In what may be termed as unfortunate, IIT Guwahati has reported over fifty COVID-19 positive cases in the last one week or seven days. Now, strict restrictions have been imposed in the campus.
“Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, was established in 1994.”, reads the official website of the prestigious instruction. The academic programme of IIT Guwahati commenced in 1995.
“At present the Institute has eleven departments and five inter-disciplinary academic centres covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and PhD programmes. Within a short period of time, IIT Guwahati has been able to build up world class infrastructure for carrying out advanced research and has been equipped with state-of-the-art scientific and engineering instruments. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati’s campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot of land on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra around 20 kms. from the heart of the city.”, it adds.
It further adds,” With the majestic Brahmaputra on one side, and with hills and vast open spaces on others, the campus provides an ideal setting for learning.”
The strategic commitment of IIT Guwahati provides the road map for the journey towards excellence. These strategies include the Vision, Mission, Goal and Values that would be instrumental in placing IIT Guwahati among the top academic institutions of the world; the website also underlines.
The strategies will create new opportunities for the faculty and the students for enhancement of knowledge, performing cutting edge research and development of professional skills. The ultimate aim is to provide the students with an educational training that emphasizes innovation, social awareness, professional ethics and nurture leadership skills; it adds, further, “a resourceful environment to promote creativity and entrepreneurship amongst researchers is also being developed while maintaining sustainable goals and upholding the values of highest professional ethics and enrich the lives of humanity.”
