mishra Members: Dr Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Y C Bhattacharyulu, Honorary Pramod Kumar, Mr Vishesh Agarwal, Dr Rajesh Garg, Mr Regional Treasurer: Dr R B Biniwale, Members: Dr T Subhash Sharma, Mr M S Rajput, Ex-officio: Dr S K Gupta Chakrabarti, Dr S D Dawande, Dr S Mandavgane, Dr S K Goyal, Dr K L Wasewar, Dr B G Bhotmange, Dr J S Mohite & Kochi Regional Centre Dr Vijay Kumar: Chairman: Mr Suresh Kumar P K, Vice-Chairman: Prof Manoj N, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Harinath V, Honorary Nadiad Regional Centre Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Siby T P, Honorary Regional Chairman: Dr M S Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Treasurer: Mr Venkatesan V, Members: Mr Sudarshan Vimal Gandhi, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof G R Patel, Kumar, Mr Syed Imran Ahmed, Mr Immanuel C Thambi, Mr M Member: Prof K M Patel K Augustine, Mr Tittu Alagu, Mr P V Ayyappan, Mr N Mohan Pilani Regional Centre: & Mr Chandramohan. Chairman: Dr Pratik N Sheth, Vice-Chairman: Dr Suresh Kalpakkam Regional Centre Gupta, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Amit Jain, Not Received Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Ajaya Pani, Honorary Lucknow Regional Centre: Regional Treasurer: Dr Raman Sharma, Members: Dr H K Chairman: Er P N Tandon, Vice-Chairman: Er Rajata Mehta, Mohanta, Dr Arvind Kumar Sharma, Dr Pradipta Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Dhananjay Singh, Chattopadhyay, Dr Smita Raghuvanshi, Dr Banasri Roy, Dr Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Er D K Srivastava, Srinivas Appari & Dr (Ms) Priya C Sande Honorary Regional Treasurer: Er Ranvir Singh, Members: Pune Regional Centre Dr B N Mishra, Dr G N Garg, Dr A S Vidyarthi, Dr Sushil Kumar, Chairman: Mr Pradeep Dhotey, Honorary Regional Er Sudeep Tandon, Er Mayur Tandon, Er Suresh Kumar Patel Secretary: Dr Sanjay Kamble, Honorary Regional Treasurer: & Er Ram Pravesh Ram Dr Prafulla Garge, Members: Dr C V Rode, Dr Sanjeev Tambe, Lote-Parasuram Regional Centre Dr Subhash Vaidya, Mr Sanjay Kulkarni, Mr Ukidve, Dr Suyog Chairman : Mr. S S. Patil, Vice-Chairman : Mr. D. C. Patil, Takalkar, Dr Manish Patil, Dr C V Kapadnis, Mrs Kanchan Hororary Regional Secretary : Mr. R. B. Ghadage, Honorary Bavankar, Mr Ashish Mohod Regional Treasurer : P. N. Joshi and Mr. R. F. Manatkar

35 Pondicherry Regional Centre Vapi Regional Centre:

Chairman: Dr G Srinivasan, Vice-Chairman: Mr R Prabakar, Chairman: Mr Rameshchandra N Prajapati, Vice-Chairman: Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr R Sridar, Honorary Dr Hiten M Bhatt, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Uday R Regional Jt Secretary: Mr V Jayakumar, Honorary Regional Marballi, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr S S Pokale, Treasurer: Mrs T Pallavhee, Members: Mr M Varadharajan, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Maulik J Desai, Members: Ms S Usha, Ms K Priya, Mr V Vijayaraj, Mr D M Senthilkumar Mr J R Shah, Dr H M Hirpara, Mr. Vinod S Kashalikar, & Dr S Sundaramoorthy Mr. Jagdish U Parmar, Mr Arun Kootale, Mr Pravin B Shah Rourkela Regional Centre: and Devidas K Khubchandani Ex-Officio: Mr Hasmukh K Doshi Chairman: Mr F C Sahoo, Vice-Chairman: Prof B C Ray, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Hara Mohan Jena, 12.0 Acknowledgement Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Santanu Paria, Ex-officio: The Council expresses its sincere thanks to the Honorary Dr Pradip Chowdhury, Members: Mr Siddharth Acharya, Mr Office Bearers for spending much of their valuable time in K P Mishra, Dr(Mrs) G Sunanda, Mr S C Padhi, Dr Manoj K rendering service to the Institute. The Council highly Mishra appreciates the sincere work and whole-hearted cooperation received from the members of the staff of the Institute. It is Trivandrum Regional Centre indebted to all the donors, sponsors and well wishers for Chairman: Mr S Sampath, Vice-Chairman: Mr P Sojan, wholeheartedly supporting activities of the Institute. Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr P S Sathis Kumar, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Praveen Kumar Solasa, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr S Somanathan Members: Dr S K Manu, Mr M Shaneeth, Mr S Venugopal,Prof S Alwan, Mr Abdul Haleem, Mr E S Vivek, Mr G Chandrasekhran, N Prof P De Saravanan, Mr B Biju,Dr Ajit Haridas & Dr K B Radhakrishnan Honorary Secretary

