Annual Report

2013-2014
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

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 Our Vision
“ Toeducation
contribute to India and the World through excellence in scientific and technical
and research; to serve as a valuable resource for industry and society;
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and to remain a source of pride for all Indians.

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Contents
1. DIRECTOR’S REPORT 4
2. ABOUT US 8
3. ACADEMIC UNITS AT IIT DELHI 11
4. CURRENT DEGREE PROGRAMMES 12
5. PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS 15-63
• Performance Statistics 16
• Admissions 18
• Academic Performance 26
• Internship & Placement 32
• Staff Training Programmes 34
• Scholarships, Assistantships and Awards 35
• Infrastructure Development 40
• New Initiatives 51
• The Year in Perspective 55
6. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 64-73
• Academic & Sponsored Research 65
• Research Projects and Consultancy 66
• Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) 72
7. EVENTS 74-82
• Convocation 75
• Conferences/ Workshops/ Seminars 77
• Interaction with Alumni 81
• Distinguished Visitors 82
8. FACULTY 83-89
• Faculty Awards/ Recognitions 84
• Faculty in Position 86
• New Appointments, Retirements etc. 89
9. STUDENT ACTIVITIES 90-96
• Students Affairs Council (SAC) and its five Boards 91
• National Service Scheme (NSS) 96
• National Cadet Corps (NCC) 96
• Student Counselling Service (SCS) 96
• Student-teacher Interaction Committee 96
10. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 97-99
• Relaxations to SC/ST/OBC/PD Students and Staff 98
• Scholarships and Financial Assistance 98
• Prepatory Course 98
• Concessions Allowed to Staff 99
• Summer Research Fellowship Programme 99
• Commitments in Sustainability 99
• Environment 99
• Community 99
11. ALUMNI CONTRIBUTION 100
12. FINANCIALS 101-103
APPENDICES 104-108
1. Senate 104
2. Administrative and Other Staff 106
3. Committees 108

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 Director’s Report
“IITD Delhi is committed to provide excellent
human resource to meet national needs and
global expectations. It is a unique institution
and a dream destination for those who
wish to be leaders in science, technology and
management. IITD Delhi is internationally
recognised for delivering excellent education
as the undergraduate and postgraduate levels,
while endeavouring to become a great research
institution.”

on our credentials in research as evidenced by way of

publications and citations and Ph.D ‘s per faculty. In the last
Convocation of the Institute, 188 scholars received their
Ph.D. Degrees. Our target of continuously searching for and
significantly increasing the intake of quality candidates into our
Ph.D. programmes is on the right course and we have grown
to a significant level in this direction over the last few years.

With the support from the Government of India, industry

Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar and the alumni, IITD has been able to create an excellent
infrastructure. While the Government has supported us with
Director generous funding for which we are grateful, our alumni have
extended significant support to the institute.
IIT Delhi is pleased to release its Annual Report for the year
2013-14 and on this occasion, I am delighted to share with The Institute has been actively involved in collaborative
you all the highlights of our major activities, achievements, programmes with national and international organizations/
initiatives and future plans. At the outset, it is a great universities to remain at the forefront in scientific and
pleasure for me to inform that IIT Delhi in the latest survey technological development and to share the knowledge
conducted by various agencies such as India Today, Outlook for mutual benefits. The main objectives of collaboration
and The Week, IIT Delhi continues to enjoy top ranks among include exchange of students and faculty, joint research, and
all the engineering colleges/ institutions in India. In the QS fellowships for training and research at doctoral and post-
World University Rankings, IIT Delhi has been ranked at the doctoral levels.
thirty-eighth position amongst the engineering institutions
in the World with Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Our faculty is one of the finest in the country and is recognised
Departments being on the top. IIT Delhi also received the internationally for their quality of research, teaching and
“Outstanding Engineering Institute Award” from ET NOW curriculum development. They also contribute greatly for
under National Leadership Awards. The Institute has taken a the development of the nation by being associated with a
focused approach to improve its rankings further. I am pleased large number of decision making bodies, providing crucial
to dedicate this accomplishment of the Institute wholly to all guidance and advice on policy matters and technical issues.
faculty members, students and staff who have immensely Many faculty members received honours/awards and were
contributed in every way possible taking the prestige of the elected Fellows of several professional national/international
Institute to newer heights. bodies during the year 2013-14.

Over the years, quietly but surely, we have also built a strong During the period under report, international bibliographic
research tradition, which is easily seen in the impressive databases indexed around 2484 research articles published
statistics that the Institute can boast of in terms of various by faculty members and researchers of the institute in
research indicators. Specially, we have continuously improved international journals including 1696 articles indexed in

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Scopus, an international indexing service in Science & The growing visibility of the Institute has been steadily
Technology and Social Sciences as reported at the Convocation. leading to a larger role in partnerships. The institute has been
The faculty members have also presented similar number of actively involved in collaborative programmes with national
papers in national and international conferences. Besides, and international organizations/universities to remain at the
they have also published many books and conducted several forefront in science and technological development and to
continuing education programmes. share the knowledge for mutual benefits. IIT Delhi currently
has around 80 and 60 operational MOUs with international
Lands for the Extension Campus of IIT Delhi, 50 acres
and national institutions/organizations respectively.
each at Sonepat and Jhajjar, have been sanctioned by the
Government of Haryana. Transfer and acquisition of Sonepat The Institute provides seed research funding to the new
site has been completed and acquisition of Jhajjar site is in faculty upon joining the Institute to the tune of Rs.10.00
progress. Foundation Stone was laid by the Hon’ble Chief lakhs (or more when necessary). During the year 2013-14, the
Minister of Haryana and Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Institute sanctioned New Faculty Research Grant of a total of
Development on 21st December, 2013. Science Research Rs.310 lakhs to 30 faculty members out of the total funds of
Park and Bio Research Park will be established at Sonepat Rs.500 lakhs earmarked for this purpose.
and Jhajjar campuses respectively. Task forces have been
A new UG curriculum has been implemented from the session
constituted to initiate necessary activities for establishment
2013-14 with additional and more flexible features.
of these Research Parks. A Mini Science/ Research Park is also
being established at IIT Delhi campus to serve the purpose of IIT Delhi celebrated the Institute Day on 16th August, 2013. The
a model precursor to the larger establishment at Extension Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development was the
Campus, Sonepat. Chief Guest on the occasion. The Hon’ble HRM also inaugurated
the Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information
MHRD has approved setting up of Design Innovation Centre
Technology, released the Golden Jubilee Volume & the
at IIT Delhi. The Centre will offer courses that have specific
“Honour the Mentor” Book, and delivered Institue Day Address.
application focus on bio-design, inclusive innovation,
transport system design, assistive technology and sustainable Two Centres of Excellence have been setup to focus and
energy technology. conduct research in the areas of Design Innovation Centre,
and Cyber Security and information assurance.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between
the Mauritius Research Council and the Indian Institute of The 44th Convocation of IIT Delhi was held on 9th November,
Technology (IIT) Delhi for setting up of an International Institute 2013. The Hon’ble President of India was the Chief Guest of
of Technology Research Academy (IITRA) in Mauritius. The the function.
objectives of the Memorandum are to, among others, promote
A Special Postal Cover was released on IIT Delhi by the
scientific excellence and scientific development in Mauritius,
Department of Posts, Govt. of India in a function held on 6th
through scientific and technical research, and generate
February 2014. Prof. R.K.Shevgaonkar, Director, IIT Delhi was
new knowledge in the field of engineering. The Agreement
the Chief Guest of the function.
provides for cooperation with focus on the provision of a world
class research based educational platform for postgraduate During the year under report, 150 sponsored research projects
research leading to M.Sc.(R)/M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree awards with a total funding of Rs.68.65 crores and 430 consultancy
in identified areas, attracting foreign researchers and projects with a total value of Rs.27.30 crores were undertaken
foreign students to Mauritius, in particular scientific experts respectively. 31 collaborative projects/consultancies with
from the Mauritian Diaspora, and building core research international funding were also undertaken during the period.
infrastructure including faculty and facilities. Collaboration
Training and Placement is an important activity of the Institute.
and cooperation under the above MOU are underway.
The T & P Unit is mainly responsible for arranging practical
To enhance the research, the Institute has created 50 Post- training of the undergraduate students to meet their degree
Doctoral Fellowships (PDF) at IIT Delhi. These are temporary requirement and to provide world class job opportunities to
research positions offered to those who seek to choose undergraduate and postgraduate students after graduation
research as a profession. It is believed that the presence of the for suitable jobs in the industry and various private and public
post-doctoral fellows at the Institute will further strengthen sector organizations.
the research culture and output of the Institute and help
During the year 2013-14, the Institute received Rs.19,300.00
promote inter-disciplinary research.
lakhs as Non-Plan Grant, Rs.15,475.00 lakhs as Plan Grant
As per the decision of the Standing Committee of IIT Council, (Normal Non-Recurring Expenditure) and Rs.3000.00 lakhs as
an internal review of the academic units of the Institute was Plan Grant (Normal Recurring Expenditure). The income from
carried out during the period February-March, 2014. This internal accrual from the fees, interest and sponsored projects
would be followed by a external peer review of the Institute was to the extent of Rs.8507.45 lakhs.
based on the established guidelines of MHRD.
For the year 2013-14, the actual recurring expenditure Non-Plan
The Institute has commissioned a new unit called Enviornment & Plan were to the extent of Rs.24472.92 lakhs and Rs.3088.37
Health and Lab Safety Unit. This is first of its kind in the country lakhs respectively and Plan Non-Recurring expenditure was
that would address to the safety needs and environmental Rs.16955.68 lakhs. The Institute generated about 34.76% of
health issues of the Institute. the actual recurring expenditure through internal revenue

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generation including fees, sponsored research, consultancies • Construction of Olympic size swimming pool and
and continuing education programmes. Within the financial renovation of badminton court
resources available to the Institute, a number of construction
and development activities have been taken up to augment The Institute has undertaken several initiatives under the
the Institute infrastructure. Green Initiatives programme which include setting up of
1MW online solar power system on the rooftop and once
Our Alumni have shown excellent achievements in every
successful, the same will be implemented on most of the
sphere of life and every part of the world. The recent examples
rooftops. Water harvesting has also been taken up in a big
are Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of Reserve Bank of India
way to improve the drainage system and groundwater. The
and Dr. Avinash Chander, the Scientific Advisor to the Raksha
institute will also be setting up a water harvesting unit along
Mantri. Our alumni have given donations to help us take some
with a new sewage treatment plant (STP) on campus as part of
of our important projects forward, in addition to instituting
the green initiatives. It is expected that at least 70 per cent of
Chairs and Young Faculty Incentive Fellowships, both of which
the water from the STP can be used for horticulture purposes
help us to reward our bright faculty for their outstanding
on campus.
performance. In the last Convocation, Distinguished Alumni
Awards were conferred on Prof. Rajpal S. Sirohi, Prof. Sugata Many delegations from the Industry, Academia and the
Mitra, Dr. T.S. Ramakrishnan, Prof. Sanjay Puri and Prof. Varun Government representatives from several countries visited
Grover for their outstanding contributions. the Institute to explore the possibilities of mutual interaction.
A Development Office has been approved for establishment
at the Institute. The vision of this Development Office is to We would like to acknowledge the support received in
secure philanthropic support and generosity of its worldwide abundant measure from the Ministry of Human Resource
alumni and also corporates and other foundations. The Development, the various sponsoring agencies, the
Development Office will work in partnership with IIT Delhi collaborating industries, institutions and alumni.
academics and students to build enduring relationships with
external constituencies ensuring support on agreed academic I personally acknowledge the support and encouragement I
excellence and infrastructural priorities. have received from the Chairman and Members of the Board
of Governors, and from all my colleagues, and extend my
Construction of IT School Building has been completed. The appreciation to the students for their exemplary behaviour
following projects are under construction and are likely to be and their contributions towards enriching the campus life.
ready for use by end of 2014:
• Lecture Theatre Complex. Wish you all the Best.

• Clean room for Nanoscale research facilities. Jai Hind.

• Eight Lifts for physically challenged persons in the
Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar
academic area.
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Renovation of IIT hospital Email: [email protected]

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“ Our Mission
• To generate new knowledge by engaging in cutting-edge research and to promote
academic growth by offering state-of-the-art undergraduate, postgraduate and
doctoral programmes.
• To identify, based on an informed perception of Indian, regional and global needs,
areas of specialization upon which the institute can concentrate.
• To undertake collaborative projects which offer opportunities for long-term
interaction with academia and industry.
• To develop human potential to its fullest extent so that intellectually capable and
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imaginatively gifted leaders can emerge in a range of professions.

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About us
Dreaming big.....

In the formative stages : Prof. R.N. Dogra, the founding director, IIT Delhi detailing the model of the Institute’s building

HISTORY Act, 1963”, re-named as “Indian Institute of Technology Delhi”,

and accorded the status of a deemed university.
The concept of the IITs was first introduced in a report in the
year 1945 by Shri. N. M. Sircar, then member of Education on Presently Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the
Vicerory’s Executive Council. Following his recommendations, fifteen Institutes of excellence for higher education, research
the first Indian Institute of Technology was established in the and development in science, engineering and technology
year 1950 in Kharagpur. In his report, Shri Sircar had suggested and in management in India; the others are at Bhubaneswar,
that such Institutes should also be started in different parts Bombay, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur,
of the country. The Government having accepted these Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi, Patna, Roorkee and Ropar.
recommendations of the Sircar Committee decided to
establish more Institutes of Technology with the assistance of STATUS
friendly countries who were prepared to help. The first offer Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is an autonomous
of help came from USSR who agreed to collaborate in the statutory organisation of the Government of India
establishment of an Institute through UNESCO at Bombay. functioning within the “Institutes of Technology Act, 1961”
This was followed by the Institutes of Technology at Madras, as amended by the “Institutes of Technology (Amendment)
Kanpur and Delhi with collaborations with West Germany, USA Act, 1963”. It is accorded the status of a deemed university
and UK respectively. Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati with powers to frame its own academic policy, to conduct its
was established in 1995 and the University of Roorkee was own examinations, and to award its own degrees. The fifteen
converted into an IIT in 2001. Institutes of Technology are coordinated by an apex body
The Institute was later declared an Institute of National known as IIT Council with the Minister for Human Resource
Importance under the “Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Development of the Government of India as its Chairman.

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OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the Institute include :

• Offering instruction in applied sciences, engineering and technology, and

management at a level comparable to the very best anywhere in the world;
• Providing leadership in curriculum planning, laboratory development and
examination system;
• Developing programmes for faculty development both for its own staff and
for teachers of other engineering institutions;
• Developing close collaboration with industry through exchange of
personnel and undertaking consultancy projects;
• Developing strong collaboration links with other academic and research
institutions in the country and abroad;
• Developing a continuing education programme for employed engineers
and making it available both on campus and by distance learning techniques at off campus locations;
• Preparing manpower for the unorganised sector and for self-employment.

CAMPUS
The Institute campus extends over an area
of 320 acres. Tastefully laid out with the
picturesque landscape and with numerous
buildings of various types and, with clean
and wide roads, the campus presents
a spectacle of harmony in architecture
and natural beauty. The campus area has
been divided into four functional zones:
• Residential zone for students;
• Residential zone for the faculty and
other supporting staff;
• Academic zone for academic
buildings and workshops; and
• Cultural-cum-social and recreational
zone for students. IIT Delhi Campus Map
The site being longitudinal in shape, the academic and social-cum- cultural zones have been located mid-way between the two
residential zones in order to reduce walking distance. The campus provides several essential amenities for community living
like hospital, shopping centre, banks, post office, community centre, staff club, students activities centre, stadium and playing
fields etc.

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND ITS COMMITTEES
IIT Delhi is an autonomous organisation of the Government of India. Responsibility for the general superintendence, direction
and control of the affairs of the Institute is vested in the Board of Governors. The Board functions through its standing
committees — the Finance Committee, the Buildings & Works Committee and other committees which may be constituted
to consider specific issues. The composition of the Board of Governors and its standing committees as on March 31, 2014 is
as follows:

BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Vijay P. Bhatkar, Chairman Ashok Misra Anurag Sharma
R. K. Shevgaonkar, Director Deepak Pental Ashok Gupta
R.K. Verma Patanjali (Patu) G. Keswani Rakesh Kumar, Secretary
T.V. Ramakrishnan

ADMINISTRATION
The Director is the principal academic and executive officer of the Institute and is responsible for the proper administration of the Institute and
for the imparting of instruction and maintenance of discipline therein. He is assisted in his day to day work by Deputy Director(s), Registrar,
Deans and senior faculty of the Institute. The senior members of the Administration as on March 31, 2014 are as follows:

ADMINISTRATION

R. K. Shevgaonkar S.N. Singh S.K. Koul Sushil Ashok Gupta

Director Deputy Director, Deputy Director, Dean, Dean,
Operations Strategy & Planning Faculty Infrastructure

S.K. Gupta Suneet Tuli Anurag Sharma Ambuj D. Sagar Rakesh Kumar
Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Registrar
Student Affairs Research & Development Academics Alumani Affairs &
International Programmes

BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PLANNING (BERP)

Board of Educational and Research Planning is the chief planning and policy making body of the institute for its teaching and
research activities. Head of the Planning unit is the Member - Secretary of BERP. The planning unit prepared ground work for
all the matters to be considered by BERP. The recommendations of BERP are forwarded to the Senate for approval. BERP is also
responsible for the short and long term educational and research planning of the institute. The composition of the Board of
Educational and Research Planning as on March 31, 2014 is as follows:

BOARD OF EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH PLANNING

R.K. Shevgaonkar, Chairman Suneet Tuli, Dean (R&D) A.K. Singh, Nominee of Senate
S.K. Koul, Dy. Director (S&P) S.K. Gupta, Dean (Student Affairs) T.C. Kandpal, Nominee of Senate
S.N. Singh, Dy. Director (Operations) Ambuj D. Sagar, Dean (AA&IP) Sudipto Mukherjee, Prof.-in-charge (Plng.)
Anurag Sharma, Dean (Academics) Ashok Gupta, Dean (Infrastructure)
Sushil, Dean (Faculty) M. Balakrishnan, Nominee of Senate

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 Academic Units at IIT Delhi
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The major academic units of the Institute are the departments, centres and schools. Interdisciplinary research is organized
in programmes. The various academic units are listed below. The activities of departments include teaching at all levels and
research. The centres focus on interdisciplinary research and some teaching, mostly at the postgraduate level.

Departments Inter-disciplinary Centres Schools

1. Applied Mechanics 1. Applied Research in Electronics 1. Bharti School of

Telecommunication Technology
2. Biochemical Engineering & 2. Atmospheric Sciences and Management
Biotechnology
3. Biomedical Engineering 2. Amar Nath and Shashi
3. Chemical Engineering Khosla School of Information
4. Energy Studies Technology
4. Chemistry
5. Industrial Tribology Machine 3. Kusuma School of Biological
5. Civil Engineering Dynamics & Maintenance Sciences

6. Computer Science & Engineering 6. Instrument Design & Development

Centre
7. Electrical Engineering
7. Polymer Science & Engineering
8. Humanities & Social Sciences
8. Rural Development & Technology
9. Management Studies
9. National Resource Centre for Value
10. Mathematics Education in Engineering

11. Mechanical Engineering

12. Physics

13. Textile Technology

IIT Delhi has 13 departments. Each department has its own administration structure with the Head of the Department (HoD) at
the top of it. The HoD heads the department for a period of three years after which a new head is appointed. Each department
offers a program (at the undergraduate or post-graduate level), some departments such as Mechanical Engineering Department,
offer two or more undergraduate level programs and some departments collaborate with each other to offer a joint program.
An example of the latter is the M.Tech in Optical Communications program which is offered by the Department of Physics and
Department of Electrical Engineering. The DMS (Department of Management Studies), IIT Delhi came into existence in 1993
by an amendment to IIT(D) statutes. The department offers a two year full time MBA programme with focus on Management
Systems, a two year full time MBA with focus on Telecommunication Systems Management and a three year part time MBA
programme with focus on Technology Management.

An inter-disciplinary center differs from a department in the fact that it deals with an overlap of two or more disciplines of
engineering or science. Similar to the departments the centers also offer programs though they offer these courses only at the
post-graduation level.

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Current Degree Programmes
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The Institute offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in a number of areas leading to the degrees of B.Tech./ M.Sc./
M.Tech./ M.S.(R)/ DIIT/ M.Des./ MBA and Ph.D. in Science, Engineering and Technology and Management. The primary objective
of these teaching programmes is to offer instruction in applied sciences, engineering and management at a level comparable
to the very best anywhere in the world. This is achieved through an undergraduate curriculum which places a strong emphasis
on the understanding of fundamental principles rather than specialised knowledge, a postgraduate programme, distinguished
by its interdisciplinary approach and emphasis on research.
Pedagogy
Teaching at the Institute incorporates a cohesive, contextual and nurturing environment for learning. The emphasis is on self-
motivated learning by using information, experience and practice. The teaching methodology aims at using the inputs from core
functional areas to inter-disciplinary issues and problem solving. Students undertake classroom and workshop assignments,
conduct field observations, make presentations and participate in group discussions and seminars and are encouraged to
develop industry linkages.
Evaluation
The academic year consists of two semesters and a summer term. The education system is organised around a credit system
which ensures continuous evaluation of student’s performance and provides flexibility to choose courses of interest and to
progress at an optimum pace suited to student’s ability or convenience. Each course is assigned certain number of credits
depending upon the class contact hours. A minimum number of credits and CGPA are to be completed satisfactorily in order
to qualify for the award of a degree.
The medium of instruction is English.
Curriculum Development
The Senate of the Institute is constantly engaged in reviewing and approving new courses to improve the curriculum. This year
several new minor area programs have been designed with a view to offer a second area of specialization. A major Curriculum
Review is now underway and likely to come up for discussion in the Senate very soon.
Under a new Academic Welfare Scheme introduced by the Institute this year for weak students, a special student advisor is
identified in each department for students who need special help, at the beginning of each semester. Special extra classes
are being conducted for such students and the student advisor closely monitors the attendance and performance of these
students and also provides support to help improve their performance.
The undergraduate and postgraduate programmes are managed by their respective Boards, as follows.

BOARD OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES (BAP)

Prof. Anurag Sharma Prof. A. Tripathi Prof. D.T. Shahani Mr. Tajveer Singh Sandhu
Prof. S. Roy Dr. K. Sreenadh Dr. Ram Lal Mr. Vishal Ahuja
Dr. Gaurav Goel Prof. Prashant Mishra Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi Mr. Brijesh Singh
Prof. Preeti Ranjan Panda Dr. Atul Narang Dr. Nomesh Bolia Mr. Emroj Hossain
Prof. Amit Kumar Prof. Puneet Mahajan Prof. James Gomes Mr. Divyam Rastogi
Prof. A.K. Gosain Prof. Siddharth Pandey Dr. Manav Bhatnagar Mr. Maheep Singh
Dr. S. Bhalla Dr. (Ms.) Pritha Chandra Prof. Prem Kalra Prof. N. Tandon
Prof. G.S. Visweswaran Prof. S.S.Yadav Prof. N.K. Garg Prof. (Ms.) Veena Chaudhary
Prof. S.D. Joshi Dr. Krishna Achute Rao Prof. Kushal Sen Prof. S. Dharmaraja
Prof. P.V. Rao Prof. Harpal Singh Prof. K.S. Rao Prof. Anshul Kumar
Dr. A.K. Darpe Dr. K.A. Subramanyan Prof. Bhim Singh Prof. V.K. Jain
Prof. Pankaj Srivastava Prof. Ananjan Basu Prof. M.R. Ravi Prof. (Ms.) Geetam Temari
Prof. Neeraj Khare Dr. V.M. Chariar Prof. D. Ravi Kumar Dr. Vivek Raman
Prof. R. Rengasamy Dr. B.K. Satapathy Prof. Joby Joseph
Dr. Dipayan Das Prof. J. Bijwe Mr. Arjun Singh Chauhan

(as on 31.3.2014)

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Current Degree Programmes

Below is the list of courses offered currently.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES*
Bachelor of Technology Dual Degree Programme
[B.Tech.] [B.Tech. and M.Tech.]
Duration: 4 years Duration: 5 years
Chemical Engineering B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering
& Biotechnology
Civil Engineering B.Tech. and M.Tech in Chemical Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Computer Science &
Engineering
Electrical Engineering B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Mathematics &
Computing
Electrical Engineering (Power and
Automation)
Engineering Physics
Mechanical Engineering
Production and Industrial Engineering
Textile Technology
* Admission to the first year of the four year B.Tech., 5-year dual degree programmes is made through a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is common for all the Indian
Institutes of Technology.

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES & RESEARCH (MASTER)**

M.Sc. M.Tech. M.S. (Research) M.Des.
2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years
1. Chemistry 1. Engineering Mechanics 1. Information Tech. 1. Industrial Design
2. Mathematics 2. Design Engineering 2. Bio-chemical Engg. & Bio-technology
3. Physics 3. Chemical Engineering 3. Chemical Engineering
4. Molecular Engineering: Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 4. Computer Science & Engineering
5. Construction Technology and Management 5. Electrical Engineering
6. Geotechnical & Geoenvironment Engineering 6. Civil Engineering
7. Structural Engineering 7. Mechanical Engineering
8. Water Resources Engineering 8. Telecommunication Technology
9. Construction Engineering and Management
10. Rock Engineering of Underground Structures
11. Environmental Engineering and Management
12. Transportation Engineering
13. Computer Science & Engineering
14. Control and Automation
15. Communications Engineering
16. Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Drives
17. Computer Technology
18. Integrated Electronics & Circuits
19. Power Systems
20. Computer Applications
21. Thermal Engineering
22. Production Engineering
23. Industrial Engineering
24. Design of Mechanical Equipment
25. Tele-Communication Technology and Management
26. VLSI Tools and Design
27. Radio Frequency Design & Technology
28. Solid State Materials
29. Applied Optics
30. Atmospheric Oceanic Science Technology
31. Fibre Science & Technology
32. Textile Engineering
33. Energy Studies
34. Energy Studies (Evening Programme)
35. Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engineering
36. Polymer Science & Technology
37. Opto-Electronics & Optical Communication
38. Instrument Technology

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Current Degree Programmes

contd. ....

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES & RESEARCH (MASTER)**

M.B.A. MBA D.I.I.T. PG Diploma
2 years Full Time 3 years Part Time 1½ years 1 year
1. Management Systems 1. Technology 1. Naval Construction 1. Metro Rail Transport: Technology and
2. Tele-Communication Systems Management Management Management

**The admission to full- time M. Tech. programmes is made on the basis of performance in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) — an All India entrance test–and
interview at the Institute. A limited number of students are also admitted on part-time basis from amongst working professionals alongwith the regular full-time students,
subject to their satisfying certain academic and experience requirements. The Institute also offers a special M.Tech. programme (evening) in the field of Energy and Environmental
Management on a part-time basis catering to the needs of working professionals from R&D organisations, public sector undertakings, government departments and private
industries.

DOCTORATE PROGRAMMES
The Institute offers research opportunities for doctoral research in all its Departments/ Centres/ Schools. Creative and
productive enquiry is the basic concept underlying the research work. In order to overcome any deficiency in the breadth of
fundamental training or proper foundation for advanced work, special preliminary or pre-doctoral courses are suggested by
each department/centre. The award of Ph.D. is in recognition of high achievements, independent research and application of
scientific knowledge to the solution of technical and scientific problems. The Institute lays special emphasis on India-centric
research activities. A new Ph. D. programme was started in the School of Biological Sciences of the Institute in this period.

The following Departments/ Centres/ School of the Institute offer the Doctorate programme:

Departments/ Centres/ Schools

Applied Mechanics
Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Humanities & Social Sciences
Management Studies
Mathematics
Mechnical Engineering
Physics
Textile Technology
Applied Research in Electronics
Atmospheric Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Energy Studies
Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics & Maintenance Engineering
Instrument Design & Development
Polymer Science & Engineering
Rural Development & Technology
National Resource Centre for Value Education in Engineering
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences

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5. Performance
Highlights (April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)
• Performance Statistics 16
• Admissions 18
• Academic Performance 26
• Internship & Placement 32
• Staff Training Programmes 34
• Scholarships, Assistantships and Awards 35
• Infrastructure Development 40
• New Initiatives 51
• The Year in Perspective 55

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Performance Statistics
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

7863 Total students on roll

According to QS, India Today and

3624 UG students on roll
Outlook, IIT Delhi has been ranked
in the first position amongst all the
engineering colleges in India.
1974 Research Scholars on roll

2265 PG students on roll

PG Students UG Students
53.91% 46.09% 1534 Female students

78
Female Students
19.51%

Male Students Foreign students from 9 countries

80.49%

116
188
Scholars received the Ph.D. degree
Awards/scholarships/medals given at
the Undergraduate and Postgraduate
level. In addition, the Institute has a
“Loan Scholarship Scheme” which makes
it more affordable for the students who
take loan from banks.

356 Research Scholar Admissions

37 New faculty members joined the
institute this year.

1167 PG Admissions 483 Faculty and Academic Staff

853 UG Admissions
815 Non-academic Staff

2376 Total Admissions

104 Faculty fellows under CEP

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Performance Statistics

86 Operational MoUs/Agreements with

150 New Sponsored Research Projects
Foreign Institutions/Organisation with a total funding of Rs.68.65 crores.

63 MoUs/Agreements Indian
Institutions/Organizations
430 Consultancy Jobs with a total value
of Rs.27.31 crores.

2484 Research articles published by the

faculty members and researchers of
the institute in international journals
40
Miscellaneous Projects
worth Rs.5.80 crores.

1696 Articles indexed in Scopus, an

international indexing service in Science
& Technology and Social Sciences

21 Books Published by Faculty

31 Collaborative Projects/Consultancies
with international funding

35 Titles of E-books added under the

Text Book and Book Bank

36
New Courses developed by Faculty
370
9 Companies visited for Placement

QIP/CEP courses
822
61 Total Job Offers

Major New Equipments installed

752
Total Placements 369 UG Placements

148 379 PG Placements

4
Seminars/Conferences
Ph.D. Placements

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Admissions
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

Academic programmes at IITD cover a wide range of science Qualifying Examination. If any Board awards only letter
and engineering disciplines. IITD’s Bachelor’s programs, which grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks
are the most sought after even on global scales, and for which on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate
the entry is through the Joint Entrance Examination, intake from the Board specifying equivalent marks, and submit it at
has steadily increased for the last few years and during the the time of counseling.
year 2013-2014, 3,624 UG students were on roll. These figures
Those appearing in 10+2 final or its equivalent examination
include 427 women students. The enrolment of postgraduate
may also appear in JEE for consideration of Provisional
students during the year 2013-2014 was 4,239. These figures
admission. All provisional admissions stand cancelled if proof of
include 1,107 women students. There were 78 foreign students
having passed the qualifying examination (10+2 or equivalent)
from 9 countries pursuing postgraduate education at the
is not submitted before September 30th of the year in which
Institute during the year 2013-14. In order to make IIT Delhi
admission is sought.
more international in character and to make better use of
international intellectual resources, administration is constantly Postgraduate
working towards increasing the strength of international The admission to full-time M. Tech. programmes is made on
students and faculty in the campus. the basis of performance in the Graduate Aptitude Test in
The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government Engineering (GATE) — an All India entrance test and interview at
of India, has emphasized the need to increase the admission of the Institute. A limited number of students are also admitted on
foreign nationals under the self-financing scheme. The Institute part-time basis from amongst working professionals alongwith
has taken necessary steps in this regard and we hope to increase the regular full-time students, subject to their satisfying certain
the strength of the foreign nationals in the coming years. academic and experience requirements. The Institute also offers
On the recommendation of the Board of Postgraduate Studies & a special M.Tech. programme (evening) in the field of Energy
Research, the Senate has approved starting of a Ph.D. program and Environmental Management on a part-time basis catering
under the National Resource Centre for Value Education in to the needs of working professionals from R & D organisations,
Engineering (NRCVEE) in the areas such as: Philosophy of Values, public sector undertakings, government departments and
Professional Ethics, and Interaction of Science, Technology and private industries.
Human Values. Admission to the 2-year M.Des Programme in Industrial Design
ADMISSION PROCEDURE is made on the basis of CEED (70% weightage) and test/
interview (30% weightage).
Undergraduate
All applications are processed by the concerned Department/
Admission to all Undergraduate Programmes listed before Centre/School/Programme and shortlisted applicants are called
are made through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). The for a written test and/or interview. The date for test/interview
eligibility for appearing for JEE is as follows: is communicated by the Department/Centre/ Programme.
• The minimum academic qualification is the final examination Selected candidates are given offer letters by the Departments/
of 10+2 system or its equivalent. The candidates belonging Centres/Schools after approval of the selection by the Dean,
to the general category and OBC must secure a minimum PGS & R. They are required to pay the first installment of fees
of 60% marks in aggregate in their Qualifying Examination. by a given date, failing which their admission offer stands
Candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories must automatically cancelled. Seats so released are then offered to
secure a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate in the wait listed candidates.

Graph on the right gives the programme

wise details of total number of admissions
in 2013-2014.

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COURSES AND ADMISSIONS

Following tables (I, II, III) give the details regarding the admissions in the given period in different courses offered at IIT Delhi. Table IV and
V shows the total number of students enrolled in different departments and centres. Category wise distribution of students in different
programmes is given in Table VII.

Table I : Break-up of Admissions through Joint Entrance Examination during 2013-2014 according to the Various
Disciplines

Discipline Sanctioned Strength Actual Admissions

B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering 71 71
B.Tech. in Civil Engineering 109 111
B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering 63 63
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering 89 88
B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering (Power and Automation) 32 32
B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering 103 104
B.Tech. in Production Engineering 48 48
B.Tech. in Engineering Physics 63 63
B.Tech. in Textile Technology 93 94
M.Tech. in Mathematics & Computer Applications 48 48
(5-year Integrated)
B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering 32 32
(5-year Dual Degree)
B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Chemical Engg. (5-year Dual Degree) 52 50
B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering and 48 48
Biotechnology (5-year dual Degree)

Table II : Students Admitted to First Year of the M.Tech./M.Des./MS(R)/D.I.I.T., M.B.A. & M.Sc. Programmes as on July 31,
2013 (the last date for late registration in Ist Semester 2013-2014)

Course Students with Institute Others Total

Assistantship (including part-timers)
Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
Department of Applied Mechanics
Design Engineering 27 — 27
Engineering Mechanics 28 1 29
Department of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering 31 1 32
Department of Chemistry
Molecular Engineering: Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 13 — 13
Department of Civil Engineering
Geotechnical Geoenvironmental Engineering 17 — 17
Structural Engineering 17 1 18
Water Resources Engineering 17 — 17
Rock Engineering Under Ground Structures 18 — 18
Construction Technology & Management — 27 27
Construction Engineering and Management 27 — 27
Environmental Engineering and Management 18 — 18

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Transportation Engineering 7 — 7
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering 52 — 52
Department of Electrical Engineering
Integrated Electronics & Circuits 10 — 10
Communications Engineering 13 — 13
Control & Automation 7 1 8
Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Drives 17 2 19
Computer Technology 14 — 14
Power System 11 1 12
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Thermal Engineering 20 — 20
Design of Mechanical Equipment 16 1 17
Production Engineering 24 1 25
Industrial Engineering 15 — 15
Department of Physics
Applied Optics 8 — 8
Solid State Materials 12 — 12
Department of Textile Technology
Textile Engineering 12 — 12
Fibre Science & Technology 13 — 13
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics
Radio Frequency Design and Technology 17 — 17
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Oceanic Science Technology 13 — 13
Interdisciplinary Programmes
Computer Applications 13 — 13
Energy Studies 28 — 28
Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engineering 14 1 15
Instrument Technology 15 — 15
Polymer Science & Technology 16 — 16
Opto-Electronics & Optical Communication 17 — 17
Tele-communication Technology and Management 18 — 18
VLSI Tools and Design — 21 21
Total 615 58 673
Master of Design (M.Des.)
Industrial Design 20 — 20
P.G. Diploma in Metro Rail Transport — 21 21
Naval Construction — 20 20
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Chemistry — — 47
Mathematics — — 49
Physics — — 44
M.S. (Research)
Mechanical Engineering 1 — 1
Civil Engineering — — —

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Table II, contd.

Applied Mechanics — — —
Amar Nath Shashi Khosla School of Information 1 — 1
Technology
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology — — —
Computer Science & Engineering — — —
Electrical Engineering 1 — 1
Chemical Engineering — — —
Biochemical Engineering & Biotech 4 — 4
M.B.A.
Full Time — 48 48
Part Time — 35 35
Total 642 182 964
Table III : Research Scholars Admitted in both the Semesters of the Session 2013-2014

Department/Centre I Semester II Semester Total

Institute Scholars Institute Scholars
Supported Supported from Supported Supported from
Scholars Other Sources Scholars Other Sources
Applied Mechanics 8 — 3 3 14
Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology 2 — 1 1 4
Chemical Engineering 4 2 3 5 14
Chemistry 6 8 1 10 25
Civil Engineering 7 3 5 12 27
Computer Science & Engineering 12 — — — 12
Electrical Engineering 8 4 12 19 43
Humanities & Social Sciences 1 1 5 4 11
Management Studies 3 3 3 9 18
Mathematics 2 2 1 5 10
Mechanical Engineering 9 1 11 8 29
Physics 17 3 6 8 34
Textile Technology 3 — — 3 6
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics — 1 2 — 3
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences 3 — 2 — 5
Centre for Biomedical Engineering 4 — 3 3 10
Centre for Energy Studies 12 9 3 15 39
Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics & 1 1 1 1 4
Maintenance Engineering Centre
Instrument Design & Development Centre 1 1 1 — 3
Centre for Rural Development & Technology 7 2 1 6 16
Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering 7 1 — 2 10
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of — — — 1 1
Information Technology
School of Biological Sciences 2 1 3 1 7
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology 1 — 3 2 6
Management
Transportation Research & Injury Prevention 1 — — 2 3
Programmes
National Resource Centre for Value Education — — — 2 2
Engineering
Total 121 43 70 122 356

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Admissions

Table IV : Total number of M.Tech./MS (R)/M.Sc./D.I.I.T.Students on Rolls as on July 31, 2013 (the last date for late
registration in Ist Semester, 2013-2014)

Course Institute Supported Students Supported Total

Students from Other Sources
Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
Department of Applied Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics 51 1 52
Design Engineering 47 — 47
Department of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering 46 1 47
Department of Chemistry
Molecular Engineering Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 23 1 24
Department of Civil Engineering
Construction Technology & Management — — —
Geotechnical & Geoenvironment Engineering 22 — 22
Rock Engineering Underground Structures 26 — 26
Structural Engineering 22 2 24
Water Resources Engineering 22 — 22
Environmental Engineering and Management 25 — 25
Construction Engineering and Management 41 — 41
Transportation Engineering 11 — 11
Department of Computer Sc. & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering 77 — 77
Total 413 5 418
Department of Electrical Engineering
Integrated Electronics & Circuits 19 — 19
Communication Engineering 20 1 21
Control & Automation 13 1 14
Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Drives 29 2 31
Computer Technology 28 — 28
Power System 20 2 22
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Thermal Engineering 34 2 36
Design of Mechanical Equipment 25 1 26
Production Engineering 34 1 35
Industrial Engineering 28 1 29
Department of Physics
Applied Optics 29 — 29
Solid State Materials 23 — 23
Department of Textile Technology
Textile Engineering 19 — 19
Fibre Science & Technology 28 — 28
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric Oceanic Science & Technology 21 — 21
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics
Radio Frequency Design and Technology 30 — 30
Total 400 11 411

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Table IV, contd.

Interdisciplinary Programmes
Computer Applications 29 — 29
Energy Studies 45 4 49
Instrument Technology 28 — 28
Industrial Tribology & Maint. Engineering 21 1 22
Polymer Science & Technology 41 — 41
Opto-Electronics & Optical Communication 35 — 35
Tele-Communication Technology and Management 36 — 36
VLSI Design Tools and Technology 9 26 35
Master of Design (M.Des.)
Industrial Design 40 — 40
Total 1097 47 1144
M.B.A. — 249 249
M.S. (Research)
Applied Mechanics — 3 3
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology 2 — 2
Bio-Chemical Engg. & Bio-Technology 6 — 6
Chemical Engineering 1 — 1
Computer Science & Engineering 1 — 1
Civil Engineering 1 — 1
Electrical Engineering — — —
Mechanical Engineering 1 — 1
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology 4 3 7
Total 1113 302 1415
P.G. Diploma (D.I.I.T.)
Naval Construction(1½ year) — 42 42
Metro Rail Transport: Technology and Management (one year) — 23 23
Master of Science (M.Sc.) (two years)
Chemistry — — —
Mathematics — — —
Physics — — —
Grand Total 1113 367 1480

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Admissions

Table V : Research Scholars on the Institute Rolls as on July 31, 2013 (the last date for late registration in the Ist
semester, 2013-2014)

Department/Centre/School Students with Others (including Total

Institute Assistantship part-timers)
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information 9 1 10
Technology
Applied Mechanics 25 5 30
Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology 13 16 29
Chemical Engineering 35 17 52
Chemistry 14 81 95
Civil Engineering 47 12 59
Computer Science & Engineering 22 5 27
Electrical Engineering 44 16 60
Humanities & Social Sciences 7 8 15
Management Studies 16 11 27
Mathematics 10 24 34
Mechanical Engineering 39 9 48
Physics 42 52 94
Textile Technology 17 4 21
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics 11 6 17
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences 13 9 22
Centre for Biomedical Engineering 9 7 16
Transportation Research and Injury Prevention 4 — 4
Programme
Centre for Energy Studies 26 26 52
Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics & Maintenance 3 5 8
Engineering Centre
Instrument Design & Development Centre 9 3 12
Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering 19 12 31
Centre for Rural Development & Technology 20 5 25
School of Biological Sciences 8 19 27
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & 17 13 30
Management
Total 479 366 845

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Table VI : Category and Genderwise distribution of enrolled students in UG and PG courses

Program General OBC SC ST PH Total Grand Total

P.G. M F M F M F M F M F M F
DIIT 46 5 5 - 6 1 2 - - - 59 6 65
M.B.A. 143 36 25 5 21 - 1 - 2 - 192 41 233
M.Des. 14 4 7 - 3 1 3 1 - - 27 6 33
M.Sc. 106 71 57 22 25 8 7 6 - - 195 107 302
M.S.R. 63 17 14 - 4 - 1 - - - 82 17 99
M.Tech. 825 195 281 40 141 22 26 3 - - 1273 260 1533
Total P.G. 1197 328 389 67 200 32 40 10 2 - 1828 437 2265
Ph.D. 1009 571 190 57 92 37 8 4 5 1 1304 670 1974
Total (a) 2206 899 579 124 292 69 48 14 7 1 3132 1107 4239
B.Tech. (b) 1568 216 877 79 460 77 235 47 57 8 3197 427 3624
Total (a+b) 3774 1115 1456 203 752 146 283 61 64 9 6329 1534 7863
(as on November 2013)

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Academic Performance
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

All the IITs follow the credits system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their
importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades, with a grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of
marks. Sometimes, relative grading is done considering the overall performance of the whole class.
1813 candidates awarded of various degrees of the Institute at the 44th Annual Convocation held in November 2013. Details of
the same are given in the following graph and Tables I, II and III.

Table I : Number of Undergraduate Students Graduated/Degree Awarded in Convocation 2013

Discipline No. of Students Passed

5 Year Dual Degree/ Integrated
B.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology and 29
M.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology
B.Tech. and M. Tech in Chemical Engineering 32
B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering and M.Tech. in Process 2
Engineering and Design
B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering and M.Tech. 21
in Computer Science & Engineering
B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in 20
Information and communication
M.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing 33
B.Tech. Degree
Civil Engineering 78
Chemical Engineering 59
Computer Science & Engineering 52
Electrical Engineering 53
Electrical Engineering (Power) 26
Machanical Engineering 85
Production and Industrial Engineering 42
Engineering Physics 47
Textile Technology 58
Total 637

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Table II : Number of Students Awarded of Degrees/Diplomas in 2013
Programme No. of Degrees Awarded No. of Diplomas Awarded
(a) M.Tech.
Engineering Mechanics 24 —
Design Engineering 23 —
Molecular Engineering: Chemical Synthesis 10 —
Chemical Engineering 14 —
Construction Technology & Management 26 —
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 10 —
Structural Engineering 19 —
Water Resources Engineering 9 —
Rock Engineering & Underground Structures 9 —
Construction Engineering and Management 25 —
Environmental Engineering and Management 8 —
Transportation Engineering 7 —
Computer Science & Engineering 35 —
Control and Automation 8 —
Communications Engineering 12 —
Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Drives 20 —
Computer Technology 18 —
Integrated Electronics & Circuits 15 —
Power Systems 12 —
Computer Applications 19 —
Thermal Engineering 18 1
Production Engineering 19 —
Industrial Engineering 21 —
Energy and Environmental Management (Evening) 38 1
Ocean Sciences and Technology 11 —
Instrument Technology 15 —
Design of Mechanical Equipment 12 —
Applied Optics 22 —
Solid State Materials 20 —
Fibre Science & Technology 15 —
Textile Engineering 8 —
Radio Frequency Design and Technology 27 —
Energy Studies 25 —
Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engineering 11 —
Polymer Science & Technology 25 —
Opto-Electronics & Optical Communication 23 —
VLS M.Tech. VLSI Design Tools and Technology 14 1
Telecommunication Technology and Mangement 20 —
(b) MBA
Management Systems 37 —
Technology Management 44 —
Telecommunication System Management 13 —
(c) D.I.I.T. (2-Year)
Naval Construction — 22
(d) P.G. Diploma in Metro Rail Transport : Technology & Management — 21
(e) M.Sc. 140 —
(f) M.Des. 20 —
(g) M.S. (Research) —
Computer Science 1 —
Chemical Engineering 1 —
Amarnath & Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology 6 —
BioChemical Engineering 4 —
Mechanical Engineering 1 —
Applied Mechanics — —
Electrical Engineering 6 —
Telecommunication Technology and Mangement 1 —
Total 941 46

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Academic Performance

Table III : Number of Ph.D. Degrees Awarded in 2013

Department/Centre No.of Degrees Awarded

Applied Mechanics 4
Bio-chemical Engineering & Bio-technology 4
Chemical Engineering 5
Chemistry 9
Civil Engineering 14
Computer Science & Engineering 4
Electrical Engineering 23
Humanities & Social Sciences 9
Management Studies 8
Mathematics 5
Mechanical Engineering 12
Physics 21
Textile Technology 7
Applied Research in Electronics 5
Centre for Bio-medical Engineering 4
Centre for Energy Studies 6
Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics & Maintenance Engineering Centre 8
Instrument Design & Development Centre 19
Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering 2
Centre for Rural Development & Technology 3
Amarnath and Shashi Khosla School of IT 1
Computer Applications (JCA) 14
Telecommunication Technology and Management (JTM) 1
Total 188

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Academic Performance

For each semester, the students are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 based on their performance, by taking a weighted average of the
grade points from all the courses, with their respective credit points. Each semester evaluation is done independently and then the
weighted average over all semesters is used to calculate the cumulative grade point average (known as CGPA or CPI—Cumulative
Performance Index). The following table gives the Discipline-wise break-up of CGPA for the two Academic Semesters:

Table IV: Discipline-wise break-up of CGPA for the two Academic Semesters (Undergraduate Courses)
(Academic Session 2012-2013 (2009 Entry Students)]

Discipline 10.00- 9.00 8.99-8.00 7.99-7.00 6.99-6.00 5.99-5.00 4.99-4.00 3.99-3.00 2.99-2.00 Less than 2.00 Total
First Semester
Dual-Degree in Biochemical Engineering 3 9 6 9 5 0 0 0 0 32
& Biotechnology (BB5)*
Civil Engineering (CE1) 2 13 35 19 12 3 0 0 0 84
Chemical Engineering (CH1) 3 21 15 12 10 2 0 0 0 63
Dual Degree in Chemical Engineering 0 11 10 13 7 0 0 0 0 41
(CH7)
Computer Science & Engineering (CS1) 17 13 10 8 3 0 0 0 0 51
Dual-Degree in Computer Science & 2 10 10 3 4 0 0 0 0 29
Engineering (CS5)
Electrical Engineering (EE1) 3 17 18 13 6 0 0 0 0 57
Electrical Engineering (Power) (EE2) 3 6 7 8 2 0 0 0 0 26
Electrical Engineering (EE5) 0 6 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 23
Mechanical Engineering (ME1) 10 23 26 19 10 1 0 0 0 89
Mechanical Engineering (ME2) 0 16 12 7 4 0 0 0 1 40
Mathematics and Computing (MT5) 1 9 11 8 8 1 0 0 0 38
Engineering Physics (PH1) 2 10 18 14 4 0 0 0 0 48
Textile Engineering (TT1) 1 12 18 18 12 8 0 0 0 69
Total 47 176 205 159 87 15 0 0 1 690
Second Semester
Dual-Degree in Biochemical Engineering 3 9 6 9 4 1 0 0 0 32
& Biotechnology (BB5)
Civil Engineering (CE1) 2 15 31 24 10 1 0 0 0 83
Chemical Engineering (CH1) 3 21 16 12 9 2 0 0 0 63
Dual-Degree in Chemical Engineering 0 11 12 12 6 0 0 0 0 41
(CH7)
Computer Science & Engineering (CS1) 17 15 10 7 4 0 0 0 1 54
Dual-Degree in Computer Science & 2 10 11 2 4 0 0 0 0 29
Engineering (CS5)
Electrical Engineering (EE1) 2 20 17 12 6 0 0 0 0 57
Electrical Engineering (EE2) 3 7 6 9 1 0 0 0 0 26
Electrical Engineering (EE5) 0 6 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 23
Mechanical Engineering (ME1) 10 23 26 20 9 1 0 0 0 89
Mechanical Engineering (ME2) 0 18 10 7 4 0 0 0 0 39
Mathematics and Computing (MT5) 1 9 10 9 8 1 0 0 0 38
Engineering Physics (PH1) 2 11 15 15 6 0 0 0 0 49
Textile Engineering (TT1) 0 12 19 19 11 8 0 0 0 69
Total 45 187 198 165 82 14 0 0 1 692

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Table V : Academic Performance of 1st year Students of Postgraduate Programmes

Programme No. of students No. of students

admitted (2013) qualified to continue*
(a) M.Tech.
Engineering Mechanics 29 29
Design Engineering 27 27
Chemical Engineering 32 31
Molecular Engineering: Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 13 13
Construction Technology and Management 27 27
Geotechnical & Geoenvironment Engineering 17 16
Structural Engineering 18 18
Water Resources Engineering 17 17
Construction Engineering and Management 27 27
Rock Engineering of Underground Structures 18 18
Environmental Engineering and Management 18 17
Transportation Engineering 7 7
Computer Science & Engineering 52 51
Control and Automation 8 8
Communications Engineering 13 13
Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Drives 19 19
Computer Technology 14 14
Integrated Electronics & Circuits 10 9
Power Systems 12 12
Computer Applications 13 13
Thermal Engineering 20 19
Production Engineering 25 25
Industrial Engineering 15 15
Design of Mechanical Equipment 17 17
Telecommunication Technology and Management 18 17
VLSI Tools and Design 21 21
Radio Frequency Design & Technology 17 17
Solid State Materials 12 12
Applied Optics 8 8
Atmospheric Oceanic Science Technology 13 13
Fibre Science & Technology 13 12
Textile Engineering 12 12
Energy Studies 28 28
Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engineering 15 15
Polymer Science & Technology 16 16
Opto-Electronics & Optical Communication 17 16
Instrument Technology 15 15
(b) M.S. (Research)
Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of In formation Technology 1 1

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contd.

Mechanical Engineering 1 1
Electrical Engineering 1 1
(c) M.Des.
Industrial Design 20 20
(d) D.I.I.T. (2 year)
Naval Construction 20 20
(e) One year P.G. Diploma in Metro Rail Transport: Technology and 21 21
Management
(f) M.Sc.
Chemistry 47 47
Mathematics 49 48
Physics 44 44
Management Studies
M.B.A. Programme (Full-time) 48 48
M.B.A. Programme (Part-time) 35 35
Total 960 950

*The remaining students either left the Institute or failed to meet the minimum C.G.P.A. requirements to continue in the next semester.

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Internship and Placement
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

Training & Placement activities are guided by an Institute Level obtaining a good number of stipends and other facilities such as
Committee consisting of Faculty members and students. The student transport, accommodation, etc.
committees, i.e. Central Committee at the Institute level as well as The T&P unit with the active cooperation of Nucleus Committees of
Nucleus Committees at departmental level, actively participated in the departments was able to arrange more than the required number
the Training & Placement activities. of seats for internships. Stipends were committed for 358 students
As in the past the Training and Placement Unit continued to plan, and other perquisites for 209 students. Detailed instructions to
organise and consolidate the Training and Placement activities for students were also issued prior to the commencement of the training
students. It actively interacted with various industrial, technical, programme. A list of data regarding the pre-final year students
management and research organisations in the country. The dual training is given in Table-I.
aim of establishing this rapport is to ensure that students are given
adequate technical exposure/industrial training during their pre- Placement
final year and subsequently get employment in organisations which A letter of invitation for Campus Interviews was sent to a large
match their aspirations and objectives. number of public or private sector organisations especially to those
As in the previous years, web based placement services were which visited the Institute for campus interviews during the last
provided using the internal T&P server this year as well. The students three years. A large number of them gave electronic copies of their
got all information on their desktops PCs / laptops, they applied on- job profiles which were made available to the students through the
line and could see the progress of their application including the final internal web server. This vigorous drive resulted in requisitions being
results. The companies too were issued user name and password for obtained from industries from 370 Companies for 466 profiles with
accessing and short-listing CVs and uploading their presentations selections on 228 profiles as a result of which 752 students were
and files. This considerably reduced the conventional pre-placement placed making a total of 822 jobs (some students got multiple jobs).
talks on the campus. The sector-wise distribution of profiles opened for placement are
given in Table II.
The analysis of the past training and placement activities was
presented to the students to help them decide their future course of Table II- Sector -wise distribution of Profiles Opened for Placement
action. Constant liaison with industries was maintained throughout Sector Profiles Opened Students Placed
the year to ensure student placements across sectors.
Analytics 30 99
This office also organised some pre-placement workshops, panel
discussions and career counselling talks by distinguished persons Consulting 40 79
from reputed technical, industrial, management and research Core (Technical) 157 258
organisations for the benefit of the graduating students. Some of the Finance 17 30
Institute alumni who are holding very senior positions in private and
public sector organisations were also invited to share their personal Information Technology 138 205
experiences with the student community of the Institute. Management 04 03
An online interview preparation personality development & career Other 44 36
guidance system was also made available to all students of the institute. Teaching & Research 36 42
Internship Total 466 752

A personal dialogue with top executives of a large number of Ground rules for placement evolved in consultation with the students
industries resulted in better understanding of their functional and faculty members led to a just and equitable distribution of job
requirements and training activities. This effort also helped the opportunities amongst the student community.
T&P Unit in the effective planning of summer practical training for The discipline wise beak-up of on campus placement position is
3rd year B.Tech./Dual degree/Integrated M.Tech. students, besides shown in Table III and IV.
Table 1 - 3rd Year Students Summer Training - 2014
Discipline Seats- Obtained Seats- Required Stipend Other Facilities
(a) B. Tech/Dual Degree
Chemical Engineering/Dual Degree 117 115 32 15
Computer Science & Engineering/Dual Degree 91 94 71 50
Civil Engineering 99 102 25 11
Electrical Engg/Power/Dual Degree 123 122 94 46
Engineering Physics 54 53 17 11
Mechanical Engineering 105 107 51 40
Industrial & Production Engineering 48 49 10 10
Textile Technology 85 84 16 10
(b) 5-Year Integrated M.Tech. Programme
Bio-Chemical Engineering & Bio-Tech 42 32 13 8
Math & Computer Application 37 36 29 8
Total 801 794 358 209

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Table III : Discipline-wise break-up of On-Campus Placement Position of B.Tech./Dual and 5-year integrated
M. Tech. Students during 2013-14

Discipline No. of Students No.of Effective No.of Students with more

Registered Placements* than one job**
(a) B.Tech
Chemical Engineering 60 47 01
Civil Engineering 71 37 01
Computer Science & Engineering 55 55 15
Electrical Engineering 56 52 08
Electrical Engineering (Power) 27 21 01
Mechanical Engineering 81 62 04
Industrial & Production Engineering 35 29
Textile Technology 52 42 01
Physics Engineering 31 24
(b) Dual / 5-Year Integrated M. Tech Programmes
Mathematics & Computer Appn. 31 25 02
Bio-chemical Engineering & Bio. Tech. 25 19 02
Chemical Engineering Dual 38 34 01
Computer Science & Engineering Dual (CO) 30 30 10
Electrical Dual (EI) 19 14 01
Total 611 491 47

*Others would have obtained jobs via off-campus mode or opted for higher studies or for Civil Services.
**This is because more than one company declared the results on the same day.

Table IV : On-campus Placement Position of M.Tech. Students during 2013-14.

Department/ Interdiscip. Programme No. of Students No.of Effective No.of students with
Registered Placements* More than** one job
M.Tech.
Applied Mechanics 42 25
Atmospheric Oceanic Science 08 06
Chemical Engineering 24 09
Molecular Engineering/Chemical Synthesis 01 01
Civil Engineering 39 11
Computer Science & Engineering 45 45 07
Electrical Engineering 57 34 01
Computer Application (Maths) 13 12
Mechanical Engineering 26 15
Physics 02
Textile Technology 21 09
Energy Studies 18 08
ITMMEC 08 02
Opto-Electronics and Communication 14 05
Polymer Science & Technology 08 01
Instrument Technology 12 09
VLSI 15 15
CRF (Care) 10 04
Tele Communications 15 13 02
Total 378 224 10

In addition 16 M. Des., 16 M.Sc., 01 MS Research, and 04 Ph.D. students also were placed through our campus activities. MBA students did their placement separately.
*Others have got placement via off-campus mode. Some would have gone for higher studies or for Civil Services.
**This is because more than one company declared the results on the same day.
Total Jobs = B.Tech. & Dual + M.Tech. + M. Des. + M.Sc. + MS Res. + Ph.D. = 491+224+16+16+1+4 =752

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Staff Training Programmes
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The Institute continues to take particular care of its staff so that they are properly equipped with the skill/knowledge that is
required to keep pace with the developments taking place in both administrative and technical spheres. It deputes its technical,
secretarial and ministerial staff to various training institutions in and outside Delhi. During the year under report 178 staff
members/officers belonging to administrative and technical cadres were deputed/sponsored for training outside the Institute.
Details are as follows :

Staff Training Programmes

Table I : Group A Officers Deputed for Various Staff Training Programmes in 2013-2014

Title of Training Period of Training Name / Group

Workshop on “Noting & Drafting” 20/05/2013 Sh. Ramesh Kumar

to
21/05/2013

Workshop on “Brihaspathi Accounting Software” 14/12/2013 Sh. K. Narayanan

to Sh. M.K. Gulati
15/12/2013 Sh. R.K. Gupta

Workshop on “Analysis of Financial Statement (WAFS-2)” 20/02/2014 Mohd. Shamim

to Sh. K.L. Guray
21/02/2014 Sh. Ram Nath
Sh. Anup Kuksal

Workshop on “Right to Information Act -2005” 10/03/2014 Sh. N.C. Chauhan

to Sh. N. Bhaskar
11/03/2014

Workshop on “Ethics & Value in Public Governance 18/03/2014 Sh. M.K. Gulati
(WoEVIPG-03)” to Sh. Mukesh Kumar
20/03/2014 Sh. Suresh Kr. Gohar

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 Scholarships, Assistantships and Awards
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The Institute believes in the maxim that no deserving student, however weak in financial backing, should be denied
the opportunity of education at IIT Delhi. To encourage and to provide financial incentives to meritorious students and
assistance to the needy students of the institute, individuals, trusts and organisations have been instituting scholarships,
awards, etc. at the Institute. At present, there are 116 awards/scholarships/medals being given at the Undergraduate and
Postgraduate level. This is in addition to more than 1541 awards instituted by the Institute directly in the form of merit-cum-
means scholarships, cash prizes and freeships.

In addition, the Institute has a “Loan Scholarship Scheme” which makes it more affordable for the students who take
loan from banks. Additional Medals, Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships instituted during the previous year include
Sadashiv Shankar Gokhale Scholarship, Akshat Gupta Scholarship, Shri Beni Madho Singh Scholarship, Koul Basu Research
Award, Prof. P.K. Katti Award, NRCVEE Best Project and Essay Award, Punita and Jayant Sinha Awards and Shri O.P. Bansal
Cash Award, etc.

Below is a summary of cash prizes and merit-cum means scholarships offered to B.Tech students during the session
2013-2014.

Scholarships / Assistantships / Freeships and Awards

Table I : Number of Cash Prizes Merit-cum-Means Scholarships/Freeships offered to B.Tech. Students during the
Session 2013-2014

Class Cash Prizes No. of Scholarships Free Mess Services Freeships for Gen &
Awarded (basic menu and pocket allowance of OBC (w.e.f 2010)
Rs 250/- p.m. to S.C./S.T. students)
I-Year 62 213 80 57

II-Year 115 162 71 64

III-Year 87 139 62 59

IV-Year 92 157 59 49

V-Year 33 – – –

Backlog 6 1 36 2

Total 395 672 308 231

Table II : Assistantships to Dual Degree Students during the Session 2013-2014

Course No. of Assistantships Renewed No. of Assistantships Awarded

Bio-chemical Engg. & Bio-Tech. 19 23

Computer Science & Engineering 22 25

Electrical Engineering 17 18

Chemical Engineering 24 24

Mathematics and Computing 15 23

Total 97 113

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Scholarships, Assistantships and Awards

Students pursuing M.Tech./ M.Des/ MS (R) are eligible for institute assistantship at the time of admission. However, for
continuation of the assistantship they have to maintain a minimum SGPA (semester grade point average) at the end of every
semester. The table below shows the assistantship awarded to 2013 entry students and renewed to the existing students.
A total of 649 students were awarded assistantship in 2013-14

Table III: Assistantships Offered to the Students of M.Tech., M.Des., MS(R) and M.Sc. Programmes during the Session
2013-2014.

(i) M.Tech./M.Des.
Course No. of Assistantships No. of Assistantships
Renewed Awarded
(a) M.Tech.
Engineering Mechanics 25 27
Design Engineering 24 29
Chemical Engineering 25 32
Molecular Engineering : Chemical Synthesis & Analysis 10 13
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 5 17
Structural Engineering 8 18
Construction Engineering and Management — 27
Environmental Engineering and Management 7 18
Rock Engg. and Underground Structures 8 18
Water Resources Engineering 5 17
Transportation Engineering 4 7
Computer Science & Engineering 25 52
Power Electronics, Electrical Machines & Drives 12 19
Communications Engineering 8 13
Control and Automation 9 8
Computer Technology 14 14
Power System 10 12
Integrated Electronics & Circuits 9 10
Computer Applications 9 13
Thermal Engineering 16 20
Production Engineering 10 25
Industrial Engineering 14 15
Design of Mechanical Equipment 9 17
Applied Optics 21 8
Solid State Materials 11 12
Textile Engineering 7 12
Fibre Science & Technology 15 13
Atmospheric-Oceanic Science & Technology 8 13
Radio Frequency Design and Technology 13 17
Energy Studies 21 28
Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engineering 7 15

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contd. .....

Polymer Science & Technology 25 16

Opto-electronics & Optical Communication 18 17
Instrument Technology 13 15
Telecommunication Technology and Management 18 18
(b) M.Des.
Industrial Design 20 20
(c) MS (Research)
Bio-chemical Engg. & Bio-Tech. 2 4
Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & Management — —
Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology 2 —
Computer Science & Engineering 1 —
Civil Engineering 1 —
Chemical Engineering 1 —
Total 470 649

List of the merit-cum-means scholarships awarded for MSc is as follows:

Table IV : Merit-cum-means Scholarships Awarded to MSc. Students

2012 2013
Chemistry I Year 19 14
II Year 19 14
Mathematics I Year 10 14
II Year 10 14
Physics I Year 22 14
II Year 22 14
Total 102 84

Other than these, fifteen M.Tech. students of the Institute had gone to Germany under the DAAD Scholarship Scheme to do
part of their thesis research under the Indo-German collaboration program. The 12th batch of 20 students for this year has been
selected and they departed on September 2013.
Student’s Awards/ Achievements
Department of Chemical Engineering
• Kishore Kondamudi and Dr. Sreedevi U., SRISTI Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI) 2013 under the
category MLM (more from less for many) for Reactor & Catalyst Development for Oxygen evolving step in Sulfur Iodine cycle
for Hydrogen production
• ”Conference Best Paper Award “for Dr. V. Ramsagar & Dr. Munawar Shaik paper in International Conference on Chemical and
Bioprocess-India (ICCBPE-IN) Nov. 2013
• Dr. Sanat Mohanty, Special Mentor : Vivek Kumar- GANDHI YOUNG SCIENTIST
• Special Mentor: Rahul Mishra – IIChE – 2nd Best Paper @ IICT Conf. Bombay (Dr. Sanat Mohanty)
• Kriti Mahajan, Ritubhan Gautam (Dual Degree 5th year), Student received ‘Honeywell Innovation Award’
• Loveleen Sharma, Best Paper (First Prize) at Chemlon 2013 (held in ICT, Mumbai) in category “Novel Reactors and Operating
strategies”. Supervisor – Prof. S. Roy and Prof. K.D.P. Nigam
• Meenakshi Majumdar, Best paper (First Prize) at Chemcon 2013 (held in ICT, Mumbai) in category, “Fluid Mechanics and CFD”
Supervisor – Prof. S. Roy

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Department of Civil Engineering for Spintronics’ to Himanshu Fulara, Sujeet Chaudhary and
• Kaustav Sarkar and B. Bhattacharjee. Analysis of Moisture S C Kashyap, at 12Tech – 2013, IIT Delhi (India) (27/4/2013).
Ingress in Concrete Subjected to Rainfall Exposure in a • Runners-up best project (Alumni Association Award): High-
Composite Tropical Climate. (2013): Adjudged as best resolution, non-contact quantitative phase imaging of
paper in Proceedings of the 5th Asia and Pacific Young biological objects to Vishal Srivastava and D. S. Mehta at
Researchers and Graduates Symposium on Current Open House (27/4/ 2013).
Challenges in Structural Engineering (YRGS 2013). • Best Poster Paper Award (WRAP 2013): High-resolution
• Mr. and Mrs. Prem Sheel Bhatnagar Memorial Award for corneal topography and tomography of fish eye using
Best B.Tech Project (G. Shilpa, 2013) full-field white light interference microscopy and colour
• Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) award to fringe analysis to Vishal Srivastava, M. Inam, Brijesh
Sameer Khan for Masters sandwich program in the Rheinisch- Kumar Singh, and D. S. Mehta at Workshop on Recent
Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Advances in Photonics, IIT Delhi, India (17-18/12/2013).
Aachen University) with Prof. Dr. Benno Hoffmeister. (2013). • Best Poster Award: ‘Role of Bimodal Distribution in tailoring
the inter-particle Interactions in Cu79Co21 Nanogranular
• Apekshit Solanki; Sameera; Vishakha Shankar IIT Delhi-Alumni
films, to Dinesh Kumar, Sujeet Chaudhary, D K Pandya at
Award at I2Tech-Open House 2013 (2nd position with cash
58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Patiala (India)
prize of INR 10,000.00 in undergraduate category) (2013).
(17-21/12/ 2013)
• Apekshit Solanki; Sameera; Vishakha Shankar IITD class of 89:
Department of Textile Technology
SPS Memorial Award with seed money of INR 50,000.00 (2013).
• Upashana Chatterjee, Predicting Changes in TPU coating
• Apekshit Solanki; Sameera; Vishakha Shankar 2nd position
properties with weathering , Poster Award, International
in Civil Engineering Society awards among CEP200 projects Conference PPS2013 Mumbai.
category (2013).
• Rashmi Thakur, APA Innovation Award – 2014, Design of a
• Vikash Kumar, Summer Undergraduate Research Award by novel baby diaper.
IIT Delhi (2013).
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
• Sanyal (M.Tech. 2009), IETE-M N SAHA MEMORIAL AWARD for
• Chirag Jainwon the first prize for project awards under the the best application oriented paper, Lt. Cdr. Abhijit, Sep, 2013.
Undergraduate category during IIT Delhi’s Open House
Centre for Biomedical Engineering
2014, for his work on an Improved Algorithm for Sequence
Alignment on GPUs. • Manoj Kumar, SPIONs based Delivery systems for pro-
apoptotic peptide as potential therapeutics for BCL-2
• Deeksha Gautam, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Madhulika
overexpressing cancers. Oral presentation in International
Mohanty, Nitish Varshney won Grand Prize for “Polarizer”
Conference on Environment, Health, and Industrial
which classifies controversial comments into pro and con
Biotechnology (BIOSANGAM-2013), November 21-23,
at the event - Yahoo HackU, 2013.
2013. Awarded ‘Young scientist award’ for the work.
• Ankit Kumar, Dhruv Gupta and Pulkit Sapra of the
Centre for Rural Development and Technology
ASSISTECH group have bagged the best project award for
developing affordable Refreshable Braille Cells at TechTop • Mr Pradip Narale and Ms Rimika Kapoor won 7th ENERTIA
2014, a national innovation contest. Awards for “Biogas Upgradation, Bottling for Vehicular
Application” in 2013.
Department of Electrical Engineering
Amar Nath and Shahi Khosla School
• Chetna Singhal (2011BSZ8071) - Best poster paper award
on the Institute Research Day. • “Early Exploration for Platform Architecture Instantiation
with Multi-mode Application Partitioning”.
• Best paper presentation award to the following research
• Prashant Agarwal, Praveen Raghavan, Matthias Hartmann,
paper: Prabhmandeep Kaur, V.K.Jain and Subrat Kar,
Namita Sharma, Liesbet Van der Perre, and Francky
“Performance of free space optical links under various weather
Catthoor, DAC 2013 (Awarded the HiPEC paper award).
conditions and optical turbulence”, International Conference
on Emerging Technologies in Electronics & Communication School of Biological Sciences
(ICETEC-13), GNDU Amritsar, India, 20-22 December 2013. • Mr. Hirdesh Kumar (DAAD Fellowship) 2013
• R. Prashant (2010EEZ8051) - Shortlisted for best paper award • Ms. Rishibha Sachdev (DAAD Fellowship, Sandwich Ph.D.
in BRAIN sponsored by Institute for Engineering in Medicine. programme) 2014.
Department of Physics • Mr. Ankit Srivastava- selected and presented poster at
• Best Poster Award: Strain induced buckled super- Gordon Research Conference, Texas, USA, 5th to 10th Jan
hydrophobic PDMS silver nanorods arrays, Pratibha goel, • Ms. Rishiba Sachdeva, Presented poster at international
Samir Kumar, J. P. Singh at MRS Fall meeting & exhibit, conference, 13th to 16th April 2014 at Srinagar.
Boston, USA (1-6/12/2013) • Ms. Rachana Tomar presented her synopsis on 15th April 2014.
• Best Poster Award (by IITD Alumni Association):‘Exchange Bias • Mr. Jasdeep Singh selected for training programme at
Effect in Antiferromagnetic (AF)/ Ferromagnetic(FM) Systems Japan under Jenesys 20 short term programme.

