Indian School of Mines - Dhanbad
Dhanbad, India
1926
Established
- Type
- Private | Institute of national importance
- Official website
- www.iitism.ac.in
Approvals and accreditation
AICTE
About College
The institute opened in Dhanbad on 9 December 1926 as the Indian School of Mines and Applied Geology, inaugurated by Viceroy Lord Irwin to train mining...
The Indian School of Mines was formally opened at Dhanbad on 9 December 1926 by Lord Irwin, then Viceroy of India, to train personnel for the country's mining industry in Mining Engineering and Applied Geology, with Dr David Penman as its first founder-principal. It was granted deemed-to-be-university status under the UGC Act in 1967, and on 6 September 2016 it was redesignated as the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand.