Annual Report - NIT Puducherry

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PUDUCHERRY

Annual Report2020-2021

Annual Report2020-2021

National Institute of Technology Puducherry

INDEX Sl. No. Topic Page No.

1 Introduction 61.1 Vision and Mission 6

2 Location 72.1 Registration 8

3 Administration 93.1 Board of Governors 9

3.2 Senate 11

3.3 Finance Committee 15

3.4 Buildings and Works Committee 16

4 Academics 194.1 Courses Offered 19

4.2 Fee Structure and Scholarship 19

4.3 Admission 22

4.4 Faculty 24

4.5 List of Publication 25

4.5.1 Journals 25

4.5.2 Conference Papers 30

4.5.3 Book Chapters 35

4.6 Details of the Projects 37

4.7 Conference/seminar attended and paper presentation 38

4.8 Patents Filed 38

4.9 Examinations and Results 39

5 Administration and Non-Teaching Staff 445.1 Non-teaching staff (regular) 44

5.2 Joining of Advisor (Accounts) – on Contract 44

5.3 Joining of Temporary Medical Officer – on Contract 44

6 Infrastructure 456.1 Land 45

6.2 Class Rooms and Administrative Office 45

6.3 Laboratory Establishments 46

6.4 Central Library 55

6.5 Hostel Facilities 56

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6.6 General Hostel Fee Structure 61

6.7 NITpy Health Centre - Its Fight & Support During The Pandemic 61

7 Events Organized at NITPY 63

7.1 FDPs Organized By The Institute 63

7.1.1 Five days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Communication System Design and Simulations

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7.1.2 Five days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Recent Trends in Communication Engineering.

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7.1.3 AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored Five Day National Online Faculty Development Programme on “Challenges and Opportunities in Electric Vehicle Technology - A Research Perspective”

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7.1.4 A 5-day Faculty Development Program (FDP) on the topic “Revisiting the Role of Higher Education Institute in Mentoring the Students”

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7.1.5 A Five Days Faculty Development Programme on “Applied Science and Humanities” 65

7.1.6 Five days online Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on “Development of Decentralized IoT Systems using Blockchain”

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7.2 Workshops Organized by the Institute 66

7.2.1 National Workshop on Water Quality Management for Aquaculture. 66

7.2.2 A 5-day Works shop on the topic “Research tools and Techniques” 67

7.3 Conferences Organized by the Institute 68

7.3.1 2nd National Conference on Communication systems (NCOCS-2020) on 21 November 2020, ECE Department, NIT Puducherry

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7.3.2 National Conference on Mathematical Theory of Control 69

7.3.3 First International Conference on Future technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy IcoFT-2020

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7.4 Signing of MOU’s 70

7.4.1 MoU with Regional Academic Centre for Space, NITK, Surathkal 70

7.4.2 MoU with National Highways Authority of India 70

7.4.3 MoU with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India 71

7.4.4 MOU Based on the BRICS PROJECT, Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, initiated MoU with Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

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8 Functions and Extra Curricular Activities 72

8.1 International Day of Yoga Celebration 72

8.2 Aazadi ka Amrit Mahotsav in NIT Puducherry 72

8.3 Alumni portal for NIT Puducherry 73


8.4 Celebration of Rajbhasha Hindi Saptah at NIT Puducherry 73

8.5 151th Birth Anniversary of ‘Mahatma’ at NIT Puducherry 74

8.6 Celebration of Vigilance Awareness Week in NIT Puducherry 74

8.7 National Education Day 75

8.8 New Year Celebrations 75

8.9 72nd Republic Day 76

8.10 Seventh Annual Convocation: 76

8.10.1 B.Tech. (2016-20 Batch): Department wise Toppers 77

8.10.2 Institute overall Topper B.Tech. (2016-20 Batch) 77

8.10.3 M.Tech. (2018-20 Batch) 77

8.10.4 Institute overall Topper: M.Tech. (2018-20 Batch) 77

8.10.5 List of Degree Awarded Candidates during 7th Convocation held on 19-Feb-2021 77

8.11 Inauguration of Laboratory Block 78

8.12 International Women’s Day: 78

8.13 NIT Puducherry’s Social contribution in Fight against "COVID-19" 79

8.14 NIT Puducherry prepared its own Hand sanitizer 80

8.15 Unnat Bharat Abhiyan activity 80

8.16 Student Council Election 81

8.17 NCC Activities 81

8.18 Intramural Badminton Tournament under Fit India Movement 81

8.19 Induction programme for 1st Year 82

8.20 Virtual Alumni Meet 2020 82

8.21 IIRS/ISRO Outreach Programme 83

8.22 Formation of KSN Fitness Club 83

8.23 Hope App development 83

8.24 Annual Leadership Training Camp 2021 (CATC – 09 and CATC-15) 83

8.25 National Institute of Technology, Puducherry - Alumni Association” has been officially registered under Societies registration act, 1860 (Act No. XXI of 1860) with the following governing body members

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8.26 Donation of Saplings by the Alumni to the Institute: 84

8.27 Distribution of Homeopathic tablets to all the staff members of NIT Puducherry 85

8.28 Engineers’ day celebration at NIT Puducherry. 85

8.29 20/20 FORESIGHT IN EDUCATION" programme 86

8.30 International Mother Language Day 86


8.31 Literary Committee Activities 87

8.32 National Educational Policy Lecture Series 87

9 Noteworthy faculty & staff accomplishments 88

10 Achievements of Students 93

11 Awards 97

12 Training and Placement Activities in the year 2020-2021 98

12.1 Highlights 98

12.2 Placement Statistics 98

13 Finance 102

14 Accounts 103

National Institute of Technology Puducherry Karaikal - 609 609

Annual Report 2020-2021

IntroductionNestled in the panoramic scenes of Karaikal - a coastal enclave in the basin of river Cauvery in the Union Territory of Puducherry - National Institute of Technology Puducherry, established in 2010 under the Eleventh Five Year Plan, is one among the ten new NITs sanctioned by the Govt. of India in 2009. The Institute is a rapidly growing Technical Institution and is striding ahead in establishing its qualitative base in Research and Higher Learning under the Ministry of Education, Government of India, New Delhi. The National Institute of Technology Puducherry is submitting its 11th Annual Report 2020-21 to the Parliament.

Its functioning is in complete accordance with the directives of the Government requirements for establishing New NITs, such as: about 300 acres of Land, Connecting Roads, Continuous Water Supply, Electricity etc. Further, owing to its prime location and leading industrial background, the Government of Union Territory of Puducherry identified the land in Poovam and Thiruvettakudy villages at Karaikal for the permanent campus construction of NIT Puducherry.

The preliminary academic session commenced in June 2010 under the mentorship of National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NIT-T), and thereafter, since 2011, NIT Puducherry took control of its administration and management, and till date has graduated seven successful B. Tech batches since 2014, and five M. Tech batches since 2016 of worthy technocrats with moral values and futuristic insight. The Institute is now operational in its permanent campus situated at Poovam and Thiruvettakudy villages at Karaikal.

1.1 Vision and Mission

Vision Mission » To be among

leading Indian Institutes for Excellent, Relevant and Value based Technical Education and Research.

» To create the Infrastructure and Academic environment at par with best benchmarks.

» To offer Under-Graduate, Post-Graduate and Doctoral Programs in the Technical Fields of National Importance.

» To collaborate for Research and Consultancy works with leading National and International Laboratories, Institutes and Industries.

» To train young minds in Intellectual and Ethical Strengths for developing their Capacity in the areas of Science, Engineering and Technology.

» To relentlessly pursue professional excellence with ethics.

» To implement continuously improving models of Comprehensive Education.

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LocationThe Union Territory of Puducherry comprises four erstwhile French establishments of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam. Karaikal region is embedded in the Nagapattinam - Thiruvarur – Mayiladuthrai Districts of Tamil Nadu state. Karaikal is well connected by Road network, 320 Km from Chennai, 130 Km from Puducherry, 16 Km from Nagapattinam and 140 Km from Tiruchirappalli. Also, it is connected by Rail from Ernakulum, Chennai, Velankanni, Bangalore, Mumbai and construction of Airport at Nedungadu is in progress. The campus is well connected with road transport. The geographical demography of Karaikal district is10° 49’ 34” N South,11° 0’ 25” N North, 79° 43’ 15” E West and 79° 51’ 35” E East.

Map showing the Karaikal Town along with Puducherry and Chennai Cities

Map showing NIT Puducherry

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The climate at Karaikal is tropical and it suffers with maximum temperature in the months of May and June whereas it is minimum during the months of October to February. On an average, 45°C is recorded as maximum and 20°C as minimum. The maximum rainfall is received from the Northeast monsoon during the months of October to December.

Apart from the Pilgrim centers, Karaikal Port, Oil & Natural Gas Corporation and many large and medium scale industries like Johnson Ceramic Tiles Industry, Henkel Chemical Industry etc. plays vital role for the selection of the location. Karaikal has number of English Medium and Tamil Medium Government and Private schools, Matriculation Schools etc. Apart from that Kendriya Vidyalaya, Navodhaya School, Government Polytechnic, Industrial Training Institutes, etc. are also available. Arignar Anna Govt. Arts & Science College, Avvaiyar Govt. College for Women, Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Technology (Government Engineering College), Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural College (Government Agri. College), Perunthalaivar Kamarajar College of Education (B. Ed. College), Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Karaikal, two Self supported Engineering Colleges, one private Medical College etc., make Karaikal as an education centre. The above said facilities made the Government of Puducherry select Karaikal as an apt place for the National Institute of Technology Puducherry.

A four-member team formed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi visited the site and accorded approval in 2010 and subsequently expert from Educational Consultant India Ltd (EdCIL), Government of India Undertaking at Noida inspected the place. The land of 256.59 acres given by the Government of Puducherry has scenic beauty of sea shore on the eastern side and several water canals passing through. The presence of water bodies and greenery in the area provides pollution-free and Eco-friendly atmosphere, an apt place to establish an Educational Institution.

2.1 RegistrationInitially, the Institute was registered as Society under Societies Registration Act 1860 with the Registrar of Companies, Puducherry on 25.3.2010 vide registration No. 134/2010 during March 2010 with members from Govt. of Puducherry, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi and Mentor Institute.

In the year 2012-13, the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Dept. of Higher Education, New Delhi have brought all the ten new National Institute of Technology formed during 2009-10 under the National Institute of Technology Act, 2007( 29 of 2007) passed by Parliament by NIT (Amendment) Act 2012 ( 28 of 2012) on 7th June 2012. This has been communicated by the Ministry vide its letter no. F.33-8/2012-TS III dated 12.11.2012.


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Name Designation AddressDr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy

Officiating Chairperson

Director, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal – 609 609

Additional Secretary MoE Member (Ex-Officio)

Additional Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Education, Dept. of Higher Education, New Delhi

Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser

Member (Ex-Officio)

Joint Secretary & Financial Adviser, Government of India, Ministry of Education, Dept. of Higher Education, New Delhi

Prof. A. K. Mishra Member Dean (Academic Research), IITM, Chennai – 600 036

AdministrationAdministrative Bodies

As per the directives of NITs Act 2007, Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi had suggested the following administrative bodies:

a. Board of Governors

b. Senate

c. Finance Committee

d. Building and Works Committee

3.1 Board of GovernorsThe Director & Officiating Chairperson

In the Financial Year 2020-21, Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli has continued as a Director of NIT Puducherry during the year under report.

Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli was born in Tamil Nadu in 1959. He completed his Doctorate Degree in the area of Gear Manufacturing from IIT Madras, Post Graduate from Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras and Bachelor Degree with Honours from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. He started his career as a Deputy Engineer at Bharath Electronics Limited, Bangalore in the year 1983. He is having 31 years of teaching experience including Post Graduate Teaching and Research. He entered teaching profession as a Lecturer at prestigious National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli formerly known as Regional Engineering College in the year 1989 and served as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical

Engineering, NITT from May 2000 to March 2018. He headed the Department of Mechanical Engineering of NITT from 2000 to 2004 and from 2008 to 2010. He is currently the Director of NIT Puducherry. His area of interest lies in Design and Manufacturing Processes and he has more than 92 publications in International Journals and 40 Research Publications in International Conferences. He has vast experience in Power Plants and has successfully completed eight major R&D projects funded by BHEL Trichy, NLC Neyveli, MHRD and DST to the tune of about Rs. 1 crore. He has guided around 21 Ph.D., scholars out of which 16 Ph.Ds., were awarded with Doctoral Degree. He works enthusiastically for national professional organizations, and he is a life member of various organizations such as Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Society of Technical Education, Indian Welding Society and member of Society of Automotive Engineers, India. He is also a Member of Section Committee of BIS, ETD 44 for Safety of Machinery. He has been involved in the Planning, Development and Management of NITT by being the member Board of Governor of NITT from 2013 to 2015, Senate member since 2004, Dean (Planning & Development), and Dean (Students’ Welfare).

The Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Dept. of Higher Education, New Delhi, had issued order for the constitution of the Board as per NIT Act 2007 and communicated the same in their letter no.F28-37/2012-TS III dated 8.11.2012. As per NIT Act 2007, the Board of Governors was constituted and the following are its members during the period under report :-

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Name Designation AddressDr. K. Chandrasekaran Member Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT

Puducherry, Karaikal – 609 609Registrar Secretary

(Ex-Officio)Registrar, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal – 609 609

During the year under report, two meeting of Board of Governors were held.

The Twenty Third Meeting of the Board of Governors was held on Wednesday the 25th November, 2020 at 11.30 A.M in the Mini Conference Hall, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

The following members attended the meeting:Sl. No. Name Position

1 Dr. K. SankaranarayanasamyDirector, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal


2 Shri. Dhananjay Kumar SinghDeputy Secretary (Integrated Finance Division - HE)MoE, Government of India, New Delhi

Representing Ms. Darshana M Dabral, Member

3 Ms. Veena DungaUnder Secretary, Technical Section III (NITs) - IMoE, Government of India, New Delhi

Representing Shri. Madan Mohan, Member

4 Dr. A. K. MishraDean (Academic Research), IIT Madras, Chennai

Member

5 Dr. K. ChandrasekaranAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Electronics EngineeringNIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member

6 Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c) & ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member & Secretary (Ex – Officio)

The Twenty Fourth Meeting of the Board of Governors was held on Friday the 22nd January, 2021 at 11.30 A.M in the Conference Hall, Administrative Block, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

The following members attended the meeting:Sl. No. Name Position

1 Dr. K. SankaranarayanasamyDirector, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal


2 Shri Madan MohanAdditional Director General, Department of Higher EducationMinistry of Education, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi

Member

3 Ms. Darshana M DabralJoint Secretary & Financial AdvisorMHRD, Government of India, New Delhi

Member

4 Dr. A. K. MishraDean (Academic Research), IIT Madras, Chennai

Member

5 Dr. K. ChandrasekaranAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member


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Sl. No. Name Position6 Dr. G. Aghila

Registrar (i/c) & ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Secretary (Ex – Officio)

The following actions were taken in the Board of Governors meeting held during the Financial Year 2020 – 2021:

» The Institute thanked for the services of Shri. T. Rajarajan, Shri. Ma. Sathappan, Shri. R. Mahesh, Mrs. Sumathi Venkatesh, the outgoing members of the Board by expressing the gratitude towards the members of the Board.

» The Board noted the information on laying of Annual Report – Audit Report & Annual Accounts for the FY 2018-2019.

» Approval for the Non-Teaching Staff Recruitment held during June 2020, Change of Designation, Upgradation through DPC and Redesignation details of the Non-Teaching staff of NIT Puducherry.

» The Board noted the information regarding the fee remission provided to the UG students of the Institute as per the orders received from Ministry.

» The Board noted and ratified the opening of new bank accounts & transfer and closing of the Bank accounts of the Institute.

» The Board noted and ratified the appointment of Dean (Academic) with effect from 04.06.2020.

» The Annual Accounts for the Financial Year 2019-20 of the Institute is approved by the Board and suggested to place the SAR in the forthcoming meeting.

» The Board noted the information regarding the personnel engaged in Manpower, Security & Housekeeping services (outsourced).

» Approval for the exemption of certain fee components in the Fee Structure of the UG & PG students and Ph.D., Scholars of the Institute in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic.

» Approval for the amendments in the Statutes of NITs & IIEST, Shibpur for its adoption and implementation as per

the 12th Council meeting of NITSER, New Delhi.

» The Board noted and approved the Cost Allocation and Cabinet Approval (2020) towards the construction of NIT Puducherry.

» The Board approved and ratified for the revised cost of the Temporary Boys Accommodation for 320 Nos and suggested the subsuming of the Boys & Girls Accommodation at the later stage since the proposal for SC & ST Boys & Girls Accommodation proposals are in pipeline.

» The Board suggested the Institute to adhere as per the Cabinet Approval for all Construction works.

» The Board approved for the execution of Indoor Sports & Student Activity Complex including Development & Bulk services as per the Cabinet Approval.

» Approval for the Development of Construction Site (50 Acres) with the estimate of Rs.20,32,58,000/-.

» Approval for the Design and Construction of Multi Engineering Block subsuming Library and Combining Campus Parking, HVAC as Single Project with the estimate of Rs.1,53,94,60,000/-.

» Approval for the award of Degrees to the passed-out students of the Academic Year 2019-2020 in the VIIth Convocation.

» Approval for the Redo Course fee as Rs.1,500/- per credit.

» Approval for erection of statue in the entrance circle of the institute.

» Approval for the ANO remuneration to Dr. S. Babu, SASO.

» Approval for signing of MoUs during the year 2020-21.

» The Board noted the information regarding the Roster for Teaching & Non-Teaching staff for the vacant posts and approval for notification of Teaching & Non-Teaching posts during February, 2021.

3.2 SenateDuring the year under report, the Institute has its own Senate with their faculty members and nomination from the Board. During the year 2020-21 two meetings of the senate were held.

The Nineteenth meeting of the Senate was held on Wednesday, the 30th September 2020, at 11.00 A.M. in the Mini-Conference Hall, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.


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The following members attended the meetingSl. No. Name Position

1. Dr. K. SankaranarayanasamyDirector, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal – 609 609.

Chairperson

2. Dr. R. Senthil ProfessorDepartment of Civil Engineering, Anna University, Chennai

Member

3. Dr. P. JayabalanProfessorDepartment of Civil Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

4. Dr. P. ThambiduraiPrincipal, PKIET, Nedungadu, Karaikal

Member

5. Dr. S. RaghavanProfessorDepartment of ECE, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

6. Dr. N. KumaresanProfessorDepartment of EEE, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

7. Dr. V. Jagadeesh KumarProfessorDepartment of EEE, IIT Madras, Chennai

Member

8. Dr. A. SelvarajuProfessorDepartment of Mechanical EngineeringPondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry

Member

9. Dr. A. ElayaperumalProfessor Department of Mechanical Engineering Design Division, Anna University, Chennai

Member

10. Dr. K. MurugesanProfessor Department of Mathematics, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

11. Dr. Vinod BalakrishnanProfessor Department of H & SS, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

12. Dr. A. K. BhaduriDirector, IGCAR Kalpakkam, Kalpakkam

Member

13. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c), NIT Puducherry

Secretary (Ex-Officio)

14. Dr. S. ThangavelDean (Academic), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

15. Dr. R. Boopathi RaniAssociate Dean (Academic - UG), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

16. Dr. B. SurendiranAssociate Dean (Academic – PG &R), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

17. Dr. Narendran RajagopalanHoD & Assistant ProfessorDepartment of CSE, NIT Puducherry

Special Invitee

18. Dr. A. VenkadesanHoD & Assistant ProfessorDepartment of EEE, NIT Puducherry

Special Invitee


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Sl. No. Name Position19. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha

HoD & Assistant ProfessorDepartment of ECE, NIT Puducherry

Special Invitee

20. Dr. N. Sendhil KumarHoD & Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Puducherry

Special Invitee

21. Dr. Madappa V. R. SivasubramanianHoD & Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Civil Engineering, NIT Puducherry

Special Invitee

22. Dr. D. RagupathyHoD, Department of S&HAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry, NIT Puducherry

Special Invitee

The Twentieth meeting of the Senate was held on Friday, the 19th February 2021 at 10.00 A.M. in the Conference Hall, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

The following members attended the meetingSl. No. Name Position

1. Dr. K. SankaranarayanasamyDirector, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal – 609 609

Chairperson

2. Dr. A. K. BhaduriDirectorIGCAR Kalpakkam, Kalpakkam

Member

3. Dr. R. Senthil Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University, Chennai

Member

4. Dr. P. JayabalanProfessorDepartment of Civil Engineering, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

5. Dr. P. ThambiduraiPrincipal, PKIET, Nedungadu, Karaikal

Member

6. Dr. S. RaghavanProfessor, Department of ECE, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

7. Dr. N. KumaresanProfessor,Department of EEE, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

8. Dr. V. Jagadeesh KumarProfessor, Department of EEEIIT Madras, Chennai

Member

9. Dr. A. SelvarajuProfessor,Department of Mechanical EngineeringPondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry

Member

10. Dr. A. ElayaperumalProfessor,Department of Mechanical Engineering Design Division, Anna University, Chennai

Member


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Sl. No. Name Position11. Dr. K. Murugesan

Professor, Department of MathematicsNIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

12. Dr. Vinod BalakrishnanProfessor, Department of H & SS, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Tiruchirappalli

Member

13. Mr. Syed Sajjadh AliManaging Director, EATON Power Quality Private LimitedSedarapet Industrial Estate, Puducherry

Member

14. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal


15. Dr. S. ThangavelDean (Academic), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

16. Dr. R. Boopathi RaniAssociate Dean (Academic - UG), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

17. Dr. B. SurendiranAssociate Dean (Academic – PG &R)NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

18. Dr. Narendran RajagopalanAssistant Professor & HoDDepartment of CSE, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

19. Dr. A. VenkadesanAssistant Professor & HoD Department of EEE, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

20. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha Assistant Professor & HoDDepartment of ECE, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

21. Dr. N. Sendhil KumarAssistant Professor & HoDDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

22. Dr. Madappa V. R. SivasubramanianAssistant Professor & HoDDepartment of Civil Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

23. Dr. D. RagupathyAssistant Professor & HoD Department of S&H, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

24. Dr. S. BabuSports Officer, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

The following significant actions were taken in the Senate meeting held during the Financial Year 2020-21:

» Appointment of Dean (Academic)

» Syllabus of B.TECH. (EEE) Programme from 3rd to 8th semester for the students admitted from 2019-2020 onwards.

» Approve the introduction of the M.Tech (BY RESEARCH) Programme.

» Fee for Redo Courses offered during the Winter and Summer Vacations.

» The exemption of certain fee components due to Covid 19 Pandemic in the even semester of the academic year 2020-21.

» The examiner honorarium for evaluation of thesis proposal of Ph.D. Qualifying Examination

» Award of Degrees and Gold Medals for UG/PG/Ph.D in 7th Convocation


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3.3 Finance CommitteeDuring the year under report, two meeting of Finance Committee were held.

The Nineteenth Meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Wednesday the 25th November, 2020 at 11.00 A.M in the Mini Conference Hall, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

Sl. No. Name Position1. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy

Director, NIT Puducherry, KaraikalOfficiating Chairperson

2. Shri. Dhananjay Kumar SinghDeputy Secretary (Finance)(Integrated Finance Division - HE), MoE, Government of India, New Delhi

Representing Ms. Darshana M Dabral, Member

3. Ms. Veena DungaUnder Secretary,Technical Section III (NITs) - I,MoE, Government of India, New Delhi

Representing Shri. Madan Mohan, Member

4. Dr. A. K. MishraDean (Academic Research), IIT Madras, Chennai

Member

5. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c) & Professor,Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member Secretary (Ex – Officio)

The Twentieth Meeting of the Finance Committee was held on Friday the 22nd January, 2021 at 11.00 A.M in the Conference Hall, Administrative Block, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

Sl. No. Name Position1. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy

Director, NIT Puducherry, KaraikalOfficiating Chairperson

2. Shri. Madan MohanAdditional Director GeneralDepartment of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi

Member

3. Ms. Darshana M DabralJoint Secretary & Financial AdvisorMHRD, Government of India, New Delhi

Member

4. Dr. A. K. MishraDean (Academic Research), IIT Madras, Chennai

Member

5. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c) & ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member Secretary (Ex-Officio)

The following actions were taken in the Finance Committee meeting held during the Financial Year 2020 – 2021:

» The committee noted the information regarding the laying of Annual Report & Audited Accounts for the Financial Year 2018-2019 sent to the Ministry for laying the same in the both houses of the Parliament.

» The Committee noted the information regarding the Fee Remission provided to the UG students of the Institute as

per the orders received from Ministry and recommended to the Board.

» The committee approved and ratified for the exemption of certain fee components in the fee structure of the UG & PG students and Ph.D., scholars of the Institute in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic and recommended to the Board.


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» The Annual Accounts for the Financial Year 2019-20 of the Institute is approved and recommended to the Board for approval and suggested to place the action taken report of SAR in the forthcoming meeting.

» The committee discussed the draft SAR placed by the Institute and suggested to put up the SAR in the next meeting.

» The committee noted the information regarding the personnel engaged in Manpower, Security & Housekeeping services (outsourced).

» The committee recommended to the Board for release of the ANO remuneration to Dr. S. Babu, SASO.

» The committee noted and ratified the opening of new bank accounts & transfer and closing of the Bank accounts of the Institute.

» The committee noted and suggested to adhere to the orders received from MoE in respect of Gratuity and Leave Encashment for the staff members covered under NPS.

» The committee noted and approved the Cost Allocation and Cabinet Approval (2020) towards the construction of NIT Puducherry.

» The committee approved for the Development of Construction Site (50 Acres) with the estimate of Rs.20,32,58,000/- and recommended to the Board.

» The committee approved for the Design and Construction of Multi Engineering Block subsuming Library and Combining Campus Parking, HVAC as Single Project with the estimate of Rs.1,53,94,60,000/- and recommended to the Board for approval.

» Approval for the Redo Course fee as Rs.1,500/- per credit.

» Approval for erection of statue in the entrance circle of the institute.

» The committee noted and suggested to release the payment for the Miscellaneous works already completed by CPWD during the year 2012-13 with the powers vested with the Director.

» The committee approved and recommended to the Board towards the revised cost of the Temporary Boys Accommodation for 320 Nos and suggested the subsuming of the Boys & Girls Accommodation at the later stage since the proposal for SC & ST Boys & Girls Accommodation proposals are in pipeline.

» The Committee suggested the Institute to adhere as per the Cabinet Approval for all Construction works.

» The Committee approved and recommended to the Board for the execution of Indoor Sports & Student Activity Complex including Development & Bulk services as per the Cabinet Approval.

3.4 Building and Works CommitteeDuring the year under report, Three meeting of Building and Works Committee were held.

The Twentieth Meeting of the Building and Works Committee was held on Wednesday the 16th September, 2020 at 03.00 P.M in the Mini Conference Hall – Guest House Building, NIT Puducherry Campus, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

Sl. No. Name Position1. Prof. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy

Director,NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Chairman (Ex-Officio)

2. Prof. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c)NIT Puducherry, Karaikal


3. Prof. Dr. K. ThirumaranAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Architecture, NIT Trichy

Member

4. Dr. S. Madappa Vigneasuva RajaAssociate Dean (P&D-Civil), Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member

5. Shri. Sanjoy GoswamiSuperintending Engineer cum Project DirectorKaraikal Project Circle, CPWD, Karaikal

Member


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Sl. No. Name Position6. Shri. Sai Krishna

Superintending Engineer (Electrical), Project Region, CPWD, ChennaiMember

7. Dr. K. ChandrasekaranAssociate Dean (P&D-Electrical)Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member

8. Dr. S. ThangavelAssociate Professor (EEE) & Dean (Academic)& Chairman, Estimation Scrutiny Committee, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Special Invitee

9. Ar. Manjula InianSenior Architect, CPWD, Chennai

Special Invitee

The Twenty First Meeting of the Building and Works Committee was held on Friday the 16th October, 2020 at 03.00 P.M in the Mini Conference Hall – Guest House Building, NIT Puducherry Campus, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.


