Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been conferred the Manthan Award 2009 - the South Asia award for best practices in ICT for Development of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, at a function held in Delhi on December 19, 2009 (more on https://manthanaward.org and https://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webhwn)