Nominations for Distinguished Alumnus Award

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

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 truly outstanding achievement of highest order recognized 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.

C. An alumnus/alumna who has already received Distinguished Service Award or Young Alumni Achiever Award may only be considered for Distinguished Alumnus Award after a period of 5 years from the date of receipt of the former.

Criteria for nominees - An individual, to be nominated for this Distinguished Alumnus Award, should have made a 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

Criteria for proposer/seconder:
Nominations in prescribed format may be submitted by

• Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees
• Senate Members
• Life Fellows
• Alumni Foundations / Associations through their Presidents.

Self-nomination will not be entertained.

How to nominate:
Nominations must reach the Dean of Alumni Affairs latest by 25th April 2020, Saturday at
Dean, Alumni Affairs
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India - 721302

Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to deanaa@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in with the subject line 'DAA 2020 Nomination'. 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 the future.

Download Nomination Form

Process for Selection - Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (AA) to be constituted with the approval of the Director. The SC will make a panel of such reviewers, preferably amongst past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees, for the purpose. Shortlisted nominations shall be peer reviewed. Based on the recommendations of the peer reviewers, the SC will make a recommendation for consideration of the Standing Committee. The Standing Committee will normally comprise Director as the Chairman, Deputy Director, Dean (AA), Dean (F) as members and 2 (two) External Experts. The Committee will follow the guidelines of DAA selection considering all eligible nominations and their recommendations of the peer reviewers as well as the 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
Bhabesh Chandra Sarkar	20	Hirak Kumar Sen	2020
Achintya Kumar Ghosh	20	Krishnamurthy Sekhar	2020
Tribikram Kundu	20	Rabindra Mukhopadhyay	2020
Kalyan Chakravarti	20	Rajendra Kumar Bagrodia	2020
Raj Kumar Caprihan	20	Shekhar Chaudhuri	2020
Nawal Kishore Choudhary	20	Damodar Acharya	2020
Amitav Rath	20	B N Ramesh	2020
Susmita Sur-kolay	20	Ramnath S Mani	2020
Subir Kumar Banerjee	20	Vinod Kumar Jain	2020
Patti Muddu Gopal Rao	20	Lalit Rai Bahl	2020
Saripalle Satyamurty	20
Ramanand Ajit Shenoi	2019	Arjun Menda	2019
Ganti Prasada Rao	2019	Sunita Sarawagi	2019
Soumen Chakrabarti	2019	Debendra Das Sharma	2019
Bipul Sinha	2019	Rahul Banerjee	2019
Om Prakash Khanna	2019	G C Mitra	2019
Satinder Singh Rekhi	2019	Prabhakar Singh	2019
Ajoy Kumar Ray	2019	Anil Kumar Bhowmick	2019
Bulbul Chakraborty	2019	Ronojoy Dutta	2019
N P Gupta	2019	Vikram Raj Saksena	2019
Sarbari Gupta	2019	Shrigopal Rajgarhia	2019
Chaitali Chakrabarti	2018
V Narayanan	2018	Utpal Bhattacharyya	2018
Parag V Havaldar	2018	Samir V Kamat	2018
Swami Smaranananda (N Sridhar Reddy)	2018	Ramesh Jain	2018
Santanu Chaudhury	2018	Sudipta Seal	2018
Pushpak Bhattacharyya	2018	Haresh Lalvani	2018
Ashim Kumar Datta	2018	Narayan B T Mandayam	2018
Brajendra Mishra	2017	Arun Kumar Bhaduri	2017
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay	2017	Sujit Banerji	2017
Amitabha Ghosh	2017	Anand Sen	2017
Raj Kamal Jha	2017	Boddu Aneesh Reddy	2017
Anuradha Acharya	2017	Subhasis Chaudhuri	2017
Ruma Acharya	2017	Dipak Basu	2017
Shekhar Mital	2017	Surajit Kar Purkayastha	2017
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
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	Venu Govindaraju	2014
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	Aditi Chattopadhyay	2013
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	Sanjoy Banerjee	2012
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
P K Rajagopalan	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	Arvind Kumar Kejriwal	2009
Kiran Seth	2009	Biswadip Mitra	2009
Ravi Kant	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
Arun Sarin	2006	Asit Kumar Biswas	2006
Ravinder Nath Khanna	2006	Pradeepkumar B Khosla	2006
A Raghupathy Upadhya	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
V C Kulandaiswamy	2003	Praveen Chaudhary	2003
Vinod Gupta	1993

Nominations for Young Alumni Achiever Award

Announcements Details - IIT Kharagpur invites nominations for the Young Alumni Achiever Award to recognize young and promising alumni who have achieved great success and recognition in their chosen profession. The Young Alumni Achiever Awards serve as an opportunity for current and future students to be inspired by their seniors who have achieved notable success following graduation.

