Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (also known as IITGN), located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, is a public institute of higher education declared to be an Institute of National Importance by Government of India. It is one of the eight new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011. IITGN comes under the brand-cluster of sixteen Indian Institutes of Technology classified by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The Act was passed in the Lok Sabha on 24 March 2011 and by the Rajya Sabha on 30 April 2012. IIT Gandhinagar was established in 2008 along with seven other new IITs. The institute started its operations in its temporary campus at Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda. The institute has been mentored by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since 2008. The first batch of students were admitted in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.
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