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The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is an Indian e-learning platform for university-level science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. NPTEL is the largest e-repository in the world of courses in engineering, basic sciences and selected humanities and management subjects. The platform and materials have been jointly developed by Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science. The initiative is funded by the central Ministry of Education. The project's central idea is to put recorded lectures taught by its member institutes online for open access. It operates an educational YouTube channel covering engineering, basic sciences, and some humanities and social science subjects.[3]Popular NPTEL courses are being translated into popular local languages. The local languages which the translation are available in include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu.

NPTEL was launched in 2003 by seven IITs: Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee, in conjunction with the Indian Institute of Science (IISC). The courses were designed for these students. Those who did not have the same background and training, found the courses hard to follow. NPTEL was then restructured to offer customized massive open online courses (MOOCs) with exams. In March 2014, NPTEL began offering courses along with in-centre and proctored certification examinations. These NPTEL online certification (NOC) courses are offered twice a year (Jan-Jun, Jul-Dec).

Prof. Amit Patra

Director, IIT Kharagpur
and
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Amit Patra, faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering has been appointed as the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur effective from January 01, 2025.


Prof. Amit Patra did B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1984, 1986 and 1990 respectively. During 1992-93 and in 2000 he visited the Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1987 as a faculty member. He was the Professor In-Charge, Advanced VLSI Design Lab, at IIT Kharagpur during 2004-07. Between 2007 and 2013 he served as the Dean (Alumni Affairs and International Relations) at IIT Kharagpur. Between 2013-2015 he served in a voluntary role of the Executive Advisor, Institutional Development at IIT Kharagpur. Since April 2020 he has been serving as the Professor-In-Charge of the IIT Kharagpur Rajarhat Research Park, New Town, Kolkata. He has guided/co-guided more than 25 doctoral students and published more than 250 research papers in various Journals and Conferences.


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