kanpur apart from educating students teachers at iitkanpur are also actively engaged in doing research work at the same time high end research work is carried out and patents are filled the institute also enters into memorandum of understanding mou with various educational institutes and industries in the interest of students so that they get worldwide exposure the institute has also earned a whopping amount through intellectual property all these tasks take place every year director iitkanpur prof prof indranil manna threw light over the earnings it made through intellectual property while addressing the students at the 45th convocation of the institute on friday which was presided over by president pranab mukherjee manna informed that iitkanpur has earned a sum of 86400 from the intellectual property in the last academic year which closed on june 30 he further informed that during the year 12 technologies developed at the institute were licensed for commercialisation while 18 patents were filed including two design patents he added that this year was good for fund raising as well the institute received rs 454 crores from 701 donations made by 538 donors a total of 310 donors contributed rs 548 lakh under the annual gift programme agp he had also informed that asha jadeja wife of late prof rajeeb motwani has donated 181000 for the rajeev motwani building for computer science and engineering department also during the year the institute witnessed significant growth in its research and development activities the number of extended ongoing projects has reached 588 with a sanctioned amount of rs 314 crores some of the major industries which have funded projects are unilever intel power grid corporation of india bhel samsung and boeing informed manna while addressing the students he added that the institute signed around 110 mous with various sponsors and research institutions apart from this about 15 mous were signed with universities and academic institutions talking about the technologies developed by iitkanpur manna said the zero discharge toilet system remained a major hit the toilet system eliminates use of fresh water for flushing and converts human excreta into manure and fertilizer over 300 such toilets were deployed in maha kumbh this year at allahabad which served apporximately one million users