IIEST-Shibpur infrastructure need to be upgraded: director

The infrastructure of the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, needed to be upgraded fast, its director Prof Parthasarathi Chakrabarti said on Sunday.

The IIEST, Shibpur, owes its origin to the erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, the history of which goes to the 19th century.

To attract the cream of students to IIEST, "We will have to upgrade the infrastructure, in terms of building class rooms with multimedia facilities, improving basic infrastructure," Chakrabarti said.

The hostels of the institution are 60 years old and the infrastructure creates a big impression on students who want to be admitted to an institute, Chakrabarti said while interacting with PTI after the Annual Convocation of the institute here in Howrah district.

He said the hostels of the institute are 60 years old and the infrastructure creates a big impression on students who want to be admitted to an institute.

He said, "We (IIEST) are not an isolated institution. There are many other institutions (in the country). To bring better students we have to upgrade infrastructure."
On his stint here, he said, "You have given me eight months time and all pending things have been done, recruitment is going on. In another year's time I think we should see all the differences."