IIT Guwahati director T G Sitharam named as chairman of AICTE

IIT Guwahati director T G Sitharam named as chairman of AICTE: The next Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education is Professor TG Sitharam, Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) (AICTE). The Ministry of Education has approved the appointment of Professor Sitharam as the new AICTE Chairman for a period of three years. Professor Sitharam will take over from UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar, who has been acting as interim Chairman of AICTE since Anil Sahasrabuddhe retired at the age of 65.

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About the TG Sitharam:

Professor Sitharam is a member of Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has been the Director of IIT Guwahati and a Senior Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore for over 27 years. The professor was Chairman, Board of Governors at IIT Guwahati during 2019-2020 for more than a year. He was the former Chairman, Research Council, CSIR- CBRI (Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee). Since May 2021, he has also served as Director (additional charge) of the Central Institute of Technology in Kokrajhar, Assam.

After obtaining his Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering from Mysore University, Professor Sitharam went on to do his Masters in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (1986) and PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1991). He worked as a lecturer at University of Waterloo soon after his PhD and did his post-doctoral at Center for earth sciences and engineering at University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA during 1991-94. He has served as a visiting or honorary professor at many universities in countries including Japan, Canada, USA, Hongkong, Australia and Republic of China.