32-634: Bhilai is a city in Durg district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh , in eastern central India. Along with its twin-city Durg , the urban agglomeration of Durg-Bhilai Nagar has a population of more than a million, making it the second-largest urban area in Chhattisgarh after Raipur . The Bhilai metropolis contains three municipal corporations: Bhilai Municipal Corporation, Bhilai Charoda Municipal Corporation and Risali Municipal Corporation. Bhilai
64-559: A steel plant near the village. The first blast furnace of the plant was commissioned in 1959 by the first president of India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad . In the 2011 census, Durg -Bhilainagar Urban Agglomeration had a population of 1,064,222, of which 545,916 are males and 518,306 are females. Bhilai has an average literacy rate of 86.63%, with male literacy at 92.22% and female literacy at 80.71%. Bhilai lies at 21.21°N 81.38°E in Central India at an elevation of 297m above sea level on
96-457: A total of 64 Dell OptiPlex 9020 MT Desktops with 4 GB RAM and 500 GB hard disks, and six Dell PowerEdge R 630 servers. Workshops have been set up in the main building which support prototyping and building of various projects undertaken by both undergraduate as well as post-graduate students. The workshops play an integral role in the curriculum by providing hands-on training to the students. These workshops have served as incubation centers for
128-575: Is 26.6 °C and the city receives an average rainfall of 1188 mm in a year. Summers usually last from May to June, followed by monsoons in July and August. The town receives the bulk of rainfall in July, with an average rainfall of 352mm. There is little rainfall during the winters, with November being the driest month of the year. Durg Bhilai has been ranked 29th best “National Clean Air City” (under Category 1 >10L Population cities) in India. Bhilai
160-657: Is a canopy for two parallel bodies – The Student Gymkhana (responsible for managing cultural, technical, sports and outreach activities) and the Students’ Senate (manages academic concerns). The bodies consist of elected student representatives from both UG and PG levels and are guided by the faculty members. The President heads the CoSA. The Student Gymkhana and the Students’ Senate further consists of elected students representing various spheres of concern such as cultural (music, dance, art, drama), sports, academics and so on. In 2018,
192-560: Is a major industrial and educational hub of central India. The city is home to several industries like Bhilai Steel Plant , Jaypee Cement , Orient Cement , NSPCL Bhilai Power Plant , Steel Authority of India , FSNL and ACC Cement . The city is home to the Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai , as well as the Bhilai Institute of Technology . The city also has the state's oldest zoo, Maitri Bagh . The term Bhilai
224-479: Is a public research university and technical institute in Bhilai , Chhattisgarh , India . Established in 2016, it is one of the Indian Institute of Technology in India. Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai was inaugurated on 7 August 2016 by Shri Prakash Javedakar , (at the time) Minister of Human Resources Development, Government of India, and Shri Raman Singh , Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. IIT Hyderabad
256-775: Is derived from the Bhil tribe which originally inhabited this region and continues to dwell in the nearby forests until today. Bhilai was a small village and a part of the Haihaiyavansi Kingdom until 1740 when it was conquered by the Marathas . The foundation of the modern city of Bhilai was laid in 1955 when the Indian government signed a historic agreement with the Soviet Union in Magnitogorsk to establish
288-559: Is home to the Bhilai Steel Plant , the first and largest Indian plant to produce steel rails. The inauguration of the first blast furnace of Bhilai Steel Plant was done by then president of India Dr. Rajendra Prasad, which was established with help from the Soviet Union in 1955. Iron ore from Rajhara, limestone from Nandini, coal from Jharia, manganese from Balaghat, electric power from the Kosa thermal power plant, and water from
320-416: Is ranked 73rd among the engineering colleges of India by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024. The academic building houses the central library, various laboratories and workshops which are equipped with state-of-the-art apparatus. There are four laboratories – Computer Centre, Electrical Lab, Physics lab and a Chemistry lab. The institute has two computer laboratories. The labs have
352-533: The Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education and the Central Board of Secondary Education . The twin city of Durg-Bhilai is well connected with a network of national and state highways. Some major highways passing through the city are National Highway 53 (NH-53), SH-7 till Bemetara and SH-22 till Abhanpur . The proposed Durg–Raipur–Arang Expressway will start from Durg and will pass near
