Subodh Arati Chakraborty Endowed Fellowship

About

Belonging to a family, engaged in setting up some academic institutes and stood for the cause of underprivileged students, Amit Kumar Chakraborty always cherished an ardent desire to uplift the disadvantaged IISc students in an effective way. This intention steered him and his family to institute the Subodh Arati Chakraborty (Mangalarati) Endowed Fellowship for B.Tech. (Mathematics & Computing) students belonging to EWS category to honour the memory of his parents, Late Subodh Kumar Chakraborty (father) and Late Arati Chakraborty (mother) through an endowment to IISc.

Entitlements

• Fellowship amount of Rs 5000 per month for a duration of 48 months.

Amit was a B.E student (1981 – 1985) at Jadavpur University. He graduated in 1985 in Mechanical Engineering. He studied under professors Dr. Rajat Chakraborty, Dr. Madhusudan Bhattacharya, Dr. BN Chandra, Dr. KN Chakraborty  to name a few distinguished faculty members.

He received national scholarships during his academic career through Class 8, Secondary and Higher Secondary Schools and B.E from Jadavpur, Kolkata. He secured 25^th state rank in the secondary examination, West Bengal. These scholarship awards accorded assurance and determination to move forward in his career. Hence, it persisted his earnest yearning to initiate a lifetime sponsorship in endowing fellowships to the underprivileged IISc students in their formative stage.  

With a thriving career in the Information Technology services industry spanning about three decades, Amit has a unique track record of working across multiple roles and geographies including four and half years in UK, about a year in Australia and about two years in Denmark. From heading delivery, quality or P&L Account management and Practice Lead responsibilities for Europe, MEA & APAC clients, he had a 360-degree view of the industry. He has been Senior Project Manager, Delivery & Transformation Leader in BHEL, LTITL and IBM for large Innovation & Technology programs of Airlines, Freight & Logistics & Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Energy and Higher Education & Research Industries. Amit, as SAP Program Manager, was instrumental in successfully implementing Wave 1 and Wave 2 of the SAP S/4 HANA system in IISc during 2018-20 and systematically conducted several training sessions on various SAP functional modules for the professors and administrative staff of Indian Institute of Science. For this challenging SAP implementation process, he worked under direct guidance of Prof. Anurag Kumar (IISc Director), Prof. Jayant Modak (Dy. Director, A&F), Prof. Y Narahari (Dean,EECS Division) and in close association with Prof. KVS Hari (Chair, ECE Department), Prof. Joy Kuri (Chair,ESE Department), Prof. Anil Kumar (Dean, UG Program), all other Divisional Deans & Departmental Chairs and Finance Controller. This has created a strong bonding between IISc and Amit. He is also active on academic forums and has conducted IT awareness and cultural exchanges sessions in some of the leading schools and universities globally. Currently he is taking pleasure in teaching disadvantaged students at his own rural coaching centre and other social organizations.