The Indo British Government, way back in 1901 felt the strong need of establishing a mines college in India in the lines of Royal School of Mines The Government was feeling the need as the Mines Bill was becoming a law vide Indian Mines Act - VIII. The concept of establishing a mines institute was well supported by Indian National Congress (INC).
A committee was formed in the Chairmanship of Macpherson, Chief Secretary, Government of Bihar and Orissa. The committee has studied the system of mining education in England and recommended to establish an institute in similar lines as that in England for education in mining.
The Government of India in 1920 decided that the proposed institution should be an All India Institution financed by the Central Government and be named Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. The Indian School of Mines was formally opened by The Vice Roy Lord Erwin on December 9, 1926.
The ISM, Dhanbad has got full financial support from the then Indo British Government.The Government has decided that the proposed institution should be an All India Institution financed by the Central Government and be named as Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad. Up to 1967, the institute was fully government institution and its faculties were appointed by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), New Delhi.
The ISM Dhanbad has acquired University status under UGC act 1956. From 1996 - 97 the school comes directly under Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
The ISM Dhanbad enjoy similar status as IITs and IIMs and many other Apex Institutions of the world. The school conducts training programmes in a range of Mining, Petroleum, Geology and Allied Sciences disciplines and awards degrees.
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| Situated in the heart of the country’s prime coking coal belt, 260 kms from Kolkata with a campus spread over 88 hectares the fully residential ISM has all the facilities of world class academic institute. What started as an institution to impart mining education has graduated into a full-fledged technical institution of international acclaim offering a host of programmes like B. Tech., M. Tech., M. Sc. Tech., and MBA. In addition the School offers M. Phil. and full as well as part time Ph. D. programmes, while also awarding D.Sc. as the highest degree of academic achievement. |
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Indian School of Mines Dhanbad (ISM) is located in the heart of the country's prime coking coal belt at Dhanbad (Jharkhand), 260 Km away from Kolkata on Howrah-New Delhi Grand Chord Railway route. It takes 3 hours from Howrah (Kolkata) to reach Dhanbad by Shatabdi/Rajdhani Express trains.
IN THE YEAR 2000 ISM DHANBAD AND ROORKEE UNIVERSITY WERE GIVEN THE STATUS OF AN IIT....ROORKEE ACCEPTED IT while "ISM REJECTED THE OFFER"....
this happened due to the pressure of the STRONG ISM ALUMNI.......
who were of the view that "changing the name of one's ALMA MATER is equivalent to changing the name of ONE'S MOTHER"...
and this feeling was conveyed to the authorities at that time...in almost the same format....
The great reason (besides the emotional one) was THE FACT THAT ISM IS A PIONEER INSTITUTE WHICH HAS EXISTED SINCE NOTHING CALLED IITs EXISTED ......
IT IS THE
And thus considering This AWESOME REPUTATION at least in Earth Sciences, the idea of changing name was scrapped at that time.
As mentioned earlier ISM has great cultural heritage and awesome reputation in Earth Sciences field (Petroleum, Mining, Mining Machinery, Geology).
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