RV Raja Kumar, an Electronics professor at the IIT Kharagpur, has been appointed as the Director of the IIT-Bhubaneswar as his name got the clearance for the post from President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday. Raja Kumar has been chosen along with Pushpak Bhattacharya and Sarit Kumar Das, who will head the Patna and Ropar IITs, respectively, as directors.
All the names were cleared by the President, who happens to be the visitor and appointing authority for all IITs. Their appointments came after the concerned Ministry held a marathon round of selection process on March 22 and interviewed 36 IIT faculties for the three posts.