Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute

Coordinates: 26°29′14″N 80°20′05″E / 26.487158°N 80.334778°E / 26.487158; 80.334778

Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute
Type Public
Established 1914
Director Dr. D.B. Shakyavar
Location Souterganj, Kanpur-208 001, Uttar Pradesh, India
Campus Urban
Affiliations Uttar Pradesh Technical University Lucknow
Website www.uptti.ac.in
Lal Imli factory

Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute (earlier known as Government Central Textile Institute),[1][2] Kanpur is a premier textile institute of North India. It offers professional degrees of bachelor's and master's of Technology, in branches of Textile Technology, Textile Chemistry and Man Made Fibre Technology, to students selected through a State Entrance Exam (UPSEE) conducted by Uttar Pradesh Technical University every year.[3] It made a modest start in 1914.[4][5]

About

In 1937, Government Central Textile Institute came into existence in its present form by the merger of two premier textile institutes: one at Kanpur and the other at Roorkee, i.e., Department of Textile Technology, Thomson Civil Engineering College of Roorkee. Diploma programmes were started in Textile Manufacture and Chemical Technology.[6]

In 1958/59 four-year degree programmes in Textile Technology and Textile Chemistry were started. Initially the institute was affiliated to Agra University. On establishment of the university in Kanpur in 1966 it was affiliated to Kanpur University. In 1976/77 the institute pioneered a four-year degree programme in man-made fibre technology. In 1985 the three-year diploma programmes were shifted to Government Polytechnic Kanpur and thereafter the institute has been running graduate and postgraduate programmes with Ph.D. research facilities. The fourth degree programme in Textile Engineering was added under a World Bank-aided Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme of the government of India and the government of the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2005.[7]

The institute is organized into four textile departments along with departments of Basic Sciences and Engineering. All textile departments offer the B.Tech. degree, and Textile Technology and Textile Chemistry departments offer the M.Tech degree. Facilities for doctorate level research exist in all departments.[8]

Departments and degrees

B.Tech

  • Textile Technology
  • Textile Chemistry
  • Man-Made Fiber Technology
  • Textile Engineering
  • M.Tech

100 years celebration

Eminent persons associated with the textile industry of the country attended the centenary functions of the institute on 1 and 2 November 2014.[9]

Hostel

There is a boys' and girls' hostel on the premises.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Institutions which helped". Livemint.
  2. ↑ "Autonomous status to the State Central Textile Institute, Kanpur". The Times of India. 20 June 2003.
  3. ↑ "Premier Institutes of Kanpur". IIT Kanpur,Infocell.
  4. ↑ "Centenary functions of Government Central Textile Institute". The Times of India. 31 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "About,G.C.T.I.,Kanpur". campusoption.com.
  6. ↑ "Merging of Textile Institutes". Tech Education, Singh & Sudarshan.
  7. ↑ "Rs 5 crore from the World Bank". Hindustan Times. 2006.
  8. ↑ http://www.uptti.ac.in/about.php
  9. ↑ "Centenary celebrations".
  10. ↑ "GCTI, hostel in Gwaltoli". History of IIT Kanpur, by Surya Pratap Mehrotra, Prajapati Prasad.


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