The committee whose 1946 report led to the setting up of the Indian Institutes of Technology was headed by whom?
- A.Nalini Ranjan Sarkar
- B.Joseph Bhore
- C.D. S. Kothari
- D.Jivraj Mehta
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Nalini Ranjan Sarkar. 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. The Institutes of Technology Act of 1961 later brought the IITs under a single law.
Option B is wrong because Sir Joseph Bhore chaired the health committee of the same year, which led to AIIMS. Option C is wrong because D. S. Kothari headed the Education Commission of 1964 to 1966, which dealt with school and higher education as a whole. Option D is wrong because Jivraj Mehta is associated with the planning of management education and the IIMs, not with the technology institutes.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich is the oldest of the Indian Institutes of Technology?
- 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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