Four IITs, including Delhi and Madras, get new directors
Highlights
- IITs in in Delhi, Madras, Mandi, and Indore appointed new directors.
- IIT-Bombay professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT-Delhi.
- Suhas Joshi has been appointed the next director of IIT-Indore.
Directors for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Delhi, Madras, Mandi, and Indore were appointed on Monday, according to officials. While IIT-Bombay professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras professor V Kamakoti has been appointed as director of IIT-Madras, they said.
Kamakoti designed India's first indigenously-developed microprocessor 'SHAKTI'.
Laxmidhar Behera, an electrical engineering professor at IIT-Kanpur, has been appointed the director of IIT-Mandi, and Suhas Joshi, a mechanical engineering professor and the dean of alumni and corporate relations at IIT-Bombay, has been appointed the next director of IIT-Indore, the officials said.
