National
Institutes of Technology (NIT) are premier institutes in engineering
and technology in India .The NITS are the new face of the existing Regional
Engineering Colleges (RECs). In 2002, the Govt. of India’s Ministry
of Human Resource Development, decided to upgrade all the all 17 existing
Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) as National Institutes
of Technology (NITs), on the lines of the prestigious Indian
Institutes of Technology (IITs). The NITs, have the
responsibility of providing high quality education in engineering and
technology to produce competent technical manpower for the country.
There
are presently 20 number of NITS as:
The
NITs are deliberately scattered throughout the country
with the idea of having one NIT in every major state
of India to achieve balanced regional development. The NITs
are rated just next to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in terms
of quality of education, research and placements.
The
Govt.of India is in the process of introducing the National Institutes
of Technology (NIT) Bill 2006 in parliament to bring these20
NITs within the purview of the new act after which all
the NITs will function as an autonomous technical universities
and will be able to decide their own curriculum and functional policies.
The NITs offer B.Tech program in various disciplines
of engineering and technology along with research programs leading to
M.Tech and Ph.D. |