Nominations for Distinguished Alumnus Award

Announcements Details - Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur recognizes the professional achievements and contribution of its alumni through the Distinguished Alumnus Award (DAA) each year on the Institute Convocation Day.

Eligibility - Any person who has received a degree from the Institute is eligible to be considered for Distinguished Alumnus Award, except in the following cases:
A. An alumnus/alumna, who is an employee of IIT Kharagpur, shall not be eligible for the award during his/her service period except when he/she has accomplished truly outstanding achievement of highest order recognized widely.

B. Alumni who have been awarded D.Sc (Honoris Causa) and or Life Fellow Award of the Institute will also be considered as Distinguished Alumnus Awardees of the Institute.

C. An alumnus/alumna who has already received Distinguished Service Award or Young Alumni Achiever Award may only be considered for Distinguished Alumnus Award after a period of 5 years from the date of receipt of the former.

Criteria for nominees - An individual, to be nominated for this Distinguished Alumnus Award, should have made a significant professional contribution which is recognized widely. The following, among possible other criteria, shall be considered while assessing the nominations:

• Positions held
• Contributions to his/her profession
• Awards and Honours Received
• Association with the Institute
• Contribution to the growth and development of the country
• Other contributions

Criteria for proposer/seconder:
Nominations in prescribed format may be submitted by

• Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees
• Past Distinguished Service Awardees
• Past Young Achiever Awardees
• Present and former Senate Members
• Officer Bearers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer) and former Office Bearers(former President, former Vice-President, former Secretary, former Treasurer) of the Alumni Foundations and Alumni Chapters across the globe.
• Life Fellows

Self-nomination will not be entertained.

How to nominate:
Nominations must be submitted through email latest by 12th June 2023, Monday. The signed hard copy needs to be sent to the following address by 15th June 2023.
Dean, Outreach & AA
Office of Alumni Affairs & Branding
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India - 721302

Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to [email protected] / [email protected] with the subject line 'DAA 2023 Nomination'. It may not be possible to consider nominations received after this date for the current year. However, those will be carried forward for consideration in the future.

Click here for DAA Nomination Form

Process for Selection - Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (OR & AA) to be constituted with the approval of the Director. The SC will make a panel of such reviewers, preferably amongst past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees, for the purpose. Shortlisted nominations shall be peer reviewed. Based on the recommendations of the peer reviewers, the SC will make a recommendation for consideration of the Standing Committee. The Standing Committee will normally comprise Director as the Chairman, Deputy Director, Dean (OR & AA), Associate Dean (Alumni Affairs & Branding) as members and 2 (two) External Experts. The Committee will follow the guidelines of DAA selection considering all eligible nominations and their recommendations of the peer reviewers as well as the recommendation of the Screening Committee and make final recommendations to the Senate and the Board of Governors for approval.

