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Prof. T G Sitharam
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Dear IITG Alumni, Student Alumni Interaction Linkage (SAIL) Team, and Stakeholders,
Greetings from the desk of the Director, IITG.
I’m delighted to know about the preparation of yearbook 2020 by the team SAIL for the current graduating
batch and I am happy to give this message. The yearbook is a memoir of your time spent in IIT Guwahati. I
wish the graduating batch good luck for their future endeavours and contribute significantly to the lives of
others around us and to the way we live with the knowledge and skill set that you have gathered in the
institute during your stay in IIT Guwahati.
An Institution is only as good as its graduates and alumni. Creating an engaged, supportive alumni network
is crucial to an institution’s success. They should be kept informed so they can remain engaged and keep abreast on the progress of the
university. Good alumni relationships bring many benefits to both the institution and the alumni. The IITG Alumni Portal, which was
developed by IITG Alumni Association during the Silver Jubilee year of the institute was launched recently and I hope a large number of
alumni will be using this portal. The SAIL team has put tremendous effort in linking alumni to the current students and AER office.
Within this short span of 25 years of existence, IIT Guwahati has been the only academic institution from India that occupied a place
among the top 100 (61 -70) world universities – under 50 years of age – published by QS Young Universities ‘Under 50 years’ and
continues to do well in various International Rankings. IIT Guwahati has also been ranked at 470 in the QS World ranking 2021. IIT
Guwahati ranks 3rd among the leading science and research institutions in India in terms of research citation in QS Rankings, ranked
350th in the Overall World Category and 6th in Overall India Category in the Academic Sector of Nature Index Annual Ranking 2020.
While in Subject-wise Rank in India, IITG has been ranked within top 10 in four subjects of Nature Index. IIT Guwahati has been ranked 7th
both in Engineering and Overall categories in the NIRF ranking conducted by MHRD in the year 2020. IIT Guwahati has also been ranked
3rd in the “Swachhata Ranking 2019” conducted by the GoI and is the only centrally funded technical institute to be among the top 5
consistently for the past three years ever since these rankings were launched.
In the years to come, IIT Guwahati would become the ultimate destination of scholars and scientists from the world over. I request all
alumni to be in touch with our students and faculty. I also invite successful alumni to take interest in seeking a Professor of Practice and
Visiting professorship positions at IIT Guwahati, which we have introduced this year.
As we move forward to transform this vision into reality, we will create endless opportunities for students, researchers, faculty and staff of
IIT Guwahati in the coming years. I welcome all of the Alumni to join to celebrate the success of IIT Guwahati and its exciting journey to
become a “Network of Excellence”. Thank you so much. Once again I take this opportunity to congratulate the SAIL team for publishing
the yearbook 2020, even during the midst of COVID-19 pandemic.
Prof. T G Sitharam
Director
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati