Mumbai:  Students, professors and other staff members of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay organised a `Tiranga March' on the insitute's campus on the eve of Republic Day.

The theme of the march was `IIT Bombay for nation-building'.

More than 1,500 students, professors, non-teaching staff and their family members participated in the march with a thousand-feet long tricolour, said one of the students who took part in the event.