| 1916 | Banaras Hindu University Founded by the nationalist leader Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya with cooperation of Dr Annie Besant, viewing it as the University of India |
| Mahatma Gandhi's historic BHU Address at the foundation ceremony breaks his Gokhale-mandated year of political silence after returning from South Africa | |
| 1919 | Banaras Engineering College Founded |
| 1923 | College of Mining and Metallurgy Founded |
| First to offer Mining, Metallurgy, Ceramics and Pharmaceutics degree courses in India | |
| 1938 | College of Technology Founded |
| 1971 | Institute of Technology Formed, Merging the Three Colleges |
| IT-BHU becomes part of the Joint Entrance Examination along with the first five IITs |
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This article is a submission from Yogesh Upadhyaya (CHE77) who is from the first batch admitted to the Institute through JEE. Yogesh takes us back in time and provides insight into how the Institute was perceived back then, and how it became part of the IIT system, but not quite ...
Hopefully this submission would encourage posting of comments from other old timers about the glorious past of our Institute and start a fresh infusion of ideas as to how we may proceed for a full inclusion within the IIT act so our institute gets the much deserved resources and increased quality control.
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... Read Entire Article | Review and Post Comments (2)In an address to the Parliament on February 17, 2003, the President of India congratulated the IIT system on fifty years of distinction and announced the conversion of the fourteen Regional Engineering Colleges into centrally funded National Institutes of Technology.
... Read Entire Article |Biplav Misra MET02 Writes ...
The mystery of missing ‘I’ in ‘ITBHU’ has since time immemorial baffled us. Similar students, similar caliber, similar facility and infrastructure and similar entrance examination, then where lies the difference? Three decades of association with IIT-JEE and still the IIT status evades us. ...
... Read Entire Article | Review and Post Comments (12)... The IIT50 function this past weekend in the silicon valley was a great event. More than 2000 alumni participated. The IIT brand that the new pan-IIT movement is promoting is a huge success right off the bat!
A frequent personal reaction from many attendees was how come ITBHU, part of the JEE system for decades, is still not an IIT while Guwahati and Roorkee were created/incorporated into the IIT system? The good news is our continued, natural association with IITs is reciprocated. The not so good news is that the main factor against ITBHU's transformation into an autonomous IIT is (you guessed it!) politics. ...
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