Heritage Institute of Technology, popularly known as HITK or HIT, is a private autonomous engineering college located in Anandapur, Kolkata near the East Kolkata Township, West Bengal, India.It is affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata.This institute is ranked among the top five engineering colleges in West Bengal.
Heritage Institute of Technology was set up on the eastern fringes of Kolkata in 2001 by a group of industrialists hailing from the flourishing Information Technology, Electronics and related industries around Kolkata, and some public figures. The foundation behind the growth of HITK is the Kalyan Bharti Trust. To meet the demand for technical manpower and in view of fiscal constraints at the governmental level, the Kalyan Bharti Trust supplemented the State government’s efforts in setting up new engineering colleges by establishing the Heritage Institute of Technology in September, 2000.
Heritage Institute of Technology is built on the Heritage campus, located at Anandapur on the south-eastern fringes of Kolkata. Along with HITK, the campus also encompasses The Heritage School, Kolkata and The Heritage Academy, Kolkata. It is a 10-minute drive away from East Metropolitan Bypass (near Ruby Hospital, about 2 km away). The nearest airport is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport at Dum Dum, Kolkata.
Kolkata (Bengali: কলকাতা / কোলকাতা) /koʊlˈkɑːtɑː/, formerly Calcutta /kælˈkʌtə/, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. As of 2011, the city had 4.5 million residents; the urban agglomeration, which comprises the city and its suburbs, was home to approximately 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. As of 2008, its gross domestic product (adjusted for purchasing power parity) was estimated to be US$104 billion, which would be third highest among Indian cities, behind Mumbai and Delhi. As a growing metropolitan city in a developing country, Kolkata confronts substantial urban pollution, traffic congestion, poverty, overpopulation, and other logistic and socioeconomic problems.
Kolkata–16 or Calcutta–16 (Bengali: কলকাতা–১৬, released 1999) is a Bengali song album of Anjan Dutt. This album was manufactured and marketed by RPG music. This album had songs like Half chocolate, Ekdin Brishtite.