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Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
Motto
(yoga karmasu kaualam)
(Sanskrit)
Motto in
English
Excellence in action is yoga.
Established 1951
Type Public
Chairman Srikumar Banerjee
Director
Partha Pratim Chakraborty
[1][2]
Academic staff 470
Admin. staff 2403
Undergraduates 4500
Postgraduates 2500
Location Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Campus 2,100 acres (8.5 km2)[3]
Website www.iitkgp.ac.in
(http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/)
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT
Kharagpur or IIT KGP) is a public engineering
institution established by the government of India in 1951.
The first of the IITs to be established, it is recognized as
an Institute of National Importance by the government of
India.
The institute was established to train scientists and
engineers after India attained independence in 1947. It
shares its organisational structure and undergraduate
admission process with sister IITs. The students and
alumni of IIT Kharagpur are informally referred to as
KGPians. Among all IITs, IIT Kharagpur has the largest
campus (2,100 acres),
[4]
the most departments, and the
highest student enrolment. IIT Kharagpur is known for its
festivals: Spring Fest (Social and Cultural Festival) and
Kshitij (Techno-Management Festival).
Contents
1 History
2 Administration
3 Motto
4 Campus
4.1 Academic buildings
4.2 Civic amenities
5 Academics
5.1 Undergraduate education
5.2 Postgraduate and doctoral education
5.3 Continuing education
5.4 Sponsored research
5.5 Academic Units
5.6 Rankings
6 Placements at IIT Kharagpur
7 Student life and culture
7.1 Halls of Residence
7.2 Festivals
7.3 Student organisations
7.3.1 Team KART (Kharagpur
Coordinat es: 221910.97N 871835.87E
The Hijli Detention Camp
(photographed in 1951) served as IIT
Kharagpur's first academic building
The main building of the institute
during construction (1955)
Automobile Racing Team)
7.3.2 Entrepreneurship Cell
7.3.3 The Scholars' Avenue
7.3.4 Space Technology Student
Society
8 Alumni
8.1 Notable alumni
8.2 Alumni initiatives
9 Further reading
10 References
11 External links
History
With the help of Bidhan Chandra Roy (chief minister of West Bengal),
Indian educationalists Humayun Kabir and Jogendra Singh formed a
committee in 1946 to consider the creation of higher technical
institutions "for post-war industrial development of India." This was
followed by the creation of a 22-member committee headed by Nalini
Ranjan Sarkar. In its interim report, the Sarkar Committee
recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in
India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
consulting from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign along
with affiliated secondary institutions. The report urged that work
should start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in the
four-quarters of the country with the ones in the east and the west to
be set up immediately.
[5]
On the grounds that West Bengal had the highest concentration of
industries at the time, Roy persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru (India's first
prime minister) to establish the first institute in West Bengal. The first
Indian Institute of Technology was thus established in May 1950 as the
Eastern Higher Technical Institute.
[6]
It was located in Esplanade East,
Calcutta, and in September 1950 shifted to its permanent campus at Hijli,
Kharagpur 120 kilometres south-west of Calcutta.It is the 3rd oldest
technical institute in the state after IIEST Shibpur (1856) and Jadavpur
University (established as Bengal technical institute in 1906) When the
first session started in August 1951, there were 224 students and 42
teachers in the ten departments of the institute. The classrooms,
laboratories and the administrative office were housed in the historic building of the Hijli Detention Camp (now
known as Shaheed Bhawan), where political revolutionaries were imprisoned during the British rule.
[7]
The
office building had served as the headquarters of the Bomber Command of the U.S. 20th Air Force during
World War II. To honour Bidhan Chandra Roy, the area in front of the main building is named Bidhan Chowk.
Organisational structure of the IITs
The name "Indian Institute of Technology" was adopted before the formal inauguration of the institute on 18
August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed the
Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act declaring it an Institute of National Importance. Prime
Minister Nehru, in the first convocation address of IIT Kharagpur in 1956, said:
[8]
Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing
India's urges, India's future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes
that are coming to India.
The Shaheed Bhawan was converted to a museum in 1990.

[9]
The Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex was
incorporated as another academic complex of the institute with Takshashila starting operation in 2002,
Vikramshila in 2003 and Nalanda in 2012.
Administration
IIT Kharagpur shares a common Visitor (a position held by the
President of India) and the IIT Council with other IITs. The rest of
IIT Kharagpur's organisational structure is distinct from that of the
other IITs. The Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur is under the
IIT Council, and has 13 members that include representatives of the
states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, in addition to
other members appointed by the IIT Council and the institute's senate.
Under the Board of Governors is the institute director, who serves as
the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. He is aided by the
deputy director.
