GOLD STANDARD

It was the first IIT to be set up as part of Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision to build institutes of technical education that could help lay the industrial, scientific and technological edifice of newly-independent India. And since its inception in 1951, IIT Kharagpur, alma mater to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, has played a seminal role in that endeavour