BIT Sindri or Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri (formerly known as Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri) is an engineering college in Jharkhand, India. An institute of higher learning, BIT has AICTE approved undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs. The institute is funded and administered by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi and is academically affiliated to Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribag for conducting examinations and awarding degrees. BIT has received funding from the World Bank for projects. The institute campus is located 30 km from the Dhanbad City. The campus is well connected by road and rail from Dhanbad. BIT was founded in 1949 under the name of the College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Patna. In 1950 it was shifted to Sindri and thus BIT Sindri was born with a Principal, three Professors and sixty students. During the initial years, the college had diploma programs in electrical amd mechanical engineering. The aim of the government to shift BIT to Sindri was to make it the first IIT of India, but, for political reasons, IIT Kharagpur was made the first IIT and BIT remained as BIT.