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Six IIT Madras faculty get ANRF J C Bose Grant of Rs 25 lakh a year
Six faculty members from IIT Madras have won the ANRF J C Bose Grant, which gives Rs 25 lakh annually for five years to support frontier research. The recipients are Prof Sujatha…
The Story in Brief
Six faculty members from IIT Madras have won the ANRF J C Bose Grant, which gives Rs 25 lakh annually for five years to support frontier research. The recipients are Prof Sujatha Srinivasan (mechanical engineering), Prof Thalappil Pradeep and Prof Sundargopal Ghosh (chemistry), Prof Deepa Venkitesh (electrical engineering), Prof Jitendra S Sangwai (chemical engineering), and Prof Ramakrishnan Swaminathan (applied mechanics and biomedical engineering). Prof Pradeep, known for clean water technologies, is receiving his third five-year term. The grant is open to scientists aged 45 to 65 at recognised Indian institutions.
The Indian Opinion
The coverage rightly celebrates the awardees, but the usual narrative that only elite institutes drive Indian research is lazy. IIT Madras gets attention because its faculty file patents and publish; thousands of college teachers across the country do solid work without a Bose grant. Watch whether the next round of the ANRF scheme spreads beyond the top dozen institutions. The number of first-time awardees from Tier-2 and Tier-3 colleges in future cycles will test whether this is truly a national programme or just another club for the few.
Sources (2): rediff.com, timesnownews.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above.
