INDUCTION

HANDBOOK
2019

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Kharagpur - 721 302, WB, INDIA
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR
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IITKGP Inspiring Excellence

The Karma Yogi gives himself over to

his work and does so
without expecting recognition or return.
Excellence is all that matters to him …

From the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita (The Celestial Song)

Chapter 2, verse 47”
Contents 26 - 51
Student & Community Life
52 - 53
Residence Hall Life
80 - 81
Student Financial Aid
Essentials Hall Management Center Scholarships & Special Grants

05 - 07 > WiFi
> Internet Access
Guest House Accommodation Banking Assistance
International Travel Assistance
Welcome to IIT Kharagpur > Tech Market
Message from the Director > Eateries
Message from the Deans Students On-Campus Amenities
54 - 79 82
Social Media Enterprise Resource
Academic Life
Technology Students’ Gymkhana Planning (ERP)
08 - 09 Festivals Glimpses of Academics
Calendar of Events Techno-Management Groups
Support Groups for Institutional
Know Your Department
83 - 86
UG Academic Calendar Flexible Academics
Activities Sponsored Research &
(Autumn 2019-20) Change of Branch
Socio-Cultural Industrial Consultancy
Holidays
Social Welfare and Community Grading System
Service
Students’ Innovation at M N Faruqui
10 - 14 Cultural Fest (Sprint Fest) Innovation Centre 88 - 89
Technical Fest (KSHITIJ) Eminent Alumni
Know Your Campus Academic Curriculum UG
Awaz
About IIT Kharagpur National Digital Library (NDL)
The Scholars’ Avenue
> History
Sports Conduct and Discipline
90
> Inclusivity Alumni-Based Student
Weekend Outings National Programme of Technology
Activities
Health and Wellness Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
Student Alumni Mentorship
16 - 25 > Hospital Career Development Centre Programme (SAMP)
About Induction Program > Student Insurance
Joint International Academic
> Counselling Centre Programmes
Why Induction Program?
> Institute Wellness Group and
Life Skills Classes and Activities Interaction Rooms
Rekhi Centre
91 - 94
The Team Safety and Security Virtual Labs Communication Directory
Induction Program of Previous Years Vision Prabaho Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) Essential Contact Information
 WELCOME TO IIT KHARAGPUR 05

Dear Students
My Hearty congratulations on your success and I extend
a warm welcome to each one of you at IIT Kharagpur,
the mother of all IITs, most diversified in terms of the
programmes offered and our determination and
aspiration to make even greater with our combined
efforts towards knowledge and excellence.
We, at IIT Kharagpur (lovingly we call IITKGP), have
launched an orientation program for you to get
yourselves acquainted with the academic programmes
and campus life of IITKGP. We hope you get to know
more about our broad based programmes, flexible
curricula, micro-credit courses, co-curricular activities,
students' activities, amenities etc. IITKGP gives you an
environment, where you can learn what you want to
learn, acquire multidisciplinary knowledge during your
course of studies, transcending disciplines and
becoming a true IITian. Being a residential campus, you
will have an opportunity to interact very closely with your
batch mates who have joined IITKGP and get advises
Message from your seniors, who are always ready to mentor you.
Take a moment and connect. Instead of competitive
from the approach, take the path of cooperative approach to
Director achieve academic excellence. IITKGP campus gives
you ample opportunities to develop an all-round growth
and hence try to make use of these. A lot of mixed
S K Bhattacharya memories will be created in the coming years, involving
your friends, your teachers, your senior but each one of
Director
them will make you feel to come back to this institute
IIT Kharagpur again and again. Build the foundation today; aim for the
sky, but move slowly with patience and enjoy every step
along the way. It's all those little steps that make the
journey complete. We will walk along with you in this
journey of yours and will extend all our help and
supports that you need. Share your thoughts with us to
help all of us know you better, know your strengths and
guide your career path for fulfilling the aspirations.
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Message from the Dean Message from Dean

of Students' Affairs Undergraduate Studies
A hearty welcome to all newly admitted students Welcome to IIT Kharagpur. This is a dream attained by
to IIT Kharagpur family. We know that you have YOU, and your untiring efforts; a dream fuelled by your
worked hard to achieve success in your goal of ambition to make it to the topmost leagues of the world. You
reaching portals of IIT Kharagpur. But be sure this are the chosen ones, destined to become great because
is the first step. Once you are here, you can do YOU have it in you.
great things. This will require persistent hard work But this is not the end, it is just the beginning. Like a
in academics. You have opportunities in the form diamond that has just been mined, you are only a muddy,
of resources your curriculum, your professors, an dark, uncut stone, brought to this sanctuary called IIT
excellent library, your peers and an environment Kharagpur. The diamond in you will need intense cutting
and polishing. This will be done by your Professors, by your
where excellence thrives.
peers, by your environment, but most importantly, by you
When you need diversion, you have sports, social- yourself. Sometimes, the process may seem brutal, harsh,
cultural and technology driven activities conducted and demotivating. But remember, it is just a process to
under aegis of Students' Gymkhana. You can ultimately bring out the brilliance of the diamond.
have a plethora of extra-curricular activities. This Sometimes, you may forget your own brilliance, and get
helps in developing your personality, leadership blinded by the brilliance of your peers, your seniors, and
skills and above all friendships that last a lifetime. your juniors. You start doubting yourself. So, I ask you to
Dream as big as There are student support groups such as Institute always remember this belief in yourself that you have If you desire to
you can, but Wellness and Student Welfare Groups. They are TODAY. Chart your own path, but do not lose sight of the make a difference
work in such a there to help you in case of any problems. Please goal. Remember, you have achieved it once, to enter the in the world,
gates of this hallowed Institution, and you can achieve it
way that the avoid high risk behaviour of any kind.
again, and again, and again. Just keep the flames burning
you must be
minutest of So come and join IIT Kharagpur family – excel
bright, and the diamond will shine right through. different from
details are not academically, engage with fellow students, peers the world.
left out and professors, make yourself eligible so that you Remember - IITKGP! It means
– Elaine S. Dalton
can serve your family, institute and country and Introspect and appreciate your uniqueness
they can be proud of you. Invite yourself to surround with other people who are different
Best wishes Turn the experience into lifelong learning
Be helpful to people around you. At the same Sudhir Kumar Barai
Keep positive environment around you
Somesh Kumar time, should you have problem, do not hesitate to Dean
Go on swimming during storm….Tough times will pass
Dean (Students’ Affairs) seek help from those near you. (Undergraduate Studies)
Purely and surely enjoy the Ride!
Wishing you all the best. Have Fun and Chhulo Aasman ko!
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Academic Calendar (Autumn 2019-20) Holidays

The current list of holidays in the Autumn semester 2019-20 are:
Reporting of UG 1st year (all courses) 21.07.2019 (Sunday)
Admission to UG 1st year (all courses) 22.07.2019 (Monday) **Id-ul-Zuha (BakriId) 12.08.2019 Monday

Induction programme for 1st year 23.07.2019 to 28.07.2019 Independence Day 15.08.2019 Thursday
UG students (Tuesday to Sunday)
Last date of digital approval of 30.07.2019 (Tuesday) Muharram 10.09.2019 Tuesday
Registration by Faculty Adviser in the
Department/Centre/ School Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday 02.10.2019 Wednesday
(for 1st year UG students only)
Classes will commence for 1st year 29.07.2019 (Monday) Dussehra (Maha Nabami) 07.10.2019 Monday
UG students (Additional)

Mid-autumn semester examination 16.09.2019 to 24.09.2019 Dussehra Vijaya Dashami 08.10.2019 Tuesday
(Monday to Tuesday)
Autumn break for students 05.10.2019 to 09.10.2019 An Additional day for Dussehra 09.10.2019 Wednesday
(Saturday to Wednesday)
Diwali (Deepavali) 27.10.2019 Sunday
End-autumn semester examination 18.11.2019 to 27.11.2019
(Monday to Wednesday)
Prophet Mohammad' Birthday 10.11.2019 Sunday
Winter break 28.11.2019 to 01.01.2020 (Id-E-Milad)
(Thursday to Wednesday)
Senate meeting/declaration of results 20.12.2019 (Friday) Guru Nanak's Birthday 12.11.2019 Tuesday
(Tentative)
Christmas Day 25.12.2019 Wednesday

For website link to academic calendar 2019-20 please go to: For website link to holidays please go to:
www.iitkgp.ac.in g Academic Calendar 19 – 20 www.iitkgp.ac.in g Holidays
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About IIT Kharagpur Our Vision is

