Indian Institutes of Technology Location of the 16 functioning (green) IITs. Five more (orange) to come up in next few years. IITs name (city/town, if different from name) The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs ) are a group of autonomous public engineering and management institutes of India. The IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which has declared them as institutions of national importance, and lays down their powers, duties, framework for governance etc. [1][2] The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists sixteen institutes located at Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mandi, Mumbai, Patna, Ropar, Roorkee and Varanasi. Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration. The IITs award degrees ranging from B.Tech to PhD . The IITs have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions. It was called IIT-JEE , which was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination in 2013. The post-graduate level program that awards M.Tech degree in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati). M.Tech admission is done on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). In addition to B.Tech and M.Tech programs IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc in Engineering, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc. Admission to these programs of IITs is done through Common Admission Test (CAT), Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED). [3] Institutes The IITs are located in: IITs and locations, sorted alphabetically [2][4][5] Name Photo Short Name Establishe d City/ Town State/UT Website IIT Bhubane swar IITBBS 2008 Bhuba neswar Odisha iitbbs .ac.in IIT Bombay IITB 1958 Mumb ai Maharas htra iitb. ac.in IIT Delhi IITD 1963‡ (founded in 1961) New Delhi Delhi iitd. ac.in IIT Gandhin agar IITGN 2008 Gandhi nagar Gujarat iitgn. ac.in IIT Guwahat i IITG 1994 Guwah ati Assam iitg.ac .in IIT Hyderab ad IITH 2008 Hydera bad Telangan a iith. ac.in IIT Indore IITI 2009 Indore Madhya Pradesh iiti.ac .in IIT Jodhpur IITJ 2008 Jodhpu r Rajastha n iitj.ac .in IIT Kanpur IITK 1959 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh iitk.ac .in IIT Kharagp ur IITKG P 1951 Kharag pur West Bengal iitkgp .ac.in IIT Madras IITM 1959 Chenn ai Tamil Nadu iitm. ac.in IIT Mandi IIT Mandi 2009 Mandi Himacha l Pradesh iitmandi.ac .in IIT Patna IITP 2008 Patna Bihar iitp. ac.in IIT Roorkee IITR 2001‡ (founded in 1847) Roorke e Uttarakh and iitr.ac .in IIT Ropar IITRPR 2008 Rupna gar Punjab iitrpr. ac.in IIT (BHU) Varanasi IIT (BHU) 2012‡ (founded in 1919) Varana si Uttar Pradesh iitbhu .ac.in ‡ – year converted to IIT Proposed New IITs Further information: Demands for conversion of ISM to an IIT Indian School of Mines, with approval of its Finance Committee, Executive Board and General Council, had forwarded the proposal for its conversion into an IIT in 2009, after which a detailed project report was prepared as per the directions of the Union Ministry of Human Resource and Development. In September 2011, a resolution was passed by the Government of Jharkhand, recommending the Government of India to convert ISM to an IIT.[6] In June 2012, the Planning Commission favoured this conversion during the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017), while maintaining ISMs core competency in mining and geology. [7][8][9] The conversion of ISM to IIT became a part of current 5 Year Plan after its passage by the Prime Minister headed National Development Council in December 2012. [10] It may be noted that for this conversion, a Bill has to be introduced in Parliament by the Union HRD Minister. ISM is the only institute of India selected by National Development Council or NDC to be converted into an IIT in the 12th Five Year Plan.ISM students have already obtained the support of majority of M.P.s on this matter. A meeting of IIT Council for the same was held on 12 January 2013. In this meeting, setting up of an expert committee for review of this matter was proposed. The committee formation is currently in process, as of June 2014. The Government of India , in its budget of July 2014, announced setting up of 5 new IITs in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Goa [11] , Andhra Pradesh and Kerala . [12] History Main article: History of Indian Institutes of Technology The office of the Hijli Detention Camp (photographed September 1951) served as the first academic building of IIT Kharagpur. The history of the IIT system dates back to 1946 when Sir Jogendra Singh of the Viceroy s Executive Council set up a committee whose task was to consider the creation of Higher Technical Institutions for post-war industrial development in India. The 22-member committee, headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar , recommended the establishment of these institutions in various parts of India, with affiliated secondary institutions. The first Indian Institute of Technology was founded in May 1950 at the site of the Hijli Detention Camp in Kharagpur. On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act , declaring it as an Institute of National Importance . Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India , in the first convocation address of IIT Kharagpur in 1956 said: [13] “ Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing Indias urges, Indias future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India. ” On the recommendations of the Sarkar Committee, four campuses were established at Mumbai (1958), Chennai (1959), Kanpur (1959), and Delhi (1961). The location of these campuses was chosen to be scattered throughout India to prevent regional imbalance.[14] The Indian Institutes of Technology Act was amended to reflect the addition of new IITs. [1] Student agitations in the state of Assam made Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi promise the creation of a new IIT in Assam. This led to a sixth campus at Guwahati under the Assam Accord in 1994. The University of Roorkee , Indias oldest engineering college, was conferred IIT status in 2001. IITG estd. 1994 Over the past few years, there have been a number of developments toward establishing new IITs. On 1 October 2003, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced plans to create more IITs by upgrading existing academic institutions that have the necessary promise and potential. [15] Subsequent developments led to the formation of the S K Joshi Committee in November 2003 to guide the selection of the five institutions which would become the five new IITs. Based on the initial recommendations of the Sarkar Committee, it was decided that further IITs should be spread throughout the country. When the government expressed its willingness to correct this regional imbalance, 16 states demanded IITs. Since the S K Joshi Committee prescribed strict guidelines for institutions aspiring to be IITs, [16] only seven colleges were selected for final consideration.[17] Plans are also reported to open IITs outside India, though not enough progress has been made in this regard. [18] Eventually in the 11th Five year plan, eight states were identified for establishment of new IITs, and IT-BHU was converted into an IIT.[19] Organisational structure Organisational Structure of IITs The President of India is the most powerful person in the organisational structure of IITs, being the ex officio Visitor, [20] and having residual powers. Directly under the President is the IIT Council, which comprises the minister-in- charge of technical education in the Union Government, the Chairmen of all IITs, the Directors of all IITs, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission , the Director General of CSIR, the Chairman of IISc , the Director of IISc, three members of Parliament, the Joint Council Secretary of Ministry of Human Resource and Development, and three appointees each of the Union Government, AICTE , and the Visitor. [21] Under the IIT Council is the Board of Governors of each IIT. Under the Board of Governors is the Director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. [22] Under the Director, in the organisational structure, comes the Deputy Director. Under the Director and the Deputy Director, come the Deans, Heads of Departments, Registrar, President of the Students Council, and Chairman of the Hall Management Committee. The Registrar is the chief administrative officer of the IIT and overviews the day-to-day operations. [22] Below the Heads of Department (HOD) are the faculty members (Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors). The Wardens come under the Chairman of the Hall Management Committee. [23] Education See also: Education in India and IIT Schools of Management PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur The IITs receive comparatively higher grants than other engineering colleges in India. [24] While the total government funding to most other engineering colleges is around Rs. 100–200 million (USD 2–4 million) per year, the amount varies between Rs. 900–1,300 million (USD 18–26 million) per year for each IIT. [17] Other sources of funds include student fees and research funding from industry and contributions from the alumni. The faculty-to-student ratio in the IITs is between 1:6 and 1:8. [25] The Standing Committee of IIT Council (SCIC) prescribes the lower limit for faculty-to-student ratio as 1:9, applied department wise. The IITs subsidise undergraduate student fees by approximately 80% and provide scholarships to all Master of Technology students and Research Scholars in order to encourage students for higher studies, per the recommendations of the Thacker Committee (1959–1961). [26] The cost borne by undergraduate students is around Rs. 180,000 per annum. [27] The various IITs function autonomously, and their special status as Institutes of National Importance facilitates the smooth running of IITs, virtually free from both regional as well as student politics . Such autonomy means that IITs can create their own curricula and adapt rapidly to the changes in educational requirements, free from bureaucratic hurdles. The government has no direct control over internal policy decisions of IITs (like faculty recruitment and curricula) but has representation on the IIT Council . The medium of instruction in all IITs is English.[28] The classes are usually held between 7:30 am and 5:30 pm, though there are some variations within each IIT. All the IITs have public libraries for the use of their students. In addition to a collection of prescribed books, the libraries have sections for fiction and other literary genres [citation needed ]. The electronic libraries allow students to access on-line journals and periodicals . The IITs and IISc have taken an initiative along with Ministry of Human Resource Development to provide free online videos of actual lectures of different disciplines under National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. This initiative is undertaken to make quality education accessible to all students. [29] The lectures can be accessed at nptel.iitm.ac.in/ The academic policies of each IIT are decided by its Senate. This comprises all professors of the IIT and student representatives. Unlike many western universities that have an elected senate, the IITs have an academic senate. It controls and approves the curriculum, courses, examinations and results, and appoints committees to look into specific academic matters. The teaching, training and research activities of the institute are periodically reviewed by the senate to maintain educational standards. [30] The Director of an IIT is the ex- officio Chairman of the Senate. Central Library, IIT Roorkee All the IITs follow the credits system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades , with a grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. Sometimes, relative grading is done considering the overall performance of the whole class. For each semester, the students are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 based on their performance, by taking a weighted average of the grade points from all the courses, with their respective credit points. Each semester evaluation is done independently and then the weighted average over all semesters is used to calculate the cumulative grade point average (known as CGPA or CPI—Cumulative Performance Index). Undergraduate education IIT Madras Library The Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree is the most common undergraduate degree in the IITs in terms of student enrollment, [citation needed ] although dual degrees integrating Master of Science or Master of Arts are also offered. The BTech course is based on a 4-year program with eight semesters, [31] while the Dual Degree and Integrated courses are 5-year programs with ten semesters. In all IITs, the first year of BTech and Dual Degree courses are marked by a common course structure for all the students, though in some IITs, a single department introduction related course is also included. [32] The common courses include the basics from most of the departments like Electronics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Electrical and Physics. At the end of first year (the end of first semester at IIT Madras), an option to change departments is given to meritorious students on the basis of their performance in the first two semesters. [33] Few such changes ultimately take place as the criteria for them are usually strict, [33] limited to the most meritorious students. From the second year onwards, the students study subjects exclusively from their respective departments.[34] In addition to these, the students have to take compulsory advanced courses from other departments in order to broaden their education. Separate compulsory courses from humanities and social sciences department, and sometimes management courses are also enforced. [35] In the last year of their studies, most of the students are placed into industries and organisations via the placement process of the respective IIT, though some students opt out of this either when going for higher studies or when they take up jobs by applying to the companies directly. [36] Postgraduate and doctoral education Masters degrees and postgraduate diplomas The IITs offer a number of postgraduate programs including Master of Technology (MTech), Master of Business Administration (MBA) (only for engineers and post graduates in science), and Master of Science (MSc). Some IITs offer specialised graduate programmes such as Master of Design (M.Des. ), the Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT), Master in Medical Science and Technology (MMST ), Master of City Planning (MCP), Master of Arts (MA), Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law (PGDIPL), and the Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Operation & Management (PGDMOM). Some of the IITs offer an M.S. (by research) program; the MTech and M.S. are similar to the US universities non-thesis (course based) and thesis (research based) masters programs respectively. Admissions to masters programs in engineering are made using scores of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), while those