IIT Kanpur

Research Institute in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Official seal of IIT Kanpur

Motto| Sanskrit: तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

Motto in English

| From darkness, lead me to light
Type| Public Institute of technology
Established| 1959; 65 years ago (1959)
Chairman| Dr. K. Radhakrishnan
Director| Manindra Agrawal

Academic staff

| 655[1]
Students| 8,346[1]
Undergraduates| 4,410[1]
Postgraduates| 1,808[1]

Doctoral students

| 2,128[1]
Location|

Kalyanpur, Uttar Pradesh

India

Campus| Urban, 1,000 acres (400 ha)
Colours|  Blue & silver
Nickname| IITians, Kanpur-IITians
Website| iitk.ac.in

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), it was declared an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act.

PK Kelkar Library at IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur has been consistently ranked among the best academic institutions in India.[2][3][4] As of August 2024, at least 15 Padma Shri, 4 Padma Bhushan, 1 Padma Vibhushan, and 33 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize recipients have been affiliated with IIT Kanpur as alumni or faculty members.[5]

## History

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IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1960 by the Government of India. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the institute moved to its present location, on the Grand Trunk Road near Kalyanpur locality in Kanpur district.[6] The campus was designed by Achyut Kavinde in a modernist style.

During the first ten years of its existence, a consortium of nine US universities (namely MIT, University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University and Purdue University) helped set up IIT Kanpur's research laboratories and academic programmes under the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP).[7] The first director of the institute was P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002).[8]

Under the guidance of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IIT Kanpur was the first institute in India to offer Computer science education.[8][9] The earliest computer course was started at the institute in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system. The initiative for computer education came from the Electrical engineering department, then under the chairmanship of Prof. H.K. Kesavan, who was concurrently the chairman of Electrical Engineering and head of the Computer Centre. Prof. Harry Huskey of the University of California, Berkeley, who preceded Kesavan, helped[8] with the computer activity at IIT-Kanpur.[8] In 1971, the institute began an independent academic program in Computer Science and Engineering, leading to MTech and PhD degrees.[8]

In 1972 the KIAP program ended, in part because of political tensions between India and Pakistan (as the USA supported Pakistan). Government funding was also reduced as a reaction to the sentiment that the IIT's were contributing to the brain drain.

The institute's annual technical festival, Techkriti, was first started in 1995.

## Campus

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IIT Kanpur Entrance from GT Road

IIT Kanpur is located on the Grand Trunk Road, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Kanpur City and measures close to 420 hectares (1,000 acres). This land was donated by the Government of Uttar Pradesh in 1960 and by March 1963 the institute had moved to its current location.

PK Kelkar Library

The institute has around 6478 students with 3938 undergraduate students and 2540 postgraduate students and about 500 research associates.

The academic area comprises the central library, departmental buildings, research centres, lecture hall complex, tutorial block and auditorium. The student hostels and other facilities like Student Activities Centre (SAC), Sports Complex lie outside the academic area. There are 15 Halls of Residence which are allotted to undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students. Additionally, married research scholars are allotted Single Bedroom Apartment (SBRA) facility on campus.[10]

### Noida Extension centre

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IIT Kanpur has its Extension Centre in Noida with a small convention centre there for supporting outreach activities. Its foundation was laid on 4 December 2012 on 5 acres of land allocated by Uttar Pradesh state government in the sector-62[11] of Noida city, which is less than an hour's journey from New Delhi and the Indira Gandhi International Airport. The cost of construction is estimated to be about 25 crores. The new campus will have an auditorium, seminar halls for organising national and international conferences and an International Relations Office along with a 7-storey guest house. Several short-term management courses and refresher courses meant for distance learning will be available at the extension center.[12]

