National Institutes of Technology (India)
The early 15 institutes were Srinagar, Warangal, Calicut, Durgapur, Kurukshetra, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Rourkela, Surathkal, Surat, Tiruchirappalli, Bhopal, Allahabad, and Silchar.
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.
They were considered to be the best government engineering colleges after the IITs in India even before their upgrade to National Institutes of Technology.
Due to the enormous costs and infrastructure involved in creating globally respected Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), in 2002 Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Minister Murli Manohar Joshi decided to upgrade RECs to "National Institutes of Technology" (NITs) instead of creating IITs.
Subsequently, funding and autonomy for NITs increased, and they award degrees that have raised their graduates' perceived value.
The HPRC, chaired by R. A. Mashelkar, submitted its report entitled "Strategic Road Map for Academic Excellence of Future RECs" in 1998.
Based on the request of state governments and feasibility, future NITs are either converted from existing institutes or can be freshly created.
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 National Institutes of Technology Act in 2007 and took effect on 15 August of that year.
The target is to fulfill the need for quality manpower in the field of engineering, science, and technology and to provide consistent governance, fee structure, and rules across the NITs.
[10] 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 teaching, training, and research activities of various departments of the institute are periodically reviewed to maintain educational standards.
[16][17] The Council of NITSER is the supreme governing body of India's National Institutes of Technology (NIT) system.
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.
Such autonomy means that NITs can create their own curricula and adapt rapidly to the changes in educational requirements, free from bureaucratic hurdles.
Electronic libraries allow students access to online journals and other periodicals through the AICTE-INDEST consortium, an initiative by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
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.
Existing faculty who do not meet these criteria enroll under a Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) at IITs and IISc.
All the NITs follow the credits system of performance evaluation, with a proportional weighting of courses based on their importance.
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.
In addition to these, the students have to take compulsory advanced courses from other departments in order to broaden their education.
Admissions to masters programs in engineering are made using scores of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), while those to masters programs in science are made using scores of the Joint Admission Test to MSc (JAM).
[36] The NITs also offer an unconventional BTech and MTech integrated educational program called "Dual Degree".
They also present research papers and participate in national level technical festivals at IITs, IISc and NITs.
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.
[38] 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.
