IIT Guwahati

24/09/2026

𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 – 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐬: 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬, 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡, 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Yesterday, the Centre for Innovation in Agri & Aqua Voltaics (CiAAV), SART, IIT Guwahati hosted stakeholders from across research, industry, and policy for a day-long dialogue on solarizing agriculture in North East India.

Highlights from the day:
🔹 Technical Session on solar power for resilient rural livelihoods included a consultant paper on the Potential of Rural Feeder Solarization in Assam
🔹 Prof. Sanjib Ganguli (Dept of EEE, IIT Guwahati), examined how large-scale solar PV pe*******on affects the operational dynamics of power distribution networks — a critical consideration as feeder-level solarization scales up across the region.
🔹Dr. Dipankar Mandal (SART, IIT Guwahati) spoke about bridging geospatial technology with power distribution strategy: the application of geographic information systems to improve DISCOM efficiency and guide planning of solarization
🔹 A panel discussion on the way forward for feeder-level solarisation in Assam
🔹 A Technical Session on Agrivoltaics and Aquavoltaics in India featured a multi-stakeholder panel from academia, industry, and development partners

The event also featured opening remarks by Prof. Sudip Mitra (HoD, SART) and Prof. Devendra Jalihal (Director, IIT Guwahati) in addition to Shri Rakesh Kumar, IAS (MD, APDCL) gracing the occasion as Chief Guest for the Technical Session

#𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖

22/09/2026

𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐄𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬

The two-day (20-21 Sept, 2026) regional capacity building workshop on positive mental health, resilience, and wellbeing concluded yesterday.

The workshop aimed to move participating institutions from shared policy understanding to practical institutional action. It brought together 20+ resource persons and 100+ delegates from 28 institutions of higher education, including

• Academicians
• Mental health professionals
• Institutional leaders

to deliberate on positive mental health, student wellbeing, resilience and coping, social connectedness and supportive campus ecosystems.

A theme that ran through the workshop was the need to anchor institutional policies in proactive prevention: setting up systems and structures that help students feel safe, cared for, socially connected and healthy from day one.

The workshop had participants from technical institutes and central universities across the North East and from institutions in the Delhi region.

The workshop was organised by the Department of Higher Education, Union Ministry of Education, in collaboration with IIT Guwahati. It is the third in a series of five regional capacity building workshops being organised by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education organised under the Teacher Connect Programme of the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MMTTP). Earlier workshops were held at IIT Madras and IIT Indore, while the remaining two will be held at IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Jammu.

22/09/2026

📢𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍

IITG organises LATENT 48: A 48-Hour AI & Data Hackathon (September 25–27, 2026) in collaboration with Granica.

​The hackathon offers IITG student community a ₹1,00,000 Prize Pool along with Pre-Placement Interview (PPI) opportunities for graduating batches.

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚:
Granica is a Silicon Valley-based enterprise AI infrastructure company ($65M raised) co-founded by IITG alumnus Tarang Vaish (http://B.Tech CSE '05). Granica builds efficiency layers for large-scale enterprise data, including petabyte-scale data compression (Crunch) and foundation models for tabular data (LTM).

21/09/2026

IIT Guwahati has signed an MoU with Nutanix to strengthen industry-academia collaboration. The partnership will bring GPU infrastructure for students, equipment support, and scholarships.

Read more: https://www.iitgnewsletter.com/post/iitg-partners-with-nutanix-to-power-student-learning-with-gpus-design-equipment-and-scholarships

Nutanix

21/09/2026

19/09/2026

🌱 Empowering Minds, Enriching Campuses 🌱

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) is pleased to host a Two-Day Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Positive Mental Health, Resilience and Wellbeing.

The workshop will move participating institutions from shared policy understanding to practical institutional action.

The workshop will bring together academicians, mental-health professionals, institutional leaders and other stakeholders to deliberate on strengthening:

✨ Positive Mental Health
✨ Student Wellbeing
✨ Resilience and Coping
✨ Social Connectedness
✨ Supportive Campus Ecosystems

The initiative will foster healthier, more resilient and supportive higher education campuses where students can learn, grow and thrive.

The workshop is organised under the Teacher Connect Programme of the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MMTTP) of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India, in collaboration with IIT Guwahati.

📅 20–21 September 2026

📺 Watch the Live Stream Here:

🔹 Day 1 – 20 September 2026:
YouTube Live – Day 1

🔹 Day 2 – 21 September 2026:
YouTube Live – Day 2



Ministry of Education Director, IIT Guwahati

17/09/2026

IIT Guwahati and Representatives of Mukul Chowdhary Endowment Fund for Independent Researchers of Assam (MCEF) signed an MoU on 16 September 2026 at the Board Room of IIT Guwahati.

Dr. Geeta Chowdhary, representing MCEF, shared the vision behind the initiative, along with the motivation and objectives for establishing the philanthropic endowment fund to support independent researchers of Assam.

The event marked the formalisation of a collaborative partnership that will support independent research in the academic and research ecosystem.

The meeting concluded on a positive note, reflecting the shared commitment of both IIT Guwahati and MCEF towards advancing research and innovation.

The meeting was attended by 11 members from MCEF and by Prof. Kaustubha Mohanty (Dean, ACIR, IIT Guwahati), Mrs. Nandeeta Das Salhotra (HoS, ACIR, IIT Guwahati), Dr. Rinku Mittal, Dr. Saket Verma, Dr. Lepakshi Barborah, along with other staff representatives from the Institute.

17/09/2026

IIT Guwahati's Students’ Welfare Board and Saathi Counselling Cell organised a Campus Awareness March to mark World Su***de Prevention Day on Sept 10, 2026.

The March began from the Mini Auditorium with nearly 200 participants including students, faculty, and staff.

Prof. Devendra Jalihal (Director), Prof Perumal Alagarsamy (Dean of Student Affairs) and Prof Diganta Goswami (Dean of Academic Courses), led from the front and actively participated in the rally.

Along the planned route, the leadership team visited student hostels to interact directly with students, discuss campus life, and offer support for the upcoming mid-semester examinations.

The event concluded with a Candle Lighting ceremony at the administration building to reflect and stand in solidarity with anyone experiencing difficult times.

Students' Welfare Board, IIT Guwahati

17/09/2026

The District Administration, Kamrup, in association with IIT Guwahati, organised a programme to observe the World Su***de Prevention Day on Sept 10th 2026.

The theme of the programme was “Changing the Narrative on Su***de” with the Call to Action of “Start the Conversation” designed to remove stigma around conversations on mental health.

The programme featured an awareness-generation-cum-screening camp alongside an interactive session with consultant psychiatrists. The session was attended by over 150 people. This included students from IIT Guwahati, Kendriya Vidyalaya IIT Guwahati, and local schools and colleges.

The screening camp saw extensive participation from the outsourced employees of IIT Guwahati. The Institute was happy to promote health and wellbeing in the entire campus community.

Prof. Devendra Jalihal, Director, IIT Guwahati, graced the occasion as the Guest of Honour and emphasised the importance of building a compassionate campus and normalising conversations around mental well-being.

16/09/2026

700,000 tons of azo dyes are made yearly. 15-20% dumped untreated into water -- blocking sunlight, depleting aquatic oxygen, and making the water carcinogenic

A team at has isolated a bacterium found living in textile wastewater and found an enzyme that breaks these dyes down and leaves non-toxic by-products.

Read more about the research done at Dr Selvaraju Naranyanaswamy's lab by PhD students Jothika Jeyabalan and PMRF scholar Ajithkumar Veluchamy, in collaboration with Dr Ankur Verma at IIT BHU.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-026-03332-3