INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technology in India. Established as College of Engineering in 1961, the Institute was later declared as an Institution of National Importance under the ‘Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 1963’ and was renamed as ‘Indian Institute of Technology Delhi’. It was then accorded the status of a Deemed University with powers to decide its own academic policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its own degrees. The emblem of IITD has a gear wheel within which a rose, an elephant and a lotus, each symbolising fragrance and power; knowledge and memory and purity and virtue respectively, are placed in a conical structure. This is connected by a spiral of growth to the lamp atop the cone. It is ensconced by a flower edged border in which the name of the i