IIT Roorkee Foundation Day

When will the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee celebrate the foundation day? Tell me the events and the functions of this day? Also tell me the chief guest of this event? Also provide me the other details about the foundation day of this Institute?

I want to know the date of foundation of Indian Institute of Technology IIT Roorkee so will you please tell me?

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee was founded in 1847 in British India by the then lieutenant governor, Sir James Thomason

It is a public engineering university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.,

It was given university status in 1949 and was converted into an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2001.

On 21 September 2001, an ordinance issued by the Government of India declared it as the nation's seventh Indian Institute of Technology.

IIT Roorkee has 21 academic departments covering Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities & Social Sciences and Management programs with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.

IIT Roorkee offers academic programmes in Engineering, Technology, Applied Sciences, and Management. It runs eleven undergraduate (UG), one integrated dual degree, sixty one postgraduate (PG) and several doctoral programmes

Institute Administration-

Director
Prof. A.K. Chaturvedi
director@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285500

Registrar
Sh. Prashant Garg
registrar@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285311

Dean Administration
Prof. Rama Bhargava
daiitr@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285090

Dean of Resources and Alumni Affairs
Prof. B.R. Gurjar
daair.iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285840

Dean Finance & Planning
Prof. U.P. Singh
Deanfap_f@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285270

Dean Faculty Affairs
Prof. B.K. Mishra
dfa@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285233

Dean Academic Affairs
Prof. N.P. Padhy
daa@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285255

Dean Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy
Prof. Manoranjan Parida
dsric@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285245

Dean of Students Welfare
Prof. Anand Joshi
dosw@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285246

Dean Infrastructure
Prof. Z Ahmad
dinfra@iitr.ac.in
+91-1332-285782

Contact-

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roorkee - Haridwar Highway, Roorkee, Uttarakhand 247667
01332 285 311