Distinguished Alumnus Awardees

Name	Year	Name	Year
Bhabesh Chandra Sarkar	20	Hirak Kumar Sen	2020
Achintya Kumar Ghosh	20	Krishnamurthy Sekhar	2020
Tribikram Kundu	20	Rabindra Mukhopadhyay	2020
Kalyan Chakravarti	20	Rajendra Kumar Bagrodia	2020
Raj Kumar Caprihan	20	Shekhar Chaudhuri	2020
Nawal Kishore Choudhary	20	Damodar Acharya	2020
Amitav Rath	20	B N Ramesh	2020
Susmita Sur-kolay	20	Ramnath S Mani	2020
Subir Kumar Banerjee	20	Vinod Kumar Jain	2020
Patti Muddu Gopal Rao	20	Lalit Rai Bahl	2020
Saripalle Satyamurty	20
Ramanand Ajit Shenoi	2019	Arjun Menda	2019
Ganti Prasada Rao	2019	Sunita Sarawagi	2019
Soumen Chakrabarti	2019	Debendra Das Sharma	2019
Bipul Sinha	2019	Rahul Banerjee	2019
Om Prakash Khanna	2019	G C Mitra	2019
Satinder Singh Rekhi	2019	Prabhakar Singh	2019
Ajoy Kumar Ray	2019	Anil Kumar Bhowmick	2019
Bulbul Chakraborty	2019	Ronojoy Dutta	2019
N P Gupta	2019	Vikram Raj Saksena	2019
Sarbari Gupta	2019	Shrigopal Rajgarhia	2019
Chaitali Chakrabarti	2018
V Narayanan	2018	Utpal Bhattacharyya	2018
Parag V Havaldar	2018	Samir V Kamat	2018
Swami Smaranananda (N Sridhar Reddy)	2018	Ramesh Jain	2018
Santanu Chaudhury	2018	Sudipta Seal	2018
Pushpak Bhattacharyya	2018	Haresh Lalvani	2018
Ashim Kumar Datta	2018	Narayan B T Mandayam	2018
Brajendra Mishra	2017	Arun Kumar Bhaduri	2017
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay	2017	Sujit Banerji	2017
Amitabha Ghosh	2017	Anand Sen	2017
Raj Kamal Jha	2017	Boddu Aneesh Reddy	2017
Anuradha Acharya	2017	Subhasis Chaudhuri	2017
Ruma Acharya	2017	Dipak Basu	2017
Shekhar Mital	2017	Surajit Kar Purkayastha	2017
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay	2016	Thirumalai Venkatesan	2016
Gautam Biswas	2016	Indranil Manna	2016
Anurag Acharya	2016	Ajit Jain	2016
Ashoke Kumar Deysarkar	2016
Bedabrata Pain	2015	Chetan V Vaidya	2015
S Christopher	2015	Gandhi Manoj Sumatilal	2015
Mohinder Kumar Badhwar	2015	Peter Chan	2015
Pradip Dutta	2015	Rakesh Bahadur Verma	2015
Sharat Chandra Bhargava	2015	Sundararajan Pichai	2015
Venkatesh Shankar	2015
Hem Shanker Ray	2014	Partha Sarathi Ghosh	2014
Niraj Kumar Jha	2014	Krishen Mehta	2014
Vinayak Lohani	2014	Diwakar Acharya	2014
H Harish Hande	2014	Krishnendu Chakrabarty	2014
M Sanyasi Raju	2014	Pallab Kumar Chatterjee	2014
Sushil Kumar Soonee	2014	K S Sajwan	2014
Sanjay Paul	2014	Venu Govindaraju	2014
Aniruddha Roy	2013	Devinder Gupta	2013
Jayanta Chatterjee	2013	K G Narayan	2013
K K Sarbadhikari	2013	Keshab K Parhi	2013
Pramimal Kanti Bharadwaj	2013	Rabindra Nath Nayak	2013
Somnath Ghosh	2013	Aditi Chattopadhyay	2013
Pinakpani Chakraborty	2012	Sandipan Chakravortty	2012
Anand Deshpande	2012	Supratik Guha	2012
Farrokh Pudam Mistree	2012	Viswanatha Ramamurti	2012
Dipankar Raychaudhuri	2012	Ved Prakash Sandlas	2012
Pranob Kumar Sandell	2012	Subrata Sengupta	2012
P C Varghese	2012	Sanjoy Banerjee	2012
Braj Bhushan Pandey	2011	Ramchandra Prabhakar Gokarn	2011
Bhubaneshwar Mishra	2011	Ramesh Kumar Agarwal	2011
Kaushik Roy	2011	Ned Mohan	2011
Lallit Anand	2011	Kalyanmoy Deb	2011
Biswapriya Sanyal	2011	Satyendranath Mukherjee	2011
Samit Kumar Bhattacharyya	2011	Amitava H Roy	2011
N S Mohanram	2011	S C Mukhopadhyay	2011
Debnarayan Bhattacharya	2011	P R Menon	2011
C N Raghavendran	2011	Pradip Kumar Dutta	2011
J V Nrupender Rao	2011	Jammi Srinivas Rao	2011
Bahadur Chand Nakra	2011	Mahinder Kumar Jain	2011
P K Rajagopalan	2011
Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri	2010	Subrata Biswas	2010
Amit Chatterjee	2010	Sujoy Kumar Guha	2010
Ranbir Singh Gupta	2010	Narendra Kumar	2010
Malay Mukherjee	2010	Uttam Chand Jain	2010
Ram Nath Mukhija	2010	K Radhakrishnan	2010
Kailash Chandra Sahu	2010	Prabhakant Sinha	2010
Amit Goyal	2009	Arun Gajananrao Phadke	2009
Subir Chowdhury	2009	Arvind Kumar Kejriwal	2009
Kiran Seth	2009	Biswadip Mitra	2009
Ravi Kant	2009
Anil Kumar Malhotra	2008	Pradip Kumar Roy	2008
Shantanu Kumar Mahapatra	2008	Duvvuri Subbarao	2008
Prithviraj Banerjee	2007	Supriyo Datta	2007
K Shantilal Parikh	2007	Panjab Singh	2007
Surindra Prasad	2007
Arun Sarin	2006	Asit Kumar Biswas	2006
Ravinder Nath Khanna	2006	Pradeepkumar B Khosla	2006
A Raghupathy Upadhya	2006
Avinash Chandra Wadhawan	2005	Sanjay Kumar Banerjee	2005
Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya	2004	Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan	2004
Srikumar Banerjee	2004	Anjan Bose	2004
Prem Vrat	2004
V C Kulandaiswamy	2003	Praveen Chaudhary	2003
Vinod Gupta	1993

