RP Sanjiv Goenka Group Chairman, Sanjiv Goenka, has been selected as the Chairman of the Board of Governors at IIT-Kharagpur. He will be Chairman for three years.

Goenka’s name was nominated by the President, Pranab Mukherjee, in his capacity as Visitor of the Institute.

This will be his second stint as the Chairman of Board of Governors. His previous stint, being between 2002 and 2007.

The RP SG group chairman has also been a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Trade & Industry; and has been associated with several academic institutions as member and chair of its Governing bodies.

“I am privileged and honoured.” Goenka was quoted as per a release issued by the institute.

The Board of Governors is the highest administrative body comprising eminent panel of external representatives that include Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson, State Bank of India; Sudha N Murty, Chairperson, Infosys Foundation; N Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore and Jai Pal Mittal, M N Saha Distinguished Professor (NASI).

The institutional representatives including, PP Chakrabarti, Director at IIT Kharagpur and Pradip Pyne, Registrar are Ex-Officio Members. Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury and Manoj K Tiwari are Senate representatives of the Institute.

“We are delighted to have Sanjiv Goenka back with us in the Institute to chair the BoG. We look forward to reaching greater heights under his guidance,” said PP Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur.

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