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Free med treatment
for NIT’s retired staff
KURUKSHETRA : Health facilities
for the retired employees will be
offered free in National Institute of
Technology(NIT) on the NIT
campus Health Centre, which will
be upgraded with all medical
faclities, said Dr J K Palit,
chairman, Board of Governors of
NIT.
He said that the BoG meeting held
recently has decided that around
Rs 1 crore will be spent on
upgradation of the health centre
of the NIT and on all the facilities
like ambulance service, ICU,
empaneled doctors and latest
medical equipment.
He also added that the pension
facilities for the NIT employees
are still a pending issue and was
also discussed during the meeting
and decided that it will be taken
up at the concerned ministry level
and will try to convience the
officials since it is not being given
only in the 3 NITs namely
Kurukshetra, Jalandhar and Aizwal
respectively.
Motilal Nehru National Institute of
Technology, Allahabad
Maulana Azad National Institute of
Technology, Bhopal
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
National Institute of Technology,
Hamirpur
Malaviya National Institute of
Technology, Jaipur
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of
Technology, Jalandhar
National Institute of Technology,
Kurukshetra
Visvesvaraya National Institute of
Technology, Nagpur
National Institute of Technology, Roukela
National Institute of Technology, Silchar
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of
Technology, Surat
National Institute of Technology,
Surathkal
National Institute of Technology,
Warangal
Regional Engineering College, Durgapur
Regional Institute of Technology,
Jamshedpur
Regional Engineering College, Srinagar
Regional Engineering College,
Tiruchirappalli
National Institute of Technology Patna
National Institute of Technology Raipur
National Institute of Technology Agartala
 
 MHRD appoints 11 NIT directors in one go
By Sanjiv Dube
NEW DELHI : On October 17 the Ministry of Human Resource Development
appointed 11 new directors for various National Institutes of Technology
(NITs), including NIT-Warangal and NIT-Durgapur, which had been headless for
over a year.
Computer Science professor at IIT Kharagpur, Dr Anupam Basu, has been
appointed director of NIT Durgapur while N V Ramana Rao, Rector of
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad has been made
director of NIT Warangal. He will take charge on Monday.
A teacher of civil engineering, Rao has a Bachelors degree in engineering from
Osmania University, M.Tech from IIT Delhi and Ph.D from the UK. His research
interests include structural design.
The appointments to NIT Warangal and NIT Durgapur were delayed because of
the cabinet reshuffle in July 2016, when Smriti Irani was shifted to Textile
Ministry and Prakash Javadekar took over as her successor at HRD Ministry.
The ministry had scrapped the panel of names finalised during Irani’s term as
they were found unsuitable and the two posts were re-advertised.
While Rajiv Kumar Garg, a professor of industrial and production engineering
at NIT Jalandhar, will now head NIT Arunachal Pradesh, Professor Sivaji
Bandyopadhyay from the department of computer science and engineering at
Jadavpur University, Kolkata is the new director of NIT Silchar.
NIT Raipur has got its new head from within the institute as A M Rawani, a
teacher of mechanical engineering, has been elevated to the top post. Rakesh
Sehgal from NIT Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh is the director of NIT Srinagar,
which witnessed students protests in April last year, after some students from
the Valley and some from outside the state clashed following India’s semi-final
loss to West Indies in the T-20 World Cup.
Karunesh Kumar Shukla from MNIT, Allahabad will head NIT Jamshedpur,
Pradip Kumar Jain from IIT (BHU) is the new director of NIT Patna, Shyam Lal
Soni of NIT Jaipur will head NIT Uttarakhand, retired scientist S Venugopal has
been appointed to NIT Nagaland and Harish Kumar Sharma, professor at
SLIET in Punjab, is the new director of NIT Agartala.
The ministry had invited applications for 12 posts of NIT directors in early July
last year but the process of appointment got delayed for one reason or the
other.
The aspirants were expected to be less than 65 years of age and the
appointment for the post is to be for a tenure of 5 years or till the candidate
turns 70.
There are 31 NITs that offer 17,390 seats for undergraduate engineering
programmes across the country.
Classes on at NIT, outstation students absent
By Our Correspondent
SRINAGAR : Trouble torn National Institute of Technology (NIT) resumed
classes here on April 25 with most outstation students absent.
According to an official version about 500 outstation students attended classes
on Monday when the institute reopened after 10 days of break.
Normalcy returned to NIT Srinagar campus on April 25
NIT Registrar and classes began with most outstation students absent.
Fayaz Ahmad Mir
said that nearly
1,800 outstation
students had
gone home
following the
protests. As many
as 344 outstation
students returned
to the campus
and nearly 500
outstation
students attended
the classes.
"The campus was quite normal today.... We are glad that many outstation
students are back," Mir said. Officials said a separate exam for the non-local
students would begin from May 5.
A police vehicle, marked ‘riot control’, remained stationed outside the main
gate of the institute and some policemen stood at a nearby
parking shed as the NIT resumed classes after a 10-day break following
protests triggered by India’s defeat in the T-20 Cricket World Cup semi-final.

The gate is manned by the campus security staff and all entry points  are
carefully monitored and their entry and exit recorded on a register.

NIT Srinagar boys want CRPF to camp on campus

JAMMU : With Central government having said a firm no to shifting of
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar students, they have now dug
heels on the demand of permanent posting of CRPF on the campus.
The students of NIT Srinagar protesting on the campus.
The students took
out a protest
march here on
April 23
demanding
permanent
deployment of the
CRPF on the
campus and
reshuffling of
college
administration
and immediate
formation of
students’ council.

Over 300 students, including NIT students, took out a protest march from
Press Club to Science College here and said they would continue with their
protest till their demands are met and said that would boycott classes starting
from April 25.

NSUI leaders joined the protesting students and said that they will continue
supporting the protesting students till demands were met. The MHRD and the
college administration have turned a “deaf ear” to the primary demands of the
students, one of the protesting students said. They demanded permanent
deployment of the CRPF with powers in the campus (not
under state administration).

Besides this they also demanded reshuffling of college administration

immediately and restructuring of NIT Srinagar administration by introducing
cadre system.

Administration (both teaching and non-teaching staff) should consist of 50 per

cent quota of J&K state personnel and 50 per cent quota from other states of
India, the NIT students said. The NIT students also demanded immediate
formation of students’ council on the lines of top NITs, IITs.

Meanwhile the HRD ministry has said that efforts will be made to fill up 50% of
the teaching positions at the institute with faculties from outside the Jammu
and Kashmir.

According to a news report the Human Resources Development (HRD) ministry

assured a delegation of students that met the minister
that 50% teaching positions would be filled up with teachers from outside the
state but insisted that the ministry cannot force any teacher to join NIT-
Srinagar. The ministry also promised fair evaluation of their examination
papers and expressed its readiness to look into their demands for action
against some of the staff and faculty members accused of discriminating
against non-Kashmiri students in the institute.

The ministry, however, remained firm on its stand that no outstation student
will be shifted from NIT-Srinagar campus, maintaining that such a move, if
accepted, would have “larger implications,” a student privy to the last week’s
meeting of NIT-Srinagar delegation and HRD Minister Smriti Irani said.

Students said more than 70% faculties at the NIT Srinagar were temporary
staff. “The institute has never taken a sincere effort to fill up teaching posts
with permanent faculties.

NITs told to focus on social welfare aspect

NEW DELHI : On October 29, 2015 the President Mr Pranab Mukherjee
inaugurated a two day conference of the directors of National Institutes of
Technology (NITs) at Rashtrapati Bhavan here and asked the NITs to pay
attention to the social welfare needs of the society.

The conference, a second one, of Directors of NITs during the present

Presidency is part of the regular, focused interaction the President has been
having with Central Universities, IITs and IISERs in his capacity as Visitor to
these institutions.

Speaking at the conference he called upon all NITs to deepen and broad-base
their involvement with society. He said their work must find resonance with the
needs and aspirations of our people.
 Referring to the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana launched by the Prime Minister
recently he said that the NITs should adopt at least one village each and
transform them into model villages worthy of replication across the country.
They must source, if required, experts from other Central institutions to
provide solutions to the wide mosaic of issues that such a transformation to
model villages will entail.

The President asked NITs be at the forefront of bridging the digital divide,
income asymmetries and rural-urban differentiation in the country, especially,
in view of the ‘Make in India’ and the ‘Digital India’ initiatives unveiled by the
Government. He said NITs can and need to be the connecting force between
rural innovations, local employment and world class manufacturing.

The President congratulated NITs for their contributions to research and

innovation. He said given the right environment our scientists and
technologists are second to none in the world. He stated that NITs have
emerged as front runners in imparting quality scientific and technical
education in India. The need now is for the NITs to undertake a synergetic
collaboration with similar institutions in the country and abroad as also forge
greater horizontal linkages with them at multiple levels of contact.

The President said economic growth and educational progress share a

symbiotic relationship. "Our engineers and scientists are vital to the process of
national development. In today’s context, urbanization, water supply,
sanitation, environment protection, efficiency in delivery of healthcare and
education call for innovative solutions. Our engineers and scientists must
be equipped to address new-age problems with new-age answers. Technical
institutions like NITs should nurture world-class, professionally-competent
engineers who will not only take India to new heights in technology but also
improve the quality of life of our countrymen", he said.

The President said Directors of the NITs must provide bold, innovative and
inspiring leadership. Every NIT must institutionalize quality assurance and
sustenance measures in all academic and administrative processes. The key
areas of focus have to be engagement of quality faculty, innovation and
research, excellence in teaching, industry linkages and social responsibility.
NITs must aim to attract the best engineering talent in the country and
transform them into outstanding engineers, researchers, scientists and
teachers.

The President asked NITs to also continue to engage with alumni so as to

enable their full contribution to the growth, vibrancy and dynamism of their
alma maters.

Pointing out that most of central institutions in the country are facing acute
shortage of faculty at all levels, the President said in his recent visit to Norway
and Finland, he had called upon the scientists, researchers and academics
amongst Indian diaspora to become a part of Indian campuses, either on a full
time or a part time basis, as regular, visiting or adjunct
faculty. He expected the Ministry of HRD, in consultation with higher
educational institutions, to create an enabling environment for such
movements to take place.

NITs demand pay parity with the IIT faculty

NEW DELHI : On April 30 the Rajya Sabha passed the National Institutes of
Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2010, which declares certain institutions of
technology as institutions of national importance and adds five Indian
Institutes of Science Education and Research (established in Kolkata, Pune,
Mohali, Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram) as institutions of national
importance.

The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on April 15, 2010 and was referred to
the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development, which is scheduled
to submit its report within two months.

The Bill amends the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007, which
declares certain institutions of technology as Institutions of National
Importance and provides for instruction and research in these institutions.

The Act has a schedule of institutions declared as institutions of national

importance. The Bill adds another schedule to include five Indian Institutes of
Science Education and Research (established in Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal
and Thiruvananthapuram) as institutions of national importance.

The Bill specifies the members of the Board of Governors of each institute. The
members include Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Director of the
Institute ex officio, Director of one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, and
three Secretaries to the government of India.

A Council shall be established for all the Indian Institutes of Science Education
and Research. It shall consist of specified members including Minister in
charge of technical education, Secretary of technical education, chairperson of
every Board of the Institutes, and Chairman, University Grants Commission.
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