### Helicopter service

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Being a major industrial town, Kanpur has good connectivity by rail and by road, but lags behind in terms of air connectivity. IIT Kanpur was suffering significantly in comparison to IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay due to this reason as far as visiting companies and other dignitaries are concerned. On 1 June 2013, a helicopter ferry service was started at IIT Kanpur run by Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited. In its initial run the service connects IIT Kanpur to Lucknow, but it is planned to later extend it to New Delhi. Currently[when?] there are two flights daily to and from Lucknow Airport with a duration of 25 minutes. Lucknow Airport operates both international and domestic flights to major cities. IIT Kanpur is the first academic institution in the country to provide such a service.[13][14][15] The estimated charges are Rs. 6000 (US$100) per person. If anyone would like to avail the facility, he/she has to contact the Student Placement Office (SPO) at IIT Kanpur, since the helicopter service is subject to availability of chopper rights. The campus also has airstrips which allows flight workshops and joyrides for students.[16] Currently Kanpur has a domestic airport terminal at Chakeri, with flight connectivity to New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and Bengaluru airports.

### New York Office

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The institute has set up an office in New York with alumnus Sanjiv Khosla designated as the overseas brand ambassador of the institute. It is located on 62 William Street, Manhattan. The office aims to hunt for qualified and capable faculty abroad, facilitate internship opportunities in North American universities and be conduit for research tie ups with various US universities.[17] The New York Office also tries to amass funds through the alumni based there. A system that invites students and faculty of foreign institutes to IIT Kanpur is also being formulated.[18]

## Organisation and administration

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### Governance

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See also: Indian Institutes of Technology § Organisational structure

All IITs follow the same organization structure which has the President of India as the visitor at the top of the hierarchy. Directly under the president is the IIT Council. Under the IIT Council is the board of governors of each IIT. Under the board of governors is the director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. Under the director, in the organizational structure, comes the deputy director. Under the director and the deputy director, come the deans, the heads of various departments, and the registrar.

### Departments

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The academic departments at IIT Kanpur are:

Engineering | Humanities | Inter-Disciplinary |

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* Aerospace Engineering
* Biological Sciences and Bio-engineering
* Chemical Engineering
* Civil Engineering
* Computer Science and Engineering
* Electrical Engineering
* Materials Science and Engineering
* Mechanical Engineering
* Sustainable Energy Engineering

* Humanities and Social Sciences

* Cognitive Science
* Environmental Engineering and Management
* Photonics Science and Engineering
* Design
* Material Science
* Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Sciences | Management

* Chemistry
* Mathematics and Statistics
* Physics
* Earth Sciences
* Economic Sciences

* Management Sciences

## Academics

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IIT Kanpur Faculty Building

### Undergraduate

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IIT Kanpur offers four-year B.Tech programs in Aerospace Engineering, Biological Sciences and Bio-engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. The admission to these programs is procured through Joint Entrance Examination. IITK offers admission only to bachelor's degree now (discontinuing the integrated course programs), but it can be extended by 1 year to make it integrated, depending on the choice of student and based on his/her performance there at undergraduate level. IIT Kanpur also offers four-year B.S. Programs in Pure and Applied Sciences (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in particular), Earth Science and Economics.[19]

### New academic system

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From 2011, IIT Kanpur has started offering a four-year BS program in sciences and has kept its BTech Program intact. Entry to the five-year MTech/MBA programs and Dual degree programme will be done based on the CPI of students instead of JEE rank.[20] In order to reduce the number of student exams, IIT Kanpur has also abolished the earlier system of conducting two mid-term examinations. Instead, only two examinations (plus two quizzes in most courses depending on the instructor-in-charge, one before mid-semesters and the other after the mid-semesters and before the end-semesters examination), one between the semester and other towards the end of it would be held from the academic session starting July 2011 onward as per Academic Review Committee's recommendations.

### Postgraduate

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Postgraduate courses in Engineering offer Master of Technology (MTech), MS (R) and PhD(Doctor of Philosophy) degrees. The institute also offers two-tier MSc(Master of Science) courses in areas of basic sciences in which students are admitted through Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM) exam. The institute also offers M.Des. (2 years), M.B.A. (2 years) and MSc (2 years) degrees. Admissions to MTech is made once a year through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering. Admissions to M. Des are made once a year through both Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) and Common Entrance Exam for Design (CEED). Until 2011, admissions to the M.B.A. program were accomplished through the Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET), held yearly, and followed by a Group Discussion/Personal Interview process. In 2011, JMET was replaced by Common Admission Test (CAT).[21][22]

### Admissions

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Undergraduate admissions until 2012 were being done through the national-level Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE). Following the Ministry of Human Resource Development's decision to replace IIT-JEE with a common engineering entrance examination, IIT Kanpur's admissions are now based on JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) -Advanced level along with other IITs.

