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Annual Report for 2015-2016

1.0 Introduction latter two being senior executives from the Reliance Group,
The report covers the major activities of the Institute during addressed the gathering. Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (Secretary,
Department of Science & Technology, Government of India)
the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016.
delivered Shri Dhirubhai Ambani Oration on “Delights of Doing
2.0 68th Annual Session and CHEMCON 2015 Research: Some Personal Lessons from Translational
The 68th Annual Session of Indian Institute of Chemical Sciences”. At the end of the session, Chief Guest, Dr.
Engineers (IIChE), i.e., Indian Chemical Engineering Congress Bhumidhar Barman, the minister of Assam, addressed the
(CHEMCON 2015) was organized by Guwahati Regional present delegates.
Centre of IIChE in association with the Department of Chemical
During CHEMCON, around 1200 technical papers were
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati
presented in 12 parallel sessions along with 15 Chemcon
during 27 – 30 December 2015. The central theme of
Distinguished Speaker (CDS) award lectures (listed in Section
CHEMCON 2015 was ‘Chemical Engineering: From
8.0), around 35 keynote talks and 50 invited talks.
Laboratory to Industry’. The four-day mega event was
organized at the campus of IIT Guwahati. Joint Symposia: Two joint symposia were held during the
session. The first one was Indo-US joint symposium on
The conference was inaugurated by Shri Sushil Kumar
“Carbon Capture - Sequestration, Utilization and other
Goyenka (Managing Director, Emami Limited) in presence of
Frontiers (CCSUF)”. Prof. W. S. Winston Ho from The Ohio
Prof. Gautam Barua (Mentor Director, IIIT Guwahati), Prof.
State University, USA delivered the Keynote address. The
Gautam Biswas, (Director, IIT Guwahati) and Shri G. V.
Second one was on “Enabling Process Innovation through
Sethuraman (President IIChE). Prof. G. D. Yadav (Chair
Computation (EPIC)”. Padma Bhushan Prof. J. B. Joshi
National Organizing Committee and Vice Chancellor, ICT,
delivered the plenary lecture. A number of eminent academics
Mumbai, addressed the gathering while Shri G. V. Sethuraman
from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, India, etc. also
President, IIChE (2015) delivered the Presidential Address.
enlightened the audience. Each symposium was followed by
Prof. P. De (Honorary Secretary, IIChE) presented the IIChE
a one-hour panel discussion.
awards.
Award Presentation
The inauguration function was followed by presentation of the
The IIChE Awards for 2015 were presented on December 27,
three memorial lectures by renowned authorities in the field
2015 during the inaugural programme. A list of the awards
of chemical engineering. Dr. HL Roy Memorial Lecture,
and awardees is published in Section 8.0. Dr B P Godrej Life
sponsored by Jacobs, was delivered by Prof. K.V. Raghavan,
Time Achievement Award was conferred upon Mr Ashok A
INAE Distinguished Professor and former director, IICT,
Panjwani, Executive Director, UPL Ltd., Gujarat for his
Hyderabad. The theme of his lecture was ‘Chemical Process
exemplary services to the profession of chemical engineering
Intensification: Paradigm Shifts to Make It Transformative’. The
and chemical industry in the country.
second lecture, Aker Powergas’s Prof. N.R. Kamath and
3.0 68th Annual General Meeting
Mrs. Ruzena Kamath Memorial Lecture, on ‘Novel Unit
Operations and Their Application in Chemical Synthesis and The sixty-eigth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Institute
Manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API)’ was was held on December 27, 2015 at the Mini Auditorium, IIT,
delivered by Dr. Sanjeev Katti, Senior Vice President, Reliance Guwahati. Mr G V Sethuraman, President of the Institute for
Technology Group, Mumbai. The third lecture, Shri C.K. 2015, chaired the meeting that was attended by 45 corporate
Murthy Memorial Lecture, was delivered by Prof. A.B. Pandit members (a list is presented in the back cover page). Before
from ICT Mumbai. commencement of the proceedings, the members stood in
silence as a mark of respect to the following members who
As in practice, December 28, 2015, the birth anniversary of
expired during the Year : Prof P Dakshinamurthy (LM 02426),
the late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani, was celebrated as Shri
Mr K K Sundaram (LM 20001), Dr Asad Ali Khan (LF 06548),
Dhirubhai Ambani Commemoration Day in association with
Mr Manas Dutta (LAM 25696), Prof B B Konar (LM 27679),
Reliance Industries Limited. Prof. G. D. Yadav, Shri G. V.
Prof P V R Iyer (LM 00921), Prof P Sadasiva Rao (LM 00944)
Sethuraman, Shri Pankaj Mehta and Dr. Sanjeev Katti, the
Sri B R K Kumar (LM 08406), Dr S Ganguly (LF 00523),

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Mr Sunil Baran Das (LM 25140) and Mr R L Bakhshi (LM As the existing Auditors M/s Nirupam & Associates, Rashkhola
02769). Para, Khardah, Dist. 24 Pgs.(N), Kolkata 700 117 has been
working as Auditors of the Institute for 3 years, the meeting
The Minutes of the 67th (Sixty-seventh) Annual General
resolved to appoint M/s N Chatterjee & Associates, Chartered
Meeting held on December 28, 2014 at Panjab University,
Accountants as Auditors of the Institute for the Financial year
Chandigarh were confirmed.
2016-2017 for the following services: i. Auditing of IIChE
The meeting adopted the minutes of the proceedings of the Headquarters Accounts and Consolidated Accounts of IIChE.
EGM of the Institute, held on December 28, 2014 at Dr ii. On-line filing of IT Return, Form 10B & Form 10 (declaration
SSBUICET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, as circulated on of set apart). iii. Advice on Income Tax and other tax related
November 14, 2015. matters at an annual remuneration of Rs. 22,000/- with an
The meeting unanimously adopted the Annual Report of the additional 14% charge of Service Tax as per law.
Institute as circulated earlier. The names of the newly elected Council members for the
The meeting adopted the Audited Statement of Accounts for period 2016-2018 were announced. The Members welcomed
the year 2014-15 of the Institute unanimously. the elected members for joining the new Council.

The members decided that the defaulting Regional Centre(s) As proposed by Prof. Vinay K Srivastava, Mumbai the meeting
would be suspended and their bank A/c(s) would be sealed resolved to furnish certificates to the Students’ Chapters.
till the defaulting centre(s) submit(s) the A/c. in the prescribed Members decided that anyone intending to publish research
format. The members further decided that the Chairman, paper on the basis of investigation carried out using the
Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the defaulting centre financial assistance from the Institute, should declare himself/
should be suspended during the tenure. herself to be affiliated to the Institute as its Member.
The meeting decided to reappoint M/s Nirupam & Associates, 3.1 R&D Activities by IIChE HQ
Rashkhola Para, Khardah, Dist. 24 Pgs.(N), Kolkata 700 117
During the concerned period of 2015-16, the following projects
as Auditors of the Institute for the Financial year 2015-2016
have been undertaken.
for the following services i. Auditing of IIChE Headquarters
i. Adsorpotive Removal of Crystal Violet Dye on Low
Accounts and Consolidated Accounts of IIChE; ii. On-line filing
Cost Adsorbent in Orbital Shaker.
of IT Return, Form 10B & Form 10 (declaration of set apart);
ii. Adsorpotive Removal of Crystal Violet on Low Cost
iii. Advice on Income Tax and other tax related matters at an
Mixed Adsorbent in Orbital Shaker.
annual remuneration of Rs. 22,000/-.
iii. Adsorpotive Removal of Crystal Violet on Low Cost
Adsorbent in a Bubble Column.
3.2 R&D Related Activities by Regional Centres
Name of the
Regional Centres R&D Related Activities

Ankleshwar a) Technical Lectures/Talks:

1) On ‘Working Principles, Technical and Application Details for Corken’s Line of Reciprocating
Compressor and Industrial Pumps’ on 24.07.2015 .
2) On ‘Turnkey Value Added EPC Solutions & Advance Integrated Productivity and Efficiency
Management Solutions (IT Enabled)’ on 21.08.2015.
3) On (i). ‘Linde’s Industrial Gases-based Technology Solutions for Chemical, Pharmaceutical,
Specialities and Fine Chemical Industries for Productivity Improvement as well as Process
Optimization, Cost Reduction and Improved Safety’ on 24.09.2015.
4) On ‘Efficient Heat Transfer Solutions’ and ‘Separation Technologies’ on 27.11.2015.
5) On ‘Thermal Energy Conservation Opportunities in Process Plants Using German
Technologies’ on 11.12.2015.
6) On ‘Filtration and Drying Technologies’ on 29.12.2015.
7) On ‘Corning AFR-Process Intensification and Seamless Scaleup from Lab to Production’
on 08.01.2016.
8) On ‘Innovation in Chemical Industries’ by Padma Vibhusan Prof M M Sharma on 08.02.2016.

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 9) On ‘High Technology Agitators and Mixing Systems for Process Plant Using German
Technology’ on 26.2.16.
a) Round Table Discussion
On ‘Know Best Practices by Industries and Share Your Improvement Requirement’ on
04.09.2015
Annamalai-Neyveli a) Technical Lectures:
1) On ‘Water Industry Perspectives in UAE’ by Mr Kumaravel, Dubai, UAE on 29.07.2015.
2) On ‘Essential Skill Set and Attributes for Engineering Graduates’ by Dr L Govindarajan,
International Maritime College, Oman on 05.08.2015.
3) On ‘Career Guidance for Chemical Engineers in Middle East Countries’ by Dr N Rajamohan,
Sohar University, Sohar on 12.08.2015
4) On ‘Orientation Programme for Chemical Engineers’ by Prof RM Bairavan, Formerly,
Professor, Chemical Engineering, Annamalai University on 31.07.2015.
Bangalore a ) Seminar :
On ‘Recent Advances and Developments in Chemical Engineering’ on 30.11.2015.
b) Workshop:
On ‘Safety In Process Industry’ on 03.11.2015
Baroda a) Technical Lecture:
On ‘Safe Handling of Chlorine’ by Mr H.S. Sehgal, Ex-Deputy General Manager, Gujarat
Alkalies and Chemicals (GACL), Vadodara on 30.01.2016.
Bhubaneswar a) Technical Lecture:
On ‘Personality Development and Leadership’ by Mr D.P. Misra, former Deputy MD, Jacobs
Engineering India, and presently Director, Development Consultants Private Ltd. on
22.03.2016.
b) Seminar :
On ‘Non-Ferrous Minerals Industry-Growth and Challenges’ on 02-03.12.15
Calcutta a) Technical Lectures:
1) On ‘Leading Coal Liquefaction Processes Developed In USA and their Viability in Using
High Ash Coal In India’ by Prof Amalesh Sirkar on 02.11.2015.
2) On ‘Produced Water Treatment during Offshore Petroleum Production – the Influence of
Interfacial Phenomena’ by Prof. Gisle Oye, Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering,
Department, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim on
14.12.1015.
3) On ‘Climate Change and Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion’ by Prof Prabir Basu,
Distinguished Professor and Director of Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion (CFBC) and
Biomass Conversion Laboratory in Dalhousie University, Canada on 14.12.2015.
b) Memorial Lecture :
On ‘Novel Membrane, Membrane Process and Membrane Techniques’ by Prof Kamalesh K
Sirkar on 28.11.2015. The lecture has been instituted in memory of Prof. D.K. Dutt.
b) Workshop :
On ‘Finance for Non-finance’ for the outgoing engineers under the title ‘10 Financial
Applications for Engineers to Survive in Profession’ on 10.10.2015. It was held jointly with
Indian Institute of Contemporary Management & Research, Kolkata.
Chennai Memorial Lectures:
1) Dr B Jaganathaswamy Memorial Lecture on 21.08.2015.
2) Shri T S Narayanaswamy Memorial Lecture on 19.09.2015

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Coimbatore a) Technical Lectures:
1) On ‘Utilization of Fish Waste for the Isolation of an Industrially Useful Enzyme Protease’ by
Dr Anitha Subash, Dept. of Biochemistry, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore on
22.07.2015.
2) On ‘Importance of Biomaterials in the Present Scenario’ by Dr K Kannan, Associate
Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode
on 22.07.2015.
3) On ‘Chemical Engineers – A Boon To India’ by Prof G D Yadav, Past President, IIChE and
VC, ICT, Mumbai on 22.08.2015.
4) On ‘Employment Opportunities In IT Industries’ by Mr Rajkumar Chandran, Mr Rajkumar,
Mr Durai Pandian and Mr Muralidharan on 09.01.2016.
5) On ‘Tips to Create Foot Prints in the World’ by Mr Anwar Ali on 04.02.2016
b) Seminar:
1) On ‘Process Analytical Technique for Bioreactor & Biomolectures From fungi’ on 20.07.2015.
Dr K P Kannan, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biotechnology, Bannari Amman Institute of
Technology, Sathyamangalam was the resource person.
2) On ‘Potential of Calorimeter as a Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Tool for Monitoring
and Control of Bioreactor’ on 20.07.2015. Dr D Balaji, Associate Professor, Dept of Chemical
Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai was the resource person.
3) On ‘Tissue Engineering & Biosynthesis of Nanoparticles’ on 23.07.2015. Dr D Gnanprakash,
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering,
Kalavakkam, Chennai was the resource person.
4) On ‘Biomaterials – A Boon to Mankind’ on 23.07.2015. Dr P Lalitha, Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore was the resource person.
c) Workshops:
1) On ‘Inspiration and Application of Biomaterials for Membrane Separation’ on 21.07.2015.
Dr G Arthanareeswaran, Associate Professor,Dept of Chemical Engineering, National
Institute Of Technology, Tiruchirappalli delivered the main lecture.
2) On ‘Biomaterial in Separations & Ultrasound for Biomaterial Synthesis’ on 21.07.2015. Dr.
T Sivasankar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of
Technology, Tiruchirappalli delivered the lecture.
3) On ‘Electro Assisted Biodegradation Process for the Textile Dye Degradation’ on 24.07.2015.
Dr K V Selva Kumar, Associate Professor & Head, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Adhiyaman
College of Engineering, Hosur delivered the main lecture.
4) On ‘Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles & Electro-assisted Biodegradation’ on 24.07.2015.
Dr K Sathish Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, SSN College
of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai delivered the main lecture.
Damanjodi a) Seminars:
1) On ‘Latest Advances In Alumina Making Process’ on 24.07.2015.
2) On ‘Latest Developments of Flocculent Use In High Rate Thickeners for Red Mud Settling
in Alumina Refineries’ on 09.01.2016.
b) Workshop:
On ‘Technology Advances in Fluidized Bed Calciners’ on 16.02.2016.
Doaba a) Workshop :
On ‘Application of Chemical Engineering in Alternative Sources of Energy’ on 30.10.2015.
Guwahati a) Technical Lecture :
On ‘Catastrophic Inversion of Agitated Dispersion of One Liquid in Another’on 19.02.2016
by Prof. Sanjeev Gupta, IISc, Bangalore.

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Guntur a) Technical Lectures:
1) On ‘Chemical Engineers - Opportunities and Career Development’ by Mr O S Siddhrartha,
Scientist ‘C’, SHAR, Sriharikota on 01.08.2015.
2) On ‘Smart Innovations in Chemical Sciences’ by Prof S V Satyanarayna, Department of
Chemical Engineering, JNTU College of Engineering (A), Anathapuramu on 01.09.2015.
3) On ‘Opportunities in American Universities’ by Mr D Phani Raj Kumar, East University,
New Mexico on 21.09.2015.
4) On ‘Fundamentals of MATLAB & Simple Applications’ by Dr T Vinay Kumar, Asst Prof,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Warangal on 06.11.2015.
5) On ‘Computing with MATLAB’ by Dr V Hari Kumar, Asst. Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, NIT Warangal on 06.11.2015.
6) On ‘Introduction to SIMULINK and PDETOOL of MATLAB for Solving Moving Boundary
Problems’ by Dr T Sunil Kumar, Asst Prof, Department of Chemical Engineering, NIT
Warangal on 07.11.2015.
7) On ‘Optimization Using MATLAB’ by Dr Kishalay Mitra, Asst Prof, Dept of Chemical
Engineering, IITH, Hyderabad on 07.11.2015.
8) On ‘Go Ahead’ by Mr B.S.S. Krishna Sastry, Engineer Operations – Process, Reliance
Industries Ltd., Madhya Pradesh on 21.12.2015.
9) On ‘Go Ahead’ by Ms G Harini, Ph.D Scholar, IIT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat on 21.12.2015.
10) On ‘Overview of Offshore Oil Production, Processing and Distribution Operation’ by Mr M
Uma Mahesh, Executive Engineer, Mumbai Offshore, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd
(ONGC), Mumbai on 07.01.2016.
Haldia a) Technical Lectures :
1) On ‘Use of TiO2 Nano-particles for Bicarbonate-enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation of
Organic Pollutants’ by Prof R. Das, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Haldia Institute of
Technology on 30.07.2015.
2) On ‘Proactive Leadership’ by Prof R.K. Behera, IIT-Patna on 04.02.2016.
b) Seminar / Conference:
1) On ‘Safety In Process Industries’ on 27.08.2015 and 22.09.2015. A host of top industry
professionals spoke on the following topics:
On 27.08.2015:
i) On ‘Safety in Confined Space - A Case Study’ by Mr Mrityunjoy Sil, Chief Manager (Safety),
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd., Haldia.
ii) On ‘Disaster Management of Process Industry’ by Mr S K Bhowmik, Sr Manager (Safety),
Electro Steel Casting Ltd., Haldia.
On 22.09.2015:
i) On ‘Safety Culture Improvement in Refinery’ by Mr T.K. Dasgupta, GM(HSE),IOCL, Haldia.
ii) On ‘Process Safety Management’ by Mr G.C. Kundu, DGM (Safety),IOCL, Haldia.
2) On ‘Renewable Raw Materials - Opportunities and Challenges’ by Prof. M.M. Sharma (Padma
Vibhushan, Bhatnagar Awardee, Ex-Director UDCT,Mumbai) on 21 – 23.01.2016.
Hyderabad a) Memorial Lecture:
1) 8th M.P. Chary Memorial Lecture on ‘Research Opportunities in Non-conventional Energy’
by Prof J B Joshi, Homi Bhabha National Institute on 06.08.2015.
Jaipur a) Technical Lecture :
On ‘Graphite: Greener & Energy Efficient Material for Chemical Process Industries’ by Mr
Praveen Saxena, Director & CEO, Blast Carboblocks Pvt Ltd., Mumbai on 23.11.2015.
b) Seminar :
On ‘Process Automation and Control (NCPAC 2016) on 28 and 29.05.2016.

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 c) Workshop:
On ‘Safety & Storage of Explosives & Petroleum Products’ on 04 and 05. 12.2015.
Kharagpur a) Technical Lecture:
On ‘A Multi-physics Simulations Study of Sensitivity Analysis of Experimental Variables In
a PEM Fuel Cell by Dr Ashish Lele, Chief Scientist, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on
27.01.2016.
Kochi a) Technical Lecture:
On ‘Environmental Management - A Way of Life’ by Prof. Shri Seetharaman on 26.02.2016.
b) Memorial Lecture:
Shri K Unnikrishnan Memorial Lecture on Understanding the Barriers in Renewable Energy
Utilization In Kerala’ by Dr Sasidharan, Post-doctoral Fellow, Singapore University on
14.01.2016.
Lote-Parasurm a) Seminar :
1) On ‘Tips to Improve Plant Performance’ on 24.10.2015. .
Lucknow a) Technical Lecture:
1) On ‘Efficient Role of Chemical Engineers in Operation of Petroleum Refining Industry’ by
Mr. Manish Kumar Jaisawal, Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi on 14.08.2015
2) On ‘Role of Bioprocess Principles to Excel In Biotechnology’ by Dr Dhananjay Singh, Honorary
Secretary, Lucknow Regional Centre on 28.10.2015.
b) Workshops:
1) On ‘National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning’ on 24.09.2015.
2) On ‘Opportunities and Challenges In Bio-Fuels & Bio-Lubricants’ on 21 and 22.11.2015.
3) On ‘Electrochemical Technologies In Hydrogen Production and Utilization for Electrical
Energy’ on 08 and 09.10.2015.
Mumbai a) Lectures:
1) On ‘Sustainability In Energy Resources’ by Prof Sunil S Bhagwat, ICT on 18.07.2015.
2) On ‘Technologies for Swachcha Bharat Mission: Recycle & Reuse Methodology For Waste
Thermocol’ by Dr D B Naik, BARC on 24.10.2015.
3) On ‘Technologies For Swachcha Bharat Mission: Future of Waste Management In India:
Proposed MSW Rules 2015’ by Suhas Dixit, Pyrocrat Systems LLP on 20.02.2016.
b) Seminars / workshops:
1) On ‘Clean India – Role of Chemical Engineers’ on 10.10.2015.
2) On ‘Career Opportunities & Enhancing Skills towards Better Placements’ by Prof V.K.
Srivastava, TPO, MGMCET, Chemical Engineering Dept. on 05.03.2016.
c) Panel Discussion
On ‘Perspective and Growth Opportunities for Chemical Engineering in the Framework of
MAKE IN INDIA Policy’ on 25.11.2015.
Mangalore a) Symposium :
CHEMIGNITE 2K15, a national symposium on ‘Upstream & Downstream Processing in
Petroleum Industries’ on 30 & 31.10.2015.
Northern a) Technical Lectures:
1) 22nd Annual Lecture, organized in association with Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust, on ‘The
Future of Oil’ by Mr. Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman, Brookings India on 18.11.2015.
2) On i. ‘Introduction to Process Hazard Reviews’ ; ii. on ‘Basics of Process Safety’; iii.on
‘Introduction and Principles of HAZOP’; iv. On ‘Risk Assessment and Criticality Matrix’. The

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 lectures were delivered by Mr Umesh Goel, Director, USP Trading and Manufacturing Pvt.
Ltd. on 12.12.2015.
3) On ‘Solarizing India: An Overview of the Nation’s Vast Solar Potential’ by Mr Anurag Mishra,
Director, Sun Shine Technocon Pvt. Ltd. and ‘India’s Choices and Options for a Clean,
Resilient & Equitable Energy System’ by Dr Ritu Mathur, Professor, TERI University &
Senior Fellow, GGRE Division, TERI on 16.01.2016.
b) Seminar:
On 21 & 22.07.2015 on ‘Materials of Construction in Chemical Process Plants’. The following
speakers spoke on various aspects of this central theme:
i) On ‘Considerations In Material Selection for Process Industry’ by Dr. A. K. Lahiri, Consultant,
New Delhi.
ii) On ‘Materials of Construction for Chemical Process Plant’ by Mr Suresh Nayar, Outokumpu,
Mumbai
iii) On ‘Graphite is Green and Energy Efficient Material of Construction for Process Equipment
for Chemical Process Industries’ by Mr Dhawal Saxena, Executive Asstt of MD, Blast
Carboblocks Pvt Ltd, Navi Mumbai.
iv) On ‘MOC for High Pressure Section of Urea Plant – Past and Present’ by Dr A K Lahiri,
Consultant, New Delhi.
v) On ‘SAF 2304: Cost Effective Solution for Ammonia Service In Fertilizer Industry’ by Mr
Mohan Gawande, Sandvik Asia, Pune.
vi) On ‘Production Scale Silicon Carbide Reactors for Aggressive Chemical Applications’ by Mr
Praveen Gosain, Regional Director-India, S.E. Asia & Australia, Corning, Gurgaon.
vii) On ‘Fitness for Service (FFS): Utilizing Full Potential of Plant Equipment beyond Serviceable
Life’ by Mr Paresh Haribhakti, Managing Director, TCR Advanced Engineering, Vadodara.
viii) On ‘Materials of Construction for Refineries’ by Dr A K Lahiri, Consultant, New Delhi.
ix) On ‘MOC for Reliable Operation of Phosphoric Acid Plants’ by Mr TNV Satyanarayana,
Joint General Manager & Chennai Tech Head, Technip India Ltd, Chennai
x) On ‘Material Selection in HCL Acid Environment’ by Mr Digvijay Charan, Material & Corrosion
Specialist, and Vikram Tamer, Process Engineer, Fluor India, Gurgaon
xi) On ‘MOC for Acid and Complex Fertilizer Plants’ by Mr G.M. Patel, Director, CFIC, New
Delhi
xii) On ‘MOC For The HP Critical Equipment’s in Fertilizer Plants’ by Mr G K Sadekar, Ex-Vice
President, L&T, Mumbai
xiii) On ‘Failure Study of 3rd Stage Ejector of O/H Condenser in VDU Complex’ by Mr Deepak
Bhat, Deputy Manager, BPCL, Mumbai
xiv) On ‘Failure of Sulphuric Acid Pipeline’ by Mr Anup M Madkaikar, Manager (PES), ZACL,
Goa.
c) R&D Meet:
On 24 and 25.07.2015, NRC-Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust R&D Meet, 2015 was held. The
following academics and scientists made the following presentations:
i) Review Paper on ‘The Pilot Scale Development for Establishment of Coal (& Other Solid
Fuels) to Liquid (CsTL) Technology in India’ by Dr R Sonde, Thermax.
ii) On ‘Gasification of Coal-biomass Blends In Fluidized Bed Gasifier’ by Dr Sudipto
Datta,CIMFR, Dhanbad
iii) On ‘Synthetic Fuels Production From Syngas; BPCL’s Research and Development Efforts’
by Dr V Ravikumar, BPCL R&D
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 v) On ‘HPCL Experience on Development and Commercialization of Refinery Process
Technologies’ by Dr N.V. Choudary, HPCL R&D
vi) a. On ‘Studies on Effects of Metal Loading and Calcination Temperature on Co/A1203 Catalyst
for Fischer Tropsch Reaction’, and, b. On ‘Effect of Varying Support on Fisher Tropsch
Process’, both by Prof S Dasappa, IISc Bangalore
vii) On ‘Development of Multifunctional Catalysts for the Conversion of Syngas to Liquid Fuels’
by Prof K K Pant, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT Delhi.
viii) On ‘Kinetic Studies for Indian Coals’ by Prof. Preeti Aghalayam, IIT Madras
ix) On ‘Feasibility of Reactive Distillation for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis’ by Prof S Srinivas, IIT
Mumbai.
x) On ‘Study of RWGS Reaction Over Supported Alumina Catalysts’ by Dr P D Vaidya, UICT
Mumbai
xi) On ‘Operational Experience with Gasification of Biomass Pellets’ by Mr D Satya Mohan
Rao, BHEL R&D, Hyderabad
xii) On ‘Aspects of CTL Process with High Ash Indian Coal and Efforts towards Development of
CTL Technology’ by Dr R. N. Maiti, EIL R&D
xiii) On ‘Hydrodeoxygenation of Fast Pyrolysis Oil over Pd/A12O3 Catalyst’ by Dr Vimal
Kumar, IIT Roorkee
xiv) On ‘Synthesis of Alternative Chemicals Like Dimethyl Carbonates by Greener Routes’ by
Dr V.C. Srivastava, IIT Roorkee
xv) On ‘Computational Modeling of Coal Gasification: Above & Underground Systems’ by Mr
Ankit Jain, NCL Pune & Mr Akshay Singan
xvi) On ‘Modelling and Simulation of Small Scale Methanol Synthesis in a Multi-tubular Packed
Bed Reactor’ by Prof. P. Mondal, IIT Roorkee
xvii) On ‘Monetisation of Unconventional Gas Resources: Role of Oxymethylene Ether’ by Mr
Ankur Bordoloi, CSIR-IIP.
xviii) On ‘Experiments and Modelling Studies of Hydrodynamic Behaviour of Coal-Ash Mixtures’
by Prof S Roy, Dept of Chemical Engineering, IIT, Delhi
xix) On ‘Development of First Ever Indigenous Process Model For UCG’ by Mr R K Sapru, IRS
ONGC Ahmedabad
xx) On ‘Three Dimensional Full-loop Simulation of Coal Gasification In Circulating Fluidized
Bed’ by Dr V K Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
d) Conferences:
On 21.02.2016, on a central theme of ‘Emerging Dimension and Challenges for Polymer
And Chemical Engineers’ In association with Delhi Technological University. The following
speakers made presentations:
i) On ‘Innovation in Chemistry and Polymers - Key to Success’ by Dr. S N Chakraborty.
ii) On ‘Career Option for Chemical Engineers’ by Mr Abhijit Bikas Pal.
iii) On ‘Non-Core Career Options for Chemical Engineers’ by Mr D.D. Maheshwari.
e) Workshop:
On 10 & 11.03.2016, in association with Lovraj Kumar Memorial Trust, Workshop-2016
was held on ‘Processing of Heavy Crudes and Upgrading of Heavy Residues’. The following
presentations were made:
i.) On ‘Challenges In Sourcing, Transporation and Processing of Heavy Crudes’ by Mr S.N.
Pandey, Indian Oil Corp Ltd.
ii) On ‘Transporation of Heavy Residues’ by Mr Ashok Singh, Engineers India Ltd.
iii) On Operation & Maintenance Challenges In Handling/Storage /Transporation of Heavy
Crudes.

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 iv) On ‘Delayed Coking for Maximum Crude Flexibility’ by Mr Satish Mathur, Bechtel Engineering
& Construction India Pvt Ltd.
v) On ‘Experience with Operation of Delayed Coking Unit’ by Mr N Venkatesh, Indian Oil
Corp. Ltd (Gujarat)
vi) On ‘Experience with Operation of the Delayed Coking Unit and Approach Followed for
Revamping the Same’ by Mr Hardeep Singh, Bharat Oman Refinery Ltd.
vii) On ‘Delayed Coking Technology’ by Mr Srini Srivatsan, Amec Foster Wheeler.
viii) On ‘Solvent Deasphalting Technology Development & Performance’ by Dr M.O. Garg, IIP,
Dehra Dun.
ix) On ‘ROSE: An Economic Option to Improve Refinery Margins’ by Mr Samir Saxena, KBR
x) On ‘Gasification of Heavy Residues – The Lurgi MPG Technology’ by Dr Siddhartha
Mukherjee, Air Liquide.
xi) On ‘Status of Residue Upgrading Technologies’ by Mr Jean Paul Margotin, Axens India. 1
xii) On ‘Bottom of Barrel Upgrading – RFCC Synergy with Hydro Treating’ by Mr Sakthivelan
Durai, Honeywell UOP.
xiii) On ‘Feedback on Performance Of RFCC Unit’ by Mr P.S. Munda, Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.
xiv) On ‘Feedback on Performance of FCC Unit’ by Mr M Nagaraju, Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (J)
xv) On ‘Eni Slurry Technology (EST) In Combination with Topsoe Upgrader Technology Offers
an Innovative and Reliable Solution to Convert Bottom of the Barrels to High Value Distillates’
by Mr Raju Chopra, Haldor Topsoe.
xvi) On ‘Slurry Hydrocracking Technology for Upgrading Vacuum Residue’ by Mr Neeraj Tiwari,
Honeywell UOP
xvii) On ‘Slurry Phase Residue Hydrocracking: Comparison of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
Catalysts’ by Dr Samir Maity, IIP Dehra Dun
xviii) On ‘Recent Advances in Heavy Oil Processing Technology’ by Mr Opinder K Bhan, Shell
Oil Company
xix) On ‘Choosing the Right Conversion Scheme for Heavy Crude Processing’ by Mr Vincent
Duverne, Axens India xx) On ‘Advances In Residue Hydrocracking Via LC Fining’ by Mr
Ujjal K Mukherjee, Chevron Lummus Global
xxi) On ‘Flare Mitigation Strategies for Refinery’ by Mr Tanmay Taraphdar,Technip KT India.
xxii) On ‘Flare Mitigation During Design Case Studies’ by Ms. Jayati Ghosh, Engineers India Ltd.
xxiii) On ‘Flare Load Mitigation through Dynamic Simulation’ by Mr Sheo Raj Singh, Engineers
India Ltd.
Nadiad a) Technical Lectures:
1) On ‘Introduction to Reactor Design’ by Dr S Ramamoorthy on 05.09.2015
2) On ‘Introduction to Variable Volume Reactions’ by Dr S. Ramamoorthy on 15.09.2015
3) On ‘How to Face Interview and Group Discussion?’ by Mr Maulin Pandya on 09.07.2015
4) On ‘Yoga and Meditation’ by Mr Mihir P. Dalwadi on 20.08.2015
b) Conference:
‘Collision 2016’ was held during 08 – 11.03.2016. Under this umbrella, a host of activities
were organized.
Pilani a) Technical Lecture:
1) On different mathematical programming approaches for modeling and solution of process
planning & amp; scheduling problems for chemical batch and continuous process operation
with applications in refinery, petrochemicals, polymers, pulp & amp: paper, bio-
pharmaceuticals, pipeless plants, and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) manufacturing.
It was delivered by Prof (Dr) Munawar A Shaik, Associate Prof, Dept of Chemical Engineering,
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 2) A Motivational talk by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, Director, Technology; Air Liquide Global
E&C Solutions India Pvt Ltd. (Formerly known as Lurgi India Company Pvt Ltd. on 12.09.2015.
3) On ‘Evolutionary Computation’ by Prof B.V. Babu, Vice-chancellor, Galgotias University,
Greater Noida on 19.09.2015
b) Symposium :
1) On ‘Sustainable Technology Development In Polymer (SSTDP-2016)’ on 11 and 12.03.2016.
Workshops that included 8 expert lectures, panel discussions and poster presentation,
were held under the symposium.
Pune Technical Lectures :
1) On ‘Energy Recovery from Natural Gas Hydrates: Prospects and Challenges’ by Prof.
Praveen Linga, Asst. Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore on 18.12.2015
2) On ‘Sustainable Energy: Need, Challenges and Opportunities’ by Prof Shripal Revankar,
Department of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, USA on 18.02.2016.
Rourkela a) Seminar :
On ‘Sustainable Technology for Cleaner Environment’ on 13 and 14.02.2016.
Vapi a) Seminar :
1) On ‘Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD)’ on 25.02.2016.

4.0 Council Meeting Highlights Constitution of Committees

The Council had the following meetings between 1 April 2015 The Council decided to constitute the following 13 (Thirteen)
and 31 March 2016. Standing Committees for the year 2015 on the basis of Clause
26 of the Constitution.
4.1 3rd meeting for 2015, held at Dr. H. Roy Building,
IIChE HQ, Kolkata on 2 May 2015.
Name of the Committee Chairmen Conveners Members

1 Regional Centre Affairs Committee Prof N M Surana Mr D M Butala Mr Jayesh Master

Prof V K Srivastava
Prof M K Jha
Prof S V Satyanarayana
Prof G A Shareef
Mr Dipak Dutta - Invitee
Dr (Mrs) Radha Das – Invitee

2 Education & Examination Committee Prof V K Srivastava Dr C Kathikeyan Dr R Parthiban

Dr N Balasubramanian
Prof M V Rao
Dr M Rajasimman
Dr Alpana Mahapatra
Dr Radha Das

3 Admission Committee Prof M V Rao Prof S V Satyanarayana Dr Shishir Sinha

Dr G Pugazhenthi
Dr Sriram Devanathan
Dr Anil Khadse

4 Annual Awards Committee Mr G V Sethuraman Prof P De Prof D V Khakhar

Prof K S Gandhi
Prof B K Dutta
Dr B D Kulkarni

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 Prof V K Srivastava
Prof. G D Yadav,
Chairman- NOC, CHEMCON 2015

5 International Relations Committee Mr Shyam Bang

6 Student Chapter Affairs Committee Dr. S H Vaidya Prof V V Basava Rao Mr. C P Ramalu
Prof. C Karthikeyan
Prof. S V Naidu
Prof. Z V P Murthy
Prof. K C Ghanta

7 Honorary Fellowship Committee Mr G V Sethuraman Prof P De Prof G D Yadav

Mr D P Misra
Prof A K Mitra
Prof S K Sharma
Prof Ch V R Murthy

8 Chemcon Distinguished Mr G V Sethuraman Prof P De Prof G D Yadav

Speaker Committee Dr P G Rao
Prof B K Dutta
Mr Shyam Bang
Prof B P Mandal

9 Legal Committee Mr. P. R. Dutta Ray Mr. Dipak Dutta Prof B N Srimani
Prof V K Rattan
Mr D M Butala
Prof M K Jha
Prof S K Das
Mr S Das
Dr Asim K De
Prof P De

10 Website Committee Prof. V. K. Rattan Prof. P. De Mr D M Butala

Mr K Sahasranaman
Prof M V Rao
Dr S H Vaidya
Mr C P Ramalu

11 Chemical Process Safety Group Mr K Sahasranaman Mr. D. M. Butala Mr Shyam Bang

Mr S Das
Mr C P Ramulu
Dr D Mandal
Ms Sheela
Mr B P Baliga

12 Chemcon Protocol Comittee Mr. G. V. Sethuraman Prof. P. De Prof G D Yadav

Dr P G Rao
Prof V K Rattan
Prof Pallab Ghosh
Prof B P Mandal

13 Industry Institute Interaction Mr. D. M. Butala Prof. M. K. Jha Mr Anand Kumar

Dr. S Bajpai

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Administrative the accounts for the stated financial year. The members also
On-line Election to the Council approved the excess expenditure incurred on some items.

The Council decided for: Income Tax: The Honorary Treasurer, Mr. Dipak Dutta,
(i) On-line voting by the regular members having valid appraised the status of the IT cases lying with High Court and
mail IDs with the institute, and Income Tax authority. The Honorary Secretary also narrated
the discussion he and Mr. Dipak Dutta had with the lawyers
(ii) Voting through postal ballot by the regular members
on 17.04.2015 regarding problems being faced on income tax
having no valid mail IDs.
matters.
Membership
The members decided the following:
Honorary Fellowship: The Council decided to award
(i) Regional centres would be requested to submit
Honorary Fellowship of the Institute to the following persons:
audited statement of accounts in the format approved
(i) Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati & Professor
by the Finance committee by 7th of July 2015 failing
of IIT Kanpur, (ii) Prof. Basudeb Barman (LM, IIChE), Former
which operation of their Bank accounts would be
Vice-Chancellor, Kalyani University and former Member of
stopped, and also the recognition would be
Parliament (Lok Sabha); and Mr. Harsha Bhogle (Chemical
suspended.
Engineer).
(ii) A competent authority / person would be appointed
Admission to Fellowship: The Council approved applications
as Internal Auditor as recommended by the Finance
from (i) Dr S N Chakravarty (LM 10168), Managing Director,
Committee.
Polym Consultants, New Delhi, and (ii) Dr. Sanjeev Katti (LM
20067), Sr. Vice President (R&T), Reliance Technology Group, The members requested the Honorary Treasurer and Honorary
Navi Mumbai for the Fellowship of the Institute. Secretary to take appropriate action on the stated matters.
They further requested the Treasurer and Secretary to do the
Financial
needful for amicable settlement of income tax matter as
Quarterly Accounts: The Honorary Treasurer presented the decided by the Legal committee.
financial statement of quarterly accounts for the quarter ended
Examination
March 2015 and also the accounts for the financial year
2014 – 15. He also pointed out excess of expenditure over AMIIChE Results:
the budget provision on certain items. The following 39 candidates came out successfully who
The members after discussion noted the financial statement appeared in September 2014 Home Paper Examination
of accounts for the quarter ended 31st march 2015 and also (Results published on 21.02.2015):

Sl. Name Roll No. Sl. Name Roll No.

No. No.
1 Mr Brijesh K Shastri 00/S4/381 21 Mr Mahesh Chandra Gupta 09/M9/238
2 Mr Dushant Ramrao Sarkete 02/S3/332 22 Mr Shani Raj Singh 09/S9/537
3 Mr Srinivas Gantla 02/S3/423 23 Mr Pramod Kumar Goyal 09/S9/538
4 Mr Vipulkumar C Kathani 04/M4/200 24 Mr Sushil Vasant Bhosale 10/M10/50
5 Mr Elumalai V 05/S5/267 25 Mr Neeraj Kumar Prajapati 10/M10/96
6 Mr Bhushan Prabhakar 06/S6/440 26 Mr J Jayabal 10/M10/209
7 Mr Samirkumar N Shah 06/S6/449 27 Mr Manish K Bidawat 10/S10/355
8 Mr Jigar B Rana 07/M7/103 28 Mr Gurpreet Singh 10/S10/369
9 Mr Alok Kumar Gupta 07/M7/175 29 Mr Pankaj Kumar 10/S10/429
10 Mr Jitendra Singh 07/S7/267 30 Mr Rohit Sharma 10/S10/434
11 Mr Siyaram Maurya 07/S7/358 31 Ms Geetha Jagu 11/M11/66
12 Mr Mulrajsinh C Jadeja 08/M8/16 32 Mr Dushyanveer Singh 11/M11/311
13 Mr Ashish Sah 08/M8/85 33 Mr Senhal Lalitbhai Davda 11/S11/437

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No. No.
14 Mr Renjith Kumar A U 08/M8/89 34 Mr Abhishek Kumar 12/M12/191
15 Mr Parameshwar 08/M8/107 35 Mr Bishan Singh Rana 08/M8/151
16 Mr Subit Gupta 08/M8/120 36 Ms N Swarnalatha 12/S12/467
17 Mr Mool Chand 08/S8/281 37 Mr Sudhir Dattaram Bait 01/S3/314
18 Mr Vaibhav P Sawant 08/S8/291 38 Mr Suchendra Shetty 10/M10/105
19 Mr Asif Iqbal Jethva 09/M9/37 39 Mr Kuldeep 10/M10/106
20 Mr Yashpal Balaram Lokhande 09/M9/74

Regional Centres / Students Chapters 4.2 4 th meeting for 2015, held at Central Leather
New Regional Centres: Department of Chemical Engineering, Research Institute Auditorium, Chennai on July 11, 2015
BITS-Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa had FICCI – IIChE joint venture
requested for approval to start a new Regional Centre at Goa. The members considered the proposal at length on Chemicals
The Council decided in favour of opening a new Regional & Petrochemicals Sector Skill Council (CPSSC) and
Centre at Goa. deliberated. They also had in-depth discussion with Mr.
The Council also noted with pleasure the inauguration of Prabhsharan Singh, Head - Chemicals and Petrochemicals,
Guntur Regional Centre, IIChE by the IIChE Presedent, Mr G FICCI and Mr. Mohan Reddy, Associate - Standards and QA
V Sethuraman on 03.04.2015. from National Skills Development Corp. after a presentation
New Students Chapters: The Council approved the formation made by Mr. Reddy on the subject. President Mr. G V
of Students’ Chapters in the Department of Chemical Sethuraman suggested that Mr. Shyam Bang would represent
Engineering, at MITS, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) and Shaheed IIChE in the Governing Council of CPSSC and the members
Bhagat Singh State Technical Campus, Ferozepur, (Punjab). accepted the suggestion.

Other Items The members also constituted a committee comprising Mr. D

M Butala, Mr. Shyam Bang, Mr. K Sahasranaman and Dr. P G
Joint Petition of Engineering Associations / Bodies on
Rao to look into different aspects of the proposal where IIChE
Engineers Bill: Prof. De informed about a communication sent
would participate and also formulate the procedures for
on 28.03.2015 to ECI regarding “Engineers Bill” as sent by
implementing the same. The members further requested the
various other member associations/bodies. He also mentioned
committee to report the development of the matter to the
that Mr G V Sethuraman, President, had signed a Joint Petition
Council from time to time.
and forwarded it to ECI for taking action at their end. The Hony.
Secretary also updated the members about the progress of Publication
work regarding Engineers’ bill. Appointment of Honorary Editor: Based on the
The members were happy to note the progress of ECI recommendation of the Search Committee, constituted for
enactment of Engineers bill. appointment of Honorary Editor during the 3rd meeting of the
Council in Kolkata, the Council decided that Prof. V K Rattan
Industrial Clinic: Mr. D M Butala suggested constitution of
would be appointed as Honorary Editor of IIChE for 2 years
an Industrial Clinic for tackling problems faced by SMES and
with effect from 1st January 2016.
even big players in the various areas of plant operation. A
group of experts from IIChE members could be formed at the Industrial Clinic / Polyclinic for MSMEs
national level by networking through website, newsletter, The members considered a detailed suggestion given by Mr.
Regional Centres, etc. for the purpose, which could offer D M Butala in this regard, made following detailed deliberation
guidelines through weblinks for resolving operational problems. at the Baroda Regional Centre. The members accepted in
This will be on ‘no profit no loss’ basis as a Service to Chemical principle the suggestion made by Mr. Butala and decided to
Engineers, Mr. Butala suggested. implement the same phase-wise as it would be of great help
Members accepted the proposal for industrial clinic and to the industry. It was further decided that the Regional Centres
requested Mr. Butala to work out the modus operandi for would be requested to take initiative in implementing the
implementing the proposal. proposal for which a guideline would have to be framed.

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Other Items Institute. The decision of the members in this regard included
The members considered a long-term plan, submitted by Prof. the following:
Basava Rao, for raising interest among students about study (i) The Regional centres would be requested to pay the
of Chemical Engineering in general and about the role of IIChE amount on pro-rata basis of the income tax withdrawn
in nurturing the growth of Chemical Engineering as an from the Bank by the IT authority in March 2012 and
academic subject and profession. The plan included the also of the tax which would have to be paid to the IT
following aspects: authority,
l Chemical Engineering Awareness Programs: Each (ii) Cases lying with the IT authority would be handled at
student chapter has to conduct awareness camp in a minimum cost soliciting opinions from concerned
Junior colleges for 10+2 students regarding the experts.
importance of Chemical Engineering, Role of
Membership
Chemical Engineer in the Industry, in the development
The Council approved the application from Dr. L V
of the Nation, Opportunities for chemical Engineers
Muralikrishna Reddy (LM 44439), Chair, National Design &
etc., The IIChE has to prepare the schedule and
Research Forum, Bangalore and President, the Institution of
instruct the Student chapters through the Regional
Engineers (India), for the Fellowship of the Institute.
Chapters for creating interest among the engineering
aspirant students after the 10+2. Examination
l Industry Internships: IIChE will create internship Prof. P. De, on request from the Council, decided for opening
programmes in collaboration with its Organizational a new Examination Centre at IET (Institute of Engineering
Members from industries. Then IIChE will select few and Technology), Lucknow for conducting AMIIChE
students from each student chapter through the examination there.
regional centres and send them for training. This will
4.3 5 th meeting for 2015, held at MIT Academy of
develop the technical skill and problem solving
Engineering, Alandi, Pune, on September 12, 2015
capacity among the chemical engineering students.
Subvention to the IIChE Students’ Chapters
l Remedial and Supplementary Teaching
Materials:IIChE will enlist teachers as subject experts The meeting considered its earlier decision regarding payment
to prepare lecture notes in each chemical engineering of subvention to Students’ Chapters and decided that 50% of
subject and upload on the IIChE website. This can Rs. 400/- (Out of a total of Rs. 500/- towards compounding
be accessed by each student chapter and thereby fees – Rs. 100/- towards admission fee) would henceforth
students. This will be very much useful to the chemical be given as subvention to the Students’ Chapters through the
engineering students who are academically weak. concerned Regional Centres.