The motto of IIT Kharagpur is “Yogah Karmasu To be a centre of excellence in
Kaushalam”. This literally means “yoga is excellence in education and research, producing
action”, essentially implying that doing your work well is global leaders in science, technology
(true) yoga. This can be traced to Sri Krishna's discourse and management
with Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. The quote, in the larger To be a hub of knowledge creation that
context of the Gita, urges man to acquire equanimity prioritises the frontier areas of national
because a mind of equanimity allows a man to shed and global importance
distracting thoughts of the effects of his deeds and
concentrate on the task before him. Equanimity is the To improve the life of every citizen of
source of perfection in Karmic endeavours that leads to the country
Salvation.
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History
The history of the IIT system dates back to 1946 when
a committee was set up by Hon’ble Sir Jogendra
Singh, Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council,
Department of Education, Health and Agriculture to
consider the setting up of Higher Technical Institutions
for post war industrial development in India. The 22
member committee headed by Sri N.R.Sarkar, in its
report, recommended the establishment of four Higher
Technical Institutions in the Eastern, Western,
Northern and Southern regions, possibly on the lines
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA,
with a number of secondary institutions affiliated to it.
With the above recommendations of the Sarkar
committee in view, the first Indian Institute of
Technology was born in May 1950 in Hijli, Kharagpur,
in the eastern part of India. Initially the IIT started
functioning from 5, Esplanade East, Calcutta and very
soon shifted to Hijli in Sept. 1950. The present name
‘Indian Institute of Technology’ was adopted before
the formal inauguration of the Institute on August 18,
1951, by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. IIT Kharagpur
started its journey in the old Hijli Detention Camp
where some of our great freedom fighters toiled and
sacrificed their lives for the independence of our
country. The history of IIT Kharagpur is thus intimately
linked with the history of the Hijli Detention Camp. This
is possibly one of the very few Institutions all over the
world which started life in a prison house.
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Inclusivity

12000+ STUDENTS
of IITKGP come from all
ACROSS 29 STATES
of the country and beyond the national boundaries to
JAPAN, UK, EU, USA, NEPAL, BHUTAN ETC.
The campus is barrier-free with ramps
elevators and other facilities to enable students with
special needs to move around the campus with ease
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Dear Students, During the following days you will be involved in various kinds of activities
as indicted:
Warm greetings from the Induction program team at IIT Kharagpur! In this
brief write up we wish to give you an overview of the Induction program à Interaction with the Director and the administration team
that has been designed for you.
à Know your department - interactions, awareness of opportunities,
etc, available there
Why Induction Program?
à Life Skills Activities – in order to learn more about yourself, others,
Most universities and colleges around the world have Induction or to develop abilities to deal with stress, conflicts, competitions and to
Orientation programs that range from anything from one day to one develop bonding
month for the new students. During this period, students participate in a
wide range of social activities, sports challenges, and life skills programs. à Physical activities – exposure to diverse sports and games at the
The Induction program at IIT Kharagpur aims to fulfill the following needs Institute
that you may have: à Creative and cultural events and activities that you are interested in

To inform you about à Community life – in halls, and through relation with your seniors
To develop
1 academic and
social issues
6 belongingness
and faculty members
à Guest talks – by eminent speakers on various areas
To help you To provide information And many more exciting things that we are sure you will love and
2 understand the
academic environment
7 about different kinds of
help
remember for days to come!
During the Induction program, you will form small groups to do various
To help you recognize To help you activities. Please check our website periodically to find out details of
3 skills required to do well 8 develop friendship programs, timetables, and other relevant downloads and information
available. (website…)
To generate interest
To get you familiar with So, let's get started to being the most exciting week of our lives!
4 in your respective areas
of study
9 the campus life
Induction Team
To make you feel To help you adapt to IIT Kharagpur
5 confident about their
future
10 transitions http://inductionprogram.iitkgp.ac.in/
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Life Skills Classes and Activities essence of healthy competition often helps you in building team based
on mutual cooperation.
Developing life skill is an important facet of any academic program à Relationship: This module deals with fundamentals of social
anywhere. Institutes of higher learning like IITs, where academic programs relationship wherein you will get insight about how to develop
follow a distinct career path, are no exception. Though there are differences relationship with peers, teachers and other members within the
amongst these institutes in the way such knowledge is imparted, the general campus. The emphasis in this module is to assist you develop social
aim remains the same. The guiding philosophy is to make you aware of the bonding which is basic to our normal life.
challenges you are going to face during the course of study like stay within à Anger & frustration: The discrepancy between achievement and
the campus, relationship among peers, handling conflicts within, managing expectation often leads to stress and frustration. If the frustration does
stress and frustration, etc. The overall aim is help you meet these not find a normal outlet, it may go outward (aggression or anger) or
challenges effectively within the normative standard, rules, and regulations may move inward (depression). In this module, you will learn what
of the campus. causes anger and how to handle anger with emotional intelligence.
Many of you often believe that these skills are learnt in an automatic and à Uncertainty adjustment: Many of you fail to handle uncertain
autonomous manner in your lives, and need not be acquired in a formal, environment or ambiguous situation, prompting you to find out quick
structured manner. In the process, you lose time and energy to achieve your solutions to such uncertainty. You look for alternative ways to sort out
target which, at times, results in frustration. The present modules are uncertainty but ultimately choose a riskier option to resolve the
formatted in the direction so as to make you aware of possible challenges problem. In this module you will learn ways and means to tolerate
you may face, and help you develop insight about how to handle such uncertain situation like examination or placement, and the benefit you
challenges with confidence. derive in the process.
With this backdrop, altogether ten modules have been developed with
à Failure management: Many of you fail to realize that every war cannot
examples and activity plan: these include,
be won every time. Failure is an integral part of our lives and this
à Peer pressure: The module is aimed towards helping you realize the experience helps us to develop resilience. The module will let you learn
pressure of expectation from friends and classmates. More often you how to 'bounce back' in case of failure.
go by comparative standard rather than self standard which are
à Knowing others: It is a pre-requisite to survive effectively within a
detrimental to your performance, causing excessive achievement
social infra-structure. You are more often engaged in electronic-world
anxiety.
where there is little face-to-face interaction. In this module, you will
à Competition & cooperation: Because of the peer pressure, you often learn why knowing each other, in person, is important to build
try to compete with others without rationale and beyond your capability. relationship, to learn from each other who come from diverse
This leads to distortion of relationship with peers. Understanding the background, and the essence of growing together.
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à Knowing yourself: In the following module, you will learn about

yourself. This is important since it is easy to learn about others but is
The Team
difficult to learn about 'who we are'. The effort will be to help you A Choudry H S Mahato Ravikant Vadlamani
question yourself and in the process, gain insight within your real self. A Naskar J Mahakud Renji Remesan
A Rajakumar Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty Riddhiman Dhar
à Conflicts & decision making: In this module, you will develop A Samantray Jenia Mukherjee Ritobrata Goswami
awareness about conflicts which are incompatible in nature and co- Aditya Bandopadhyay Jitendra Kumar Ritwik Ghoshal
exist within. Such conflicts result in diffin making. You will learn the Akhilesh Kumar K Goswami Rudra Pradhan
essence of 'best', 'good', and 'right' deciculty in decisiosions in life, in Amalan Dutta K Ghoshal S K Panda
general, and in career, in particular. Anandroop Bhattacharya Kranthi Kumar Kuna S Majumdar
à Stress management: Here you will also learn about how to manage Anup Ghosh M K Mandal S Paul
your day to day stress effectively. If such stress is not resolved, these Aritra Hazra M Padmavati S Sahaney
will cumulate and create barricade in your day to day performance. The Arjun Mukherji Madhab C. Das Saamdu Chetri
ways and means to handle stress will be the pivotal theme in this Arkopal K Goswami Manish Kaushal Sabyasachi Maiti
module. Arnab Roy Manoj Kumar Mondal Saud Afzal
Ashis Maity Mantu Kumar Mahalik Somesh Kumar
While the aim of this program is to help you realize your potentiality by
Avishek Chatterjee Mihir K Dash Somindu Ramana
overcoming the difficulties you may face during the course of study and stay
B B Rai Mihir Sarangi Somnath Roy
within the campus, it is not comprehensive. The modules are a-theoretical in
B K Prusty Mrigank Sharad Soumya De
nature and customized to the requirement of incumbent students at IIT-
B S Das Neeraj Goel Sourav Mitra
Kharagpur. The suggestions and possible intervention, as mentioned, are
B S Sastry P Mishra Sourav Mondal
generic in nature and these are not quick-fix solutions to every problem you
Balraj K Sidhu P N Sinha Roy Sudhir Barai
may face. The larger aim here is help you (a) develop awareness about the
Bandi Krusi P Patnaik Susmita Mukhopadhyay
campus life, (b) gain insight into your own behavior, and © become capable
Chetna Singhal P S Burada V N Giri
of facing the challenges in your unique way.
D Pandit Palash Dey Vishal Singh
D R Mailapalli Prasun Jana Vishwanath Nagarajan
D Suar Pulak Mishra Vivek Dixit
Induction ‘Life Skills’ Team Debmalya Banerjee R Machavaram W K Mohanty
IIT Kharagpur Gourab Dutta Rajlaxmi Guha
Gouri Shankar Hiremath Raju KD Student Welfare Group
Goutam Sen Ratan Joarder IIT KGP
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INDUCTION
PROGRAM
OF
PREVIOUS
YEARS

