The Indian Institutes of Technology will now be
able to grant degrees to the students who pass out from these institutions.
Parliament has passed the Institute
of Technology (Amendment)
Bill, 2010, along with the National Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill,
2010. The bills were pending in the Rajya Sabha.
The institute of technology bill adds eight new
Indian Institutes of Technology in Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad,
Indore, Jodhpur,
Mandi, Patna, Ropar and Institute of Technology,
Banaras Hindu University (BHU), to the list of IITs. All these institutions
will be declared as institutions of national importance.
The National Institutes of Technology (Amendment)
Bill, 2010, amends the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007, to add a
schedule of five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER),
established in Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal
and Thiruvananthapuram.
[Source: Times of
India]
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