President Droupadi Murmu clears the appointments of Directors to 8 IITs

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President Droupadi Murmu has cleared the appointments of Directors to eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on 20 September.

IMPORTANT FACTS -

• IIT Bhilai’s Director Rajat Moona has been appointed as director of IIT Gandhinagar.

• IIT Dharwad’s Director Pasumarthy Seshu has been appointed as director of IIT Goa.

• The two IIT directors who have been reappointed for a second term, they are - K N Satyanarayana (IIT Tirupati) and Manoj Singh Gaur (IIT Jammu).

• Seshadri Shekhar and Shripad Karmalkar, who are professors at IIT Madras, have been appointed as directors of IIT Palakkad and IIT Bhubaneswar respectively.

• Venkayappaya R Desai from IIT Kharagpur's Department of Civil Engineering has been appointed as the Director of IIT Dhardwad.

• Rajiv Prakash of IIT BHU's School of Material Science and Technology has been appointed as the Director of IIT Bhilai.