After participating in the last summer term, Professor Rolf Drechsler from the University of Bremen in Germany has already agreed to become an international visiting faculty at the IIT.
IIT-Kgp director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti said they were using government funds as well as generous donations from the alumni for this exchange programme.
One such alumni family which includes an Indian-American entrepreneur, his wife and brother have promised to fund and arrange the visit of two Nobel laureates from different fields each year to the Kharagpur campus in West Bengal.
Chakrabarti said their initiative had been a success as Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani told him to prepare a similar blueprint of a national-level initiative for summer/winter lectures by best of the foreign and national faculty.
"Since we already have experience in this, we have been asked to chalk out a plan which can be adopted for other institutes as well. We will present the blueprint to President Pranab Mukherjee next month," the director said.
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