India’s pioneer institute in imparting technical education in Engineering, IIT BHU. celebrates its 100th anniversary with a series of events.
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) founded by Freedom fighter Pt Madan Mohan Malviya has turned 100 years on 13th February 2016. This university was known as the important seat of higher education in 1916. At the time of its establishment it was the first university in India that was the result of a private individual’s efforts. After its formation, BHU had played an important role in the freedom movement of India. Their main aim was to build a bridge between India’s past and modernising world system in the areas of social sciences, humanities particularly in evolving non colonial history as a discipline. With 100 years of legacy of IIT BHU, they had organized the 16th annual general body meeting, followed by a panel discussion on “Building Leaders – a Future role of technical education in India”.