Indian Institutes of Technology

11/08/2023

The doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it. The greatest achievers are those who are old enough to be wise and young enough to believe they can change the world. Achievers are not born talented but they possess the attitude of being an achiever.

IIT Kharagpur is delighted to announce the Young Alumni Achiever Awardees 2023. Heartiest Congratulations to all.

Young Blood. Big Dreams. Great Ideas.

Ministry of Education Dharmendra Pradhan Dr. Subhas Sarkar PMO India

01/08/2017

This Diamond Jubilee commemorative volume brings the sixty-year journey of IIT Kharagpur to life, in full colour. It invites everyone to join in the joyous celebration of the landmarks, the growth and prosperity of the institute, the dreams and aspirations of its students and teachers and their devotion and dedication that has made the Institute what it is today. http://amzn.to/2w0M6mz

The name Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur means many things to many people. To the visionaries of modern India, it symbolised a dream come true: the first world class technical institute of a newly independent India. To generations of students and teachers who have lived and studied at t...

19/03/2017

“The biggest challenge we are facing is how to recruit faculty. The IITs have not lowered the bar for faculty. IIT-Madras is doing a study to understand what the enabling factors and disabling factors are for faculty members for joining.”

Reasons for institute not attracting talent under study

04/03/2017

Students from MIT are studying Tagore's unique concept, how the university influences the environs and economy of the place, even outside the Visva-Bharati campus and how, with time, unchecked growth outside the campus is adversely affecting its character.
The credit course is being taught at MIT in collaboration with IIT Kharagpur.

KOLKATA: Tagore's Santiniketan - a model in 19th-century university-town planning - is now a lesson in the classrooms of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US (MIT).

03/03/2017

It is essential to put to test some of the critical comments against the IITs and decipher the real problems that have prevented these institutes from achieving their full potential.

And while the IITs have been in decline for many years now, some of the MHRD's exclusivist policies are poised to drive them further into the ground.

02/03/2017

“Depending on the topic, subject and interest, stakeholders from different fields can join the discussion. The system will recognise people with good rating . It will ask volunteers who have earned good ratings to drive the group. There can be several groups on diverse issues,” said Professor Deepak B Phatak of IIT-B.

01/03/2017

With this new technology developed by IIT-M scientists, we can use LED\LCD glass components of e-waste for the twin jobs of waste water treatment and electricity production.

Scientists at IIT, Madras have come up with a novel technique where e-waste can be used as a resource not only to treat waste water but also to generate electricity simultaneously, making it an important innovation to deal with fast growing menace of such hazardous waste in the country.

02/09/2014

"Ideally, the expansion of IITs is not a bad idea if you could staff all the IITs with the faculty of the right calibre. But if you just expand IITs for the sake of expansion without faculty of the right calibre, then you are just harming the students."
-- Pradeep Khosla, president, University of California, San Diego

Institutions are built over several decades, and so, 100 days are too early to assess the government's performance in building new IITs and IIMs. The announcement had been made in the Union Budget...

23/08/2014

IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM THE REGISTRAR



IIT Kharagpur recently hosted one person claiming to be Vijay Kumar, Director, Corporate Finance at Deutsche Bank and ex-Vice President of Microsoft, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur 2003 batch from E&ECE Department and IIM Ahmedabad (2005 batch). Mr. Kumar proposed to donate Rs. 1.56 crore towards some Institute initiatives which was announced by the Institute at the Foundation Day function on 18th August, 2014. Photographs of IIT Kharagpur officials with him taken during the period appear on the internet.

However, IIT Kharagpur has since received alarming information from various sources alleging/indicating that the credentials of this person appear to be questionable and false. Accordingly, IIT Kharagpur has filed an FIR with local police authorities to investigate into the identity and credentials of this person.

In view of the above, in the interest of general public, organisations and individuals, we urge all concerned not to be influenced by any projected details or any presentation on the association of this individual with IIT Kharagpur.

His LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/pub/vijay-kumar/14/b53/731

15/07/2014

Students from IIT Bombay have been in South Australia’s spectacular Flinders Ranges for an unusual assignment: simulating a human mission to Mars! The Mars Simulation Research Study, organised by the Australian space business Saber Astronautics, brings together future space scientists from Indian and Australian universities. The Study enjoys the support of the Australia India Council. It’s a great example of growing bilateral cooperation in civil space science and technology between Australia and India.

Students from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay) have been in South Australia’s spectacular Flinders Ranges for an unusual assignment- simulating a human mission to Mars! The Mars Simulation Research Study, organised by the Australian space business Saber Astronautics, brings together future space scientists from Indian and Australian universities. The Study enjoys the support of the Australia India Council. It’s a great example of growing bilateral cooperation in civil space science and technology between Australia and India.

28/06/2014

"For me, the IIT experience was one of the richest and most valuable I have had. It gave me the opportunity to interact with extremely smart people, sometimes a humbling experience. IITs prepare you to work cross-culturally and do diverse things. From my batchmates, one runs a hedge fund in New York, another is a successful trader on Wall Street and yet another a professor of computer science at MIT."

-- Sumant Sinha

A paean to India’s seedbed for first-rate engineers—and do-everythings