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1951 CE · social reform education

IIT Kharagpur Is Formally Inaugurated

India's first Indian Institute of Technology was formally inaugurated at Kharagpur in August 1951.

IIT Kharagpur main building in 1955
Near-period photograph four years after the 1951 inauguration. Preserve the Commons/VRT free-use status exactly. · Credit: Bhim Chandra Mondal · License: Copyrighted free use / Wikimedia VRT permission

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Sources and further reading

  1. IIT Kharagpur — History

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