Business Club
Business Club, popularly known as BClub, is IIT Kharagpur’s in-campus society for all things business. It provides a platform for like-minded individuals who yearn to enrich their knowledge of business and apply their skills in various competitions like case studies and hackathons at the national and international level. A family of around 70 student members, actively working under 3 wings: Strategy, Finance and Analytics, BClub is constantly striving to bridge the gap between business and technology.
Business Club was founded in 2009 as Genese-de-Strategie by Shailesh Gupta, Harsh Gupta, Sudipto Sannigrahi, and Mayank Mundra. Genesie-de-Strategie was started with a primary objective to educate the students about the world of business strategies. The founders felt a need for students to be informed about the working of the business world for their growth. Over the course of a year, they realised the need to have a more wholesome approach to the world of business. They formed the Business Club in 2010 with a broader perspective toward business.
Communique
Communiqué started in the year 2006, as the brainchild of Anindya Dutta with the novel aim of providing the students of IIT Kharagpur a strong platform to improve their soft skills and personality arose from the disappointment of recruiting companies with the communication skills of the brilliant students. Recognizing the importance of communication and soft skills in personal and professional life and keeping in mind the diverse background of the students, Communiqué strives towards achieving its goal to inspire, blossom confidence, and equip each KGPian with career building soft skills.
Communiqué aims to provide customized attention to all students by serving as an interface between professional communication experts and individual students and working with the students to ensure that there is a perceptible change in the level of communication skills in IIT Kharagpur.
Communique functions with the help of an efficient student staff that includes :
Members :First year UG and PG students that are the life of Communique. Personal attention is paid to grooming and developing soft skills in each fresher member.
Secretary :Second-year UG students who publicize , organize and manage all Communique events . This year there are 18 of them.
Governors :Primary administrators. They chalk out year-round activities, distribute work among Secretaries, Supervise funds; budget and collaborations with various Guests and enterprises.
Conveners :Ex-Governors. They mentor and advise our present office bearers and throw treats and parties.
Co-Conveners : Final Year Students with ultimate authority . Their decisions are steadfast and binding on the society.
Debating Society
The Debating Society, IIT Kharagpur, abbreviated as DebSoc, is IIT Kharagpur's competitive debate organization. It participates with consistent success in Parliamentary Debates across the world, and had organized the IIT Kharagpur Model United Nations Conference and the IIT Kharagpur Parliamentary Debate in previous years. In 2020, a team from KGP DebSoc went on to become the first all-Indian team to reach the ESL (English-as-Second-Language) finals of Australs, one of the most prestigious debating tournaments in the world.
The Debating Society is always looking for smart, enthusiastic debaters, and takes in new members all year round. There is no restriction on the year of study, and members have joined as late as 4th year. However, to provide more structured training, and to spread awareness, it holds Fresher Selections and Senior Selections at the beginning of the year. This is followed by a training workshop, which lasts about a month, where newcomers to parliamentary debating are taught various facets and nuances of structured argumentation.
Eastern Technology Music Society
Eastern Technology Music Society, popularly known as ETMS, is one of the two official music societies in IIT Kharagpur, which takes care of the eastern music culture in the campus. The society aims at spreading diverse musical sections of eastern music in both hindustani and carnatic styles, nurturing and motivating musicians, inculcating values and expression through music, and develop good music taste among our audience.
ETMS performs the Annual Foundation Day of the Institute in the autumn semester on 18th August. This is also the first time the new inductees get the chance to perform for the society. ETMS performs the spring production in the spring semester generally in the month of January, the starting day of Spring Fest. This production also gives the platform to showcase our talent to viewers from outside as well. This happens to be the final production of the graduating batch and they get a chance to play some of their favourite songs for one last time in KGP.
Quiz Club
IIT Kharagpur Quiz Club is the official quiz society of IIT Kharagpur. A great place for quiz enthusiasts, it is an open society where any sort of exclusive membership is not required.It organises regular quiz sessions on the campus. These sessions are usually held at the Yoga Room in Gymkhana.Students participate in various competitions like Inter IIT Tech Meet, Inter IIT Cultural Meet, Nihilanth, Tata Crucible Biz Quiz, TAPMI QoTB, DDM IT Quiz and various other college and open quizzes in and around Kharagpur. The recent exploits of IIT Kgp Quiz Club in various quizzes all over India has garnered them respect in the Kolkata quizzing circuit.
Every year the quiz club welcomes the freshers at IIT Kharagpur with a fun quiz to encourage the young minds to pursue their interests in quizzing. Participation is open to all freshers and they come together in teams to win handsome prizes for themselves.Another event of great importance in our quizzing calendar. With a great turnout, participants indulge in intense quizzing and with great answers to take home the prize. Past governors and eminent quizmasters are invited to host the event and it has been a great success in recent years.
The Biz, Sci-Tech and General quizzes during the General Championships are very important events in the College. They constitute a good number of points and the respective halls battle their wits to come out on the top. Major Chandrakant Nair, the quiz master for 2018, commented that such enthusiasm for Inter-hall competitions in college is very enthusing.The quizmasters for 2019 were Samanway Banerjee for the Biz and Sci-Tech quizzes along with Baneswar Sarker and Arindam Dutta for the General quiz.A brand new event hosted by the Quiz Club for the first time in 2018, the quiz week has 8 quizzes in its array for an entire week, with a quiz also held exclusively for women participants on International Women's Day. Participation was open to all and the event turned out to be a huge success for the club
Spectra
Spectra - the 'Fine Arts and Design Group of IIT Kharagpur' aims to strengthen and promote the roots of fine arts among the students of IIT Kharagpur. With many talented artists and exhibitionists as its members, it promises to be a valued treasure for the connoisseurs of fine arts.
ArtBeat - the Annual Art Exhibition of IIT Kharagpur is conducted by Spectra in the Gymkhana building for three days every year in the month of March. Artbeat is Spectra's biggest event that provides the perfect opportunity to all creative people within the campus to showcase their creativity through Traditional artworks, Handicrafts, Digital art and Photographs. Months of effort go into preparing for this event, which ends up as a brilliant display of the best and most creative work done by students in KGP.
The event, Live Portrait, is a sensation of the exhibition where talented students, as well as professors, sketch portraits of visitors then and there. Live portrait making is one of the first workshops conducted by Spectra for it's new members every year.
Technology Adventure Society
It is a non-profit organization which comes under the Gymkhana .It's main focus is to maintain the spirit of adventure in each and every student and teachers in Kharagpur. It provides an exposure outside of the campus . They conduct various events throughout the year which help students and teachers to explore and experience the new things within the campus. For this they organize many activities
Cycling trip :It's basically consists of 80-90 students and 8 to 10 Associate members of the team, the main motto for this trip is to get students to know about their campus and make them aware about the greenery of the campus.
Paint-Ball :It is organized near Gymkhana , and in this event there is a group of 10 participants 5 on one side and remaining on other side . They are provided with full proof jackets, masks, hand guns and balls .It is like the counter strike game , where one team has to attack on another team .It's really a very fun event .
Rappelling :It is done in the building of MMM hall . It is one of most adventurous events .It is basically a wall climbing type of event .
Zorbing :In this event , there is group of four participants ,who fight amongst each other . In this sport , participants are put inside an orb, generally made up of transparent plastic and fight together and roll down and collide with each other.
Go - Karting :It is organized in the Gymkhana ,and many enthusiastic students who miss driving here or who like racing , participate in this event .In this event , organizers provide cars and tires to set track for safety and many students enjoy a lot in this event .
Trekking :It is a 10-12 days event conducted after end-sem exam , aimed at those group of students who appreciate the beauty of nature . It is organized in both summer and winter and at various places like Kareri lake trip, Dharamshala , Manali ,Dodital lake , Delhi etc.
Technology Dance Society
BreakFree : Technology Dance Society, abbreviated as TDS, is the official All-style Dance Crew of IIT Kharagpur. Since it's foundation in the year 2012, where it was recognized as an official part of Technology Students' Gymkhana, IIT Kharagpur, it has grown ahead in multiple dance forms like Locking, Popping, Breaking, House, Dancehall and Whacking. It participates in Street as well as Western Stage dance competitions across India. It also organizes workshops for western dance enthusiasts at IIT Kharagpur.
