It is a college workshop. It is supposed to look like shit. Wasn’t yours?. It is not a lab. Even ours looked like shit. All matters is the result. No SOPs No nothing.
37 million is for the whole project( damn that’s cheap). Not given to the college.
As per the article, they are doing materials and shape research.
Equipments, Materials and facilities for stealth research don’t come cheap.
IITs yearly endowment goes between 200 to 300 million USD only. So again, 37 just for one department is not possible.
Heck, the custom fluid dynamic suite they developed for it would have costed them pretty penny.