36 Statement of Accounts For the Year Ended 31st March, 2016

Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers AUDITOR’S REPORT To The Secretary Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers Kolkata-700032 We have audited the accompanying financial statement of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, which comprise the balance sheet as at March 31, 2016, and the statement of Income and Expenditure for the year ended March 31, 2016 and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information of HEAD QUARTER and other REGIONAL CENTRES & OTHER STUDENT CHAPTERS. The financial statement has been prepared by management of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS and it is maintained in electronic form. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation of this financial statement in accordance with applicable reporting framework along with the design, implementation and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards on Auditing issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statement, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor consider internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Opinion In our opinion and to the best of our information and explanation given to us, the financial statements of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS for the year ended March 31, 2016 give a true and fair view : 1. In the case of Consolidated Balance Sheet, Statement of affairs of the INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS as on 31st March’2016 and 2. In the case of Consolidated Income and Expenditure Account , surplus of INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS as on 31st March’2016. Emphasis of Matter Without qualifying our opinion, we draw attention to the following matters l Suspense accounts amounting to Rs. 2350544.25 representing the defalcation occurred pertaining to year 1991-92. l Accumulated Balance of Income Tax deduction at source, aggregating Rs. 8871664.00 shown as good, the recoverability of which is very much doubtful as the documents for claiming TDS are not available. l Institution is currently registered under section 12A of Income Tax Act, 1961.CBDT has rejected the application for renewal of registration under section 35(1) of the Income Tax act, 1961and the matter is still subject matter of dispute under Income Tax Law. Inter alia, there is a demand of Rs.32,23,096/- raised by AO –Kolkata for the assessment year 2009-10, against which the institute has preferred an appeal before CIT(A)XIV. l We observed that consolidated financial statements have been prepared in electronic form and such consolidation of different accounts of RCs and Student Chapters have been verified on sample basis. l Fixed Asset and Investments, belongs to RCs and Student Chapters have not been physically verified by us. l We observed in the accounts regarding non submission of Audited Accounts of the Regional Centers as stated in Annexure - H, “Notes to Accounts” and we are unable to express our opinion on the effect of non incorporation of said accounts in the Income & Expenditure & on the Balance sheet of the Institute. For NIRUPAM & ASSOCIATES Chartered Accountants Firm’s Registration Number-323575E

Date: 24.09.2016 Sd/- (G. Saha) Partner Membership No. 064984

38 As at 140,104 Rupees 31.03.16 Contd…… 9,774,933 2,350,555 2,470,684 22,229,253 15,062,500 136,230,168 Rupees TDS 8,871,664 Other Fund - RC (Annexure-F) Income Tax Suspense account Balance as per last account Fixed Assets Investments Loans and Advances Other Receivables I. Tax (A.Y. 2009-10) Asward Fund - HO (Annexure-E) Cash and Bank Balances ASSETS 312,466 Cash in Hand 171,501 Accrued Interest on 226,757 9,361,798 Advance for Expenditure 2,125,555 2,484,390 Advance Recoverable A/C 502,390 2,870,039 Accrued Interest on 1,741,537 21,863,081 Cash at Bank (Annexure-G) 74,774,324 Other Fund - RC (Annexure-D) 82,753,981 33,613,484 Other Funds - HO (Annexure-C) 35,586,238 As at 31.03.15 Rupees 19,300 As at Rupees 19,290,655 63,104,239 31.03.16 109,814,226 --- 7,712,495 Rupees INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS BALANCE SHEET (CONSOLIDATED) AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2016 last account 102,556,758 15,718,895 (As per Annexure-A) Add : During this year 308,436 Less : During this year (Rourkela) General Fund Award Fund Other Funds Suspense A/c Add: During this year 2,226,052 Add : Adj. of previous Year’s accounts various Regional Centre -1,369,240 16,089,949 Award Fund - HO (Annexure-B) 17,889,949 Add : Excess of income over expenditure 8,626,886 Add : Excess of income over expenditure LIABILITIES 19,300 Balance as per last account 18,982,219 Balance as per last account18,982,219 60,878,187 Balance as per last account60,878,187 102,556,758 Balance as per 31.03.15 As at Rupees