[10]
Under the director and the deputy director are the
deans, heads of departments, registrar, president of the students'
council, and chairman of the hall management committee. The
registrar is the chief administrative officer and oversees day-to-day operations. He is the custodian of records,
funds, and other properties of the institute.
[10]
Under the charge of the heads of departments (HOD) are the
faculty (full-time professors as well as those of associate and assistant status). The wardens of hostels are placed
under the chairman of the hall management committee in the organisation.
[11]
IIT Kharagpur receives comparatively more funding than other engineering colleges in India.
[12]
While the total
government funding to most other engineering colleges is around Rs. 100200 million (US$ 24.5 million) per
year, IIT Kharagpur gets nearly Rs. 1,300 million ($ 30 million) per year.
[13]
Other sources of funds include
student fees and research funding by industry-sponsored projects. IIT Kharagpur subsidises undergraduate
student fees by approximately 80% and provide scholarships to all MTech students and research scholars to
encourage them to pursue higher studies. The cost borne by undergraduate students, including boarding and
mess expenses, is around Rs. 90,000 ($ 2,000) per annum. 35% of undergraduate students are given additional
financial support based on personal need and economic background, with their annual expenses being nearly
Rs. 45,000 ($ 1000).
[14]
The academic policies of IIT Kharagpur are decided by its senate.
[15]
It consists of all professors of the institute,
and administrative and student representatives. The senate controls and approves the curriculum, courses,
examinations and results, and appoints committees to look into specific academic matters. The teaching, training
and research activities of the institute are periodically reviewed by the senate to maintain educational standards.
The director of IIT Kharagpur is the ex officio chairman of the senate.
Institute Main Building, IIT
Kharagpur
IIT Kharagpur follows the credit-based system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of
courses based on their importance.
[16]
The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades, with a
grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. For each semester, the students are graded by taking a
weighted average from all the courses with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is done
independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance across
semesters. The medium of instruction is English.
Motto
The motto of IIT Kharagpur is "Yoga Karmashu Kaushalam" (
in Sanskrit). The motto

literally translates to "Excellence in action is Yoga" essentially implying that doing your work well is (true) yoga.
It is sourced to Sri Krishna's discourse to Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita. This quote in its larger context of Gita urges
man to acquire equanimity because such a soul endowed with the mind of equanimity allows him to shed the
effects of his good and evil deeds in this world itself. Equanimity is the source of perfection in Karmic endeavors
while leading to Salvation..
Campus
IIT Kharagpur is located 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Kolkata.
The campus is located five kilometres away from Kharagpur's railway
station. The layout of the present campus and the design of the
buildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects
under the guidance of Werner M. Moser, a Swiss architect.
[17]
The
8.5 square kilometres (2,100 acres) campus is residence to about
20,000 inhabitants.
[9]
In 2006, IIT Kharagpur had about 470 faculty
members, 1,933 employees and approximately 5,500 students living
on the campus.
[18]
The campus has a total of 55 kilometres (34 miles)
of roadways. The Institute plans to go Green by 2020.
[19]
The 21 student hostels are located on either side of Scholars Avenue,
which extends from the institute gate to the B. C. Roy Technology Hospital. The three earliest hallsPatel,
Azad, and Nehrutogether constitute the PAN loop or Old Campus, which is located just next to Scholar's
Avenue. There are ten hostels for undergraduate male students (MMM, LBS, RP, RK, MS, LLR, HJB, Patel,
Azad and Nehru) and two for undergraduate female students (SN/IG and MT). There are a few post-graduate
students' hostels including three for women(RLB, Gokhle and SAM) and hostels for research scholars (BCR,
VS and JCB) and a separate hostel for scholars from the armed forces.
[17]
The Jnan Ghosh stadium and Tata
Sports Complex host large-scale sports competitions. The Tagore Open Air Theatre has a capacity of 3,000
people, and is used to host cultural programs.
[17]
The Science and Technology Entrepreneurs' Park (STEP)
provides infrastructure facilities to alumni who want to become entrepreneurs but lack infrastructure to start their
own corporation.
[20]
In addition to the main campus at Kharagpur, the institute has an extension centre at Kolkata to provide venues
for continuing education programmes, distance learning courses, and guesthouse accommodation. The institute
plans to expand the Kolkata extension centre at Rajarhat, and use it to offer full-time undergraduate and
postgraduate courses from the 2008 session onwards.
[21]
The 10-acre (40,000 m
2
) Rajarhat campus will house
Takshashila complex
Vikramshila complex in IIT
Kharagpur
2,500 students, and will eventually expand to 250 acres (1.0 km
2
).