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#1732790871841384-556: The Ganga Maiyaat Jhalmala, Jain shrine of Uwasaggaharam Parshwa Teerth at Nagpura (near Durg), attract pilgrims from all over India. The Langurveer Mandir is one and only Hindu Temple Devoted to God Langoorveer in India situated in Durg. The town of Bhilai is home to the Bhilai Steel Plant . The present collector of Durg is Richa Prakash Choudhary. Durg is surrounded by the following districts: 1. Bemetara to
416-482: The Government of Chhattisgarh , which will pass from Naya Raipur to Durg via Raipur and Bhilai. The nearest major airport is Swami Vivekananda International Airport at Raipur, located 50 km (31 mi) east from Bhilai. The airport at Bhilai is currently a private airport operated by the Bhilai Steel Plant , located 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the city. In recent years, it has been considered for
448-493: The National Service Scheme . Regular drives of Swachh Bharat Mission are carried out within the campus as well as around it. The students are also involved in teaching drives which cover the neighboring schools in the villages. The Council of Student Affairs (CoSA) was established in 2018. The CoSA is an extension of the student gymkhana system - which was in place during the academic year 2017–18. The CoSA
480-1017: The BTech new session took off from the permanent campus. The permanent campus of IIT Bhilai is a complete self-sustaining residential campus and it will be developed subsequently in phased manner. Over the course of 20 years, the campus is anticipated to expand to house 12,000 students. The present phase of the permanent campus of IIT Bhilai is being constructed in Kutelabhata village, Bhilai, District Durg and will cater to 1200 students respective faculty and staff members. The academic departments in IIT Bhilai include: IIT Bhilai offers Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Master of Technology (MTech), Master of Science (MSc) and Doctoral programs (PhD) in various departments. The Institute made its modest start with introduction of BTech program from August 2016. IIT Bhilai currently offers six undergraduate programs in
512-533: The Tandula Canal, all nearby, are used in the Bhilai Steel Plant to manufacture rails and structural steel. Pig iron and billets are supplied to foundries and rolling mills located at Kumhari and other sites in central India. The number of steel rails produced by the facility till 2007 can go around the circumference of the earth 7.5 times. This is depicted on the monument at the globe square in
544-683: The Technical and as well as the Entertainment industry. With an attendance of over a thousand students from all across the state, Meraz brought in a huge influx of technical as well as cultural diversity. IIT Bhilai Motorsports is a student team as a part of Motorsports Club from Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai. The Club being established in 2017, consists of 40+ members targeting to design and fabricate ATV to compete in national level all-terrain vehicle events. IIT Bhilai Motorsports made its debut at Enduro Student India (ESI) 2019, being
576-516: The airport to be developed to handle commercial operations, and make it a domestic airport. Durg district Durg district is a district situated in Chhattisgarh , India . The district headquarters is Durg . The district covers an area of 2,238 km². As of 2011 it is the second most populous district of Chhattisgarh (out of 18 ), after Raipur . The district is home to two important religious sites. The principal Hindu temple,
608-685: The banks of the Shivnath river , a tributary of the river Mahanadi . It covers an area of 341 km (132 sq mi). According to the Bureau of Indian Standards , the town falls under seismic zone 2 , in a scale of 2 to 5 (in order of increasing value of vulnerability to earthquakes). Owing to its proximity to the Tropic of Cancer , Bhilai has a tropical climate. There are three main seasons: summer, monsoon, and winter. The average annual temperature in Bhilai
640-674: The biggest and the busiest, lying on the Howrah–Nagpur–Mumbai line . The Durg Bus Station is a hub with buses plying to any place in and around Chhattisgarh as well as other parts of the country, with daily bus services operated by private and government buses to all cities within the state and outside the state, like Bhubaneswar , Nagpur , Jharsuguda , Varanasi , Prayagraj , Kolkata , Patna , Ranchi , Hyderabad , Jabalpur , Visakhapatnam , among others. A light rail , Metrolite or Lite Metro (as referred in India), has been proposed by
672-430: The decade 2001-2011 was 18.95%. Durg has a sex ratio of 988 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 79.69%. After bifurcation, the district had a population of 1,721,948, of which 1,104,700 (64.15%) live in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 14.26% and 5.88% of the population respectively. Languages of Durg district (2011) At the time of the 2011 Census of India , 58.89% of
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#1732790871841704-907: The disciplines of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), Electrical Engineering (EE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering (MSME) and Mechatronics Engineering (MT). The institute also offers MTech programs in the discipline of Bioengineering, Electric Vehicle Technology (EVT), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), Power Systems and Power Electronics (PSPE), Control and Instrumentation (CI), Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering (MSME), Design and Manufacturing (DM), Thermal and Fluids Engineering (TFE) and Mechatronics Engineering (MT) as well as MSc programs in Chemistry (CY), Mathematics and Computing (MA), and Physics (PH). Further,
