IIT Delhi keen to become knowledge partner of Parliament, says Dharmendra Pradhan

The Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (IIT-D) wants to be the “knowledge partner” of Parliament, read here to know more.

The union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said at the closing ceremony of IIT-D’s diamond jubilee celebration on Saturday, “A few days ago, the IIT-D director asked us how the institute can work closely with the Parliament of India. I asked them to write a letter and they did. I have forwarded that letter to the speaker.”

IIT-D director Rangan Banerjee said the institute wants to provide inputs to parliamentarians across party lines on several pressing issues, including climate change and artificial intelligence.

“We basically feel that it is our responsibility to engage with parliamentarians and make them aware of what is happening in various fields. Our faculty colleagues at IIT-D are working on several important aspects of technology. If we want to look at knowledge going to the society we need to interface with Parliamentarian. Parliamentarians are very rooted and they can also give their input on various issues. It will be a win-win situation," said Rangan Banerjee, as reported by Hindustan Times.

Education Minister agrees to the proposal

The ministry has in principle agreed to the proposal, Banerjee said. “We have got a group of faculty to work out how to get ahead. We will start with some engagement initially. We can see such a strong interface between academia and policymakers and parliamentarians in many European countries. We have studied those models, but we have to work out our own model.”

Tripura's students at IIT Delhi displayed two innovative prototypes for clean environment

Payali Das and Sushmita Ghosh from Tripura are pursuing Ph.D in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. They participated with their two innovative prototypes for a clean environment at the closing ceremony of the Diamond Jubilee celebration of IIT Delhi on September 03, where they presented a detailed report about their work to the union Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

They upgraded their two projects- ‘Smart Air Pollution Monitoring Device’ and ‘Smart Energy Meters’ multiple times by adding new features on them, as reported by North East Today.

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