Director, NIT Puducherry, KaraikalChairman (Ex-Officio)

2. Prof. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal


3. Prof. Dr. K. ThirumaranAssociate Professor, Department of Architecture, NIT Trichy

Member

4. Dr. S. Madappa Vigneasuva RajaAssociate Dean (P&D-Civil)Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member

5. Shri. Sanjoy GoswamiSuperintending Engineer cum Project Director, Karaikal Project Circle, CPWD, Karaikal

Member

6. Superintending Engineer (Electrical)Project Region, CPWD, Chennai

Member

7. Dr. K. ChandrasekaranAssociate Dean (P&D - Electrical)Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member


Special Invitee

The Twenty Second Meeting of the Building and Works Committee was held on Monday the 04th January, 2021 at 03.00 P.M in the Conference Hall – Administrative Building, NIT Puducherry Campus, Karaikal under the Chairmanship of Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director & Officiating Chairperson, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.


Director, NIT Puducherry, KaraikalChairman (Ex-Officio)

2. Prof. Dr. G. AghilaRegistrar (i/c), NIT Puducherry, Karaikal


3. Shri. Dhananjay Kumar SinghDeputy Secretary (Finance)(Integrated Finance Division - HE), MoE, Government of India, New Delhi

Member

4. Prof. Dr. K. ThirumaranAssociate Professor, Department of Architecture, NIT Trichy

Member

5. Dr. S. Madappa Vigneasuva RajaAssociate Dean (P&D-Civil), Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member


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Sl. No. Name Position6. Shri. Sanjoy Goswami

Superintending Engineer cum Project Director, Karaikal Project Circle, CPWD, KaraikalMember

7. Shri. Sai KrishnaSuperintending Engineer (Electrical), Project Region, CPWD, Chennai

Member

8. Dr. K. Chandrasekaran, Associate Dean (P&D - Electrical),Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

Member


Special Invitee

The following actions were taken in the Building and Works Committee meeting held during the Financial Year 2020-2021:

» Approval for the revised preliminary estimate for Temporary 320 Nos. Boys Hostel for Rs.13,75,53,900/-.

» Committee thanked the MoE, Govt. of India for the Union Cabinet approval from GoI for Rs.544.34 Cr for the Civil Works of the Institute.

» Approval to construct the corridor for one wing to decide for the Construction of continuous corridor for the entire 320 Nos boy’s accommodation.

» The committee recommends the preliminary estimate for Rs.20,32,58,000/- for the development of construction site (50 acres).

» The committee ratified the civil, electrical, carpentry, welding, horticulture works carried out by P&D Division of the Institute and advised not to put-up routine maintenance works in future meetings.

» Progress of the ongoing works is noted and committee advised CPWD to take appropriate steps to complete the projects without time over run.

» Erection of statue at the land mark entrance circle of NIT Puducherry campus for the estimate of Rs.10 Lakhs is approved by the committee.

» The committee discussed and recommended for the construction of multi engineering block subsuming the

area of library and combining the campus parking with the estimate of Rs.153,94,60,000/-.

» Discussion to prioritize the Infrastructure development works with regards to planning activities and key dates given by the CPWD.

» Construction of 22 Nos of Type – III Quarters, 48 Nos of Type–IV Quarters, including Development & Bulk Services with the estimated cost of Rs.44,65,42,200/- was presented for approval and approved.

» Construction of 455 students Boys Hostel 2 (G+4) with the estimated cost of Rs.42,09,26,500/- was presented for approval and approved.

» Vertical extension of existing Girls Hostel for 2(two) floors and Common amenities Centre including Development & Bulk Services with the estimated cost of Rs.19,48,79,700/- was presented for approval and approved.

» Approval for the Empanelment of Contractors for the Maintenance Works has been drawn on 10.11.2020 by Development & Infrastructure Committee for the period of three years.

AcademicsSpecial Measures in Academic Activity During Covid 19:

The institute has been taking all the necessary measures to prevent the spread of Corona Virus among the NIT Puducherry community and conducted the academic activities through online mode. The institute has conducted regular online lectures, demonstrated the lab experiments and also successfully conducted the final assessment through online mode. As per the guidelines of MoHFW regarding the pandemic, the institute was opened in the phase wise manner for conducting regular lectures, laboratory sessions and assessments for the UG students following all the COVID19 protocols.

4.1 Courses Offered

4.2 Fee Structure and Scholarship

National Institute of Technology Puducherry offers Under Graduate Engineering courses in five branches, Post Graduate Engineering courses in three branches, and offers Doctoral Programmes in Engineering, Science and Humanities.

The following Courses were offered during the year under report:

1. B. Tech.

a. Computer Science and Engineering

b. Electronics and Communication Engineering

c. Electrical and Electronics Engineering

d. Mechanical Engineering

e. Civil Engineering.

2. M. Tech.

a. Computer Science and Engineering

b. Electronics and Communication Engineering

c. Electrical and Electronics Engineering

3. Doctoral Degree Programme

a. Ph. D. in Engineering

b. Ph. D. in Science

c. Ph. D. in Humanities

d. Ph.D. in Physical Education

Each branch of B. Tech has been sanctioned with an intake of 60 students per annum except Mechanical engineering and Civil engineering, where the sanctioned strength of student intake was 30 per annum and 35 Seats were sanctioned for M.Tech.

The Semester Fee (Tuition Fee and Institute Fee) for the Even semester of the Academic year 2020-21 for I year B.Tech. is detailed below. This applies only to the Academic year 2020-21 due to the prevailing pandemic situation.

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Semester FeeProgramme: Undergraduate (B.Tech.) Type of Admission: CSAB/JoSAA

Sl. No.

Details of Fees GEN/OBC/OPEN (Family Income >5

Lakh) (Rs.)

GEN/OBC/OPEN (Family Income between

1-5 Lakh) (Rs.)

GEN/OBC/OPEN (Family Income < 1 Lakh) (Rs.)

SC/ST/PH (Rs.)

1. Tuition Fee 62500 20833 0 0

2. Registration-Enrollment Fee 200 200 200 200

3. Examination Fee 350 350 350 350

4. Student Aid Fee 200 200 200 200

5. Medical and Insurance Fee 200 200 200 200

6. Training & Placement Fee 250 250 250 250

Total (Rs.) 63700 22033 1200 1200

Programme: Undergraduate (B.Tech.) Type of Admission: DASA

Tuition Fee Institute Fee

CIWG - Rs.62,500 All DASA students to Pay Rs.1200 through SB Collect

Programme: Undergraduate (B.Tech.) Type of Admission: CSAB/JoSAA

Sl. No. Details of Fees (Rs.)

1. Tuition Fee 62500

2. Registration-Enrollment Fee 200

3. Examination Fee 350

4. Student Aid Fee 200

5. Medical and Insurance Fee 200

6. Training & Placement Fee 250

Total (Rs.) 63700

Programme: Undergraduate (B.Tech.) Type of Admission: ICCR/SII Semester: 2nd

Tuition Fee Institute Fee

ICCR/SII – USD 2000 All ICCR/SII students to Pay Rs.1200 through SB Collect

Programme: Postgraduate (M.Tech.)

The Institute Fee structure (Amount in Rupees) for different categories of odd semester M.Tech. students

Sl. No. Details of Fees GEN/OBC/ OPEN SC/ST/ PWD

1. Tuition Fee 35000 0

2. Registration-Enrollment Fee 200 200

3. Examination Fee 350 350

4. Student Aid Fee 200 200

5. Medical and Insurance Fee 200 200

6. Training & Placement Fee 250 250

Total 36200 1200


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The Institute Fee structure (Amount in Rupees) for different categories of even semester M.Tech. students

Sl. No. Details of Fees GEN/OBC/OPEN (Rs.) SC/ST/PH (Rs.)

1. Tuition Fee 35000 0

2. Computer Fee 1000 1000

3. Internet fee 300 300

4. Library fee 1000 1000

5. Registration-Enrollment Fee 200 200

6. Examination Fee 350 350

7. Student Aid Fee 200 200

8. Medical and Insurance Fee 200 200

9. Training & Placement Fee 250 250

Total (Rs.) 38500 3500

Programme: Ph.D. Semester: All

Mode of Study All categories of Scholars (Rs.)

Full Time / Part Time 10,400

Internal 2,900

Ph. D. SCHOLARSHIPThe National Institute of Technology Puducherry announced to provide financial support/ scholarship to a few full-time research scholars who are not receiving any financial support/ scholarship from other Agencies or State or Central Governments in the form of HTRA.

The scholars are required to assist the Department in the academic work for at least 8 hours per week as per guidelines issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Govt. of India, and satisfying other conditions for the award /renewal of the fellowship (HTRA).

The fellowships are as follows:

Designation / Qualification HTRA per Month (Amount in Rupees)Junior Research Fellow (JRF)

Post Graduate Degree in Basic Science/Humanities or Graduate / Post Graduate Degree in Professional Course selected through a process described through any one of the following:-

a. Scholars who are selected through the National

Eligibility Test – UGC NET including lectureship (Assistant Professorship) and GATE.

b. The selection process through National level

Examinations conducted by MHRD and its agencies and Institutions such as UGC / IIT / IISc. / IISER / NIT etc.

Rs.31,000/- + HRA as per institute norms

Senior Research Fellow (SRF)

Qualification prescribed for JRF with two years of research experience

Rs.35,000/- + HRA as per institute norms


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Cumulative Student’s Strength 2020-21Programme Category Gender PwD

General OBC EWS SC ST Total Male FemaleB.Tech. 491 256 11 134 73 965 737 226 12M.Tech. 27 16 2 9 0 54 26 28 0Ph.D. 53 60 1 22 3 139 100 39 0Total 571 332 14 165 76 1158 863 293 12

Total students enrolled Male Female TotalAll UG Programmes 180 69 249All PG Programmes 10 16 26All Diploma Programmes - - -Others (Certificate etc.) - - -Ph.D. 37 15 52Total 227 100 327

Admission of UG Students

Ug Branch (Total Sanctioned-Csab)

Admitted Students Category (2020 – 2024 Batch)GEN OBC SC ST PWD EWS TOTAL Grand

TotalCSAB DASA SII ICCR MEACSE (60) 25 16 9 5 2 3 60 3 0 0 2 65ECE (60) 24 16 9 4 2 5 60 3 0 1 0 64EEE (60) 27 17 9 5 0 2 60 1 1 0 0 62MECH (30) 13 7 4 2 1 1 28 2 0 0 0 30CIVIL (30) 11 7 5 2 1 2 28 0 0 0 0 28TOTAL (240) 100 63 36 18 6 13 236 9 1 1 2 249% of Admission (CSAB) = 98.33%

Admission of PG Students

PG BRANCH (TOTAL SANCTIONED) Admitted Students Category (2020 – 2022 Batch)

GEN OBC EWS SC ST PWD TOTAL

CSE – Computer Science Engineering (15) 4 3 0 2 0 0 9

ECE- VLSI Design (10) 3 3 1 1 0 0 8

EEE – Power Electronics (10) 2 4 1 2 0 0 9

Total 9 10 2 5 0 0 26

% of Admission = 74.28%

Admission of PhD Scholars

Ph.D. Admission in 2020 Institute Fellowship Project, Self-Supported, Part-Time

TotalBRANCH GEN OBC EWS SC ST PWDCSE 1 3 0 1 0 0 3 8ECE 3 4 0 1 0 0 2 10EEE 5 5 0 0 0 0 1 11Mechanical 2 2 0 3 0 0 1 8Civil 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 3Mathematics 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2Physics 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 4Chemistry 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 3English 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1Physical Education 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2Total 14 17 1 7 0 0 13 52


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4.4 Faculty Due to the non-availability of sufficient faculty, walk-in interviews were conducted on 23.07.2020 and 24.08.2020 through advertisement in the Institute website.

As per the instructions of the 8th BoG meeting Item No (IV (2), a Selection Committee has been constituted, based on the recommendations of the committee, the following faculty members were given temporary appointments on a contract basis with the consolidated pay of Rs.35,000/- per month for those possessing M. Tech. Degree and Rs.54,000/- per month for those possessing Ph.D till the end of one semester. The following faculties have joined.

List of Faculty (on Contract) working during July 20 – January 21 SemesterSl. No. Name Department D.O.J D.O.R

1 S Siddharthan Civil 02.07.2020 31.07.2020

2 Julina M Civil 11.08.2020 13.01.2021

3 Sivakumar R Civil 10.08.2020 13.01.2021

4 Nidhi M Civil 14.08.2020 13.01.2021

5 Sendhil Kumar V Civil 12.08.2020 13.01.2021

6 Siddharthan S Civil 24.08.2020 12.01.2021

7 Revathy A Civil 24.08.2020 13.01.2021

8 Mohamed Suaib Civil 24.08.2020 12.01.2021

9 Arthi S Civil 24.08.2020 13.01.2021

10 Vigneshwaran S MECH 05.08.2020 13.01.2021

11 Ronald Aseer J MECH 12.08.2020 13.01.2021

12 Akhilandeswari T CSE 24.08.2020 13.01.2021

13 Sendilvadivu D CSE 24.08.2020 13.01.2021

14 Sudha P CSE 24.08.2020 13.01.2021

15 Balakumar V MATHS 06.08.2020 13.01.2021

16 Muthulekha English 13.08.2020 13.01.2021

17 P. Senthil ECE 24.08.2020 13.01.2021

18 Madhavan R MECH 01.09.2020 13.01.2021

19 Guna M MECH 24.09.2020 13.01.2021

20 P. Padmagirisan EEE 21.09.2020 13.01.2021

21 Sankar S EEE 18.09.2020 13.01.2021

22 Revathy S EEE 24.09.2020 13.01.2021

23 K. Balamurugan S&H 03.09.2020 13.01.2021

24 Raghutla Chandrashekar R S&H 25.09.2020 13.01.2021

25 Aravind S L MECH 05.10.2020 15.12.2020

26 Somasundaram MECH 07.10.2020 13.01.2021

27 G.P. Youvaraj MATHS 07.12.2020 31.07.2021

Due to the non-availability of sufficient faculty, the Contracts were extended for the next semester based on the recommendation of the HoD. The following Faculties have joined:


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List of Faculty (on Contract) working during January 21– June 21 SemesterSl. No Name Department D.O.J D.O.R

1 Julina M Civil 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

2 Sivakumar R Civil 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

3 Nidhi M Civil 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

4 Sendhil Kumar V Civil 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

5 Revathy A Civil 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

6 Arthi S Civil 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

7 Vigneshwaran S MECH 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

8 Ronald Aseer J MECH 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

9 Sendilvadivu D CSE 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

10 Sudha P CSE 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

11 Balakumar V MATHS 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

12 Muthulekha English 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

13 P. Senthil ECE 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

14 Madhavan R MECH 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

15 Guna M MECH 19.01.2021 01.03.2021

16 P. Padmagirisan EEE 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

17 Sankar S EEE 19.01.2021 31.05.2021

18 Revathy S EEE 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

19 K. Balamurugan S&H 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

20 Raghutla Chandrashekar R S&H 19.01.2021 31.07.2021

21 Somasundaram MECH 19.01.2021 10.06.2021

4.5 List of Publication4.5.1 JOURNALS

DEPARTMENT OF CSE1. P.Valarmathi, R.Dhanalakshmi, Narendran Rajagopalan,

“Boosting a Hybrid Model Recommendation System for sparse data using Collaborative Filtering and Deep learning”, Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research Vol. 79, June 2020.

2. S Shanmuga priya, S Saran raj, Dr.B.Surendiran et al, “Brain Tumour Detection in MRI Using Deep Learning, Evolution in Computational Intelligence Frontiers in Intelligent Computing:Theory and Applications” (FICTA

2020), 395-403, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811557873

3. Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, D Venkata Vara Prasad, Ganesh Kumar, Dr.B.Surendiran, Arjith Natarajan, Akshaya Natarajan, Dattuluri Rushitaa, “Importance of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Our Daily Life, Towards Smart World: Homes to Cities Using Internet of Things”, CRC press, 2020

4. Niriksha T.K., Dr. Dr.B.Surendiran, Muppana Mahesh Reddy, Dr. Narendran Rajagopalan, ANALYSIS OF SUB-CLUSTERING IN GROUP RECOMMENDER SYSTEM, Kala Sarovar ISSN: 0975-4520 (UGC Care Group-1 Journal), vol.23(2),2020.


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https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811557873

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811557873

5. B. Surendiran,P. R. Joe Dhanith, A Word Embedding Based Approach for Focused Web Crawling Using the Recurrent Neural Network, International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, PP.1-10,2020.

6. R Sujithra Kanmani, B Surendiran, Context-Based Social Media Recommendation System, Recommender System with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Practical Tools and Applications in Medical, Agricultural and Other Industries, 2020, Pages 237-248,John Wiley & Sons

7. Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, D Venkata Vara Prasad, Ganesh Kumar, B Surendiran, Arjith Natarajan, Akshaya Natarajan, Dattuluri Rushitaa, Importance of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Our Daily Life,Towards Smart World: Homes to Cities Using Internet of Things, CRC press, 2020.

8. B. Surendiran,P. R. Joe Dhanith,A Word Embedding Based Approach for Focused Web Crawling Using the Recurrent Neural Network,International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, PP.1-10,2020

9. PR Joe Dhanith and B.Surendiran, Working of Mobile Intelligent Agents on the Web A Survey,Role of Edge Analytics in Sustainable Smart City Development: Challenges and Solutions, pp.21-48,2020,Wiley

10. Subburaj, Surendiran, et al,Fog and Edge Computing for Automotive Applications, Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development, Springer, pp :1-15, 2021

11. Dr. Chandrasekar Ravi. “Fuzzy Crow Search Algorithm-Based Deep LSTM for Bitcoin Prediction.” International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) 11, no. 4 (2020): 53-71, 2020.

DEPARTMENT OF ECE1. Phani Gannamraju, Satyanarayana Yarramsetti, L.S.

Kumar, “Radio Frequency Identification and Internet of Things based Smart Library Management System’, Int.J. of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Inderscience [Index: Scopus indexed (Citescore-0.6), Status: Accepted].

2. G. Rohith, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Paradigm shifts in Super Resolution techniques for Remote Sensing applications,” The Visual Computer, Springer, pp. 1- 44, September 2020. [Indexed: SCI, Impact Factor- 1.45].

3. G. Rohith, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Super-resolution based Deep Learning Techniques for Panchromatic

Satellite Images in Application to Pansharpening,” IEEE Access, IEEE, vol. 8, pp. 162099-162121, September 2020. [Indexed: SCI, Impact Factor- 3.745].

4. Veerapu Goutham, Harigovindan V.P., “Stochastic Modelling and Performance Analysis of Cooperative HARQ in Multi-Cluster Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”, Sadhana, Springer. (Accepted, SCI- IF.849)

5. Poonguzhali Elangovan and Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath, “Glaucoma Assessment from Color Fundus Images using Convolutional Neural Network”, Interna- tional Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 19 September 2020.

6. D.Vijayalakshmi, Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath, and Om Prakash Acharya, “A Comprehensive Survey on Image Contrast Enhancement Techniques in Spatial Domain”, Sensing and Imaging, Vol:21, 24 July 2020.

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

1. S. Adak, and G.S. Mahapatra, “Effect of reliability on multi-item inventory system with shortages and partial backlog incorporating time dependent demand and deterioration”, Annals of Operations Research , , 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s10479-020-03694-6

2. P. Santra, and G.S. Mahapatra, “Dynamical study of discrete-time prey predator model with constant prey refuge under imprecise biological parameters”, Journal of Biological Systems, DOI: 10.1142/S0218339020500114, 2020.

3. P.K. Santra,G.S. Mahapatra, “G.R. Phaijoo, Bifurcation and Chaos of a Discrete Predator-Prey Model with Crowley-Martin Functional Response Incorporating Proportional Prey Refuge”, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, ID 5309814, 2020.

4. C. Changdar, R.K. Pal, Dr.G.S. Mahapatra, A. Khan, A genetic algorithm based approach to solve multi-resource multi-objective knapsack problem for vegetable wholesalers in fuzzy environment, Operational Research, 20(3), 1321-1352, 2020. (ISSN: 1866-1505).

5. Adak, and Dr.G.S. Mahapatra, Imperfect and variable production cost in three-layer supply chain system incorporating deterioration and screening effect, Scientia Iranica, 2020. (ISSN: 1026-3098).

6. S. Biswas, D. Pal, Dr.G.S. Mahapatra, and G.P. Samanta, Dynamics of a Prey-Predator System with Herd Behaviour in Both and Strong Allee Effect in Prey, Biophysics, 65(5), 967–977, 2020.


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7. D. Pal, Dr. G.S. Mahapatra, S. K. Mahato, and G.P. Samanta, A Mathematical Model of a Prey-Predator Type Fishery in the Presence of Toxicity with Fuzzy Optimal Harvesting, Journal of Applied Mathematics & Informatics, 38(1-2), 13-36, 2020, (ISSN: 1598-5857).

8. S. Adak, and Dr. G.S. Mahapatra, Effect of Reliability on Varying Demand and Holding cost on Inventory System Incorporating Probabilistic Deterioration, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, (ISSN: 1547-5816), Accepted, 2020.

9. M. Dharmalingam, and Dr. G.S. Mahapatra, Multicriteria decision making using a complete ranking of generalized trapezoidal fuzzy numbers, Soft Computing, (ISSN: 1432-7643), Accepted, 2020.

10. Askar, D. Ghosh , P.K. Santra , G.S. Mahapatra,and A.A. Elsadany, A fractional-order SITR mathematical model for forecasting of transmission of COVID-19 of India with lockdown effect. Results in Physics, 2021. (SCIE, Impact Factor:4.019) (ISSN: 2211-3797)

11. Dipankar Ghosh, P.K. Santra, G.S. Mahapatra, and A.A. Elsadany, Predator dependent transmissible disease spreading in prey under Holling type-II functional response, Zeitchrift fur Naturforchung A.,2021.(SCIE, Impact Factor:1.355) (ISSN: 1865-7109)

12. Pooja Rani, and G.S.Mahapatra, Entropy based enhanced particle swarm optimization on multi--objective software reliability modelling for optimal testing resources allocation, Software Testing Verification & Reliability, DOI: 10.1002/stvr.1765,2021.(SCI, Impact Factor: 1.556) (ISSN:1099-1689)

13. Sudip Adak, G.S. Mahapatra,Two-echelon imperfect production supply chain with probabilistic deterioration rework and reliability under fuzziness, Journal of Management Analytics,DOI: 10.1080/23270012.2021.1882347, 2021. (SCI/SCIE, Impact Factor: 3.526) (ISSN: 2327-0012(P) 2327-0039(O))

14. Liju Kuriakose, and Smrutisikta Mishra. “Can a Pulaya Speak?’: Autobiography as Ethnography in Kallen Pokkudan’s Autobiographies.” Drishti : The Sight, vol. 9, no. 2, 2020. (UGC-CARE indexed, Refereed Journal).

15. Liju Kuriakose, and Smrutisikta Mishra.‘“Can a Pulaya Speak?’: Autobiography as Ethnography in KallenPokkudan’s Autobiographies.” Drishti: The Sight, vol. 9, no. 2, 2021. (UGC-CARE indexed, Refereed Journal)

16. Velmurugan, K. and Smrutisikta Mishra Enhancing the Reading Skills of the Technical Students Through Mental Modelling. Psychology and Education Journal, 58(3). . (2021). (Scopus Indexed)

17. Geetha, S and Smrutisikta Mishra (2021). Assertion of Queer Identities and Complexities Within Family Relationships: An Analysis of Fire, Margarita with a Straw and Evening Shadows paper published in PalArch Journal of Egypt/Egyptology Vol 4, 18.(Scopus Indexed),

18. Jeyasakthi V., Velmurugan K., Smrutisikta Mishra.(2021) “The Intervention of Physical Games in Teaching English Grammar to Secondary School Students: A Review with Special Reference to the Secondary School Pupil in Puducherry, India.” Psychology and Education Journal,Vol no. 2.(Scopus Indexed)

19. C. Bavatharani, E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, “Novel PDPA-SiO2 Nanosphericals Network Decorated Graphene Nanosheets Composite Coated FTO Electrode for Efficient Electro-Oxidation of Methanol”, Fuel (2020) [Impact Factor: 5.127]

20. C. Bavatharani, E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, “Ultra-High Sensitive, Selective, Non-enzymatic Dopamine Sensor based on Electrochemically Active Graphene Decorated Polydiphenylamine-SiO2 Nanohybrid Composite”, Ceramics International (2020) [Impact Factor: 3.450]

21. Seong Bin Jo, Hyun Ji Kim, Joong Hee Ahn, Byung Wook Hwang, Jeung Soo Huh, Dhanusuraman Ragupathy, Soo Chool Lee, Jae Chang Kim, “Effects of Thin-Film Thickness on Sensing Properties of SnO2-Based Gas Sensors for the Detection of H2S Gas at ppm Levels”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 20 (2020) 7169-7174 [Impact Factor:1.354]

22. E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, “Improved cyclic retention and high-performance supercapacitive behavior of poly(diphenylamine- coaniline)/phosphotungstic acid nanohybrid electrode”, International Journal of Energy Research (In Press; 2020) [Impact Factor: 3.343]

23. C. Bavatharani, E.Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, “Excellent Cyclic Retention and Supercapacitive Performance of Electrochemically Active Nanocomposite Electrode”, Sensor Letters (In Press; 2020)

24. G.Sivarasan, E.Muthusankar, C. Bavatharani, D.Ragupathy, “Facile and Low-Cost Production of Lantana Camara stalk-Derived Porous Carbon Nanostructures with Excellent Supercapacitance and Adsorption Performance”, International Journal of Energy Research (In Press; 2020) [Impact Factor: 3.343]


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25. Muthusankar Eswaran, Soo Chool Lee, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Mohd Rafie Johan, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, D.Ragupathy*, Improved cyclic retention and high performance supercapacitive behavior of poly(diphenylamine-co-aniline)/phosphotungstic acid nanohybrid electrode, International Journal of Energy Research 2021, 45, 8180-8188 (SCI, Impact Factor: 3.741)

26. M Suba Lakshmi, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Mohd Rafie Johan, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, Dhanusuraman Ragupathy*, Phosphotungstic Acid-Titania Loaded Polyaniline Nanocomposite as Efficient Methanol Electro-Oxidation Catalyst in Fuel Cells, International Journal of Energy Research 2021, 45, 8243-8254 (SCI, Impact Factor: 3.741)

27. E. Muthusankar, D.Ragupathy, C. Bavatharani, Pei-Chien Tsai, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Vinoth Kumar Ponnusamy, Poly(diphenylamine) and its Nanohybrids for Chemicals and Biomolecules Analysis: A Review, Current Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 17 (SCIE, Impact Factor: 1.365)

28. Tae Young Kim, Seong Bin Jo, Jin Hyeok Woo, Jong Heon Lee, Ragupathy Dhanusuraman, Soo Chool Lee, Jae Chang Kim, Investigation of Co–Fe–Al Catalysts for High-Calorific Synthetic Natural Gas Production: Pilot-Scale Synthesis of Catalysts, Catalysts, 2021 11, 105(SCIE, Impact Factor: 4.146)

29. C. Bavatharani, E. Muthusankar, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Zeid Abdullah Alothman, Khalid M. Alsheetan, Murefah mana AL-Anazy, D.Ragupathy*, Electrospinning technique for Production of Polyaniline Nanocomposites/Nanofibres for Multi-functional Applications: A review

30. Vishnu Sankar Sivasankarapillai, Tata Sanjay Kanna Sharma, Kuo-Yuan Hwa, Saikh Mohammad Wabaidur, Subramania Angaiah, Ragupathy Dhanusuraman*, 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) for sensing applications - A recent mini review, Sensor Letters 2021 (Scopus Indexed)

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

1. A Karpagaraj, N Rajesh Kumar, N Siva Shanmugam, Prof. Dr. K.Sankaranarayanasamy, Murali mohan Cheepu, “Simulation and Experimental Studies on Arc Efficiency and Mechanical Characterization for GTA-Welded Ti–6Al–4V Sheets”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 45(11), 9639- 9650, 2020, Impact factor-1.711.

