ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PATNA (An institute under Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India) ASHOK RAJPATH, PATNA-800005 (BIHAR) ANNUAL REPORT INCLUDING AUDITED ANNUAL ACCOUNTS OF 2018-19 Tel: 0612-2370419, 2370843, 2371930, 2371715, 2372715, 2371929, 2670631 Ext.-101 Fax 0612-2670631 Website: www.nitp.ac.in Email: [email protected] 2 | National Institute of Technology Patna CONTENTS PREFACE 4 CHAPTER-1 9 INTRODUCTION 10 Vision, Mission & Values 10 Historical Background 11 Location 11 Campus 11 Education System 11 CHAPTER-2 12 THE BOG, SENATE AND OTHER COMMITTEES 13 Board of Governors (BoG) 13 Finance Committee (FC) 14 Building and Works Committee (BWC) 14 Senate 15 List of Administrative Personnel 16 CHAPTER–3 17 AN OVERVIEW 18 Academic Programmes 18 Courses offered 18 Admission Procedure 19 Students Intake 19 Examination and Evaluation 19 Result Analysis [Students Pass out (Degree awarded during 2019-20)] 19 Summary of GATE-2019 20 Transition Rate of First Year B.Tech students 20 Hostels and Mess 20 Departments of NIT Patna 20 NITP Activities 25 National Service Scheme 25 Women Cell 27 Anti-Ragging 27 Technical Clubs and students chapter 27 Sports and cultural Activities 30 Scholarships/Assistantship 32 CHAPTER–4 33 THE STAFF 34 Staff Position 34 Training Status 34 Department wise Teaching Staff 34 Non-Teaching staff 49 National Institute of Technology Patna | 3 CHAPTER-5 52 NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS 53 Programs undertaken by NIT Patna 53 Research Publication in National Conferences/Symposium/Workshop 53 Research Publication in International Conferences/Symposium/Workshop 55 Publication in Referred Journal (Mention indexing like SCI / SCIE / SSCI / AHCI (Arts & Humanities Citation Index) / ESCI/SCOPUS/Web of Sciences): 65 Book/Book Chapter Publication 82 Patent 85 PG Dissertation 85 Doctoral Dissertation 93 Externally Funded Project: 94 Project through Seed Money 95 Important Activities 96 CHAPTER-6 97 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 98 Research & Consultancy Activities 98 Ongoing Ph.D Scholars (2019-20) 100 Institute – Industry Collaboration 100 Incubation Centre 101 TEQIP Activities 101 E & ICT Academy, NIT Patna 102 ISEA Project, Phase-II 103 Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN) 104 SMDP 104 State Government Interaction 105 CHAPTER-7 106 CENTRAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES 107 Computer Centre 107 Workshop 107 Central Library 107 Laboratories 108 Health Centre 111 CHAPTER-8 112 TRAINING AND PLACEMENT STATISTICS 113 UG Placement Report of NIT Patna (2019-20) 113 PG Placement Report of NIT Patna (2019-20) 113 Vocational Training 113 CHAPTER-9 114 FINANCE AND ACCOUNTS DETAILS 115 FINANCIAL STATUS 116 Analysis of OH 31, OH 35 & OH 36 Grants Sources of Funds Stores & Purchase Section PREFACE National Institute of Technology Patna | 5 ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES: PREFACE NIT Patna is offering B.Tech. programs in five disciplines along with B.Arch. programme. NIT Patna is also offering M.Tech. in 14 disciplines It is indeed a privilege for me to present the Director’s report for the besides MURP, M. Arch and M Sc programs in Physics, Chemistry academic year 2019-20. The history of the institution dates back to and Mathematics. Ph.D. programme is being offered in all the ten 1886 when a pleader survey centre was established at this campus departments of the Institute. by British Government. The pleader survey centre was updated as Bihar School of Engineering in 1900 and thereafter in 1924 the Institute had conducted Academic Audit for various UG programme institution appeared on the scene of technical education of India as and Curriculum was revised. NIT Patna actively work together with Bihar College of Engineering (BCE). BCE was one of the important industries, domain experts and alumni to revise and up-to-date our technical education institute of India upto 1947 in British Dominion. curriculum at regular intervals. All the programmes are designed to After independence the college was entrusted with the responsibility be credit-based, open-source learning and have been developed so of providing engineering education to meet the local, regional as to encourage self-learning and participation of co-curricular and and national requirements due to expansion of industries, trade extra-curricular activities. Special emphasis has been given to the and commerce in free India. During this period the institution was communication skill of the students. In the academic session 2019- manned and managed by the Patna University and funded by state 20, a total of 741 students graduated from the Institute, out of which Government. Recognising its importance and potential, in the year 554 Undergraduates, 187 post graduates and 40 Ph D scholars, were 2004, MHRD, Govt of India upgraded this Bihar College of Engineering awarded degrees in 9th convocation of NIT Patna. as National Institute of Technology of Bihar. INSTITUTE INFRASTRUCTURE: NIT Patna is committed to create excellent records to meet all-round Present NIT Patna campus has only 33.4 Acres of land, which belonged commitments of the country in the fields of Engineering, Sciences to BCE Patna near Gandhi Maidan, Ashok Rajpath on the bank of and Social Sciences. Our commitment is to transform students into holy river Ganga. In year 2012, Government of Bihar allotted 100 good human beings, responsible and disciplined citizen of India and a Acres of land to NIT Patna in Bihta, but due to some legal issues the competitive skilled professional. Our mission is to impart high quality possession of land was not handed over to NIT Patna. Again in 2016, education and to deliver a talented, committed and skilled pool of the State Government has again allotted another land 125 Acres. The human resource who will make India an economic and scientific world construction work of boundary wall of the new campus under the superpower. Our sincere efforts to fulfil all the commitments envisaged supervision of Bihar Building Construction Department is in advanced by NIT Act and statutes are fully supported by our BOG, and all other stage of its completion. A master plan has been made for 125-acre land key partners and agencies. Since the inception of our Institute in 2004, allotted to NIT Patna, Bihta campus for 6500 students and planned to NIT Patna expanded in terms of the number and variety of courses, the be developed in three phases and also planned to retain 2000 students student’s enrolment, faculty members, infrastructure improvement, at its present Patna campus. intra national and international collaboration, research and other social extension activities. Present Plan: (Phase-I) for 2500 students, Phase-II for 2000 students and Phase-III for 2000 students. Present Institute sanctioned students’ 6 | National Institute of Technology Patna Item No. Sub-heads and items of work No of Block No of Floors Build up plinth area in sqm NON RESENDENTIAL BUILDINGS 1 Academic Blocks – 5 Numbers 5 S+5 25730 2 Lecture Hall Complex 1 G+4 14214 3 Administrative Block 1 G+2 3533 4 Library cum Data Centre 1 G+3 8271 5 CEP Centre 1 G+2 5642 6 Student Activity Centre 1 G 2349 RESENDENTIAL BUILDINGS 7a Boys Hostel (Single Seater) 1 S+6 10774 7b Boys Hostel (Double Seater) 1 S+6 8274 8 Girls Hostel 1 S+6 9489 9 Transit cum Married Hostel 1 S+6 2464 10 Director office cum Residence 1 G+1 360 11 Staff qtrs. (2BHK)- 24 nos. 1 S+6 2227 12 Professor/Associate Professor Quarter (3BHK)- 48 nos. 1 S+6 6226 13 Boy's Hostel Mess Block 1 G+1 1602 14 Girl's Hostel Mess Block 1 G+1 926 15 ESS, Pump Room 1 G 500 16 Stilt area 12775 Total 115356 strength (UG, PG, and Ph.D.) is 4000. With the present plan, 1500 FACULTY & STAFF: students will be kept at the existing campus and 2500 students are Our continuous persuade of recruitment of quality faculty resulted planned to be housed at Bihta campus. Institute has planned to in recruitment of 172 faculty (128 Assistant Professor, 24 Associate execute all its academic and administrative activities from Bihta as Professor and 18 Professor) in the academic session 2019-20. Out its Main Institute Campus and Old campus as City campus where of 172 faculty, 28 are newly recruited faculty. It has increased our two of its Department, namely, Department of Civil Engineering and faculty strength, in the academic session 2019-20, to a total of 172, Department of Architecture besides first year B. Tech program will be which is nearly 67% of the sanctioned faculty strength of 256. We operating. have appointed adjunct, emeritus and visiting faculty from renowned DPR for Phase I of Rs 499.21 Crore for this additional Bihta campus institutes and industries. Further, to encourage research among young has been duly approved by MHRD, Govt. of India. MoU has been faculty, Institute provide seed grant for Rs. 10Lakhs to the newly signed with CPWD for the development of NIT Bihta campus. CPWD recruited faculty members to initiate their researches. is in process of floating tender under the EPC mode to avoid delay. For non-teaching staff the long pending ACP, MACP and DPC have Institute Bihta campus DPR has been planned for incorporating the been completed. NIT Patna is the 3rd NIT, after NIT Jaipur and NIT followings features: i) Campus with a vibrant environment for learning, Bhopal, to hold the Departmental Promotion committee meeting for ‘community’ living and recreation, ii) Compatible with minimum of granting promotion to its non-teaching employees working under four star GRIHA rating for Green buildings and site planning; iii) Genetic Officers, Ministerial and Technical Cadres. This was pending for the last Heritage Park / Eco Park / Herbal Park/ Central Landscape Green 5 years due to recruitment rules were under revision.