Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

It was little before India finally got Independence, the intellects of the nation realized it's the education which can aid in their efforts of setting a free India, a 22 member committee was set by Honorable Sir Jogendra Singh, who was the member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, Department of Education at that time. The agenda of the committee was to formulate the foundation of an institute for higher technical education which will nurture the industrial development of the nation post-independence. The committee suggested of setting up a group of 4 Higher Technical Institutions in the four regions of the country i.e. Eastern, Northern, Western and Southern regions, following the concepts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. With the suggestions of the committee the first Indian Institute of Technology was established in May 1950 at Hijli of Kharagpur (WB), it was formally inaugurated on August 18, 1951, by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

The IIT Kharagpur is located just 5 KM away from the main railway station of the Kharagpur and 120 KM away from the metro city Kolkata. The campus is spread in 1,200 acres and probably one of the biggest college campuses including all the modern and required facilities like bank, post office, shopping malls, hospital and others.

The vision of the institute is “To be a centre of excellence in education and research, producing global leaders in science, technology and management by becoming a hub of knowledge creation that prioritizes the frontier areas of national and global importance” and to fulfil the same the institute since its establishment has thrived rapidly. To cover all the aspects of higher technical education the institute, currently have 19 academic departments, 8 multi-disciplinary centres and 13 schools, apart from these the campus have dedicated research projects performed in the 25 central research and development units. Following are the departments, centres and schools of IIT Kharagpur offering various courses and improving the lives of people of the nation:

Departments:

• Aerospace Engineering
• Agricultural and Food Engineering
• Architecture and Regional Planning
• Biotechnology
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science and Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering
• Geology and Geophysics
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture
• Physics

Centres

• Rubber Technology
• Steel Technology Centre
• Reliability Engineering
• Cryogenic Engineering
• Materials Science
• Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
• Rural Development Centre
• Advanced Technology Development Centre
• Center for Educational Technology
• Rekhi Centre for Science of Happiness
• Dey Sarkar Centre Excellence in Petroleum Engineering
• AI Centre of Excellence

Schools

• School of Medical Science and Technology
• G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
• Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship
• Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
• Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
• Medical Science & Technology
• School of Water Resources
• Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur