ALUMNI Annual Report 2011-12 An Initiative of the Institutional Development (ID) Program

Office of Alumni Affairs and International Relations Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur - 721 302 IIT Kharagpur Institutional Development (ID) Program Credits : Patron : Prof. Amit Patra Dean, AA & IR, IIT-KGP Chinna Boddipalli Managing Director, ID Program Development Team : Concept and Content Creation by : Shreyoshi Ghosh Editorial Support : Shruti Gupta Tanya Mondal, Students' Alumni Cell Financial Reporting by : Shampa Goswami Prasenjit Banerjee Data Reporting by : Sumana Hajra Sadhan Banerjee Supporting activities by : Runa Sen Chatterjee Anupam Sarkar P K Sharma

Published by : Institutional Development (ID) Program Office of Alumni Affairs & International Relations IIT Kharagpur Pin- 721302 Ph. 03222-282236 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iitkgp.org Design and Printed by : Shining Creative Unit Strategic Creative Agency 123 Rajdanga Gold Park Near EM bypass Rashbehari Connector Kolkata - 700 107, West Bengal, India Ph. : +91-33-2441 4291, Fax : +91-33-2441 4291 Web. : www.shiningcreativeunit.com ALUMNI ANNUAL REPORT 2011-12 C o n t e n t s

05 Message from BOG Chairman 06 Message from Director 07 Message from Dean, AA&IR 08 Management Report by Managing Director, ID Program 11 Message from G.Secs, Students Alumni Cell 11 Message from General Secretaries- SAC 12 Major Contributions 16 Batch Endowment 18 Contributors' List 19 Financial Statement 20 IIT Foundation US Contribution List 24 My Imprint 30 Report on Fundraising Workshop 32 Publications and Mentorship 33 Media Coverage 35 Institute Lecture Series 36 Annual Alumni Meet 37 Institute Awards 38 Faculty Recognition 40 Faculty Awards 42 Young Faculty Fellowship Program 43 New Appointment 44 National Service Scheme (NSS) 45 Report on Training & Placement 46 Report on Gymkhana Activities 49 New Constructions 50 Alumni Network ALUMNI ANNUAL REPORT 2011-12

“....Here I stand at this place and my mind inevitably goes back to that infamous institution for which this place became famous, not now but twenty or thirty years ago - the Hijli Detention Camp. Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands this fine monument of India (IIT) today representing India’s urges, India’s future in the making.”

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Dear Alumnus,

Greetings to you from IIT Kharagpur! It is a great privilege for me to communicate with you as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur. I take this opportunity to congratulate the alumni for being a part of this great institution and "the mother of all IIT". IIT Kharagpur was envisioned to lead India in technology education and research on the lines of the world's best technology institutes. Today there is a need to renew our focus on research and innovation. As part of the Vision 2020 exercise, we envision IIT Kharagpur to be a global top 20 technology institution in the next 20 years. This would be possible only if we sharpen our focus on research and innovation and a strong enabling environment with world- class infrastructure to attract an international pool of faculty and students. I also see a very strong need to drive interdisciplinary collaboration with a focus on addressing the national and local challenges. Integration of Medical and Engineering Education & Research has benefitted both Medical and Engineering practice and profession and I do hope that the proposed Dr. B C Roy Institute of Medical Science & Research at IIT Kharagpur which has been approved by Government of India will be an important step forward in this direction. This is long overdue in India and is important to the strategic roadmap of IIT Kharagpur to lead this first-of-its-kind collaboration in India. I do envisage alumni playing a proactive role in successful implementation of the Vision 2020 exercise including facilitating "industry and academia linkages" both locally and globally, "mentoring students & faculty", "participating actively in the development of the Institute" to name a few. The Institutional Development program is another key step in this direction and I hope you will actively participate and contribute towards developing sustainable fund raising program,building the IIT Kharagpur brand etc. IIT Kharagpur has given the world some of the finest academicians, scientists, researchers, technocrats and entrepreneurs. Let us all join hands and catapult this great institution to a truly global research-focused innovation-led technology institution.

Dr. Shiv Nadar Chairman, Board of Governors IIT Kharagpur

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Dear Alumnus,

It is time for our Annual Convocation and Foundation Day celebrations. I take this opportunity to greet you on behalf of your Alma mater. The Diamond Jubilee year has passed by with grand events scheduled all round the year. The faculty, students and alumni, contributing to their best to make this year memorable for a very long time. Also, these KGPians have made us proud by winning many awards and contests, honors and fellowships. Many have been promoted to prestigious positions while some have other breath-taking achievements. I congratulate all for making us proud of each one of you. The alumni have been a great source of support for us over the years and we could see your enthusiasm increasing. I encourage you to keep up this spirit of giving back to your Alma mater. The Institutional Development (ID) Program is running successfully to help you in this regard. Please read the report on the same for more information and how you can contribute. I appeal to each one of you to be one with us in our Vision 2020 and mission to success.

Yours sincerely,

Prof. D. Acharya Director IIT Kharagpur

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Dear Alumnus,

What a pleasure to write to you in this 2nd edition of the Alumni Annual Report with the pilot edition being appreciated widely. With our reputation steadily strengthening across the globe this has been a year of growth and restructuring. We have taken several new initiatives like Bhaumik International Center for Advanced Research, upgrading of the School of Water Resources, and taking the P. K. Sinha Center for Bio Energy to greater heights. On the financial front we can count Arjun Malhotra’s donation of 1 million USD towards completion of his Golden Jubilee pledge, Vinod Gupta’s pledge to contribute for the International Center for Visiting Faculty, and gifting of a Chair position to the Architecture Department by Ranbir and Chitra Gupta. Quite a lot to say, and quite more to be done. I take this opportunity to explain you a bit more about the Founding Endowment concept. KGP is building its endowment and our initial target is Rupees 100 Crores. We know that it cannot be met by one person alone. So we would like to distribute the target to 100 Founding Endowers, each donating or raising a Crore each on an average. To make it even simpler, each Founding Endower can be a group, like your batch. Each batch contributing Rupees 50 Lakhs or more will be recognized as a Founding Endowment Batch. The individual donors will also be recognized. Already 1962 batch has made a pledge and taken the lead to become the first Founding Endowment Batch. 1981, 1984 and 1991 are already in the game and many others are following suit. The race is on. The 2012 batch is also not far behind. Many students from this passing out batch have contributed their caution money while another 400+ students have pledged percentage of their CTC in the coming year. With the senoirs and the junior most alumni we encourage every batch to choose their leaders and render towards this novel initiative. We have taken this approach following major universities across the world to increase our sustainable fundraising and enhance world ranking. If your batch has not yet started, please get your batch mates contribute towards this endowment fund which is going to commemorate your batch for years’ to come. You can take the initiative. We, the ID team, at the Office of Alumni affairs & International Relations are here to help you at every step and help you stay connected with your Alma Mater. Please register at the alumni web portal and avail the e-newsletter KGP Connection along with the multifarious benefits of the portal. We look forward to a strong support from you. If you have any ideas on how we can engage with you, please feel free to contact me at [email protected] Let us Innovate (I), Involve (I) and Transform (T) - KGP. Together we can.

Yours sincerely,

Prof. Amit Patra Dean, Alumni Affairs & International Relations IIT Kharagpur

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Institutional Development (ID) Program

Report from Managing Director Chinna Boddipalli for FY 2011-12 (Apr 1, 2011 to Mar 31, 2012)

Advisory Board Mr. R. Gopalkrishnan (ECE/1967) Mr. Arjun Malhotra (EC/1970) Dr. Prabhakant Sinha (ME/1970) Mr. B.K. Syngal (EC/1962) Mr. Matt Ter Molen, Associate Dean, Kellogg School of Management and Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations and Development for the Northwestern University. Initial Focused Areas l Alum Connectivity l Sustainable Fund-raising l R&D Camapign l KGP Brand Building l Faculty and Students Recruitment Report: Alum Connectivity Portal Launch - The Beta version alumni web portal www.iitkgp.org was launched in January 2011. This portal is an informative as well as interactive platform for the This report's object is to capture the full spectrum of ID alumni and students. It hosts news and events, communities, initiatives and provide an overview of expected outcomes job portal, e-shopping, giving back campaigns, discussion as well as projected timelines and resource requirements. forum etc. The initial design and development work was All of the activities and initiatives were within the frame- done by an incubated company at Science and Technology work of our mission and vision statements which are Entrepreneur's park (STEP), IIT Kharagpur. recapped below. At this point it is important to reiterate New Initiatives: It was recognized that the existing portal that ID program is a supporting function (no decision is of static design. Further developments are being made making) for transformation of the Institute. to make it functional for all our 'Campaigns' and Mission: professionalization. To support Institute's effort to strengthen domestic ranking l The communities section has facilities of interacting as well as enhancing the KGP's international stature. with members through forums and posts and also Vision: uploading of photos, running campaigns. There will be a drive to popularize this section so as to bring the l Provide support for all-round growth plans of the Institute alumni and students networking on social media l Implement a Sustainable and scalable resource platforms to this portal. development program l There are plans to popularize the job portal as well by l Leverage the alumni and corporate relations for the posting job and internship opportunities by companies growth of the Institute engaged with training and placement section. l Promote the KGP Brand

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l Events networking could also be done through the is to help increase networking and motivate fund raising. portal, online registration and payment and recording Also there are Chapter meets and Batch re-unions in other event details. different cities. New Initiatives for the FY 2012-2013 : There is a plan to l The online shopping cart helps alumni across the world organize multiple batch re-unions at Bangalore and Delhi IIT-KGP branded souvenirs. chapters for younger alumni. This will help both South and KGP Connection - This is a fortnightly e-newsletter providing North India to participate and network. a platform to news and information related IIT-KGP students, Souvenir Merchandise shop - The shop, located in the alumni and faculty. The monthly registrations at the web new Gymkhana building, was inaugurated in January portal www.iitkgp.org increases substantially as and when 2012. It will sell IIT-KGP branded souvenirs at the the newsletter is mailed out. Gymkhana. The trade-mark for IIT-KGP logo is in process. Database - A database of 48000+ alumni is available with The Institute is trying to curtail unauthorized use of IIT- the Institute. Out of this, contact details for about 16000 KGP brand name and logo. Request for proposal has already alumni are available in email, phone or postal format. been prepared. Efforts are being made to collect more data through direct Mentoring - Students' Alumni Cell has launched mentorship contact, mass mailing, social media, events, etc. program which helps students interact with alumni and get assistance on educational front. Departments are also being encouraged to collect data while an alumnus visits. IIT Foundation-USA has also been New Initiatives for the FY 2012-2013 : Increasing the approached for sharing of their database. number of alumni involvement from current number of 100+. New Initiatives for the FY 2012-2013 : l Target is to reach out to 25000 alumni - we need efforts Sustainable Fundraising from our alumni to help us get connected Fundraising Campaigns: These can be achieved through alumni focus, corporate programs and major donor programs l Also the database is being segregated batch wise, by instituting effective communications structures like department wise, degree wise and location wise. This stewardship ecosystem and database development. The would help identify target groups conveniently. Recruiting approach is to identify key development needs of KGP more student volunteers, making contacts with and methods thereof to meet the funding needs within a department heads and hall presidents as nodal points targeted timeframe. This can be affected through for data collection which is not impossible, but endowment funds or specific giving. challenging! New Initiative: Even though the target amount is a long- CRM - CRM is considered to be the most important tool term project, year by year objectives were identified for for efficient fundraising system. CRM is a widely the implementation. implemented strategy for managing ID program interactions l To complete a minimum of 20 batches for batch with Alumni, Corporations and well-wishers. It involves endowment, each batch pledging/donating at least Rs. using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize 50 lakhs. Some batch leaders already identified. The batch to raise the first Rs. 50 lakhs will be felicitated as fundraising processes-principally campaign activities, but Founding Donor Batch for IIT-KGP Endowment. (Please also those for awareness creating, solicitation, refer to batch endowment section for more details.) acknowledging, recognizing, reporting and stewerdship. Our overall goals are to find, attract, and win new donors, l Convert existing pledges to actions and get new major nurture and retain those who already donated, entice donor pledges former donors back into the fold, and reduce the cost and l Have successful My Imprint campaign by signing up time of campaigning and servicing. above 500 from the Class of 2012 (as opposed to last Annual Alumni Meet and other Re-unions - Annual Alumni year of 27 sign-ups) Meet is organized every year on the 1st weekend of the l Establish campaign infrastructure by recruiting and month of January. Herein multiple batches are invited. This training capable people

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l Expand student volunteers as well as part time support Senior alumni and international academicians could be people motivated to join as Adjunct Faculty. This would require clear processes and procedures explained duly to the Fundraising Initiatives: alumni in advance so as to create their interest. Proper Several campaigns have been formularized for raising funds accommodation for adjunct faculty needs to be developed. in sustainable manner. The recent ones are Batch Departments should have a more professional approach Endowment and My Imprint. in utilizing the full potential of the faculty in academics and research Batch Endowment - Each batch is assigned a target of For Students: Rs. 50 lakhs to achieve the honor of Founding Donor Batch l To attract best students, events could be organized with for IIT-KGP Endowment. the help of alumni outside KGP promoting KGP days My Imprint - This initiative is for those who would like to at top schools, coaching centers and connections could contribute a portion of their annual income for IIT-KGP be organized. endowment. l Student Exchange Programs with foreign universities KGP Brand Building can also be a critical motivating factor. l Incoming students could also be provided certain facilities Internal Communication - To develop a strong channel in the form of package programs. for internal communication, meetings with Heads of different The ID program has undertaken several other initiatives departments are being organized. They are being requested like conducting survey among students for ranking various to allot one faculty and one student co-ordinator for alumni aspects of the Institute. Also it has helped in conducting networking, data collection. Also Technology Guest House surveys among alumni, students and faculty for KPMG can play an important role in this regard wherein the alumni which is the consulting firm for Vision 2020. Sharing similar co-coordinator can connect the visiting alumni to the ID motto of Vision 2020, ID program is aiming to support team. activities for the developmental activities in various spheres International Branding - Centers of Excellence, regular regarding the Institute. Quite a few activities have been outreach programs and foreign varsity linkages would executed and more are in pipeline for the coming year. strengthen the brand building procedure. Intensive thought leadership and implementation of above programs are needed for global brand building. ID team has laid out a plan for a professional brand building roadmap while working on instituting foundational base programs mentioned above. Public Relations - Another important aspect of branding is PR activities in India. With reference to this and above a PR committee has been set up consisting of senior alumni and members of the ID team. A students' PR team could also be constituted to facilitate both internal and external communication. Recruitment and Retaining Faculty recruitment and Retaining: The focus will be on attracting international faculty through Prof. D. Acharya, Prof. Amit Patra, Dr. Mani Bhaumik and faculty outreach program and encouraging experienced Chinna Boddipalli at the Review Meeting at Los Angeles of the alumni to join faculty. Proposed Bhaumik International Research Centre, Kolkata To get top placements for students, HR outreach programs, dated October 4, 2011. placement interviews in major cities as well as promotional events for enhancing alumni by using R&D programs and industrial consulting.

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Message from General Secretaries, Students’ Alumni Cell

Dear All, This year has been great for the Students' Alumni Cell which gained phenomenal success in each of its activities and initiatives; the Annual Alumni Meet, Alumni Publications, Alumni Guest Lectures, Student-Alumni Mentorship program and the My Imprint program to name a few. The Students' Alumni Cell is a group of students assisting the Office of Alumni Affairs and International Relations of IIT Kharagpur in working towards maintaining and nurturing relations between the institute and its global alumni community. Our alumni community has always been an integral part of the institute and has rendered its invaluable support in giving back to its alma mater in the best way possible. With the launch of Vision 2020, we earnestly appeal to our alumni to step forward and help in whatever way they can for fulfilling this mission of IIT Kharagpur. The alumni have always been a great inspiration and a guiding force for the whole student community of IIT Kharagpur. Particularly, the Student-Alumni Mentorship program and the Alumni Guest Lectures organized by Students' Alumni Cell have proved to be a great help in this regard. We as the outgoing General Secretaries, would like to request the alumni to continue patronizing us with their guidance and support in the future also, as they have done over the past few years. As we complete our tenure, we would like to thank Prof. Amit Patra, Dean AA&IR, and all other people working at the Office of Alumni Affairs and International Relations who have been instrumental in guiding us through the past year in all our activities and initiatives. I would also like to wish the new General Secretaries and the incoming team all the success for the year ahead. Regards, Akshat Prakash Verma, Nikunj Mall 2011-12 (5th and 4th Years)- Advisors Chirag Fialoke, Abhishek Narain, Abhijeet Khanna, Jyotika Gupta, Suruchi Prakash, Abhigyan Mandal, Digvijay Singh, Sumeet Mavani, Rajeev Vishnu, Drishti Guin, Harshal Maniyar, Swetha Reddy, Neeraj Daswani, Tarun Trivedi 2011-12 (3rd Years) Akshat Prakash Verma, Nikunj Mall, Aditi Kadmawala, Akshay Chalikwar, Deepika Bajaj, K Sai Sachin, Rupinder Singh, Siddharth Mall 2011-12 (2nd Years) Akshay Kumar, Apoorv Jain, Himanshu Shrivastava, Karan Kakwani, Misha Khan, Naveen Ravi Joseph, Nimish Goel, Prashasti Agrawal, Rishi Mehan, Sahil Jalan, Tanya Mondal, Tejeshwar Singh Gill, Utkarsh Jain.

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Major Contributions - Financial Year 2011-12

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Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship As a premier Engineering Institution in the country, IIT-KGP has launched the School of Engineering Entrepreneurship in the name of late Prof. Rajendra Mishra. This school offers an integrated B. Tech (in the chosen field of engineering) and MS in entrepreneurship, leading to a 5 years of experiential entrepreneurship, culminating in the creation of an enterprise out of the IIT's knowledge portfolios and students' drive. Amarendra Mishra and Devendra Mishra, sons of late Prof. Rajendra Mishra and alumni have contributed significantly towards this school. Other contributors for this school are Shyam Bagrodia, Swapan Kumar Hazra, Bhratendu Dev and Deepak Luthra

Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship Building Under Construction

Tilak Sarkar for RP Gokarn Award Prof. Gokarn (Ex-Professor of Naval Architecture and Ex-Dean of post graduates studies IIT Khargpur) is a world renowned authority on Naval Achitecture and propeller design with over forty years teaching experience. The primary recipient of this Grant is the Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture, represented and administered by the Dean, Alumni Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. It is intended mainly to undertake and develop innovative multi-disciplinary research or experimental projects with special emphasis on Marine Design and hope to generate research and empirical material for both academic papers for Academic and Conference journals as well as patentable ideas and innovations. Alumnus Tilak Sarkar has provided ` 30,33,104 towards this award.

Your Alma mater thanks you and encourages all alumni to contribute towards their Alma mater.

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P.K. Sinha Centre for Bio-energy Prabha Kant Sinha is Founder and Co-Chairman of ZS Associates. Dr. Sinha was an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management until 1987. He continues to teach executives at the Kellogg School of Management and at the India School of Business. He has published over 30 academic articles in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Marketing Science and Mathematical Programming. In addition, he has co-authored a series of books on sales force management. Dr. Sinha is contributing USD 2 million seed funding towards setting up of the multi-disciplinary unit P.K. Sinha Centre for Bio-energy. The centre is doing remarkable work Prabha Kant Sinha on extraction of ethanol from non-edible lignocellulosic (a plant biomass composed of cellulose, hemi cellulose and lignin). The research will also counter the food fodder- versus-fuel controversy.

Arjun Malhotra Arjun Malhotra is a doyen of IT industry and his vision and leadership is acknowledged globally in the knowledge industry. He is currently CEO and Chairman of the Board at Headstrong, a premier global consultancy in USA with revenues of over USD 100 million. After co-founding India's largest computer technology company, HCL Limited (current turnover in excess of $2 billion) in 1976, Arjun went on to launch successful divisions in the sectors of computer-aided design, reprographics, finance and telecommunications. Arjun is a Gold medallist from IIT Kharagpur. Arjun serves as Chairman of Vision 2020, an alumni initiative to raise Arjun & Kiran Malhotra a $200 million endowment fund for IIT Kharagpur by the year 2020. He is also one of the founding members of SPIC - MACAY - Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Cultural among Youth Our illustrious alumnus Arjun Malhotra has been contributing towards his Alma mater on various occasions. On the event of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Institute Arjun contributed towards fulfillment of his Golden Jubilee pledge of 1 million USD.

Your Alma mater thanks you and encourages all alumni to contribute towards their Alma mater.

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Udai Agnihotri Chair Professorship by Ron Gupta Ranbir Singh Gupta is the Chairman of SIGMA7 Design Group Inc. He has been in leadership role for almost 30 years, developing architecture in to a successful business enterprise including projects such as nuclear plants, data centers, and high-tech facilities. Under his patronage the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design & Management was started in IIT KGP in 2008. In 2011-2012, Ron Gupta contributed about ` 26 lakhs towards Udai Agnihotri Chair Professorship for the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning. Udai and Ron were classmates. Udai passed away in 2011.

Ranbir & Chitra Gupta and family

Pledge by Vinod Gupta Vinod (Vin) Gupta (AGFE '67) is the Founder and Chairman of InfoUSA, Inc., headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Vinod has always been conscious of his Indian roots and generously contributes to his alma mater for making him what he is today. In early '90s he gave $2 million to establish a business school at IIT Kharagpur which is called the Vinod Gupta School of Management, the first business school in the IIT system. Vinod has pledged for extension of Law Library, Meeting cum distance learning quarters and building living quarters for Adjunct/Visiting International Faculty

Vinod & Laura Gupta and family

Your Alma mater thanks you and encourages all alumni to contribute towards their Alma mater.

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Batch Endowment

IIT-KGP announced a special campaign for the IIT-KGP Endowment during the 9th Annual Alumni Meet. With that 1962, 1969 and 1984 batches made commitments towards the cause of overall development of the Institute. Continuing the legacy, other batches have also committed and contributed too. Among them are the batches of 1961, 1962, 1984, 1991 and 2012 (donated caution money). A batch leader is designated for every batch who moves forward the communication and networking. Alumni from several other batches have pledged to contribute as well; among these are 1987, 1990 batches. The purpose of this Endowment is to support Vision 2020 - to be-in the top 20 universities among a global peer group of similar technology-focused institutions in the world, in the next 20 years. Seeing this overwhelming response from the alumni towards this goal, IIT-KGP is formally announcing the special campaign for Batch Endowment. This campaign is to promote Batch Endowment for a minimum of Rs. 50 Lakhs per batch. With this the Institute will honor the batch as "Founding Endowment Batch". In addition to being a founding batch, the initial batches who meet the Rs. 50 Lakhs goal will have a class room designated for the batch with the name of donors displayed in the new Nalanda Academic Complex (refer page 17). The principal of the fund will remain intact till perpetuity, similar to universities like Harvard. Only the interest will be used for new developments as well as sustain the necessary activities and also strengthen the parent fund against inflation. This will allow for the donation to have an impact over a longer period of time than if it were spent all at once. Come and join hands together and make a difference to your beloved Alma mater. You will have comfort that your contribution this year will be supporting IIT-KGP for generations to come! You can donate online for your Batch through the Institute's Alumni web portal http://iitkgp.org/campaigns/41 For more details please write to Mr. Anupam Sarkar at [email protected]

V K Gupta - 1962 Batch The '62 batch endowment campaign got launched with the illustrious Col. Vinod Gupta (Retd.) making the first contribution towards Endowment for Development. Col. Gupta did B.Tech. in Civil Engineering in 1962. He was a good sportsman especially cricket and athletics. The '62 Batch Endowment campaign was launched during the 9th Annual Alumni Meet this year, with Anupam Goyal (ME/ RP), President, LeadExcel Inc. taking the lead for the campaign. Alumni from each batch can contribute to Batch Endowments. Each batch can collect and contribute Rs. 50 lakhs and above to be recognized as Founding Endowment Batch. The '62 batch has committed to be the first one to constitute the Founding Endowment Batch.

Maneesh Bhandari - 1991 Batch In addition of being the leader for ‘91 batch Maneesh Bhandari of R K Hall is the champion contributor. Maneesh along with his batch mates is leading the batch endowment campaign.

We encourage other batches to come forward as well and take leadership.

