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  • infoAbout this Program

    The Certification Program on Renewable Energy Regulation focuses on regulatory and policy framework for renewable energy development. Building on economic foundations, the program would enable a better understanding of evolving regulatory and policy framework for Renewable Energy (RE). The Program would be conducted under the aegis of Office of Outreach Activities, IIT Kanpur.

    Program Duration :30+ hours

    Relevance of the Program :

    Focus on policy and regulatory framework for renewable energy development

    Economic foundation for design of renewable portfolio obligation, feed-in tariff and renewable energy certificates

    Learning from international experience with integration of renewable energy sources

    Address the present and emerging challenges related to RE integration

    Key Topics:

    Evolution of Renewable Energy: India & Global

    Power Sector Economics: Market Failure & Natural Monopoly

    Evolution of RE Policy & Regulatory Framework

    Regulated Tariff Determination for RE (Part 1 & Part 2)

    Renewable Energy Certificates: Market & Institutional Framework

    Solarisation of Agricultural Pumps: Subsidy to Income Model

    Competitive Bidding for RE Procurement

    Competitive Bidding for RE plus Storage: Case Study (NEW)

    Designing a Rooftop Solar Program: Net vs Gross Metering (NEW)

    RE Procurement in Practice: GTAM, GDAM & Emerging Markets

    RE Scheduling, Dispatch & Deviation Settlement

    RE Integration Challenges: System Operators View

    RE Integration Solutions: Thermal Flexibility & Storage

    Forecasting RE & Demand for Grid Management

    Virtual Power Purchase Agreements: Design & Implementation

    PAT Mechanism & ESCerts

    Framework for the Indian Carbon Market (NEW)

    Green Energy Procurement by Data Centres (NEW)

    Peer-to-Peer Distributed Energy Market (NEW)

    Green Hydrogen: Production, Storage, Transport & Applications

  • addAgenda / Schedule

    Module-1 (Fundamentals of Renewable Energy: Economics, Policy and Regulation)

    These are the following sessions.

    Live Interactive Session
    Sno. Session Title Date Time Resource Person
    1 Inauguration Ceremony 13 Dec' 25 (Saturday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Chief Guest -
    2 Introductory Session 13 Dec' 25 (Saturday) 5:30 - 6:00 pm CER Team
    3 Evolution of Renewable Energy Development – India and the World 14 Dec' 25 (Sunday) 10:00 - 10:30 am Mr. Arun Goyal, IAS (Retd.), Former Member, CERC
    4 Economic Fundamentals of Power Sector - Market Failure and Natural Monopoly 14 Dec' 25 (Sunday) 10:45 - 12:15 am Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    5 Evolution of Policy and Regulatory Framework for Renewable Energy Development 15 Dec' 25 (Monday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    6 Regulated Tariff Determination for Renewable Energy -Part 1 16 Dec' 25 (Tuesday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    7 Developing a Market for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) 17 Dec' 25 (Wednesday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    8 Institutional Framework and Market for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) 18 Dec' 25 (Thursday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Satyajit Ganguly, Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, PXIL
    9 Regulated Tariff Determination for Renewable Energy - Part 2 (Levelized Tariff) 19 Dec' 25 (Friday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    10 Solarisation of Agricultural Pumps - From subsidisation to income generation 20 Dec' 25 (Saturday) 9:30 - 10:00 am Mr. Jeevan Kumar Jethani, Scientist F, MNRE
    11 Designing and Implementing a Rooftop SPV Program: Net Metering vs Gross Metering 21 Dec' 25 (Sunday) 9:30 - 11:00 am Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    12 Brainstorming & Interactive Discussion 22 Dec' 25 (Monday) 5:00 - 5:45 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    13 Competitive Bidding for RE: Process and Experience So Far 23 Dec' 25 (Tuesday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm Mr. Prateek Prasun, DSM, SECI

    Module-2 (Advance Topics on Renewable Energy: Economics, Policy and Regulation))

    Live Interactive Session
    S.No. Sessions Date Time Resource Person
    1 RE Procurement in Practice: GTAM, GDAM and Beyond 3 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 9:30 - 10:00 am Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, CEO, BSES Rajdhani
    2 Renewable Energy Scheduling, Dispatch and Deviation Settlement Regulations 3 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 10:15 - 10:45 am Mr. B. B. Mehta, Director (SLDC), OPTCL
    3 Challenges to RE integration - System operator perspective 4 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 9:30 - 10:00 am Mr. Vivek Pandey, CGM, NLDC
    4 RE integration - Flexibility of thermal generation and role of pump storage 4 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 10:15 - 10:45 am Mr. Ghanshyam Prasad, Chairperson, CEA
    5 RE Forecasting: Models for Solar and Wind Generation 5 Jan' 26 (Monday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Balaraman Kannan, Former Director General, NIWE, MNRE
    6 Contract for Differences (CDF) and Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) for Driving Renewable Energy Investment 5 Jan' 26 (Monday) 05:45 - 06:15 pm Mr. srikant Nagulapalli, Additional Secretary, MoP
    7 PAT Mechanism and ESCerts 6 Jan' 26 (Tuesday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Milind Deore, Secretary, BEE
    8 Evolution of RPO & RCO and their compliance 7 Jan' 26 (Wednesday) 05:00 - 05:30 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    9 Framework for the Emerging Indian Carbon Market 8 Jan' 26 (Thursday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Saurabh Diddi, Director, BEE
    10 Developing Competitive Bidding based RE plus Storage Projects: A Case Study 9 Jan' 26 (Friday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Manu Srivastava, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of New & Renewable Energy, Government of Madhya Pradesh
    11 Green Energy Procurement by Data Centres 10 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 09:30 - 11:00 am Mr. Purnendu Chaubey, Senior Vice President - Strategic Business Development & Policy Advocacy, ReNew
    12 Peer-to-Peer Distributed Energy Market 10 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 11:15 - 12:45 pm Mr. Vinod Tiwari, Global Head of Business Development & Partnership, Power Ledger
    13 Green Hydrogen: Technology, Economics and Way forward 11 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 09:30 - 11:00 am Mr. Abhay Bakre, Mission Director, National Green Hydeogen Mission
    14 Brainstorming & Interactive Discussion 11 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 11:15 - 12:45 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    15 Online Assessment Demo Session 12 Jan' 26 (Monday) 04:00 - 05:00 pm CER Team
    16 Final Assessment 15 Jan' 26 (Thursday) 06:00 - 07:00 pm
  • addLearning Outcomes

    Conceptual understanding of renewable energy policy and regulation

    Opportunity to learn best practices from global experts

    Develop the ability to deal with the practical problems such as RE generation forecasting, scheduling and despatch

    Learning from technologies used to integrate and optimize distributed energy sources to enhance the grid's reliability

  • languagePedagogy
    Mode of delivery:

    The program will be delivered in online mode in the form of live and recorded sessions to offer flexibility to the working professionals. The recorded sessions would be hosted at CER’s Online Learning Environment and Tools (OLET) platform. The program will be covered across 2 weeks and include multiple sessions of about 1 hour 30 min each (with total program duration of more than 25 hours).

  • Who should apply?

    Officials of Renewable Energy Development Agencies, Renewable Generation Companies, Open Access Consumers, Project Developers along with stakeholders across the power sector, including Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Companies, Traders and Power Exchanges, Electricity Regulatory Commissions (including members), Investors, Financial Institutions and Banks, NGOs, Consultants, Lawyers, CAs/CS, Academicians, Researchers, and Students.

  • Award of Certificate
    Participants would be awarded one of the following certificates as per the criteria mentioned:

    Certificate Type Minimum Criteria
    Pre-recorded sessions Live/ Live interactive sessions
    or their recorded version     		Assessment and Participation
    Certificate of Achievement 70% 50% Above the required criteria
    Certificate of Participation 50% 30% Below the required criteria

    Note:

    • 1. Per session participation/ attendance will be counted only if minimum view duration/ attendance exceeds 80% of duration of the session.
      2. No certificate will be awarded, if the above criteria for minimum attendance is not met or the  performance in the assessment and participation is below the minimum certification criteria for the program
      3. If any candidate fails to appear in the Assessment, no certificate will be awarded

    4. Certification criteria may be revised or updated later.

  • Registration Fee
    A. Details of Registration Fee

    S. No. Participation Category Fee (INR) Total (INR)
    1 Industry*^ 35000 + 18% GST 41300
    2 Faculty
      a. IITK
      b. Non-IITK**    		  
    16000
    16000 + 18% GST    		  
    16000
    18880
    3 Students
      a. IITK
      b. Non-IITK ***    		  
    5000
    5000 + 18% GST    		  
    5000
    5900
    4   SERCs having MoU with CER-IITK  28000 + 18% GST  33040

    * Including Commissioners and Officers from Electricity Regulatory Commissions; Stakeholders from Licensees (Transmission, Distribution and Trading), Generating Company Load Dispatch Centers, RE Development Agencies, Financial Institutions, Consultants, Investors, Industrial consumer, IPPs.

    # Including NGOs, Consumer Organisation and research institutions (non-corporate).

    ## Applicable for full-time students, who must submit a bonafide certificate within two working days of registration.

    Notes:-
    - For each registration only one discount will be applicable.

    - Fees once paid are strictly non-refundable and non-transferable.

    - Participants must register under the correct category (Student/Professional).

    - Misuse of categories (e.g., registering as a student without eligibility) will result in cancellation of registration without refund.

