Indian Institutes of Information Technology

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Indian Institutes of Information Technology
Other name
IIIT or IIITs (plural)
Type
Ministry of Education, Government of India
Budget560 crore (US$70 million)
(FY2023-24 est.)[1]
Location
25 cities in India
Websitewww.iiitcouncil.in
Location of the 5 MOE funded IIITs (green) and 20 PPP IIITs (blue)

Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are

public-private partnership
(PPP) model, funded by the central government, state governments and industry partners in the ratio 50:35:15.

Formation

Prior to 2014, the IIITs at

In 2014, The Indian Institutes of Information Technology Bill, 2014 was introduced in the Lok Sabha.[3] The bill sought to grant the status of Institutes of National Importance (INI) upon the four IIITs. After much debate and changes, the bill was passed by the Parliament on 1 December 2014[3] and published as Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014 on 8 December 2014, coming into effect on 5 January 2015.[4]

In 2015, a

fifth institute was set up by the MHRD in Kurnool,[2] as part as the government obligation under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.[5] Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2017 granted the INI status to the Kurnool institute.[6]

Besides the above fully government funded IIITs, in 2010 the

public-private partnership (PPP) model, funded by the central government, state governments and industry partners in the ratio 50:35:15.[7] As of 2014, 23 proposals were made by 21 states (Andhra Pradesh (Chittoor & Kakinada), Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (Pune & Nagpur), Manipur, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal, and Uttar Pradesh), and 16 proposals were approved (Andhra Pradesh (Chittoor&Kakinada), Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra (Pune), Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Manipur, and Tripura).[7] As of 2017, 14 of these IIITs were set up, the ones not being set up are the ones in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh and in Agartala, Tripura. In addition, in 2015 the MHRD approved a IIIT in Nagpur, Maharashtra[8] and in Ranchi, Jharkhand.[9] A IIIT in Bhagalpur, Bihar was approved in 2016.[10] Finally, to close the list of 20 'approved' IIITs, a IIIT in Surat, Gujarat was approved and set up in 2017.[11] As of September 2017
, these four newer institutes were already established, leaving only the institutes in Kakinada and Agartala to be established.

On 9 August 2017, The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017 has been notified in the

.

Three of the IIITs set up under the PPP model in 2017, namely institutes in Surat, Bhopal, and Bhagalpur, were not mentioned in the 2017 PPP act, nor were the institutes in Kakinada and Agartala.

In 2018, the

NIT Agartala campus.[14]

In 2016, the central government gave in-principle approval for an IIIT in

Then, in September 2021, IIIT Raichur shifted to the Transit in GEC Yermarus Camp, Raichur, Karnataka, where all academic activities are currently taking place.

In 2020, the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was introduced, officially declaring the IIITs in Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala, and Raichur as well as conferring the INI status on them.[19] The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 20 March 2020 and by the Rajya Sabha on 22 September 2020.[20]

Admission

Admissions into

JEE-Main.[21][22] For postgraduate programs admission is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).[citation needed
]

List of IIITs

The Indian Institutes of Information Technology are located in:

IIITs and locations, sorted by date of establishment
# Name Short name Established Mode State/UT
1 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management ABV-IIITMG 1997 MOE Madhya Pradesh
2 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad IIITA 1999 MOE Uttar Pradesh
3 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur IIITDMJ 2005 MOE Madhya Pradesh
4 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram IIITDM Kancheepuram 2007 MOE Tamil Nadu
5 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City IIITSC 2014 PPP Andhra Pradesh
6 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati IIITG 2014 PPP Assam
7 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara IIITV 2014 PPP Gujarat
8 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota IIIT Kota 2014 PPP Rajasthan
9 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Tiruchirappalli IIITT 2014 PPP Tamil Nadu
10 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad IIITDWD 2015 PPP Karnataka
11 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una IIITU 2015 PPP Himachal Pradesh
12 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sonepat IIIT Sonepat 2015 PPP Haryana
13 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kalyani IIIT Kalyani 2015 PPP West Bengal
14 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow IIITL 2016 PPP Uttar Pradesh
15 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kurnool IIITDM Kurnool 2016 MOE Andhra Pradesh
16 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kottayam IIIT Kottayam 2016 PPP Kerala
17 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Manipur IIITM 2016 PPP Manipur
18 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Nagpur IIITN 2016 PPP Maharashtra
19 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Pune IIITP 2016 PPP Maharashtra
20 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Ranchi IIIT Ranchi 2016 PPP Jharkhand
21 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat IIIT Surat 2017 PPP Gujarat
22 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhopal IIIT Bhopal 2017 PPP Madhya Pradesh
23 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bhagalpur IIIT Bhagalpur 2017 PPP Bihar
24 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Agartala IIIT Agartala 2018 PPP Tripura
25 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Raichur IIIT Raichur 2019 PPP Karnataka

References

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  2. ^ a b "Institutions – Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development". mhrd.gov.in. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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  5. ^ "Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2017" (PDF). Government of India. 21 March 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
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  10. The Telegraph. Archived from the original
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  14. ^ "IIIT to start classes in Tripura this year". The Times of India. 14 April 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  15. ^ "In-principle approval given for IIIT in Raichur". The Hindu. 15 December 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  16. ^ "MHRD confirms IIIT at Raichur". The Hindu. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  17. ^ "IIIT goes to Telangana". Bangalore Mirror. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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  21. ^ "JoSAA". josaa.admissions.nic.in. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
  22. ^ "JoSAA Seat Matrix 2022".