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Infrastructure Projects

About Projects

IIT(B.H.U), Varanasi is celebrating its centenary this year in 2019. Growing from a few hundred in 1919 to now, the institute is now a 7000 member community on campus comprising of students, staff and faculty. In the last hundred years, the institute has seen a lot of visionary infrastructural development. However, now a need is being strongly felt to prepare the institute for the next 100 years. A lot of infrastructural improvements are proposed as part of centenary initiatives. Some of the key projects proposed in improving the industry, academic, students and other stakeholders engagement and overall development.
The number of students that are admitted to IIT(BHU) is increasing by 300 every year. As government laws change, we expect a rise in this number as well. A total of 6117 students were admitted in this academic session as compared to 5587 in 2017-2018. Therefore, there is an urgent need for infrastructure upgrade for the fulfillment of the demand for the better conducive all-round academic environment. Apart from the several centenary projects already announced in the last couple of years, several new infrastructural projects with an estimated cost of around ₹ 425 crores are being envisaged.
These projects would be planned to be built in a phased manner spread around 2 to 3 years. The initial capital expenditure is planned to be raised from the Government with subsequent plans for future expansion from industry and alumni. The proposed center’s facilities would be offered to industry/ government organizations on a pay per use basis to support part of the recurring expenditure. These projects would be setup in a manner to create avenues for sustainable funding options for meeting recurring expenditure for the institute. Further it would augment institute’s efforts in improvement on key criteria of ranking by various national and international ranking agencies such as NIRF.

Proposed Projects​
  1. Centenary Innovation and Research Park (CIRP)
  2. Centenary Defence and Precision Engineering Hub (CDPEH)
  3. Global Outreach and Engagement Centre (GOEC)
  4. Malviya Student Activity and Computing Centre (MSACC)
  5. New Hostel-I (S+10) and Dining Block (G+1 floor)
  6. New Hostel-II (S+10) and Dining Block (2 nd , 3 rd & 4 th floor)
  7. Faculty Housing
Propose New

Alumni in their personal capacity or through their industry affiliation, can provide all possible support to realize the mission to provide world class infrastructure and environment to our students, staff and faculty. In this spirit, apart from support the ongoing projects, they can also propose new ones. The institute would actively look into those proposals.

 

Centenary Innovation and Research Park (CIRP)
To address the scientific and technological research and innovation issues of the grand challenges of the nation, it is proposed to set-up a research and Innovation Park in a multi storey building which will house all the needed start-of-the-art research centres /laboratories. The proposed park aims to house research centres, laboratories and other facilities under these heads: Cyber Physical Systems and Artificial Intelligence; Health Engineering; Water Resource Management; Clean Technology; Mobility; Smart Materials; Computing and Information Services (CCIS); Central Instrument Facility; Industry Partnership, Design Innovation, Startups and Entrepreneurship; General Amenities and Convention Centre.
It is proposed to build a 10 storey building which will house all the proposed research centres, general amenities centres and upcoming centres. Each floor of the proposed centre will house at least two labs for the specific centres in addition to committee room, faculty chambers and research officer chambers. In the proposed centres, the various research centres will be equipped with modern equipment and software to conduct the research activities in specific areas of the research.
Estimated Cost : ₹ 73,83,43,400/- [₹ 48,85,43,400/- (Building) + ₹ 24,98,00,000/- (Equipments) ]
Outcomes and Deliverables
  1. Conducting state-of-the-art research and innovation activities in the respective areas of the research to address the scientific and technological issues and challenges related to nation grand challenges in listed areas. Starting new M.Tech. and PhD programmes in specialized research areas.
  2. Development of Technology, Product, hardware and software tools and prototypes.
  3. Research paper Publications.
  4. Technology Transfer.
  5. Training of students and research scholars of the Institute in specialized areas.
  6. Training of outside students through internship programs.
  7. Training of faculty members of other Institutes, and other professionals through faculty development programs, workshops, continuing education program under outreach activities program.
  8. Organizing Seminar, Symposia and workshop under outreach activities program.
  9. Supporting innovation, incubation activities and start-ups.

 

Centenary Defence and Precision Engineering Hub (CDPEH)
The key objectives of the proposed centre for defense research and applications is to carry out the cutting edge interdisciplinary research for the design and development of tools and techniques for defense related applications. The center would work along the key areas identified by DRDO for future research. For which, project proposal requests are floated from time to time for Universities and Other Academic Institutes/Colleges and R&D Centres to benefit DRDO’s ongoing and futuristic programmes.
All the buildings constructed under the Centenary initiatives are planned to be Green Buildings intended towards achieving not only low carbon footprint, but also conserve less energy, water and other natural resources. This is also to ensure that the university continues as a healthy habitat to human, flora and fauna. Building would also designed in a manner to reduce the recurring expenditure through features like energy efficient and environmentally responsive cooling and lighting technologies. An effective waste management system would be built into the overall design to support disposal and recycling. Energy requirement of the building will cater by a renewable source of energy and mix of conventional energy sources. In the proposed centres, the various research centres will be equipped with modern equipment and software to conduct the research activities in specific areas of the research.
Estimated Cost : ₹ 73,94,88,400/- [₹ 49,99,88,400/- (Building) + ₹ 24,95,00,000/- (Equipments) ]
Outcomes and Deliverables
  1. Conducting state-of-the-art research and innovation activities in the respective areas of the research to address the scientific and technological issues and challenges related to nation grand challenges in listed areas.
  2. Starting new M.Tech. and PhD programmes in specialized research areas.
  3. Development of Technology, Product, hardware and software tools and prototypes.
  4. Research paper Publications.
  5. Technology Transfer.
  6. Training of students and research scholars of the Institute in specialized areas.
  7. Training of outside students through internship programs.
  8. Training of faculty members of other Institutes, and other professionals through faculty development programs, workshops, continuing education program under outreach activities program.
  9. Organizing Seminar, Symposia and workshop under outreach activities program.
  10. Supporting innovation, incubation activities and start-ups. 
  11. Create a consortium with Defence and Aerospace precision Industries for sustainable future of the Research Hub.
  12. Organizing Seminar, Symposia and workshop under outreach activities program.
  13. Supporting innovation, incubation activities and start-ups.

