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Indian Institute of TechnologyKharagpur

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 KharagpurFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKharagpur or IIT KGP) is a public engineeringinstitution established by the government of India in 1951.The first of the IITs to be established, it is recognized asan Institute of National Importance by the government ofIndia.

The institute was established to train scientists andengineers after India attained independence in 1947. Itshares its organisational structure and undergraduateadmission process with sister IITs. The students andalumni of IIT Kharagpur are informally referred to asKGPians. Among all IITs, IIT Kharagpur has the largest

campus (2,100 acres),[4] the most departments, and thehighest student enrolment. IIT Kharagpur is known for itsfestivals: Spring Fest (Social and Cultural Festival) andKshitij (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

Coordinates: 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 acommittee in 1946 to consider the creation of higher technicalinstitutions "for post-war industrial development of India." This wasfollowed by the creation of a 22-member committee headed by NaliniRanjan Sarkar. In its interim report, the Sarkar Committeerecommended the establishment of higher technical institutions inIndia, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology andconsulting from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign alongwith affiliated secondary institutions. The report urged that workshould start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in thefour-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 ofindustries at the time, Roy persuaded Jawaharlal Nehru (India's firstprime minister) to establish the first institute in West Bengal. The firstIndian 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 oldesttechnical institute in the state after IIEST Shibpur (1856) and JadavpurUniversity (established as Bengal technical institute in 1906) When thefirst session started in August 1951, there were 224 students and 42teachers 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] Theoffice building had served as the headquarters of the Bomber Command of the U.S. 20th Air Force duringWorld 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 18August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. On 15 September 1956, the Parliament of India passed theIndian 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 changesthat are coming to India.

The Shaheed Bhawan was converted to a museum in 1990.[9] The Srinivasa Ramanujan Complex wasincorporated 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 thePresident of India) and the IIT Council with other IITs. The rest ofIIT Kharagpur's organisational structure is distinct from that of theother IITs. The Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur is under theIIT Council, and has 13 members that include representatives of thestates of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, in addition toother members appointed by the IIT Council and the institute's senate.Under the Board of Governors is the institute director, who serves asthe chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. He is aided by the

deputy director.[10] Under the director and the deputy director are thedeans, heads of departments, registrar, president of the students'council, and chairman of the hall management committee. Theregistrar 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 thefaculty (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 totalgovernment 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 includestudent fees and research funding by industry-sponsored projects. IIT Kharagpur subsidises undergraduatestudent fees by approximately 80% and provide scholarships to all MTech students and research scholars toencourage them to pursue higher studies. The cost borne by undergraduate students, including boarding andmess expenses, is around Rs. 90,000 ($ 2,000) per annum. 35% of undergraduate students are given additionalfinancial 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, trainingand 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 agrade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. For each semester, the students are graded by taking aweighted average from all the courses with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is doneindependently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the average performance acrosssemesters. The medium of instruction is English.

Motto

The motto of IIT Kharagpur is "Yoga Karmashu Kaushalam" ( in Sanskrit). The mottoliterally 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 urgesman to acquire equanimity because such a soul endowed with the mind of equanimity allows him to shed theeffects of his good and evil deeds in this world itself. Equanimity is the source of perfection in Karmic endeavorswhile 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 railwaystation. The layout of the present campus and the design of thebuildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects

under the guidance of Werner M. Moser, a Swiss architect.[17] The8.5 square kilometres (2,100 acres) campus is residence to about

20,000 inhabitants.[9] In 2006, IIT Kharagpur had about 470 facultymembers, 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'sAvenue. 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-graduatestudents' 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 TataSports 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 venuesfor continuing education programmes, distance learning courses, and guesthouse accommodation. The instituteplans 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 m2) Rajarhat campus will house



Takshashila complex

Vikramshila complex in IIT

Kharagpur

2,500 students, and will eventually expand to 250 acres (1.0 km2).[22] The institute's plan for a similar branch

campus of 200 acres (0.81 km2) 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-disciplinarycentres/schools, and 13 schools of excellence in addition tolaboratories and central research facilities. Apart from the mainbuilding in the central academic complex, the Srinivasa RamanujanComplex also has common academic facilities. In the S. R. Complex,the Takshashila building houses the G. S. Sanyal School ofTelecommunication, the School of Information Technology and theComputer and Informatics Centre; and has facilities for conductinglecture classes as well. Vikramshila is another academic building in theS. R. Complex, having four lecture halls, several seminar rooms, and

Kalidas Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 850.[24] TheSchool of Medical Science and Technology is housed in the basementof the Vikramshila building.

