Prof Banerji, Director IIT Roorkee, has initiated a multipronged effort make IIT Roorkee  top-200 ranked institutions in the world by 2017 and one of the top-100 by 2022.

During the alumni meet at the PAN IIT Global Conference in Houston, Prof S C Sharma, Dean of Alumni Affairs gave an update.

Following is the full text of the initial release on the task force:

24th November 2012 
Multi-pronged effort to make IIT-R one of the top-200 ranked institutions in the world by 2017 and one of the top-100 by 2022: A task-force based approach 

The suggested areas of intervention: 

1. Improving IIT-R interface with industry and with other leading global academic centres of excellence: 
1. Improving faculty’s interface with industry in India and outside India 
2. Improving students’ interface with industry (prospective employers) in India and outside India, and improving the quality of their placement 
2. Improving students’ overall personality (confidence, leadership skills, communication skills, inter-personal skills, etc.) 
3. Faculty skill-set upgradation, faculty addition, and faculty performance evaluation 
4. Institutionalizing of IIT-R heritage (traditions, systems etc. – retaining some that have to be retained, discarding others that our obsolete) 
5. Benchmarking of processes for academics, student data, administration, and purchases, recommendation and implementation of best practices as suitable and feasible for IITR 
6. Creating a dynamic (and information rich) data base of all IIT-R alumni, and utilizing the power of this network for intra-alumni and for IIT-R benefit 
7. Master planning of the entire campus and then also landscaping and experiential improvement of the Roorkee campus (and other campuses too) 
8. Establishment of select global “centres of excellence” at IIT-R 
9. Making NOIDA campus a success 
10. Managing IIT-R brand, improvement of IIT-R’s image in India and abroad so that IIT-R attracts the best faculty, the top-ranked JEE qualifiers, and the most attractive consulting opportunities for IITR  
11. Revenue enhancement for IIT-R: 
1. Through non-fee / non-consulting / non- government grants and other such traditional sources (i.e. through merchandising, food & beverages sale on the campus, retail, advertising, etc.) 
2. And then creation of a corpus of Rs 100 Crores by 2015, Rs 1000 Crores by 2020, and Rs 5,000 Crores by 2025 for IIT-R through national and international fundraising 
12. CSR activities through IIT-R efforts (faculty, families, students, alumni, others) and institutionalization of current IITR social initiatives including Asmita and Anushruti.