[22]
The institute's plan for a similar branch
campus of 200 acres (0.81 km
2
) in Bhubaneswar was scrapped following rejection by the Union Human
Resource and Development ministry.
[23]
Academic buildings
IIT Kharagpur has 19 academic departments, eight multi-disciplinary
centres/schools, and 13 schools of excellence in addition to
laboratories and central research facilities. Apart from the main
building in the central academic complex, the Srinivasa Ramanujan
Complex also has common academic facilities. In the S. R. Complex,
the Takshashila building houses the G. S. Sanyal School of
Telecommunication, the School of Information Technology and the
Computer and Informatics Centre; and has facilities for conducting
lecture classes as well. Vikramshila is another academic building in the
S. R. Complex, having four lecture halls, several seminar rooms, and
Kalidas Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 850.
[24]
The
School of Medical Science and Technology is housed in the basement
of the Vikramshila building.
The institute main building houses most of the administrative offices,
the lecture halls, and two auditoriums on either side. The signage at
the front displays the message," Dedicated to the service of the
nation." The tower of the main building has a steel tank with 10,000
imperial gallons of water capacity for emergency supply needs. The
Netaji Auditorium in the main building is used for official functions and
events, and doubles as a cinema theatre on weekend nights, showing
films to the IIT community at subsidised rates.
IIT Kharagpur's first library was located in a small room of the
institute's Old Building (Shaheed Bhawan). At the time of its opening
in 1951, the library had a collection of 2,500 books. Now located in the main building of the institute, the
Central Library is one of the largest of its type. Its collection includes over 350,000 books and documents, and
it subscribes to more than 1,600 printed and online journals and conference proceedings.
The library has six halls and a section exclusively for SC and ST students. The library's collection consists of
books, reports, conference proceedings, back volumes of periodicals, standards, theses, micro-forms, CD-
ROMs, floppies, and audio-visual material. The library's transaction service is automated and online searches
are possible through an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The Electronic Library section has a collection
of databases, video lectures and miscellaneous other resources.
The Nehru Museum of Science and Technology has over a hundred indoor exhibits that include technical
models collected from institutions across India. The park outside the museum contains 14 open-air
demonstrations and outdoor exhibits, including a hunter plane and a steam engine. The museum has an archive
room, showing documents relating to the history of the institute and West Midnapore district.
[25]
The Rural
Museum, located in the Rural Development Centre of the institute, has a collection of exhibits in local culture.
Civic amenities
The B.C. Roy Technology Hospital is
a civic hospital inside the IIT campus
Entrance gate
The institute campus has six guest houses, a civic hospital, four nationalised banks, four schools, a railway
reservation counter and a police station. The campus has a water
pumping station, electrical sub-station, telephone exchange, a market,
six restaurants, and a garbage disposal section for the daily needs of
the residents.
[9]
Construction is going on for another guest house and
a convention centre having a capacity of 2,000. The institute draws its
supply of water from wells near the Kosai river (located
112 kilometres away from institute) by harnessing sub-surface water.
Three deep wells near the institute supplement the supply from the
river. The water is supplied by a 16-inch (410 mm) pipeline to 12
tanks in the campus with a total capacity of 2,800,000 litres (615,000
imperial gallons). However students have recently shown
dissatisfaction with the current level of amenities, especially the civic
hospital, forcing the director to resign.
[26]
IIT Kharagpur is located just outside the town of Kharagpur, in the Hijli village. The civic amenities provided to
the campus of IIT Kharagpur make it nearly self-sufficient with regards to the basic needs of the residents. As
Kharagpur is a small town, there is limited direct interaction between the campus community and the town.
There is also little opportunity for the employment of family members of the faculty. Unlike some other IITs
(such as IIT Bombay), IIT Kharagpur does not restrict outsiders' entry into the campus.
[27]
IIT Kharagpur
provides much of its benefits to the local community through the Rural Development Centre (RDC) located in
the campus. Established in 1975, the RDC helps the local community by developing customised
technologies.
[28]
The RDC also co-ordinates the National Service Scheme (NSS) programs in IIT Kharagpur,
with the members of NSS taking part in weekly community service activities such as sanitation, road
construction, teaching and building educational models.
In 2005, IIT Kharagpur started construction of a boundary wall for the security of the campus, which is now
complete. Mild restrictions apply to entry of outside vehicles. The boundary wall was opposed by the local
community as it would hinder their access to amenities provided by the institute. Campus residents have also
been denied direct access to the adjoining Hijli railway station as a result of this wall. The local community also
opposes the construction of a flyover from the railway station to the campus, as it would lead to substantial
losses of opportunity for the shops along the roads.
[29]
The construction of the 1052.69 m long flyover has been
approved by the Indian Railways and West Bengal state government. It will be formally called Hijli Road
overbridge, and will be constructed for estimated cost of Rs. 237 million ($ 5.3 million).
[30]
Academics
Admission to most undergraduate and postgraduate courses in IIT
Kharagpur is granted through written entrance examinations.
Admissions to M.S.(by Research) and PhD programmes are based
on written tests followed by personal interviews.
Admission to undergraduate programmes in all IITs is tied to the
Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).
Candidates who qualify for admission through IIT-JEE can apply for
admission in four-year BTech (Bachelor of Technology), five-year
BArch degree, five-year Dual Degree (Integrated Bachelor of
Technology and Master of Technology) and five-year integrated
MSc (Master of Sciences) courses at IIT Kharagpur. The
A lecture auditorium in the
Vikramshila complex
admissions to postgraduate programmes (MTech) are made primarily through the Graduate Aptitude Test in
Engineering (GATE). Other postgraduate entrance exams include Joint Admission to MSc (JAM) for MSc, and
Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by IIMs for management studies.
15% of the seats are reserved for students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes
(ST).
[31]
As of 2008, 27% separate reservation exists for the Other Backward Classes.
IIT Kharagpur is a member of LAOTSE, a network of universities in Europe and Asia exchanging students and
senior scholars.
Undergraduate education
IIT Kharagpur offers degrees as part of its undergraduate
programmes. They include Bachelor of Technology (BTech.Hons),
Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and the 5-year integrated Master of
Science. The BTech degree is the most common undergraduate
degree in IIT Kharagpur in terms of student enrolment. It is based on
a four-year programme with eight semesters. The first year of the
BTech curriculum has common courses from various departments. At
the end of the first year, an option to change departments is given to
students on the basis of their performance in the first two
semesters.
[16]
Unlike other IITs which evaluate their students on the
basis of others' performance which does not foster shared learning
and communication,IIT- Kharagpur uses absolute scores.
[32]
From the second year onwards, the students take courses offered by their departments that are known as depth
courses. In addition to these, the students takef inter-disciplinary courses known as breadth courses. Separate
courses from the humanities and social sciences (HSS) department, and management and information
technology are also required. At the end of the third year, the BTech and dual degree students undertake
industrial training for a minimum period of eight working weeks as part of the undergraduate curriculum.
[33]
In
the final year of their studies, most of the students are offered jobs in industries and other organisations through
the Training and Placement section of the institute.
[34]
Some students opt out of this facility in favour of higher
studies or by applying to recruiting organisations directly. In addition to the major degree as part of the
undergraduate education, students can take courses from other departments, and by demonstrating knowledge
of a discipline based on objectives set by the department, earn a minor in that department.
Postgraduate and doctoral education
IIT Kharagpur offers postgraduate programmes including Master of Technology (MTech), Master of Business
Administration (MBA), and Master of Sciences (MSc). Some specialised post graduate programmes offered by
IIT Kharagpur include Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM), Postgraduate Diploma in
Information Technology (PGDIT), Master in Medical Science and Technology (MMST), Master of City
Planning (MCP), LL.B in Intellectual Property Law (LL.B Honors in IP Law), and Postgraduate Diploma in
Maritime Operation znd Management (PGDMOM). The institute offers the Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD)
as part of its doctoral education programme. The doctoral scholars are given a topic by the professor, or work
on the consultancy projects sponsored by industry. The duration of the programme is usually unspecified and
depends on the discipline. PhD scholars submit a dissertation as well as conduct an oral defence of their thesis.
Teaching assistantships (TA) and research assistantships (RA) are provided based on the scholar's academic
profile. IIT Kharagpur offers an M.S. (by research) programme; the MTech and M.S. being similar to the US
universities' non-thesis (course-based) and thesis (research-based) master programmes respectively.
Kalpana Chawla Space Technology
Cell
IIT Kharagpur (along with other IITs) offers Dual Degree programs that integrate undergraduate and
postgraduate studies in selected pairs of branches and specialisations. Most of the Dual Degree programs
involve specialisation in the major field of education of the student. For a dual degree involving an MBA from
Vinod Gupta School of Management, the selection is made on the basis of an aptitude test of students across all
engineering streams. The Dual Degree program spans five years as against six years in conventional BTech (four
years) followed by an MTech or MBA (two years).
[35]
IIT Kharagpur has a management school (Vinod Gupta School of Management), an entrepreneurship school
(Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship) and a law school (Rajiv Gandhi School of
Intellectual Property Law) on its premises. The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law has been
opened in collaboration with George Washington University.
[36]
The School of Medical Science and
Technology in IIT kharagpur is the first and also the "only" of its kind in the country where M.B.B.S. graduates
are trained in art and science of medical research with aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary teaching
and research in the field of medical science and technology. IIT Kharagpur will invest around Rs 2.30 billion for
its 400 bed super specialty hospital in the campus which will impart undergraduate medical course to
students.The institute is expected to start the course in 2016 which will be recognised by Medical Council of
India (MCI).
[37]
Continuing education
The institute offers the Continuing Education Programme (CEP) for qualified engineers and scientists to learn
technologies and developments in their academic disciplines. As part of CEP, the institute offers formal degree
programmes (MTech and PhD) and an Early Faculty Induction Programme (EFIP)
[38]
under the Quality
Improvement Programme (QIP), short-term courses supported by the All India Council for Technical
Education, self-financed short-term courses supported by course fees, and certificate courses conducted as
distance education. In addition to conducting educational courses, the CEP develops model curricula for
engineering education. As of 2006, the CEP has facilitated publication of 103 course curriculum books. The
CEP administers SIMAP (Small Industries Management Assistant Programme) and STUP (Skill-cum-
Technology Upgradation Programme) on behalf of IIT Kharagpur; the institute being a corpus institute of SIDBI
(Small Industries Development Bank of India).
[39]
Sponsored research
The institute received 171 research revenue worth Rs. 417 million
($ 9.25 million)and 130 consultancy projects in the 200506
session. The institute transferred 15 technologies to industry during the
same session. The institute has filed 125 patents and 25 of them have
been granted. This does not include patents obtained by individual
professors or students. During the same session, the value of the
international projects was Rs. 9.9 million ($ 220,000), and the
revenue from transferred technologies was about Rs. 2.5 million
($ 55,000). The institute earned Rs. 520 million ($ 11.5 million) from
research projects in the 200506 session.
[22]
Major sponsors for
research include the Indian National Science Academy, Ministry of
Human Resource and Development, Defence Research and
Development Organisation, Microsoft Corporation, Department of
Science and Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India) and Indian Space
Research Organisation.
[40]
IIT Kharagpur has had a cell known as the SRIC (Sponsored Research and
Industrial Consultancy) cell since 1982. It handles sponsored research projects and industrial consultancy
assignments, and has the infrastructure to simultaneously administer 600 R&D projects.
[41]
Academic Units
Departments
Aerospace Engineering
Agricultural & Food Engineering
Architecture & Regional Planning
Biotechnology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Center for Educational Technology
Electrical Engineering
Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering
Geology & Geophysics
Humanities & Social Sciences
Industrial Engineering & Management
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Mining Engineering
Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
Physics & Meteorology Centres
Cryogenic Engineering
Materials Science
Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences
Reliability Engineering
Rubber Technology
Rural Development Schools
G S Sanyal School of Telecommunications
Information Technology
Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship
Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management
Medical Science & Technology
University and college rankings
General International
QS (World)
[42] 346
QS (Asian)
[43] 58
Times
[44] 351-400
Engineering India
India Today
[45] 3
Outlook India
[46] 1
Dataquest
[47] 4
Government colleges:
Mint
[48] 4
School of Water Resources
Vinod Gupta School of Management
Rankings
Internationally, IIT Kharagpur is ranked 346 in the QS
World University Rankings(Quacquarelli Symonds) of
2013
[42]
and 58 in the QS Asian University Rankings of
2013.
[49][50][51][52][43]
IIT Kharagapur is ranked in the
351-400 range by the Times Higher Education World
University Rankings of 2013-14.
[53][54][55]
Recently, it
was declared the top educational hub in India as per the
Times Higher Education, Asia Rankings. It was ranked
439 in the University Ranking by Academic Performance
(URAP).
[56]
In India, among engineering colleges, it
ranked 3 by India Today in 2013,
[57][58][45]
2 by
Outlook India in 2013
[59][46]
and 4 by Dataquest in
2011.
[47]
In the Mint Government Colleges survey of
2009 it ranked 4.
[48]
IIT, Kharagpur, has emerged as the
top engineering college in EDU-RAND ranking 2014
followed by IITs in Delhi and Kanpur.
Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/38814661.cms?
intenttarget=no&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
Placements at IIT Kharagpur
The international placements began in 2006.
[60]
Two foreign companies, oil giants Schlumberger and Royal
Dutch Shell, visited IIT Kharagpur that year and offered annual salaries to the tune of $80,000.
[61]
The reason
for late international placements was that earlier the IIT Kharagpur was fully dedicated to the service of the
nation, as its motto says, but after the fee hike, it had to abandon its policy.
[62]
According to IT magazine
Dataquest's annual survey, IIT Kharagpur is the second best technology college in terms of placement in
India.
[63][64][64]
The top domestic compensation in 2008 came in at Rs 1.8 million per annum.
[65]
In 2011 batch, Goldman
Sachs recruited 10 students on a package of 2.6 million (US$43,000) per annum.
[66]
Barclays Capital recruited 11 students with a package of 2 million (US$33,000) per annum in December
2009. The highest salary offered till now is 17 million (US$280,000) per annum by social networking site
Facebook in an off-shore recruitment (of which Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) were offered valued
at Rs 10 million) in December 2010.
[67][68][69]
The 2010 batch of BTech students saw 94% placements while
the remaining preferred IIMs or entrepreneurship.Deutsche Bank recruited 9 students on a package of
1.5 million (US$25,000) per annum.
[70]
For 2012 batch, Facebook has made the highest offer US$150,000
to four students.
[71][72][73][74][75]
For 2013 batch, Three students have bagged salaries of 8 million
Madan Mohan Malviya Hall is one of
18 student halls
(US$130,000) a year while eight others have got offers of 7.5 million (US$120,000) from Google, Facebook
and Microsoft.
[76]
For 2014 batch, the highest package, offered to a student stands at around 9 million
(US$150,000) from Google.
[77]
Student life and culture
Halls of Residence
IIT Kharagpur provides on-campus residential facilities to its students,
research scholars, faculty members and many of its staff.
[78]
The
students live in hostels (referred to as halls) throughout their stay in
the IIT.
[79]
Hostel rooms are wired for internet, for which students
pay a compulsory charge. Most of the rooms in the older halls of
residences are designed to accommodate one student, but due to
scarcity of sufficient student accommodation, two students share the
single seater room in first two years. The new rooms of Lal Bahadur
Shastri hall & new blocks of few other hall of residence
accommodate three students in one room.
The halls of IIT Kharagpur are:
Ashutosh Mukherjee Hall
Azad Hall
Bidhan Chandra Roy Hall
Gokhale Hall
Homi Bhabha Hall
J C Bose Hall
Lala Lajpat Rai Hall
Lalbahadur Sastry Hall
Madan Mohan Malviya Hall
Megnad Saha Hall
Mother Teresa Hall
Nehru Hall
Patel Hall
Radha Krishnan Hall
Rajendra Prasad Hall
Rani Laxmibai Hall
Sarojini Naidu / Indira Gandhi Hall
Vidyasagar Hall
Zakir Hussain Hall
Undergraduate students choose between National Cadet Corps (NCC), National Service Scheme (NSS) and
National Sports Organisation (NSO) for their first two years of study.
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IIT Kharagpur has common sports
grounds for cricket, football, hockey, volleyball, lawn tennis, badminton, and athletics; and swimming pools for
A common room in a hostel during a
cricket match telecast
Bands performing at Spring Fest
2012, IIT Kharagpur.
aquatic events. Most of the hostels have their own sports grounds. The institute organises Shaurya, an annual
inter-collegiate sports and games meet in October
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The students of IIT Kharagpur compete among themselves in various events held under the purview of open-IIT
and inter-hall events, and the results of the latter contribute to the points that determine the winner of General
Championship. The four categories in which General Championships are decided are Sports, Social and
cultural activities, Technology, and Hall affairs. The women's hostel together participate as a single team in all
events with the exception of sports, where women's team do not participate at inter-hall level. IIT Kharagpur
participates in the Inter-IIT Sports Meet, held annually in one of the IITs by policy of rotation.
[82]
The students choose their representatives by elections held under the
control of the Technology Students' Gymkhana. The highest-ranking
student representative chosen by the elections is the Vice-President of
the Gymkhana, and represents the students in the senate. All halls
nominate two representatives for the senate. The Gymkhana publishes
an annual magazine called Alankar. A fortnightly newsletter called
The Scholar's Avenue, named after the avenue common to the student
halls, is also published by an independent student body. A Hindi
monthly newsletter Awaaz is also published by another independent
student body.
[83]
Individual halls organise "Hall day" an annual
event that involves lighting and decoration of the organising hall, with a
social gathering of students from all hallsduring March. The event is
also used by the halls to popularise their candidates for student body
elections.
Students who violate the code of conduct of the institute have to defend themselves in front of the Hall
Disciplinary Committee (HDC), which investigates the case and prescribes punishment if necessary. Students
may appeal against the punishment to the Appellate-cum-Liaison Committee known as Inter Hall Disciplinary
Committee (IHDC). The IHDC submits its recommendations to the Senate, which finalises the punishment.
