Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani


Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani is an Indian Institute of Information Technology located at Kalyani, West Bengal. The institute was set up by the Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of West Bengal and industry partners using the Not-for-profit Public Private Partnership model, at a ratio of 50:35:15 respectively between three parties. The classes started from first week of July 2014, from the temporary campus located at the campus of JIS College of Engineering which later shifted to a place called Webel IT Park, Kalyani. On 19 August 2014, official inauguration of the institute was done by the former mentor director Ajoy Kumar Ray, the director of IIEST Shibpur. Admission to IIIT Kalyani is done on the basis of the marks obtained in JEE Main.It was declared to be Institute of National Importance by Government of India under IIIT Act.. The college of IIIT Kalyani runs in a temporary campus called Webel IT Park.

Mentor director and institute

Virendra Kumar Tewari is the Mentor-Director for IIIT, Kalyani and IIT Kharagpur is the mentor institute.