Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani is an Indian Institute of Information Technology located at Kalyani, West Bengal. The institute was set up by the Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of West Bengal and industry partners using the not-for-profit Public Private Partnership model, at a ratio of 50:35:15 respectively between three parties. Admission to IIIT Kalyani is done on the basis of the marks obtained in JEE Main.IIIT Kalyani has been attributed the status of Institute of National Importance by the cabinet in March 2017 under the IIIT Act. The institute is run by the Board of Governors of IIIT Kalyani whose members include the representatives of Government of India, Government of West Bengal, industry partners and eminent people from academia, industry and civil society. Virendra Kumar Tewari is the Mentor-Director for IIIT, Kalyani and IIT Kharagpur is the mentor institute. Prof. Santanu Chattopadhyay has taken charge as the Director of the Institute on December 16, 2020. ()