The Board of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) ltd has approved a sizeable contribution of Rs18 crore for the 'IIIT Scholarship Fund.'
The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Naya Raipur has instituted a 'Scholarship Fund' to ensure equitable and improved access of talented students to industry-oriented ICT studies. The Board also approved additional capital investment of Rs82 crore, over and above the initial Rs119 crore investment on campus infrastructure development.
The additional capital investment would provide on-campus social infrastructure for the faculty, staff and students, at par with the best of campuses in the country.This would include a fully residential campus for both, faculty and students, attractive accommodation for faculty, adjunct faculty and students, extensive facilities for sports, and other activities such as health centre.Notably, on September 11 this year, Chhattisgarh Governor and Chancellor of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) -Naya Raipur, Balramji Dass Tandon appointed Prof. Rajat Moona of IIT Kanpur, currently Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), as the founding Vice Chancellor and Director of IIIT-Naya Raipur.
As Director General, C-DAC, Prof. Moona has led India's efforts in diverse areas like development of supercomputers, the national supercomputing grid, multilingual computing, electronic devices and embedded systems, information and cyber security, health informatics, e-governance solutions and e-learning technologies.
Prior to this, he held the prestigious Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship at IIT Kanpur, where he taught since 1991 in the Computer Science & Engineering Department. An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, he holds seven patents, and has authored about 30 research papers and two books.As an Indo-US Science and Technology Fellow, he has been visiting scientist to MIT in the US. His research interests span embedded computing, computer security, VlSI design and operating systems.
He has been involved in defining standards for smart cards used in applications like driving licences, vehicle registration systems, Indian National ID, and e-passports and also been involved in defining RFID applications in areas such as electronic toll collection.Prof. Moona aims to position IIIT–Naya Raipur as a premier institute fostering information technology research and innovation which will connect technical talent with competitive industry, and thereby contribute to globally relevant IT solutions that are responsive to the needs of the market, the consumer and society at large.