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The institute was founded by Dr. Ghanshyam Das Birla in 1929 as an intermediate college.

During World War II, the Government of India established a technical training center at Pilani to train technicians for defence services and industry. In 1946, it was converted into the Birla Engineering College with degree programmes in electrical and mechanical engineering.The college was set up with very limited infrastructure. Prof. V Lakshminarayan became Vice Principal of Birla College of Engineering in 1946. The Masters programme in Electronics began in 1955.

In the 1950s, the first Indian Institute of Technology’s (IITs) were being set up. It was then that Ghanshyam Das Birla decided that

his companies, and his country, needed a private IIT, and that MIT alone should provide the blueprint for the institute and train its faculty.

Therefore, in 1964, the Birla Colleges of Arts, Commerce, Engineering, Pharmacy and Science were merged to form the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) with Dr. G.D. Birla as the founder chairman.

Birla Institute of Technology & Science, also referred to as BITS Pilani is a private technical university located in Pilani, Rajasthan, India. BITS also has campuses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,Goa, India Hyderabad, India and an extension center in Bangalore, India

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