The Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar (CITK) is a

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established in 2006 and owned by the

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. It is located in

Kokrajhar Kokrajhar () is a town in the Bodoland Territorial Region, an autonomous territory in Assam, one of the North Eastern states of India. Kokrajhar town is located along the bank of the river Gaurang. The North East Indian Railways divides the ci ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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. The institute is spread across in

and offers

Bachelor of Technology A Bachelor of Technology (Latin ''Baccalaureus Technologiae'', commonly abbreviated as B.Tech. or BTech; with honours as B.Tech. (Hons.)) is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after the completion of a three to five-year program of studi ...

(B.Tech.),

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(B.Des.),

Master of Technology A Master of Engineering (abbreviated MEng, M.E. or M.Eng.) is either an academic or professional master's degree in the field of engineering. International variations Australia In Australia, the Master of Engineering degree is a research deg ...

(M.Tech.),

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(M.Des.), PhD, and

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programs in various disciplines.

History

The Institute was established on 19 December 2006. The genesis of this Institute was the memorandum of Settlement on

Bodoland Territorial Council The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) is an autonomous council for the Bodoland Territorial Region established under 6th Schedule of The Constitution of India according to the Memorandum of Settlement between Bodoland Liberation Tiger Force (B ...

(BTC) signed between the

Assam Government The Government of Assam is the subnational government of Assam, a state of India. It consists of the Governor appointed by the President of India as the head of the state, currently Jagdish Mukhi. The head of government is the Chief Minister, ...

, the

and the

Bodo Liberation Tigers Force The Bodo Liberation Tigers Force (abbreviated BLTF), also known as the Bodo Liberation Tigers (abbreviated BLT), was an armed militant group that operated in the Bodo dominated regions of Assam, India. The BLTF was founded on 18 June 1996 by Pr ...

, on 10 February 2003, in

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. The Institute is an autonomous body registered under the

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and functions under a Board of Governors (BOG). The Institute is declared as a Deemed University by University Grants Commission (UGC) and Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) with the recommendation from Central Government under "De-Novo" category on 13 December 2018.

Departments

The institute has the following departments offering both diploma and degree programs: *

Civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

Computer Science & Engineering Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is an academic program at many universities which comprises scientific and engineering aspects of computing. CSE is also a term often used in Europe to translate the name of engineering informatics academic ...

Electronics & Communication Engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current fl ...

* Food Engineering and

Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in medicine, science, ...

Instrumentation Engineering Instrumentation a collective term for measuring instruments that are used for indicating, measuring and recording physical quantities. The term has its origins in the art and science of scientific instrument-making. Instrumentation can refer to ...

* Multimedia Communication and Design * Allied Engineering *

Basic Science Basic research, also called pure research or fundamental research, is a type of scientific research with the aim of improving scientific theories for better understanding and prediction of natural or other phenomena. In contrast, applied resear ...

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

and

Social Science Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

Facilities

There are 3 Boys' and 1 Girls' Hostel inside the campus with capacity to accommodate around 1100 Boys and 250 girls. However to accommodate the newly admitted girls the institute has arranged 2 rented house outside the campus and new Hostels are being constructed. Due to the constraints faced by the students especially the outstation students to find accommodation in the town, the Institute is making arrangements for opening more hostels for both boys and girls.

Academics

Rankings

Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar was ranked in the 251–300 band among all engineering colleges in India by the

National Institutional Ranking Framework The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Education (India), Ministry of Education, Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India. The Framework was approved by the ...

(NIRF) in 2021.

References

External links

* {{Universities in Assam Engineering colleges in Assam Bodoland Education in Kokrajhar district Educational institutions established in 2006 2006 establishments in Assam