I just visited the website of IITD. The page says"research at IIT Delhi" and the picture is captioned "revisiting protein folding".
It is a great change in the vision of the institution. 30 or 40 years back, IITs and IITians believed that science is for the second grade people and biology was not even mentioned as a science. Sure, they had Physics and Chemistry Departments, " you know...we have to have those things..."
Money allotment was probably a lot less than for any of the engg. departments....I do not know the figures, but science departments felt impoverished. In the eyes of the BTech students, of course they were better than the Humanities, but only just. One student proved to one of the Chemistry profs that he could get the required GPA without ever entering the chem lab and was planning to do so. The newly introduced 5 yr MS in Chem/Phys were viewed by the BTech students just like they view the 5 yr MA at IITM now.... with disdain.
From the website, I see the profile of the faculty today, the research being done now, and obviously, money is not as bad as it used to be and perhaps the science departments are no longer the second class citizens of the Instt.`
May be the Humanities & Social Sciences Departments will also mature in the next decade and the IITs can become full fledged universities.