Extreme cases of indiscipline are referred directly to the IHDC. The IHDC is empowered to give punishments
to students for acts of indiscretion committed anywhere in India.
[84]
IIT Kharagpur has strict provisions dealing
with physical and mental harassment of junior students (ragging). Students found harassing their juniors are
suspended from the institute, without going through the Disciplinary Committee.
[85]
Festivals
IIT Kharagpur has festivals like Spring Fest, Kshitij. Spring Fest, the
annual socio-cultural fest of IIT Kharagpur is the largest student
managed socio-cultural fest of Asia. It is held in January. Spring Fest
includes cultural competitions in addition to stage shows (known as
Star-nights) by singers and performers such as Sunidhi Chauhan,
Vishal-Shekhar, K.K., Pritam, Kailash Kher, Shaan, Breathe
(http://www.thefloydsound.com), Led Zepplica (http://led-
zepplica.com), Parikrama, Indian Ocean etc. The magnitude of Spring
Fest is huge and attracts participation from more than 150 colleges
across India.
[9]
IIT Kharagpur organises a techno-management
festival known as Kshitij. It is the biggest techno-management festival
of Asia with a total budget of more than 15 million and a total prize money of Rs 5 million. An annual techno-
management festival organised in January or February, it receives participation from foreign universities as well.
Events include technical workshops, seminars, and competitions.
Multiple panels with illuminated lamps
on display
Robotix, the annual robotics competition held by IIT Kharagpur, is organised during Kshitij. IIT Kharagpur
organises an annual inter-collegiate sports and games meet known as Shaurya. It is held in the autumn semester
in October. Events include cricket, hockey, volleyball, basketball, badminton, table tennis, lawn tennis and
aquatics. Workshops for archery, boxing and handball are held.
Illumination, known as Illu, is a festival unique to IIT Kharagpur. It is
inspired from the day of Diwali (the festival of lights) and is usually
held on the day of Diwali itself. It is held as a competition among
student halls.
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As part of the Illumination festival, all halls build
vertical panels of bamboo (called Chatais) on which thousands of
lamps (diyas) are mounted forming outlines of people or things;
illustrating an event, or a place of importance. The chatais may reach
a height of 6 metres (20 ft), with nearly 20,000 lighted lamps. The
lamps on the chatais are lighted with all other light sources switched off, to showcase the art-panels made by the
flickering lamps. On the same day as Illumination, the Rangoli Competition is organised as an inter-hall event.
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Rangolis of exquisite detail and shadingmeasuring around 3.5 by 3.5 metres (11 by 11 ft) are constructed
using coloured powders, crushed bangles, and pebbles. Interplay of light and shadow and ambient music are
part of the display.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering organises Bitwise IIT Kharagpur, an online programing
contest annually in February. Programing and algorithmic challenges are given in a span of 12 hours. In Bitwise
2011, 5000 teams participated from 80 countries. Bitwise 2012 was held on 12 February 2012.
In January the Entrepreneurship Cell organises a Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which consists of guest
lectures, workshops, a start-up camp and other events relating to entrepreneurship and starting-up.
In August 2011, Space Technology Students' Society at IIT Kharagpur organized the National Students' Space
Challenge, the first space-science and engineering series of national-level competitions for students in India.
The Department of Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture conducts its annual technical meet
Samudramanthan in the month of March every year providing a platform for all the Naval Architects across the
country to compete and share their knowledge in the field.
There are also other department festivals like Esperanza (organised by department of Electronics and electrical
communication engineering) Prithvi
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(organised by department of geology)
Student organisations
Team KART (Kharagpur Automobile Racing Team)
Kharagpur Automobile Racing Team, better known as "Team KART" is a group of students who like to explore
the practical side of automotive engineering.The team designs and builds formula student prototype race-cars
and represents IIT Kharagpur at Formula Student UK.
[87]
It was founded in 2008 and has made three cars
sincethe KX-1, the K-1 & the K-2. Construction of the K-3 is ongoing. The latest car, K-2, secured a rank
of 67th out of 120 teams worldwide at Formula Student UK 2013.
Entrepreneurship Cell
Entrepreneurship Cell (E-Cell)
[88]
is a student's organisation, functioning under STEP (Science and Technology
Entrepreneurs' Park), from within the Institute, with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship among students
throughout India.
[89]
It provides mentoring and support to start-up companies and helps them with financing,
through Venture Capitalists and incubation, through STEP and SRIC, IIT Kharagpur.
It conducts two major events, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit(GES), which is a three-day event, held in
January at the institute, and the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD), a 20-day event, consisting of guest
lectures in 20 cities across India. Knowledge Camp is conducted annually for the benefit of students within IIT-
Kgp, while the Innovation Platform and Fund-a-KGPian programs continue throughout the year, to recognise
and support innovative ideas among students of IIT-Kgp, besides workshops and guest lectures throughout the
year.
Professors Sunil Handa, Padma Shri Anil K. Gupta, Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Vinod Dham, Arjun Malhotra, and
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw are some of the speakers who have delivered lectures within and outside IIT -Kgp.
E-Cell has been instrumental in the establishment of Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship.
The E-Cell has played a key role in the Deferred Placement Programme (DPP), whereby, a student can opt for
placement a year after the completion of his/her course, in case they are involved in a start-up company. This is
the first time such a programme is being offered at the undergraduate level in India.
The Scholars' Avenue
The Scholars' Avenue is the independent student-run campus newspaper of the Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur. Now in its tenth year, copies of The Scholars Avenue are delivered to over 7000 students on
campus and soft copies are mailed to all the faculty and over 10,000 odd alumni. The team is drawn entirely
from among the students of the institute, and its mission is to report and analyze events that affect the campus,
and to be the voice of the IIT Kharagpur student community. The Scholars' Avenue is a non-profit organization
supported by sponsorships (and donations); independent of the administration of IIT Kharagpur.
Space Technology Student Society
Space Technology Student Society(spAts) is a student initiative that functions as the student body of Kalpana
Chawla Space Technology Cell(KCSTC),the contact point of Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) at
IIT Kharagpur.It hosts an annual Space-festival "National Students' Space Challenge".
[90]
spAts has been
constantly instrumental in organizing space-themed talks, sky gazing sessions, lectures and presentations within
IIT Kharagpur. The group publishes a bi- semester newsletter, 'The Moonwalk', on latest ventures in space
technology and various astronomy related articles.
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Alumni
Alumni-institute interaction is maintained through the Alumni Network under the aegis of the Dean of Alumni
Affairs and International Relations, his office staff and student representatives. It also helps in conducting the
annual alumni meets.
Notable alumni
Alumni initiatives
The Vinod Gupta School of
Management was built from alumni
funding
The Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) and Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law
were established with donated funds from Vinod Gupta (founder,
Infogroup) along with support from the government of India.
VGSOM started in 1993 with a batch of 30 students. Other centers
built by funding from alumni include the G.S. Sanyal School of
Telecommunication and VLSI-CAD laboratory. The IIT Foundation,
started by Vinod Gupta in 1992, is the alumni association of the
institute with chapters in cities in India and abroad. Subrata Gupta is
the Director of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation.
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The alumni association publishes the quarterly newsletter KGPian for
the alumni.
[93]
The institute also publishes a monthly e-newsletter titled
KGP Konnexion for alumni.
[94]
IIT Kharagpur has a dean for alumni
affairs to manage liaisons with alumni. The US-based alumni of IIT
Kharagpur have started the Vision 2020 fundraiser, to provide
infrastructure (like labs and equipment) and attract and retain faculty and students. The objective of Vision 2020
is to raise a US$200 million endowment fund by the year 2020 for technology education, research and
innovation related growth of the institute.
[95]
On 20 April 2013 ex-graduates from IIT Kharagpur formed a
group Kharagpur-in-Mumbai group and held a meeting in Bandra,Mumbai to chalk out "the easiest and
pragmatic ways' on how they can given back to society.
[96]
Further reading
Alok Kothari, Yuvnesh Modi,Rahul Kumar (2012). The Game Changers. India: Random Business /
Random House India. ISBN 978-8184002737.
Deb, Sandipan (2004). The IITians. India: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-670-04986-7.
"IIT Kharagpur Placement Portal" (http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/tnp/). Retrieved 7 October 2013.
"IIT Kharagpur Alumni Meet Portal" (http://alumnimeet.iitkgp.ernet.in/). Retrieved 7 October 2013.
IIT Kharagpur (https://twitter.com/IITKgp) on Twitter
Introduction to IIT Kharagpur(2008) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2qKAqH7X0)
(Documentary). India: TSG.
Stupendous placements at IIT Kharagpur(2008) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsbdY7PGshg)
(Documentary). India: CNBC news channel.
Chattopadhyay, Suhrid Sankar (13 September 2002). "Enabling industrial progress"
(http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1918/19180890.htm). Volume 19 Issue 18 (Frontline). Retrieved
6 May 2014.
Chattopadhyay, Suhrid Sankar (30 August 2002). "A committed player"
(http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1918/19180900.htm). Volume 19 Issue 18 (Frontline). Retrieved
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