Director's talk
https://goo.gl/bZrCRf

R Gopalakrishnan's talks
https://goo.gl/jPpfZA

TSG activities
(yoga, aerobics, calisthenics)
https://youtu.be/LyrqbvgvRSo
https://youtu.be/biOo4zk5blw
https://youtu.be/cBMxnJJ8KNc
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Students at IITKGP have a multi- INTERNET ACCESS your ERP password). You can
faceted life with socio-cultural Wi-Fi change the password anytime
again in the same manner.
activities, techno-management Any user should be able to see
projects, sports, health and one or more of these wherever
IIT Kharagpur has an extensive 3. Configure your device for wi-fi
wellness, social work etc. There are you may be in the campus. Users
network of WiFi routers authentication. Step by step
more than 40 student societies are requested to start connecting
throughout the campus and halls instructions for different OS
under the Technology Students' to the secured SSIDs following the
of residence. Connecting to the (Android/Windows/Linux/Mac) can
Gymkhana, which is the nerve- procedure below to access the wi-
WiFi routers does not require a be found in the "Wi-Fi
centre of the student life at IITKGP. fi network.
password. There are multiple Authentication" link in
Gymkhana is an integral part of the WiFi access points like Campus, http://www.cic.iitkgp.ac.in.
1. Your user id is your ERP login.
life of an IITKGP student with Student, Guest etc and any Normally, you will have to do this
regular activities in the above network could be connected to. 2. To create your network access
configuration only once per
domains and annual competitions password, log in to your ERP
The LAN network has DHCP secured SSID unless you change
among the halls of residence. account, and follow the link "Set
Support, so IPs are dynamically your password or want to login
Campus Network Password"
The Gymkhana also holds festivals allocated to a connected device with some other user id.
under the link for "Home". Set a
during the year organized by the upon connection, no static 4. Connect to the corresponding
password you will use for network
students such as Illumination and configuration is required. After SSID.
access (should be different from
Rangoli which are as famous as the successful proxy configuration,
famous alumni of IITKGP. Internet can be accessed.
Illumination and Rangoli are
celebrated on Diwali eve wherein
Proxy address for internet access Tech Market
students light up their Halls of 172.16.2.30; port - 8080 The centrally located Technology Market (or Tech M in a
Residence thematically and create No Proxy for 10.0.0.0/8, KGPian's lingo) serves you of all your basic necessities.
colorful floor frescos as well. The iitkgp.ernet.in and iitkgp.ac.in
Halls of Residence celebrate Holi
Helpdesk
with grandeur.
[email protected]
Visit
https://wiki.metakgp.org/w/ For information on various computer
Fresher%27s_guide related services, visit:

to read the Fresher's Guide. www.cic.iitkgp.ac.in

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Eateries
Numerous in-house eateries serve the demands of residents. Some At last, we got Chhedis, just on the border of Puri gate, a dhaba that has
eateries are open overnight, while some serve hot food from early never closed down in the history of KGP except for once during 1983.
morning itself to best cater to the peoples' convenience. Within campus
Each Hall of Residence has its own Canteen apart from the mess. The
are restaurants like
JCB, HJB and VS Mens Hall Canteens allow ladies too to sit and enjoy
meals. 'Eat-KGP' a virtual collaboration of all the in-campus eateries
Billoos DREAMLAND Hot provides room delivery of food through online orders.
famous for its Punjabi food SAHARA Bite
One can always visit Dominos, Flavours and Park Restaurants outside
the campus (approx. 5 kms).

For more details please visit http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/student-eateries

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Social Media
Students On-Campus Amenities
Commercial: Market/ Bank / PO / Travels - Railway and Air Ticket
Reservation Counters
https://www.facebook.
Social / Entertainment: Games & Sports: Pool, Gym, Tennis; com/IIT.Kgp/
Auditorium / Club / Community Centre; Eateries: Café Coffee Day,
Subway, Baskin Robbins, other on-campus eateries, Room-delivery,
Canteens, Domino's Pizza within 10km
Infrastructure: WiFi enabled Campus, 24 hr Power / Water / https://twitter.com/iitkgp?
Network, Well maintained Roads, Bicycle Lanes, Parks, Spaces lang=en

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=P5BlUycO6sI

https://www.linkedin.com/
school/157265/

https://www.quora.com/
How-is-college-life-in-
IIT-Kharagpur
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Technology Students’ Gymkhana

Student Activity Center or better known as the Technology Students' Gymkhana has an Aquatic Center, Basketball Courts, Tennis Courts,
Gymkhana, here at IIT Kharagpur is the hub of the numerous extra- Volleyball Courts, Indoor Squash Court, Indoor Badminton Courts, and a
curricular and co-curricular activities ranging from sports to socio-cultural. very well equipped Gymnasium. Moreover the Gymkhana hosts a wide
From its inception in 1952, the Gymkhana has played a key role in the variety of societies to promote the various hobbies and interests of the
everyday lives of Kgpians by cultivating and nurturing their extra- students. The societies include the Dramatics Societies namely,
curricular talents. The motto of Technology Students' Gymkhana is Technology Dramatics Society- Pravah (Hindi), Encore (English),
“Yogah Karmasu Kausalam” which means “Perfection in action is Yoga”. Prasthanam (Telugu), Druheen (Bengali), Technology Robotix Society,
Technology Filmmaking and Photography Society, Business Club,
The Technology Students’ Gymkhana, IIT Kharagpur is managed by the
Debating Society, the Music Societies namely, Eastern Technology Music
students, for the students, under the guidance and active participation of
Society and Western Technology Music Society, Communique (soft
the faculty and staff members. It has a student body, consisting of
skills), the Quiz Club, Spectra (fine arts), Technology Adventure Society,
members selected through annual campus elections and each member of
Technology Dance Society and Technology Literary Society. All the
the student body takes care of a particular aspect related to the students
societies are doing an extraordinary task in promoting their culture and
life. It aims at promoting a culture of sportsmanship and teamwork in the
nurturing the extra academics interest of the students.
students by providing them with wonderful sports facilities. The
Festivals
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Techno-Management Ad Design, Product Design),

Application Cup (Case Study,
Socio- Social Welfare
Groups Chemical Innovation, Cultural and Community
Open Soft)
Aerial Robotics Kharagpur, Eastern Technology Music Service
Kharagpur Robosoccer Students’
Group, Technology Robotix Society, Support Groups Society, Western Technology
Music Society, Technology
Gopali Youth Welfare Society,
Student Welfare Group.
Finterest, AIESEC, CodeClub, for Institutional Dance Society, Technology
Weekly teaching, Scholarship
Communique, Business Club, Dramatics Society, Debating
Kharagpur Open Source Society, Activities Society, Technology Filmmaking
and study support, Support to
KGP Speedcubers, Net Impact IIT women self-help group, Medical
Alumni Cell, Entrepreneurship and Photography Society,
Kharagpur, Prodex, The KGPian camp, Backward caste
Cell, International Relations Spectra, Quiz Club, Technology
Game Theory Society, Kshitij, certificate camp, Awareness
Cell, Place-com, Branding & Adventure Society, Technology
Knowledge Cup (Tech Quiz, Biz campaigns, Cloth distribution,
Relations Cell, Students' Literary Society, Awaaz, The
Quiz, Math Olympiad), Innovation Village road-building.
Welfare Group, Technology Scholars’ Avenue
Cup (Hardware Modeling, Transfer Group

Eastern Technology Music Society | Western Technology Music Society Technology Film Production Society | Spectra: Fine Arts Society
Dramatic Societies: Pravah - Hindi, Encore - English, Druheen - Bengali, Debating Society | Technology Literary Society | Business Club
Prasthanam - Telugu | Technology Dance Society Quiz Club | Robotix | Technology Adventure Society
Communique: Soft Skill Development
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CULTURAL FEST - (SPRING FEST)

Spring Fest, the annual social and cultural fest of IIT Kharagpur, has grown to an
amazing level of avidity and thus transformed itself into nothing short of a marvel.
Spring Fest 2018 whose awaiting could not have been more prolonged, exceeded
all expectations by miles in each and every semblance. Entertainment and
competition were elegantly weaved together and the participants received one of
the best platforms to excel and display their skill and passion. Star performances
have been one of the major attractions and Spring Fest 2018 continued its legacy,
with the highest number of star performances including The Local Train, Sachin
and Jigar, EDM night by Diego Miranda and Siana Catherine, a wonderful
performance by Shaan and many international performances.

