Indian Institutes of Information Technology

Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of institutes of higher education in India, focused on information technology. Five of them are established, funded and managed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The rest are set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) model.

Formation

Prior to 2010, the IIITs at Gwalior, Allahabad, Jabalpur and Kancheepuram were set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).[1]

In 2010 the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Bill 2010 was introduced in Lok Sabha. The bill sought to grants the status of Institutes of National Importance (INI) upon the four IIITs. After much debate and changes, the bill was passed by the Parliament on December 1, 2014 and published as the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014 on 8 December 2014, coming into effect on 5 January 2015.[2]

In 2015, a fifth institute was set up by the MHRD in Kurnool,[1] as part as the government obligation under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.[3] The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2017 granted the INI status to the Kurnool institute.[4]

Besides the above fully government funded IIITs, in 2010 the Union Cabinet 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.[5] As of 2014, 23 proposals were made by 21 states (Andhra Pradesh (Chittoor & Kakinada), Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (Pune & Nagpur), Manipur, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh), and 16 proposals were approved (Andhra Pradesh (Chittoor), Andhra Pradesh (Kakinada), Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu , Maharashtra (Pune), Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal , Manipur and Tripura).[5] As of 2017 14 of these IIITs were set up, the ones not being set up are the ones in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh and in Bodhjungnagar, Tripura. In addition, in 2015 the MHRD approved an IIIT in Nagpur, Maharashtra[6] and in Ranchi, Jharkhand.[7] An IIIT in Bhagalpur, Bihar was approved in 2016.[8] Finally, to close the list of 20, an IIIT in Surat, Gujarat was approved and set up in 2017.[9] As of September 2017, these four institutes were already established, leaving only the institutes in Kakinada and Bodhjungnagar which are yet to be established.

On 9th August 2017, The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017 has been notified in the Gazette of India.[10] The Act confers the status of Institutes of National Importance to fifteen IIITs set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) mode in Vadodara, Guwahati, Sri City, Kota, Tiruchirapalli, Kalyani, Una, Sonepat, Lucknow, Kottayam, Senapati (Manipur), Dharwad, Pune, Nagpur and Ranchi.

The three IIITs set up under the PPP model in 2017, namely institutes in Surat, Bhopal and Bhagalpur, were not mentioned in the 2017 PPP act, nor were the institutes in Kakinada and Bodhjungnagar.

Admission

Admissions into undergraduate programmes in IIITs for 4,000 seats are through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority and JEE-Main.[11]

List of IIITs

The Indian Institute of Information Technology are located in:

IIITs and locations, sorted by date of establishment
NameShort name EstablishedMode State/UT
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, GwaliorABV-IIITM Gwalior 1997MHRDMadhya Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, AllahabadIIITA 1999MHRDUttar Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, JabalpurIIITDMJ 2005MHRDMadhya Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, KancheepuramIIITDM Kancheepuram 2007MHRDTamil Nadu
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri CityIIITS 2013PPPAndhra Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, GuwahatiIIITG 2013PPPAssam
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara IIITV 2013PPPGujarat
Indian Institute of Information Technology, KotaIIITK 2013PPPRajasthan
Indian Institute of Information Technology TiruchirappalliIIITT 2013PPPTamil Nadu
Indian Institute of Information Technology UnaIIITU 2014PPPHimachal Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, SonepatIIIT Sonepat 2014PPPHaryana
Indian Institute of Information Technology, KalyaniIIIT Kalyani 2014PPPWest Bengal
Indian Institute of Information Technology, LucknowIIITL 2015PPPUttar Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, DharwadIIITD 2015PPPKarnataka
Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kurnool IIITDM Kurnool 2015MHRDAndhra Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, KottayamIIIT Kottayam 2015PPPKerala
Indian Institute of Information Technology, ManipurIIIT Manipur 2015PPPManipur
Indian Institute of Information Technology, NagpurIIITN 2016PPPMaharashtra
Indian Institute of Information Technology, PuneIIITP 2016PPPMaharashtra
Indian Institute of Information Technology, RanchiIIIT Ranchi 2016PPPJharkhand
Indian Institute of Information Technology, SuratIIIT Surat 2017PPPGujarat
Indian Institute of Information Technology, BhopalIIIT Bhopal 2017PPPMadhya Pradesh
Indian Institute of Information Technology, BhagalpurIIIT Bhagalpur 2017PPPBihar

References

  1. 1 2 "Institutions - Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development". mhrd.gov.in. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014" (PDF). Gazette of India. Government of India. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2017" (PDF). Government of India. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2017" (PDF). Gazette of India. Government of India. 17 August 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Setting up of Indian Institute of Information Technology". pib.nic.in. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 16 July 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Choudhari, Abhishek (15 May 2015). "HRD ministry approves IIIT for Nagpur - Times of India". The Times of India. Times News Network. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  7. ↑ Narayan, Santosh (9 December 2015). "Cabinet clears decks for setting up IIIT". The Pioneer. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  8. ↑ Roshan, Kumar (15 December 2016). "More room for education". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "IIIT Surat". svnit.ac.in. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
  10. ↑ "The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-Private Partnership) Act, 2017" (PDF). egazette.nic.in. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  11. ↑ "More seats in new IITs 387 additional BTech berths on offer this year".
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