List of IIT's or NIT's

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)

At present, there are 18 IITs in India.

List of IITs

#	Name	Established	City/Town	State/UT
1	IIT Kharagpur	1951	Kharagpur	West Bengal
2	IIT Bombay	1958	Mumbai	Maharashtra
3	IIT Kanpur	1959	Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh
4	IIT Madras	1959	Chennai	Tamil Nadu
5	IIT Delhi	1961	New Delhi	Delhi
6	IIT Guwahati	1994	Guwahati	Assam
7	IIT Roorkee	2001 (1847)	Roorkee	Uttarakhand
8	IIT Bhubaneswar	2008	Bhubaneswar	Odisha
9	IIT Gandhinagar	2008	Gandhinagar	Gujarat
10	IIT Hyderabad	2008	Hyderabad	Telangana
11	IIT Patna	2008	Patna	Bihar
12	IIT Jodhpur	2008	Jodhpur	Rajasthan
13	IIT Ropar	2008	Rupnagar	Punjab
14	IIT Indore	2009	Indore	Madhya Pradesh
15	IIT Mandi	2009	Mandi	Himachal Pradesh
16	IIT (BHU) Varanasi	2012 (1919)	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh
17	IIT Tirupati	2015	Tirupati	Andhra Pradesh
18	IIT Palakkad	2015	Palakkad	Kerala
19	IIT Jammu			Jammu & Kashmir
20	IIT Bhilai			Chhattisgarh
21	IIT Dharwar			Karnataka
22	IIT Goa			Goa

New IITs

The new IITs may come up in these cities: Jammu, Bhilai-Durg, Dharwar and Goa. The initial intake will be of 180 students in its first year and would increase to 450 in the second year and to 928 (840 Undergraduates, 80 Postgraduates and 8 PhDs) in the third year of their operation. 

National Institutes of Technology (NITs)

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) (राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान) were referred as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) and were governed by their respective state governments. They are located in one each major state/territory of India. In 2007, the Government declared NITs as Institutes of National Importance.

List of National Institutes of Technology (NITs)

1. National Institute of Technology, Agartala (Tripura)
2. Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (U.P.)
3. National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh.
4. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (MP)
5. National Institute of Technology, Calicut (Kerela)
6. National Institute of Technology, Delhi
7. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (West Bengal)
8. National Institute of Technology, Goa
9. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh)
10. Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
11. Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab)
12. National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
13. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (Haryana)
14. National Institute of Technology, Manipur
15. National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya
16. National Institute of Technology, Mizoram
17. National Institute of Technology, Nagaland
18. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (Maharashtra)
19. National Institute of Technology, Patna (Bihar)
20. National Institute of Technology, Puducherry
21. National Institute of Technology, Raipur (Chhattisgarh)
22. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Odisha)
23. National Institute of Technology, Sikkim
24. National Institute of Technology, Silchar (Assam)
25. National Institute of Technology, Hazartbal, Srinagar (J & K)
26. Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (Gujarat)
27. National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Mangalore (Karnataka)
28. National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu)
29. National Institute of Technology, Uttrakhand
30. National Institute of Technology, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh)

History or Background

Jawaharlal Nehru sought to develop India as a leader in science and technology. The Government started fourteen RECs between 1959 and 1965, at Agartala, Bhopal, Allahabad, Kozhikode, Durgapur, Kurukshetra, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Rourkela, Srinagar, Surathkal, Surat, Tiruchirappalli, and Warangal.

It established one in Silchar in 1967 and added two others located at Hamirpur in 1986, and Jalandhar in 1987.

In 2002, MHRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi decided to upgrade RECs to "National Institutes of Technology" (NITs) instead of creating IITs. The central government controls NITs and provides all funding. In 2003, all RECs were upgraded NITs.

In 2006, MHRD issued NIT status to three more colleges, located at Patna (Bihar Engineering College), Raipur (Government Engineering College), and Agartala (Tripura Engineering College).

In 2010, the government announced setting up ten new NITs in the remaining states.