Nominations for Young Alumni Achiever Award

Announcements Details - IIT Kharagpur invites nominations for the Young Alumni Achiever Award to recognize young and promising alumni who have achieved great success and recognition in their chosen profession. The Young Alumni Achiever Awards serve as an opportunity for current and future students to be inspired by their seniors who have achieved notable success following graduation.

The Young Alumni Achiever Award will recognize alumni age 45 or younger who have demonstrated emerging and unique innovation, creativity, and success in his or her chosen career. Selections are based on success in chosen careers; however, a demonstrated commitment to excellence in IIT Kharagpur and opportunity for future involvement may also be considered.

Eligibility - Any person who has received a degree from the Institute is eligible to be considered for the Young Alumni Achiever Award, except in the following cases:
A. An alumnus/alumna should not be more than 45 years of age on 18th August 2023 i.e. on the Foundation Day of the Institute, the day on which awards will be conferred.
B. An alumnus/alumna, who is an employee of IIT Kharagpur, shall not be eligible for the award during his/her service.

Criteria - The alumnus and alumna selected must meet the following criteria:

• Excelled early in life and shown potential for continued success.
• Received recognition as an emerging leader in professional and/or community achievements
• Attained increasingly responsible positions within their organization, business or field of work.
• Received recognition for significant professional contributions, discoveries or creative work through honors, awards and/or media attention.
• Served as an outstanding young role model for current and future IIT Kharagpur students.
• Contribution to the growth and development of the country.
• Other contributions

Criteria for Proposer/Seconder:
Nomination in prescribed format may only proposed or seconded by :

• Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees
• Past Distinguished Service Awardees
• Past Young Achiever Awardees
• Present and former Senate Members
• Officer Bearers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer) and former Office Bearers (former President, former Vice-President, former Secretary, former Treasurer) of the Alumni Foundations and Alumni Chapters across the globe.
• Life Fellows

Self-nomination will not be entertained.

How to nominate:
Nominations must be submitted through email latest by 12th June 2023, Monday. The signed hard copy needs to be sent to the following address by 15th June 2023.
Dean, Outreach & AA
Office of Alumni Affairs & Branding
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur, India - 721302

Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to [email protected] / [email protected] with the subject line 'YAAA 2023 Nomination'. It may not be possible to consider nominations received after this date for the current year. However, those will be carried forward for consideration in the future.

Click here for YAAA Nomination Form

Process for Selection - Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (OR & AA) to be constituted with the approval of the Director. The SC will make a panel of such reviewers, preferably amongst past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees, for the purpose. Shortlisted nominations shall be peer reviewed. Based on the recommendations of the peer reviewers, the SC will make a recommendation for consideration of the Standing Committee. The Standing Committee will normally comprise the Director as the Chairman, Deputy Director, Dean (OR & AA), Associate Dean (Alumni Affairs & Branding) as members and 2 (two) External Experts. The Committee will follow the guidelines of YAAA selection considering all eligible nominations and their recommendations of the peer reviewers as well as the recommendation of the Screening Committee and make final recommendations to the Senate and the Board of Governors for approval.

Young Alumni Achiever Awardees

Name	Year	Name	Year
Anupam Datta	2020	Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani	2020
Sumit Goswami	2020	Amit Jain	2020
Parul Kulshreshtha	2020	Mohammad Athar	2020
Suvrat Bafna	2020	Anita Venkiteswaran	2020
Sarswati R	2020	Ashish Tiwari	2020
Madhu Yalamarthi	2020	Ashish Mehta	2020
Sivareena Lakshmi Sarika	2020	Rutvik Doshi	2020
Abhimanyu Abrol	2020	Sourabh Bansal	2020
Anshuman Kumar Singh	2020	Rajat Kumar Bhuyan	2020
Biswa Kalyan Rath	2020
Chanakya Hridaya	2019	J. Sai Deepak	2019
Shambaditya Saha	2019	Subhajyoti De	2019
Sudip Shekhar	2019	Nitin Babel	2019
Madhumita Agrawal	2019	Ashutosh Kumar	2019
Prateek Bumb	2019	Samarth Mahajan	2019
Manish Kumar	2019	Arnab Roy	2019
Abhinav Sinha	2019	Raj Tilak Roushan	2019
Rahul Jaimini	2019	Raja Gopal Sunkara	2019
Akanksha Swarnim	2019	Varun Rai	2019
Ankur Jain	2019
Rajesh Yabaji	2018	Siddhartha Das	2018
Soummya Kar	2018	Pooja Rai	2018
Ishan Barman	2018	Abhinav Shashank	2018
Varun Shrivastava	2018	Krishna Kumar Mehra	2018
Yogesh Kumar Ramadass	2018	Siddartha Khastgir	2018
Soumyajit Mandal	2018	Kaushik Sengupta	2018

Nominations for Distinguished Service Awards

Announcements Details : Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur wishes to recognize its alumni for providing outstanding service to the Institute. The Institute is interested in receiving fresh nominations in respect of individual alumnus/ alumna for consideration for the award in 2022.

Eligibility Criteria for Nominees : Any alumnus/alumna may be nominated. However, an alumnus/alumna, who is an employee of IIT Kharagpur, shall not be eligible for the award during his/her service period.

The following aspects will be considered among possible others while assessing the roles and contributions of the Nominee:

• Number of years of service to the Alumni Chapters/Foundations and tangible achievements made
• Number of Alumni-related events organized by the nominee, capacity in which organized, the number of participants in each, tangible outcome in the form of donations collected, etc.
• Endowments created for Chair-Professorships, Scholarship, Centres, Schools, Academy, Lab and other needs of the Institute.
• Teaching courses at IIT Kharagpur as Adjunct Faculty
• Joint research collaboration with the faculty of the Institute
• Mentoring of students/faculty in innovation and entrepreneurial ventures
• Financial support to the Institute through CSR Fund from the Industry.
• Initiative for Industry-Academic collaboration in research & product development.
• Collaboration with IIT Kharagpur in lab to market initiative, product licensing.
• Participating in designing new courses and courses in the interdisciplinary areas.
• No. of International collaboration established like Joint Ph D, Student exchange Programe, Joint Research etc.
• Financial support to the Institute incubated Startups.
• Recognitions received within the Alumni fraternity.

Eligibility Criteria for Proposer/Seconder: Nomination in prescribed format may only be proposed or seconded by :

• Past Distinguished Alumnus Awardees
• Past Distinguished Service Awardees
• Present and Former Senate Members
• Office Bearers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer) and former Office Bearers (former President, former Vice President, former Secretary, former Treasurer) of the Alumni Foundations and Alumni Chapters across the globe.
• Life Fellows

Self-nomination will not be entertained.