The members, in principle, accepted the proposal and SCHEMCON 2017

requested Prof. Basava Rao to do the needful for the benefit Prof. P De reported the receipt of a Bid Form from the Students’
of students in consultation with Student Chapter Affairs Chapter of IIChE, NIT, Rourkela for organizing SCHEMCON
Committee. 2017 there. The Council discussed the issue and decided that
Financial the SCHEMCON 2017 would be organized by the Students’
Quarterly Accounts: Hony. Treasurer Mr. Dipak Dutta Chapter of IIChE, NIT, Rourkela at their institute.
presented the financial Statements of quarterly accounts for
Financial
the quarter ending June 2015. The members noted the present
Matters regarding Income Tax: Mr. Dipak Dutta reported
financial position of the HQ, and requested the Honorary
receipt of the apportioned amount of Income Tax fror
Secretary and Treasurer to curtail the expenditure to the
possible extent. The members also discussed on the avenues 2008 – 09 from 5 Regional Centres, namely, Doaba, Kanpur,
for increasing the income of the HQ, and decided that (i) the oimbatore, Annamalai-Neyveli and Nagpur, which had already
Regional Centres would be requested to give a percentage of been paid by the HQ. to the IT authority. The members noted
their income to the HQ, and (ii) Chemcon organizers would be with pleasure receipt of the amount and decided that the
requested to release the due amount to the HQ at the earliest. amount received/receivable from the Regional Centres would

Income Tax matter: Mr. Dipak Dutta apprised the members be utilized for repairing and maintenance of the HQ Building
about the latest status relating to income tax, payable by the in Kolkata.

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Organizational Member Undergraduate students would not be entertained to present
Prof. De reported receipt of an application from Dr P G Jadhav, technical papers in CHEMCON.
Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Shri Guru Gobind The Council also decided that henceforth a minimum amount
Singhji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Nanded along of money (the quantum will be decided by the Council) should
with a DD of Rs. 11,000/- for Life Organizational Membership be given to HQ by the Chemcon Organizers.
of the Institute. The meeting considered the application and Engineering Council of India
approved the same. Prof. P De referred to a communication received from Mr B R
Regional Centre / Student Chapter Affairs Jain, Director, ECI through an e-mail dated 10.12.2015
Regional Centre: The Coucnil decided in favour of opening a regarding registration for Professional Engineer (PE) /
Regional Centre at National Institute of Technology, Durgapur Associate Professional Engineer (APE) / Student Engineer.
as it fulfilled the relevant guidelines. The members accepted in principle that the institute would
Students’ Chapters: The Council approved in principle request its members for their registration as professional
formation of the following Students’ Chapters subject to engineer/associate professional engineer/student engineer as
fulfillment of the laid down criteria in the By-laws: indicated in the said communication. They also requested
(i). Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering & Technology, the Honorary Secretary to take appropriate action on the
Nagpur; (ii) Bharathidasan Institute of Technology, Anna matter.
University, Tiruchirapalli; (iii) KLE Dr M S Sheshgiri College of Meeting of Professional Bodies and Educationists
Engineering & Technology, Belagavi; (iv). Calcutta Institute Prof. P De apprised the members about the communication
of Technology, Uluberia, Howrah; (v). Rajiv Gandhi University, received from Prof. Satyanarayana who participated in the
IIIT, Nuzvid; (vi). K L University, Vaddeswaram. meeting of the professional bodies and educationists,arranged
4.4 6th meeting for 2015 held at Mini Auditorium, IIT, by the Institution of Engineers on 25th September 2015 at
Guwahati on December 26, 2015 Kochi:
Subvention to the IIChE Students’ Chapters The members discussed the issue at length and decided that
In continuation of its earlier decision on the subject, the Council our representative(s) would attend the subsequent joint
decided that Rs. 500/- (paid by student members as compound meeting/s, if held.
fees) would not henceforth be adjusted with the fee for Life Publication
Corporate Membership in case of one’s transfer from student
Prof P De reported that IIChE-T&F publication agreement is
to corporate membership.
due for renewal in January 2016. The corresponding clause
CHEMCON National Organizing Committee
in the agreement reads as follows:
With regard to formation of NOC for CHEMCON, Prof. De “The IIChE and the Publisher agree to publish the
highlighted the relevant portion of the guidelines as reproduced Journal for a minimum period of five years from the
below: first day of January 2011 (Volume 53) and this
“The Council of the Institute shall hold the Congress through Agreement shall take effect on the date shown at the
a National Organizing Committee (NOC) and a Local head of this Agreement and shall continue until 31
Organizing Committee (LOC) constituted for the purpose at December 2015, and shall automatically renew
least one year in advance of the CHEMCON concerned. The thereafter for a period of three years unless either
NOC will have one Chairman, one Vice-chairman, one party gives the other written notice of its intention
Convener, (one Joint Convener if required), four zonal not to renew this Agreement at least twelve months
representatives and other individuals that the Council may prior to the expiration of the current term”.
add. The President, Vice-Presidents, Honorary Secretaries The members after threadbare discussion decided to renew
and Honorary Treasurer of IIChE shall be ex-officio members the agreement for a period of 3 years as mentioned in the
of the NOC. Besides, the Chairman, Vice-chairman and the clause.
Organizing Secretary of the Local Organizing Committee will Awards
also be ex-officio members of the NOC. The NOC is mainly Change of award name: Prof. P De informed the Council
responsible for policy making and planning the technical events about receipt of an e-mail communication dated December
of the Congress.” 02, 2015 from Mr Nandkumar Dhekne, Vice President Asia,
The members after discussion decided that (i) The meeting Solenis requesting to change the name of the “Ashland CDS
of the NOC could also be held through electronic media, (ii) Award” to “Solenis CDS Award” as the Ashland Water
LOC should consist of at least 2 council members, and, (iii) Technologies had been taken over by Solenis.

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The Council agreed and requested Honorary Secretary to do Membership
the needful in the matter. Honorary Fellowship/Fellowship: The Council elected Prof
Honorarium enhancement for Dr B P Godrej Life Time C D Gopalarathnam and Dr Ajay Bansal as Fellows of the
Achievement Award: Prof. P De reported that Mr N B Godrej, Institute on the basis of recommendations made by the
Managing Director, Godrej Industries Ltd., In response to a members of the concerned comiittee.
request from Prof G D Yadav, Past President, IIChE, had been Organizational Membership: The Council approved the
pleased to enhance the award money for Dr B P Godrej Life admission of Nove Iresc India Pvt Ltd, New Delhi and SSN
Time Achievement Award from Rs. 1.50 lakh to Rs. 3.00 lakh College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Tamil Nadu as Life
(which includes honorarium of Rs 2.50 lakh and Rs. 50,000/- Organizational Member of the institute.
for travel, felicitation along with the spouse). Examination
The Council noted it with pleasure and conveyed its gratitude The following 50 candidates came out successfully out of 56
and thanks to Mr. Nadir Godrej for this kind gesture and candidates, who appeared for March 2015 Home Paper
thanked Prof. Yadav for his endeavour. Examination.

Sl. Name Roll No. Sl. Name Roll No.

No. No.
1 Mr Dineshchandra R Patel 00/S7/383 26 Mr Narasimha Murthy 09/S9/530

2 Mr Arupananda Mohanty 00/S8/551 27 Mr Hemant Hindurao Thorat 09/S9/556

3 Mr V Chandra Sekhara Reddy 04/S4/24 28 Mr Avdesh Bansal 10/M10/42

4 Mr Sanjay Singh 05/S5/264 29 Mr E C Mohanan 10/M10/227

5 Mr Devang G Bhojak 05/S5/382 30 Mr Veenu Kumar 10/M10/284

6 Mr Rama Kant 06/S6/331 31 Mr Nilesh M Chichpane 10/M10/297

7 Mr Narottam Kumar 06/S6/341 32 Mr Jaswinder Singh 10/S10/370

8 Mr Nishant Kumar Undwar 07/M7/100 33 Mr Chirag J Bhavsar 10/S10/376

9 Mr Chaganti Srinivasu 07/S7/280 34 Mr G Prakasa Varma 10/S10/408

10 Mr Manish Kumar Sinha 07/S7/304 35 Mr Mani Prasad Mishra 10/S10/410

11 Mr S Rajkumar 08/M8/18 36 Mr Bhavesh N Gurjar 10/S10/427

12 Mr Sanjeev Kumar 08/M8/91 37 Mr Vishal Vilvas 10/S10/474

13 Mr Mahendra Singh 08/S8/225 38 Mr Pallapu Praveen Kumar 10/S10/509

14 Mr Nilesh Anant Joshi 08/S8/283 39 Md Shamsad Alam 10/S10/512

15 Mr Ashish 08/S8/362 40 Mr Neeraj Kumar 10/S10/546

16 Mr Tarang Mathur 09/M9/5 41 Ms Jyoti 11/M11/29

17 Mr Prafulla M Madhavi 09/M9/54 42 Ms Poonam 11/M11/30

18 Mr Pritesh M Pandya 09/M9/77 43 Mr Mahesh Chand 11/M11/95

19 Mr Raj Kumar Mehta 09/M9/104 44 Mr Mahadev Mahapatra 11/M11/251

20 Mr Jagdish Prasad Singh 09/M9/155 45 Mr Buddha Vijay 11/M11/298

21 Mr Manoj Kumar Singh 09/M9/191 46 Mr Tapas Kumar Mandal 11/S11/347

22 Mr Shiv Pratap Singh 09/M9/192 47 Mr Narayan Prasad G K 12/M12/126

23 Mr Umesh Kumar Tiwari 09/M9/196 48 Mr Gautam Kumar Pandey 12/M12/413

24 Mr Shail Jit Singh 09/S9/376 49 Mr Reddi Sai Kumar 13/M13/49

25 Mr Tarashi N Vekariya 09/S9/513 50 Mr Hem Chandra Joshi 13/S13/323

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Regional Centre / Student Chapter Affairs would require amendments of certain clauses in the
Regional Centre: The Council approved in principle formation Constitution. The Council discussed the issue and the
of a new Regional Centre of IIChE in UPES, Dehradun, subject President thereafter suggested formaion of a sub-committee
to fulfillment of criteria laid down in the Constitution and By- consisting of the following members:
laws of the Institute. Mr. G V Sethuraman (Chairman), Prof. P. De (Convener), Prof.
Students’ Chapters: The Council approved in principle V K Srivastava (Member), Dr. P G Rao (Member), Mr. D M
formation of the following Students’ Chapters subject to Butala (Member), Mr. D P Misra (Member).
fulfillment of the laid down criteria in the By-laws: The members were requested to forward their suggestion for
(i) Delhi Technological University, Delhi and (ii) Parul Institute better functioning of the Institute.
of Technology, Vadodara. Publication
st
4.5 1 meeting for 2016 held at Conference Hall No. 3, Prof V K Rattan presented an email dated 19.2.2016 received
IIT, Guwahati, on December 28, 2015. from Robinson Raju, Publishing Editor, T&F Group as given
Election of the President below :

The members elected Mr Shyam Bang as the President of “In our mission to be environment-friendly, reduce
the Institute for the year 2016. wastage and become energy-and cost-efficient,
Taylor & Francis is proposing to print issues less
Election of two Vice-Presidents
frequently beginning this year. Since the institute
Prof. S V Satyanarayana and Prof. G A Shareet were elected prints the issues to supply to its members, we are
unanimously as the Vice-Presidents of the Institute for the therefore seeking your approval to initiate this
year 2016. process. This means that T&F will send the institute
Co-option of Members to the Council (not more than 3) as two print files for two print copies of four issues for
provided in Rule 24.1 of the Constitution the Indian Chemical Engineer (each print copy will
The members decided unanimously to co-opt Prof. N. be a double issue). Are you happy printing two times
Balasubramanian, Department of Chemical Engineering, A C a year instead of four?”
Tech Campus, Anna University, Chennai to the Council for The members considered the issue and expressed their regret
2016. to accede to the proposal. The members, however, suggested
Election of Other Office Bearers printing the journal in A-4 sized paper.

For the year 2016, the members unanimously elected Prof. Awards
P. De as the Honorary Secretary of the Institute; Dr. D. Mandal Honorary Secretary reported that the announcements for the
as the Honorary Jt. Secretary; Mr Dipak Dutta as the Honorary Awards and Prizes would be displayed in the Website of the
Treasurer; Prof. Radharani Das as Honorary Treasurer; Prof IIChE soon.
V K Rattan as Honorary Editor; and Prof. M. Venkateswara
Fellowship
Rao was unanimously elected as Honorary Controller of
Examinations. The Council elected Mr G V Sethuraman, Immediate Past
President, as a Fellow of the Institute as per prevailing practice.
4.6 2nd Meeting for 2016 held at Dr. B A Ambedkar
National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar on March 5, Student Chapter Affairs
2016 The Council approved in principle formation of the following
FICCI - IIChE Students’ Chapters subject to fulfillment of the laid down criteria
The President Mr Shyam Bang informed the members that (i) in the By-laws:
the MOU between the CHEMCON 2016 organizers and FICCI (i) NIT, Hamirpur, and (ii) Beant College of Engineering &
would be signed very soon, and, (ii) some programmes of Technology, Gurdaspur.
IIChE would be organized jointly with FICCI during the year.
Associate Membership Examination
Constitutional Amendments
Mr. Shyam Bang informed the members that he along with
Prof. P De reiterated that certain clauses in the constitution, Prof. V K Srivastava and Prof. M K Jha had met the Chairman
based on the recommendation / suggestions, would have to of AICTE on 26th February 2016 and requested through a letter
be changed for the overall growth of the Institute keeping pace dated 25th February him to consider the passed out candidates
with requirement of the day. Such change(s) in the constitution of AMIIChE from IIChE along with M.E/ M.Tech.degree

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acquired through contact mode (regular/part time) to be eligible e. Heat Generation & Heat Transfer Equipment Sub
for the appointment as faculty in Technical Education, similar committee
to that being enjoyed by Institution of Engineers (Vide Principal Nominee - Prof K J R Sarma
Extraordinary Gazette notification, part III, Section 4, where Alternate Nominee - Dr V K Srivastava
under item (E), Miscellaneous issues, sl. no. 67,page 31: the f. Crushing & Grinding Equipment Sub-committee
passed out candidates of AMIE offered by Institution of Principal Nominee - Prof N Subrahmanyam
Engineers, along with M.E./ M.Tech. degree acquired through
g. Size Separation & Filtration Sub-committee
contact mode (regular/part time) is eligible for the appointment
Principal Nominee - Mr Sunil Kapadia
as faculty in Technical Education).
Alternate Nominee - Prof S Basu
Syllabus revision: Some members suggested for developing
h. Drying Equipment Sub-committee
a model syllabus of Chemical Engineering course for the
Principal Nominee - Mr Jai Uppal
undergraduate students. The suggestion for scrutiny of the
Alternate Nominee - Dr M K Bhattacharjee
existing syllabus for the said course offered by the institutions
i. Packing & Gasket Sectional Committee
in the country was also discussed. Prof. V.K.. Srivastava (Ex-
Principal Nominee - Dr Amalendu Datta
IIT) informed the members that NRC, IIChE had been doing
the same. j. Refrigeration & Airconditioning Sectional Committee
Principal Nominee – Dr D Sathiamoorthy
Prof. Chaurasia briefed the Council about suggestions being
Alternate Nominee - Dr Sudip K Das
made by UGC and AICTE for introduction of two industry
related courses in the syllabus for UG Chemical Engineering 2) Asia Pacific Confederation of
discipline. Chemical Engineering - Prof G J V J Raju
3) Engineering Council of India -
Other Items
Prof V K Srivastava
Prof. P De reported the receipt of an Email dated 24.02.2016
4) World Council of Chemical Engineering -
from Prof G D Yadav requesting the President and Honorary
Mr K Venkataramanan
Secretary to take strong initiative for inclusion of Chemical
Engineering discipline for Engineering Services Examination 5) Technical Advisory Board – Chemical Science &
(ESE), conducted by UPSC for recruitment of Engineers Technology, CSIR - Prof A K Mitra
against vacancies in Government Services. 6.0 Membership Position
The President informed that the request through a letter dated Number of applications received for membership during the
25th February 2016 on the above context had been made to period under review (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016), the
the Chairman, AICTE and apprised the members about the number approved by the Council and the actual enrolment
conversation he had with the Chairman. The members decided during the referred period was 3856, 3864 and 3864,
to make a request to the Chairman, UPSC for inclusion of respectively.
Chemical Engineering discipline for ESE.
Membership position as on 31 March 2016 is given below
5.0 Institute’s Representatives on Various Bodies along with the corresponding figures as on March 31, 2015
1) Bureau of Indian Standards and March 31, 2014.
a. Chemical Engineering Plants & Related Equipment March 31, March 31, March 31,
Sectional Committee 2016 2015 2014
Principal Nominee - Mr G V Sethuraman Organisational Member (Life) 61 58 58
Alternate Nominee – Mr A K Saxena Organisational Member (Annual) 60 60 58

b. Chemical Division Council Honorary Fellow 128 126 122

Principal Nominee - Prof S K Sharma Fellow (Life) 112 99 100

Alternate Nominee - Dr S Mukherjee Fellow 22 32 32

c. Basic Chemical Engineering Standards Member (Life) 5163 5001 4737

Principal Nominee - Prof K D P Nigam Member 753 759 757

Alternate Nominee - Dr R N Trivedi Life Associate Member 2512 2378 2122

Associate Member 939 947 912
d. Process Vessels Sub-committee
Principal Nominee - Dr P G Rao Student Member 12368 12157 13824

