NEW DELHI: As part its efforts to position itself
among the top in the global ranking list, IIT, Delhi,
has set up a four-member body to coordinate with
ranking agencies and provide appropriate
information and data sought for.
The move comes in the backdrop of the HRD
Ministry setting up of an 18-member committee to
review existing arrangements, develop a strategy and
a framework for research evaluation to drive up
research activities, the lack of which is hampering
Indian institutions from featuring in the global
ranking list.
A group of IIT Delhi professors would be engaged in
a more focussed activity, understand the relevant
information sought by the ranking bodies and
provide inputs in proper format, IIT, Delhi, Director
R K Shevgaonkar told reporters here.
Coordination among the peers, the faculties and
alumni is the other objective of the group as
providing correct information is important for the
rankings, he said.
According to Times Higher Education's (THE) World
University Rankings list 2013-14, IIT, Delhi, along
with IIT, Kanpur, IIT, Kharagpur and IIT, Roorkee,
are clubbed in the group of institutions between
351-400.
The QS world university ranking puts IIT, Delhi, at
222. Concerns over absence of any of India's
institutes among the top has been flagged several
times by President Pranab Mukherjee who would be
attending IIT Delhi's 44th convocation function
tomorrow.
The institute, considered among the best in the
country, would be having a Centre of Policy Studies
to evolve policies for science and technology. It
would be set up under the Department of
Humanities.
It would also set up a Centre for Cyber Security in
collaboration with the University of Nebraska , an
MoU for which is expected to be signed early next
year.
"The Centre wanted that we should have research on
cyber security given that it is a big challenge in the
coming days for national security of the country,"
the IIT Director said.
Ministries of Home and HRD are supporting the IIT
in this endeavour.
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