IIT, Delhi, forms committee to coordinate with world ranking

As part its efforts to position itself among the top in the global ranking list, IIT, Delhi, has set up a four-member body to coordinate with ranking agencies and provide appropriate information and data sought for.
The move comes in the backdrop of the HRD Ministry setting up of an 18-member committee to review existing arrangements, develop a strategy and a framework for research evaluation to drive up research activities, the lack of which is hampering Indian institutions from featuring in the global ranking list.
A group of IIT Delhi professors would be engaged in a more focussed activity, understand the relevant information sought by the ranking bodies and provide inputs in proper format, IIT, Delhi, Director R K Shevgaonkar told reporters here.

Coordination among the peers, the faculties and alumni is the other objective of the group as providing correct information is important for the rankings, he said.
According to Times Higher Education's (THE) World University Rankings list 2013-14, IIT, Delhi, along with IIT, Kanpur, IIT, Kharagpur and IIT, Roorkee, are clubbed in the group of institutions between 351-400.
The QS world university ranking puts IIT, Delhi, at 222.

Concerns over absence of any of India's institutes among the top has been flagged several times by President Pranab Mukherjee who would be attending IIT Delhi's 44th convocation function tomorrow.
The institute, considered among the best in the country, would be having a Centre of Policy Studies to evolve policies for science and technology. It would be set up under the Department of Humanities.

It would also set up a Centre for Cyber Security in collaboration with the University of Nebraska, an MoU for which is expected to be signed early next year.
"The Centre wanted that we should have research on cyber security given that it is a big challenge in the coming days for national security of the country," the IIT Director said.
Ministries of Home and HRD are supporting the IIT in this endeavour.