Sir Ardeshir Dalal (member, Viceroy’s Executive Council), Dr Humayun Kabir, Sir Jogendra Singh, Dr B C Roy (Chief Minister of West Bengal), Sir J C Ghosh and Sir Nalini Ranjan Sarkar were the Founding Fathers of Indian Institutes of Technology in India. The idea of setting up the IITs originated even before India gained independence [...]
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