Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of 26
interdisciplinary technology-based-
engineering research institutions in
India
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which are focused on
information technology
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. Five of them are established, funded and managed by the
Ministry of Education
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(MOE). The other 21 are set up on the
public-private partnership (PPP) model, funded by the central government, state governments and industry partners in the ratio 50:35:15.
Formation
Prior to 2014, the IIITs at
Gwalior
Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...
,
Allahabad,
Jabalpur
Jabalpur is a city situated on the banks of Narmada River in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. According to the 2011 census, it is the third-largest urban agglomeration in Madhya Pradesh and the country's 38th-largest urban agglomeration. J ...
, and
Kancheepuram
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were set up by the
Ministry of Human Resource Development
The Ministry of Education ( MoE; formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development from 1985 to 2020) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education. The Ministry is further d ...
(MHRD).
In 2014, ''The Indian Institutes of Information Technology Bill, 2014'' was introduced in the
Lok Sabha
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.
The bill sought to grant the status of
Institutes of National Importance
Institute of National Importance (INI) is a status that may be conferred on a premier public higher education institution in India by an act of Parliament of India, an institution which "serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled per ...
(INI) upon the four IIITs. After much debate and changes, the bill was passed by the
Parliament
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on 1 December 2014
[ and published as ''Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014'' on 8 December 2014, coming into effect on 5 January 2015.
In 2015, a fifth institute was set up by the MHRD in Kurnool,]Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014
The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act of 2014, commonly known as the Telangana Act, is an Act of Indian Parliament that bifurcated the state of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and the residuary Andhra Pradesh state, as an outcome of the Telanga ...
. ''Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2017'' granted the INI status to the Kurnool institute.
Besides the above fully government funded IIITs, in 2010 the Union Cabinet
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approved a scheme for setting up twenty more IIITs, based on the public-private partnership (PPP) model, funded by the central government, state governments and industry partners in the ratio 50:35:15.[ , 14 of these IIITs were set up, the ones not being set up are the ones in ]Kakinada
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, Andhra Pradesh
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and in Agartala, Tripura
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. In addition, in 2015 the MHRD approved an IIIT in Nagpur, Maharashtra and in Ranchi, Jharkhand. An IIIT in Bhagalpur, Bihar was approved in 2016. Finally, to close the list of 20 'approved' IIITs, an IIIT in Surat, Gujarat was approved and set up in 2017. , these four newer institutes were already established, leaving only the institutes in Kakinada and Agartala to be established.
On 9 August 2017, ''The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017'' has been notified in the Gazette of India
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.Vadodara
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, Guwahati
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, Sri City, Kota, Tiruchirappalli
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, Kalyani, Una
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* Una, Himachal Pradesh, a town in India
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, Sonepat
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, Lucknow
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, Kottayam
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, Manipur
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, Dharwad
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, Pune
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, Nagpur
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, and Ranchi.
Three of the IIITs set up under the PPP model in 2017, namely institutes in Surat, Bhopal
Bhopal (; ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes'' due to its various natural and artificial lakes. It i ...
, and Bhagalpur
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, were not mentioned in the 2017 PPP act, nor were the institutes in Kakinada and Agartala.
In 2018, the Government of Tripura
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approved for the establishment of IIIT Agartala, which was stalled since 2012, covering which were missing from private sources under the PPP model. The institution was set to start classes in the 2018–2019 academic session from the NIT Agartala
National Institute of Technology Agartala (NIT Agartala or NITA) is a technology-oriented institute of higher education established by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India in Agartala, India. It was founded as Tri ...
campus.
In 2016, the central government gave in-principle approval for an IIIT in Raichur
Raichur (formerly Raichore) is a city and municipality in the district of Raichur in the Indian state of Karnataka. Raichur, located between Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, is the headquarters of Raichur district. It is located 409 km fr ...
, Karnataka. In 2018, the MHRD clarified that the Raichur institute will officially replace the Kakinada one, and asked the state government to assign land for the institute, planning to make the institute functional by the following year. However, since the land was not acquired, in 2019 the MHRD decided to shift the IIIT to Hyderabad
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, Telangana. IIIT Raichur started its academic activity in August 2019 from the temporary campus of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana.
In 2020, the ''Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020'' was introduced, officially declaring the IIITs in Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala, and Raichur as well as conferring the INI status on them. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on 20 March 2020 and by the Rajya Sabha
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on 22 September 2020.
Admission
Admissions into undergraduate
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programmes in IIITs for 6,000 seats are through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority
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and JEE-Main.postgraduate
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The organization and ...
programs admission is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
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(GATE).
List of 25 IIITs
The Indian Institutes of Information Technology are located in:
References
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1997 establishments in India
Educational institutions established in 1997