The institute main building houses most of the administrative offices,the lecture halls, and two auditoriums on either side. The signage atthe front displays the message," Dedicated to the service of thenation." The tower of the main building has a steel tank with 10,000imperial gallons of water capacity for emergency supply needs. TheNetaji Auditorium in the main building is used for official functions andevents, and doubles as a cinema theatre on weekend nights, showingfilms to the IIT community at subsidised rates.

IIT Kharagpur's first library was located in a small room of theinstitute's Old Building (Shaheed Bhawan). At the time of its openingin 1951, the library had a collection of 2,500 books. Now located in the main building of the institute, theCentral Library is one of the largest of its type. Its collection includes over 350,000 books and documents, andit 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 ofbooks, 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 searchesare possible through an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The Electronic Library section has a collectionof databases, video lectures and miscellaneous other resources.

The Nehru Museum of Science and Technology has over a hundred indoor exhibits that include technicalmodels collected from institutions across India. The park outside the museum contains 14 open-airdemonstrations 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 RuralMuseum, 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 railwayreservation counter and a police station. The campus has a waterpumping 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 anda convention centre having a capacity of 2,000. The institute draws itssupply of water from wells near the Kosai river (located112 kilometres away from institute) by harnessing sub-surface water.Three deep wells near the institute supplement the supply from theriver. The water is supplied by a 16-inch (410 mm) pipeline to 12tanks in the campus with a total capacity of 2,800,000 litres (615,000imperial gallons). However students have recently showndissatisfaction 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 tothe campus of IIT Kharagpur make it nearly self-sufficient with regards to the basic needs of the residents. AsKharagpur 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 Kharagpurprovides much of its benefits to the local community through the Rural Development Centre (RDC) located inthe 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, roadconstruction, teaching and building educational models.

In 2005, IIT Kharagpur started construction of a boundary wall for the security of the campus, which is nowcomplete. Mild restrictions apply to entry of outside vehicles. The boundary wall was opposed by the localcommunity as it would hinder their access to amenities provided by the institute. Campus residents have alsobeen denied direct access to the adjoining Hijli railway station as a result of this wall. The local community alsoopposes 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 beenapproved 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 IITKharagpur is granted through written entrance examinations.Admissions to M.S.(by Research) and PhD programmes are basedon written tests followed by personal interviews.

Admission to undergraduate programmes in all IITs is tied to theIndian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).Candidates who qualify for admission through IIT-JEE can apply foradmission in four-year BTech (Bachelor of Technology), five-yearBArch degree, five-year Dual Degree (Integrated Bachelor ofTechnology and Master of Technology) and five-year integratedMSc (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 inEngineering (GATE). Other postgraduate entrance exams include Joint Admission to MSc (JAM) for MSc, andCommon 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 andsenior scholars.

Undergraduate education

IIT Kharagpur offers degrees as part of its undergraduateprogrammes. They include Bachelor of Technology (BTech.Hons),Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and the 5-year integrated Master ofScience. The BTech degree is the most common undergraduatedegree in IIT Kharagpur in terms of student enrolment. It is based ona four-year programme with eight semesters. The first year of theBTech curriculum has common courses from various departments. Atthe end of the first year, an option to change departments is given tostudents on the basis of their performance in the first two