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The students pursuing Ph.D. are also eligible for assistantships. This year 334 students were awarded assistantships. Assistantship
to existing students continues provided, they show satisfactory progress. The table below gives a discipline wise break-up of
assistantships awaited during the period.

Table V : Institute Assistantships Awarded to Research Scholars during the Session 2013-2014

Department/Centre No. of Assistantships No. of Assistantship

Renewed Awarded (2013 entry)

Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information 10 1

Technology

Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology & 29 6

Management

Applied Mechanics 22 14

Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology 27 4

Chemical Engineering 46 14

Chemistry 81 25

Civil Engineering 49 27

Computer Science & Engineering 15 12

Electrical Engineering 48 43

Humanities & Social Sciences 14 11

Management Studies 21 18

Mathematics 30 —

Mechanical Engineering 38 29

Physics 74 24

Textile Technology 18 6

Centre for Applied Research in Electronics 16 3

Centre for Atmospheric Sciences 19 5

Centre for Biomedical Engineering 12 10

Centre for Energy Studies 35 39

Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics & Maintenance 7 4

Engineering Centre

I.D.D. Centre 10 3

Centre for Polymer Science & Engineering 23 10

Centre for Rural Development & Technology 16 16

School of Biological Sciences 24 7

Transport and Energy Prevention 3 3

Total 687 334

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Infrastructure Development
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE 2. Construction of Boys Hostel ‘E’

All infrastructures related activity is managed by the Building Institute is planning for construction of another Boys’ Hostel
and Works Committee as given in Appendix III. The revised (Hostel ‘E’). Architect has prepared conceptual design of Hostel
Master Plan of the Institute was approved by MCD / DUAC. ‘E’ which was approved by B&WC Committee. The modified
The Master Plan is suitably prepared to provide for further drawing has been submitted to MCD/DUAC for approval. The
expansion plans of the Institute. In the year 2013-14, the Construction work has been assigned to CPWD. The hostel will
Institute has taken up following major projects which are cater to 1000 students (approx.). The work shall be taken up
under construction. for construction after obtaining statutory approvals.

1. Lecture Theater –cum- Lab Complex 3. Construction of 414 Single Seated New Girls Hostel
L.T. Complex which is under construction shall provide lecture The Institute has assigned the work to Panel Architect.
halls of 2 No. x 500 Seater, 3No.X300 Seater and 12 No. x 150 This hostel will accommodate 414 students. The proposed
Seater capacity and 9 class rooms of 60 Seater capacity each. hostelshall be constructed along North Avenue adjacent to
The Lab block of the L.T. Complex shall cater for facilities Himadri Hostel, which also involves demolishing 2 Blocks in
for Physics lab, Language lab, Graphic lab,Chemistry lab, North Avenue in the East campus. The concept design was
Applied Mech. Lab, Bio Science lab, Electrical Engineering approved by B&WC. The Architect is arranging to submit
and Computer lab. The RCC structure work in lab block is building plans to SDMC / DUAC for approval. The Construction
completed and finishing work is nearing completion. The work of the hostel has been assigned to CPWD. The work shall be
furniture of above labs has also been finalised by users taken up for construction after obtaining statutory approvals.
committee and CPWD has invited tender for the same. The
L.T. complex is expected to be completed by Dec - 2014. 4. Construction of Golden Jubilee G.H. Keshwani Research
Centre
2. Construction of Clean room on the ground floor and first
floor in block VI for Nanoscale research facilities (NRF) The IITD alumnus Sh. G.H. Keshwani has agreed to donate
fund for construction of Golden Jubilee G.H. Keshwani
The renovation work for creating clean room on the ground Research Centre at IIT Delhi. Approx. 11,000 Sq.mt. of area
floor and first floor in block VI for Nano scale research facilities shall be constructed for research facilities at Ground + 6 floors.
(NRF) is in progress and shall be ready for use by Nov. 2014. The Architect has prepared the submission drawings and
submitted to SDMC for necessary approval. The work shall be
Academic Infrastructure
taken up for construction after obtaining statutory approvals.
1. Construction of Institute (Students) Activities Centre
5. Lifts for Physically Challenged Persons in Academic Area
The conceptual design of Institute activities centre has been
prepared. The B&WC considered and accepted the conceptual The Institute has planned for providing 8 Nos. Lifts for
design. The modified drawings are being submitted to MCD/ physically challenged persons in the academic area. The work
DUAC for approval. The construction work shall be taken up has started at site and likely to be completed by 31.03.2015.
after obtaining statutory approvals.
6. Construction of Main Swimming and a Small Swimming
pool for children in IITD
An Olympic size Swimming pool & small pool for children
has been commissioned & the same was inaugurated by the
Chairman BOG. The Swimming pool is being used by staff and
students of IITD.

7. Construction of STP/ETP and Network Connecting

Sewer Lines to STP/ETP.
The Institute is planning to construct STP/ETP for compliance
of the requirements of Environment Clearance accorded by
the MoEF. Accordingly it was proposed to construct 3 STP’s
and 1 ETP in the campus. A consultant has already been
www.iitd.ac.in appointed by the Institute and the work on
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consultant. The Consultant has submitted the conceptual • Scanning Electrochemical Microscope
design and preliminary estimate which has been approved
• 100 ML Lab-Autoclave
by B&WC. EOI is being invited to shortlist the contractors/
firms for execution of the work of STP in the campus. • Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium UG Lab

8. Construction of Engineering Block 99B and 99C • Double Pipe Heat Exchanger in UG Lab

The conceptual design for the proposed Engineering Block • Time constant of Manometer
99B and 99C was placed before the B&WC and the same was • Level measurement by capacitance method
accepted and approved. The two blocks shall be constructed
on both sides of ongoing project of L.T. cum Lab Complex. The • Time constant of Thermocouple & Themometer
two blocks shall provide additional area for Labs, Workshops, • Two-tank interacting & non-interacting system
Faculty rooms etc. The available floor area for Engineering
Block 99B shall be 32,550 Sq.mt. and for Engineering Block • Control Valve Characteristics
99C shall be 26,250 Sq. mt. • Flow Control Trainer
9. Construction of Additional Faculty Flats in West Campus • Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectroscopy (CE-MS)
near Vikramshila Apartments
• Octet
The Institute has recently constructed 96 Faculty flats which
• XRD
have been allotted to eligible Faculty members. In order to
meet with the increased demand for houses for Faculty, the • Hybrid CPU/GPU Cluster in Research lab II -11
Institute is considering for construction of more faculty flats.
• Electrical Capacitaure / Resistance Tomigraphy
M/s Kothari Associates Pvt. Ltd., Panel Architect was assigned
the work for design of faculty flats and the concept design was Department of Chemistry
accepted and approved by the B&WC. Architect is preparing
the submission drawing for obtaining necessary approvals. • Confocal Raman Spectrometer
• FTIR Spectrophotometer
10. Solar System of 1MWP in Academic Area
Solar system of 1MWP capacity is proposed in Academic Department of Civil Engineering
area the work was taken up and about 200 KWP has been • Particle size and zeta potential analyzer
commissioned till date.
• A complete Vibration Testing Set-up (Capacity: Peak force
11. Solar System of 20 KWP at Director’s Lodge. 5000 kgf at 45 Hz)
Solar system of 20 KWP has been installed & commissioned at • 250 kN MTS servo-controlled actuator
Director’s lodge. • Automatic Blaine permeability apparatus
12. Online Energy Monitoring of Bharti School Sub- • 3 Tonne fork lift
station.
Online Energy monitoring of Bharti Sub-station has been Department of Electrical Engineering
implemented & we propose to expend this in entire campus. • INNORAM: Ram Spectrometer.
13. Development of Rajiv Gandhi Educational Centre • ST-UT Series Upgradable Optical Table.
Campus of IIT Delhi at Kondli, Sonipat. • Mechanical Servo Experiment Made: Qunser Inc.
IIT was allotted 50 Acres land in Rajiv Gandhi Educational City • Haptics Device Comprising: OMNL Bundle-Haptic/ Robotics.
Kundli Sonipat. Compound wall construction is in progress.
The concept design & expenditure sanction for construction • Industrial Microscope with all accessories.
of Innovation Centre for Education has been approved and • Terrasas – PV Simulator with S/w.
tenders for the work is being invited by M/s NBCC Ltd. The
Innovation Centre for Education will be having an approximate • Power Analyzer.
built up area of 33,500 Sq. mt. in Ground & four floors. This • Thermo Scientific Max Q4000 Large. Refrigerated bench.
facility will be used as Residential training of Faculty.
• Power System Network Studies.
MAJOR NEW EQUIPMENTS INSTALLED • DSO with Accessories.
Department of Chemical Engineering • Pioneer 3 DX Robot.
• Photo Electrochemical Workstation • 26.5 GHz Fox Microwave Analyzer.

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• RT-Lab RCP and Hil System. EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES CENTRE

• NAIO AFM with Accessories. The Educational Technology Services Centre (ETSC) is actively
engaged in promoting the use of Educational Technology at
Department of Physics the Institute and also at the national level. Some of its major
• PPMS (Physical Property Measurement System) activities are:
• Time resolved Photoluminescence Spectrometer • Design & Development of Instructional Resources (videos
and web based).
• Probe station
• Provision and maintenance of AV equipment for classroom
• RF Sputtering system teaching.
• Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition • Video and computer based instructional packages.
• Organize training programmes for faculty and professionals
Department of Textile Technology across the country.
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter-TA Instruments • Video conferencing for faculty selection interviews and
• KES- FB Friction Tester meetings.
• E-learning and distance education.
Centre for Applied Research in Electronics
• Undertake sponsored research and consultancy projects.
• Full Anechoic Air Acoustic Chamber
• Transmission of an independent 24x7 EKLAVYA technology
• 26.5GHz Hand Held Vector Network Analyzer channel.
• Mask Cutter/Plotter • Telecast video courses under NPTEL programme on
• Olympus Microscope EKLAVYA.

Centre for Biomedical Engineering • Administration of ACADO Server (LMS).

• Raman confocal microscope • Offer support for classroom teaching.

Centre for Polymer Sciences

• Microcompounder
• Micro Injection Molding
• Autosamples for DSC/TGA
• Coefficient of friction
• Servo hydraulic- UTM Machine (MTS) (Bionix)

Centre for Rural Development and Technology

• Automatic Nitrogen and Metal Analyzer with Digester (HACH)

Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School of Information

Technology
• We have procured certain equipment, furniture etc. in
order to set up (1) Assistive Technologies Lab, Virtual Reality • Dissemination of Instructional Resources: through
Studio, (3) IT for Society Lab, development of information brochures and databases.

• Medical Applications of IT Lab, (5) Advanced Technologies The Centre has a modern video studio with recording and
& IoT Lab (Kripalani Lab), editing facilities in DVCAM format. A studio-classroom
with seating capacity of 60 is available for on-line recording
• Architecture, Embedded & Energy Sensitive Computing of courses. Nonlinear editing setup and Apple Streaming
Lab and server are available for post production and video streaming.
• Cyber Security Research Lab ETSC takes care of the audio-visual needs of faculty and
students. In addition to equipping the classroom with these
Kusuma School of Biological Sciences facilities. ETSC runs a loan service. A media reference library
with multiple viewing cabins has been set up in the Central
• Cryo- Electron Microscopy
Library for the use of students and faculty. The Educational
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link is also provided for live delivery. Two new lecture rooms
have also been equipped with audio/video, projection,
distance education and recording facilities. In addition, three
Virtual Classrooms are also being equipped under National
Knowledge Network (NKN).

COMPUTER AND INTERNET SERVICE

The main objectives of the Computer Services Centre are to :
• provide round the clock computing and networking
facilities to serve a user population of more than 9000
users consisting of undergraduate, postgraduate, research
scholars, faculty and staff of the Institute and provide
advice on all the aspects of academic computing.
• implement and maintain system and application software.
modern multimedia capabilities and internet connectivity.
Computer Aided Instruction/Computer Aided Learning
courses/packages are developed in the computer laboratory.
Learning materials generated by ETSC are disseminated at
nominal price throughout the country and abroad.

The Centre conducts short courses and modular programmes

on different aspects of educational technology for teachers
and staff from the Institute and from other educational
institutions and industry institutions. These courses are
designed to sensitize and guide the faculty to optimize their
effort and time for classroom and laboratory instruction as well
as professional development. The Centre offers its services to
departments, individual faculty or groups of faculty members
in revising, redesigning and innovating curricula.
• implement and manage the Institute Network.
The Centre has the expertise and experience of undertaking
national and international level consultancy and sponsored • impart introductory and advanced instructions to users.
research projects. It has worked with agencies such as the
World Bank, AT&T, AICTE, UNESCO, UNDP Commonwealth • work on cutting edge technology and provide the user
of Learning. The British Council and Adis Abada University, community with services based on new technology .
Ethopia. The NPTEL project funded by MDRD has been • provide support to Institute computerization efforts.
successfully completed. Under this programme, all the seven
IITs and Indian Institute of Science have worked together • do in-house development in IT related areas.
to develop web and video based education material for
In addition, the center also participates in the Academic
undergraduates courses initially in five disciplines, viz., Civil
programmes of various departments, undertakes Sponsored
Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical
Research and Consultancy Projects and Conducts CEP Courses
Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering
in several topical areas of Information Technology.
and Mechanical Engineering. The web courses so developed
are available through the various servers authorized by NPTEL
Goals Achieved during the year
Phase II of NPTEL Project is nearing completion where its
scope has been further expanded to include more disciplines The following activities have been undertaken during the year
and advanced/post graduate courses. ETSC has procured 2013-14
and installed Sony ANYCAST system in the Video Studio and
• CSC has begun building a new Data Centre which will have
in two lecture theatres for non linear editing and recording.
the IT infrastructure and a HPC facility. A disaster recovery
Video Conferencing facilities have been installed in the two
centre is also being built so the uninterrupted IT services
lecture theatres and in the Conference Room of ETSC. The
may be provided to the Institute community.
facility is being used for faculty interviews, meetings and
distance education. For connectivity both ISDN and IP based • IIT Delhi has become a part of Eduroam, a global Wifi roaming
network connection are used. For classes to Adis Ababa programme across academic campuses through ERNET India.
University, two lecture delivery rooms have been equipped
with remote teaching facility. A dedicated two-way video • CSC has implemented ownCloud, a file and document

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sharing utility similar to the popular dropbox for use by the

IITD community. The utility supports storing and sharing
of files, images, music and documents, contacts, calendars,
tasks etc.
• The CSC has commissioned a CUDA based high
performance computing GPU mini-cluster environment
of 16 nodes, each with 2x8 core ES-2670 (Sandybridge)
CPU, 64 GB RAM and 2xNvidia K20 GPUs. The nodes have
64Gbps IB interconnect. Very soon within next few months
this will be extended to 750 Tera flops system in the new
Data Centre.
• Fiber connectivity has been provided to more than one
thousand residential houses for internet which will be
based on GPON technology.
• The CSC provides Infrastructure services through
• IITD has upgraded the routers and switches for internet virtualization technology.
access and in the core and distribution network, the
existing multimode fiber has been replaced with new • Compute facilities for research and projects are provided
single mode fiber. The backbone is now ready for dual through the Baadal, the cloud computing environment.
redundant connectivity and 10 Gbps. The core switches • The Centre maintains local repositories of several popular
have been upgraded to 10Gbps ready Nexus 5596UP’s. The open-source and commercial licensed software.
core switches will be upgraded to Nexus -7010’s after the
DC and DR sites are ready by the end of Oct. 2014. • The CSC has Microsoft Volume Licensing EES agreement
for the Campus under which Microsoft software are
• Newly developed Website for IITD Hospital, Centre for available for use.
Biomedical Engineering, SLA for Infrastructure, Academic
• The Centre has the following software packages: Matlab,
Time Table, Online Agenda & Minutes of IITD Senate and
Mathematica, Abaqus, Ansys, Fluent, Comsol, Visual
bilingual IITD Administration website.
Studio etc.
• During the past one year more than sixteen MATLAB
• IITD campus Wifi Service – IITD_WIFI1, IITD_WIFI2, IITD_
workshops have been conducted for the benefit of the
WIFI3 and IITD_Guests are available in the academic area ,
students.
guest houses. The campus Wi-fi provides secure wi-fi access
using 802.1x authentication. IIT Delhi is in the process of
General Computing Facilities
replacing the current WIFI solution with the CISCO WIFI
The Centre is equipped with 78 HP blade servers out of solution within next few months.
which 48 Blade Servers are used for cloud computing with
• IIT Delhi is also a part of Eduroam, a global Wifi roaming
50 TB of virtualized storage and 30 blade servers with 50
programme across academic campuses through ERNET India.
TB of storage for user homes and infrastructure use like
email, proxy, web services etc . CSC also has 20 workstations
for Simulation facility, and about 220 desktop computers Other Infrastructure support services and Network
connected over a switched fast Ethernet. Uninterrupted Services provided by CSC :
Power Supply is provided through 3x 80 KVA MGE UPS Web Services
system and DG set.
• Virtual web hosting facility can be used for securely host-
The CSC has commissioned a new CUDA based high ing all websites of the form http://xyz.iitd.ernet.in which
performance computing GPU mini-cluster environment of are not maintained by CSC.
16 nodes, each with 2x8 core ES-2670 (Sandybridge) CPU, 64
GB RAM and 2xNvidia K20 GPUs. The nodes have 64Gbps IB • Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers are available for use.
interconnect. Very soon within next few months this will be These time servers are synchronized with standard internet
extended to 750 Tera flops system in the new Data Centre. time servers with time drift less than a few milliseconds.
Following are some of the major computing facilities/Services PC Services
that the center has at present There are five PC Labs in the Centre having about 220 Desktop
• The Email facility is provided to all students, staff and faculty computers under Windows and Linux environment. The PC
with webmail interfaces Roundcube and Squirrelmail using Labs I, II, III and IV have about 160 computers running Ubuntu
User and mailing list definitions from the IITD LDAP and 13.10 and PC Lab-V has about 60 computers running Windows
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main Hall housing Windows machines are open round-the- CENTRAL LIBRARY
clock for authorized users from April, 2014.
The IIT Delhi Library System comprises of a Central Library
and 18 departmental libraries that collectively support
Simulation Lab
the teaching, research and extension programmes of
The simulation lab is equipped with 20 Dell workstations the Institute. All students, faculty and employees of the
under Windows7 for CAD/CAE/ CUDA and High Performance Institute are entitled to make use of the Library facilities.
Computing (HPC). The Alumni of the Institute are also entitled to Library
services provided they are members of the Institute’s
Network Services Alumni Association. Similarly, industrial establishments can
The Institute LAN is a state of the art switched network with avail the Library services on taking corporate membership
Fiber Optics and enhanced CAT5/CAT6 UTP backbone. It of the Library. Library consultation facilities are extended to
consists of more than 7500 network access points spread faculty, students of outside organizations and the wards of
over the campus using about 175 Cisco switches and about IIT faculty and staff on their request. Retired teaching and
75 virtual LANs. Network access is provided to every student, non-teaching staff members can also avail Library facilities.
faculty, Doctor, Laboratory and rooms in guest houses. The Library has over 9400 registered members.
Internet connection has been provided through a router, Library Hours
redundant firewall switching modules, 4x2Mbps leased
circuits from VSNL, 1x2 Mbps circuit from ERNET and 1 Gbps The Library remains open throughout the year except on six
(1:4) internet leased circuit. days, namely; Republic Day, Independence Day, Dussehra,
Diwali, Holi, Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday and any other
Internet and Intranet access is provided to faculty/officer holiday declared as a special holiday. It remains open 24 Hrs.
homes via ADSL connectivity over internal telephone during semester exams; from 8.45 A.M. to 12.00 Mid-night
lines. The academic area is also connected through secure from Monday through Friday and from 9.45 A.M. to 6.30 P.M.
Wi-Fi. An independent network has been provided for on Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.
administrative functions. Many network services including
mail, web, domain name, and anti-virus are being provided Library Resources
over this network. IIT Delhi is connected to the National a. Collection
Knowledge Network (NKN) with 1Gbps dual connectivity The Central Library, IIT Delhi has a strong collection
from PowerGrid and RailTel. This connectivity provides pertaining to physical sciences, engineering and technology,
virtual routing service for Garuda Network, Internet biotechnology, computer and information technology, social
Connectivity, and connectivity with other Institutes sciences and management.
connected on the NKN backbone.
As on 31st March 2014, the collection of the Library ia as follows :
IITD has upgraded the routers and switches for internet
and the core and distribution network and has replaced the Books 1,96,558
existing multimode fiber with single mode fiber. This has Journals (Bound Volume) 1,05,765
made the backbone ready for redundant connectivity and
Standards 26,923
10 Gbps. IIT Delhi will soon deploy GPON technology for
residences and fiber-to-home (FTTH) is also in an advanced Microfilms 2,261
stage of completion. Theses 4,512
Technical Reports 13,430
Video Cassettes 1,800
CDs 5,550
Books in Text Book & Book Bank 22,426
Online Electronic Journals 10,000
Online Databases 6
CD-ROM Databases 2

b. Video Library
The Library is equipped with video viewing facility and has a
collection of more than 1,800 CDs and kept in the Computer
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c. Reference Collection
The Library maintains a separate reference collection
consisting of encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks,
technical data, almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, etc.

d. Hindi Collection
The Central Library has built up a good collection of books
in Hindi. Books in Hindi include books on various subjects
being taught and researched at the Institute as well as books
on literature in Hindi. Books in Hindi are prominently kept
near the reference area in the Library to promote its usage.
To increase the use of Rajbhasha Hindi, Central library offers
borrowing facility of one extra Hindi Book to all its members
apart from their entitlement.
• Availability of Hindi on the Internet
Electronic Journals and Online Bibliographic Databases • Cambridge University Press HSS and S&T package
The Library subscribes to 618 current journals (online) which • E-Books from Textbooks Section
are also accessible online from the publishers’ web site. Links
to these electronic journals are available through the Library • EBSCO Textile & Technology Complete
web site as well through the Library Web OPAC. More than • I.C.E. and their Archives
1,05,765 bound volumes of journals are available in print form. • Imech E Publications Current
Besides, the Institute has access to over 10,000 full-text • INFORMS Current Journals
electronic journals and 6 bibliographic databases from a
• IoP Science and their Archival collection
number of publishers and aggregators through the INDEST-
AICTE Consortium. The INDEST-AICTE Web Site (http://paniit. • ISI Emerging Markets [Tutorial]
iitd.ac.in/indest) hosts search and browse interface to locate • JSTOR [Tutorial]
these journals and their URLs. Details of resources made
accessible to IIT Delhi through the Consortium along with their • Oxford Journals on Mathematics, Life Science, Humanities
URLs are given in “Library Reference Guide” and on the Library and Social Science
& INDEST websites. Tutorials on e-resources accessible through • Project MUSE Journals
the INDEST-AICTE Consortium are available on the INDEST- • RSC Journals Archive Titles (1841 - 2004)
AICTE Web Site and are also published in “Compendium for
the Members of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium”. • Sage HSS & Management Journals and their Archives
• Science (Current and Archives)
Besides access to current e-journals; the Library has also
purchased backfiles of electronic journals from a number of • SIAM Journals and their Archives
publishers / aggregators from their volume one onwards on • Taylor & Francis, Current Core Science & Technology Titles+
“one-time payment and perpetual access basis”. The backfies Chemistry Backfiles
purchased by the Library includes: Elsevier’s Science Direct (24
subject collections, 1186 e-journals), Wiley InterScience, (66 • Wiley Journal Titles
Core title and 262 custom collection, 27 e-journals), Springer’s • World Scientific Publication Mathematics
Open Journal Archives (11 subject collections, 812 e-journals), • World Textiles
JSTOR (7 subject collections, 1548 journals) and Project Muse
(296 Journals). b. E-Resources available through INDEST-AICTE Consortium
a. E-Resources available through Central Library • ABI / Inform Complete
• Online Miscellaneous Journals • ACM Digital Library
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Mathematics and • AIP/APS Journals
Physics (Vol.1/1969-Vol. 476/1996) • ASCE Journals
• ACS Archives • ASME Journals ( + A M R )
• American Mathematical Society Journals • ASTM Standards & Digital Library
• American Meteorological Society Journals and Archives • Capitaline
• ASME Digital and Archives • EBSCO Databases

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• Elsevier’s Science Direct The Library uses bar-code technology for computerized
• Emerald Full-text circulation system. Every document in the Library (except
reference sources and bound volumes of journals) bear a
• Euromonitor (GMID) bar-code tag that facilitates identification of document
• IEEE / IEE Library Online (IEL) and the borrower in the circulation process. Similarly, all
categories of users have a bar-coded patron cards. The
• INSIGHT
Library has developed in-house facility for bar coding of
• Nature books and patron cards.
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• ProQuest Science b. RFID Implementation in the Library
• Springer Link The Library also has the Radio Frequescy IDentification (RFID)
based system. It is the best automated library automation
• MathSciNet
system used world wide and is an effective way of managing
c. Electronic Books collections of the library and providing enhanced services
to the users having benefits like: self check-out of books,
The Institute has access to electronic books from the following self-check-in (book drop), to control theft, to find misplaced
publishers / aggregators: reading material, sorting, inventory accuracy, stock verification
• Elsevier Book Series on Chemistry, Business, procedures, security control, video surveillance, people
Management & Economics, Life Sciences and Methods counter, Smart Card issuance, etc. It is an automatic data
in Enzymology through the Science Direct (http://www. capture technology that uses tiny microchips and miniature
sciencedirect.com) antennas affixed to documents. RFID plays a vital role in
redefining the library processes to make everyone’s job easier
• Springer’s Electronic Books (about 100 e-books) (http:// right from the users to library staff.
ebooks.springerlink.com)
• Wiley InterScience Electronic Books (about 100 e-books) c. Database of Research Articles by the Faculty and
Researchers of IIT Delhi
• E-brary (29368 books)
The Library maintains a web-enabled database of research
• Myilibrary articles published by the faculty and researchers of IIT Delhi.
• E-Text Books (35 books) The database consists over 17,000 research articles and
their abstracts that appeared in international peer-reviewed
Computer and Networking Facilities journals indexed by Science Citation Index/SCOPUS. The
The Library has its own sub-LAN, which, in turn, is connected database is being updated regularly for new records that are
to the Campus LAN. It has over 100 PCs and eight servers added to the Science Citation Index/SCOPUS.
spread over three floors of the Library.
Library Services and Facilities
The Library is a part of fibre optic-based campus-LAN. Of 100
PCs in the Library, 70 Internet-enabled PCs are exclusively a. Reader’s Assistance
devoted for the Library users. As a member of the DELNET, the The Library provides assistance to its users ranging from
users can access databases offered by the DELNET. The Library location of a book to finding specific information required by a
Home Page provides a link to the DELNET database. user. A suggestion book is maintained with Incharge, Reader’s
Services where the users of the Library can suggest measures
a. Computerization of In-house Activities for improvements in its facilities and services.
All in-house activities in the Library including Acquisition,
Cataloguing, Circulation and Serials Control are fully b. Circulation of Books and Library Membership
computerized using Libsys Software Package. The Online Public The Library members, according to their borrowing category
Access Catalogue (OPAC) of the Library is operational both on can borrow stipulated number of books at a time against their
Intranet and Internet. It can be accessed online to search more bar-coded patron card. During the period under report, about
than 1,75,000 bibliographic records, available in the Library 60,000 volumes were borrowed by the members of the Library
database through a web-based search interface or with a from general collection.
window client of the Libsys on Intranet as well as on Internet.
The editing and updation activities are done on regular basis. In addition, consultation facilities were extended to around
Besides, the Central Library has two in-house databases for 5,000 users including students, research scholars and
specialized collections. These databases include: Database faculty members belonging to other academic institutions.
of Ph.D. theses submitted to the IIT Delhi and Database of More than Rs. 1.5 lakh were earned from the corporate
research articles by the faculty and researchers of the Institute. membership fee.

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c. Inter Library Loan (ILL) and Resource Sharing Facility maximum total of 2 of books are issued from the section
at a time. The Central Library also has 35 e-textbooks for
The Library arranges books and journals from other libraries
undergraduate students and the same are accessible in the
in Delhi on Inter Library Loan (ILL). Photocopies of research
campus through library website - http://library.iitd.ac.in/
articles are also arranged from other IITs under a resource
index.php/e-resourc/e-textbooks.
sharing agreement signed by all IITs. The Library also facilitates
Demand based procurement of research publications,
h. Theses Consultation Facilities
photocopies of research articles, etc. from other IITs and
institutions in Delhi as well as from other parts of India on Central Library receives all the Ph.D. Theses awarded by IIT
reciprocal basis as detailed below from last year data: Delhi in Hard copy along with their CDs. Print copies of theses
are housed in Text Book & Book Bank Section located at the
Journal articles/other publications received from other ground floor of the library for consultation purpose only. The
sources in Delhi and outside Delhi 102 abstracts of theses are made available through library Online
Publications lent to other libraries on their request (including Public Access Catalog (OPAC) -http://libcat.iitd.ac.in:8080/
Corporate Members) 153 webopac_old/html and also through another interface
especially designed for searching the theses at: http://library.
d. Database of Ph.D. Theses Submitted to the IIT Delhi iitd.ac.in/thesis.

The library has in-house design and developed PhD theses Web-based Computerized Services from the Library
database. Contains approximately 4100 bibliographic records
of Ph.D theses submitted to the IIT Delhi. In the year 1966 the The Central Library offers the following services to the
first Ph.D has awarded after that number of Ph.D research Institute:
has been continuously increseing every year till dated. The
Database developed and maintained in MySQL Database and a. Network-based CD ROM Search Services
programmed using PHP language to facilitate access on the The Library has complete collection of Indian Standards and
Intranet and Internet. ASTM Standards on CD ROM that is available on the Campus
network. The resources can be accessed on the Intranet at the
e. Photocopying Facility URLs given below or through library website at http://library.
iitd.ac.in:
The Library provides photocopying facility within its premises
through an external vendor on payment basis. • Indian Standards
http://10.116.2.102/bis/
f. Book Bank Facilities
• ASTM Standards
The Book Bank holds multiple copies of selected textbooks for http://10.116.2.102/astm/
making them available to the students for the entire period
of a semester. Up to 6 books can be reserved and issued per • IEC Standards
semester by the undergraduate students and the Library http://10.116.2.102/iec/
collects up to a maximum of 10% of the cost per book as rental
charges or Rs. 20 per book whichever is less. However, for SC/ b. Institutional Repository at IIT Delhi (http://eprint.iitd.
ST Students, an amount of Rs. 75 is waived off from the total ac.in/dspace/)
rental value. The rental charges for Book Bank are deposited
The Eprints @ IIT Delhi has been set-up to host full-text of
in Canara bank, after that only books are issued and given to
research publications of faculty and researchers of the IIT
the students. During the period under report, approximately
Delhi using Dspace, an open source Digital Library software
884 students (including SC/ST students) availed the benefit of
developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
book bank scheme.
The Dspace supports the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), an internationally
g. Text Books Facilities (Print and Online)
recognized protocol and interoperability standard. The
The text books are most useful collection of the library Eprints@IIT Delhi provides a platform for faculty and
especially for course/syllabus related reading. The section researchers to deposit, reuse and share their research
has approximately 10,000 syllabus related text books. publications. The repository also has the ability to capture,
The books for this section are purchased generally on the index, store, disseminate and preserve digital materials
recommendations from different faculty members through created in any part of the Institute. Faculty and researchers
the concerned Heads of the Department. The timings for can register themselves with the digital repository and
issuing the books from the Text Book Section are from 2 submit their pre-prints (pre-refereed version of an article),
PM to 5 PM during Monday to Friday and the same are post-prints (post-refereed final version) and publisher PDFs
issued for overnight only (for one day). The books of this (if allowed by the publisher). The repository has around
section may be returned back during 9 AM to 1 PM only. A 2,200 full-text research articles.

