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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur or IIT Kharagpur is a public institute of technology, research university, and autonomous institute established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal. Founded in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance.
The present name 'Indian Institute of Technology' was adopted before the formal inauguration of the institute on 18 August 1951, by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed an act known as the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act declaring it as an Institute of National Importance.
The first Indian Institute of Technology was founded in May 1950 at the site of the Hijli Detention Camp in Kharagpur, West Bengal. [40] The name "Indian Institute of Technology" was adopted before the formal inauguration of the institute on 18 August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. [41]
The first Indian Institute of Technology of India namely IIT Kharagpur, one of the Institutes of National Importance, was founded in Kharagpur in May 1950. [63] Other colleges are: Kharagpur College (also known as Inda College) Hijli College; Kharagpur Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital; Dr B C Roy Institute of Medical Sciences & Research
Hijli Detention Camp (now called Shaheed Bhavan, IIT Kharagpur), [1] is a former detention camp operated during the period of British colonial rule in India. [2] Located in Hijli, beside Kharagpur , (a part of former Hijli Kingdom ) in the district of Midnapore West , West Bengal , India , it played a significant role in the Indian independence ...
Rajendra Mishra (1919–1977) was an Indian Professor and education pioneer known for being one of the founders of the first of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) at IIT Kharagpur, in 1951. He helped establish the institute's infrastructure, pioneered the engineering disciplines of mechanical, production, and industrial engineering, and ...
Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur is a public graduate business school located in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. An academic unit of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , it is the first business school to be established in an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
From 1955 to 1960, admissions for the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur were conducted via a national examination. Academic disciplines were allotted to the students via interviews and counselling sessions held at Kharagpur. The IIT-JEE was first conducted in 1961 as Common Entrance Exam (CEE), coinciding with the 1961 IIT Act. [11]