The Director Of IIT Kharagpur Argues That A Leading IT Institute Needs To Brand Itself

 Director V K Tewari of IIT Kharagpur has emphasised the importance of branding the world-class technology institute and asserted that it will rank among the top 10 universities in the world by 2030. Tewari made these remarks last week during a virtual meeting with the alumni. Promoting the requirement "for involving students in a more cohesive manner," he continued, "We need to do a lot of branding as IIT KGP, we need to work on our limitations, we have to work on certain areas" . According to him, IIT Kharagpur is the nation's first IIT.

"We have to think very very big. We have to take strong steps, we have to follow Modi ji's ideal for an Atmanirbhar Bharat. We should be targeting to be among the top 10 in the world," he added. Referring to the call by President Droupadi Murmu to pitchfork IIT Kharagpur among the top 50 in the world in the Convocation held in December 2023, Tewari said "the Hon’ble President said 50. One of our senior officials set the target of being within 25. However, I am setting the target to be within top 10 higher educational institutions in the world".