IIT Guwahati poised to get new director

Professor Gautam Biswas, currently the director of Central Mechanical Engineering and Research Institute (CMERI) Durgapur, is tipped to become the next director of IIT Guwahati.
Biswas will replace Professor Gautam Barua, whose tenure as the director ended yesterday. Barua served in the top position for 10 years.
A search-cum-selection panel headed by human resource development minister M.M. Pallam Raju has selected Biswas for the job.
President Pranab Mukherjee, who is the visitor of the institute, will have to clear the appointment after which Biswas will get a five-year term as the director, sources said.
Biswas has done Masters and PhD from IIT Kharagpur. A faculty at IIT Kanpur, he has served as the Dean (Academics) in IIT Kanpur. He has been serving as the director of CMERI, a research lab of Council of Scientific and Indust-rial Research (CSIR), since 2009.
The comparatively younger IIT Guwahati is passing through a phase of development. Spread over a huge campus, this institute has started exhibiting excellence in teaching and research. The task before Biswas will be to take the institute forward in both the areas.
Biswas was also a contender for the post of director of IIT Kharagpur. But Professor P.P. Chakrabarti was chosen for the post last year.
However, Chakrabarti’s appointment has been mired in controversy, as the vigilance wing has not yet given clearance in view of a pending case of irregularity against him. Professor S.K. Som is currently the director in-charge of IIT Kharagpur.
“I have done whatever I could do best and work has to go on. I have been in various administrative roles for the last 18 years, including the last 10 years as a director,” Gautam Barua told  “I cannot sing my own achievements and it is for my colleagues to judge my work. One person cannot be heading an institute forever and change has to happen.”
Barua in his last convocation speech on June 8 had said a change is required and was confident that the change will only take the institute forward. IIT officials said Barua’s image and integrity was a “plus” point and added that his ability to grasp things quickly had helped the institute a lot.
“No matter who comes in next should not be having problems in taking the institute forward as a system has been put in place,” an institute official said.
“We never had to worry about what will happen tomorrow as everything was taken care of by him,” another official said.
“He was a very unassuming person and was perha

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