IIT
for
Outstanding Contribution to National Development
The IIT Delhi Alumni Award for Outstanding Contribution to National Development was instituted in 1999 to honour nominated and selected IIT Delhi Alumni. The award is conferred each year by the IIT Delhi Alumni Association on one or more alumni at its Annual General Meeting. It consists of a plaque and a citation
The Purpose:
- To recognize outstanding contribution of IIT Delhi alumni to National development.
- To enhance the awareness of achievement and contributions of IIT Delhi alumni in various aspect of national development.
- To develop greater networking and interaction with outstanding IIT Delhi alumni to further enrich the activities of IIT Delhi Alumni Association.
Selection Criteria:
- Exceptional achievement and excellence in the chosen field.
- Leadership role / Role Model Status.
- Impact on national development.
- Contribution in developing of talent.
- Pioneering effort.
- Commitment to ethics and values.
On behalf of the Selection Committee for the award, I have the pleasure to invite you to nominate one (or more) IIT Delhi alumnus who in your opinion has made outstanding contribution to national development, and should be considered for the prestigious award. All those who have obtained a degree from IIT Delhi are eligible.
The nominations may be sent by email / Post / Courier/ fax.
Kindly send the nominations in the enclosed format; together with a summary of his/her distinguished achievements/contributions. It would be helpful
if you would also send to us a resume of the nominee. Please feel free to contact me if you need further information in this regard.
We would appreciate your early response but the last date for receipt of nominations is 7th July 2009.
A list of the previous awardees is enclosed.
With regards,
President, IITDAA
FORMAT FOR NOMINATION FOR IITD ALUMNI AWARD FOR
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Name of the nominee:
IIT
Current position/ title:
Nominee address, phone, fax, email address:
Brief sketch of nominee’s career and achievements:
Proposed by:
Name:
Signature:
Address, phone, fax, email address:
Kindly send nomination to:
The Convenor, Selection Committee
“Outstanding Contribution to National Development”
IIT Delhi Alumni Association
Nalanda House,
Hauz Khas,
Tel: 2686 8523/2659 7178/2659 6953
Fax: 2651 4177
E-mail: office@iitdalumni.com
In the past, Awards presented to:
1999-2000
Ø Dr. Kiran Bedi, 93, Ph.D., Humanities & Social Science
Indian Police Service
Ø Mr. Pradeep Gupta, 75, B.Tech., Electrical
Chairman, Cyber Media (
2000-2001
Ø Mr. Rohit Chand, 69, B.Tech., Mechanical
Executive Chairman, AXIS-IT&T Ltd.
Ø Mr. Vijay Mahajan, 75, B.Tech., Electrical
Chairman, BASIX
Ø Mr. Arjun Vinoo Caprihan, 82, B.Tech., Chemical
Principal Engineer, Invetech Pty Ltd
Ø Mr. Nabankur Gupta, 70, B.Tech., Electrical
Group President & Wholetime Director
2001-2002
Ø Dr. A.K. Chakravarti, 70, Ph.D., Physics
Advisor Ministry of IT
Ø Mr. Satish Tandon, 67, B.Tech., Chemcial
MD, Alfa Laval (
Ø Dr. E.A.S. Sarma, IAS, 86, M.Tech., Energy Studies
Ø Mr. Prabaht Agarwal, 87, B.Tech., Electrical
CEO, Parsec Technologies
Ø Dr. Satya Narayana Dasa, 76, B.Tech., Mechanical
Chairman, Jiva Inst.of Vaisnava Studies
2002-2003
Ø Dr. Prem Vrat, 74, Ph.D, Mechanical
Vice Chancellor, UP
Ø Mr. Satish K. Manocha, 66, B.Tech., Electrical
President, Kaplony Consultancy
Ø Mr. Ashok K. Manchanda, 71, B.Tech., Mechanical
Director, NUCON Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
Ø Mr. Surya Kant, 78, M.Tech., Computer Technology
President, TCS
2004-2005
Ø Mr. Yogeshwar Kumar, 74,B.Tech., CE
Secretary, JANSAMARTH
Ø Mr. Pravin Kumar Purang, 71, B.Tech., Mechanical & 73, M.Tech., PR
President & CEO, Global Consulting Associates
Ø Prof. Trilochan Sastry, 81, B.Tech., EL
Professor, IIM
Ø Mr. Navyug Mohnot, 85, B. Tech., Electrical
Chief Executive Officer, QAI
2005-2006
Ø Rear Admiral Ravinder Mohan Bhatia, 67, B.Tech., Mechanical
Chairman & Managing Director, Mazagon Dock Ltd.
