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5 unusual facts about Indian Institutes of Technology


Indus World School

The Indus World School was established by IIT and IIM alumni R. Satya Narayanan, Gautam Puri, Nikhil Mahajan, Sujit Bhattacharyya, R. Srinivasan, D. Vijay Kumar and Shiv Kumar who wished to create "a place of learning with a difference".

Lala Lajpat Rai

Lajpat Nagar and Lajpat Nagar Central Market in New Delhi, Lajpat Rai Market in Chandani Chowk, Delhi; Lala Lajpat Rai Hall of Residence at Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur and Kharagpur; as well as the Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology(LLRIET), Moga, are named in his honor.

Mazandaran University of Science and Technology

The university has established cooperation with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) of India in offering MBAs and PhDs in industrial engineering.

Siwani

In recent times education standards have improved and a few students got admitted to prestigious IITs and NITs.

Surya Kant

Sury received his Masters in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Technology from Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Delhi, in 1978, and his Bachelors of Electrical Engineering with specialization in Electronics from Delhi College of Engineering, in 1976, both at the top of his class.


2006 Indian anti-reservation protests

The government proposed to reserve 27% of seats in the premier educational institutions of India like All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Other Medical Colleges, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and other central institutions of higher education for the OBCs in order to help them gain higher levels of representation in these institutions.

Abu Dhabi Indian School

Its alumni have gone on to join some of the top colleges in India like the Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology, Anna University, Delhi Technological University, AIIMS, BIT Mesra, Loyola College, Chennai, Christ University, etc. and abroad like NUS, Nanyang Technological University, Georgia Tech, UCLA, Caltech, Cornell, Purdue University, etc.

Aditya Birla Public School, Renukoot

The children passing out from this school have excelled in many professional areas and have even qualified for IIT, NDA, UPTU and are working with reputed multinationals.

Jaipur School

Students have gone on to join Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cardiff University, Indian Institutes of Technology, National Defence Academy (India), and other engineering, medical, defence, liberal arts and business management programs.

P. S. Senior Secondary School

Most students graduating enter higher education institutions especially engineering institutions like Indian Institutes of Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, NIT Tiruchi, National University of Singapore and Anna University.

VLSI Design Lab, VNIT

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, was one amongst the top 10 institutes apart from Indian Institutes of Technology, chosen for funding under Special Manpower Development Program in the field of VLSI.


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