 The report urged that work should start with the speedy establishment of major institutions in the four quarters of the country with the ones in the east and the west to be set up immediately
It was inaugurated by C.P.N.Singh, governor of then East Punjab (now Punjab, Haryana and parts of Himachal Pradesh).The first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation of the main building on 21 April 1956.