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| | Global IIT 2005 Conference Website - Beyond iiTechnology: About IIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | IIT offers undergraduate, integrated postgraduate and postgraduate programs in various engineering, science, technology and management disciplines. |
 | | In 1946, a committee was setup to explore setting up technical institutes of higher education for post-war industrial development of India and based on recommendation of the Sarkar Committee, the first Indian Institute of Technology was born in May 1950 in Kharagpur, West Bengal at the site of Hijli Detention camp. |
 | | In 1995, a sixth campus at Guwahati was added and most recently in 2001, a seventh campus was established by recognizing Roorkee University, one of India's oldest engineering institutions, as IIT Roorkee in the IIT System. |
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