Established 2016 Acronym IIT-DH Undergraduates 120 | Mentor Institute IIT-Bombay Founded 2016 | |
Type Education and Research Institution Location Dharwad, Karnataka, India Campus Temporary - Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) Address Anjaneya Nagar, Karnataka 580011 Similar Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Technolo, Indian Institute of Informatio, Indian Institute of Technolo | ||
Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT Dharwad) is an autonomous premier engineering and technology university located in Dharwad. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Dharwad started functioning from July, 2016 in a temporary campus, previously of the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Belur village on the outskirts of Dharwad city. It was formally inaugurated by India's Human Resources Development minister, Mr. Prakash Javedekar, on 28 August 2016 at Dharwad. For the academic year 2016-2017, it offered B.Tech courses in three core branches namely Electrical, Computer Science and Mechanical.
Contents
- History
- Campus Location
- Cultural and non academic activities
- Departments centers and schools
- Programmes
- Faculty
- References
As part of the mentorship plan, IIT-Bombay is the mentor for IIT-Dharwad. The HRD Ministry has set up an IIT monitoring cell at IIT-Bombay and the committee members have been designated as officials on special duty to supervise the process of setting up IIT-Dharwad.
History
With the Ministry of Human Resource Development giving its green signal for setting up of an IIT in Dharwad, the 17-year long wait ended. It was the late Union Human Resources Development Minister, S R Bommai, who had moved the proposal to the Centre seeking an IIT in Dharwad in the 1990s. In 1998, a committee headed by former ISRO chairman and space scientist U R Rao submitted its report recommending an IIT in Hubballi-Dharwad. In the 2015-16 union budget, an IIT was sanctioned for Karnataka state and the state government suggested three locations for IIT in Karnataka. The short listed cities were Dharwad, Mysooru and Raichooru. The high powered committee appointed by the HRD ministry chose Dharwad city, after visiting all the three short listed cities. Leaders from all political parties, plus a few prominent citizens, including a few ex-NRIs from Dharwad city put a lot of efforts to get this prestigious institute to Dharwad city, as there was a lot of competition among cities to get this premier institute.
Campus & Location
IIT-Dharwad is initially functioning out of the campus of the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Dharwad near the Karnataka High Court Bench. The permanent building is coming up at Chikkamaligawad village. Earlier, around 500 acres belonging to KIADB near Mummigatti on the Pune-Bengaluru National Highway off Dharwad was identified for the IIT campus, but that deal was cancelled due to legal hurdles. The State Cabinet decided to allot 470 acres of land at Kelageri village adjunct to Mammigahtti Industrial Area in Dharwad district. The historic fort of Kittur, where Rani Chennamma fought the British in 1824, is just 20 kilometers from the IIT Dharwad campus. The city also houses educational institutions like Karnataka University, SDMCET, Karnatak Science, Arts and Commerce College and University of Agricultural Sciences, Law University. Also, new institutes like the IIIT are coming up in the twin cities of Hubballi-Dharwad. There is also the NTTF tool and die making educational institute at Dharwad.There is an airport at Gokul Road, Hubballi (Hubli), the twin city of Dharwad. The airport has a service connecting to Bengalooru. There is a railway station at Dharwad through which trains from Bengaluru to Goa run. The twin cities of Hubballi and Dharwad host the manufacturing plants of Tata Motors, Kirloskar Electric and Elmeca, among others.
Cultural and non-academic activities
The twin city of Hubballi-Dharwad offers opportunities to enjoy classical music (Savai Gandharva, Mallikarjun Mansoor, Gangubai Hangal and Bhimsen Joshi and Sudha Murthy hail from this region), Fine Arts and Theatre (Dramatics). The city is home to many literary personalities like Girish Karnad, Da Ra Bendre, V.K.Gokak all Jnanpith Award winners, to name a few. The twin cities of Hubballi and Dharwad have many film theaters which show films of Kannada, Hindi, English and Telugu languages.
Departments, centers, and schools
Forty seats each in the streams of Computer Science , Electrical and Mechanical engineering are available at the institute and classes began in July 15, 2016, along with the other IITs across the country.
Programmes
The Institute conducts educational programs leading to the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) in the following areas:
Faculty
Prof. P. Seshu, Professor and Director [to join on 7 March 2017]. Prof. Devang V. Khakhar, Professor, Mentor Director [till Prof. Seshu joins as Director] and Director of IIT Bombay. Prof. Siva Prasad, Professor and In-charge of IIT Dharwad [till Prof. Seshu joins as Director]. Prof. N. S. Punekar, Professor and Dean (Academics). Prof. S. V. Prabhu, Professor. Prof. N. S. Narasimha Sastry, Professor. Prof. Milind Sohoni, Professor. Prof. Deepankar Choudhury, Professor. Prof. C. V. Tomy, Professor. Prof. Himanshu Bahirat, Assistant Professor.