39 As at Rupees 31.03.16 197,129,861 Balance Sheet Contd.. Rupees ASSETS Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer As at 31.03.15 Rupees 187,097,977 61,645 As at 3,300,807 1,507,750 Rupees 31.03.16 197,129,861 In terms of our separate report even date Rupees INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Partner President BALANCE SHEET (CONSOLIDATED) AS AT 31ST MARCH, 2016 M.No. 064984 Gobinda Saha Shyam Bang P. De Dipak Dutta FRN : 323575E Publication 31,238 Chartered Accountants For NIRUPAM & ASSOCIATES Other Liabilities Outstanding Liabilities Sundry Creditors- T & F for bill dt. 25.11.2014 LIABILITIES Notes as Accounts - Annexure : H 59,210 Audit Fees 71,490 31,238 3,063,315 Provision for Expenses 3,229,317 1,507,750 31.03.15 As at Rupees 187,097,977 Place : Kolkata Date : 24th September 2016. Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-

40 75071 43400 721705 Rupees 1700925 7086000 1187802 1578573 2802719 Contd……. 11580159 2015 - 2016 Income Subscriptions and Membership Income From Investment Publication A/C Exhibitions & Conferences Grant/Sponsorship/Donation Advertisement Others 8 Students Chapter Activity 9 Licence Fee 2 3 4 Seminars, Technical Lectures, Workshops, 5 R & D Projects Technical Consultancy 6 Examination Fees 7 Annual Get Together 1. 10 Regional Centre Award 5378 577953 Rupees 2015 - 2016 INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2016 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, KOLKATA-700 032 (CONSOLIDATED) Expenditure Establishment - ICEPrinting & StationeryPostage & courier chargesPress & StudioOnline Charges - ICE (T&F) 189500 30526 189882 89624 394172 General Expenses Publication A/C Establishment (salary and other payments to staff)Printing & StationeryPostage & CourierElectricity ChargesTelephoneRepair& Maintenance Maint. & Repair of Equipment 3138443Maint. & Repair of buildingsTravelling & ConveyanceComputer StationeryComputer Software/Website etcAccounting ChargesAudit Fees Individual MembershipLegal ExpensesOther proffessional expensesE-filing ChargesBank Charges 316544Annual General Meetings/EGM/EC Meetings Miscllaneous Expenses 402045Insurance 354452 3476Membership Subscription 330950 93357Rates & Taxes/Service Tax 1002883 Rent 200143 87138 Interest on TDSFee Registration Annual Subscription 69210 Interest on Fixed Deposit Interest on Savings Bank 215335 Interest on other Investment 4000 0 Subscription and sale of publications 188321 2780 22100 374159 Fee Registration 47534 96100 943102 265278 10048970 1478710 21547 34700 393320 128107 7605 3452202 1. 2

41 Rupees Contd……. 2015 - 2016 Income & Expenditure Contd.. Income Chemcon Contribution 58681 Other Receipts 35667 155238331339 Interest received on TDS refund 64426 371957 132240 Rupees 1153626 2531581 1967793 2015 - 2016 INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2016 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, KOLKATA-700 032 (CONSOLIDATED) Expenditure Postage & Courier ChargesPublicity Printing & PublicationFood & RefreshmentPhysical arrangement including audio & projectionAccomodation of delegates and SpeakersTravelling & ConveyanceStationery Gifts, Mementos & FelicitationMeeting ExpensesMiscllaneous Expenses 1409475 Cultural ProgrammeConference & SeminerHonorarium to Speakers 23525 541267 2375725 3485425 1053857 Misc. Income 1354870 580490 97088 3062121 226745 591208 341455 Exhibitions & Conferences 56 Examination Expenses 7 Student Chapter Activity 8 Regional Centre Awards 9 Plant Visit Annual Get together 4 R&D Projects & Technical Consultancy 3 Seminars, Technical Lectures, Workshops, 11

