Roorkee is a small town in northern India and is a part of the state of Uttaranchal.
Roorkee is best known for University of Roorkee, now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. It is also the home of government research institutes, Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Irrigation Research Institute (IRI) and the National Institute Of Hydrology (NIH).
IIT Roorkee was the first technical institution to be established in Asia.IIT Roorkee was the first technical institution to be established in Asia.
The city has produced engineers of the finest quality from the erstwhile University of Roorkee, now known as Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee.
It is about 180 kilometers north of the Indian capital New Delhi and located between the rivers Ganga and Yamuna.
It is also the place where first locomotive engine in India moved on rails -- locomotive engine named Mary lind which was especially shipped from England. It was used to carry soil which was used for the construction of aqueduct on Ganga canal.
This locomotive ran in year 1846, long before the first passenger train in india (bombay-thane).One striking feature of this town is the presence of a big canal which flows on a bridge crossing a seasonal river, built by the British and augmented recently.City is really very beautiful.
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