India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
New
Delhi,
Sep
20:
President
Draupadi
Murmu
approved
the
appointment
of
Directors
for
8
IITs
including
Palakkad,
Tirupati,
Dharwad,
Bhilai,
Gandhinagar,
Bhubaneswar,
Goa
&
Jammu,
according
to
the
education
ministry.
Directors
of
two
IITs
have
been
appointed
at
the
top
post
at
different
IITs,
including
IIT
Bhilai
Director
Rajat
Moona,
who
has
been
appointed
as
director
of
IIT
Gandhinagar
while
IIT
Dharwad
Director
Pasumarthy
Seshu
has
been
chosen
as
director
of
IIT
Goa.
The
two
IIT
directors
who
have
been
reappointed
for
a
second
term
are
—
K
N
Satyanarayana
(IIT
Tirupati)
and
Manoj
Singh
Gaur
(IIT
Jammu).
Seshadri
Sekhar
and
Shreepad
Karmalkar,
both
professors
at
IIT
Madras,
have
been
appointed
as
directors
of
IIT
Palakkad
and
IIT
Bhubaneshwar
respectively.
Venkayappaya
R
Desai
from
IIT
Kharagpur’s
Department
of
Civil
Engineering
has
been
appointed
as
the
Director
of
IIT
Dhardwad.
Rajiv
Prakash
from
IIT
BHU’s
School
of
Material
Science
and
Technology
has
been
chosen
as
IIT
Bhilai’s
Director.
President
Draupadi
Murmu
attends
state
funeral
of
Queen
Elizabeth
II
in
London
The
Ministry
of
Education
(MoE)
had
last
year
sought
applications
for
six
of
the
new
IITs
—
Dharwad,
Goa,
Palakkad,
Jammu,
Bhilai
and
Tirupati.
The
advertisement
released
on
October
18
stated
that
the
applicant
should
be
a
Ph.D.
with
first
class
or
equivalent
at
the
preceding
degree,
preferably
in
a
branch
of
engineering.
IIT
Bhubaneswar
has
been
waiting
for
a
full-time
Director
since
April
2020
when
the
incumbent
director
R
V
Rajakumar’s
five-year
tenure
had
ended.
Story first published: Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 7:45 [IST]