The web page is http://www.iitbbs.ac.in/. Thanks to Prof. Ramachandra Rao for this pointer. The web sites of the new IITs are:
1 comment February 4th, 2009
Among the founding directors of all the new IITs, the founding director of IIT Bhubaneswar, Prof. Madhusudan Chakrabarti, seems to have the most administrative experience. His following interview to the IIT Kharagpur Scholars Avenue magazine shows his involvement in the expansion activities at IIT Kharagpur. It also shows his experience in dealing with tough issues.
February 1st, 2009
Following is from a report in Pioneer.
Prof. Madhusudan Chakrabarti will be appointed as the chief of the IIT, Orissa. Prof Chakrabarti is currently working as Deputy Director in IIT, Kharagpur. He is a Professor in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering. He is also a Life Member of the Indian Institute of Metals and Materials Research Society of India.
The following excerpt from a report in Telegraph lists the directors of all the six new IITs.
Directors to six new IITs were also appointed at today’s meeting. U.B. Desai, an electrical engineer from IIT Bombay, will head IIT Hyderabad. M.K. Surappa, who teaches metallurgy at IIT Delhi, will be the director of IIT Roopnagar (Punjab). IIT Kanpur civil engineer Sudhir Jain will head the IIT in Gandhinagar. Anil Bhowmick, from IIT Kharagpur’s rubber technology centre, will be the director of IIT Patna. IIT Kharagpur deputy director Madhusudan Chakraborty will head IIT Bhubaneswar.
This Times of India report names the IIT Rajasthan director as Prem Kalra.
12 comments January 29th, 2009
Unlike the IISERs that take students from the IIT exams and KVPY, NISER Bhubaneswar (an IISER-equivalent institute that is funded by DAE) teams up with UM-DAE and has its own exam called NEST. (They also took students from KVPY.)
The following information regarding NEST 2009 is from http://niser.ac.in/NEST/.
National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) is a compulsory test for students seeking admission to National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar and University of Mumbai – Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CBS), Mumbai. Both NISER and UM-DAE CBS have been started by Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India in 2007. Their mandate is to train scientific manpower for carrying out cutting edge scientific research and for providing input to scientific programs of Department of Atomic Energy and other applied science institutions in the country. The test is conducted in more than 25 centers across India. This brochure gives the detailed procedure for applying for the test, syllabus of the test and various dead lines.
About NISER
This year there are 52 seats, including reserved seats for SC/ST/OBC candidates and persons with disability (PD) as per Government norms. Further details about the institute can be found on the NISER website (http://niser.ac.in).
The Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India has set up a new autonomous center of excellence in basic sciences in Mumbai. UM-DAE CBS, is to be an international class center for high quality teaching embedded in a vibrant post-graduate and research environment with some of the best teachers and scientists from major institutions in the city (TIFR, BARC, IIT Bombay) and the University and its colleges on its faculty. The center is located in the Kalina campus of the University of Mumbai. The degrees at UM-DAE CBS are awarded by the 150 year old University of Mumbai.Tentatively, there will be 14 seats in Physics stream, 10 in Mathematics and 6 in Life Sciences with reservations as per Government norms, including reservation for persons with disability (PD). The details are on the CBS website (http://www.tifr.res.in/~cbs).
Students securing at least 60% marks in aggregate (or equivalent grade) in Class XII (or equivalent) examination from any recognized Board in India are eligible to apply. For Scheduled Cast (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) candidates and for Persons with Disability (PD), the minimum requirement is 55%. Students who have passed the Class XII qualifying examination in 2007 or 2008 or are appearing in 2009 are eligible to apply. (Where only Letter grade is given by the Board, a certificate from the Board specifying equivalent percentage marks will be required. In the absence of such a certificate the decision of the respective Admissions Committee will be final.)
32 comments January 13th, 2009
Following is from the PTI report on this.
The government today approved an area of 935 acres near Jatni in Khurda district of Orissa as the site for the proposed IIT in the state.
"There were four possible sites for the top institute. But the government approved the location near Jatni as it has vast land area and is near to airport. The rail and road connectivity is very good to this place," a top HRD Ministry official told PTI here.
HRD Minister Arjun Singh will visit the state soon to lay the foundation stone for the elite technical institute, the official said.
He said the ministry had sent its site identification committee to the state on December 24 and 25 last year. The committee visited the sites near Jatni, Banki, Ramdaspur and Gayabandha.
"Among all the places, the committee found location near Jatni was the best from the point of view of future and growth prospects of the institute," he said.
… "The Centre also asked the state government to transfer the land to the IIT Society of IIT Bhubaneswar immediately so that the construction of the building and other facilities can be started," he said.
January 13th, 2009
He was previously at the MHRD. See here.
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5 comments January 1st, 2009
Update: Excerpts from a report in Kalinga Times.
Aragul near Jatni has been finally chosen as the place for setting up of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar.
A four-member Central team sent by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development selected Aragul after visiting four different places.
The team comprised Ashok Thakur, Additional Secretary in the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development; Damodar Acharya, Director of IIT Kharagpur; A.K. Dey, former Director of IIT Mumbai; and K. Narayan Rao, Secretary of All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
The place selected is 12 km from Bhubaneswar airport by road and four km away from Jatni railway junction.
