Damodar Acharya

Damodar Acharya is an Indian engineer and educationist. He served as the director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from July 2007 to 30 June 2012.[1] The government nominated Prof Acharya as a director on the central board of the Reserve Bank of India in October 2012.[2]

Career

Professor Damodar Acharya received his Ph.D. (in 1975) and M.Tech. in IE & OR (in 1972) degrees from IIT Kharagpur, and B.Sc.(Engineering) degree in Mechanical Engineering with distinction (in 1970) from NIT Rourkela. Professor Acharya has about 32 years of diversified experience - twenty-seven years of teaching and research experience at IIT Kharagpur, and five years of experience in academic administration as Vice-Chancellor, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, and as Chairman of the All India Council of Technical Education.[1]

Recognition

Controversies
  • An undergraduate student at the Department of Electrical Engineering died during Acharya's tenure after a head injury was not tended to immediately, primarily due to the lack of medical facilities in the campus hospital and Kharagpur. Students staged a huge protest and Acharya's residence was vandalized, blaming the director and the hospital administration of negligence. Acharya resigned shortly afterwards.[4] However, later investigations established that he was not involved in the incident and had no knowledge of it, and was cleared of any responsibility.[5]


References
  1. "At the helm". Frontline. 1 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 October 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2007.
  2. "Reserve Bank of India - Press Releases". Rbi.org.in. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  3. Patnaik, Nageshwar (August 17, 2010). "Orissa CM gives away Think Odisha Leadership Awards, 2010" – via The Economic Times.
  4. "IIT-Kharagpur director quits after student's death - Times of India". timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
  5. "Clean chit to IIT in student death case - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com.
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