The Young Alumni Achiever Award will recognize alumni age 45 or younger who have demonstrated emerging and unique innovation, creativity, and success in his or her chosen career. Selections are based on success in chosen careers; however, a demonstrated commitment to excellence in IIT Kharagpur and opportunity for future involvement may also be considered.

Eligibility - Any person who has received a degree from the Institute is eligible to be considered for the Young Alumni Achiever Award, except in the following cases:
A. An alumnus/alumna should not be more than 45 years of age.
B. An alumnus/alumna, who is an employee of IIT Kharagpur, shall not be eligible for the award during his/her service.

Criteria - The alumnus and alumna selected must meet the following criteria:

• Excelled early in life and shown potential for continued success.
• Received recognition as an emerging leader in professional and/or community achievements.
• Attained increasingly responsible positions within their organization, business or field of work.
• Received recognition for significant professional contributions, discoveries or creative work through honors, awards and/or media attention.
• Served as an outstanding young role model for current and future IIT Kharagpur students.

Eligibility Criteria for Proposer/Seconder:
Nomination in prescribed format may be submitted by the past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees, past Young Alumni Achiever Awardees, past Distinguished Service Awardees, Senate Members, Life Fellows, Alumni Foundations/Associations through their President. Self-nomination will not be entertained.

How to nominate:
Nominations must reach the Dean of Alumni Affairs latest by 25th April 2020, Saturday at
Dean, Alumni Affairs
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India - 721302

Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to deanaa@hijli.iitkgp.ac.in with the subject line 'YAAA 2020 Nomination'. 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 the future.

Process for Selection - Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (AA) to be constituted with the approval of the Director. The SC will make a panel of such reviewers, preferably amongst past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees, for the purpose. Shortlisted nominations shall be peer reviewed. Based on the recommendations of the peer reviewers, the SC will make a recommendation for consideration of the Standing Committee. The Standing Committee will normally comprise Director as the Chairman, Deputy Director, Dean (AA), Dean (F) as members and 2 (two) External Experts. The Committee will follow the guidelines of YAAA selection considering all eligible nominations and their recommendations of the peer reviewers as well as the recommendation of the Screening Committee and make final recommendations to the Senate and the Board of Governors for approval.

Click to download the nomination form.

Young Alumni Achiever Awardees

Name	Year	Name	Year
Anupam Datta	2020	Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani	2020
Sumit Goswami	2020	Amit Jain	2020
Parul Kulshreshtha	2020	Mohammad Athar	2020
Suvrat Bafna	2020	Anita Venkiteswaran	2020
Sarswati R	2020	Ashish Tiwari	2020
Madhu Yalamarthi	2020	Ashish Mehta	2020
Sivareena Lakshmi Sarika	2020	Rutvik Doshi	2020
Abhimanyu Abrol	2020	Sourabh Bansal	2020
Anshuman Kumar Singh	2020	Rajat Kumar Bhuyan	2020
Biswa Kalyan Rath	2020
Chanakya Hridaya	2019	J. Sai Deepak	2019
Shambaditya Saha	2019	Subhajyoti De	2019
Sudip Shekhar	2019	Nitin Babel	2019
Madhumita Agrawal	2019	Ashutosh Kumar	2019
Prateek Bumb	2019	Samarth Mahajan	2019
Manish Kumar	2019	Arnab Roy	2019
Abhinav Sinha	2019	Raj Tilak Roushan	2019
Rahul Jaimini	2019	Raja Gopal Sunkara	2019
Akanksha Swarnim	2019	Varun Rai	2019
Ankur Jain	2019
Rajesh Yabaji	2018	Siddhartha Das	2018
Soummya Kar	2018	Pooja Rai	2018
Ishan Barman	2018	Abhinav Shashank	2018
Varun Shrivastava	2018	Krishna Kumar Mehra	2018
Yogesh Kumar Ramadass	2018	Siddartha Khastgir	2018
Soumyajit Mandal	2018	Kaushik Sengupta	2018

Nominations for Distinguished Service Awards

Announcements Details : Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur wishes to recognize its alumni for providing outstanding service to the Institute. The Institute is interested in receiving fresh nominations in respect of individual alumnus/ alumna for consideration for the award in 2020.