How to nominate: Nominations must be submitted through email latest by 20th November,2022 Sunday. Electronic copies of the nomination papers should also be submitted by email to [email protected] with the subject line 'DSA Nomination 2022'. It may not be possible to consider nominations received after this date for the current year.

Click here for DSA Nomination Form

Process for Selection : Nominations shall be shortlisted by a Screening Committee (SC) chaired by the Dean (OR & AA). The Standing Committee chaired by the Director shall consider all eligible nominations as recommendations from the Screening Committee and make final recommendations to the Board of Governors for approval.

Name	Year	Name	Year
Amitabh Agarwal	2021	Srikanth	2021
Sunil Sunil	2021
Pankaj Kumar Singh	2020	Shiladitya Basu	2020
Vipin Popat	2020
Shyamal Ghosh	2019	Vijay Kiyawat	2019
Binod Kumar Das	2019	Partha Pratim Mitra	2019
Nirmal Kumar Agarwala	2019	Ramit Ghosh	2019
Kabindra Daga	2019	Kirttan Bihari Behera	2019
Sayanta Basu	2019
Arun Prakash Das	2018	Sabesh Subramaniam	2018
Probir Kumar Gupta	2018	Meenakshi Kaul-basu	2018
Pran Kurup	2018	Partha Sarathi Chatterjee	2018
V Ganesh	2018	Ratun Lahiri	2018
K Rajah Venkatraman	2018	Joy Bhattacharya	2018
N Krishnan	2017	Sujata Roy	2017
Pradeep Prasad	2017	Dhananjay Collur	2017
Vinod Sobti	2017	Ashok Madhukar	2017
Neeta Jain Sharma	2017	Davender Kumar Jain	2017
Balbir Kumar Mathur	2016	Varadarajan Seshamani	2016
Rajendra Kumar Khanna	2016	Parvati Dev	2016
Joyjit Nath	2016	Nirmal Kumar Bhardwaj	2016
Abhijit Ray	2016	Shailendra Kumar	2016
Indramohan Asthana	2016	Veerendra Kumar Jaitly	2016
Pronob Kumar Guha	2011	Louis Dasilva Roy	2011
Jaideep Sarkar	2011	Shyamal Roychoudhury	2011
Yatindra Pal Singh Suri	2011	Dharam Vir	2011
Ramnath S Mani	2010	Puran Chand Dang	2010
Arvind Jain	2010	Sundar Mohan Murmu	2010
Hitendra Nath Ghosh	2010

Nina Saxena Award

Names	Year
Mr Harshit Rathore (IITK/Chemistry) and Mr Nikhil Kurele (IITK/Mechanical), co-founders, Nocca Robotics in collaboration with SIIC, IIT Kanpur	2020
Prof. Samir Kumar Pal, Department of Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences	2019
Prof. Navakanta Bhat, Chair, CeNSE, IISc; Cofounder and Chairman of the Board, PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and Dr. Vinay Kumar, Co Founder and CEO PathShodh Healthcare Pvt. Ltd.	2018
Dr S Sridhar and team from CSIR-IICT Hyderabad	2017
Shri M Jeen Britto	2016
Prof Anil Prabhakar, Jayavel D, Pradeep T	2015
Dr. A. K. Ghosh, Dr. P. K. Tewari, Dr. R. C. Bindal, Dr. D. Goswami, Mr. K. P. Bhattacharyya, Mr. S. Shivayyanamath, Mr. S. A. Tiwari, Ms. Sangita Pal Mr. Siddharth Garg	2013
Girija J., Satyanarayana S, Mukundan K. K, Resmi R., Arun Alex, Gopakumar R., Satya Bhusan Shukla, Femina Begum S., Archana V. V., Pratheep Kumar K. P.	2011
Dr. Jagannath Nayak, Shri Pradeep Kumar, Shri Hari Sanker Singh, Shri M. P. Unnikrishnan, Shri G. Krishan Prasad, Shri CHSS Satyanarayana, Shri Sailesh Kumar,	2010
Prof. Milind V Rane, Mr. Kartick Kumar Samanta, Mr. Prateek Sabharwal, Mr. Rohit Lohani, Dr. Ashwini K. Agrawal Dr. Manjeet Jassal	2009
Dr. Subhash P. Andey, Dr. Prakesh S. Kalker, Dr. Madan V. Nanoti	2008
Dr. S. P. S. Khanuja	2007