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Nalanda Academic Complex

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Contributors - Financial Year 2011-2012

Donors Amount(`) Purpose of Donation Alum Details Arjun Malhotra 4,83,46,119 IIT Kharagpur (Dean AA &IR) B Tech/EC/1970 PK Sinha 91,67,668 P.K. Sinha Centre for Bio-energy B Tech/ME/1970 Devendra Mishra 41,25,548 Rajendra Mishra School of Entrepreneurship B Tech/ME/1966; DIIT/1967 Amarendra Mishra 33,58,988 Rajendra Mishra School of Entrepreneurship B Tech/MT/1969 Tilak Sarkar 30,33,104 IIT Kharagpur (Dean AA &IR) B Tech/NA/1985 Ron Gupta 25,97,567 Uday Agnihotri Chair Professor B.Arch/ARP/1970 Warwick University 7,09,333 IIT Kharagpur (Dean AA&IR) Warwick University 6,08,742 Internship for Student Haren U Almaula Alarsin 3,00,000 Endowment (1970 Batch) B Tech/EC/1970 Anand Despande 2,50,000 Endowment Fund (1984 batch) B Tech/CS/1984 V K Gupta 1,00,000 Endowment (1962 Batch) B Tech/CE/1962 V K Gupta 1,00,000 Bangalore Chapter (Young Faculty Award) B Tech/CE/1962 K Dinkara Kini 1,50,000 Bangalore Chapter (Young Faculty Award) B Tech/CH/1960 Krishan Khanna 1,00,000 Endowment B Tech/ME/1961 Supriyo Sarkar 50,046 IIT Kharagpur (Dean AA &IR) B Tech/EC/1987 Sponsorship Amount 50,000 Advertisement Charges to AA&IR-IIT Kharagpur Sponsor Mallcom Safety Pvt. Ltd. 49,000 Panel Discussion Sponsor R. B. Despande 25,000 IIT Kharagpur (AA&IR) Friend of IIT-KGP S K Tangri 25,000 IIT Kharagpur (AA &IR) B Tech/CE/1962 Shyam Bagrodia 20,000 Rajendra Mishra School of Entrepreneurship B Tech/ME/1968 Swapan Kumar Hazra 20,000 Rajendra Mishra School of Entrepreneurship B Tech/ME/1968 Dhananjoy Collur 15,000 Bangalore Chapter (Young Faculty Award) B Tech/EC/1981 Krishnaraj V 15,000 Bangalore Chapter (Young Faculty Award) B Tech/EE/1991 S N Rajesh 15,000 Bangalore Chapter (Young Faculty Award) B Tech/ME/1992 Bhratendu Dev 11,000 Rajendra Mishra School of Entrepreneurship B Tech/ME/1968 Deepak Luthra 11,000 Rajendra Mishra School of Entrepreneurship B Tech/ME/1968 Arun Kumar T N 10,000 IIT Kharagpur (Dean AA&IR) B Tech/AG/1987 Dr. S T Rajan 10,000 Endowment (1981 Batch) Ph D/ME/1981 Krishnendu Mukherjee 10,000 Renovation of halls B Tech/CE/1987 Nilendu Saha 10,000 IIT Kharagpur (Dean AA&IR) Ramesh Chandra Jain 10,000 IIT Kharagpur (AA & IR) B Tech/CE/1961

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Financial Statements 2011 - 12

Source of Funds: Amount (`) Interest received - 44, 44,630 Donation received - 7, 29, 67,777 Special Purpose Donation - 6, 63,042 Investment proceeds - 5, 07, 76,384 Total Fund Inflow (A) 12, 88, 51,833 Use of Funds: Fund transferred - 1, 21, 10,168 Funded Rajiv Mishra School of Entrepreneurship (RMSOEE) - 75, 56,537 Investment made - 7, 32, 68,000 Disbursement - 8, 75,872 Student Internship - 7, 08,742 Operating Expenses - 1, 63,800 Misc. Charges - 3,330

Total Fund Outflow (B) 9, 38, 10,577 Fund Balance: Fund Increase (A-B) - 3, 50, 41,256 Opening cash balance - 40, 48,445 Closing Cash Balance - 3, 90, 89,701 Opening Investment - 5, 08, 68,400 Change in Investment - 2, 24, 91,616 (7, 32, 68,000 - 5, 07, 76,384)

Closing Investment Balance - 7, 33, 60,016

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IIT Foundation US Contribution Statement (Yearwise)

IIT Foundation 2010 Contributors' List IIT Foundation 2006 Contributors' List

Names of Alum Details Amount Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Contributors (USD) Over $200,000 Vinod Gupta B Tech/AG/1993 SUNIL GAITONDE B Tech/EE/1983 7,245 Arun Sarin B Tech/MT/1975 $5,000 and above Akhil Sahai B Tech/EE/1990 PRABHA SINHA B Tech/ME/1970 200,350 Anonymous Donor Sunil Gaitonde B Tech/EE/1983 $1,000- $4,999 HEADSTRONG 10,000 Global Impact SERVICES - Joseph Sreshta ARJUN MALHOTRA B Tech/EC/1970 Microsoft Giving Campaign Pradeep Kumar Thayamballi B Sc/PH/1975, M Sc/PH/1977 IIT Foundation 2008 Contributors' List Puran C. Dang B Tech/CE/1959 Rajeev Agarwal B Tech/ME/1986 Names of Alum Details Amount Rakesh Gupta B Tech/ME/1986 Contributors (USD) Ramkrishnaprasad Atluri VINOD GUPTA B Tech/AG/1993 317,887 Roy L. daSilva B Tech/EE/1974 Satyajit Sahu B Tech/MI/1992 Shailendra Kumar B Tech/ME/1987 SUMITA GUPTA 12,000 Shailendra Verma B Tech/MF/1990 Sumit K. Mitra M Sc/GG/1977 SUNIL GAITONDE B Tech/EE/1983 6,250 $999-$500 Alliance Capital Management IIT Foundation 2007 Contributors' List Corporation Anjan Bose B Tech/EE/1967 Names of Alum Details Amount Asitava Chanda B Tech/EC/1995 Goutam Sinha B Tech/MI/1979 Contributors (USD) Indra Singhal B Tech/MI/1981 VINOD GUPTA B Tech/AG/1993 694,828 Joyjit Nath (Donor) B Tech/EC/1987 Mahesh Swaminathan B Tech/MI/1987 Mukund Padmanabhan B Tech/EC/1987 HEADSTRONG 20,000 Raj Khanna SERVICES - Rakesh Astana B Tech/EE/1979 ARJUN MALHOTRA B Tech/EC/1970 Ranganath Gurumoorthy B Tech/EC/1979 Santanu Basu B Tech/EE/1968

PRABHA SINHA B Tech/ME/1970 10,476 Shridhar Acharya B Tech/ME/1979 Vikram Patel B Tech/ME/1979 $499 - Abhijit Chaudhury B Tech/ME/1972 NEXVISIONIX 10,000 Abhijit Das Abhijit Das N. SUNIL GAITONDE B Tech/EE/1983 5,000 Amit Mohan Thakur B Tech/NA/1998

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IIT Foundation 2006 Contributors' List

Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Archisman Rudra B Tech/CS/1994 Samrat Das B Tech/NA/1999 Arun Chaddha Sandeep Beotra B Tech/EC/1995 Ashis K. Roy Sandeep Jagnade B Tech/CH/1997 Avik Pal B Tech/NA/ 1998 Sanjeev Chandak B Tech/EE/1992 Bibhuti Banerjee B Tech/ME/1985 Sanjiv Maurya B Tech/EE/1993 Bikash K. Mohanty B Tech/AE/1982 Satyajeet Dodia B Tech/CS/1990 Binu Mathew B Tech/AE/1993 Sharmista Chatterjee B Tech/CH/1990 Bipin Prasad B Tech/ME/1980 Sharmistha Ganguly Bipin Rajendran B Tech/IE/2000 Shubhayu Rakshit B Tech/AE/1992 Chandra Bhushan Dubey B Tech/ME/1994 Shyam Rai B Tech/CS/1997 Chandrika Prasad B Tech/MT/1967 Sidharth Choudhury B Tech/CS/2000 Chunuri R. Mohan B Tech/CE/1956 Somnath Deb B Tech/EC/1987 Daljeet Singh B Tech/EE/1969 Somnath Paul B Sc/PH/1987 Dave K. Agarwal M Tech/AG/1987 Sowbhik Dawn B Tech/EE/2003 Debasish N. Mallick B Tech/ME/1980 Subhashis Bose B Tech/IM/2001 Dhrubajyoti Ghose B Tech/NA/1988 Subhashree Ganesan M Tech/AG/1994 Dipankar Ghosh Subrat Mohanty Diptarka Majumdar Subrata Sen B Sc/GG/1956 Dr. Amitava Mitra B Tech/ME/1969 Sudhir Raju B Tech/MT/1990 EBAY Sudhir Sheth B Tech/ME/1968 Harsha Sudipta Bhawmik B Tech/EC/1980 John F. Duddey Sunil Mehrotra Jyoti Mondal B Tech/EC/1977 Sunil Veluvali Kanad Chakraborty B Tech/CS/89 Surajit Dasgupta B Tech/CH/1971 Kaushik Pal Ph D /MI/2009 United Way of the National Kedar Khare B Sc/PH/1997 Capital Area Koushik K. Das B Tech/CH/2003 Venkateswara Irrinki B Tech/MT/1986 Krishna N. Jha Vijay Kumar Karra B Tech/MT/1967 Maneesh Joshi B Tech/AG/1996 Vikas Anand M Sc/MA/2005 Manju Ananth M Tech/EE/93 Manojit Sinha B Tech/CH/1974 IIT Foundation 2005 Contributors' List Mohan Vachani B Tech/ME/1963 Mrinal Bose B Tech/CS/1999 Names of Alum Details Amount Nal T. Viswanathan B Tech/ME/1965 Contributors (USD) Pabitra Mukerji B Tech/NA/1971 JITENDER DUTTA B Tech, M Tech/ 2,00,000 Partha Sarathi Chatterjee B Tech/CS/1987 CE/1961, 1962 $499 - Parvati Dev B Tech/EC/1968 Pinaki & Meenakshi Mukerji B Tech/CS/1985 NIRMALA DASH 52,121 Pranab K. Ghosh M Sc/CY/1993 CHATTERJEE 20,000 Praveen K. Jha CHARITABLE Rajan J. Bhambhani B Tech/NA/1974 FOUNDATION Rajesh G. Narechania B Tech/EE/1975 COMMUNITY 20,000 Ranjit L. Bandhopadhyay B Tech/CE/1964 FOUNDATION Rhishikesh Pethe B Tech?IM/1998 SILICON VALLEY Rishiraj Das B Tech/ME/2000 Rupali Mani M Tech/CH/1994 SUNIL GAITONDE B Tech/EE/1983 5,000 Samaresh Mukhopadhyay B Tech/MI/1987 PRAFUL KULKARNI B Arch/AR/1974 5,000

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IIT Foundation 2004 Contributors' List Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Sengupta, Mrinal M Sc/GG/1969 Names of Alum Details Amount Sengupta, Partha B Tech/ME/1973 Contributors (USD) Sreshta, Joseph SUNIL GAITONDE B Tech/EE/1983 5,200 Verma, Shailendra B Tech/MF/1990 ARJUN MALHOLTRA B Tech/EC/1970 5,000 $500 to less ASOKE KUMAR B Sc/CY/1968, 5,000 than $1,000 DEYSARKAR B Tech/CH/1961 Amrute, Shridhar G B Tech/EE/1975 PRAFUL KULKARNI B Arch/AR/1974 10,000 Dey, Partha B Tech/IM/1993 PRADEEP KASHYAP PhD/AG/2002 40,000 Mitra, Sumit M Sc/GG/1977 Mittal, Sanjiv B Tech/MT/1977 SHASHANK KARVE B Tech/NA/1977 5,000 Sinha, Goutam B Tech/MI/1979 CAPITAL ONE 10,000 Vadde, Srinivas B Tech/ME/1990 CHATTERJEE 6,500 Rajagopalan, Seshadri B Tech/NA/1996 CHARITABLE

FOUNDATION $250 to less RONOJOY DUTTA B Tech/ME/1972 5,000 than $500 Basawapatna, Ganesh R IIT Foundation 2003 Contributors' List Budhia, Ravi K B Tech/EC/1992 Garg, Amit B Tech/ME/1986 Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Mohanty, Bikash B Tech/AE/1982 $80,000 to less Mondal, Jyoti B Tech/EC/1977 than $120,000 Pai, Ravindra B Tech/NA/1989 Malhotra, Arjun B Tech/EC/1970 Rai, Amit B Tech/CS/2001 Rakhit, Ashish B Tech/NA/1979 $10,000 to less Sengupta, Sumedha than $20,000 Thayamballi, Pradeep Deysarkar, Asoke B Tech/CH/1971 Veerlapati, Dayakar M Tech/IM/1982 IEEE Foundation

Kulkarni, Praful B Arch/AR/1974 $100 to less than $250 $5,000 to less Amanullah, Amanullah B Tech/CH/1993 than $10,000 Athalye, Ashoke B Tech/CE/1975 Biswas, Kallol B Tech/CS/1995 Barkakati, Nabajyoti B Tech/EC/1978 Vasvani, Ashok B Tech/CE/1974 Bengani, Pramod K B Tech/CH/1985 $1,000 to less Bhalotia, Amit B Tech/EE/1997 than $5,000 Bhambhani, Rajan J B Tech/NA/1974 Andra, Delip B Tech/EE/1995 Chattopadhyay, Asis M Sc/GG/1980 Chatterjee, Partha B Tech/EE/1985 Desirkar, Soumitra B Tech/EC/1984 Dasilva, Roy Louis B Tech/EE/1974 Dutta, Sandip B Tech/ME/1985 Jha, Monica and Hemant B Tech/CH/1993 Ghosal, Partha B Tech/CH/1985 Khanna, Rajendra B Tech/EE/1960 Goyal, Anoop B Tech/CS/1991 Kumar, Shailendra B Tech/ME/1987 Jantrania, Sailesh B Tech/CH/1977 Microsoft Corporation Jaswal, Manmohan S. Nair, Ravi Jha, Krishna Nanda Nair, Suresh B Tech/CH/1984 Khandelwal, Vikash B Tech/CS/1999 Oracle Corp. Kumar, Kundan B Tech/ME/2000 Pathak, Binay B Tech/MF/1998 B Tech/CS/2007 Ramachandran, Ramu M Tech/CH/1978 B Tech/EC/2009 Roy, Ranjit B Tech/CE/1959 DD/ME/2009

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Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Amount (USD) Name of Donor Alum Details Maurya, Sanjiv B Tech/EE/1993 Goswami, Ratan B Tech/IM/1997 Misra, Arun B Tech/ME/1960 Guha, Adhir Kumar B Tech/ME/1960 Mistree, Farrokh P B Tech/NA/1967 Haldar, Sanjoy B Tech/EC/1989 Patel, Vikram B Tech/ME/1979 Khan, Subhotosh B Tech/MT/1970 Prasad, Chandrika B Tech/MT/1967 Kidao, V B Arch/AR/1971 Prasad, Rama M Tech/EC/1997 Majumdar, Diptarka B Tech/CH/1990 Rakshit, Shubhayu B Tech/AE/1992 Mukherjee, Niloy B Sc/PH/1990 Rege, Soumya Ph D/GG/1967 Mukherji, Pabitra Mukhopadhyay, Samaresh B Tech/MI/1987 Mulakala, Chandrika B Tech/CH/1998 Roy, Kaushik Nandi, Saikat B Tech/EC/1985 Sahu, Satyajit B Tech/MI/1992 Narain, Amitabh B Tech/AE/1978 Sarkar, Swapan B Tech/CS/1995 Ranjan, Ashish Sen, Pradyot B Tech/ME/1969 Roy, Ashis Sen, Shibashis B Tech/EC/1991 Roy, Ashis Kumar B Tech/MT/1989 Sethi, Pankaj B Tech/CS/1998 Sengupta, Shramik B Tech/CH/1998 Shah, Mahendra B Tech/ME/1962 Sharma, Manav B Tech/AG/2000 Shameer, Abdul B Tech/EE/1996 Srirangarajan, H P Sinha, Manojit B Tech/CH/1974 Veluvali, Sunil K Swaminathan, Mahesh B Tech/MI/1987 United Way Thakur, Amit DD/IM/2008 World Reach, Inc. Totlani, Rajiv B Tech/ME/1993 Vachani, Mohan B Tech/ME/1963 IIT Foundation 2002 Contributors' List Virk, Gurbachan S. B Tech/NA/1963 Vusirikala, Raju M Tech/CS/1994 Names of Alum Details Amount Vuthandam, Premkiran Contributors (USD) PURNENDU B Tech/ME/1971 123,500 Less than $100 CHATTERJEE Abburi, Murali B Tech/MT/1994 GLOBAL QUEST 17,108 Bagchi, Amit B Tech/ME/1975 FOUNDATION Banerjee, Raja M Tech/CR/1998 Banerjee , Ranojoy B Tech/CE/1996 Baral, Himanshu Sekhar B Tech/ME/1986 IIT Foundation 2000 Contributors' List M Tech/AG/1987 Names of Alum Details Amount Barman, Swasharta B Tech/EE/1989 Basu, Subrata B Arch/AR/1966 Contributors (USD) Cannayen, Igathinathane M Tech/PT/1991 PURNENDU B Tech/ME/1971 65,000 Ph D/AG/1998 CHATTERJEE Chakicherla, Chandra COMMUNITY 65,000 Chakraborty, Goutam B Tech/MT/1987 FOUNDATION Chanda, Asitava B Tech/EC/1995 SILICON VALLEY Chaya, Ventkatesh M Tech/ME/1991 MICROSOFT 30,378 Choudhary, Manoj K B Tech/CH/1974 CORPORATION Chowdhury, Sisir M Tech/NA/1998 SUNIL MUNSHANI B Tech/ME/1985 65,000 Das, Debasish B Tech/EE/1987 ANAND SIRKAR B Tech/EE/1966 5,500 Ganesan , Sathyanarayan M Tech/AG/1994 Ghosh, Arup Ghosh, Dipak

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My Imprint

'My Imprint' program reflects the exact KGPian tempo. My Imprint aims to assist the student with their project, studies and research, and living, better at IIT-KGP. Through this program, a passing out student will be able to directly make imprint towards the progress of the revered Institute. This year witnessed a full -fledged campaigning for the My Imprint program. The Students' Alumni Cell (SAC) has taken this nascent campaign to new heights, resulting in a tenfold increase in the statistics. With the launch of the program this year there has been a staggering number of over 270 pledges and close to 130 students contributing to the institute by donating their caution money. It is a proud example of how students can make such compelling efforts to show gratitude to the campus. Herein below are the names of the students who have pledged towards the program. The names of the students who have contributed their caution money have been listed under Batch Endowment section.

Caution Money Donors - Class of 2012

First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall

VARUN AGGARWAL CH RKH VIVEK WALKE AG VSH BISWAPATI SARKAR MA PH MALI VIJAY KISAN AG MMH LUKKA SHIVA CHETAN AR RKH BANSODE SHANKAR SHIVAJI AG MMH AVAKASH KUMAR AR RPH PATIL VIKAS KESHAV AG VSH NIDHI NIVESH VARMA DOMMARAJU ME HJB BANKAR AMOL SHASHIKANT BM MMH ATHKURI S KRISHNA SREE HARSHA ME LLR MANOJ KUMAR SINGH BM MMH PAVAN KALYAN G T MI LLR ALTHAF MOHAMMOD CE MMH ABHISHEK NARAIN MA RKH ADITYA R CH VSH SARTHAK MITTAL NA LLR ANAND KUMAR SANT ECMMH DEEPSHIKHA MONDAL ECSN/IG DHEERAJ A ECMMH RITABRATA DHAR ME MSH SHIVA KIRAN ECMMH PARWANI KRISHANCHANDRA THAKURDAS MI HJB G SUNIL KUMAR ECMMH BACHINA HEMANTH KUMAR CE HJB APPU P S ECMMH RAHUL NISHANT KANATHALA EE LLR SAPTARSHI BASAK EE MMH RAHUL AGRAWAL CH NHR PULIGUNDLA VASU EE MMH KARTIKEYA BHADADA MI MSH PRAVEEN KUMAR PARUVADA EE MMH B. PRASHANT KUMAR IP VSH SONAL RANJAN PATEL EE MMH AJITABH KUMAR IP VSH GUNDU SAI NIKHIL EE MMH ARVIND ALOPIPRASAD PARDESHI IP MMH NISHANT SINGH EE MMH JOHN RAJA SINGH IP MMH AJESH VISWANATHAN GG MMH SHOBHIT JAIN CH HJB PADARABINDA MAHARANA IM MMH CHANDRASEKAR AT AE VSH ARUN KUMAR R IM MMH

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First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall

S HARISH IP MMH PRITHVI PAVAN KUMAR VETSA MI NEH BIPLAB KUMAR LENIN IP MMH DEBABRATA TRIPATHY MI PH VIJAY KUMAR GUPTA ME ABHEY KALRA AG PACHPANDE KIRAN ANIL LATIKA ME MMH ABHILASH B N MF PATHA GAURAV GIRISH ME MMH ABHIRAJIKA AR PATIL MAHESH UMAKANT ME MMH ADITYA BANDOPADHYAY ME ATMAKURI RAJASEKHAR ME MMH AFTAB YUSUF PATEL MA MINTO KAVYAN ME MMH AMIT BHATIA BM PIYUSH PATEL ME MMH AVINASH BARNWAL SI RAJDEEP MAHOBIA ME MMH BODHISATTYA ROY EC ABDUL RAHIM ABDUL MANNAN SIDDIQUI MS MMH DEEPAK KUMAR SINGH CH SHAJRUN NISA DINESH K K EE RAVI YADLA NA MMH DIPANJAN SAHA IE SUDHARSANAM KALATHURU RE MMH GAURAB BASU CS KAUSHIK MUKHERJEE ME MMH GSP RAJU BM MOHIT ROSHAN SRIVASTAVA CH VSH JAISINGHANI SHAILY SUDESH AG SOURAV MONDAL CH VSH JITENDRA KUMAR CE CHAITALI CHAKRABORTY BT MTH JOGESH CHANDRA PRADHAN CS KAMETY SOWJANYA ME MTH KALYAN SRINIVAS PONNAM CE N PANDU RANGAM HS JCB KARTHIK RAVICHANDRAN MI SOUJANYA GATTU PH MTH KARTHIK V S MA A V V ANUPAMA SRIDEVI ME MTH MAHTAB SINGH SOIN CE PRABIR GHOSH CY RPH MANISH PILANIA CS AMRITA SUKRITY MT SN/IG MUKUL MILIND GOKHALE SUNANDA BM VISHU GULATI IP VSH N ARVIND NA ROHAN PILLAI IM MMH PANKAJ AGARWAL CH SOURAV RAKSHIT ECMMH PARTH GOVIL ME SAMAR PATEL REHMAN ME RPH PINAKI GHOSH CH PAWANKUMAR BHANUDAS PATIL AG MMH PRABHJOT SINGH BHATIA BM PALKUSH RAI CHAWLA ME NHR REBELO NEVILLE JOAQUIM CR ARKAPRAVA DAN CH RPH REKHA G EC LOVEPREET MANN ECAZD RICHA GARG IP VARUN SINGH ME MSH ROHAN BANAIK BM KRISHNENDU DAS ECMSH SHYAM T MM SANDIPAN CHATTERJEE AE MSH SOHAM SENGUPTA EE SHWETANK SONAL CE RPH SOUMYA JANA PH ANKIT KALDA HS RPH SUMIT BHATTACHARYA MT MSH MAUAEAPU HAEILUI SINHA CE MMH SUNRITA PODDAR IE ARINDAM CHAKRABORTY BT BCR TRISHUL MARDI BT VIGNESH S ECMMH UDDIPTA GHOSH ME RAMKUMAR RAMACHANDRA PH RPH UJJWAL UTTARAY EC SOHAM GUPTA CE RKH VARUN SRIVASTAVA CS SURAJIT GHOSH BM AMH VARUN TIWARI BT DASTIDAR VIVEK RANJAN IP RAVI JAIN MI LLR YUVRAAJ NOPANY EX

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My Imprint Donors - Class of 2012

First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall

AVANEESH DOOGAR HS AZD GAURAV JAIN AG HJB PRATYUSH SINHA MT AZD & VS MEGHA CHAMARIA AR SN/IG SREEKAR KARNATI ME RKH ATUL CHOUDHARY CE HJB DOMENDRA SINGH ME RKH SOURAV DAS CE HJB PRAMOD VERMA CH HJB HARIHAR SOURABH MOHAN NA AZD BHUPENDRA KUMAR MEENA AG MMH DEEPAK SIRWANI EE AZD AMIT SHARMA AE MMH ANSHUL SATIJA EE MMH DINESH BOSE CAE MMH HARSH VARDHAN LAL EE PH KIRAN M AE MMH SUBHAGATO DUTTA EE HJB RAMKUMAR B AE MMH JYOTIKA GUPTA AR SN/IG PATIL SWARUPANAN D BABASAHEB AG VSH VIVEK NAUTIYAL EE AZD ANPAT RAHUL MACHINDRA AG MMH ACHINTYA NATH SEXENA GAIKWAD NILESH NARAYAN AG VSH MADHUMITA AGRAWAL IP RLB KOLEKAR SAGAR SURYAKANT AG MMH KALPANA GARG IP RLB RANJEET KUMAR AG MMH HONEY PAMNANI IP RLB SACHIN PATHAK AG MMH APURBA KUNDU IP RLB PRAKASH CHANDRA GORAIN AG MMH SATYOKI KOUNDINYA IP VSH RAJIV CHANDRA RAJAK AG VSH APOORVA SHARMA IP RLB SATYANARAYANA BONTHU AG MMH MODHURA ROY IP RLB AGNIPRAVA SARKAR AR VSH MANOHAR NANDIGAM CE RPH INDRAJITH R S AR MMH SHUBHAM JAIN MI NHR VINOD KUMAR AR VSH NITISH DOBHAL MI NHR HANUMANTHA REDDY P AR MMH PRASHANT KUMAR AANAND AR NHR KRANTHIKUMAR ARATIKATTA BM MMH KAMAI KANT MUDALIAR AR RKH AMIT BHATIA BM MMH ANKUR MANCHANDA AR RKH ANKIT PANDEY BM MMH SOMNATH MEHER AR PH ARVIND SINGH MAHOR BM MMH ANKIT BERLIA ME NHR BIJO P. JOY BM MMH ROHIT SHAILENDRA CHOTAI ME NHR DARRU R K CHAITANYA BM MMH TANMAYA KUMAR SAHOO BT RPH M. CHAITANYA KARTHEEK BM VSH JOYDEEP SANYAL MI LLR MOHIT RASTOGI BM MMH MANASWI CH MSH NITIN KUMAR RATHORE BM MMH ROHIT JAINI CH MSH PALLAV MAHESHWARI BM MMH DEEPESH KUMAR CH AZD RAGHAVA KUMAR LAGUDU BM MMH ANIK ROY CH RKH RAHUL AGGARWAL BM MMH RAVI KUMAR CHIRANIA CH RPH SAGAR BM MMH SUMIT RAMPURIA CH RPH SATHISHWARAN R BM MMH SURAJ KALWANI CH RPH SUDEEP YADAV BM MMH HARSHIT MADAN CH RKH UTSAV MONE BM MMH MANIDEEP A CH PH RAGHAVENDRA SINGH BT MMH MEHERTEJA REDDY KALLEM CH RKH YATINDRA KUMAR CE MMH HIMANSHU SINGHAL CH NHR NIKHIL SABOO CE VSH MANISH KUJUR CH MSH KRISHNADAS P CE MMH JARUN KUMAR TIWARI ME PH HARMEET SINGH CE MMH RAHUL AGAWAL EE HJB MUNJAVARAPU P D TEJ CE VSH RAVI PRAKASH MALANI CS HJB PITCHIKA P LINGESWARA RAO CE MMH TARUN H KOTHARI EE HJB BHUSHETTE PRASHANT RAJKUMAR CH MMH