The participants of the auditions are asked to perform a one-minute piece of dance routine on their choice of song and dance style. They are also allowed to perform on the routine taught to them during the workshop. The dance performance can be original or inspired, but not exactly copied. There is no restriction to any dance forms. There may be a second round consisting of an impromptu performance of approximately 30 seconds.The participants are marked on the following :
- Beat sense
- Choreography
- Energy
- Interest
Druheen
Druheen is the official name of Bengali Technology dramatic society(BTDS) of IIT Kharagpur. It is one of the dramatic society which is under Technology students' Gymkhana and is a part of the Dramatics Subcommittee under the Social and Cultural Committee. This is one of the oldest societies in IIT Kharagpur.
On 15th August, every year, Druheen perform a play which can also be called fresher's introduction production. The cast includes mainly second year and fourth year. Seniors mostly the fifth year attends the practice session for supervising and teaching the drama. This production mainly happens to encourage freshers who come new to the campus.
The freshers are given a thorough training of theatre oriented workshops that teache them the basics of dramatics. Skills like voice modulation, voice intensity, dramatization, body posture, stage movements, third forms, etc are taught in groups.
First years along with the four governors train for three weeks at the Main Building. Occasional skits, monologues, and challenging impromptu are attempted to improve the versatility of the actor.The play takes place mainly after the midsem. This play officially performed by the fresher's. Mainly the third year students train the juniors. The plays mostly include entertaining characters to encourage the freshers.
Encore
Technology Dramatics Society: ENCORE is the institute's official English Dramatics Society. It was earlier referred to as the 'English Technology Dramatics Society', ETDS in short. It is under the Technology Students' Gymkhana and is a part of the Dramatics Subcommittee under the Social and Cultural Committee. The Governors with the help of the entire society train the first years and with rigorous practice put up a production, with the entire cast being first years.
Within two weeks of the Autumn Semester starting, ENCORE performs its first production of the year. The cast ranges from second years to fifth years. Over the years it has been observed that ENCORE generally picks up comical plays and sketch comedy to entertain the freshers. This is also the first time the Governors for the new tenure are introduced to KGP. Nukkad Natak is the only event during the entire year when ENCORE does a play/street play in Hindi. Only the first years take part in the Nukkad Natak competition organized during SpringFest. ENCORE also participates annually in the Stage Play event of SpringFest i.e. Rangmanch. This is the only time when it prepares two versions of the same play, a teaser trailer, and a full-fledged version.
Prasthanam
Technology Dramatics Society: Prasthanam is the institute's official Telugu Dramatics Society. It was earlier referred to as the 'Technology Telugu Dramatics Society', TTDS in short. It is under the Technology Students' Gymkhana and is a part of the Dramatics Subcommittee under the Social and Cultural Committee.
The youngest of all dramatics societies, Technology Dramatics Society - Prasthanam has grown in leaps and bounds since being recognized by the Technology Students' Gymkhana in 2013. It is a society formed to assimilate, perpetuate and integrate the rich culture and dramatics heritage of the Telugu speaking people into the mainstream culture of IIT Kharagpur.
Prasthanam's main goal is to encourage, nurture and showcase the various talented individuals, helping them reach their potential and realizing the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the seniors and alumni who have worked really hard to bring Prasthanam to where it is now.Within two weeks of the Autumn Semester starting, Prasthanam performs its first production of the year. The cast ranges from second years to Third years. The aim of this Production is to Entertain Freshers from Telugu Community with its Comical Plays. This is also the first time the Governors for the new tenure are introduced to KGP.The Governors with the help of the entire society train the first years and with rigorous practice put up a production, with the entire cast being first years and background works are done by second years.
Pravah
Pravah, previously known as Hindi Technology Dramatics Society (H.T.D.S.) ,as the name suggests, is the official Hindi Dramatics Society of I.I.T. Kharagpur. It was founded in 1967 by Mr. R.K Bagrodia.Pravah comes under the Technology Students' Gymkhana and is a part of the Dramatics Subcommittee under the Social and Cultural Committee. Since its inception, Pravah has been highly successful in bringing the true spirit of theatre to life and in demonstrating the power of emotions and thoughts through its stage plays and nukkad nataks (Street Plays).
