Same story with the increased number of NITs in last 5 years. During 2002 to 2005, India Government has converted 19 RECs (Regional Engineering College) into NITs (National Institute of Technology). In 2006 NIT Agartala came into existence and in 2010 India welcomed 10 new NITs. To improve the Information and Communication Technology in India many IIITs have been established in PPP modes and some are purely Government. Guwahati, Sri City, Vadodara, Kota, Srirangam, Una, Kalyani and Kilohrad are the places where the new IIITs have been established. There are also many other old IIITs which are serving the nation in the field of ICT study. To promote the research and education in engineering science India Government has proposed for another group of academic institution named as Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) in the year 2007. The idea was to convert some old established state level engineering universities to give national importance status to provide them more funding and facilities for more research in the field of engineering. The first institute to be upgraded to IIEST was Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur in the year 2014, which was a university under the Government of West Bengal prior to the upgrade process. Cochin University of Science and Technology, Andhra University – College of Engineering, Osmania University – College of Engineering are three more universities in the pipeline to be upgraded to IIEST in the coming years.
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Well, it is a good sign that the Government is approving a lot of technical institution in India to improve the quality of engineering study in the nation. But the important question is whether the purpose is actually getting achieved or only for namesake the approvals are going on!! The same observation has been posted by Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi from IIT Delhi, some time back at some social media platform.
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