[3] The Laxminarayan Innovation Technological University is one of the premier institutes in India for Chemical Engineering.
The land, donated by Rao Bahadur D. Laxminarayan, housed both the Nagpur University and the Institute.
He believed the lack of qualified thinkers should not stand in the way of progress, so he donated the main part of his property, then estimated at ₹ 3,520,540 to the Nagpur University in his will dated 3 May 1930, for "Teaching of Applied Science and Chemistry".
In 1937, the University appointed Ram Simha Thakur as the officer-on-special duty to oversee the construction of the Institute.
The AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) decided to increase the intake of engineering graduates in all institutions and recommended that the Laxminarayan Institute of Technology should admit 60 students instead of 36 and start a 5 Year Integrated Course in Chemical Engineering.
During these years, the post-graduate degrees of Nagpur University in the field of Technology were awarded on the basis of a research thesis.
In response to the new educational pattern of 10+2, the Institute introduced a Four Year BTech (Chemical Engineering) course and the first set of students were admitted in 1977.
Both the houses of Maharashtra state legislature have passed the Bill of Laxminarayan Innovation Technological University (LITU).
Admissions to the undergraduate course are done through the Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test and JEE Mains.