The 154^th meeting of All IIT Directors was held on 11^th September 2016 (Sunday) at IIT Bhubaneswar, Argul from 2 PM to 5 PM in the Institute Guest House. The following Directors participated in the important meeting:  

1. Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi
2. Prof. Pradipta Banerji, Director, IIT Roorkee
3. Prof. Indranil Manna, Director, IIT Kanpur
4. Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIT BHU
5. Prof. U. B. Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad
6. Prof. Timothy A. Gonsalves, Director, IIT Mandi
7. Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director, IIT Patna
8. Prof. Sarit Kumar Das, Director, IIT Ropar
9. Prof. Amit Prashant, Dean, Academic, IIT Gandhinagar attended for Prof. S. K. Jain, Director, IIT Gandhinagar
10. Prof. Partha P. Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur (through Video Conference)
11. Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras (through Video Conference)
12. Prof. Gautam Biswas, Director, IIT Guwahati (through Video Conference)
13. Prof. Pradeep Mathur, Director, IIT Indore (through Video Conference)
14. Prof. R. V. Raja Kumar, Director, IIT Bhubaneswar chaired the meeting

Prof. Devang V. Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay and Prof. C. V. R. Murty, Director, IIT Jodhpur could not attend the meeting due to visit abroad and on leave respectively.

The Directors discussed about several agenda items related to governance, future admissions, intake, research, student scholarships, attracting foreign faculty and students, project Viswajit, recruitment by PSU’s, student, staff and faculty matters besides several others.

Some of the Directors also visited the Schools / Departments of their area of expertise and interacted with faculty and students.