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ISM was established in the year 1926 by the Government of India on the lines of the Royal School of Mines, London to train mining engineers and geologists. Today, when when it is celebrating its platinum jubilee after nearly 75 years years of existence, ISM has grown to an internationall y reputed status in various disciplines. |
The development of ISM for the last 75 years has been taking place both vertically and horizontally. It has become a Deemed University in 1967 under UGC Act, 1956. The Institute, at present, is funded by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India.
The Indian School of Mines was formally opened by His Excellency the Viceroy Lord Irwin on 9th December 1926 and the general work of the School commenced on the 10th Dec 1926 in its premises at Dhanbad with Dr D Penman as the first Principal. On the completion of the first 25 years of its existence the Silver Jubilee celebrations were inaugurated by Dr Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India, which gave a fresh fillip to this Institution. The School celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1976 and Diamond Jubilee in 1986.
ISM is located in the heart of the country's prime coking coal belt in Dhanbad, about 260 kilometres from Calcutta. ISM has a fully residential campus covering an area of 88 hectares.
The Institution was located at Dhanbad in order to facilitate the mining education to be in close relation with the Mining Industry. For training in Geology, the province of Jharkhand and its surroundings are unrivalled in their variety of geological formations, in the multiplicity of structural and field characteristics and also in the diversity and richness of the metallic and non-metallic resources. The locational advantage of ISM is that it is situated at the core of the industrial base of the region which hosts a number of coal mines, steel, fertilizer, refractory factories, heavy machine building plants etc. It has a 88 hectare (203 acre) residential campus of its own consisting of graceful blend of old-world and new style buildings. The serene campus comprises academic buildings, student hostels, faculty and staff quarters, health centre, workshop, canteen and other infrastructural facilities for a cosmopolitan community. The School is about three kilometers to the north of Dhanbad Railway Station; altitude of the place is 212 m above MSL and average rainfall is around 148 cm; the maximum and minimum temperatures are around 40o and 7o Celsius, respectively. ISM has a fully residential campus covering an area of 88 hectares.
Today ISM has adopted the path of academic diversification. New branches of academic programs have been added to its traditional departments and new departments have been established to cater other industries in addition to the traditional mineral industry. ISM caters to the human resource needs of the Nation in the areas of Mining, Petroleum, Mining Machinery, Mineral Engineering and Earth Sciences besides training manpower in the related disciplines of Management, Electronics & Instrumentation, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Applied Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. In due recognition of its vital role in the service of the nation, ISM was granted autonomy by the Government of India. It has a General Council - members to which are drawn from various industrial and governmental institutes, the Parliament and the Academia. The School has sixteen departments/centres, with more than 130 faculty.