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First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall First Name Middle Name Last Name Dept. Hall

CHANDAN SHARMA CH MMH ARUN TANEJA HS JCB KAMANASHIS MAITRA CH MMH ANIRBAN MAHAJAN ID MMH KATEKHAYE SACHIN VINAYAK CH VSH BRIJENDRA KUMAR BHARTI ID MMH PATEL PRATIKKUMAR BABUBHAI CH MMH VIJAY KUMAR G ID MMH SACHINDAR KUMAR BARODIA CH MMH KEERTHIRAMAN K R ID MMH SUNIL KUMAR BHARATHI CH VSH SARAVANAKUMAR J ID MMH AKSHAY DUSHYANT WANKHEDE CH MMH VINAY KUMAR ID MMH LATANE VAIBHAV ASHOK CH MMH VISHWA DEEP SINGH ID MMH SWAPNIL MALI CH MMH ARITRA SEN IM MMH ABHIJNAN CHAKRABORTY CS MMH DATAR ANIRUDHA MOHAN IM MMH CHAVAN KIRAN ASHOK SHOBHA CS MMH VIVEK CHOUDHARY IM MMH KAPIL DEV KR RAJAK CS MMH AYUSMAN MAHANTA IP MMH RAKSHITH M CS VSH JYOTIRMAY DEWANGAN IT MMH SOURAV BASU CS MMH SHRIKANT KUMAR IT MMH SURENDER KUMAR CS MMH BOLISETTI S V R KUMAR MA MMH UTSAB BOSE CS MMH SURESH DEVANAPALLI MA MMH BISHWAJEET KUMAR ECMMH PADMAKAR PANDEY MA MMH BRAJVEER SINGH ECMMH KAWADE KUNAL MADHAV ME MMH HARI BABU CHIMAKURTHY EC MMH PAVAN KUMAR SRIVAS ME MMH JOGENDRA PRASAD PATEL ECMMH THUBE RAVINDRA SURYABHAN ME MMH SUMAN CHOWDHURY EC MMH VINJAMURI ADITYA ME MMH VASUDEV TANTRI ECMMH AJAY KUMAR KASHYAP ME MMH AMIT RANJAN AZAD ECMMHARUN BOLLAVARAPU ME MMH DEBASISH GHADEI ECMMH FAROOQ SHAIK ME MMH DILEEP S ECMMH NEERAJ KUMAR PRADHAN ME MMH KUSHAN CHAKRABORTY EC MMH NOUSIF RAHMAN K T ME MMH VENKATA VARUNBABU MANNAM ECMMHSHASHANK MISHRA ME ZH ABHISHEK KUMAR VERMA ECMMHAFEEF K ME MMH ANGA SANTHOSH KUMAR ECMMHAVINASH KUMAR YADAV ME MMH ANURAG MONDAL ECMMH CHANDAN KUMAR ME MMH DIPIN KUMAR ECMMH MUKESH KUMAR SINGH ME MMH DRONAMRAJU S SABAREESH ECMMHPATIL AMIT SURESH ME MMH RAJ KUMAR BAGHEL ECMMHPRASAD KHATI ME MMH KRANTHI KIRAN YEDLURI ECMMHSHUBHAM AGRAWAL ME MMH AMARTHALURI RAGHU KIRAN ECMMHTELIDEVARA APUROOP ME MMH ARUGULA VIVEK GOUD ECMMHVINEESH K P ME MMH BIJJU KRANTHI VEDURUPARTHI ECMMHZAKIR HUSSAIN ME MMH KADIMELLA PHANI RAJU ECMMHBALMUKUND DEWANGAN MS MMH R MADHU KUMAR ECMMHNARENDRA AJABRAO BHAGAT MS MMH SABYASACHI NAIK EE DAMODAR DEVARAKONDA MS MMH SHOBANBABU MEGAVATH EE MMH DIVE ANIRUDDHA MUKUND MS MMH SREEKANTH REDDY ARAVA EE MMH GOUTAM MAJUMDER MS MMH KOTESWARAO VEESAM EE MMH IYER RAJESH RANGANATH MS MMH VINAY KUMAR EE MMH ANAND BABU G MT MMH DINESH K K EE MMH ARNAB KARANI MT MMH NARESH UPPULURI EE MMH BADSA BENERJEE MT MMH RAJESH TANNA EE MMH BAGDE PRANAY ABHIMANUE MT MMH ANJITH GEORGE EE MMH BOBIN MATHEW SKARIA MT MMH BODA KIRAN KUMAR EE MMH NISHANT SHRIKANT FULZELE MT MMH KARAN JAIN EE MMH MESHRAM NISHIKANT GORAKHNATH MT MMH

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SOUMAVO PAUL MT MMH GONNABATTULA RAHUL CS AZD R D B PRASADA NAIDU DABBI NA MMH B BHARAT KUMAR ECAZD RAHUL RAGHAVAN NA MMH VISHAL KUMAR BHIMRAJKA ECAZD ABHIJITH P PH MMH BHUPENDRA KUMAR MEENA AG MMH SRIJITH GOPINATH PH MMH AKSHAY ARUN PHADNIS ME MMH JANGILI SATYANARAYANA PH MMH NOBHA KUMARI AG MTH PHANI KUMAR BURLU PH MMH SANDIP BALVANT PALVE AG LLR INDRAJIT DAS RE MMH UTPAL KANT PINTOO ECMMH OM PRAKASH BAJPAI RT MMH SANDEEP KUMAR SINGH ECMMH AJOY KUMAR DAS WM MMH RAM BAHADUR IM MMH CHANDAN ROY WM MMH RAHUL JAIN GG RPH GAVHANE RAHUL BHIMRAO WM MMH SWAMY KURELLA CH MMH VINOTH KUMAR R WM MMH OPRAVEEN KUMAR MUNGAMURUGU CH MMH AJAY KUMAR SAHOO ECMMH SASHANK KASIRAJU CH MMH RAGHAVENDRA POLINKI ECMMH DEBAYAN SAHA ME NHR KATHADE SUJIT KISHANRAO EE MMH PRASHANT SONKAR MA NHR PANDARABOINA GOPI KRISHNA CS VSH MUSTAQ SINGH BIJRAL MA NHR KORUPOJU ANIL KUMAR CE VSH BIRENDER SINGH DHANKHER RE MMH RANJIT KAMAL ECMMH VARUN TIWARI BT MSH RAVDEEP SINGH CH MMH INDIRA PRIYADARSHINI BOBBURI BT SN/IG BHUSHAN BHAGIRATH JOSHI ME MMH VINITA MITTAL MS MTH PRASUN PANDE ECMMH SRIKANTH YALAVARTHI CL VSH RAHUL KUMAR TIWARI EE MMH MOHD YAWAR ALI KHAN CL VSH AMIT POPAT MORE ECMMH AMRUTA PRABHAKAR KHAIRNAR AR MTH BHAVADTP BIPINBHAI SOLANKI ECMMHABHIJEET PRATAP SINGH AR MMH RAHUL UTTAMANI ME MMH ASEEM ARNAV AR LLR RANBIR MOKHYA ME MMH KRISHANU SANTRA AR VSH VYSAKH VASUDEVAN ME MMH UJJWALA ANIL CHOURASIA AR MTH YUVRAAJ NOPANY GG RPH ALOLIKA BHUNIA AR MTH JUDE YUVRAJ MARIADAS AG RPH VIJAYA VINAYAKRAO WARUDKAR AR MTH GARIMA SRIVASTAVA AG MTH SUKANYA SASMAL CH SN/IG AJEET SINGH AG MMH ABHISHEK DAS CH NHR MANOJ GADIA HS MSH SANDEEP IPPALAPALLI CH LLR JAGADEESH CHANDRA SALAKA EC MMH DAMINI GUPTA CH SN/IG SRAVANTHI ACHUGATLA EC MTH PRANAV GOEL HS RPH GITESH KUMAR CHANDRAKAR EC MMH AVANEESH DOOGAR HS AZD SATYA PRAKASH KUMAR AG MMH RAVINDER KUMAR HS PH RAVI KANT ME MMH PRAKHAR JAIN HS RPH RISHABH DEV SHARMA AG VSH MANVENDRA SINGH RATHORE HS MSH SANTOSH RAMESH AYNOR AG LLR PARAMJEET HS PH VISHWANATH UTTAMRAO SURYAWANSHI AG MMH SANDEEP KUMAR PH MMH ARINDAM DAS ME RAF MITHUN KUMAR DAS MA RPH SANJEET KUMAR ME MMH HARSHAVARDHAN REDDY BUSIREDDY MI PH DEEPANSHU ME MSH NIKHIL YAGNICAG LLR SIDDHARTH NAYAK ME MSH DHRRUMONI RABHA BM RLB SUKANYA SASMAL CH SN/IG JAYANTI SINGH BM RLB MANISH PILANIA CS AZD RAHUL KUMAR MA MMH RAVI NIRANJAN CS AZD ROSHAN ASHOKRAO KASURKAR ME MMH MUKUL KUMAR MI AZD TRAILOKYANATA SUBUDHI SYED SALMAN HYDER CE HJB GARGI GHOSH AR MTH

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Workshop on Fundraising from Alumni and Corporations - A Report

fundraising. IIT-KGP was amongst the first IITs in India to receive alumni funding. With this program it again intends to be a pioneer to fulfill the goals of organized fundraising and global branding. The purpose of the workshop was to develop an organized structure of fundraising from alumni and corporations. Also there was sharing of best practices. The aim was to increase long term fundraising through networking and involvement of alumni and interest of corporations. C J Menard, Associate Deans and development officers from top IITs came together Vice President, Global Leadership Development, Boston for a 2-day workshop held at IIT Kharagpur on February University conducted the workshop. C J Menard focused 16-17, 2012. The focus of the workshop was fundraising on systematic alumni giving and setting of clear vision for from corporations and alumni - both philanthropists and fund raising campaigns. He focused on importance of whole body of alumni. branding and emphasis on nation-building as part of fund raising process. Amitabh Banerjee, Director (Finance) of With the recommendations from the Kakodkar committee HPCL and Poonam Madan, Managing Partner at Genesis to increase autonomy for the IITs and reduction in the Burson-Marsteller, were the invited speakers. Poonam financial support, it is time for the IITs to follow the suit of threw light on CSR in India. Amitabh talked of corporate universities abroad. The Committee report recommends governance and social responsibility giving by PSUs. Both that IITs also raise financial resources from multiple sources, Poonam and Amitabh commented on how educational to augment government funding for their development. institutions can attract CSR funding which is at a nascent Just like American universities, quite a few higher educational stage in India. institutions were started in India by Indian philanthropists Presentations were made by IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT- in the pre-British era. While Tatas started Indian Institute Bombay and IIT-Madras. Prof. Contractor, Dean of Alumni of Science Bangalore, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and Corporate Relations, IIT Bombay reflected the positive and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu and high-growth story in alumni fund raising since the University was started by Madan Mohan Malviya. But setting up of their development office 4 years back. He gradually with Government taking charge of the higher emphasized on the process of formulating the strategy and education system in the country, philanthropy for this sector culture of giving while students are still at the campus has dried up. IITs have brought back the culture of giving which they have implemented successfully last year. IIT back with many of their alumni in India and abroad Kanpur shared its amazing alum-connectivity story and contributing significantly and now the IITs aspire to reach how they accomplished the commendable task of the same scale as those of the American universities. connecting with 75-80% of their alumni which resulted IIT-KGP Director Prof. Damodar Acharya set the opening into a regular giving back by the alumni. IIT Madras also tone with emphasis on fundraising through alumni talked about how their alumni are giving back every month engagement. On the same note Prof. Amit Patra, Dean, and the Institute recognizing them in various ways. Dean Alumni Affairs & International Relations, spoke about the S P Gupta of IIT Roorkee focused on developing relations holistic development of the Institute through sustainable with corporations at regular intervals and enhance corporate

