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Jun

24

2025

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By Poulami Mondal

Awaken, Align, Advance ~ Embrace the Future of Mind, Body & Spirit through YOGA

Community, Engagement, Events, Humans of KGP, Outreach Activity

IIT Kharagpur Celebrates 11th International Day of Yoga with the Message: Yoga for One Earth, One Health As a part of the nationwide 100-Day Countdown to International Day of Yoga 2025, spearheaded by the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, IIT Kharagpur undertook a series of activities and awareness drives aimed at promoting holistic well-being and the ancient practice of Yoga. The campaign witnessed enthusiastic participation from students, faculty, staff, and campus residents through workshops, lectures, daily practice sessions, and community outreach programs aligned with this year’s theme of “Yoga for…

Jun

13

2025

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By Poulami Mondal

IIT Kharagpur Team Secures National Win in Ideas4Life Ideathon for “Save Water”

Awards & Accolades, Community, Environment & Social Impact, Expert Insight, Social ImpactAdopt Healthy Lifestyles, Adopt Sustainable Food Systems, citizen-centric, Cleaner Environment, Climate Change, eco-friendly charcoal, energy production, environment, Environmental Sustainability, fertilizers, Forest, growing microbes, Hydrothermal Carbonization, Ideas4Life, Ideathon, IIT Kharagpur, Innovative, Innovative Solutions, Lifestyle for Environment, lignocellulosic hydrochar, microbial fuel cell, Mission LiFE, MoEFCC, process water, Raw Sewage, Reduce E-Waste, Reduce Waste, renewable energy production, Save Energy, Save Water, Say No to Single-Use Plastics, Social Impact, Sustainable Solutions, UNICEF YuWaah, Waste Management, Water Conservation, World Environment Day

A team from IIT Kharagpur comprising Rajarshi Bhar, Joydeepa Taran and Anil, guided by Prof. Brajesh Kumar Dubey from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Kharagpur has been awarded the first prize in the Ideas4Life initiative of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change under the category of “Save Water.” The winners were felicitated on the World Environment Day function on 5th June, 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. Shri Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change applauded the initiative, stating it had successfully surfaced innovative, citizen-centric, and sustainable solutions that pave the way for environmentally…

Jun

11

2025

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By Poulami Mondal

IIT Kharagpur Launches India’s First Academic Accelerated Pavement Test Facility- K-APTF

Academia, Community, Funded Projects, Institutecivil engineering, hands-on experience, indigenous research, K-APTF, Kharagpur Accelerated Pavement Test Facility, Ministry of Rural Development, MoRD, National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency, NRIDA, pavement design, Pavement Engineering Research Group, pavement mechanics, Pavement Test Facility, PaVER, performance modelling, PMGSY, Portable Axle Load Pad, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, road infrastructure, state-of-the-art facility, Transportation Engineering

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has unveiled a pioneering infrastructure initiative with the inauguration of the Kharagpur Accelerated Pavement Test Facility (K-APTF). Shri Amit Shukla, Director General of NRIDA & Joint Secretary, MoRD, Government of India, officially launched the K-APTF in the presence of Shri Devinder Kumar, Project Director-II, NRIDA; Prof. Ramgopal Maddali, Dean Infrastructure; Prof. Rabibrata Mukherjee, Dean R&D; Prof. Arghya Deb, Dean Alumni Affairs; Prof. Dhrubajyoti Sen, Head, Civil Engineering; Prof. Bhargab Maitra, Dean Student Affairs; Captain Amit Jain (Retd.) Registrar, IIT Kharagpur. On the occasion, Prof. M. A. Reddy from Civil Engineering department delivered a presentation…

Feb

18

2025

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By Poulami Mondal

IIT Kharagpur Inaugurates the Zen Lounge: A New Space for Mindfulness and Well-being

Alumni Corner, Collaborations, Community, Engagement, Outreach Activity, Social ImpactIIT Kharagpur

In a remarkable addition to its student welfare and campus facilities, Zen Lounge, a yoga and meditation hall located within the SNIG Girls Hostel at IIT Kharagpur was inaugurated recently. The Zen Lounge is dedicated to foster mindfulness, well-being, and mental wellness for the students, and marks an important milestone in promoting holistic education at IIT Kharagpur. With the generous support of Ms. Viji Narayanan, a distinguished alumna of IIT Kharagpur, who resided in the same girls’ hostel during her undergraduate years from (1986-1991), her vision is to create a space for mindfulness which stems from her own transformative experiences…

Sep

05

2024

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Empowering Educators With Digital Pedagogy by Centre for Teaching Learning and Virtual Skilling

Community, Engagement, Outreach Activity, Research & Innovation, Social ImpactAssessment, ATDC, Augmented Reality, CTLVS, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Tools, Empowering Educators, Game-based Learning, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, Innovation, Interactive Technologies, School Teachers, Teaching Practices, teaching-learning, technology, Technology-based Teaching., Virtual Reality, Virtual Skilling

Is virtual reality teaching possible? How positive impact can digital content have on student assessment? Ahead of Teacher's Day, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur organized a special one-day workshop to find answers to some of these questions. The Centre for Teaching Learning and Virtual Skilling (CTLVS) at IIT Kharagpur successfully conducted a one-day workshop titled "Empowering Educators With Digital Pedagogy and Technology," on 4th September 2024. The workshop, aimed at school teachers from KVS, introduced innovative methods for enhancing teaching practices through digital tools and interactive technologies. A total of 30 teachers from different branches of Kendriya Vidyalayas of Kolkata participated in…

Apr

23

2024

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Prof. Amit Patra is appointed the new Director of IIT BHU (Varanasi) by Ministry of Education

Academia, Appointments, Community, Humans of KGPAcademic, Advanced VLSI Design, CAD, Director, Electrical Engineer, Engineering Publications, IEEE, IIT BHU, IIT Kharagpur, Indian Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education, Power Management, power management circuits, Samsung Innovation Award, Systems Society of India, VLSI, Young Engineer Award, Young Teachers Career Award

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. A successful leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that the impact lasts in your absence by unlocking people's potential to become better. A greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the great things, he is the one that gets the people to do the great things. Today, IIT Kharagpur celebrates one such leader that the institute is proud of. Prof. Amit Patra, Deputy Director of IIT Kharagpur has recently been…

Feb

22

2024

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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated infrastructural development projects worth Rs. 230 crores to IIT Kharagpur virtually

Community, Funded Projects, Institute, Study@IITKgpalumni, Annexe building of the Chemical Engineering, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence, Barrier-free building, Education, Girls’ Hostel, Infrastructure Development Projects, Innovation, Narendra Modi, Narishakti, Savitri Bai Phule Halls of Residence, Scientific Minds, STEM, Sustainable Development Goals, Technological Prowess, Transformation, Vikshit Bharat 2047

Under the able leadership of our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, IIT Kharagpur witnessed the testimony towards the road that leads to a Vikshit Bharat @2047, the vision of a Sashakt Bharat. Today Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the Nation the Infrastructure Development Projects worth about Rs. 230 crores at IIT Kharagpur in the august presence of Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office; Shri Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir along with other ministers and members of parliament through video conferencing. Dr. Subhas Sarkar, Hon'ble Minister of State for…

Jan

12

2024

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By Poulami Mondal

Effective Roadmap on Speed Management Policy for Safer Roads

Community, Expert Insight, Social Impactaccident fatality, civil engineering, cyclists, motor cycle riders, motorcycle riders, National Highways, pedestrians, policy interventions, Road Accidents, Roadmap, roads, Speed Limits, Speed Management, Speeding, State Highways, traffic management, Transport Department, two wheelers, Vehicles

The civil engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, along with Paribahan Bhawan, transport department headquarters on R N Mukherjee Road, launched a study document on policy interventions and roadmap for effective implementations of speed management in the city and districts in a programme scheduled on 9th January 2024. Transport Minister Snehashis Chakraborty; State Transport Secretary Saumitra Mohan; Director-Transport; Secretary -School Education; Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic)-Kolkata Traffic Police; Inspector General of Police- West Bengal Police; Regional Officer-National Highways Authority of India; Joint Secretary-Urban Development; other dignitaries and Prof. Bhargab Maitra of IIT Kharagpur launched the document.…

Oct

18

2023

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‘Our classes were held where freedom fighters were locked up,’ says Narasimhan Venkatesan Patel, Alumnus of the First Batch at IIT KGP

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Mr. Narasimhan Venkatesan Patel, Former Member of the Railway Board and an Electrical Engineering Alumnus (1951-55) of IIT Kharagpur, shares some interesting anecdotes about the faculty and how IIT Kharagpur took special tutorials of students who appeared in Class 12 exams from different boards or syllabi. The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was established in 1951 and is the oldest among all the IITs in the country. As the institute was set up in the Hijli detention camp of West Bengal, it has a link with the freedom fighters of India. “We mostly had classes in the old Hijli Central…

Oct

12

2023

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Empowering Educators and Fostering Scientific Growth on Molecular Biology in Rural Areas

Community, Engagement, Outreach Activity, Social Impactbiotechnology, Genomic DNA Extraction, INYAS, Medicine, Molecular Biology, Plasmid DNA isolation, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Rural Education, Rural Science Education, RuSETUP, Science Education, Scientific Growth, SMST

Rural Science Education Training Utility Program (RuSETUP) Workshop on Molecular Biology Techniques in Rural Areas In the pursuit of promoting basic scientific knowledge in molecular biology and enhancing the educational landscape in rural West Bengal, India, a workshop on, "Basic Training on Molecular Biology Techniques for College Teachers in Rural Areas" was successfully conducted on the 6th and 7th of October 2023 jointly by School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), IIT Kharagpur and Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) under the banner of INYAS' flagship event "Rural Science Education Training Utility Program' (RuSETUP). This endeavor was led by…