At IIT Bhubaneswar, admissions into all programmes except for the first year B.Tech, are completed, the students have been registered and the new academic session commenced timely from August 2.
This year, 176,110 and 44 students joined in M.Tech, M.Sc and PhD programmes, respectively. An event was held for them on August 6 to welcome and orient them to the systems of academic, extra-academic and hostel activities of the institute.
On this occasion, institute Director Prof RV Raja Kumar addressed the students followed by Dean, Academic Affairs, Dr PR Sahu, all in online mode.
Prof Raja Kumar said the Covid pandemic posed many challenges to educational institutes across the globe. Despite it, the IIT Bhubaneswar has been successful in making several innovations, come up with unique mechanisms for running its academics in an uncompromised manner including devising a robust method of conducting conventional pen and paper exams online, etc., and applied the same very successfully in carrying the performance evaluation of students. The institute could switch to online education with zero gap, offer laboratory practice in a mix of online and with physical presence of students and could run timely academics.
He was happy to mention that the institute was honoured with the “University of the Year” award by the FICCI recently for its performance during the pandemic.
Dr PR Sahu made a presentation on the salient feature of the academic programmes and the academic regulations.