Chancellor announces the Establishment of Seven Chair Professorships 

The Chancellor Dr Kumar Mangalam Birla has announced the establishment of seven Chair Professors at BITS Pilani to mark the Seventieth Wedding Anniversary of his grandparents, Shri Basant Kumar Birla and Shrimai Sarla Birla on Saturday, 30th April 2011. A Chair Professorships helps recognize and reward excellence in teaching and/or research by a member of the BITS Pilani faculty at either of its campuses or to induct a professor from outside BITS Pilani. Such a person would be re-designated as Chair Professor. Each ‘Chair Professorship’ also helps establish an endowment with significant funds that are used to (a) make available to the Chair Professor a “research grant “ and (b) provide to him/her a small honorarium to cover additional effort required to fulfill the charter laid out for the endowment.