Birth
Initially, a group of seven universities have been selected for upgrade to the status of IIT by the S. K. Joshi committee. Since these colleges were controlled by the respective state governments and could not be given IIT status due to political, administrative or technical reasons the MHRD appointed another Committee, called the Anandakrishnan Committee. The committee recommended setting up a new family of institutes by upgrading the selected group of colleges and to be called IIESTs (Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology). Later, the Government of India shortlisted it to five institutions.Bengal Engineering and Science University topped the list among five institutes short listed for IIEST ahead of institutes Engineering faculty of Jadavpur University.
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“At birth man is offered only one choice—the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.”
—Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973)
“The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Our children shall behold his fame,
The kindly-earnest, brave, forseeing man,
Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame,
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