2. R Duraisamy, S Mohan Kumar, A Rajesh Kannan, N Siva Shanmugam, Prof. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, M.R Ramesh, “Tribological performance of wire arc additive manufactured 347 austenitic stainless steel under unlubricated conditions at elevated temperatures”, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 56, 306- 321, 2020, Impact factor-4.086.

3. M.V.A. Raju Bahubalendruni, VP Varupala, “Disassembly Sequence Planning for safe disposal of End of Life waste electric electronic equipment”, (National Academy of Science Letters), ISSN: 2250- 1754, July 2020 [Indexed: SCI].

4. M.V.A. Raju Bahubalendruni, AK Gulivindala, SSVP Varupala, KSN Samy, “A Heuristic Method with a novel Stability concept to Perform Parallel Assembly Sequence Planning by Subassembly Detection”, ISSN: 1758-4078, May 2020, [Indexed: SCI].

5. Gunji BM, Pabba SK, Rajaram IR, Sorakayala PS, Dubey A, Deepak BB, Biswal BB, Bahubalendruni MR. “Optimal disassembly sequence generation and disposal of parts using stability graph cut-set method for End of Life product.” Sādhanā. 2021;46(1):1-5. DOI: 10.1007/s12046-020-01525-9 (SCIE, IF= 0.849)

6. Bahubalendruni MR, Varupala VP. Disassembly Sequence Planning for Safe Disposal of End of Life Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment. National Academy Science Letters. 2020 Jul 18:1- 5 (SCIE Indexed)https://doi.org/10.1007/s40009- 020-00994-0.

7. Kolur DK, Yadav S, Gulvindala AK, Bahubalendruni MV. A Framework to Facilitate Automated Assembly Sequence Planning in Design Strategies. International Journal of Performability Engineering.2020 Oct 1;16(10). (Scopus Indexed) https://doi.org/10.23940/ijpe.20.10.p3.15171524.

8. Gulivindala AK, Bahubalendruni MR, Varupala SP, Ravi C. Exponential Moving Average Modelled Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Efficient Disassembly Sequence Planning towards Practical Feasibility. International Journal of Performability Engineering. 2021 Mar 27;17(3):289. DOI: 10.23940/ijpe.21.03. p4.289298. (SCOPUS)

9. Uppada, S., Suraparaju, S.K., Bahubalendruni, M.R. and Natarajan, S.K., 2020. Optimization of Process Parameters in Resistance Spot Welding Using Artificial Immune Algorithm. In Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (pp. 477-485). Springer, Singapore.


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10. Vadivukkarasan, M., and M. V. Panchagnula. (2020). “Destabilization characteristics of three dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor mechanism on a cylindrical interface” Meccanica 55, 69-86.

11. Dr. M. Vadivukkarasan, M. Transition from absolute to convective instability in a compound jet. European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids Volume: 84, 186-192, November–December 2020.

12. Vadivukkarasan, M. Temporal instability characteristics of Rayleigh–Taylor and Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanisms of an inviscid cylindrical interface. Meccanica (In Press)., 25th November 2020.

13. Vadivukkarasan, M., Dhivyaraja, K. and M. V. Panchagnula. “Breakup morphology of expelled respiratory liquid: From the perspective of hydrodynamic instabilities” (Featured article). Physics of Fluids, 32, 9, 2020.

14. Sahu, Susant Kumar, and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan. “Design and development of a low-cost solar parabolic dish concentrator system with manual dual-axis tracking.” International Journal of Energy Research (2020).

15. Kumar, K.R., Chaitanya, N.K. and Kumar, N. Sendhil Kumar., 2020. “Solar Thermal Energy Technologies and its Applications for Process Heating and Power Generation–A Review.” Journal of Cleaner Production, p.125296.

16. Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, “Performance analysis of single slope solar desalination setup with natural fiber”. Desalination and Water Treatment, 193 (2020) 64–71.

17. Suraparaju, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, S.K. Experimental investigation of single-basin solar still using solid staggered fins inserted in paraffin wax PCM bed for enhancing productivity. Environ Sci Pollut Res (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020- 11980-w .

18. Elangovan Elavarasan, and Sendhil K. Natarajan. “Effects of pre-treatments on quality attributes, moisture diffusivity, and activation energy of solar dried ivy gourd.” Journal of Food Process Engineering (2021): e13653. (SCI-Expanded - Journal Impact Factor: 1.703)

19. Elangovan Elavarasan, and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan “Experimental Research of Drying Characteristic of Red Banana in a Single Slope Solar Dryer Based on Natural and Forced Convection”. Vol. 59 (2), Food Technology and Biotechnology (2021), (SCI-Expanded Journal Impact Factor: 2.115)

20. Sendhil Kumar Natarajan “Effect of Pre-treatments of Dried Red Banana in a Single Slope Solar Dryer (Journal of Food Process Engineering – Accepted for Publication DOI: 10.1111/jfpe.13653.

21. Sahu Susant Kumar, and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan. “Design and development of a low‐cost solar parabolic dish concentrator system with manual dual‐axis tracking.” International Journal of Energy Research (2020). (SCI Journal Impact Factor: 3.741)

22. Selvam, M.D. and Sivaram, N.M., 2020. A comparative study on the surface finish achieved during turning operation of AISI 4340 steel in flooded, near-dry and dry conditions. Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 18(3), pp.457-466.

23. G. Yoganjaneyulu, K. Anand Babu, S. Vigneshwaran, C. Sathiya Narayanan, Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Cryorolled Al-6Zn-3Mg-2Cu-0.5Sc alloy, Journal: Materials Letters, Volume No: 255, Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2019.126606, [Index: SCI].

24. S. Vigneshwaran, R. Madhavan, G. Yoganjaneyulu, R. Narayanasamy, Study on Forming and Fracture Behaviour of Continuous Annealed, Batch Annealed and Cold Rolled SS 430 Sheet Metals, Journal: Materials Today: Proceedings, Volume No: in-press, 2020, Article number: 15710 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matpr.2020.06.032 ,[In- dex: Scopus].

25. R. Palanivel, S. Vigneshwaran, A. Alshqirate, R. Madhavan, P. Venkatachalam, R. F. Laubscher, “Effect of machining process parameters and number of pass on compaction behaviour of commercially pure aluminium chips consolidated by Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP) using response surface methodology”, Journal: Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, 2021, [Index: SCI].

26. S. Vigneshwaran, R. Palanivel, Adel Alblawi, R. F. Laubscher, Tensile and wear behaviour of MMCs reinforced with metallic particles using solid-state technique, Composites and Composite Coatings: Mechanical and Tribological Aspects, [Index: Scopus].

27. S. Vigneshwaran, P. Seenuvasaperumal, C. Chinthanai Selvan, R. Palanivel, Hybrid manufacturing route for the fabrication of high strength and wear resistant aluminium metal matrix composites produced by stir casting followed by cryorolling “Composites and Composite Coatings: Mechanical and Tribological Aspects”, Mohamed Thariq Bin Haji Hameed Sultan, S. Arulvel, K. Jayakrishna [Index: Scopus].


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DEPARTMENT OF EEE:1. Jambulingam Jawahar Babu, Vinopraba Thirumavalavan,”

Switch mode Luo converter with power factor correction and fast regulation”, Soft Computing, 2020.

2. Sateesh Kumar Vavilala, Vinopraba T., Chandrasekaran K., “Level control of a conical tank using the fractional-order controller”, Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, 87(2020).

3. Sateesh Kumar V., Vinopraba T., “Tuning of the two degree of freedom FOIMC based on the Smith predictor”, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Springer, 2021.

4. Sateesh Kumar V., Vinopraba T., Radhakrishnan T. K., Sivakumaran N., Design of the fractional-order internal model controller using the swarm intelligence techniques for the coupled tank system, Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2021.

5. Jambulingam Jawahar Babu, Vinopraba Thirumavalavan,” Fixed frequency control with modified PSO-PIλDµ for Power Factor Correction and Fast Regulation”, International Journal of Engineering systems modelling and Simulation 2021.

6. Sateesh Kumar Vavilala, Vinopraba T., Analytical design of the fractional-order controller and robustness verification, IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation, 10(1), 10-23, 2021.

7. Jambulingam Jawahar Babu, Vinopraba Thirumavalavan,” Variable Duty Cycle Control with PSO-PI Controller for Power Factor Correction and Fast Regulation”, Institution of Engineers-series B, 2021.

8. Jambulingam Jawahar Babu, Vinopraba Thirumavalavan,” Fixed frequency control with modified PSO-PIλDµ for Power Factor Correction and Fast Regulation”, International journal of Engineering systems modeling and Simulation 2021.

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING1. Shimpi, V., Subramanian, M.V.R., and Singh, S.B.,

2021. Serviceability analysis and increased axle load performance of heritage arch gallery railway bridges. Journal of Construction, doi.org/10.7764/rdlc.20.1.178. Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile. [SCIE, SCOPUS indexed]

2. Shimpi, V., Subramanian, M.V.R., and Singh, S.B., 2021. Seismic Vulnerability and Fragility Curves for Bridge No. 541 Of UNESCO Recognized Kalka Shimla Mountain Railways. SN Applied Science, doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04652-y, Springer Nature [ESCI, SCOPUS indexed]

3. Shimpi, V., Subramanian, M.V.R., and Singh, S.B., 2021. Present-day status and numerical modelling of heritage masonry bridges of Kalka Shimla Mountain Railways. International Journal of Masonry Innovation and Research – Inderscience [Accepted for publication– ESCI, SCOPUS indexed]

4. Thyagaraj, T., Julina, M., 2021. Effect of physico-chemical interactions and cyclic wet-dry process on behaviour of compacted expansive soils. Indian Geotechnical Journal, doi.org/10.1007/s40098-021-00518-7. Springer [SCOPUS Indexed]

5. Julina, M., Thyagaraj, T., 2021. Effect of gradient on swell and hydraulic response of desiccated expansive soil-an experimental study, International Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, doi.org/10.1080/19386362.2021.1902117. Taylor and Francis. [SCOPUS Indexed]

4.5.2 CONFERENCE PAPERS

DEPARTMENT OF CSE1. P.Valarmathi, R.Dhanalakshmi, Narendran Rajagopalan,

“Diversification-oriented accuracy prediction in Recommender-systems”, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

2. Muppana Mahesh Reddy, R Sujithra Kanmani, Dr.B.Surendiran, “Analysis of Movie Recommenda- tion Systems; with and without considering the low rated movies”, 2020 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ic-ETITE), 2020, P:1-4, IEEE Explore.

3. Muppana Mahesh Reddy, R Sujithra Kanmani Dr.B.Surendiran, Analysis of Movie Recommendation Systems; with and without considering the low rated movies, 2020 International Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology and Engineering (ic-ETITE), 2020, P:1-4, IEEE Explore.

4. Bommareddy Lokesh, Narendran Rajagopalan, “A Blockchain-based security model for SDNs”, IEEE- CONECCT 2020 held during july 2-4, 2020.


1. Jack J Kenned, Prof.Dr.K. Sankaranarayanasamy, V. Kalyanavalli, C. Suresh Kumar. Characterization of indentation damage resistance and thermal diffusivity of needle punched Musa Sapientum cellulosic fiber/unsaturated polyester composites laminates using IR thermography, Polymer Composites, 41(7): 2933 2946, July 2020.


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2. J. Ronald Aseer, S.R. Elsen and Prof. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, In the Proceedings of First International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy (ICOFT 2020), 28 - 30 December 2020, National institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India, “Experimental Investigation on Properties of Acetic Acid Treated Banana Fiber Polymer Composites”.

3. Jack J Kenned, Prof. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, C. Suresh Kumar. Chemical, biological and nanoclay treatments for natural plant fiber reinforced polymer composites: A review, Polymer and Polymer Composites, Accepted on 20th June 2020.

4. Jack J Kenned, Prof. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, C. Suresh Kumar. Anatomical, mechanical and fractographic characterization of needle punched Musa Sapientum cellulosic fiber/UPE composites, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Accepted on 04th May 2020.

5. Sahu, Susant Kumar, N. Sendhil Kumar, and T. Ganapathy. “Experimental Investigation of Solar Powered Vapor Compression Air Conditioner with Indian Climatic Condition.” In Advances in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 1291-1302. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

6. Saketh Mavuduru and Vaishnav Mahendrakar, Arjun Singh K, N Sendhil Kumar, A Case Study on the efficiency of Solar Photovoltaic Panels installed on Vehicle Body on varying the parameter of Temperature, in the proceedings of International Conference on Future Technologies 2020 (ICOFT 2020) in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy” (MADE@NITPY), 28-30th December 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

7. Gudapati Kartheek, Kalyanam Yadagiri, Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Thermal Management System for Electric Vehicle Battery Cooling Modules, in the proceedings of International Conference on Future Technologies 2020 (ICOFT 2020) in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy” (MADE@NITPY), 28-30th December 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

8. Shane Alex, Sreerag A, Subbarama Kousik Sura- paraju and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Novel Solar Desalination System Using Ultraviolet Disinfection and Water Pasteurization in the proceedings of International Conference on Future Technologies 2020 (ICOFT 2020) in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy” (MADE@NITPY), 28-30th December 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

9. Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, A State of Art Survey on Application of Photovoltaic – Thermal System in Desalination by Solar Still. Published in Proceedings of International Conference on ENERGY, MATERIALS SCIENCES & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – 2020, 30th October to 1st November 2020, Organized by NIT Delhi.

10. Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Mathematical Modeling and Perfor- mance Analysis of Single Slope Solar Desalination System. Published in Proceedings of International Conference on ENERGY, MATERIALS SCIENCES & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING – 2020, 30th October to 1st November 2020, Organized by NIT Delhi.

11. Elavarasan E, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Anagh S Bhanu, Anandu A, Senin H M Experimental Investigation of Drying Cucumber in a Double Slope Solar Dryer under Natural Convection and Open Sun Drying. Published in the Proceedings of International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences [ICITFES - 2020], 10th–12th February 2020, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Rourkela.

12. Elavarasan E, Yogesh Kumar, Mouresh R, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Study of Drying Kinetics of Tomato in a Solar Dryer, Published in the Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development – 2020. 24th - 26th July 2020, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITER, S ‘O’A Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar.

13. Elavarasan E, Yogesh Kumar, Mouresh R, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, ‘Study of Drying Kinetics of Tomato in a Solar Dryer’, Presented in International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development, Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), 24th to 25th July 2020, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

14. Anagh S Bhanu, Elavarasan E, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Anandu A, Senin H M., ‘Experimental Investigation of Drying Kinetics of Poovam Banana Under Forced Convection Solar Drying’ Presented in International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development Organized by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University) held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 24th to 25th July 2020.


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15. Anagh S Bhanu, Elavarasan E, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Anandu A, Senin H M, Experimental Investigation of Drying Kinetics of Poovan Banana under Forced Convection Solar Drying, Published in the Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering Research and Development – 2020. 24th - 26th July 2020, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ITER, S ‘O’A Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar.

16. Elavarasan E, Yogesh Kumar, Mouresh R, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Experimental Investigation of Drying Tomato in a Double Slope Solar Dryer under Natural Convection ((Proceedings of International Conference on ENERGY, MATERIALS SCIENCES & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - 2020,30th October to 1st November 2020, Organized by NIT Delhi.

17. Elavarasan E, Anagh S Bhanu, Yogesh Kumar, Mouresh R, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Energy and Exergy Analysis of Poovan Banana under Single Slope Forced and Natural Convection Solar Drying (Proceedings of International Conference on ENERGY, MATERIALS SCIENCES & MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - 2020- 30th October to 1st November 2020, Organized by NIT Delhi.

18. Jegan M and Vadivukkarasan, M. “Atomization characteristics of a Porous injector” Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovations in Thermo-Fluid Engineering and Sciences [ICITFES - 2020] NIT Rourkela, India, 10-12 February 2020.

19. P. Sugunesh, A. Johnney Mertens, “2D FEA Study of Hertzian Contact Stress between Two Cylindrical Bodies, Material today: Proceedings, iCADMA, MNIT Jaipur, November 5-6, 2020.

20. Mr. Dara Ashok, Dr.M.V.A. Raju Bahubalendruni, Dr. Johnney Mertens. A, “Topology Optimization of Bench Problems - Stress and deformation Perspective” December 2020

DEPARTMENT OF ECE1. Malaya Kumar Nath, Aniruddha Kanhe, M

Madhusudhan, “A Novel Deep Learning Approach for Classification of COVID-19 Images”, 5th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (IC- CCA20202), Organised by Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania & Galgotias University, October 2020

2. Mithun Kumar Kar and Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath, “ Retinal Vessel Segmentation and Disc detection from Color Fundus Images using Inception Module and Residual

Connection”, 3rd international conference on Recent Trends in Advanced Computing- Artificial Intelligence and Technology (ICRTAC-AIT 2020), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 18 December 2020.

3. D.Vijayalakshmi and Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath„ “ A Compendious Analysis of Advances in HE methods for Contrast Enhancement”, Advances in VLSI, Communication, and Signal Processing, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (LNEE), Vol:683, pp:325-346, 15 october 2020.

4. Poonguzhali Elangovan, Malaya Kumar Nath, and Madhusudan Mishra, “Statistical parameters for glaucoma detection from color fundus images”, Third International Conference on Computing and Communications (CoCoNet’19), Procedia Computer Science, vol.171, June 2020, pp. 2675-2683. DoI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.04.290

5. Mithun Kumar Kar and Malaya Kumar Nath, “ Retinal Vessel Segmentation and Disc detection from Color Fundus Images using Inception Module and Residual Connection”, 3rd international conference on Recent Trends in Advanced Computing- Artificial Intelligence and Technology (ICRTAC-AIT 2020), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 18 December 2020.

6. S.S. Sherekar, V.M. Thankre, Ankita Koleshwar, Aniruddha Kanhe, “ Analytical Classification of Sybil Attack Detection Techniques” 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Communication Technologies and Internet of Things, Springer Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Commu- nications Technologies ISSN: 2367-4512, August 2020

7. Praveen Kumar Kasetty and Aniruddha Kanhe, “Covert speech communication through audio steganography using DWT and SVD”, in IEEE 11th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kharagpur, India, 2020.

8. Meera, K. and Boopathi Rani, R. (2021) Comparison on the Performance of Different Types of MUSIC Algorithm for the Direction of Arrival Estimation, The 13th International Virtual Conference, Antenna Test and Measurement Society, 18-20 February 2021. Publisher: Springer

9. Merlin Teresa, P., and Boopathi Rani, R. (2021) Design of Compact Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna for UWB Applications, The 13th International Virtual Conference, Antenna Test and Measurement Society, 18-20 February 2021. Publisher: Springer


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10. Muthu Ramya C and Boopathi Rani.R., (2020) “A Compendious Review on Fractal Antenna Geometries in Wireless Communication.” In 2020 International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT), pp. 888-893. IEEE.

11. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Nagarajan Sugan, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, Malaya Kumar Nath, and Aniruddha Kanhe, “Digital architecture for instantaneous V/UV/S classification of noise free speech segments”, in IEEE 24th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2020), Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, 23-25 July, 2020.

12. G. Rohith, L. S. Kumar, “Remote sensing signature classification of agriculture detection using deep convolution network models”, in Springer International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences (MIND2020), Springer CCIS book Series MIND 2020, CCIS 1240, pp. 1-13, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India, June 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6315-7-28

13. Annapurna. S. M, M. Anitha and Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Aerosol Classification Using Machine Learning Algorithms”, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), 21 November 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

14. Sruthy C Sebastian, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar and Pugazhenthi A, “Satellite Cloud Segmentation Based on Machine Learning Algorithms”, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS– 2020), 21 November 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal

15. Jayanthi. B and Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Implementation of Neural Networks in FPGA- Survey”, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), 21 November 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

16. G. Rohith, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Pansharpening for Better Spectral and Spatial clarity”, 5th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS-2020), 14-16 October 2020, IIT Patna.

17. Pugazhenthi A and Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Selection of Optimal Number of Clusters and Centroids for K-means and Fuzzy C-means Clustering: A Review”, 5th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS- 2020), 14-16 October 2020, IIT Patna.

18. M. Anitha, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Ground based remote sensing of aerosols using AERONET in Indian Region”, IEEE International Conference on Wireless

Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WISPNET), 4-6 August 2020, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai.

19. Pugazhenthi A and Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Cloud Extraction from INSAT-3D Satellite Image by K- Means and Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Algorithms,” International Conference on Systems, Computation, Automation and Networking (ICSCAN 2020), 3-4 July, 2020, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Puducherry.

20. R Srivatsan, S Badrinath and Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “Autonomous chess-playing robotic arm using Raspberry PI”, International Conference on Systems, Computation, Automation and Networking (ICSCAN 2020), 3-4 July, 2020, Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Puducherry.

21. Manjusha Sreedharan, Shalini Mohanraj, Lakshmi Sutha Kumar, “An Audio Aided Face and Text Recognition System for Visually Impaired” International Virtual Conference on Industry 4.0, 6-7 July, 2020, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai,.

22. Rasheed Abdul Haq K.P., V. P. Harigovindan, “Scheduling based energy efficient water quality monitoring system for aquaculture”, in International Conference on Paradigms of Computing, Communication and Data Sciences (PCCDS-2020), National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, May 2020. [Status: Accepted].

23. Rasheed Abdul Haq K.P., V. P. Harigovindan, “Water quality monitoring and reporting system for aquaculture with solar energy harvesting”, in International Conference on Smart Technologies in Computing, Electrical and Electronics (ICSTCEE 2020), REVA University, Bengaluru, India. [Status: Accepted].

24. M. Mahesh, V.P. Harigovindan, “Traffic aware RAW slot allocation scheme for heterogeneous IoT networks”, in International Conference On Advances in Systems, Control and Computing (AISCC) 2020, Algorithms for Intelligence Systems Series, Springer, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, Feb 2020

25. M. Mahesh, V.P. Harigovindan, “Through put enhancement of IEEE 802.11ah RAW mechanism using ANN”, in IEEE International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICMICA) 2020, IEEE Delhi Sec- tion, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, April 2020.

26. Vaddi Lakshmi Anusha,S.Sai Dharani,Nishi Pragya Lakra,V.P.Harigovindan, “TXOP based service differ- entiation for millimeter(mm) wave wireless LAN” International Conference on Advances in Comput- ing,


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Communication, Embedded and Secure Sys- tems (ACCESS’ 20), May, 2020.

27. Veerapu Goutham., Harigovindan V. P. “Optimized Incremental Cooperative Communication for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”, 7th IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON2020), MNNIT Allahabad.

28. Goutham, V., and Harigovindan, V.P, “Optimized Incremental Cooperative Communication for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks” in IEEE 7th Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (UPCON) Prayagraj, India, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/UPCON50219.2020.9376522.

29. K.M. Aishwarya, Timothy Sandra, M. Surendar, “A survey on D2D and V2X communication: Taxon- omy and Challenges,” in International Conference on Communication Computing and Signal Processing, NIT Jalandhar, July, 2020

30. K Srinivasarao, M Surendar,” Outage Analysis of Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Scheme Over Rician Fading Channel “, 2020 IEEE 4th Conference on Information & Communication Technology (CICT), IIITDM Kancheepuram.

31. M. Mahesh and V. P. Harigovindan, “Performance enhancement of restricted access window mechanism based on fuzzy logic for IoT networks,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Applications (IC3A), Lucknow, India, 2020, pp. 275-279,DOI:10.1109/IC3A48958.2020.233313. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/ 9077132

32. T N Sreedhar, Goutham V., Harigovindan V. P. A Survey of Energy Harvesting Techniques and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for UASNs, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS2020), NIT Puducherry (Accepted).

33. B. S. Pavan, M. Mahesh and V. P. Harigovindan, “Performance anomaly of Group-Synchronized Distributed Coordination Function in IEEE 802.11ah based Multi-rate IoT Networks,” 2020 5th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS), Patna, 2020, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1109/ICCCS49678.2020.9277378.

34. P Swetha, Rasheed Abdul Haq, V P Harigovindan, “Random Forest Regression based Water Quality Prediction System for Aquaculture” National Conference

on Communication Systems (NCSOCS- 2020) conducted by NIT Puducherry on 21st November 2020.

35. M. Mahesh, B. S. Pavan, and V. P. Harigovindan, “Data rate-based grouping using machine learning to improve the aggregate throughput of IEEE 802.11ah multi-rate IoT networks’,” IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (IEEE ANTS), IIIT Delhi 2020.

36. M. Mahesh, B.S. Pavan, V. P. Harigovindan, “Data rate-based grouping using machine learning to improve the aggregate throughput of IEEE 802.11ah multi-rate IoT networks,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) New Delhi, India, 2020, pp. 1-5.

37. Poonguzhali Elangovan and Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath, “Performance Analysis of Optimizers for Glaucoma diagnosis from Fundus Images using Transfer learning”, Machine learning, Deep learning and Computational Intelligence workshop (MDCWC 2020), National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappali, 24 October 2020.

38. Poonguzhali Elangovan, D. Vijayalakshmi and Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath “Detection of Glaucoma from Fundus Image using Pre-Trained Densenet201 Model”, 2nd National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS-2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020

39. D. Vijayalakshmi, Poonguzhali Elangovan and Dr.Malaya Kumar Nath„ “Renyi Entropy-based Bi-Histogram Equalization for Contrast Enhancement of MRI Brain Images”, 2nd National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS-2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020.

40. Boopathi Rani, R. and Pandey, S. K. (2020). Printed CPW-fed dual-band antenna using square closed-ring and square split-ring resonator. Applied Physics A, 126(8), 1-8.

41. Muthu Ramya C. and Boopathi Rani, R. (2020) Parasitic-fed Hilbert Curve Fractal Antenna in Dodecagon Slotted Ground Plane, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020.

42. Rajasri S., and Boopathi Rani, R. (2020) Design and Analysis of hexagon loop inscribed square shaped Unit cell for Frequency Selective Surface, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020.


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43. Meera, K., Boopathi Rani, R and Paramita Gu. (2020) Modelling and Analysis of Nonlinear Electrodynamic Induction Heating System Using Finite Element Method, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020.

44. Muthu Ramya C. and Boopathi Rani, R. (2020) Parasiticfed Hilbert Curve Fractal Antenna in Dodecagon Slotted Ground Plane, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020.

45. Ramkumar S., and Boopathi Rani, R. (2020) Compact WLAN notched Ultra Wide Band band pass filter with wide stop band, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020.

46. Merlin Teresa C., and Boopathi Rani, R. (2020) Review on Design of Metamaterial Based Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna, National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS – 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, 21 November 2020

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & HUMANTIES

1. M. Dharmalingam, Dr.G.S. Mahapatra, Fuzzy logistic differential equation with application using generalized trapezoidal fuzzy number, AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2261, 030014 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0017168

4.5.3 BOOK CHAPTERS


1. Sahu, S. K., Kumar, N. S., & Singh, K. A. (2021). Design and Development of Concentrated Solar Cooker with Parabolic Dish Concentrator. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (pp. 621-631). Springer, Singapore.

2. Elavarasan E, Y. Kumar, Mouresh R, and S. K. Natarajan. Study of Drying Kinetics of Tomato in a Solar Dryer. In Current Advances in Mechanical Engineering. 2021:349–358.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3_33.

3. Anagh S. Bhanu, E. Elavarasan, Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, A. Anandu, H. M. Senin. Experimental Investigation of Drying Kinetics of Poovan Banana under Forced Convection Solar Drying. In Current Advances in

Mechanical Engineering. 2021:621–631.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4795-3_56.

4. Sahu, Susant Kumar, N. Sendhil Kumar, and T. Ganapathy. “Experimental Investigation of Solar Powered Vapor Compression Air Conditioner with Indian Climatic Condition.” In Advances in Mechanical Engineering, pp. 1291-1302. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

5. Sahu, S. K., Kumar, N. Sendhil Kumar., & Singh, K. A. (2021). Design and Development of Concentrated Solar Cooker with Parabolic Dish Concentrator. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (pp. 621- 631). Springer, Singapore

6. Uppada, Sudhakar, Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, MVA Raju Bahubalendruni, and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan. “Optimization of Process Parameters in Resistance Spot Welding Using Artificial Immune Algorithm.” In Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, pp. 477-485. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

7. Uppada, Sudhakar, Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, MVA Raju Bahubalendruni, and Sendhil Kumar Natarajan. “Optimization of Process Parameters in Resistance Spot Welding Using Artificial Immune Algorithm.” In Innovative Product Design and Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, pp. 477-485. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

8. P.S. Srivathsan, Praveen Ramanujam, K. Prasanth, S. Soma Sundaram, “A study on the combustion characteristics of dieseline blend in HCCI engines” (ICoFT 2020) National Institute of Technology Puducherry. Karaikal, India

DEPARTMENT OF ECE1. Pavan B.S., Mahesh M., Harigovindan V.P. (2021) IEEE

802.11ah for Internet of Vehicles: Design Issues and Challenges. In: Gupta N., Prakash A., Tripathi R. (eds) Internet of Vehicles and its Applications in Autonomous Driving. Unmanned System Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46335-9_4

2. Pavan B.S., Mahesh M., Harigovindan V.P. (2021) “IEEE 802.11ah for Internet of Vehicles: Design Issues and Challenges”. Internet of Vehicles and its Applications in Autonomous Driving. Unmanned System Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46335-94.

3. Rajasri S and R. Boopathi Rani (2020) Analysis of Unit Cell with and without Splits for Understanding Metamaterial Property, Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2020), Publisher: Springer.


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4. Muthu Ramya C and R. Boopathi Rani (2020) Design of CPW-fed Dodecagon Monopole Antenna for Ultra-wideband Applications with Hilbert Curve Fractal, Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2020), Publisher: Springer.

5. Boopathi Rani R, T.N.Sreedhar Kumar and S. Padmavathi (2020) Frequency Selective Structures and its Applications, Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2020), Publisher: Springer.

6. Boopathi Rani R, P. Reshma and S. Ramkumar (2020) Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filters A Review, Virtual International Conference on Fu- turistic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2020), Publisher: Springer.

7. Rani R, Dilshad Wahab, George Benedict Dung Dung and Meruva Reddy Sai Seshadri (2020) Cattle Health Monitoring and Tracking System, 3rd International Conference on VLSI, Communication and Signal Processing (VCAS 2020), Publisher: Springer.

8. Boopathi Rani R, P. Reshma and S. Ramkumar (2020) Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filters - A Review, Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2020), Publisher: Springer.

9. Boopathi Rani R, A. Preetha and S. Gnanavalli (2020) Design and Development of Automatic System to Protect Crop from Animals and Birds, International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design & Energy (Virtual Mode) (ICoFT 2020), Publisher: Springer Nature.

10. Boopathi Rani R„ N. Bavithran and S. Prasannakumar (2020) Design and Development of Home Automation System, International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design & Energy (Virtual Mode) (ICoFT 2020), Publisher: Springer Nature.

11. Muthuramya C, Boopathi Rani, “Design of CPW fed Dodecagon Monopole Antenna for Ultra wideband Applications with Hilbert Curve Fractal” in Virtual International Conference on Futuristic Communication and Network Technologies (VICFCNT 2020)”, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai on 07/11/2020.

12. M. K Nath, Aniruddha Kanhe, “A Detailed Study on AI based Diagnosis of Novel CoronaVirus from Radiograph Images” in the Book “Computational Modelling and Data Analysis in COVID-19 Research” to be published by CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).

DEPARTMENTC OF CSE 1. Dr.Chandrasekar Ravi and Praveensankar Manimaran.

“Introduction of blockchain and usage of blockchain in internet of things.” In Transforming Businesses With Bitcoin Mining and Blockchain Applications, pp. 1-15. IGI Global, 2020.

DEPARTMENT OF EEE1. A.Venkadesan ‘Harmonic Current Estimation of a Non-

linear Load Using Artificial Neural Network. Intelligent Paradigms for Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Systems (Springer), pp. 337-359 (Scopus). December 2020.

2. A.Venkadesan, K Sedhuraman, S Himavathi, A Chitra. (July 2020), ‘A New Approach for Flux Computation Using Intelligent Technique for Direct Flux Oriented Control of Asynchronous Motor. Artificial Intelligent Techniques for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (John Wiley & Sons), pp. 219-232 (Scopus).

3. MV Sarin, A Chitra, P Sanjeevikumar, A Venkadesan . (July 2020), ‘Induction Motor Control Schemes for Hybrid Electric Vehicles/Electric Vehicles. Artificial Intelligent Techniques for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (John Wiley & Sons ), pp. 165-177 (Scopus).

4. A Venkadesan, K Sedhuraman, S Himavathi, A Chitra.(July 2020), “A New Approach for Flux Computation Using Intelligent Technique for Direct Flux Oriented Control of Asynchronous Motor” Artificial Intelligent Techniques for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (John Wiley & Sons), pp. 219-232 (Scopus).

5. MV Sarin, A Chitra, P Sanjeevikumar, A Venkadesan.(July 2020), “Induction Motor Control Schemes for Hybrid Electric Vehicles/Electric Vehicles” Artificial Intelligent Techniques for Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (John Wiley & Sons ), pp. 165-177 (Scopus).

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & HUMANTIES

1. S. Adak, and G.S. Mahapatra, “An Inventory Model of Time and Reliability Dependent Demand with Deterioration and Partial Back ordering Under fuzziness”, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34152-7-47, Recent Advances in Intelligent Information Systems and Applied Mathematics, Springer, 2020.


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4.6 Details of the ProjectsList of Research Projects Granted during the Financial Year 2020-21

S. No.

Name of the PI

Title of the Project Funding Agency

Sanctioned Order No. &

Dated

Year of Project

Project Start Date

Project End Date

Sanctioned Amount

1 Dr. Dhayalan V

Synthesis of Bio-Active Natural Products and Potential Model COVID-19 Drug Analogs using Systematic in situ Modification of Organocatalyssts

Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB)

RJF/ 2020/ 000038,

24.08.2020

05 Years 28.12.2020 28.12.2025 1,19,00,000/-

List of Research Projects ongoing during the Financial Year 2020-21S. No.

Name of the PI Title of the Project Funding Agency Sanctioned Order No. & Dated

Year of Project

Project Start Date

Project End Date

Sanctioned Amount

1 Dr. Harigovindan V P

Mathematical Modeling and Performance Analysis of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Based Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

MATRICS SERB Scheme

MTR/2019/001228, 10.02.2020

36 Months 19.02.2020 19.02.2023 6,60,000/-

2 Dr. Dhayalan V Synthesis of Bio-Active Natural Products and Potential Model COVID-19 Drug Analogs using Systematic in situ Modification of Organocatalyssts


RJF/2020/000038, 24.08.2020

05 Years 28.12.2020 28.12.2025 1,19,00,000/-

3 Dr. Raghupathy D

Nanohybrid Materials as High Performance Anode for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells


EEQ/2018/ 000574, 15.02.2019

03 Years 22.02.2019 21.02.2022 26,98,500/-

4 Dr. Vinopraba T Internet of Things (IOT) based Smart Hybrid Renewable Energy System

Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (ICPS) - DST

DST/ICPS/ CPS/Individual/ 2018/343

(G), 14.12.2018

03 Years 14.12.2018 13.12.2021 34,34,000/-

5 Dr. Vadivukkarasan M

Novel Method of Atomization and its Design

DST-SERB DST/INSPIRE/ Faculty Award/Batch- 12/2017,

14.05.2018

05 years 04.01.2018 04.01.2023 Award amount, Research grant 5,00,000/- per

year

6 Dr. Rajan Singaravel . M.M

Development of Power Electronic Interface for Hybrid Distributed Generator based on PV-fed Wind driven Induction Generator


ECR/2017/001024, 27.06.2017

03 Years 19.07.2018 17.07.2021 27,00,170/- (16,40,831/-

alloted to NITPy)

7 Dr. Lakshmi Sutha . G

FPGA Prototype for speech recognition and Emotion Recognition form the recognized speech on FPGA for discrete and continuous HMM

SMDPC2SD Project DeitY, MCIT GOI

- 05 years Feb-15 30.11.2021 1,68,00,000/-


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S. No.

Name of the PI Title of the Project Funding Agency Sanctioned Order No. & Dated

Year of Project

Project Start Date

Project End Date

Sanctioned Amount

8 Dr. M V A Raju Bahubalendruni

An Automated Assembly Sequence Planning System to solve Parallel and Linear Assemblies


ECR/2017/000341, 03.06.2017

03 Years 03.06.2017 08.10.2020 Rs.21,84,600/- for 3 Years

(12,47,102 to NITPY)

9 Dr. Amrtha Bhide

Synthesis and Characterization of cathode materials for the sodium battery systems

UGC-DAE-CSR, IGCAR Kalpakkam as Nodal Center

CSR/KN/CRS-110/2018-19/1049, 26.12.2018

03 years 26.12.2018 31.03.2022 12,15,000/-

10 Dr. Harigovindan V P

Design and Development of IoT based Low on Cost Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting System for Aquaculture

DST - SEED, Govt. of India

SP/YO/024/2017 (G), 23.11.2017

03 years 23.11.2017 22.11.2020 17,31,178/-

4.7 Conference/Seminar Attended and Paper Presentation

4.8 Patents FiledFour patents were granted and four patents were filed from the institute by the following faculties in the year under report:

S. No

Invention Inventor Application Number

Filed Date Patent Number

Status

1 Flat Receiver for Solar Parabolic Dish Concentrator System and Method Thereof

Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering

202041011252 16/03/2021 356665 Granted 25/01/2021

1. Geetha S, and Dr.Smrutisikta Mishra have presented a paper on “Queer Identities and Conflicts in Family Relationships: A Depiction and Analysis of a Few Indian Films” in the First International Rupkatha open Conference on Recent Advances of Interdisciplinary Humanities from 20th -22nd August 2020.

2. N. M. Sivaram, Karthik Kumar, B Chandu. Influences of compaction parameters on compressive and physical properties of AZ91D/ SiC metal matrix composite through powder metallurgy.

3. Naik, D Ravi Jakhar, Sudhanshu Ranjan, Packia Antony Amalan A, (ICoFT 2020), 28 – 30 December 2020, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India.

4. Guna M, Soma Sundaram S and Palani P K3 “Exergy analysis of R1234yf and R1234ze as an alternative to R134a in a domestic refrigeration system” (ICoFT 2020), National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India.

5. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has attended “AICTE QIP Short Term Course on Principles and Advances in Electromagnetics (online) “ Organized by Indian Institute of Technology Madras from 22-03-2021 to 27-03-2021.

6. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has attended “online Advanced Techno Management programme” Organized by Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad from 15-02-2021 to 12-03-2021.


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Invention Inventor Application Number

Filed Date Patent Number

Status

2 Single Slope Solar Desalination Still Using Staggered Fins Inserted in Paraffin Wax PCM Bed


202041011253 16/03/2020 356589 Granted 25/01/2021

3 Solar Powered Electric Liquid Sprayer Device and Method Thereof


202041011254 16/03/2020 365031 Granted 21/04/2021

4 Restricted access window based method for providing differential services to group of nodes in network

Dr.V.P.Harigovindan, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE

201941012221 28/03/2019 357612 Granted 02/02/2021

5 System for storage reduction in cloud based video surveillance and method there of

Dr.G.Aghila Professor Department of CSE

202041041376 24/09/2020 - Filed

6 Virtual Sensing based Method and Apparatus for Low-cost Aquaculture Water Quality Monitoring System

Dr.V.P.Harigovindan, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE

202141025833 10/6/2021 - Filed

7 Solar desalination using pond fibres


202141019442 28/4/2021 - Filed

8 A generalized system to perform real time frame blocking on streaming samples of the digital signals

Dr.G.LakshmiSutha Assistant Professor and Head, Department of ECE

202141002332 19/01/2021 - Filed

4.9 Examinations and ResultsThe examination system of National Institute of Technology, Puducherry comprises of two cycle tests of 20 marks each, one Internal Assessment of 10 marks, and a semester examination of 50 marks per semester. In 2020-21, 4 cycle tests and 2 semester examinations were conducted (due to COVID-19 protocol, exams were conducted online). In order to assess the quality of education provided by the faculty, the External Examiners from NIT Trichy, IIT Madras etc. were engaged.

RESULTSThe details of B.Tech. (Seventh batch 2019 Passing out), M.Tech. (Fifth Batch 2019 Passing out), students and Ph.D. Scholar are given below:

DEGREE AWARDED (7th Convocation Held on 19.02.2021)Degree Male Female Total

B.Tech. Awarded (2021) 71 26 97

M.Tech. Awarded (2021) 11 13 24

Ph.D. Awarded (February 2021) 3 1 4

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Classification of DegreeDegree Department 1st class with

Distinction1st Class 2nd Class Total

B.Tech. CSE 13 11 7 31ECE 6 16 6 28EEE 4 14 4 22MECH 4 10 2 16

M.Tech. CSE 5 4 0 9ECE 6 0 0 6EEE 5 4 0 9

Grand Total 121

GOLD MEDALIST B.Tech. (2016-20 Batch)Sl. No. Department Roll No. Name CGPA1 CSE CS16B1022 S BHARATH KUMAR 9.732 EEE EE16B1009 BARANISWAR TIROUVINGUIDAME 9.523 ECE EC16B1025 VADDI LAKSHMI ANUSHA 9.474 ME ME16B1003 ANAGH S BHANU 9.11

M.Tech. (2018-20 Batch)Sl. No. Department Roll No. Name CGPA1 CSE CS18M1008 PRAVEENSANKAR M 9.822 EEE EE18M1001 ANUSHA K 9.953 ECE EC18M1005 SAI SHWETA S 9.47

Institute overall Topper: B.Tech. (2016-20 Batch)Sl. No. Department Roll No. Name CGPA1 CSE CS16B1022 S BHARATH KUMAR 9.73

Institute overall Topper: M.Tech. (2018-20 Batch)Sl. No. Department Roll No. Name CGPA1 EEE EE18M1001 ANUSHA K 9.95

End Semester Examination Results Month and Year of Examination: June 2020

Department: Civil Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 II 28 28 1002018-2022 IV 31 31 1002017-2021 VI 25 25 100Department Results 84 84 100


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Department: Computer Science and Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 II 68 67 98.52018-2022 IV 65 65 1002017-2021 VI 67 67 1002016-2020 VIII 31 31 100Department Results 231 230 99.62

Department: Computer Science and Engineering Programme: M.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2021 II 10 10 1002018-2020 IV 09 09 100Department Results 19 19 100

Department: Electronics and Communication Engineering Programme: M.Tech.


Department: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Programme: M.Tech.


Department: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 II 58 58 1002018-2022 IV 51 51 1002017-2021 VI 51 51 1002016-2020 VIII 21 21 100Department Results 181 181 100

Department: Mechanical Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 II 32 32 1002018-2022 IV 31 30 96.772017-2021 VI 29 28 96.552016-2020 VIII 16 16 100Department Results 108 106 98.33

Department: Electronics and Communication Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 II 60 60 1002018-2022 IV 63 63 1002017-2021 VI 55 55 1002016-2020 VIII 27 27 100Department Results 205 205 100


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Month and Year of Examination: December 2020Department: Civil Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 III 28 28 1002018-2022 V 31 31 1002017-2021 VII 25 25 100Department Results 84 84 100


Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 III 68 68 1002018-2022 V 67 66 98.52017-2021 VII 67 67 1002016-2020 VIII 31 31 100Department Results 202 201 99.5

Department: Computer Science and Engineering Programme: M.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2022 I 8 8 1002019-2021 III 11 11 100Department Results 19 19 100

Department: Electronics and Communication Engineering Programme: M.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2022 I 5 5 1002019-2021 III 9 8 88.89Department Results 14 13 94.44

Department: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Programme: M.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2022 I 8 8 1002019-2021 III 12 12 100Department Results 20 20 100

Department: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 III 58 58 1002018-2022 V 50 50 1002017-2021 VII 51 51 1002016-2020 VIII 21 21 100Department Results 159 159 100


Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 III 60 59 98.332018-2022 V 66 66 1002017-2021 VII 55 55 1002016-2020 VIII 27 27 100Department Results 181 180 99.44


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Month and Year of Examination: March 2021Department: Civil Engineering Programme: B.Tech.

Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2024 I 28 28 100Department Results 28 28 100


Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2024 I 65 58 89.23Department Results 65 58 89.23


Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2019-2023 III 32 32 1002018-2022 V 31 31 1002017-2021 VII 29 29 1002016-2020 VIII 16 16 100Department Results 92 92 100


Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2024 I 29 29 100Department Results 29 29 100


Batch Semester No. of Students Appeared No. of students Passed Pass Percentage2020-2024 I 62 60 96.77Department Results 62 60 96.77

Declaration of Final Year Result:2020-21Degree Department Exam

Appeared1st class with

Distinction1st Class 2nd Class Total Pass

PercentageB.Tech. Civil Engineering 25 7 15 3 25 100

Computer Science and Engineering 67 24 38 5 67 100Electronics and Communication Engineering

55 17 35 3 55 100

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

51 11 31 8 51 100

Mechanical Engineering 28 10 16 2 28 100M.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering 11 9 2 0 11 100

Communication Systems 9 7 2 0 9 100

Power Electronics 12 6 6 0 12 100Grand Total 258 100


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Administration and Non-Teaching Staff5.1 Non-Teaching Staff (Regular):

With reference to the Advertisement Notification No. NITPY/01/2019/T-NT/03072019 Dated: 03.07.2019, the following Non-Teaching Staff joined the Institute

SL. No. Name Designation Department D.O.J1 Dharmavarapu Sindhu Assistant Librarian Administration 01.08.20202 Satheesh Babu R Technical Assistant ECE 03.06.20203 Mugilan S U Technical Assistant Mechanical 05.06.20204 Kavitha K Stenographer Administration 03.06.20205 Anoosha J Junior Assistant Administration 03.06.20206 Kausalya K Junior Assistant Administration 03.06.20207 Mahalakshmi M Technician ECE 03.06.20208 Mooventhan V Technician CSE 03.06.20209 Balamurugan R Technician EEE 03.06.202010 Prakash P Technician Physics 03.06.202011 Sriraman K Technician Mechanical 05.06.202012 Gopinath A Technician EEE 25.06.202013 Ajithraj R A Technician CSE 26.06.202014 Vithyasahar U Office Attendant Administration 03.06.202015 Rageshwar S Office Attendant Administration 08.06.202016 Pradheep Kumar M Technical Assistant Civil 05.06.2020

5.2 Joining of Advisor (Accounts) – on ContractShri. R. V. Madhusudan, Retired, Accounts Officer, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Department of Atomic Energy, Kalpakkam has joined as a Consultant (Accounts) with effect from 02.12.2019 with a consolidated remuneration of Rs. 40,000/- per month as per the appointment letter No. NITPY/Esst./2019/694/1285 dated: 02.12.2019 for the period of Six months. His services were extended for a period of Six Months with effect from 02.06.2020 & further extension with effect from 02.12.2020.

5.3 Joining of Temporary Medical

Officer – on ContractDr. Jenifer Raj. R, has joined the Institute as Temporary Medical Officer (on Contract) with effect from 06.12.2018 vide appointment letter No. NIT-PY/MED/2018/006/151/5295 dated: 04.12.2018 initially for the period of Six (6) months. Extension of services of TMO for a period of Six (6) months with effect from 18.05.2020 and further extension with effect from 23.11.2020.

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Infrastructure6.1 Land

The Govt. of Puducherry, Dept. of Revenue and Disaster Management, Puducherry vide G.O.Ms. No. 60 dated 4.2.2011 transferred 16.01.50 Hectares (approximately 39.5 acres) of Govt. of Puducherry puramboke lands and completed the acquiring of private lands measuring 218.5 acres.

The Govt. of Puducherry, Chief Secretariat (Edn), Puducherry vide G.O.Ms. No.105 dated 16.11.2012 transferred 88.52.80 Hectares of private lands acquired for the establishment of National Institute of Technology Puducherry at Poovam and Thiruvettakudy villages in Karaikal.

6.2 Classrooms & Administrative OfficeNIT Puducherry administrative office along with the academic office, R&D office, and other necessary offices along with T&P cell were shifted to the New Admin block after the inauguration of the New Admin Block. The classes have been running in the Science block, with a few classes and labs running in the New Admin Block. All of the classrooms and labs in the campus are wifi-enabled. Two-seater/Three-seater desks & benches allocated in all classrooms. In each classroom, green board and power point presentation facilities are made available. Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor/Faculty and Staff are allotted separate rooms. The Central library is situated in the second floor of the Science block with centralized air condition. Further purchase processes for different required furnitures/equipment for Faculty/Staff room, Library. Establishment of new laboratories set up and upgradation of existing labs have been started in all departments.

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6.3 Laboratory EstablishmentsThe following Laboratory establishments are commissioned/upgradation done during the year 2020-21 at NIT Puducherry:

ECE Department:

Labs Established: » Devices and Networks Laboratory

» Digital Electronics Laboratory

» Electronic Circuits Laboratory

» Microprocessor and Microcontroller Laboratory

» Analog Integrated Circuits Laboratory

» Communication Engineering Laboratory

» Microwave Optics Communication Laboratory

» Digital Signal Processing Laboratory

» VLSI Design Laboratory

» Digital Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory

» Wireless communication and Network Laboratory

» Microwave and MIC Laboratory

Brief Description: » NI LabVIEW software has been upgraded to

Campus Wide licensed software.

» Optical Communication System Simulator (OPTSIM) Rsoft OptSIM v 2020.09 software single user node locked academic perpetual licensed software.

» 10 no's of Dongle based perpetual licenses of Proteus VSM designing software (MSP430).

» 25MHz touch screen arbitrary waveform generators (20Nos), 70MHz Keysight DSOX1204A (20Nos) digital storage oscilloscopes, Rigol programmable 3CH power supplies (20Nos) and bench top Multimeters (30Nos).

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EEE Department:

Labs Established: » Power Electronics Laboratory

» Electronics Lab

» Power Converters & Design Lab

» Basic Electrical Workshop Lab

» Simulation Lab

» Electrical Machines Lab

» Control and Instrumentation Lab

» Embedded Systems Lab

» Power Systems Lab

» High Voltage Engineering Lab

» NI USRP 2900, NI USRP 2901 and NI USRP 2974, NI Elvis II and Emona DateX with Accessories.

» 10 Nos. of RIGOL-DS1104Z-S Plus Digital Storage Oscilloscope

» Tektronix 40 MHz acquisition bandwidth portable USB Real Time Spectrum Analyzer, RSA513A (9KHz -13.6GHz) with SignalVu-PC software.

» Two units of Light Runner Premium Fiber Optical trainer kits with lightsim software along with optical power meter and accessories.

» 20 no's of ARM9+TMS320C6747 DSP trainer kits.

» 10 Nos of MSP430 microcontroller trainer kits.

» Klystron and Gunn Diode based microwave test benches (6 Nos.) and essential parts. 26.5GHz Vector Network Analyzer with Anechoic Chamber.

Communication Engineering Lab

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Special Equipments: » Solar Emulator/Bidirectional Emulator

» Power Analyser

» Tan-Delta and Resistivity measurement for solid and liquid insulation

» Ultrasonic probe Sonicator

» ELVIS KIT

» NI VirtualBench All in One Instrument

» Real Time Graphics User interface FPGA Controller

» Softwares: LABVIEW, PSIM, ETAB, MIPOWER

Electrical Machines LabThe electrical Machines Lab is well equipped various electrical machines namely DC machines, AC rotating machines, transformers and special machines. The lab provides good platform/forum to enable the students to acquire practical knowledge on the electrical machines.

Basic Electrical Workshop LabThis laboratory is to learn the significance of various tools used for the electrical wiring, and testing and minor troubleshooting of electrical equipment. It also imparts

the practical knowledge on various electrical wiring schemes. Tools for electrical wiring and working boards are the equipment of this laboratory.

Electronics LabElectronics Laboratory is one of the laboratories from the department of EEE with the objective of providing resources to bridge the practical and theoretical understanding of electronic concepts. Necessary equipment / components are available in the laboratory for conducting experiments to understand the characteristics of various electronic devices and analog and digital electronic circuits.

Embedded Systems LabEmbedded Systems Laboratory is one of the laboratories from the department of EEE with the objective of providing resources to bridge the practical and theoretical understanding of embedded system concepts. Students will be able to learn the programming of various digital controllers. In addition, this laboratory is equipped with special electrical machines. Hence, the students can conduct experiments on special electrical machines interfaced with digital controllers.


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CSE Department:

Mechanical Department:

Labs Established: » Data Structures Laboratory

» Computer Networks Laboratory

» Algorithms Laboratory

» Microprocessor and Microcontrollers Laboratory

» Compiler Design Laboratory

» UNIX System Programming Laboratory

» Advanced DBMS Lab

» Object Oriented Programming Laboratory

» Database Management System Laboratory

» Operating Systems Laboratory

» Network Performance Laboratory

» Network Programming Laboratory

» Advanced Programming Laboratory

» Web Technology

Sl. No.Sl. No. Lab NameLab Name System CountSystem Count1. B.Tech Laboratory 882. M.Tech Laboratory 303. Server Room 1

Rack Server 2DAS Storage 1ToR core switch 1

» Engineering Graphics

» Basic Workshop Practice

» Metallurgy Lab

» Strength of Materials Lab

» Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics Lab

» Conventional and CNC machines Lab

» Measurements, Metrology and Dynamics Lab

» Computer-Aided Design Drafting Practice

» Thermal Engineering Lab

» Dynamics Lab

» Machine Drawing Laboratory

» Production Process Laboratory


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Labs Established:Fluid Mechanics and Machinery Laboratory » Fluid Mechanics and Machinery Laboratory is one of the

first Turnkey setup in the Department offered by the GUNT-Indosaw which includes 13 equipment.

» This laboratory would benefit the undergraduate students to enrich their fundamental knowledge on understanding the basic concepts such as stability of floating bodies, weirs, venturi/orifice meter and flow nozzle, verification of Bernoulli's theorem, pumps in parallel and series, Minor and Major loss in a flow under different configuration, working principle of centrifugal compressor & Pelton and Francis turbines.

» Moreover, equipment such as Free and Forced vortex formation, flow visualization techniques (streamline flow and vortex formation) will be a tool to understand the advanced concepts in the area of fluid dynamics.

Dynamics Laboratory » Free and Damped Vibration of Spring – Mass system

» Governors

» Balancing of Simple Rotating Mass System

» Engineering Science Kit (for understanding the basic kinematics occurring in a mechanism)

Material Testing Laboratory » Deflection test on Beams

» Rotary Fatigue Test Machine

» Impact Test Machine

Material Characterization Laboratory » Micro Hardness Tester

» Optical Microscope

» Specimen cutting machine with Accessories, Hydraulic specimen Mounting press with Accessories, Double disc variable speed polisher Pin-on-Disc apparatus

Thermal Engineering and Measurements Laboratory » Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger

» Plate Heat Exchanger

» RTD and Thermistor

» Free and Forced Convection

» Heat Conduction in Fluids

» Calibration of Pressure gauges

» Solar thermal Training System

» Solar Concentrator Training System

» Solar Parabolic Cooker

Dynamics Laboratory

Material Characterization Laboratory

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

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Science and Humanities Department

Chemistry Department

MathematicsComputational LaboratoryBrief Description: » Computational Laboratory in

the Department of Mathematics facilitates scientific computing for different applications of mathematical techniques.

