: Mon May 13 2013, 03:21 hrs
SELDOM do you see an IIT director resigning from his post. Prof Prem Kalra, director IIT Jodhpur, has done just that, barely a month after he had his institute's campus inaugurated by the HRD Minister. Kalra, it is learnt, has cited personal reasons for stepping down from what is considered a coveted top job. Incidentally, the IIT under his leadership also courted some controversy. First, the Aakash tablet project was unceremoniously shifted out from his IIT to IIT Bombay after serious differences between manufacturer Datawind and the IIT Jodhpur administration. More recently, the IIT also failed to ink the long pending MoU with France amid differences between the two stakeholders.
