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IIT Kharagpur
The history of the IIT system dates back to 1946 when a committee was set up by Hon'ble Sir Jogendra Singh, Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, Department of Education Health and Agriculture to consider the setting up of Higher Technical Institutions for post war industrial development in India. The 22 member committee headed by Sri N.R.Sarkar, in its report, recommended the establishment of four Higher Technical Institutions in the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern regions, possibly on the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, with a number of secondary institutions....
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Biotechnology
The centre was started in 1986 with a grant from the Ministry of Human resources Development. On-going research and development activities
are focussed on product process to equipment development in the following such as Continuous Ethanol Production by using novel Bioreactor with non-conventional raw materials, High Frequency Mass Propagation of Plants in Liquid Media nd Bio-reactors, Induction of Automation in Industrial Plant Cell Culture, Application of Genetic Techniques for improvement of Tasar silk etc.
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Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur
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