Rajendra Prasad Singh appointed as new chairman of IIT Kharagpur Board of Governors

Dr Rajendra is also currently the chairperson of the Board of Governors, IIT Bhubaneswar. Singh has been given the additional responsibility of IIT Kharagpur effective from July 12, 2022.

IIT Kharagpur New Chairman: Former Chairman and Managing Director of Power Grid Corporation Dr Rajendra Prasad Singh has been appointed as the New Chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, the premier higher educational institution said in an official statement on July 27, 2022.

The statement further said, Dr Rajendra is also currently the chairperson of the Board of Governors, IIT Bhubaneswar. Singh has been given the additional responsibility of IIT Kharagpur effective from July 12, 2022. Apart from being the former Chairman and Managing Director of Power Grid Corporation and Independent Director of Azzure Power Global Ltd, Singh had been the Chairman of the Board for NIT Patna for a period of three years from 2009-2012.

Singh has completed his BTech and MTech in Mechanical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University and began his career at TISCO in power generation, operation and maintenance of power projects. Singh succeeds Dr Sanjiv Goenka, as the new Chairman, IIT Kharagpur. A corporate bigwig Goenka is the founder and chairman of RPSG Group.

The statement further quoted Professor Virendra Kumar Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur saying, “We welcome Rajendra Prasad Singh as the new Chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur and look forward to his able guidance, constructive ideations and supportive encouragement in reshaping this institute for its future aspirations.”

IIT Kharagpur is also among the four technology institutes that have proposed to start four-year Bachelor of Education (BEd) courses from 2023-24, the government told Parliament on Monday.

In a written reply, the minister of state for education, Subhas Sarkar, said the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) had planned to allow the running of the Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) in multidisciplinary institutions on a pilot basis.

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