IIT Roorkee PDF Walk-In-Interview 2025, 28th April

Sir Ganga Ram (1873) after a brief Service in Punjab P.W.D devoted himself to practical farming. He obtained on lease from Government 50,000 acres of barren, unirrigated land in Montgomery district,and within three years converted that vast desert into smiling fields,irrigated by water lifted by a hydroelectric plant and running through a thousand miles of irrigation channels, all constructed at his own cost.

This was the biggest private enterprise of the kind, unknown and unthought of in the country before. Sir Ganga Ram earned millions most of which he gave to charity. In the words of Sir Malcolm Hailey, the then Governor of Punjab, “he won like a hero and and gave like a Saint”. He was a great engineer and a great philanthropist.

Raja Jwala Prasad (1900) another highly illustrious alumnus became Chief Engineer, UP Irrigation Department in 1929 and was honoured by the title of Raja by the Government.He prepared the Ganga Canal Grid Scheme in 1924. After retirement in 1932 he established a sugar mill and an agricultural firm in Bijnor, U.P. He was Chairman of the Thomason College Reorganisation Committee (1938-39).

Sir Lakshmi Pati Misra (1911) possessed many virtues apart from sound engineering skills. A keen sportsman and a brilliant conversationalist he served the Indian Railways with great distinction for 34 years and rose to the highest rank of Chief Commissioner. His association with his alma mater was intimate and full of affection.

IIT Roorkee has its roots in the Roorkee College, which was set up in 1847.It was renamed as the ThomasonCollege of Civil Engineering in 1854. The College laid the foundation of modem engineering education and theuse of Civil Engineering practices in the infrastructure development of the country.

The irrigation infrastructurein the form of dams and canals, roads and highways, railway, bridges, etc. in the country, all have been theoutcome of the engineering education imparted in this, the only engineering institution in the country, at thatpoint of time. It got elevated as the first technical University of the country in 1948 through the University ofRoorkee Act, 1947 passed by the United Provinces Legislature. University of Roorkee also became the firstinstitution in the country to offer postgraduate programs engineering and technology in 1955.

On September21,2001, the University was converted into an IIT by the Government of India through an Act of Parliamentand recognized as an lnstitution ofNational importance. Roorkee is the entry point of Uttarakhand state. It ison the way to Haridwar from Delhi.