Equipment and Software Details: » Computers – 5

» Software – 2 (Matlab and Mathematica)

» Benefits: This computational laboratory helps the students for analytical analysis, numerical solutions and scientific analysis of all section of mathematical students of UG, PG and Ph.D.

» Upgradation of the COMPUTATIONAL LABORATORY is in progress.

Chemistry LaboratoryBrief Description: » Benchtop SEM with

EDAX (This equipments would be used for both academic and research activities)

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Humanities and Social Sciences

Physics

English Language laboratory (Under Rapid Progress)Brief Description: » English language laboratory is equipped to develop the communicative competence of the students it is equipped

with soft skills and basics of communicative elements for practicing of the students

Equipment and Software Details: » Computers – 40 Nos.

» Software – Sanako Language Software

» Benefits: This lab would enable students to become confident and perfect communicators understanding the nuances of the language. It would also help them increase their soft skills and managerial abilities along with be ready for the competitive & Professional World Outside

Materials Synthesis Laboratory » Chemical Vapour Deposition Unit for synthesizing

Nano materials under controlled temperature and atmosphere.

» High Temperature Muffle furnace operating up to 1200 °C for materials synthesis.

» 40-tonn Automatic Hydraulic press: Processing the samples.

» Spin coating unit for synthesising thin films.

» Vacuum oven for sample preparation

» Sputter coating unit: for deposition of contact and sample/ device contact fabrication

Electrical Measurement Laboratory » PARSTAT - PMC2000A electrochemical workstation

for characterization of battery, and super-capacitors. Currently it has one channel, can be expanded up to 12 channel.

» Keithley- 6221, 2182A/E high performance power source in nano-volt and nano-current measurements

» Sample Holder: Conductivity measurement sample holder for electrical characterization of bulk samples and devices.

Utilization » Both the new laboratories have scope for academic

training, carrying out B.Tech projects and Internship training. Research scholars of the department working on various functional materials, and also industrial consultancy

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Department of Civil Engineering

» Concrete Technology Lab

» Water Testing Lab

» Building Planning and Drawing Lab

» Material Testing Lab

» Survey Lab

» Engineering Drawing and Graphics

» Computer-Aided Design Lab

» Transportation Engineering Lab

» Geotechnical Engineering Lab

» Fluid Mechanics Lab

» Basics of Programming Lab

» Workshop

Brief Description:General Hydraulic Equipments for Structural Engineering and Construction Material Laboratory » Hydraulic Actuator – 30 T

» Digital Compression Testing Machine – 300 T

» UTM (with- extensometer, Brinell, shear, bend, flexure attachments, split ring, threaded holding) – 100 T

» Pendulum impact tester

» Torsion Testing Machine (100Nm)

» Spring testing machine

» Wood testing machine

» Fatigue Testing Machine

» Concrete Mixer and Curing Tanks

» Various tests of concrete cube, beam, column, wood, spring, steel, brick can be done. All the equipments can be used for academic purpose and to some extent of research purpose

General Equipments for Soil Mechanics and Transportation Laboratory » Triaxial Test Apparatus

» Direct Shear Testing Machine

» Consolidation apparatus

» Dynamic Cone Penetrometer

» Relative Density Apparatus

» Plate Bearing Test Apparatus

» Standard Penetration Test Apparatus

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» Ductility Test

» Benkelman Beam

» Bump Integrator

» California bearing Ratio

» Asphalt Content Tester

» Asphalt Mixer

» Skid Resistance Tester

» Film Stripping Tester

» Marshall Apparatus

» Various laboratory and field tests of soil, aggregate, bitumen can be done. All the equipments can be used for academic purpose and to some extent of research purpose

Setup for Fluid Mechanics Laboratory » Advanced Hydrological Apparatus

» Double Ring Infiltrometer

» Evaporation Pan

» Rain Gauge

» Hydrostatic Pressure

» Stability of Floating Bodies

» Open Channel Flow

» Groundwater Flow Unit

» Viscometer and Capillary Tube

» Reynolds Experiment

» Flow through Orifice and Venturi Meter

» Energy Losses in Pipes

» Centrifugal Pump Characteristics

» Water Hammer and Surge Tank

» Impact of Jets

» Test setups to study the basic fluid behaviour are available and can be used for academic purpose

Computer Laboratory » All in One Computer Systems

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6.4 Central Library

The Central Library of NIT Puducherry supports the main objective of the institute to become a world class institution in Engineering, Sciences and Humanities & Social Sciences. The Central Library also subscribes to a balanced collection of journals and magazines. The Central Library has already procured a number of e-resources, is also in the process of acquiring more, and is a member of e-Shodh Sindhu: Consortia for Higher Education E-resources. The users of Central Library of NIT Puducherry are also registered with the National Digital Library sponsored by MHRD and coordinated by IIT Kharagpur.

In 2020-21 academic year the Central Library procured 510 books. This includes text and reference books of different disciplines, and books of general interest and novels. The library also received 320 books as donation from the Director of NITPY, faculties, staffs, and students of NITPY. The Central Library has a good collection of reputed e-resources and also subscribes to Turnitin Ant-Plagiarism software. The list of self-subscribed and centrally funded e-resources and e-databases in 2020-21 includes;

Self-subscribed e-resources: » * BIS Online (Access from 04-02-2021 to 03.02.2022)

Centrally funded e-resources and e-databases (through e-Shodh Sindhu )

» * ASME

» * ASCE

» * Springer link

» * Web of Science

» * Urkund Software

The Central Library of NIT Puducherry subscribes to 17 different periodicals for general reading. Further,the Central Library has also empanelled 16 vendors for the supply of books for 2019 – 2021 in August 2019.

During the Pandemic period, the Central Library conducted virtual meeting with iThenticate checking software for awareness of users, and also provided trial version of Remote access, trial access of ProQuest Thesis and Dissertation services and DrillBit plagiarism checking software to all the users

To add, the Central Library also provided all type of library services to all the students, faculties and staffs during Covid 19 pandemic situation with proper safety measures. It has arranged separate reading hall for the students of NITPY. The library also promotes traditions and events, in this regard, Ayudha Pooja celebrations were observed on Monday, October 26th 2020 .It was graced by the The Director, Registrar (i/c), faculties, staff, students, and research scholars of various departments.


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6.5 Hostel FacilitiesNIT Puducherry is a residential institute and provides accommodation to students in the hostels. NITPY has presently two boy’s hostel and one girl’s hostel that provides comfortable accommodation and are located close to the academic area. Nearly 756 students are residing in the hostels.

The first year UG students are accommodated in a 4/2-occupancy style accommodation. In subsequent year, double/triple occupancy are allotted depending on the strength of the hostel inmates. Each room comes equipped with requisite amount of lighting and electrical ports, a fan, a chair and table and a steel cot. Wi-fi facility is provided in the hostel premises. PG and Ph.D inmates are given double occupancy accommodation.

Staying in the campus is particularly attractive because the hostels are located in peaceful, clean, aesthetic environment in campus. The hostels are guarded round the clock by able private security staffs. Patrolling is also done by state security personnel during night. There are also separate wardens for each and every hostel in order to maintain discipline. Cleanliness and hygiene are taken care of and maintained in every aspect.

The Overall supervision and administration are looked after by the hostel administration and the Hostel Office. The dwelling places are as modern as they can be, and the hostels have impressive architecture. With activities like hostel day celebration, welcome parties and other festivals around the year, inmates will enjoy the pleasant stay in the hostel. This Hostel is home away from home and hostel life will play a huge role in transforming an individual in the journey of life.

MESS FACILITYBarani and Bhavani Hostels are provided with a mess facility for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The mess is run by caterer(s) chosen through open tender. The mess is equipped with modern facilities for cooking and serving the food in hygienic conditions. For all messes, the Institute is providing all infrastructural facilities, like space, water and electricity connections, cooking appliances, Water purifiers, etc.


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Hostel Administration

S. No. Name Designation Location

1 Dr. G. KoperundeviAssistant Professor / EEE

Chief Warden -

2 Dr. Narendran Rajagopalan Assistant Professor / CSE

Additional Chief Warden -

3 Dr. Harigovindan V PAssistant Professor / ECE

Warden Barani Hostel

4 Dr. Navin Sam, Assistant Professor / EEE

Warden Moyar Hostel

5 Dr. Smrutisikta MishraAssistant Professor / English

Warden Bhavani Hostel

6 Dr. Nidhi MFOC/Civil

Associate Resident Warden Bhavani Hostel

7 Dr. Guna MFOC/Mechanical

Associate Resident Warden Barani Hostel

8 Dr. Raghutla Chandrashekar RFOC/ S&H

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Barani Hostel (BOYS HOSTEL - 1)This hostel has 5 floors consisting of 215 rooms (43 rooms in each floor) and has ten washroom areas (2 in each floor). The hostels also have 04 nos of common rooms.

Hostel Facilities1. Mess (Breakfast, Lunch, Refreshment, Dinner)

2. Wi-fi facility throughout the buildings

3. Uninterrupted water and electricity (with DG power back up) supply

4. Common room : Newspapers & Television with DTH facility

5. Health Care facility

6. Gymnasium

7. Laundry services on chargeable basis

8. Outdoor games facility

9. Indoor Sports/Games facilities

10. Lift facility (Barani Hostel)

11. CCTV Cameras facility

12. Watercoolers and Geyser facility on each floor.

13. Fire extinguishers and other safety measures are taken care of

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Moyar Hostel (BOYS HOSTEL - 2)This hostel is designed for 04 occupancy type and it consists of 80 rooms in 10 blocks (08 rooms in each block) and each block has washroom areas.

Hostel Facilities1. Wi-fi facility throughout the buildings


3. Health Care facility


5. Indoor sports/games facilities

6. Air conditioner facility

7. Watercoolers and Geyser are installed on each block



10. Caretakers, housekeeping and security personnel services are provided


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Bhavani Hostel (GIRLS HOSTEL)This hostel has 3 floors consisting of 129 rooms (43 rooms in each floor) and has six washroom areas (2 in each floor). The hostel also have a 02 nos of common room.

Hostel Facilities1. Mess (Breakfast, Lunch, Refreshment, Dinner)

2. Wi fi facility throughout the buildings


4. Common room : Newspapers & Television with DTH facility

5. Health care facility

6. Gymnasium



9. Indoor sports/games facilities

10. CCTV Cameras facility

11. Watercoolers and Geyser are installed on each floor.


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6.6 General Hostel Fee StructureBarani Hostel (Boys Hostel – 1) and Bhavani Hostel (Girls Hostel)

S. No. Details of fees 1st Semester (Rs.) 02nd sem onwards (per Semester) (Rs.)1 Establishment charges 4000/- 4000/-2 Room Rent 6000/- 6000/-3 Mess Charges 14000/- 14000/-4 Caution Deposit (Refundable) 4000/- -

Total 28000/- 24000/-

Moyar Hostel (Boys Hostel – 2)S. No. Details of fees 1st Semester (Rs.) 2nd Semester (Rs.)1 Establishment charges 9000/- 9000/-2 Room Rent 6000/- 6000/-3 Mess Charges 14000/- 14000/-4 Caution Deposit (Refundable) 4000/- -

Total 33000/- 29000/-

Considering the COVID pandemic situation reduced hostel fee was collected from the hostel inmates for the academic year 2020-21 with the approval of the competent authority of the institute. During the physical reporting of the students, all COVID protocols like, reporting with RTCPR results, quarantining procedure, regular sanitizing of rooms, mess and common areas, ensuring physical distance and wearing masks were strictly followed to protect the students from infection. Also, kabasura kudineer was provided to the hostel inmates during the pandemic period on regular intervals.

6.7 Nitpy Health Centre - Its Fight & Support During the Pandemic

The Health Centre has been instrumental in fighting the pandemic situation in the institute premises. Two doctors, two nurses and one ambulance driver are working in the Health Centre. NIT Puducherry Health Centre provides medical assistance during Convocation, Institute Day, Sports Day, and other functions. The Institute health center is registered with government of Puducherry as a day care centre. Health ID was created in NDHM Portal for all health care workers in our Institute and Health Care Facility was registered in National Digital Health Mission Portal.

NIT Puducherry has successfully acclimated itself to the challenges faced during this pandemic of COVID 19 and has implemented all possible measures to navigate through this tough time of transition.The Health Centre has been instrumental in fighting the pandemic situation in the institute premises. The following measures was taken during the period

» Every day thermal screening was done at the main gate , and Instructions were given for wearing mask, maintaining social distance and frequent hand washing.

» Awareness posters were posted all over the institute. The centre distributed the preventive medicines like Arsenicum Album and (Vitamin C + Zinc + Vitamin D) to all the staff and faculty members.

» Random Rapid Antigen test (Covid 19) was done inside the campus on voluntary basis to prevent local spread of Covid 19 on December 7th and January 2nd.

» Two Doctors, Two Nurses and one ambulance Driver were relentlessly working in the Health Centre.

» Health ID was created in NDHM Portal for all health care workers in our Institute and Health Care Facility was registered in National Digital Health Mission Portal.


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» Health ID and Health Care facility report was submitted to Deputy Director Immunization, Karaikal.

» Database of the Health care workers in our institute was submitted to Ministry and Deputy Director Immunization, Karaikal.

» All Covid 19 related measures according to the SOP of MOHFW were followed in our Health Centre.

» Self-health monitoring equipment was provided by persons who were under quarantine.

» Every day psychological support was given in view of Covid 19 to the required persons under quarantine or isolation.

To provide better cardiac care to the patients, Health Centre bought ECG and AED machines. It was inaugurated on 08th October 2020. The centre conducted the National Deworming Day program on 10-02-2021 and distributed Albendazole 400mg tablets to all students below the age of 20 years.


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Events Organised at NITPY77.1 FDPs Organized by the Institute

7.1.1 Five days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Communication System Design and Simulations

7.1.2 Five days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Recent Trends in Communication Engineering.

Five days Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Communication System Design and Simulations was organized in virtual mode via Google meet by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, from 17 to 21 August 2020. The FDP was inaugurated by Prof. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, NIT Puducherry and presided over by Dr. G. Aghila, Professor & Registrar (i¸), Dept., of CSE. The conveners, Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha and Dr. M. Surendar, the coordinators, Dr. Harigovindan V P, Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Dr. Malaya Kumar Nath and Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe were also present.

The faculties of ECE Dept took FDP lectures., NIT Puducherry, Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, Dr. Prabu K Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, NIT Karnataka, Surathkal, and Dr. Lalit Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, NIT Calicut. The FDP course covered the recent trends in broad research

fields, namely RF frontend antenna, core concepts of the digital, wireless radio and optical communications with major emphasis in terms.

The Department of ECE, NIT Puducherry, has conducted the Five-Day Online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Recent Trends in Communication Engineering” from September 7 to 11, 2020 in association with “The Institution of Engineers (India)”, IE(I), Puducherry State Centre (PSC). Dr. P.S. Sathidevi, Director (i/c)& Deputy Director, NIT Calicut, Kerala had inaugurated the FDP and delivered an inaugural address. She emphasized the need of training programmes in the virtual mode during such difficult times. The Director of NIT Puducherry, Dr. K. Sankarnarayansamy, presided over the function.

Dr. R. Saravanane, FIE, Chairman, IE(I), PSC, Dr. B. Radjaram, FIE, Honorary Secretary IE(I), PSC and Dr. R. Nakkeeran, HoD,

Department of Electronics Engineering, Pondicherry University were the guests of honor. Dr. G. Aghila, professor & Registrar (i/c) delivered the special address and Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, HoD, ECE department addressed the gathering.

Dr. Harigovindan V P and Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, ECE Department, NIT Puducherry are the Conveners of this FDP. The FDP highlights the recent trends and developments in the field of communication systems. 60 participants from the various parts of the country are registered for this FDP. The FDP sessions will be conducted by the eminent professors from reputed academic institutions (IITs, NITs) and experts from industry (DRDO). The sessions will be handled by Professors Dr. Lillikutty Jacob, NIT Calicut, Dr. A.V. Babu NIT Calicut, Dr.


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Sivaji Chakravorti, Jadavpur University, Dr. V. Subramanian, IIT Madras and experts from industry Mr. K. Sambasiva Rao,

Scientist D, RCI, Hyderabad followed by the faculty members of NIT Puducherry.

7.1.3 AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy sponsored Five Day National Online Faculty Development Programme on “Challenges and Opportunities in Electric

Vehicle Technology - A Research Perspective”

NIT Puducherry, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering had organized Five Day National Faculty Development programme on Electric Vehicles starting from 05 October 2020. Dr. K.Sankaranarayasamy, Director, NIT puducherry inaugurated the FDP and pointed out that Electric Vehicles technologies are emerging area word wide and explained the policies of governments and research activities taken place worldwide.

Dr. G.Aghila, Registrar i/c, NIT Puducherry delivered the special address and pointed out the significance of Electric vehicles in the economic growth and automation in transportation. Dr.S.Thangavel, Convener of the FDP made the necessary arrangements with the help of faculty members from the EEE department and welcomed the people who attended the programme online and offline. Dr. A. Venkadesan, HoD, EEE, NIT Puducherry delivered vote of thanks.


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7.1.4 A 5-day Faculty Development Program (FDP) on the topic “Revisiting the Role of Higher Education Institute in Mentoring the Students”

7.1.5 A Five Days Faculty Development Programme on “Applied Science and Humanities”

NIT Puducherry has conducted a 5-day Faculty Development Program (FDP) on the topic “Revisiting the Role of Higher Education Institute in Mentoring the Students” during 19-23, October 2020 through virtual mode.Inaugurating the event, the director Prof.Dr.K.Sankaranarayanasamy conveyed that the student-action-teacher should be beyond the classroom, narrowing the bridge between faculty and student is called mentoring.

The chairperson of the FDP Prof. Dr. G. Aghila has conveyed that the during this pandemic the mentoring role is very much required and faculties need to be trained for this aspect. Thus, this program is highly relevant. Prof. Pradeep Kumar Raman- Charla, professor from International Institute of Infor- mation Technology, Hyderabad, was resource person.The FDP was organized by Associate Deans Student Welfare - Dr Amrtha Bhide and Dr. G. Koperundevi.

The National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry, on behalf of the Department of Science and Human Resources, launched a five-day national seminar on “Applied Science and Humanities” on December 14 2020.

Director of the Institute Prof. Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy delivered the introductory speech, Dr. G. Aghila, Registrar of

the Institute delivered the keynote address and Dr. Raghupathi Dhanusuraman, Head of the Department, delivered the welcome address. Scientists and professors gave lectures at the event on the latest developments in Applied Science and Humanities.


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7.1.6 Five days online Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on “Development of Decentralized IoT Systems using Blockchain”

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal has organized a five days online Faculty Development Programme(FDP) on “Development of Decentralized IoT Systems using Blockchain” from 26 to 30 December 2020. The FDP is funded by AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy.

The objective of the FDP is to en- hance and improve the research quality of the faculty members and research scholars from various Institutes. The FDP covered trending topics like

Blockchain, Internet of Things, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelli- gence.

The inauguration of this programme was held on 26 December 2020 at 9.30 am presided by Dr. K. Sankara- narayasamy, Director NIT Puducherry, in the presence of Dr.G.Aghila, Registrar in-charge, NIT Puducherry. 200 participants who are faculty, technical staff, research scholars and PG students from across country were registered for the FDP.

7.2 Workshops Organized by the Institute7.2.1 National Workshop on Water Quality Management for Aquaculture.

ECE department organized a National Workshop on Wa- ter Quality Management for Aquaculture (online mode) on November 16, 2020, as the part of the DST funded project titled “Design and Development of IoT Based Low Cost Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting System for Aquaculture” Funded by: Science for Equity, Empower- ment & Development (SEED) Division. Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.

Dr. Harigovindan V P is the principal investigator and Mr. Rasheed Abdul Haq is the JRF working under this project. This workshop aims to provide an opportunity to the participants to learn from the experts about the importance, need, challenges, and possible solutions in the field of water quality management for aquaculture.

Dr. G. Sugumar, Vice-Chancellor Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Fish- eries University was the chief guest of the function. Dr.


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Rashmi Sharma, Scientist E, Science for Equity Empow- erment and Development (SEED), Department of Science and Technology (DST), was honour guest. The Director of NIT Puducherry, Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, presided over the

function. Dr. G. Aghila, professor & Registrar (i/c) delivered the special address and Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, HoD, ECE department, presented a vote of thanks.

7.2.2 A 5-day Works shop on the topic “Research tools and Techniques”

A five days’ work shop on “Research Tools and Techniques’ was conducted during Induction program during 23-27 Nov 2020. The workshop was organized by Dr Amrtha Bhide, Department of Physics as convener, Dr. V. Govindaraj, department of Mathematics and Dr.B. Surendiran, Department of Computer Science and Engineering as coordinators.

Experts from IIT/NIT/Design institutes and from academia, and Industry delivered lectures on various aspects of research. About 150 aspiring research students from various institutes across the country got benefited out of this workshop.


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7.3 Conferences Organized by the Institute7.3.1 2nd National Conference on Communication systems (NCOCS-2020) on 21

November 2020, ECE Department, NIT Puducherry

2nd National Conference on Communication systems (NCOCS-2020) in virtual mode was organized by Department of Electronics and Communication, National institute of technology, Puducherry, Karaikal in association with the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi, and The Institution of Engineers (India) IE (I) Puducherry State Centre, Puducherry on 21 November 2020.

The conference was inaugurated by the chief guest, Dr. Pratapsinh K. Desai, President, ISTE, New Delhi, presided over by, Prof. K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director NIT Puducherry in the presence of Dr. G. Aghila, Professor & Registrar (i\c), Dept., of CSE. Dr. R. Saravanane, Chairman, IE(I), Puducherry State Centre & Dr. R. Radjaram, Honorary

Secretary, IE(I), Puducherry State Centre, Dr. Y. R. M. Rao, National EC Member (Puducherry Section), ISTE were the guests of honours for NCOCS-2020. Prof. N Sundararajan (Retd.), School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Dr. Sudhan Majhi, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna have delivered the keynote speeches.

Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, secretary and proceeding editor and Dr. Harigovindan V. P, secretary and proceeding editor and Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, Chairperson, NCOCS-20, were also present. 41 participants attended the conference. The abstracts of the selected papers were printed in the proceedings.


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7.3.2 National Conference on Mathematical Theory of Control

7.3.3 First International Conference on Future technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy IcoFT-2020

National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal & Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum coordinately conducted the National Conference

on Mathematical Theory of Control on 10th December 2020, about 60 aspiring research students from various institutes across the country got benefited out of this workshop

The Department of Mechanical Engineering organized the First International Conference on Future technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy IcoFT-2020 (MADE@NITPY) (Through virtual Mode) on Communication Systems - 2020 (NCOCS-2020) during December 28 -30, 2020 around 182 participants registered for the conference.


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Department of Mechanical Engineering, organized three days virtual mode International Conference on “International Conference on Future Technologies 2020 (ICOFT 2020) in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy (MADE@NITPY)” from 28th-30th December 2019, at National Institute of Technology Puducherry. Two companies (M/s. SWELECT Energy Systems Limited, Chennai & M/s. Renewable Agency Puducherry) were sponsored for this three-day international conference.

National Institute of Technology Puducherry and Regional Academic Centre for Space, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, (NITK), Surathkal signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 3 August 2020.The action plan for MoU is that faculty members of NITPY can submit various projects for possible funding to RAC- S for further development with co-ordination.

7.4 Signing of MoU’s 7.4.1 MoU with Regional Academic Centre for Space, NITK, Surathkal

7.4.2 MoU with National Highways Authority of India

National Institute of Technology Puducherry and National Highways Authority of India signed a Memoran- dum of Understanding on 9 September 2020, for five years under Institutional social responsibility adopting National Highway Stretches.

Dr.K.Sankaranarayanasamy, Director National Institute of Technology Puducherry said, The MoU helps the researchers and students of Civil Engineering Department to improve their practical knowledge and help them in during ready for employment.

On this occasion, Mr. T.V.Sivaji General Man- ager and Project Director, NHAI Villupuram, Dr. G.Aghila Registrar (i/c),

Dr.Madappa HoD, Civil Engineering, Dean’s and all other department HoD’s of the Institute were participated.

NHAI shall facilitate the faculty, researchers and students of the Institute to famil- iarize with the latest trends in the highway /transportation sector.The Institute shall adopt nearby stretches of NHs as specified in the Appendix-1 as a voluntary initiative under ambit of Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR).NHAI shall periodically offer internship to a maximum of 10 undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Institute and extend stipend.


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A memorandum of understanding was signed by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Gov- ernment of India with NIT Puducherry on 25 September 2020, to provide advice and assistance to MSMEs in process, product design and development. The solution advice and assistance to MSMEs in value engineering including improvement in design and costs of a developed product such as alternate material usage improvement in designing etc..

NIT Puducherry have signed MoU with Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The main features of the signed MoU are:

a) Graduate and/or undergraduate students exchange and visits for study and research;

b) Staff exchange and visits for research, teaching and debates;

c) Information exchange;

d) Joint research activities.

7.4.3 MoU with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India

7.4.4 MOU Based on the BRICS PROJECT, Dr.N.Sendhil Kumar, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, initiated MoU with Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.


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Functions and Extra Curricular Activities

8.1 International Day of Yoga CelebrationNIT Puducherry, Department of Physical Education organized an online quiz on the topic of “Enhancing Knowledge of Yoga” in commemoration of International Day of Yoga from 19th June 2020 to 21st June 2020

8.2 Aazadi ka Amrit Mahotsav in NIT Puducherry

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NIT Puducherry celebrated the 74th Independence day with Director, Dr. K. Sankaranarayanasamy and The Chief Guest Captain Deivanayagam Ex-Army, hoisting the National flag at NIT Puducherry campus at 8.45 am.The Director paid his gratitude to the freedom fighters who laid down their lives to make this day possible to day. Our frontline fighters, medical team, sanitation staff were honoured for their contribution during this COVID-19 pandemic period.


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8.4 Celebration of Rajbhasha Hindi Saptah at NIT Puducherry

8.3 Alumni portal for NIT Puducherry

The Rajbhasha Samiti of NIT Puducherry celebrated the Rajbhasha Hindi Saptah and Rajbhasha Hindi diwas from 08 to 14 September 2020. The various events for students (online) and faculty are conducted.

An NITPY alumni portal was inaugurated by Dr.K.Sankaranarayanasamy, Director, in the presence of Dr.G.Aghila,Registrar(i/c).The portal was developed and coordinated by Dr.B.Surendiran, Associate Dean Academics and Assistant professor, Department of CSE . The faculty and staff of NIT Puducherry presided over the ceremony on 15th August 2020 to celebrate the occasion.


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8.5 151th Birth Anniversary of ‘Mahatma’ at NIT Puducherry

8.6 Celebration of Vigilance Awareness Week in NIT Puducherry

151st Birth Anniversary of the father of Nation was celebrated on October 2nd 2020. Faculty and staff have paid floral tribute to the ‘Mahatma’. Students witness the event through online platform. On this occasion, SES REC(SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SWACHHTA&RURALENGAGEMENT CELL) was inaugurated under Unnat Bharath Abhiyan Cell.

The vigilance awareness week has been observed in National Institute of Technology Puducherry (NITPY), Karaikal from 27-10-2020 to 02-11-2020 as per the circular given by

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8.7 National Education Day

8.8 New Year Celebrations

The National Education Day was observed on 12th November 2020 through virtual mode. A debate competition on a theme “Evaluating the pro and cons of the online education system” was conducted.

A small family get together of Institute faculty and staff was arranged on the New Year.

In the view of this, the institute has conducted many awareness programmes regarding corruption like:

» Creating awareness among the faculty, staff, and students through integrity pledges, e-integrity pledges, banners, posters and competitions.

» To promote awareness about corruption, the integrity pledge was taken by the teaching, non-teaching staffs and students. Awareness has been created by displaying banners and posters in the institute campus.

» The essay writing competition (English, Tamil) and Slogan writing competitions (English, Tamil) on the theme ‘Satark

Bharat, Samriddh Bharat (Vigilance India, Prosperous India) were conducted for NITPY students through on-line in association with ONGC, Karaikal. The students have actively participated in the competition and bagged lucrative prizes.

» The e-integrity pledge competition was conducted for various colleges/institutions/universities/schools by ONGC Karaikal. Our institute has recorded more than 300 e-pledges and bagged first prize in the competition


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8.9 72nd Republic Day

The 72nd Republic Day was celebrated on January 26 2021, at the Institute premises.The Director delivered a republic day address and emphasized the students and faculty to promote and participate in various schemes implemented by the Government of India. The NCC cadets and students have participated in the parade and rendered patriotic songs in different languages.

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The 7th annual convocation of NIT Puducherry was held on February 19 2021, in which B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. Graduands were conferred degrees. The Chief Guest of the convocation was Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, an Indian aerospace scientist, the current Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO); and Secretary, Department of Defence R&D, Government of India.

8.10.1 B.Tech. (2016-20 Batch): Department wise ToppersSl. No.Sl. No. DepartmentDepartment Roll No.Roll No. NameName CGPACGPA1 CSE CS16B1022 S BHARATH KUMAR 9.732 EEE EE16B1009 BARANISWAR TIROUVINGUIDAME 9.523 ECE EC16B1025 VADDI LAKSHMI ANUSHA 9.474 ME ME16B1003 ANAGH S BHANU 9.11

8.10.3 M.Tech. (2018-20 Batch)Sl. No.Sl. No. DepartmentDepartment Roll No.Roll No. NameName CGPACGPA1 CSE CS18M1008 PRAVEENSANKAR M 9.822 EEE EE18M1001 ANUSHA K 9.953 ECE EC18M1005 SAI SHWETA S 9.47

8.10.5 List of Degree Awarded Candidates during 7th Convocation held on 19-Feb-2021Department Department No of students passed outNo of students passed outB.Tech. – Department of Computer Science and Engineering 31B.Tech. - Department of Electronics and communication Engineering 28B.Tech. – Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 22B.Tech. – Department of Mechanical Engineering 16M.Tech. – Department of Computer Science and Engineering 9M.Tech – Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering 6M.Tech – Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 9Ph.D. – Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2Ph.D. – Department of Mathematics 2

8.10.2 Institute overall Topper CB.Tech. (2016-20 Batch)Sl. No.Sl. No. DepartmentDepartment Roll No.Roll No. NameName CGPACGPA1 CSE CS16B1022 S BHARATH KUMAR 9.73

8.10.4 Institute overall Topper: M.Tech. (2018-20 Batch)Sl. No.Sl. No. DepartmentDepartment Roll No.Roll No. NameName CGPACGPA1 EEE EE18M1001 ANUSHA K 9.95


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8.11 Inauguration of Laboratory Block

The Laboratory block with six laboratories was virtually inaugurated on February 19 by the Chief Guest, Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy, in the presence of the Director, the Registrar, and all faculty and Staff Members. Further, the Engineering block, which is a composite building in the form of a pentagon with a budget of around 150 crores is also coming up in near future.

8.12 International Women’s DayAs part of the International Women’s Day 2021 celebration, the Women Cell of NIT Puducherry conducted the following webinars for all the Female Staff and students of our Institute.

S. No.S. No. TopicTopic Date & TimeDate & Time SpeakerSpeaker1 Health aspects of Women during Post Adolescent

Stage13.03.2021, 4.00 PM Dr.Smruthi Marathe, Gynecologist

2 Gender Sensitization and Sexual Harassment of Women at the workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013)

15.03.2021, 4.00 PM S K Srivatsava, Chief Administrative Officer (Retired), DRDO


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8.13 NIT Puducherry’s Social contribution in Fight against “COVID-19”

Hostel Facilities Support to District Administration During Pandemic:The institute has extended its support to the District Administration also and provided its the newly constructed Moyar hostel as the Quarantine Center for Government Officials of District Administration. To support the Karaikal District Administration in overcoming the local COVID situation at that time, NIT Puducherry hostel extended quarantine facility and refreshment arrangements for COVID warriors (Doctors and health workers) from May 2020 to September 2020.

Also, 20 steel cots and 10 mattresses were handed over to District Collector, Karaikal to accommodate the COVID patients. Due care was taken to maintain the necessary isolation from the quarantine zone. The necessary logistics and food was arranged for the officials under quarantine following the COVID19 protocols.


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8.14 NIT Puducherry prepared its own Hand sanitizer

8.15 Unnat Bharat Abhiyan activity

The Chemistry department headed by Dr. D. Ragupathy prepared alcohol-based hand sanitisers that were put to use within the campus by the sanitization committee to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a part of this mission, a solar fish dryer was developed by the institute and has been donated to Kottucherry medu village community on 3rd September 2020.


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8.16 Student Council ElectionStudent Council election conducted on 8th September 2020 for the academic year 2020-21 through online polling. students President, Vice president, General Secretary, Joint Secretary -1, Joint Secretary -2 were elected for Students council.

8.17 NCC ActivitiesSargent Duraiswamy. V (PY18SDA906304) B.Tech 2nd year, Department of Civil Engineering participated in 1, P Indep (coy), Pondicherry Republic Day Parade competition on September 2020, and further, got selected for second round of Madurai Republic Day parade camp competition.

8.18 Intramural Badminton Tournament under FIT India Movement

A Temporary badminton court was inaugurated at NIT Puducherry campus on 11th March 2020. The court consists of Two badminton synthetic court with international standard flooring, and it is utilized for NIT Puducherry students,faculty and staff members.

NIT Puducherry, Department of Physical Education organized Intramural Badminton Tournament for Faculties and Staff members of during 14th October to 09th December 2020 by the Department of Physical Education for the faculty, staff and their family members in lieu of Fit India movement celebration. The tournament was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Sankaranarayanaswamy, Director, NIT Puducherry. In this tournament, total 109 matches were conducted which includes 18 men singles, 08 Men Doubles, 05 women Doubles, 06 Spouse Doubles and 02 Mother & Child Doubles matches. The tournament was organized on league basis on everyday evening 05.30pm to 08.00pm. The Valedictory function was conducted on 09th Dec 2020, Director Prof. Dr. Sankaranarayanaswamy, Registrar Prof. G.Aghila, Faculty, Staff and their family have participated in this function. It was started with welcome address followed by chief guest address by Mr.R.Rajesh (State level Badminton player). In order to encourage and motivate the faculty and staff in sports and games, winners of various competitions were honored with a trophy and certificates by the Chief Guest.


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8.19 Induction programme for 1st Year

8.20 Virtual Alumni Meet 2020

The First-year B.Tech. Students joined during the academic year 2020-21 (admitted in the month of November 2020) have undergone 21 days of the Induction programme through virtual mode. The event was inaugurated on 2nd December by the director Prof. K. Sankaranarayanasamy by lighting the lamp. Guest lectures from eminent personalities from Industry, academia, renowned alumni, social work, human resource experts, Emotional counselors, and medical professionals from reputed institutes have addressed the students on various topics required for an aspiring engineer passing through the post-adolescent stage.

National Institute of Technology Puducherry (NITPY) Alumni Association has organized a Virtual Alumni meet-2020 on 31-Oct-2020. Keeping in view of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic situation, the alumni meet was conducted in online platform.

Around 150 alumni have participated in the event. Prof. (Dr.) K. Sankaranarayanasamy, Director of the Institute, has delivered the presidential address and quoted on the various activities to be done in collaboration with the alumni and the institute. Special address has been delivered by Prof. (Dr.) G. Aghila, Registrar (i/c) and she mentioned about the importance of alumni relations.


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8.21 IIRS/ISRO Outreach Programme

The office bearers of the alumni association Mr. D. Rahavender, president; Mr. Mahaboob Hussain, Secretary have explained about the initiatives and goals of the association. Alumni Association’s logo and Students centre of the NITPY alumni portal has been launched by the honorable director. The mobile application for the NITPY alumni portal was also launched. Finally, Dr. M. Surendar, Faculty In-charge, NITPY Alumni Association, delivered the vote of thanks.

NIT Puducherry is one of the network institutes of IIRS/ISRO Outreach programme for conducting their courses as nodal centre. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Associate Dean (Academic), Assistant Professor, ECE department is coordinating these activities. Under this scheme, the following students have participated and received their certificate. The details are as follows:

Student Name Course Name Duration Conducted ByMr. Kushal Nigam Geographical Information System 28-09-2020 to 15-10-2020 Indian Institute of Remote

Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, Dehradun

Mr. Abhishek Pal Basics of Geocomputation and Geoweb Services

19-10-2020 to 29-10-2020

Mr. Balakumar P RS & GIS Applications 02-11-2020 to 20-11-2020

8.22 Formation of KSN Fitness ClubBased on the email received from the Ministry of Education; NIT Puducherry has constituted KSN (K.Sankaranarayanasamy fitness club) Fit India club at our institute campus, with Director as the Chairperson and few faculty and students as its members. The Fit India club will be inaugurated on National Sports Day on August 29 2021.

8.23 Hope App development The Institute has developed a mobile application named HOPE (Hope for Opportunities in Employment). This application is intended for finding employment opportunities for migrant workers at their current location. Similarly, employers can also seek skilled labourers in their vicinity and resume the stranded activities.

Currently, the app can be used in Tamil, Hindi, English, Malayalam, and Telugu languages. Google play store has approved the application. It is a cross-platform app that can run on both iOS and Android. It requires an internet connection to function.

Location data is gathered via GPS. The app is built using the Flutter Framework and the Dart Programming Language. The app has provisions for embedding many schemes of the Govt. of India and can be hosted in NIC.

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NIT Puducherry, NCC Unit, organized an Annual Leadership Training Camp from March 04 2021, to March 08, 2021, at NIT-Puducherry campus. The inaugural ceremony was conducted on March 04 2021, and the Chief guest address was given by Colonel Sudip Roy, Officer Commanding, Karaikal Unit.

In this Annual Leadership training Camp, 131 cadets participated. Among there were 84 Boys Cadets, and 47 Girls cadets have participated. The cadets were from different colleges/universities like Arignar Anna Arts & Science college, Karaikal (32 Cadets), Central University of Thiruvarur, Tamilnadu (55 Cadets), Mahathma Gandhi Arts and Science College of Mahe (18 Cadets), National Institute of Technology, Puduchrry, Karaikal(26 Cadets),

Out of 131 cadets, 70 cadets attended three days camp for “B” Certificate Examination, and 61 Cadets attended five days for “C” certificate Examination, The NCC curriculum of Theory, Practical, drill, Physical fitness and weapon training was undergone by the cadets. Further, 110 cadets registered in the NCC India Digital forum to post their activities and talent.

This five days camp was organized with the help of one Camp Commandant, Two Associate NCC Officer, one JCO, and Three PI staff were involved, for the successful completion of CATC – 09 and CATC-15 Annual Leadership Training Camp, of, 2(p), Independent company, Karaikal.

8.25 “National Institute of Technology, Puducherry - Alumni Association” has been officially registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act No. XXI of 1860) with

the following Governing Body Members.

S. No. Name of the Member Designation in the Association Occupation1 Raghavender. D President Branch Manager, SBI Halagur, Mandya2 Venkata Dileep Kumar. S Vice- President Technical Architect TCS, Bangalore3 Mahaboob Hussain. J Secretary Technical product head & Co-Founder, Transond Systems

Private Limited, Chennai4 Panasala Uttam Kumar Joint- Secretary Systems Engineer, TCS, Bangalore5 Boopathi Rani R Treasurer Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, NIT Puducherry

(NITPY)6 K. Gokul Executive committee member -1 UDC, Government of Puducherry7 P. Vijaya Ragunath Executive committee member -2 Assistant Manager (Electrical), L&T Construction, Chennai

Mr. Raghavan, working at L&T Chennai, alumni of NITPY (B.Tech. 2011-2015 batch) has donated 100 saplings to our institute to celebrate his 25th birthday.

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8.27 Distribution of Homeopathic Tablets to all the Staff Members of NIT Puducherry

8.28 Engineers’ Day Celebration at NIT Puducherry

Immunity boosting Homeopathic tablets were distributed to all Institute staff members as a step towards fighting COVID’19 pandemic.

IE(I) Student Chapters (ECE and Mechanical Engineering) of National Institute of Technology Puducherry (NITPY) has celebrated Engineers Day - 2020 on 15/09/2020 (Tuesday) as a tribute to Bharatratna Sir Mokshagundam Viswesvaraya.


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8.29 20/20 Foresight in Education” Programme

Follow the link to join live streaming of “20/20 FORESIGHT IN EDUCATION” programme. It will be live on YouTube today on 20 May 2020 at 11.15 am where Directors of 25 NITs will interact with @SriSri RaviShankar

https://t.co/NkcpmzmZBi

8.30 International Mother Language DayNIT celebrated International Mother Language Day on February 21, 2021. Faculties conveyed messages on the theme “fostering multilingualism for inclusion in education and society” in their respective mother tongues.


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8.31 Literary Committee Activities

8.32 National Educational Policy Lecture Series

The Literary committee, headed by Dr. Smrutisikta Mishra, conducted virtual literary activities like Debate Competition, Essay Writing Competition, Extempore, Slogan Writing, Spell Bee, Story Telling competition, etc., throughout the year 2020-21.

The committee aims at increasing the literary sensibility of students along with development of language competence. The events attracted the active participation of students and they were rewarded with certificates and lucrative prizes.

National Education Policy Cell of the National Institute of Technology Puducherry, under the Ministry of Education Government of India’s guidance, is conducting a series of online- programs with themes based on National Education policy 2020. The first webinar of this year webinar, after the formation of the NEP cell, was conducted on 12-2-2021, on the topic Introduction to NEP 2020 – Perspective of Higher Education. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe, Assistant Professor, NIT Puducherry. There were about 100 participants among faculties from various institutes of higher education in UT of Puducherry.


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Noteworthy Faculty & Staff Accomplishments

1. Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Assistant Professor and Head, has participated in the three days online faculty development program on Internet of Things, Organised by NIT K-STEP National Institute of Karnataka in association with Pantech E Learning.

2. Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Assistant Professor and Head has completed distance learning course on “General Course on Intellectual Property” from WIPO Academy, USA.

3. Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering visited University of Loughborough, and university of Exeter, United Kingdom from 14th February 2020 to 27th February 2020,as a Co-Principal Investigator of the DST -UKIERI project entitled “Methanol Fed High Energy Density Fuel Cell System with Novel Catalyst and Flow Field Design” sanctioned jointly by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), Government of UK, (Ref: DST-UKIERI project DST/INT/UK/P-121/2016 dated on 11th July 2017 & 18th July 2019).

4. Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering delivered an invited talk for a technical webinar series on “Issues and Challenges in CSP Technologies” on 16th May 2020, Organised by Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu.

5. Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering delivered an invited talk for a technical webinar series on “Recent Trends in CSP Technologies” on 3rd August 2020, Organised St.Joseph College of Engineering, OMR, Chennai.

6. Dr.Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering got project as a Co-PI along with NIT Trichy on “Life cycle

assessment of CO2 reduction by energy efficient hybrid biomass pyrolysis and gasification”, BRICS-DST India Under BRICS STI Co-OPERATION (BRICS 2019-154 Carbon dioxide, (Total cost: Rs.49.96,800/-).

7. Dr. Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, attended Online training program on “Reservation in Services for SC/ST/OBC & EWS” held on 3rd July 2020, conducted by Systematic Institute of Economic Research & Development (SIERD)

8. Dr. Sendhil Kumar Natarajan, attended Online training program on “Right to Information Act” held on 8th July 2020, conducted by Systematic Institute of Economic Research & Development (SIERD).

9. Dr. N. Sendhil Kumar, delivered a keynote lecture on” Issues and Challenges in Concentrating Solar Power Technologies” on 27th November 2020, in a Five-day Online Faculty Development Programme on “Sustainable Energy Solutions in Solar Energy Application” sponsored by AICTE. The FDP has been scheduled on 23rd to 27th November 2020, Organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Karnataka.

10. Dr. M. V. A. Raju bahubalendruni delivered an expert talk at 5-DAY ONLINE AICTE-ATAL FDP ON “3D PRINTING & DESIGN” on “Nature inspired in fill patterns for Additive manufacturing”. (16-12- 2020).

11. Dr. M. V. A. Raju bahubalendruni, delivered an expert talk at 5-DAY ONLINE AICTE-ATAL FDP ON “3D PRINTING & DESIGN” on “Cellular Structures & Additive Manufacturing” (17-12-2020).

12. Dr. M. V. A. Raju Bahubalendruni, SERB funded research project by entitled “An Automated Assembly Sequence Planning System to solve Parallel and Linear Assemblies” with file number ECR/2017/000341 has been successfully completed on 08-OCT-2020.

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Department of Science & Humanities:13. Dr.D.Ragupathy, Head, Department of Science and

Humanities, presented a poster entitled “Nanocomposite Modified Electrode based on PANI/PTA/TIO2 for Energy Applications” in 11th Bengaluru India Nano, Bangalore on 2nd March 2020.

14. Dr.D.Ragupathy, Head, Department of Science and Humanities was invited for a guest talk on “Nanocomposite materials for Catalytic and Energy Applications” in Six days International workshop on Smart Material Sensor and Energy Devices, organized by SSN College of Engineering, Chennai on 27th May 2020.

15. Dr Amrtha Bhide, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Dr.V.Govindaraj, Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics and NSS officers have conducted Socio-Economic Survey during COVID-19 pandemic in Povam, Thiruvettakudy and KonnaKavali villages. Mr. SadheeshKumar S J has provided local support in this regard.

16. Dr. Ajay Kumar Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics was invited as Chief Guest to deliver the Inaugural address for the “ILLUMI- NATORS” Inaugural function held on 02 November 2020 by the Physics department, SRC, SASTRA Deemed University.

17. Dr. Smrutisikta Mishra has been the Coordinator of the five Days Faculty Development Programme on Applied Science and Humanities held from 14th to 18 December 2020.

18. Dr. Smrutisikta Mishra has participated in the five days FDP on Revisiting the Role of Higher Education Institute in Mentoring the Students from 19th to 23rd October2020.

19. Dr. V. Govindaraj, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics as a Coordinator, conducted the 5-days FDP on “Applied Science and Humanities” from December 14 - 18, 2020 at National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

20. As an Organizing Chairman, Dr. V. Govindaraj, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics organized a “National Conference on Mathematical Theory of Control” from December 10-12, 2020 jointly organizied with Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum and hosted by National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

21. As a Coordinator, Dr. V. Govindaraj, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics conducted the 5-days

workshop on “Research Tools and Techniques” from November 23-27, 2020 at National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal.

Department of Computer Science & Engineering:

22. Dr. G.Aghila, Professor, Department of CSE, patented an invention in the topic of “System for storage reduction in cloud based video surveillance and method thereof”, Application Number: 202041041376 filled on September 24, 2020.

23. Dr.B.Surendiran, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, was awarded outstanding reviewer award for contribution to quality of Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal on 13th April 2020 and he also delivered a talk on “How to Write Research Paper and Tools Used for Research” held on 6th June 2020 at Jayamukhi Institute of Technological Sciences, Narsampet, Warangal, Telangana State and also a talk on “Tools used for research and writing a research paper” on 14th May 2020 at Aditya Engineering College, Surampalem, Andhra Pradesh.

24. Dr.B.Surendiran, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, delivered a talk on “Machine Learning Tools for healthcare” in Third International Virtual Conference on Data Science - A future of Digital Transformation, organized by the Department of Digital Communications, SITE, VIT, Vellore from June 29 - 30, 2020. He also delivered a webinar talk on “Application of ML Tools” on July 04 2020 organized by the Department of ECE, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, OMR, Chennai - 119.

25. Dr. B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, delivered a webinar talk on “Current Trends and Career Opportunities in IT Sector” on June 27 2020 organized by the Department of ECE, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore. He also delivered a talk on “Tools Used for Research & How to Write Research Paper” held on 6th June 2020 at SRK University, Bhopal. He also delivered a talk on “Supervised Algorithm - ANN” on 14th April 2020 for AICTE Training and Learning Academy(ATAL) Fac- ulty Development Program (FDP) on Artificial In- telligence by IIIT Nagpur.

26. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Department delivered a guest lecture on “Research Tools and Techniques” on 31.12.2020.for AICTE Sponsored Two Weeks Online FDP on “Computer Vision & Image Processing: Research Issues, Innovation and Application” - Phase I , Conducted by the Department of Electronics


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and Communication Engineering, PSNA College of Engineering and Tech- nology, Dindigul.

27. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Department delivered a Seminar on “Current Trends in IT” on 4th Jan 2021 for Department of CSE, KGiSL Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.

28. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Department delivered a guest lecture on “Dimensionality Reduction” on 06/01/2021, for Department of Information Technology, VelTech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R & D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai.Six Days Online Faculty Develop- ment Program on “Machine Learning and its Applications in Internet-of-Things” from 04/01/2021 to 09/01/2021

29. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Depart- ment delivered a talk on “Importance of Dimensionality reduction methods for data science applications” on 22nd Sep 2020, for AICTE-ATAL Sponsored FDP on Data Sciences during Sept-21st - Sept- 25th, 2020 at NITK, Surathkal.

30. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Depart- ment delivered a talk on “Search for Research” on 27 Nov 2020, for 5 - Day Workshop on Research Tools and Techniques, Nov 23-27 2020, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal.

31. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Department delivered a talk on “Tools for Data Science” on 15.12.2020, for Department of Computer Science, School of Physical Sciences, Central University of Kerala, Five Day Faculty Development Programme on ’Data Sciences’(Online) on 14th-18th, December 2020, sponsored by ATAL(AICTE Training and Learning).

32. Dr.B. Surendiran, Assistant Professor, CSE Department delivered lecture on “Dimensionality Reduction for Data Analysis” on 17 th December 2020 for ATAL sponsored 5 days FDP on “Data Sciences” from 14.12.2020 to 18.12.2020 at Indian Institute of In- formation Technology Tiruchirappalli.

Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering:

33. Dr. Harigovindan V P delivered an invited talk on “5G communication Systems” at ACCESS 2020: International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems. May 28, 2020 - May 30, 2020 by Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology (ASIET), Ernakulam (District), Kerala, India.

34. Dr. Harigovindan V P delivered an invited talk on “NOMA for 5G and Beyond” at Global Academy of Technology, Bangalore (video conferencing) on 10th June 2020 and also he delivered an invited talk on “NOMA based communication system for 5G and Beyond” at Arasu Engineering College, Kumbakonam (video conferencing) on 11th July 2020.

35. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha & Dr. M. Surendar has got the project entitled “PHY Layer Design of URLLC assisted 5G networks”, funded by Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC), Srilanka in collaboration with Prof. Dush Nalin Jayakody, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia and Dr. P. Muthuchidambaranathan, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. The total cost of the project funding is 78.31 lakhs for a period of two years with effect from 1st June 2020.

36. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, Assistant Professor and HoD & Mr. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Research Associate, ECE department have delivered a talk on “Signal Processing using FPGA” on 08 September 2020 in the Five Day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Recent Trends in Communication Engineering, organized by ECE Department, NIT Puducherry.

37. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, Assistant Professor and HoD, ECE department has delivered a talk on “Design and simulation of digital communication systems” on 18 August 2020 in the Five Day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Advanced Communication System Design and Simulations, organized by ECE Department, NIT Puducherry.

38. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, Assistant Professor and HoD, ECE department has delivered a talk on “Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Data Processing” on 08 September 2020 in the Five Day Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on Recent Trends in Communication Engineering, organized by ECE Department, NIT Puducherry.

39. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, Assistant Professor and HoD has delivered a talk on “Remote sensing signature classification using Machine learning algorithms” on 04 Dec 2020 (online mode) in the One Day National Seminar on “Applications of Geographic Information Systems & QGIS”, organized by Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim.

40. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe and Mr. Nettimi Satya Saisrinivas, have incorporated ATRIEL India Private Limited Company, as per the terms and conditions of the ongoing Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge, organized by the Ministry of Electronics and


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Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. The company is now recognized as a startup, incubated at NIT Puducherry.

41. The research team comprising Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha and Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe, Mr. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, and Mr. P. R. Sreesh, submitted an innovative solution to the Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge, launched in August 2020, by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. In October 2020, firstly, they qualified for the pre-quarterfinals stage, in which 1400 out of 6169 entries were shortlisted. Secondly, they qualified for the quarterfinals stage, in which 1200 out of 1400 entries were shortlisted. In February 2021, they qualified for the semi-finals stage, in which the top 100 out of 1200 entries were shortlisted, and were ranked at 36th position. The team won a prize grant of Rs: 1,00,000/-. Currently, the team is competing for the finals stage. [Source] Available: https://innovate.mygov.in/swadeshi-microprocessor-challenge/

42. Dr. G. Lakshmi Sutha, AP & HoD, ECE and Mr. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Research Associate, ECE, have served as the IEEE student branch counselor and Interim Chair respectively and played significant roles in the formation of IEEE student branch at NIT Puducherry. The student branch was officially approved by the IEEE in August 2020.

43. NIT Puducherry is one of the network institutes of IIRS/ISRO Outreach programme for conducting their courses as nodal centre.Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Associate Dean (Academic), Assistant Professor, ECE department is coordinating these activities. Under this scheme, our students have participated and received their certificate.

44. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “Design and simulation of Antennas” on 17th August 2020 during the Five Day Faculty Development Programme on Advanced Communication System Design and Simulations,” Organized by National Institute of Technology Puducherry.

45. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “AI for Antenna Applications” on 1st September 2020 during the ATAL Sponsored Five Day FDP Organized by Department of ECE, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.

46. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “Applications of Antennas” on 8th September 2020 during the Five Day FDP on Recent Trends in Communication Engineering (Online-Mode),” Organized by National Institute of Technology Puducherry

in Association with The Institution of Engineers (India), Puducherry State Centre, Puducherry.

47. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “Antenna Design and Simulations” on 23rd September 2020 during the ATAL sponsored Five Day National Workshop on Advancements in Antenna Engineering using Artificial Intelligence,” Organized by National Institute of Technology Puducherry.

48. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “Antenna Design and Simulations” on 23rd November 2020 during the AICTE sponsored Six Day Short Term Training Programme,” Organized by MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh.

49. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “Antenna Design and Simulations” on 15th September 2020 during the AICTE sponsored Six Day Short Term Training Programme on “Trends and Technologies in Antenna Design and Its Research Scopes” Organized by Toc H Institute of Science & Technology, Ernakulam, Kerala.

50. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani has received grant Rs.93,000/- towards organization of National Workshop from AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy. The event was organized from 21 to 25 September 2020 in the title “Advancements in Antenna Engineering using Artificial Intelligence”. 185 Participants from all over India have taken part in the event and 88 Participants have received their certificate from ATAL Web Portal.

51. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, acted as chief guest for the International Conference on Computer Communication & Power Systems organized by Sri Venkateswaraa College of Technology, Sriperumbuthur on 29th May 2020 and delivered talk on “Organization of Research Papers”.

52. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, acted as resource person for the webinar organized by Mount Zion college of Engineering and Technology, Pudukkottai on 1st July 2020 and delivered talk on “MIC Components”.

53. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, ECE Department has delivered a talk on “Antenna Design and Simulation using Neural Networks” on 15th Feb 2021 during the SPARC Sponsored One Week Workshop on “Recent Trends on Metamaterial Antennas for Wireless Applications and Deep Learning Techniques” Organized by Department of ECE, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli.


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54. Dr. R. Boopathi Rani, Assistant Professor, Depart- ment of ECE, acted as chief guest for the Inter- national Conference on Computer Communication & Power Systems organized by Sri Venkateswaraa College of Technology, Sriperumbuthur on 29th May 2020 and delivered talk on “Organization of Research Papers”. She also acted as resource person for the webinar organized by ount Zion college of Engineering and Technology, Pudukkottai on 1st July 2020 and delivered talk on “MIC Components”.

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering:

55. Dr. A. Venkadesan, Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Delivered a Webinar on “Neural Network Applications in Electrical Engineering” at Manakula Vinayagar Institute of Technology, Puducherry dated on 29th May 2020.

56. Dr. K. Navin Sam, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, delivered a webinar on “Distributed Power Generation an Overview” held on 09th May 2020 at SRM TRP Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu State.

57. Dr. K. Navin Sam, Assistant Professor,Department of EEE delivered a online lecture deliver on 31.12.2020 for the “Faculty Development Programme on Energy Engineering “ conducted by the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. This can be included in the news letter.

Department of Civil Engineering:58. Received best paper award from Indian Concrete Journal

for the publication “Numerical Analysis of Reinforced ECC Portal Frames” Preethy Mary Arulanandam., S.B. Singh., and Madappa, V.R. Sivasubramanian Year : Dec 2020 Award: ICJ Best Paper Award – 2020 Agency : Indian Concrete Journal


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Achievements of Students

1. NIT Puducherry has bagged 12 prizes in various literary events conducted by ONGC- Karaikal, in connection with Vigilance Week 2020. Further, Institute has bagged first prize among higher education institutes by signing 304 E-vigilance pledges during the week.

2. The essay writing competition (English, Tamil) and Slogan writing competitions (English, Tamil) on the theme ‘Satark Bharat, Samriddh Bharat (Vigilance India, Prosperous India) were conducted for NITPY students through on-line in association with ONGC, Karaikal. The students have actively participated in the competition and bagged lucrative prizes. The e-integrity pledge competition was conducted for various colleges/institution/university/schools by ONGC Karaikal. Our institute has recorded more than 300 e-pledges and bagged first prize in the competition.

3. In PONDICHERRY HERITAGE, the dance club members G.Subitha Lakshmi from 4th year and Hridhya S Chandran from 3rd year won first place in solo folk dance and solo classical dance category respectively FESTIVAL dance competition.

4. Students of our Institute have participated in National Voters Day competitions conducted by district collectorate of Karaikal. Mr. Bhuvan Sundar and Mr. Duraiswamy have won 2nd Prize in Quiz competition. Balamahendra (4 th B.Tech), Ms. Umayal (3rd B.Tech) and Ms. Saranya (2 nd B.Tech) have bagged Prizes as top ten drawing in State level drawing competitions conducted by AIDS control society Pondicherry.

5. Early Bird GATE-2021 Achievers- For the first time, our students have cleared GATE exam while they are studying in 3rd Year of their course. NIT Puducherry fraternity congratulates the students who have cleared GATE 2021 held during Feb0 March 2021. Mr. Kadu Sirajul Muneer (EEE)- AIR -1541, Mr. Ganesh kunchala (EEE)-AIR-1582, Mr. Sai Nihar (EEE)- AIR- 4000, Mr. Arunachaleashwer.S (EEE)- AIR- 14172, Mr,Tharun Kumar (ECE)- AIR-2935,

Ms. Chippala Poojith Sai (ECE)- AIR- 3073, Mr. Kishore Annavaram (CSE)- AIR- 1748.

6. Mr.Naveen Sriram First Year, B.Tech ECE and Ms. Malavika Mohan Final Year B.Tech CSE have bagged first and Second prize in Intercollegiate Drawing competition organized by Pondicherry Aids Control Society (PECS).

7. Mr. Rohith Narayanan, Second Year,B.Tech, CSE, secured Gold medal in Intercollegiate Classical Music- Vocal solo singing competition organized by Pondicherry Engineering College, with support of Department of Higher and Technical Education- Puducherry, during Puducherry Sports, Games and Cultural Meet 2020.

8. Mr. Subbarama Kousik Suraparaju, research scholar in Department of Mechanical Engineering Department, have been selected as a “Young Researcher Award 2020” from the Institute of Scholars, Bangalore, for the work entitled “Performance analysis of single slope solar desalination setup with natural fibre” published in the International Journal of “Desalination and Water Treatment” in the month of July 2020. Based on the inclusion of the ridge gourd in the conventional set -up the efficiency of 23.11% has been improved compared to conventional one.

9. Mr. Mohammed Ayaan, from second year Mechanical Engineering has secured second place in an intercollegiate online Quiz competition conducted by Pondicherry Aids Control Society on 6th November 2020.

10. Mihira Madhava Bollapragada, N S S Pranathi, Singuru Bhavana and Sreya Sasikumar, all from Fourth Year B.Tech ECE and Sai Krishna Muthukuru, Fourth Year B.Tech CSE have designed and implemented the animatronic hand using the Arduino microcontroller which is controlled using the manual hand movements for GYANITH 2020, NIT Puducherry.

11. Ms.Malavika Mohan, Final year B.Tech CSE and team comprising 8 members have won First prize in Intercollege Dance Festival Organized by People for Pondicherry’s

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Heritage on 30-1-2020. The troop has won Rolling trophy and individual.

12. Mr. Rohith Narayanan, II CSE has secured First prize and Gold medal in Intercollegiate Classical Music- Vocal solo singing competition organized by Pondicherry Engineering College, with support of Department of Higher and Technical Education- Puducherry, during Puducherry Sports, Games and Cultural Meet–2020.

13. Water colour Portrait drawn by Ms Malavika Mohan Final year B.Tech CSE has been selected by UNESCO and published on its official page for brining awareness on COVID-19.

14. Mr.Kushal Nigam, Final CSE student has Recognized as a Young Achiever of India and thus invited to Participate in Youth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conference 2021 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Government of India.

15. Mr. K.Vishnuprasad and Mr. Heartwin J Haveluck from II year CSE, have developed a Mobile Application HOPE under SAMADHAN Portal of MHRD addressing a online platform for job opportunities to migrant workers and potential employers.

16. Sweeti Sah, Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was awarded a cash prize of Rs 4000 on winning the National Level Bootcamp organized by Codegnan, Project Title “COVID-19 Data Analysis”, on 18th July, 2020.

17. Ms.Malavika Mohan, Final year B.Tech CSE and team comprising 8 members have won First prize in Intercollege Dance Festival Organized by People for Pondicherry’s Heritage on 30th January 2020.

18. Water colour portrait drawn by Ms Malavika Mohan Final year B.Tech CSE was selected by UNESCO and published on its official page for spreading awareness on COVID-19.

19. R.Sujithra @ Kanmani , Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering has presented a paper titled “Location Based Recommendation System - A review” in IFIP ICCIDS 2020-3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in data Science Organized by the Depart- ment of Computer Science and Engineering and Machine learning Research Group, SSN College of Engineering held on February 20 to 22 , 2020.

20. Mr. K.Vishnuprasad and Mr. Heartwin J Haveluck from Second Year B.Tech,Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,have developed a Mobile Application HOPE under SAMADHAN Portal of MHRD addressing a

online platform for job opportunities to migrant workers and potential employers.

21. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Research Associate, Department of ECE, received AWSAR award, comprising a Certificate of Appreciation (in November 2020) + Cash Prize of Rs: 10,000/- (in April 2020), from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), in association with the National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTS), and Vigyan Prasar, Government of India.

22. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Research Associate, Department of ECE, received Elite Certification from IIT-M and secured a position in the top 5% of exam toppers, for the NPTEL Online Certification Course examination on Patent Law for Engineers and Scientists, held during December 2020. https://nptel.ac.in/noc/courses/noc20/SEM1/noc20-hs26/

23. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Research Associate, Department of ECE, received Elite Certification from IIT-M, for the NPTEL Online Certification Course examination on German-I, held during December 2020.

24. V. Vipin, Research Scholar, attended 5 days Indo-USA Online Short-term Course On “Signal Processing and Machine Learning Techniques for Data-Driven IoT and Smartphone Health Monitoring” Organized by School of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar held from 26th to 30th March 2021.

25. V. Vipin, Research Scholar, completed certification course in Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Coursera and Deeplearning.ai in March 2021.

26. G. Rohith, Research Scholar, Department of ECE, achieved Certification for NPTEL Online Certification Course on “Deep Learning”, held during January-April 2020

27. G. Rohith, Research Scholar, Department of ECE, achieved Certification for NPTEL Online Certification Course on “Python for Data Science”, held during April 2020.

28. G. Rohith, Research Scholar, Department of ECE, achieved Mathworks Self-Paced Training course certification on “Deep Learning Onramp”, held during June 2020.

29. G. Rohith, Research Scholar, Department of ECE, achieved Mathworks Self-Paced Training course certification on “Machine Learning Onramp”, held during June 2020.


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30. Muthuramya C , Boopathi Rani Presented a research paper titled” Parasitic-fed Hilbert Curve Fractal Antenna in Dodecagon Slotted Ground Plane” in “National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS 2020)”, conducted by National Institute of Technology Puducherry on 21/11/2020.

31. Poonguzhali Elangovan presented manuscript titled “Performance analysis of optimizers for glaucoma diagnosis from fundus images using transfer learning” at Machine learning, Deep learning and Computational Intelligence for Wireless Networks ( MDCWC2020) workshop held on 24-10-2020 at NIT Tiruchirappalli.

32. Poonguzhali Elangovan presented manuscript titled “Detection of glaucoma from fundus image using pre-trained Densenet201 model” at National Conference on Communication Systems (NCOCS- 2020) held on 21-11-2020 at NIT Puducherry.

33. Praveen Kumar Kasetty participated in a webinar on “Arts and Challenges of Writing Papers for IEEE Transactions”, as a part of IEEE Bangalore Webinar – Learning Series organized by IEEE Bangalore Section on June 8th 2020.

34. Praveen Kumar Kasetty presented a paper on “Covert speech communication through audio steganography using DWT and SVD”, in the Eleventh International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies, held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in association with IEEE Kharagpur Section, held during July 1 - 3, 2020.

35. Praveen Kumar Kasetty attended an Interactive webinar on “Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge” organized by Meity, GOI on September 9th 2020.

36. Praveen Kumar Kasetty attended training program on “Instruction Enhancement Program (IEP) on FPGA Based Embedded Systems – Covering Swadeshi Microprocessors” organized by NIELIT-Calicut supported through C2SD (SMDP-III) project held during October 5-16, 2020.

37. Praveen Kumar Kasetty attended 2nd Interactive webinar on “Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge” organized by Meity, GOI on October 18th 2020.

38. Praveen Kumar Kasetty attended a webinar on “Semiconductors Transforming the Automotive Industry” organized by NXP semiconductors on October 20th 2020.

39. Praveen Kumar Kasetty attended a webinar on “Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Patents & Filing Guidelines” organized by CSI Chennai Chapter on November 16th 2020.

40. Praveen Kumar Kasetty attended 3rd Interactive webinar on “Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge” organized by Meity, GOI November 20th 2020.

41. Praveen Kumar Kasetty participated in a five-day FDP on “Artificial Intelligence for Building Signal Processing Applications” organized by NIT Warangal under TEQIP Phase III held during 7th to 11th December, 2020

42. Praveen Kumar Kasetty awarded with Elite + Silver Certificate for the NPTEL course “Patent Drafting for Beginners” organized by IIT Madras during the period JAN-FEB 2021, also one among the top 5% of exam toppers.

43. Vijayalakshmi D., presented manuscript titled “Renyi entropy based Bi-histogram equalization for Contrast Enhancement of MRI Brain Images” at NCOCS-2020 conference held on 21-11-2020 at NIT Puducherry

44. M.Bhuvan Sundar, Third Year B.Tech ECE and V.Vithya, Second Year B.Tech ECE have secured second prize in Inter Collegiate Quiz Competition organized by District Collectorate of Karaikal in the theme of National Voters Day-2020.

45. Mr. S. Daniel Johnson, Second Year,B.Tech, ECE, secured Gold medal in Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat SQAY National Championship , Zone D on 23rd February 2020 and various gold ,silver and bronze medal in 1st online SQAY state level championship & Tang soo do virtual national championship competitions held on months of June and July 2020.

46. Duggani Keerthana, Malaya Kumar Nath, “A Technical Review Report on Deep Learning Approach for Skin Cancer Detection and Segmentation”, Interna- tional Conference on Data Analytics and Manage- ment (ICDAM-2020), Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland & B.M. Institute of Engineering & Technol- ogy, India, 18th June, 2020.

47. Masoom Panda, Fourth Year B.Tech ECE, was awarded with DAAD scholarship 2020 to do research internship in Germany.

48. Hariviknesh and Jagadheshvar B P, Fourth Year B.Tech ECE, S. Ragavaa Prasadh and Sanjeev Kr- ishna, Fourth Year B.Tech CSE have developed Bare- Brains - a udemy like online video streaming app for lectures in engineering domain for Neso Academy, Uttar Pradesh.

49. V Aman Babu, Fourth Year B.Tech ECE, has worked in Puducherry-based Start-up Vaahan to design Automatic Swivel Seat which fits into the vehicle smoothly and is easy to use (Patent Pending).


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50. G. Rohith, Research Scholar, Department of ECE, achieved Certification for Various NPTEL Online Certification Course on “Deep Learning, Python for Data Science, Machine Learning & Deep Learning Onramp”, held during January-june 2020.

51. Nettimi Satya Sai Srinivas, Research Associate, Department of ECE, has attended virtual IEEE 24th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2020), organized by the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, during July 23-25, 2020, and presented his research article.

52. Praveen Kumar Kasetty, Research Scholar, Department of ECE, has attended the 11th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), organized by IIT Kharagpur, India, during July 2020, and presented his research article.

53. Mr Raghavan, working at L&T Chennai, alumni of NITPY (B.Tech. 2011-2015 batch) has donated 100 saplings to our institute to celebrate his 25th birthday.

54. Kushal Nigam, Department of ECE, has participated the IIRS/ISRO Outreach programme on Geographical Information System, organized by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, Dehradun during 28 September 2020 to 15 October 2020.

55. Abhishek Pal, Department of ECE, has participated the IIRS/ISRO Outreach programme on Basics of Geocomputation and Geoweb Services, organized by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, Dehradun during 19 October 2020 to 29 October 2020.

56. Balakumar.P, Department of ECE, has participated the IIRS/ISRO Outreach programme on RS & GIS Applications, organized by Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, Dehradun during 02 November 2020 to 20 November 2020.


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Awards

Dr. Aniruddha Kanhe and Dr. Amrtha Bhide, have been awarded the title “Hindi Ratna” by ONGC Karaikal on International Hindi Day. The title had a cash prize and a certificate. They have delivered seminars (in Hindi) on the topics “National Education Policy in Higher education” and “Perspective on online classes” respectively.

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Training and Placement Activities in the Year 2020-21

The placement session for the academic year 2020-2021 was conducted virtually with numerous companies taking part in the hiring process. The highest CTC achieved thus far has been 30 Lakhs per annum by Priyadharshee of EEE department. The detailed statistics is as follows-

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12.1 Highlights Description B.Tech M.TechStudents registered for T&P 182 24Total No. Students Placed 96 8Percentage of Placement 68% 33.00%Highest Package 30LPA 11 LPAMedian Salary 6 LPA 6.2 LPAAverage Salary 4.5 LPA 5.5 LPA

Total Offers Rolled Out 124Percentage of total offers Rolled Out With Respect to Enrolled Students 60.48%Percentage of Total Offers Rolled Out With Respect to Students Having CGPA Greater Than 6.5 (Out of the Enrolled Students)

68.13%

12.2 Placement StatisticsDepartment Total No. of

StudentsNo. of

Students Going to Pursue Higher Studies

No.of Students

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No.of Students Having CGPA

Greater Than 6.5

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No.of Students

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With Respect to Enrolled Students

Placed Percentage

With Respect to Students Having CGPA

Greater Than 6.5

(Out Of The Enrolled

Students)CIVIL 25 8 21 17 2 2 - 9.5% 11.76%CSE 67 15 60 55 43 30 13 71.66% 78.18%ECE 55 12 50 47 30 23 7 60% 63.82%EEE 50 9 50 41 21 17 4 42% 51.21%MECH 28 4 24 22 - - - - -TOTAL 225 48 205 182 96 72 24


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M. Tech CSE passed out 2021

M. Tech ECE passed out 2021

M. Tech EEE passed out 2021


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B. Tech ECE passed out 2021

B. Tech EEE passed out 2021

B.Tech CE passed out 2021


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B. Tech Mechanical passed out 2021

B. Tech CSE passed out 2021


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Finance

During the year 2020-21, NIT Puducherry received grant in aid of Rs.5559.38 lakh from Ministry of Education.

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Accounts

The annual accounts of the institution for 2020-21 were prepared in the revised format of accounts prescribed by the Ministry of Education. The audit of accounts was conducted by the Director General of Audit (Central), Chennai during 27.09.2021 to 01.10.2021. The annual accounts and the audit certificate were annexed to this report.

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Annual Accounts

2020-2021

Schedule No. Contents Page No.

Balance Sheet 2

Income and Expenditure 3

1 Corpus / Capital Fund 4

2 Designated/ Earmarked / Endowment Funds 4

3 Current Liabilities & Provisions 5

3 (a) Sponsored Projects 6

3 (b) Sponsored Fellowship & Scholarship 7

3 (c) Unutilized Grants from UGC, Government of India, etc. 7

4 Fixed Assets 8

4 (C) (i) Patents and Copyrights 10

5 Investments from Earmarked/ Endowment Funds 10

6 Investments - Others 11

7 Current Assets 11

Annexure - A 12

8 Loans, Advances & Deposits 13

9 Academic Receipts 14

10 Grants/Subsidies (Irrevocable Grants Received) 15

11 Income from Investments 15

12 Interest Earned 16

13 Other Income 16

14 Prior Period Income 17

15 Staff payments & Benefits (Establishments Exps) 17

15 (a) Employees Retirement And Terminal Benefits 18

16 Academic Expenses 18

17 Administrative and General Expenses 19

18 Transportation & Security Expenses 19

19 Repairs & Maintenance 20

20 Finance Costs 20

21 Other Expenses 21

22 Prior Period Expenses 21

23 Significant Accounting Policies 22

24 Contingent Liabilities and Notes on Accounts 24

Receipts and Payments Account 26

Balance Sheet (NPS TIER – I Account) 28

Receipts and Payments Account (NPS TIER – I Account) 28

Income and Expenditure Account (NPS TIER – I Account) 29

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National Institute of Technology PuducherryBalance Sheet as on 31st March 2021

Amount in Rupees

Particulars ScheduleCurrent Year

2020-21Previous Year

2019-20

SOURCES OF FUNDS

Corpus/Capital Fund 1 2038300659.01 1890710535.83

Designated/Earmarked Funds 2 6300017.00 5679286.00

Current Liabilities & Provisions 3 1345858717.09 1104458275.99

TOTAL 3390459393.10 3000848097.82

APPLICATION OF FUNDS

FIXED ASSETS

Tangible Assets 4 822862162.13 810475410.08

Intangible Assets 15861647.75 15339321.40

Capital Work-in-Progress 1105924681.00 1048337180.00

INVESTMENTS FROM EARMARKED FUNDS 5 0.00 0.00

Long Term

Short Term

INVESTMENTS - OTHERS 6 0.00 0.00

CURRENT ASSETS 7 1044807173.71 965379628.63

LOANS, ADVANCES & DEPOSITS 8 401003728.51 161316557.71

TOTAL 3390459393.10 3000848097.82

Significant Accounting Policies

Contingent Liabilities and Notes on Accounts


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National Institute of Technology PuducherryIncome and Expenditure Account for the Year Ended

31st March 2021Amount in Rupees

Particulars ScheduleCurrent Year


2019-20

INCOME

Academic Receipts 9 65374371.34 67779087.92

Grants/Subsidies 10 177333021.67 85278228.87

Income from Investments 11 329756.00 8403623.00

Interest Earned 12 8134376.00 19828955.00

Other Income 13 4198533.64 10991797.10

Prior Period Income 14 806227.00 0.00

TOTAL (A) 256176285.65 192281691.89

EXPENDITURE

Staff Payments & Benefits (Establishment Expenses) 15 97790085.38 94024600.00

Academic Expenses 16 33513282.94 33753668.42

Administrative & General Expenses 17 40689931.67 17606084.00

Transportation Expenses 18 1180613.00 42647800.42

Repairs & Maintenance 19 3825460.58 4179118.00

Finance Costs 20 30586.10 70421.05

Depreciation 4 59854476.96 45429178.75

Other Expenses 21 0.00 0.00

Prior Period Expenditure (Depreciation) 22 303062.00 46523730.42

TOTAL (B) 237187498.63 284234601.06

Balance being excess of Expenditure over Income (A-B) 0.00 -91952909.17

Balance being excess of Income Over Expenditure (A-B) 18988787.02 0.00

Building Fund

Balance being surplus (Deficit) Carried to Capital Fund 18988787.02 -91952909.17


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 1 - Corpus / Capital Fund

Amount in Rupees

ParticularsCurrent Year


2019-20

Balance beginning of the year 1890710535.83 1557547838.00Add: Grant utilised for Capital Expenditure/WIP 129293610.16 452874812.00Add: Surplus under Income & Expenditure 18988787.02 0.00Add: Corpus Fund collection - Overhead Charges 548581.00 922446.00Add: Corpus Fund collection - Bank Interest 884098.00 909558.00

2040425612.01 2012254654.00LESS: Excess of Expr. Over Income transfer from I&E A/c 0.00 91952909.17LESS: Refund from CPWD 2124953.00 29591209.00Balance of the end of the year 2038300659.01 1890710535.83

SCHEDULE : 2 - Designated / Earmarked / Endowment FundsAmount in Rupees

ParticularsStudent Welfare

FundAlumni Fund

Current Year (2020-21)

Previous year (2019-20)

A. a) Opening Balance 4904826.00 774460.00 5679286.00 5148490.00b) Additions during the year 458400.00 166000.00 624400.00 529800.00c) Income from investments made of the fund

1319.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

d) Accrued interest on Investments 22.00 0.00 0.00 0.00e) Interest on savings Bank A/c 0.00 0.00 0.00 996.00f) Other additions 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (A) 5364567.00 940460.00 6303686.00 5679286.00B.i. Utilisation towards Capital Expr. 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00ii. Expenditure towards revenue expr. 0.00 5010.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (B) 0.00 5010.00 0.00 0.00CLOSING BALANCE AT THE YEAR END (A-B) 5364567.00 935450.00 6300017.00 5679286.00REPRESENTS: Savings Bank A/c 6300017.00 5679286.00Term DepositsInterest Accrued and Due


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 3 - Current Liabilities & Provisions

Amount in Rupees

ParticularsCurrent Year


2019-20

A CURRENT LIABILITIES1. Deposits from staff 0.00 0.002. Deposits from students 10671490.00 3831430.003. Sundry Creditors a) For goods and services 5695442.47 0.00 b) Hostel Account 800800.00 19408167.00 c) Others 4000.00 0.004. Deposits - Others (Including EMD,Security Deposits) 1674475.00 1375419.005. Statutory Liabilities a. NPS 1059894.00 915433.00 b. TDS 675820.00 861964.00 c. GST TDS 162376.00 424326.00 d. GSTIN 272781.00 0.006. Other Current Liabilities a. Salaries/Recurring Expenses 5482812.82 4870836.00 b. Other funds (Consultancy Collection) 1073980.00 0.00 c. Other Liabilities 3463557.00 34878143.36 d. Receipts against sponsored projects (3 A) 4169740.50 6844972.50 e. Receipts against sponsored fellowship and Scholarship (3B) 3.00 0.00 f. Unutilised Grants (3C) 1256365803.30 984199157.13 e. Grants in Advance 0.00 0.00

TOTAL -(A) 1291572975.09 1057609847.99B PROVISIONS

1. For Taxation 0.00 0.002. Gratuity 15226404.00 13349749.003. Superannuation pension 0.00 0.004. Accumulated Leave encashment 39059338.00 33498679.005. Other Expenses payable 0.00 0.00

TOTAL -(B) 54285742.00 46848428.00TOTAL (A+B) 1345858717.09 1104458275.99


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 3(b) - Sponsored Fellowship and Scholarship

Amount in Rupees

Sl. No.

Name of SponserOpening Balance as on

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1 23 4 5 6 7 8

Credit Debit Credit Debit Credit Debit

1 MHRD Account 0.00 0.00 1709077.00 1709074.00 3.00 0.002 SC/ST- Scholarship A/c 0.00 0.00 124500.00 124500.00 0.00 0.003 Int. on Deposit A/c 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.004 student Seminor Fund 0.00 0.00 290950.00 290950.00 0.00

TOTAL 0.00 0.00 2124527.00 2124524.00 3.00 0.00

* TOTAL column 7 (Credit) appears In Balance sheet Liability side Schedule 3, 6 (e)

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Previous Year 2019-20

A. Plan Grants: Govt. of India, MHRDBalance B/F 696232798.00 391516401.00Add: Receipts during the YearGrants Received 450000000.00 728000000.00Refund amount from CPWD 2124953.00 29591209.00

TOTAL (a) 1148357751.00 1149107610.00Less: Refunds 0.00 0.00Less:Utilized for Revenue Expenditure 0.00 0.00Less:Utilized for Capital Expenditure 129293610.16 452874812.00LESS: WIP adjusted

TOTAL (b) 129293610.16 452874812.00Unutilized carried forward (c=a-b) 1019064140.84 696232798.00

B. Govt. of India, MHRD Grants Non PlanBalance B/F 287966359.13 333244588.00Add: Receipts during the Year 105938000.00 40000000.00

TOTAL (d) 393904359.13 373244588.00Less:Utilized for Revenue Expenditure 177333021.67 85278228.87Less:Utilized for Capital Expenditure 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (e) 177333021.67 85278228.87Unutilized carried forward (f = d-e) 216571337.46 287966359.13

Add: Interest earned from Grants 20730325.00 0.00GRAND TOTAL (C+F) 1,25,63,65,803.30 984199157.13


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123

National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 4 [c] (i) - Patents and Copyrights

Amount in Rupees

Particulars Op. Balance Additions Gross AmortizationNet Block

as on 31.03.2021

Net Block as on

31.03.2020

A. Patents Granted 1. Balance as on 25.01.2021 - 1,31,397.00 1,31,397.00 14,600.00 1,16,797.00 - 2. Balance as on 25.01.2021 - 1,31,917.00 1,31,917.00 14,657.00 1,17,260.00 - 3. Balance as on 02.02.2021 - 63,660.00 63,660.00 7,073.00 56,587.00 -

TOTAL - 3,26,974.00 3,26,974.00 36,330.00 2,90,644.00 - B. Patents Pending in respects

of Patents applied for 1. Expenditure incurred 54,840.00 2,45,146.00 2,99,986.00 - 2,99,986.00 -

- - - - - - - - - - - -

TOTAL 54,840.00 2,45,146.00 2,99,986.00 - 2,99,986.00 - C. GRAND TOTAL (A+B) 54,840.00 5,72,120.00 6,26,960.00 36,330.00 5,90,630.00 -

SCHEDULE : 5 - Investments from Earmarked / Endownment Funds

Amount in Rupees

Sl. No.

ParticularsCurrent Year (2020-21)

Previous Year (2019-20)

1 In Central Government Securities 0 0

2 In State Government Securities 0 0

3 Other approved Securities 0 0

4 Shares 0 0

5 Debentures and Bonds 0 0

6 Term deposits with Banks 0 0

7 Others ( to be specified) 0 0

TOTAL 0 0


124

National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 6 - Investments - Others

Amount in Rupees

Sl. No.



1 In Central Government Securities 0.00 0.00

2 In State Government Securities 0.00 0.00

3 Other approved Securities 0.00 0.00

4 Shares 0.00 0.00

5 Debentures and Bonds 0.00 0.00

6 Term deposits with Banks 0.00 0.00

7 Others (to be specified) 0.00 0.00

TOTAL 0 0

SCHEDULE : 7 - Current Assets Amount in Rupees

Sl. No.



1 STOCK:

a. Lab Chemicals, Consumables & Glassware 0.00 0.00

2 SUNDRY DEBTORS:

a. Debts Outstanding for period exceeding 6 months 0.00 0.00

b. Others 5662310.00 5000.00

3 CASH AND BANK BALANCES:

a. With Scheduled Banks

in Current Accounts 1956477.94 1203279.28

in Term Deposit Accounts 151236282.00 145903314.00

in Savings Accounts 885952103.77 818268035.35

b. With Non- Scheduled Banks

POST OFFICE -SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

TOTAL 1044807173.71 965379628.63


125

National Institute of Technology PuducherryANNEXURE - A

Amount in RupeesSl. No.



1 Current Account01. Foreign Language Course-SBI A/c 38655724642 27388.93 108988.9302. Gyanith Account-SBI A/c 36521315650 910523.23 717033.2303. IEI Mech-SBI A/c 38943107815 16311.25 16311.2504. LECIEL-SBI A/c 37854339913 115887.19 118993.1905. NITPY Guest House A/c-SBI A/c 39317758821 58595.00 0.0006. NITPY T&P-SBI A/c 38836148594 433000.00 0.0007. NSS Account-SBI A/c 38843251104 186.00 4000.0008. Student Chapter ECE-SBI A/c 38977122948 4009.14 5279.0709. Workshop & Conference-SBI A/c 37854338444 217399.81 205050.0910. NITPY Alumni Association-SBI A/c 39410990377 147490.00 0.0011. SBI Collect-SBI A/C 33940862379 25687.39 27623.52TOTAL (A) 1956477.94 1203279.28

2 Savings Bank Accounts01. Ministry Fund Account - SBI A/C 31098206383 524384665.25 512042776.9902. NITPY Corpus Fund Account - SBI A/c 33803758887 5355104.00 4823826.0003. NITPY Fee Fund Account - SBI A/c 33803763716 342374094.26 285797079.6404. NITPY Student Welfare Fund Account - SBI A/c 33803699910 50206.00 48863.0005. Scholorships & Deposit Fund A/c - SBI A/c 32912184337 6390341.72 5569218.7206. NITPY New Pension Scheme Account - SBI A/c 33803762076 255849.85 247964.8507. NITPY Consultancy Account - SBI A/c 38259423770 1199873.50 141119.5008. KNOSYS Account - SBI A/c 33583045760 0.00 214685.5009. TARANGG Account - SBI A/c 33630713578 0.00 55120.5010. SPREEE Account - SBI A/c 33644027482 0.00 126371.00Project Accounts:11. NITPY Project Fund Account - SBI A/c 33803760487 2965585.69 5249337.1512. SMDP C2SD project Account - SBI A/c 34943496809 1498571.50 2140956.5013. NITPY UGC DAE SCCMSBS Account - SBI A/C 38216552026 18046.50 122983.5014. NITPY SERB NHMHPADMFC Account - SBI A/c 38216564542 35383.50 215292.5015. NITPY DSTICPS DCLHGMA Account - SBI A/c 38368294172 0.00 3951.0016. NITPY DSTICPS IOTSHRES Account - SBI A/c 38389048461 155087.00 1468489.0017. NIT DST SERB Ramanujan Fellowship - SBI A/c 39925828662 1269295.00 0.00

TOTAL (B) 885952103.77 818268035.353 Term Deposits

a. With SBI Karaikal Branch 151236282.00 145903314.00TOTAL (C) 151236282.00 145903314.00

GRAND TOTAL (A)+(B)+ (C) 1039144863.71 965374628.63


126

National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 8 - Loans, Advances & Deposits




1 Advances to employees: ( Non Interest bearing)a. Salary 0.00 0.00b. Medical Advance 0.00 0.00

2 Long Term Advances to employees: ( Interest Bearing)a. Vehicle Loan 0.00 0.00

3 Advances and other amounts recoverables cash or in kind or for value to be received:a. Capital Account Deposit with CPWD (General) 388897905.00 141981746.00b. Suppliers/ Services(EB DEPT HT Supply) 70547.00 0.00 Imprest 0.00 0.00 Department Advances 0.00 0.00 Others (GST Ledger) 0.00 77226.00

4 Prepaid Expensesa. Insurance 415829.00 461689.00b. Other expenses 912063.00 9558.00

5 Depositsa. Telephone 0.00 0.00b. Lease Rent 0.00 0.00c. Electricity Deposit 2415000.00 2415000.00

6 Income AccuredInterest accured but not due 4094521.00 8385389.00

7 Other Current assets Receivablea. Rent due from Hostel fund 2088000.00 4986000.00b. Grant in transit/Grant receivable(Project A/c) 0.00 0.00c. scholarship a/c due 0.00 0.00d. Overhead Charges Due/ Corpus Fund Collecton Due 498516.00 339156.00 Others 1611347.51 2660793.71

TOTAL 401003728.51 161316557.71


127

National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 9 - Academic Receipts




Fee From Students1 Academic Fees

1. Tuition fee 60170774.62 53583232.222. Admission fee 65400.00 59600.003. Enrolment Fee 457400.00 380800.004. Library Admission fee 575000.00 1904000.005. Laboratory fee(Comp.fee) 575000.00 1904000.006. Art & Craft fee 327000.00 1904000.007. Registration fee 0.00 0.008. Syllabus fee 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (A) 62170574.62 59735632.222 Examination Fees

1. Examination fee 714000.00 729650.002. Mark sheet, certificate fee 50550.00 48050.00

TOTAL (B) 764550.00 777700.003 Other Fees

1. Medical Exam. Fee 32700.00 410600.002. Fine/Miscellaneous fee 39009.00 2899145.003. Convocation Fee 63000.00 3750.004. Internet Fee 172500.00 571200.005. Sports Fee 163500.00 952000.006. Gyanith A/c Collection 0.00 401842.707. Medical and Insurance Fee 457400.00 0.008. Training & Placement Fee 510000.00 0.009. Seminar Fund 597613.72 0.00

TOTAL (C) 2035722.72 5238537.704 Sale of Publications

1. Application fee(Ph. D. & Recruitment) 403524.00 2027218.002. Sale of Tender forms 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (D) 403524.00 2027218.00GRAND TOTAL (A+B+C+D) 65374371.34 67779087.92


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 10 - Grants / Subsidies (Irrevocable Grants Received)

Amount in Rupees

Particulars

PLAN

Total PlanNon Plan UGC

Total Total

Govt. of IndiaUGC

2020-21 2019-20Plan

Specific Schemes

Balance Brought Forward 984199157.13 0.00 0.00 984199157.13 0.00 984199157.13 724760989.00Add: Receipts during the

year (31 & 36)

105938000.00 0.00 0.00 105938000.00 0.00 105938000.00 728000000.00

Add: Receipts during the

year (35)

45,00,00,000.00 0.00 0.00 450000000.00 450000000.00 4,00,00,000.00

Add: Refund amount from

CPWD

2124953.00 0.00 0.00 2124953.00 0.00 2124953.00 29591209.00

TOTAL 1542262110.13 0.00 0.00 1542262110.13 0.00 1542262110.13 1522352198.00Less: Refund to UGC 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Balance 1542262110.13 0.00 0.00 1542262110.13 0.00 1542262110.13 1522352198.00Less: Utilised for Capital

Exps. (A)

129293610.16 0.00 0.00 129293610.16 0.00 129293610.16 452874812.00

Balance 1412968499.97 0.00 0.00 1412968499.97 0.00 1412968499.97 1069477386.00Less: Utilised for Revenue

Exps. (B)

177333021.67 0.00 0.00 177333021.67 0.00 177333021.67 85278228.87

Add: Interest earned from

Grant

20730325.00 0.00 0.00 20730325.00 0.00 20730325.00 -

Balance C/F (C) 1256365803.30 0.00 0.00 1256365803.30 0.00 1256365803.30 984199157.13

SCHEDULE : 11 - Income from InvestmentsAmount in Rupees

Sl. No.

Particulars Earmarked /Endw. Funds

Other Investments Earmarked/Endw. Funds

Other Investments

2020-21 2020-21 2019-20 2019-201 Interest

a. On Government securities

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

b. Other Bonds, etc., 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.002 Interest on Term deposits 0.00 329756.00 0.00 8403623.003 Income accured but not due 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.004 Interest on Savings Bank accounts 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.005 Others 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL 0.00 329756.00 0.00 8403623.00


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 12 - Interest Earned




1 On Savings Accounts with Scheduled banks 81,34,376.00 1,98,28,955.00

2 On Loans sanctioned to staff 0.00 0.00

3 On Debtors and other Receivables 0.00 0.00

TOTAL 8134376.00 19828955.00

SCHEDULE : 13 - Other IncomeAmount in Rupees

Sl. No.



A. Income from Land & Buildings1. Hostel Room Rent 2310000.00 9918000.002. License fee 101954.00 75593.003. Hire Charges for Buildings, etc 0.00 45000.004. Electricity Charges/ water charges 0.00 533644.005. Rent from Guest House 81500.00 0.00

TOTAL (A) 2493454.00 10572237.00B. Sales of Institute's Publications 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (B) 0.00 0.00C. Income from Holding events

1. Gross receipts from annual function/sports 0.00 0.00 Less: Direct Exps. Incurred on the annual 0.00 0.002. Gross Receipts from fetes 0.00 0.00 Less: Direct Exps on fetes 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (C) 0.00 0.00D Others

1. Income from Consultancy 0.00 138200.002. RTI fees 90.00 20.003. Sale of Tender Forms 8396.00 3900.004. Misc. Income 48711.64 277439.505. Recruitment Fee 1647882.00 0.00

TOTAL (D) 1705079.64 419559.50GRAND TOTAL (A+B+C+D) 4198533.64 10991796.50


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 14 - Prior Period Income




1 Academic Receipts 0.00 0.00

2 Income from Investments 0.00 0.00

3 Interest earned 0.00 0.00

4 Other Income 806227.00 0.00

TOTAL 806227.00 0.00

SCHEDULE : 15 - Staff Payments & Benefits (Establishment Exps)




1 Salaries and wages 59331122.00 58052867.002 Allowances and Bonus

a. Adhoc staff salary 12321283.00 13626350.00b. TTA 0.00 0.00c. TA 0.00 0.00

3 HRD Staff Training 0.00 0.004 NPS Contribution 7060397.00 6872745.005 Staff Welfare Expenses (CPDA) 2767972.00 517776.006 Composit travel grant 0.00 0.007 Registration fees 63130.00 0.008 Retirement and Terminal Benefits 0.00 0.009 a. Gratutity 1876655.00 3551172.0010 b. Leave Encashment 7700341.00 9050080.0011 LTC Facility 2508130.00 41798.0012 Leave Salary & Pension Contribution 856800.00 986820.0013 Medical Facility 717247.00 19115.0014 Children Education Allowance 653710.00 782277.0015 Honorarium 1933298.38 523600.0016 Pay commission Arrears 0.00 0.00

TOTAL 97790085.38 94024600.00


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 15 (a) - Employees Retirement and Terminal

BenefitsAmount in Rupees

Name Pension GratuityLeave

EncashmentTOTAL

Opening Balance as on 01.04.2020 13349749.00 33498679.00 46848428.00Addition: Capitalized value of Contributions Received from other Organizations

0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (A) 13349749.00 33498679.00 46848428.00Less: Actual Payment during the year (B) 0.00 2139682.00 2139682.00Balance Available on 31.03 C(a-b) 13349749.00 31358997.00 44708746.00Provision required on 31.03 as per Actuarial Valuation (D)a. Provision to be made in the Current Year 1876655.00 7700341.00 9576996.00b. Contribution to New Pension Scheme 0.00 0.00 0.00c. Medical Reimbursement to Retired Employees 0.00 0.00 0.00d. Travel to Hometown on Retirement 0.00 0.00 0.00E. Deposit Linked Insurance Payment 0.00 0.00 0.00

TOTAL (A+B+C+D+E) 15226404.00 39059338.00 54285742.00

SCHEDULE : 16 - Academic ExpensesAmount in Rupees

Sl. No.



1 Laboratory Expenses( Consumables) 273724.00 274584.002 Field work/ participation 6713.00 371987.003 Seminar / Workshop 612819.72 1748951.004 Admission Expenses 360523.00 72749.005 Examination Expenses 239400.00 343475.006 Student Welfare Expenses 639107.00 562998.727 Syllabus Book/Calender 0.00 0.008 N.S.S/ N.C.C. 31756.00 294089.009 Convocation Expenses 1112919.50 2120810.0010 Magazines & Journals 0.00 0.0011 Stipend/Ph.D,M.Tech 29131525.00 20418711.0012 Department Imprest 521274.72 712070.0013 Sports & Games 12982.00 1866693.0014 Cultural & Social Activities Expenses 0.00 2166812.0015 Visiting Faculty Remuneration 398476.00 1953287.7016 Other Academic Expenses/Gyanith 172063.00 846451.00

TOTAL 33513282.94 33753668.42


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SCHEDULE : 18 - Transportation / Security ExpensesAmount in Rupees

Sl. No.



1 Transport Expenses (Outsourced) 132748.00 1439552.002 Vehicle taken on rent / lease 955091.00 579566.003 Institute vehicles 92774.00 195361.00

TOTAL 1180613.00 2214479.00

National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 17 - Administrative & General Expenses




A. Infrastructure1 Electricity, Power and Water Charges 7722307.00 9681326.002 Security Expenses ( Outsourced) 1,33,75,868.75 13584813.003 Generator Running Expenses 326031.00 544580.00B. Communication1 Postage & telephone 117295.00 630678.00C. Other Administration Expenses1 Printing & Stationery 550625.00 440149.002 Newspapers & Periodicals 0.00 0.003 Entertainment Expenses 0.00 0.004 House Keeping (Outsourced) 3492312.00 3914968.005 Manpower (Outsourced) 1,24,56,596.11 23128901.426 Travelling and Local Conveyance 30154.00 0.007 Professional Charges 441060.00 322460.008 Hospitality & Health Care 852373.00 1643017.009 Consultancy charges 720854.00 1211132.0010 Advertisement & Publicity 0.00 211359.0011 Magazines & Journals 37867.00 84255.0012 Meetings and Committee Expenses 62198.00 941069.0013 Celebration of important days 88091.00 594459.00D. Others

a. Misc. Expenses 7353.00 97884.00b. Recruitment Expenses 408986.00 1008355.00c. Round off -39.19 0.00

TOTAL 40689931.67 58039405.42


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 19 - Repairs & Maintenance




1 Building 1588941.40 2195490.00

2 Furniture & Fixtures 0.00 200990.00

3 Plant & Machinery 227977.68 470565.00

4 Office Equipments 0.00 0.00

5 Cleaning Materials & Services 151303.00 15226.00

6 Others (Specify)

a. Computer Repaires & Maintenance 252621.00 219854.00

b. Maintanance of Hostel 314080.00 968589.00

c. Institute Vehicle 46250.00 73953.00

d. Generator Maintenance 32725.00 0.00

e. Office Maintenance 30533.00 0.00

f. Repairs & Maintanence 182061.00 34451.00

g. Guest House Maintenance 200848.50 0.00

h. Maintenace Of Electrical 798120.00 0.00

TOTAL 3825460.58 4179118.00

SCHEDULE : 20 - Finance CostsAmount in Rupees

Sl. No.



1 Interest on Fixed loans 0.00 0.00

2 Interest on Other loans 0.00 0.00

i. Bank Charges 30586.10 70421.05

ii. Others (specify)

TOTAL 30586.10 70421.05


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 21 - Other Expenses




1 Provision for Bad & Doubtful debts / advances 0.00 0.00

2 Irrecoverable balances/Erroenous Demand withdrawn 0.00 0.00

3 others (specify) 0.00 0.00

TOTAL 0.00 0.00

SCHEDULE : 22 - Prior Period ExpensesAmount in Rupees

Sl. No.



1 Establishment Expenses 0.00 0.00

2 Academic Expenses 16302.00 0.00

3 Administrative Expenses 239768.00 0.00

4 Repairs & Maintenance 46992.00 0.00

5 Others 0.00 46523730.42

TOTAL 303062.00 46523730.42


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 23 - Significant Accounting Policies

1. BASIS FOR PREPARATION OF ACCOUNTSThe Accounts are prepared under the Historical Cost Convention, unless otherwise stated, and generally on the accrual method of accounting.

2. REVENUE RECOGNITION Fee collection from the students and Interest on Savings account are accounted for on cash basis. Interest on Term Deposits is accounted for on accrual basis.

3. FIXED ASSETS AND DEPRECIATION3.1 Fixed Assets are stated at cost of acquisition including inward freight, duties and taxes, incidental and direct expenses

related to acquision, installation and commissioning. Fixed assets are valued at cost less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation on fixed assets is provided on Straight Line Method, as per rates specified by the Ministry for the guidelines for preparation of Uniform Accounting Format prescribed with the approval of the Ministry.

3.2 Depreciation is provided for the whole year on additions during the year irrespective of the date of purchase. Where an asset if fully depreciated, it will be carried at a residual value of Re.1 in the Balance Sheet and will not be further depreciated. Asset created out of Sponsored projects, where the ownership of such asset did not vest with the Institution, are considered separately and value intimated in Note on Accounts as per Ministry guidelines.

4. STOCKS: Expenditure on purchase of consumables, payment of subscriptions and other stores are accounted as revenue and purchase are being made based on necessity then and there is no stock exhibited in the accounts as on 31.03.2021.

5. RETIREMENT BENEFITSProvision for Gratuity and Leave Encashment for 2020-21 obtained from registered Actuarial Valuer has been exhibited in Schedule 15A as per guidelines.

6. INVESTMENTSShort Term deposits made based on availability of surplus mentioned at their cost.

7. CORPUS/CAPITAL FUND Capital Expenditure on purchase of Equipment amounting to Rs.7.17 Crores and Rs.5.76 Crores Expenditure debited by CPWD on Work in Progress added during 2020-21 under Capital Fund. The expenditure incurred under Recurring head is Rs.17.73 Crore deducted from Grant and shown in Schedule 10. Depreciation amount of Rs. 5.99 crores deducted from Building /Equipment account.

8. GOVERNMENT GRANTSGovernment Grants are accounted on realization basis. However, where a sanction for release of grant pertaining to the financial year is received before 31st March will be exhibited in the accounts as Grant in Transit as per the Ministry Guidelines. No such Grant received during 2020-21. Grants utilized for Capital Expenditure and Recurring Expenditure are accounted on accrual basis and exhibited in Schedule 3 C along with CPWD Deposit as per the Ministry guidelines.


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 23 - Significant Accounting Policies (Contd...)

9. SPONSORED PROJECTSGrants received from various agencies for Sponsored research projects are dealt separately and exhibited in Schedule 3A as per Ministry guidelines.

10. INCOME TAXThe Income of the Institution is exempt from Income Tax as per Section 10 (23c) of the Income Tax Act. Hence no provision of tax is made in the accounts.

11. EXPENDITURE IN FOREIGN CURRENCY:No Expenditure was incurred in Foreign Currency during the year under report.

12. CURRENT ASSETS, LOANS & ADVANCES Loans, Advances and Deposits have realization value in the ordinary course to the aggregate amount shown in the Balance Sheet.

13. BANK BALANCESNo cash transaction is being entertained. All transactions are being made through Institute accounts. Details of balances in Current account, savings bank accounts, Term Deposits Receipts and Multi Option Deposits (MOD) with State Bank of India, Karaikal Branch is exhibited in Schedule 7 (Annexure A).

14. RE-GROUPING OF FIGURESRegrouping of figures made in Previous year’s figures wherever necessary.

15. ROUNDING OFF Figures in the Final accounts have been rounded off to the nearest rupee.

16. NEW PENSION SCHEMERecovery of subscription from employee and Employer contribution are transferred to separate account maintained for the purpose and remitted to NSDL periodically. Separate Statement of Accounts prepared attached as per Ministry guidelines for uniform Accounting procedure.


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 24 - Contingent Liabilities and Notes on Accounts

1. Contingent Liabilities National Institute of Technology Puducherry has no court cases in any part of the Country regarding establishment matters and admissions. No disputes relating to any settlements and hence no contingent liabilities for the Institute at present Administrative approval was accorded for new constructions for Rs.153.94 crores and deposited with CPWD Rs. 30.66 crores during the Year 2020-21.

2 Permanent campusThe Government of Puducherry has provided 258.33 acres of land in Poovam and Thiruvettakudy Villages in Karaikal region. The Institute with the approval of the competent authority has entrusted all works relating to construction of buildings in the new campus viz. survey of land, preparation of Master plan for the Campus, Construction works etc. were entrusted to Central Public Works Department of Government of India.

The Building works completed by CPWD, handed over and occupied. 1. Science Block 2. Boys Hostel 3. Girls Hostel 4. Professor quarters 5. Director Bungalow.

3. Investment and Interest on GrantsConsidering the availability of surplus funds and utility period, investment is being made in term deposits for Short Term. The interest on deposit of Rs. 0.03 crores and shown in Schedule 11 as per existing practice.

4. Grants in aid4.1 The Government of India, Ministry of Education, New Delhi has released a sum of Rs. 10.59 crores for salary/General

Expenses and Rs.45.00 crores for Creation of Capital Assets during 2020-21. All Grants received exhibited in Schedule 3 C.

4.2 The Institute got one new sponsored Research Projects from DST SERB during 2020-21 and funds were received. The project funds are kept in Research Project Account and exhibited in Schedule 3 A.

5. Fixed Assets and Capital Work In-ProgressThe Institute had incurred a sum of Rs.7.17 Crores towards purchase of equipment for various laboratories/workshop, Furniture for class rooms/Faculty & staff, Software/E-Journals etc. All Capital expenses are exhibited in Shc.4 Fixed Assets.

Equipment worth Rs.0.18 cores was procured out of Sponsored Projects and not included in Fixed Assets of the Institute since the ownership vests with the Sponsoring agencies.


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National Institute of Technology PuducherrySCHEDULE : 24 - Contingent Liabilities and Notes on

Accounts (Contd...)6. Internal Audit

For the year 2020-21, the Internal Audit of the institution was conducted by M/s. PKKG Balasubramaniam & Associates, Chennai.

7. Provision for Gratuity and Encashment of LeaveDuring the year 2020-21 in respect of regular posts in operation, a provision of Rs. 1.52 crore towards Gratuity and Rs. 3.91 crore towards Encashment of leave been made in the accounts on actuarial basis.

8. Exemption from the purview of Foreign Currency Regulation ActIn accordance with Government of India Gazette Notification dated 1.7.2011, Central Government exempted all the bodies constituted or established by or under the Central Act or State Act from the purview of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 requiring to having their accounts compulsorily audited by the Comptroller & Auditor General of India. In line with this NIT Puducherry applied to Ministry of Home Affairs to exempt NIT Puducherry from the purview of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA, 2010).

9. Physical verification of Assets & Library BooksThe physical verification of assets and library books as on 31.03.2021 was conducted by the Committee nominated for the purpose.


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National Institute of Technology PuducherryReceipts and Payments Account for the Period from

01.04.2020 to 31.03.2021Amount in Rupees

RceiptsCurrent Year


2019-20Payments

Current Year 2020-21

Previous Year 2019-20

I. Opening Balances I. Expenses (a) Bank Balance (a) Establishment Expenses 70161378.54 61943567 i. In Current Accounts 1203279.28 884906 (b) Academic Expenses 50275796.12 72319161.42 ii. In Deposit Accounts 145903314.00 140201551 (c) Administrative Expenses 59376353.90 19943967 iii. Savings Accounts 818268035.35 579958813 (d) Transportation Expenses 1360842.00 19644400

965374628.63 721045270.14 (e) Repairs & Maintenance 8046818.00 3198772.05II. Grants Received (f) Prior period Expenses 282412.00 549860 (a) Grants for Capital 450000000.00 728000000 189503600.56 177599727.47 (b) Grants for Revenue 105938000.00 40000000 II. Payments against Earmarked/

Endowment Funds0.00 0.00

555938000.00 768000000.00 0.00 0.00III. Academic Receipts 70149071.34 120106754.9 III. Payments against Sponsored

Projects/Schemes9222516.00 10722087

70149071.34 120106754.92 9222516.00 10722087.00IV. Receipts against Earmarked/

Endowment Funds0.00 0 IV. Payments against sponsored

Fellowships and Scholarships1845524.00 2210232

0.00 0.00 1845524.00 2210232.00V. Receipts against Sponsored

Projects/Schemes6657334.54 8602363 V. Investments and Deposits

made6657334.54 8602363.00 (a) Out of Earmarked /

Endowments funds0.00 0

VI. Receipts against sponsored Fellowships and Scholarships

2124527.00 2210232 (b) Out of own funds (Investments-Others)

0.00 0

2124527.00 2210232.00 0.00 0VII. Income on Investments from VI. Term Deposits with Scheduled

Banks0

(a) Earmarked/Endowment funds 0.00 0.00 0 (b) Other Investments 0.00 680964 VII. Expenditure on Fixed Assets

and Capital Works-in-Progress0.00 680964.00 (a) Fixed Assets 70949124.19 52940336

VIII. Interest received on (b) Capital Works-in Progress 306628613.00 450195739 (a) Bank deposits 34630973.00 11554724 377577737.19 503136075 (b) Loans and Advances 0.00 0 VIII. Other Payments including

statutory payments35401763.62 22617091

(c) Savings Bank Accounts 8177157.00 11920911 35401763.62 2261709142808130.00 23475635.00 IX. Refunds of Grants 0

IX. Investments encashed 0.00 0.00X. Deposits and Advances 12625533.00 1439476

X. Term Deposits with Scheduled Banks encashed

0.00 0.00 12625533.00 1439476.00

XI. Other Payments 1842834.68 1693412XI. Other Income (Including Prior

Period Income)4131542.64 7261000 1842834.68 1693412.00

4131542.64 7261000.00 XII. Closing BalancesXII. Deposits and Advances 7441325.00 2490749 (a) Bank Balances

7441325.00 2490749.00 I. In Current Accounts 1956477.94 1203279.28XIII. Miscellaneous Receipts including

Statutory Receipts14127355.89 0.00 II. In Savings Accounts 887743026.89 818268035.4

III. In Deposits Accounts 151236282.00 145903314XIV. Any Other Receipts 203380.84 30919761.04 1040935786.83 965374628.63

30919761.04TOTAL 1668955295.88 1684792729.10 TOTAL 1668955295.88 1684792729.10


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National Institute of Technology PuducherryNPS-TIER-I

Balance Sheet as on 31st March 2021Liabilities Amount (Rs) Assets Amount (Rs)

NPS Tier-1 Account NPS Tier-1 AccountOpening Balance SBI A/C 33803762076 247964.85

Subscription + Institute contribution due for March 2021

1059894.00

Add: Subscription + Institute contribution 11959604.00Add: Interest credited 7885.00

TOTAL 12215453.85 Investment 0.00Less: Transferred to NSDL 11959604.00Less: Bank Charges 0.00Balance at Bank SBI A/C 33803762076 255849.85 Intrest Accured but not due 114.00Add: Subscripition + Institute contribution for March 2021

1059894.00

Balance at Bank SBI A/C 33803762076

255849.85

Excess of Income over expenditure 114.00TOTAL 1315857.85 TOTAL 1315857.85

NPS-TIER-I AccountReceipts and Payments Account for the Financial Year 2020-21

Liabilities Amount (Rs) Assets Amount (Rs)Opening Balance as on 01.04.2020 247964.85NPS Tier-1 Account Remittance to NSDL 11959604.00Employee subscription 4983467.00 Bank Charges 0.00Institute Contribution 6976137.00

Closing Balance As on 31.03.2021 255849.85Interest on saving Bank Account 7885.00

TOTAL 12215453.85 TOTAL 12215453.85


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National Institute of Technology PuducherryNPS-TIER-I Account

Income and Expenditure Account for the Financial Year 2020-21

Expenditure Amount (Rs) Income Amount (Rs)

Interest Credited to Subscriber’s Accounts NIL Interest earned on investment - SB A/C

7885

Bank Charges 0 Less: Interest Accrued on 31.03.2021

114

Excess of Income Over Expenditure 7999 Intrest Accured but not due NIL

TOTAL 7999 TOTAL 7999


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