ANNUAL REPORT AND AUDITED ACCOUNTS 2019-20 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR ANNUAL REPORT AND AUDITED ACCOUNTS 2019-20 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SILCHAR National Institute of Technology Silchar ii Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar Sl. No. Topic Page No. From the Director’s Desk V Mission VI Vision VI Objectives VI Nit Silchar at a glance VII 01 INTRODUCTION Historical Background 1 Location 2 Campus 2 02 COUNCIL, BOG AND OTHER COMMITTEES The Council 3 Board of Governors 3 Finance Committee 4 Building and Works Committee 4 The Senate 4 Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) 5 Deans and HODs 6 03 EDUCATION SYSTEM Undergraduate (B.Tech) 8 Postgraduate (M.Tech/ M.Sc/ MBA) 9 Research Programme (Ph.D) 9 Academic Programmes 10 Enrolment 11 Admission Statistics 13 Awards 17 Examination Details 18 04 PLACEMENT STATISTICS 20 05 DEPARTMENTS Civil Engineering 24 Mechanical Engineering 44 Electrical Engineering 73 Electronics & Communication Engineering 95 Computer Science & Engineering 123 Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 137 Mathematics 147 Physics 154 Chemistry 160 Humanities & Social Sciences 167 Management Studies 172 06 ACADEMIC CENTRES/ CELLS Central Computer Centre 179 Central Library 182 CDAC 187 Annual Report 2019-20 iii National Institute of Technology Silchar Sl. No. Topic Page No. Supercomputing Centre 188 Institute Innovation Council (IIC) 189 Startup Centre 190 E-Cell 190 Institute-Industry Partnership Cell (IIPC) 196 Undergraduate Research Council (UGRC) 196 Indovation 196 07 STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES Scholarship / Assistantship 199 Students’ Gymkhana 199 Genaral Programmes / Annual Festivals 201 08 INFRASTRUCTURE AND AMENITIES Estate 204 Vehicle Management 207 The Hostels 208 Institute Health Centre 210 Kendriya Vidyalaya 212 KIDS-NITS 213 Sports Complex & Gym 214 Guest House 214 Post Office 214 Bank and ATMs 214 Shopping Complex 214 Cafetaria 214 09 RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY Research Development 215 Ongoing Project 215 10 STAFF POSITION 222 11 TEQIP-III Introduction 225 Goal of TEQIP 225 Objectives of TEQIP 225 Name of TEQIP-III Officials 226 Distribution of Fund 226 Other Activities of TEQIP 227 12 AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMMENT 234 13 GLIMPSES OF ANNUAL ACTIVITIES 235 14 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Gyansagar 247 Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 251 15 ACCOUNTS Audit Statement 254 Statement of Accounts 261 iv Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar From The Director’s Desk It is extremely delightful for me to present the Annual Report of National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam for the year 2019-2020. Since 1977, the Institute is progressing gracefully in the field of engineering education along with science and management studies. The Institute has a current strength of 3920 students including UG, PG and research scholars including a good number of foreign students. It gives me immense pleasure to mention that in the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) - 2020, NIT Silchar has been ranked 46th among the unconditional support, cooperation and all the Engineering Institutes and 94th among all contribution of all stake holders specially faculty universities. The Institute is ranked 9th among 31 members, staff, students and alumni of NIT Silchar. NITs in the country and 2nd in the North Eastern Region after IIT Guwahati. We are placed in the The Annual Report is prepared based on the various rank band of 11-25 in ATAL Ranking of Institutions activities of the Institute during the reporting year on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) – 2020 in of 2019-2020. I express my sincere gratitude to the category ‘Institute of National Importance, the Ministry of Education (MoE) (erstwhile MHRD) Central Universities and CFTIs’. We received a and the State Government of Assam for their whole total of 23 funded R&D projects (8 International hearted support and co-operation. I am specifically including 4 SPARC projects). A total number of thankful to all the members of BOG, FC, BWC, Senate, 54 R&D projects are currently running with a faculty, staff, students and alumni of NIT Silchar financial support of Rs. 22.26 crores. A total of for their commitment and contribution towards 5 consultancy services are currently going on the growth of the institute and I firmly believe that with a financial outlay of Rs. 1.49 crores. Five 5 our efforts in various dimensions; from revising UG programs out of 6 and 13 PG programs out of curriculum to quality research, from accreditation to 15 are either accredited or under the process of research collaboration, from governance to alumni accreditation by National Board of Accreditation interactions are towards achieving our vision to be (NBA). We hope that the remaining programs will known as one of the most preferred institute in the be accredited soon in near future. We have two country. NABL accredited laboratories, one in Mechanical Engineering and the other in Civil Engineering. Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay This was possible because of Director, NIT Silchar Annual Report 2019-20 v National Institute of Technology Silchar Mission: Vision: The mission of NIT Silchar is to train and transform The vision of NIT Silchar is to establish a unique young men and women into responsible engineers, identity by developing quality human and knowledge technologists and scientists to motivate them resources in diverse areas of technology to meet to attain professional excellence and to inspire local, national and global economic and social them to proactively engage themselves for the needs as well as the needs of human society at betterment of the society. large in self-sustained manner. Objectives • To impart the best technical education at both the Undergraduate/postgraduate level so as to train the students to be able to boldly face a world that is being transformed by scientific and technological advances. • To engage in research work beneficial to Industry as well as society and disseminate the research findings. • To provide knowledge based technological services to satisfy the needs of the industry as well as society • To help in buiding national capabilities in developing technologies, opening up new vistas in education and research. • To promote Institute-Industry interaction through sponsored research by sponsoring faculty to work in Industry for short terms and by inviting people from Industry to deliver lecture etc. • To promote national integration and impart value based education. vi Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar NIT SILCHAR AT A GLANCE RANK NIRF Rank 2020 46th (In Engineering) 9th (Among NITS) 94th (Overall) Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements 11-25th (ARIIA) 2020 Category ‘Institute of National Importance, Central Universities and CFTIs’ Dataquest Top T-Schools in India 2020 16th (Overall) 3rd (In East Zone) 9th (Top T-Schools (Government)) India Today Best College Ranking 2020 26th (Among Govt. Engineering Colleges) 5th In (East Zone) THE WEEK Best Engineering Colleges all India 2020 32nd Fig:1 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF-Engineering) of NIT Silchar Annual Report 2019-20 vii National Institute of Technology Silchar DEPARTMENTS B.Tech M.Tech M.Sc MBA Ph.D Engineering Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics & Communication Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering Science Physics Chemistry Mathematics Humanities and Management Humanities Management Studies Fig:2 Student-admissions and On-Roll during 2019-20 viii Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar Fig:3 State-wise distribution of Indian students admitted in B.Tech course in 2019-20 Fig:4 Foreign students admitted in 2019-20 Annual Report 2019-20 ix National Institute of Technology Silchar Fig:5 Growth in the enrolment of students (UG/PG/Ph.D) during the last four years i.e from 2016-2020. Fig:6 Category wise admission count of UG students in 2019-2020 x Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar Fig:7 Categorywise admission count of PG students in 2019-2020 Fig:8 Placement statistics of B.Tech students in 2019-20 Annual Report 2019-20 xi National Institute of Technology Silchar Fig:9 Placement statistics of PG students in 2019-20 Fig:10 Number of students resided in hostel during 2019-2020 (*Note BH = Boys hostel; GH = Girls hostel; PGH = Post-Graduate hostel; MSH = Married scholar hostel; BH 1 & BH 2 are under renovation work) xii Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar PUBLICATIONS Fig:11 Publication details of NIT Silchar during 2019-20 LIBRARY Fig:12 Library resource statistics during 2019-2020 FACULTY/STAFFS Fig:13 Faculty in position during 2019-20 Annual Report 2019-20 xiii National Institute of Technology Silchar Fig:14 Non-teaching staff in position during 2019-20 FINANCE Fig:15 Total availability of fund during the year 2019-2020 (In Crores) Fig:16 Total fund utilized during the year 2019-2020 (In Crores) xiv Annual Report 2019-20 National Institute of Technology Silchar Introduction Historical Background In the fifties, the Government of India decided to establish Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) under the Quality Technical Education Policy – one each in every major state – with the prime objective of imparting quality technical education throughout the country and to foster national integration. These Regional Engineering Colleges were established as joint ventures of the Government of India and the respective State Governments. Assam is considered as