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| name = Damodar Acharya<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949}}<br />
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| alma_mater = [[IIT Kharagpur]]<br >[[NIT Rourkela]]<br />
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| profession = Professor<br />
| office1 = Director at [[IIT Kharagpur|Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1 July 2007<ref name="auto">{{cite news |title=At the helm |url=http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2418/stories/20070921508611600.htm |work=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |date=1 July 2007 |accessdate=1 July 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027164927/http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2418/stories/20070921508611600.htm |archivedate=27 October 2007 }}</ref><br />
| term_end1 = 30 June 2012<br />
| predecessor1 = Shishir Dube<br />
| successor1 = [[Partha Pratim Chakraborty]]<br />
| office2 = [[Professor]] at [[IIT Kharagpur|Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]]<br />
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'''Damodar Acharya''' is an Indian engineer and educationist. He served as the director of the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]] from July 2007 to 30 June 2012. The government nominated Acharya as a director on the central board of the [[Reserve Bank of India]] in October 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=27411 |title=Reserve Bank of India - Press Releases |publisher=Rbi.org.in |date= |accessdate=2019-03-25}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Professor Damodar Acharya received his Ph.D. (in 1975) and M.Tech. in IE & OR (in 1972) degrees from [[IIT Kharagpur]], and B.Sc.(Engineering) degree in Mechanical Engineering with distinction (in 1970) from [[NIT Rourkela]]. Professor Acharya has about 32 years of diversified experience - twenty-seven years of teaching and research experience at [[IIT Kharagpur]], and five years of experience in academic administration as Vice-Chancellor, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, and as Chairman of the [[All India Council of Technical Education]].<ref name="auto"/><br />
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== Recognition ==<br />
*The [[Chief Minister of Odisha]] conferred him with the Think Odisha Leadership Award in 2010, jointly with the former Vice-Chancellor of the [[Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology]], [[Baidyanath Misra]], for their contributions in the field of education.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/orissa-cm-gives-away-think-odisha-leadership-awards-2010/articleshow/6326991.cms?from=mdr|title=Orissa CM gives away Think Odisha Leadership Awards, 2010|first=Nageshwar|last=Patnaik|date=August 17, 2010|via=The Economic Times}}</ref><br />
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== Controversies ==<br />
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* An undergraduate student at the Department of Electrical Engineering died during Acharya's tenure after a head injury was not tended to immediately, primarily due to the lack of medical facilities in the campus hospital and Kharagpur. Students staged a huge protest and Acharya's residence was vandalized, blaming the director and the hospital administration of negligence. Acharya resigned shortly afterwards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/iit-kharagpur-director-quits-after-students-death/articleshow/4302546.cms|title=IIT-Kharagpur director quits after student's death - Times of India|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com}}</ref> However, later investigations established that he was not involved in the incident and had no knowledge of it, and was cleared of any responsibility.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/clean-chit-to-iit-in-student-death-case/464153|title=Clean chit to IIT in student death case - Indian Express|website=archive.indianexpress.com}}</ref><br />
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