30 www.iitkgp.org ALUMNI ANNUAL REPORT 2011-12 fund raising. IIT Delhi talked about proactive and integrated IIT-Madras has Dr. Gururaj Deshpande, S Gopalakrishan approach towards building alumni relations. IIT Guwahati and others. Bharti Foundation led IIT-Delhi to start the suggested that offering good placement to students could Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and serve as major branding initiative. It was encouraging to Management. see 3 new IITs participating in this workshop who will be The workshop was immensely successful and appreciated delivering alumni soon. These were IIT Patna, IIT by everybody present. Several ideas were put forward on Bhubaneswar and IIT Gandhinagar. Prof. Partha Ray of IIT networking, collaborations, branding and world ranking of Patna spoke about why corporate contributions are IITs through organized fund raising. It was also agreed that necessary for corporations to develop future business fundraising cannot be considered in isolation. The growth leaders. Chinna Boddipalli of IIT-KGP talked about how of an institution would happen when all the stakeholders the Institutional Development (ID) program can revolutionize share a common vision and work towards a common goal the fundraising structure in the Indian higher educational as pointed out by C J Menard. sector. Chinna is Managing Director of this program which is designed according to the development programs of US universities and customized for the Indian higher education environment. The workshop was an initiative of the ID team. There was also a best ideas' session where every IIT was asked to put forward two ideas on fundraising and branding. IIT-Delhi and IIT-Patna took the top slots followed by KGP and Roorkee at the 2nd and 3rd positions. The idea of social media came up frequently to connect with the alumni worldwide. Many IITian philanthropists have contributed generously to their Alma mater which took the shape of new developments in each of these IITs receiving such contributions. Several US- based alumni have helped set up schools and centers. At IIT-KGP new developments through major alumni contributions happened since 1990s. Vinod Gupta School of Management and Rajiv Gandhi School of Law by Vinod Gupta, GS Sanyal School of Telecommunication by Arjun Malhotra, School of Infrastructure Design and Management by Ron Gupta, and the very recent School for Bio-energy by Dr. Prabhakant Sinha are the major ones. At IIT Bombay, alumni from across the world have contributed handsomely for their alma mater over the past 15 years. Among some of the major initiatives by the alumni are School of IT by Kanwal Rekhi, School of Management by Shailesh Mehta, D S Foundation Gymkhana by Bharat Desai, Convention Center by Victor Menezes and many more. Similar are the stories for other IITs. While wife of Late Prof. Rajeev Motwani and Narayana Murthy have donated significantly to IIT-Kanpur,

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Our Publications - the way we connect

achievements, students' news, Institute and chapter events and a varied range of topics related to the KGPians. KGP Connection (e-newsletter) - The newly launched fortnightly e-newsletter. The newsletter comprising news about IIT KGP students, alumni sent to over 14000 alumni. Alumni Annual Report - The publication was launched in 2011 catering to the alumni and bringing to them the achievements under the ID Program umbrella throughout the year. "Yearnings of Yore" is an Annual Alumni literary magazine Yearbook - The Annual Yearbook of IIT Kharagpur, which is distributed as a Meet souvenir to all the alumni "Kognosco.Gaudeo.Perficio", started off with a publication attending the meet. This magazine reaches out to the for the class of 2011 last year, and then for the class of illustrious community of our alumni, keeping them 2012 this year, it created a huge buzz amongst the passing connected to their beloved institute. Articles written by out students. The second edition of the yearbook was the alumni as a saga to commemorate the times of their launched at the farewell dinner of the 2012 batch, "Alvida". lives as well as touch the nostalgic side of other alumni, The yearbook contains the profiles and photographs of all mention of long lost friends , adventurous ordeals and what the respective passing out students, along with breathtaking not !! photographs of the campus catalogued in month wise order KGPian - The quarterly newsletter KGPian is a connecting and write ups of all the memorable events of the year. platform for all students, alumni and faculty. Here we report Institute developments and activities, alumni and faculty

Mentorship Program

Mentorship Programme Last academic session saw a participation of over 120 is an initiative of mentors with 300 students as mentees, thus making the Students' Alumni Cell programme a success. SAC has been instrumental in forging (SAC) under the aegis these ties between the students and the mentors ensuring of Office of Alumni smooth communication Affairs & International between them. We Relations, IIT Kharagpur. begin again, this The programme was academic session, to started in academic reach new heights and session 2010-2011. It aims at a healthy interaction between make this programme an interested mentor and eager protégé, thus fostering and a successful endeavor. nurturing Alumni-Student relationship.

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Institute Lecture Series

Speaker: Prof. David L Kaplan, Professor and Chair - Guest Lecture Series organized by Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University - Students' Alumni Cell USA, Director: NIH Tissue Engg. Resource Centre Topic: "New Strategies for Tissue Engineering" Students' Alumni Cell (SAC) has been organizing alumni guest lecturers for the past few years. The topic of the guest Speaker: Prof. Bruce R. Ellingwood, the Raymond Allen lecture is decided upon contemplation of the latest trends Jones Chair in Civil Engg. College of Engineering of career paths as perceived by the students. This is followed Distinguished Professor Georgia Institute of Technology, by a thorough search for the perfect alumni profile by the Atlanta, USA members of SAC. Topic: "Assessment and mitigation of risk from competing SAC is responsible for contacting the respective alumni, low- probability, high- consequence events" corresponding on behalf of the institute's students and presenting a questionnaire before the event, the publicity Speaker: Dr. M R Ramsay, First D.Sc of IE&M Department, and logistics etc. On an average 4 guest lectures are IIT Kharagpur, Director-International Institute of Productivity organized in a year. Mr Rajesh Pandey, an IAS Officer, was Science and Management(IIPSM), D. Litt (UK), D.B.A invited to enlighten our students about "Careers in Civil (USA) Services", another successful lecture was given by a 1996 Topic: "Productivity science Quantification" alumni Mr. Anshuman Vatsayan, VP, Deutsche Bank on "Careers in Investment Banking and Finance". Mr. Anupam Speaker: Prof. Rafiqul Islam, Distinguished Scientist & Goyal, a 1962 alumnus inspired students during the meet Professor, Dhaka University with his immaculate views on "Leadership". Topic: "Energy & Environment Challenges in the 21st Century"

Speaker: Mr. Dharam Vir, IAS (Retd.), State Election Commissioner, Haryana and alumnus of IIT Kharagpur Topic: "History of IIT Kharagpur - A few unknown Facts"

Speaker: Dr. Samit K. Bhattacharyya, IIT Kharagpur Alumnus and President, RENMAR Enterprise, Inc. Topic: "Nuclear Technology Development for Applications in Space"

Speaker: Prof. Amitabha Ghosh, Former Director, IIT Kharagpur Topic: "Aryan Invasion: Myth or Reality - A Discussion Based upon Recent Findings"

Speaker: Prof. Rajiv Malhotra, Founder President, The infinity Foundation, USA Topic: On the book "Being Different" (Harper Collings, 2011)

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Annual Alumni Meet 2012

Event Report and Arghya Das (MI/ AH), Country Manager, Hindustan Petroleum committed INR 50 lacs from each batch towards founding endowment funds for the Institute. Distinguished Distinguished Service Award Service awardee Pronob Guha also made similar The 9th Annual Alumni Meet of IIT Kharagpur was organized commitment for his batch of 1969. YPS Suri of 1975 batch at the Kharagpur campus between January 6 -8, 2012. On has also committed towards the cause. this occasion the Institute honoured six of its alumni with IIT-KGP is organizing the 10th Annual Alumni Meet between Distinguished Service Award. Among the recipients was 4th-6th January, 2013. All the esteemed alumni of IIT Jaideep Sarkar (IFS), Yatinder Pal Suri, Pronob Kumar Kharagpur are cordially invited to be a part of the Meet Guha, Dharam Vir, Roy Dasilva, Shyamal Roy Chowdhury. with the passing out batches of 1963 (Golden Jubilee), Key Alumni Participants and Panelists 1973 (Ruby Jubilee) & 1988 (Silver Jubilee) being our special guests of honour. The 9th Annual Alumni Meet was graced with the presence of about 120 alumni from India and abroad and alumni- faculty members of the Institute. Some among them were Barnik Maitra - Partner, Mackenzie Ltd., Manavendra Sinha- President & CEO IDFC Project Equity, Mahesh Swaminathan - MD Credit Suisse, Bala Rama Nayar - MD Morpheus Capital Advisors, and who's who from various other fields. Several of these alumni also participated in the panel discussion organized by the alumni cell on the topic of enhancement of brand image of IITs. The alumni, faculty and students participated in this discussion with full vigour. Other Events Other major attractions of the event were Hasya Kavi Sammelan, Mini Marathon and Illumination - an indigenous lighting tradition of IIT Kharagpur students. The book "The Game Changers - 20 extraordinary success stories of entrepreneurs from IIT Kharagpur" penned by three alumni was released on this occasion. The 3-day event closed with fine arts and photography exhibition by the students. Giving Back - Alumni Pledge The alumni were not only nostalgic about their Alma mater which had a life-changing impact on them but were excited to see the developments in the campus and in the mindsets. They widely appreciated the Vision 2020 of the Institute and also committed to contribute towards it. The specially invited batches of 1962 led by Anupam Goyal (ME/ RP), President, LeadExcel Inc. and 1987 led by Supriyo Sircar (E&ECE / AZ), President, IIT Alumni Association Singapore

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Institute Awards

Distinguished Alumnus Awardees - 2011-2012

Captain N.S. Mohan Ram (OENA/1958) Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb (ME /1985 / Nehru) Mr. Debnarayan Bhattacharya (CH/1969/ VS) Dr. Kaushik Roy (E& ECE/ 1983/ Azad) Nrupender Rao (ME/1966/ Azad) Prof. Biswapriya Sanyal (B.Arch/1972) Dr. Amit Roy (CH /1970) Prof. Ned Mohan (EE/1967/Azad) Prof. B.C. NAKRA (M.Tech. ME/ 1961/ Gokhale) Late Saumyendra Nath Brahmachary (ME/1968/Azad) Dr. Samit K. Bhattacharyya (ME/ 1968/ Patel) Prof. Ramesh Kumar Agarwal (ME/68/VS) Prof. Lallit Anand (ME/1970) Prof. Jammi Srinivasa Rao (ME - M.Tech./63, Ph.D./65, C. N. Raghavendran (ARP /1966) D.Sc./71) Dr. Satyen Mukherjee (E & ECE /1976/Azad) Prof. Mahinder Kumar Jain (Maths / 1963) Dr. Pradip K. Dutta (E & ECE/81/ Azad) Prof. P. K. Rajagopalan (Ph.D/EE/1959) Prasad R. Menon (CH/1968/Nehru) Prof. Braj Bhushan Pandey (CE/1961/RK)

Distinguished Service Awardees

Dharam Vir (69/PH) Pronob Kumar Guha (69/EE/NH) Roy Dasilva (74/EE) Yatinder Pal Singh Suri (75/ME/RK) Jaideep Sarkar (85/CHE/85) Shyamal Roy Chowdhury (65/ME/NH)

Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award

The Foundation Day of the Institute was celebrated on 18th August, 2011. The 5th Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award, a first of its kind India - wide Technical Innovation Award instituted by IIT Kharagpur in 2006 was presented to Indian Institute of Science Biomass Gasification Techonology (IBG), IISC Bangalore. Commemorating the spirit of Dr. Nina Saxena, B.Tech. (Hons.), ECE 1992, who passed away tragically in 2005, the award is an attempt to encourage and promote technical innovation with a social development focus. The award is the result of a lot of hard work on Nina’s husband, Dr. Akhil Sahai’s part; also our alumnus.

