National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

National Institute of Technology Durgapur

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Motto	udyogah purushasya lakshanam (Sanskrit)
Motto in English	Work Make the a Man
Type	Public technical university
Established	1960 (1960)
Academic affiliations	UGC MoE AICTE Washington Accord
Chairman	Sadanand Sadashiv Gokhale
Director	Anupam Basu
Academic staff	246 (2022)
Students	4,545 (2022)
Undergraduates	3,061 (2022)
Postgraduates	825 (2022)
Doctoral students	659 (2022)
Location	Durgapur , West Bengal , India 23°32′54″N 87°17′29″E
Campus	Industrial city 187 acres (76 ha)
Language	English
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National Institute of Technology Durgapur (also known as NIT Durgapur or NITDGP), formerly known as Regional Engineering College, Durgapur (also known as REC Durgapur or RECDGP), is a public technical university in the city of Durgapur in West Bengal, India. Founded in 1960, it is one of India's oldest technical universities. It is located in a campus of 187 acres (0.75 km²).

National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked the university 6th among the NITs, 29th for engineering, and 71st overall in India in 2021.

History

Main article: History of RECs

The National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (formerly Regional Engineering College, Durgapur) was established in 1960 under an Act of the Parliament of India as one of the eight such colleges, as a co-operative venture between the Government of India and the Government of West Bengal aimed to function as a pacesetter for engineering education in the country and to foster national integration. In 2003, the institution was granted Deemed University status with the approval of the University Grants Commission / All India Council for Technical Education; it was renamed the National Institute of Technology Durgapur and was finally granting degrees under its own name. Thus, it became a fully-funded institution administered by an autonomous Board of Governors under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

National Institute of Technology Durgapur is the first institute in Eastern India to be selected as a Lead Institute under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of the Govt. Of India funded by the World Bank. In 2007, the Union Government of India declared it as an "Institute of National Importance".

On 22 November 2013, during the institute's 9th convocation, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of India addressed the Institution and appreciated its efforts in thrust Research and innovation.

Campus

Overview

The campus spans 187 acres (0.75 km2). The main entrance is located on the eastern end of the campus, facing Mahatma Gandhi Road. The institute's academic facilities are located in the eastern half of the campus; these include the department buildings, laboratories and workshops, lecture halls, computer centres, and the central library. The campus has separate buildings for the departments of Computer Science Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, management, Chemistry, Biotechnology. Each department has its own library, in addition to the central library, which holds more than one lakh resources including books, periodicals, and journals in print and electronic format. A new lecture hall complex named was inaugurated as a part of the institute's campus development plans, and it currently serves undergraduate students. The old Academic complex has several departments and is currently used for the academic classes and lectures for undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students.

NIT DGP Campus Front Gate

Administrative building

The newly constructed Administrative building has modern amenities and is one of the institute's landmarks. The building houses the administrative offices, the offices of the institute’s director and deans.

Library

Central Library

NIT Durgapur has a modern central library with more than two and a half lakh documents consisting of technical books, reports, standards, compact disks, and back volumes of journals. The library also provides air-conditioned and Wi-Fi-enabled reading halls. It is situated opposite the High Voltage Laboratory. The library is an institutional member of DELNET (Developing Library Network), American Centre Library, Kolkata, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), and Current Science Association, Bangalore. It is also a beneficiary Member of INDEST-AICTE (Indian National Digital Library in Engineering, Science & Technology) Consortium, which provides Desktop Access to high-quality e-resources (online journals) like IEL Online (IEEE/IEE Electronic Library), Springer Verlag's Link, Proquest, ACM journals, ASCE, ASME, Nature Magazine, Indian Standards (Intranet version) and ASTM journals & Standards, etc. It has a collection of several thousand E-Books on computer science (published by Springer).

Organisation and administration

Academic departments

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur has the following departments:

Engineering

Department of Biotechnology

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Electronics and Communication Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Chemical Engineering

Inside Main Campus

Sciences

• Physics
• Chemistry
• Mathematics
• Biotechnology

Other major departments

• Computer Applications
• Earth and Environmental Studies

Allied departments

• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Management Studies

Management School

The NIT Durgapur's Department of Management Studies (DoMS) offers a Master of Business Administration program. They offered Dual specialization in Marketing, Finance, Business Analytics, and IT Consulting, Human Resources, and Operations. DoMS Curriculum is designed with inputs from industry experts, faculty from IIM's, and other reputed B-Schools.

Academics

NIT Durgapur offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in disciplines spanning engineering, science, architecture and management. The institute has 14 departments with about 224 faculty members and more than 4,000 enrolled students.

Postgraduate education

The institute offers graduate programs in several disciplines, including programs in science and engineering, leading to a Master of Science (M.Sc.) or Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree respectively, as well as a programme in computer applications (MCA) and management (MBA).

All of the institute's academic departments offer Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree programs.

Ranking

National Institutional Ranking Framework India Rankings 2021
Overall	71
Engineering	29

In the year of 2021 NIT Durgapur ranked 29 in Engineering and 71 in Overall Section of NIRF India Ramkings.

Student life

Cultural and non-academic activities

The annual Techno-management festival of National Institute of Technology Durgapur, Aarohan is usually held in the month of February every year. It comprises various events like competitions, exhibits, workshops and talks from guest speakers. Aarohan 2021 was conducted in virtual mode.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni include:-

• Bikramjit Basu, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
• Kamanio Chattopadhyay, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
• Subir Chowdhury, CEO and MD of JCB India
• Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, Executive of Reliance JIO Infocom Ltd.
• Aloke Paul, recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

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  Kamanio Chattopadhyay, Honorary Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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  Aloke Paul receiving the Bhatnagar award

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