Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science

When established, it was known as Shri Govindram Seksaria Kala Bhavan. The institute came into being as a result of the desire expressed by the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to a group of leading industrialists of Indore for the establishment of a technical institute.

Academic block

An industrialist of the town, Seth Shri Kudilaji Seksaria, responded by donating the initial amount for starting the institution in the name of his late father Seth Shri Govindram Seksaria. In 1956 it was converted to a degree college with the course in Civil Engineering and its name was changed to Govindram Seksaria Technological Institute (GSTI).

With the introduction of M.Sc. courses in Applied Sciences, the name of the institute was changed to its present name. In 1989 the institute was granted autonomous status by the University Grants Commission and the AICTE.

Department of Management Studies was established in the year 2012.

In 2020, it became the first and only Madhya Pradesh government-funded engineering college in the state to have made its place among the top 250 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking released by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. [1]

The institute is located in the heart of Indore, a few minutes from the railway and bus stations at the new park road The land area of the institute is 35 acres (140,000 m²) while the building area is 85,000 square meters. There are two blocks in the institute. One is residential block, where staff quarters and hostels, a guest house situated. Second is the academic block, where all the departments situated. Staff quarters:

• 1 director quarter
• 6 professor quarters
• 24 lecturer quarters
• 14 readers quarters
• 30 quarters for class III and IV employees
• 24 quarters for Class III employees (2015)
• Two guest houses
• Two Canteens and one Cafeteria
• 1 auditorium hall (Golden Jubilee Hall)
• 1 Lecture theatre (With modern classrooms)

ATC block

There are seven hostels:

• Four boys hostels (600 seats)
  • M. Vishveshwariya Hostel (Hostel 4) for first-year undergraduate students
  • H. Bhabha Hostel (Hostel 3) for second-year undergraduate students
  • J.C. Bose Hostel (Hostel 1) for Final and third-year undergraduate students
  • C.V. Raman Hostel (Hostel 2) for Postgraduate students.
• Three girls hostels (250 seats)
• One transit hostel (24 suites) for research scholars, lecturers and sponsored students (e.g., QIP program)

Each hostel has a mess of its own.

There is a guest house for 20 persons. The institute has football and cricket grounds, basketball, and volleyball courts. It also has a Sports complex which has badminton and table tennis courts. The institute also has a gymnasium gifted by 1996 batch (Legend '96)

• Till 2013, admission to this institute at undergraduate level was done on the basis of MP-PET. Currently, the institute offers admission on the basis of student performance in Joint Entrance Examination (Main)
• At postgraduate level, the admissions are on the basis of merit obtained in GATE Examination.
• Admissions to the Master of Computer Applications course is done on the basis of MP-MCA examination
• Admission to the M.Sc. (Applied Sciences) courses are conducted at the department level.
• Admission to the MBA courses is done by considering result of CMAT examination.

At present, the institute offers 9-Undergraduate and 17 Post Graduate courses with an annual intake of 660 and 375 students respectively.

Teaching and related activities of the institute are taken care by departments, centers, and cells of the institute. The departments available are given below.

• Deepak B. Phatak (Padma Shri)[4]
• Digvijaya Singh[5]
• Bala Bachchan[6]

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