semesters.[16] Unlike other IITs which evaluate their students on thebasis 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 depthcourses. In addition to these, the students takef inter-disciplinary courses known as breadth courses. Separatecourses from the humanities and social sciences (HSS) department, and management and informationtechnology 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] Inthe 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 higherstudies or by applying to recruiting organisations directly. In addition to the major degree as part of theundergraduate education, students can take courses from other departments, and by demonstrating knowledgeof 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 BusinessAdministration (MBA), and Master of Sciences (MSc). Some specialised post graduate programmes offered byIIT Kharagpur include Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM), Postgraduate Diploma inInformation Technology (PGDIT), Master in Medical Science and Technology (MMST), Master of CityPlanning (MCP), LL.B in Intellectual Property Law (LL.B Honors in IP Law), and Postgraduate Diploma inMaritime 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 workon the consultancy projects sponsored by industry. The duration of the programme is usually unspecified anddepends 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 academicprofile. IIT Kharagpur offers an M.S. (by research) programme; the MTech and M.S. being similar to the USuniversities' 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 andpostgraduate studies in selected pairs of branches and specialisations. Most of the Dual Degree programsinvolve specialisation in the major field of education of the student. For a dual degree involving an MBA fromVinod Gupta School of Management, the selection is made on the basis of an aptitude test of students across allengineering 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 ofIntellectual 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 andTechnology in IIT kharagpur is the first and also the "only" of its kind in the country where M.B.B.S. graduatesare trained in art and science of medical research with aim to provide a platform for interdisciplinary teachingand research in the field of medical science and technology. IIT Kharagpur will invest around Rs 2.30 billion forits 400 bed super specialty hospital in the campus which will impart undergraduate medical course tostudents.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 learntechnologies 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 QualityImprovement Programme (QIP), short-term courses supported by the All India Council for TechnicalEducation, self-financed short-term courses supported by course fees, and certificate courses conducted asdistance education. In addition to conducting educational courses, the CEP develops model curricula forengineering education. As of 2006, the CEP has facilitated publication of 103 course curriculum books. TheCEP 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 200506session. The institute transferred 15 technologies to industry during thesame session. The institute has filed 125 patents and 25 of them havebeen granted. This does not include patents obtained by individualprofessors or students. During the same session, the value of theinternational projects was Rs. 9.9 million ($ 220,000), and therevenue 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 forresearch include the Indian National Science Academy, Ministry ofHuman Resource and Development, Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation, Microsoft Corporation, Department ofScience 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 andIndustrial 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 QSWorld 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 the351-400 range by the Times Higher Education World

University Rankings of 2013-14.[53][54][55] Recently, itwas declared the top educational hub in India as per theTimes Higher Education, Asia Rankings. It was ranked439 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 thetop engineering college in EDU-RAND ranking 2014followed by IITs in Delhi and Kanpur.

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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 reasonfor 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 magazineDataquest'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 December2009. The highest salary offered till now is 17 million (US$280,000) per annum by social networking siteFacebook 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 whilethe 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] Thestudents live in hostels (referred to as halls) throughout their stay in

the IIT.[79] Hostel rooms are wired for internet, for which studentspay a compulsory charge. Most of the rooms in the older halls ofresidences are designed to accommodate one student, but due toscarcity of sufficient student accommodation, two students share thesingle seater room in first two years. The new rooms of Lal BahadurShastri hall & new blocks of few other hall of residenceaccommodate 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.[80] IIT Kharagpur has common sportsgrounds 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[81]

The students of IIT Kharagpur compete among themselves in various events held under the purview of open-IITand inter-hall events, and the results of the latter contribute to the points that determine the winner of GeneralChampionship. The four categories in which General Championships are decided are Sports, Social andcultural activities, Technology, and Hall affairs. The women's hostel together participate as a single team in allevents 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 thecontrol of the Technology Students' Gymkhana. The highest-rankingstudent representative chosen by the elections is the Vice-President ofthe Gymkhana, and represents the students in the senate. All hallsnominate two representatives for the senate. The Gymkhana publishesan annual magazine called Alankar. A fortnightly newsletter calledThe Scholar's Avenue, named after the avenue common to the studenthalls, is also published by an independent student body. A Hindimonthly newsletter Awaaz is also published by another independent