Following are excerpts from a report in tathya.in.
Ashok Thakur is impressed with Argul.
The Chairman of the Site Selection Committee for the IIT-Bhubaneswar found the site near Jatni a ‘nice’ one.
… The State Government has identified Argul near Jatni and Malipada near Khurda.
Both are in Khurda district.
Secondly Ramdaspur near Naraj and Dampada near Banki in Cuttack district were also identified for the purpose.
Mr.Thakur himself visited Argul on 25 December and expressed satisfaction over the place, said sources.
It is 891 acre of land out of which 500 acres are readily available.
Very near to the Capital city and well connected with rail and road.
Institutions like NISER, various engineering colleges and other institutions are coming up in the near by area.
This place was favored by the State Government for the IIT-Bh as the most suitable one.
It looks very likely that Argul will be chosen for the IIT site. But the others sites would soon come into play; especially for the world class central university (national university).
December 25th, 2008
(This is inspired by the post http://iitbbs.blogspot.com/2008/12/latest-news.html.)
The IIT Bhubaneswar will be temporarily located in the IIT Kharagpur Extension Center. It is located 1km from the NH-5 Jaydev Vihar exit towards Nandan Kanan. It is behind Ginger hotel and Swosti Plaza hotel. Across these two hotels is the Trident Oberoi and about 300 mts away is the Mayfair lagoon Hotel. Each of these hotels have many nice restaurants. About 700 mts from IIT location is the Pal Heights shopping complex that has a very good restaurant as well as an Oxford book store. About 500 mts the other direction is the Sandy’s Square which has a Smoking Joes Pizza.
Next to the IIT location is the Shyamasam Dham, one of the Main Ashrams of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat.
About 150-200 mts to the IIT location is Gandhi Park and Janata Maidan. The later can be a ground to play outdoor games such as Cricket, Football and Hockey.
The IIT location is in the North east corner of the large Institute of Mineral and Materials Technology (formerly RRL) campus. It is expected that the IIT students will have access to this campus and some of its amenities including its outdoor playing areas. The Kalinga Stadium and its swimming pool is about 1.5 kms from the IIT location.
The Maharaja theater is 2 kms away. XIMB (Basketball, Tennis courts, Football ground, auditorium) is 600 mts away. Institute of Physics is 700 mts away. Utkal University is 1 km away.
The ESI Hospital is about 250 mts from the IIT location and Kalinga Hospital is about 1 kms away. (Next to Kalinga Hospital is the Institute of Life Sciences and Regional Medical research Center).
Following are some maps. In the maps with one big red dot, the dot indicates the location of the temporary campus of the IIT Bhubaneswar. In the maps with two red marks, the larger mark indicates the expected permanent location of IIT Bhubaneswar.
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December 24th, 2008
Following is from Kalinga Times’ report on it.
The classes of IIT Bhubaneswar, which are now being held at IIT Kharagpur, will be conducted at the latter’s extension centre here from July next year.
The student strength of IIT Bhubaneswar will increase from the present 120 to 240 by July next.
All the 240 students of IIT Bhubaneswar will attend their classes in the extension centre of IIT Kharagpur which will be used as a temporary campus till IIT Bhubaneswar developed its own campus in the city.
… IIT Kharagpur is facilitating establishment of IIT Bhubaneswar as the mentor IIT appointed by the Central government.
The authorities of IIT Kharagpur are now constructing new buildings at their extension centre in the city to accommodate IIT Bhubaneswar till the later develops its own campus.
The process of appointment of teachers and other staff for IIT Bhubaneswar has also started. The process of selecting 30 faculty members was nearing completion, Dr. Damodar Acharya, Director of IIT Kharagpur and Chairman of the Governing Body of IIT Bhubaneswar, told reporters in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
On the other hand, efforts were on to start construction of IIT Bhubaneswar’s own campus next year. A total of Rs 1,000 crore will be utilised for the establishment of the IIT.
Odisha government has already offered land at several locations around the city for the proposed campus for IIT Bhubaneswar. The site selection process will be over within a few weeks.
1 comment December 15th, 2008
Update2: The number 80,000 is inconsistent with the earlier announced number of Rs 100,000/year made in http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=36632.
Update: See also http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=45626 for the PM’s speech while launching the INSPIRE program.
Following is from a report in Telegraph.
India’s brightest students who choose to pursue science in college will get Rs 80,000 a year under a government scholarship to draw youngsters to careers in research.
The department of science and technology (DoT) today launched the nation’s largest-ever project to wean high-school students away from dreams of studying engineering or medicine towards BSc and MSc degrees.
Students who rank within 10,000 in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination and within 20,000 in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination but still choose BSc will be eligible for the scholarship, announced earlier this year but formally launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today. Students who clear the central medical entrance exam but opt for BSc will also be eligible.
All students who come within the top 1 per cent both in the 10th and 12th standard exams of central or state boards may also apply for the Scholarship for Higher Education. The department of science expects to offer 10,000 scholarships every year.