Postgraduate admissions are made through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering and Common Admission Test.[23]

### Rankings

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University and college rankings

General – international
QS (World) (2023)[24]| 264
QS (Asia) (2023)[25]| 66
General – India
NIRF (Overall) (2024)[26]| 5
NIRF (Research) (2024)[27]| 7
QS (India) (2020)[28]| 6
Engineering – India
NIRF (2024)[29]| 4
India Today (2022)[30]| 3
Government colleges:|
Outlook India (2022)[31]| 5
Business/Management – India
NIRF (2024)[32]| 29

Internationally, IIT Kanpur was ranked 263rd in the world by the QS World University Rankings of 2025 and 6th in India.[33]

IIT Kanpur was also ranked 5th in the overall category,[34] 5th in Innovation Category,[35] 7th among research institutions,[36] 4th among engineering colleges[37] and 29th among management schools[38] in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024. Outlook India ranked IIT Kanpur 5th among government engineering colleges[39] In, India Today Best Engineering Colleges 2024, IIT Kanpur was ranked 3rd.[40]

## Laboratories and other facilities

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur Samtel Research and Development Building

The campus is spread over an area of 4.3 square kilometres (1,100 acres). The institute has its own airfield for flight testing and gliding. The departments have their own libraries, laboratories and research facilities including the National Wind Tunnel Facility.

Research centres at IIT Kanpur include:[41]

* Advanced Centre for Electronic Systems (ACES)
* Advanced Centre for Material Science (ACMS)
* Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering
* Centre for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies
* Centre for Lasers and Photonics
* Centre for Mechatronics
* Centre for Nanosciences
* Centre for Technology for Sustainable Development
* DIA Centre for Excellence
* Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security and Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures
* Mehta Family Centre for Engineering in Medicine
* National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering
* Prabhu Goel Research Centre for Computer and Internet Security
* Samtel Centre for Display Technologies

PK Kelkar Library (formerly Central Library) is an academic library of the institute with a collection of more than 300,000 volumes, and subscriptions to more than 1,000 periodicals. The library was renamed to its present name in 2003 after Dr. P K Kelkar, the first director of the institute. It is housed in a three-story building, with a total floor area of 6973 square metres. The Abstracting and Indexing periodicals, Microform and CD-ROM databases, technical reports, Standards and thesis are in the library. Each year, about 4,500 books and journal volumes are added to the library.

The Computer Lab

The New Core Labs (NCL) is 3-storey building with state of the art physics and chemistry laboratories for courses in the first year. The New Core Labs also has Linux and Windows computer labs for the use of first year courses and a Mathematics department laboratory housing machines with high computing power.

IIT Kanpur has set up the Startup Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC) (previously known as "SIDBI" Innovation and Incubation Centre) in collaboration with the Small Industries development Bank of India (SIDBI) aiming to aid innovation, research, and entrepreneurial activities in technology-based areas. SIIC helps business Start-ups to develop[clarification needed] their ideas into commercially viable products.

A team of students, working under the guidance of faculty members of the institute and scientists of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have designed and built India's first nano satellite Jugnu, which was successfully launched in orbit on 12 Oct 2011 by ISRO's PSLV-C18.[42]

### Computer Centre

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The Computer Centre hosts the IIT Kanpur website and provides personal web space for students and faculties. It also provides a spam filtered email server and high speed fibre optic Internet to all the hostels and the academic areas. Users have multiple options to choose among various interfaces to access mail service. It has Linux and windows laboratories equipped with dozens of high-end software like MATLAB, Autocad, Ansys, Abaqus etc. for use of students. Apart from departmental computer labs, computer centre hosts more than 300 Linux terminals and more than 100 Windows terminals and is continuously available to the students for academic work and recreation. Computer centre has recently adopted an open source software policy for its infrastructure and computing. Various high-end compute and GPU servers are remotely available from data centre for user computation.