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INDEST-AICTE Consortium Joining, Metal Forging Woodworking, CNC programming

and 3D Printing, Plastic Product manufacturing etc. M.Tech.
The “Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences
students of Production group also use central workshop
and Technology (INDEST) Consortium” was set-up in 2003 by
facilities for their practical classes in various courses as well
the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) on
as for project and research work.
the recommendation of an Expert Group appointed by the
Ministry. The IIT Delhi has been designated as the Consortium The central workshop is fully equipped with latest power
Headquarters to coordinate its activities. The Consortium tools, equipments and facilities in all areas of manufacturing
enrolls engineering and technological institutions as its technologies. It also caters to the fabrication needs of
members and subscribes to electronic resources for them students doing product design & manufacturing courses,
at discounted rates of subscription and favourable terms minor projects, B.Tech, project, Masters thesis and Doctoral
and conditions. The Ministry provides funds required for research. Large numbers of students use this facility to build
subscription to electronic resources for 65 centrally-funded products and compete at national and international level
Government institutions including IITs, IISc Bangalore, NITs, product building competitions like Formula student car, mini
IIITs, IIMs and few other Institutions that are considered as Baja, Robocon etc. The facility can also be used by external
core members of the Consortium. The benefit of consortia- agencies for their manufacturing and training needs during
based subscription to electronic resources is not confined the vacation period.
to its core members but is also extended to all educational
Central workshop has undertaken efforts to reorganize,
institutions under its open-ended proposition. 60 Govt. /
modernized and prepare it for continuously changing
Govt.-aided engineering colleges are provided access to
global manufacturing scenario. Efforts are also on to prepare
selected electronic resources with financial support from the
students for a broader view of manufacturing which involves
AICTE and over 130 engineering colleges and institutions
planning and deploying optimum ways to transformation
have joined the Consortium under its self-supported category.
of raw material into goods by integration of people, capital,
Consortium was re-named as INDEST-AICTE Consortium
processes, systems and enterprises to deliver products of
in December 2005 with the AICTE playing a pivotal role in
value to the society.
enrolling its approved engineering colleges and institutions
as members of the Consortium for selected e-resources A new shop ‘CNC Learning’ is created in 2013-14 to imbibe
at much lower rates of subscription. Presently, Prof. R.K. product realization through computer generated geometries.
Shevgaonkar, Director, IIT Delhi is the Chairman of the National A rapid prototype model can also be visualized by use of state of
Steering Committee of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, which art 3D Printing technology in this new shop of Central Workshop.
formulates guidelines for the Consortium and Prof. B.D. Gupta
is National Coordinator, INDEST-AICTE Consortium. IIT HOSPITAL
The Institute has a 12 bedded hospital centrally located
MECHANICAL FABRICATION FACILITY (IDDC) in the campus, providing facilities for OPD treatment and
The Mechanical Fabrication Facility was a Central Facility located admissions. The Hospital is managed by a team of full time 10
at IDDC Centre to cater to the entire post graduate mechanical Allopathic Doctors and one Homeopathic doctor. The Hospital
fabrication needs of the institute. However, it is under re- is also visited by part time specialists from AIIMS in the field
organization and is being clubbed with Central Workshop. of Orthopaedics, ENT, Opthalmology, Skin disease, Radio-
Diagnosis, & Psychiatry. The doctors are assisted by efficient
Central workshop group of Pharmacists, Nurses, physiotherapist and other

Central Workshop is one of the pivoting units of the institute

which teaches conceptually “how” a product comes to
its present form by way of imparting core manufacturing
education to all the first year students of IIT Delhi. It also
provides product manufacturing support to entire institute
community in general and undergraduate students in
particular. More than 900 undergraduate students in their
first year acquire hands-on manufacturing skills in this Central
Workshop. The Central workshop not only introduces art
and science of manufacturing but also infuses confidence
to take up product design and manufacturing activities
in future. Central Workshop is also a place where B.Tech
students of Mechanical Engineering and B.Tech students
of Production & Industrial Engineering acquire training
and knowledge in specialized areas of manufacturing like
Metal Casting, Metal Forming, Metal Machining, Welding &

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Paramedical Staff. The hospital is well equipped to take care of f. Laboratory services
primary emergencies and serious patients are carried to All India Trained laboratory staff are conducting basic blood urine
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Safdarjang Hospital & stool tests during week days. Services of one NABL
(SJH) in an Ambulance, which is available 24 hours, on all days. accredited laboratory are also available for carrying out
IIT Delhi Hospital is the recognized centre for Pulse polio specialised tests.
immunization, Measles, Matri Suraksha Abhiyan and other
g. Pharmacy
programmes by the Government. Hospital provides medical
aid during sports meets, Rendezvous, culture function etc. Well equipped pharmacy (Allopathic & Homoeopathic)
Demonstrations in first- aid, AIDS and Cardio – pulmonary provides free reliable quality medicines to beneficiaries on
Resuscitation (CPR), and other medical problem are doctor’s prescription during OPD hours (8 AM to 8PM).
conducted for the students and other staff of the Institute. h. Radiology / X-ray facility
Free educative and health checkup camps are also provided X-Ray pleophos-D, 300 MA Siemens available, X-rays done
for the IIT community. on all working days during OPD hours. Sonoline G-50 U/s
The Institute has a medical Insurance scheme (see section machine Siemens ultrasound is available and ultrasounds are
7.18) that provides cashless facility for indoor admissions in done once a week by visiting specialist
panel hospital. i. ECG services
Hospital Statistics 2013-2014 24hours ECG services, including machine report, carried out
by tranined staff.
Patients Attended in OPD 99,473
X-Ray 3,739 j. Ambulance services
Ultra Sound 283
24 hours patient transport vehicle available.

Patients Admitted 472 k. Specialist OPD services

Physiotherapy 3,659 Expert specialists from AIIMS from various specialities visit the
IIT Hospital in the evening 5.30 -7.30 pm
Sergical Dressing 2,624
Dental Treatment 2,870
OTHER CENTRAL FACILITIES
In addition, several other central facilities during the given
Pathology Lab Test 38,444
period located in various Departments and Centres are as
ECG 1,820 mentioned below :

Hospital Facilities 1. Rapid Prototyping: Can automatically construct

physical models of Computer- Aided Design (CAD) data.
a. OPD facility
Hospital has a large new OPD complex with excellent waiting 2. Super Computing Facility for Bio-informatics &
facilities for patients where, prompt OPD services are provided Computational Biology.
by doctors. There is also a waiting hall with chairs, a TV, public 3. MALDI/MS-MS:- MALDI/MS-MS houses QSTAR XL Pro
utilities like drinking water and toilets. Wheel chairs, trolleys system. A quadrupole LINAC collision cell is available
and attendants are there to help very sick patients. in the system which follows the first mass filter and is
b. Dental facility used for efficient MS/MS fragmentation.
Dental surgeon carries out procedures like Dental extractions, 4. SEM:- The SEM Central Facility is equipped with
scaling /cleaning, extractions, fillings, & RCT. following equipments:
c. Ward/ Indoor facility • ZEISS EVO Series Scanning Electron Microscope
Patients are kept for observation and admitted for treatment Model EVO 50
of medical problems like typhoid, acute gastroenteritis, COPD, • Bruker-AXS Energy Dispersive X-ray System (model
bronchial asthma, malaria, Dengue pneumonias etc. Quan Tax 200). Ultra-microtome (Leica EM UC6).
d. Minor OT • Polaron Gold/Silver Sputter Coating unit.
Minor surgical procedure like dressing of lacerated wound, 5. High Resolution NMR Spectrometer.
suturing of minor lacerations & resuturing, excision of corns
and sebaceous cysts are done. 6. ESCA/UPS/AES facility:- ESCA/UPS/AES facility installed
in 2007 is used for surface characterization.
e. Physiotherapy
7. GC- MS System:- GC-MS System perform Qualitative
Physiotherapy services are provided for a wide range of
and Quantitative measurement of organic molecules.
musculoskeletal painful disorders. Modalities available are
MWD, SWD, U/S, TENS, IFC laser therapy traction unit, magnolia. 8. Glass Blowing Workshop.

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NEW COURSES PROPOSED/INTRODUCED • Information and communication technologies for

During the period, the following new courses have been development developed by Aaditeshwar Seth
proposed/developed/initiated : • Complete design oriented approach to teaching computer
Department of Chemical architecture. Students built an entire processor from the
transistor level developed by Smruti Sarangi
• Molecular Modeling of Heterogenous Catalytic Reaction
for PG developed by Dr. M. A. Haider • Network & Systems Security developed by Huzur Saran
designed
• Petroleum Production Engineering, Petroleum Reservoir
Engineering developed by Dr. Jyoti Phirani • Virtualization and Cloud Computing developed by Sorav Bansal
• Structure, Transport and Reactions in Bionano Systems for • Modern Parallel Programming developed by Subodh Kumar.
Senior UG & PG (7xx) developed by Dr. Shalini Gupta, Dr. • Course on Operating Systems for NPTEL developed by
Gaurav Goel Sorav Bansal
• Electrochemical Conversion and Storage Devices Department of Management Studies
developed by Prof. S. Basu, Dr. M. A. Haider, Dr. A. Shukla • Social Media & Business Praxis developed by Dr. P.
• Electrochemical Methods developed by Dr. M. A. Haider, Vignesgwara
Prof. S. Basu, Dr. A. Shukla Department of Physics
• Principles of Electrochemical Methods developed by • Spintronics (EPL446) (UG)
Dr. A. Shukla, Dr. M. A. Haider, Prof. S. Basu
• Materials science and Engineering (EPL336) (UG)
• Introduction to Complex Fluids for Core for UG with
advanced standing/DE for PG developed by Dr. Shalini • Vacuum Technology & Surface Science (EPL331) (UG)
Gupta, Dr. Gaurav Goel, Prof. R. Khanna, Dr. Sanat Mohanty • Solid State Physics (EPL104) (UG)
• Complex Fluids Technology for DE for PG/UG with All courses developed jointly by the faculty of Physics Deptt.
advanced standing developed by Dr. Shalini Gupta, Department of Electrical
Dr. Sanat Mohanty
• Wireless Optical Communications for PG developed by
• Transport Phenomena in Complex Fluids Elective for PG/ Prof. V.K.Jain
UG with advanced standing developed by Dr. Jayati Sarkar,
• Quantum Electronics (EEL738) for PG developed by
Dr. Paresh Chokshi, Prof. R. Khanna, Dr. S.K. Pattanayek,
Dr. Madhusudan Singh
Dr. Gaurav Goel
• Photovoltaics (EEL739) for PG
• Granual Materials for DE for PG/UG with advanced standing
developed by: Dr. Jayati Sarkar, Prof. B. P. Mani, Dr. S. K. Department of Textile
Pattanayek • Design and Manufacturing of Textile Structural Composites
• Simulation Techniques for Complex Fluids for Core for for UG developed by B. K. Behera
UG with advanced standing/DE for PG developed by Centre for Biomedical
Dr. Gaurav Goel, Prof. R. Khanna, Dr. Paresh Chokshi,
• BMV700 Biomechanical Design of Medical Devices
Dr. Sanat Mohanty, Dr. Jayati Sarkar, Dr. S. K. Pattanayek
Amar nath and Shashi School
• Thermodynamics of Complex Fluids for Core for UG with
advanced standing/DE for PG developed by Dr. Gaurav • SIV871 (Special Module in Computational Neuroscience)
Goel, Prof. R. Khanna, Dr. Paresh Chokshi, Dr. Sanat • SIV889 (Special Module in Computer Human Interaction)
Mohanty, Dr. Jayati Sarkar, Dr. S. K. Pattanayek School of Biological Sciences
Department of Chemistry • SBL100 for UG – core course as part of new curriculum
• General Chemistry (CYL100) for UG Developed by developed by All faculty
Arunachalam Ramanan NEW MOUS SIGNED BY THE INSTITUTE
• Functional Materials (CYL111) developed by Arunachalam Institute has signed MoUs/ Agreements with Institutions/
Ramanan organization in India and abroad. Currently there are 86 MoUs
• Applied Chemistry (CYL121) for UG developed by with foreign Institutions/ Organizations and 63 MoUs with Indian
Arunachalam Ramanan Institutions/organizations. The objectives of these MoUs include
Department of Computer Science exchange of students and faculty, joint research activities and
fellowships for training at doctoral and postdoctoral level etc.
• “Algorithmic Game Theory” which was taught as a Special-
Topics-course in Theoretical Computer Science (CSL865) A) The Institute has signed MoUs with the following institutions/
developed by Naveen Garg organizations :
• “Quantitative methods in Operations Research” as a • National
special-topics-course in Compute Applications developed 1. DHI (India) Water & Environment Pvt. Ltd.
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• International D) New faculty research grant

1. George Simon Ohm university of Applied Sciences, To encourage the new faculty for developing research facilities in
Nuremberg, Germany the area of their expertise, the Institute has so far allocated a sum of
Rs. 310 lakhs.
2. eWater, Australia’s Govt. owned water modeling organization,
Canberra, Australia BOOK PUBLISHED
3. Universidad Nacional De Colombia, Colombia • Dr. V. V. Buwa, Prof. S. Roy, “Three Phase Slurry Reactors”
4. Toulouse University, France • Dr. V. V. Ranade, “Multiphase Catalytic Reactors: Theory, Design,
5. INSA De Lyon, France Manufacturing and Application”, Zeynep Ilsen Onsan and Ahmet
Kerim Avci, John Wiley, 2013
6. Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Introduction to Molecular Engineering (2014), Ane Books and
7. Tribhuvan University, Napal
CRC Press, Germany (HMC)
8. Technische Universitata Munchen, Germany
• Basic Organometallic Chemistry (2nd Edition, 2013), University
9. City University of Hong Kong Press, Hyderabad (AJE)
10. Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University • Dr. Smruti Ranjan Sarangi published a book on “Computer
11. TWAS-Unesco (Approved) Organization and Architecture”, published by McGraw Hill
publishers.
12. École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, Canada
• S.P. Singh, Production and Operations Management, Vikas
13. University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa (Approved)
Publication House, Delhi
14. University of New Castle Upon Tyne, UK
• P.K. Jain, Shveta Singh and Surendra Singh Yadav, Financial
15. KAIST, Korea Management Practices: An Empirical Study of Indian Corporates,
16. University of Groningen, Netherlands Springer, New Delhi
17. University of Nebraska, Omaha • M. Y. Khan and P. K. Jain, Cost Accounting (Second Edition),
McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi
18. University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Sushil, The Flexible Enterprise, Springer, 2014
19. Ghent University
• Sushil, Flowing Stream Strategy, Springer, 2013
20. Hiroshima University
• Sushil, Physical Systems Modelling and Management
21. Gothenburg University, Sweden
Applications, New Age International Publication, Springer
22. KTH, Sweden
• Shah, Suril Vijaykumar, Subir Kumar Saha and Jayanta Kumar
B) Institutions of Chairs Dutt, “Dynamics of Tree-type Robotic Systems”, Springer
The Industry and the alumni of the Institute have extended significant Netherlands, 2013
support to the Institute for its academic and research programmes • Edited by Abhijit Majumdar, Apurba Das, R. Alagirusamy &
by way of instituting chairs in various fields. As on date, 38 Chairs are V.K. Kothari, “Process control in textile manufacturing”,
functional at the Institute. Woodhead Publisher U.K., ISBN 0 85709 027 5
• Astra Microwave Dr. R.P. Shenoy Chair • Das, D. and Pourdeyhimi, Composite Nonwoven Materials:
• Bharti Airtel Industry Chair Professor Structures, Properties and Applications, B., Woodhead
Publishing Ltd., UK, 2014 (Edited), ISBN: 9780857097705
• Central Electricity Authority
• R.K. Nayak of Melborn Institute of Technology, Australia and
C) Scholarships/Medals/Awards/Fellowships
B.K. Behera, Air Bag, Textile Progress, Textile Institute-Manchester,
To encourage and to provide financial assistance to needy students Volume 45, Issue 4, 2013
of the Institute, individuals, trusts and organizations have been
• Anand S. (2013) “Current Trends in Engineering Practice”, Vol. III,
instituting scholarships etc. At present there are 116 awards/
Publishing Editor, AICTE-INAE
scholarships/medal being given at Undergraduate and Postgraduate
levels. In addition the Institute has a “Loan Scholarship Scheme” • A book was authored by M.K.G.Babu and K.A.Subramanian
which makes it more affordable for the students in comparison to “Alternative Transportation Fuels: Utilization in Combustion
taking loan from the banks. Engines”, ISBN-978-1-4396-7261-9, Publisher: CRC Press (Taylor
& Francis Group), Published: July 2013
Following scholarships have been approved during the period under
report: • Bhim Singh, D.T. Shahani and Arun Kumar Verma,“Neural Network
Controlled Grid Interfaced Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation,”
• IIIE Award
IET Power Electronics vol.7, no.3, pp. 614-626, July 2013
• Mr. & Mrs. Gadepalli Visveswara Rao Cash Prize
• Arun Kumar Verma, Bhim Singh and D.T. Shahani, “New
• Dorabala Annapoornama Award topology for management of bi-directional power flow
• V Ranga Raju Memorial Freeship between vehicle and grid with reduced ripple current at unity
• V.N. Vazirani Memorial Award (approved0 power factor,” Int. Journal. Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 3/4,
pp.216–235, July 2013.
• H.R. Gulati Scholarship
• Arun Kumar Verma, Bhim Singh and D.T. Shahani, “Challenges
• Bhagirathi-Bashisht Tiwari Award in Solar Photo-Voltaic (SPV) Grid Integration in Urban Areas,”
• Leela Khushiram Award Electrical India Magazine. vol.53, no.10, pp. 60-79, Oct.2013.

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• Varun Kumar, Manoj Kumar and Chandra Shakher, “Measurement • High-fidelity Simulations of Microscale Electrokinetic Flows,
of convective heat transfer coefficient along the surface of Dr. S.S. Bahga, IRD, IIT Delhi
heated wire using digital holographic Interferometry” Appl. Opt. • To Initiate Boing University Relationship Programme at the
53 (27), G73-G84 (2014). Institute and as a part of the Aerospace and Aeromodelling
MAJOR RESEARCH INITIATIVES/RESEARCH PROJECTS Activities among students, Dr. Amit Gupta, Boing International
UNDERTAKEN Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
• ONGC Energy Centre, Mechanistic Studies on the Catalytic • To Initiate Boing University Relationship Programme at the
Decomposition of Sulfuric Acid in the I-Saycle for Hydrogen Institute and as a part of the Aerospace and Aeromodelling
Production, 9 months starting from 25th Feb 2013. Funding Activities among students, Dr. S.S. Bahga, Boing International
Rs. 17.47632 Lacs (Dr. Sreedevi U.) Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
• Recipient of DST-EPSRC India-UK Collaborative Research Initiative in • Gap period assistantship to Mr. Rajat Subhra Das under the
Advanced Manufacturing (4.5 Cr) (Prof. A. S. Rathore) supervision of Prof. Sanjeev Jain, Prof. Sanjeev Jain, IRD, IIT Delhi
• Total S. A. France, Catalyst Loading and its Impact on the • Indo-US Fellowship to Dr. Nomesh B. Bolia in the area of Public
Performance of Trickle Bed Reactors, Nov 2012-Oct 2013. Funding Health on To Develop scheduling methods for diagnostics
Rs. 17.22 Lacs (Prof. K.D.P. Nigam, Prof. S. Roy) equipment taking relevant constraints in consideration, Dr.
• Pall Europe, Optimization of Chromatography Process Steps for Nomesh Bhojkumar Bolia, INDO-US Science & Technoloty Forum
purification of monoclonal antibody base therapeutics, 2013. • Urban City Analysis to Measure its Resilliency and Strategically
Funding Rs. 40 Lacs (Prof. A. S. Rathore) Improve Emergency Response, Dr. Nomesh Bhojkumar Bolia,
• HPCL and Centre for High Energy, Catalytic Decomposition of Human Settlement Management Institute, HUDCO House
Methane to Hydrogen and Carbon Nano Fiber, 2013. Funding • Development of selected medical implants: Dental implants -
Rs. 51 Lacs (Prof. K.K. Pant) Phase II, Prof. Naresh Bhatnagar, NMITLI, PPD, Council of Science
• ONGC Energy Centre, Modeling of membrane electrolysis cell for & Industrial Research
Bunsen reaction and electro-electro dialysis unit for concentration • Investigation on capacity Deterioration in Lithium-Ion Batteries,
of HIX solution, 9 Months start from Feb 2013. Funding Rs. 10.86 Dr. Amit Gupta, DST
Lacs (Dr. A. Shukla)
• Modelling the Interpaly of Hydrodynamic Slip and
• Loreal India Pvt. Ltd., Investigation of Foam Formation Kinetics,
Electrokinetics in Micro-Nanochannels, Dr. Subhra Datta, DST
Stability and Characterization, 2013. Funding Rs. 1.1 Lacs
(Dr. Shalini Gupta) • Modelling and Analysis of the Impact of Forecasting Policies in
Mitigating Supply Chain Disruptions, Dr. Vipul Jain, DST
• Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Aggregation of monoclonal antibody
based therapeutics – effect of processing and storage, 2013. • Characterization of Drying Kinetics of Food Materials Subjected
Funding Rs. 20 Lacs (Prof. A. S. Rathore) to Convective Drying Model Development and Experimental
Studies, Dr. Prabal Talukdar, CSIR
• Nanomaterials exposures risks from contaminated edible plants
• Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury • Characterization of Drying Kinetics of Food Materials Subjected
Prediction (RP02431) to Convective Drying Model Development and Experimental
Studies, Dr. Vivekanandan Perumal, CSIR
• Design & Development of Electronic Personal Security Device
• Development and fabrication of ultrasonic barrel cleaning device
• Design & Development of an Assistive Device for Public Bus Access for artillery & AFV gun barrels, Dr. P.M. Pandey, Army Technology
for the Visually Impaired Board, Baroda
• Development of a Low-cost Electronics Refreshable Braille Display
• Development of a Low-cost Electronics Refreshable Braille Display
for the Visually Impaired
for the Visually Impaired, Prof.P.V.M. Rao, DST
• National Programme on Perception Engineering- (NPPE) Phase II
• Development of a Low-cost Electronics Refreshable Braille Display
• Microsoft Unrestricted Grant for the Visually Impaired, Prof. M. Balakrishnan, DST
• Mining Opinions from News sources for defense applications • Design and Development of Hybrid Bearing for Flywheel Wind
• Research on knowledge representation and extraction of single event Energy System, Dr. Harish Hirani, CSIR
• Affordable Refreshable Braille Displays Based on Shape Memory • Improving Grinding Characteristics of Ti-6AI-4V using Nano
Actuation Fluids under Minimum Quantity Lubrication Technique and
• Smart Cane-Development Course for National and International Liquid Nitrogen Jets, Prof. P.V. Rao, Science and Engineering
dissemination. Research Board
• Inclusive innovation course and program • Improving Grinding Characteristics of Ti-6AI-4V using Nano
Fluids under Minimum Quantity Lubrication Technique and
• Structured Sharing of Networks and Computer Resources in a
Liquid Nitrogen Jets, Dr. S. Aravindan, Science and Engineering
Community & Devices
Research Board
• Scaling up Multi -Document Summarization
• Selective Addition of Carbon Nanotubes in Graphitic Anodes and its
• IBM Faculty Award Effect on the Performance of Lithium-Ion Cells, Dr. Amit Gupta, CSIR
• Cyber Security • Development of forming limits of aluminium alloys in warm sheet
• To conduct ASME Human Powered Vehicle (HPVC) Contest forming for better failure prediction in FE analysis, Prof. D. Ravi
at IIT Delhi, Prof. P.V.M. Rao, American Society of Mech. Engg. Kumar, Science and Engineering Research Board

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forming for better failure prediction in FE analysis, Dr. R.K. Pandey, hydrothermal pretreatment.
Science and Engineering Research Board • Developing cost-effective sanitation products and technologies
• Effect of Wing Flexibility on Forward Propulsion lof a Plunging • Rural Housing Knowledge Network project funded by Ministry of
Membrane, Dr. Amit Gupta, Aeronautics R&D Board, Directorate Rural Development, Govt of India undertakes training programmes
of Aeronautic for officers of State Government Rural Housing Departments
• Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury
• Neurosurgery Training collaborated with AIIMS
Prediction, Prof. A. Chawla, European Union
• Assistive Technologies with Saksham Trust, Phoenix Medical,
• Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury
Kritikal Solutions
Prediction, Dr. Subodh Kumar, European Union
• Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury • IoT & Advance Technologies with ILS Tech & Kripalani Foundation
Prediction, Prof. S. Mukherjee, European Union • BSL3 laboratories to pioneer research in the areas of Infectious
• FMR investigations of spin dynamics of sputtered magnetic diseases & Non-communicable disorders.
bilayers initiated by Prof. Sujeet Chaudhary, 2013. • The Grant agreement of Rs. 1991.35 Lakhs between Kusuma
• In-situ RHEED investigations of 2D epitaxial thin films of spin Trust,UK and KSBS, IIT Delhi has been extended till Dec 2014
polarized Fe3O4 on TiN buffered Si (100) thin films by pulsed DC- • A research Project entitled “Understanding the Molecular
magnetron sputtering initiated by Prof. Sujeet Chaudhary, 2013. Mechanism of Host Cell Interaction by Hepatitis a Virus (RP02766)”
• Exchange bias and Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Spintronics of Rs. 45.00 Lakhs was sanctioned to Dr. Manidipa Banerjee
applications initiated by Prof. Sujeet Chaudhary, 2013. (PI) and Dr. Archana Chugh (Co-PI) by DBT w.e.f 28/06/13
• Synthesis and Characterization of Graphenes/Carbon • A research Project entitled “Regulation of Leishmanial Flagellar
nanostructures by Pulsed Laser Ablation initiated by Prof. V. D. Motility (RP02773)” of Rs. 55.00 Lakhs was sanctioned to Prof. C. S.
Vankar (PI) and Dr. A.K.Shukla (Co-PI). (25/11/2013). Dey by SERB, DST w.e.f. 11/07/13
• Low Temperature Raman Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanostructures • A research Project entitled “Identification of Chaperone Binding
initiated by Dr. A.K.Shukla (PI) and Prof. V. D. Vankar (Co-PI). Region in the Aggregation Prone Protein Maltodextrin Glucosidase,
(17/7/2013). which Undergoes GroEL/GroES Assisted folding (RP02777)” of Rs.
• Nanocomposites of graphene and size selected Pd, Pt and Pd-Pt 8.14 Lakhs to Prof. Tapan K. Chaudhuri by CSIR w.e.f 02/08/13
alloy nanoparticles for hydrogen sensing applications initiated by • A research Project entitled “Characterisation of Cell Penetrating
B. R. Mehta (PI), 2013. Peptides and Antimicrobials Against Plant Pathogens (RP02783)”
• Kelvin probe microscopy studies of polymer oxide nanoparticle of Rs 23.30 Lakhs was sanctioned to Dr. Archana Chugh ( PI) and
hybrid structures initiated by B. R. Mehta (PI), 2013. Dr. V. Perumal ( Co-PI) by DBT w.e.f 05/08/13
• Study of graphene as top layer contact material for silicon solar • A research Project entitled “GroEL- GRoES Assisted Folding of
cells by Prof. B. R. Mehta (PI), 2013. Multiple Proteins in Vivo and Invitro (RP02767)” of Rs. 28.9966
• Third Generation solar cells initiated by Dr. Santanu Ghosh (PI), Lakhs was sanctioned to Prof. Tapan K. Chaudhuri by DST
Prof. P. Srivastava (Co-PI), Prof. Casero (UMD, Spain), Dr. Alessandro w.e.f 14/08/13
(CMAM, Spain), June 2013. • A consultancy Project entitled “Study of the Mechanism and
• On-line H detection and in-situ structural investigations of silicon Performance of the Anti-Scaling Technology (FT/05/1698/2013)”
nitride based solar cells initiated by Dr. Santanu Ghosh (PI), Dr. P. of Rs. 04.50 Lakhs was sanctioned to Prof. Aditya Mittal by Hira
Srivastava (Co-PI), June 2013. Group Chhattisgarh w.e.f 16/09/13
• ‘Development of Personal Protection Systems using Shear • A research Project entitled “Investigating the Role of Gelsolin
Thickening Fluids’ funded by DRDO. Joint research initiative by as Common Cellular Player for Modulating Amyloid Load and
Polymer, Textile and Chemical Engineering departments/centre. Neurodegeneration (RP02820)” of Rs. 19.55 Lakhs was sanctioned
Total grant: Rs 493 Lakhs. to Dr. B. Kundu by DBTw.e.f. 09/10/13
• PI: Prof. Anup Ghosh, Co. PI: Abhijit Majumdar, B. S. Butola (Textile) • A research Project entitled “Direct Detection of Enteric Fever in
and Sudip Patnaik (Chemical) Blood by Evanescent Wave Optical Illumination (RP02823)” of Rs.
• “Development of Multifunctional Polyolefin-Nanoclay Hybrid 83.19 Lakhs was sanctioned to Dr. V. Perumal by DBT w.e.f. 24/10/13

• Nanocomposites” funded by GAIL (India). Total Grant: 158.11 • A consultancy Project entitled” Anti-heaptitis B virus activities of
lakhs. PI: Prof. Mangala Joshi, Co. PI: Dr. B S Butola CFT in a cell culture model – a pilot study (FT/03/1708/2013/2369)”
of Rs. 1.94 Lakhs was sanctioned to Dr. V. Perumal by Jammi
• Development of UW Vector Sensors. Pharmaceuticals, Chennai w.e.f. 12/11/13
• Signal processing for high range resolution CTFM technique.
• A research Project entitled “Role of Nuclear Receptor Corepressor-1
• Gallium Nitride RF power amplifiers. (NCOR1) in Regulating Energy Homeostasis and Inflammatory
• Initiation of Capillary electrophoresis microchip and Lab-on-a- Responses in Cell Culture Models of Muscle and Pancreatic
chip medical diagnostic device development Beta-Cells (RP02848)” of Rs. 24.00 Lakhs was sanctioned to Prof.
• Initiation of Laser microfabrication research C.S. Dey by SERB w.e.f. 25/12/13
• Orthodontic device research initiation. • A research Project entitled “Development of PAT Platform for
Production of a Therapeutic Protein Angiogenin (RP02850)” of
• Medical imaging technology research initiation.
Rs. 254.34Lakhs was sanctioned to Prof. James Gomes ( PI) and
• Cancer diagnostics research initiative Dr. Manidipa Banerjeee ( Co-PI) by SERB w.e.f. 07/01/14
• Research going on to develop a mobile unit for biogas upgradation • A research Project entitled “Structural and Functional
and bottling Characterization of Chikungunya virus for the effective Inhibitor
• Developing system for CO2 capturing and methane loss and Drug Screening (MI01101)” of Rs. 1.00 Lakh was sanctioned to
minimization in existing water scrubbing based biogas Dr. Ashok Patel by IIT Delhi under Research Grant for New faculty
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• Academic & Sponsored Research 65
• Research Projects and Consultancy 66
• Foundation for Innovation and
Technology Transfer (FIIT) 72

Research Thrust

Atmospheric Sciences, Embedded Systems, Environmental Science & Engineering, Rural Industrialization, Bioinformatics, Nanotech-
nology, Fibre Optics and Optical Communications, Biotechnology, Bio-catalysis, Smart and Industrial Textiles, Transportation, Photo-
thermal energy conversion, Material Science, Photo-acoustic Microscopy, Power Technology, Signal processing, Opto-electronics,
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH During April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014, 150 new sponsored
research projects with a funding of about Rs. 68.65 crores
The academic research carried out by the students for the were undertaken. In addition, 430 consultancy jobs worth
Ph.D. degree, the final semester major project included in Rs. 27.31 crores and 40 miscellaneous projects worth Rs. 5.80
the four-year B.Tech. programme, the five-year integrated crores were also undertaken.
M.Tech. programmes, and the four-semester M.Tech./
M.S.(R)/M.Des. programmes make a significant contribution Under the scheme called Summer Undergraduate Research
to the research output. Award (SURA), the students are required to submit the
project proposals in association with identified Faculty of the
The principal source of academic research, however, continues
Department/Centre to act as an Administrative Facilitator
to be through Ph.D. research projects. With a total of 1974
and a Guide. During the year 2014, 32 SURA projects have
students enrolled for a research degree during the year
been selected to be undertaken by the undergraduate
under review, the emphasis on and commitment to academic
students during the summer vacations of 2014.
research is evident. During the two semesters of 2013-2014,
356 candidates were admitted out of which 191 were full-time IRD Unit plays an important role by providing a one-time
Institute scholars with the remaining 165 belonging to other
grant of upto Rupees One Lakh to new faculty member who
categories like sponsored, part-time etc. A total of 188 theses
joins the Institute. This assistance is being given to the new
were approved for the award of Ph.D. degree.
faculty so that they can initiate new projects, which may
IIT Delhi faculty remain engaged in publishing their research subsequently be submitted to various funding agencies.
results in various journals, Conferences and Seminar
proceedings. The number of publication along with citation Assistantships/Fellowships are provided by IRD to the Ph.D.
and h-index for the last 5 years is stated below. students during 5th year. It has now been decided to extend
such support in the form of Gap period assistantship for
Year No. of Publications No. of Citations h-index
both M.Tech./MS(R) and Ph.D. students who are drawing
their fellowship/assistantship from the projects. These
2014 1399 1649 12 assistantships will be provided to the students once the
2013 1589 1611 12 projects get over and there is no other project to pay them
assistantship. M.Tech/MS(R) students can be supported for
2012 1350 611 08
a maximum gap period of six months and Ph.D. students
2011 1339 2098 12 would be supported for a maximum gap period of one year.
2010 1153 4460 24
All Research scholars can be awarded a travel grant under
Source: Scopus as on 21st March 2014 “Research Scholar Travel Award” (RSTA) upto a maximum of
Rs. 80,000/- from Research Promotion Fund, subject to the
SPONSORED RESEARCH following:

Along with teaching and academic research leading to • The assured grant would be available to research scholars
doctoral degree, IIT Delhi gives high priority to research and to attend and present a paper in an international confer-
development projects sponsored by outside national and ence of repute once during their stay at IIT Delhi; based
international agencies and user organizations. The Institute on the proof that they have already applied to at least two
has as one of its cardinal guiding principles continuous, other funding agencies for supporting their travel.
and meaningful interaction with the world of science &
technology and industry. • The assured grant implies that in case they do not get
grant from other agencies, they would still be able to
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT (IRD) claim reimbursement for travel and other conference
related expenses subject to a maximum of Rs. 80,000/-
The Industrial Research & Development (IRD) Unit has been per awardee.
specifically set up in the Institute to provide specialised
administrative and managerial support for the operation of • The Institute would support 100 such conference travels
Sponsored Research Projects, Consultancy Jobs and other in one financial year through this scheme.
related R&D activities. Over the years, the institute has set
up many modern laboratories and supporting infrastructure • This would also imply support to 100 students under the
through these projects. RSTA scheme.

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(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

Institute has been organizing Open House to exhibit an Fig. I: Trends in Sponsored Research Projects
extensive collection of innovative research and product
development projects since last eight consecutive years. (a) in Value
The ninth edition of Open House was held successfully on
20th April, 2013.

HIGHLIGHTS (2013-14)

Some important highlights about research are:

• 150 Sponsored Research Projects with a total funding of Rs.

68.65 crores and 40 Miscellaneous Projects worth Rs. 5.80
crores were undertaken.

• 430 Consultancy Assignments worth Rs. 27.31 crores

were undertaken by IRD Unit. Besides, 72 Technology
Development Projects/Contract Research Projects worth
Rs. 14.11 crores and 41 HRD Programmes with a value of Rs.
2.88 crores were undertaken/organized by FITT. (b) in Numbers

• 31 International Sponsored Research Projects and

Consultancy Jobs were undertaken.

• 32 UG Projects have been selected under the Summer

Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) scheme for the
year 2014.

• 25 faculty members who joined the Institute during

the year received a research grant of upto Rs. 1 lakh
each under the Research Grant for New Faculty (RGNF)
scheme of IRD.

• Scholarship is provided by IRD, in exceptional cases, to the

Ph.D. scholars after completion of 4 years and until the Funding agency wise break-up of Sponsored Research Projects
end of 5th year. IRD spent Rs. 97.96 lakh (approx.) on these is given in Table II. A pie chart showing distribution of research
scholarships during the year 2013-14 projects is given below:
The trend in research funding and their number for last five
Fig. II: Funding Agency-wise Break-up of Sponsored
years is shown in Table I & Fig. I.
Research Projects undertaken during 2013-14
Table I: Statistics of Sponsored Research Project

Financial Year Sponsored Research Projects

Year Numbers Value in Rs. Lacs

2009-10 116 5757

2010-11 130 12107

2011-12 123 5712

2012-13 142 8863

Below is the list of members of Industrial Research and
2013-14 150 6865
Development Board.

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INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD (2013-14) - As on 31.3.2014

Suneet Tuli, Chairman Prem Kalra P. Goyal (Ms.) Anand Srivastava

S.N. Singh Bhim Singh N. Karmakar Gohil (Ms.) Avinash Gupta
S.K. Koul Purnima Singh (Ms.) T.S. Bhatti G.S. Kapur
Ashwini K. Agrawal Mahim Sagar B.K. Satpathy D.N. Singh
S.V. Veeravalli Aparna Mehra (Ms.) A.K. Agarwala Ajay Pradhan
Saroj Mishra (Ms.) Anjan Ray Jayashree Bijwe (Ms.) Mukesh Mohania
Sanat Mohanty Neeraj Khare S.N. Naik J.S. Saini
A.J. Elias B.K. Behera Pragya Jain (Ms.) Anil Wali
A.K. Jain Ananjan Basu Salil Singhal V.K. Vashistha, Secretary

Table II : Funding agency-wise Break Up of Sponsored Research Projects Undertaken During 2013-14

Funding Agency No. of Projects Amount (`Lacs)

Aeronautical Development Agency 1 12.95
Aeronautics R & D Board 1 14.31
Akshi Technologies 1 8.36
Army Technology Board 2 55.00
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. 1 29.09
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (DAE) 2 54.02
CISCO 1 19.80
C S R Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd. 1 12.24
Container Corporation of India Ltd. 1 27.00
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research 10 77.19
Directorate of Extramural Research & Intellectual Property Rights 3 147.14
DuPont Center for Collaborative Research & Education, USA 1 5.12
Defence Materials & Stores R & D Establishment 1 10.00
Defence Research & Development Orginization, Delhi 4 72.43
Department of Atomic Energy 1 15.80
Department of Biotechnology 14 570.34
Department of Science & Technology (DST) 34 1059.30
European Commission 1 86.29
European Union 1 225.92
GAIL (India) Limited 1 85.58
GSMA, UK 1 19.20
Google India Pvt. Ltd 1 1.80
Indo-US Science & Technology Forum 3 107.19
Indian Council of Agriculture Research 1 46.17
Indian Council of Medical Research 1 14.67
Indian Council of Social Science Research 2 54.38
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services 1 91.99
Indo French Centre for Applied Mathematics, France 1 9.97
Instruments Research & Development Establishment 1 44.44

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Intel Labs University Research Office (URO) 1 40.27

International Development Research Centre, Canada 1 114.64
International Division, DST 4 50.85
Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd. 1 7.00
Ministry Of Defence 1 9.96
Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers 1 600.00
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology 2 308.82
Ministry of Human Resource Development 1 100.00
Ministry of Information Technology 1 105.36
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy 1 482.40
Omidyar Network Fund Inc., USA 1 127.30
New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative, CSIR 1 296.52
National Academy of Sciences, USA 1 68.13
National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd. 2 41.64
Road Traffic Injury Research Network, Mexico 1 15.84
Saint Gobin Research India Limited 1 15.00
Science and Engineering Research Board 19 647.30
Snow & Avalanche Study Establishment 2 18.48
Solid State Physics Laboratory 1 9.90
Space Application Centre, ISRO 1 39.22
TERI 1 19.20
Tata Steel Ltd. 1 55.88
Terminal Ballistics Research Lab 1 493.20
The Korean Institute of Science & Technology Information, Korea 1 54.90
UK-India Education & Research Initiative (UKIERI) 2 38.21
University Grants Commission 4 74.25
University of Washington, USA 1 49.04
Yahoo Labs, USA 1 4.20
Total 150 6865.20

Some of the major projects undertaken during the period are listed below:

Table III: Financial Outlay of Some of the Major Projects during 2013-14

Name of the Project Sponsoring Agency Financial Outlay

in Rs. Lacs
Centre of Excellence for Advanced Polymeric Materials Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers 600.00

Development of Personal Protective Systems using Shear Thickening Terminal Ballistics Research Lab 493.20
Fluids
Demonstration & Field Trails of Hydrogen Fuelled 3 Wheelers in New Ministry of New and Renewable Energy 482.40
Delhi
Development of selected medical implants: Dental implants - Phase II NMITLI, PPD, Council of Science & Industrial 296.52
Research
National Programme on Perception Engineering- (NPPE) Phase II Ministry of Communications & Information 260.82
Technology

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Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury European Union 225.92
Prediction
Inclusive innovation course and program Omidyar Network Fund Inc. 127.30

Proposal for a Low-cost Wild Animal Protection System Through Department of Science & Technology 116.57
Animal Presence and Movement Detection Using Wireless Sensor
Network
The Impact of Microloans, Mobile Phones and Business Training on International Development Research Centre, 114.64
Microenterprises Owned by Women in Developing Countries: An Canada
Experimental Study in Coimbatore, India
Mobile Broadband service Support Over Cognitive Radio Networks Ministry of Information Technology 105.36
Centre for Excellence in Low Power Design on Nanoscale Devices, Ministry of Human Resource Development 100.00
Circuits and Systems
Development of an Improved Prediction system for storm surges and Indian National Centre for Ocean Information 91.99
its Inland Inundation along the Indian Coasts Services
US-India Consortium for Development of Sustainable Advanced Indo-US Science & Technology Forum 87.58
Lignocellulosic Biofuel Systems (SALBS)
Eco-Innovative, Safe and Energy Efficient Wall Panels and Materials for European Commission 86.29
a Healthier Indoor Environment
Development and Processibility of Polyolefins (PE & PP) for Human GAIL (India) Limited 85.58
Healthcare Applications

Direct Detection of Enteric Fever in Blood by Evanescent Wave Optical Department of Biotechnology 83.19
Illumination

Industrial consultancy is another significant area of activity of the Institute. The nature and extent of the industrial consultancy
projects undertaken by the Institute is an index of its credibility with the industry and is symbolic of the relevance of a centre
of excellence in the context of nation’s socio-economic development. The consultancy jobs undertaken during last five years is
shown in Table IV.

Table IV: Consultancy Jobs Undertaken During Last Five Years (2009-10 to 2013-14)

Financial Consultancy Jobs (IRD) Technology Development HRD Programmes (FITT) TOTAL
Year Projects/ Contract Research
(FITT)
No. Value in No. Value in No. Value in Value in
Rs. Lacs Rs. Lacs Rs. Lacs Rs. Lacs
2009-10 557 1875 82 991 36 153 3019
2010-11 519 2250 71 872 46 145 3267
2011-12 420 2110 83 936 50 112 3158
2012-13 348 1829 61 898 48 199 2926
2013-14 430 2731 72 1411 41 288 4430

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

The Institute is actively involved in collaborative programmes with national and international organization/ universities to
remain at the forefront of scientific and technological developments and to share knowledge. A large number of collaborative
Research Projects are under operation with Institutes/Organizations of Austria, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark,
European Commission, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, etc. Major research activities have also been undertaken in the areas of national importance.

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During the year under report, the Institute has undertaken 31 new Collaborative Projects/Consultancies, with International
funding. The country-wise breakup of the ongoing International Sponsored Research Projects during the year is:

Country Nos. Country Nos.

Austria 1 Japan 3
Australia 2 Korea 2
Brazil 2 Mexico 1
Bulgaria 1 Portugal 1
Canada 3 Russia 1
Denmark 1 Slovenia 2
European Commission 2 Spain 1
France 3 Sweden 2
Germany 6 Switzerland 1
Hungary 1 UK 33
Ireland 3 USA 17
Israel 1
Total 93
Italy 3

Some of the major International Sponsored Research Projects undertaken during the year 2013-14 are:
NAME OF THE PROJECT
1. Indo-US Fellowship to Dr. Nomesh B. Bolia, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the area of Public Health to
Develop Scheduling Methods for Diagnostics Equipment taking Relevant Constraints in Consideration - INDO-US
Science & Technology Forum (University of North Carolina)
2. Singular Phenemena in Reaction Diffusion Equations and in Conservation Laws – Indo-French Centre for Applied
Mathematics (Universite de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France)
3. US-India Consortium for Development of Sustainable Advanced Lignocellulosic Biofuel Systems (SALBS) - INDO-US
Science & Technology Forum (University of Florida)
4. Trend Identification on Twitter - Yahoo! Labs, USA
5. Investigating Modulation of miRNA expression in the Hypoxic Stem Cell Niche - DST-UKIERI Thematic Partnership (Keele
University, UK)
6. Design and Analysis of Optical Microstructured Fibre-Based Terahertz Source for Transmission and Applications - UKIERI
UK-US-India Trilateral Research in Partnership (City University, UK and University of Rochester, USA)
7. Receptor Modelling of Particulate Air Pollutants - UKIERI UK-US-India Trilateral Research in Partnership (University of
Birmingham, UK and Desert Research Institute, USA)
8. The Impact of Microloans, Mobile Phones and Business Training on Microenterprises Owned by Women in Developing
Countries: An Experimental Study in Coimbatore, India - International Development Research Centre, Canada
9. Structured Sharing of Networks and Computer Resources in a Community of Devices - Intel Corporation, USA
10. Eco-Innovative, Safe and Energy Efficient Wall Panels and Materials for a healthier Indoor Environment - European
Commission (University of Bath, UK)
11. Developing a Framework of Consumer Awareness on RF Exposure for Telecommunication Industry - GSM Association, UK
12. Nano-oxides with Controlled Size and Morphology Modified with Noble Metals (Pt,Pd,Ru) for Purification Processes
(Complete Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds and Prox Process) – DST (Indo-Bulgaria Joint Research Project –
Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria)
13. Scaling up Multi-Document Summarization - University of Washington, USA
14. DuPont Young Professor Award-2013 - E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Company, USA
15. Design and Development of Freeform Optics for Imaging and Non-Imaging Applications – Indo-German Joint Research
Project (Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany)
16. Networked Infrastructure for the Remote Monitoring of Patients – Indo-UK Joint Project (Loughborough University, UK)
17. Fabrication of Vertically Standing GaN Nano-Rods and Nano-Wires using Nano-Masking and Etching Techniques for
Applications in Nano-PN Junctions and Nano-LEDs – Indo-German Joint Research Project (Max Planck Institute for the
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18. Fecal Sludge and Human Urine Reuse in Agriculture-Opportunities for Addressing Phosphorus Needs in India - National
Academy of Sciences, USA
19. Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury Prediction – European Union (University of Lyon, France)
20. Fire Centre for Advancing Research and Education in Structural Fire Engineering - INDO-US Science & Technology
Forum (Michigan State University)
21. Improving Road Safety in India and the UK - Indepth Investigation and Analysis of Crashes Involving Vulnerable Road
Users - UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership-2013 (Loughborough University, UK)
22. Imaging Technologies to Understand Bioseparations - UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership-2013 (University College
London, UK)
23. A Comparative Study of Hierarchical Materials for Biomedical and Lightweight Applications: Manufacture,
Characterization and Modeling - UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership-2013 (University of Southampton, UK)
24. Electro-optical Properties of Magnetically Modulated Graphene - UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership-2013 (University
of Bath, UK)
25. Inclusive Innovation Course and Program - Omidyar Network Fund Inc., USA
26. Research on Knowledge Representation and Extraction of Single Event - The Korean Institute of Science & Technology
Information, Korea
27. Estimating Risk to Road Users & Impact of Active Traffic Calming Measures on Vehicular Speed in Highway Work
Zones - Road Traffic Injuries Research Network, Mexico
CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENTS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
The Institute has been undertaking Consultancy Assignments with International Organisations like Bulk Testing International,
France; Japan Automobile Research Institute, Japan; U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Asian Office of Aerospace R&D,
Japan; Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., Japan; LG Electronics Inc, Korea; Panchkanya Plast (P) Ltd., Nepal; Common
Fund for Commodities, Netherlands; Escom Research and Innovation Department, South Africa; Uppasala University, Sweden;
National Property Board, Sweden; McLellan and Partners Ltd, UK; Marvel Chemicals Ltd, UK; Aquatech International Corp., USA;
Fushi Copperweld Inc., USA; PPG Industries Inc., USA; United Technologies Corp./Pratt & Whitney, USA; McAfee Inc., USA; Safe
Water Network, USA; Gulf Coast Technical Service, USA; Corning Inc., USA; Biomorphic VLSI Inc., USA; Institute for the Future,
USA; Yardi Systems, USA and Universities/Institutions abroad.
ABOUT OTHER ACTIVITIES
Besides handling Direct Fellowships sponsored by various funding agencies, sponsored Chairs, PAC/Expert Committee Meetings,
new faculty grants, PDF management, DDF/CDF Management, IRD has also undertaken the following activities during 2013-2014:
1. National Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (6 April, 2013)
2. Course on Naval Operations Analysis-III (3 June – 17 August, 2013)
3. Resonance India Program 2013 (Neuroscience Summer School) (24 June – 6 July, 2013)
4. Workshop on Computational Intelligence Theories, Applications and Future Directions (13-14 July, 2013)
5. Regional Workshop under Pedagogy Project of IIT Kharagpur (25 October, 2013)
6. International Conference on Excellence in School Education (16-17 November, 2013)
7. Conference- BioWorld 2013: Computational Biology in Disease and Disorder (9-11 December, 2013)
8. Workshop on Mushroom Technology – Present Scenario and Future Prospects in India (16-18 December, 2013)
9. Symposium on Emerging Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology (8-10 January, 2014)
10. ASME Human Powered Vehicle Contest (17-19 January, 2014)
11. Indo-German Joint Scientific Workshop on Water and Wastewater Management for Sustainable Development
(30-31 January, 2014)
12. India-UK Seminar on Computational Photonics: Plasmonics, Nano and Biophotonics (1-3 March, 2014)
13. Indo-Dutch Workshop on Developing a Research Agenda in Communications and Computing Collaboration
(19-20 March, 2014)
14. INSPIRE Faculty Awards
15. DBT National Bioscience Award
16. IBM Faculty Award
17. P.C. Ray Fellowships to two Myanmar Researchers to work in India
18. Boeing University Relations Programme
19. Setting up of International Institute of Technology Research Academy in Mauritius
20. Digital Hampi Programme

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Foundation for Innovation and
Technology Transfer (FITT)
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

FITT is an autonomous organization established by and at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) as a Registered
Society in 1992. As a leading technology transfer entity, FITT is mandated to be an effective interface with the industry to
promote and sustain commercialization of science and technology. For over two decades now, FITT has been in a mission mode
towards devising innovative ways to create partnerships and linkages with business and the community to enable knowledge
transfer for societal good and economic development. The successful outreach and extensive S&T collaborations at IIT Delhi by
the team at FITT would not have been possible without active backing by the Institute academics.
The expansive roles of FITT include: working with business, fostering technology development, consultancy, collaborative
R&D, technology commercialization, development programs, corporate membership etc. These roles are necessitated by the
key agenda of the Foundation to showcase and transfer the Institute’s “intellectual ware” to industry and also instill industrial
relevance in teaching and research at IIT Delhi.

• Since early days, FITT has secured the status as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) from the
Government by virtue of its charter to implement, inter-alia, industrial R&D projects. During FY 2013-14, 72 technology
development / transfer projects worth Rs.1411.09 lakh have been contracted at FITT.

• FITT manages the Institute’s IP and IPRs. During the last financial year 26 invention disclosures were processed, out
of which 16 cases were approved for filing patents and 5 licensing deals were closed. To augment its outreach and
technology commercialization efforts, FITT has entered into MoUs / Agreements with specialist outside agencies.
Besides enabling regular industry academia meetings, FITT organized a number of visits by IIT Delhi faculty to
industrial units in order to assess their R&D needs so as to initiate industry-relevant R&D programs at the Institute.
FITT also instrumented the visits of several overseas companies / delegations which helped in fruitful exchanges
between the visiting delegates and the academic community of the Institute.

• FITT addresses capacity building needs in the industry. During FY 2013-14, 41 Professional Development Programs
were organized, primarily for industry participants for a gross value of Rs. 287.68 lakh.

• The “Professional Candidate Registration” has been adopted towards outreaching the academic courses at the
Institute amongst the targeted segments of industry, research and academic establishments. Through this program,
suitably qualified professionals can undertake relevant semester-long course modules here at IIT Delhi and thus
enhance their knowledge and skill set. 91 candidates participated in this program during the two semesters of the
academic year 2013-14.

• As an avenue towards techno-entrepreneurship, FITT has enabled the establishment and operation of a thriving
Technology Business Incubation Unit (TBIU) on the campus. It is a flagship institute program. The objective of the
TBIU is primarily to promote partnership with new technology entrepreneurs and start-up companies, and also serve
as a medium of technology transfer. 10 companies are presently resident at the TBIU. Out of 40 companies admitted
so far in the incubator since its inception in the year 2000, 16 companies have started their upscaling/commercial
operation after completing their incubation at the Institute and are reported to be growing at a steady pace. The
TBIU companies are working in the technology domains of IT, Biotechnology, Engineering design, Cleantech etc. FITT
is also collaborating with Wallonia Trade and investment Agency (AWEX) of Belgium towards internationalization of
innovation led technology start-ups in the country.

FITT has been at the forefront in managing several innovation and entrepreneurship programs in the country as a nodal
agency in several Government schemes. The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME), Government of India
has extended grants to FITT for promoting and supporting innovation amongst micro and small enterprises leveraging
the knowledge resources at IIT Delhi. Seed support in the broad area of ICT is also forthcoming under the Department of
Information Technology (DIT) program – “Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs” (TIDE) scheme. FITT is
also a beneficiary of the grant assistance of Rs.1.00 cr. from the Technology Development Board (TDB) for the specific purpose of
providing early stage financial support to start-up units incubated at IIT Delhi’s TBIU. More recently, FITT has secured the coveted
status of a BIG Partner of BIRAC (DBT) towards implementing their Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) scheme in the country.

FITT has added 12 new corporate members in the FY-2013-14 representing small/medium/large scale industrial and R&D units.
Corporate members receive preferential treatment in matters of collaboration with the Institute in addition to information and
technical services that FITT provides through the Institute’s resources. FITT’s gamut of services and activities include:

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• Transfer of technology relating to proven R&D outputs

• Research partnership with industry for technology development and its
commercial applications
• Innovative problem solving consultancy with industry clients
• Information support service to industry and R&D organizations
• Specialist development programmes
• Corporate membership of FITT
• Facilitate funding for the development of innovative ideas of commercial
implications
Deliberations at the Brain Storming meet towards establishment
of S&T Parks at IITD
Examples of R&D Collaborators:
BHEL, Bangalore
SRF Ltd., Chennai
Corning Inc., USA
Samsung India Ltd., Noida
GlaxoSmithKline, Gurgaon
GE India Tech, Bangalore
PALL Corporation, France
GAIL (India) Ltd., New Delhi
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd.

Partners: Innovation / Entrepreneurship

ICICI - Trinity program
Indian Angle Network (IAN) Shri M. Shashidhar Reddy, Vice Chairman NDMA at the
inauguration of the workshop on CRZ Management at IIT Delhi
Technology Development Board (TDB)
POSOCO Power System Award (PPSA)
Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt. of India
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt. of India

Star-up Success 2013-2014

Gram Vaani Community Media Pvt. Ltd.
• Since its inception in December 2008 Gram Vaani Community
Media Pvt. Ltd. (Dr. Aaditeshwar Seth, CEO; Prof. Huzur Saran, CSE,
IIT Delhi) has developed a transmission box for community radio
broadcast network and is working at the pilot scale. Its services
POSOCO Power System Award (2014) ceremony at FITT
include community engagements, interactions, voting, education/
knowledge dissemination to the rural community etc. This venture
has raised an equity investment from the Indian Angel Network and
Digital News Ventures to grow their scale of operations and exited
the incubator in June, 2013.

Simplyfeye Solution Pvt. Ltd.

• Founded by Mr. Anshuman Bansal (IIT Kharagpur alumnus)
under the mentorship of Dr. A.S. Rathore (Chemical Engineering,
IITD), Simplyfeye is in operation since June 2010. This venture
has developed powerful Web 2.0 based enterprise software
for capturing, sharing and analyzing information from
biopharmaceutical processes (a KM Tool that empowers an
industry unit to improve process development). The company
exited the incubator in June, 2013. Dr . A. Wali during the TiE Entrepreneurship Program at IITD

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(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)
• Convocation 75
• Conferences/Workshops/Seminars 77
• Interaction with Alumni 81
• Distinguished Visitors 82

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(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

Distinguished Alumni Award

IIT Delhi lays great emphasis on interaction between its alumni and the Alma Mater and provides strong supports to the IIT
Delhi Alumni Association (IITDAA). The Institute is proud of its alumni and their achievements. The success of the alumni is one
of the most important yardsticks by which the Institute measures its achievements in academic/professional fields.

The Institute recognizes the outstanding contributions made by its alumni in various areas by conferring the Distinguished
Alumni Award each year. This award is the highest honour conferred by the Institute on its alumni to recognize their
achievements and outstanding contributions to academics, business, profession and / or public services. For the year under
report, the prestigious award has been conferred upon the following at the 44th Convocation.

Dr. Rajpal S. Sirohi

Distinguished Alumni Award

(Post-M.Sc. Diploma in applied Optics, 1965 and Ph.D. Physics, 1970), Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Chair
Professor, Central University, Tezpur, Assam.

Prof. Sugata Mitra

Distinguished Alumni Award

(M.Sc. Physics, 1975 and Ph.D. Physics, 1978), Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University, UK.

Dr. T.S. Ramakrishnan

Distinguished Alumni Award

(B.Tech., Chemical Engg., 1980), Scientific Advisor/Research Director, Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA.

Dr. Varun Grover

Distinguished Alumni Award

B.Tech., Elect. Engg., 1982), William S Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems,
Clemson University, USA.

Prof. Sanjay Puri

Distinguished Alumni Award

(MS, Physics, 1982), Professor, School of Physical Sciences, JNU, New Delhi.

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Medals and Awards winners at the 44th Convocation

Following is the list of award winning students at the convocation.

President’s Gold Medal Director’s Gold Medal

Deepak Vasisht Sarneet Kaur Broca

Sukriti Arushi Arora Sandeep Kumar Bindal Nishal Pradeepkumar Shah Anshul Malhotra

Akarsh Shrivastava Ananth Govind Rajan Sarthak Kalani Jigyasa Gupta Anirudh Jain

Aarsh Vir Gupta R. Srivatsan Sukhmanjot Kaur

Dr. Amrik Singh Medal & Prize Jagat Ram Chopra Award Harsha Vardhan Dwarkadas Motiwala Mudit Sharma Memorial Gold Medal
Soumyajit Sarkar Anirban Dutta Memorial Prize R. Srivatsan
Lt. Arpan Banerjee Award Suresh Chandra Memorial Awards Sukhmanjot Kaur Rajiv Bambawale Cash Award
Vinit Vijay Deshpande Sandeep Kumar Bindal K. Vasudevan Award Deepak Vasisht
Dogra Medal Padmashri Man Mohan Suri Project Award Sukhmanjot Kaur BOSS Award
Raghav Agnihotri Girish Chandra Verma Alok Saxena Memorial Award Choppakatla Satya Saran Pavan
Chand Rani-Banarsi Dass Duggal Memorial Aamir Zeb Akarsh Shrivastava
Dogra Educational Endowment Medal
Award Suresh Chandra Memorial Awards for best Dhruv Jain, Himanshu Meenia & Ashwini
Maumita Bhattacharjee
Bharat Bhushan software project Choudhary (Jointly)
Prof. O.P. Gupta Medal Salik Jamal Warsi & Vakul Jindal (Jointly)
K.S. Prakasa Rao Memorial Award Amogh Bihani & Sarthak Kalani (Jointly)
Faisal Naeem Jagatpreet Singh Nir
Deepak Ramasubramanian Bhavika Goyal & Anurag Singh (Jointly)
Prof. Pushpa Bajaj Gold Medal Padmashri Manmohan Suri Project Awards Praharsh Chandra & Harshit Jain (Jointly)
P. Archana IEEE-PEDES 96 Award
Sagar Goel Anshul Kapoor, Nikhil Gupta & Harshit Jain Babita Yadav
Perfect Ten Gold Medal (Jointly) Malvika Jain & Parul (Jointly)
Shrimati and Shri H.R. Mittal Cash Award
Yashna Sharma, Faraz Zaidi, Deepak ICIM Stay Ahead Award Alumni Association IIT Delhi Prize
Mahaveer Singh
Ramasubramanian & Nikhil Kumar Singh Harshit Jain Eshaan Gupta
Buti Foundation Bodh Raj Gold Medal (for
Parampujya Baba Sant Nagpalji Gold Medal Jayant Sinha Award
best women student) Prem Sheel Bhatnagar Memorial Award
Harish Iyer Aamir Zeb
Yashna Sharma Shilpa G.
Prof. M.M. Chawla Gold Medal Punita Kumar - Sinha Award for All Round
Amit Garg Memorial Research Award Suman - Upma Memorial Gold Medal
Kr Gaurav Excellence
Bhambure Rahul Sharad Shaila Krithika Ramchander
Prof. M.C. Puri Memorial Medal Swati Ganeti
Shrimati Vijay-Usha Sodha Research Award Bimla Jain Medal Nayyar Perwez Shahabuddin Medal
Sanjay Mishra Siva Reddy V. Harshit Jain
Jigyasa Gupta
Dr. Neeraj Srivastava Prize Dr. Shivraj Nandan Sinha Medal Abhinav Dhupar Memorial Award
Rahul Giri Memorial Medal
Shreya Banerjee Punit Kumar Prateek Bansal
Ankit Agarwal
Mrs. Santokh Gill Award Dogra Gold Medal Dr. Kewal Krishan Baveja Gold Medal Mrs. Chander Kanta Nanda Excellence Award
Sanjay Mishra Shalinee Daga Ananth Govind Rajan Shilpa Khatana & Piyush Ahuja
Prof. A.K. Sinha Cash Prize M.M. Chawla Gold Medal Ujjal Jeewan Charitable Trust Award S.L. Duggal Excellence Cash Award
Deepak Ramasubramanian Anshul Malhotra Sukriti Harshit Jain
NBCC Prize of Excellence Rajiv Bambawale Cash Prize Laxmi Bai-Lal Chand Khurana Memorial Award Rajindra Kumari Malhotra Memorial Prize
Faraz Zaidi Adarsh Prasad Anshul Malhotra Ananth Govind Rajan & Aamir Zeb (Jointly)

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Conferences/ Seminars/ Workshops/ Lectures
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The departments and centres of the Institute organized many conferences, seminars and workshops and some major of them
are highlighted here under:

Departments/Cetres/Schools Title of the Conference/Seminar/ Workshop/ Lecture

Chemical Symposium on Rheology of Complex Fluids-2013 by Dr. S. K. Pattanayek (19th – 20th December)
A Round Table Discussion Meeting on “Challenges in Applications of CFD in Oil and Gas, Energy and Process Industries” organized
by IIT Delhi and Ansys India by Dr. V. V. Buwa (23rd October 2013)
BIRAC-CDSA Regulatory Meet: Demystifying Indian Regulations for Product Approvals, Five Day Course held at IIT Delhi, New
Delhi, India, July 2013 by Prof. A.S. Rathore
SERB School on “Rheology of Complex Fluids: Advanced computational Methods” and Symposium of “Rheology of complex
Fluids 2013” organized by Dr. S. K. Pattanayek & Dr. V.V. Buwa, (16-20 December 2013)
Fundamentals of Petrophysics by Dr. Jyoti Phirani (4th Nov. 2013)
Production Analysis of shale resources by Dr. Jyoti Phirani (27th Nov. 2013)
Reaction Mechanisms and the Design of Heterogeneous Catalysts for Sustainable Energy by Dr. M. A. Haider (28th March 2013)
Biomimetic Adaptations of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorihms for the Optimization of Chemical Processes by Dr. M. C.
Ramteke (16th July 2013)
Modeling of Concentration Fronts and Pt Dispersion Effects in A Lean NOx Trap by Dr. Divesh Bhatia (7th Nov. 2013)
RERB School on Rheology of Complex Fluids: Advanced Computational Methods (16th - 18th December 2013)
Rheomicroscopy workshop by Anton Paar (18th March 2014)
Chemistry New Horizons in Chemical Sciences (In-House Symposium), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (November 16, 2013)
International Satellite Symposium on Emerging Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology (International Symposium), Indian
Institute of Technology Delhi (January 8-10, 2014)
Civil Engineering Co-coordination of a 3-day National Seminar on ‘Thermal and Other Techniques for Waste Management’ at NIT Calicut under the
MoU between IIT Delhi and NIT Calicut
Organization of a 5-day International School on Microbial Risk Assessment in collaboration with Drexel University (USA) and
Michigan State University (USA) at Drexel University, Philadelphia USA (IIT Delhi Team: Prof. Mukesh Khare, Prof. Arvind K. Nema,
Prof. Atul K Mittal, Prof. James Gomes, Dr. Arun Kumar; IIPH Hyderabad: Prof. GVS Murthy; NEERI: Prof. Rakesh Kumar and Prof. JS
Pandey and Dr. Radha Goyal) as a part of the ongoing Singh-Obama Initiative funded project “Resource building for ecosystem
and human health risk assessment with special references to microbial contamination ” (2013-15)
Workshop on Offshore Geotechnical Engineering on by Prof. J.T. Shahu (January 31, 2014)
‘THE RED MUD DISASTER IN HUNGARY AND THE LESSONS LEARNT’ expert lecture under CES by Professor Ákos Rédey, Director,
Institute of Environmental Engineering, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
Computer Science and Engineering “Breakthroughs in Theoretical Computer Science” at IIT Guwahati, by Prof. Amit Kumar (jointly with Dr. Nisheeth Vishnoi at
Microsft Research, Bangalore) (Dec 10-11, 2013)
“Recent Advances in Theoretical Computer Science” by Prof. M. Balakrishnan at IIT Delhi (16th Dec, 2013)
“ACM India Annual Event” by Prof. M. Balakrishnan at IIT Delhi during (Feb 14-16, 2014)
“Big Data and Smarter Cities” by Dr. Amitabha Bagchi (October, 2013)
School on Advanced Algorithms by Prof. Naveen Garg (jointly with Atul Gupta at IIIT Jabalpur) (June 11-14, 2013)
“Winter School on Data Analytics” at SCSIT, DAVV, Indore. The workshop was jointly organized by The Indo-German Max Planck
Center for Computer Science (IMPECS) and the School of Computer Science & IT (SCSIT), DAVV Indore by Dr. Maya Ramanath
(Nov. 15-18, 2013)
Delivered invited lecture on “Match making” at Home Bhabha Center for Science Education, Mumbai by Prof. Naveen Garg (22nd Dec, 2013)
Delivered keynote lecture at the conference VDAT, 2014 by Prof. M. Balakrishnan (28th July, 2013)
Delivered keynote lecture at AD Patel Institute of Technology by Prof. M. Balakrishnan (20th March, 2014)
Delivered keynote lecture at Research Promotion Workshop on “Introduction to Graph and Geometric Algorithms” at
Thiruvananthapuram by Dr. Amitabha Bagchi (23-25 January 2014)
Delivered keynote lecture at Dayal bagh Educational Institute, Agra by Prof. M. Balakrishnan (1st Jan, 2014)
Delivered keynote lecture at Geometry Workshop at IIT Roorkee by Prof. Subodh Kumar
Delivered invited lecture at IIIT Delhi by Prof. M. Balakrishnan (17th Oct, 2013)
Delivered keynote lecture at CEERI, Pilani by Prof. M. Balakrishnan (23rd Sept, 2013)
Delivered invited lecture at Research Scholar Meet, Dept. of CSE, IIT Bombay by Prof. Amit Kumar (Nov 8-9, 2013)
Delivered keynote lecture at Inclusive Innovation Exhibition, Pune by Prof. M. Balakrishnan (December 2013)
Delivered institute lecture on “Introduction to Cloud Computing and the Development of Baadal” by Dr. Sorav Bansal

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Electrical Engineering Programming of TMS320F28335 Floating-point DSP (9.05.2013)

