Region Wise Nodal Officers

S. No.	Location	Name	Designation
1	Bhopal	Ms. MridulaTripathi	Assistant Commissioner
2	Chandigarh	Ms Santosh Sharma	Assistant Commissioner
3	Hyderabad	Mr. S. Radhakrishnan	Assistant Commissioner
4	Jaipur	Mr.S. K Maheshwari	Assistant Commissioner
5	Lucknow	Ms. Sarita	Assistant Commissioner
6	Patna	Ms. Deepak Kumar Modi	Assistant Commissioner
7	Pune	Ms. Anuradha R	Assistant Commissioner
8	Shillong	Mr. Ajay Kumar	Assistant Commissioner

Principals at Knowledge Centre

S. No	Name of Principal	School
1	Mr. Ramraj Singh	Cuttack
2	Ms. Manju Sharma	Dhamtari
3	Mr. Om Prakash Sharma	Indore
4	Mrs. Swapna Ghosal	Raipur
5	Smt. NamitaTripathy	Sambalpur
6	Shri. B.D. Ramteke	Vidisha
7	Mrs. Jayanthi P Gopal	Kanker
8	Ms. Baby Girija	Bilaspur
9	Mr. K.G.Mallikarjan	Jabalpur
10	Mr. Prabhakar Jha	Mandla
11	Mr. P Narasimha Rao	Khurda
12	Mr. T. J. Tomy	Sundergarh
13	Mr. S.R.Lodam	Dhar
14	Mr. JitenderBhakoo	Ludhiana
15	Mr. Arwinder Singh Bhullar	Chandigarh
16	Mr. G. S. Tomar	Hamirpur
17	RajkumarKataria	Leh
18	Mr.Dushyant Kumar Singh	Mandi
19	Mr. Paramjit Singh	Amritsar
20	Mrs. MamtaMundra	Mansa
21	Mr. Tripurari Prasad Singh	Faridkot
22	Mr. D P Sharma	Udhampur
23	Mr. Mohd Ashraf Wani	Ganderbal
24	Mr. D.S Rawat	Solan
25	Mr. Yogesh Kumar	Shimla
26	Mr. S Kannan	Bangalore Urban
27	Mrs.K Srimathi	Chitradurga
28	Mr. J Anil	Kottayam
29	Ms. C.V.Prameela	Palakkad
30	Mr. R Daniel Retnakumar	Rangareddy
31	Mr. V Srinivasan	South Canara
32	Ms. B Poornima	Warangal
33	Mr. P. Ramachandran	Puducherry
34	Mr. P Bhaskar Kumar	Ananthapur
35	Mr. Y S S Chandra Sekhar	West Godavary
36	Mr. R Premkumar	Shimoga
37	Mr. Madhusoodanan J	Mysore
38	Mr. R Stella Hebzi Bai	Ernakulum
39	Ms. Mini Soman	Middle Andaman
40	Mr. K. Sanjay	Vizag
41	Ms. Archana Singh	Barmer
42	Ms. SamtaChoubey	Dausa
43	Mr. Dharma Dutt Sharma	Gurugram
44	Mr. Balakrishnan V	Jaffarpurkalan
45	Mrs. Pratibha Bhardwaj	Jaipur
46	Mr. H .P Bairwa	Dungarpur
47	Mrs. Usha Kiran	Jodhpur
48	Mr. Mahendra Ram	Hisar
49	Mrs. Amar Kaur	Kurukshetra
50	Mr. Amar Singh Rawat	Kota
51	Mr.Rakesh Kumar Rai	Allahabad
52	Ms. Kanchan Joshi	Almora
53	Ms. AnjulaTamta	Dehradun
54	Mr. S.C.Joshi	Haridwar
55	Dr. S.K Mishra	Kanpur Nagar
56	Mr. V.K.Bajpai	Lucknow
57	Mr. Mahendra Singh	Saharanpur
58	Mr.P.K.Singh	Varanasi
59	Dr Archana Mishra	Bareilly
60	Mr. T. LaxmiRajam	Gorakhpur
61	Ms. Archana Singh	Jhansi
62	Mr.Raj Singh	Nainital
63	Mr Roop Chand	PauriGarhwal
64	Mr. H Bhattacharya	East Medinipur
65	Mr. V.K. Pandey	Hazaribagh
66	Mr. Kajal Kumar Rudra	Nadia
67	Mr. Ashutosh Kumar	Nalanda
68	Mr. Jitendra Kumar	Patna
69	Dr. Aditya Kumar Jha	Ranchi
70	Dr. C. Roy	Vaishali
71	Ms. Shobhna Ghosh	West Medinipur
72	Mr. Anil Kumar Singh	Katihar
73	Mr. Sachit Kumar	Muzaffarpur
74	Mr. S.K. Jha	Dhanbad
75	Mr. J K Mahapatra	Bardhman
76	Ms. J.K. Mala	West Singhbhum
77	Ms.P.Revathy Chandra	Gandhinagar
78	Dr. Zareena Qureshi	Nagpur
79	Mr.T.M.Nair	Pune
80	Mr. Sanjay Kothadi	Silvasa
81	Mr. Animesh Pal	South Goa
82	Mr.SunilkumarNallath	Sangli
83	Mr.G.Kotaiah	Bhavnagar
84	Mr. S. K. Damar	Vadodara
85	Mr.Ramakrishnan C.	Tapi
86	Mr. R.V. H.V.Prasad	Nanded
87	Mr. A. H. Shaikh	Aurangabad
88	Mr. Suhas G. Mandle	Diu
89	Mr.C H Dineshan	East Khasi Hills
90	Mr. Mintu Chakraborty	Imphal West
91	Mr Surjeet Singh	Kamrup
92	Mr. K. Kapfo	Kohima
93	Mr. K.P. Meena	Lohit
94	Mr. Ajeet Kumar	Nalbari
95	Ms. C. V. Shanthy	North Sikkim
96	Mr. Mukesh Kumar	Jorhat
97	Mr. AmersonSankhil	Chandel
98	Mr. Dipak Kumar Paul	Khowai
99	Ms. K.Sagarika	RiBhoi
100	Mr. Surendra Kumar	Golaghat

Knowledge Partners - Knowledge Centre Mapping

Institutions of National Importance, Research Institutions and Universities are acting as Knowledge Partners (KPs) for Vigyan Jyoti Knowledge Centres (JNVs). Each Vigyan Jyoti Knowledge Centre is connected with at least one Knowledge Partner for handholding. These KPs are providing continuous mentoring to Vigyan Jyoti Scholars. Several IITs, IISERs, NITs, Labs of CSIR, DST, DBT, ICMR, ICAR, Central and State Universities are partnering to accelerate the DST’s mission to bring gender parity in underrepresented areas of STEM through Vigyan Jyoti.

S. No.	Knowledge Partner	Nodal Officer	Knowledge Centre
1	Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO) Chandigarh	Dr. Pooja Devi  Sr. Scientist, Agrionics Division, Assistant Professor, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)	JNV Chandigarh
2	IIT Bhubaneswar	Prof. V.R. Pedireddi Dean, Student Affairs	JNV Cuttack
3	G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development (GBPIHED)	Dr. Mithilesh Singh, Scientist 'D'	JNV Almora
4	IIT Roorkee	Prof. Parnita. P Sarangi, Department of Biotechnology	JNV Haridwar
		Prof. RanjanaPathania,      Department of Biotechnology	JNV Saharanpur
5	Indian Institute of Technology Ropar	Dr. Manju Khan, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Chairperson, Women Forum,	JNV Chandigarh
6	National Physical Laboratory,-CSIR, New Delhi	Dr. Rina Sharma, Senior Principal Scientist	JNV Gurugram
7	IISER Mohali	Professor KavitaDorai	JNV Chandigarh
8	National Innovation Foundation, Gandhinagar	Mr. TusharGarg Scientist C, NIF	JNV Gandhinagar
9	IISc Bengaluru	Prof. AbhaMisra Department of Instrumentation & Applied Physics	JNV Bengaluru Urban
10	BITS Pilani , Goa Campus	Prof. Halan Prakash HoD, Chemistry Department	JNV Canacona
11	IIT Hyderabad	Dr. MurdikaKandelwal, Associate Professor Department of Materials Science & Metallurgical Engineering	JNV Rangareddy
12	IISER Pune	Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IISER Pune	JNV Pune
13	NIT Raipur	Dr. (Mrs.) TungabidyaMaharana, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry	JNV Kanker and JNV Raipur
14	IIT Indore	Dr. Neelimasatyam, Associate Professor IIT Indore, Simrol	JNV Indore and JNV Dhar
15	NIT Manipur	Dr. YambemJinaChanu, Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering NIT Manipur	JNV West Imphal and JNV Chandel
16	NIT Nagaland	Dr. NzanthungNugllie, Head, Department of Civil Engineering, NIT Nagaland	JNV Kohima
17	IGDTUW	Dr Jasdeep Dhanoa, Associate Professor Electronics and Communication Engineering Department IGDTUW Delhi	JNV Jaffarpurkalan
