Industrial And Planning Forum - NIT Calicut | 168 followers on LinkedIn. The Industrial and Planning Forum was set up in the ‘60s to tie up the students with first hand awareness of industries. | The Industrial and Planning Forum was set up in the ‘60s to tie up the students with first hand awareness of industries. Now, it has increased its areas of interest to not only improving a student’s technical awareness but also bettering him or her as a worthy individual from a placement point of view. Being directly under the training and placement cell IPF has a lot of advantages while acting as an industrial interface for the students.