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Foundation
The ground we build on
The ground has to hold before
anything else can rise.
IIT Kanpur has always been about something larger than the sum of its people. Bigger than any single idea, discovery, or name on a building. Greater Than Us is the campaign that matches that vision: bold investments in research, infrastructure, and talent that will define what India becomes.
The institution is writing its most ambitious chapter yet and it is asking you to be a part of it.
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I was no longer myself but an instrument of a historical process, as if possessed by something greater than me.
When P.K. Kelkar founded this institution in 1959, he gave it a disposition that has been a guiding force: the belief that education here must serve something larger than any individual ambition. Greater Than Us is that belief, made urgent again; for an India at its most pivotal moment.
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Three Bets on India
Through IIT Kanpur
For sixty years, IIT Kanpur has been at the frontier of what India can become; building the knowledge, the technology, the healthcare systems, and the leaders that a self-reliant nation requires.
The Greater Than Us campaign concentrates that ambition into three priorities; each one a domain where IITK's contribution is not just valuable, but irreplaceable. This is a prelude to IIT Kanpur’s next chapter.
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Talent
The people who carry it forward
An institution is only as great
as the people it backs.
1 Billion. 3 goals. One India.
Our Goal
$1 Billion
₹9000Cr
Raised
$0M
₹4155Cr
Every contribution is a belief in IIT Kanpur’s future, made tangible. Gifts of every size help shape what the Institute builds next and the generations who will carry it forward.
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Greater than me.
Greater than you.
Greater than
all of us.
Be a part of something great.