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IIT Roorkee was established as The Roorkee College in 1847 AD as the First Engineering College in the British Empire. The College was renamed as The Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1854. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, presented the Charter in November 1949 elevating the erstwhile college to the First Engineering University of Independent India. On 21st September 2001, the University was declared an institute of national importance, by passing a bill in the parliament, changing its status from University of Roorkee to Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Today on 2nd September 2016 we are yet on the verge of beginning a new journey towards excellence. IIT Roorkee is one of the biggest technical institutions in the country having the largest number of academic units. We have 21 academic departments covering engineering, applied sciences, humanities & social sciences, and management programs, several academic centers, centers of excellence, world class sports and recreational facilities. We have lush green beautiful and sprawling campuses at Roorkee, Saharanpur and Greater Noida.
The very first for any IIT campus in India, IIT Roorkee announced a formal “Go Live” for the implementation of its Wave-I of the ADVAITA IIT Roorkee ERP Technology deployment. The announcement for operationalization of the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project was made at an &l... (more)
Sep 02, 2016 15:33 IST
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