42 Rupees 43042203 2015 - 2016 Income & Expenditure Contd.. Income Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer TOTAL Rupees 427795 122501 2641799 43042203 2015 - 2016 In terms of our separate report even date Partner President M.No. 064984 Gobinda Saha Shyam Bang P. De Dipak Dutta FRN : 323575E INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 2016 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS, KOLKATA-700 032 (CONSOLIDATED) Chartered Accountants For NIRUPAM & ASSOCIATES Notes as Accounts - Annexure : H Expenditure Building FurnitureComputer Office EquipmentPlant & MachineryLibrary BooksGenerator 156995 111436 69627 4621 1048 TOTAL 10 Depreciation as per Annexure-A 11 Provision for Other Fund 12 Excess of Income over Expenditure 8626886 Place : Kolkata Date : 24th September 2016. Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/-

43 ANNEXURE –”H’’

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS KOLKATA-700 032

Notes annexed to and forming part of Accounts for the year ended 31st March, 2016.

1. Accounting Policies : Significant accounting policies are set out below.

a) The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention generally on accrual basis except Membership Subscription and Contribution from CHEMCON which are accounted for on Cash basis. Accounting Policies not referred to otherwise are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles.

b) Fixed Assets and Depreciation i) Building is exclusive of cost of plot of land measuring six cottahs allotted by Jadavpur University to be used on specific terms and conditions. ii) Fixed Assets are stated at original cost and net value after charging depreciation. iii) Depreciation is provided at the rate prevailing under Income Tax Act.1961.

c) Investment and Income Investment : i) a) Investment at cost (Fixed Deposit with banks) are valued at cost b) Investments out of Donors’ fund received specifically for awards ii) Interest accrued and due on fixed deposit other than Award Fund has been considered as income for the year. iii) Income from Fixed Deposits out of Donors’ Fund for award has been accounted for and utilized as per terms of the donation. iv) Net surplus of income from investment out of Donors’ Fund and cost of award given is accounted for as Award fund.

i) Life Membership Fees/Admission fees for Membership Life Membership/Admission fees received from different categories of members are directly credited to Life Membership Fund as per consistent practice followed.

ii) Grants Received : Grants receipt is directly credited to Reserve Fund Account.

iii) Expenses: Liability for expenses to the extent known upto cut off date and admissible are estimated and accounted for.

iv) Retirement Benefits: i) Payment of gratuity to employees is made pursuant to Service Rule of Institute and are accounted for on Cash basis ii) Liability for leave salary payable to employees is accounted for on cash basis. iii) Contribution to PPF / PF is charged to accounts as and when incurred.

Contd…….2

44 2. Notes to Accounts a) Taxes on Income i) Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, has accorded renewal of recognition upto 31st March,2017 vide letter no.F.No.11/57/88-TU-V dated March 27, 2014. ii) There was a demand of Rs. 32,23,096 raised by the income tax officer (exempt) - 1, Kolkata for the assessment year 2009-2010, against which the institute has preferred an appeal before CIT(A) XIV. The Income tax department has further seized Rs. 24,84,390 against the aforesaid demand of income tax and has been shown as Advance income tax Recoverable under the head Loans and Advance since last year. But the same has been partly adjusted from the contribution made by the Regional Centres as decided by the AGM in 2011 at SMRIT, Bangalore. iii) UTI Certificates amounting to Rs. 2,25,000 have been removed from Pension Fund and added to Suspense Account as it has been lying with the CID Department since 1991-92. The interest received has been accounted for. iv) TDS Refund for the AY 2014-15 for Rs. 6,78,234 has been credited to Outstanding Liability and the interest received, Rs. 64,426, has been accounted for. v) The Audited Statement of Accounts of the following Regional Centres have not been made available to HQ inspite of repeated reminders. The final accounts of the following Regional Centres could not be incorporated into the consolidated Final Accounts : a) Ahmedabad, b) Kalpakkam, c) Trivandrum - the accounts of TRC was not signed by the Office Bearers. Inspite of repeated reminders TRC has not sent their signed acccounts. vi) Haldia Regional Centre’s accounts was not correct and was advised to submit correcte one, although they have sent sined Balance Sheet by email.

