Asmita is IIIT Allahabad’s annual sports festival. After multiple successful editions in the past, it has become a flagship sports festival in North India. The word Asmita signifies glory and the feeling of oneness, and the festival rightly lives up to its name by bringing together the best players and teams of multiple renowned institutes on the sports field.

The IIITA campus is located at Devghat Jhalwa (Peepalgaon Road), which is on the outskirts of Allahabad. It is 10 km from the town center and 7 km from the main railway station. The Allahabad ciy is well connected by air, rail and road to near by metros. Railway services to this city from all the mega cities of the coutry are excellent and quite confortable.