Four IITs including Delhi and Madras get new directors

In a tweet, Prof V Ramgopal Rao, the current Director, said: “I am happy to inform you that Professor Rangan Banerjee, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay has been appointed as the next Director of IIT Delhi. Hearty congratulations and best wishes to Prof. Banerjee.”

IIT-Madras Professor V Kamakoti has been appointed as the Director of IIT-Madras. Kamakoti designed India’s first indigenously developed microprocessor ‘Shakti’.

Lakshmidhar Behera, Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT-Kanpur, has been appointed as the Director of IIT-Mandi and Suhas Joshi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Alumni and Corporate Relations at IIT-Bombay, has been appointed as the next Director of IIT-Indore. . ,

With inputs from PTI