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The SC/ST Students Cell addresses academic and non-academic issues and complaints received from students belonging to the SC and ST communities. The Institute strives to ensure an environment where all communities can participate in academic and research activities without any sort of caste-based discrimination, without any sorts of other discrimination. In order to maintain such an atmosphere, the SC/ST Students Cell is also responsible for sensitizing the campus community and freeing up people from caste-biases: either conscious or sub-conscious.

The Cell aims to ensure that anti-discrimination laws in the context of caste are followed in letter and in spirit. The Institute is proud to implement reservation schemes as sanctioned by the Indian Constitution and as mandated by the Government.

In summary, the cell's objectives are broadly:

  • Overall welfare of SC/ST students (for example, academics, scholarships), working together with other institute/department entities of IITB: increasing know-how/tips/guidelines about the processes/rules.  Further, academic performance comparison w.r.t. the rest of the students batch-wise/year-wise is within the cell's purview.
  • Sensitization of the campus community: all students, all staff-members, all faculty-members: efforts towards further enhancing inclusivity.
  • Grievance and complaint handling: receiving and interacting with SC/ST students about matters related to caste-based discrimination.

How to file a caste-based discrimination complaint

The cell is where complaints by students about discrimination and/or harassment are to be brought up. We encourage students to feel free to write to the following email address. In addition to email, one can also consider filing a complaint using the link here (i.e. goo.gl/forms/F3BKMxkdGu28OGRz2) either anonymously or otherwise. The cell strives to ensure that anonymity is maintained throughout the investigation. It is a part of the procedure that once the complaint is filed, then within 48 hours, one or both conveners will set up a meeting with the student filing the complaint to explain the procedure of remedy (towards the grievance) and punishment (of the discriminator). This meeting is usually face-to-face and scheduled at the earliest after the complaint is filed.

The cell is currently convened by Prof. Bharat Adsul, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and co-convened by Profs. M.N. Belur and Laxmeesha S., Department of Electrical Engineering. See more about the cell's committee in the "Structure" tab and also our current and past active members in the "Acknowledgements" tab.

The cell welcomes any suggestions and ideas from the students to improve upon.

Core Committee Members

Designation                Name                    Email

Associate Dean AP                            Prof. Suvarn S. Kulkarni      adean.ap@iitb.ac.in

Associate Dean SA                            Prof. Atul Srivastava          adean.sa@iitb.ac.in

ARP Coordinator                                Prof. M. P. Gururajan           guru.mp@iitb.ac.in

SC/ST Liason Officer                         Dr. S. G.Patil                        sgpatil@iitb.ac.in

SWC Incharge                                   Ms. Anisha Mathews             incharge.swc@iitb.ac.in

General Secretary (Hostel Affairs)     Mr. Pratham Kapure             gsecha@iitb.ac.in

Student Representative                     Mr. Ankit Meena                    200100027@iitb.ac.in

Student Representative                     Ms. Yashaswini P                  19D070043@iitb.ac.in

Student Representative                     Mr. Vivek Bharati                    22M1081@iitb.ac.in

Member                                             Prof. Ramesh Bairy            ramesh@hss.iitb.ac.in

Member                                             Prof. Pramod Kumar          pramod_k@iitb.ac.in

Cell Faculty-Advisor                        Prof. Pinom Ering               pinomering@civil.iitb.ac.in

Cell Co-convener                            Prof. Laxmeesha S.            laxmeesha@ee.iitb.ac.in  

Cell Co-convenor                            Prof. Sandip Saha          sandip.saha@iitb.ac.in

Cell Convenor                                 Prof. R.P. Vedula              scstcell@iitb.ac.in

 

Department-Level Special Faculty Advisors

Department/Centre                     Faculty Advisor            Email

Aerospace Engineering                                             Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant        rkpant@aero.iitb.ac.in

Biosciences and Bioengineering                               Prof. Swapnil R Shinde        swapnilshinde@iitb.ac.in

Chemistry                                                                  Prof. Rajarshi Chakrabarti    rajarshi@chem.iitb.ac.in

Chemical Engineering                                               Prof. Swati Bhattacharya      swaticb@che.iitb.ac.in

Civil Engineering                                                       Prof. Pinom Ering                  pinomering@civil.iitb.ac.in

Computer Science and Engineering                         Prof. Bharat Adsul                 adsul@cse.iitb.ac.in

Electrical Engineering                                               Prof. Sibiraj B. Pillai               bsraj@ee.iitb.ac.in

Energy Science and Engineering                             Prof. Sandeep Kumar            sandeep.kumar@iitb.ac.in

Humanities and Social Sciences                              Prof. Ramesh Bairy               ramesh@hss.iitb.ac.in

Mathematics                                                             Prof. B.K. Das                        dasb@math.iitb.ac.in

Mechanical Engineering                                           Prof. Rakesh Mote                 rakesh.mote@iitb.ac.in

Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science     Prof. Indradev Samajdar       indra@iitb.ac.in

Physics                                                                     Prof. P.P. Singh                      ppsingh@phy.iitb.ac.in

IDC                                                                           Prof. Alka Hingorani               alka@iitb.ac.in

SOM                                                                         Prof. Rajendra Sonar             rm_sonar@iitb.ac.in

CTARA                                                                     Prof. Parmeshwar Udmale     udmale@iitb.ac.in

CSRE                                                                       Prof. Alok Porwal                    head.csre@iitb.ac.in

CUSE                                                                       Prof. Himanshu Burte             h.burte@iitb.ac.in

Climate Studies                                                        Prof. Subimal Ghosh              head.climate@iitb.ac.in

SysCon                                                                    Prof. Srikant Sukumar             srikant.sukumar@iitb.ac.in

DESE  (Energy Science)                                         Prof. Sandeep Kumar              sandeep.kumar@iitb.ac

CRNTS                                                                    Prof. Anil Kottantharayil           head.crnts@iitb.ac.in

ET                                                                            Prof. Sridhar Iyer                     sri@iitb.ac.in

IEOR                                                                        Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran head.ieor@iitb.ac.in

GEOS                                                                      Prof. Santanu Banerjee           head.geos@iitb.ac.in

CPS                                                                         Prof. Malish C M                      malishcm@iitb.ac.in

ESED                                                                       Prof. Amritanshu Shriwastav   amritan@iitb.ac.in

Brief history of our cell

Since 1990s, the institute had a "Faculty Advisor" of SC/ST students, who dealt with various difficulties faced in the context of ST students.  Past faculty-advisors include Prof. Pushpa Trivedi (HSS), B.L. Tembe (Chemistry), Prof. Kushal Deb (HSS). The SC/ST students cell was formed in 2017 with the convener as Prof. Arindam Chowdhury (Chemistry), followed by the terms of Profs. Bharat Adsul and Madhu Belur. Since 2023, the cell has three conveners. The past faculty-advisors and the past conveners have helped the cell its steady growth, and the cell has also benefited much from various other institute functionaries: both past and present. Being a students cell, the activities are initiated and driven by student volunteers: thanks to all our volunteers. We need such enthusiastic volunteers: please come forward to participate in the cell's activities, thank you.