IIT Bombay has signed an agreement with Jindal Stainless to establish a Chair Professorship at the Institute. This Chair will support and enhance research in industrial processes and product technologies in the stainless steel sector. An existing and eminent professor of IIT Bombay, with an excellent track record of research work, will be appointed to the prestigious chair. The first Chair professor will be selected from the Institute’s Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at IIT Bombay.