The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (abbreviated IIT Delhi or IITD) is a public technical and research university located in Hauz Khas, Delhi, is one of the 7 old IITs in India.
Established in 1961, was formally inaugurated August 1961 by Prof. Humayun Kabir, Minister of Scientific Research & Cultural Affairs. First admissions were made in 1961.[4] The current campus has an area of 320 acres (or 1.3 km²) and is bounded by the Sri Aurobindo Marg on the east, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Complex on the west, the National Council of Educational Research and Training on the south, and the New Ring Road on the north,and flanked by Qutub Minar and the Hauz Khas monuments.[3]
The institute was later decreed in Institutes of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Amendment Act, 1963 and accorded the status of a full University with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees.[4]
In 2018 IIT Delhi was also given the status of Institution of Eminence (IoE) by Government of India which granted almost-full autonomy, leaving this institute to make its own decisions. According to a government statement issued earlier, these IoEs will have greater autonomy in that they will be able to admit foreign students up to 30% of the admitted students and recruit foreign faculty up to 25% of the faculty strength with enhanced research funding.
Whom to contact for Undergraduate admissions?
Mr. Suresh Kumar Gohar
Assistant Registrar (UGS)
+91-11-2659-1718
[email protected]
Whom to contact for queries related to GATE?
Prof. B. R. Chahar
Organising Chairman, GATE 2020
Institute Chair Professor
+91-11-2659-1749/1750/6137
[email protected]
How to pay fees online?
Please visit the ePAY webpage.
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Contact Number, Address & Location Map, Kaithal
- [email protected]
- IIT Campus, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, Delhi 110016, India