IIT Roorkee
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iit-roorkee-167-4421832
title:
IIT Roorkee
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India. It was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in 1847 during East India Company rule in India by James Thomason, the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces in which Roorkee was located; its purpose was to train officers and surveyors employed in the construction of the Ganges Canal. In 1854, after the completion of the canal
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Public engineering institution located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIT_Roorkee
date created:
2003-09-10T11:40:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T07:09:39Z
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