Dharmendra Pradhan to attend 67th convocation at IIT Kharagpur

The 67th convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will be held offline on December 18.

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be the chief guest at the event, according to a statement released by the institute. Sanjiv Goenka, chairman of the RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group and chairman of board of governors at IIT Kharagpur, will be present on the occasion.

The statement said,

IIT Kharagpur has instituted a Lifetime Achievement Award. “For the first time ever, IIT Kharagpur will bestow a Lifetime Achievement Award on professor M. A. Ramlu, who served as the founder head of the Department of Mining Engineering. He retired as the officiating director of the institute.”

The Life Fellow Awards will be handed over to five people — Sadhan Kumar De, former head of Rubber Technology Centre and dean of post-graduate studies in IIT Kharagpur; Biswa Nath Chatterjee, a former professor in E&ECE Department, IIT Kharagpur, and now professor and academic adviser at BP Poddar Institute of Management & Technology; Puran Chand Dang, founder of the first IIT Alumni Society of the world (IIT-SINE); Gopal Rajgarhia, a chemical engineer and industrialist; and Asoke Kumar Deysarkar, PhD in chemical engineering and successful entrepreneur and owner of Products for People in Houston.

IIT Kharagpur will also hand over the Disguised Alumnus Award 2021 to are Suresh Chandra Mishra, the chairman of Naval Research Board at DRDO; V.K. Jaitly, a motivational speaker and consultant who led the technological modernisation of the Indian defence forces; Mohan Rao, a food process engineering expert and chief science officer, Rainos Consulting US; Krishan Mohan Khanna, the chairman and founder of i-Watch think tank and foundation who has worked with Niti Aayog and the agriculture ministry; and Mukund Padmanabhan, the president and founder of Guru Krupa Foundation and a topflight researcher at University of California, Los Angeles.