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NCC Day and the inauguration of the NCC building took place on the same day, 14 December 1965. This has been recorded in the Seventh Annual Number of IIT Madras, 1965-66. The official proceedings of the new NCC building took place outside the building, while this photograph appears to have been taken in an open ground, where NCC Day was celebrated. Major General Virendra Singh (Director General, NCC) was associated with IIT Madras even prior to 1965. He was the chief guest during NCC Day on 4 December 1963. An identical photograph can be found in the Gourishankar Collection in Album…

This photograph was taken during the visit of Prof. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal from the Technical University of Berlin. There were a series of meetings spread over a few days in which the two gentlemen met with the administrators and faculty of IIT Madras. Sitting, from left, Prof. R. J. H. Bisanz (Chemical Engineering Department), Prof. S. Rajaraman (Member of the Board of Governors and Director of Technical Education, Kerala, second from left), Prof. W. Koch (Department of Physics, third from left), a gentleman (yet to be identified), Dr. P. Hilbig (Vice-Rector, Technical University, Berlin…

Prof. Hilbig came to IIT Madras along with Mr. Westphal from the Technical University, Berlin to take part in a series of meetings with the administrators and faculty of IIT Madras. This photograph was taken during one of the meetings. It appears that the photograph was taken outside IIT Madras, although it is difficult to determine the location. A Campastimes report mentions that Prof. Hilbig was an expert in Mine Surveying and Applied Geophysics. He studied at the universities of Breslau and Berlin, and in 1953 received his doctorate from the Technical University of Aachen. He was married…

The visit of Dr. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal was spread over a span of a few days, involving several meetings with administrators and professors from IIT Madras. According to the article ‘Tu Berlin And IIT’ by DJN published in Campastimes, the two gentlemen visited all the departments and met with the Director in order to get an idea about the Institute and the ways in which Technical University, Berlin could help IIT Madras under the Second Indo-German Agreement. They came to the conclusion that although the Technical University, Berlin would not be able to send senior professors to IIT Madras…

The inauguration of the NCC building took place on 14 December 1965. It was on the same day that NCC Day was celebrated. The NCC building is located roughly opposite the Ocean Engineering Department. It currently houses the JEE/GATE office. (As of September 2021). Major General Virendra Singh (Director-General, NCC) was associated with IIT Madras even prior to 1965. He was the chief guest on the Institute NCC Day on 4 December 1963. The NCC Office is currently located in one of the ‘Warden’s Quarters’ behind Himalaya Canteen (As of October 2021). The old NCC building, which was inaugurated…

This photograph was taken during the visit of Prof. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal from the Technical University of Berlin. There were a series of meetings spread over a few days in which the two gentlemen met with the administrators and faculty of IIT Madras.  According to the article ‘Tu Berlin And IIT’ by DJN published in Campastimes, Prof. Dr. P. Hilbig (Vice-Rector, Technical University, Berlin) and Mr. H. Westphal (Director, Academic Foreign Relations Office, Technical University, Berlin) visited all the departments and met with the Director in order to get an idea about the Institute…

This photograph was taken during the visit of Prof. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal from the Technical University of Berlin. There were a series of meetings spread over a few days in which the two gentlemen met with the administrators and faculty of IIT Madras. According to the article ‘Tu Berlin And IIT’ by DJN published in Campastimes, Prof. Dr. P. Hilbig (Vice-Rector, Technical University, Berlin) and Mr. H. Westphal (Director, Academic Foreign Relations Office, Technical University, Berlin) visited all the departments and met with the Director in order to get an idea about the Institute and…

In 1965, Dr. P. Hilbig and Mr. H. Westphal of the Technical University, Berlin visited IIT Madras. This photograph was taken during one of the several meetings which took place between the two gentlemen and administrators and faculty from IIT Madras during the course of their visit. According to the article ‘Tu Berlin And IIT’ by DJN published in Campastimes, the two gentlemen visited all the departments and met with the Director in order to get an idea about the Institute and the ways in which Technical University, Berlin could help IIT Madras under the Second Indo-German Agreement. They…

This photograph was found in the album which contains photographs taken during the visit of Dr. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal.  An article ‘Tu Berlin And IIT’ by DJN published in Campastimes notes that Dr. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal visited all the departments and met with the Director in order to get an idea about the Institute and the ways in which Technical University, Berlin could help IIT Madras under the Second Indo-German Agreement. They came to the conclusion that although the Technical University, Berlin would not be able to send senior professors to IIT Madras on a long-term basis,…

Mr. Westphal visited IIT Madras in 1965 along with Prof. Hilbig. They had a series of meetings with faculty and administrators of IIT Madras during their period of stay. According to the article ‘Tu Berlin And IIT’ by DJN published in Campastimes, the two gentlemen visited all the departments and met with the Director in order to get an idea about the Institute and the ways in which Technical University, Berlin could help IIT Madras under the Second Indo-German Agreement. They came to the conclusion that although the Technical University, Berlin would not be able to send senior professors to…

This photograph was taken at the inauguration of the NCC building on 14 December 1965. The table to the left of the photograph contains CW keys used for Morse code transmission. CW is the abbreviation of continuous wave. Seen in the picture are, Prof. B. Sengupto (Director, first from right), Mr. Y. S. Ramaswamy (Superintending Engineer, wearing sunglasses), Mr. R. Natarajan (former Registrar, behind Mr. Ramaswamy), Commodore Jimmy D. Mody (Director of NCC, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry wearing a white uniform, next to Mr. Natarajan) and Major General Virendra Singh (Director-General of NCC,…

This photograph was taken during the inauguration of the NCC building on 14 December 1965. Major General Virendra Singh (Director-General of NCC) was the chief guest for the occasion. The NCC building was completed at a cost of 5.8 lakhs (according to the Seventh Annual Number of IIT Madras, 1965-66). It was constructed to house the different units of the NCC in IIT Madras. During the time, IIT Madras had four technical NCC units which had replaced the NCC Rifles in 1964. The units were 6 Madras Engineer Coy., 3 Madras Signal Coy., 6 Madras (Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Unit (2…

We think the year given in the label (1966) is wrong because the Annual Report of 1965-66 mentions that the two gentlemen visited the Institute in December 1965. This has also been confirmed with a Campastimes report from the February 1966 issue of the magazine.

The new NCC building was inaugurated on NCC Day on 14 December 1965. Major General Virendra Singh (Director-General of NCC) was the chief guest for the occasion.  Prof. Sengupto was the first Director of IIT Madras. He joined as Director in 1959 and served until 1967.  Seated, from left, Commodore Jimmy D. Mody (Director of NCC, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, second from left) and Major General Virendra Singh (Director-General, NCC, third from left) and. The other persons in the photograph are yet to be identified.  An identical photograph can be found in the Gourishankar…

This photograph was taken during the visit of Prof. Hilbig and Mr. Westphal from the Technical University of Berlin. There were a series of meetings spread over a few days in which the two gentlemen met with the administrators and faculty of IIT Madras. This photograph seems to have been taken outside campus, but it is difficult to determine the exact location. Seen in in the photograph, closest to the camera, Prof. S. Ramaseshan (Department of Physics) and to his left hand side Mr. H. Westphal (Director, Academic Foreign Relations Office, Technical University, Berlin, partially covered),…