Ø Mr. Yogesh Kumar Singhal, 70, B.Tech., Electrical & 72, M.Tech., EL
Project Director, GSAT 2 ISRO Sattallite Centre
Ø Dr. Ramesh Awasti, 71, B.Tech, Chemical, 76, M.Tech., Chemcial
CO-CONVENOR, MASUM,NGO
2006-2007
Ø Dr. Prodipto Ghosh, 68, B.Tech, Chemical
Former, Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forest, Govt. of
Ø Dr. Sugata Mitra, 75, M.Sc, Physics, & 78, Ph.D, Physics
Chief Scientist with NIIT
Ø Mr. Sanjay Kalra, 85, B.Tech., Electrical
President, Tech Mahindra Ltd.
2007-2008
Ø Mrs. Rashmi Nagabhushan, 75, M.Tech., Electronics
Director, Thermadyne Pvt. Ltd.
Ø Mr. Parimal Rai, 83, B.Tech, Civil,
Chairman, NDMC
Ø Dr. Darlie Oomen Koshy, 96, Ph.D., Management
Director, (Principal Academic & Admn. Officer & Ex Officio Member
on Governing Council of NID) National Institute of Design.
2. Lecture by Prof. Kehar Singh
Prof. Kehar Singh, Emeritus Fellow, Physics Department delivered an Invited Lecture on "Digital Holography for Information Security" at the 2009 Optics and Photonics Congress of the Optical Society of America, held during the period April 26-30, 2009 at
3. Nominations are invited for Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair
Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair positions Nominations are invited for Ram and Sita Sabnani Chair , Chair professor will get research grant of 2.0 Lacs/P.A. Last Date of Receipt of Nominations is June 30, 2009.
4. Speech by Chetan Bhagat
Speech by Chetan Bhagat in Symbiosis Institute of Management:-
Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up?
It's ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices. :)
"Don't be serious, be sincere.”!!!
Jairam Ramesh, an IIT B alumnus, is an MP representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the incumbent Minister of State for Department of Environment and Forests. Earlier he was also the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry as well as the Minister of State for Power in the current Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. While he had two sets of offices in the Commerce and Power ministries, Ramesh did not have the kind of big staff, ministers are used to. He would rather work on his lap top even as he listened to soothing music in glass-door transparent office decorated with ethnic furniture.
Also,as the first-ever IIT-IIMer in the Lok Sabha, Prem Das Rai, IIT Kanpur alumnus, has been elected to the 15th Lok Sabha as the lone member from Sikkim. Rai hopes to contribute his bit to changing the way Parliament and MPs are viewed in the country. Sikkim Democratic Front MP, who early in his career chucked a cushy job as a multinational banker and later gave up opportunities in the
5. Sad news about Dr. Motwani
The news of Professor Rajeev Motwani's untimely death on June 5, Friday afternoon spread quickly throughout the the tech community of
Remembering Rajeev
" It is with great sadness that I write about the passing of my teacher and good friend Professor Rajeev Motwani. ... Officially, Rajeev was not my advisor, and yet he played just as big a role in my research, education, and professional development. In addition to being a brilliant computer scientist, Rajeev was a very kind and amicable person and his door was always open. .. When my interest turned to data mining, Rajeev helped to coordinate a regular meeting group on the subject. Even though I was just one of hundreds of graduate students in the department, he always made the time and effort to help. ...
Eventually, as Google emerged from Stanford, Rajeev remained a friend and advisor.
His legacy and personality lives on in the students, projects, and companies he has touched. Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it.
Dr. Rajeev motwani will be missed by all the IIT alumni who had the pleasure of meeting him.
