Interesting Facts About IIT Kharagpur

The first Indian institute of technology was thus established in 1950 as the Eastern Higher Technical Institute.

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It was located in Esplanada East, Kolkata and in September 1950 shifted to its permanent campus at Hijli, Kharagpur.

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IIT Kharagpur has an 8.7- square kilometre (2100 acre) campus and has about 22000 residents.

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The staff quarter in IIT Kharagpur was called Bomb house as the British used to store bombs at the place during world war.

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IIT Kharagpur has 19 academic department, eight multi-disciplinary centres/schools.

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13 schools of excellence in addition to more than 25 central research and development units.

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The nehru museum of science and technology has over a hundred indoor exhibits that include technical models collected from institution across India.

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