20 IIT Kharagpur alumni to get Distinguished Alumnus Award 2019
IIT Kharagpur is conferring the Alumnus Award on a record number of alumni this year. The list has been announced by the Institute and as many as 20 alumni will receive their Distinguished Alumnus Award during the Convocation ceremony held every year in the month of August. The Distinguished Alumnus Award recognises the professional achievements and contributions of IIT Kharagpur alumni.Among the awardees are eminent scientists, industry experts, technocrats, and social activists, some of them pioneers in their respective fields and some even Padma Shri holders.From the corporate sector, the awardee is Ronojoy Dutta, noted aviation expert who is currently the CEO of InterGlobe Aviation which operates IndiGo Airlines. Dutta was President of United Airlines from 1999 to 2002.There are also senior bureaucrats such as Prabhakar Singh, Director General, Central Public Works Department (CPWD), New Delhi, and G.C. Mitra, retired engineer-in-chief, government of Odisha, who is also a Padma Shri awardee. Mitra was
associated with the construction of the cyclone shelters along the Odisha coast that have saved the lives of a large number of people of the state during several cyclones, including the recent Fani.
Two alumni whose contribution has shaped the education system at IIT Kharagpur have been selected for the Award this year. Shri Gopal Rajgarhia has contributed immensely to the internationalisation of IIT Kharagpur by helping set up the Shri Gopal Rajgarhia International Program or SGRIP in 2014. Satinder Singh Rekhi has seed-funded the Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness.
The list of awardees this year also include Rahul Banerjee, social activist and development researcher of the Mahila Jagat Lihaaz Samiti, Indore, and Om Prakash Khanna, Chairman and Managing Director, and President of companies like Schlafhorst Engg. India, who is also associated with the Needy Heart Foundation. Besides them, are Rear Admiral N.P. Gupta, Prof. Ganti Prasada Rao, who is listed in several biographical volumes such as Marquis Who’s Who in the World, and Bipul Sinha, Co-Founder and CEO of Rubrik, the world’s first cloud data management platform.
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