18	IIIT Kottayam, Kerala	Dr. Panchami V. , Assistant Professor	JNV Kottayam
19	IIT Kanpur	AR Harish, Dean of Research & Development , IIT Kanpur	JNV Kanpur
20	NEERI Nagpur	Dr Rita Dodhapkar , Sr. Technical Officer Directors’s Research Cell	JNV Nagpur
21	IIT Guwahati	Prof. Kalpesh Kapoor Dean of Outreach Education Programme IIT Guwahati	JNV Nalbari
22	IIIT Ranchi	Dr. Shalu, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering IIIT Ranchi, Science & Technology Campus, Namkum Ranchi	JNV Ranchi
23	IIT Mandi	Dr. Aditi Haldar, Associate Professor, SBS	JNV Mandi
24	MANIT Bhopal	1.Dr. Namita Srivastava (Mathematics) 2. Prof. Fozia Zia Haque (Physics) 3. Prof. Bholnath Roy ( Computer Science Engg.) 4. Prof. Bharat Modhera( ChemicalEngg.)	JNV Vidisha
25	IIT Palakkad	Dr. Uma Divakaran, Assistant Professor Discipline of Physics IIT Palakkad	JNV Palakkad
26	National Metallurgical Laboratory, (CSIR) Jamshedpur	Dr. (Mrs.) MitaTarafder Head & Chief Scientist KRIT Division	JNV West Singhbhum
27	NIT Sikkim	1. Dr. Sangram Ray, Dean Students Welfare &  Nodal officer 2. Dr.Ranjaan Basak, Dean of Academics  3. Dr. Ravi Srivastava, Assistant Professor (Maths) 4. Dr.Md. Nurujjaman  , Assistant Professor (Physics)	JNV North Sikkim
28	SVNIT Surat	Prof. Jigisha K Parikh Associate Dean ( R&C)& Professor Chemical Engg. Department, SVNIT Surat	JNV Silvassa
29	IIITDM Jabalpur	Dr. Mukesh Kumar Roy Assistant Professor, NS	JNV Mandla
30	NIT Hamirpur	Dr. Pawan Kumar Department of Mathematics & Scientific Computing, NIT Hamirpur(HP)	JNV Hamirpur
31	MLSU Udaipur	Prof.Mahendra Singh Dhaka Dept. of Physics, UCS MohanlalSukhadia University, Udaipur	JNV Dungarpur
32	IIT Bhilai	Dr. Asrifa Sultana, Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, IIT Bhilai, GEC Campus, Old Dhamtari Road, Sejbahar	JNV Raipur & JNV Dhamtari
33	JNCASR, Bengaluru	Prof. Kavita Jain Associate Professor, Theoretical Sciences Unit (TSU)	JNV Bengaluru (U)
34	CDRI Lucknow	Dr. SanjeevYadav CSIR-CDRI Lucknow Sector-10, Jankipuram Extension, Sitapur Road, Lucknow-226031	JNV Lucknow
35	S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata	Prof. Sakuntala Chatterjee	JNV East Medinipur and JNV West Medinipur
36	IIT Patna	1. Dr.TrishikhiRaychoudhury Assistant Professor& Nodal Officer VJ Civil and Environment Engineering 2. Dr. K. Saloni, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics 3. Dr Ajay D. Thakur, Associate Professor,Department of Physics 4. Dr. Subrata Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry	JNV Patna and JNV Nalanda
37	NIT Surathkal	Dr. Aparna P., Asst. Professor Grade-I, Dept. of E&C Engg.	JNV Mangalore