IITs- The Indian Institutes of Technology are the premier autonomous public technical and research universities located across India.
They are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961, which has declared them as Institutes of National Importance and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance.
Founder: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Founded: 1951
Type of business: Public technical university
Location: 23 cities in India
The Minister of Education is the ex officio Chairperson of the #IITCouncil.
As of 2020, the total number of seats for undergraduate programs in all IITs is 16,053.
The recent decision of the University Grants Commission to permit select IITs under the ‘#Institutions_of_Eminence’ category to set up campuses abroad
The original five IITs were established in the 1950s and early 1960s
Four had a foreign collaborator:
IIT Bombay (the Soviet Union),
IIT Madras (Germany),
IIT Kanpur (the United States), and
IIT Delhi (the United Kingdom).
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