Facilities

Transport

Personal mode of transport is used in the Institute Campus. For visitors on official purpose, Institute car can be arranged if prior information is received about their programme. Taxi or cycle-rickshaw can be hired for moving inside the Campus and for visiting to the town market (Gole Bazaar) or the railway station. The Institute runs a bus service to Gole Bazaar, the railway station and to the neighboring town of Midnapore.

Student Accommodation

IIT Kharagpur houses almost 11,000 students. There are 22 Halls of Residences (15 for boys, 5 for girls, 2 general) around the campus. Each Hall is self contained with its kitchen and mess, it's common room and gym, it's basketball and badminton courts, high speed LAN in every room and Wi-Fi.

Faculty Accommodation

All faculty members live on campus - you can choose old style bungalows with trees that date back to the days of India?s struggle for independence, or in modern apartments with your own bit of blue sky and your own balcony garden.

Guest House

Accommodation can be availed at the institutional guest houses for a limited period. These guest houses are available for visiting faculty and their families, parents of students, alumni and other visitors of the Institute. Guest house accommodation can also be availed on a long-term basis on case-by-case basis. The guest houses are maintained by staff with experience in hotel management.

Food

Numerous on-campus eateries serve the demands of residents. Some eateries are open overnight, while some serve hot food from early morning itself to best cater to the people's' convenience. Each Hall of Residence has its own Canteen apart from the mess. 'Eat-KGP' a virtual collaboration of all the in-campus eateries provides room delivery of food through online orders. Other eating places are Sahara, Dreamland, Vegies, Super-Duper, Tikka, Billoo’s Restaurant etc. Some joints located within the Institute premises serve tea, coffee, soft drinks and light snacks. The KGP campus also boasts of retail eatery chains such as Cafe Coffee Day, Baskin Robbins and Subway. One can always visit multiple restaurants outside the campus (approx. 5 kms). IIT KGP has its own Food Monitoring Committee that ensures proper quality food is being served hygienically at fair prices at all campus eateries

Market

For daily necessities and groceries, one can walk down to the Tech Market. The market also has medicine stores, tailoring shops, bookshops and facilities for photocopying, word-processing and offset printing. A larger market, Gole Bazaar is about 5 km from the Campus.

Banks

Three banks are located inside the Campus. The State Bank of India is close to the Institute and provides foreign exchange facilities also. The Syndicate Bank is situated on the first floor of the Institute main building. The Punjab National Bank is situated in the Tech Market where business transactions are carried out in the afternoon.

Post Office

The Post Office is located close to the State Bank. Full postal and telegraphic service is available at the Post Office.

Hospital

The B.C.Roy Technology Hospital is located at the center of the Campus. It provides indoor and outdoor medical facilities for common ailments. Complicated cases are referred for treatment to the State Hospital or to the Railway Hospital, both of them are located about 2 km from the Campus.

The campus hospital provides primary Health Care comprising of curative, preventive and health promotion services to its faculty, employees, and students using modern and cost effective techniques and technologies, and through a dedicated and humane approach. It refers patients to top hospitals in the nearest city for specialized healthcare services and medical treatment.For IIT Kharagpur students, there is a medical insurance scheme. For the referral of the students, there is an arrangement with several hospitals in Kolkata.

Gymkhana

Technology Students' Gymkhana is the hub of the numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular activities in IIT Kharagpur ranging from sports to socio-cultural. From its inception in 1952, the Gymkhana has played a key role in the everyday lives of Kgpians cultivating and nurturing their extra-curricular talents. The moto of Technology Students' Gymkhana is "Yogah Karmasu Kausalam" which in English means "Perfection in action is Yoga". The Technology Students' Gymkhana, IIT Kharagpur is managed by the students, for the students, under the guidance and active participation of the faculty and staff members. It has a number of indoor and outdoor stadia, a modern swimming pool and a gymnasium. Music Society, Film Society, Dramatics Society, Aquatics Society and many more special interest groups are supported by the Gymkhana.

Library

The Central Library of IIT Kharagpur started in a small room of the Institute old Building (Shahid Bhavan) in the year 1951, and moved to its present premises in 1956. Since then, it has grown in size and content to take the present shape. With the developments in computers, microelectronics and communication technologies, the behavioral characteristics of the information seekers have been changing rapidly and the library is trying its best to adapt with the technological advancement. For the last six decades, the library has been the lifeline of the academic activities of the Institute. It is no exaggeration to state that the Central Library of IIT Kharagpur is one of the largest and finest technical libraries in Asia. It has been catering to the needs of our students of undergraduates, postgraduates, research scholar, faculty members and staff members of the various departments, centers, schools and research facilities.

The Library is having a collection of more than 3.5 Lakh documents, subscribing about 100+ print journals, and providing access to over 26,000+ online full- text journals and several abstracting databases. Besides, there are 135,000+ e-books. The collection consists of Books, Back-volumes of Periodicals, Theses, Conference Proceedings, Standards, Reports, Microforms, and CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Databases and Audiovisual materials.

COMPUTER NETWORK

The backbone of lIT Kharagpur network is based on gigabit fibre optic technology. All the Departmental LANs are connected to the gigabit fibre optic backbone as separate VLANs. Three links are in use to provide email and Internet facilities. All laboratories, faculty and officers chambers, All rooms in halls of residence are provided with Internet connectivity.

Nehru Museum

Nehru Museum of Science & Technology is located at the Hijli Detention camp building, now named as Hijli Saheed Bhavan. According to history, this building was constructed almost a century ago to house the district headquarters of proposed Hijli district but never used for that purpose. In early 1930-s, this building was converted to a detention camp for the Indian political prisoners. Thereafter in 1942 the US air force, as a part of the allied forces, took over the building for use as their headquarter and radio control unit for their air squadron. Soon after, the ideas for the establishment of a Higher Technical Institute germinated with the creation of the first of the Indian Institutes of Technology in 1951 at the same premises.

Considering the historical importance of the "Old Hijli Detention Camp", Prof K. L. Chopra, Director of I.I.T. Kharagpur from 1987 to 1997, took the initiative to house in it a museum to preserve the history of the building and for the popularisation of science and technology. A task force to look after the museum establishment was constituted under the chairmanship of Prof. G.L. Sinha in 1989. Members of this committee included dedicated teachers of the institute like Prof. S. T. H. Abidi and Prof. (Smt.) Mandakini Majumdar, who took major initiatives in establishing.

Museum Resources

The Nehru Museum of Science & Technology completed 25 years of its existence in 2016. In keeping with the spirit, a museum development fund received from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, was utilized to renovate some of the galleries of the Museum. Though this work is still ongoing, a section of the museum has been attractively renovated with the help of the National Council of Science Museums and is drawing a large crowd of visitors each day since its opening in September 2014.

Apart from the science galleries of the museum, it also houses several other resources and artifacts which have their own significance, such as:

  1. The "Prison Cells" for men and the "Ladies Jail" for women, which were constructed in the 1930's for political prisoners.
  2. A gallery on important landmarks in the journey of India's freedom struggle titled "From Bondage to Freedom- The Nation's Journey"
  3. A gallery located at the prison cells to showcase the role of Midnapore district in the freedom struggle movement of India.
  4. Special outdoor exhibits like "Hunter Plane", an attack jet donated by the Indian Air Force, a medium gauge steam engine donated by the Indian Railways, a field radar donated by Indian Army and a plaque, with the encryption of the presence of American Airforce here at Kharagpur during World War-II.
  5. A recent value addition to the museum has been the 'Exploration Hub', intended mainly for school children. The facility contains mechanical, electrical, electronics, chemistry, and basic physics and mathematics setups for hands-on experiments.
  6. The museum has published several books on science and technology and historical facts related to the freedom struggle of India.