Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (BIT Mesra) is a government-funded technical institute situated in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, established in 1955 by industrialist B. M. Birla. It was affiliated with Patna University until 1960, then with Ranchi University, before being declared a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act in 1986. It was included under Section 12B of the UGC Act in November 2023. BIT Mesra was the first institute in India to set up a department of space engineering and rocketry, in 1964, and later established the Small Industries Research and Development Organization (SIRDO) in 1970, an initiative later adopted by other institutes as STEP. The institute has a large campus with a Central Library founded in 1955, a PARAM 10000 supercomputer, and various departments including Architecture, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. It also runs extension centres in Deoghar and Patna, a University Polytechnic since 2001, and a sister institute, the Birla Institute of Scientific Research, in Jaipur. C. K. Birla serves as chairman of the Board of Governors and chancellor of the institute.