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Union Cabinet nod for IIT Tirupati, NIT
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval to set up IIT at Tirupati and NIT at Tadepalligudem in West Godavari. Along with Tirupati IIT, the Centre has approved five new IITs at Palakkad, Dharwar, Bhilai, Goa and Jammu while ISM Dhanbad will also be upgraded to an IIT.
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its approval to set up IIT at Tirupati and NIT at Tadepalligudem in West Godavari. Along with Tirupati IIT, the Centre has approved five new IITs at Palakkad, Dharwar, Bhilai, Goa and Jammu while ISM Dhanbad will also be upgraded to an IIT.
The Union Cabinet, which met on Wednesday, also gave ex post facto approval to set up NIT at Air-Field lands of Tadepalligudem mandal in West Godavari District. The NIT has been registered as a Society under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001.
The Cabinet also approved introduction of a bill -- the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2016 for inclusion of the NIT, Andhra Pradesh in its first schedule, another statement said.
"The approval will bring six new Indian Institutes of Technology within the ambit of The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 and declaring them as the institutions of national importance," an official statement said here.
The amendment will also help convert ISM, Dhanbad into an IIT by bringing it into the ambit of the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961.
