Institute of Jute Technology

About Institute of Jute Technology

The Institute of Jute Technology (IJT) founded on 20th February, 1947 in joint collaboration with Indian Jute Mills’ Association (IJMA) and University of Calcutta is now a Registered Society (under W.B. Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961) situated at 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata - 700 019 in the State of West Bengal, India managed by a Governing Council with Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta at the helm of affairs as President and adequately represented by University of Calcutta, IJMA, Govt. of India and other organizations. The Institute is an Autonomous Aided Registered Society.

IJT with it’s heritage background of more than fifty-seven years is globally acknowledged as an unique place in the history of Jute HRD not only in this country but also in the world quite unchallenged till now. Over the years, this institute has come to mean much that was special as it has stood for the finest, the most consistent, showcasing the best HRD for Jute Industry through imparting all aspects of Jute Technology towards creating the essential skilled manpower resources to reclaim jute once again as a sunrise industry by interfacing IJT and Jute Industry to nurture it to become a seat of excellence. Creation of workers value provides the only basis for sustainable contribution to the super ordinate goal of creating national value as this spirit permeates the nature of it’s partnerships with the various constituents of it’s value chains including farmers, workers and educators. IJT’s governance structures, strategies and organizational processes have been fashioned to create growing and competitively superior value with the help of it’s good infrastructure including land and buildings, a pilot jute mill, laboratories equipped with latest machineries and instruments and a ‘state-of-the-art’ Computer Lab. towards continuous bench marking of quality to international levels.