This Static GK quiz on Premier Institutes of India: IITs, IIMs and AIIMS puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
Which is the oldest of the Indian Institutes of Technology?
It opened in 1951, the first of the IITs, in the buildings of the Hijli Detention Camp where political prisoners had been held under British rule.
Read the full explanation →IIT Madras was established in 1959 with the technical and financial assistance of which country?
IIT Madras was set up in 1959 under an agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, which supplied equipment, scholarships and visiting faculty in the early years, and the institute's early workshops and laboratories carried that German stamp.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established?
It was set up in November 1961, a few weeks before IIM Ahmedabad, with the help of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ford Foundation and the Government of West Bengal, and it was the first management institute of its kind in the country.
Read the full explanation →IIM Ahmedabad was set up in collaboration with which foreign institution?
IIM Ahmedabad was founded in December 1961 with Harvard's help, which is why its teaching has always leaned on the case method.
Read the full explanation →The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, was established by an Act of Parliament in which year?
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Act was passed in 1956 and AIIMS New Delhi was founded that year as an autonomous Institute of National Importance, free to design its own courses and award its own medical degrees.
Read the full explanation →The recommendation for a national medical institute, which led to the founding of AIIMS, came from which committee?
The Health Survey and Development Committee of 1946, chaired by Sir Joseph Bhore, examined the health services of the country and recommended, among much else, a national medical centre that would set the standard for teaching and research.
Read the full explanation →The committee whose 1946 report led to the setting up of the Indian Institutes of Technology was headed by whom?
The committee he headed in 1946 recommended higher technical institutions on the model of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be placed in different parts of the country, and the first of them opened at Kharagpur in 1951.
Read the full explanation →The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, under which new AIIMS were sanctioned, was launched in which year?
The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana was launched in 2003 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with two aims: to correct the uneven spread of good tertiary care across the country and to raise the number of medical seats.
Read the full explanation →IIT Roorkee, made an IIT in 2001, was converted from which earlier institution?
That institution began in 1847 as the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, built to train engineers for the Ganga canal works, became the University of Roorkee in 1949 and was converted into IIT Roorkee in 2001, making it the seventh IIT and the one with the longest history behind it.
Read the full explanation →Which Act declared the Indian Institutes of Management to be Institutions of National Importance and allowed them to award degrees?
Before it, the IIMs were registered societies that could give only post graduate diplomas, which created difficulty for students who wanted to go on to research degrees abroad.
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