Friday 25 May 2012

IIT Kharagpur adding 8 new departments on its 60th anniversary


IIT Kharagpur is celebrating it’s 60th anniversary this year in August and it is already getting ready to add 8 new departments to the institute, the proposal has been sent to the Ministry of Human Resources Development and very likely the institute is going to get a good amount of funding to establish at least 8 new technology departments or schools and next-gen labs to support research and development for the country.

The new technology departments proposed by the institute include:

1) Biosciences Department
2) Engineering Entrepreneurship
3) Energy Science and Engineering Department
4) Environmental Engineering Department
5) Nano science and Technology Department
6) Engineering Design and Manufacturing Department
7) Embedded Electronics Controls and Software Department

Reportedly the idea behind establishing these new schools/departments is to make country technology independent and reduce dependency on foreign research and designs for technology.

The institute will apparently construct a new complex where in all the state-of-the-art laboratories will be housed.

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