Indian Institutes of

Technology

(IITs)

History of Indian Institutes of

Technology

Historical developments
The concept of the IITs originated even before India
gainedindependencein 1947.
In 1946, a committee wasestablished to explore setting up
technical institutes.
The first Indian Institute of Technology was born in May 1950
in Kharagpur, West Bengal at the site of Hijli Detention camp.
On 15 September 1956, the parliament passed theIndian
Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act, declaring it as
anInstitute of National Importance.

 Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands

the fine monument of India, representing India's urges,
India's future in the making. This picture seems to me
symbolical of the changes that are coming to India
-Nehru (in the first convocation address of
IIT Kharagpur)

16 IITs
IIT Kharagpur (1950)
IIT Bombay(1958)
IIT Madras(1959)
IIT Kanpur(1960)
IIT Delhi(1961)
IIT Guwahati(1994)
IIT Roorkee(2001)
New IITs:IIT Ropar, IIT Mandi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Hyderabad, IIT
Bhubaneswar, IIT Patna, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Indore, IIT BHU-(2008)
IIT BHU(2012)

IIT-Organisational structure

Education
The IITs receive comparatively higher grants than other
engineering colleges in India.
While the total government funding to most other engineering
colleges is aroundRs100200 million (USD 24 million) per year,
the amount varies between Rs. 9001,300 million (USD 1826
million) per year for each IIT.
The academic policies of each IIT are decided by itsSenate.e
faculty-to-student ratio in the IITs is between 1:6 and
1:8(comprises all professors of the IIT and student representatives)

 All the IITs follow the credits system of performance

evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses
based on their importance
Each semester evaluation is done independently and
then the weighted average over all semesters is used to
calculate the cumulativegrade point of average
(known as CGPA or CPICumulative Performance
Index).

16 IITs

IIT Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur was the first of the
seven IITs, established in 1951
and is located 120 kms west of
Kolkata.
The campus is a township of
about 20,000 inhabitants.
The Science and Technology
Entrepreneurs Park (STEP)
provides infrastructure facilities
to alumni who want to become
entrepreneurs but lack
infrastructure to start their own
corporation.

IIT Bombay
IIT Bombay was established in 1958
Today the institute is recognized as
one of the centre of academic
excellence in the country
It is a fully residential University
located at Powai, which is an
eastern suburb in the North-eastern
part of the metropolitan city,
Mumbai

IIT Madras
IIT Madras was the third
among the seven IITs to be
established by the
Government of India in 1959
A residential institute
located in city of Chennai, it
has nearly 100 laboratories.
All Sponsored Research and
Consultancy activities in the
Institute are coordinated by
the Centre for Industrial
Consultancy and Sponsored
Research (IC & SR)

IIT Kanpur
The Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur (IIT
Kanpur)was set up in the
then-industrial city of Kanpur
in 1960.
IIT Kanpur was the first
institute in India to start
Computer Science education
The Institute has a number of
facilities, including the
National Wind Tunnel Facility
IIT Kanpur also has its own
airfield, for flight testing and
gliding activities.

IIT Delhi
Established as college
of Engineering in 1961,
the Institute was
declared an Institution
of National importance
under the Institutes of
Technology
(Amendment) Act 1963
and was renamed
Indian Institute of
Technology Delhi.
With clean and wide
roads, the campus
presents a spectacle of
harmony in
architectural and
natural beauty

IIT Guwahati
IIT Guwahati or IITG was
established in 1994
Located in the land of
The Red River and Blue
hills IIT Guwahati
possesses unarguably
one of the most beautiful
campus in India
IIT Guwahati was the first
IIT to introduce Design
as one of the disciplines
at Undergraduate level.

IIT Roorkee
IIT Roorkee has a legacy that
goes back to 1847- a formidable
history of more than 155 years.
Established as Roorkee college
in 1847 it was the First
Engineering College in the
British Empire.
In 2001, University of Roorkee
was declared as the nations
seventh Indian Institute of
Technology.
The institute is a member of
LAOTSE, an international
network of leading universities
of Europe and Asia exchanging
students and senior scholars.

IIT Ropar
Indian Institute of
Technology, Ropar is one of
the eight new IITs set up by
the Ministry of Human
Resource Development
(MHRD), Government of
India.
The Institute is located in
Ropar, the headquarters of
Rupnagar district, Punjab.
The classrooms are
connected the National
Knowledge Network and
have facilities for inter-IIT
video conferencing.
The institute has
collaborations with Aston
University, Imperial
College, London; an the

IIT Mandi
Indian Institute of Technology
Mandi nestles in the Sivalik
Range of the Himalayas
The youngest IIT is located in
the forests of Kamand on the
banks of Uhl, a tributary of the
Beas about 12km from the
historic town of Mandi.
The Institute is fully residential
with the transit campus located
in Vallabh Degree College.

IIT Gandhinagar
It is located at Chandkheda,
about 15 minutes drive from
both Ahmedabad and
Gandhinagar. Currently the
Institute is functioning from
the premises of the
Vishwakarma Government
Engineering College.
IIT Gandhinagar (IITGn) was
formally inaugurated in
August 2008 with its first
batch of undergraduate
students in the chemical,
mechanical and electrical
engineering streams.

IIT Hyderabad

IIT Hyderabad started

functioning with he first
batch of 111 B.Tech.
students on August 20,
2008
The foundation stone for
the institute was laid by
Smt. Sonia Gandhi,
Honble Chairperson of
UPA on February, 27, 2009
Currently, there are six
engineering departments
in the institute

IIT Bhubaneswar
IIT Bhubaneswar was established
on July 22, 2008 under the
mentorship of IIT Kharagpur
The permanent campus is coming
up on 936 acres of land at Arugul,
located 20 km away from the main
city.

IIT Patna
Indian Institute of Technology Patna,
was formally registered as a society
on 25th July 2008 and commenced its
academic programs 6th August
2008.
IIT Patna has collaboration with the
University of Houston, USA and
Louisiana State University, USA.

IIT Jodhpur
IIT Jodhpur is one among the
new set of IITs announced by
the Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Govt.
of India.
Presently IIT Kanpur has
been designated as the
mentor IIT for looking after
the incubation activities of
the new IIT in Rajasthan.

IIT Indore
IIT Indore started from the
academic year 2009-10 as an
autonomous engineering and
technology institute of higher
education.
It will come up in 525 acre of
land at Simrol, 25 km from
Indore. Currently, IIT Bombay
is mentoring IIT Indore.

IIT BHU
Founded as three engineering and
technological institutions during the
freedom struggle by Mahamana Pandit
Madan Mohan Malviya, were later
merged to form the Institute of
Technology (IT-BHU) in 1971.

Reference
Wikipedia
www.iitk.ac.in
Pan IIT