to masters programs in science are made using scores of the Joint Admission Test to MSc (JAM). Several IITs have schools of management offering masters degrees in management or business administration. Bachelors-Masters dual degrees The IITs also offer an unconventional BTech and MTech integrated educational program called Dual Degree. It integrates undergraduate and postgraduate studies in selected areas of specialisation. It is completed in five years [37] as against six years in conventional BTech (four years) followed by an MTech (two years). [38] Integrated Master of Science programs are also offered at few IITs which integrates the Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies in Science streams in a single degree program against the conventional University system. These programs were started to allow IITians to complete postgraduate studies from IIT rather than having to go to another institute. Doctoral degrees The IITs also offer the Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) as part of their doctoral education programme . In it, the candidates are given a topic of academic interest by the professor or have to work on a consultancy project given by the industries. The duration of the program is usually unspecified and depends on the specific discipline. PhD candidates have to submit a dissertation as well as provide an oral defence for their thesis. Teaching Assistantships (TA) and Research Assistantships (RA) are often provided. The IITs, along with NITs and IISc, account for nearly 80% of all engineering PhDs in India. [39] IITs now allow admission in PhD programs without the mandatory GATE score.[40][41] Culture and student life All the IITs provide on-campus residential facilities to the students, research scholars and faculty. The students live in hostels (sometimes referred to as halls ) throughout their stay in the IIT. Students in all IITs must choose between National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Service Scheme (NSS) and National Sports Organisation (NSO) in their first years. [42] All the IITs have sports grounds for basketball , cricket , football (soccer) , hockey , volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, and athletics; and swimming pools for aquatic events. Usually the hostels also have their own sports grounds. Moreover, an Inter IIT Sports Meet is organized annually where participants from all 16 IITs contest for the General Championship Trophy in 13 different sports. Technical and cultural festivals Further information: List of cultural and technical festivals in IITs and NITs All IITs organise annual technical festivals, typically lasting three or four days. The technical festivals are Shaastra (IIT Madras), Kshitij (IIT Kharagpur), Techfest (IIT Bombay), Cognizance (IIT Roorkee), Nvision (IIT Hyderabad), Amalthea (IIT Gandhinagar), Technex (IIT BHU), Techkriti (IIT Kanpur), Tryst (IIT Delhi), Techniche (IIT Guwahati), Wissenaire (IIT Bhubaneswar), Exodia (IIT Mandi), Fluxus (IIT Indore), Celesta (IIT Patna) and IGNUS (IIT Jodhpur). Most of them are organised in the months of January or March. Techfest is the most popular and largest technical festival in Asia in terms of participants and prize money involved, it is conducted at a totally different scale and has been granted patronage from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ( UNESCO) for providing a platform to students to showcase their talent in science and technology. Shaastra holds the distinction of being the first student- managed event in the world to implement a formal Quality Management System , earning ISO 9001:2000 certification. [43] Kshitij is the largest in terms of Sponsorship amounts and also branded as a techno-management festival due to its emphasis on both technology and management. Annual cultural festivals are also organised by the IITs and last three to four days. These include Alcheringa (IIT Guwahati), Exodia (IIT Mandi), Saarang (IIT Madras, previously Mardi Gras), Spring Fest (IIT Kharagpur, also known as SF), Rendezvous (IIT Delhi), Tarang (previously Rave) and Thomso (IIT Roorkee), Kashiyatra (IIT BHU, also known as KY), SPANDAN (IIT Rajasthan), Blithchron (IIT Gandhinagar), ELAN (IIT Hyderabad), Alma Fiesta (IIT Bhubaneswar), Mood Indigo (IIT Bombay, also known as Mood-I), Antaragni (IIT Kanpur), Zeitgeist (IIT Ropar) and Anwesha (IIT Patna). Recognition IITs have a special status as Institutes of National Importance under the Indian Institute of Technology Act , due to which the degrees provided by IITs need not be recognised by the AICTE .[44] The IIT-JEE and GATE are important factor behind the success of IITs, as it enables the IITs to accept only a select group of meritorious students. This combination of success factors has led to the concept of the IIT Brand .[45] Other factors that have contributed to the success of IITs are stringent faculty recruitment procedures and industry collaboration. The procedure for selection of faculty in IITs is stricter as compared to other colleges offering similar degrees.