Roorkee

Roorkee is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India, about 31 km from the district headquarters of Haridwar. It lies on flat terrain beneath the Sivalik Hills and is organised around the Ganges Canal, which runs north to south through its middle. The canal's workshop and iron foundry, set up in 1843, led to a civil engineering school in 1845, the first engineering college established in India and the ancestor of the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. The city is also known for Roorkee Cantonment, one of the country's oldest military establishments and the headquarters of the Bengal Engineer Group since 1853. It has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate.