Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K), which completed its 55 years of existence on Sunday, celebrated its foundation day. The celebrations witnessed the participation of faculty members, students and alumni of the institute.
On this occasion, the institute administration felicitated its alumni by giving them `Distinguished alumnus award’. While Dipankar Das Sharma of 1977 batch was present to receive the `Distinguished alumnus award’, Jayadev Misra of 1969 batch and Vijay Kumar of 1983 batch were not present. The awards were presented by Prof Indranil Manna, director of the institute and Prof M Anandkrishnan, chairman, Board of Governors, IIT-Kanpur.
The `Distinguished alumnus award’ is the highest award instituted by the board of governors of the institute for its alumni in recognition of their outstanding achievements.
Dr RK Sachan, registrar, IIT-Kanpur informed that the foundation day celebration programmes were held in three sections. He said that the programme began with a lecture delivered by Prof Baldev Raj, director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, who was the chief guest on the occasion. This was followed by distribution of Institute Fellow Award. The three personalities given this award were Prof SG Dhande, former director of IIT, Kanpur, Prof TVS Rammohan Rao, ex-faculty of IIT-K and Prof M Satyamurthy, director, IISER, Mohali. Prof Dhande was not present in the function.
The students present during the celebrations enjoyed every moment of the event. A group of students performed a band on the dias in the main auditorium. The programme ended with the singing of the National Anthem.
Later, Prof I Manna, director of the institute while talking to newspersons said that the institute had planned to celebrate the foundation day on a much bigger scale. “We took a decision to invite school students on the campus on the foundation day and show them the technological advancements and research work done by the institute. But all this will be done in the next foundation day function”.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Kanpur / TNN / November 03rd, 2014