Computational Intelligence Theories, Applications and Future Directions (13-14 July, 2013)
Technical lecture by Akhil Kumar Gupta (26.04.2013)
Lecture on “Smart Grid” by Mr. Vikram Gandotra (27.04.2013)
Lecture on “New Direction in Energy & Power Research” by Prof. Saifur Rahman (19.08.2013)
Lecture on “Voltage stability Analysis and improvement by optimum reactive power control” by Prof. D. Thukaram (26.09.2013)
Lecture on “PMU Measurement and Systems” by Mr. Amol Kolwalkar (8.10.13)
Lecture on “Applications on Synchrophasor measurements in Power Systems” by Dr. Amol Kolwalkar (8.10.13)
Lecture on “Smart Initiative in Renewables” by Mr. Ravi Segal (11.10.2013)
Lecture on “Automatic Voltage Regulator” by Mr. Arvind Gupta (16.10.2013)
Lecture on “Understanding Performance Chart for an Alternator connected to a Grid Part –I” by Prof. J. Nanda (18.10.2013)
Technical lecture on “Monitoring and Diagnostics of Electrical Machines” by Dr. Rupam mukherjee (7.11.13)
Lecture on “Applied Electromagnetics in Electrical Machines and Transformers” by Mr. Ravindra Bhide (20.11.13)
Lecture on “Role and Requirement of Protection in Power Systems” by Mr.A. Gupta (12.02.2014)
Lecture on “Transformer Protection Schemes” by Mr. A. Gupta (24.02.2014)
‘Energy Saving and Power Quality Aspects’ by Meenu Singhal (5.12.2013)
Management Thirteenth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management (December, 13-15, 2013)
International Conference on Research in Marketing (ICRM 2013) - (December 21-22, 2013)
Academic Leadership Program (March 10-15, 2014)
Mechanical Biodesign Innovation Workshop (in collaboration with Stanford India Biodesign Programme) by Prof. PVM Rao
(October 2013)
Physics Heusler Alloys: Magnetic materials with multifunctional properties by Prof. A. K. Nigam (27/03/2014)
X-ray Free-Electron Laser: A Revolution in Science by Dr. Gopal Dixit (10/02/2014)
New Science for Solar Energy by Prof. Stephen C. Rand (22/01/2014)
Chiral Symmetries and Angular Momentum by Dr. Mishkatul Bhattacharya. (15/01/2014)
Molecularly-tailored nanomaterials and interfaces with novel properties by Prof. G. Ramanath (10/12/2013)
The atomic Clocks - R and D Frequency Standard at NPL, India by Dr. Subhadeep De (12/11/2013)
The Physics of Ventricular Arrhythmias: Insights from Computational Studies by Prof. Rahul Pandit (27/09/2013)
Novel Electronic phases and phase transitions at oxide interface by Prof. R. C. Budhani (15/04/2013)
Junction of Dirac materials by Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta (11/04/2013)
Workshop on Recent Advance in Photonics, IITD (17-18/12/2013)
Controllable Growth of Nanostructures by Prof. B R Mehta (18/03/2014)
Relativity in the 21st Century by Prof. V Ravishankar (21/01/2014)
Application-specific Specialty Optical Fibers: A Challenging, New Design Platform by Prof. Bishnu P. Pal (19/11/2013)
Novel functional materials: from ‘smartness’ to ‘spintronics by Prof. Ratnamala Chatterjee (29/10/2013)
Electronics Rides on Spin by Prof. D. K. Pandya (15/10/2013)
Singular Optics by Prof. P. Senthilkumaran (10/09/2013)
Laser Driven Acceleration of Ions by Prof. V. K. Tripath (27/08/2013)
Quantum Gravity: Is it necessary? Is it possible? By Prof. Ajit Kumar (09/04/2013)
Textile Technology APA International Conference on Polymers: Vision and Innovations, Organizer: IIT Delhi and Asian Polymer Association,
Coordinator: Prof. B Gupta, Joint Secretary: Dipayan Das, Place: India Habitat Center, New Delhi (February 19-21, 2014)
5th World Conference on 3D Fabric and their Applications, Coordinator: Prof. B. K. Behera (December 16-17, 2013)
One Day seminar on Mechanics of Textile structure, Coordinator: Prof. B K Behera (14th December 2013)
2 -Day seminar on Innovative Textiles, Coordinator: Prof. B. K. Behera (April 15-16, 2013)
Workshop on Comfort in protective clothing, Coordinators: Apurba Das, Abhijit Majumdar & R. Alagirusamy (17th August 2013)
Round Table meet between industry captains and the departmental faculty (3 June 2013)
The Chain Textile and Strategies of Developing and Manufecturing Clothings. , by. Prof. D. M. Francisca, University of Sao Paulo,
Brazil (13.02.2014)
Prof. Bohushav Neckar, Faculty of Textile Engineering, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

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Applied Research in Electronics IEEE Intl. Microwave and RF Conference, New Delhi: Prof. S. K. Koul, Conference Co-Chair, Prof. Ananjan Basu: Technical Program
Committee Co-Chair (14-16 Dec. 2013)
International Underwater Technology Workshop 2013 at NIOT Chennai: Prof. R. Bahl: Vice Chairman (Oct 2013)
Workshop on the patch antennas (16th Oct. 2013)
Power Efficient Multi-band/Multi-Standard Wireless Transmitter for Software Defined Radios by Dr. Karun Rawat, IIT Delhi
(13th May, 2013)
A Lecture on Load-Modulation in Doherty PAs for Wireless Transmitters, IIT Delhi and Mr. Gowrish B., cypress semiconductors,
Bangalore by Dr. Karun Rawat (8th Nov, 2013)
A Lecture on Electrically Short Antenna: Passive & Active Antenna for general applications, Synergy Microwave Corporation NJ,
USA by Prof. Ulrich L. Rohde (12th Dec, 2013)
A Lecture on Low Noise Signal Generation and Verification Techniques, Northrop Grumman USA by Dr. Michael Driscoll (12th
Dec, 2013)
A Lecture on Latest technology and technological challenges in oscillator design, Synergy Microwave Corporation NJ, USA by Dr. Ajay K.
Poddar (12th Dec, 2013)
A Lecture on Microwave Filter and Diplexers for wireless application, University of Waterloo, Canada by Dr. C. Kudsia (17th Dec,
2013)
A lecture on Waveguide Filters for Satellite Communication, Technical University, Spain by Dr. Vicente Boria (17th Dec, 2013)
A Lecture on Thz Radar for 3D IMaging, NASA, USA by Dr. G. Chattopadhyay (17th Dec, 2013)
A Lecture on Chip less RFID Sensors: Revolution in Identification and Sensing in the New Millennium, Date: 24th Dec. 2013,
Speaker: Prof. Nemai Chandra Karmakar, Monash University, Australia.
A Talk on the Software Defined Radio, Founder, Pawlan Communications, USA by Dr. Jeffrey Pawlan (31st Jan. 2014)
Monterey Bay Aquariam Research Institute, USA A Talk by Kanna Rajan (6th Nov. 2013)
Biomedical Engineering Lecture on “Contributions to Orthopedic Biomechanics” by Dr. H.S. Ranu (21.05.2013)
Expert Talk on “Adolescent Brain, Teenage Drinking and Cognition” by Prof. Ratna Sircar (18th January, 2014)
Research Discussion on “Brain Products” by Dr. Nicola Soldati on 5th March, 2014
Lecture on “The Role of Physical Activity and the Use of Adaptive Technology in the Treatment of Non-Communicable Diseases”
by Dr. Jimmy Abbas (31st March, 2014)
Lecture on “Closing the loop: Nerves, Machines and Interfaces” by Dr. Ranu Jung (31st March, 2014)
Lecture on “Research on Appropriate Advanced Surgical Technology for Application in Practice” by Prof. Peter Brett, Professor of
Bioengineering Systems, Brunel University
Energy Studies “Economics and Financing of Renewable Energy Technologies” A HRD Programme was organised by Prof. T.C. Kandpal from (July
24 to 27, 2013)
“Techno-Economics of Solar Power” A HRD Programme (Short Course) was organised by Prof. T.C. Kandpal from (Dec. 18-21, 2013)
R&D Physicist Performance Materials Division, Advanced Technologies (PM-AC) Merck Chemicals Ltd., Southampton UK delivered
a lecture High Efficiency Polymer Semiconductors for Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) by Dr. Priti Tiwana (Sept. 11, 2013 at 3:00 PM)
Senior Researcher, Department of Advanced Material Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea delivered
a lecture, ICP Dual Frequency Discharges: A potential tool for Large Area Plasma Processing by Dr. Anurag Mishra (25 February,
2014 at 15: 00 hrs)
Instrument Design & Development “IRPT based control of a 50 kW grid interfaced solar photovoltaic power generating system with power quality improvement,” in
Centre Proc. 4th IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2013) pp.1-8 by Bhim
Singh, D.T. Shahani and Arun Kumar Verma (8-11 July 2013)
“Sinusoidal Integrator based control of a grid interfaced solar photovoltaic power generating system,” in Proc. International
Conference on Power and Energy System (ICPS 2013) by Bhim Singh, D.T. Shahani and Arun Kumar Verma (27-30 October 2013)
“Current Synchronous Detection based control of grid interfaced Solar Photovoltaic power generating system,” in Proc. Annual
IEEE India Conference pp.1-6 (INDICON 2013) by Arun Kumar verma, Bhim Singh and D.T. Shahani (13-15 Dec. 2013)
“Power Quality Improvement in Grid Interface Solar Photo-Voltaic (SPV) Power Generating Systems,” National Conference on
Integrated Energy Systems and Environmental Protection New Delhi by Arun Kumar verma, Bhim Singh and D.T. Shahani (6-7
Feb. 2014)
“Combined Operation of a VSC Based Grid Interfaced Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation System with Night Time Application,”
Accepted in PES Meeting, 2014 organized by Arun Kumar Verma, Bhim Singh and D.T Shahani, Ambrish Chandra, and Kamal
Al-Haddad.
“Recognition of Power Quality events using S-transform based ANN classifier and rule based decision tree,” IEEE Industry Appl.
Society Annual Meeting, pp.1-8 organized by R. Kumar, B. Singh, D. T. Shahani, A. Chandra, K. Al-Haddad (6-11 Oct. 2013)
“Recognition of Power Quality Events UsingS-Transform Based ANN Classifier and Rule Based Decision Tree,” Accepted for IAS
annual meeting 2013 by Raj Kumar Garg, Bhim Singh and D.T Shahani
“Neural Network Controlled Grid Interfaced Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation. Accepted in IET Power electronics by Bhim
Singh, D.T Shahani and Arun Kumar Verma (July 2013)

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“Study the Effect of Magnetic Field on Gaseous Flames using Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry,” Optics 14, International
Conference on Light, Calicut, India by Manoj Kumar, Shilpi Agarwal, Varun Kumar, Gufran S. Khan and Chandra Shakher (March
18-21, 2014)
“Temperature Measurement of Axisymmetric Flames under the Influence of Magnetic Field using Talbot Interferometry”,
Optics’14, International Conference on Light, held in NIT Calicut, India by Shilpi Agarwal, Manoj Kumar and Chandra Shakher
(March 18-21, 2014)
“Measurement of convective heat transfer coefficient along the surface of heated wire using digital holography”, International
conference on Optics and Optoelectronics ‘ICOL 2014’ (XXXVIII symposium of Optical Society of India), IRDE Dehradun, India by
Varun Kumar, Manoj Kumar, and Chandra Shakher (March 05-08, 2014)
“Measurement of Temperature and Temperature distribution in diffusion flame using Digital speckle Pattern Interferometry”,
11th International conference ‘Correlation Optics 2013’, Chernivtsi, Ukraine by Manoj Kumar, Varun Kumar, and Chandra Shakher
(September 18-21, 2013)
“Measurement of Temperature Profile around Heated Wire using Digital Holography”, 7th International workshop on Advanced
Optical Imaging and Metrology, Fringe 2013, Stuttgart, Germany by Varun Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Shobhna Sharma and Chandra
Shakher (September 08-11, 2013)
“Temperature measurement of diffusion and pre-mixed flames under the under the influence of magnetic field using Digital
Holographic Interferometry”, 7th International workshop on Advanced Optical Imaging and Metrology, Fringe 2013, Stuttgart,
Germany by Chandra Shakher, Shobhna Sharma, Manoj Kumar Varun Kumar, and Shilpi Agarwal (September 08-11, 2013.)
“Measurement of Temperature and Temperature Profile of Axi-symmetric Butane Torch Burner Flame using Digital speckle Pattern
Interferometry”, 7th International workshop on Advanced Optical Imaging and Metrology, Fringe 2013, Stuttgart, Germany by
Manoj Kumar, Varun Kumar, Gufran Sayeed Khan, and Chandra Shakher (September 08-11, 2013)
Delivered a lecture on “Interferometric techniques for measurement of temperature and temperature profile of gaseous flames”,
at Niigata University, Japan (07 June, 2013)
Delivered a lecture on “Digital holographic interferometric techniques for measurement of temperature and temperature profile
of gaseous flames”, at University of Kobe, Japan (13 June, 2013)
Delivered a lecture on “Solar holography: A relook on the use of volume phase transmission holographic lenses for photovoltaic
concentrator applications” at University of Kobe, Japan (13 June, 2013)
Delivered a lecture on “Interferometric techniques for measurement of temperature and temperature profile of gaseous flames”,
at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan (14 June, 2013)
Delivered a lecture on “Solar holography: A relook on the use of volume phase transmission holographic lenses for photovoltaic
concentrator applications” at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan (14 June, 2013)
Centre of Applied Research and Education (CORE) Seminar at Utsunomiya University Japan (26 June, 2013)
Interferometric techniques for measurement of temperature and temperature profile of gaseous flames.
Solar holography: A relook on the use of volume phase transmission holographic lenses for photovoltaic concentrator
applications
Delivered invited talk on, “Measurement of refractive index and refractive index gradient using digital holography” at International
Conference on Optics and Optoelectronic ‘ICOL- 2014’ (XXXVIII symposium of Optical Society of India) on 07-03-2014 held at
Instrument Research and Development Establishment (IRDE) Dehradun, India (March 5-8, 2014)
Polymer Sciences Training course on Science and Technology of PVC for SRIRAM Polytech, Gurgaon (May, 2013- Jan 2014)(4 Modules)
SABIC- Innovative Plastics India Pvt. Ltd by Mr. Sanjiv Vasudeva
Rural Development and Technology The National Sanitation Roundtable on Achieving Nirmal Bharat as part of the campaign ‘Take Poo to the Loo’ was held at Indian
Institute of Technology Delhi (6th of March 2014)
A Workshop on ‘Promotion of Biogas Upgrading Bottling in India and European Union’ was held at IIT Delhi (22-24 August, 2013)
A Workshop on ‘Mushroom Technology – Present Scenario and Future Prospects in India’ (16-18 December 2013)
Lecture on ‘Karigar Vidya - Parasparata, Samriddhi Evam Saundarya Drishti ka Samay Siddha Srot’ by Shri Ravindra Sharma
(23 September 2013)
Lecture delivered by Prof. G. V. Soumitri, Deputy Dean, Industrial and Interior Design at RMIT University on the topic of ‘Social and
Sustainability Issues in Design’ (13 September 2013)
Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School India France Workshop in ICST “BIG DATA & CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS” (April 4-5, 2013)
Resonance India Program 2013 (June 24-July 6, 2013)
Formal Methods Update Meeting (July 27-28, 2013)
Indo-Dutch Workshop on Pervasive Communication and Computing Collaboration (March 19-20, 2014)
Resonance India Program 2013, Sponsors: School of IT, MIT, Harvard University, AIIMS, (June 24-July 6, 2013)
Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi, Dept of Comp Sc, McGill Univ. Montreal CA (August 2013)
Prof. Ian Munro, University of Waterloo, Canada (5-6 Feb 2014)
Kusum School of Biological Sciences “Computational Biology in Disease & Disorder” in BioWorld 2013 (9-11 December 2013)
Prof. C.M. Dobson, University of Cambridge, 2013
Prof. Barry Buckland, Faculty of Engineering Science University College London, also CEO of Biologic B (14th Nov 2013)
Dr. Animesh Dhar, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, USA (31st January 2014)

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(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

IITDAA sponsored three UG&PG awards for innovations in the I2Tech 2013- IIT Delhi’s ‘Technology Open House’, where newly
developed products and technologies are displayed. It was held at IIT Delhi on 20th April, 2013.

‘Leadership Conclave’ was held on 20 April, 2013 at WelcomHotel Sheratorn, Saket. This event was dedicated to the memory of
Prof. P.V. Indresan. Hon’ble APJ Abdul Kalam was invited for the event and he graced the event by delivering a lecture.

AGM 2013 & Annual Get-together held on 27 April, 2013 at IIT Delhi. There were more than 800 people present at the event.
At this event, IITDAA presented awards for Outstanding Contribution to National Development, 2012-2013 to : Mr. Ajay Kumar
(B.Tech., Electrical , 1975) and Mr. Shashank Mani Tripathi (B.Tech., Mechanical, 1986).

UNIITE - Innovation & Technology Meet held on 15 November 2013.

Workshop on Entrepreneurship by Rodinhoods held on 09 November 2013.

IITDAA & Textile Engineering Society organized a Play “God of Carnage” which was held on 15th February 2014 at Seminar Hall,
IIT Delhi.

REUNIONS
The Silver Jubilee Reunion Batch of 1989 held on 27-28, December 2013. Over a hundred alumni from the batch of 1989
attended the event to make it truly memorable.

The first “IIT Delhi Alumni Day” was held on 29th December 2013. The theme was ‘ENVISIONING THE FUTURE TOGETHER’. It
was the first ever Alumni Day celebration, inviting participation of Alumni of all batches from 1961 to 2013, representing over
fifty years of glorious history. Approximately 500 alumni attended the event which included a number of activities e.g. panel
discussions, felicitation function, cultural program followed by dinner.

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS
• The Office of Dean, AAIP organized Seminars/Lectures which were delivered by distinguished international speakers
including : Institute lecture on “Innovation and Start-Up Nation: Harnessing Israeli Technology for Business Success” by
Mr. Naftali Bennett, Minister of Economy of the State of Israel on October 7, 2013.

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Many delegations from the Industry, Academia and the Government form
several countries visited the Institute to explore the possibilities of mutual
interaction. Some of these are highlighted below:
• A 11 member delegation led by YBhg. Datuk Haji Omar Bin Abd. Rahman,
Deputy Secretary General (Management), Min. of Higher Education,
Malaysia, visited the Institute on 4 Apr, 2013. Dr. Heung Nam Kim,
President of ETRI Global
• A 3 member delegation led by Dr. Hesham Ali, Dean of the College of IS&T Cooperation Team, Korea,
and Prof., Comp. Sc./Bioinformatics from University of Nebraska, USA, receiving a souvenir
visited the Institute on May 16, 2013. from DD (S&P), IIT Delhi.
• A 11 member delegation led by Ms. Alyssa Ayres, Deputy Assistant Dr. Heaung visited the
institute on January 16,
Secretary, U.S. Department of State from Information and Communication
2014.
Technology, visited the Institute on May 21, 2013.
• A 5 member delegation led by Dr. Mark S. Kamlet, Provost & Executive Vice
President, iCarnegie-Carnegie Mellon University. USA, visited the Institute
on 21 August, 2013.
• A 4 member delegation led by Dr. Hassan Said Kashoob, Vice Chancellor,
Dhofar University, Oman, visited the Institute on 26 August 2013.
• A 4 member delegation led by Mr. Hiroyuki Abe, Counselor to the president,
Director General, Centre for Intellectual Property Strategies, Japan Science
and Technology, visited the Institute on 19 September 2013.
• Prof. Ajay K. Garg, Tshwane University of Technology, Business School,
Pretoria, South Africa, visited the Institute on 26 September 2013.
• A 12 member delegation led by Mr. Gerard Poirier, Research, Design
and Engg. Directorate, Deputy Vice President, R&D Partnership and
cooperation, Thematic Division of Dassault Systems, France, visited the
Institute on Oct 22, 2013.
• A 13 member delegation led by H.E. Amb. Mohd. Awadh al Hassan,
Ministry of foreign Affairs, Science & Technology, Oman, visited the
Institute on Oct 22, 2013.
Mr. Yerlan Sydykov, Rector, Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan, in
• A 6 member delegation led by Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Schneider Aalen a meeting with Director, IITD. Mr. Yerlan Sydykov visited the Institute on January
University, Rector, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany, 27, 2014.
visited the Institute on Oct 25, 2013.
• Dr. Bashir Radd, Vice President in charge of Scientific Afairs, Libya Open
University, Libya, visited the Institute on Nov 13, 2013.
• A 3 member delegation led by Dr. Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Chancellor,
University of Massachusetts, USA, visited the Institute on Jan 3, 2014.
Mr. Sadayuki Tsuchiya,
• A 3 member delegation led by Prof. Shinji Kaneko, Hiroshima University, Deputy Minister of
Japan, visited the Institute on Jan 7, 2014. Education, culture, Sports,
• A 10 member delegation led by Dr. Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang from Korea Science & Technology,
Advance Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), visited the Institute Japan, receiving a
on Jan 16, 2014. souvenir from Director,
IITD. Mr. Sadayuki visited
• A 3 member delegation led by Dr. Heung Nam Kim, President of ETRI the Institute on January
Global Cooperation Team, Korea, visited the Institute on Jan 16, 2014. 27, 2014.
• A 6 member delegation led by Mr. Sadayuki Tsuchiya, Deputy Minister
of Education, culture, Sport, Science & Technology, Japan, visited the
Institute on Jan 27, 2014.
• A 3 member delegation led by Mr. Yerlan Sydykov, Rector, Eurasian National
University, Astana, Kazakhstan, visited the Institute on Jan 27, 2014.
• A 3 member delegation led by Prof. Liqiu Meng, Vice President, Technical
University of Munich, Germany, visited the Institute on Jan 29, 2014.
• A 3 member delegation led by Dr. Remi Quirion, Chief Scientist, Quebec,
visited the Institute on Feb 7, 2014.
• A 20 member delegation led by Prof. Joseph J. Helble, Thayer School of
Engineering, Darthmouth College, Hanover, USA, visited the Institute on
Feb 10, 2014.
• Sir Timothy O’Shea, Vice Chancellor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
visited the Institute on Feb 24, 2014.
• Mr. Mark Lowcock, Permanenet Secretary of UK Government’s Deptt. for
International Development (DFID), visited the Institute on Mar 20, 2014. Mr. Mark Lowcock, Permanent Secretary of UK Government’s Deptt. for
• Prof. Joseph Klafter, President, Tel Aviv University, Isreal, visited the Institute International Development (DFID) in a meeting with Director, IITD. Mr. Mark
on mar 24, 2014. Lowcock visited the Institute on March 20, 2014.

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• Faculty in Position 86
• New Appointments, Retirements etc. 89

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It is a cliché to say that the quality of an academic institution largely depends on its faculty. Our faculty is one of the finest in
the country and is recognized internationally for their quality of research, teaching and curriculum development. They also
contribute greatly for the development of the nation by being associated with a large number of decision making bodies,
providing crucial guidance and advice on policy matters and technical issues. Many of our faculty members serve on the
editorial Boards of reputed journals, peer-review papers for publications, serve on committees for recruitment of professionals,
and are on the Boards of many institutions and organizations. 37 new faculty members have joined the Institute this year, which
has enhanced our competence in several emerging areas, while bringing new energy into our academic endeavors. The people
joining us as faculty members, are amongst the finest available globally, and sought after, by all the reputed graduate schools
of the developed world.
Searching and recruitment of bright faculty is one of our most important missions, since therein lies the future of the Institute.
Our Board of Governors is seized of this issue, and has played a very positive and constructive role in approving policies, which
empower the faculty to deliver their best in both teaching and research. On our part, we are trying to reach out to the potential
faculty members through a variety of means, including round-the-year search and recruitment and on-line submission and
processing of applications.
During the period under report, international bibliographic databases have indexed 2484 research articles published by faculty
members and researchers of the institute in international journals including 1696 articles indexed in Scopus, an international
indexing service in Science & Technology and Social Sciences. The faculty members have also presented a similar number
of papers in national and international conferences. Besides, they have also published many books and conducted several
continuing education programmes.
On the initiative of the Director, a meeting with all the faculty members of the Institute is held on a regular basis once in every
semester to share the vision and initiatives taken and also to have an opportunity to receive feedback and expectation from
faculty members. With the approval of Board, the various faculty designations, status, eligibility, limit, duration etc. in respect
of faculty other than regular cadre has been implemented. A calendar in connection with faculty affairs for the academic year
2013-2014 has been devised and circulated to all faculty members. The Institute has undertaken recruitment under special
drive for SC/ST/OBC/PH.

Faculty Awards/Recognitions
Our distinguished faculty colleagues continue to make a difference to the world of Science, Engineering, Humanities and
Management, and continue to earn recognition and awards, which bring glory to the Institute. Many of them have been
bestowed with honours/awards and elected as Fellows of several professional national/international bodies during the year
2013-2014. Some of these recognitions are highlighted below:
• Er. B.N. Chatterjee Mineral Engineering Science (MESA) Awarded for 2013 National Award (Dr. Sreedevi U.)
• Prof. K. D. P. Nigam, Senior Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt Research Award), Germany, 2013
• Prof. B. P. Mani, Life time achievement award for contribution to “Powder and Bulk Solids Handling”, Ahemdabad, 2013
• Prof. A. S. Rathore, 2013 Appointed Chairman, Committee for Advising the DCGI on Regulation of Biotech Products (r-DNA
product), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
• The Best Chemistry Teacher Award by Tata Chemicals, 2013 (AJE)
• Excellence in Teaching Award by IIT Delhi, 2013 (AJE, NDK, NJ)
• Fellow of Biotech Research Society of India, 2013 (SKK)
• CSIR-Burhani Foundation Award, MN Desai National Award, Lockheed Martin Gold Medal (HMC)
• Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, DAAD Award for mentor visit program to Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, awarded in
December, 2013
• Dr. Vasant Matsagar, DAAD Mentor Visit Program to Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen
University), Universität der Bundeswehr München (UniBW); Technische Universität in München (TUM), Germany awarded in 2013.

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• Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, DAE Young Scientist Award by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS) at Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre (BARC), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, awarded in 2013
• Dr. Vasant Matsagar, Erasmus Mundus Award under the Action 2 project India4EU II programme of the European Commission
to conduct research in Civil Engineering at Ecole Centrale de Nantes (ECN), France, awarded in 2013
• Dr. Sorav Bansal received IBM Faculty Award
• Dr. Amitabha Bagchi received Yahoo! Faculty Research Engagement Award
• Dr. Maya Ramanath received Yahoo! Faculty Research Engagement Award
• Professor Naveen Garg was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Science
• Dr. Aaditeshwar Seth received “Amazing Indians” award from Times Now TV Network.
• Dr. Smruti Sarangi received “Teaching Excellence Award”.
• Prof. Bhim Singh, Khosla National Award – 2013, Fellow TWAS, Fellow INSA
• Prof. R. K. Mallik, Fellow TWAS
• Dr. Shveta Singh, Prof. P. K. Jain and Prof. Surendra Singh Yadav, “Literati Award for outstanding excellence in research” by
Emerald Publishing for the paper titled “Capital Budgeting Decisions Evidence from India.
• Dr. B. K. Behera, Fellow of Textile Association India-2013
• Prof. S.K. Koul, IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Educator Award
• Prof. Alok R. Ray, Gandhian Technology Innovation Award 2013
• Prof. L.M. Das was received HAIT.N. Veziroglu award by Hydrogen Association of India for being an “avid researcher for
distinctive contribution in the area of Hydrogen energy” in Goa held on Dec. 1-3, 2013.The citation described him as “a
visionary with exceptional acumen”.
• Prof. S. N. Maiti, Biodegradable Polymer Blends and composites, Invited Lecture, APM Conference Bhubaneswar Date:
15.02.2014
• Prof. Satyawati Sharma has been appointed as;
1. Jury Member, FICCI, India
2. TAC Member, DSIR, DST
3. PAC Member, DSIR, DST
4. M.Tech Review Committee Member, CCS HAU, Hissar.
• Prof. V. K. Vijay was awarded ‘7th ENERTIA Awards’ for ‘Biogas Upgradation, Bottling for Vehicular Application’ in 2013
• Dr. V.M. Chariar is the PI of the prestigious PEER Science project awarded by National Academy of Sciences & USAID in 2013
• Dr. Hariprasad P. was awarded a DST-SERB-Start up Research Grant for Young Scientists.
• Prof. B. Jayaram, Supercomputing Facility for Computational Biology declared as a National Centre of Excellence by the Dept.
of Biotechnology, Govt. of India
• Prof. S. E. Hasnain, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany - Germany’s highest civilian award in March 2014
• Dr. Manidipa Banerjee, Ramalingaswami Fellowship, from Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India (2010-2015)
• Dr. Ashok K Patel, Ramalingaswami fellowship, from Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India (2014-2019).
• Prof. C.S.Dey,
1. Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, UK
2. Head, Central Research Facility (CRF)

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Department of Applied Mechanics Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad Ravi Shankar, Ph.D. Dhanya C.T., Ph.D.
Professor and Head Emeritus Fellow Jai Deo Singh, Ph.D. Arvind K. Swamy, Ph.D.
S. Ahmed, Ph.D. Subhash Chand, Ph.D. Associate Professors Sumedha Chakma
Professors M.N. Gupta, Ph.D. Pramit K. Chowdhury, Ph.D. Emeritus Fellow
Anupam Dewan, Ph.D. Department of Chemical Engineering Shashank Deep, Ph.D. T.K. Datta
Puneet Mahajan, Ph.D. Professor and Head V. Haridas, Ph.D. A.K. Nagpal, Ph.D.
Rajesh Prasad, Ph.D. S. Basu, Ph.D. S. Nagendran, Ph.D. Senior Programmer
Sanjeev Sanghi, Ph.D. Professors Sameer Sapra, Ph.D. M. Malikharjuna Rao, M.E.
Arvind Agarwal, Ph.D. A.N. Bhaskarwar Assistant Professors Department of Computer Science &
S.N. Singh, Ph.D. S.K.Gupta, Ph.D. Nidhi Jain, Ph.D Engineering

S.V. Veeravalli, Ph.D. Rajesh Khanna, Ph.D. Ravi P. Singh Professor and Head

Santosh Kapuria, Ph.D. Ratan Mohan, Ph.D. Hemant Kumar Kashyap Huzur Saran, Ph.D.
P.P. Ingole Professors
Associate Professors K.K. Pant, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Engineering Amit Kumar, Ph.D.
Badri Prasad Patel, Ph. D. Anurag Singh Rathore, Ph.D.
Professor and Head Anshul Kumar, Ph.D.
Maloy K. Singha, Ph.D. Shantanu Roy, Ph.D.
A.K. Jain, Ph.D. S. Arun Kumar Ph.D.
Assistant Professors Anil K. Saroha, Ph.D.
Professors M. Balakrishnan, Ph.D.
Ajeet Kumar, Ph. D. Associate Professors
B.J. Alappat, Ph.D. S. Banerjee, Ph.D.
M.R. Cholemari, Ph.D. Vivek V. Buwa, Ph.D.
B. Bhattacharjee, Ph.D. Naveen Garg, Ph.D.
Jayant Jain, Ph.D. Shaik Abdul Munawar, Ph.D.
Bhagu Ram Chahar, Ph.D. S.K. Gupta, Ph.D.
S. Pradyumna, Ph.D. Sudip K. Pattanayek, Ph.D.
Manoj Datta, Ph.D. Prem Kumar Kalra, Ph.D.
Anamika Prasad, Ph.D. Anupam Shukla, Ph.D.
N.K. Garg, Ph.D. Saroj Kaushik, Ph.D.
Balaji Srinivasan, Ph.D. Sreedevi U., Ph.D.
Ashok Gupta, Ph.D. Preeti Ranjan Panda, Ph.D.
Sawan Suman, Ph.D. Sanat Mohanty, Ph.D.
V.R. Guntari, Ph.D.
Vikrant Tiwari, Ph.D. Assistant Professors Sanjiva Prasad, Ph.D.
K.C. Iyer, Ph.D.
Sitikantha Roy, Ph.D. Jayati Sarkar, Ph.D. Sandeep Sen, Ph.D.
A.K. Keshari, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty (Naval Construction Wing) Shalini Gupta, Ph.D. Pankaj Jalote, Ph.D.
Mukesh Khare, Ph.D.
Cdr. R. Vijaya Kumar Gaurav Goel, Ph.D. Associate Professors
Shashi Mathur, Ph.D.
Lt. Cdr. Amit Ray Paresh P. Chokshi, Ph.D. Amitabh Bagchi, Ph.D.
A.K. Gosain, Ph.D.
Capt. V.K. Satyam (Officer-in-charge) Jyoti Phirani Subodh Kumar, Ph.D.
Alok Madan, Ph.D.
Dharam Singh MA Haider Kolin Paul, Ph.D.
A.K. Mittal, Ph.D.
LT. Cdr. S.K. Rao MKC Ramteke Assistant Professors
A.K. Nema, Ph.D.
Emeritus Fellow Divesh Bhatia Ragesh Jaiswal, Ph.D.
K.S. Rao, Ph.D.
D.K. Sehgal Visiting Faculty Sorav Bansal, Ph.D.
K.G. Sharma, Ph.D.
R.K. Pandey, Ph.D. Mausam Smruti R Sarangi, Ph.D.
Geetam Tewari, Ph.D.
P.K. Sen, Ph.D. Emritus Fellow V.J. Ribeiro, Ph.D.
J.T. Shahu, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemical A.K. Gupta Maya Ramanath, Ph.D.
Associate Professors
Engineering & Biotechnology KDP Nigam, Ph.D. Aaditeshwar Seth, Ph.D.
R. Ayothiraman, Ph.D.
Professor and Head B. Pitchumani, Ph.D. Parag Singla, Ph.D.
Suresh Bhalla, Ph.D.
T.R. Srikrishnan, Ph.D. Emritus Fellow
Department of Chemistry G.S. Benipal, Ph.D.
Professors R.R. Kalaga, Ph.D. K.K. Biswas, Ph.D.
Professor and Head
G.P. Agarwal, Ph.D. S.K. Deb, Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering
A. Ramanan, Ph.D.
V.S. Bisaria, Ph.D. Kumar Neeraj Jha, Ph.D. Professor and Head
Professors
P.K. Roychoudhury, Ph.D. Rakesh Khosa, Ph.D. B. Bhowmik (Ms.), Ph.D.
A.K. Singh, Ph.D.
Prashant Mishra, Ph.D. Deo Raj Kaushal, Ph.D. Professors
D.K. Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D.
Sunil Nath, Ph.D. Vasant Matsagar, Ph.D. P.R. Bijwe, Ph.D.
C. Chakravarty (Ms), Ph.D.
Saroj Mishra (Ms), Ph.D. Assistant Professors Ranjan Bose, Ph.D.
H.M. Chawla, Ph.D.
A.K. Srivastava, Ph.D. Supratic Gupta, Ph.D. G. Bhuvaneswari (Ms.), Ph.D.
Anil Jacob Elias, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Gazala Habib, Ph.D. Devi Chadha (Ms.), Ph.D.
N.D. Kurur, Ph.D.
Atul Narang, Ph.D. J. Uma Maheshwari, Ph.D. Vinod Chandra, Ph.D. (Rtd. Re-employed)
S.K. Khare
Assistant Professors B. Jayaram, Ph.D. Bappaditya Manna, Ph.D. S. Chaudhury, Ph.D.
Ravi Krishnan Elangovan, Ph.D. P.S. Pandey, Ph.D. Shashank Bishnoi, Ph.D. M. Hanmandlu (Rtd. Re-employed)
Ritu Kulshreshtha, Ph.D. Siddharth Pandey, Ph.D. Arun Kumar, Ph.D. V.K. Jain, Ph.D.
Preeti Srivastava, Ph.D. Nalin Pant, Ph.D. Tanusree Chokrabarty, Ph.D. Jayadeva, Ph.D.
D. Sundar, Ph.D. N.G. Ramesh, Ph.D. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, Ph.D. S.D. Joshi, Ph.D.
Shilpi Sharma, Ph.D. A.K. Ganguli, Ph.D. Abhijit Ganguli, Ph.D. I.N. Kar, Ph.D.

