The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar has been honoured with the University of the Year Award in the category of universities in existence for 11-30 years at the recently-concluded FICCI Higher Education Excellence Awards 2021 ceremony.
There were in total 11 categories of awards in this 7th edition of the event and the awards were announced today in the 16th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2021. The jury comprised an eminent panel of experts chaired by Prof RA Mashelkar.
The institute presented its achievement in an eight-minute video before the jury.Speaking on the occasion, IIT Bhubaneswar Director Prof RV Raja Kumar said, “IIT Bhubaneswar has been trying to offer holistic education to its students in standards at par with the cream of global class institutions by bringing in academic excellence through several unique pedagogical and operational reforms.
The sudden onset of the pandemic posed us a lot of challenges in fulfilling the self-imposed commitment and the institute had to bring in right innovative processes required for offering education which is not compromised or affected by the pandemic.
The institute brought in some unique innovative initiatives.” “The entire institute including the faculty, staffs and the students participated in all these endeavours upon my own calls. Many of them have worked hard as a team in very successfully realising these initiatives,” he said.
