Description
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BIT Sindri or Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri (formerly known as Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri) is an engineering college in Jharkhand, India. The institute is funded and administered by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi and is academically affiliated to Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag for c
onducting examinations and awarding degrees. BIT has received funding from the World Bank for projects. The institute campus is located 30 km from the Dhanbad City. The campus is well connected by road and rail from Dhanbad. History
BIT was founded in 1949 under the name of the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Patna. In 1950 it was shifted to Sindri and thus BIT Sindri was born with a Principal, three Professors and sixty students. During the initial years, the college had diploma programs in electrical amd mechanical engineering. The aim of the government to shift BIT to Sindri was to make it the first IIT of India, but, for political reasons, IIT Kharagpur was made the first IIT and BIT remained as BIT. In 1956 its name was changed to Bihar Institute of Technology, the name it had retained until Jharkhand and Bihar were separated in 2000. Over the years, degree programs in other branches of Engineering were added. Campus
BIT Sindri is located on 650 acres (2.6 km2) of land in the industrial town of Sindri in Dhanbad district. Each branch has its own building and laboratories and some departments have their own libraries and computer facilities. The campus has an auditorium, on-campus hospital, a library, a canteen, a gymnasium, a cricket/football playground, a branch of the State Bank of India with ATM facility, a post office, an STD/ISD phone booth, and a co-operative store.