Departmental Committee

BSBE Department Committees/Roles and Responsibilities
Tenure: Two Years effective from September 16, 2022 - September 15, 2024

Sr. No.

Department Activities

Faculty Members

Roles & responsibilities

Associated Staff

Remark/ Merger/Tasks

1

Departmental Undergraduate Programme Committee (DUPC)

Head of the Department

Chairperson

BSBE Office Staff

(Mr Binoy Das)

Tenure:

Two years for faculty members and one year for student members

Merger:

#Time-table Committee; #BTP Coordinator;

# to coordinate with Faculty advisors; #Tasks as per Aademic ordinance

Dr Rajkumar P. Thummer

Member Secretary

Prof. Rajaram Swaminathan

Member

Prof. Bithiah G. Jaganathan

Member

Prof. Utpal Bora

Member

Prof. B. Anand

Member

Prof. Arun Goyal

Member

Dr Gagan Kumar

Member from other Department (Physics)

Ms Anushka Srivastava (4th year B.Tech)

Student Member

Mr Atharva Deshmukh (3rd year B.Tech)

Student Member

2

Department Post Graduate Program Committee (DPPC)

Head of the Department

Chairperson

BSBE Office Staff

(Mr Debabrata Purkayastha)

Tenure:

Two years for faculty members and one year for student members

Merger:

#MTP Coordinator; #Faculty Advisor for M.Tech. and all PhD batches until the supervisor is

formally allocated;

#To coordinate with Department Admission Committee;

#Tasks as per Academic ordinance

Dr Rajkumar P. Thummer

Member Secretary

Prof. Rajaram Swaminathan

Member

Prof. Bithiah G. Jaganathan

Member

Prof. Utpal Bora

Member

Prof. B. Anand

Member

Prof. Arun Goyal

Member

Dr Gagan Kumar

Member from other Department (Physics)

Ms Anushka Srivastava (4th year B.Tech)

Student Member

Mr Atharva Deshmukh (3rd year B.Tech)

Student Member

3

Departmental Faculty Advisory Committee (DFAC)

Head of the Department

Chairperson

BSBE Office Staff

(Mr Binoy Das)

#Tasks as defined by the Institute

Prof. Ranjan Tamuli

Member and Convener

Prof. Vishal Trivedi

Member

Prof. Kannan Pakshirajan

Member

4

Departmental Disciplinary Committee

(DDC)

Head of the Department

Chairperson

BSBE Office Staff

(Mr Binoy Das)

#Tasks as defined by the Institute

Prof. Vshal Trivedi, Secretary, DPPC

Member

Dr Rajkumar Thummer, Secretary, DUPC

Member

Mr Rajendra Prasad (3rd Year PhD)

Student Member from Department

5

Department Disposal Committee (DDC)

Head of the Department

Chairperson

Mr Niranjan Barah

Tenure: Two years;

#Tasks as defined by the Institute

Dr Anil Mukund Limaye

Convener and Member

Mr Niranjan Barah (Technical Suerintendent)

Non-member Secretary

Mr Nurul Islam (Senior Technical Suerintendent)

Member

Mr Atul Chandra Deka, Technical Officer other Department

External Member

6

Departmental Admission Committee

(M.Tech., Ph.D.)

Prof. Manish Kumar

Convener (PhD admissions)

Mr Nurul Islam

and

Mr Niranjan Barah

Tasks:

# To attend/effect/ coordinate M.Tech and PhD admissions of the Department under the provisions of academic ordinance.

#This committee will work in coordination with DPPC.

Dr Lalit Mohan Pandey

Co-convener (PhD admissions)

Prof. Nitin Chaudhary

Convener (M.Tech admissions)

Prof. Kannan Pakshirajan

Member

Prof. Ranjan Tamuli

Member

Dr Selvaraju Narayanasami

Member

Prof. Vishal Trivedi (DPPC Secretary)

Member

Prof. Rakhi Chaturvedi (DPPC Chairperson)

Member

7

Liaison with PRBR Section

Dr Kusum K. Singh

Convener

Chandan Kumar Nath

Tasks:

#To coordinate between Department and PRBR section for the defined activities;

#Annual reports and other reports as asked by the Institute: #Department Website: #Biotalk:

#Publicity; #Peer review;

# RTIs; #Digital display and related matter

Dr Shirisha Nagotu

Co-Convener

Dr Navin Gupta

Co-Convener

8

Department Space Utilization

(including New BSBE Building Infrastructure)

Prof. Shankar Prasad Kanaujia

Convener

Mr Nurul Islam, Mr Niranjan Barah and Dipankar Barman

All Department space related matters

Prof. Nitin Chaudhary

Co-convener

Prof. Sachin Kumar

Co-convener

Prof. V. Venkat Dasu

Co-convener

9

Course allotment

Dr Lalit Mohan Pandey

Convener

Mr Chandan Kumar Nath

Matters related to Course allotment

10

Liaison with Institute/Department library

Dr Soumen Kumar Maiti

Convener

Mr Chandan Kumar Nath

#All matters related to Institute library; #Matters related to improvisation/upgradation of Department Library facilities

Prof. Latha Rangan

Co-convener

11

Best Thesis Award (M.Tech + PhD)

Dr Priyadarshi Satpati

Convener

Ms Prarthana Swargari

and

Mr Dipankar Barman

Finalization of awards following Institute Academic Ordinance

Prof. Gurvinder Kaur Saini

Co-convener

Dr Biplab Bose

Co-convener

12

Liaison with Centre for Career Development (CCD)

(Including internship

coordinator)

Prof. Sachin Kumar

Coordinator

Mr Chandan Kumar Nath

#All placement related matters; #All internship related matters

including those for M.Tech. students

Mr Jaideep Sanjeev Yadav (2nd Year M.Tech)

PG Student Coordinator

Mr Tanmay Sutar (4th year B.Tech)

UG Student Coordinator

13

Liaison with Industrial Interactions and Special Initiative

(IISI)

Prof. Debasish Das

Convener

Mr Nurul Islam

#To coordinate between Department and II&SI section for the defined activities;

#Adavncement of Department-Industry collaborations

Prof. Sanjukta Patra

Co-convener

Prof. A. B. Kunnumakkara

Co-convener

Prof. L. Sahoo

Co-convener

14

Liaison with Research and Development

(RnD)

Prof S Senthilkumar

Convener and IRDC Member

#To coordinate between Department and RnD section for the defined activities;

#Research Conclave; # IPDF; #PMRF #Patents/paper review committee for Institute funding

Prof. Siddhartha S. Ghosh

Co-convener

Prof. Vibin Ramakrishnan

Co-convener

15

Departmental Floor-wise Faculty co-ordinators

See Annexure-I

16

Departmental Floor-wise Student co-ordinators

See Annexure-II

17

Faculty Advisor, B.Tech 2022 Batch.

Dr Souptick Chanda

18

Faculty advisors for other B.Tech batches

There is no change; the current Faculty advisor will continue