[46] The PhD degree is a pre-requisite for all regular faculty appointments. Former IIT students get greater respect from their peers, academia and industry in general. [47] The IIT brand was reaffirmed when the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution honouring Indian Americans and especially graduates of IIT for their contributions to the American society.[48] Similarly, China also recognised the value of IITs and planned to replicate the model. [49] Educational rankings See also: List of Indian engineering college rankings Nationwide, most IITs are ranked above any other engineering colleges in India in engineering education rankings . Outlook India s Top Engineering Colleges of 2012 ranked seven IITs in its top 10, including the top five positions. [50] India Today s Best Engineering colleges of 2012 also ranked seven IITs in its top 10, including the top four. [51] Dataquest s Indias Top Engineering Colleges 2011 (DQ-CMR Top T-Schools Survey 2011) ranked IITs in six of the top 10, including the top four. [52] Worldwide, the only three institutes in India ranked in the top 300 of the QS World University Rankings of 2012 are IITs, IIT Delhi at 212, IIT Bombay at 227 and IIT Kanpur at 278. [53] The only Institute that was listed in the top 250 by Times Higher Education rankings was IIT Kharagpur in the 226-250 category. The Times Asia Rankings featured IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay and IIT Roorkee at 30th, 34th and 56th respectively. The only institute in India ranked by The Times Higher Education Supplement ranking of 2011–2012 is an IIT, IIT Bombay at 301–350. [54] However, no IIT was ranked in the Shanghai Jiao Tong Universitys Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2011, and the only institute in India to be listed was Indian Institute of Science at 301–400. [55] Criticism The IITs have faced criticism from within and outside academia. Major concerns include allegations that they encourage brain drain and that their stringent entrance examinations encourage coaching colleges and skew the socio- economic profile of the student body. Recently some prominent IITians have also questioned the quality of teaching and research in IITs. [56][57][58] Brain drain Among the criticisms of the IIT system by the media and academia, a common notion is that it encourages brain drain. This trend has been reversed somewhat- (dubbed the reverse brain drain) – as hundreds of IIT graduates, who have pursued further studies in the USA, started returning to India in the 1990s. [59] Additionally, IIT alumni are giving back generously to their parent institutions (examples are Kanwal Rekhi to IIT Bombay, Dr. Prabhakant Sinha to IIT Kharagpur, and many others). Until liberalisation started in early 1990s, India experienced large scale emigration of IITians to developed countries, especially to the United States. Since 1953, nearly twenty-five thousand IITians have settled in the USA. [60] Since the USA benefited from subsidised education in IITs at the cost of Indian taxpayers money, critics say that subsidising education in IITs is useless. Others support the emigration of graduates, arguing that the capital sent home by the IITians has been a major source of the expansion of foreign exchange reserves for India, which, until the 1990s, had a substantial trade deficit. The extent of intellectual loss receded substantially over the 1990s and 2000s, with the percentage of students going abroad dropping from as high as 70% at one time to around 30% in 2005. [59] This is largely attributed to the liberalisation of the Indian economy and the opening of previously closed markets. Government initiatives are encouraging IIT students into entrepreneurship programs and are increasing foreign investment. Emerging scientific and manufacturing industries, and outsourcing of technical jobs from North America and Western Europe have created opportunities for aspiring graduates in India. Many undergraduates go abroad to pursue further studies, such as MS, MBA and PhD. Entrance competition The highly competitive examination in the form of IIT-JEE has led to establishment of a large number of coaching institutes throughout the country that provide intensive, and specific preparation for the IIT-JEE for substantial fees. It is argued that this favours students from specific regions and richer backgrounds. Some coaching institutes say that they have individually coached nearly 800 successful candidates year after year.