6. Prof. Pawan Sinha, MIT., B.Tech from IIT
MIT professor Pawan Sinha, visual perception
The man and his vision
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-man-and-his-vision/476026/
It is nice to spot a familiar face in a crowd of unknowns. But how do we do that? And why do people who recover sight after years of blindness continue to have problems with perception? These are some of the questions Pawan Sinha and his lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to unfold.
Growing up in the IIT Delhi campus, where his father worked in the administrative section, he went on to get a B.Tech from the institute before moving to the
7. Mr. G.B.K. Prasad, 82, BT, ME, IITD
He has written a book on corporate performance improvement .this book is published by
http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Performance-Improvement-Practitioners-Perspective/dp/8131416674
http://www.indiaplaza.in/books/all/9788131416679/all/Corporate-Performance-Improvement.htm
He would be obliged if you could give valuable suggestions to improve the book further. the book discusses the cases of 6 leading companies in
8. IITDAA Chennai Chapter family get together on 27th June 2009
The alumni of IITD met at the Gandhi Nagar club on Saturday, 27th June for their quarterly family get together. In all, there were about 30 alumni with families, with participation from the ancient 1968 and 1969 batch alumni to youngsters from the 2004 batch. We hope to see more participation from the recent batches in future events.
The evening started off with a round of mini golf, organized by our sponsors, Club Mahindra. This was followed by a small felicitation for Chennai’s first IITD Distinguished Alumnus, K. Ananth Krishnan, VP and CTO of Tata Consultancy Services, and a very active contributor to IITDAA and Pan IIT activities. The official announcement was made by the IITDAA on Saturday and the opportunity was used to wish him all the best for the future.
A fruitful discussion happened on the setting up of an “All IIT Club” at Chennai, an initiative by IIT Madras alumni, discussions on which had been going on for almost 2 decades. The meeting was a breakthrough of sorts, wherein the core group was identified, and the activity of building the corpus has started. Suitable sites for the club have also been identified as an outcome of this meeting. Based on the experience, we could try to replicate the same at others cities. More details on this in a separate email.
http://www.ndtv.com/news/diaspora/kellogg_names_indian-origin_prof_inter
im_dean.php
Kellogg names Indian-origin prof interim dean
Press Trust of India, Thursday June 25, 2009, Chicago
An Indian-origin professor has been appointed as the interim dean of Kellogg School of Management in the
Sunil Chopra, currently the senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching at Kellogg, will take over as interim dean effective September 1, a Kellogg statement said here.
Kellogg is currently looking for a successor to Jain, who had held the top job at the business school in
Earlier this month, the school had announced that Jain would resign from the dean's job effective September 1, 2009.
He would return to the Kellogg faculty after a year's leave. "We will soon begin a national search for a successor to Dean Dipak Jain, who will step down September 1. I am confident that Kellogg will continue to flourish under Sunil's leadership as interim dean while we
conduct the search," Provost Daniel Linzer said
10. Mr. Varun Arya, 81, MS,PH, - Director, AIM, -Satyamev Jayate : At last we have the AICTE approval!
You all will be very much pleased to know that at last he has got the much awaited and coveted approval from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), for his Aravali Management Institute, after our long struggle for the last nine years to get it strictly based on merit. The Letter of Approval has been issued by AICTE vide F. No. 09/10/Raj/PGDM/005 dated 30 June 2009.
For the last nine years they have been working sincerely to provide truly top quality management education in an out of the way place like Jodhpur in Rajasthan, as a model of no compromise. They have been getting some of the most distinguished persons (like late Dr. I. G. Patel, Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Dr. C. Rangarajan, Mr. Rahul Bajaj, Mr. J. M. Lyngdoh, Mr. T. S. Krishna Murthy, Mr. Tejendra Khanna, Dr. Abid Hussain, Mr. T. K. A. Nair, Mr. Pradeep Baijal, Mr. N. K. Singh, Mr. Subodh Bhargava and Swami Agnivesh), top academicians from all over India and abroad and a large number of IIMs & IITs alumni & faculty members visiting us at Jodhpur. They have also been able to ensure a large number of leading organisations from all over India and abroad coming to our Institute to facilitate 100% placements of successive batches. Today our alumni are doing extremely well all over India and abroad, with some of them having risen upto the level of Directors in top companies. Five years back we also purchased around 100 acres of private land on which we planned to built a unique campus. I never knew that this all was building up deep envy and vested interest amongst certain individuals and institutes in Jodhpur, who would one day gang up with dirty conspiracy to do extensive damage and harm to the Institute and him
It all started on 28th April 2009 with the beginning of the most severe crisis the Institute has ever faced when the parents of one of our students abused, threatened with damaging the reputation and closing down of our Institute, threatened to finish me and my family, tried to blackmail in various ways and did many extremely disgusting things to pressurize the Institute to bend the rules relating to the summer placement of their daughter. Despite all such unfortunate provocations, we kept calm and quiet and refused to succumb. We never knew that this small matter would be blown out of proportion and turned into a well planned extremely dirty and damaging conspiracy against the Institute and me. Soon it emerged that promoter of a local management institute was its kingpin who had thrown in a lot of money and had a number of pawns working for him including some blackmailers.
The summary of sequence of events which followed was as under :
08 May 2009 : A case was filed against the Institute in District Consumer Forum, Jodhpur. However, after we filed our reply based on the facts and documentary evidence, they decided to withdraw the case. Thus their first conspiracy failed.
11 May 2009 : They were informed that a case for cheating and fraud was filed against me and the Institute in the court of District & Sessions Judge, Jodhpur stating that before admission, we had informed about the Institute being AICTE approved whereas now they had come to know that it was not approved. A large majority of our alumni of nine years from all over India and abroad and present students submitted affidavits on their own to convey the truth that they were all told in advance about the Institute not being AICTE approved, and reasons thereof. They all also wrote in their affidavits about the excellent career and life they and their family had got, courtesy their education at the Institute.
18 May 2009 : Late in the evening he came to know through a well-wisher that there were plans to arrest him and seal the Institute on 19 May 2009 morning, for which a lot of money had been thrown in to manage the things. He immediately got in touch with our various well-wishers outside Jodhpur, in Delhi and abroad to inform them of the unfortunate developments and requested their help. Our well-wishers stepped in promptly and got in touch with the powers that be to ensure that nothing not allowed as per the law was done. I was also advised by legal experts that he should immediately go for the legal protection by applying for and getting the anticipatory bail since the conspiracy had become extremely dirty and they were all out to go to any extent to cause maximum harm to the Institute and me.
19 May 2009 : They hired a good advocate who was honest and could not be purchased and through him, I applied for anticipatory bail based on facts and supported with documentary evidences. The anticipatory bail was strongly contested by the other party but the judge wrote in his judgement that there was no documentary evidence produced by the other party to prove that the Institute or I had done anything wrong and therefore, the anticipatory bail could not be denied. This judgement in our favour was given on 21 May 2009 and I got the anticipatory bail. With this, their second conspiracy failed. Their plans to have the front page news about my arrest and the Institute being sealed also got jeopardized.
29 May 2009 : They came to know from a well-wisher that a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) had been filed in Rajasthan High Court asking for our Institute to be closed down, in view of it not having AICTE approval. The court did not issue any notices and it was kept for hearing on 03 July 2009. The plans of the conspirators were to have the notices issued on 03 July 2009 and get the news about it published on the front pages. This would have been highly damaging for the Institute and therefore, it was important for us to get the AICTE approval latest by 02 July 2009, without any compromise.
03 June 2009 : They engaged a really good young dynamic senior advocate, who had been earlier Additional Advocate General of Rajasthan and through him, filed a writ petition against AICTE in Rajasthan High Court.
After the above they began a serious all out exercise to get the AICTE approval strictly on merit, without any compromise, on top most priority basis. We prepared a detailed docket with documentary evidences on our struggle of nine years for getting the AICTE approval on merit and sent it to all the relevant persons in the government and distinguished people from different walks of life. This soon started giving results. A large number of these persons, most of whom had visited our Institute over the last nine years and witnessed for themselves the merit in our Institute, spoke to the AICTE Chairman, Secretary in the Ministry of HRD of Govt. of India and other relevant authorities.
19 June 2009 : Our faculty member Mr. Sanjay Diddee and I arrived at Delhi. In the morning we met a well-wisher of the Institute who had seen the merit of the Institute over the last nine years and we explained him the entire matter and the urgency. He later met Mr. Kapil Sibal, new Union Minister for HRD and explained him the details of merit of our Institute. At noon, we met Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia (Dy. Chairman, Planning Commission of India) in Yojana Bhawan and briefed him in the matter, since he had visited our Institute for two days last November and seen for himself the merit. In the afternoon, alongwith two other persons associated with our Institute, we met AICTE Chairman Prof. R. A. Yadav in his office and had a one hour long discussion with him where he told us that he knew about the merits of our Institute and guided us to submit a fresh proposal with all the documents in support of the merit. In the evening, we met Mr. Ashok Thakur, IAS, Additional Secretary (Higher Education) in the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India in his office at Shastri Bhawan.
24 June 2009 : In the forenoon, we submitted to AICTE Chairman our fresh detailed proposal in accordance with AICTE guidelines and with all the documentary evidences in support of our merit. It was handed over by the AICTE Chairman to the concerned senior officials of AICTE for immediate processing to find out that it was as per the required guidelines without any deficiencies. In the afternoon, we had a really good meeting with Mr. Kapil Sibal, the new Union Minister for HRD, in Shastri Bhawan, courtesy a member of our Advisory Council since inception of the Institute who flew into Delhi specially for taking us to this meeting. In the evening, we met Mr. R. P. Agrawal, Secretary (Higher Education) in the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India in Shastri Bhawan.
25 June 2009 : I met the High Powered Committee specially constituted by AICTE to scrutinize our fresh proposal and to interview me. This committee was headed by an ex-Director of IIM and had two other eminent management educationists as members. During the interview, I told the committee about the uniqueness and merits of our Institute, with documentary evidences. At the end of it, the committee said that the gross injustice had been done to our Institute, which was a role model institute for the country, and recommended immediate redressal in the matter, to undo the injustice without any further delay.
26 June 2009 : He was at IIM Ahmedabad to attend IIMA Governing Society meeting. While there, I had a long meeting with the Director and a number of faculty members of IIMA to brief them about the crisis and they all assured their support to our Institute since we had the requisite merits.
28 & 29 June 2009 : AICTE Inspection Team consisting of four experts, including one senior IIM Bangalore professor and one Dean of a top Business School, visited Jodhpur for interviewing our faculty and students and physical verification of the details submitted by us in our proposal.
30 June 2009 : Executive Committee of AICTE met to discuss our proposal, the report of High Powered Committee which had interviewed me and the report of the Inspection Team which visited Jodhpur.
01 July 2009 : In the afternoon, I met AICTE Chairman in his office. He handed over to me the Letter of Approval. As the pleasant coincidence would have it, we got the victory at last on a day which happened to be when I turned 50 years. I could not have desired any better birthday gift. With this, the PIL filed by the conspirators has also become null and void and thus their third conspiracy too has failed.
At last the battle won and struggle successful, on their of no compromise. In fact I told everyone that we were ready 24x7 to showcase our merit without any prior notice and we did not need any preparation. To ensure that the merit and genuineness of our case was proven beyond doubt, the best known and top experts of high integrity were made members of the High Powered Committee as well as the Inspection Team in our case. At the end of it all, everybody including Union HRD Minister, Secretary, Additional Secretary and AICTE Chairman said that our Institute was a role model for the country, gross injustice had been done to it and there was urgent need to redress this without any further delay. So at last our battle and struggle with truth and merit alone as the basis have won. Satyamev Jayate.
He would like to express my grateful thanks to all the alumni & students of our Institute, their parents, our faculty & staff, members of our Board of Governors & Advisory Council and a large number of our well-wishers who stood by us and provided exemplary support during this entire crisis. But for their cooperation, support and prayers, they are clear that they could not have won this battle and would not have been able to come out of the worst crisis we ever faced.
With all the humility, they take pride in what has been achieved against heavy odds, without any compromise and get prepared to achieve many more such milestones in the future, in the service of our nation and the society at large.