Annual General Sessions of IGS are held in different parts of the country. In the early years, Technical Sessions were organized along with the General Body Meetings. Later, these were developed into Symposia. From 1978, regular Annual Conferences have been organized and now they are known as Indian Geotechnical Conferences (IGC). Over the years, it has been the endeavor to bring IGCs to the level of International standard. The proceedings of these Conferences are regularly being published.
Under the auspices of the ISSMGE, the First Asian Regional Conferences was held in New Delhi in 1960 and the Fifth Asian Regional Conference was held in the year 1975 at Bangalore. The 13th ARC is scheduled to be held at Kolkata. Thus IGS will have the distinction of hosting 3 ARCs by any Asian Country.
The IGS had also the unique distinction of hosting the 13th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in India at New Delhi, in the year 1994, which was acclaimed as “Magic Carpet Conference”.
IGS will be hosting the 6th IYGEC (International Young Geotech. Engineers Conference) in the year 2008.
Year
Name of Conference/ Symposium
Venue
1960
First Asian Regional Conference
New Delhi
1961
Symposium on Foundation Engineering
Bangalore
1962
During this period, technical sessions along with the Annual General Sessions were held
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1964
Technical Session along with 7th Annual General Session
Hyderabad
1965
Symposium on Foundations of Power Houses and Heavy Machines
Poona
1966
During this period, technical sessions along with the Annual General Sessions were held
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1968
Symposium on Rock fill Dams-Beas Dam
Talwara
1969
Technical Session along with Annual General Session
Ahmedabad
1970
Symposium on Shallow Foundations
Bombay
1971
Technical Session along with the Annual General Session
Ahmedabad
1972
Technical Session along with Annual General Session
New Delhi
1973
Symposium on Rock Mechanics & Tunneling Problems held during Silver Jubilee Celebrations
Kurukshetra
1974
Technical Session along with Annual General Session
Warangal
1975
Fifth Asian Regional Conference
Bangalore
1976
Symposium on Foundations and Excavations in Weak Soils
Calcutta
1977
Symposium on Expansive Soils
Kanpur
1978
GEOCON-India Conference on Geotechnical Engineering
New Delhi
1979
International Symposium on in-situ Testing of Soils and Rocks and Performance of Structures
Roorkee
1980
GEOTECH-80 Conference on Geotechnical Engineering
Bombay
1981
Geomech-81-Symposium on Engineering Behavior of Coarse Grained Soils, Boulders and Rocks.
Hyderabad
1982
Conference on Construction Practices and Instrumentation in Geotechnical Engineering.
Surat
1983
Indian Geotechnical Conference-83.
Madras
1984
Geotechnical Engineering in Practice
Calcutta
1985
Indian Geotechnical Conference-85
Roorkee
1986
Indian Geotechnical Conference-86
New Delhi
1987
Indian Geotechnical Conference-87
Bangalore
1988
Evaluation and Applications in Geotechnical Engineering
Allahabad
1989
Geotechniques of Problematic Soils and Rocks.
Visakhapatnam
1990
Advance in Geotechnical Engineering.
Bombay
1991
Geotechnical Analysis Practices & Performance
Surat
1992
Geotechnique Today
Calcutta
1993
No IGC was held due to holding of XIII ICSMFE-94.
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1994
Development in Geotechnical Engineering.
Warangal
1995
Indian Geotechnical Conference - 1995.
Bangalore
1996
Geotechnical Engineering Practice Beyond 2001
Madras
1997
Indian Geotechnical Conference - 1997.
Baroda
1998
IGC-98 & Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Geotechnical Society.
New Delhi
1999
Analysis and Practice in Geotechnical Engineering
Calcutta
2000
Millennium Conference
Mumbai
2001
New Millennium Conference
Indore
2002
Environmental Challenges
Allahabad
2003
Infrastructural Development
Roorkee
2004
Ground Reinforcement Engineering Techniques
Warangal
2005
Geotech. Practices for Environment Management, Disaster Mitigation and Foundation Engineering
Ahmedabad
2006
Geotech. Engineering–Indian Experience
Chennai
2007
No IGC due to holding of 13th ARC
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2008
Advances in Geotechnical Engineering
Banglore
2009
Geotechnics in Infrastructure Development (GEOTIDE)
Guntur
2010
Indian Geotechnical Conference
Mumbai
2012
Advances in Geotechnical Engineering
New Delhi
2013
Geotechnical Advances and Novel Geomechanical Application (GANGA)
Roorkee
2014
Geotechnics for Inclusive Development of India (GEOIND)
Kakinada
2015
Geotechnics for Infrastructure & Foundation Techniques (GIFT)
Pune
2016
Geotechnology Towards Global Standards
Chennai
2017
Geotechnics for Natural and Engineered Sustainable Technologies
Guwahati
2018
Indian Geotechnical Conference - 2018.
Bangalore
2019
Geotechnics for Infrastructure Development & Urbanisation (GeoINDUS)
Surat
2020
Developments in Geotechnical Engineering for Sustainable Tomorrow (DIGEST)
Visakhapatnam
2021
GEO-INDIA Geotechnics for Infrastructure Development and Innovative Applications
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