TECHNICAL FEST - KSHITIJ

Kshitij is Asia's largest annual techno-management symposium of Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur. A showcase of innovation, the symposium aims to bring
together healthy competition from across the country together and celebrate
technological advancements. This year the 15th edition of Kshitij was held from 19th
to 21st January. With a plethora of 33 events, Kshitij 2018 saw a total participation of
over 3000 students. Illustrious personalities from across India to grace the stage at
Kshitij 2018 were Mr. Imtiaz Ali, Dr. Vasudev Aatre, Dr. Rajedra Singh and Mr. D.
Sivanandan among others. Kshitij 2018 also saw the latest cutting-edge technology
being exhibited during the fest, which included Robotic Band from Japan, Team
Synergy from Croatia, Indro 3.0 of India. Industry experts from Nvidia, Microsoft,
Mahindra, IBM, Intel and many giant firms imparted first-hand experience to the
participants through the informative workshops conducted during Kshitij 2018.
 40 STUDENT & COMMUNITY LIFE

Awaaz The Scholars’

Awaaz is a media organization Avenue
which is active in the IIT
Kharagpur campus. Awaaz The Scholars' Avenue is the
started in the form of monthly independent student-run
magazine, through social media campus newspaper of the Indian
and website, always informs the Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur. Founded in 2005,
KGP community about the
copies of The Scholars' Avenue Sports
events happening in the
campus. As a media are now delivered to all students Round the year there is always a
organization, Awaaz has on campus and soft copies are buzz of sports activities in the
understood the needs of the mailed to all faculty and several campus.
campus over time and has thousand alumni. The teamis This year Inter Hall Athletics Meet
brought several changes in the drawn entirely from among the was divided into 02 parts namely
IIT campus, in which regular students of the institute, and its Senior Inter Hall Athletics Meet and
cleaning of the hostels, dustbins mission is to report and analyze Junior Athletics Meet, giving new
in the KGP campus are the main events that affect the campus, comers a chance to show their
ones. Attempting to present and to be the voice of the IIT potential. Sports G.C. was won by
problems through "Panji dude" Kharagpur student community. Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence
and "Cartoon Context", has We are a non-profit organization and Azad Hall of Residence grabbed
given us great success. Awaaz independent of the second Position and Girl's G.C. was
administration of IIT Kharagpur won by SN Hall of residence.
brings out the monthly campus
newsletter of IIT Kharagpur and supported by sponsorships Workshops in almost all of the sports
published in Hindi. and donations. were conducted to increase the
To access the newspaper, participation and passion of the
To access the newspaper, students in sports. Apart from this a
please visit please visit
large number of new and exciting
http://www.scholarsavenue.org/ events such as Women's Football
http://awaaziitkgp.org/
Workshop named Let's Football,
Neymar's Juniors Five and Women's
Week.
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Weekend Outings
Sea beaches at Digha,
Mandarmani, Talshari, Tajpur,
Mangrove forests of Sunderbans,
Lagoons of Bhitarkanika, Treks,
Tours and Adventure Sports at
Himalayan mountains of
Darjeeling and Sikkim, Forests of
North Bengal, Historical tours of
Kolkata, Murshidabad,
Bishnupur, Cultural tour of
Shantiniketan, Amusement
Parks, River tour, Dining out at
Kolkata.
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Health and Wellness

B. C. Roy Hospital
IIT Kharagpur is committed to provide quality health care services to its Student Medical Insurance
faculty, employees, and students using modern and cost effective
B C Roy Technology Hospital refers In case of any queries, kindly
techniques and technologies, and through a dedicated and humane
patients to higher centers of care for mail us at
approach. B C Roy Technology Hospital, owned and managed by IIT
specialized healthcare services and [email protected]
Kharagpur, provides Primary Health Care comprising of curative,
medical treatment. IIT Kharagpur or call us @ Manav
preventive and health promotion services. The facility has 32 beds,
has Memorandum of Understanding 08584033178/ Mr. Sanjiv
including a 2 Bedded ICU, Cabins and Isolation Ward. Through its Out
(MOU) with several corporate 9339767166 / Mr. Mihir
Patient Department (OPD), Indoor Wards and Emergency Unit, B C Roy
hospitals in Kolkata. For students, 09331054120
Technology Hospital provides 24x7 uninterrupted health care services to
there is a medical insurance For any medical claim related
the campus community. On an average approximately 7000 patients
scheme. For the referral of the assistance contact :
attend the OPD at B C Roy Technology Hospital every month. The
students, there is an arrangement
hospital has a round the clock pharmacy inside it. It is also equipped with Mr. R. K. Jha, Liaison Officer,
with several hospitals, which include:
a Video-conferencing facility for telemedicine. Biomedical waste from B C Academic Section, IIT
Roy Technology Hospital is regularly and properly disposed of by an § Peerless Hospital, Kolkata
Kharagpur, Mob. No. -
arrangement with the services of West Bengal State Government § Ruby General Hospital, Kolkata
9474625035, E-mail ID -
Environment Department. B C Roy Technology Hospital keeps the health § Meridian Medical Research and
[email protected]
needs of the campus community as its top priority, and constantly strives Hospital Ltd (West Bank)
to improve and upgrade the existing facilities and the services. § ILS Dum Dum
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Counselling Centre To a happy and inclusive KGP! :)

The holistic well-being of our student community, encompassing both
physical and mental health, is of the highest priority to the Institute. In
pursuance of our commitment towards ensuring that, we have set up the
Students' Counselling Centre, to provide any required assistance to
students who may be experiencing emotional or psychological conditions
that pose a hindrance to their regular activities on campus.
The Counselling Centre offers a broad range of services including
psychological assessment, individual therapy, group therapy, and
medication and management to promote mental health, life skills,
emotional resilience and overall well-being of the student community.
Full-time clinical psychologists and a visiting psychiatrist are available for Institute Wellness Group and Interaction Rooms
consultation at the Centre. The Centre has also initiated an outreach
programme to create a team of sensitized wing representatives from each Institute Wellness Group (IWG) is a student body with a mission to create
Hall of Residence who can reach out to students in need. a happy student community! Under the Students' Welfare (SW) Portfolio
of the TSG, IWG consists of students groomed to carry out welfare
The Centre addresses problems associated with stress, time activities and uphold the glorious culture of the campus.
management, motivational issues, relationship difficulties, impulse control
issues, and learning difficulties. It also helps students experiencing The members of IWG act as primary nodes of student counselling and
significant depression, anxiety, mood swings, or other thought disorders. after continued efforts from the previous office holders, we have set up
Interaction Rooms in every hall of residence. They function as a space for
Apart from individual sessions, the Centre plans to conduct group getting Motivation, Stress Relief, Personal Assistance and expressing
sessions to address life skills such as assertiveness, problem solving, Gratitude. Students are welcomed to come forward and express their
anger management, self-awareness, and interpersonal relationships. hearts out and take any help they need to be happier and stress free.
The Counselling Centre also functions as a coordinating point for crisis Home-sickness and acceptance/tolerance to new conditions and people
intervention. is where most freshers face a difficulty and we are ready with ways to
tackle it!
For more information, please visit -
http://www.counsellingcentre.iitkgp.ac.in/ To know about the location of the interaction rooms and to stay updated
about our activities, kindly follow our facebook handle
(www.facebook.com/iwg.iitkgp)
 48 STUDENT & COMMUNITY LIFE STUDENT & COMMUNITY LIFE 49

Dos and Donts for IIT Kharagpur Students

Safety and Security Strictly adhere to laid down rules and regulations

DOs DONTs
ü Do carry an Identity proof ü Enter your guest particulars with û Do not leave Hall without û Do not cause disturbance to
whenever you go out of IIT submitting student I-Card at the taking prior permission of the others by playing loud music /
Kharagpur campus. Security desk before leaving and Warden / assistant warden. shouting or playing ball / cricket
ü Respect your faculty, Fellow entering the Hostel premises. û Do not indulge in ragging in etc inside the Halls.
Students, seniors, Hall Staff ü Return to your room before 10 any manner including û Avoid exaggeration when a
and Mess Staff. pm every day unless permitted to remaining a mute witness to complaint is made against
ü Keep your room clean, tidy be out of Hall. Seek prior an act of ragging by others. fellow Student / Staffs of IIT
and ventilate it regularly. Help permission for all leave of û Do not ride two/four wheelers Kharagpur.
to maintain Cleanliness within absence from hostel, well in time. within Halls area. û Do not divulge your ATM Pin /
the Hall and Campus. ü Inform the Warden and Institute û Do not hand over keys of your Password number to another
ü Adhere to mess timings and in case of change of address / two wheeler to another student / friend.
co-operate with Mess Staffs’ contact details of parents / local student, who has not been û Do not leave your personal
Guardians. permitted to drive with IIT belongings including cash,
ü Report movement of any
unknown / suspicious person ü Beware of snakes within campus; Kharagpur campus. cards or laptop unattended
in the Hall and Campus. do not move out at night in û Do not consume liquor. even for a minute.
isolated / Restricted area. û Do not leave your room un-
ü Switch off your room lights and û Do not smoke or consume
fans when not needed or when ü Report and misconduct / stupefying drugs. attended and always keep your
you out of your room even for indiscipline on the part of any one valuable belonging in safe
in the Hall and also report any û Do not damage property of locking condition.
a short while. Help IIT others, including IIT
Kharagpur save electricity. undesirable activity within the
Halls / Campus. Kharagpur.
ü Close the taps and avoid û Do not move around/sit in
wastage of water. Report if any ü Take care of hostel properties
and assets. Report any loss or areas that are dark, secluded
tap is leaking. and bushy.
damage to IIT Kharagpur
property in the Halls / Room.