736-462: The elections to the above posts were carried out using Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and a cent percent voting attendance was recorded. Within a couple of years since its inception, IIT Bhilai conducted its first major annual technical and cultural festival – Meraz. The fest was held in October 2018 over a span of 3 days and featured events and performances by various professionals from both –
768-405: The first automobile car developed by the students of the mechanical engineering department. Apart from the academics, the student life at IIT Bhilai various includes extra-curricular activities which are held by various student clubs. From hackathons to cultural events, all are managed by student bodies. In support of various social causes, the students also volunteer for different activities under
800-867: The heart of the city. The facility underwent modernisation and expansion and is amongst the leading manufacturers of iron and steel in Asia. The city serves as an educational hub in the region, with a total of 59 universities and colleges, like Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai , Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University , Bhilai Institute of Technology , Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Medical Sciences , Chandulal Chandrakar Memorial Government Medical College , Rungta College Bhilai , and Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus , Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya Durg , Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya . Schools in Bhilai are run either by municipal corporations or privately by entities, trusts, and corporations. The majority of schools are affiliated with
832-548: The institute offers PhD programs in Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering (BSBME), Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering (MSME), Chemistry (CY), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), Electrical Engineering (EE), Electric Vehicle Technology (EVT), Liberal Arts (LA), Mathematics (MA), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Mechatronics Engineering (MT), and Physics (PH). IIT Bhilai
864-537: The north 2. Balod to the south. 3. Raipur to the east. 4. Dhamtari to the south east 5. Rajnandgaon to the west. According to the 2011 census , Durg district has a population of 3,343,872, roughly equal to the nation of Uruguay or the US state of Connecticut . This gives it a ranking of 100th in India (out of a total of 640 ). The district has a population density of 319 inhabitants per square kilometre (830/sq mi). Its population growth rate over
896-455: The only 3rd gen IIT to participate in this competition. The team successfully cleared technical inspections based on design, engine check and brake check test in static events. In dynamics, the team actively participated in all the events - DirtX, Sprint, Acceleration & Maneuverability as well as Endurance race. A team of 17 members represented IIT Bhilai Motorsports at Pune in the competition along with more than 70 other teams. Apart from
928-404: The outskirts of Bhilai till Arang , which after completion, will enhance connectivity and commute in the state. There are total 15 railway stations in the twin city that includes railway stations serving adjacent and minor neighbourhoods within the city. The main stations are Bhilai Power House railway station and Durg Junction railway station , which are major railway stations, with Durg being
960-542: The population in the district spoke Chhattisgarhi , 25.02% Hindi , 2.82% Telugu , 2.68% Odia , 2.24% Marathi , 2.08% Bhojpuri , 1.29% Bengali and 1.25% Punjabi as their first language. Vernaculars spoken include Chhattisgarhi and written in the Devanagari script . 21°11′N 81°17′E / 21.183°N 81.283°E / 21.183; 81.283 Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai ( IIT Bhilai )
992-683: Was Director General of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Government of India. He is affiliated to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur . Prof Rajiv Prakash took charge as Director, IIT Bhilai on 26 September 2022. A professor of Materials Science and Technology at IIT (BHU) Varanasi , Prof Prakash is one of India's foremost scientists in the fields of electronic polymers and nanocomposites, organic electronics, sensors, and energy storage devices. IIT Bhilai shifted to its permanent campus on 1 August 2023 and
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1024-509: Was entrusted with the responsibility of mentoring the institute under the guidance of Prof U.B. Desai, Director, IIT Hyderabad. The institute started its operation from its transit campus located in the Government Engineering College (GEC) at Sejbahar, Raipur, wherein the first batch of students was inducted in 2016. Prof Rajat Moona took charge as Director of IIT Bhilai on 20 March 2017. Prior to joining IIT Bhilai, he
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