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Subrat Kar, Ph.D. Angelie Multani, Ph.D. N. Chatterjee, Ph.D. Vipul Jain, Ph.D.
M.J. Kumar, Ph.D. Bharati Puri, Ph.D. S. Dharmaraja, Ph.D. B. Premachandran, Ph.D.
R.K. Mallik, Ph.D. Kamlesh Singh, Ph.D. Subiman Kundu, Ph.D. Supreet Singh Bahga, Ph.D.
Sukumar Mishra, Ph.D. Simona Sawhney Associate Professors Devendra Kumar Dubey, Ph.D.
Shankar Prakriya, Ph.D. Assistant Professors Aparna Mehra, Ph.D. Emeritus Fellow
Surendra Prasad, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed) Ankush Agarwal, Ph.D. Anima Nagar, Ph.D. T.K. Kundra, Ph.D.
K.R. Rajagopal, Ph.D. Arudra Venkata Burra, Ph.D. K. Sreenadh, Ph.D. Department of Physics
Bhim Singh, Ph.D. Pritha Chandra, Ph.D. Assistant Professors Professor and Head
M. Veerachary, Ph.D. Divya Dwivedi, Ph.D. Hirish Kumar, Ph.D. K. Thyagarajan, Ph.D.
G.S. Visveswaran, Ph.D. Arjun Ghosh, Ph.D. N. Shravan Kumar, Ph.D. Professors
M. Veerachary, Ph.D. Farhana Ibrahim, Ph.D. Mani Mehra, Ph.D.
Ajit Kumar, Ph.D.
G.S. Visveswaran, Ph.D. Naveen Thayyil Kamaluddin, Ph.D. Amit Priyadarshi, Ph.D.
Arun Kumar, Ph.D.
Associate Professors Stuti Khanna, Ph.D. Sivnathan Sampath, Ph.D.
H.C. Gupta, Ph.D.
Manav Bhatnagar, Ph.D. Reetika Khera, Ritumoni Sarma, Ph.D.
R. Chatterjee (Ms.), Ph.D.
Shouribrata Chatterjee, Ph.D. Richa Kumar, Ph.D. Anuradha Sharma, Ph.D.
Sujeet Chaudhary, Ph.D.
Swades K. De, Ph.D. Debasis Mondal, Ph.D. V.V.K. Srinivas Kumar, Ph.D
B.D. Gupta, Ph.D.
Brijesh Lal, Ph.D. Saurabh Bikas Paul, Ph.D. Rupam Barman
Joby Joseph, Ph.D.
Mashuq-un-Nabi, Ph.D. Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Ph.D. Emeritus Fellow
Sarbeswar Sahoo, Ph.D. Neeraj Khare Ph.D.
B.K. Panigrahi, Ph.D. Suresh Chandra
Paroma Sanyal, Ph.D. Bodh Raj Mehta, Ph.D.
Sumantra Dutta Roy, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Upasana Sharma, Ph.D. Dalip Singh Mehta, Ph.D.
Nilanjan Senroy, Ph.D Professor and Head
Jayan Jose Thomas, Ph.D. G.B. Reddy, Ph.D.
Madhusudan Singh S.R. Kale, Ph.D.
Varsha Singh Anurag Sharma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors Professors
M.R. Shenoy, Ph.D.
Abhijit R. Abhyankar, Ph.D. English Language Instructor Naresh Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
M.S. Bharti Shokeen, Ph.D. R.K. Soni, Ph.D.
Sumeet Agarwal, Ph.D. Anoop Chawla, Ph.D.
Rajiv Ranjan Mahto, Ph.D. Pankaj Srivastava, Ph.D.
Shubhendu Bhasin, Ph.D. S.G. Deshmukh, Ph.D.
Department of Management Studies P. Senthil Kumaran, Ph.D.
Anuj Dhawan, Ph.D. J.K. Dutt, Ph.D.
Amit Kumar Jain, Ph.D. Professor and Head Associate Professors
Kshitij Gupta, Ph.D.
S. Janardhanan, Ph.D. Kanika T. Bhal (Ms.), Ph.D. Versha Banerjee (Ms.), Ph.D.
Sanjeev Jain, Ph.D.
Umesh Kumar, Ph.D. Professors Mukesh Chander, Ph.D.
Sangeeta Kohli, Ph.D
Saif Khan Mohammed, Ph.D. M.P. Gupta, Ph.D. D. Ravi Kumar, Ph.D. Sankalpa Ghosh, Ph.D

Mukul Sarkar, Ph.D. P.K. Jain, Ph.D. Shantanu Ghosh, Ph.D.

Sudipto Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Saunak Sen, Ph.D. Ravishankar, Ph.D. Hitendra Kumar Malik, Ph.D.
Sunil Pandey, Ph.D.
Kushal Kumar Shah, Ph.D. Sudhir K. Jain, Ph.D. Amrita Mishra (Ms.), Ph.D.
P.V. Rao, Ph.D.
Uday Kiran Khankhoje, Ph.D. Sushil, Ph.D. G.V. Prakash, Ph.D.
P.V. Madhusudhan Rao, Ph.D.
Turbo Majumdar, Ph.D. S.S. Yadav, Ph.D. J.P. Singh, Ph.D.
M.R. Ravi, Ph.D.
Abhisek Dixit, Ph.D. Associate Professors Rajendra Singh, Ph.D.
Anjan Ray, Ph.D.
Bhaskar Mitra, Ph.D. Mahim Sagar, Ph.D. Aloka Sinha (Ms.), Ph.D.
S.K. Saha, Ph.D.
Tarun K. Chandrayadula Seema Sharma (Ms.), Ph.D.
S.P. Singh, Ph.D. A.K. Shukla, Ph.D.
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Ph.D.
Emeritus Fellow P.M.V. Subbarao, Ph.D. R.D. Tarey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors
H.M. Gupta, Ph.D. R.K. Varshney, Ph.D.
Kiran Seth, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed)
Harish Choudhary, Ph.D.
R.K.P. Bhatt, Ph.D. Assistant Professors
Associate Professors
Jitendra Madan, Ph.D.
R.K. Patney, Ph.D. Kedar Khare, Ph.D.
A.D. Gupta, M.Tech.
Surya Prakash Singh, Ph.D.
Department of Humanities & Social Pranaba Kishor, Ph.D.
Shuchi Sinha (Ms.), Ph.D. S. Aravindan, Ph.D.
Sciences
Ashish K. Darpe, Ph.D. Amartya Sengupta, Ph.D.
Professor and Head Shveta Singh (Ms.), Ph.D.
Sudarsan Ghosh, Ph.D. Joyee Ghosh, Ph.D.
V. Sanil, Ph.D. Smita Kashiramka
Harish Hirani, Ph.D. Pintu Das, Ph.D.
Professors Sanjay Dhir
Emeritus Fellow Sunil Jha, Ph.D. Emeritus Fellow
Bijoy H. Boruah, Ph.D.
M.S. Kulkarni, Ph.D. Vikram Kumar, Ph.D.
Ravinder Kaur (Ms), Ph.D. D.K. Banwet, Ph.D.
Department of Mathematics S.V. Modak, Ph.D. S.C. Kashyap, Ph.D.
R.B. Nair (Ms.), Ph.D.
Professor and Head Pulak Mohan Pandey, Ph.D. V.D. Vankar, Ph.D.
Ambuj D. Sagar, Ph.D.
Purnima Singh, Ph.D. B.S. Panda, Ph.D. Prabal Talukdar, Ph.D. Department of Textile Technology

A. Srinivasan (Ms.), Ph.D. (Rtd. Re-employed) Professor R.K Pandey, Ph.D. Professor and Head

C.A. Tomy, Ph.D. B. Chandra, Ph.D. Assistant Professors R. Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.

V. Upadhyay, Ph.D. R.K. Sharma, Ph.D. Nomesh B. Bolia, Ph.D. Professors

Associate Professors S.C. Sekhara Rao Subhra Datta, Ph.D. Ashwini K. Agrawal, Ph.D.
Vibha Arora, Ph.D. A. Tripathi Amit Gupta, Ph.D. R. Alagirusamy, Ph.D.

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B.K. Behera, Ph.D. Vimlesh Pant, Ph.D. S.C. Kaushik, Ph.D. Professors
Apurba Das, Ph.D. Saroj Kanta Mishra, Ph.D. G.N. Tiwari, Ph.D. Rajendra Prasad, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-
Bhuvanesh Gupta, Ph.D. Dilip Ganguly, Ph.D. D.K. Sharma, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed) employed)
Deepti Gupta (Ms.), Ph.D. Senior Scientific Officers-I Associate Professors Santosh, Ph.D.
S.M. Ishtiaque, Ph.D. P. Agarwal (Ms.), Ph.D. S.N. Naik, Ph.D.
K.A. Subramanyan, Ph.D.
Manjeet Jassal (Ms.), Ph.D. Centre for Biomedical Engineering
Assistant Professors V.K. Vijay, Ph.D.
Mangla Joshi (Ms.), Ph.D. Professor and Head
K. Vamsi Krishna Associate Professors
Kushal Sen, Ph.D. Sneh Anand (Ms.), Ph.D.
Ramesh Narayanan, Ph.D. V.M. Chariar, Ph.D.
R.S. Rangasamy, Ph.D. Professors
R. Uma, Ph.D. Anushree Malik (Ms.), Ph.D.
V.K. Kothari, (Retd. Re-employed) A.R. Ray, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed)
Ashu Verma, Ph.D.
Veena Koul (Ms.), Ph.D. Assistant Professors
Associate Professors
Emeritus Fellow
Harpal Singh, Ph.D. Hariprasad P., Ph.D.
Dipayan Das, Ph.D.
Associate Professor S.C. Mullick, Ph.D.
Sourabh Ghosh, Ph.D. National Resource Centre for Value
Nivedita K. Gohil (Ms.), Ph.D. L.M. Das, Ph.D. Education in Engineering
Abhijit Majumdar, Ph.D.
Anuradha Godavarty (Ms.), Ph.D. Industrial Tribology, Machine Dynamics Professor & Coordinator
Assistant Professors & Maintenance Engineering Centre
Assistant Professors Sangeeta Kohli, Ph.D.
B.S. Butola, Ph.D. Professor and Head
S.K. Jha, Ph.D.
S. Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. Bharti School of Telecommunication
O.P. Gandhi, Ph.D.
Anup Singh, Ph.D. Technology and Management
Bhanu Nandan, Ph.D. Professors
S.M.K. Rahman, M.Tech. Professor & Coordinator
Amit Rawal, Ph.D. Jayashree Bijwe, Ph.D.
Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, Ph.D.
Ranjan Bose, Ph.D.
Rajiv K. Srivastava, Ph.D. Naresh Tandon, Ph.D.
Emeritus Fellow
Emeritus Fellow Amar Nath and Shashi Khosla School
Dinesh Mohan, Ph.D. V.K. Agarwal, Ph.D. of Information Technology
B.L. Deopura, Ph.D. Computer Services Centre Design Engineer
Professor & Coordinator
M.L. Gulrajani, Ph.D. Professor and Head R.K. Rai, M.Tech.
Sanjiva Prasad, Ph.D.
Centre for Applied Research in Arun Kumar S, Ph.D. Assistant Professors
Electronics School of Biological Sciences
Subhashish Banerjee, Ph.D. (Assoc. Head) Deepak Kumar, Ph.D.
Professor and Head Professor & Co-ordinator
Sr. System Programmers Instrument Design & Development
Arun Kumar, Ph.D.
Pravanjan Kumar Baboo, Ph.D. Centre B. Jayaram, Ph.D.
Professors
Savita Goel (Ms.), Ph.D. Chief Design Engineer (SG) and Head Professors
R. Bahl, Ph.D.
Pradeep Kumar Gupta D.T. Shahani, Ph.D. Tapan Kr. Choudhari, Ph.D.
Ananjan Basu, Ph.D. Sriram Hegde Professors C.S. Dey, Ph.D.
Sudhir Chandra, Ph.D. Pragya Jain (Ms.) Ph.D. Chandra Shakher, Ph.D. James Gomes, Ph.D.
S.K. Koul, Ph.D. Rajeshwari Raghvan (Ms.) N.K. Jain, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed)
B.S. Panwar, Ph.D. Seyed E. Hasnain, Ph.D.
K. Narayanan
A.L. Vyas, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed)
Suneet Tuli, M.Tech. Senior Programmers Aditya Mittal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors
Associate Professors Rajesh Bhat, Ph.D. Associate Professors
Jyoti Kumar, Ph.D.
Monika Aggarwal (Ms), Ph.D. R.K. Chauhan, M.C.A. Bishwajit Kundu, Ph.D.
Gurfan Sayeed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors Jaya, M.Tech. Assistant Professors
Sumer Singh, Ph.D.
Mahesh P. Abegaonkar, Ph.D. Sunil Kak, M.Tech.
Manidipa Banerjee, Ph.D.
Chief Design Engineers (SG)
Karun Rawat, Ph.D. Ram Lal, M.Sc.
A.K. Agarwala, M.S. Archna Chug, Ph.D.
Centre for Atmospheric Sciences Gopal Krishan, M.Sc.
S.K. Atreya, D.I.I.T. Vivekanandan Perumal, Ph.D.
Jayashree Santosh (Ms.), Ph.D.
Professor and Head
Senior Manager Centre for Polymer Science & Ashok Kumar Patel, Ph.D.
A.D. Rao, Ph.D. Engineering
N.C. Kalra, M.Tech. Interdisciplinary / Transportation
Professors Professor and Head Research and Injury Prevention
Educational Technology Services Centre
Pramila Goyal (Ms.), Ph.D. Programme (TRIPP)
Veena Choudhary, Ph.D.
Professor & Head
Maithili Sharan, Ph.D. Professors Professor and Co-ordinator
Sanjeev Sanghi, Ph.D.
O.P. Sharma, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed) A.K. Ghosh, Ph.D. S.R. Kale, Ph.D.
Centre for Energy Studies
S.K. Dash, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed) S.N. Maiti, Ph.D. Central Workshop
Professor and Head
Manju Mohan (Ms.), Ph.D. Professor & Head
R.P. Sharma, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Associate Professors
Professors Josemon Jacob, Ph.D. Naresh Bhatnagar, Ph.D.
Krishna Achuta Rao, Ph.D.
T.S. Bhatti, Ph.D. Bhabani Kumar Satapathy, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Opto-Electronics
H.C. Upadhyay, Ph.D. Viresh Dutta, Ph.D. & Optical Communication Research
Centre for Rural Development &
Somnath Baidya Roy Technology Programme
M.G. Dastidar, Ph.D. (Retd. Re-employed)
Assistant Professor A. Ganguly, Ph.D. Professor & Head Professor and Co-ordinator

Sagnik Dey, Ph.D. T.C. Kandpal, Ph.D. Satyawati Sharma (Ms.), Ph.D. M.R. Shenoy, Ph.D.

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37 new faculty members have joined the Institute this year. These new additions to our faculty have enhanced our competence
in several emerging areas, while bringing new energy into our academic endeavours.
Table I : New Appointments
New Faculty joined
Arvind Agarwal, Applied Mechanics Madhusudan Singh, Electrical Engineering
Somnath Baidya Roy, Atmospheric Science Turbo Majumder, Electrical Engineering
Karun Rawat, Applied Research Simona Sawhney, Humanities
Dinesh Kalyanasundaram, Biomedical Engineering Varsha Singh, Humanities
Anup Singh, Biomedical Engineering Smita Kashiramka, Management Studies
Anuradha Godavarty, Biomedical Engineering Sanjay Dhir, Management Studies
Sandeep Kumar Jha, Biomedical Engineering Devendra Kumar Dubey, Mechanical Engineering
Hariprasad P., CRDT Supreet Singh Bahga, Mechanical Engineering
Manojkumar Charandas Ramteke, Chemical Engineering Pintu Das, Physics
Divesh Bhatia, Chemical Engineering Joyee Ghosh, Physics
Jyoti Phirani, Chemical Engineering Rupam Barman, Mathematics
Mohammad Ali Haider, Chemical Engineering Shaikh Ziauddin Ahammad, DBEB
Hemant Kumar Kashyap, Chemistry Ashok Kumar Patel, Biological Sciences
Pravin Popinand Ingole, Chemistry Deepak Kumar, ITMMEC
Ravi P. Singh, Chemistry Vijay Kumar, Library
Sumedha Chakma, Civil Engineering Bikram Kishore Beura, Library
Uday Kiran Khankhoje, Electrical Engineering Vanita Khanchandani, Library
Abhisek Dixit, Electrical Engineering Narender Kumar, Library
Bhaskar Mitra, Electrical Engineering

The list of faculty who resigned or retired or expired in the given period is given below (Table: II):
Table II : Retirements/ Resignations/ Bereavements
Retirements
M.N. Gupta, Chemistry N.K. Jain, IDDC
U.C. Mohanty, Atmospheric Science M.G. Dastidar, Energy Studies
Surindra Prasad, Electrical Engineering Vinod Chandra, Electrical Engineering
B.N. Jain, Computer Science & Engineering B.P. Pal, Physics
Sushil Kumar Dash, Atmospheric Science Amrit Srinivasan, Humanities
V.K. Kothari, Textile Technology Om Prakash Sharma, Atmospheric Science
A.L. Vyas, IDDC Rajendra Prasad, CRDT
Alok Ranjan Ray, Biomedical Engineering D.K. Sharma, Energy Studies
Ram Nath Ram, Chemistry M. Hanmandlu, Electrical Engineering
D.K. Pandya, Physics
Resigned
Anil Sawhney, Civil Engineering Manish Sharma, Applied Research
B. Munwar Basha, Civil Engineering Ruchi Sharma, Management Studies
Praveen Kaul, DBEB

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• Student Affairs Council (SAC) and
its five Boards 91
• National Service Scheme (NSS) 96
• National Cadet Corps (NCC) 96
• Student Counselling Service (SCS) 96
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Considerable efforts are made to see that students lead a first year students was enhanced. The process of restructring
balanced campus life in harmony with their teachers and fellow of Boards and constitution review of the student bodies was
students. To ensure that freshers settle down in their new also started by SAC. The two standing committees of the
surroundings comfortably, a Freshers’ Orientation Programme SAC, namely the Coordination Committee and the Executive
was organized at the beginning of the academic session. Committee contributed as usual in tackling of various issues
referred to them.
Counselling Service provides counselling to students on
adjustment problems or for the problems arising from a. Board for Hostel Management (BHM)
financial hardship, and emotional/psychological problems
affecting academic pursuits. The Board for Hostel Management is an important Board in
the SAC to decide the students issues directly.
Outside the classrooms, facilities for a variety of cocurricular There are eleven hostels for boys, six with a capacity in the
activities, sports, games, student publication etc. are range of 400-450, two with a capacity of 1000 and the others
provided for the overall growth and development of students’ in the range 300-350 each; two hostels for girls students with
potentialities and initiative with an emphasis on responsible a capacity of about 500 each. In addition, there is also very
student leadership. limited accomodation for married students. Each hostel has
The pace and mode of student life on the campus is planned a House Working Committee which decides the pace and
and implemented by the following student bodies: pattern of its life. The Board for Hostel Management, with
the Dean of Students as the ex-officio president, coordinates
1. Students Affairs Council (SAC) and its five Boards, i.e., the working of all hostels. The Dean of Students is the head
(a) Board for Hostel Management (BHM) of hostel organization. He is assisted in his administrative
responsibilities by the Hostel Management, Students Welfare,
(b) Board for Recreational & Creative Activities (BRCA)
Associate Dean, Events and the Assistant Registrar (Student
(c) Board for Sports Activities (BSA) Affairs). The BHM has representation from all the hostel
(d) Board for Student Publications (BSP) and takes decisions on all problems of common interest.
(e) Board for Student Welfare (BSW) The warden is the administrative head of each hostel. He/
She is a faculty member of the Institute. The House Working
2. National Service Scheme (NSS) Committee of each hostel is chaired by the House Master who
3. National Cadet Corps (NCC) is a professor of the Institute. The committee consists of the
Warden, the House Secretary, the Mess Secretary, the Sports
4. Student Counselling Service (SCS) Secretary, the Cultural Secretary, the Maintenance Secretary,
5. Student-Teacher Interaction Committee (STIC) and the representatives from all classes.
6. National Sports Organization (NSO) Right from the beginning of this academic year, hostel
maintenance problems were undertaken. A number of
7. Departmental Professional Societies. meetings with the Dean of Students, wardens, hostel
functionaries, Institute Engineer and engineering staff
1. STUDENT AFFAIRS COUNCIL (SAC)
were held. For proper implementation of maintenance
The Students Affairs Council has been quite active. Regular
meetings took place between the various representatives of
SAC, to ensure that all facts of student issues were discussed.
SAC representatives also interacted with student member
of senate and other SAC committees to ensure wider
participation of students in the affairs of the institute. Many
student related issues were discussed. Maintenance problems
of hostels and the institute, the no dues process for students,
library and computer related issues, as well as safety and
security issues were also resolved . Openness in the decision
making process of various boards and improvements in
the student election process were other matters that were
discussed. Another important issue that was raised at SAC
was the need for improved student teacher interaction. A
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schedules, long-term and short-term problems were system of payment, by which the students sign a declaration
identified and engineering staff visits to each hostel for form and the amount is automatically deducted from their
monitoring work. Special efforts were made towards the bank account, avoiding any personal bank transaction on this
cleaning of common areas. account. Use of computers for maintenance of hostel accounts
has been in existence from past six years and the staff working in
Security problems in each hostel were reviewed and detail
the hostels was encouraged to undergo training in the use of PCs.
discussion with the wardens, students and security personnel’s
was held. Each Hostel was in the forefront in initiating and hosting the
celebration on the independence Day and the Republic Day
Considerable efforts were made for providing accommodation
functions at the Institute level.
to all students.
Continuing dialogue between the mess staff, student Hostel Mess Secretaries put in considerable efforts in
representatives and authorities has resulted in better work controlling food wastage and thus were able to keep a check
environment. Five BHM employees were rewarded by special and balance of galloping mess bills. By proper coordination
awards for the hard work and excellent services rendered to between the students and the wardens, the supply system
the Organization. This Award was given on Independence was improved and new supplies were identified and added.
Day during the flag hoisting function. This has been a morale There were surprise checks by canteen cells for institute
booster for the workers. Regular meetings with the staff canteens. Manopoly of supplies has been reduced by
improved their punctuality. attaching 2-3 suppliers to each hostel.
The Wardens/House Masters during 2013-14 b. Board for Recreational and Cultural Activities (BRCA)
Hostel Warden House Master 2013-14 witnessed, what is perhaps the most significant
Aravali Dr. B.K. Panigrahi Prof. K.Gupta change in the structure as well as the philosophy of BRCA
ever since its inception in 1969. The aim of restructuring was
Jwalamukhi Dr. Shashank Deep Prof. S.M. Ishtiaque
to replace the rigid and regimental structure of inter-hostel
Kailash Dr. (Ms.) Seema Sharma Prof. (Ms.) Manju Mohan competitions with a more open and democratic framework
Karakoram Dr. M.S. Kulkarni Prof. Anurag Sharma of extra-curricular activities in the institute. Under the new
Kumaon Dr. P.M. Pandey Prof. Ashok Gupta structure, competitive teams were made up of students across
several hostels. For the first time ever, girls and boys came
Nilgiri Dr. Abhijit Majumdar Prof. Shashi Mathur
together in teams and several clubs came together to plan and
Shivalik Dr. Dipayan Das Prof. Bhim Singh showcase events. BRCA extended its reach to involve faculty
Vindhyachal Dr. Diptiranjan Sahoo Prof. Viresh Dutta members, staff members as well as their families, to promote
Himadari Dr. (Ms.) S. Upadhayaulu Prof. (Ms.) Sneh Anand
a feeling of kinship and bonhomie amongst members of the
IITD community. Clubs explored a multitude of event formats
Satpura Dr. S.K. Pattanayek Prof. S.N. Singh including competitions, workshops, lectures, discussions and
Zanskar Dr. Prabal Talukdar Prof. Kushal Sen visits in order to induce vibrancy, excitement and creativity.
Girnar Dr. D. Sundar Prof. R. Chattopadhyaya
Udai Giri Dr. S.R. Sarangi Prof. B.R. Mehta
Nalanda Prof. P.M.V. Subbarao

This year was devoted to improve the food quality in hostel

mess. Regular meetings with Dean of Student, Hostel
Representatives and Mess Supervisors have been held for the
same purpose. Modifications assured for Scheme (MAO) is
being implemented for BHM staff.
A BHM dinner was organized during the Student’s Week. Each
As a part of the Board’s restructuring, clubs were split and
hostel immaculately arranged its counters at a central place.
merged. The new clubs are - Dance Club, Dramatics Club,
Faculty and students attended with enthusiasm. The cultural
Debating Club, Literary Club, Fine Arts and Crafts Club,
programme was a big attraction for the evening. The Kailash
Photography and Film Club, Music Club, Quizzing Club, SPIC
and Kumaon Hostel was given BHM trophy and BHC trophy to
MACAY and Hindi Samiti.
Kumaon Hostel for their excellent outstanding work.
The academic session started with the “Orientation to BRCA
BHM also arranged the stay and messing for all the delegates
events for Freshers”in August 2013, which saw all ten clubs come
of Rendezvous’ 2013 and TRYST’ 2014 events very successfully.
together to put up a gala show. The 3 hour event witnessed a
To simplify the recovery of dues from students, a regular Dogra Hall filled to capacity wherein freshers cheered, danced
monitoring system has been introduced involving simplified and sang with seniors as they were introduced to the vibrant

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extra-curricular realm of IIT Delhi. Other highlights of the year showcasing some outstanding performances.
were the inception of a Book Reader’s Circle and a visit to the
Jaipur Lit Fest by the Literary Club. The Photography and Film c. Board for Sports Activities (BSA)
club organised a highly successful 3 day PFC weekend which Sports and games are essential components of human
witnessed an impressive participation. Hindi Samiti organised resource development, helping to promote good health
a panel discussion on “Aaj ki peedi Mahabharat se kya seekh leti and spirit of healthy competition, which, in turn, has positive
hai’ to provide the students a platform to express their views and deep impact on the holistic development of personality
on matters of cultural interest. In “Narendra Kohli ke saath ek of the Youth- a potential source of energy, enthusiasm and
Samvad’, the renowned Hindi author gave a motivating and inspiration. Sports being practical way of education, facilitate
inspirational talk. Discussion on “Urdu hai Jiska Naam” featured recreation, foster social harmony, inculcate discipline and
the eminent Urdu scholar Mr Sadiq in an interactive session dedication in general life. Board for Sports Activities (BSA)
with the students. The Fine arts and Crafts club introduced a had been looking after this important component for the
host of new competitions that enjoyed participation in large development of sports environment in the campus.
numbers from freshers as well as seniors. Their oil painting
exhibition in the Exhibition Hall attracted a wide audience. Introduction

The Music club organised “Mehfil”, a competition of ghazals The Board for Sports Activities is a constituent body of the
and qawwalis which witnessed a jam-packed Seminar hall. Student Affairs Council. It is responsible for the coordination
The event featured some stellar performances in this genre of of the various sports activities in the institute. It ensures that
Indian music and saw active participation from faculty as well adequate facilities are given to sportspersons and provides
as staff members. Selected performances can be viewed at a forum for the students and staff to discuss and formulate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwpI_AZaE-c policy towards the betterment of sports activities in the
campus. The BSA consists of the following members
• President, BSA
• Vice-President, BSA
• Game/Club Presidents.
• All Institute Team Captains and Vice-Captains.
• All Club Secretaries.
• Sports Officer
• Sports Secretaries of Student Hostels.
The year saw students reach attain new heights and cause • General Secretary, BSA.
waves outside IIT as well. Most notable were performances by • Deputy General Secretary, BSA.
V-Defyn - the institute group dance team, which won as many
• Immediate past General Secretary, BSA.
as 13 dance competitions in different colleges across Delhi.
One of the IIT Delhi debating teams made it to the knock-out Facilities
stages in the Indian National Debate Challenge (INDC), a feat
that hasn’t been achieved in past several years. Well laid out fields are available on the campus. A cricket
field with three turf wickets, four cricket practice pitches,
Rendezvous 2013 was the biggest yet in terms of the budget, floodlighted hockey and football ground, three floodlighted
variety, number and stature of Indian and International artists volleyball and two basketball courts one of which is ultra-
that it hosted. It featured over 18 music bands including the cushioned, eight floodlighted tennis courts having four
Grammy nominee Ten Drums of Taiwan, Hoobastank from synthetic and four clay courts, tennis practice wall, three squash
the US, Farhan Akhtar Live, Agnee and Parikrama. About courts, one badminton hall, table tennis hall with synthetic
ten thousand people from six hundred different colleges flooring, one weight lifting hall, a swimming pool, two multi-
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jogging track and ancillary arrangements for all the games Gold medal in the meet. Inter IIT Staff Sports Meet was also
are available to the students. Construction of new swimming organized in IIT Guwahati. IIT Delhi contingent consisting
pool with kid’s pool is in progress and will be available very of 55 men and 5 women participated and won the runner’s
shortly. Construction of one badminton hall which will be upl championship.
having five wooden badminton courts and floodlighting of
Those who excel in any sports activities like inter lIT sports
cricket practice pitches is also under consideration. A team of
meet are given various certificates, prizes and awards
sports officer, physical training instructors, ground staff and
including liT Delhi Blazers & Blues, etc. This year as recognition
part-time coaches help the students in their pursuit to greater
of the student’s talent in sports and their persistent effort
sporting performances.
for the development of sports environment, eight students
Activities were awarded Blazers, thirteen students were awarded
Colours in different games and other awards were also given.
The Institute lays considerable emphasis on student’s Mr. Hemant Meena was awarded Outstanding Sportsperson
participation in various outdoor and indoor games. The of the year award. Football team was awarded with best team
Institute is in constant contact with the local associations of the year award.
in almost all the games to give outlet to the students for
participation in different games outside the campus. With Sports is included in the curriculum at lTD. National Sports
participation in these activities, students are able to use Organization (NSO) activities are organized by the sports unit
their leisure time in a desirable manner. In these activities, as an alternative to NCC and NSS. Around two hundred fifty
emphasis is laid on mass participation by the students. The undergraduate students are register in this every year and get
students take part in the Fresher’s event for incoming first year specialized training in games and sports as well as physical
students, friendly matches with the local colleges, inter-hostel fitness. Regular classes are conducted for these students by
events, the annual IIT Delhi inter-collegiate event ‘Sportech’ the physical education staff of the Institute for four days a week
and the annual inter-IIT sports meet. in each semester. Regular participation in these activities not
only improve the general physical fitness level of the students
but also helps in developing psychological attributes like
leadership qualities, stress management and group dynamics.

d. Board for Student Publications (BSP)

The structure of BSP was changed significantly this year
by changing to a non-competitive and selection based
procedure as opposed to the election based team formation
of the other boards. The Journalism Cell was empowered in
the new structure while the focus of the Creative Writing Cell
shifted from quantity to quality. The work shifted away from
hostel and became more institute based with the entire team
working for the spirit of the Board.
The Journalism Cell became a reliable source of information
Inter Hostel matches were organized in Football, Volleyball, for the entire institute with coverage of events spanning all
Swimming, Water Polo, Wt. Lifting, Hockey, Squash, Badminton, Boards. Institute Lectures and Guest Lectures were given special
Table Tennis, Tennis, Athletics, Basketball and Cricket. Kumaon preference. Apart from covering of events, the team worked
hostel was declared the winner and Karakoram hostel was collectively on four newsletters over the course of the year.
declared runners up in the men’s section. Kailash hostel was
declared winner in the women’s section. The Creative Writing and Outreach Cell organized a number
of events during the course of the year along with four
Sportech, which over the years has carved a niche for itself magazines; a magazine with special focus on the freshers, two
with regards to the scale at which it is organized and the kind technical journals and a creative writing magazine.
of varied participation it enjoys was organized from 27th Feb.
14 to 2nd March 2014. All the major games and sports were The newly created Media and Web Cell helped with video
organized in this four days event. About one hundred fifty and photographic coverage of events on camps spread
teams of various colleges took part this year. throughout the year.
49th Inter IIT Sports Meet was held at IIT Guwahati in the The Inception : Fresher Magazine, July 2013
months of October and December 2013. IIT Delhi contingent The Inquirer : Newsletter Volume 1, August 2013
consisting of 123 boys and 39 girls participated in the sports
Sync : Tech Magazine, Volume 1, October 2013
meet. Miss Anita Meena, member of IIT Delhi athletics team
broke the Inter IIT Sports Meet record in 800 meters. Both, The Inquirer : Newsletter Volume 2, November 2013
Badminton men and women teams and Football team won The Inquirer : Newsletter Volume 3, January 2014

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Sync : Tech Magazine, Volume 2, March 2014 • Campus Social Responsibility (CSR): Started in the
Muse : Annual Creative Writing Magazine, February summer vacations, CSR, a new initiative by BSP, is an effort
2014 (launched by Dean of Students on to acknowledge all efforts in and around the campus by
BHM night) various stakeholders working on diverse issues, changing
lives each day. Every twice or thrice a week during the
Literati 2013: The 3-day literary festival saw enthusiastic summer break, we ran stories of people at IITD going out of
students coming in from across the city to attend various their way to make an impact. The idea of this venture is not
book discussions, workshops on writing and designing skills, only to spread information about the extraordinary work
quizzes, stand-up comedy and plethora of other events. being done around us, it is a campaign in itself, awakening
Starting from Prabhu Chawla, who inaugurated the opening the entire community to their social responsibility.
ceremony for the festival, multiple prominent speakers graced
the events, interacting with students, taking part in discussions e. Board for Student Welfare (BSW)
and sharing their experiences. The fest also had workshops on
etymology and photojournalism, with competitive literary BSW continuously strives towards creating a better
events which were heavily attended. environment for the students of lIT Delhi. Our initiatives are
directed to the convenience of student so as to help them
New initiatives by BSP Team of 2013-14
achieve more out of life in IITD. Unlike previous years, BSW
• Fresh @ IITD: As an effort to make sure students get an in 2013-14 experimented with a new model of functioning
experience of the life at IIT, we executed a series of articles as a completely non-competitive board with events now
and surveys dedicated to the audience that would have being referred as an initiative. The initiatives taken up
been considering IITD as their next home. A PAN IIT survey by BSW (2013-14) were Rebuilding of BSW website: that
comparing facilities at the different IITs and department includes quick help section, new tabs for new papers, forms,
reviews by senior undergraduates, this effort went a long feedback, FAQ, Database of the question papers and lecture
way in putting the people inside in touch with those videos, Redrafting of BSW diary, assisted the UG section
looking to peek in.
and NRCVEE for registration and orientation program of
• Inception: Rechristening IITD keFundae, this magazine fresher, organized various trips in Delhi, organized various
was prepared as a welcome gesture for freshers and one camps for student welfare, helped in conducting awareness
which opened the window of opportunities to explore workshops etc. The BSW organized various camps and trips
during their stay at IIT. The first ever color magazine at to Akshardham, Auto Expo, Book Fair, Rashtrapati Bhawan
IITD, it tried to capture the essence of life at IIT, with etc. for freshers. BSW supported financially weak students
articles by students from all boards and clubs with a by giving loans and grants for hostel fees. BSW also runs
rainbow of experiences. a student cooperative society (SCOOP) that arranges for
• The Inquirer: The first newsletter of this year tried to stationary items, notebooks, greetings cards , T-shirts and
cover various issues and IIT related news left uncovered in souvenir of IITD. Numerous other workshops (NRCVEE,
the previous years - Director’s meet with the graduating self defence, sexuality and RTI, ethical hacking etc) were
students: the issues raised there and their current status, organized by the BSW time to time.
Pan-IIT survey, explanation for course registration woes this
semester, training and placement status and functioning, BSW reps helped in CREST (self enrichment program)
summer internship opportunities and experiences and conducted during orientation for helping the fresher to
selection procedure for Exchange Program. improve their speaking skills, remove inhibitions and develop
• Campus Surveys: Various student body issues have been overall confident personality. BSW has an unique programme
covered through surveys that have been filled by more of student mentorship (SMP) which is working actively. Every
than a 1000 people each - students, faculty and staff fresher is assigned a student mentor from 3rd year. The
members of IIT. The issues covered in the latest issue of the mentors help freshers for their overall adjustment in campus
Inquirer included an opinion on the issue of having a single environment and to help them to analyze various options
mid semester exam and another that critically analyzed the at different stages of lIT life. It is monitored by MRC (Mentor
satisfaction with the hospital facilities. Review Committee). Speranza, annual socio-welfare youth
• IITD News: The Facebook page of BSP which seeks to fest of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi was organized
provide news reports on each and every event in the from 13th to 15th Sept 2013. It included various workshops,
campus is highly active and has been appreciated by a talk shows, interactive sessions, jeopardy, rendezvous with
large audience including IIT Delhi alumni and alumnae. alumni, panel discussion, MUN (Model United Nations) and a
The daily updates - news, happenings, events of various melange of cultural activities. Speranza succeeded in being a
boards, lectures, festivals, et cetera are accompanied by youth magnet for the IITD students. Spirit, passion and zeal
photographs and videos, the element of media that can’t were explored to its zenith by all the students during the
be taken care of by print media (here, the newsletter). events of Speranza.

