About Roorkee, Uttarakhnad

Roorkee is a famous city in India and a municipal corporation in the Uttarakhand State of India. It is also an older cantonment and it has been the headquarters of Bengal Engineering Group since 1853.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee

Engineering College was founded by Sir James Thomsen in 1847. He died in 1847 and in his memory, the College's name was changed to Thomas College of Civil Engineering Roorkee. This was continued till 1948. After India's independence, it became India's first technical university during the time of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1949. Finally, this University was recognized as the 7th Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) on 21 September 2001 after a law was passed in Parliament.