StudentsJames Thomason Scholarship
₹25,000 a month for the whole programme, for students who join IIT Roorkee with a JEE (Advanced) rank under 250.
Donate Now: James Thomason Scholarship
Give Back. Create What’s Next.
Your support helps students, research and campus life at IIT Roorkee, from India or anywhere in the world.
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Together for a Greater Tomorrow
Choose an official scheme, give through IIT Roorkee’s donation page or a partner charity abroad, and hear back every year on what your gift did.
Give only through IIT Roorkee’s official donation page (iitrdora.iitr.ac.in) or the partner charities listed here. If a request for money reaches you any other way, check with dora.office@iitr.ac.in first.
- Mobilised for IIT Roorkee, 2023–26
- ₹60.25 cr
- Philanthropic gifts received in 2025
- ₹31 cr+
- MoUs, funding about 120 scholarships & awards
- 160+
- Endowed professorial chairs, 2023–26
- 5
Figures from DORA’s Snippets newsletter:April 2026December 2025
Our promise to every donor
From IIT Roorkee’s Schemes for Promoting Excellence- 100% exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961 on gifts to IIT Roorkee.
- Every year, a financial statement: opening amount, interest earned, expenditure and balance.
- Every year, the list of beneficiaries of your scheme.
- Name the scheme as you wish, in your name or anyone else’s.
Causes You Can Support
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- Students
StudentsMerit-cum-Means Scholarship
Financial help for meritorious students from poor families, so they can complete their professional and technical courses.
160+ MoUs fund about 120 scholarships & awards
Donate Now: Merit-cum-Means Scholarship
StudentsFinancial Aid for Students
A lump sum for one or more students facing financial hardship because of their personal circumstances.
Donate Now: Financial Aid for Students
Have another idea?
“Any other scheme can also be initiated, in consultation with the Institute.” Write to the Dean with what you would like to fund.
Every Donate Now button opens IIT Roorkee’s official donation page, which takes gifts to the institute as a whole. Open a cause to direct your gift to it.
What a gift does
Your gift, in published terms
Amounts IIT Roorkee and DORA have published for real schemes. Enter a gift to see how it compares.
For a gift of ₹1 lakh:
| Published amount | What it pays for | Your gift covers |
|---|---|---|
| ₹10,000 | The honorarium for one departmental endowed lectureEFMC resolution 09/2017 | 10× |
| ₹25,000 | One month of a James Thomason ScholarshipIIT Roorkee’s Schemes for Promoting Excellence | 4× |
| ₹75,000 | A student’s travel grant to present at an international conferenceStudents’ thank-you notes | 1.3× |
| about ₹45 lakh | The 1975 batch’s Golden Jubilee gift, including two e-carts for the campusSnippets, December 2025 | 2% of it |
| ₹1.50 crore | The Shyama Mangal Institute Chair ProfessorshipSnippets, April 2026 | 0.7% of it |
Gifts are pooled within a scheme and spent as the scheme sets out, so these are comparisons, not a price list. Name the scheme when you give.
Give online
You choose the amount and the scheme on IIT Roorkee’s official donation page.
In their words
What travel support makes possible
Students DORA helped reach international conferences, in their own thank-you notes.
With the support provided by IIT Roorkee, I was able to present my research paper … at an international platform. … the paper was shortlisted as a candidate for the Best Paper Award.
Pankaj Kumar DetwalDepartment of Management Studies15th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES 2026)Marbella, SpainMar 09 – 11, 2026 I am honored to share that I received the Flash Talk Award for my presentation at EMC 2026. … The experience has contributed significantly to my academic and professional development.
KuldeepDepartment of Biosciences and Bioengineering29th Enzyme Mechanisms Conference (EMC 2026)Carlsbad, USAJanuary 04 – 08, 2026 I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the travel support of ₹75,000 provided by IIT Roorkee through the DORA Office. This support enabled me to attend and present my research work…
Shubham KhangeDepartment of Chemical Engineering76th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)Mainz, GermanySeptember 7 – 12, 2025
Ways to give
- Give OnlineNet banking, credit or debit card, or scan the QR code, all on the official donation page.
- Bank TransferTransfer to the IIT Roorkee Donation Account, including from NRE/NRO accounts. The official page lists the account details.
- Cheque or DDMake it payable to “Registrar IIT Roorkee”. Write to DORA to confirm the postal address before sending.
- CSR PartnershipsCompanies fund projects through IIT Roorkee Development Foundation. No minimum; joint funding welcome.
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Wall of Fame
The gifts that built Roorkee
Donors and batches who have given ₹1 crore or more, as published by the DORA office.