The computer centre has multiple super computing clusters for research and teaching activity. In June 2014 IIT Kanpur launched their second supercomputer which is India's fifth[43] most powerful supercomputer as of now. The new supercomputer 'Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8' manufactured by Hewlett-Packard has 15,360 cores and a theoretical peak (Rpeak) 307.2 TFlop/s and is the world's 192nd most powerful supercomputer as of June 2015.[44] Recently, IIT Kanpur has developed a compressed air-based mineral transport system. The project was presented at the Global Investors Summit, in 2023. It received good feedback for its less material loss, reduced air pollution, and efficiency to reduce travel time to a great extent. The main objective of the system is to transport coal and slurry. [45]

### ŚIKṢĀ: Study Centre for Indian Knowledge System for Holistic Advancement

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The mission of the ŚIKṢĀ Centre for Indian Knowledge System at IIT Kanpur is to promote, facilitate, and benefit from IKS-related studies, research, content development and outreach. The vision of the Centre is to establish IITK at the forefront of IKS studies in the world.[46]

### Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology

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### Kotak School of Sustainability

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## Students' research and related activities

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Research is controlled by the Office of the Dean of Research and Development (DoRD). Under the aegis of the Office the students publish the quarterly NERD Magazine (Notes on Engineering Research and Development) which publishes scientific and technical content created by students. Articles may be original work done by students in the form of hobby projects, term projects, internships, or theses. Articles of general interest which are informative but do not reflect original work are also accepted. The institute is part of the European Research and Education Collaboration with Asia (EURECA) programme since 2008.[47]

### Defence

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Assisting the Indian Ordnance Factories in not only upgrading existing products, but also developing new weapon platforms.[48]

### Jugnu

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The students of IIT Kanpur made a nano satellite called Jugnu, which was given by president Pratibha Patil to ISRO for launch. Jugnu is a remote sensing satellite which will be operated by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. It is a nanosatellite which will be used to provide data for agriculture and disaster monitoring. It is a 3-kilogram (6.6lb) spacecraft, which measures 34 centimetres (13 in) in length by 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in height and width. Its development programme cost around 25 million rupees. It has a design life of one year. Jugnu's primary instrument is the Micro Imaging System, a near infrared camera which will be used to observe vegetation. It also carries a GPS receiver to aid tracking, and is intended to demonstrate a microelectromechanical inertial measurement unit.

### IITK Motorsports

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IITK motorsports is the biggest and most comprehensive student initiative of the college, founded in January 2011. It is a group of students from varied disciplines who aim at designing and fabricating a Formula-style race car for international Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) events. Most of the components of the car, except the engine, tyres and wheel rims, are designed and manufactured by the team members themselves. The car is designed to provide maximum performance under the constraints of the event, while ensuring the driveability, reliability, driver safety and aesthetics of the car are not compromised.[49]

### Maraal UAVs

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Researchers at IIT Kanpur have developed a series of solar powered UAVs named MARAAL-1 & MARAAL-2. Development of Maraal is notable as it is the first solar powered UAV developed in India. Maraal-2 is fully indigenous.[50]

