Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad (IIT Dharwad) is an autonomous premier engineering and technology institute in Dharwad,Karnataka, India. IIT Dharwad started functioning from July 2016 in a temporary campus, previously of the Water and Land Management Institute (WALMI) in Belur village, on the outskirts of Dharwad city.[3] It was formally inaugurated on 28 August 2016.[4] For the academic year 2016-2017, the institute offered B.Tech courses in three branches, viz.