Binay Kumar Samanata, s/o late Amiya Madhab Samanta, did his I.Sc 1^st Division from St. Xaviers, Kolkata and B.Tech (Hons), 1^st Class from IIT, Kharagpur. Apart from working in nationalized coal industry, and competing in Second and First Class Managers Certificate from DGMS, Shri Samanta retired as General Manager in 2001. He has considerable part-time research experience for M.Sc, M.Tech and PhD at ISM, Dhanbad, and in BESU/IIEST and he is completing his D.Sc now at IIT(ISM).