EducationMadras State (Congress era)
Indian Institute of Technology Madras founded
Classes started at IIT Madras in Guindy, the third IIT, which was set up with West German help.
Established in 1959, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras received technical, academic and financial support from West Germany through an Indo-German agreement concluded the same year. It was the third of the IITs to come into being. In July 1959 it took in its first 120 students on Guindy forest land handed over for the campus. Two years later, in 1961, the IITs were named Institutes of National Importance.
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