The PanIIT Alumni India (PIAI) was kick-started in 2004. PIAI includes all alumni – undergraduate, post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral, and former faculty members – from all 13 IIT campuses, and any IITs that are established in future. PIAI is now a registered body under the Indian Societies Act.
The key objectives of PanIIT are:
- Nation Building.
- Enhancing the IIT brand.
- Networking and alumni services.
- Providing a forum for advocacy.
Nation Building Initiatives
The seeds of the PanIIT Alumni Nation Building Initiatives were sown during the global annual conclave of PanIIT Alumni held in Mumbai in December 2006. The key note speaker of the conference and then President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam during his inspirational address urged IITians to be job creators rather than job seekers. This truly was a call for action.
Soon, a group of active and involved IIT alumni collectively decided to create PanIIT Alumni Nation Building Initiatives — a platform with the objective of creating employability among the underprivileged, enhancing the quality of engineering education and training and fostering entrepreneurship.
Today, PIAI mentors eight Nation Building initiatives: Avanti Fellows, Classle Knowledge, Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education, Pan IIT Alumni Reach for India, I Create India, Indian Nirman Sangh, IIT Mentors and IITians for ITIs.
PanIIT Folks
PIAI is also responsible for the operation of the PanIIT Secretariat. PIAI is managed by a PanIIT India board that holds meetings every fourth Saturday of the month through teleconference. And once a quarter, physical meetings are organized.
The PIAI Board
| From 2010 to 2012 | ||
 Chairman Hari Padmanabhan |
Co-Chairman Arun Seth | Chair-Finance Pramod Gothi |
| From 2007-2010 | ||
 Chairman Ashank Desai |
 Co-Chairman Nabankur Gupta |
 Chair– Finance Prakash Khemani |
| From 2004 to 2007 | ||
| Chairman Pradeep Gupta | Co-Chairman Ashank Desai |
Chair- Finance Gyanesh Choudhry |
PIAI Board Members
| Milind Gokhale (IIT-B) | Revathi Kasturi (IIT-B) | Ramnath S Mani (IIT-KGP) |
| Ashok Singh ((IIT-KGP) | Deepak Mirza (IIT-D) | Chand Das (IIT-K) |
| Sanjiv Rangrass (IIT-K) | Puneet Mundhara (IIT-M) | V Gopinathan (IIT-M) |
| Pramod Gothi (IIT-R) | Ambrish Bhargava (IIT-R) | Anupam Singh (IIT) |
| Mayuri Gupta (IIT-G) | Ashank Desai (IITB) | Hari Padmanabhan (IIT-K) |
| Arun Seth (IIT-K) | Satish Kaura (IIT-K) | Arvind Singhal (IIT-R) |
PIAI’s Operations Team
Satish Kini (IITB-1976)
COO – Nation Building Mission
PIAI, Mumbai
Ashok Kalbag (IITB-1974)
Secretary
PIAI, Mumbai
SN Zindal (IITK-1972)
Advisor, PIAI, Delhi
Director, IUCEE
Anil Viz (IITD-1975)
Head – Government Projects, PIAI, Delhi
Co-ordinator, IITians for ITIs
S Shanmugam
Manager, Administration
PIAI, Chennai
Nominations to new PIAI Board effective 1st April 2012
| PIAI Board Members effective 1st April 2012 | ||
| IIT -B AA | Raj Nair | P V Krishnan |
| IIT- D AA | Himanshu Vaish | Shashi Munjal |
| IIT- G AA | Saravanan Vijaykumaran | Jay Dhariwal |
| IIT- K AA | Anurag Goel | Chand Das |
| IIT- KGP AA | Ramnath Mani | Pronob Guha |
| IIT-M AA | V Gopinathan | Raj Varadrajan |
| IIT-R AA | Arvind Singhal | Yogesh Munjal |