MHRD sends appointment letter to IIT Bhubaneswar director designate

May 26th, 2009

Update: IIT Bhubaneswar web page now lists Prof. Madhusudan Chakroborty as the director.

Following is an excerpt from a report in the Times of India.

Functioning under temporary arrangement for over a year, the newly-created six IITs have now got their regular directors.

Prof U B Desai, Prof M K Surappa, Prof Sudhir Kumar Jain, Prof Prem Kumar Kalra, Prof Madhusudan Chakroborty and Prof Anil Bhowmick will head the IITs at Hyderabad, Ropar, Gandhinagar, Rajasthan, Bhubaneswar and Patna respectively.

"The Union Cabinet has given its go ahead for the appointment of the directors who were selected by the search committee. We have issued appointment letters to the new directors last week," a senior HRD ministry official said.

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