About Institute
Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute (Earlier known as Government Central Textile Institute),
Kanpur is a premier textile institute of North India. It made a modest
start in 1914. However in 1937, Govt. Central Textile Institute came
into existence in its present form by merger of two premier textile
institute i.e. one at Kanpur and the other at Roorkee i.e. Department of
Textile Technology, Thomson Civil Engineering College of Roorkee and
two diploma programme were started in
- Textile Manufacture
- Chemical Technology
In the year 1959-60 four year degree Programmes in
Textile Technology & Textile Chemistry were started. Initially the
Institute was affiliated to Agra University but on establishment of the
University in Kanpur in the year 1966 it got affiliated to Kanpur
University. In the year 1976-77 the institute pioneered in starting a
four year degree programme in Manmade Fibre technology. In 1985 the
three year diploma Programmes were shifted to Government Polytechnic
Kanpur and thereafter the institute has been running graduate and
postgraduate Programmers with Ph.D. research facilities. The fourth
degree programme in Textile Engineering was added under World Bank aided
Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme of Government of
India and Government of State of Uttar Pradesh in 2005.
The institute is organized into four Textile
departments along with individual departments of Basic Sciences and
Engineering. All Textile departments offer B.Tech. Degree and Textile
Technology and Textile Chemistry departments offer M.Tech degree.
Facilities for doctorate level research also exist in all departments.
