From the Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad to an Indian Institute of Technology

Background

The institute's own history states that the Indian School of Mines was formally opened on 9th December 1926, by Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, to address the need for trained manpower related to mining activities in the country, with disciplines of Mining and Applied Geology.
The same account traces the demand back to a resolution of the Indian National Congress in December 1901 calling for a Government College of Mining Engineering in India on the model of the Royal School of Mines in England.
The McPherson Committee formed by the Government of British India submitted its report recommending the establishment of an institution for imparting education in the fields of mining and geology, and the institute records Dr. David Penman as its first founder-principal.
In 1967 it was granted the status of a deemed to be university under Section 3 of UGC Act, 1956.
The institute records that the long run of Indian School of Mines came to an end when it was awarded the tag of an Indian Institute of Technology on 6th September 2016.
The institute sits at Dhanbad, in the coalfield belt of Jharkhand, and the same history notes that its name had earlier changed to Indian School of Mines when Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics courses began.