The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रुड़की), formerly the University of Roorkee, is a public university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. Established in 1847, it was given the University status in 1949 and in 2001 was converted into an IIT, thus becoming the seventh Indian Institute of Technology to be declared. IIT Roorkee has 18 academic departments covering engineering, applied sciences, humanities & social sciences and management programs. It lays a claim to being the technical institutions with the largest number of academic units in India. The institution has its origins in a class started in 1845 to train local youth in engineering to assist in public works then beginning. In 1847 it was officially established. It was renamed as the Thomson College of Civil Engineering in 1854 in honour of its founder, Sir James Thomason, Lieutenant Governor 1843-53. The first Indian to pass out from the Roorkee college was Rai Bahadur Kanhaiya Lal in 1852. Initially, the college had Engineers class only for Europeans, Upper subordinate class for Europeans and Indians and Lower subbordinate class for Indians only.