
Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, (established in 1942) is a conducted and constituted institute of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University. It is a premier institute of technical education in the field of chemical engi-neering and technology in the country.
The sprawling 78 acre campus acts as a sanctum of learning. The insti-tute attracts students with excellent academic credentials from all over the country and moulds them into efficient and practical engineers and techno-crats that over the last seventy years have made the institute proud. The col-lege has a highly qualified faculty, which is committed to imparting the best of knowledge and they are actively engaged in training the students, so that they meet modern academic and industrial standards.
The institute is developing consistently and is improving its quality of education through its curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities so as to satisfy the ever demanding needs of the industrial sector.
Director, Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur
Ex-Vice-Chancellor, Dr. BabasahebAmbedkar Technological University, Lonere - Raigad
Born on 21st December 1962, Professor Raju B. Mankar did his M. Tech in Chemical Engineering from Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur in 1987 and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1999.
He is the recipient of prestigious DAAD Fellowship and worked as Post Doctoral Fellow in 2000-2001 at University of Karlsruhe (Federal Republic of Germany). He also worked as Visiting Scientist at University of Karlsruhe in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004. He is also the recipient of Sardar Iqbal Bahadur Singh Gold Medal awarded by Nagpur University in 1989 and Ideal Principal Award in 2009 conferred by RashtrasantTukadojiMaharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur.