The Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Bengali: ইন্ডিয়ান ইনস্টিটিউট অফ টেকনোলজি, খড়গপুর) (commonly known as IIT Kharagpur or IIT KGP) is an autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institute of higher education established by the Government of India in 1951. The first of the fifteen IITs to be established, it is officially recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India and is regarded as one of the best engineering institutions in India.
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It is said that "Law is organic". The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law (RGSOIPL) professes that "legal education is organic too." As a brainchild of Mr. Vinod Gupta (former CEO of InfoUSA and life fellow of IIT Kharagpur) the School started its journey since 2006. Currently, it is the only law school in India functioning under the IIT system. The school is located at the campus of IIT Kharagpur, 120 km from Kolkata.
Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) was set up as the first school of management within the IIT system in 1993 at a time when India had just opened its doors to economic liberalization. The school was established with an aim to develop managers with a strong technological background who would lead tomorrow’s corporate behemoths on the path of success. The concept was to start a business school along the lines of Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA...
The Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, the first of the chain of six IITs, was established in 1950 to cater to the need for skilled manpower in the country. The idyllic, sylvan setting at Hijli was chosen to provide a cordon sanitaire to the budding engineers, where they could let their creativity run free. There was also an element of poetic justice in choosing a prison of yesteryears as the cosign for opening up new vistas to the future. From a modest start in the dilapidated Hijl...