1. IIT Madras:
Indian
Institute of Technology Madras is one among the foremost institutes of national
importance in higher technological education, basic and applied research. In
1956, the German Government offered technical assistance for establishing an
institute of higher education in engineering in India. The first Indo-German
agreement in Bonn, West Germany for the establishment of the Indian Institute
of Technology at Madras was signed in 1959.
The Institute
was formally inaugurated in 1959 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Union Minister for
Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs. The IIT system has sixteen Institutes
of Technology. The first of these to be instituted are at Kharagpur (estb.
1951), Mumbai (estb. 1958), Chennai (estb. 1959), Kanpur (estb. 1959), Delhi
(estb. 1961), Guwahati (estb. 1994) and Roorkee (estb. 1847, joined IITs in
2001).
IIT Madras is
a residential institute with nearly 550 faculty, 8000 students and 1250
administrative & supporting staff and is a self-contained campus located in
a beautiful wooded land of about 250 hectares. It has established itself as a
premier centre for teaching, research and industrial consultancy in the
country.
The Institute
has sixteen academic departments and a few advanced research centres in various
disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with nearly 100 laboratories
organised in a unique pattern of functioning. A faculty of international
repute, a brilliant student community, excellent technical & supporting
staff and an effective administration have all contributed to the pre-eminent
status of IIT Madras. The campus is located in the city of Chennai, previously
known as Madras. Chennai is the state capital of Tamilnadu, a southern state in
India.
Academics
The
departments and centres of the Institute are responsible for the academic
activities which include Teaching, Research and Industrial Consultancy.
The courses
of study are organized on semester programs and each semester provides for a
minimum of seventy instructional days. The medium of instruction is English.
Students are evaluated on a continuous basis throughout the semester. Evaluation
is done by the faculty, a consequence of the autonomous status granted to the
Institute. Research work is evaluated on the basis of the review thesis by peer
examiners both from within the country and abroad. Ordinances in respect of the
academic program of study are prepared by the senate, the highest academic body
within the Institute.
The rigors of
academic study at each level are balanced with a number of other related
activities which include co-curricular activities. Special lectures on varied
topic of academic relevance are held under the Extra Mural Lecture series.
A number of
conferences, symposia and workshops are organized by the faculty which attract
participation from scholars all over the world.
The Institute
maintains academic friendship with several other educational institutes in the
world through faculty exchange programs. The Institute has signed Memoranda Of
Understanding (MOUs) with several universities abroad, resulting in
co-operative projects and assignments for mutual benefit.
The faculty
of the Institute have distinguished themselves through awards for academic
activity from national as well as international organizations.
IIT Madras
has set a fine example of interaction with the industry in the country, through
consultancy services offered by the faculty. Innovative ideas are put to
practice in many projects sponsored by other institutions in India.
The academic
atmosphere at the Institute is a rare blend of modern day technical skills and
the traditional emphasis on imparting knowledge. The faculty as well as the
students who have qualified from the Institute have always done the country
proud through their outstanding achievements and leadership qualities.
2. IIT Bombay:
The Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay (abbreviated IITB or IIT Bombay) is a public
engineering institution located in Powai, Mumbai, India. In the QS World
University Rankings 2014, IIT Bombay was ranked as India’s top university. It
is the second-oldest institute of the Indian Institutes of Technology system.
IIT Bombay
was founded in 1958.In 1961, the Parliament decreed IITs as Institutes of National
Importance. A high-power committee of Government of India recommended in 1946
establishment of four higher institutes of technology to set the direction for
the development of technical education in the country. Planning for the
Institute at Mumbai began in 1957 and the first batch of 100 students was
admitted in 1958. Since its establishment in Powai, the institute has
physically expanded to include more than 584 major buildings with a combined
area of more than 2.396 gross square feet (550 acres or 2.22 km²).
IIT Bombay
has a comprehensive graduate program offering doctoral degrees in Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Currently IIT Bombay has a total of 14
academic departments, six centers, one school, and three interdisciplinary
programmes. Over the last 53 years, around 39,000 engineers and scientists have
graduated from the institute. Educational programmes here extend beyond the
physical sciences and engineering into humanities and social sciences such as
Economics, English, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology and into management
studies. Over the years, the institute has also created a niche for its
innovative short-term courses through continuing education and distance
education programmes
3. IIT kharagpur:
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. Initially the IIT
started functioning from 5, Esplanade East, Calcutta and very soon shifted to
Hijli in Sept. 1950. The present name 'Indian Institute of Technology' was
adopted before the formal inauguration of the Institute on August 18, 1951, by
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. IIT Kharagpur started its journey in the old Hijli
Detention Camp where some of our great freedom fighters toiled and sacrificed
their lives for the independence of our country. The history of IIT Kharagpur
is thus intimately linked with the history of the Hijli Detention Camp. This is
possibly one of the very few Institutions all over the world which started life
in a prison house.
About the Detention Camp
The district of Midnapore along with rest of
Bengal and India took part in a very significant way in the revolutionary
struggle against the British Raj from the early 20th century.
The large number of youth who participated in the
armed struggle or the non cooperation movement could not be accommodated in
ordinary jails. The then British Government decided to establish a few
detention camps - the first one was located in Buxa Fort which was followed by
the setting up of the Hijli Detention Camp in 1930. The Hijli Detention Camp
bears a very significant mark in our freedom movement. Two unarmed detainees
were shot dead here by the British Police on Sept. 16, 1931. Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose came to Hijli for collecting the bodies of the two great sons of
the freedom movement - Santosh Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta. All the
national leaders including Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore voiced their strong
protests against the British Raj over this incident. The Hijli Detention Camp
was closed in 1937 and was reopened again in 1940 to detain the freedom
fighters without trial. In 1942 the camp was again closed and the detainees
were transferred elswhere.
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