Abbreviation:  IIT Kharagpur

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.

Initially the IIT started functioning from 5, Esplanade East, Calcutta and very soon shifted to Hijli in Sept. 1950. The present name 'Indian Institute of Technology' was adopted before the formal inauguration of the Institute on August 18, 1951, by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

Department: Materials Science
The Centre was established in 1971 to undertake research activities in the areas of glass and ceramics, polymers, semiconductor, allied materials and composites. The development of know-how and manufacturing technologies of many strategic and advanced materials like Opto-electronic Materials and Devices, Semiconductor Lasers, Polymer Blends etc. were taken up by the centre. With state-of-the-art infrastructure the centre conducts major sponsored research projects and has developed a range of products today and applications, including Ferromagnetic insulator cermets for Telecom Equipment, Alumina composites, Drag Resistant Polymers for Sprinkler Irrigation Systems, Ceramic Components by Gel Casting, Synthesis of Nano sized Nonoxide Ceramic Powders.
Head of the Centre : Prof. Basudam Adhikari
Phone (Head's chamber) : +91-3222-282274
Office : +91-3222-2882273
Phone (Chamber) : +91-3222-283966
Phone (Residence) : +91-3222-2, +91-3222-278041
Email : ba@matsc.iitkgp.ernet.in

Department: Rubber Technology Centre
With the aid of the Ministry of Education, Government of India, the centre was established under the Colombo Plan (UK Government) and Technical Collaboration mission (USA Government). Initially a part of Applied Chemistry, in 1981, it became an independent Centre and acquired advanced Processing and Testing equipment from Indo-British, Indo-French collaborative programmes and also a large research projects by CSIR, DST, ICAR, BARC, ISRO etc. Some of the recent Sponsored projects undertaken by the department include Development of Polymer Blends, Chemical Devulcanisation and Waste Rubber Recycling, Low Hardness TPV, Radiation Processing of Filled Elastomers and Development of Conductive Rubber Composites etc.
Head : Prof. T K Chaki
Phone (Head's chamber) : +91-3222-282292
Office : +91-3222-2882291
Phone (Chamber) : +91-3222-283182
Phone (Residence) : +91-3222-2, +91-3222-277804
Email : tapan@rtc.iitkgp.ernet.in

Website address:  www.iitkgp.ac.in

Contact Address:
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India

Tel : +91-3222-255221

Fax :   +91-3222-255303

Email : dyregac@hijli.iitkgp.ernet.in

Office Bearers:

Director: Professor Damodar Acharya
Dy. Director: A K Majumdar
Registrar: D Gunasekaran