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Faculty Recognition

Professor Sirshendu De, Department of Chemical Engineering, received Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, 2011 for outstanding works in Science and Engineering, from CSIR, Govt. of India. Research Focus

l Membrane separations l Transport Processes l Flow through microchannels Research Highlight Prof. Sirshendu De works in various fields of Chemical Engineering with the thrust area in Membrane Separation Processes. He has following contributions: l Developed a membrane based technology for extraction of polyphenol from green tea leaves. This technology is transferred to a company for commercialization. l Developed a membrane based technology for production of clarified coconut water, mosambi juice and water melon with high shelf life using cold sterilization. l Developed membrane based technology for extraction of stevioside from stevia leaves. l Developed membrane based technology for treatment of textile, tannery and paper mill effluent. l Developed technology for a cost effective, indigenous hollow fiber spinning unit. l Developed a technology for an inexpensive filter for arsenic removal suitable for rural people using laterite based adsorption. Apart from these technologies, Prof De and his students have tremendous contribution in the fundamental studies. These include estimation of mass transfer coefficient in membrane channels in various geometries, flow regimes, rhelogies, etc. He developed an efficient solution and algorithm scheme using generalized integral method under the framework of boundary layer for the modeling of cross flow membrane filtration. He did pioneering works in flux enhancement techniques during membrane separation, including, electric field enhanced filtration, plasma assisted filtration, use of turbulent promoters, etc. He has significant contribution in micellar enhanced filtration and design protocols of membrane modules. His pore blocking models have tremendous practical impact in membrane fouling. He also has significant works in cloud point extraction, microscale heat exchange, flow modeling in microchannels and microreactors. Sponsored Research Projects

l Production of low cost hollow fiber hemodialysis cartridge l Field trial of low cost laterite based arsenic filter: Domestic and community scale Awards and Achievements

l Silver Jubilee Young Engineer Award, 2012 from Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi l DAE-SRC Oustanding Investigator Award, 2012 from Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India. l Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2011. l Herdillia Award, for the year 2010 for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemical Engineering, from Indian Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2010. l Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Foundations's award, for supervising best PhD thesis of Dr. Chandan Das from Indian Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2010. l Best Reviewer Award for year 2010 from Desalination, Elsevier. l V.N.M.M award, for the year 2009 for innovative and creative work in the field of engineering in India in any discipline, by IIT Roorkee.

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l Dr. A. V. Rama Rao Foundations's award, for supervising best PhD thesis of Dr. M. K. Purkait from Indian Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2007. l Sisir Kumar Mitra memorial award from Indian Institution of Chemical Engineers, 2003 l Young Engineer Award, Department of Science & Technology, 2001 (Fast Track Scheme) l INAE Young Engineer award for the year 2001 for excellence in basic research by Indian National Academy of Engineering. l Amar Dye Chem award for the year 2000 for excellence in basic research in Chemical Engineering by Indian Institue of Chemical Engineers. l K. F. Antia memorial award from Institute of Engg. India, for 1994-95 for the article 'Analytical solution of transient heat conduction with variable thermal conductivity in a finite domain'. The award was received from the President of India on Dec. 20, 1995 at Jaipur, India. l "K. C. Khilar Memorial Lecture and Fellowship", Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2012. l "Shrimati Kusumben and Shri Mathradas Kothari Visiting Professorship in Chemical Engineering" in Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai for 2010-2011. l Member of Award Committee of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2012. l Six registered patents

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Faculty Awards

Dr. Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya receives IBM Faculty Kousik Deb joined the Institute in 2008. He has recently Award been awarded Fast Track Project Grant for Young Scientists Dr. Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya, Associate - 2012 from Science and Engineering Research Council Professor, Department of Electronics and (SERC), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Electrical Communication, has been honored India (2012). His research areas are Slope Stability, Soil- with the IBM Faculty Award for 2012. Structure Interaction, Ground Improvement, Geosynthetic- T K Bhattacharya joined the Institute in 2000. Reinforced Earth and more. He is the Prof-in-charge of Advanced VLSI lab. His research Dr. Sabyashachi Mishra honoured by DST areas are MEMS and Microsystems, RF and Analog VLSI, Dr. Sabyashachi Mishra, Assistant Professor, Nano- electronics, Thinfilms, Nano-scale Biosystems Department of Chemistry has been selected Engineering. He has close to 40 publications and is running by the Department of Science and Technology 9 industrial research and consultancy projects. (DST), India, for the following : (i) Ramanujan Prof. T Pathak honored with Dr. D. S. Bhakuni Award Fellowship and (ii) DST INSPIRE Faculty Award. Dr. Tanmaya Pathak, Professor, Department Dr. Mishra joined the Institute this year. His research area of Chemistry, has been awarded the Dr. D. is theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Molecular S. Bhakuni Award for the year 2010, Physics and Molecular Biology. recommended by the Council of the Indian Prof. A Bhattacherjee felicitated as the "Eminent Mining Chemical Society. Engineer" Prof. T Pathak joined the Institute in 2001. His research Professor Ashis Bhattacherjee, Department areas are Carbohydrates. Nucleosides. Heterocycles. of Mining Engineering, for being felicitated Carbocycles. Back-bone modified dinucleosides. as the "Eminent Mining Engineer", by the Prof. Indranil Manna awarded J. C. Bose National Institutions of Engineers (India), Kolkata for Fellowship his valuable contributions to the field of Mining Dr. Indranil Manna, Professor, Department Engineering. This was on the occasion of the of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 23rd National Convention of Mining Engineers held on (currently on lien as Director, CSIR-Central February 23-24, 2012 organized West Bengal State Centre Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata), of the Institution. Prof. Bhattacherjee joined the Institute has been awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose in 1992. His research area is Occupational Health and National Fellowship, by the Department of Safety and Operations Research applications in mining. Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, Prof. A K Gupta awarded the prestigious J. C. Bose in recognition to his active outstanding performance and National Fellowship contribution to Materials Engineering. Dr. Anil K. Gupta, Professor, Department of Prof. Manna did his Ph.D. from KGP and joined the Institute Geology and Geophysics has been awarded as faculty in 1985. Prof Manna is a metallurgical engineer, the prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship, a renowned educator and a prolific researcher. His significant by the Department of Science and Technology, contributions in the studies of amorphous/nanocrystalline Government of India, New Delhi. The Al-alloys, nano-fluid and laser/plasma assisted surface fellowship is meant to recognize active engineering greatly inspired the scientific community. scientists and engineers for their outstanding performance Dr. Kousik Deb selected for IIT Roorkee Shamsher and contributions. Prof. Gupta joined the Institute in 1987. Prakash Research Award Prof. Manish A Mamtani (Geology & Geophysics) wins Dr. Kousik Deb, Assistant Professor, National Geoscience Award Department of Civil Engineering, has been Dr. Manish Atmaprakash Mamtani, Professor, selected for the IIT Roorkee Shamsher Prakash Department of Geology & Geophysics, has Research Award for the year 2012, given by been selected for the National Geoscience IIT Roorkee, for his achievements in soil science Award by the Ministry of Mines, Government and engineering. 40 www.iitkgp.org ALUMNI ANNUAL REPORT 2011-12 of India, in recognition of his significant contribution in the awardees of The NCPEDP - MphasiS Universal Design field of Basic Geosciences. Prof. Mamtani joined the Institute Awards 2011. The awards which received an overwhelming in 1999. His research areas are Structural Geology and response in its introductory year (2010) was given on the Microtectonics. eve of Independence Day i.e. 14th August. Prof. Anupam Prof. Suman Chakraborty, ME awarded for Research in Basu, from the Department of Computer Science and Heat and Mass Transfer Engineering, IIT Kharagpur has won in category B for Working Professionals. Dr. Suman Chakraborty, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been awarded Awards in this category are given to people who work for Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Medal and Prize for the cause of accessibility and Universal Design in any of Research in Heat and Mass Transfer, by the the areas such as built environment, transport infrastructure, Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer, service provision, information and communication Chennai. technology (ICT), universally designed consumer products, Prof. Chakraborty joined the Institute in 2002. His research mobility & independent living aids, or assistive technology. areas are - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Interfacial Dr. Bhargab Maitra conferred the IRC-Pt. Jawaharlal Phenomena, Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing, Nehru Birth Centenary Award -2011 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Dr. Bhargab Maitra, Associate Professor, Dr. Jayanta Das receives "IEI Young Engineers Award Department of Civil Engineering, has been 2011-2012" conferred the IRC-Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Dr. Jayanta Das, Assistant Professor (TT), Centenary Award, for the year 2011, for his Department of Metallurgical & Materials notable contributions to the profession, Engineering, has been selected for the "IEI awarded by the Indian Road Congress, New Delhi. This Young Engineers Award 2011-2012" in Medal is awarded to a Scientist/Highway Engineer for Metallurgical and Materials Engineering conspicuously important and outstanding contribution to discipline, awarded by the Institution of the development of roads in India. Dr. Maitra Maitra joined Engineers (India), Kolkata. Dr. Das did his Ph.D from TU the Institute in 2001. Dresden, Germany. Director Prof. Acharya gets Biswasarai Award His research areas are - Solidification and Non-equilibrium Processing, Metastable and Nanostructured Alloys, High Director Prof. Acharya was honored with Temperature Oxidation, Structure-Property Relationship, Biswasarai Award for 2011 on September 15 Phase Transformation during the Engineers Day celebrations organised by the Odisha Engineers' Forum. Dr. Rajib Maity awarded the "Emerging Leaders Justice MM Dash gave away the award for Dr Fellowship Acharya's excellence in the field of engineering. Dr. Rajib Maity, Assistant Professor, Department As an academician, Professor Acharya has the distinction of Civil Engineering, has been awarded the of supervising more than thirty Ph.D. students, and "Emerging Leaders Fellowship 2011-2012", publishing more than 85 papers in journals of repute. He offered by Australia India Institute, based at is a consultant to many world-class companies, such as the University of Melbourne, Australia. He Tata Steel, General Motors, Hindustan Lever, and Tata has also received the award for IEI Young Chemicals. His areas of interest and research include Engineers in 2011. Operations Research, Production Planning and Control, Dr. Maity did Ph.D. from IISc Bangalore and joined the Supply Chain, and Maintenance Management. Institute in 2008. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering. Prof. Anupam Basu won the NCPEDP - MphasiS Universal Design Awards 2011 in the category of Working Professionals The National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), in association with AccessAbility and BarrierBreak Technologies, announced the

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Young Faculty Fellowship Program

Dr. Amit Shaw This award was launched in 2010 to recognize achievements by young faculty at the Institute. Under the Program, the Institute would select the faculty annually who would be eligible for - a Citation, a Rolling Trophy and financial incentive to be decided by the selecting committee jointly with TAA-BLR on a yearly basis. The faculty should be below the age of 35 years to be eligible under the program. This year the fellowship has been awarded to Dr. Amit Shaw (Ph.D IISC Bangalore) of Civil Engineering Department. Dr. Shaw joined the Institute in year 2009. His key research areas are -

l Impact Mechanics

l Computational Mechanics

l Ballistic Response of Nano-Composite Armour

l Underwater blast Dr. Shaw's present research is focused on several areas of impact mechanics particularly ceramic-metal composite armour for military vehicle and non-composite based flexible body armour. The overall aim of his current research is to propose a recipe for a satisfactory armour system for military vehicles and personnel against the types of threat likely to be encountered in the modern battlefield.

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New Appointment

Dr. Sripada Venkata Joga Rao appointed as Dean, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law

Dr. Sripada Venkata Joga Rao appointed as Dean, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law. He joined the Institute as Professor and Dean on February 16, 2012.

Prof. Rao specializes in Health Care and Criminal Law. He has practiced law for about 9 years focusing on Healthcare Law and Ethics and coordinated the activities of Legalexcel - a firm of Advocates, Solicitors and Healthcare Consultants.

Before joining IIT-KGP Prof. Rao was with National Law School of India University. He was earlier lecturer at Sikkim Government Law College, Gangtok, Principal N.B.M. Law College, Visakhapatnam, Additional Professor of Law, National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Prof. Rao is recipient of various gold medals and prizes a special mention to the Fellowship of Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany.He also obtained the University FIRST RANK in B.L. and M.L. He has published a number of articles in various Journals and also published several books and participated in various conferences in India and abroad.

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National Service Scheme (NSS)

The NSS activity is in place for over 25 years. Dr. Goutam Saha of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication is the Program Coordinator for the IIT-KGP NSS team. Dr. Saha along with the leadership team has been successful in energizing the program with all support from the Institute and in creating an enthusiastic team of volunteers. Under his leadership the team of about 1000 volunteers have done commendable community development work in 15 nearby villages or slums, each of which is supervised by one dedicated program officer. NSS has been involved in education of poor children from nearby villages, creating awareness related to governmental benefits available for tribal people and programs like MGNREGA, organizing health camps related to immunity and blood donation, organizing various social and cultural events, village road constructions, digging wells, constructing boundary wall for open wells, renovation of public utilities, arranging scholarships to needy students, providing safe drinking water in school and food- tray for midday meal, prevention of alcoholism, child marriage and promoting other welfare activities. Students take classes on Saturdays at primary schools and other educational institutions aided by government. Faculty program officers visit every Saturday and at times in the middle of the week to supervise the developmental work undertaken. They work in such a way that elected representatives like Panchayet, district administration like SDO, BDO and local community leaders are taken into confidence and work together for development initiatives. The immense success of the NSS team has led to reporting of IIT-KGP NSS activities to Prime Minister as part of NSS national activities. The Program Coordinator got special invitation to contribute to National Youth Policy 2012. The team is looking forward to involvement of larger IIT-KGP community to improve development- indices among the underprivileged neighbours around IIT-KGP campus.