Students of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), national science talent scholars and Olympiad medallists will also be eligible.
The scholarship will be available from BSc second year till the students complete their master’s. Students of IISER Pune, Calcutta, Mohali, Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram will receive it this year. So will those of NISER Bhubaneswar.
… The project will also award Rs 5,000 every year to 200,000 students from classes VI to X — picked with help from the schools’ science faculties — for work on a school-level science project. It will provide doctoral fellowships and an assured five-year research career to postgraduate students.
The government will spend Rs 2,100 crore on the scheme in the next three years.
India’s science policy makers have long worried about the migration of meritorious students towards, traditionally, engineering and medicine and, in recent years, management and information technology. “This initiative is important for India from a long-term perspective,” said T. Ramasamy, DoT secretary. “We expect to begin seeing gains from this in about a decade or so from now.”
128 comments December 14th, 2008
(The following is compiled from various sources including wikipedia.)
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Director: Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Chemistry 1967-1972 B.Sc and M.Sc (Bangalore University) 1972-1977, Ph.D (Delhi University) 1977-1980, Ph.D (Cambridge University, UK) 1981-1987, Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 1987-2006, Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 1994-2006, Head, Division of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis), NCL, Pune () Since July 2006, Professor and Director, IISER Pune |
1985: Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. 1993: Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 1998: CSIR Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences 1999: Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, Delhi 2004: Silver Medal, Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore 2005: TWAS Prize in Chemical Sciences 2005: Elected Secretary, Biomolecular Chemistry Division, Sub Committee, IUPAC 2006: JC Bose Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, India 2006: Fellow, Academy of Sciences for Developing World (TWAS), Trieste |
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Director: Prof. N. Sathyamurthy, Chemistry He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Annamalai University. Sathyamurthy moved to the United states to where he obtained his Ph.D degree at Oklahoma University in 1975. He further carried out postdoctoral research in nobel laurate J.C.Polanyi’s lab. After that Sathyamurthy joined Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as a lecturer in 1978. Sathyamurthy became professor in 1985. |
Fellow, Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy 2005 |
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Director: Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Chemistry B.Sc. 1978 D.A.V College, Azamgarh Post doctoral: * University of British Columbia, Canada 1986 – 1987(Advisor: Professor J. P. Kutney)
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* Umang Gupta Chair Professorship (June 1, 2007 – to-date) * Vigyan Ratna Award of U.P. (2006-2007) * Ramanna Fellowship (2006) * Bhagyatara Award (2006) * Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (2005) * Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2004) * Prof. R.D. Desai 80th Birthday Commemoration Award (2004) * Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India (2004) * CRSI Bronze Medal (2003) * Rajib Goyal Prize (2002) * Prof. N. S. Narsimhan Endowment Award (2002) * Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award (1998) |
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Director: Prof. E. D Jemmis, Chemistry Eluvathingal D. Jemmis was born in Chevoor, Kerala and educated at the village school. After obtaining B.Sc. (University of Calicut; University College, Trivandrum and St. Thomas College, Thrissur) and M.Sc. ( Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) Jemmis moved to Princeton University in 1973 to work with Prof. Paul von Rague Schleyer. During the formal Princeton years moving along with his supervisor, Jemmis spent a semester at the University of Munich (Fall, 1974) and four semesters at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg (1976-77). After several collaborative projects with his supervisor and Professors Lee Allen and John Pople, a Ph.D. degree was received from Princeton in 1978. A two year postdoc at Cornell University (Prof. Roald Hoffmann) followed. In 1980 Jemmis joined the then fledgling School of Chemistry,University of Hyderabad where he became a Professor in 1990. After 25 years in Hyderabad, Dr. Jemmis accepted an invitation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and joined the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of IISc. |
Jemmis was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (1992), the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (1998), the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad (2003) and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste, Italy (2004) and received many awards and honours (see biodata for details) including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, CSIR, New Delhi (1994). Dr. Jemmis was awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, in 2006. |
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Director: Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar, Chemistry B.Sc. : 1976, Mysore University, Karnataka 1986 July – 1987 March Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, I.I.T.Kanpur
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1 McKnight Fellowship, Michigan, USA, 1984 – 1986 2 Homi Bhabha Award for Excellence in Research – 1993 3 Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship: 1993 – 1994 4 Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad – 1996 5 Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore – 1999 6 CRSI Bronze Medal for Significant Contributions in Chemistry – 2000 7 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences for the year – 2001 8 Fellow of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi – 2002 9 Professor P. Ray Memorial Award, Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata – 2002 10 Chemito Award – 2003 11 J.C.Bose Fellowship for the year – 2006 |
December 11th, 2008
Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar has joined as director of NISER on Dec 8, 2008. His web page at IIT Kanpur is at http://www.iitk.ac.in/chm/tkc.html. He is coming from a stint as Director of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology(NIST) (Formerly Regional Research Laboratory) Trivandrum.
His profile obtained from a NISER notice is as follows.
1 comment December 11th, 2008
Following is from the architect’s brief.
Continue Reading 35 comments December 4th, 2008
Following is from http://www.mohfw.nic.in/EoI_FOR_PC.htm.
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