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In keeping with India’s vision to become a world leader in Science and Technology and to usher in a new revolution, resulting in unprecedented economic growth, the Government of India reassessed the need for technical manpower and decided to set up eight new IITs. Six of them started functioning back in the academic year 2008-09. These were established at Hyderabad, Gandhinagar, Rajasthan, Ropar, Patna and Bhubaneswar. IIT Indore and IIT Mandi started functioning in July 2009.

Indian Institute of Technology Indore located in Madhya Pradesh, known as IIT Indore or IITI, is an institute of national importance established by the Government of India in 2009. It is one of the eight new IITs, started by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India), Government of India. The institution started functioning from 2009-10 on a temporary campus at the Institute of Engineering and Technology of Devi Ahilyabai University under the mentorship of IIT Bombay. Shri Arjun Singh, the Union HRD minister, laid the foundation of the permanent campus, spread over an area of around 501.42-acre (2.1 km2), on 17th February 2009 at Simrol, a location on Khandwa Road about 25 km from the city of Indore.

Since, February 2016, IIT Indore has started functioning from its permanent campus. All the Administrative Offices, Material Management Section, Finance and Account Section, The School of Basic Sciences, The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The School of Engineering, Basic Science Labs, and Engineering Labs are all established on this campus. The Central Library is also situated on this campus.

The Academic office is responsible for all the academic affairs of the students of the Institute. There is a Dean of Academic Affairs, two Associate Dean (Academic), an Administrative Officer, Managers, and Deputy Managers in this office besides some contractual employees.

The Indian Institute of Technology Indore provides modern amenities with state-of-the-art infrastructure to its students. Some of the IIT Indore facilities include

Campus facilities: IITI has various campus facilities which include a Cafe, Atm, Bank, laundry, salon, etc.

Hostel: IIT Indore has a hostel facility both for boys and girls. There are a total of 5 hostels inside the campus.

Health Care: ITT Indore provides health services to the institute community comprising students, employees, their dependents, and Institute Guests. The Health Centre offers Outpatient, Daycare, Trauma and Emergency

The Indian Institute of Technology Indore provides various scholarships across all programs under multiple categories, such as merit-cum-means, SC/ST category, disabled students’ category, etc. Some scholarships are also funded by reputed industry giants. The table below mentions all IIT Indore scholarships, with downloadable details: