Prior to 2014, the IIITs at Gwalior, Allahabad, Jabalpur, and Kancheepuram were set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
[6] In 2015, a fifth institute was set up by the MHRD in Kurnool,[5] as part as the government obligation under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.
On 9 August 2017, The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017 has been notified in the Gazette of India.
[14] The act confers the INI status on 15 IIITs set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) mode in Vadodara, Guwahati, Sri City, Kota, Tiruchirappalli, Kalyani, Una, Sonepat, Lucknow, Kottayam, Manipur, Dharwad, Pune, Nagpur, and Ranchi.
[19] IIIT Raichur started its academic activity in August 2019 from the temporary campus of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana.
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.