PM Modi dedicated infrastructural development projects worth Rs. 230 crores at IIT Kharagpur virtually
February 20, 2024, West Bengal, India: Under the able leadership of our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, IIT Kharagpur witnessed the testimony towards the road that leads to a Vikshit Bharat @2047, the vision of a Sashakt Bharat. Today Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the Nation the Infrastructure Development Projects worth about Rs. 230 crores at IIT Kharagpur in the august presence of Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office; Shri Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir along with other ministers and members of parliament through video conferencing. Dr. Subhas Sarkar, Hon’ble Minister of State for Education graced the event physically on 20th February, 2024 in the Netaji Auditorium of the institute in the presence of Prof. V K Tewari, Director, IIT Kharagpur; Prof. Amit Patra, Deputy Director, IIT Kharagpur and Captain Amit Jain (Retd.), Registrar, IIT Kharagpur along with other senior professors, staffs and students of the institute.
The Infrastructure development projects at IIT Kharagpur comprises two Girls’ Hostel named Savitri Bai Phule Halls of Residence (with 500 capacity each); one Boys Hostel named Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hall of Residence (500 capacity) and one Annexe building of the Chemical Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur.
- Girls Hostels (GH – 1 And GH – 2) Savitri Bai Phule Halls of Residence
- Single-seater, air-conditioned accommodation for 500 girls in each hostel.
- The building is designed as per 3-star TERI GRIHA or LEED-Gold star or IGBC- Gold star rating standards.
- Built at a cost of approx. 123 crores.
- The building complies with the guidelines of the Accessible India campaign and there is a barrier-free building.
- It has Central air conditioning, Solar water heating system, Solar PV Generation system, Fire Fighting and alarm system, LAN, CCTV, IBMS, Lifts etc. A dual plumbing system is provided and treated STP water will be used for toilet flushing.
- The following facilities are provided in the Hostel Building which includes Library and Reading room; Music Room and Interaction room; Reception and Visitors Lounge; Dining and kitchen; Shops, Gymnasium; Indoor Games, Cycle Track; Cycle Shed; Car Parking, Washing and drying facilities; Garbage chute for effective waste management.
- Boys Hostel (BH – 1) Atal Bihari Vajpayee Halls of Residence
- Single seater, air-conditioned accommodation for 500 boys.
- The Building is designed as per 3-star TERI GRIHA or LEED-Gold star or IGBC-Gold star rating standards.
- The building complies with the guidelines of the Accessible India campaign and there is provision for barrier-free building.
- Built at a cost of approx. 62 crores.
- It has Central air conditioning, Solar water heating system, Solar PV General system, Fire Fighting and alarm system, LAN, CCTV, IBMS, Lifts etc. A dual plumbing system is provided and treated STP water will be used in toilet flushing.
- The following facilities are provided in the Hostel Building which includes Library and Reading room; Music Room and Interaction room; Reception and Visitors Lounge; Dining and kitchen; Shops; Gymnasium; Indoor Games; Cycle Track; Cycle Shed and Car Parking.
- Department of Chemical Engineering (Annex Building)
- The Annex building of the Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur is a G +3 building with centralized air conditioning system.
- Built at a cost of approx. 45 Cr.
- Has a plinth area of 7458 square meters.
- Houses undergraduate, postgraduate, and research laboratories for Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Mechanical Operations, Process Instrumentation and Control, Industrial Pollution Control, Multi-Phase Flow, mCFD, Crystallization, Energy Conversion and Storage, Catalysis, Particle Technology, Ultrafast Cooling, Rheology.
- Has a common advanced computing laboratory for 300 students at a time.
- Houses departmental research facilities with high-end sophisticated analytical instruments like Chemisorption, GC- MS, Mercury Analyzer, ICP-MS, TGA-MS, BET Surface Area Analyzer, conference & meeting rooms, faculty rooms, and classrooms