## Student life

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### National events

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IIT Kanpur During Diwali

* Antaragni: The annual cultural festival of IIT Kanpur, which was started in 1965, is held in October every year.[51] The festival includes musical performances, dramas, literary games, folk dances, fashion shows and quizzes.[52]
* Techkriti: The annual four-day inter-collegiate technical and entrepreneurship festival usually held in March. It was started in 1995 with an aim to encourage interest and innovation in technology among students and to provide a platform for industry and academia to interact.[53] Megabucks (a business and entrepreneurship festival) used to be held independently but was later merged with Techkriti in 2010. Notable speakers at Techkriti include APJ Abdul Kalam, Vladimir Voevodsky, Douglas Osheroff, Oliver Smithies, Rakesh Sharma, David Griffiths and Richard Stallman.
* Udghosh: IIT Kanpur's annual sports festival usually held in September.[54] It started in 2004 as an inter-college sports meet organised by the institute. Udghosh involves students from across India competing in the university's sports facilities. The festival includes motivational talks, a mini-marathon, gymnastic shows, and sport quizzes related to various sports events.
* Vivekananda Youth Leadership Convention: An annual convention organised on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by Vivekananda Samiti, under Students Gymkhana with a focus on leadership, social innovation, and youth empowerment among students.[55][56] The convention has included Kiran Bedi, Bana Singh, Yogendra Singh Yadav, Raju Narayana Swamy, Arunima Sinha, Rajendra Singh and other personalities from different fields in previous years.
* E-Summit: Started in 2013 as the flagship event of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kanpur, E-Summit is held annually for three days to promote entrepreneurship among students. It consists of various competitions, workshops and talks by eminent personalities in the domains of venture capital, product design and social entrepreneurship.[57]

### Students' Gymkhana

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The Students' Gymkhana is the students' government organization of IIT Kanpur, established in 1962.[58]

The Students' Gymkhana functions mainly through the Students' Senate, an elected student representative body composed of senators elected from each batch and the six elected executives:

* President, Students' Gymkhana.
* General Secretary, Media and Culture.
* General Secretary, Games and Sports.
* General Secretary, Science and Technology.
* General Secretary (UG), Academics and Career
* General Secretary (PG), Academics and Career

The number of senators in the Students' Senate is around 50–55. A senator is elected for every 150 students of IIT Kanpur.

The meetings of the Students' Senate are chaired by the chairperson, Students' Senate, who is elected by the Senate. The Senate lays down the guidelines for the functions of the executives, their associated councils, the Gymkhana Festivals and other matters pertaining to the Student body at large.

The Students' Senate has a say in the policy and decision-making bodies of the institute. The president, Students' Gymkhana and the chairperson, Students' Senate are among the special invitees to the Institute Academic Senate. The president is usually invited to the meetings of the board of governors when matters affecting students are being discussed. Nominees of the Students' Senate are also members of the various standing Committees of the Institute Senate including the disciplinary committee, the Undergraduate and Postgraduate committee, etc. All academic departments have Departmental Undergraduate and Post Graduate Committees consisting of members of the faculty and student nominees.

## Notable alumni

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Main article: List of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur people

## See also

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* Indian Institutes of Technology
* Institutes of National Importance
* Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi
* Harcourt Butler Technical University

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Medical colleges|

* Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College
* Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru State Homoeopathic Medical College

Technological institutes|

* Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-(Antaragni
* Techkriti
* P K Kelkar library
* IIT Kanpur Airport )
* Harcourt Butler Technical University-(Odyssey (HBTI, Kanpur))
* Govt. Central Textile Institute
* University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur University
* Government Leather Institute Kanpur
* Central Leather Research Institute

Private technological
institutes|

* Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology
* Krishna Institute of Technology
* Kanpur Institute of Technology
* List of engineering colleges in Kanpur

Localities|

| North West Kanpur|

* Civil Lines
* Tilak Nagar
* Arya Nagar
* Swaroop Nagar
* Chunni Ganj
* Azad Nagar
* Nawab Ganj

|

Central Kanpur|

* Kakadeo
* Geeta Nagar
* Pandu Nagar
* Sarvodya Nagar
* Sharda Nagar
* Shastri Nagar
* Rawatpur
* Keshavpuram
* Ravidas Puram Shivaji Nagar
* Downtown

East Kanpur|

* Jajmau
* Lal Bangla
* Chakeri
* Shyam Nagar
* Cantt

West Kanpur|

* Indira Nagar
* Kalyanpur
* Panki
* Mandhana
* Chobepur
* Bithoor
* Armapur Estate
* New Kanpur City

South Kanpur|

* Barra
* Govind Nagar
* Gujaini
* Kidwai Nagar
* Ratan Lal Nagar
* Naubasta
* Yashoda Nagar
* Jarauli
* Tatya Tope Nagar
* Hanspuram

Left Bank|

* Shuklaganj
* Gangotri Township

Hotels|

* Hotel Landmark
* Hotel Megadoot
* Hotel Gaurav
* Hotel Bliss
* Kanha Continental
* Kanha International

Economy and transport|

* UP Stock Exchange
* Kanpur Electricity Supply Company Ltd.(KESCo)
* Auto rickshaw
* Kanpur Metropolitan Bus Service
* Rasoolabad International Airport
* Kanpur Airport
* IIT Kanpur Airport
* Kanpur Civil Airport
* Chandari Junction railway station
* Govindpuri railway station
* Kanpur Anwarganj railway station
* Kanpur Central railway station
* Kalianpur
* Kanpur Metro
* Trams
* Lucknow-Kanpur Suburban Railway
* Kanpur Lucknow Roadways Service
* Kanpur over-bridge

Sports|

* Green Park Stadium
* Kamla Club Ground

Lok Sabha constituencies|

* Kanpur
* Akbarpur

Assembly constituencies|

* Govind Nagar
* Sishamau
* Arya Nagar
* Kidwai Nagar
* Kanpur Cantonment
* Bithoor
* Kalyanpur
* Maharajpur
* Ghatampur

Other topics|

* Eminent people associated with Kanpur
* List of cities in India
* Category:People from Kanpur
* Renamed places in Kanpur
* Lajpat Bhawan

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* History of IITs

Institutes|

* Bhilai
* Bhubaneswar
* Bombay
* Dharwad
* Delhi
* Dhanbad
* Gandhinagar
* Goa
* Guwahati
* Hyderabad
* Indore
* Jammu
* Jodhpur
* Kanpur
* Kharagpur
* Mandi
* Madras
* Palakkad
* Patna
* Roorkee
* Ropar
* Tirupati
* Varanasi

Schools of Management|

* Department of Industrial and Management Engineering (DIME, IIT Kanpur)
* Department of Management Studies (DMS, IIT Delhi)
* Department of Management Studies (DMS, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)
* Department of Management Studies (DoMS, IIT Madras)
* Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee (DoMS, IIT Roorkee)
* Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSoM, IIT Bombay)
* Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur)

Admissions|

* Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced
* Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
* Common Admission Test
* Joint Admission Test for M.Sc.
* Policy of Reservation
* Common Entrance Examination for Design
* Joint Seat Allocation Authority

Fests|

| Cultural fests|

* Alcheringa
* Alma Fiesta
* Antaragni
* Anwesha
* Exodia
* Fluxus
* Kashiyatra
* Mood Indigo
* Performing Arts Festival
* Rendezvous
* Saarang
* Spring Fest
* Srijan
* Thomso

|

Technical fests|

* Cognizance
* Kshitij
* Shaastra
* Techfest
* Techkriti
* Technex
* Techniche
* Wissenaire

Sports fests|

* Infinito
* Aavhan
* Agrata
* Udghosh
* Spardha
* Sportech
* Shaurya
* Parakram
* Sparsha
* Sangram
* Spirit

Notable alumni|

* IIT Bombay
* IIT Delhi
* IIT Kanpur
* IIT Kharagpur
* IIT Madras
* IIT Roorkee
* IIT (BHU) Varanasi

Legal status|

* Institutes of Technology Act, 1961
* Institutes of National Importance
* Institutes of Eminence

Related subjects|

* AIIMSs
* IIITs
* IIMs
* IISc
* IISERs
* NITs
* NIPERs
* SPAs
* NIDs
* NIFTs

* Category
* Commons

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Kanpur division topics

General|

* Doab
* Kanpur Zoological Park
* Lakh Bahosi Sanctuary
* Etawah Safari Park
* Sarsai Nawar Wetland

Mythology, history|

* Panchala
* Panchala Kingdom
* Siege of Cawnpore
* Second Battle of Cawnpore
* Empire of Harshvardhana

Districts|

* Auraiya
* Etawah
* Farrukhabad
* Kannauj
* Kanpur Negar
* Kanpur Dehat

Tehsils|

* Auraiya Sadar
* Bidhuna
* Ajeetmal
* Kanpur Sadar
* Bilhaur
* Ghatampur
* Narwal
* Akbarpur
* Bhognipur
* Derapur
* Rasulabad
* Sikandara
* Maitha
* Etawah Sadar
* Bhartana
* Jaswantnagar
* Saifai
* Chakarnagar
* Takha
* Kannauj Sadar
* Chibramau
* Tirwa
* Farrukhabad Sadar
* Kaimganj
* Amritpur

