According to the recommendation of the Sarkar Committee (1945), higher technical institutes were formed on the model of which of the following in the four regions of India?
AImperial College of Science and Technology, UK
BMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ✓ Correct
CCalifornia Institute of Technology, USA
DMax Planck Institute, Germany
Correct answer: (B) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Explanation
The Sarkar Committee of 1945 proposed higher technical institutes on the model of MIT in the USA.
The Imperial College of Science and Technology in the UK was not the chosen model.
The California Institute of Technology was not the pattern the committee named.
The Max Planck Institute in Germany is a research body, not the model here.
Its recommendation led to the founding of the Indian Institutes of Technology.
The first IIT opened at Kharagpur in 1951.
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