student body.[83] Individual halls organise "Hall day" an annualevent that involves lighting and decoration of the organising hall, with asocial gathering of students from all hallsduring March. The event isalso 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 HallDisciplinary Committee (HDC), which investigates the case and prescribes punishment if necessary. Studentsmay appeal against the punishment to the Appellate-cum-Liaison Committee known as Inter Hall DisciplinaryCommittee (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 dealingwith 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, theannual socio-cultural fest of IIT Kharagpur is the largest studentmanaged socio-cultural fest of Asia. It is held in January. Spring Festincludes cultural competitions in addition to stage shows (known asStar-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 SpringFest is huge and attracts participation from more than 150 colleges

across India.[9] IIT Kharagpur organises a techno-managementfestival known as Kshitij. It is the biggest techno-management festivalof 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 Kharagpurorganises an annual inter-collegiate sports and games meet known as Shaurya. It is held in the autumn semesterin October. Events include cricket, hockey, volleyball, basketball, badminton, table tennis, lawn tennis andaquatics. Workshops for archery, boxing and handball are held.

Illumination, known as Illu, is a festival unique to IIT Kharagpur. It isinspired from the day of Diwali (the festival of lights) and is usuallyheld on the day of Diwali itself. It is held as a competition among

student halls.[83] As part of the Illumination festival, all halls buildvertical panels of bamboo (called Chatais) on which thousands oflamps (diyas) are mounted forming outlines of people or things;illustrating an event, or a place of importance. The chatais may reacha height of 6 metres (20 ft), with nearly 20,000 lighted lamps. Thelamps 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.[83]

Rangolis of exquisite detail and shadingmeasuring around 3.5 by 3.5 metres (11 by 11 ft) are constructedusing coloured powders, crushed bangles, and pebbles. Interplay of light and shadow and ambient music arepart of the display.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering organises Bitwise IIT Kharagpur, an online programingcontest annually in February. Programing and algorithmic challenges are given in a span of 12 hours. In Bitwise2011, 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 guestlectures, 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' SpaceChallenge, 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 meetSamudramanthan in the month of March every year providing a platform for all the Naval Architects across thecountry 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[86] (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 explorethe 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 carssincethe KX-1, the K-1 & the K-2. Construction of the K-3 is ongoing. The latest car, K-2, secured a rankof 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 TechnologyEntrepreneurs' 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 inJanuary at the institute, and the Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive (EAD), a 20-day event, consisting of guestlectures 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 recogniseand support innovative ideas among students of IIT-Kgp, besides workshops and guest lectures throughout theyear.

Professors Sunil Handa, Padma Shri Anil K. Gupta, Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Vinod Dham, Arjun Malhotra, andKiran 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 forplacement a year after the completion of his/her course, in case they are involved in a start-up company. This isthe 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 oncampus and soft copies are mailed to all the faculty and over 10,000 odd alumni. The team is drawn entirelyfrom 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 organizationsupported 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 KalpanaChawla 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 beenconstantly instrumental in organizing space-themed talks, sky gazing sessions, lectures and presentations withinIIT Kharagpur. The group publishes a bi- semester newsletter, 'The Moonwalk', on latest ventures in space

technology and various astronomy related articles.[91]

Alumni

Alumni-institute interaction is maintained through the Alumni Network under the aegis of the Dean of AlumniAffairs and International Relations, his office staff and student representatives. It also helps in conducting theannual 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 Lawwere 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 centersbuilt by funding from alumni include the G.S. Sanyal School ofTelecommunication and VLSI-CAD laboratory. The IIT Foundation,started by Vinod Gupta in 1992, is the alumni association of theinstitute with chapters in cities in India and abroad. Subrata Gupta is

the Director of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation.[92]

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 alumniaffairs to manage liaisons with alumni. The US-based alumni of IITKharagpur have started the Vision 2020 fundraiser, to provideinfrastructure (like labs and equipment) and attract and retain faculty and students. The objective of Vision 2020is 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 agroup 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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