In this paper, two discrete-time control schemes are presented for Induction Motors (IMs) based on the discrete-time sliding mode technique. First controller is designed using the equivalent control method. The second controller is based on a discrete-time equivalent of the super-twisting algorithm, in which the sliding mode dynamics is robustified by adding an integral action. The non measurable rotor fluxes are estimated by two observers. First observer design is based on a simple copy of the rotor flux dynamics, meanwhile the second one is based on the sliding mode technique. A simulation study is carried on for the evaluation of the closed-loop performance of the IM at different sampling periods and to compare results with other discrete-time control techniques. Also the robust performance of the closedloop IM is investigated under external and internal perturbations. The simulation study predicts that the IM when closed-loop with one of the proposed controllers still performs well at a sampling time of 1250µs, meanwhile other control strategies start to lose accuracy. Real time experiments were finally carried out where the good performance of the propose strategy is verified.