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National Institutes of Technology
Other name
NIT or NITs (plural)
Type
Ministry of Education, Government of India
Budget5,040 crore (US$630 million)
(FY2024-25 est.)[1]
Location
31 cities in India
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.nitcouncil.org.in
Location of 31 NITs

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are

framework for governance. The act lists 31 NITs.[2] Each NIT is autonomous and linked to the others through a common council known as the Council of NITSER, which oversees their administration. All NITs are funded by the Government of India.[3]

In 2020, National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked twenty four NITs in the top 200 in engineering category.[4] The language of instruction is English at all these institutes.[5][6] As of 2023, the total number of seats for undergraduate programs is 23,954.[7]

History

NIT Allahabad
in 2002.

During the second five-year plan (1956–60) in India, a number of industrial projects were contemplated. The Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) were established by the central government to mimic the IITs at a regional level and act as benchmarks for the other colleges in that state. The admission used to be highly selective. Students topping the respective state's 12th board exam could be admitted at the REC of their state. Thus, 17 RECs were established from 1959 onwards in each of the major states. Each college was a joint and cooperative enterprise of the central government and the concerned state government. The government opened 9 RECs in 1960, 2 on average in each region, as follows:

Region Regional Engineering Colleges (REC)
Eastern Region
Jamshedpur
Western Region
Bhopal
Southern Region
Surathkal
Northern Region
Allahabad

Later on, 6 more were added by 1967. The early 15 institutes were

Jalandhar
in 1987.

These were large-sized institutions judged by the standards then prevailing in the country. The considerations that weighed in this decision were:

A large-sized college would be more efficient than the equivalent small colleges, the proposed colleges have to meet the additional requirements of the country as a whole and for that purpose should have to function on an all-India basis. Therefore, the smaller they are in number and the larger in size, the better, and for the same reason their location is important from an all-India point of view.

The RECs were jointly operated by the central government and the concerned state government. Non-recurring expenditures and expenditures for post-graduate courses during the REC period were borne by the central government while recurring expenditure on undergraduate courses was shared equally by central and state governments. They were considered to be the best government engineering colleges after the IITs in India even before their upgrade to National Institutes of Technology.

The success of the technology-based industry led to high demand for technical and scientific education. Due to the enormous costs and infrastructure involved in creating globally respected

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Minister Murli Manohar Joshi
decided to upgrade RECs to "National Institutes of Technology" (NITs) instead of creating IITs. The central government controls NITs and provides all funding. In 2002, all RECs became NITs.

R. A. Mashelkar
, submitted its report entitled "Strategic Road Map for Academic Excellence of Future RECs" in 1998.

By 2006, MHRD issued NIT status to 3 more colleges, located at

Agartala
(Tripura Engineering College). Based on the request of state governments and feasibility, future NITs are either converted from existing institutes or can be freshly created. In 2010, the government announced setting up ten more new NITs in the remaining states/territories, leading to a total of 30 NITs. This would lead to every state in India having its own NIT.

With the technology-based industry's continuing growth, the government decided to upgrade twenty National Institutes of Technology to full-fledged technical universities. Parliament passed enabling legislation, the

The Parliament of India on 1 August 2016 passed a bill to establish the 31st as well as the newest NIT, NIT Andhra Pradesh, on a day members of parliament of the ruling Telugu Desam Party from the state staged a protest to demand special category status. The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2016 was passed by Rajya Sabha by voice vote. The bill was passed in Lok Sabha on 21 July 2016.[9]

