Indian Institute of Technology - Jodhpur (IIT Jodhpur)

Overview

Way back to 1946, an idea grew in visionary leadres of the country, of creating of Higher Technical Institutes for post-war industrial development in India. A committee, headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, recommended the establishment of these institutes in various parts of India. The first Indian Institute of Technology was founded in May 1950 at Kharagpur. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, in his Address at the first convocation of IIT Kharagpur in 1956, clarified that these institutes of technology will help meet the technological challenges of the Nation. On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed an act known as the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act, 1956 declaring IIT Kharagpur as an Institute of national importance. Also, IIT Kharagpur was given the status of an autonomous University. Next four IITs were established during 1959-1960 at Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur and Madras. IIT Guwahati started in 1992, and the then University of Roorkee was given the status of an IIT (and now called IIT Roorkee) in 2001.