Eligibility Criteria for Nominees : Any alumnus/alumna may be nominated. However, 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.

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

• Number of years of service to the Alumni Chapters/Foundations and tangible achievements made
• Number of Alumni-related events organized by the nominee, capacity in which organized, the number of participants in each, tangible outcome in the form of donations collected, etc.
• Endowments created for Chair-Professorships and other needs of the Institute
• Teaching courses at IIT Kharagpur as Adjunct Faculty
• Joint research collaboration with the faculty of the Institute
• Mentoring of students/faculty in innovation and entrepreneurial ventures
• Recognitions received within the Alumni fraternity.

Eligibility Criteria for Proposer/Seconder: Nomination in prescribed format may only be proposed or seconded by :

• Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees
• Past Distinguished Service Awardees
• Present and Former Senate Members
• Office Bearers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer) and former Office Bearers (former President, former Vice President, former Secretary, former Treasurer) of the Alumni Foundations and Alumni Chapters across the globe.
• Life Fellows

Self nomination will not be entertained.

How to nominate: Nominations must reach the Dean of Alumni Affairs latest by 16th November 2020, Monday at

Dean, Alumni Affairs
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India - 721302

Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to deanaa@hijli.iitkgp.ac.in with the subject line 'DSA Nomination 2020'. 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.

Process for Selection : Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (AA).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.

Download Nomination Form

Name	Year	Name	Year
Shyamal Ghosh	2019	Vijay Kiyawat	2019
Binod Kumar Das	2019	Partha Pratim Mitra	2019
Nirmal Kumar Agarwala	2019	Ramit Ghosh	2019
Kabindra Daga	2019	Kirttan Bihari Behera	2019
Sayanta Basu	2019
Arun Prakash Das	2018	Sabesh Subramaniam	2018
Probir Kumar Gupta	2018	Meenakshi Kaul-basu	2018
Pran Kurup	2018	Partha Sarathi Chatterjee	2018
V Ganesh	2018	Ratun Lahiri	2018
K Rajah Venkatraman	2018	Joy Bhattacharya	2018
N Krishnan	2017	Sujata Roy	2017
Pradeep Prasad	2017	Dhananjay Collur	2017
Vinod Sobti	2017	Ashok Madhukar	2017
Neeta Jain Sharma	2017	Davender Kumar Jain	2017
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	2011
Ramnath S Mani	2010	Puran Chand Dang	2010
Arvind Jain	2010	Sundar Mohan Murmu	2010
Hitendra Nath Ghosh	2010

Nina Saxena Award

Names	Year
Mr Harshit Rathore (IITK/Chemistry) and Mr Nikhil Kurele (IITK/Mechanical), co-founders, Nocca Robotics in collaboration with SIIC, IIT Kanpur	2020
Prof. Samir Kumar Pal, Department of Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences	2019
Prof. Navakanta Bhat, Chair, CeNSE, IISc; Cofounder and Chairman of the Board, PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and Dr. Vinay Kumar, Co Founder and CEO PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.	2018
Dr S Sridhar and team from CSIR-IICT Hyderabad	2017
Shri M Jeen Britto	2016
Prof Anil Prabhakar, Jayavel D, Pradeep T	2015
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
Shri Azim Hasham Premji	2014	Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla	2014
Dr. Koppillil Radhakrishnan	2014	Dr. Pradeep Narasimha	2014
Prof. C. Radhakrishna Rao	2014	Dr. Faqir Chand Kohli	2014
Shri Arun Sarin	2013	Shri Y. C. Deveshwar	2013
Shri Baba Neelkanth Kalyani	2012	Shri Man Mohan Sharma	2012
Shri Arjun Malhotra	2012	Shri. B. Muthuraman	2012
Shri Sunil Bharti Mittal	2011	Shri. Sam Pitroda	2011
Prof. Rajagopala Chidambaram	2011	Prof. M. S. Swaminathan	2011
Prof. Goverdhan Mehta	2010	Dr. Srikumar Banerjee	2010
Mr. Shiv Nadar	2010	Prof. K. L. Chopra	2010
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia	2010
Prof. Ashoke Sen	2009	Shri Venu Srinivasan	2009
Shri G. Madhavan Nair	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. Parveen Chaudhari	2007	Shri N. R. Narayan Murthy	2007
Dr. Rajagopal Reddy	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
Prof. M. G. K. Manon	1990	Mr. Satyajit Ray	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
Prof. G. S. Sanyal	2006
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