Date of Estb.: 1951

IIT Kharagpur

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Agricultural & Food Engineering
Architecture & Regional Planning
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Chemistry
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B TECH / M TECH or MBA)  
M TECH - Master of Technology
MCP - Master of City Planning  
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MMST - Master of Medical Science & Technology (MMST)  
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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.