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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Public-funded higher education institutions function in an instersting manner! They often use flat, committee-based structures instead of traditional pyramidal hierarchies. While this promotes inclusiveness and collective decision-making, it sometimes, brings in the vulnerabilities of delays and procedural inefficiencies when the institution embarks upon planning, building, and developing its infrastructure. The book is an attempt to share insights on the key aspects related to the campus infrastructure in such institutions which, while working through egalitarian setups, are striving for effectiveness and efficiency in the processes. The book will find audience in the faculty authorities as well as the professional executives of higher educational institution who are in the domain of infrastructure development. The different sections in the book despite being of mutually exclusive interest to the different groups of readers, will help the individual segment of readers to peek through and connect across their functional silos with an enhanced synergy and coordination. Campus Constructs may also interest the authorities in the government strata who are mandated with the planning and funding of public education infrastructure. The book may provide them with pointers towards a more optimized resource allocation and an improved monitoring thereof.
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Vivek Srivastava
The author, an alumnus of Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI, now HBTU), Kanpur (Class of 1987) in Civil Engineering, a Master's in Human Resources Development and Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai is a UPSC Engineering Services recruit of 1988 batch. He also holds certifications in Public-Private Partnerships from UNESCAP and Alternative Dispute Resolution from ICMAI, Kolkata. He has extensive experience working with both government and autonomous organizations at the central and state levels, across a wide range of organisational, geographic and socio-political contexts, from coastal areas to remote inland regions, and from mature, well-established organizations to emerging institutional frameworks. As Chief Engineer, the first in any IIT, at IIT Kharagpur - the country’s first and largest IIT, he was instrumental in development of over thirteen lakh square feet of new infrastructure under his tenure of seven years and a half with the institute, including completion of some long-pending projects, dealing through various challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic. He also serves as an expert on infrastructure related committees of leading higher educational institutions.
