Bill introduced in Lok Sabha to bring 6 new IITS, ISM

A bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha which aims at bringing six new IITs as well as the Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad under the ambit of the IIT Act. Introducing the bill yesterday, Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government has set up six new IITs as registered societies. He said, the institutes need to be brought within the ambit of the Act for the purpose of declaring them as institutions of national importance.

The bill also aims at declaring ISM Dhanbad as an institute of national importance, integrate it with the IIT system and it



would be called IIT, Dhanbad. The new IITs which the bill intends to incorporate in the system are IIT Tirupati, IIT Palakkad, IIT Goa, IIT Dharwar, IIT Bhilai and IIT Jammu. 

Mr Javadekar also introduced The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in the lower house. The bill aims at amending the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act of 2007 and proposes the establishment of a NIT in Andhra Pradesh with effect from August 20, 2015 which has has already been set up as registered society.