The society although, does not hold any bias to a particular language and does not consider proficiency in Hindi as a metric during selections, which is evident from the fact that many of its members are not well versed in Hindi, but continue to contribute with great enthusiasm.The Pravah family, with 112 active members currently, boasts of individuals with a keen sense of theatrical and street art! Our members have also brought accolades to their halls with their performances in Hall dramatics and have featured in various Short Films for various productions by the Filmmaking club for Inter IIT Cultural Meets.
The first act of the year (referred to as the Welcome Production ) is performed during late-July to Early-August.This introduces the first year to Pravah and it’s various activities.It is the first act performed by the freshers. It is performed during late-October to early-November. For its first production of the year Pravah generally picks up comical plays to entertain the freshers. The main objective of this play is for the first years to get an experience of what a play is and to provide them with a chance to display their newfound skills.Nukkad Natak is a form of art play whereas the actors perform on a street with a live audience. The purpose of Nukkad Natak is to spread awareness about important social/political issues that plague our society. Pravah participates in the nukkad natak event of Spring fest in the month of January. Only the first years participate in it and are guided by the seniors of society.Every year the members of Pravah participate in Rangmanch which is the stage play competition held during Spring fest in January.Every year the freshers of Pravah along with the governors visit one or more colleges including IIM Kolkata, IIT Kanpur, and IIM Bangalore to compete in stage and street play competitions.
Technology Filmmaking and Photography Society
The Technology Filmmaking & Photography Society, IIT Kharagpur, abbreviated as TFPS, is the official club of IIT Kharagpur for students interested in filmmaking, photography and film-appreciation with a highly active presence on Youtube
Founded in 2010 by a few film enthusiasts, TFPS has come a long way in promoting filmmaking and film appreciation among the campus fraternity as well as outside. It has also been a launchpad for students interested in pursuing careers in the Entertainment Industry.
Technology Literary Society
The Technology Literary Society, IIT Kharagpur abbreviated as TLS, is IIT Kharagpur's literary organization involving a group of enthusiastic English and Hindi writers, and designers. The society used to publish the monthly wall magazine Hang On, and the literary newsletter KGP Pulse but they have been discontinued in favour of using social media to reach a larger population. TLS continues to publish the annual campus magazine Alankar.
In the year 2014-15 a new event was introduced by TLS on the lines of a Kavi Sammelan, christened Kavya Sandhya. The first edition was primarily experimental in nature, with the Hindi poets from Team TLS exhibiting their poetry and oratory skills on stage. the event received great admiration from the kavis in the campus and that motivated us to bring it in a larger scale as the Kavyanjali. Kavya Sandhya is held till date in the autumn semester and gives a chance for the Hindi poets of the campus to dazzle the audience with their words.
Continuing the legacy of Kavya Sandha, during the spring semester of year 2014-15 TLS collaborated with Awaaz and Rajbhasha Vibhag to organize Kavyanjali in the Kalidas auditorium where acclaimed Hindi poets like Prof. Prem Shankar Tripathi, Shri Ravi Pratap Singh, Shri Jagesh Tiwari presided the event. Since then, Kavyanjali is held annually in the spring semester where poets from outside and as well as inside the KGP campus enrapture the audience with their lines.In the year 2014-15, for the first time, TLS hosted a Poetry slam event during Spring fest. The event saw participation from 6 colleges and it was open for both Hindi and English poets.In the year 2018-19, for the first time, an English spoken word event called Farrago was conducted. The event was held to promote the culture of English spoken word. The event saw participation from TLS members as well as some exceptional poets outside TLS from the campus.
Technology Robotix Society
Technology Robotix Society (abbrv. TRS) is an official society under the Technology Students' Gymkhana, IIT Kharagpur and is a focal point for activities and projects related to robotics in the campus. With its reach expanding steadily each year, it has also cemented its position as one of the nerve centres of amateur robotics in India.
Technology Robotix Society (TRS) conducts many events throughout the year, specifically aimed at undergraduate students, with a general aim of spreading robotics culture in the campus and around.The Kharagpur Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group (KRAIG) classes are organized by TRS throughout the autumn semester each year and are open to be attended for all students. The main attendees being first year undergraduate students of the campus. The classes cover the basics of robotics, starting off with drives, mechanisms and then moving on to electronics, integrated circuits and finally to the basics of autonomous robotics.
The annual winter workshop is conducted each year after the conclusion of the autumn semester. The workshops are mentored by second year robotics enthusiasts including TRS members and interested students are taught the concepts of either autonomous robotics or computer vision, and through that knowledge, attempt to tackle a relevant problem statement. Students are selected through a common test organized by TRS, based on the results of which problem statements and mentors are assigned to the students, which they try to tackle together in one week of time.
Kharagpur Robotics and Intelligent Systems Seminars (abbrv. KRISS) is an initiative to bring together people across departments and different years to discuss and exchange ideas related to more mature and nuanced areas of robotics. The primary motivation is to encourage feedback and potential collaboration between interested individuals and also to foster a general culture of research-oriented discussions.In addition to the classes, TRS also organizes exclusively-for-freshers competitions like Robosoccer in which students are taught to build a basic differential drive and Pathfinder workshop in which they are taught to build a line follower without writing a single line of code.In addition to all this, TRS also conducts workshops for robotics in other colleges in India.
Western Technology Music Society
Western Technology Music Society, popularly known as WTMS, is one of the two official music societies in IIT Kharagpur, which governs the western music scene in the campus. The society aims at spreading diverse music genres, nurturing and motivating musicians, inculcating values and expression through music, and develop good music taste among our audience.
The primary activities of the society include organizing and performing two productions every academic year, one in the Autumn Semester and the other in Spring Semester. The playlist is decided few weeks prior to the production through a consensus of all the members in the society. Songs are chosen so that the playlist is as diverse as possible, consisting of (but not limited to) genres such as Rock (Progressive/Post/Classic/Psychadelic), Metal(Thrash/Prog/Core), Jazz, Blues, Funk, Neo-soul, R&B.WTMS performs the annual production in the autumn semester generally in the month of October/November around the Durga Puja vacations. This is also the first time the new inductees get the chance to perform for the society.
WTMS performs the spring production in the spring semester generally in the month of March, after the end-semester examinations, around the time when Hall Days are going on. This happens to be the final production of the graduating batch and they get a chance to play some of their favourite songs for one last time in KGP.
Aroma: Technology Culinary Arts Society
Aroma: Technology Culinary Arts Society (abbreviated Aroma: TCAS) was created in Spring 2019. It was created in response to the introduction of culinary events in the 3rd Inter IIT Cultural Meet held at IIT Roorkee in December 2018. The objective of the society was to encourage the interest of students in culinary activities.
It shall promote culinary arts culture in the Institute on behalf of Gymkhana. It will also submit proposals for organizing workshops and seminars on culinary arts and proper diet for health care for the benefit of the students.
Technology Culinary Arts Society shall endeavour to encourage the culinary arts and allied activities among the students. The Governors will be responsible for arranging the required facilities. The Technology Culinary Arts Society shall organize various workshops and events for the students' community and help the members to learn and practice culinary arts under Technology Students Gymkhana.
Workshops will be conducted for the members of the society. External workshops may be conducted. A workshop was conducted for 2nd-year students during Assimilation Program in Autumn 2019.A food stall was set up in association with Institute Wellness Group during Twilight Jamboree in Autumn 2019. The stall served mocktails, sandwiches, pav bhaji and dessert. The stall witnessed a footfall of over 200 people.An authentic Indian cooking workshop was organized for 10 international students during 'Dyuti' in association with International Relations Cell. The students were showed spices in Indian foods and how they are used. They were also showed some easy snacks such as pakora, desserts like phirni and drinks like jal jeera.Food Exhibition may be conducted twice annually, once in each semester.
Chess Club
An active group of Chess enthusiasts from IIT Kharagpur; open for all club purely meant to boost the enthusiasm and chess culture in the institute