Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
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| Type | Public engineering school |
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| Established | 2008 |
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Parent institution
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Indian Institute of Technology |
| Chairman | Baldev Raj |
| Director | Sudhir K. Jain |
| Location | Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India |
| Acronym | IITGN |
| Website | www.iitgn.ac.in |
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| General – India | |
| NIRF (Overall) (2018) | 39 |
| Engineering – India | |
| NIRF (2018) | 27 |
| India Today (2017) | 20 |
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (also known as IIT Gandhinagar or IITGN) is a public engineering institution located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. It has been declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.
IIT Gandhinagar is one of the eight Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) announced by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2008. The institute began operating in a temporary campus at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, mentored by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The first batch of students was admitted to three programmes: Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering.
IITGN was included in the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012.
The permanent campus of IIT Gandhinagar is on the banks of the Sabarmati River in Palaj village. In 2011, in his inaugural speech at the Amalthea technology summit, then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the land for the new permanent campus, saying, "[the] [s]tate government has decided to give [...] land on 99 year lease with a token amount of just one rupee for setting up a campus of IIT-Gandhinagar." The institute took possession of over 400 acres of land in August 2012, and classes and other activities on the new campus began in July 2015.
The institute is managed by a Board of Governors. The board comprises academicians, researchers, industrial leaders, and administrators. Raghunath Anant Mashelkar was the first Chairman of the Board of Governors of IITGN. Baldev Raj is the current chairman.
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