Nina Saxena Award

Honoris Causa

Name	Year	Name	Year
Shri Azim Hasham Premji	2014	Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla	2014
Dr. Koppillil Radhakrishnan	2014	Dr. Pradeep Narasimha	2014
Prof. C. Radhakrishna Rao	2014	Dr. Faqir Chand Kohli	2014
Shri Arun Sarin	2013	Shri Y. C. Deveshwar	2013
Shri Baba Neelkanth Kalyani	2012	Shri Man Mohan Sharma	2012
Shri Arjun Malhotra	2012	Shri. B. Muthuraman	2012
Shri Sunil Bharti Mittal	2011	Shri. Sam Pitroda	2011
Prof. Rajagopala Chidambaram	2011	Prof. M. S. Swaminathan	2011
Prof. Goverdhan Mehta	2010	Dr. Srikumar Banerjee	2010
Mr. Shiv Nadar	2010	Prof. K. L. Chopra	2010
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia	2010
Prof. Ashoke Sen	2009	Shri Venu Srinivasan	2009
Shri G. Madhavan Nair	2009
Dr. A. P. Abdul Kalam	2008	Prof. Asit Kumar Biswas	2008
Dr. Anil Kakodkar	2008	Dr. Brijmohan Lall Munjal	2008
Prof. Lord Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya	2008
Dr. Parveen Chaudhari	2007	Shri N. R. Narayan Murthy	2007
Dr. Rajagopal Reddy	2007
Mr. R. P. Goenka	2005	Mr. Ratan Tata	2004
Prof. G. S. Sanyal	2003	Dr. Pallab K Chatterjee	1996
Dr. Suhash S. Patil	1995	Dr. Mani Lal Bhowmick	1995
Prof. C. N. R. Rao	1991
Prof. M. G. K. Manon	1990	Mr. Satyajit Ray	1990
Mother Teresa	1989	Dr. H. Rakshit	1978
Dr. S. R. Sengupta	1968	Prof. B. R. Seth	1968

Life Fellows of IIT Kharagpur

Name	Year
Prof. G. S. Sanyal	2006
Dr. Purnendu Chatterjee	2003
Shri Brijendra Kumar Syngal	2003
Dr. Satyendranath Das	2003
Professor Anadi Sankar Gupta	2003
Mr. Vinod Gupta	2002
Mr. Arjun Malhotra	2002
Mr. Bijoy G. Chatterjee	2002
Dr. Suhas S. Patil	2002

Nominations for G S Sanyal Faculty Excellence Award (GSSFEA) 2023
Established by IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (USA)

Introduction - The G S Sanyal Faculty Excellence Award (GSSFEA), instituted by the IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (USA), is awarded each year to a faculty member of the institute, based on his/her contributions to the students through student related activities, such as social and cultural activities, technology, innovation and/or entrepreneurship. The purpose of the Award is to recognize a faculty member for going out of the way to help students in academic, social or other matters representing the best of legendary Prof. G. S. Sanyal. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (USA) and IIT Kharagpur is already in place. The current document describes the broad eligibility criteria, as well as the selection process.

Eligibility

• All permanent faculty members are eligible for the award, provided he/she has been a faculty member of IIT Kharagpur for at least 5 years in one or more academic units.
• The nominee must have made a significant positive difference in the lives/careers of a group of students.
• Institute norms would apply for all the factors being considered.

