Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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What makes it the best ?
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Why is it considered the best Indian Institute of Technology- some reasons
Character building
2018: Lessons in humility
When third-year IIT-Kharagpur student Krushi Bandi served lunch to mess worker Sanjay Modak at the institute’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Hall, it wasn’t merely a temporary reversal of roles. For the institute, which churns out tech graduates who vie for multi-million-rupee starting salaries, this role reversal was meant to be a lesson in humility, a way of telling its students that life was worth more than the CGPAs — and the millions — earned.
The oldest IIT has embarked on a unique programme to instil in its students life lessons that go beyond the chapters learnt in classrooms. Students have been waiting on their “mess bhaiyas” — and serving food to those who wait on them throughout the year — in hostels on the campus as part of a programme that started in March and will continue through the year.
“It was a special moment for me,” Bandi said. “After serving lunch to the person who fed me all through the past three years and ensured that I never went to bed on an empty stomach, we sat next to each other for dinner,” the third-year metallurgical engineering student added.
As many as 5,000 students across the eight students’ hostels — called halls on the IIT campus — have already taken part in this initiative. The other halls will pick up the thread after July, when a new batch joins. Learning to give back to society was the idea behind the move, according to Institute Wellness Group, which is dedicated to building a united community on the campus.
The month-long activity saw participation from even the administrative staff; hall management committees, administrative staff and hall wardens have all come together, spending quality time together. So, when Rajendra Prasad Hall of Residence warden Uday Shankar shared the table with the mess dadas, a mess worker could not hold himself back, saying how he had never experienced anything like this in 11 years of service.
Teachers feel this adds to privileged youngsters’ awareness of things like dignity of labour and the importance of humane behaviour towards the less privileged.
Rankings
2016
National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF): ranked No. 3
The Times of India, April 14, 2016
The rankings under the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) have been carried out in four categories: Engineering, management, pharmacy and university.
There were five key parameters on which an academic institutes were assessed, these include: Teaching, learning and resources; Research, consulting and collaborative performance; Graduation outcome; Outreach and inclusivity; and Perception.
Over 3,500 institutes participated in inaugural edition of these rankings, the process for which started in December 2015.
The oldest IIT in the country IIT Kharagpur gets a weightage of 83.91. It was established in the year 1951
