Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur,Uttar Pradesh,India. It was declared an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act. IIT Kanpur is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in India.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad,is an Indian business school,located in Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India. As one of India's premier Indian Institutes of Management,the school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by the Ministry of Human Resources,Government of India in 2017. It is widely regarded as the leading business school in India and one of the most prestigious business schools in the world.
Manindra Agrawal is an Indian computer scientist and professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur. He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics,the Godel Prize in 2006;and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri,India's 4th highest civilian award,in 2013.
Delhi School of Economics (DSE),popularly referred to as D School,is an institution of higher learning within the University of Delhi. The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. Established in 1949,the campus of the Delhi School of Economics houses the University of Delhi's departments of Economics,Sociology,Geography and Commerce,as well as the Ratan Tata Library. Out of the four academic departments,the Departments of Economics,Sociology and Geography come under the Faculty of Social Sciences,while the Department of Commerce comes under the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies.
The Indian Institute of Management Indore is an autonomous public business school located in Indore,Madhya Pradesh in India. Instituted in 1996,IIM Indore is the sixth addition to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) system and was named as an institute of national importance in 2017 along with the other IIMs.
Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi(IIT-BHU) is a public technical university located in Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh,India. Founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering College,it became the Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University in 1968. It was later designated an Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. IIT (BHU) Varanasi has 16 departments,3 inter-disciplinary schools and 1 Humanities &Social Sciences Section. It is located inside the Banaras Hindu University Campus.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are the premier autonomous public technical and research universities located across India,founded under the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Sandeep Pandey is an Indian social activist and the present General Secretary of the Socialist Party (India). He co-founded Asha for Education with Dr. Deepak Gupta and V.J.P Srivastava while working on his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California,Berkeley. He has taught as a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore,Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad,Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar,NALSAR University of Law and Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi.
Sanjay Govind Dhande is an Indian Mechanical engineer and educationist. He is alumnus of College of engineering Pune. He was Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and was in temporary charge of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior. From the year 2016 to 2020,Professor Dhande was the Chairman,Board of Governors of National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE),Mumbai,an Institute established by the Government of India in the year 1963. He was also Chairman,Board of Governors of National Institute of Technology Delhi . Professor Dhande was the founder director of Indian Institute of Information Technology,Design and Manufacturing,Jabalpur. He served as a part-time member of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Also,he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.
In India,Institute of National Importance (INI) is a status that may be conferred on a premier public higher education institution by an act of Parliament of India for such institution which "serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled personnel within the specified region of the country/state". Institutes of National Importance receive special recognition,higher autonomy,and funding from the Government of India.
Dheeraj Sharma is a professor of management and director of Indian Institute of Management Rohtak. He is a professor on lien from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Prem Das Rai is an Indian politician from the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party. Rai was a Member of Parliament from the Sikkim constituency of Sikkim,India,first elected in 2009 election and re-elected in 2014 after serving his first term in 2009-2014. In 2019 Lok Sabha election he did not get the ticket from SDF.
Anindya Sen is a Professor of Economics at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) is an apolitical and non-partisan nonprofit organisation in India,working on electoral and political reforms for over 25 years.
The Satyendra K. Dubey Memorial Award is an award named after Satyendra Dubey and presented by the IIT-Kanpur. It is awarded annually to an IIT alumnus who displays the highest levels of professional integrity in upholding human values. The Memorial Award was instituted by IIT Kanpur in 2005 in memory of Satyendra K. Dubey (BT/CE/1994/IITK) and his exemplary life and supreme sacrifice.
N. Srinivasa Iyer Ramaswamy (1926–2012),popularly known as Cartman Ramaswamy,was an Indian engineer,educationist,management academic and writer,and the founder director of the Indian Institute of Management,Bangalore. He was the founder of Centre for Action,Research and Technology for Man,Animal and Nature (CARTMAN),a non governmental organization working for region-relevant and appropriate technology transfer to rural areas and Indian Heritage Academy,an organization involved in propagating Indian cultural traditions. He was also the founder chairman of the Adarsh Vidya Kendra (AVK) Group of educational institutions. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan,in 2006,for his contributions to society.
Sudhir Kumar Jain is the incumbent and 28th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He is a civil engineer by education and has formerly served three terms as the founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He has carried out intensive research and development in the fields of seismic design codes,dynamic of buildings,and post-earthquake studies. Beside these,Jain has actively participated in teaching,research activities and development in earthquake engineering focused on developing countries. He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was also elected a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2021) for leadership in earthquake engineering in developing countries.
