New IITs yet to get Rajya Sabha approval

Updated on: Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Hundreds of students who joined the new Indian Institute of Technology set up in 2008 in the hope of a bright future are under misapprehension now as these institutions are yet to be approved by Parliament.The first batch of students are set to pass out in May 2012 but the new institutes are yet to be approved by Rajya Sabha as IITs.As a result students graduating this year will not be getting an IIT degree for the time being. The IITs are considered as Institutions of national importance, governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 which specifies their framework for governance, powers and duries.

The Lok Sabha has passed the bill for incorporating the new IITs under the act but Rajya Sabha is yet to pass the bill.As a result IITs are unable to fix a date for their first convocation which normally they host in August.

The first batch of 30 MTech students of IIT Hyderabad who graduated in 2011 are yet to get their graduation certificate and they have been given provisional certificate for the time being.

600 under-graduate and post-graduate students will be passing out from the new IITs this year. A total of 160 students will be graduating from the IIT Hyderabad. IIT-Gandhinagar has 88 undergraduate students.

The Gandhinagar campus was among the six IITs set up in 2008 and another two were added the next year.

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