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IIT Bhubaneswar has unveiled a new web page. It looks very good. Based on the information there it currently has 16 regular faculty in its five schools including the Director. They are:
- School of Basic Sciences
- Sujit Roy, Professor & Head, Chemistry, PhD, 1987, IIT Kanpur
- Srikanta Patra, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, PhD, 2005, IIT Bombay
- Sabyasachi Pani, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, PhD, 2004, IIT Kharagpur
- Rajan Jha, Assistant Professor, Physics, PhD, 2007, IIT Delhi
- Snehasis Chowdhuri, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, PhD, 2005, IIT Kanpur
- Akshay Kumar Ojha, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, PhD 1997, Utkal University
- School of Electrical Sciences
- Ganapati Panda, Professor & Head, PhD, 1982, IIT Kharagpur
- Prasant Sahu, Assistant Professor, PhD 2009, IIT Kharagpur
- Debalina Ghosh, Assistant Professor, PhD 2008, Syracuse University
- School of Infrastructure
- Sekhar Dutta, Professor & Head, PhD, 1982, IIT Kharagpur
- P. Dinakar, Assistant Professor, PhD, 2008, IIT Madras
- Puspendu Bhunia, Assistant Professor, PhD, 2008, IIT Kharagpur
- Sumanta Haldar, Assistant Professor, PhD, 2008, IISc Bangalore
- School of Mechanical Sciences
- Madhusudan Chakraborty, Director and Professor, PhD, 1978, IIT Kharagpur
- Swarup Mahapatra, Associate Professor & Head, PhD 2000, Jadavpur University
- Prasenjit Rath, Assistant Professor, PhD 2007, NTU Singapore
- Satyanarayan Panigrahi, Assistant Professor, PhD 2007, IISc Bangalore
- School of Social Sciences & Humanities
October 24th, 2009
Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.
Hyderabad-based Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (Icfai), which is aiming to set up a multi-disciplinary university in Orissa at an investment of Rs 150-200 crore, has identified 53 acres of land for the university.
The land has been identified close to Sum Hospital on the outskirts of the city. Out of the total land area of 53 acres, Icfai has got 11 acres of land registered for the university project.
… The university project in Orissa has been marred by delay as the Icfai Private University Bill is yet to be introduced in the state legislative assembly.
The Icfai Private University Bill would be introduced soon in the forthcoming session of the Orissa legislative assembly, claimed Noorus.
Icfai had earlier announced that its proposed university in Orissa would be functional eighteen months after the Icfai Private University Bill became an Act.
The Icfai University in Orissa would have no management quota, NRI quota or capitation fee. The university would have strength of about 1,500 students and offer courses in various disciplines like engineering, management, law, science and humanities.
Apart from Orissa, Icfai is also setting up universities in other states across the country. States like Uttaranchal, Tripura, Sikkim, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Jharkhand have passed the legislations facilitating the establishment of Icfai universities.
The proposed Icfai universities in Uttaranchal and Tripura have received the approval of the University Grants Commission (UGC) under Section 2 (f) of the UGC Act.
Other states like Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan have already issued letters of intent to Icfai for setting up universities.
The Orissa government needs to be careful with respect to ICFAI. Earlier this year there have been controversies regarding its operation in Hyderbad and in Bangalore.
October 24th, 2009