About the Institute
Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology (IGIT), Sarang was established in the year of 1982 and was managed directly by the Govt. of Odisha in the name of Odisha College of Engineering (OCE). Prior to this, since 1981, the institute in the name of Modern Polytechnic (MPT) was offering Diploma Courses in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, and Mining Engineering. In the year 1987, both OCE & MPT were merged and renamed as IGIT, Sarang and the management was transferred to an Autonomous Society. Presently, the Institute is offering nine Under Graduate Engineering courses in Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Metallurgical, Electronics & Telecommunication, Computer Science Engineering, Production Engineering, Architecture; & two part-time Post Graduate Engineering courses in Industrial Power Control & Drives, Environmental Sc. &Engineering; nine full time Post Graduate Engineering courses / Master course Computer Sc. Engineering, Electronics and Telecom. Engineering, Geotech Engineering, Mechanical System Design, Mett. & Materials Engineering, Power Electronics & Drives, Power System Engineering, Production Engineering, Structural Engineering, Master in Computer Application; besides five Diploma Courses in Civil, Electrical, Electronics & Telecommunication, Mechanical & Metallurgical Engineering.
The Institute is fully residential with an integrated campus covering 179 acres of land encompassing hostels, staff quarters and a sprawling playground (Dr. M. P. Mishra memorial stadium) with basketball, volleyball and badminton courts. The institute has central infrastructure facilities like Central Library (with 27,000 volumes of books and 50 current periodicals / journals subscribed every year), Central Computer Centre, Central Workshop, Knowledge Centre, 9 nos. of student hostels having accommodation facility for students and other amenities such as SBI (Core Bank facilities), Guest house , Hospital, Post Office, Canteen, Students and Employees Cooperative Consumer stores, NSS, NCC, different clubs, Within a span of three decades, the institute has grown up to the National level academically. The institute got NBA accredited upto 2024 because of its academic excellence.