For Security Assistance, Please Call: 03222-282752/281001, 281004 QRT (Quick Response Team): 03222-281002, 03222-28271003
 50 STUDENT & COMMUNITY LIFE

Vision Prabaho

Environment

Sustainable
Development

Social Economical

Vision Prabaho is the self-governing non-profit organization, run by the

students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, focusing on the
major environmental issues in and around the Campus. Members of Team
Vision Prabaho are mostly from the students of the institute and supported by
the faculty members, administration, and residents of IIT Kharagpur.
Our mission is to raise environmental awareness among the people of IIT
Kharagpur, and address major environmental issues like plantation, air quality,
plastic pollution, waste management etc. We believe as a part of this elite
institution we hold a greater responsibility towards the environment, and this is
a high time to step forward against the imminent threat of environmental
degradation and climate change.
 52 RESIDENCE HALL LIFE RESIDENCE HALL LIFE 53

Hall Management Centre Guest House

Our institute is fully residential. Students are accommodated in 20 Halls of Accommodation
Residence which are managed by HMC. In addition to this, 2 numbers of The Institute hosts all visitors in four guest
family accommodations are available for married doctoral scholars and houses, three in Campus and one in
defence sponsored married MTech students. These halls are administered Kolkata. Regular catering facilities are
by Wardens and Assistant Wardens with help of hall managers and available in all guest houses. For details and
supervisors. contact numbers please visit individual
Chairman and Coordinating Wardens (Mess, Maintenance, Allotment) look Guest Houses:
after the overall administration of HMC. Dean of Student Affairs acts as
adviser. New Technology Guest House (NTGH)

Students doing MS and PhD through projects are accommodated in VSRC, Visveswaraya Guest House (VGH)
which is managed by the Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy
Salt Lake Guest House-Kolkata (SLGH)
cell of IIT Kharagpur.
Catering service is provided by the regular hall staff members in some of the Hall Management Centre runs SAM guest
halls, and for the remaining halls it has been outsourced to private agencies. house which is located in front of the HMC Booking
Cleaning service is outsourced for all the halls of residence. Currently there Office, and top of the SAM Hall of + 91-3222-282834
are 296 regular employees of HMC. Residence. Online booking is activated and
is mandatory. For booking, please click Reception
All the halls have 24×7 Internet connectivity, and most of them have
here. Once confirmed, you will receive a + 91-3222-282800
common room, music room, library and sports room facilities. Halls also
have various sports and culture facilities. Activities related to Mess mail with a Book ID. Prior booking more than Email
operations and monitoring, sports and games, cultural events, library etc. 120 days is NOT allowed. Please Note: [email protected]
are managed by various elected general secretaries and overseen by The 1. Room rent will be received through POS
Hall President. There are various inter-hall events foremost among which only. No Cash payment will be accepted. For more details Click
are Illumination, Rangoli and Garden competitions arranged by Technology http://www.tgh.iitkgp.ac.in/
2. For Online Booking please click Guest
Gymkhana. House Application Portal
Guest rooms are available in different halls
of residence
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Glimpses of
19
Our admission criteria are Talk about the latest interests -
among the most rigorous in the Nano Science & Technology,
Academics country. But on admission, Energy Science, Environment
students are supported with Science & Technology, Bio- DEPARTMENTS
At IIT KGP, academic program is energy, Intellectual Property Law,
designed to give wings to your Business Management, Financial

12
aspirations - more than teaching, Best-in-class Technical Facilities Engineering, they are all here
we help you learn and innovate. Web-enabled Classrooms under one umbrella and you can
choose these as elective papers
A wide variety of disciplines (19
Virtual Learning Environment for minor or micro-specialization SCHOOLS
Departments, 13 Schools and 9
during your B.Tech. or Dual
Centres of Excellence) are Use of Learning Management

08
Degree Programs. If you are a
offered which are also Tools, viz. Moodle
Dual Degree student you can even
amalgamated, thus making
Discussion Forum do your M.Tech. from the specific
available a plethora of
Departments, Schools and
multidisciplinary courses. Academic programs CENTRES
Centres.
Students are encouraged to
To choose from you have 19
explore the options which suit Students may opt for
B.Tech. (15 programs) Departments, 12 Schools and 8
them the best, irrespective of the Microspecializations, Minor or
Centres of Excellence. Additionally
discipline to which they have B.Arch, Dual Degree (35 Dual Degree courses in the
there are more than 25 R&D units.
been admitted. This improves programs) above.
Academic programs are offered
their industry worthiness and
are B.Tech.(15), B.Arch, Dual
knowledge base and helps them MBA, MHRM, LLB, MMST,
MCP, M.Sc/ M.Tech/ MS (67 Degree(35), MBA, MHRM, LLB, Nano Science & Technology
emerge as well-rounded
programs) MMST, M.Sc/ M.Tech/ MCP/ MS
graduates, equipped for any Energy Science
(68), PhD in 6 broad disciplines:
career either in academics or the Ph.D programs (1) Engineering, (2) Basic Bio-energy
corporate world.
Sciences, (3) Life Sciences, (4)
Niche field of interest for Intellectual Property Law
Opportunities for research, Social Sciences & Humanities, (5)
Undergraduates
fellowships, internships, and Law and (6) Entrepreneurship.
Financial Engineering
networking are boundless.
 56 ACADEMIC LIFE ACADEMIC LIFE 57

Know Your Department World-class Faculty

Visit http://why.iitkgp.ac.in/know-your-department There are approximately 600 faculty in various
disciplines who have done PhD from globally
to know the insiders’ view of the Departments from the standpoint of renowned universities and done commendable
students. Get a first-hand experience of what the students have to say research. The Institute has two Bhatnagar
about the Departments at IIT-KGP Prizes in the last 3 years and 38 Academy
Fellows. Bhatnagar Prize is the most coveted
award in multidisciplinary science in India. The
faculty members have collectively published
more than 1000 research papers in peer
reviewed journals and close to 800 conference
papers published in proceedings of national
and international conferences.
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Flexible Academics
Glimpses of Academics Micro-Specialization - In order to provide opportunity for a larger
Talk about the latest interests - Nano Science & Technology, Energy section of our highly talented students to take up niche specializations
Science, Environment Science & Technology, Bio-energy, Intellectual from other / interdisciplinary programmes, IIT Kharagpur has initiated the
Property Law, Business Management, Financial Engineering, they are all concept of Micro-Specializations. This is offered by departments, centres,
here under one umbrella and you can choose these as elective papers schools including those who do not run undergraduate programmes and
for minor or micro-specialization during your B.Tech. or Dual Degree can also be jointly offered. A Micro-Specialization is a smaller and more
Programs. If you are a Dual Degree student you can even do your compact but niche topic and requires a student to do a foundation course
M.Tech. from the specific Departments, Schools and Centres. and two / three courses and/or a project. It is possible to pursue a Micro-
Specialization without the need to take too many additional courses by
To choose from you have 19 Departments, 12 Schools and 8 Centres of
properly utilizing the elective slots.
Excellence. Additionally there are more than 25 R&D units. Academic
programs are offered are B.Tech.(15), B.Arch, Dual Degree(35), MBA,
MHRM, LLB, MMST, M.Sc/ M.Tech/ MCP/ MS (68), PhD in 6 broad Project-based Learning - Students are engaged in the mega projects:
disciplines: (1) Engineering, (2) Basic Sciences, (3) Life Sciences, (4)
§ Future of Cities focuses on technology for the development and
Social Sciences & Humanities, (5) Law and (6) Entrepreneurship.
maintenance of our cities and future cities.
§ Signals and Systems for Life Sciences focuses on technology for
Interdisciplinary and Flexible Academics leveraging biometric signal processing for analysis, prognostics,
diagnostics and affordable healthcare.
Minor Course - A student performing well in his academics can choose
courses and laboratories in any other discipline and can get a “minor” § The Sustainable Food Security project seeks to leverage technology
degree in that. This way you are not restricted to learning about things for food production, processing and distribution logistics.
only in the discipline you get admitted to, but you can choose courses of § SandHI (Science and Heritage Interface), a science-culture initiative
your interest to later on take up a career path of your liking. A Minor uses technology for preservation, archival, development and scientific
course requires about 6 subjects to be undertaken (18-24 contact-hours exploration of our heritage
plus 3-9 hours of laboratory) in addition to the major discipline. The § The projects have industry and other external partners thus giving
students taking up a minor course will get additional credits. The professional exposure to students
opportunity of acquiring additional credits and the minor would be
available to the students of all the degrees and disciplines.
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Change of Branch (At the end of First Year)

Change of the branch is a privilege and not a right. Only those students Students may enlist up to TEN (10) choices of branch, in order of
admitted to B.Tech.(Hons.) / Dual Degree / Integrated M.Sc. Programs preference, to which they wish to change over. It will not be permissible
through JEE (Advanced) are eligible to be considered for a change of to alter the choices after the application has been submitted.
branch after the Second (Spring) Semester as per the following rules: Change of branch shall be made strictly on the basis of inter se merit of
To be eligible for consideration for a change of branch the following the applicants. For this purpose the CGPA obtained at the end of the
conditions must be satisfied: Second (Spring) Semester shall be considered. Ties will be broken by
§ He/she must have completed all the credits prescribed in the first the JEE Advanced rank of the applicants.
two semesters of the course, in his/her first attempt, without having § In making the change of branch, those applicants shall be first
had to pass any course requirement in the re-examination, considered who have secured a rank within top 1% (one percent),
supplementary examination and/or summer quarter. rounded to the nearest integer, amongst all the first year students in
terms of the CGPA scored at the end of the Second (Spring)
§ He/she must have obtained a Cumulative Grade Point Average
Semester. Change of branch requested for by such applicants shall
(CGPA) not lower than 8.5 at the end of the Second (Spring)
be made without any constraint.
Semester.
§ The remaining applicants may be allowed a change of branch,
§ He/she must not have been punished for any offence by the
strictly in order of inter se merit, subject to the limitation that the
Standing Institute Disciplinary Committee or the Committee on
actual number of students in the Third (Autumn) Semester, in the
Prevention of Examination Malpractices at any time prior to the
branch to which the transfer is to be made, does not exceed 110%
notification for the change of branch.
of the sanctioned yearly intake for that branch.
Application for a change of branch must be made by intending eligible
The sanctioned yearly intake of a particular branch shall be the
students when the notification is made during the Spring Semester of the
number sanctioned by the Senate as the intake for that branch for
academic year. The students have to accordingly (I) apply online and (ii)
submit signed hardcopy to Academic Section by the specified deadline. the particular year of entry of the applicants. To compute the total
number of students in the first year, sum of the sanctioned yearly
§ Students admitted to 4-Year B.Tech.(Hons.) and 5-Year Integrated intake of all the branches will be taken. For the purpose of
M.Sc. programs are eligible for consideration for a change of branch calculating the actual number of students in a particular branch, the
to any Engineering or a Science discipline. number of students joining the branch is to be considered.
§ Students admitted to a 5-Year Dual Degree Program are eligible for
a change to another 5-Year Dual Degree Program only.
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Grading System Starting from the second semester at the end of each semester S, a
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) will be computed for every
As a measure of students performance a 7-scale grading system using student as follows:
the following letter grades and corresponding grade points per credit, as
shown in Table: Starting from the second semester at the end
of each semester S, a Cumulative Grade Point
Performance Letter Grade Grade point Per Credit Average (CGPA) will be computed for every
Excellent Ex 10 student as follows:
Very good A 9
Good B 8 Where ‘m’ is the total number of subjects the student has registered and
cleared from the first semester onwards up to and including the semester
Fair C 7
S, ‘Ci’ is the number of Credits allotted to a particular subject ‘Si' and ‘gi’ is
Average D 6 the grade-point carried by the letter corresponding to the grade awarded
Pass P 5 to the student for the subject ‘Si’. CGPA will be rounded off to the second
Fail F 0 place of decimal and recorded as such.
In addition, there shall be one grading symbol X From the batch of 2014-2015 onwards the calculation of SGPA and CGPA
used to indicate that the student is Deregistered / will be based on all the subjects registered.
Debarred in that particular subject. When a student gets the grade ‘F’ in any subject during a semester, the
A Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) will be SGPA and the CGPA from that semester onwards will be tentatively
computed for each semester. The SGPA will be calculated, taking only ‘zero point’ for each such ‘F’ grade. After the ‘F’
calculated as follows: grade(s) has/have been substituted by better grades during a subsequent
semester, the SGPA and the CGPA of all the semesters, starting from the
where ‘n’ is the number of subjects registered and cleared for the earliest semester in which the ‘F’ grade has been updated, will be
semester, ‘Ci’ is the number of Credits allotted to a particular subject, and recomputed and recorded to take this change of grade into account.
‘gi’ is the grade-points carried by the letter corresponding to the grade Conversion of CGPA into percentage Marks: In case of a specific
awarded to the student for the subject. SGPA will be rounded off to the query by students/employers regarding conversion of CGPA into
second place of decimal and recorded as such. The SGPA would percentage marks, the following formula will be adopted for notional
indicate the performance of the student in the semester to which it refers. conversion of CGPA into percentage marks.
Formula : % Marks = CGPA*10
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Students’
Innovation at
M N Faruqui
Innovation
Centre
The M N Faruqui Innovations
Centre is funded by
distinguished alumnus Shri
Arjun Malhotra in the name of
Late Professor M N Faruqui,
also an alumnus and former
faculty of IIT Kharagpur. It
facilitates student innovations
projects. Interdisciplinary
student teams being
supported by this centre and
with approved projects are
expected to come up with
end-use application products
which will be taken for real-life
tests by the project teams as
an innovative product.
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Conduct and Discipline

Students shall conduct themselves within and outside the precincts of the à Ragging
Institute in a manner befitting the students of an institution of national à Furnishing false statement of any kind in the form of application for
importance. admission or for award of scholarship etc
Students shall show due respect to the teachers of the Institute, the à Displaying lack of courtesy and decorum; resorting to indecent
Wardens of the Halls of Residence, the Sports Officers of the Gymkhana behavior anywhere within or outside the campus
and the Officers of the National Cadet Corps; proper courtesy and à Wilfully damaging or stealthily removing any property/belongings of
consideration should be extended to the employees of the Institute and of the Institute, Hall or fellow students
the Halls of Residence. They shall also pay due attention and courtesy to à Possession, consumption or distribution of alcoholic drinks or any
visitors. kind of hallucinogenic drugs
Students are required to develop a friendly relationship with fellow à Adoption of unfair means in the examinations
students. In particular, they are expected to show kindness and à Organizing or participating in any group activity in company with
consideration to the new students admitted to the Institute every year. others in or outside the campus without prior permission of the Dean
Law bans ragging in any form to anybody - acts of ragging will be of Students Affairs
considered as gross indiscipline and will be severely dealt with.
à Mutilation or unauthorized possession of library books
The following acts of omission and/or commission shall constitute gross à Resorting to noisy and unseemly behavior, disturbing studies of
violation of the code of conduct and are liable to invoke disciplinary fellow students
measures:
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à Misuse of Internet/e-mail facilities or tampering / hacking with § Student Vice-President, Technology Students’ Gymkhana -
servers anywhere in the Halls of Residence / Departments etc. Member
à Not intimating his / her absence to the Warden of the Hall before § One of the student representatives in the Senate, to be
availing any leave. nominated by the Dean Students’ Affairs, for one year – Member
Commensurate with the gravity of the offence, the punishment may be § The Deputy Registrar (Academic) - Member Secretary
reprimand, fine, and expulsion from the Hall, debarment from an In addition, the Chairman may invite any other person(s) to be associated
examination, rustication for a specified period or even outright with the proceedings of a particular case, if his/her/their participation is
expulsion from the Institute. considered necessary in disposing of the matter.
For an offence committed (a) in a Hall of Residence, (b) in the à Recommendation of the committee, which will include the suggested
Department or a classroom and © elsewhere, the Warden, the Head of punishment in cases of guilt proven, will be forwarded to the
the Department and the Dean of Students’ Affairs, respectively, shall Chairman Senate for necessary action.
have the authority to reprimand or impose fine or take any other suitable
Cases of adoption of unfair means in an examination shall be dealt with
measure.
by the Committee on Prevention of Examination Malpractices
All cases involving punishment other than reprimand shall be reported to consisting of the following members:
the Chairman of the Standing Institute Disciplinary Committee. § Professor-in-Charge of Examination - Chairman
à All major acts of indiscipline, which may have serious repercussion § Head of the Department to which the reported student belongs -
on the general body of students, and/or which may warrant a Member
uniform and more formalized nature of investigation, shall be
§ The Invigilator reporting the case - Member
handled by the Standing Institute Disciplinary Committee
§ The Invigilator-in-Charge of the Examination Hall concerned -
appointed by Senate. The Standing Disciplinary Committee consists
of the following ex-officio and other members: Member
§ The Paper-setter concerned - Member
§ Dean of Students’ Affairs - Chairman
§ Two members of faculty nominated by the Undergraduate
§ Chairman, Hall Management Committee - Member Program & Evaluation Committee for a term of two years -
§ Warden of the Hall of Residence of which the student concerned Members
is a boarder - Member § The Assistant Registrar (UGS) - Secretary
§ One Faculty nominated by the Senate, by rotation for two years - The Committee shall recommend appropriate measures in each case to
Member the Chairman of the Senate for awarding the punishment.
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National Programme Career depending on their CGPA,

