17 nit's are there in india.
17 nit's are there in india.
how many nit's are there in india?
17
the national institutes of technology (nits) are colleges of engineering and technology education in india. all nits enjoy the status of the institutes of national importance and are autonomous universities that draft their own curricula. they were originally called regional engineering colleges (recs). in 2002, the ministry of human resource development, government of india, decided to upgrade, in phases, all the original 17 recs as nits. there are currently 31 nits, with the inception of 10 new nits in the year 2010 and another in 2015. the 31 nits are located in allahabad, agartala, bhopal, durgapur, hamirpur, kozhikode, kurukshetra, jalandhar, jamshedpur, jaipur, nagpur, patna, raipur, rourkela, silchar, srinagar, surathkal, surat, tiruchirappalli, warangal, yupia, new delhi, farmagudi, imphal, shillong, aizawl, dimapur, karaikal, ravangla, srinagar and tadepalligudem. the government of india has introduced the national institutes of technology (nit) act 2010 to bring 31 such institutions within the ambit of the act and to provide them with complete autonomy in their functioning. the nits are deliberately scattered throughout the country in line with the government norm of an nit in every major state of india to promote regional development. the individual nits, after the introduction of the nit act, have been functioning as autonomous technical universities and hence can draft their own curriculum and functioning policies.the admission to undergraduate programs of all the nits was done by the all india engineering entrance examination popularly known as aieee. from the year 2013, aieee was replaced by jee-main (joint entrance examination - main) in which 40% weightage was given to the higher secondary results and 60% weightage was given to the jee(main) results. however, the weightage of higher secondary result was made to be 0% from the year 2017 and onwards and it was only given as an eligibility criteria (of either attaining 75% in hs results or being in the top 20% of the respective board). the examination is objective by nature and is conducted by the national testing agency (nta) from the year 2019. the exam was previously conducted by cbse. more than fourteen lakh(1,400,000) applicants took part in 2013 for approximately 15500 seats in the b. tech and b. arch programmes available in all the nits put together.
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all nits organise annual technical festivals, typically lasting three or four days. the technical festivals are avishkar (nit allahabad), technosearch (nit bhopal), tathva (nit calicut), terratechnica (nit delhi), gyanith (nit puducherry), aarohan (nit durgapur), nimbus (nit hamirpur), sphinx (nit jaipur), techniti (nit jalandhar), ojass (nit jamshedpur), techspardha (nit kurukshetra), axis (nit nagpur), corona (nit patna), aavartan (nit raipur), innovision (nit rourkela), tecnoesis (nit silchar), techvaganza (nit srinagar), mindbend (nit surat), engineer (nit karnataka), pragyan (nit trichy), technozion (nit warangal), technival (nit goa), morphosis (nit mizoram), cognitia (nit meghalaya), technovya (nit nagaland), addovedi (nit arunachal pradesh), advaitam (nit agartala), cliffesto (nit uttarakhand) and abhiyantran (nit sikkim). most of them are organised in the months of january or march. pragyan (nit trichy) the first student-run organization in the world and the third overall next only to 2012 london olympics and manchester united to get an iso 20121:2012 certification for sustainable event management. it is also the largest in terms of sponsorship amounts and also branded as a techno-management festival due to its emphasis on both technology and management.
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