Rivers, dams, lakes|

* Chambal
* Ganges
* Kali
* Ramganga
* Sindh
* Yamuna
* Arind
* Moti Jheel

Languages, people|

* Awadhi
* Braj Bhasha
* Hindustani
* Kannauji
* Standard Hindi
* Urdu

Transport|

* NH 2
* Grand Trunk Road
* NH 26
* NH 86
* NH 96
* Dibiyapur Flyover
* Kanpur over-bridge
* Kanpur Airport
* Saifai Airstrip
* Marhamtabad Airstrip
* Kanpur Central railway station
* Kanpur Anwarganj railway station
* Phaphund railway station
* Etawah Junction
* Howrah–Delhi main line
* Lucknow–Kanpur Suburban Railway
* Kanpur Monorail
* Kanpur Metro
* Kanpur Metropolitan Bus Service

Industries|

* GAIL Dibiyapur
* NTPC Dibiyapur
* Panki Thermal Power Station
* Lohia Machinery
* Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India
* British India Corporation

Institutes of
higher learning|

* Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology
* Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University
* Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College
* Government Medical College, Kannauj
* Harcourt Butler Technical University
* Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
* Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute
* Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences

Lok Sabha constituencies
in Megapolitan Region|

* Kanpur
* Akbarpur
* Ghatampur
* Bilhaur
* Unnao
* Fatehpur
* Sikandra
* Etawah
* Mainpuri

See also|

* Cities and towns in Auraiya district
* Cities and towns in Etawah district
* Cities and towns in Farrukhabad district
* Cities and towns in Kannauj district
* Cities and towns in Kanpur Dehat district
* Cities and towns in Kanpur Dehat district
* Villages in Auraiya district
* Villages in Etawah district
* Villages in Farrukhabad district
* Villages in Kannauj district
* Villages in Kanpur Nagar district
* Villages in Kanpur Dehat district
* People from Etawah
* People from Farrukhabad
* People from Kanpur
* People from Kanpur Dehat district
* Kanpur topics

Other divisions|

* Agra
* Aligarh
* Ayodhya
* Azamgarh
* Bareilly
* Basti
* Chitrakoot
* Devipatan
* Gorakhpur
* Jhansi
* Lucknow
* Meerut
* Mirzapur
* Moradabad
* Prayagraj
* Saharanpur
* Varanasi

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Brazil|

* Minas Gerais
* Rio de Janeiro
* Rio Grande do Sul
* Santa Catarina
* Viçosa
* Fluminense
* Amazonian Research
* Pontifical Catholic Rio de Janeiro
* Campinas

Russia|

* Economics
* Information Technologies
* International Relations
* Physics and Technology
* Science and Technology
* Power Engineering
* Moscow
* Peoples' Friendship
* Saint Petersburg
* Tomsk Poly
* Tomsk
* Ural

India|

* Banaras Hindu
* Technology Bombay
* Technology Kanpur
* Technology Kharagpur
* Development Research
* Jamia Millia Islamia
* National Technology Durgapur
* National Technology Warangal
* Tata Social Sciences
* TERI Advanced Studies
* Delhi
* Visvesvaraya National Technology

China|

* Beijing Normal
* Fudan
* Harbin Engineering
* Hohai
* Huazhong Science and Technology
* Hunan
* Jiangsu Normal
* Jilin
* North China Water Resources and Electric Power
* Northeast Forestry
* Sichuan
* Southwest
* Yanshan
* Yunnan
* Zhejiang

South Africa|

* Central Technology
* Durban Technology
* North-West
* Rhodes
* Stellenbosch
* Tshwane Technology
* Cape Town
* Johannesburg
* Limpopo
* Pretoria
* Venda
* Witwatersrand

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States
* Norway
* Israel

Academics|

* CiNii

Other|

* IdRef

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