About
Institute :-
The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is one among the foremost
of institutes of national importance in higher technological education
and in 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. In 1961,
the IITs were declared to be institutions of national importance.
The IIT system has seven Institutes of Technology located 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).
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