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The Indian Institute
of Technology, Roorkee is the successor of the University of Roorkee
and is the oldest technological institution of the country. Established as the
Roorkee College in 1847 and rechristened as the Thomson College of
Civil Engineering in 1854, it made tremendous contributions in the
development of infrastructural base-roads and highways, canals and
irrigation networks, railways and engineering industries etc. Recognizing
its yeomen contribution and its potential for growth, the college was
elevated to the first technical University of India on November 25,
1949. Nurtured as the premier institution by the state of Uttar Pradesh,
the University was declared an Institute of national importance and
converted into the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee by an Act
of Parliament with effect from September 21, 2001. IITR Home
THE DEPARTMENT
The Bachelor’s degree course in Architecture was stated in the year 1956-57 and independent department was established in the year 1960. A masters degree programme in architecture was started in 1969, which was the first such programme in the country. In the year 1974-75 it was renamed as the Department of Architecture and Planning. More