SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Feb 6: IIT Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad felicitated its six prominent alumni including Vinay Prakash, chief executive officer (CEO) of Adani Natural Resources with prestigious awards.
Prof Rajni Singh, dean of media branding of IIT ISM, said that the institution’s director Prof Rajiv Shekhar presented the distinguished alumnus award to all six prominent alumni during the annual meet ‘Basant 2023’.
In the two-day meet, over 70 tech cradles from across the country attended the festival reliving their old memories of the institution.
Vinay Prakash, director of Adani Enterprises Limited and CEO of Adani Natural Resources was felicitated with the director’s Award for his services to society.
Virendra Kumar Arora, a 1966 batch student was felicitated with Narendra Kumar Memorial Award for his contribution to the nation. Virendra Kumar Arora is the chief mentor of Karam Chandra Thapar & Bros (coal sales) Limited.
Vinay Kumar Diwan, a 1969 batch B Tech student received ‘The Enterprises Award’ for his contribution to the field of entrepreneurship promotion.
Dr Srikanta Mishra 1981 batch petroleum engineering student was felicitated with the ‘Research and Academic Excellence Award’. Dr Mishra is the technical director, of Geo Energy Modelling and Analytic Battelle Memorial Institute OH, USA.
Dr Prem Sagar Mishra, a 1967 batch student of mining engineering, received Bhaskar Bhattacharjee Memorial Award. Dr Mishra is chairman cum managing director of South Eastern Coalfield (SECL).
Swati Pandey, 2010 batch was given the ‘young alumnus Achiever Award’. Pandey is the co-founder and CEO of Arboreal.
Prof Rajni Singh said two newly instituted awards Jaswant Singh Gill Memorial Industrial Safety Excellence 2022 were also given to ECL and Hindustan Zinc Limited.
Besides these, Dr Debashish Bhattacharjee, vice-president ( technology and new material business) of Tata Steel was given the Basant Samman Award 2023 for his contribution to the iron and steel industry.
Sanjiv Agrawal, 1986 batch students also made an online announcement during the ceremony for establishing DB Agrawal Chair Professor in his father’s name in the institution.
A Mou was also signed between IIT ISM and Srinivasan Padnabham for the institution of Academic and innovation, Invention Awards.
