Nominations for Distinguished Alumnus Award

Announcements Details - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur recognises the professional achievements and contribution of its alumni through the Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA) each year on the Annual Convocation Day.

You are requested to help us identify the Distinguished Alumnus for this year by nominating those, who in your opinion should be considered for these Awards. Kindly get the nomination form filled up and submitted to the Office of the undersigned latest by 28th April, 2017, Friday. A soft copy of the nomination form should also be submitted by email to deanaa@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in. It may not be possible to consider nominations received after this date for the current year. However, those will be considered for the next year.

Download Nomination Form

Nominations in prescribed format may be submitted by past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees, Senate Members, Life Fellows, Alumni Foundations / Associations through their Presidents. Nominations must reach the Dean of Alumni Affairs & International Relations latest by 28th April, 2017, Friday. Nominations received can be carried forward for 2 years with provisions for update by the concerned alumnus/alumna.
Self Nomination will not be entertained.

Eligibility -Any person who has received a degree from the Institute is eligible to be considered for Distinguished Alumnus Award, except in the following cases:
A. An alumnus/alumna, who is an employee of IIT Kharagpur, shall not be eligible for the award during his/her service period except when he/she has accomplished with truly outstanding of highest order recognised widely.

B. Alumni who have been awarded D.Sc (Honoris Causa) and or Life Fellow Award of the Institute will also be considered as Distinguished Alumnus Awardees of the Institute.

Criteria - An individual, to be nominated for this Distinguished Alumnus Award, should have made significant professional contribution which is recognized widely. The following, among possible other criteria, shall be considered while assessing the nominations:

• Positions held
• Contributions to his/her profession
• Awards and Honours Received
• Other contributions

Process for Selection - Nominations shall be short listed by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (AA&IR) to be constituted with the approval of the Director. Short listed nominations shall be peer reviewed. The SC will make a panel of such reviewers for the purpose. Based on the recommendations of the peer reviewers, the SC will make a panel for consideration of the Standing Committee. The Standing Committee will normally comprise Director as the Chairman, Deputy Director, Dean (AA&IR), Dean (F) as members and 2 (two) External Experts, following the guidelines of selection in such cases and considering all eligible nominations and their recommendations of the peer reviewers as well as recommendation of the Screening Committee and make final recommendations to the Senate and the Board of Governors for approval.