    - Student-category applicants must upload - A valid Student ID, a current-year Bonafide.

    - Certificate issued by a recognized educational institution.

    ^ Three or more participants from the same organisation will get 20% discount on registration fee. For group registration for 10 or more participants, please contact us. Female candidates would receive a further discount of 10%. Cannot be clubbed with any other discount.

    Registration will commence on: 14th Nov 2025

    End date of registration: 12th Dec 2025

    Program starts on: 13th Dec 2025

    Program ends on: 11th Jan 2026

    C. Guidelines for registration process

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    Department of Management Sciences

    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-208016

    Phone: +91 512 259 6448

    Email: cer_cbp@iitk.ac.in

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About this Program

The Certification Program on Renewable Energy Regulation focuses on regulatory and policy framework for renewable energy development. Building on economic foundations, the program would enable a better understanding of evolving regulatory and policy framework for Renewable Energy (RE). The Program would be conducted under the aegis of Office of Outreach Activities, IIT Kanpur.

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Program Duration: 30+ hours

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Program Highlights

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Focus on policy and regulatory framework for renewable energy development

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Economic foundation for design of renewable portfolio obligation, feed-in tariff and renewable energy certificates

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Learning from international experience with integration of renewable energy sources

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Address the present and emerging challenges related to RE integration

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Key Topics:

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Evolution of Renewable Energy: India & Global

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Power Sector Economics: Market Failure & Natural Monopoly

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Evolution of RE Policy & Regulatory Framework

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Regulated Tariff Determination for RE (Part 1 & Part 2)

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Renewable Energy Certificates: Market & Institutional Framework

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Solarisation of Agricultural Pumps: Subsidy to Income Model

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Competitive Bidding for RE: Process and Experience So Far

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Competitive Bidding for RE plus Storage: Case Study

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Designing a Rooftop Solar Program: Net vs Gross Metering

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RE Procurement in Practice: GTAM, GDAM & Emerging Markets

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RE Scheduling, Dispatch & Deviation Settlement

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RE Integration Challenges: System Operators View

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RE Integration Solutions: Thermal Flexibility & Storage

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Forecasting RE & Demand for Grid Management

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Virtual Power Purchase Agreements: Design & Implementation

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PAT Mechanism & ESCerts

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Framework for the Indian Carbon Market

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Green Energy Procurement by Data Centres

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Peer-to-Peer Distributed Energy Market

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Green Hydrogen: Production, Storage, Transport & Applications

Learning Outcomes
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Conceptual understanding of renewable energy policy and regulation

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Opportunity to learn best practices from global experts

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Develop the ability to deal with the practical problems such as RE generation forecasting, scheduling and despatch

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Learning from technologies used to integrate and optimize distributed energy sources to enhance the grid's reliability

Pedagogy
Mode of delivery:

The program will be delivered in online mode in the form of live and recorded sessions to offer flexibility to the working professionals. The recorded sessions would be hosted at CER’s Online Learning Environment and Tools (OLET) platform. The program will be covered across 2 weeks and include multiple sessions of about 1 hour 30 min each (with total program duration of more than 25 hours).

Who Should Apply
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Officials of Renewable Energy Development Agencies

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Renewable Generation Companies

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Open Access Consumers

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Project Developers

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Stakeholders across the power sector, including:

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Generation Companies

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Transmission Companies

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Distribution Companies

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Traders and Power Exchanges

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Electricity Regulatory Commissions (including members)

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Financial Institutions and Banks

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NGOs

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Consultants

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CAs/CS

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Academicians

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Researchers

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Students

Tentative Agenda
  • Module-1 (Fundamentals of Renewable Energy: Economics, Policy and Regulation) (Week-1) arrow_downward
    Live Interactive Session
    Session No. Session Title Date Time Resource Person
    1 Inauguration Ceremony 13 Dec' 25 (Saturday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm
    2 Introductory Session 13 Dec' 25 (Saturday) 5:30 - 6:00 pm CER Team
    3 Evolution of Renewable Energy Development – India and the World 14 Dec' 25 (Sunday) 10:00 - 10:30 am Mr. Arun Goyal, IAS (Retd.), Former Member, CERC
    4 Economic Fundamentals of Power Sector - Market Failure and Natural Monopoly 14 Dec' 25 (Sunday) 10:45 - 12:15 am
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    5 Evolution of Policy and Regulatory Framework for Renewable Energy Development 15 Dec' 25 (Monday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    6 Regulated Tariff Determination for Renewable Energy -Part 1 16 Dec' 25 (Tuesday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    7 Developing a Market for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) 17 Dec' 25 (Wednesday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    8 Institutional Framework and Market for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) 18 Dec' 25 (Thursday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Satyajit Ganguly, Former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, PXIL
    9 Regulated Tariff Determination for Renewable Energy - Part 2 (Levelized Tariff) 19 Dec' 25 (Friday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    10 Solarisation of Agricultural Pumps - From subsidisation to income generation 20 Dec' 25 (Saturday) 9:30 - 10:00 am Mr. Jeevan Kumar Jethani, Scientist F, MNRE
    11 Designing and Implementing a Rooftop SPV Program: Net Metering vs Gross Metering 21 Dec' 25 (Sunday) 9:30 - 11:00 am
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    12 Brainstorming & Interactive Discussion 22 Dec' 25 (Monday) 5:00 - 5:45 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    13 Competitive Bidding for RE: Process and Experience So Far 23 Dec' 25 (Tuesday) 5:00 - 6:30 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Mr. Prateek Prasun, DSM, SECI
  • Module-2 (Advance Topics on Renewable Energy: Economics, Policy and Regulation) (Week-2) arrow_downward
    Live Interactive Session
    S.No. Sessions Date Time Resource Person
    1 RE integration - Flexibility of thermal generation and role of pump storage 2 Jan' 26 (Friday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Ghanshyam Prasad, Chairperson, CEA
    2 RE Procurement in Practice: GTAM, GDAM and Beyond 3 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 9:30 - 10:00 am Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, CEO, BSES Rajdhani
    3 Renewable Energy Scheduling, Dispatch and Deviation Settlement Regulations 3 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 10:15 - 10:45 am Mr. B. B. Mehta, Director (SLDC), OPTCL
    4 Challenges to RE integration - System operator perspective 4 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 9:30 - 10:00 am Mr. Vivek Pandey, CGM, NLDC
    5 RE Forecasting: Models for Solar and Wind Generation 5 Jan' 26 (Monday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Balaraman Kannan, Former Director General, NIWE, MNRE
    6 Contract for Differences (CDF) and Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) for Driving Renewable Energy Investment 5 Jan' 26 (Monday) 05:45 - 06:15 pm Mr. Srikant Nagulapalli, Additional Secretary, MoP
    7 PAT Mechanism and ESCerts 6 Jan' 26 (Tuesday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Milind Deore, Secretary, BEE
    8 Evolution of RPO & RCO and their compliance 7 Jan' 26 (Wednesday) 05:00 - 05:30 pm Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    9 Framework for the Emerging Indian Carbon Market 8 Jan' 26 (Thursday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Saurabh Diddi, Director, BEE
    10 Developing Competitive Bidding based RE plus Storage Projects: A Case Study 9 Jan' 26 (Friday) 5:00 - 5:30 pm Mr. Manu Srivastava, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of New & Renewable Energy, Government of Madhya Pradesh
    11 Green Energy Procurement by Data Centres 10 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 09:30 - 11:00 am
    (LIVE)
    		 Mr. Purnendu Chaubey, Senior Vice President - Strategic Business Development & Policy Advocacy, ReNew
    12 Peer-to-Peer Distributed Energy Market 10 Jan' 26 (Saturday) 11:15 - 12:45 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Mr. Vinod Tiwari, Global Head of Business Development & Partnership, Power Ledger
    13 Green Hydrogen: Technology, Economics and Way forward 11 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 09:30 - 11:00 am
    (LIVE)
    		 Mr. Abhay Bakre, Mission Director, National Green Hydeogen Mission
    14 Brainstorming & Interactive Discussion 11 Jan' 26 (Sunday) 11:15 - 12:45 pm
    (LIVE)
    		 Dr. Anoop Singh, Professor, IIT Kanpur
    15 Online Assessment Demo Session 12 Jan' 26 (Monday) 04:00 - 05:00 pm CER Team
    16 Final Assessment 15 Jan' 26 (Thursday) 06:00 - 07:00 pm

1. Subject to the confirmation by the respective resource person

2. Recorded Session will be released one day before the "live interactive session".

3. Live sessions recording are released one day after the session.

4. However, the program calendar/duration will be flexible to accommodate availability of the speaker and other constraints.

Award of Certificate
Participants would be awarded one of the following certificate based on criteria mentioned:

Certificate Type Minimum Criteria
Pre-recorded sessions Live/ Live interactive sessions
or their recorded version 		Assessment and Participation
Certificate of Achievement 70% 50% Above the required criteria
Certificate of Participation 50% 30% Below the required criteria

Note:

  • 1. Per session participation/ attendance will be counted only if minimum view duration/ attendance exceeds 80% of duration of the session.
    2. No certificate will be awarded, if the above criteria for minimum attendance is not met or the  performance in the assessment and participation is below the minimum certification criteria for the program
    3. If any candidate fails to appear in the Assessment, no certificate will be awarded

4. Certification criteria may be revised or updated later.

Note: Criteria may be modified/ updated later

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Department of Management Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-208016

Phone: +91 512 259 6448

Email: cer_cbp@iitk.ac.in

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