Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science
The Shri Govindram SeksariaInstitute of Technology and Science, formerly Govindram Seksaria Technological Institute is a public engineering institution located in Indore, India. It was established in 1952 as a technical institute offering licentiate and diploma courses in engineering. The institute offers ten undergraduate and 17 postgraduate courses. In addition, part-time degree courses are offered for working professionals with Engineering Diploma. It is an autonomous college seeking university status. SGSITS is an academically and administratively autonomous institute, however, it is a part of the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya and its degrees are issued by the University. All India Council of Technical Education, New Delhi and University Grants Commission, New Delhi granted the status of an Autonomous Institution in 1989. Under this status, the Institute conducts its own examinations at both UG and PG levels SGSITS became operational under the administration of a Board of Governors.
History
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. 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. 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.
Campus
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 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
Two guest houses
Two Canteens and one Cafeteria
There are seven hostels:
Four boys hostels
* M. Vishveshwariya Hostel for first-year undergraduate students
* H. Bhabha Hostel for second-year undergraduate students
* J.C. Bose Hostel for Final and third-year undergraduate students
* C.V. Raman Hostel for Postgraduate students.
Three girls hostels
One transit hostel for research scholars, lecturers and sponsored students
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 1986 batch
Admission
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
At postgraduate level, the admissions are on the basis of merit obtained in GATE Examination.
Admission to the M.Sc. courses are conducted at the department level.
Admission to the MBA courses is done by considering result of CMAT examination.
Academic departments
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.
