Five IITs will get national institutional status

 Five IITs will get national institutional status

The Indian Institute of Information Technology Act Amendment Bill 2020 was passed in the Rajya Sabha and approved by Parliament.  The bill will be amended by IIT Act 2014 and IIT Government Private Partnership Act 2017.  The 2017 IIT Public-Private Partnership Act will give some IIT institutions the status of national institutions.  The bill provides for the status of five national institutes in Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala and Raichur.

 Participating in the discussion on the bill, Education Minister Ramesh Pokharial Nishank said, “Technical knowledge is playing an important role in the development of the country.  "Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, special attention is being paid to the field of technical knowledge," he said.  BJP’s Kamaksha Prasad Tasa said it would boost the morale of the students once those IIT institutions become national institutions.

 The BJP has demanded that the IITs keep quotas for Odisha.  The YSR Congress has supported the Vijay Sairedi bill.  JD (U) RCP.  “The bill will bring unprecedented changes in the field of technical knowledge,” Singh said.  K. of TDP.  Rabindranath Tagore questioned the fee structure and said it was putting more burden on poor students.