IITs

The Indian Institutes of Technology (popularly known as IITs) are institutions of national importance established through an Act of Parliament for fostering excellence in education. There are fifteen IITs at present, located in Bhubaneswar, Bombay (Mumbai), Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras (Chennai), Mandi, Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee. Over the years IITs have created world class educational platforms dynamically sustained through internationally recognized research based on excellent infrastructural facilities.

Discretely putting on hold the proposal of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to start medical courses as well, the health ministry has rejected the idea of starting medicine related courses and has decided to let the premiere institutes remain exclusively engineering institutes only.

Drawing attention to the obvious disparity between poor rural students and their rich urban counterparts, the founder of the super hit 'Super 30' initiative Anand Kumar requested the Prime Minister to offer an additional chance to the less privileged candidates to clear the crucial IIT entrance examination.

As part of the efforts to confer self-financing status to IITs, drastic revisions in its present fee structure seem likely. The IIT directors have decided to propose an eight-fold increase in its student fees before Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.

The brain storming session would also discuss the newly evolved system for checking the ongoing teacher shortage crisis, under which fresh M. Tech graduates would be allowed to serve as ‘faculty interns’ in IITs.

First time ever in the history of Indian academics, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) has decided to put their PhD students on screens around the world. The aim is to inspire lakhs of other aspiring students to think out of the box. As per the plan, the young graduates will each speak for 40 minutes to give detailed information about their research and their work.  

With the recession crisis gradually fading away, it seems Lady Luck has cast her glance over IIT Kanpur. The on going campus placement has favoured IIT Kanpur students, with nearly 45 percent of them being already selected by various public and private multinational companies.

The demands of IIT Kharagpur for a second campus finally seem to be materializing. Already in the pipeline for the last two years, the blueprint for the campus has finally been released. With the state government releasing a vast 10 acres for the new campus, the overflowing Kharagpur will at last breathe easy.

The IIT Roorkee scientists stood by the seismic study they had carried out on the Mullaperiyar dam even as the Tamil Nadu government rubbished their findings. The issue seems to have taken a serious turn with the scientists remaining firm on their findings according to which the dam is seismically unsafe.

India seems to be emerging as a hot education destination for foreign universities these days, after UK universities putting India at top of the charts for higher education collaborations; US universities too are showing an interest in getting into pacts with India’s premier management and engineering institutes, the IIMs and the IITs.