Padma Shri Prof. Harsh K Gupta, Batch of 1963, Dept. of Applied Geophysics has been elected as a foreign member in Russian Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contribution in the field of Geophysics.

Professor Emeritus of Mining Engineering and Geo-Environmental Engineering, Penn State University, USA. He is inductee of National Mining Hall of Fame (NMHF) in the 34th Annual National Mining Hall of Fame Induction Banquet held on Oct. 23, 2021 at Colorado, USA.

Explore as much as you can, run towards things that others run away from taking calculated risk in order to achieve an extraordinary return on investments, that is how I achieved all that I have today.

An alumnus of the 1965 batch of IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, was a Braveheart Mining Engineer, who saved the lives of 65 trapped miners due to inundation in the underground mine of Mahavir Colliery at Eastern Coalfields Limited on 13 November 1989.