The foundations of IIT Kharagpur rests on the eternal motto of ‘Yoga Karmashu Koushalam’ from the Gita. It means that the individual interests behind any action which is either driven by material success or failure must be transformed to a higher and universal process of Yoga i.e., a communion between the self of an individual with the web of self in all, the Cosmos itself. As the Mother of all IIT system, and as the pioneering pace setter of science and technology, IIT Kharagpur was initiated as a mansion of learning on the bedrock of sacrifice by our martyrs seeking all-round national independence.
For years IIT Kharagpur has been instrumental in developing industry ready professionals for the world and is a pioneer institution to achieve Excellence in Education. There were 224 freshers and 42 teachers in August 1951 when the first session started in the historic building of the Hijli Detention Camp. Today the institute as the largest of all IITs has 20 academic departments, 12 schools, 18 centers (including 11 Centres of Excellence) and 2 academies with 16,590+ students. Currently, the institute has about 750+ faculty, 940+ employees and 1150+ projects with vast tree-laden campus spreading over 2100 acres has a self-contained township of over 15,000 inhabitants. The gamut of IIT Kharagpur ranges from architecture, management, law, humanities, precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, science of happiness, social and economic sciences, medical science and technology, classical and the folk arts, leadership and entrepreneurship and many more in the curriculum.
Today, the surges and aspirations of IIT Kharagpur as the Mother of IIT system is much more than just an Institute. Spread over the lush-green ‘Gurukul’ ambience of a campus, neither close to or away from a big city, IIT Kharagpur brings under one fold the ancient and the modern; and the logical-analytical and the creative-intuitive in her approach to holistic educational policy. The missions of the current National Education Policy (NEP 2020) is activated by Institute, in her parts and in her whole; and we are yet to see that even more unfolding, bringing back the glories of India’s lost and suppressed heritage of age old systems of science, culture, society and technology, in a manifold way never seen before.
26 авг 2024