b. Suspense Account (Debit Balance) UTI-CRTS 81 UTI Certificate Nos. 628302897 and 628702513 for 750 units of Rs. 100/- each valued Rs.75,000/- and UTI-CRTS-81-029312567 (600 Units of Rs. 100/- each valued Rs. 60,000/-) and 029312569 (900 units of Rs. 100/- each valued Rs. 90,000/- included in Annexure-C, lying with SBI, Jadavpur University Branch were seized by CID West Bengal as informed by the bank. i) UTI-CRTS 81 UTI Certificate Nos. 628302897 and 628702513 : Rs. 75000.00 ii) UTI-CRTS 81 - 029312567 and 029312569 Rs. 150000.00 Subtotal (a) : Rs. 225000.00

c. Suspense Account (Debit Balance) Head Quarter i) Investment (Since 1991-92) Rs. 1440050.00 ii) Bank Balance SBI, Jadavpur University (Inoperative since 1991-92) Rs. 445751.77 Subtotal (b) : Rs. 1885801.77

Contd…….3

45 Publication : iii) Fixed Deposit receipts deposited with UCO Bank since 1991-92 Rs. 173000.00 iv) Fixed Deposit with United Commercial Bank, Jadavpur Branch, matured but reported to be kept as security by The Bank for a loan of Rs. 33,000/-. There being no record of such Loan taken by Institute. Rs. 45000.00 v) Un-Reconciled amount with UCO Bank, SB A/c since 1990-91 (Bank Certificate not received) Rs. 18982.91 vi) Book Balance of Cash, Stamp and Bank Transfer from Delhi Office in 1984 but Amount not received at Headquarters. Rs. 2769.57 Sub Total (c) : Rs. 239752.48 Grand Total (a+b+c) : Rs. 2350554.25

d. Suspense Account (Credit Balance) i) Publication section outstanding since 1988-89 Rs. 300.00 ii) Head Quarter Amount recovered from Sri S. Ghosh, Office Assistant, not accounted for under proper heads in absence of adequate details. (Outstanding since 1991-92) Rs. 19000.00 Rs. 19300.00

e. Previous year’s figures have been regrouped/re-arranged wherever necessary.

For NIRUPAM & ASSOCIATES Chartered Accountants FRN-323575E

Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- Place : Kolkata Govinda. Saha Shyam Bang P. De Dipak Dutta Date : 24th September - 2016. PARTNER President Honorary Secretary Honorary Treasurer M.No. 064984

46 List of Corporate Members present in Sixty-eighth Annual General Meeting, IIChE – 2015

Sl.No. Name Membership No. Sl.No. Name Membership No.

1 Abdul Haleem M LM 41594 24 Ramulu C P LM 09919

2 Bang Shyam LM 07736 25 Master Jayesh LM 16882

3 Basava Rao V V LM 11006 26 Pant K K LM 09307

4 Bhasker Reddy A LF 12039 27 Prasad T L LM 09599

5 Brahma N K LM 10671 28 Raghavan K V LF 01825

6 Butala D M LM 03368 29 Rajanandam K S LM 07327

7 Chakravarty S N LF 10168 30 Rattan V K LF 04433

8 Chaurasia S P LM 08721 31 Rao M S LM 13568

9 Das Radha LM 10772 32 Rao P G LF 10173

10 De P LM 07449 33 Rao Y J LM 03379

11 Dutta B K LF 03716 34 Sadanand K LM 09242

12 Dutta Dipak LM 06422 35 Sahasranaman K LM 08411

13 Ganeshan S LF 09443 36 Saroha A K LM 27776

14 Gilra B S LM 02792 37 Saxena Dhawal LAM 43343

15 Jha M K LF 09764 38 Saxena Praveen LM 24415

16 Kale Vijay LM 04032 39 Sethuraman G V LM 07476

17 Kamil Mohammad LM 20748 40 Shyam Sundar R LM 19226

18 Karthikeyan C LM 17257 41 Srivastava Vinay K LM 07839

19 Katiyar Vimal LM 33173 42 Srivastava V K LF 09483

20 Khan Naseem A LM 41595 43 Thakar S I LM 29117

21 Kiran Kumar R LM 17249 44 Venkateswara Rao M LM 06492

22 Mahapatra Alpana LM 20164 45 Yadav G D LF 06738

23 Mandal D LM 09455