Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

About Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati or IITG) is a public technical university located in Amingaon, North Guwahati, in the state of Assam, India.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati or IITG) is a public technical university located in Amingaon, North Guwahati, in the state of Assam, India. Established in 1994 by an act of the Parliament of India, it is the sixth Indian Institute of Technology and is designated an Institute of National Importance under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. The institute's creation arose from the 1985 Assam Accord, signed between the All Assam Students Union and the Government of India, which included a commitment to establish an IIT in the state as part of broader improvements to education infrastructure in the region. The campus occupies approximately 700 acres on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River, about 20 kilometres from central Guwahati. The establishment of IIT Guwahati traces to the Assam Accord of 1985, which resolved the six-year Assam Movement and committed the central government to improving education facilities in the state, including the creation of an IIT. Following the Accord, Education Consultants India Limited was tasked with preparing a project report; the resulting report, completed in 1989, was overseen by Prof. C. R. Malhotra, a former director of IIT Kanpur.