COUNCILS

The four Councils along with cells carry out the executive responsibilities of the Students’ Gymkhana. Each council executes affairs pertaining to an overarching purpose. The Councils comprise Clubs, Hobby Groups, and Institute Teams, which cater to specific activities.

CELLS

The four Councils along with cells carry out the executive responsibilities of the Students’ Gymkhana.

STUDENT'S SENATE

The Students' Gymkhana functions mainly through the Students' Senate, an elected representative body, and the elected executives The Senate lays down the general guidelines for the functions of the executives and their associated councils. The Senators elect their own Senate Chairperson.

Entrepreneurship Cell

E-Cell, IIT Kanpur aims to induce an entrepreneurial mindset into the students and air an innovative streak in them. We are here to water the ‘Ideas’ in the bud and help them bloom into impactful endeavors through networking student enterprises from campus to incubators, seeding funds and angel investors to transform the newly proposed ideas into successful start-ups.

Election Commission

E-Cell, IIT Kanpur aims to induce an entrepreneurial mindset into the students and air an innovative streak in them. We are here to water the ‘Ideas’ in the bud and help them bloom into impactful endeavors through networking student enterprises from campus to incubators, seeding funds and angel investors to transform the newly proposed ideas into successful start-ups.

Outreach Cell

Outreach Cell is the Students' Gymkhana body that works in collaboration with the Dean of Resources and Alumni, IIT Kanpur. We contribute to the crucial avenues of strengthening student-alumni relations, publicizing achievements of IIT Kanpur and organizing outreach programs in IIT Kanpur. We organize talks and networking programs for career guidance and mentorship for developing student-alumni relations. We also conceptualize and execute various campaigns such as #ThatsIITK, #AskIITK for prospective students.

Public Policy and Opinion Cell

Public Policy and Opinion Cell at IIT Kanpur brings global events into valuable perspective. We aim to provide our members with first-class exposure to world leaders, policymakers, historians and the frontier of Economics for years. We aim to engage students in discussions on issues of social, economic, political and historical significance and expose them to the challenges of policy making,

Vox Populi

Vox is the student media body of IIT Kanpur. We aim to be the voice of campus community, and act as a bridge between faculty, students, alumni and other stakeholders of IIT Kanpur.

Community Welfare Cell

The Community Welfare Cell is a body under the Students’ Gymkhana, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. The realm of ‘Community’ for the Cell includes students, faculty, staff members of the campus, the workers and their families, and any and all individuals who are related to the campus.

Science and Technology (SnT) Council

The SnT Council of IIT Kanpur is a community of science and technology enthusiasts who love to explore the unthinkable.

Media and Cultural (MnC) Council

MnC Council organizes a plethora of cultural activities spanning over the whole year.

Games and Sports (GnS) Council

GnS Council is the voice and face of IIT Kanpur sports community, responsible for management and conduction of all sporting events in the campus

Academics and Career (AnC) Council

AnC Council has been trusted with the responsibility of managing executive activities in two of the most crucial aspects of student life - Academics and Career.

FESTS

The festivals shall primarily be organized for the students of the Institute, to provide opportunities for participation in extracurricular activities at the intercollegiate level and to inculcate independent organizational skill, and shall secondarily be organized for the faculty, staff ,residents of the Institute.

GENERAL CHAMPIONSHIP

IIT Kanpur has a rich hostel culture where students residing in different halls compete against each other to win the General Championship.