Alternate Nominee - Prof B K Guha

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The number of members attached to each of the Regional The following organizations were admitted as Organizational
Centres (as on March 31, 2016) are as follows: Members of the Institute upto March 31, 2016:
Sl. No Regional Centre No. of Members
Permanent Organisational Members – Industry
1. Ahmedabad 180
2. Ankleshwar 718 1 Alkyl Amines Ltd

3. Annamalai 376 2 Artemis Biotech Ltd., Mumbai

4. Bangalore 806 3 Asian Paints Ltd., Mumbai

5. Baroda 382 4 Avon Organics Ltd., Hyderabad

6. Bhubaneswar 275 5 Bentley Systems India Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
7. Calcutta 957 6 Birla Cellulosic, Bharuch
8. Chandigarh 514 7 Blast Carboblocks Pvt. Ltd., Navi Mumbai
9. Chennai 1689 8 Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation
10. Coimbatore 223 Ltd., Pune
11. Damanjodi 128 9 Development Organization for Sustainable
12. Dehradun 198 Transformation, Chandigarh

13. Doaba 132 10 Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., Hyderabad

14. Durgapur 110 11 Excel Industries Ltd., Mumbai
15. Guwahati 85 12 Firechem, Faridabad
16. Goa 92 13 Golden Chemicals (I) Ltd., Mumbai
17. Guntur 389 14 Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd., Baroda
18. Haldia 308 15 Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd., Veraval
19. Hyderabad 865 16 Haldor Topsoe International A/S, New Delhi
20. Jaipur 227
17 Heavy Water Board, Mumbai
21. Kalpakkam 85
18 Hercules Speciality Chemicals (India) Pvt. Ltd.,
22. Kanpur 184 Bangalore
23. Kharagpur 72 19 Herdillia Chemicals Ltd., Mumbai
24. Kochi 538
20 Hetero Drugs Ltd., Hyderabad
25. Lote 82
21 Hikal Ltd., Taloja, Maharashtra
26. Lucknow 127
22 Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd., Mumbai
27. Mangalore 177
23 Hindustan Latex Ltd., Thiruvanantapuram
28. Mumbai 1410
24 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Refinery Division, New
29. Nadiad 382
Delhi
30. Nagpur 491
25 Jacobs H&G Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
31. Northern 654
26 Kavaerner Powergas India Ltd., Mumbai
32. Paradeep 25
27 Kavin Engineering & Services Pvt. Ltd., Coimbatore
33. Pilani 138
28 Labindia Instruments Pvt. Ltd., Thane
34. Pondicherry 48
29 Llyod’s Register of Shipping, New Delhi
35. Pune 581
36. Rourkela 71 30 Mecon Ltd., Ranchi

37. Trivandrum 407 31 MMTC-PAMP India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

38. Vapi 71 32 National Organic Chemicals Industries Ltd., Mumbai

39. Waltair 427 33 Novo Iresc India Private Ltd., New Delhi

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 34 Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Dehradun Ordinary Organisational Members – Industry

35 Pidilite Industries Ltd., Mumbai 1 Andhra Sugar Ltd., Tanuku

2 Aventis Pharma Ltd., Bharuch
36 RPG Life Sciences Ltd., Mumbai
3 Beta Concepts, Hyderabad
37 Sartorius India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
4 Bharat Aluminium Co. Ktd., Korba
38 Sud-Chemie Inda Ltd. (United Catalyst India Ltd.),
5 Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Mumbai
Mumbai
6 Bharuch Enviro Infrastructure Ltd., Ankleshwar
39 Themis Medicare Ltd., Mumbai
7 Birla VXL Ltd., Porbandar (Saurashtra Chemicals
40 Toyo Engineering India Ltd., Mumbai Ltd.)

41 TUV Suddeutshland Ltd., Mumbai 8 Chemfab Alkalies Ltd., Pondicherry

9 Cheminova India Ltd., Bharuch
42 United Phosphorus Ltd., Ankleshwar, Gujarat
10 Chemplast Saanmar Ltd., Chennai
43 Vical Inc., USA
11 Coromondal Fertilizers Ltd., Secunderabad
Permanent Organisational Members – Research & 12 DCW Ltd., Dharanghra, Gujarat
Educational Institutes 13 Deepak Nitrite Ltd., Nandesari Gujarat
1 Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai 14 Diamines & Chemicals Ltd., Baroda
2 Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, 15 Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi
Bhavnagar
16 Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., Secunderabad
3 Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, 17 Garg Lab Glass Industries, Vapi, Gujarat
Hyderabad
18 Gas Authority of India Ltd., New Delhi
4 Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
19 Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., Kodinar
5 High Energy Material Research Laboratory, Pune
20 Gujarat Insecticides Ltd., Ankleshwar
6 Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research,
21 Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertlizers Co. Ltd.,
Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu
Narmadanagar
7 Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
22 Gujarat Sidhee Cement Ltd., Veraval
8 Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat
23 Gujarat State Fertilizer & Chemicals Ltd., Vadodara
9 National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
24 Heavy Water Plant, Tuticorin
10 National Productivity Council, Chennai 25 HEL India Ltd., Thane
11 SSBT’s College of Engineering & Technology, 26 Heubach Colour Pvt. Ltd., Ankleshwar
Jalgaon, Maharashtra
27 Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pune
12 Sathyabhama Engineering College, Chennai
28 Hindustan Insecticides Ltd., New Delhi
13 Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering &
29 Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd., Rasayani,
Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
14 St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai
30 Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd., Calcutta
15 SSN College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu
31 Indian Petrochemical Corporation Ltd., Baroda
16 Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, 32 Indian Rayon Ltd., Veraval, Gujarat
Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu
33 Kevin Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
17 Swami Ramananda Tirtha Institute, Nalgonda 34 Mafatlal Industries, (Navine Flourine Industries –
18 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvanantapuram Chemical Division) Mumbai

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 35 Narmada Chematur Petrochemicals Ltd., Varuch Year No. of Candidates

36 Nuchem Ltd., Faridabad 2006 1676

37 Nuclear Fuel Complex, Hyderabad 2007 1529

2008 1749
38 Saurashtra Cement Ltd., Gujarat
2009 1999
39 Sayantan Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta
2010 2222
40 Search Chem Industries Ltd., Jhagadia
2011 2406
41 Shriram Alkali & Chemicals, Bharuch
2012 2495
42 Shriram Fertilizers & Chemicals, New Delhi
2013 2283
43 Southern Petrochemical Industries Corp. Ltd.,
Chennai 2014 1872

2015 1427
44 Sun Pharmaceutical, Panoli

45 Surya Organics and Chemicals, Ankleshwar The number of candidates who appeared at the final part (Part
46 Standard Industries Ltd., Mumbai III) of the Institute’s Associate Membership Examination during
the last 10 years was as follows:
47 Standard Certification Council Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
Year Semester No. No. % of
48 TCP Ltd., Chennai Appeared Passed successful
candidates
49 Tata Chemicals Ltd., Mithapur
2005 March 41 39 95.1
50 Textile Rubber & Chemical Co Pvt Ltd., Bhadohi
September 30 28 93.3
51 Trident Alco-Chem Ltd., Ludhiana
2006 March 27 21 77.8
52 Vihita Chem Pvt. Ltd., Ankleshwar
September 60 58 96.7
53 Zuari Agro Chemicals Ltd., Zuarinagar, Goa 2007 March 33 30 90.9
54 Zandu Chemicals Ltd., Ankleshwar September 38 34 89.5
2008 March 35 33 94.3
Ordinary Organisational Members – Research &
September 39 36 92.3
Educational Institutes
2009 March 22 22 100.0
1 Dalmia Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research, September 34 31 91.1
Rajganpur, Orissa
2010 March 56 48 85.71
2 S M Engineering Institute, Kymore September 32 25 78.12
3 St. Peter’s Engineering College, Chennai 2011 March 53 51 96.22

4 MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore September 40 40 100.0

2012 March 56 51 91.07
5 Sriram Engineering College, Tamil Nadu
September 48 36 75.0
6 Arulmigu Meenakshi Amman College of Engineering,
Tamilnadu 2013 March 80 68 85.0
September 82 70 85.36
2014 March 48 46 95.83
7.0 Associated Membership Examination
September 44 39 88.63
The number of candidates who appeared at the Institute’s
Associate Membership Examination during last 10 years was 2015 March 54 50 92.59
as follows: September 30 25 83.33

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8.0 IIChE Awards 2015 Prof K K Pant
Following is the list of IIChE Awards, presented annually in IIT,Delhi, New Delhi
recognition of eminence and excellence in various sphere of CHEMCON Distinguished Speaker Award
chemical engineering profession. Also included is the list of Solenis Bharat Ratna Prof C N R Rao Medal and
recipients of the awards, presented at CHEMCON 2015, held Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award
during December 27 - 30, 2015 at Guwahati, Assam. Dr Girish Sahni, DG, CSIR
Dr.B.P.Godrej Life Time Achievement Award RPG Life Sciences Padma Vibhushan Prof M M Sharma
Mr Ashok A Panjwani Medal and Chemcon Distinguished
Executive Director, UPL Ltd., Gujarat Speaker Award
National Awards Dr Ashish Lele, NCL, Pune
Lala Shriram National Award for Leadership in Chemical Asian Paints Padma Bibhushan Dr R A Mashelkar Medal
Industry and Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award
Mr Chandrakant V Gogri, Aarti Group of Companies Prof G D Yadav, Vice-chancellor, ICT, Mumbai
Mumbai
Deepak Group’s Padma Bhushan Prof L K Doraiswamy
Herdillia Award for Excellence in Basic Research in Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award
Chemical Engineering Prof Ranil Wickramasinghe, University of Arkansas, USA
Professor B C Meikap, IIT, Kharagpur
Chemical Weekly’s Padmashri Dr G P Kane Chemcon
Hindustan Lever Biennial Award for the Most Distinguished Speaker Award
Outstanding Chemical Engineer of the Year under the Prof Geoffrey Evams, Univercity of Newcastle, Australia
Age of 45 years
Hetero Drugs Prof G S Laddha Chemcon Distinguished
Dr Sundergopal Sridhar, Principal Scientist, CSIR-IICT
Speaker Award
Hyderabad
Prof W S Winston Ho, Ohio State University, USA
NOCIL Award for Excellence in Design or Development
of Process Plant and Equipment IICT-Avon Padmashri Dr G S Sidhu Chemcon
Prof (Dr) B N Thorat, ICT. Mumbai Distinguished Speaker Award

Amar Dye-Chem Award for Excellence in Research and Prof Rakesh K Gupta, West Virginia University, USA
Development in Chemical Engineering below the Age of Sartorius India’s Chemcon Distinguished Speaker
35 years Award
Dr Venkat Padmanabhan, IIT, Kharagpur Prof Ranjana Chowdhury, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Shah-Schulman Award for the Best Ph.D. thesis in the United Phosphorus Chemcon Distinguished Speaker
Area of Colloid and Interface Sciences Award
For the year 2014 Dr (Smt) S B Roy, BARC, Mumbai
Dr Hemalatha Annepu, Lead Scientist, EGOMA
Technologies Pvt Ltd Hikal’s Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award
IIT Kanpur Shri Prakash D Hirani, NTPC Ltd, New Delhi

For the year 2015 CSMCRI Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award

Dr Siva Rama Krishna Perala, Post Doctoral Associate, Prof Sirshendu De, IIT, Kharagpur
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CLRI Padmabhushan Dr Y Nayudamma Chemcon
Cambridge, USA Distinguished Speaker Award
Dr A V Rama Rao Foundation’s Best PhD Thesis and Prof B K Dutta, Former President, IIChE
Research Award In Chemical Engineering/Technology DOST Professor S K Sharma Medal and Chemcon
for the Year 2015 Distinguished Speaker Award
Dr Pravakar Mohanty, Scientist-C, Science & Engineering Prof. A. Ghatak, IIT, Kanpur
Research Board
CHEMCON NEERI Distinguished Speaker Award
New Delhi, and
Prof Vimal Katiyar, IIT, Guwahati

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NCL’s Professor K Venkataraman Chemcon Dr Mayank Agrawal, Dr Raju Mishra and Dr Raj Ganesh S
Distinguished Speaker Award Pala
Prof Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, IIT, Guwahati IIT, Kanpur
Other Awards Mr.M.H.Shukla Prize for Best Tech Paper presented in
The Chemical Weekly Prize for Best Research Paper preceding year CHEMCON (2 Prizes)
Published in a High Impact Factor International Journal 1st Prize
by an Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Student Dr Manoj P Kamble and Dr G D Yadav
(First and Second Prizes) ICT, Mumbai
1st Prize 2nd Prize
Mr Chitresh Kumar Bhargava Dr S K Sharma, Dr Pankaj Chawla and Dr Amrit Pal Toor
Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna Panjab University, Chandigarh
2nd Prize Mrs.Chinnamaul Memorial. Prize for Best Tech Paper
Ms R Narmadha presented in preceding year CHEMCON
ICT, Mumbai
Dr Manoj P Kamble and Dr G D Yadav
Chemical Weekly Award for the Best Paper Published in ICT, Mumbai
the Institute’s Journal (ICE-2014)
Acharya P C Ray Award for the Best Home Paper at the
Mr Deepak Bisht
Final Degree Examination (2 Prizes)
UOP India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana and
1st Prize
Mr John Petri
Mr Sagar B Udyavara
UOP LLC, USA
ICT, Mumbai
IIChE NRC Award Best Paper in “Indian Chemical
2nd Prize
Engineer” 2014
Mr Shrinath D Ghadge
Mr Deepak Bisht
ICT, Mumbai
UOP India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana and
Mr John Petri Ambuja’s Best Home Paper or Design Project Report
UOP LLC, USA Awards (3 Prizes)
1st Prize
The Kuloor Memorial Award to the best technical paper
Mr Sai Krishna Chaitanya Sastry
published in the journal of the Institute in the issues of
the preceding year School of Chemical & Bio Technology, Sastra University,
Thanjavur
Mr Deepak Bisht
UOP India Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana and 2nd Prize
Mr John Petri Mr Ashish Jayaraman
UOP LLC, USA ICT, Mumbai
3rd Prize
IIChE NRC Award 2nd Best Paper in “Indian Chemical
Mr Swapnil D Deshmukh
Engineer” 2014
ICT, Mumbai
Dr S B Jonnalagadda, and
Dr S Nadupalli Pankaj P Patel Trust Essay Competition Prize
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Ms K Divya
Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore
Sisir Kumar Mitra Memorial Award to the second Best
Technical Paper Published In The Journal of the Kishore K Das Memorial Prize for securing highest
Institute in the issues of the preceding year marks in Part-III (Home Paper) Associate Membership
Dr S B Jonnalagadda, and Examination of the Institute
Dr S Nadupalli AMIIChE Exam held in September 2014
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Mr Bishan Singh Rana
IIChE NRC Award 3rd Best Paper in “Indian Chemical Mathura Refinery Nagar, Mathura
Engineer” 2014 AMIIChE Exam held in March 2015
(Jointly awarded) Mr Ashish
Dr Nitin Somkuwar Dr Nitin Kolhe and Dr Virendra Rathod IFFCO, Allahabad
ICT, Mumbai

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Prof D K Guha Award for the Most Outstanding AMIIChE 2nd Prize
Candidate securing Highest Percentage of Marks in IIChE Student Chapter
AMIIChE Examination amongs Candidates registererd National Institute of Technology Warangal ,Warangal
during the Last Four Years
Pidilite’s Best Student Chapter Award
Mr Hem Chandra Joshi
IIChE Student Chapter
Panipat Refinery Township, Panipat, Haryana
RVR & JC College of Engineering (A),Guntur
N R Nandi Memorial Prize for Securing Highest Marks in
Best Regional Centre Award (3 Prizes)
AMIIChE Examination
Category “A” Best
Mr Hem Chandra Joshi
Mumbai Regional Centre, IIChE
Panipat Refinery Township, Panipat, Haryana
VICAL Award for best Students Activities for the Best Category “B” Best
Paper Presentation during the previous SCHEMCON (3 Bangalore Regional Centre, IIChE
Prizes) Category “B” Second Best
st
1 Prize Haldia Regional Centre, IIChE
Mr Avijit Ghosh
Prof.P.Sen Gupta Award for Best Employee (IIChE) of
Haldia Institute of T, Haldia
the Year
2nd Prize
Mr K C Mondal
Ms Indumoni Das and
IIChE, Kolkata
Ms Swapnali Hazarika
CSIR-North East Inst of Sc & Tech 9.0 Students’ CHEMCON
Jorhat, Assam The 11th annual session or SCHEMCON 2015 was organized
3rd Prize (jointly awarded) by the MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi, Pune and the
Mr Vishwajit Salunkhe, Mr Pratik Rathi and Vaibhav Sawant Pune Regional Centre on 12 and 13 September 2015 .
&
With ‘Sustainable Development for Better Tomorrow’ as the
Mr Ankush A Patil, Akshaykumar Pharate and Mr Mayur A
central theme for this year’s SCHEMCON, the focus was on
Chaudhari
newer aspects of sustainable development, such as, Energy
MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi, Pune
and Environment, Catalysis, Chemical Reaction Engineering,
M P Chary Memorial Award Thermodynamics, Mass/Heat/Momentum Transfer. Herbal
Mr Pankaj N Patil Extraction, Renewable Energy, Modeling and Simulation,
Global Institute of Technology, Taluka Safety, Bioprocess and Biotechnology, Process Control,
Late Lakshmi Nandakumar Awasrd of the Institute for Process Development & Design; etc. There was immense
best presentation in Schemcon 2015 by a Lady Student interest among the budding chemical engineers as evident
Ms Mouna H M from the fact that as many as 407 abstracts were shortlisted
BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa for oral / poster presentation. Four abstracts were shortlisted
for M P Chary Award presentation. The abstracts were
Gouri Dutta Award for the Best Paper presentation in
segregated into different thrust areas and 10 parallel sessions
Schemcon 2015 of the Indian Institute of Chemical
were held for these thrust areas.
Engineers
Mr Amir Bombaywala, Mr Shubham Phalle and Mr Shubham SCHEMCON 2015 was inaugurated by industry bigwigs in
Wankhede the presence of the senior authorities of IIChE. Mr. Pramod
Sinhgad College of Engineering, Vadgaon Chaudhuri, Executive Chairman, Praj Industries Ltd., Pune
was the Chief Guest; Dr. R.R. Sonde, Executive Vice
Ambuja’s Young Researcher’s Awards for doing Post- President, Thermax India Ltd., Pune was the Guest of Honour;
Graduate Studies in India after GATE Examination (Ten Prof. V. D. Karad, Founder, Executive President and Managing
Prizes) Trustee, MAEER’s MIT Group of Institutions, Pune; Mr. G.V,
1st Prize Sethuraman, President, IIChE; Prof. P. De, Hony. Secretary,
IIChE Student Chapter IIChE; Dr. Sunil Karad, Executive Director & Trustee, MAEER’s
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Pennalur, MIT Group of Institutions, Pune; Dr. Y.J. Valerao, Principal,
Sriperumbudur MIT Academy of Engineering, Alandi and Chairman,

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Organising Committee, SCHEMCON 2015; Dr. S.H. Vaidya, The event was entirely sponsored by various funding agencies
Chairman, IIChE, Pune Regional Centre and Vice Chairman, and industries, such as, Department of Chemicals and
Organising Committee, SCHEMCON 2015; Prof. N.M. Rane, Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers,
Convenor, SCHEMCON 2015; and Dr. S.V. Taralkar, Government of India; Thermax India Ltd.; IIChE, Pune Regional
Organising Sectretary, SCHEMCON 2015 were the dignitaries Centre; IIChE Hyderabad Regional Centre; IIChE Northern
present during the inaugural function. Regional Centre; Vansum Industries; IIChE Bangalore
Regional Centre; KSB Instruments Co. Pvt. Ltd.; HES
SCHEMCON 2015 was dedicated to Prof. V.D. Karad on the
Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; Equinox Software & Services Pvt. Ltd.;
occasion of his 75th birth day. The souvenir for SCHEMCON
etc.
2015 was released at the inaugural programme in presence
of the dignitaries. The inaugural address was delivered by Mr. 10.0 Institute’s Library
Pramod Chaudhuri, who, in a motivational fashion, spoke on The library at the HQ of the Institute in Kolkata currently has a
various ways of achieving sustainable developments for stock of 995 books. It has received 60 issues of weekly
betterment of mankind and society. The inaugural session was journals, 7 issues of quarterly journals, 9 issues of bimonthly
followed by a key-note address by Dr. R.R. Sonde on the journal and 55 issues of monthly journals during the intervening
recent trends in sustainable developments. He asked the period.
students for choosing a correct area of research for their future
11.0 Regional Centre Affairs
career.
The HQ did not receive Annual Report for the year 2015-16
A total of 390 papers out of the selected 407 abstracts were
from the following Regional Centres:
segregated on the basis of various thrust areas. They were
chosen for oral (215) and poster (175) presentations in various i) Ahmedabad, ii) Chandigarh, iii) Durgapur, iv) Dehradun,
parallel sessions. A total of 32 best papers for oral and seven v) Goa, vi) Kalpakkam and vii) Kanpur.
best papers for poster presentation from each of the thrust A. Executive Committees (EC) 2015-16
areas in each session was awarded the Best Paper Trophy
11.1 Ahmedabad Regional Centre
and Certificate of Merit. All the Technical Sessions were
chaired by experts and authorities from academics, industry EC list has not been not received.
and research organizations. Four young chemical engineers 11.2 Ankleshwar Regional Centre
who have completed PhD or are doing PhD with their age
Chairman : Mr D M Gandhi, Vice-Chairman : Mr S Thakar,
below 35 years presented their research work for M P Chary
Mr M A Hania, Mr S Sankaranarayanan, Mr A K Jain, Mr
Award. Dr. Pankaj N Patil from Gharda Institute of Technology,
Kamlesh Sukhvani, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr N B
Lavel, Chiplun was declared the award winner. The session
Saraiya, Honorary Ex-Secretary: Mr Nitin Patel, Honorary
was chaired by IIChE Vice Presidents Mr. D.M. Butala and
Regional Treasurer : Mr M I Shamsi, Honorary Regional
Prof. V.V. Basava Rao.
Jt.Secretary-Jhagadia : Mr Sunil Motiramani, Jt Secretary-
For the Valedictory Session of SCHEMCON 2015, Prof. G.D.
Dahej : Mr Yusuf Hussain, Jt Secretary-Valia : Mr Snehal
Yadav, Vice Chancellor, Institute of Chemical Technology,
Tralsawala, Jt Secretary-Ankleshwar: Mr K H Pandit, Jt
Mumbai was the Chief Guest. Dr. V.S. Sapkal, former Vice
Secretary – Bharuch: Mr R R Khandpur, Jt Secretary :
Chancellor, Nagpur University, was the Guest of Honour. Mr.
Panoli : Mr Satyan Pandya Members: Mr Manoj Kamalia,
Kumar Mulemane, Director-Engineering, Techniti; Mr. G.V.
Mr A K Sahni, Mr B D Dalwadi, Mr P G Dave, Prof S J Wagh,
Sethuraman, President, IIChE; Mr. Yogesh Mistry, General
Mr A I Shaikh, Mr Jayen Mehta, Mr Rajesh Kumar, Mr P B
Manager-Piping, Techniti; Dr. S.H. Vaidya, Vice Chairman,
Shah, Mr B J Patel, Mr R S Senjalia, Mr Ganesh R Sharma,
SCHEMCON 2015; Prof. N.M. Rane, Convenor, SCHEMCON
Mr Dinesh Patel, Mr Shashi Shekhar, Mr Rishabh Sheth, Mr
2015; and Dr. S.V. Taralkar, Organising Sectretary,
Rilesh Mehta, Immediate Past President : Mr V K Nema
SCHEMCON 2015; and Dr. M.B. Patil, Treasurer, SCHEMCON
2015 were present at the session. 11.3 Annamalai-Neyveli Regional Centre

On the occasion, Prof. Yadav delivered a special talk on ‘Role Chairman : Dr C Kartrhikeyan, Vice-Chairman : Dr V
of Chemical Engineers in Make in India’. All the winners of Vijayagopal, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr R Saravanan,
Technical Sessions were awarded with the Best Paper Trophy Honorary Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr M Rajasimman,
and Certificate of Merit by the dignitaries present during the Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr R. T Viruthagiri,
valedictory function. Members: Dr Rm Meyyappan, Dr R Dhanasekar, Dr B Suresh,

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Dr S Dhanasekaran, Dr K Manikandan, Dr T R Manikkandan, Regional Treasurer : Mr P Sivakumar, Members: Prof.Dr T
Dr P Elavarasan, Dr B Sivaprakash, Dr S Subhagar and Mr M Kannadasan, Dr M Thirumarimurugan,. Dr V M Sivakumar,
Ebisankar. Mr S Ramachandran, Mr R Sri Prabu, Mrs Anitha Sri Prabu,
Mr G Gnanavel, Prof K Senthilkumar, Dr Murali Rangarajan &
11.4 Bangalore Regional Centre
Dr Udhaya Bhaskar Reddy.
Chairman : Prof Y J Rao, Vice-Chairman : Prof G A Shareef,
Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Brijesh, Honorary 11.10 Chennai Regional Centre:
Regional Jt Secretary : Mr V Venkatesham, Honorary Chairman : Dr N Balasubramanian, Vice-Chairman : Prof R
Regional Treasurer : Mr K A Badarinarayana Members : Dr Dorairaj, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr K Sadanand,
Anand B Halgeri, Mr P T Raghuram, Mr K R Ananth, Mr S Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr K Sadanand, Honorary
Swaminathan, Mr G Kishore Kumar, Dr K S Rajanandam, Dr Regional Jt Secretary : Dr G Baskar, Honorary Regional
Mohandas Bhat and Dr Archna. Treasurer: Mr B S Naveen Prasad, Members : Dr G
Venkatarathinam, Mr S Sekar, Dr M P Rajesh, Dr D Joshua
11.5 Baroda Regional Centre
Amarnath, Dr R Parthiban, Dr G Rajasekar, Dr S Renganathan,
Chairman: Mr K Sudhakar, Vice-Chairman: Mr R K Desai,
Dr K Muthukumar (Ex-officio) Co-opted Members : Mr
Mr Nilesh Mangukia & Mr D Chakraborty, Honorary Regional
Anantharaman,Dr K Ramakrishnan & Mrs Lakshmi
Secretary : Mr Nikhil Tonapi, Honorary Regional Jt
Vaideeswaran.
Secretary: Mr Vipul Mehta, Honorary Regional Treasurer:
Prof N M Surana, Members: Mr M G Patel, Dr Nitin Bhate, Mr 11.11 Doaba Regional Centre
Brijesh Trivedi, Nikunj Parekh, Mr Manan Joshi & Sameer Bhatt Chairman : Dr M K Jha, Vice-Chairman : Dr Ajay Bansal,
Honorary Regional Secretary :Dr Shailendra Bajpai,
11.6 Bhubaneshwar Regional Centre :
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Sangeeta Garg,
Chairman : Mr Jagjivan Rath, Vice-Chairman : Dr P C Rath,
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Kamoj Kumar Members :
Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr Swagat S Rath, Honorary
Dr A K Jana, Dr Renu Gupta, Dr Poonam Gera, Mr N K
Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr Ranjita Swain, Honorary Regional
Srivastava, Dr Neetu Divya, Ms Rubalpreet Kaur, Dr Rajeev
Treasurer : Dr M K Ghosh, Members : Prof G K Roy, Dr
Garg & Mr Manoj Jindal.
Kadambini Sarangi, Dr Bisweswar Das, Dr C R Panda, Mr
Rajesh Kanungo, Dr Swati Mohanty (Ex-officio) 11.12 Damanjodi Regional Centre
Chairman : Mr Sharanan Chaudhuri, Vice–Chairman : Mr
11.7 Calcutta Regional Centre :
Prafulla Kumar Patra. Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr N
Chairman : Mr Asok K Das, Vice-Chairman : Prof Chiranjib Murali Sridhar, Honorary Regional Joint Secretary Mr Dillip
Bhattacharyya, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr Sushanta Kumar Sahoo, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr B Viinod
K Roy, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary :Dr Sharmistha Kumar, Members: Mr R S Dharman, Dr Ashalata Gantayat,
Bose, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr Abhyuday Mullick Mr Prabhat Sahoo, Mr Sudhir Kumar Sahu, Mr Sk Md Ali.
, Members :Prof B N Srimani, Prof N K Brahma, Prof Sarajit
Bosu, Prof Swami Vedjnanda, Mr Ananjan Kr Bhattacharyya, 11.13 Durgapur Regional Centre
Prof R K Saha, Dr Rajat Chakraborty, Prof Amalesh Sirkar, Dr Chairman: Prof T Kumar, Honorary Regional Secretary :
Sangita Bhattacharyya, Dr Ranjana Choudhury. Dr J P Sarkar.

11.8 Chandigarh Regional Centre : 11.14 Dehradun Regional Centre

Chairman : Prof S K Sharma, Vice-Chairman: Mr Sandeep Not received.

Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof V K Rattan, 11.15 Guwahati Regional Centre
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Deepak Mehon,
Chairman : Prof B P Mandal, Vice-Chairman : Mr P K Dutta,
Honorary Regional Treasurer : Prof R K Chhabra, Members
Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Vimal Katiyar, Honorary
: Mr Amit Sobti, Prof Amrit Pal Toor, Prof Anupama Sharma,
Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Prakash Kotecha, Honorary
Dr Gaurav Rattan, Prof Ritu Gupta, Prof Seema Kapoor,Prof
Regional Treasurer : Dr Pankaj Tiwari, Members: Prof Pallab
Sushil Kumar Kansal & Mr S S Bhinder.
Ghosh, Prof Prabirkumar Saha, Prof V S Moholkar, Dr Mihir K
11.9 Coimbatore Regional Centre : Purkait, Dr Animesh Golder, Dr Tapas K Mandal, Dr Ashok K
Dasmahapatra, Dr Amit Kumar, Dr Rajesh Kumar Upadhyay,
Chairman : Dr A Sivalingam, Vice-Chairman : Dr K Kannan,
Mr Rahul Patwa,Mr Babul Prasad, Mr Narendren S and Prof
Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr D Prabhakaran, Honorary
R Choudhury.
Regional Jt Secretary: Ms V P Mohanjeayavalli, Honorary

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11.16 Goa Regional Centre Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr Santosh Kumar, Members
Chairman : Prof Saibal Ganguly, Vice-Chairman : Prof : Dr R K Trivedi, Dr Pramod Kumar, Er Visesh Agarwal
Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Honorary Regional Secretary : 11.23 Kochi Regional Centre
Prof Saroj Sundar Baral
Chairman: Mr S Anujan, Vice Chairman: Mr P K
10.17 Guntur Regional Centre Sureshkumar,Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Harinath V,
Chairman : Mr J Murali Mohan, Vice Chairman : Mr P Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr T P Siby, Honorary
Kanakaraju, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr M Regional Treasurer: Mr V Venkatesan, Members: Mr
Venkateswara Rao, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr D Sudarshan Kumar, Mr M K Augustine, Mr Subhashis Roy, Mr
Gokul, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr C V Tittu Alagu, Mr Hariprasad K R, Mr Rejith, Dr G Madhu, Mr R
Subrahmanyam, Members: Mr M Raghavaiah, Dr V Laxman and Mr Manoj N.
Madhusudhana Rao, Dr P Venkateswarlu, Mr G Ranga Rao, 11.24 Kalpakkam Regional Centre
Dr V Govardhana Rao, Dr J S Rao & Ms N Sudha Rani.
Not received
10.18 Haldia Regional Centre :
11.25 Lote-Parasuram Regional Centre
Chairman : Mr A P Gangopadhyay, Vice-Chairman : Dr R N
Chairman : Mr S S Patil, Vice-Chairman: Mr D C Patil,
Jana. Honorary Regional Secretary, Dr S B Kuila, Honorary
Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr R B Ghadage, Honorary
Regional Jt. Secretary : Mr B MandaL, Honorary Regional
Regional Treasurer : Mr Rajesh Manatkar, Members: Mr S
Treasurer : Dr S J Sahu, Members : Mr D Kundu, Mr A K
K Gandhi, Mr T D Desai, Mr S D Parthe, Mr R B Shinde, Mr
Dey, Prof A K Saha, Mr A Sinha, Prof R Das, Prof T K Manna,
Odol Krishnan, Mr V V Dhage, Mr P B Patil & Mr V V Dhotre.
Dr S B Kuila, Dr R N Jana, Dr S J Sahu, Mr B Mandal, Mrs S
Roy, Mrs K Rana, and Dr A Ghosh. 11.26 Lucknow Regional Centre

11.19 Hyderabad Regional Centre Chairman : Mr Prakash Narain Tandon, Vice-Chairman : Mr

Rajata Mehra, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Dhananjay
Chairman : Dr Vijay Kale, Vice-Chairman : Prof R Sreedhar
Singh, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr Ranvir Singh,
Rao & Mr M Ranga Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr
Honorary Regiona l Jt Secretary : Mr D K Srivastava,
M Misra, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr K Saravanan,
Members : Dr Bhartendu Nath Misra, Mr Brijendra Kumar, Dr
Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr C P Ramulu, Members :
Sushil Kumar, Dr Gautam Narain Garg,Mr Mayur Tandon, Mr
Mr E Venkatesham, Mr D M Reddy, Mr A L V Kumar Reddy,
Manoj Kumar Chaurasia, Mr Sudeep Tandon, Mr Janki Prasad
Mr M G V Chalapathi Rao, Mr Sunil Kumar, Mr V Sridharan,
Chaturvedi.
Prof Shashikala, Dr K Sainath & Mr K Ravichand.
11.27 Mumbai Regional Centre
11.20 Jaipur Regional Centre
Chairman : Prof Alpana Mahapatra, Vice-Chairman : Dr D
Chairman : Mr S L Arora, Vice-Chairman : Mr V K Jain,
Mandal, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr T L Prasad,
Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Madhu Agarwal, Honorary
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Prof Aparna Tamaskar,
Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Sushant Upadhyaya, Honorary
Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr V Y Sane, Immediate
Regional Treasurer : Dr Rajeev Dohare, Members : Dr R K
Past Chairman : Prof Sunil S Bhagwat, Past Chairman Prof
Vyas, Dr Pankaj Pandey, Dr A N Pathak, Dr D P Mishra, Dr
V K Srivastava &:Mr Praveen Saxena, Immediate Past
Kailash Singh, Dr Prabhat Pandit.
Secretary : Prof Anita Kumari, Members : Mr Shreedhar
11.21 Kharagpur Regional Centre Chitanvis, Mr K Sahasranaman, Mr R K Ravindra Joshi, Mr
Chairman: Prof Sirshendu De, Vice-Chairman : Prof Pratik G B Co-opted members : Dr Sanjiv Katti and Dr Sanjay
Sudarsan Neogi, Honorary Regional Secretary : Prof Arnab Mahajani.
Atta, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Soma Sekhar 11.28 Mangalore Regional Centre :
Goud S, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Prof Pavitra
Chairman : Dr D V R Murthy, Vice-Chairman : Mr Venkatesh
Sandilya, Members : Prof Dibyendu Mukherjee, Prof Debdulal
Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Keyur Raval,
Kar, Prof Gautam Kundu, Prof Sonali Sengupta, Prof Swati
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr I M Sadanand,
Neogi, Prof Venkat Padmanabhan.
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof S Sivasankaran.
11.22 Kanpur Regional Centre 11.29 Northern Regional Centre :
Chairman : Dr S K Gupta, Vice-Chairman : Er Subhash Chairman : Prof S S Sambi, Vice-Chairman : Prof Anil Kumar
Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary :Er Ashutosh Mishra, Saroha, Honorary Regiona Secretary : Mr Abhijit Bikas Pal,
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Er Vinay Sachan,

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Honorary Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr Sachchida Nand, 11.33 Pune Regional Centre
Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr Anil Verma, Members : Not received
Prof S Basu, Dr S N Chakravarty, Mr Shyam Bang, Mr D D
11.34 Pondicherry Regional Centre
Maheshwari, Prof V K Srivastava, Mr Umesh Goel, Prof K K
Pant. Not received

11.30 Nagpur Regional Centre: 11.35 Rourkela Regional Centre

Chairman : Dr G K Ghosal, Vice-Chairman : Prof V S Sapkal, Chairman : Mr F C Sahoo, Vice-Chairman: Prof B C Ray,
Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr A N Vaidya, Honorary Honorary Regional Secretary : Dr Hara Mohan Jena,
Regional Jt.Secretary : Dr Y C Bhattacharyulu,Honorary Honorary Regional Treasurer : Dr Santanu Paria, Members:
Regional Treasurer : Dr R B Biniwale, Members : Dr T Mr Siddharth Acharya, Mr K P Mishra, Dr (Mrs) G Sunanda,
Chakrabarti, Dr S D Dawande, Dr S Mandavgane, Dr S K Mr S C Padhi & Dr Manoj K Mishra Ex-officio Member : Dr
Goyal, Dr K L Wasewar, Dr B Bag, Dr J S Mohite, Dr Vijay Pradip Chowdhury, Dr Sujit Sen.
Kumar.
11.36 Trivandrum Regional Centre
11.31 Nadiad Regional Centre
Not received
Not received
11.32 Pilani Regional Centre: 11.37 Vapi Regional Centre:

Chairman : Dr Pratik N Sheth, Vice-Chairman : Dr Suresh Chairman : Mr Hasmukh K Doshi, Vice-Chairman : Mr

Gupta, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Amit Jain, Rameshchandra N Prajapati, Honorary Regional Secretary
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Mr Utkarsh Maheshwari, : Dr Hiten M Bhatt, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Pradipta Chattopadhyay, Uday R Marballi, Honorary Regional Treasurer : Mr Maulik
Members : Dr Hare Krishna Mohanta, Dr Arvind Kumar J Desai, Members : Mr J R Shah, Dr H M Hirpara, Mr S S
Sharma, Dr Smita Raghuvanshi, Dr Banasri Roy, Dr Sonal Pokale, Mr U M Rao, Mr Vinod S Kashalikar, Mr Mukesh S
Mazumder, Dr Raman Sharma, Dr Ajaya K Pani, Mr Subhajit Patel Ex-officio : Mr Jagdish U Parmar.
Majumder & Ms Priya C Sande.

B. Regional Centre Activities not related to R&D

Name of Regional Centres Activities

Ankleshwar a) Industry Visit :

a) To the plant of Atul Aeromatics, Ankleshwar on 18.12.2015.
b) To the plant of Godrej Industries Ltd, Valia on 19.02.2016.
Bangalore Student Chapter Activities:
1. A new Student Chapter under Bangalore Regional Centre was inaugurated at the KLE
Society’s College of Engineering and Technology, Belgaum on 03.11.2015.
Bhubaneswar Industry Visit:
To Essar Steel Iron and Pellet Plant in Paradeep on 19.12.2015.

Calcutta a) Birth Anniversary Celebration:

The 127th birth anniversary of Dr H L Roy, the founder President of IIChE, was celebrated
on 02.11.2015 at the IIChE HQ Auditorium, Kolkata.
b) Plant Visit :
To Matix Fertilisers & Chemicals, Panagarh Industrial Park, Panagarh, Burdwan on
12.09.2015.
c) Get-together
Members and their families gathered at ‘Saha Villa’, Sarisa on 17.01.2016.
d) Student Chapter activities :
1) CHEMATHLON-2016, a multi-event affair, was organized by Students Chapter of Jadavpur
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 2) A new chapter under Calcutta Regional Centre was inaugurated at Calcutta Institute of
Technology (CIT), Uluberia on 26.09.2015. On the occasion, a half day Technical Session
on ‘Plant & Laboratory Safety’ was organized.
3) CIT Uluberia held TECHMAKE – 2016 (Creative Model Presentation) on 27.02.2016.
Chennai Special Day Celebration:
1) Engineer’s Day was celebrated by Department of Chemical Engineering, A C Tech, Anna
University on 17.10.2015.
Coimbatore Plant Visit :
To ITC Paper Board Section, Karamandal on 19.03.2016.
Doaba Student Chapter:
1) BCET Gurdaspur Student Chapter was inaugurated under Doaba Regional Centre.
Damanjodi Get-together:
1) Gathering of members on 11.10.2015, 15.12.15 and 30.03.2016
Students Chapter :.
Seminar
1. On ‘Environmental Pollution and Protection Issues and Challenges’ on 06.11.2015 by
Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology (GIET), Gunpur.
2. ‘ALKEMY-2K15’ was organized by GIET in November 2015. Industry- Institute interaction
was also arranged during this period.
Guntur a) Students’ Convention:
On ‘Assessment of the State-of-the-Art in Chemical Engineering Science’ on 22.02.2016.
b) Donation :
Deptartment of Chemical Engineering, RVR&JC College of Engineering, Guntur donated
Rs.100,000/- (Rupees one Lakh only) to the Guntur RC to institute an Endowment Lecture
in the name of Prof M Venkateswara Rao.

c) Students Chapter :
1) A seminar on ‘Application of Computational Techniques in Chemical Engineering’ was
organized by RVRJCCE Student Chapter on 6,7 November 2015.
2) A seminar on ‘Novel Separation Technologies’ was organized by RGUKT NUZ Student
Chapter on 25.01.2016
3) On ‘Need of Chemical Engineering Education and Growth of Chemical Industry in the near
future’ was organized by Bapatla Engineering College during February 2016.

d) Plant Visit :
1) To KCP Limited (Cement Division and Sugar Division, respectively) as organized by
Student Chapter of RVRJCCE under Guntur Regional Centre on 30.07.2015 and
30.12.2015.
2) To Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) as organized by Students
Chapter of RVRJCCE on 22.02.2016.
3) To JOCIL Ltd.,Dokiparru as organized by Student Chapter of RVRJCCE on 27.02.2016.

Haldia a) Student’s Chapter Activity :

1) Quiz Contest:
The programme was organized for the students of Chemical Engineering at Haldia Institute
of Technology on 13.08.2015.

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 b) Plant Visits:
1) A trip was organized to Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Haldia on 03.11.2015.
c) Publication:
1) A Wall Magazine ‘EXCESS ENTROPY’ was published on 09.11.2015 on the topic ‘Women
Empowerment’.
Hyderabad a) Student Chapter Activities:
Symposium :
‘RASAYANIKA-2K15’ was organized by CVSR – Anurag Group of Institute. On the
occasion, a seminar on ‘Application of Chemical Engineering in Alternate Sources of
Energy’’ was organized as part of the event on 08 and 09.10. 2015.
Jaipur Industrial Visit:
A trip to Bharat Potteries Ltd. on 07.11.2015 organized for students of Chemical
Engineering department, MNIT, Jaipur.
Kochi a) Quiz Competition:
Inter-collegiate quiz competition, ‘TATVA’, on 13.10.2015.
Lote-Parasuram Get-together :
Gathering of members and their families was organised in July 2015, December 2015.
and January 2016.
Mumbai a) Exhibition :
CHEMTECH 2015 during 28 – 31.01.2015.
b) Networking- cum- Picnic :
To Malshej Ghat, Junnar, Pune on 23.08.2015.
c) Student Chapter Activities:
1) Chemergence 2015 was organized by Students’ Chapter of Thadomal Shahani
Engineering College on 01 and 02.10.2015.
2) OYCE BCB - THYSKRP 2016: A national level competition was organized by MRC in
association with Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Datta Meghe College of Engineering,
Airoli on 26 and 27.02.2016.
3) ChEQ 2016: The Late Prof. N R Kamath Memorial Engineering Quiz (CHEQ 2016) was
organized on 12.03.2016 with participation by seven teams, representing different colleges
and institutes in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.
Mangalore Quiz:
Dr P K Karanth Memorial Quiz competition was organized on 31.10.2015
Northern a) Plant Visit :
To National Fertilizers Ltd, Panipat, Haryana on 27.02.2016
b) Get-togethers :
Two gatherings were organized on 04.09.2015 and 16.01.2016.
c) Student Chapter Activities :
Student Chapter in Delhi Technological University organized the following programmes:
1) Quiz Competition :
On ‘Geek Roadies’, a Task-based Quiz’ on 28.10.2015.
2) Workshop:
On ‘Case Study and Problem Solving’ on 28.10.2015.

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 3) Group Discussion:
On ‘Battle of Words’ on 29.10.2015
4) Seminar :
On ‘Learning with the Leaders’ on 12.12.2015.& 16.01.2016
5) Industrial Visit :
To E-Pack Polymers, Greater Noida on 30.01.2016
6) TATVA’16 On ‘Hit your Treat’ on 19 and 20.02.2016.
7) Students Chapter at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology
organised:
i) Puzzle Quiz on 19.11.2015.
Nadiad Industry Visits :
1) To Hunts Man Private Ltd., Baroda and Transpack Silox, Baroda on 09.02.2016
2) To GACL, Baroda and DNL, Nandesari on 23.02.2016.
Nagpur Student Chapter Activities:
1) A new Student Chapter was inaugurated at Priyadarshini Institute of Engineering and
Technology, Nagpur.
Pune Student Chapter Activities:
Various Students’ Chapters under Pune Regional Centre organized activities like courses,
workshops, conferences, project exhibitions competitions and guest lectures.
Trivandrum Student Chapter Activities :
1) The annual CGG Panicker Gold Medal and Mr Kurup Gold Medal Presentation function
was organized on 27.02.2016.
2) One day seminar on ‘Novel Technologies for Sustainable Development’ was organized by
Student Chapter of Mohandas College of Engineering
Vapi Industrial Visit :
To chemical factory of Tristar Intermediates Pvt Ltd., Sarigam on 11.07.2015.

Executive Committee list for 2016-17. Annamalai-Neyveli Regional Centre

Ahmedabad Regional Centre Chairman: Prof V Vijayagopal, Vice-Chairman: Dr M

Not Received Karuppaiya, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr P Nagarajan,
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr V Saravanan,
Ankleshwar Regional Centre Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr P Elavarasan, Ex-Officio:
Chairman :Mr D M Gandhi, Vice Chairmen: Mr S I Thakar, Prof R Saravanan, Members: Dr R Muthuvelayutham, Dr M
Mr Manoj Kamalia, Mr Himanshu Gondalia, Mr A K Jain & Mr Rajasimman, Dr C S Rathnasabapathy, Dr P Saravanan, Dr
A K Jain, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr N B Saraiya, Subhagar, Dr S Ramesh, Dr S Rengadurai
Honorary Regional Ex Secretary: Mr Snehal Tralsawala,
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr P B Shah, Honorary Bangalore Regional Centre
Regional Jt Secretary-Jhagadia: Mr Sunil Motiramani, Chairman: Prof Y J Rao, Vice-Chairman: Prof G A Shareef,
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Dahej: Shantanu Das, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Brijesh, Honorary
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Ankleshwar: Mr K H Pandit, Regional Jt Secretary: Mr V Venkatesham, Honorary
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Bharuch: Mr R R Regional Treasurer: Mr K A Badarinarayana, Members: Dr
Khandpur, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary-Panoli: Satyan K S Rajanandam, Dr A B Halgeri, Mr K R Ananth, Mr P T
Pandya, Members: Mr Nitin Patel, Mr A K Sahni, Mr B D Raghuram, Mr S Swaminathan, Mr G Kishore Kumar
Dalwadi, P G Dave, Prof S J Wagh, Mr A I Shaikh,Mr Rajesh
Baroda Regional Centre
Kumar, Mr M I Shamsi, Mr B J Patel, Mr R S Senjalia, Ganesh
R Sharma, Mr Dinesh Patel, Shashi Shekhar, Anupam Kansal, Chairman : Mr D Chakraborty, Vice-Chairman: Mr Nilesh
Rilesh Mehta & Prof Dr Parimal A Parikh Mangukia, Mr R K Desai, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr
Nikhil Tonapi, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Vipul

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Kumar, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof N M Surana, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Sangeeta Garg,
Members: Mr Hitesh Shah, Mr Subhajit Sarkar, Dr Nitin Bhate, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Kamoj Kumar Members:
Mr Brijesh Trivedi, Mr Manish Shah, Nikunj Parekh, Mr Pritesh Dr Poonam Gera, Dr Renu Gupta, Dr Jatinder Kumar, Dr Neetu
Chauhan, Manan Joshi, Mr Pradhyumana Rana, Mr Mitesh Divya, Dr Pamita Awasthi, Dr Vipin Kumar Sohpal, Mr Rajeev
Mehta, Mehul Patel & Mr Prashant Daggolu Arora, Dr Manoj Kr Jindal & Dr N K Srivastava
Bhubaneshwar Regional Centre : Damanjodi Regional Centre
Chairman: Mr J Rath, Vice-Chairman: Dr P C Rath, Honorary Not Received
Regional Secretary: Mr S S Rath, Honorary Regional Jt
Dehradun Regional Centre
Secretary: Dr Ranjita Swain, Honorary Regional Treasurer:
Dr M K Ghosh, Members: Dr S K Tamotia, Prof G K Roy, Mr Chairman: Dr S J Chopta, Vice-Chairman: Dr Shrihari
J N Mohanty, Dr Pratima Mishra & Dr C R Panda Honwad, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr I D Mall,
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr M Gopinath, Honorary
Calcutta Regional Centre : Regional Treasurer: Mr S Palit, Members: Dr S K Gupta, Dr
Chairman:: Prof Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, Vice-Chairman:Prof D N Saraf, Dr S R Das, Dr S K Nanda & Dr P K Das.
Swami Vedajnananda, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof
Durgapur Regional Centre
Amalesh Sirkar, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Prof Asit
Not Received
Mazumder, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Abijit Kumar
Mitra, Members: Prof Priyabrata Sarkar, Mr Sushanta Kr Guwahati Regional Centre
Roy,Mr Abhyuday Mallick, Prof B N Srimani, Prof N K Brahma, Chairman: Prof B P Mandal, Vice-Chairman: Prof Mihir Kumar
Mr Anjan Kr Bhattacharyya, Dr Rajat Chakraborty, Prof Sarajit Purkait, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Pankaj Tiwari,
Basu & Prof Amitava Bandyopadhyay. Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Subrata K Majumdar,
Chandigarh Regional Centre : Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Prakash Kotecha
Chairman: Prof S K Sharma, Vice-Chairman: Mr Sandeep Members: Prof Pallab Ghosh, Prof Prabirkumar Saha, Prof V
Sharma, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof V K Rattan, S Moholkar, Dr Mihir K Purkait, Dr Animesh Golder, Tapas K
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Deepak Mehon, Mandal, Dr Ashok K Dasmahapatra, Dr Amit Kumar, Dr Rajesh
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof R K Chhabra, Members: Kumar Upadhyay, Dr Vimal Katiyar, Mr P K Dutta & Prof R
Mr Amit Sobti, Prof Amrit Pal Toor, Prof Anupama Sharma, Dr Choudhury
Gaurav Rattan, Prof Ritu Gupta, Prof Seema Kapoor, Ms Hema Guntur Regional Centre
Setia & Mr Vivek Gupta
Chairman : Mr J Murali Mohan, Vice-Chairman: Dr V
Coimbatore Regional Centre : Govardhana Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr M
Chairman : Dr A Sivalingam, Vice-Chairman : Dr K Kannan, Venkateswara Rao, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr V
Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr D Prabhakaran, Honorary Madhusudhana Rao, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr C V
Regional Jt Secretary: Ms V P Mohanjeayavalli, Honorary Subrahmanyam Members : Dr J Srinivasa Rao, Ms N Sudha
Regional Treasurer : Mr P Sivakumar, Members: Prof.Dr T Rani, Mr M Raghavaiah, Dr P Venkateswarlu, Mr G Ranga
Kannadasan, Dr M Thirumarimurugan,. Dr V M Sivakumar, Rao, Dr B N Reddy, Mr Enjumuri Pardhasaradhi
Mr S Ramachandran, Mr R Sri Prabu, Mrs Anitha Sri Prabu,
Goa Regional Centre
Mr G Gnanavel, Prof K Senthilkumar, Dr Murali Rangarajan &
Not Received
Dr Udhaya Bhaskar Reddy.
Chennai Regional Centre: Haldia Regional Centre :

Chairman: Dr N Nagendra Gandhi, Vice-Chairmen: Dr G Chairman: Mr A K Ghosh, Vice-Chairman: Dr S B Kuila,

S Venkataratnam, Mr K Sadanand, Honorary Regional Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr T K Manna, Honorary
Secretary: Dr G Baskar, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Regional Jt Secretary: Mr S Jana, Honorary Regional
Dr R Saravanatamizhan, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Treasurer: Dr B Bej, Members: Mr A P Gangopadhyay, Mr A
D Gokul, Members: Dr N Balasubramanian,Dr B S Naveen K Ghosh, Dr S B Kuila, Dr A K Saha, Dr R Das, Dr R N Jana,
Prasad, Dr V Sivakumar, Mr S Sekar, Dr R Parthiban, Dr S Dr. S. J. Sahu, Mr. B. Mandal, Mr. A. Sinha and Mr. A. K.
Renganathan, Dr K Tamilarazan, Dr B Bharathiraja Bhattacharyya

Doaba Regional Centre Hyderabad Regional Centre

Chairman: Dr Ajay Bansal, Vice-Chairman: Dr A K Jana, Chairman : Dr Vijay Kale, Vice-Chairman: Prof R Sreedhar
Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Shailendra Bajpai, Rao, Mr M Ranga Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary : Mr M

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Misra, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Sanjay Bhardwaj, Mumbai Regional Centre
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Srini Naik, Members: Smt Chairman: Dr M P Jain, Vice-Chairman: Dr D Mandal,
Sheela, C P Ramulu, E Venkatesham, Mr D M Reddy, Mr M G Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Pratik Bhagat, Honorary
V Chalapathi Rao, Dr T Balanarsaiah, Regional Jt Secretary: Prof Aparna Tamaskar, Honorary
Jaipur Regional Centre : Regional Treasurer: Mr Y V Sane, Members: Dr Alpana
Chairman: Prof S P Chaurasia, Vice-Chairman: Prof A N Mahapatra, Dr Anita Kumari, Dr Sanjeev Katti, Dr T L Prasad,
Pathak, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Madhu Agarwal, Mr Ravindra Joshi, Dr Parag Gogate, Mr Praveen Kumar
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary : Dr Pankaj Pandey, Saxena & Mr Shreedhar Chitanvis
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Rajeev Dohare, Members: Mangalore Regional Centre
Mr V K Jain, Dr Sushant Upadhyay, Dr Kailash Singh, Dr Neha
Not Received
Sharma, Dr Manish Sharma, Mr S L Arora & Dr Dipaloy Datta
Northern Regional Centre :
Kharagpur Regional Centre
Chairman: Prof S S Sambi, Vice-Chairman: Prof Anil Kumar
Chairman: Prof Sirshendu De, Vice-Chairman: Prof
Saroha, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Abhijit Bikas Pal,
Sudarsan Neogi, Honorary Regional Secretary: Prof Swati
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Sachchida
Neogi, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Victor Avishek
Nand,Honorary Regional Treasurer:Dr Anil Verma,
Chatterjee, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof Sudipto
Members: Prof S Basu, Dr S N Chakravarty, Mr D D
Chakraborty, Members: Prof Debdulal Kar, Prof Gautam
Maheshwari, Prof V K Srivastava, Prof K K Pant, Dr Anand
Kundu, Prof Arnab Atta, Prof Pavitra Sandilya, Prof Bhim
Mukherjee, Mr Amitava Banerjee, Dr Dinesh Kumar, Co-
Charan Meikap & Prof Somenath Ganguly
opted: Mr Shyam Bang, Mr Ranjan Goel
Kanpur Regional Centre
Nagpur Regional Centre:
Chairman: Dr R K Trivedi, Vice-Chairman: Dr Arun Maithani,
Honorary Regional Secretary:Dr V K Sachan, Honorary Chairman: Dr G K Ghosal, Vice-Chairman: Prof V S Sapkal,
Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Santosh Kumar, Honorary Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr A N Vaidya, Honorary
Regional Treasurer: Mr Ashutosh Mishra Members: Dr Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Y C Bhattacharyulu, Honorary
Pramod Kumar, Mr Vishesh Agarwal, Dr Rajesh Garg, Mr Regional Treasurer: Dr R B Biniwale, Members: Dr T
Subhash Sharma, Mr M S Rajput, Ex-officio: Dr S K Gupta Chakrabarti, Dr S D Dawande, Dr S Mandavgane, Dr S K
Goyal, Dr K L Wasewar, Dr B G Bhotmange, Dr J S Mohite &
Kochi Regional Centre
Dr Vijay Kumar:
Chairman: Mr Suresh Kumar P K, Vice-Chairman: Prof Manoj
N, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Harinath V, Honorary Nadiad Regional Centre
Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Siby T P, Honorary Regional Chairman: Dr M S Rao, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr
Treasurer: Mr Venkatesan V, Members: Mr Sudarshan Vimal Gandhi, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Prof G R Patel,
Kumar, Mr Syed Imran Ahmed, Mr Immanuel C Thambi, Mr M Member: Prof K M Patel
K Augustine, Mr Tittu Alagu, Mr P V Ayyappan, Mr N Mohan
Pilani Regional Centre:
& Mr Chandramohan.
Chairman: Dr Pratik N Sheth, Vice-Chairman: Dr Suresh
Kalpakkam Regional Centre
Gupta, Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Amit Jain,
Not Received Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Dr Ajaya Pani, Honorary
Lucknow Regional Centre: Regional Treasurer: Dr Raman Sharma, Members: Dr H K
Chairman: Er P N Tandon, Vice-Chairman: Er Rajata Mehta, Mohanta, Dr Arvind Kumar Sharma, Dr Pradipta
Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Dhananjay Singh, Chattopadhyay, Dr Smita Raghuvanshi, Dr Banasri Roy, Dr
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Er D K Srivastava, Srinivas Appari & Dr (Ms) Priya C Sande
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Er Ranvir Singh, Members: Pune Regional Centre
Dr B N Mishra, Dr G N Garg, Dr A S Vidyarthi, Dr Sushil Kumar,
Chairman: Mr Pradeep Dhotey, Honorary Regional
Er Sudeep Tandon, Er Mayur Tandon, Er Suresh Kumar Patel
Secretary: Dr Sanjay Kamble, Honorary Regional Treasurer:
& Er Ram Pravesh Ram
Dr Prafulla Garge, Members: Dr C V Rode, Dr Sanjeev Tambe,
Lote-Parasuram Regional Centre Dr Subhash Vaidya, Mr Sanjay Kulkarni, Mr Ukidve, Dr Suyog
Chairman : Mr. S S. Patil, Vice-Chairman : Mr. D. C. Patil, Takalkar, Dr Manish Patil, Dr C V Kapadnis, Mrs Kanchan
Hororary Regional Secretary : Mr. R. B. Ghadage, Honorary Bavankar, Mr Ashish Mohod
Regional Treasurer : P. N. Joshi and Mr. R. F. Manatkar

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Pondicherry Regional Centre Vapi Regional Centre:
Chairman: Dr G Srinivasan, Vice-Chairman: Mr R Prabakar, Chairman: Mr Rameshchandra N Prajapati, Vice-Chairman:
Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr R Sridar, Honorary Dr Hiten M Bhatt, Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr Uday R
Regional Jt Secretary: Mr V Jayakumar, Honorary Regional Marballi, Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr S S Pokale,
Treasurer: Mrs T Pallavhee, Members: Mr M Varadharajan, Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr Maulik J Desai, Members:
Ms S Usha, Ms K Priya, Mr V Vijayaraj, Mr D M Senthilkumar Mr J R Shah, Dr H M Hirpara, Mr. Vinod S Kashalikar,
& Dr S Sundaramoorthy Mr. Jagdish U Parmar, Mr Arun Kootale, Mr Pravin B Shah
Rourkela Regional Centre: and Devidas K Khubchandani Ex-Officio: Mr Hasmukh K
Doshi
Chairman: Mr F C Sahoo, Vice-Chairman: Prof B C Ray,
Honorary Regional Secretary: Dr Hara Mohan Jena, 12.0 Acknowledgement
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Dr Santanu Paria, Ex-officio: The Council expresses its sincere thanks to the Honorary
Dr Pradip Chowdhury, Members: Mr Siddharth Acharya, Mr Office Bearers for spending much of their valuable time in
K P Mishra, Dr(Mrs) G Sunanda, Mr S C Padhi, Dr Manoj K rendering service to the Institute. The Council highly
Mishra appreciates the sincere work and whole-hearted cooperation
received from the members of the staff of the Institute. It is
Trivandrum Regional Centre
indebted to all the donors, sponsors and well wishers for
Chairman: Mr S Sampath, Vice-Chairman: Mr P Sojan, wholeheartedly supporting activities of the Institute.
Honorary Regional Secretary: Mr P S Sathis Kumar,
Honorary Regional Jt Secretary: Mr Praveen Kumar Solasa,
Honorary Regional Treasurer: Mr S Somanathan Members:
Dr S K Manu, Mr M Shaneeth, Mr S Venugopal,Prof S Alwan,
Mr Abdul Haleem, Mr E S Vivek, Mr G Chandrasekhran, N Prof P De
Saravanan, Mr B Biju,Dr Ajit Haridas & Dr K B Radhakrishnan Honorary Secretary

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