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<p>The Venue : IIT Bombay | <a href="/sage_days/about_mumbai">The City : Mumbai</a> | <a href="/sage_days/reaching_iitb">How to reach IIT Bombay?</a></p>

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<h1>The Venue : IIT Bombay</h1>

<p>IIT Bombay or IITB, is an autonomous university located in Powai, in north central Mumbai. It is the second-oldest campus of the Indian Institutes of Technology system and the largest National Institute in the state of Maharashtra. IIT Bombay ranked as Asia's 3rd best institute in science and technology , the world's 36th best institute in technology and the world's 30th best for engineering and IT.</p>

<p>The IIT Bombay campus is located at Powai, a suburb in north western Mumbai, between the Vihar and Powai lakes. The campus offers a magnificent view of the powai lake. Due to its proximity to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, the campus is extremely clean, green and mostly untouched by the pollution of the rest of the city.</p>

<p>The campus is divided into clusters of buildings. The academic area chiefly comprises the Main Building, various Departmental annexures and auditoria. All department annexures are connected by a corridor named Infinite Corridor. Beyond the Convocation Hall lie the hostels.</p>

<p>There are number of places inside and outside the campus offering a wide variety of food items, from North Indian 'Channa Masala' to South Indian 'Dosa'.</p>

<p>The campus is well connected internally by buses, making it easy to move inside the campus from one place to another. The bus tickets will be avilabe at security outposts at different locations in the campus.</p>

<p>The institute has two swimming pools; football, hockey and cricket grounds; and tennis, basketball, squash and volleyball courts. It also has a Students' Activity Center (SAC) for various cultural and other extracurricular activities. In addition to these facilities the campus also houses two high schools, one of which is a Kendriya Vidyalaya and the other is called IIT Campus School.</p>

<p>Note:

While entering the campus, take a pass for Laptop/Camera if you have one.</p>

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<h2>More details on IIT Bombay</h2>

<p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.iitb.ac.in/campus/campus.html">http://www.iitb.ac.in/campus/campus.html</a></p>

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