Establishment of IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee
After the establishment of IIT in Delhi, there was a long gap in any notable development in the history of IITs. However in the beginning of the 1990s, widespread student agitations in Assam led to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi promising another IIT in Assam. Rajiv Gandhi agreed to it on the spot considering it a minor request of ITI although eventually it cost over Rs 1,500 crore. The IIT Guwahati campus started functioning in 1987. In the beginning of the 21st century, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi (the Education Minister of India) made University of Roorkee into an IIT, making IIT Roorkee the newest IIT but the oldest institution amongst the seven in 2001.
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