khaskhabar career

The Central Government in consultation with the Planning Commission had sanctioned a scheme of establishment of Regional Engineering Colleges under the Third Five Year Plain in order to expand the facilities for technical education in the country during the plan period.  The Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra was one of the seventeen colleges in the country.

    Vide letter No. 16-4/60-T.5, dated the 26th February, 1962 from the Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Scientific Research and Cultural Affairs, New Delhi, it was established in the year 1963 as a joint and cooperative enterprise of Govt. of India and the State Government of Haryana to serve the State of Haryana and the rest of the country for imparting technical training to youth and for fostering national integration. Its objective was to provide instructions and research facilities in various disciplines of engineering and technology and the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge in each such discipline.

 The first admission to five year B.Sc. (Engg.) degree course was made by the Institute in July, 1963 at Punjab Engineering College , Chandigarh and Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology,  with an intake of 60 students at each place. This was repeated in July, 1964 also.  The Institute started functioning on its present campus at Kurukshetra from the year 1965-66.  The students were admitted to the first year of the five year integrated B.Sc.(Engg.) degree courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. In 1967-68, M.Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering were introduced. In 1971-72, a degree course in Electronics & Communication Engineering and a Post-graduate Diploma Course in Scientific Instrumentation were started. In 1976-77, part time M.Sc. (Engg.) degree courses in Electronics & Communication Engineering and Instrumentation Engineering were started. The first registration for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology was done in July, 1967.

To produce quality manpower equipped with human and social values required to provide integration of technical skill, social character, leadership, self-confidence, creativity and renovation for benefit of mankind and sustainable development of India.

To promote the areas of study, teaching and research activities of the Institute by:

*Providing exchange of Faculty and Scholars at Regional and National level to attain contemporariness;

*Increasing Government-Institute and Industry-Academia Interaction by promoting joint research and consultancy projects between various Departments/Agencies of the Government of India and the Institute as well as Industry and the Institute;

*Contributing to knowledge, creation, development, up gradation, dissemination and application by conducting research on the emerging disciplines, by workshops and by publishing books, research reports and research papers in journals of National and International standing.

*To offer academic programs in different areas of engineering at Under-graduate, Post-graduate and Doctoral levels.

*Increasing Government-Institute and Industry-Academia Interaction by promoting joint research and consultancy projects between various Departments/Agencies of the Government of India and the Institute as well as Industry and the Institute;

*To promote quality research and undertake research projects keeping in view the present day to day needs of technology.

*To interact with industry and other relevant sectors with a view to promote mutual interaction.

*To provide consultancy and testing facilities to various government, semi-government and private organizations with a view to generate additional resources and keep in touch with latest demands of the profession.

*To interact with, and provide necessary help to other engineering institutions from the state in particular.

*To act as a source for fostering national integration, the students intake being from all over the country providing this opportunity.

*To inculcate moral values.  

Registrar  

Mailing Address : Registrar 

National Institute of Technology

Kurukshetra - 136119

Haryana (India)

Telephone : 01744-233208

Fax : 238350

Email : registrar@nitkkr.ac.in