The history of the IIT system dates back to 1946 when a committee was set up by Hon'ble Sir Jogendra Singh, Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, Department of Education, Health and Agriculture to consider the setting up of Higher Technical Institutions for post war industrial development in India. The 22 member committee headed by Sri N.R.Sarkar, in its report, recommended the establishment of four Higher Technical Institutions in the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern regions, possibly on the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, with a number of secondary institutions affiliated to it. The report also urged the speedy establishment of all the four institutions with the ones in the East and the West to be started immediately. The committee also felt that such institutes would not only produce undergraduates but they should be engaged in research, producing research workers and technical teachers as well. The standard of the graduates should be at par with those from first class institutions abroad. They felt that the proportion of undergraduates and postgraduate students should be 2:1.
With the above recommendations of the Sarkar committee in view, the first Indian Institute of Technology was born in May 1950 in Hijli, Kharagpur, in the eastern part of India.
Programs
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Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Undergraduate and Graduate Instructional Program
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Address:
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
721 302 Kharagpur
West Bengal
India
Phone: +91-3222-255221
Fax: +91-3222-255303
Email: registrar @ hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/
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Admissions office:
Admission Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
721 302Kharagpur
West Bengal
India
Phone: +91 - 3222 - 282102
Fax: +91 - 3222 - 282102
Email: jee @ hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in
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