IIT Roorkee, made an IIT in 2001, was converted from which earlier institution?
- A.Indian School of Mines
- B.University of Roorkee
- C.Bengal Engineering College
- D.Institute of Technology, BHU
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the University of Roorkee. 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.
Option A is wrong because the Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad, founded in 1926, became an IIT only in 2016. Option C is wrong because Bengal Engineering College at Shibpur became a different institution, now known as IIEST Shibpur, and was never made an IIT. Option D is wrong because the Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University became IIT (BHU) Varanasi in 2012, eleven years after Roorkee.
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Practice Questions
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- A.IIT Bombay
- B.IIT Kharagpur
- C.IIT Madras
- D.IIT Delhi
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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?
- A.United States
- B.Soviet Union
- C.West Germany
- D.United Kingdom
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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?
- A.IIM Ahmedabad
- B.IIM Bangalore
- C.IIM Calcutta
- D.IIM Lucknow
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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?
- A.Sloan School of Management, MIT
- B.Harvard Business School
- C.Wharton School
- D.London School of Economics
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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?
- A.1947
- B.1950
- C.1956
- D.1961
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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.
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