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From the desk of Training & Placement

Training and Placement section, like every year has continued its saga of success. A total of 1663 +30(MS /Ph.D ) students had registered for placement through campus during 2011-2012. The final placement process started from 1st December, 2011 and will continue up to 30th June, 2012. In all more than 2500 companies were invited for campus visit by post as well as by e- mail, out of which above 200 companies actively participated in the campus placements till 30.03.2012 and all total of 1312 (77.49 % ) placed through campus interviews including those who are expected to have opted for higher studies/got jobs through off campus.

Course/Degree No. of students registered No. of students placed Percentage B.Tech. (Hons.) 443 393 88.71 B.Arch. (Hons.) 022 017 77.27 5 yr. Integrated M.Sc. 108 095 87.96 Dual Degree M.Tech. 284 268 94.37 M.Tech/MCP 692 458 66.18 2yr. M.Sc. 114 051 44.74 Ph.D./Ms 030 030 100 Total 1693 1312 77.49

The offers covered a wide spectrum of industries such as Core Engineering, IT, Consulting, Financial , Analytics , R & D, PSUs, and academics . The highlight of the placement season was Facebook which made 4 offers at a package of USD 125000 per annum in Silicon Valley. This is the maximum no. of offers made by Facebook across any IIT. The students who got the offers are Radhika Mittal (CSE-B.Tech.), Arun Dobriyal, Asish Kumar Yadav and Vighnesh Vadhani all from CSE-Dual degree. This is said to be best campus offer so far this season. The 2nd best offer was by Microsoft for a package of USD 119000 per annum for their Redmond US office with a total of 6 offers including 5 for its IDC office. EPIC also made 6 offers for USD 80000 per annum. The average salary this year has been an impressive Rs 14.5 lakh per annum, which is markedly better from last year. Reliance Industries Ltd. recruited the highest number of students with 32 offers, Coal India and Oracle being the 2nd highest recruiter with 24 offers and Ericsson India 3rd with 20 offers. Among the foreign companies, the top recruiters were Rio Tinto and Schlumberger Asia both with 17 offers each. The other recruiters with large number of offers were Samsung India (16), Tata Steel (15), CTS (14), Tata Motors (14), Qualcomm India (14), Cisco Systems (12), Infosys (12), ITC (12), GE (11), Z.S. Associates (11), NetApp (10), Paypal /Ebay (9). In addition to Bankbazaar with 17 offers, other finance companies also recruited in good nos. - Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, HSBC EDPI, with 8 offers each. Other sectors worth mentioning are IT, Consulting, Exploration and the core engineering and technology sectors. 18 companies from Silicon Valley recruited from the campus this year. Among the consults Boston Consulting Group, Essex Lake Group, Opera Solution, EXL Services and Deloitte visited the campus for recruitment. Overall the placement season turned out to be remarkably successful for IIT Kharagpur with the maximum no. of offers and highest no. of companies amongst all IITs. A similar trend is expected for the placement season of 2012-13.

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Gymkhana Report

Section I : Technology 2nd and 3rd respectively. LLR bagged the Innovation Cup, In the technology domain of the Gymkhana, following the while Azad and Nehru bagged the knowledge and legacy of its predecessors, Kshitij 2012 could again establish application cups respectively. itself as the Asia's largest techno-management symposium The Technology Robotix society took initiatives to conduct with many saying it to be the best edition yet. Kshitij 2012 workshops for students in the cities of Kolkata, Ranchi, saw a participation of 60000 budding technocrats from all Durgapur and Kalyani. The winter workshop this year saw across the country. The overwhelming response of a participation of 180 students from the campus. The participants to the submission events laid a fair foundation Robotix will also be travelling to the United States to for Kshitij 2012. Kshitij for the third consecutive year, participate in the Automated Ground Vehicle(AGV) ventured into social sector, this time through Disha and competition this summer. The Quiz club team was one of Prayaas, events in which youth debated solutions for social the top 6 teams at the Tata Crucible Quiz Competition. and national security related issues. The four day Section II: Sports extravaganza from 27th January to January 30th 2012 saw Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur celebrated its a footfall of 2400 outstation participants including students Diamond Jubilee this year and as part of the celebration, from eminent institutions like IITs, IIMs , NLUs , BITs and IIT Kharagpur hosted 47th Inter IIT Sports Meet where many more. The symposium played host to 45 events around 1500 athletes from all the 15 IITs took part. In including Overnite(ACM/ICPC Multi-Provincial Programming addition, Volleyball (Girls) was introduced as a Demo event Contest), Laws of Motion( IMechE certified Aircraft designing from this year. contest) AquaRanger (IMechE certified Airboat designing This year new sports infrastructure facilities were constructed contest) Kryotech (ASHRAE certified HVAC design contest), and started for Inter IIT and some changes were made in Eureka(IEEE certified technical paper presentation) and the sports venues. ASME SDE drew a massive participation from the tech- savvy generation. The symposium was also marked with l New changing room/pavilion for Cricket Grounds. the honorable presence of numerous significant personalities We have 2 pitches now. like Naseeruddin Shah, Dr Holger Nielson (Father of String l Two football grounds in Tata Sports Complex. theory), Dr Antonio Ereditato (Director, Sub Atomic Particles l Two Synthetic Lawn Tennis courts. Division, CERN),Prabhu Chawla, Robert Young Pelton l 3 New Indoor Badminton Courts. (Adventure Journalist), Sir James Mirrlees (Nobel Laureate, l New Squash Court. Economics), Paulo Nespoli (Astronaut, NASA), Ajay Bhatt l One new basketball court and renovation of the existing (Inventor of USB), James Hendlar (Father of Semantic Web), 2 courts. Federico Faggin (Father of Microprocessors) and Carlo Ratti l 3 Volleyball courts (Director, MIT Senseable City Lab), who captivated the and other further improvement of the grounds and budding technocrats with their wisdom and experience. courts. The Chief Guest for Inter IIT Aquatics Meet was The Technology General Championship concluded on the Mr.Prashant Karmakar. 8th of April this year, and with IDPs for Product Design and Chem-innovation, this year's GC set the trend for The Chief Guest for Inter IIT Main Meet was Ms.Poulomi students to have a better experience with the industry. This Ghatak. year LLR hall of residence won the Technology GC with In a healthy competition and sports environment, IIT Azad hall of residence and Nehru hall of residence coming Kharagpur got Gold in Swimming & Bronze in Waterpolo,

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Silver in Volleyball, and Bronze in Cricket & Basketball (M). sports venues, the Tempo for Sports in students has With a healthy participation from the Girls of IIT Kharagpur, increased. Now that all the infrastructure needs are fulfilled, we were Runner's Up in the 47th Inter IIT Women General we expect the Inter IIT General Championship to be won Championship, with Gold in Lawn Tennis & Table Tennis, by IIT Kharagpur and bring back the glory home in 48th Silver in Athletics and Bronze in Basketball & Badminton. Inter IIT, 2012. The General Championship (Men) Standings With the new Students' Activity Centre and the various so far are as follows:

Gold Silver Bronze 4th Swimming PATEL RP NEHRU AZAD Waterpolo RP PATEL LLR NEHRU Wt. Lifting RK PATEL NEHRU AZAD Football LLR NEHRU MMM AZAD Tennis AZAD PATEL MS NEHRU Athletics NEHRU PATEL MS RP Cricket AZAD MMM-2 NEHRU PATEL Hockey RK PATEL NEHRU RP Volleyball MMM-1 PATEL LLR RP Badminton LLR MS RP RK Basketball RK PATEL NEHRU MS Table Tennis MS PATEL MMM RK Chess PATEL AZAD RK MS Bridge LLR NEHRU PATEL AZAD

The Inter Hall General Championship 2011-12 was won by Patel Hall. Acknowledgement Abhishek Negi & PratyakshPathak, General Secretaries, Sports and Games, TSG '11-'12 Section III: Social and Cultural won hearts of the entire nation. We saw for the first time, Spring Fest 2012, the diamond jubilee edition was special the street play competition,"NUKKAD" going nationwide, in more than one ways. We saw Spring Fest successfully with prelims being conducted in Delhi , Chandigarh and conducting the first ever IIT Kharagpur Model United Kharagpur. All the dramatics events were judged and Nations, the splendid performance by Makarand Deshpande certified by Makrand Deshpande himself. The Israeli group- and his crew notwithstanding. With a novel theme of cards, Shy-ben was another value addition to the glorious list of we saw a new event-"Shuffle". The dazzling performances star performances. Spring Fest 2012 saw and exhibited by Mrigya, Parikrama, the sheer brilliance of Vishal Shekhar once again the true spirit of youth, the joyous faces, the

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spring boom all culminating into four days of awesomeness. As this remarkable journey culminates and we move into As in the General Championship and Gymkhana activities a new era, we would like to take this opportunity to the ups and downs and tit for tat are an unavoidable part acknowledge the support of those who have helped us to give shape to this marvelous edition. We would like to of the sub-committee meetings-which somehow become thank Professor Manish Bhattacharjee, Prof. MM Ghangrekar memories which one cant forget.It was the first time a and Prof. A Rajakumar for their continuous guidance and separate budget allocation took place for the outstationed support. Thanks to Mr. Prateek Agrawal for his never ending participation of the societies which clearly reflected in their efforts in improving things for the students. The team enthusiasm.With ETDS winning in Banglore, HTDS and behind Spring Fest-2012 Last but amongst the most TDS in IIM Calcutta and Debating club in countless Debates important and hardworking, the secretaries of the Social and Model United Nations the year was marked with and Cultural Sub-Committee- memorable moments of societies bringing laurels to the Niti Agarwal Adyasha Maharana institute. The formation of a film making and photographic Anu V. society added new dimensions to the varied cultural activities K. Harika under the gymkhana. Another social award under the Chaitali Chakraborti pipeline is to add more 'social' part in the general K Anil Kumar championship. Deepti Sahoo

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New Constructions Photos

Vikram Sarabhai Residential Complex for Project Staff Azad Hall New Block

Students' Activity Center Expanded Gymkhana Building Sir J C Bose Laboratory Complex for First year Laboratories and new Research Centres

New NCC Building, in DVC Nalanda Academic Complex

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Alumni Network

IIT Foundation USA Website : iitfoundation.org President Roy Louis Dasilva [email protected] Treasurer Joy Bhattacharya [email protected] Secretary Vasan Raman [email protected] IIT Foundation India President Ramnath Mani [email protected] Vice President Abhijit Ray [email protected] Secretary Pronob Guha [email protected] Treasurer B K Mathur [email protected] Domestic Chapters TAA Bangalore Phone : 080 - 2556 6918; Website : http://iitkgpblr.org President Sam Venkatesam [email protected] Vice President Utkal Mohnaty: [email protected] Secretary Subrata Mandal [email protected] Treasurer Shantanu Nandi: [email protected] TAA Chennai President Mr. K. R. Subramaniam [email protected] Vice President Mr. Sekhar Priyadarshee [email protected] Secretary Mr. S. Chandrasekharan [email protected]

TAA Mumbai Website : http://iitkgp.atmumbai.in/ Pankaj Mithel President [email protected] Nishad Kenkre Secretary [email protected] Quais Fatehi Treasurer [email protected]

TAA Kolkata Chapter President Arun Prakash Das [email protected] Vice President Kamal K Patodia [email protected] Vice President Dipak Barma [email protected] Secretary Ranjoy Ghosh [email protected]

TAA Delhi Chapter President Y P S Suri [email protected] Vice President Suresh Paruthi [email protected] Vice President Ashok Shukla [email protected]

TAA Kharagpur President Prof. G Bandyopadhyay [email protected] Secretary Dr. Dilip Nanda [email protected] Joint Secretary Prof. Kajal Biswas [email protected] Treasurer Dr. Joy Sen [email protected]

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International Chapters TAA Atlanta Mondira Deb Pant [email protected] Rajan Sriram [email protected] Sandip Dutta [email protected] Manas Bajaj [email protected] TAA Boston Sriketan Monhanti [email protected] Palaghat A Balasubramanian [email protected] TAA Chicago Ramu Ramachandran [email protected] Saurabh Bagchi [email protected] Shailendra Verma [email protected] L Ramachandran [email protected] Vikram Vuppala [email protected] TAA Houston Hemant Jha [email protected] TAA Kuwait M.V.Babji Rao [email protected]; [email protected] Indrajit Bhowmick [email protected] TAA London Rajeev G Nair [email protected] TAA Malaysia Subroto Haldar [email protected] Dipanjan Majumder [email protected] TAA Minneapolis Rajiv Tandon [email protected] Balram Suman [email protected] TAA New England Puran Dang [email protected] Anoop Kumar [email protected] TAA New York Ajit K Agrawal [email protected] Subhodev Das [email protected] TAA Singapore Devashish Dutta [email protected] Biswajit Khan [email protected] TAA SOCAL Alok Chatterjee [email protected] Debasish Banerjee [email protected] TAA Sydney Davender K Jain [email protected]

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