MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SHASHI THAROOR)
(a) The details of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) running in the country,
State-wise are as under:
Sl No. Name of the Institution State
1. Indian Institute of Technology, KanpurUttar Pradesh
2. Indian Institute of Technology, BombayMaharashtra
3. Indian Institute of Technology, DelhiDelhi
4. Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurWest Bengal
5. Indian Institute of Technology, RoorkeeUttarakhand
6. Indian Institute of Technology, MadrasTamil Nadu
7. Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiAssam
8. Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, VaranasiUttar Pradesh
9. Indian Institute of Technology, HyderabadAndhra Pradesh
10. Indian Institute of Technology, RoparPunjab
11. Indian Institute of Technology, GandhinagarGujarat
12. Indian Institute of Technology, BhubaneshwarOdisha
13. Indian Institute of Technology, JodhpurRajasthan
14. Indian Institute of Technology, PatnaBihar
15. Indian Institute of Technology, IndoreMadhya Pradesh
16. Indian Institute of Technology, MandiHimachal Pradesh
(b) No, Madam.
(c) to (e): The Government has set up eight new IITs at Andhra Pradesh, Bihar,
Rajasthan, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh during the
XIth plan with adequate infrastructure. They have been declared as “Institutes of
National Importance†through an Act of Parliament which came into effect on
29.06.2012. The Institute of Technology of BHU was also converted to IIT,BHU
and declared as an Institute of National Importance through an Act of Parliament
which came into effect on 29.06.2012.
All the new IITs are functioning from temporary premises with provision for classrooms,
labs, equipment and hostels, with IIT Mandi shifting partly to the permanent campus.
The new IITs have also been given the autonomy to recruit faculty and non-faculty staff
within the prescribed norms of faculty, non-faculty and students ratio. To draw good
faculty and non-faculty to these Institutes, a scheme to allow the mobility of staff
from old Central Educational Institutes with the old pension scheme on 10 year long
term deputation to the new CEIs has been approved. The Ministry also intervenes to
resolve the various infrastructural issues of the Institutes like water/electricity
problems, provision of residential/hostel accommodation for the faculty and students,
facilitating provision of approach road, etc and facilitates getting the necessary
clearances like environmental clearances from the concerned State and Central
Government agencies. Other issues relating to the problems faced by the institutes
are taken up with the respective state governments and the concerned Ministries/
Departments.
