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Situated at
75 .55 E - 28 .2N, Pilani houses one of the most prestigious Institutions in India.
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science
was registered as a society under the Rajasthan Societies Registration Act 1958 on
13 May 1964 and later on 27 June 1964, was given the status of a Deemed University
by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. B I T S is located in the Vidya Vihar campus
adjacent to Pilani town in Rajasthan. Pilani is the hometown of the Birla
family and has a population of about 40, 000. It is about 222 km west of Delhi and
about 220 km north of Jaipur. The temperatures during the year go to extremes
like 49o C in summer and 0o C in winter. The climate is generally dry and
healthy. Annual rainfall is about 30 - 40 cm
The Institute buildings, hostels and
residential quarters for staff with neatly laid out roads, lawns and gardens
constitute the BITS Campus of about 200 acres. It is part of larger Vidya Vihar
Campus of about 1000 acres. Pilani can be reached either
by road or rail. The nearest
railway stations are Chirawa and Loharu. There are connecting buses to Pilani
from Chirawa and Loharu. There are regular bus services from Delhi and Jaipur to
Pilani. There are direct bus services from Ajmer, Bikaner, Hardwar, Kota, Jodhpur
and Chandigarh also. The buses leave Delhi from the Inter State Bus Terminus,
Kashmere Gate and Jaipur from Rajasthan State Roadways bus stand, Sindhi Camp.The
BITS Campus is very close to the bus stand. There are some visiting place in BITS,
Like Sarasvati Temple, Museum, Shiv Ganga etc. Like the same in Pilani (City) there
are few visiting place like, Panchwati, Birla Haveli, Vishram Watika, Pahari Temple etc.
The Birla Institute of Technology and
Science (BITS), Pilani is an All-India Institute for higher education . BITS
is recognized as a leading Indian Centre of technical training. It is one of
the very few nationally and internationally recognized Indian Institutes that is a
non-governmental organization. BITS was founded by Late Shri G.D.Birla and
subsequently developed with the support of the Birla family, who run India's largest
private sector business house. (Source BITS bulletin)
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