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54th Convocation Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Saturday, 13th August 2016 Contents Programme Chief Guest Board of Governors Heads of Departments Previous Convocations Medal Winners Prize Winners Recipients of Degrees Scholarships and other Prizes 2 Programme Institute Song Chairman, Board of Governors, declares the Convocation Opened Report by Director Prof. Devang V. Khakhar Address by the Chairman, Board of Governors, Mr. Dilip Shanghvi Conferment of Lifetime Achievement Award Distribution of Gold/Silver Medals Distribution of awards for Excellence in PhD Research Convocation Address by the Chief Guest Dr. Rajendra Singh Conferment of all degrees by announcement Pledge by the degree recipients Chairman declares the Convocation closed National Anthem 3 Chief Guest Dr. Rajendra Singh Chairman, Tarun Bharat Sangh and winner of Stockholm Water Prize 2015 Dr. Singh is a renowned activist who is known for his long standing work in the area of water management and river issues in India. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, in 1985 he went to live in rural Rajasthan, to introduce modern education and medicine there but soon the villagers made clear their primary need was water. Harnessing the villagers’ capacities and their traditional wisdom, Johads (small earthen dams to trap water) were built and the first fruits of these labours were realised in the very next rains. The area transformed dramatically, progressively becoming more productive and healthier. Dr. Singh chairs an NGO called ‘Tarun Bharat Sangh’ (TBS) that has helped villagers take charge of water management in the semi-arid areas close to Thar Desert, through the use of johads, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. Starting from a single village in 1985, TBS helped build over 8,600 johads and other water conservation structures over the years to collect rainwater for the dry seasons. His efforts have brought water back to over 1,000 villagers and revived five rivers in Rajasthan: namely Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali. Dr. Singh has demonstrated that using the inherent capacities of a community as well as introducing appropriate modern knowledge strengthens a community’s capacity to adapt to existential threats such as climate change. His application of this unique strategy of community-driven, decentralized water management and conservation has regenerated healthy, prosperous communities; strengthened democracy and political transparency; changed paradigm of water and climate change adaptation. Dr. Singh launched the Rashtriya Jal Biradari (National Water Community) in 2001 to provide a platform for concerned citizens to discuss and debate water issues. It now has over 5000 members. He started the Jal Jan Jodo (Linking Water and People) campaign in 2013 focusing on education of communities in river catchment areas about the causes and prevention of pollution, encroachment and over-exploitation of the river waters. On the global front, Dr. Singh has started World Water Walks for Peace from April 2015. The five continent water walks is inspiring to say the least- the kind of personal and professional commitment to educating global citizens to embrace grassroot solutions and to insist on water conservation reform from corporations and governments is remarkable. As of now, these water walks have been organized in Korea, Israel, Germany, UK, Sweden, USA, Turkey, France, Belgium and Portugal. Dr. Rajendra Singh is popularly known as “Waterman of India” and at times also referred to as the “Water Gandhi”. In 2015, he has won the Stockholm Water Prize, also known as “the Nobel Prize for Water”. In 2008, The Guardian named him in its list of “50 people who could save the planet” and bestowed upon him India’s most prestigious Jamna Lal Bajaj Award for Outstanding Contribution in Application of Science and Technology for Rural Development. Dr. Singh is a proud recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2001, for his pioneering work in community-based efforts in water harvesting and water management. In 1998, Dr. Rajendra Singh had been christened as the ‘Man of the year’ by THE WEEK Magazine. ____________ 4 Board of Governors Chairman Dilip Shanghvi Managing Director Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Sun House, CTS No.201 B/1, Western Express Highway, Goregaon (E), Mumbai 400 063 Members Devang V. Khakhar Director, IIT Bombay Nominees of the Council Anurag Kumar Director, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – 560 012 Rohini Godbole Center for High Energy Physics Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – 560 012 Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath Chairperson, Centre for Neuroscience Old TIFR Bldg., Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – 560 012 K. Ananth Krishnan Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer Tata Consultancy Officer Tidal Park, Taramani, Chennai – 600 113 Nominees of the State Governments Secretary Higher & Technical Education, Govt. of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Mumbai – 400 032 Vikram Dev Dutt, IAS Hon’ble Administrator, U.T. of Daman & Diu and Dadara & Nagar Haveli, Silvasa 5 Ramachandra (Dinar) First Floor, Vaikunth Niwas, Balakrishna Bhatkar Near Youth Hostel, Miramar, Panji Goa – 403 001 Nominees of the Senate A.K. Pani Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay Abhiram Ranade Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engg., IIT Bombay Member, Secretary R. Premkumar Registrar, IIT Bombay Organisation Dilip Shanghvi Chairman Devang V. Khakhar Director Subhasis Chaudhuri Dy. Director, Academic & Infrastructural Affairs P.M. Mujumdar Dy. Director, Finance & External Affairs P.V. Balaji Dean, Research & Development Narayan Rangaraj Dean, Academic Programmes Ravi Sinha Dean, Alumni & Corporate Relations B.V.S. Vishwanadham Dean, Infrastructure Planning & Support Soumyo Mukherji Dean, Students Affairs R.O. Dusane Dean, International Relations J.K. Verma Dean, Faculty Y.M. Desai Dean, Administrative Affairs Amitava De Convener, PG-APEC Madhu Vinjamur Convener, UG-APEC Heads of Departments Aerospace Engineering Ashok Joshi Biosciences and Bioengineering Rinti Banerjee Chemical Engineering K.V. Venkatesh Chemistry K.P. Kaliappan Civil Engineering K.V. Krishna Rao Computer Science & Engg. Uday Khedkar Earth Science G. Mohan Electrical Engineering B.G. Fernandes 6 Humanities & Social Sciences D. Parthasarathy Industrial Design Centre B.K. Chakravarthy Mathematics Neela Natraj Mechanical Engineering S.S. Joshi Metallurgical Engineering & N. Venkataramani Materials Science Physics C.V. Tomy Energy Science & Engineering Rangan Banerjee Heads of Schools Shailesh J. Mehta S. Bhargava School of Management Heads of Centres Centre for Environmental Sanjeev Chaudhari Science & Engineering Centre for Research in Indradev Samajdar Nano Technology and Science Centre for Studies in B.K. Mohan Resources Engineering Centre for Technology Milind Sohoni Alternatives in Rural Areas Computer Centre Varsha Apte Centre for Aerospace Ashok Joshi Systems Design and Engineering Centre for Formal Design G. Sivakumar and Verifications of Software Centre for Distance Engineering V.M. Gadre Education Programme Centre for Urban Science and Engg. Krithi Ramamritham Centre for Excellence in N.B. Ballal Steel Technology National Centre for Mathematics M.S. Raghunathan Convenors of Interdisciplinary Programmes Climate Studies Chandra Venkatraman Education Technology V.M. Gadre Industrial Engineering & N. Hemachadra Operations Research Systems & Control Engg. B. Bandopadhyay 7 Previous Convocations Year Chief Guest Winner of President of India Medal/ Winner of Institute Gold Medal 1962 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan R.B. Bhambhani 1964 Mr. M.C. Chagla B.S. Shiralkar, D.R. Limaye 1965 Dr. C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer M. Mehra 1966 Dr. C.D. Deshmukh A.N. Dravid 1967 Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai A.L. Ravimohan 1968 Mr. Arvind Mafatlal R.C. Agarwal 1969 Mr. V.P. Naik D.K. Merchant 1970 Mr. R. Venkatraman K.R. Bakshi 1971 Mr. C. Subramaniam S.M. Udupa 1972 Ms. Indira Gandhi S.R. Ahuja 1973 Mr. G.L. Mehta N.D. Jotwani 1974 Dr. Bharat Ram M.P. Wagle 1975 Prof. S. Nurul Hasan S.N. Nandgaonkar 1976 Prof. M.G.K. Menon (Ms) V.N. Korwar 1977 Dr. P.C. Chunder S.S. Sastry 1978 Dr. Atma Ram N.K. Karmarkar 1979 Prof. K.R. Narayanan S.P. Jayakar 1980 Dr. N.R. Banerjee A.D. Patel 1981 Dr.(Ms.) Madhuri R. Shah K.D. Mulmuley 1982 Mr. N.D. Tiwari S. Seshadri 1983 Mr. Giani Zail Singh A.N. Swami 1984 Dr. A. Ramachandran A.K. Jain 1985 Mr. K.C. Pant P.P. Nayak 1986 Dr. C.K.N. Patel P.K. Raje 1987 Prof. Raj Reddy N.A. Thatte 1988 Dr. Malcom S. Adiseshiah V.M. Ramana Murty 8 Year Chief Guest Winner of President of India Medal/ Winner of Institute Gold Medal 1989 Dr. Manmohan Singh M.M. Joshi 1990 Prof. Yash Pal M. Easwaran 1991 Dr. I.G. Patel A.S. Agashe 1992 Prof. Govind Swarup V. Gupta 1993 Dr. Ashok Ganguli K.S. Agashe 1994 Prof. U.R. Rao A. Ganesh 1995 Dr. P.C. Alexander R. Negi / V.V. Acharya 1996 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Chetan Rai 1997 Mr. N.A. Palkhivala Amit Chakrabarti 1998 Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi Mayur Dhondu Daatar 1999 Mr. Azim Premji D.D. Shah 2000 Mr. Rajendra S. Pawar Vinod Cheriyan / Manoj M. Prabhakaran 2001 Mr. Victor J. Menezes Patil Dinesh Dilip /Aditya Dua 2002 Mr. Nandan Nilekani Dilys Thomas / Aditya Dua 2003 Mr. Rajiv L. Gupta D.A. Raorane / P. Shah 2004 Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani Navneet Loiwal / Gogate Amol Subhash 2005 Mr. Arjun Singh Vikrant Suhas Vaze / Mohit Garg 2006 Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Srikanth Jagabathula / Iyer Krishnamurthy Rengarajan 2007 Mr. L.N. Mittal Yashodhan Kanoria / Chhatre Shreerang Sharad 2008 Ms. Pratibha Patil Sushant Sachdeva /M.S. Shaama 2009 Dr. E. Sreedharan Paidimarri Arun / Suyog Gupta 2010 Session-I – Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw L.S.V. Tapovan / Gauri D. Joshi Session-II – Prof. Roddam Narasimha 2011 Session-I – Dr. M.S. Valiathan Shah Nisarg Kirtikumar/Manas Rachh Nitin Session-II – Mr. K.V. Kamath 2012 Dr. Manmohan Singh Kamat Pritish Uday/ Yashovardhan Sushil Chati 2013 Mr. S. Ramadorai Chordia Sagar Sanjay / Sisir Yalmanchili 2014 Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, FRS Raaz Dwivedi / Rahul Sharma 2015 Mr.
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    Volume 18 No. 2 February 2009 12 in this issue... 6 Vibrant Gujarat 8 India Inc. at Davos 12 15th Partnership Summit 22 3rd Sustainability Summit 8 31 Defence Industry Seminar plus... n India Rubber Expo 2009 n The Power of Cause & Effect n India’s Tryst with Corporate Governance 22 n India & the World n Regional Round Up n And all our regular features We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Do write to us at 31 [email protected] Edited, printed and published by Director General, CII on behalf of Confederation of Indian Industry from The Mantosh Sondhi Centre, 23, Institutional Area, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110003 Tel: 91-11-24629994-7 Fax: 91-11-24626149 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cii.in Printed at Aegean Offset Printers F-17 Mayapuri Industrial Area, Phase II, New Delhi-110064 Registration No. 34541/79 JOURNAL OF THE Confederation OF INDIAN INDUSTRY 2 | February 2009 Communiqué Padma Vibhushan award winner Ashok S Ganguly Member, Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry, Member India USA CEO Council, Member, Investment Commission, and Member, National Knowledge Commission Padma Bhushan award winners Shekhar Gupta A M Naik Sam Pitroda C K Prahalad Editor-in-Chief, Indian Chairman and Chairman, National Paul and Ruth McCracken Express Newspapers Managing Director, Knowledge Commission Distinguished University (Mumbai) Ltd. Larsen & Toubro Professor of Strategy Padma Shri award winner R K Krishnakumar Director, Tata Sons, Chairman, Tata Coffee & Asian Coffee, and Vice-Chairman, Tata Tea & Indian Hotels Communiqué February 2009 | 5 newsmaker event 4th Biennial Global Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Gujarat, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Investors’ Summit 2009 Reliance Industries, Ratan Tata, Chairman, Tata Group, K V Kamath, President, CII, and Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Minister, Kenya ibrant Gujarat, the 4th biennial Global Investors’ and Mr Ajit Gulabchand, Chairman & Managing Director, Summit 2009 brought together business leaders, Hindustan Construction Company Ltd, among several investors, corporations, thought leaders, policy other dignitaries.