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Suman Chakraborty Named IIT Kharagpur Director to Enhance Student Safety

His five-year term begins with a mandate to create mechanisms preventing further deaths following three student fatalities in the past six months

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Overview

  • The education ministry formally appointed Suman Chakraborty as IIT Kharagpur’s director on June 19, 2025, for a five-year term or until he turns 70.
  • Chakraborty succeeds Amit Patra, IIT BHU’s director who served as acting head since V. K. Tewari’s tenure ended on December 31, 2024.
  • He is charged with establishing institutional safeguards and ‘human touch’ measures after three BTech students died on campus over the past six months.
  • The institute formed a 10-member panel in May to investigate the recent student deaths and recommend steps to bolster well-being.
  • An alumnus of Jadavpur University, Chakraborty joined IIT Kharagpur in 2002 and has won awards like the UNESCO TWAS Award, Infosys Prize, and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Prize for his work in diagnostic technologies.