Institutes

NITs and locations, sorted by date of establishment[10]
No. Name Abbreviation Founded Established
as NIT
City/Town State/UT NIRF Rank Website
Engineering[11] Overall[12]
1
NIT Warangal
NITW 1959 2002 Warangal Telangana 21 53 [1]
2
NIT Bhopal
MANIT 1960 2002 Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 80 - [2]
3
NIT Nagpur
VNIT 1960 2002 Nagpur Maharashtra 41 82 [3]
4
NIT Durgapur
NITDGP 1960 2002 Durgapur West Bengal 43 90 [4]
5
NIT Jamshedpur
NITJSR 1960 2002 Jamshedpur Jharkhand - - [5]
6 NIT Karnataka NITK 1960 2002
Suratkhal
Karnataka 12 38 [6]
7 NIT Srinagar NITSRI 1960 2002 Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir 82 - [7]
8
NIT Allahabad
MNNIT 1961 2002
Prayagraj
Uttar Pradesh 49 - [8]
9 NIT Surat SVNIT 1961 2002 Surat Gujarat 65 - [9]
10 NIT Calicut NITC 1961 2002 Kozhikode Kerala 23 54 [10]
11
NIT Rourkela
NITR 1961 2002 Rourkela Odisha 16 37 [11]
12
NIT Jaipur
MNIT 1963 2002 Jaipur Rajasthan 37 62 [12]
13
NIT Kurukshetra
NITKKR 1963 2002 Kurukshetra Haryana 58 - [13]
14
NIT Tiruchirappalli
NITT 1964 2002 Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu 9 21 [14]
15
NIT Silchar
NITS 1967 2002 Silchar Assam 40 83 [15]
16
NIT Hamirpur
NITH 1986 2002 Hamirpur Himachal Pradesh 128 - [16]
17 NIT Jalandhar NITJ 1987 2002 Jalandhar Punjab 46 72 [17]
18 NIT Patna NITP 1886 2004 Patna Bihar 56 - [18]
19
NIT Raipur
NITRR 1956 2005 Raipur Chhattisgarh 70 - [19]
20 NIT Agartala NITA 1965 2006 Agartala Tripura 91 - [20]
21
NIT Arunachal Pradesh
NITAP 2014 2014 Yupia Arunachal Pradesh 171 - [21]
22
NIT Delhi
NITD 2014 2014 New Delhi Delhi 51 - [22]
23 NIT Goa NITG 2014 2014 Farmagudi Goa 90 - [23]
24
NIT Manipur
NITMN 2014 2014 Imphal Manipur 95 - [24]
25
NIT Meghalaya
NITM 2014 2014 Shillong Meghalaya 72 - [25]
26
NIT Mizoram
NITMZ 2014 2014 Aizawl Mizoram - - [26]
27
NIT Nagaland
NITN 2014 2014 Chümoukedima Nagaland - - [27]
28
NIT Puducherry
NITPY 2014 2014 Karaikal Puducherry 136 - [28]
29
NIT Sikkim
NITSKM 2014 2014 Ravangla Sikkim 173 - [29]
30
NIT Uttarakhand
NITUK 2014 2014 Srinagar, Uttarakhand Uttarakhand 131 - [30]
31 NIT Andhra Pradesh NITANP 2015 2015 Tadepalligudem Andhra Pradesh - - [31]

Organisational structure

Organisational structure of the NITs

The

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), nominees of the Central Government, All India Council for Technical Education
(AICTE), and the Visitor.

Below the NIT Council is each NIT's Board of Governors. The Board of Governors of each NIT consists of the following members:

The Director serves under the Board of Governors and is the school's chief academic and executive officer. Academic policies are decided by its Senate, which is composed of some professors and other representatives. The Senate controls and approves the curriculum, courses, examinations, and results. Senate committees examine specific academic matters. The teaching, training, and research activities of various departments of the institute are periodically reviewed to maintain educational standards. The Director is the ex officio Chairman of the Senate. The deputy director is subordinate to the Director. Together they manage the Deans, Heads of Departments, Registrar, President of the Students' Council, and Chairman of the Hall Management Committee. Deans and Heads of Departments in NITs are administrative postings rather than career paths. Faculty members serve as Deans and Heads of Departments for limited periods, typically 2 to 3 years, then returning to regular faculty duties. The Registrar is the chief administrative officer and overviews day-to-day operations. Below the Head of Department (HOD), are the various faculty members (professors, assistant professors, and lecturers). The Warden serves under the Chairman of the Hall Management Committee.[13]

NITSER Act

The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (NITSER) Act, 2007 was enacted by the

technical education institutions after the Institutes of Technology Act of 1961.[14][15]

Council of NITSER

The Council of NITSER is the supreme governing body of India's National Institutes of Technology (NIT) system. The Council of NITSER consists of chairmen, directors of all NITs along with the government nominees from various sectors with the Minister of Education as the chairman of the council. The Council of NITSER is the highest decision-making body in the NIT fraternity and is answerable only to the Government of India. The Council of NITSER is expected to meet regularly and take steps conducive for maximum growth of the NITs as whole in the near future.[16][3]

Education

Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela

The NITs along with the IITs receive comparatively higher grants than other engineering colleges in India. Average NIT funding increased to 100 crores ($15.4 million) by 2011. On average, each NIT also receives 20-25 crore ($3-3.8 million) under World Bank funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP I and TEQIP II). Other sources of funds include student fees and research funding from industry and contributions from the alumni. The faculty-to-student ratio in the NITs is between 1:7 and 1:9. The cost borne by undergraduate students is around 250,000 (~$3600) per annum.[17] After students from SC and ST categories, physically challenged students will now be the beneficiaries of fee waiver at the NITs in India.

The various NITs function autonomously, and their special status as

IEEE
documents and journals.

The academic policies of each NIT are decided by its Senate. This comprises all professors of the NIT and student representatives. Unlike many western universities that have an elected senate, the NITs have an academic senate. It controls and approves the curriculum, courses, examinations and results, and appoints committees to look into specific academic matters. The teaching, training and research activities of the institute are periodically reviewed by the senate to maintain educational standards. The Director of NIT is the ex-officio Chairman of the Senate.

Stringent faculty recruitment and industry collaboration also contribute to NIT success. Faculty other than lecturers must have a

IISc
.

