IIT KGP: Director's end of year message

[khawaja hasan]

As requested, sharing the matter with you all.

On Friday, December 13, 2013 7:00 AM, Sudip Ghosh <sudi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Khawaja

Good Morning . Will appreciate if you can share this with our PAN IIT Alumni ME chapter . 

Sudip

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From: IIT Foundation <do-not...@iitfoundation.org>
Date: 13 December 2013 04:57
Subject: IIT KGP: Director's end of year message
To: sudi...@gmail.com


Dear Kgp-ians,

At the outset, please accept my heartiest greetings. As the semester
here draws to a close, I wish to let you know that we have embarked
on an exciting journey at IIT Kharagpur. Over the last four months
we have begun to roll out Vision 2020, which is an accelerated
programme of achieving benchmarked excellence. We have initiated
programmes worth more than Rs 600 crores (US $100 million) to develop
infrastructure, research programmes, global collaborations, societal
impact projects, student, faculty and staff excellence initiatives,
all of which aim at transformational change. The programme is
ambitious, challenging and difficult, but in my opinion absolutely
necessary. The response from the students, faculty and staff are
very encouraging and there is a resonance of energy, enthusiasm and
belief that we can achieve our dreams.

Our teams shall soon be meeting many of you either in the PanIIT Meet
or in various Alumni centres in India and abroad to share our plans
with you. Our Deputy Director, Prof Souvik Bhattacharyya and Dean of
Alumni Affairs and International Relations, Prof Siddhartha
Mukhopadhyay, will represent our Institute in PanIIT. Though I shall
not be able to come to this meet, we are looking at innovative ways
through which I and my other colleagues and students can interact
with the alumni participating in Houston.

I am clear in my mind that such a formidable task can only be well
accomplished if we get the support and encouragement of the alumni.
And let me tell you that everyone I have talked to or connected with
has been extremely excited and very forthcoming in his or her desire
to help. Some of them have already committed to programmes of
excellence that gel extremely well with our goals and we are working
on finalizing these into proper schemes that support Vision 2020.

I am delighted to learn that, IIT Foundation created "The G S Sanyal
Award" to complement our efforts. One of the key ingredients of a
world class institution is world class faculty, who, apart from
being world renowned teachers, and researchers, are great mentors
who guide students both inside and outside the class room.  One such
faculty member was the late Professor G S Sanyal. He left behind a
"blueprint" for faculty to emulate and "go beyond the class room". I
understand that the IIT Foundation Board has approved a transfer of
US $50,000 to seed an endowment that will support  a cash prize to
the winner of the award for the next 5 years, with an expectation
that the award shall be perpetuated through additional donations from
alumni around the globe.  I am sure that this will get strong support
from all of you. I am told that other similar efforts to support
teachers and students are in the offing. I look forward to more of
these efforts which help provide incentives to nurture excellence.

I look forward to interacting with you more in the times to come.

A very happy holidays to many of you, your family and friends as you
kick off this festive season.


Warm regards

Professor Partha Pratim Chakrabarti ("PPC")
IIT KGP Alum and Director, IIT Kharagpur

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