Selection Process

• Dean, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture (FoE&A), will announce the beginning of the nomination process for GSSFEA every year in the website of the IIT Kharagpur (www.iitkgp.ac.in ) in the first week of May of every year.
• Any current student or alumnus of IIT Kharagpur may nominate a current active faculty member for the award. For this, a group of 5 students/alumni will have to jointly propose a nominee (using FORM 1). The whole process will be a well-coordinated effort whereby the lead proposer (student or alumnus) interacts with 4 others (student or alumnus) who have been helped by the nominee and feel that he/she deserves to be proposed or nominated for the award. The lead proposer also connects with a current faculty member or an Ex-faculty member (Seconder) of IIT Kharagpur, who is ready to vouch for the achievements of the nominee.
• The lead proposer then sends directly the duly filled-in FORM 1 to the Dean, FoE&A ([email protected]), copying the rest of the members (4 other proposers + 1 seconder) and keeping [email protected] in the loop.
• After verifying the details in the FORM 1, an email will be sent to the Lead proposer confirming nomination, along with the FORM 2. The lead proposer and 4 other proposers will then complete FORM 2, each of them citing 2 mutually exclusive reasons (one of the reasons must be on outside class room activities). The lead proposer then sends the duly filled-in FORM 2 directly to the Dean, FoE&A ([email protected]), copying it the rest of the members (4 other proposers + 1 seconder) and also keeping [email protected] in the loop.
• Subsequently the Seconder evaluates the reasons cited in FORM 2, and confirms at least 40% of the cited reasons, if not more, and sends his/her confirmation directly to the Dean, FoE&A ([email protected]) copying [email protected]
• Dean FoE&A would thus have 10 mutually exclusive reasons or criteria [along with the Seconder?s confirmation of at least 4 of them], in favor of each of the nominee being proposed, out of which at least 5 reasons or criteria would be on outside class activities, to judge the suitability of the candidate for the award.
• Dean FoE&A, after reviewing, will send all valid nominations to the Selection committee members. The committee will shortlist and rank a maximum of three (3) nominations, which will be sent to the Director for final selection of one (1) awardee.
• In case no nomination is received: The selection committee will work as Search Committee and identify 1 or 2 deserving faculty members and recommend to the Director citing all reasons, for final selection.
• The Director will review all the recommended nominations and make the final decision. If needed, he/she may choose to review all nominations received.
• The award shall be duly reported to the Board of Governors.
• A suggested timeframe for the various steps during 2023 is as follows:

Step 1	Announcement by Dean FoE&A initiating the GSSFEA 2023 nomination process	May 15, 2023 (Monday)
Step 2	Receipt of the preliminary nomination (FORM 1) by Dean FoE&A	May 31, 2023 (Wednesday)
Step 3	Receipt of the Duly filled FORM 2 by Dean FoE&A [from the Lead Proposer]	June 16, 2023 (Friday)
Step 4	Seconder to share his/her confirmation to the Dean, FoE&A	June 23, 2023 (Friday)
Step 5	Screening of all the nominations by Dean, FoE&A	June 30, 2023 (Friday)
Step 6	Evaluation to be completed by Selection/ Search committee, and a list of upto three (3) nominees to be sent to the Director	July 14, 2023 (Friday)
Step 7	Selection of the awardee by the Director, and announcement to be made after BOG approval	July 31, 2023 (Monday)
Step 8	Award to be presented on the Foundation Day of the Institute.	August 18 , 2023 (Friday)

Self-nomination will not be entertained.

Download Nomination Form

Excellent Young Teacher Award (EYTA)

Introduction - The Excellent Young Teacher Award (EYTA) instituted by the IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (India) is awarded each year to a faculty member of the institute, based on his/her contributions made to students mainly through good teaching and also other student related activities, such as social and cultural activities or technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. The objective of the award is to publicize celebration of teaching excellence among young faculty, in order to attract young top talent as faculty members. The selection process, as well as the broad criteria for selection, is given below.

