IIT (ISM) Dhanbad: 100 Years of Excellence (1926–2026) Established on December 9, 1926, as the Indian School of Mines, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad has spent a century shaping India’s industrial, scientific, and technological landscape. Originally founded to train specialists in mining and geology, the institute steadily broadened its horizons introducing Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics in 1957, expanding across major engineering and management disciplines, and earning elevation to an Indian Institute of Technology.