and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Chandra Bhanu Gupta. Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College was established in 1961, as a part of the seventeen
Regional Engineering Colleges as a joint enterprise of the
Government of India and the Government of
Uttar Pradesh. MNREC was started with undergraduate courses in three engineering disciplines -
Civil engineering,
Electrical engineering and
Mechanical engineering. The foundation stone was laid by
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, and the institute was named after his father, lawyer, and freedom fighter,
Motilal Nehru. The founding principal of the college was Gopal Kishore Agrawal. The main building of the college was inaugurated by Prime Minister
Lal Bahadur Shastri on 18 April 1965. Effective from 26 June 2002, the college became a deemed university and was renamed Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology. The institute was the first in the country to offer an undergraduate program in
Computer Science and Engineering, which was started in 1976, under the Electrical Engineering department. In 1982-83 undergraduate programs in Electronics Engineering, and Production and Industrial Engineering were started. The first Master's Programme of the institute was introduced by the Mechanical Engineering Department in the year 1966, offering a two-year
M.Tech. programme in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently, masters programmes in other engineering disciplines were introduced in 1970–71. It is among the few technical institutions in India to house two
supercomputers,
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