- Mr. Ashok Soota₹20 crore
- Class Gift of 1999 Batch₹5.05 crore
- The Bhupat & Jyoti Mehta Family Foundation₹4.52 crore
- Dr. Purnima Parida & Prof. M. Parida₹3.17 crore
- Mr. Mohinder L. Nayyar₹2.89 crore
- Dr. Shamsher Prakash₹2.23 crore
- Dr. Sushil Sharma₹2.20 crore
- Dr. Surendra K Goel & Mrs. Kusum Goel₹2.0 crore
- Class Gift of 1998 Batch₹1.85 crore
- Mr. Om Prakash Kulshreshtha₹1.83 crore
- Prof. A. S. Arya₹1.80 crore
- Dr. Ajit Singhvi₹1.60 crore
- Class Gift of 1994 Batch₹1.58 crore
- Class Gift of 1996 Batch₹1.31 crore
- Mr. Pradeep Kumar Kapase₹1.15 crore
- Class Gift of 1997 Batch₹1.14 crore
- Class Gift of 1989 Batch₹1.14 crore
- Class Gift of 1992 Batch₹1.12 crore
- Dr. Maheshwar P Varshney₹1.11 crore
- Class Gift of 1981 Batch₹1.03 crore
As published by the DORA office. Want your entry changed or removed? Write to the DORA office
Tax benefits
Give from wherever you are
Choose the route for where you pay tax. Each one goes to IIT Roorkee or to a partner charity that supports it.
| Donor | Give through | Tax benefit | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| IndiaResidents, and NRIs giving from NRE/NRO accounts | IIT Roorkee Donation AccountOnline, bank transfer, cheque or DD | 100% exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961 | Official donation page |
| USA | IIT Roorkee Heritage FoundationFremont, California · EIN 43-1791249 | 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. Your employer may match your gift. | iitr-heritagefund.org |
| USA | IIT Roorkee Foundation, Inc.Ashburn, Virginia · EIN 37-1931457 | 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. Your employer may match your gift. | iitrfoundation.org |
| UK | IIT Alumni UKIIT Roorkee donations | Gift Aid: UK taxpayers’ gifts topped up by 25% | iituk.org |
| Other countriesForeign citizens, including PIO | IIT Roorkee FCRA accountState Bank of India, New Delhi | Received under FCRA. Check your country’s rules for tax relief. | Official donation page |
Bank details are published only on the official donation page. Always check them there before you transfer.
Questions
Giving, answered
Anything else? Write to dora.office@iitr.ac.in.
Yes. IIT Roorkee states: “Donations to IIT Roorkee are eligible for 100% exemption u/s 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961.” You can give online, by bank transfer or by cheque through the official donation page at iitrdora.iitr.ac.in.
Yes. Donors in the USA can give through IIT Roorkee Heritage Foundation or IIT Roorkee Foundation, Inc., both tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charities. UK taxpayers can give through IIT Alumni UK and claim Gift Aid. Foreign citizens elsewhere give to IIT Roorkee’s FCRA account; the account details are on the official donation page.
Yes. Every cause on this page is an official IIT Roorkee scheme, and you can name it as you wish, for example a Chair Professorship in your name or someone else’s. Give through the official donation page, then email dora.office@iitr.ac.in with the scheme, amount, date and transaction reference. Each cause page has a ready-made email.
Yes. Every year IIT Roorkee emails each donor a financial statement showing the opening amount, interest earned, expenditure and balance, and the list of beneficiaries.
If you give in the USA through IIT Roorkee Heritage Foundation or IIT Roorkee Foundation, Inc., DORA notes that it may help you get a matching donation from your company. Ask your employer about its matching-gift programme.
Through IIT Roorkee Development Foundation (IITRDF), a Section 8 company registered on 12 May 2021. Many projects fall under Schedule VII of the CSR Rules 2014. There is no minimum contribution, partial and joint funding are welcome, and IITRDF prepares the documents your CSR committee needs. Write to csr@iitr.ac.in or call +91-9818416037.
The DORA office handles donation receipts. If you need one, write to dora.office@iitr.ac.in with the date, amount and transaction reference of your gift.
Bank details are published only on the official donation page at iitrdora.iitr.ac.in. Always check them there before you transfer.
Ready to give?
Pick a cause, give through the official page and tell DORA where it should go. You will hear back every year.
Give only through IIT Roorkee’s official donation page (iitrdora.iitr.ac.in) or the partner charities listed here. If a request for money reaches you any other way, check with dora.office@iitr.ac.in first.