Selection Process

• Office of Dean, Faculty will receive nominations from those who are invited by it (as per criteria given below), in appropriate format and forwarded by the HoDs/HoSs/HoCs.
• Nominations received will be shortlisted, based on eligibility criteria mentioned below, first by a Short-listing Committee appointed by the Director. The meetings of committee shall normally have a representative of the IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (India) as member or one invitee nominated by IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation (India), except when such representatives are not available to attend a meeting. This committee may also invite subject experts from the institute and /or outside and interact with the shortlisted candidates to prepare a list of 3 candidates whose nomination papers would be sent to the Apex Committee for consideration for final recommendation. The Short-listing Committee shall make available to the Apex Committee the assessment of all nominations, including those not recommended, as well as all details of criteria applied in arriving at decision.
• An Apex committee comprising external experts appointed by the Director and under the Chairmanship of the Director will review the nomination papers and make the final decision. If needed, the Apex Committee may choose to review all nominations received.
• The award shall be reported to the Board of Governors.

Selection Criteria

• Only permanent Assistant Professors, who have completed a minimum of 4 semesters of teaching and a maximum of 9 semesters of teaching at IIT Kharagpur as on 30th June the award year, and who have not received this award in the past, are eligible
• The candidates for nomination will be selected based on course feedback responses received from students and recorded in the ERP system after each semester
• Feedback shall be considered only for the theory courses which:
  • Have either been taught solely by the teacher,
  • Or have been taught jointly with other faculty members but a separate section of students was taught the full course solely by the nominee.
  Nominee should clearly indicate the courses and their over-all feedback scores as recorded in ERP along with total number of respondents for each.
• The number of respondents providing feedback, for each course to be considered, should be greater than or equal to 30.
• The average (rounded to one decimal place) of the best 4 overall teaching feedback scores (with 30 or more respondents) of theory courses taught at IIT Kharagpur shall be considered. For courses with number of respondents greater than or equal to 90, the over-all score of the course shall be multiplied by a factor of 1.25, before being considered for averaging. A minimum score of 4.0 is needed to be eligible for the award. Only the top 10 eligible teachers shall be invited for submitting their nominations. The number may vary if:
  • either the number of eligible teachers is less than 10, in which case all such teachers shall be invited to submit their CVs
  • or if the number of eligible teachers is more than 10 with several teachers having the same average score, in which case the cut-off average feedback score shall be chosen to be the lowest cut-off such that a higher cut-off would render the number to be less than 10. All teachers with the same average cut-off score shall be invited to submit their CVs.
• The selection among the above nominees shall be judged based on the below criteria. The weightage of each criterion is given alongwith.
  1. Involvement in student activities such as: (60%)
     1. Role in Student Events
     2. Office bearer related to different student activities at the institute level (MNFIC, Gymkhana, EAA, CDC, Innovation, Entrepreneurship etc.) and student societies, cells etc. Role and contributions of the nominee should be clearly stated.
     3. Role in Hall Management
     4. Any other role
  2. Contribution to innovation, entrepreneurship and research activities as seen from: (20%)
     1. Participation in e-learning activities (NPTEL, Pedagogy, T10KT etc.)
     2. Text books/Laboratory manuals etc. published
     3. Other contributions such as establishment/development of teaching/research laboratories
     4. Number of research students (MS/Ph.D) supervised/supervising
     5. Establishment of research laboratories
     6. Publications in reputed international journals (indexed in ISI or similar reputed databases) / International and National Patents /Books/ Research Monographs (not chapters in edited volumes) with reputed Publishers. Only publications which report work done while at IIT Kharagpur as faculty shall be considered. Publications of exceptional quality to be recognized.
     7. Contribution to innovation and entrepreneurship activities
  3. Contribution to sponsored research and consultancy: (20%)
     1. Role of the nominee (PI, Co-PI etc.) in sponsored research projects secured from external agencies while being at IIT Kharagpur as faculty.
     2. Awards and recognitions

The Short-listing Committee may formulate other appropriate criteria, policies for prioritization etc. for arriving at an ordered or ranked list of nominations for making its recommendations. The Apex Committee shall make final and independent decision for selection, typically based on the recommended nominations, and place it for reporting to the Board of Governors. Institute norms should apply for any other factors that may be considered.