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New Delhi : Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on October 22, 2020, dedicated permanent campus of IIT Ropar to the nation. Minister of State for Education, Shri Sanjay Dhotre also graced the occasion. Prof. Sarit K Das, Director, IIT Ropar, and i Ravinder Kumar, Registrar, IIT Ropar, and the other dignitaries also participated at the event.
Pokhriyal congratulated the IIT Ropar fraternity and complimented the students and researchers for stepping towards converting India into a strong and vibrant Nation in the world. Terming students as “warriors of the nation”, he urged them to contribute to the Nation’s development.
Pokhriyal highlighted that IIT Ropar has featured consistently among the top-ranking educational institutions in the country and abroad. IIT Ropar has shared the top place in India after IISc Bangalore with its position in the 351-400 rank in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, he added. He further highlighted that IIT Ropar has been ranked as number one in the world in research citations. In NIRF, IIT Ropar stood 25th in all India Engineering institutional ranking 2019-20. In QS India Rankings 2020 with an overall rank of 25th in India, IIT Ropar is ahead of all IITs in research quality scoring highest in Citations per Paper, he added, according to a PIB release.
The Minister while talking about NEP 2020, highlighted the credit bank in the NEP 2020, which is in accordance with Global Education Programme. Also bringing vocational courses with the NEP 2020 will play a key role in creating a self-reliant India and open up the education sector for facilitating greater global exposure for Indian students, he said. “NEP 2020 will prove to be the base of a self-reliant India and help us achieve the goal of Aatmanirbhar Bharat in the true sense,” Pokhriyal said.
“With the NEP 2020 India will emerge as an education power centre and the ministry has been working on several fronts to achieve this goal together with promoting the country’s heritage to attract students from across the world,” he said.
The Minister appreciated the initiatives taken by IIT Ropar during Covid-19 crisis.He informed that the technologies include Negative Pressure Room to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 through air at isolation wards and testing labs, thus protecting the medical staff from getting infected. It also has Negative Pressure Ambulance to carry people infected with COVID-19 without posing the threat to the health workers serving them in the ambulance.
He further informed that a unique UVGI based Room Disinfection Device, UVSAFE has developed by IIT Ropar. The unique patented design ensures zero-shadow 360o disinfection and is being in use at IPL, Dubai. The Minister applauded the initiatives taken by IIT Ropar towards ”Make in India” initiative through a consistent focus on innovation and research.
Speaking on the occasion, Sanjay Dhotre said, “IITs are recognised worldwide as premier institutes of academic excellence. He also stated that the Ministry is working towards increasing the perception of IITs so that they are ranked top in world rankings.” He applauded the recent grant received by IIT Ropar of Rs 110 Crore from DST to set up “Technology Innovation Hub (TIH)” in the domain of Agriculture & Water.Pioneering.
Prof. Sarit K Das, Director, IIT Ropar, shared a video of the green campus that places a lot of emphasis on various sustainability features, including solar power, eco-friendly commute options, efficient water management, healthy waste management practices, zero-discharge, and many other measures. IIT Ropar campus has received a 5-star Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment for Large Developments (GRIHA LD) for campus master plan.
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar was founded in 2008 and is located on the bank of river Satluj on 500 acres of land. The land for the permanent campus of the institute was handed over in 2008, construction commenced on January 15, 2015, and the Institute moved to its permanent campus in 2017 with State-of-the-Art buildings and labs.ties and the unique design of the hostels with large common spaces, the Institute has come alive.