Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur campus which is spread across 2100 acres is the largest among all IITs. The campus is fully encircled by greenery, flower beds, water ponds which create a salubrious environment for the academics. Infrastructure at IITKGP provides ample opportunities for students to excel in their fields of study. The institute provides world-class infrastructure facilities for the students. The college has a central well-stocked library, a modern computer lab & laboratories, multimedia classrooms and sports facilities for students.

Hostel:

Housing almost 10,000 students, IIT Kharagpur has 21 Halls of Residences – 16 for boys, 5 for girls. The 21 halls of residences are Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Hall, Gokhale Hall, BC Roy Hall, Lala Lajpat Rai Hall, Azad Hall, Homi Bhabha Hall, B R Ambedkar Hall, J C Bose Hall, Lalbahadur Sasthry Hall, Nehru Hall, Vidyasagar Hall, Rani Laxmibai Hall, Madam Mohan Malviya Hall, Patel Hall, Sister Nivedita Hall, Megnad Saha Hall, Nehru Hall, Radha Krishnan Hall, Mother Teresa Hall, Rajendra Prasad Hall, Sarojini Naidu/ Indira Gandhi Hall, Vidyasagar Hall and Zakir Hussain Hall.

Classroom:

IIT Kharagpur boasts off well furnished and multimedia-equipped classrooms. All classrooms provide a special learning environment and a touch screen whiteboard which is integrated with the LCD projector and a computer.

Laboratory:

IIT Kharagpur is home to an Advanced VLSI Laboratory. The laboratory was founded in the year 2000 with the active support of IIT Foundation and several companies. The laboratory is a state-of-the-art centre for advanced research in VLSI Design, Test and CAD. The lab has established industry standard design and verification flows. The AVLSI Lab has its own state-of-the-art test equipment procured with institute support. More than 100 chips have been designed in this lab, fabricated and successfully tested.

Sports:

IIT Kharagpur has proper facilities and courts for almost any game the students would like to play. The Student Activity Center – Technology Students’ Gymkhana also hosts, an Indoor Squash Court, Indoor Badminton Courts, Pool Tables, Tennis Courts, and a fully modernized Gymnasium, facilities for Weightlifting, Basketball Courts, Volleyball Court and Table Tennis. Some of them are:

Table tennis – The old Gymkhana in college has Table tennis play area as well.

Basketball Courts – IIT has two great courts for games like this.

Volleyball – The institute has a volleyball court as well.

Cricket, Football – There is big complex for both these games.

Swimming – The institute has a fully modernized Aquatic Center for sports like swimming and water polo.

Extra – Curricular:

IIT Kharagpur, one of India’s premier technical institutions, organizes Kshitij, the annual techno-management fest of the institute. The highly popular fest receives overwhelming participation from students across the world. Numerous events of the fest are certified by world-renowned organizations like ACM, IEEE, ASME, ASHRAE and IMechE.

Robotix is an annual robotics and programming event that is organized by the Technology Robotix Society at IIT Kharagpur. The event is held during Kshitij and is one of the biggest such events in Asia.

A lot of other festivals and events like the Department Fests, Society Events and Spring Fest are organized all-round the year to help students get a change in their daily schedule of classes, assignments and tests.

Library:

The Central Library at IIT Kharagpur is one do the largest and finest technical libraries in Asia. The library has been catering to the needs of ten thousand students of undergraduates, postgraduates, research scholar, seven hundred faculty members and more than thousand staff members of the 19 departments, 9 centres, 12 schools and 15 research facilities of the institute.

The library at IITKGP is equipped with modem facilities and resources in the forms of CDROMs, DVD-ROM, online databases, micro-documents, video cassettes, books, journals, patents, standards, reports, etc. The library also has a full-fledged digital library that is equipped with necessary modem equipment. The library provides access to 20,664 full-text e-journals and 1,22,744 full-text e-books. IITKGP library has a collection of over 3.5 lakh documents, 300 print journals, 40,000 online full-text journals and several abstracting databases.

IIT Kharagpur Scholarship:

• Merit-cum-means scholarship of INR.1000 p.m. & a tuition fee waiver is awarded to 25% of students admitted under B.Tech, B.Arch, Integrated M.Sc. and 2-year M.Sc program


• Assistantship of INR 10000 per month to MMST students.