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IIT Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Kanpur City and measures close to 420 hectares (1,000 acres).This land was donated by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the institute had moved to its current location.
In early 1900s, there was a growing need for advancement in applied sciences in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (erstwhile NWP) of British India.On the initiative of ICS officer Sir Spencer H. Butler, [8] the Conference on Industrial Development at Nainital summoned in 1907 by the then Lieutenant-Governor of the province, [9] Sir John P. Hewett, GCSI, KBE, CIE, GCStJ, recommended the ...
The way the Sarcar Committee had suggested, it was established in the North as IIT Kanpur (in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) in 1959. Dr. Kelkar was the first director of the institute. At that time, the Germans had run up large trade surpluses, and they were persuaded to support an IIT in the South.
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVMMC or GSVM Medical College) is a public medical college in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The college is named after Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, a freedom fighter and journalist from Kanpur. It was founded in 1956.
Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar (1909-1990) was an Indian scientist who is best remembered for being the founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, which was established in 1959. [1]
Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata: Anurag Kumar: 1977 Director of Indian Institute of Science: Suman Datta: 1995 Semi-conductor researcher at Notre Dame University, USA In 2013, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 2016, Fellow of the National Academy of ...
The University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) is now a department of the university. It was founded in 1996 (earlier known as Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur)The University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), School of Engineering and Technology, and is an engineering and technology institute in Kanpur.
In early 1965, with encouragement by H. K. Kesavan, Head of Electrical Engineering Dep't at IIT Kanpur, Rajaraman and his colleagues initiated a new MTech program with Computer Science as an option, the first time the subject was offered as an academic discipline in India. [3]