[61] According to some estimates, nearly 95% of all students who clear the IIT-JEE had joined coaching classes. [62] Indeed, this was the case regarding preparation for IIT entrance exams even decades ago. In a January 2010 lecture at the Indian Institute of Science, the 2009 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan revealed that he failed to get a seat at any of the colleges of the Indian Institutes of Technology, as well as at an Indian medical college. [63] He also said that his parents, being old-fashioned, did not believe in coaching classes to prepare for the IIT entrance exam and considered them to be nonsense. [63] Not all children are of a similar aptitude level and may be skilled in different paradigms and fields. This has led to criticism of the way the examinations are conducted and the way a student is forced in the Indian community. The IIT-JEE format was restructured in 2006 following these complaints. [64] After the change to the objective pattern of questioning, even the students who initially considered themselves not fit for subjective pattern of IIT-JEE decided to take the examination. Though the restructuring was meant to reduce the dependence of students on coaching classes, it led to an increase in students registering for coaching classes. [65] Some people (mostly IITians) have criticised the changed pattern of the IIT-JEE. Their reasoning is that while IIT-JEE traditionally used to test students understanding of fundamentals and ability to apply them to solve tough unseen problems, the current pattern does not stress much on the application part and might lead to a reduced quality of students. [66] Another criticism is about the language of the exam. IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil , Telugu, Kannada , Urdu, Oriya, Bengali , Marathi , Assamese or Gujarati , are more prominent. As an example, in September 2011, the Gujarat High Court has acted on a Public Interest Litigation by the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad , for conducting the exams in Gujarati. [67] A second petition was made in October by Navsaris Sayaji Vaibhav Sarvajanik Pustakalaya Trust. [68] Another petition was made at the Madras High Court for conducting the exam in Tamil. In the petition it was claimed that not conducting the exam in the regional languages is in violation of article 14 of the Constitution of India .[69] Alumni As of 2008, the alumni of IIT number more than 170,000. [70] The IITians are known for their loyalty to their alma mater and many IIT Alumni Associations are active in India and abroad. The IIT alumni either help their alma mater in the form of donations, or by preferential job opportunities extended to students from the IITs. The Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT Kharagpur and Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay are management schools within IITs that have been established largely by alumni donations; these schools were named after their benefactors. [citation needed ] Many IITs alumni have become entrepreneurs, including N. R. Narayana Murthy (co-founder and former chairman of Infosys ), Rajendra S. Pawar (Co-founder and Chairman of NIIT ), Vinod Khosla (co-founder, Sun Microsystems), Ajit Gupta[71] (founder, president and CEO of Aryaka ), Anurag Dikshit (co-founder of PartyGaming ) Suhas S. Patil (founder and Chairman Emeritus Cirrus Logic Inc.) Gunjan Sinha , (co-founder of eGain and MetricStream ) Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, (Founders of Flipkart , one of the biggest e- commerce firms in India.) Sumant Sinha , businessman Other alumni have achieved leading positions in corporations, such as: Rajat Gupta (former Managing Director, McKinsey ), Nikesh Arora [72] (Vice Chairman of SoftBank Corp. and CEO of SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. (SIMI)), Sundar Pichai (Senior Vice President at Google , where he oversees Android (operating system), Chrome OS, Google Chrome and Google Apps .) Vic Gundotra (former Senior Vice President at Google .) Amit Singhal (Senior Vice President, Search and Google Fellow at Google.) Arun Sarin (former CEO, Vodafone), Victor Menezes (Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup ), Kanwal Rekhi (CTO, Novell), Padmasree Warrior (CTO, Cisco Systems ). Ashishkumar Chauhan (MD & CEO, BSE ) IIT alumni have also pursued careers in politics; for example: Krishan Kant [73] (former Vice-President of India ), Manohar Parrikar (Chief Minister of Goa), Arvind Kejriwal (former Indian Revenue Service officer and the former Chief Minister of Delhi ). Many alumni have gained significant recognition: Duvvuri Subbarao was the Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India , Raghuram Rajan is the Current Governor of Reserve Bank of India , Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya was awarded the CBE, a knighthood, and Padma Bhushan, Kota Harinarayana[74] was a Padma Shri awardee and distinguished scientist at DRDO ; V. C. Kulandaiswamy was awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, Arogyaswami Paulraj well known for his work in wireless technology was awarded Padma Bhushan, Narendra Karmarkar is also known for his work in applied mathematics Chetan Bhagat is an author, columnist, screenwriter, and speaker. Many IITians have contributed to innovations in science and technology, such as Pulickel Ajayan [73] a pioneering scientist in the field of carbon nanotubes , Dr. V. Sumantran a well known figure in Automotive research and industry. Krishna C. Mukherjee an internationally reputed figure in the field of Information Technology. 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