About ISM-Dhanbad

( Indian School of Mines , Dhanbad )

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 in 1951 the Silver Jubilee celebrations were  inaugurated by  Dr Rajendra Prasad,  the then President of India, who  gave thereby  a  fresh  fillip  to this Institution. The  School  had  celebrated  its Golden Jubilee in 1976 and Platinum Jubilee in 2001.

Location of the Institute :

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 Bihar 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 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. 

       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 .

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