Question : New IIMs-NITs

(a) whether the Government has identified the places to start new NITs, IIMs
in the country including State of Karnataka along with the criteria for
selecting these areas;
(b) the funds allocated and utilized for this purpose;
(c) whether the Government has any mechanism to check on the quality of
education in technical and non-technical Institutions and if so, the details
thereof; and
(d) whether the Government has received any requests from States for
setting up new NITs/IIMs and if so, the details thereof?

MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL ‘NISHANK’)

(a) & (b): Apart from thirty one National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and
twenty Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) already functioning in various parts
of the country, including an NIT and IIM in Karnataka, there is no proposal for
setting up of any new NIT or IIM.

(c): The Government has launched several initiatives viz. National Institutional
Ranking Framework (NIRF), Impacting Research Innovation & Technology
(IMPRINT), Uchchtar Avishkar Yojna (UAY), Global Initiative of Academic
Networks (GIAN) and Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) etc., which
have in-built mechanisms to check and provide for qualitative development of
education in the country. All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has
prescribed norms and standards for grant of approval to the new Institutions and
existing Institutions. The University Grants Commission undertakes maintenance
of standards in teaching, research and quality assurance in Universities, Deemed
to be Universities and Colleges through framing and notifying regulations,
schemes and disbursing grants to the eligible Institutions.

(d): Requests have been received from various quarters for setting up of IIMs
in States of Telangana, Puducherry and Karnataka.