Distinguished Alumnus Awardees

Name	Year	Name	Year
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay	2016	Thirumalai Venkatesan	2016
Gautam Biswas	2016	Indranil Manna	2016
Anurag Acharya	2016	Ajit Jain	2016
Ashoke Kumar Deysarkar	2016
Bedabrata Pain	2015	Chetan V Vaidya	2015
S Christopher	2015	Gandhi Manoj Sumatilal	2015
Mohinder Kumar Badhwar	2015	Peter Chan	2015
Pradip Dutta	2015	Rakesh Bahadur Verma	2015
Sharat Chandra Bhargava	2015	Sundararajan Pichai	2015
Venkatesh Shankar	2015	Venu Govindaraju	2014
Hem Shanker Ray	2014	Partha Sarathi Ghosh	2014
Niraj Kumar Jha	2014	Krishen Mehta	2014
Vinayak Lohani	2014	Diwakar Acharya	2014
H Harish Hande	2014	Krishnendu Chakrabarty	2014
M Sanyasi Raju	2014	Pallab Kumar Chatterjee	2014
Sushil Kumar Soonee	2014	K S Sajwan	2014
Sanjay Paul	2014	Aditi Chattopadhyay	2013
Aniruddha Roy	2013	Devinder Gupta	2013
Jayanta Chatterjee	2013	K G Narayan	2013
K K Sarbadhikari	2013	Keshab K Parhi	2013
Pramimal Kanti Bharadwaj	2013	Rabindra Nath Nayak	2013
Somnath Ghosh	2013	Sanjoy Banerjee	2012
Pinakpani Chakraborty	2012	Sandipan Chakravortty	2012
Anand Deshpande	2012	Supratik Guha	2012
Farrokh Pudam Mistree	2012	Viswanatha Ramamurti	2012
Dipankar Raychaudhuri	2012	Ved Prakash Sandlas	2012
Pranob Kumar Sandell	2012	Subrata Sengupta	2012
P C Varghese	2012	P K Rajagopalan	2011
Braj Bhushan Pandey	2011	Ramchandra Prabhakar Gokarn	2011
Bhubaneshwar Mishra	2011	Ramesh Kumar Agarwal	2011
Kaushik Roy	2011	Ned Mohan	2011
Lallit Anand	2011	Kalyanmoy Deb	2011
Biswapriya Sanyal	2011	Satyendranath Mukherjee	2011
Samit Kumar Bhattacharyya	2011	Amitava H Roy	2011
N S Mohanram	2011	S C Mukhopadhyay	2011
Debnarayan Bhattacharya	2011	P R Menon	2011
C N Raghavendran	2011	Pradip Kumar Dutta	2011
J V Nrupender Rao	2011	Jammi Srinivas Rao	2011
Bahadur Chand Nakra	2011	Mahinder Kumar Jain	2011
Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri	2010	Subrata Biswas	2010
Amit Chatterjee	2010	Sujoy Kumar Guha	2010
Ranbir Singh Gupta	2010	Narendra Kumar	2010
Malay Mukherjee	2010	Uttam Chand Jain	2010
Ram Nath Mukhija	2010	K Radhakrishnan	2010
Kailash Chandra Sahu	2010	Prabhakant Sinha	2010
Amit Goyal	2009	Arun Gajananrao Phadke	2009
Subir Chowdhury	2009		2009
Kiran Seth	2009	Arvind Kumar Kejriwal	2009
Ravi Kant	2009	Biswadip Mitra	2009
Anil Kumar Malhotra	2008	Pradip Kumar Roy	2008
Shantanu Kumar Mahapatra	2008	Duvvuri Subbarao	2008
Prithviraj Banerjee	2007	Supriyo Datta	2007
K Shantilal Parikh	2007	Panjab Singh	2007
Surindra Prasad	2007	A Raghupathy Upadhya	2006
Arun Sarin	2006	Asit Kumar Biswas	2006
Ravinder Nath Khanna	2006	Pradeepkumar B Khosla	2006
Avinash Chandra Wadhawan	2005	Sanjay Kumar Banerjee	2005
Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya	2004	Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan	2004
Srikumar Banerjee	2004	Anjan Bose	2004
Prem Vrat	2004	Praveen Chaudhary	2003
V C Kulandaiswamy	2003	Vinod Gupta	1993

Nominations for Distinguished Service Awards

Announcements Details : Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur wishes to recognise the contribution of its alumni through the Distinguish Service Award (DSA) during Annual Alumni Meet. The Institute is, therefore, interested in receiving fresh nominations in respect of individual alumnus/ alumna for consideration for the award in 2017. Nominations received over the past two years shall also be considered for the award in this year.

Nominations in prescribed format may be submitted by past Distinguished Service Awardees, Senate Members, Life Fellows, Alumni Foundations / Associations through their President. Nominations must reach the Dean of Alumni Affairs & International Relations latest by 28th April, 2017, Friday. Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to deanaa@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in. It may not be possible to consider nominations received after this date for the current year. However, those will be carried forward for consideration in future.

Download Nomination Form

Eligibility : An alumnus/alumna, who is an employee of IIT Kharagpur, shall not be eligible for the award during his/her service period except when he/she has accomplished exceptional achievements.

Criteria :The following aspects will be considered among possible others while assessing the roles and contributions of the Nominee:

• Service to the Alumni Chapters/Foundations.
• Activities involving alumni and other stakeholders of the Institute
• Resource generation for the Institute
• Academics and Research of the Institute
• Student / faculty life
• Recognitions received within the Alumni fraternity.

Process for Selection : Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (AA & IR).The Standing Committee chaired by the Director shall consider all eligible nominations as well as recommendations from the Screening Committee and make final recommendations to the Board of Governors for approval.

Name	Year	Name	Year
Balbir Kumar Mathur	2016	Varadarajan Seshamani	2016
Rajendra Kumar Khanna	2016	Parvati Dev	2016
Joyjit Nath	2016	Nirmal Kumar Bhardwaj	2016
Abhijit Ray	2016	Shailendra Kumar	2016
Indramohan Asthana	2016	Veerendra Kumar Jaitly	2016
Pronob Kumar Guha	2011	Louis Dasilva Roy	2011
Jaideep Sarkar	2011	Shyamal Roychoudhury	2011
Yatindra Pal Singh Suri	2011	Dharam Vir	2010
Ramnath S Mani	2010	Puran Chand Dang	2010
Arvind Jain	2010	Sundar Mohan Murmu	2010

Nina Saxena Award

Names	Year
Dr. A. K. Ghosh, Dr. P. K. Tewari, Dr. R. C. Bindal, Dr. D. Goswami, Mr. K. P. Bhattacharyya, Mr. S. Shivayyanamath, Mr. S. A. Tiwari, Ms. Sangita Pal Mr. Siddharth Garg	2013
Girija J., Satyanarayana S, Mukundan K. K, Resmi R., Arun Alex, Gopakumar R., Satya Bhusan Shukla, Femina Begum S., Archana V. V., Pratheep Kumar K. P.	2011
Dr. Jagannath Nayak, Shri Pradeep Kumar, Shri Hari Sanker Singh, Shri M. P. Unnikrishnan, Shri G. Krishan Prasad, Shri CHSS Satyanarayana, Shri Sailesh Kumar,	2010
Prof. Milind V Rane, Mr. Kartick Kumar Samanta, Mr. Prateek Sabharwal, Mr. Rohit Lohani, Dr. Ashwini K. Agrawal Dr. Manjeet Jassal	2009
Dr. Subhash P. Andey, Dr. Prakesh S. Kalker, Dr. Madan V. Nanoti	2008
Dr. S. P. S. Khanuja	2007

Nina Saxena Award

Honoris Causa

Name	Year	Name	Year
Prof. Goverdhan Mehta	2010	Dr. Srikumar Banerjee	2010
Mr. Shiv Nadar	2010	Prof. K. L. Chopra	2010
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia	2010	Shri G. Madhavan Nair	2009
Prof. Ashoke Sen	2009	Shri Venu Srinivasan	2009
Dr. A. P. Abdul Kalam	2008	Prof. Asit Kumar Biswas	2008
Dr. Anil Kakodkar	2008	Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal	2008
Prof. Lord Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya	2008	Dr. Rajagopal Reddy	2007
Dr. Parveen Chaudhari	2007	Shri N. R. Narayan Murthy	2007
Mr. R. P. Goenka	2005	Mr. Ratan Tata	2004
Prof. G. S. Sanyal	2003	Dr. Pallab K Chatterjee	1996
Dr. Suhash S. Patil	1995	Dr. Mani Lal Bhowmick	1995
Prof. C. N. R. Rao	1991	Mr. Satyajit Ray	1990
Prof. M. G. K. Manon	1990
Mother Teresa	1989	Dr. H. Rakshit	1978
Dr. S. R. Sengupta	1968	Prof. B. R. Seth	1968

Life Fellows of IIT Kharagpur

Name	Year
Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee	2003
Shri Brijendra Kumar Syngal	2003
Dr. Satyendranath Das	2003
Professor Anadi Sankar Gupta	2003
Mr. Vinod Gupta	2002
Mr. Arjun Malhotra	2002
Mr. Bijoy G. Chatterjee	2002
Dr. Suhas S. Patil	2002
Prof. G. S. Sanyal	2006