The Hindu : IIT alumni meet in Delhi

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Tuesday, Jul 15, 2003

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IIT alumni meet in Delhi

By Our Staff Correspondent

MUMBAI, JULY 14. The Pan IIT Trust, set up by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni across the country, is organising `IIT 2050,' a mega event between December 21 and 22 in Delhi.

The President of India, A. P .J. Abdul Kalam, will inaugurate the conference and the Prime Minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, will deliver the valedictory address on December 22. The Minister of Human Resource Development, Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Ocean Development, Murli Manohar Joshi, will deliver the first keynote address on December 21, 2003.

The `IIT 2050' event is being organised by a Steering Committee chaired by N. R. Narayana Murthy and co-chaired by Rajat Gupta. The other members of the committee include K. S. Gopalakrishnan, co-chairman, Y. C. Deveshwar, chairman, organising committee, R. Gopalakrishnan, co-chairman, organising committee, M. S. Banga, chairman, sponsorship committee. The committee on inputs to IIT will be chaired by R. Gopalakrishnan and others on the committee include D. Satwalekar, Mr. Rajat Gupta and Mr. Banga. The Media and PR committee will be headed by M. G. Parameswaran.

`IIT 2050' celebrates the contributions of the IIT community to nation building, science, engineering and business. The genesis for this event lies in the first ever gathering of IIT alumni from across the world held in San Jose, U.S., in January ; an event which generated tremendous response.

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