Mr. Walter Scheel trying his hand at planing in the workshop, 1963

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Visiting VIPs , Administrators , Students

This photograph was taken at the Carpentry Shop during the visit of Mr. Walter Scheel to IIT Madras.

Construction of the Central Workshops was completed in June 1961. The Workshops were one of the first constructions to come up on campus. The idea behind the Central Workshops was to provide students with a practical knowledge of subjects in engineering that they were studying in classes. In this way, they would not only be theoretically sound, but also practically so.

Seen in the photograph, Prof. B. Sengupto (Director of IIT Madras, extreme right) and Mr. Walter Scheel (Minister of Economic Cooperation, Federal Republic of Germany, second from right). The student in the image has not been identified.

Collection:

Central Photographic Section Collection

Album Name:

Visit of Mr. Walter Scheel, 1963 and Miscellaneous Photographs

Photograph ID:

001/0178/0020_1

Album ID:

0178

Place:

Carpentry Shop at Central Workshops

Date:

4 December 1963