A Memorable Meeting

Updated on: Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The ninth annual alumni meet of IIT Kharagpur was organised at the Kharagpur campus recently. The institute honoured six of its alumni with Distinguished Service Award and among the recipients was Jaideep Sarkar (IFS), the private secretary to the prime minister; Yatinder Pal Suri, country head of Finnish Group Outokumpu and Pronob Kumar Guha, managing director, Gibraltar Airsprings Pvt Ltd and secretary of IIT Foundation India.
 
Director professor Damodar Acharya handed over the awards to the three distinguished alumni. The other three alumni who could not be present were Dharam Vir, state election commissioner of Haryana and co-author of ‘Sixty Years in the Service of the Nation-An Illustrated History of IIT Kharagpur’; Roy Dasilva, president of IIT Foundation USA and board member of Pan IIT Inc. and Shyamal Roy Chowdhury, a US based photojournalist, entrepreneur and publisher of a pictorial book ‘Spirit of IIT Kharagpur’.

The alumni meet was attended by 120 alumni from India and abroad and alumni-faculty members of the institute including Barnik Maitra, partner at Mackenzie Ltd.; Manavendra Sinha, president and CEO, IDFC Project Equity; Mahesh Swaminathan, managing director, Credit Suisse and Bala Rama Nayar, managing director, Morpheus Capital Advisors. Several of these alumni also participated in the panel discussion, organised by the alumni cell, on enhancement of brand image of IITs.
 
Other major attractions of the event were Hasya Kavi Sammelan, Mini Marathon and Illumination, an indigenous lighting tradition of IIT Kharagpur students. The book "The Game Changers - 20 extraordinary success stories of entrepreneurs from IIT Kharagpur”, penned by three alumni was released. The three day event was concluded with a fine arts and photography exhibition by the students.

The alumni widely appreciated Vision 2020 of the institute and committed themselves to contribute towards it. The specially invited batches of 1962 led by Anupam Goyal, president, LeadExcel Inc. and 1987 led by Arghya Das, country manager, Hindustan Petroleum committed Rs 50 lakh from each batch towards founding endowment funds for the institute. Distinguished Service awardee Pronob Guha also made a similar commitment for his batch of 1969 along with YPS Suri of 1975.
 

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