67 Development Centre
leadership skills, success in co-
of Technology Enhanced courses curricular and extra-curricular
programs and of course the
Learning (NPTEL) out of the total Placement interview with the company.
355 online courses
Internship Every year more than 250
Under this programme IIT Kharagpur offered under
develops e-learning resources as a this programme. Career companies visit IITKGP and
partnering institution in the form of video and recruit more than 1600 students.
web courses which are available on the For more information Placement and IITKGP has been ranked for two
NPTEL website and YouTube. Online on the consecutive years as the best
available courses,
Internship institution in India in the Graduate
certification courses are offered as well.
Courses on Communication and Soft skill please visit The Career Development Centre Employability Rankings by
development as well as job oriented courses www.nptel.ac.in (CDC) of IITKGP provides 360 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
are offered. IIT Kharagpur has one of the degree career solutions to the Placements in top Indian and
largest contributions in NPTEL. It has The courses on students in professional international organizations,
developed 48 web courses and 127 video Programming in C++, development, internships and national labs in defence space
courses (around 5000 hrs. of video contents) Embedded Systems promoting corporate relations for and atomic sciences, design
on diverse core and elective subjects. From Design, Machine improving placement and houses, engineering
2014, online certification courses are being Learning, Speaking internship opportunities. conglomerates, consulting
offered under this programme as NPTEL Effectively offered
in the past were very The student strength is more than companies, financial institutions
certification courses. These courses in the 10000 including Undergraduate and so on. 10-15% of IITKGP
popular amongst the
MOOC format covering the 4 quadrant audience. studies, Postgraduate studies and graduates opt for higher studies
approach provide courses on core/elective PhD. More than 60% are in India and abroad right after
subjects which imbibe problem solving Undergraduate students doing graduation while some do so
capability to the learners. Also a number of The course on
Outcome based B.Tech., B.Arch. and Dual Degree after earning a few years of work
courses on communication and Soft skill Pedagogic Principles for programs. About 1000 students experience. Some of them take
development as well as job oriented courses Effective Teaching was get graduation degree every year. time off to prepare for the nation’s
are offered. Since January 2016, IIT well taken by the premier civil service
Kharagpur has offered: Faculty members of Placement of undergraduate
examinations.
engineering colleges. students is more than 80%
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International International Moodle

Internship Relations Moodle facility at IIT
Entrepreneurship
Kharagpur is provided to Incubation of entrepreneurial
Select students from the Institute Semester Away Programme
the faculty members and ventures at IITKGP are done at two
are offered international (SAP) provides students with the students for enhanced verticals -
internships by the alumni in unique opportunity of studying in teaching and learning
various corporate houses. 3rd any university of his choice M.Tech. at Rajendra Mishra School
experience. Moodle is
year B.Tech, 4th year Dual whether in India or abroad for a of Engineering Entrepreneurship
being used for uploading
Degree and 4th year Integrated semester or two. SAP provides along with incubation facility which
of course materials,
M.Sc. who are eligible for 8 the students with the opportunity provides guidance and finance for
support for class
weeks / 40 days compulsory to explore their interests and gain product development, marketing
assignments and
summer internship for the international experience. strategy development, infrastructure
evaluation, making and
following courses. for R&D. This M.Tech. programme
International exposure is crucial uploading of Video clips for
can be opted by students enrolling for
for a holistic development of an better understanding of
Dual Degree.
Career individual and the experience of
living and working abroad will be
theory topics and
laboratory experiments Science and Technology
Career Development Cell tantamount to this endeavor. To and support for on-line Entrepreneurs' Park (STEP) provides
(CDC) arranges pre-assessment achieve this goal, Foreign Class test, Quiz and their the unique resource for consultancy
test and softskill development Training Program (FTP) has evaluations. in entrepreneurship management and
training for both UG & PG been initiated. Under this venture capital management.
students for their career program, we have started Entrepreneurship Break - If you hit
development. formalization of the foreign up on a big idea during your stay
training application procedure in here and would like to take a
collaboration with the Career semester break to pursue
Development Cell. entrepreneurship, IIT Kharagpur not
only allows you to do that but
provides all help possible to support
your endeavor.
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Joint International Academic

HAPPY
Programmes LEADERS
And
The Institute offers Joint PhD programs with the following universities: ORGANIZATIONS
IITKGP has collaborations with many Rekhi Centre of Excellence
reputed universities across the globe. for the Science of Happiness
With some such as Curtin and
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Melbourne there are Dual Doctoral
Programs, with some there are
research collaborations such as
Loughborough, Imperial College, Rekhi Centre
Southampton, Warwick, Manchester. The Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness was set up
With US universities, IITKGP has in July 2016 in order to offer courses, conduct research, develop
strategic collaborations such as Johns community well-being centred around the concept of Happiness. It offers
Hopkins Medical School with the a number of exciting courses, and guest talks for the student community,
Medical programme and George holds an annual International workshop and has various activities,
Washington Law School with the competitions and projects where students can participate and express
IITKGP Law School. Students themselves in various ways.
exchange programs are conducted as
well with US universities. Joint
Practicum for 1 year was conducted Virtual Labs
with MIT, Joint Workshop conducted The Virtual labs project is aimed at providing near-hands-on experience
with Indiana University of Pennsylvania to students in various laboratory topics in sciences and engineering using
on Climate Change, Joint Conference information and communication technology. The labs have central
with Columbia University and many platform integration and easily deployable mechanism of delivery to any
more such projects. MoUs with university student in the country. An open source development,
Purdue, Texas A&M, Rutgers etc. deployment and management system has been put in place by the Virtual
Labs consortium.
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Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) One or more of the following unwelcome acts or behavior (whether
directly or by implication) constituting sexual harassment are:
Internal Complaints Committee related to à Physical contact or advances
Sexual Harassment and Violence against women à A demand or request for sexual favours
at their work-place à Making sexually coloured remarks
With the rise of acts of violence and offenses against women in the à Showing pornography
country in recent times, the issues of women's safety and security has à Any other unwelcome physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct of
sparked a slew of fresh deliberations in the nation. In the backdrop of this sexual nature
larger debate, with due attention to the facts that there has been a
substantial increase of female students and some untoward incidents of
offensive behavior towards the women (students, faculty and campus
residents) do happen at IIT Kharagpur campus, women's safety is both a
timely and important issue for IIT Kharagpur to deliberate upon. Contact Persons Details

Dr. (Mrs) Prabina Rajib

Professor, Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM),
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Presiding Officer (ICC)
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 email: [email protected]
In pursuance of the direction of the honourable Supreme Court in Phone: 03222 - 282886 (Off); 03222-283483 (Res.)
VISHAKA and ORS.v. STATE OF RAJASTHAN and ORS. (JT 1997(7) Prof. Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar
SC 384), the Institute constituted a Standing Committee on Women Cell Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering,
in 2001 to effectively deal with cases of violence against female students, Member (ICC),
staff, faculty and campus residents. email: [email protected]
Phone: 03222-283288
Presently, this cell functions as the “Internal Complaints Committee” as
designated under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013. For more details:
Please visit “Internal Complaints Committee” link given in
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 80 STUDENT FINANCIAL AID STUDENT FINANCIAL AID 81

Scholarships Some of other scholarships: International

§ Close to 1000 students at Panasonic Scholarship: It is a Travel Assistance
IITKGP receive financial scholarship for btech students 1st year IITKGP facilitated and
assistance from various who are BPL Card holders or are not able financed students to
corporations, foundations and to pay for their studies in IITs. Amount – participate in international
external agencies INR 42500 per year for 4 consecutive competitions such as Hult
§ More than 1000 students years as grant to cover students' tuition Prize, GRIFTECH, Formula
receive Scholarships on Merit- fee. SAE, Intelligent Ground
cum-Means Siemens Scholarship: It is a scholarship Vehicle Competition, FIRA
§ 100s of Endowment Prizes and for BTech students 1st year in IITs & World Cup.
Free Tuition-ship offered by the NITs. Candidate's family income must be Under the final year
Institute below 2 Lacs per annum. Students are students funded program
§ Alumni Funded Scholarships awarded with Siemens Scholarship ‘My Imprint’ students have
throughout four years of BTech. been supported on various
Special Grants
IET India Scholarship: IET India occasions of international
§ Top-up Fellowships offered by travel assistance.
Faculty from Research Projects Scholarship is a fellowship for 2nd & 3rd
year engineering students in India International Travel
§ Special Grants for incubated
provided by IET. To get it candidates will assistance has been
Entrepreneurship projects
go through the various selection rounds formalized under the Shri
Banking Assistance included an online test. Amount – Total Gopal Rajgarahia (SGR)
§ At IITKGP education loans can INR 8 Lacs which will be distributed to the Student International Travel
be availed from nationalised selected candidates. Programme for research
banks in the campus Aditya Birla Scholarship: It is provided and volunteer projects,
§ Students will not have to by the Aditya Birla Group for the people international competitions
depend on your parents or on who're pursuing their educational degree and conferences,
scholarships for study from IITs, IIMs, BITS Pilani and Law international internships
colleges of India. Amount – It covers the and co-op placements.

Further information on scholarships is available in the rules and academic fees as well as hostel fee
regulations document visit http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/files/stu_ad.pdf throughout the complete course duration.
 82 ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) SPONSORED RESEARCH & INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY SRIC 83

Aerial
Robotics
Kharagpur
(ARK)
Autonomous Flying Vehicles: We aim to move the state-of-the-art in
aerial robotics forward. Our drones, when ready, would be capable of
autonomous flight, localization in GPS denied environments, tracking and
Enterprise Resource Planning interacting with mobile ground robots as well as other drones, and much
(ERP) System more!
International Aerial Robotics Competition: IARC is the longest running
IIT Kharagpur has started implementing its' own web based ERP system collegiate aerial robotics challenge in the world. Entering its third decade,
which helps in automating administrative processes and services at the the competition continues to tackle challenges that are currently
Institute and digitizing institute records. It is developed in-house using impossible for any flying robots owned by government or industry. We aim
open source technologies like Java, Postgresql, Spring Framework etc. to participate in its next iteration.
Project Description: ARK aims to develop a flexible aerial robotics
framework which can be easily used to control aerial vehicles. Eventually,
Grading we want to move to multiple decentralised aerial robot swarms in an
ERP Academic
Evaluation outdoors setting. Currently, we have designed an architecture for IARC
Support Performance
& Grade Card which we plan to optimise iteratively for participation

For details please visit http://www.aerialroboticskgp.org/

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Kharagpur Robosoccer Autonomous Ground Vehicle

Students’ Group (KRSSG) (AGV) Multi-disciplinary
RoboCup 2018, Canada - 3D Simulation League Research Group
Kharagpur RoboSoccer Students' Group (KRSSG), is a research group
comprising of ardent robotics technocrats across different departments Team AGV – activity for design and implementation of autonomous
and working together to build autonomous soccer-playing robots, under ground vehicles. The team has designed, fabricated and operated
the collective guidance of professors from the Department of Computer autonomous vehicles with multiple sensors, data processing, and fusion,
Science, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. The research objective incorporating sophisticated control steps. The team has participated in
of the group is to build and study cooperative multi-agent systems in various competitions in India and abroad. It is indeed a matter of pride to
highly dynamic adversarial environments. KRSSG participates in two note that Team AGV has secured second position in the 26th International
international competitions FIRA and RoboCup, and work on 3D Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) held at Oakland University in
simulation, autonomous wheeled robots and humanoid robots. We Rochester, Michigan, USA from June 1-4, 2018. This event was
bagged Bronze Medal in the MiroSot league of FIRA World Cup 2015 organized by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle System International
held in South Korea. In our latest participation in RoboCup 2018, Canada (AUVSI)
we stood 2nd in the Skills Tournament of 3D Simulation League. KRSSG
is the first Indian team to have participated in RoboCup and notably the
only full-undergraduate team in the SSL and 3D Simulation Leagues,
among 30 other teams, which participate.

For details please visit http://krssg.in/ For details please visit http://agv-iit-kgp.github.io/
 86 SRIC SPONSORED RESEARCH & INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY

TeamKART
As an automobile research project, TeamKART focuses on the
development of formula style race cars. Comprising of students from all
academic years of various engineering disciplines, we work together in
the design, fabrication, manufacturing and testing of prototype race cars.
Since our inception in 2008, we have successfully manufactured and
tested five of our own cars, improving the design with each new one.
With these cars, we represent IIT Kharagpur in various national and
international competitions, which are held under the name Formula
Student. The team has participated twice in national competitions and
thrice in Formula Student UK, with our last car K3 recently standing 2nd
in one of the events at Formula Bharat 2017. We are currently looking
forward to testing our latest car K4 and aim to achieve our best
performance with it.

For details please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_KART

88 EMINENT ALUMNI EMINENT ALUMNI 89

Mani Bhaumik (PhD/PH/58), D. Subbarao (BSc/PH/69) Kalyanmoy Deb Anu Acharya (MSc/PH/95)
Innovator (Key Inventor in the IAS, Govt. Administrator, (BTech/ME/85) - Academia Entrepreneur (CEO, Ocimum Bio
field of Excimer Laser) Economist (22nd Governor of (Chair Professor, Department of Solutions)
Reserve Bank of India) Electrical and Computing
Lord Sushanta Kumar Aneesh Reddy (BTech/ME/06)
Engineering, Michigan State
Bhattacharyya (BTech/ME/60) Arjun Malhotra (BTech/EC/70) Entrepreneur (Co-Founder and
University, SS Bhatnagar
Academician (Founding Entrepreneur (Co-Founder, CEO of Capillary Technologies,
Awardee, Highly Cited
Chairman of Warwick HCL) Featured in Forbes, Harvard
Researchers)
Manufacturing Group, Padma Business Review)
Ajit Jain (BTech/ME/72)
Bhushan Awardee) Bedabrata Pain (BTech/EC/86)
Corporate Leader (President, Himanshu Gupta
Innovator (Holds 87 Patents,
Ajit Singh (BTech/CE/62) Berkshire Hathaway Insurance) (BTech/EE/09) Entrepreneur
Member of team inventing
Public Servant (Former Cabinet (Co-Founder, Sustainable Growth
Arun Sarin (BTech/MT/75) CMOS Image Sensor, Recipient
Minister, Member of Initiative, Featured in Forbes Indian
Corporate Leader (Former of National Film Award, India)
Parliament) 30 under 30)
Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Kejriwal (BTech/ME/89)
Srikumar Banerjee Vodafone) Shrey Goyal (BTech/MI/2011)
Public Servant (Chief Minister
(BTech/MT/67) Entrepreneur (Co-Founder,
S. Christopher (MTech/EC/80) of the state Delhi, Ramon
Govt. Administrator, Scientist Sustainable Growth Initiative,
Govt Administrator, Scientist Magsaysay Awardee)
(Former Chairman of Atomic Featured in Forbes Indian 30
(Chairman of the Defence Harish Hande (BTech/EE/90) -
Energy Commission of India, under 30)
Research and Development
Former Secretary of Social Entrepreneur (Co-
Organisation) Nandini Bhandaru (PhD/CH/2016,
Department of Atomic Energy, Founder SELCO India, Ramon
MTech/CH/2012) - Scientist
Former Director of Bhabha Pradeep Khosla Magsaysay Award)
(Recipient of Young Scientist
Atomic Research Centre) (BTech/EE/80) Parag Havaldar (BTech/CS/91) Award from Indian Science
Academia (Chancellor,
R. Gopalakrishnan Innovator (Technical Oscar Congress Association, European
University of California, San
(BTech/EC/67) Awardee) Materials Research Society's
Diego)
Corporate Leader (Former Young Scientist Award, Young
Sundar Pichai (BTech/MT/93)
Executive Director of Tata Sons Scientist Award from the Materials
Corporate Leader (CEO,
Ltd.) Research Society of India, and the
Google)
Gandhian Innovation Award)
For information about recent inductees, please visit http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/news#198
90 ALUMNI-BASED STUDENT ACTIVITIES COMMUNICATION DIRECTORY 91

Essential Contact Information

(For internal phone numbers please prefix 03222 as the STD Code and
an additional 2 when calling from a mobile phone)

Student Representatives
Santosh T.Y.S.S., UG Representative to the Senate 7407390009
Ninaad Lohakare, Vice-President, TSG 7558513736

Administration
Dean, Student Affairs 82038
Secretary to Dean, Student Affairs 82042
Academic (UG) Section 82074; 82079

Student Alumni Office, Career Development Centre 82231

Office, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) 81016; 69623
Mentorship Programme
Office, Central Library 82430
(SAMP) Office, Computer & Informatics Centre (CIC) 82360
Student Alumni Mentorship Programme
(SAMP) is a unique initiative undertaken by Academics
the Students' Alumni Cell, IIT Kharagpur. Office, Aerospace Engineering 82241
Through this programme students are
Office, Agricultural & Food Engineering 82243
connected with alumni who serve both as a
guide and a source of inspiration for them. Office, Architecture & Regional Planning 82245
SAMP is launched with the goal of keeping the Office, Biotechnology 82247
alumni connected to their alma mater as well
as share their valuable experience with the Office, Center for Educational Technology 82259
current students. Office, Centre for Ocean, Rivers, Atmosphere and
Land Sciences (CORALS) 82207
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Office, Centre for Railway Research 82400 Office, Physics 82285

Office, Centre for Theoretical Studies 81645 Office, Rajendra Mishra School of
Office, Chemical Engineering 82249 Engineering Entrepreneurship 81092

Office, Chemistry 82251 Office, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law 82237
Office, Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of
Office, Civil Engineering 82253
Infrastructure Design & Management 82235
Office, Computer Science & Engineering 82255
Office, Reliability Engineering 82289
Office, Cryogenic Engineering 82257
Office, Rubber Technology 82291
Office, Electrical Engineering 82261 Office, Rural Development 82293
Office, E & E C Engineering 82263 Head, School of Bioscience 83300
Office, G S Sanyal School of Telecommunication 82265 Head, School of Energy Science & Engineering 83088
Office, Geology & Geophysics 82267 Head, School of Environmental Science and Engineering 83702
Office, Humanities & Social Sciences 82269 Office, School of Information Technology 81440
Office, Industrial & Systems Engineering 82271 Office, School of Medical Science & Technology 82220
Office, Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell 82298 Head, School of Nanoscience & Technology 83838

Office, Materials Science 82273 Office, School of Water Management 82212

Office, Vinod Gupta School of Management 82295
Office, Mathematics 82275
Office, Mechanical Engineering 82277 Amenities
Office, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering 82279 Prof-In-Charge, Guest Houses 83377
Office, Mining Engineering 82281 Reception, New Guest House 82800
Office, Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture 82283 Reception, Visveswaraya Guest House 82885 / 82884
Office, P K Sinha Centre for Bio Energy 81980 Prof-In-Charge, IIT Kharagpur Extension Centre (Kolkata) 40101
Emergency, BC Roy Hospital 82632
Office, BC Roy Hospital 82630
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Prof-In-Charge, BC Roy Hospital 83602

Office, Sanitary 82730
Office, Security 82741

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