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Birla Institute of Science and Technology was established in 1964 by Ghanshyam Das Birla. In 1950s, when the first IIT was set up by the Indian Government to provide advanced engineering and scientific manpower to Indian economy, Mr.G D Birla realized that he needed better institutions to train highly skilled engineers for his own companies. He thought that India needed a private IIT and that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) should train it's faculties. When a grant of worth $1.45 ...