The Conversation

Established in 1958, the second of its kind, IIT Bombay was the first to be set up with foreign assistance. The funds from UNESCO came as Roubles from the then Soviet Union. In 1961 Parliament decreed the IITs as ‘Institutes of National Importance’. Since then, IITB has grown from strength to strength to emerge as one of the top technical universities in the world.

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Ashwin Gumaste
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bhaskaran Raman
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

D Parthasarathy
Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Krithi Ramamritham
Professors, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Siddhartha Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Suryakant Waghmore
Associate Professor, Department of Humanity and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay