National Institute of Technology Delhi

The National Institute Of Technology Delhi (abbrevi- start for Academic year 2014-15.
ated NIT Delhi or NITD)(Hindi:
, NITD) is a public engineering institution located
in Delhi, India. It has been declared as an Institute of 2 Organization and administration
National Importance by an act of Parliament of India. It
is one of the NITs along with other National Institute of
The rules, regulations and recommendations for the funcTechnology institutions in India.
tioning of all NITs are decided by the NIT Council. The
members of the council consist of representatives of all
NITs and the Ministry of HRD. The governance of NIT
Delhi is in the hands of the NIT Delhi Board of Governors. The director of the institute is an ex-ocio member
of the Board. It decides on all the aspects of running of
the institute including curriculum, faculty, etc.

2.1 Collaborations
An aerial view shot of NIT Delhi Temporary campus at Narela.

NIT Delhi has collaborated and signed MOUs with

various institutions and companies like AMBEDKAR
INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIESAND RESEARCH, DELHI,
CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION, CHANDIGARH, BHAGW AN MARA
VEER VIKLANG SABAYATA SAMITI, JAIPUR,
National Institute of Technical Teachers Training
and Research, Chandigarh, CLEEN Ltd and LAHTI
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, LAHTI,
FINLAND.

History

The National Institute of Technology, Delhi is one of ten

newly set up NITs during the 11th Five Year Plan by
the Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD).
The rst batch of students was admitted and academic
activities of NIT Delhi were started in the year 201011. Since inception of NIT Delhi, for the rst two years
the academic activities were carried out at National Institute of Technology, Warangal, the mentor institute for
NIT Delhi. Now the institution functions on a temporary IAMR campus, sector 7, Narela. NIT Delhi started
its academic session in 2010 with three undergraduate
B.Tech degree programmes in Computer Science and
Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The
academic activities of NIT Delhi were initiated at NIT
Warangal in year 2010 which later moved to a temporary campus at Dwarka, New Delhi in June 2012 and
now currently running at IAMR Campus, Narela (February 2014). From academic year 2013-14 the intake in
each B. Tech programme was increased to strength of 60
students. M.Tech programme in the discipline of Electronics and Communication Engineering with an intake
of 15 students was introduced from the academic year
2013-14 followed by Ph.D. programme which has started
from January 2014 with intake of seven research scholars
and M.Tech Programme in Computer Science and Engineering (Analytics) with an intake of 15 students is yet to

3 Academics
NIT Delhi currently oers only engineering programs in
graduate, undergraduate and doctorate level. The Institute oers four-year bachelor degree programmes in following elds of engineering: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering
and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Mechanical Engineering degree will also be given soon. It oers
two-year master degree programmes in following elds
of engineering: Electronics and Communication Engineering [2013-2014], Computer Science and Engineering (Analytics) [2014-2015].From the academic session
2013-14, NIT Delhi has admitted students to its postgraduate programmes on the basis of marks obtained by them
in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering-GATE and
through CCMT Counseling. The intake of students to
these postgraduate programmes is 15 each. It oers Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree programmes in fol1

4 RESEARCH

lowing elds of engineering: Electrical and Electronics 3.3 Departments

Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.
Currently, the following four departments are functioning
in the institute:-

3.1

Admissions

Computer Science and Engineering

The admissions to the B. Tech program of the institute

Electrical and Electronics Engineering
is solely carried out through the Joint Entrance Exam
(Main) organised by the Central Board of Secondary Ed Electronics and Communication Engineering
ucation (CBSE) on the directions of the Ministry of Human Resource development, Government of India. The
seats are allotted by the Central Seat Allocation Board
Science and Humanities
(CSAB). Fifty percent of seats are reserved under Home
State category for Delhi and Chandigarh students. The
remaining fty percent seats are lled by students of other
3.4 Library
states.
Admissions for foreign nationals is carried out by Direct
Admission for Students Abroad (DASA) under the Ministry of HRD. The admissions are on the basis of the SAT
score of the eligible candidates. The number of seats
available for foreign nationals in each branch at NIT Delhi
is 4 and these are over and above the intake (currently 60)
of each branch.
Admissions to the M.Tech Programmes are made on the
basis of performance in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test
in Engineering).

3.2

Branches

NIT Delhi started admitting students from the academic

session 2010-11 with an intake of 30 students in each
of the following branches of Bachelor of Technology
(B.Tech) programmes:-

The Central Library, NIT Delhi was established in the

year 2012 (10 June 2012) in Dwarka to facilitate the access to information resources to faculty and students of
the Institute. It moved to its present location IAMR Campus, Narela Institutional Area on 18 February 2014. It is
housed on the rst oor of the building with beautiful surroundings and is in midst of the campus which is easily accessible from all departments and hostels. All the faculty
members, students and sta of the Institute are entitled to
access all the library facilities and services. The library
is growing rapidly with exponential increase in number
and type of collection to serve the information needs of
the clientele in the eld of Social Sciences & Humanities
and Engineering & Physical Sciences. The automation
of library service is also being carried out through RFIDcum-library card.

3.5 Computer Centre

Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical and Electronics Engineering

The Computer Centre, NIT Delhi was established on

18/02/2014, to cater to the computational requirements
of the Institute.

Electronics and Communication Engineering

The Computer Centre maintains and manages WiFi facility through rack mounted blade servers in the campus
having High speed (single mode) ber backbone, manIntake at undergraduate level enhanced to 60 w.e.f. 2013- aged by Layer 4 Switches providing 250 Mbit/s (1:1)
14.
bandwidth Speed. These networking facilities will be exNIT Delhi started Master of Tech. In Electronics and tended to Hostel and Residential areas.
Communication Engineering w.e.f. 2013-14.
NIT Delhi started Doctoral programmes w.e.f. 2014.
NIT Delhi is going to start Master of Tech. In Computer 4 Research
Science and Engineering with specialisation in Analytics
w.e.f. 2014-15.
The NIT Delhi has laid great emphasis on theoretical and
In near future NIT Delhi plans to oer more programmes experimental research. The thrust areas of research inand disciplines of studies and to oer Masters and Doc- clude: VLSI and Embedded Systems, Advanced Magnetoral programmes in all disciplines of interest to the in- tohydrodynamics, Mathematical Modelling of uid Dystitute with overall strength of 20,000 students.
namics.

Student Life

Being a newly formed NITs, however, its being ranked

top among other new NITs and having a good competition with the old NITs. Prof. director Ajay K. Sharma
is very positive about the future of the institution and always inspires his students. The faculty team and teachers
are new and very energetic. Students here nd the interaction with the teachers very good. The institute is full
with the necessary required facilities for being a good engineering institution; labs, library and computer centers
are avail with all the latest technology equipment. More
lab facilities and workshop equipment are being availed
to the students as per their requirements. Since, the institute functions on a temporary campus, students might
nd some of the facilities missing as compared to other
well established institutions. Its permanent campus being constructed at a rapid phase at Narela and the temporary campus will soon be shifted to the well built campus
building, with latest high-tech facilities and laboratories.
The interaction between students and their seniors are
very good. The institution is completely ragging free and
very peaceful away from politics. The seniors always help
their juniors with all the academic as well as personal
stus. Apart from studies, students also enjoy games and
various other extra-curricular activities, events and competitions in the institute.

5.1

Festivals

NIT Delhi has some clubs and organizations functioning

within the campus such as cultural club, photography club
and sports club. It observes Saptrang, a cultural festival every year during May. Its celebrated keeping in line
with the target of providing the students with the best opportunities for all round development. It is a day long
delightful proceeding including 15+ competitive events,
participation from colleges in and around Delhi, a live DJ
night and entertaining food and game stalls. Saptrang
'15 promises to be a riveting aair! It also witnesses
Echoes, The introductory Cultural Night of NITD including performances by students of the college and a DJ
Night.

5.2

Hostels

Buses are provided for the transportation of the girl students in Rohini to-and-from the Institute premises as well
as for boys to My oor 2, Kundli. One side journey takes
about an hour reach the girls hostel and 20 minutes for
boys hostel. Also, bus facility is also provided for day
scholar students to-and-from *Jahangirpuri metro station
to the institute. The journey takes about 30 minutes.

6 Location
National Institute of Technology Delhi, Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR Campus), A-7, Institutional Area, Near Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra
Hospital, Narela, Delhi 110040 website: http://www.
nitdelhi.ac.in/contact.php

7 See also
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
National Institute of Technology, Trichy
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

8 References
http://www.nitdelhi.ac.in/
http://www.nitdelhi.ac.in/
http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/
NIIT_Notification_08062012.pdf
http://mhrd.gov.in/autonomous_organisations%
20?page=7
NIT Delhi temporary campus inauguration

9 External links

The hostels of the institute are located within the

IAMR campus, in the residential quarters of the nearby
Ocial Website
Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital and from the
year 2015 onwards to My Floor 2 residential apartment,
Coordinates: 283457N 770344E / 28.5826N
Kundli, Haryana. The new hostel is avail with all the nec77.0621E
essary facilites and is being separately provided to the rst
year students (only for boys). Another hostel of the institute is located at YWCA, Rohini which is solely used for
accommodation of girl students. Mess facility is available
in all the premises.

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