IIT Kharagpur Announces Nina Saxena Excellence In Technology Award
EFY News Network
(Friday, August 18, 2006 4:35:46 PM)


A first-of-its-kind, India-wide award to encourage and promote technical innovation in the country.

Friday, August 18, 2006: The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has announced the Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award. The award commemorates the spirit and memory of its illustrious alumna Dr Nina Saxena, B.Tech (Hons.), ECE 1992, who passed away tragically in 2005.
Open to all technologists who are Indian citizens, the award was announced at the IIT Kharagpur Foundation Day on 18 August 2006. The award will be conferred every year on the same day to an individual who embodies the drive for technical excellence that Dr Nina Saxena personified.

The award committee will be chaired by director of IIT Kharagpur and will comprise deans and selected faculty members of IIT Kharagpur and well known alumni, based in India and the US. The award will be funded through an endowment of the Nina Saxena Memorial fund that has been collected through IIT Foundation, a non-profit organisation and a US 501 organisation. The intent of the fund is to perpetuate excellence despite all odds. The charter of the Fund is to provide facilities, mechanisms and opportunities to enable individuals to rise above expectations and better serve society.

Sharing details of this award, Prof Chakraborty, dean, alumni affairs, IIT Kharagpur, said, "Nina was a truly brilliant person. Her stellar intellectual achievements and technological excellence will always be remembered. Words are not enough to describe the void she has left behind. The award has been set up to keep the spirit of Nina alive and encourage the brightest technical minds in India to come ahead and innovate for India."