This is a list of cultural and technical festivals held in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) throughout India. Some colleges may combine these festivals with sports or other activities, while others may hold separate sports festivals. The list only consists of festivals with a Wikipedia page.
For a list of all festivals in India, see List of cultural festivals in Indian colleges.
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
State/UTLocationName of IIT Cultural festivalTechnical festivalSports festivalNameFirst heldNameFirst heldNameFirst held Delhi New Delhi IIT Delhi Rendezvous 1976 Tryst Maharashtra Mumbai IIT Bombay Mood Indigo 1971 Techfest 1998 Aavhan 2017 Rajasthan Jodhpur IIT Jodhpur Ignus 2008 Prometeo 2008 Varchas 2008 Uttarakhand Roorkee IIT Roorkee Thomso 1980s Cognizance 2003 Sangram Uttar Pradesh Varanasi IIT (BHU) Varanasi Kashiyatra 1981 Technex Spardha Odisha Bhubaneswar IIT Bhubaneswar Alma Fiesta 2009 Wissenaire 2010 Ashvamedha Jharkhand Dhanbad IIT (ISM) Dhanbad Srijan 1977 Concetto Parakram Assam Guwahati IIT Guwahati Alcheringa 1996 Techniche 1999 Spirit Uttar Pradesh Kanpur IIT Kanpur Antaragni 1966 Techkriti 1995 Udghosh 2002 West Bengal Kharagpur IIT Kharagpur Spring Fest 1960 Shaurya Tamil Nadu Chennai IIT Madras Saarang 1974 Shaastra 2000 Himachal Pradesh Mandi IIT Mandi Exodia 2012 Rann-neeti Bihar Patna IIT Patna Anwesha 2010 Celesta Infinito
National Institutes of Technology (NITs)
State/UTLocationName of NIT Cultural FestivalTechnical FestivalNameFirst heldNameFirst heldWest BengalKolkataIIEST ShibpurRebeca1932Instruo2009 Uttar Pradesh Allahabad MNNIT Allahabad Culrav 1986 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal MANIT Bhopal Technosearch 2003 Kerala Kozhikode NIT Calicut Ragam 1987 Tathva Haryana Kurukshetra NIT Kurukshetra Techspardha 1995 Jharkhand Jamshedpur NIT Jamshedpur Ojass 2004 Maharashtra Nagpur VNIT Nagpur Aarohi 1988 Karnataka Surathkal NIT Surathkal Incident 1980 Engineer 2005 Tamil Nadu Trichy NIT Trichy Festember1975 Pragyan2005 Telangana Warangal NIT Warangal SpringSpree 1978
See also List of cultural festivals in Indian colleges
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