 

Global Outreach and Engagement Centre (GOEC)
This initiative is to establish an engagement with relevant stakeholders of the institute in order to ensure the success of other initiatives. These stakeholders include Government (both state and center); Academic & Research Institutions (both National and International); Industry (Direct and Indirect); Students and Faculty (both prospective, current and past); Parents of students (both prospective and current); General Public.
Especially on our engagement with Alumni: The strength of the relationship between alumni and the Institute makes is possible to address the above requirements and more. Alumni, by virtue of their professional network, connect the industry to the Institute and help bridge the gap between them. Alumni are also known to have supported the Institute in becoming self-sustaining by creation of corpus, and raising funds to meet various needs of the Institute. All these above are examples where the alumni can support the Institute, and hence there is a need for a strategy for Global Alumni Outreach, given that the alumni are working all over the globe.
Estimated Cost : ₹ 9,99,95,000/- [₹ 7,99,95,000/- (Building) + ₹ 2,00,00,000/- (Equipment) ]
Outcomes and Deliverables
  1. Building a strong community backbone or network across locations
  2. Fostering closer communication and interaction
  3. Strengthening Institute – Stakeholder relationship: Having frequent communication between Stakeholders and Institute. The communication can include: Institute’s plan and vision; garnering support towards Institute’s vision and mission; Co-create and Execute initiatives in collaboration between Stakeholders and Institute
  4. Institute’s PR and Visibility: Enhance public image of the Institute
  5. Developing Industry-Institute Collaboration, for (but not limited to): Internship – practice / application of education; Industry-oriented Research & Development; Industry problem solving; Recruitment and pre-placement of graduates of various programs offered by the Institute; Involving Industry in Education, and bridging Industry-Academia gap
  6. Resource Mobilisation for: Creation and building up of a Corpus; Establishment of Chair;  Creation of Endowments and Scholarships; Creation of Research Funds; Upgradation of Institute’s facilities, viz., Library, Laboratories and Workshops; including creation of new facilities
  7. Engagement with Government for aligning national and state priorities with institute’s goals. Especially for projects covered by Government Grants and HEFA
  8. Alumni Network Structure: The Alumni Network usually grows as individual chapters, location by location. To bring these chapters together, and creation of future chapters, it is important to connect them through a structure. The Alumni Network being followed is Federated, a Hub and Spoke Network. Close Coordination with the Institute and Bridge between the Alumni and the Institute. Connecting all chapters for enhancing communication, interaction and engagement between various chapters towards developing a common charter.

 

Malviya Student Activity and Computing Centre (MSACC)
This center is being planned with an objective of taking the institute further on Malaviya ji’s vision of creating engineers with character and all round development. This proposed center aims to support all student extra-curricular and co-curricular activities for providing holistic engineering education. And further have students engage with society and nation at large. This center would give requisite space and equipment access to various student clubs and societies as part of student engagement: Student Parliament, Councils (Cultural, Social Service, Science & Technology, Games & Sports, Film & Media), Training & Placement to name a few. In order to effective & efficient in utilizing the space and serve many purposes, this multipurpose student center would be built close to the present hubs of student activities - IIT Gymkhana, Main Library, Rajputana Ground.
Estimated Cost : ₹ 71,75,81,200/- [₹ 46,85,54,200/- (Building) + ₹ 24,90,27,000/- (Equipments) ]
Outcomes and Deliverables
This proposed center aims to deliver the following:
  1. Support all student extra-curricular and co-curricular activities for providing holistic engineering education and all round development of the students
  2. To create avenues for  sustainable funding options for meeting recurring expenditure for the institute. 
  3. Support in improving the institute on some of the key NIRF ranking criteria 

Contact Information

For any enquiries for supporting projects mentioned on this website:
Institute Alumni Interaction Cell (IAIC)
Director Office, IIT(BHU)
Website:  http://www.iitbhu.ac.in/iaic
Email:  iaic@iitbhu.ac.in
Phone No.: +91 542 2368427, 6702078, 2368106 
Fax : +91 542 2368428
For any enquiries for regular Resource & Alumni related queries, apart from above:   For alumni services and any enquiries for student run alumni initiatives:
Dean of Resource & Alumni (DoRA), IIT(BHU)
Website: https://iitbhu.ac.in/deans/dora
Email: dora@iitbhu.ac.in ; resource@iitbhu.ac.in
Phone No.: +91 542 6702756 
Fax: +91 542 2368428
 
Faculty Incharge, Alumni Relations (FIAA), IIT(BHU)
Email: fiaa@iitbhu.ac.in 
Phone No.: +91 542 6702756 
Fax: +91 542 2368428		   Student Alumni Interaction Cell (SAIC)
Website: http://alumni.iitbhu.ac.in
Email: alumnicell@iitbhu.ac.in
Phone No.: +91 542 6702756 
Fax: +91 542 2368428