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2. NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS) • Award for the Best Cadet and the Most Disciplined Cadet
were conferred to two of the cadets.
In the new academic year 2013-2014, NSS IIT Delhi set out to
create a paradigm shift. A shift from its perception just as a • A winter camp was organized on the IIT Delhi premises
curriculum requirement, to that of a large family of en thusiastic in December that involved weapons training, map
volunteers who feel a sense of belonging for this organization. readingactivities, physical fitness and hygiene, firefighting
The Orientation for first year students was held on 7th August lectures. Cadets were sent to attend annual training camps
2013, which followed with a diverse set of events and regular that were organized by 7 Delhi NCC Battalion, outside the IIT
volunteering activities, both in collaboration with NGOs and campus, and the cadets participated with full enthusiasm
direct NSS initiatives. and zeal. Some cadets were given preparation guidelines
for the B- and C- certification examinations which they plan
A lot of new NSS initiatives were started last year. The Liter to undertake in the current year.
of Light workshop brought Social Innovation to the fore by
lighting the slums of nearby Munirka community by glowing 4. STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICES (SCS)
plastic bottles. A bicycle sharing system for campus residents Student Counselling Service of IITD aims to support students
has been planned, while an energy survey was done to identify and their parents (As per their requirement). Counselling
the energy potential of the campus and measures taken entails use of cognitive, behavioural, Rational Emotive,
towards realizing the same. The Substance Abuse initiative Supportive, Interpersonal and intrapersonal therapies.
helped make students realize the ill­ effects of smoking,
wherein students who wished to quit smoking were also Student Counselling Service (SCS) organized various useful
helped out with the help of Student Counseling Center. The workshops for freshers. It provides a confidential environment
Music Masti project was started by enthusiastic volunteers to where a student can explore and express aspects of himself /
teach Music to unprivileged kids, while a similar initiative was herself that may be painful or uncomfortable.
taken to teach Chess to these children. With an increase in counsellors in 2013-2014 , the Student
Counselling Centre was able to deal with the increasing
On the same lines, several projects continued and achieved
number of students having concerns. There has been a
distinction in their performance. The Munirka and Mess
decrease in waiting time for the students, thus saving their
teaching projects were refurbished. The Safe Hands
time of waiting for a consultation.
smartphone app developed by Stree and NSS won the
prestigious Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award SCS provided a Counselling session with parents during
instituted by IIT Kharagpur. Stree is NSS’ initiative towards orientation period. Session was aimed at sensitizing parents
Gender Sensitization which spread its reach to several Delhi on handling their wards while at IITD and to help their wards in
colleges for the same. adjusting to the new environment. Counsellor organized visits
to all the hotels during 9th - 13th Sept, 2013. Mentor training
Apart from the regular events like Blood Donation Camps, programme was conducted by SCS from 5th - 10th August
Collection and Cleanliness Drives, Internships, Nature 2013. This training was meant for the core group of mentors
Walks and Independence Day celebrations, this time there to identify students facing problems in different areas of life,
was also an Organ Donation campaign, celebration of to help students at the elementary stage of their problem. and
International Day of the Girl Child and World Hospice and to make referrals to SCS in case of urgent or serious problems.
Palliative Care Day, exposure trips and movie screenings
on relevant issues. SCS organized a series of lectures in 2013-2014 for the
benefit of first year students of IITD covering various topics
The NSS unit represented the college in a youth conference for the benefit of students. It was mandatory for the first
held at BITS Pilani, while the environment team won the 2nd year students.
prize in the GreenX competition held at lIT BHU for the Green
initiatives taken. 5. STUDENT-TEACHER INTERACTION COMMITTEE (STIC)
STIC (Student-Teacher Interaction Committee) tried different
3. NATIONAL CADET CORPS (NCC) initiatives to improve student teacher interaction. For the
The NCC unit at IIT Delhi is affiliated to 7 Delhi Battalion NCC. first time. dinners were organized for all freshers with their
The NCC unit IIT Delhi organized the following activities teachers who were teaching in 1st semester of 2013-2014.
during the preceding year: All hostels hosted STIC dinners for their students during both
the semesters of 2013-2014. This programme also supports
• Regular training in foot, arms and ceremonial activities. teachers financially to interact with the students of their
class. There was encouraging participation of teachers from
• Regular parade drills.
all the departments to interact with their students using STIC
• Parade on the Republic Day, where the Director of IIT Delhi funding. There is provision in STIC to partially fund professional
undertook the inspection of the NCC cadets. societies of the departments.

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Responsibility (April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)
• Relaxations to SC/ST/OBC/PD Students and Staff 98
• Scholarships and Financial Assistance 98
• Prepatory Course 98
• Concessions Allowed to Staff 99
• Summer Research Fellowship Programme 99
• Commitments in Sustanability 99
• Environment 99
• Community 99

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Social Responsibility
(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

RELAXATIONS TO SC/ST/OBC/PD STUDENTS AND STAFF • All SC/ST Students are exempted from payment of tuition fee.
IIT Delhi is sensitive to the need of the students belonging to • Free messing (basic menu) and a pocket allowance of Rs.
the SC/ST community and to those who are having disabilities. 250 per month in lieu of the merit-cum-means scholarship
Special care and attention are paid to them. for the students having annual family income upto 4.5
Relaxation in Admissions lacs. In addition, they are exempted from payment of
Hostel seat rent.
Admission to the first year of the four-year B.Tech., dual
degree and the 5-year integrated M.Tech. programmes is • All eligible SC/ST students, while on training or doing
made through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is courses during semester breaks or required to stay in the
held in April and is common for all the IITs and the Institute of Institute during semester breaks or exempted from taking
Technology, BHU, Varanasi. meals from hostels due to medical reasons etc. are given
payment of 70 per month and a per diem allowance in lieu
• The minimum qualifying marks for SC/ST candidates are of free messing on the basis of prevalent average rate of
specially prescribed at a lower level than those for the messing charges as applicable from time to time.
general category of students.
• SC/ST students who fail in the examination for the first
• The age limit is also relaxable in their case by five years. time continue to receive the free messing subject to a
• Candidates declared successful in this category are paid maximum limit of five years.
second class railway fare to and fro from the place of their • SC/ST students are loaned books upto a value of 500
normal residence to the counsellingcentre. from the book bank without payment of any loan fee. The
Reservation of Seats books are, however, required to be returned at the end of
each semester.
At IIT Delhi, the percentage of seats reserved for SC/ST/OBC/
PD candidates is as follows : Master of Science
B.Tech. M.Sc. M.Tech. M.Des. M.B.A. Merit-cum-means scholarship of 1,000 per month and free
Dual tuition are permissible to M.Sc. students to the extent of 25% of
Deg.& Int. the sanctioned strength subject to a maximum of five in each
M.Tech. department. Only those students are eligible whose parents’
Scheduled Castes 15 15 15 15 15 gross income is less than 4.5 lacs per annum for all categories
of students, including SC/ ST students. The terms and
Scheduled Tribes 71/2 71/2 71/2 71/2 71/2 conditions of the award of scholarship including conditions for
continuation are laid down in the Rules and Regulations and
OBC 27 27 27 27 27
are subject to change from time to time.
PD 3 3 3 3 3
PREPARATORY COURSE
Seats reserved for SC/ST/PD candidates that remain unfilled A one-year preparatory course is also run for SC/ST/
cannot be filled by applicants belonging to other categories PD candidates. Candidates admitted to this programme
and thus remain vacant. are amongst those who appeared for the JEE but were
unsuccessful in qualifying for admission. The number admitted
Persons with Disabilities (PD) to this programme varies from year to year depending upon
For any category of disability (viz., locomotor, visual, speech the number of SC/ST/PD candidates who were successful in
and hearing), benefit is given to those candidates who have gaining regular admission with the total number of candidates
at least 40% permanent physical impairment in relation to a admitted to the regular B.Tech.
body part/ system/ extremity/extremities/ whole body etc. Dual Degree Integrated M.Tech. programmes as well as the
The candidates in this category are required to be certified by preparatory course being limited to the above indicated
a Medical Board. The Medical Board decides the following: percentage. Preparatory course students undergo zero level
• Whether the Candidate qualifies for the benefits under courses in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and English.
this category, and Candidates who successfully complete the preparatory course
• if the disability is likely to interfere in his/her studies. are eligible to seek admission during the following academic
The Medical Board duly constituted for this purpose meets at the year against the vacant SC/ST/PD seats of the current year.
time of counselling. The decision of the Medical Board is held final. Alternately, in case they desire a discipline of their choice,
they must reappear for the JEE in the subsequent year. SC/ST
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Preparatory course students are also eligible to receive free
All SC/ST students are given scholarships and financial messing and pocket allowance on the basis of the same norms as
assistance as detailed below: for regular undergraduate students belonging toSC/STcategory.

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OTHER FACILITIES ENVIRONMENT

• Reduction in the academic load in subsequent semester A new “Biogas Development and Training Centre” (BDTC)
in case they do not maintain the required semester grade started in IIT Delhi in the year 2008 and engaged in research
point average (SGPA). and development of biogas related technologies. BDTCs are
• Tutorial type remedial courses with half the normal credits. supported by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
• Special courses during the summer vacations to make up under National Biogas and Manure Management Programme
for the credit requirements due to reduced load during the (NBMMP) for providing technical training and publicity support
regular semesters. for quality implementation of biogas programme.
• Counselling service to help such students to better adjust BDTC, IIT Delhi is engaged in research and development of
to campus life and environment. biogas related technologies and its applications. In broader
terms, BDTC, IIT Delhi is to provide technical support for
CONCESSIONS ALLOWED TO STAFF
National Biogas Manure Management Program (NBMMP) on
I.I.T. Delhi follows the Government of India rules governing decided areas with Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and
reservation for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, OBC and coordinate R&D and consultancy work on biogas technology
Physically Handicap persons. Appointments made in respect of with expertise available in IIT Delhi.
these categories during the year under report are given below:
Services of BDTC IIT Delhi:
No. of Candidates Appointed* • R&D related to bio-methanation
Groups Scheduled Scheduled OBC PD Total • Training and Human Resource Development
Castes Tribes
A - - 01 - 01
• Consultancy services related to biogas technology
B - 01 - - 01 • Technical guidance
C 02 - 01 - 03
COMMUNITY
D - - - - -
For the second time this year, a 10-day Special Orientation
*Note : These include contract appointments. Programme for Entry Level students was conducted for about
120 participants with the objective of enhancing their learning
SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME skills, English language and communication skills, inter-
The main objectives of this programme are - to help inculcate personal relationships and motivation. This programme was
research culture among the faculty members of educational conducted with the help of Centre for Research and Education
institutions outside the IIT system, to provide orientation for Social Transformation (CREST), Calicut, Kerala. All those who
towards research through interaction with the mentors and participated in it appreciated the program. The SC Commission
other research students and exposure to the facilities and labs, had a special word of praise for the Institute’s initiative to help
with a view to eventually motivate them to undertake higher students from weaker sections of society through this self-
studies and research activities within or outside IIT Delhi. The enrichment program.
feedback received from both the fellows and the mentors
so far has been quite positive and encouraging. Under the A group named ASSISTECH was formed at IIT Delhi to design
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Programme of the and develop assistive devices for the visually impaired.
Institute organized under the CEP, 104 faculty fellows joined ASSISTECH was formed more than two years back with the
this year and they come from 68 different colleges/institutes clear objective of “Making a difference in the lives of million
representing 15 states of the country. They have been associated plus visually impaired people by the year 2015”. At any one
with a total of 40 faculty mentors. They spent about six weeks time it is an active association of 12 to 15 students who
during the summer and worked with IIT faculty mentors. contribute both through academic projects as well as other
activities. Specifically the group is working on the following
COMMITMENTS IN SUSTAINABILITY four projects for the visually impaired:
The solar energy park was established in the year 1996 with • Smart Cane: An aid for assisting safe mobility
research funding received from various Government Ministries.
In solar energy park, there are low cost mud house, 5 kWpstand • Bus Identification Device: An aid for assisting use of public
alone PV system , underground water pumping, various design buses
of solar still, evacuated solar water heater, integrated PV hybrid • Braille Tutor: A Braille and language learning device
active solar still, water heater, air heater, conventional and
• Disha – Indoor Navigation Device: An aid for independent
green house crop dryer, greenhouse cultivation system. Energy
mobility within the public buildings
and ExergyAnalysis of Solar Thermal devices and systems, PV-T
hybrid systems, HVACR Systems and thermal power plants • IIT Delhi also encourages students to take part in service
(including combined cycle and Co-generation Power Plants) is of humanity, working for the education of the under-
being undertaken by CES and some pioneering work has been privileged. Voluntary blood donation and tree planting
carried out by CES which is well cited at international level. are undertaken.

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(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The Alumni are a very valuable resource for the Institute, and increasingly, they have started to make a difference to the way
things are done at IIT Delhi. The Alumni have directly contributed for instituting Chair Professorships, Young Faculty Incentive
Fellowships and Student Awards and even for Infrastructure Development.

Some of the contributions from the Alumni in the previous year are listed below and are gratefully acknowledged:

Contributor Contribution in Rs. Contribution For

Parampreet Singh Bhasin 5,00,000/- G.S.Bhasin Scholarship

Vinod Khosla 17,24,21,020/- Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School

(USD 27,75,000) of IT

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(April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014)

The Institute is financed by the Department of Higher Education,

Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of
India. During 2012-2013, the Institute received a grant of FINANCE COMMITTEE
Rs. 36,595.00 lakhs from the Ministry of Human Resource (As on 31.3.2014)
Development to meet its yearly expenses. The Institute receives
funds for sponsored research projects and for consultancy Vijay P. Bhatkar, Chairman
assignments being undertaken by the Institute from several
funding agencies and Industries. The financial year of the R.K. Shevgaonkar
Institute corresponds with that of Govt. of India i.e. Ist April to
31st March. The accounts of the Institute are annually audited Alok Mishra
by the Director General of Audit & Central Revenue of India. The
108th Finance Committee of the Institute (shown in the box on
Rajesh Singh
the side) in its meeting held on 20-03-2014 recommended Plan
(Normal) Revised Estimates for Rs. 27,300.00 Lakh for the year
2013-2014 and Budget Estimates for Rs. 49,500.00 lakhs for the R.K. Verma
year 2014-2015 respectively and Non- Plan Revised Estimates
for Rs. 27,665.00 lakhs for the year 2013-14 and Budget Ashok Gupta
Estimates for Rs. 31,990.00 for the year 2014-15.
Rakesh Kumar, Secretary
The following are the details for the financial year 2012-2013
and 2013-2014:

PLAN
Detailed Statement showing the Actual Receipt and Expenditure for 2012-2013 along with Revised Estimates
2013-2014 and Budget Estimates 2014-15

Particulars Previous Year Actual Revised Estimate Budget Estimates

2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
(in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs)

A. Receipt

Normal Plan Grant from MHRD carryforward (-) 673.54

Normal Grant from MHRD (Normal) 17,600.00 27,300.00 49,500.00

Total A 16,926.46 27,300.00 49,500.00

B. Expenditure

Normal Development Activities & Increase of

Students Intake (including new hostel)New Courses
Modernisation & Thrust Areas

(i) Non-Recurring 13,077.26 24,600.00 46,500.00

(ii) Recurring 2,689.18 2,700.00 3,000.00

Commitments against L.C.’s for the year 2012-2013 1,160.02

Plan (Normal) -- -- --

Total B 16,926.46 27,300.00 49,500.00

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Budget Estimates 2014-2015

Head of Expenditure Actual Revised Estimate Budget Estimates
2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
(in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs)
A. Developmental Activities &
Increased Intake of Students (Normal)
Major Works (including On going, Fresh Schemes) 8,524.19 16,200.00 36,000.00
Repair & Maintenance on Buildings 396.26 600.00 1,000.00
Teaching Equipment/Computerisation 3,035.33 6,000.00 5,000.00
Office General & Hospital Equipment/Furniture 193.93 300.00 2,300.00
Research Funds, Central Facilities & Thrust Areas - 300.00 500.00
Motor Vehicals 19.66 - -
Library Books & Journals 875.20 1,000.00 1,500.00
Web Based Academic Systems 32.69 200.00 200.00
Institute Scholarships 2,689.18 2,700.00 2,800.00
Centres of Excellence - - 200.00
Total 15,766.44 27,300.00 49,500.00

NON-PLAN
Detailed Statement showing the Actual Expenditure for 2012-2013 alongwith Revised Estimates 2013-2014
and Budget Estimates 2014-2015
Head of Expenditure Actual Revised Estimate Budget Estimates
2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
(in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs)
Institute Income 6,277.02 6,182.00 6,607.00
Grant from M.H.R.D. 18,995.00 21,483.00 25,383.00
Total 25,272.02 27,665.00 31,990.00

NON-PLAN
Detailed Statement showing the Actual Expenditure for 2012-2013 alongwith Revised Estimates 2013-2014
and Budget Estimates 2014-2015
Head of Expenditure Previous Year Actual Revised Estimate Budget Estimates
2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
(in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs)
A. Pay & Allowances 12,434.51 14,465.00 17,020.00
B. Pension & Pensionary Benefits 4,493.07 5,480.00 6,000.00
C. Academic Expenses 951.57 1,100.00 1,300.00
D. Educational Expenses 664.77 700.00 700.00
E. Estate Maintenance 4,237.15 4,500.00 5,400.00
F. Office Contingencies, Misc. & Commitments/ 1,410.54 1,420.00 1,570.00
Provisions
Total 24,191.61 27,665.00 31,990.00

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Detail Statement showing the Actual Income for 2012-2013 alongwith Revised Estimate 2013-2014 and
Budget Estimates 2014-2015
Sources of Income Previous Year Actual Revised Estimates Budget Estimates
2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015
(in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs) (in Rs Lakhs)
Academic Receipts 2,444.67 2,700.00 3,000.00
Receipt-Central Administration
Interest on Investments 1,048.99 750.00 750.00
Charges for use of Staff Cars and Buses 5.57 6.00 6.00
Application Fee (Academic Receipt) 64.39 70.00 70.00
Sponsored Project/Consultancy 282.93 300.00 350.00
Works & Building
Licence Fee 187.62 200.00 200.00
Seat Rent 195.08 200.00 200.00
Water & Electricity 281.34 300.00 300.00
Hospital & Medical 0.30 1.00 1.00
Guest House 251.13 275.00 300.00
Joint Entrance Exam 233.73 250.00 300.00
GATE 1,104.82 1,000.00 1,000.00
Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. 75.12 30.00 30.00
Misc./ Other Receipts 101.33 100.00 100.00
(including sale of obsolete equipments)
Total 6,277.02 6,182.00 6,607.00

INTERNAL AUDIT
Internal Auditing is an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity designed to add value and improve an
organization’s operation. Internal Audit Section is functioning independently as per Revised Audit System (w.e.f.1/12/2011)
directly under the control of the Director, supported by Assistant Registrar (Audit). The section conducts the Internal Audit of
the Departments/Centres/Sections etc. within the Institute Internal Control System. The Internal Audit Section also renders
advise on various financial as well as administrative/service matters as per needs of the Institute. Out of 64 auditable units 33
units were internally audited during the financial year 2013-14.

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 Appendix I
SENATE
(As on 31.3.2014)

R.K. Shevgaonkar, Chairman N. Chatterjee S.K. Gupta (CS&E) Ajit Kumar

(Director)
A.K. Agarwala Ratnamala Chatterjee (Ms.) M. Hanmandlu Arun Kumar (Phy.)
Ashwini K. Agarwal Tapan Kumar Chaudhuri S. E. Hasnain Arun Kumar (CARE)
G.P. Agarwal Santanu Chaudhury S.M. Ishtiaque N.D. Kurur
V.K. Agarwal Sujeet Chaudhary K.C. Iyer Alok Madan
R. Algirusamy Veena Chaudhary (Ms.) A.K. Jain Puneet Mahajan
Sneh Anand (Ms.) Anoop Chawla B.N. Jain Ranjan Kumar Mallik
Anshul Kumar H.M. Chawla N.K. Jain Manju Mohan (Ms.)
Amit Kumar Apurba Das P.K. Jain Ratan Mohan
S.K. Atreya L.M. Das S.K. Jain B.R. Mehta
Babu J. Alappat R.P. Dahiya Sanjeev Jain D.S. Mehta
R. Bahl S.K. Dash V.K. Jain S.N. Maiti
M. Balakrishnan M.G. Dastidar (Ms.) Manjeet Jassal (Ms.) Shashi Mathur
D.K. Bandhopadhyay Manoj Datta Mangla Joshi (Ms.) Maithili Sharan
S. Banerjee S. Dharmaraja Jayadeva Prashant Mishra
Kanika T. Bhal (Ms.) J.K. Dutt B. Jayaram Saroj Mishra (Ms.)
Ananjan Basu Viresh Dutta M. Jagadesh Kumar Sukumar Mishra
S. Basu S.G. Deshmukh Joby Joseph A.K. Mittal
B.K. Behera Anupam Dewan S.D. Joshi Aditya Mittal
A.N. Bhaskarwar Chinmoy Sarkar Dey S.R. Kale U.C. Mohanti
B. Bhattacharjee Anil Jacob Elias N.C. Kalra Sudipto Mukherjee
R.K.P. Bhatt O.P. Gandhi Prem Kumar Kalra S.N. Naik
Bhim Singh A. Ganguly Santosh Kapuria R.B. Nair (Ms.)
Naresh Bhatnagar A.K. Ganguli T.C. Kandpal Sunil Nath
T.S. Bhatti N.K. Garg Ravinder Kaur (Ms.) A.K. Nema
B. Bhowmik (Ms.) Naveen Garg I.N. Kar B.P. Pal
G. Bhuvaneswari (Ms.) Anup K. Ghosh Subrat Kar B.S. Panda
Jayashree Bijwe (Ms.) James Gomes S.C. Kaushik Preeti Ranjan Panda
P.R. Bijwe Pramila Goyal (Ms.) Saroj Kaushik (Ms.) P.S. Pandey
V.S. Bisaria A.K. Gosain A.K. Keshari Sunil Pandey (on lien)
Ranjan Bose Ashok Gupta Rajesh Khanna Siddharth Pandey
Bijoy H. Boruah B.D. Gupta Mukesh Khare D.K. Pandya
Devi Chadha (Ms.) Bhuvnesh Gupta Neeraj Khare K.K. Pant
Charusita Chakravarty (Ms.) Deepti Gupta (Ms.) S.K. Khare Nalin Pant
Chandra B. (Ms.) H.C. Gupta Sangeeta Kohli (Ms.) B.S. Panwar
Chandra Shakher K. Gupta V.K. Kothari Shankar Prakriya
B.R. Chahar S.K. Gupta (Ch.E.) S.K. Koul Sudhir Chandra
V. Chandra M.N. Gupta S. Kundu Rajendra Prasad
Sanjiva Prasad M.P. Gupta Veena Koul (Ms.) Rajesh Prasad
Surendra Prasad Ambuj D. Sagar R.K. Sharma Sushil

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K.R. Rajagopal Sanjeev Sanghi R.P. Sharma N. Tandon

R. Chattopadhyay Huzur Saran S. Arun Kumar R.N. Ram
A. Ramanan V.R. Gunturi Satyawati Sharma (Ms.) G.N. Tiwari
N.G. Ramesh Anil Kumar Saroha M.R. Shenoy Geetam Tiwari (Ms.)
A.D. Rao Santosh Satya (Ms.) A.K. Singh K. Thyagarajan
K.S. Rao Anil Sawhney Harpal Singh C.A. Tomy
P.V. Rao Kushal Sen Jai Deo Singh V.K. Tripathi
Alok Ray Sandeep Sen Purnima Singh (Ms.) Suneet Tuli
Anurag Singh Rathore P. Senthikumaran S.N. Singh V. Upadhyay
M.R. Ravi Kiran Seth S.P. Singh M. Veerachary
Ravi Kumar D. D.T. Shahani T.R. Sreekrishnan S.V. Veeravalli
Anjan Ray Jagdish T. Shahu A.K. Srivastava V.K. Vijay
Rengasamy R.S. Ravi Shankar (Chy.) Pankaj Srivastava G.S. Visweswaran
G.B. Reddy Ravi Shankar (DMS) Amrit Srinivasan (Ms.) A.L. Vyas
Shantanu Roy Anurag Sharma P.M.V. Subba Rao S.S. Yadav
P.K. Roychoudhury D.K. Sharma P.V. Madhusudan Rao Rakesh Kumar (Secretary)
Subir Kumar Saha K.G. Sharma R.K. Soni
Sanil V. O.P. Sharma Suhail Ahmad

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE (ECS)

(As on 31.3.2014)

R.K. Shevgaonkar, Chairman B.S. Panda

S.K. Koul S.R. Kale
S.N. Singh K. Thyagarajan
Anurag Sharma R. Chattopadhyay
Sushil Arun Kumar
Suneet Tuli (Ms.) Sneh Anand
Mukesh Khare Sanjeev Sanghi
S.K. Gupta S. Arun Kumar
Ashok Gupta R.P. Sharma
Suhail Ahmad O.P. Gandhi
T.R. Sreekrishnan A.D. Rao
S. Basu D.T. Shahani
A. Ramanan (Ms.) Veena Choudhury
A.K. Jain (Ms.) Satyawati Sharma
Huzur Saran (Ms.) Sangeeta Kohli
(Ms.) Basabi Bhaumik Naresh Bhatnagar
Sanil V. B.D. Gupta
(Ms.) Kanika T. Bhal Rakesh Kumar, Registrar, Member Secretary

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ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER STAFF
(As on 31.3.2014)

Administration
Rakesh Kumar Registrar (on deputation)
M.K. Gulati Deputy Registrar (Accounts)
P. G. Basak Deputy Registrar (E-I)
Nanak Chand Chauhan Deputy Registrar (RTI Cell, Estate office & Legal Cell)
K.K. Bhattacharjee Deputy Registrar (SP Section & R&I)
Vivek Raman Deputy Registrar (PGS)
Atul Vyas Deputy Registrar (AA&IP and Director’s Office)
Umesh Korade Deputy Registrar (o/o DD (o))
N. Bhaskar Assistant Registrar (CDN, Plng, Pub and Transport)
R.K. Gupta Assistant Registrar (Audit)
V.K. Vashistha Assistant Registrar (IRD)
Anup Kuksal Assistant Registrar (IRD A/c)
Ram Parsad Assistant Registrar (SAS)
Alan V. Siante Assistant Registrar (UGS)
Mohd. Shamim Assistant Registrar (Accounts)
Raj Kumar Gupta Assistant Registrar (Accounts)
Mukesh Chand Assistant Registrar (Accounts)
Ramesh Kumar Thareja Assistant Registrar (E-II & Manpower Training)
V.U. Jayendran Assistant Registrar (Hostel & Main A/c)
B.N. Yadav Security Officer (SS)
G.K. Taneja Executive Engineer & Offtg. Institute Engineer
K.M. Vijay Kumar Executive Engineer
Anuj Gaur Executive Engineer
Sanjiv Kumar Executive Engineer (on deputation)
Rafat Jamal Assistant Executive Engineer
V. K. Bharaj Assistant Executive Engineer
Hitendra Govil Assistant Executive Engineer
K.P. Mishra Assistant Executive Engineer
S. Mohan Assistant Executive Engineer
Prem Kumar Assistant Executive Engineer
Brahm Prakash Assistant Executive Engineer
Ashok Kumar Assistant Executive Engineer
Raju Ram Parihar Assistant Executive Engineer
Vishal Assistant Executive Engineer
Pradip Karmarkar Assistant Executive Engineer
Anishya Obhrai Madan (Ms.) Industrial Liaison Officer
Deepak Negi Sports Officer

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Administrative Computerisation Support Service

S. Arun Kumar Head
R. Raghavan (Ms.) Senior System Programmer
K. Narayanan Senior System Programmer
P.K. Baboo Senior System Programmer
Pardeep Kumar Gupta Senior System Programmer
Student Counselling Service
Saroj Kaushik Head
Rupa Murghai Counsellor
Professors-in-Charge of Different Sections
Sudipto Mukherjee Professor-in-Charge (Planning)
Naresh Bhatnagar Professor-in-Charge (Transport)
O.P. Sharma Professor-in-Charge (Guest Houses)
Kushal Sen Professor-in-Charge (Training & Placement)
Hindi Cell
Santosh Satya Head
Library
B.D. Gupta Chairman
J. P. Srivastava Dy. Librarian
Nabi Hasan Dy. Librarian
IIT Hospital
Lily Khosa (Ms.) Head Hospital Services
S.K. Aggarwal Chief Medical Officer (SS)
Renu Misuriya (Ms.) Medical Officer (SS)
Ajay Kumar Jain Medical Officer (SS)
Mahesh Kumar Sagar Medical Officer (SS)
Anila Khosla (Ms.) Medical Officer (SS)
P. K. Rajesh Medical Officer (Homeo)
Md. Ashafaque Hussain Medical Officer
Sayed Yasmeen Raunaq Medical Officer
L. Pangerlemba Medical Officer

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OTHER COMMITTEES
(As on 31.3.2014)

BUILDING AND WORKS COMMITTEE

R.K. Shevgaonkar, Chairman K.J. Singh
(Director)
S. Ramanujam G.K. Taneja
Jose Kurian Ashok Gupta
M.N. Joglekar Rakesh Kumar, Secretary
K.N. Rai

ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR LIBRARY

B.D. Gupta, Chairman Veena Koul
Anupam Dewan V. Krishna
Preeti Srivastava J. Bijwe
Ali Haider Mahesh P. Abegaonkar
A.K. Ganguli R. Raghavan
G.V. Ramana Santosh Satya (Ms.)
Huzur Saran S.N. Maiti
Jayadeva S.K. Atreya
Debasis Mondal Rajesh Prasad
Jitendra Madaan S.P. Singh
Aparna Mehra (Ms.) Parnil Singh (Ms.)
S.P. Singh Ekansh Gupta
Joby Joseph Shashank Kedia
Mangala Joshi (Ms.) Amit Kashyap
Vimlesh Pant Narender Kumar, Member Secretary

COMPUTER USERS’ COMMITTEE

S. Arun Kumar, Chairman Sneh Anand (Ms.)
Sanjeev Sanghi R.P. Sharma
A.K. Srivastava R.K. Rai
Gaurav Goel R. Bahl
Nalin Pant Veena Choudhary (Ms.)
Vasant Matsagar A.K. Agarwala
Maya Ramanath V.M. Chariar
Kushal Shah Gopal Krishan
Debasis Mondal Savita Goel (Ms.)
S.P. Singh Arushi Jamaiyar (Ms.)
Mani Mehra (Ms.) Arun Singh
N. Bhatnagar Siddhant Malviya
G.V. Prakash Madhur Gupta
R.S. Rengasamy Saroj Kaushik
Vimlesh Pant Pragya Jain (Ms.) , Member-Secretary

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