NIT Surat

All the NITs follow the credits system of performance evaluation, with a proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of

grade point average
(CGPA).

Undergraduate education

The Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree is the most common undergraduate degree in the NITs in terms of student enrollment. The BTech course is based on a 4-year program with eight semesters, while the Dual Degree and Integrated courses are 5-year programs with ten semesters. In all NITs, the first year of BTech and Dual Degree courses are marked by a common course structure for all the students, though in some NITs, a single department introduction related course is also included. The common courses include the basics from most of the departments like electronics, mechanics, chemistry, electrical, and physics. At the end of the first year, some NITs offer an option to the meritorious students to change departments on the basis of their performance in the first two semesters.[19] Few such changes ultimately take place as the criteria for them are usually strict, limited to the most meritorious students. Few NITs also offer 5-year Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and 4-year Bachelor of Science (BSc) degrees.

From the second year onwards, the students study subjects exclusively from their respective departments. In addition to these, the students have to take compulsory advanced courses from other departments in order to broaden their education. Separate compulsory courses from

social sciences
department, and sometimes management courses are also enforced. In the last year of their studies, most of the students are placed into industries and organisations via the placement process of the respective NIT, though some students opt out of this either when going for higher studies or when they take up jobs by applying to the companies directly.

Postgraduate and doctoral education

Master degrees

The NITs offer a number of postgraduate programs including

Joint Admission Test
to MSc (JAM).

14 NITs, including NIT Allahabad,[20] NIT Bhopal,[21] NIT Calicut,[22] NIT Hamirpur,[23] NIT Jaipur,[24] NIT Jalandhar,[25] NIT Kurukshetra,[26] NIT Rourkela,[27] NIT Silchar,[28] NIT Karnataka,[29] NIT Warangal,[30] NIT Durgapur,[31] NIT Tiruchirappalli,[32] and NIT Agartala[33] have separate departments or schools of management offering master's degrees in management or business administration. Additionally, NIT Arunachal Pradesh also offers an Online MBA program and an M.Tech. in Appropriate Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is perhaps the only one among the NITs.[34]

Bachelors-Masters dual degrees

The NITs also offer an unconventional BTech and MTech integrated educational program called "Dual Degree". It integrates undergraduate and postgraduate studies in selected areas of specialisation. It is completed in five years as against six years in conventional BTech (four years) followed by an MTech (two years). Integrated Master of Science programs is also offered at few NITs which integrates the Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies in Science streams in a single degree program against the conventional university system. These programs were started to allow NITians to complete postgraduate studies from NIT rather than having to go to another institute.

NIT Rourkela
and NIT Agartala have such systems..

Doctoral degrees

The NITs also offer the Doctor of Technology degree (D.Tech.) as part of their

dissertation as well as provide an oral defence for their thesis. Teaching Assistantships (TA) and Research Assistantships (RA) are often provided. The NITs, along with IITs and IISc, account for nearly 80% of all engineering PhDs in India.[35]

Campus life

NITs provide on-campus housing to students, research scholars, and faculty members. Students live in hostels, also known as halls, throughout their college life.

Faculties and researchers from IITs, ISM and IISc organize occasional technical seminars and research labs.

Incubation centre at NIT Warangal

Student government

Some NITs individually conduct elections to elect student body a general secretary and vice president. These representatives are generally responsible for communicating with the college management and media, organising festivals, and also for various development programmes in their college. Some NITs (such as

SVNIT
, Surat. They were, however, resumed in 2015 and are continuing hence.

Disciplinary committee

The Disciplinary Committee (DISCO) consists of the Director, the student affairs officer, and professors. and reports to MHRD. DISCO regulates student activities and combats student harassment and illegitimate student politics. After a series of harassment incidents, all NITs took strict measures especially to protect first-year students.

Extra-curricular activities

Popular extra curricular activities include

IISc and NITs. Most NITs promote entrepreneurship by creating on-campus incubation centers
under the STEP program.

Technical and cultural festivals

All NITs organise annual technical festivals, typically lasting three or four days. The technical festivals are Avishkar (NIT Allahabad),

Technozion (NIT Warangal), Technival (NIT Goa), Morphosis (NIT Mizoram), Cognitia (NIT Meghalaya), Technovya (NIT Nagaland), Addovedi (NIT Arunachal Pradesh), AAYAM (NIT Agartala), Cliffesto (NIT Uttarakhand) and Abhiyantran (NIT Sikkim). Most of them are organised in the months of January or March. Pragyan (NIT Tiruchirappalli) the first student-run organization in the world and the third overall next only to London 2012 Summer Olympics and Manchester United to get an ISO 20121:2012 Certification for Sustainable Event Management.[36]
It is also the largest in terms of Sponsorship amounts and also branded as a techno-management festival due to its emphasis on both technology and management.

Alumni

Many NIT alumni have achieved leading positions in corporations, such as:

NIT alumni have also pursued careers in public service; for example:

Notable alumni in academics and research include:

See also

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