"Partha Pratim Chakraborty has taken charge
as a director of the institute after the
convocation," former acting director S K Som
announced here.
Speaking to reporters, Chakraborty said the
board would chart out a five year road-map
with priority focus continuing in research.
Speaking about the proposed medical
education at IIT-Kharagpur, Chakraborty said
the institute was looking into issues like
amendment of the IIT Act to incorporate
medical education. Som said that the institute
was also trying to get the course approval
from the Medical Council of India and it might
help in avoiding the amendment, which would
be a time-taking affair.
At the same time the premier institute
management was looking forward to begin the
first phase of construction of the 400-bed
super speciality hospital from October which
would cost around Rs 230 crore. "We gave
project management contract to HCC and we
hope to begin construction from October. It
will take another two years to complete," Som
said.
"So, we will be able to begin medical course
from 2016-17 session," he said. "IIT-
Kharagpur has tied up with international
institutions like John Hopkins of USA and
Imperial college in England. There are domestic
collaborations like with Tata Cancer Center
Kolkata," he said. In order to focus on
research, the institute has decided to increase
the research student intake to 20 per cent
from 10 per cent now over the next five years
and eventually to 30 per cent.
Chakraborty said in order to strengthen the
faculty, a recruitment drive has begun but
there continued to be a dearth of quality
faculty. According to the guidelines, IIT-
Kharagpur would require 1000 faculty from
the current 560. now. At the convocation IIT-
Kharagpur offered degrees to its students and
Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) to Arun
Sarin in recognition of being the doyen of
telecommunication industry and his
contributions to Vodafone and to Y C
Deveshwar for his leadership in ITC.
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