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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur
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Conceived in the year 1947 as centres of technical excellence, the Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) were meant to train a skilled workforce of engineers and scientists. Since then, the Government of India has declared the IITs as Institutes of National Importance. IIT Kharagpur was the first of these institutes.
IIT Kharagpur was founded on the recommendation of the Sarkar Committee that suggested that Higher Technical Institutions on the lines of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, should be set up in the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western zone of India. As per those recommendations, the first Indian Institute of Technology was set up in May 1950 in Hijli, Kharagpur.
The Kharagpur campus is a self-contained township spread over 2,100 acres, and has twenty nine centres, departments and schools. List of its departments, schools and centres are given below:
- Aerospace Engineering
- Agricultural & Food...
IIT Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur has eighteen residence halls that accommodate undergraduate and graduate students, as well as research scholars. All rooms have Internet connectivity. Guest house accommodation is also available for visitors. Independent catering services are provided for at all the residence halls and guest houses.
The IIT Kharagpur's central library has the distinction of being Asia’s largest technical library. It houses more than 3,00,000 volumes on science and technology, social sciences and humanities in an open shelf system. A fully- computerised library system ensures that students can access foreign university libraries through the wide-area network facilities. In addition to this, the Kharagpur campus is equipped with the latest technical and infrastructural research facilities, which provide practical support for researchers and outside organizations.
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur-721 302, India
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