A bill providing for opening six new IITs, including at Jammu and Tirupati, was today passed by the Lok Sabha. Under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill 2016, new IITs will also be started in Palakkad, Goa, Dharward and Bhilai. The Bill also seeks to bring the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, within the ambit of the Act. ► Connect with me! • Facebook - http://goo.gl/q3KRRn • Twitter - http://goo.gl/Jtzs1c • Youtube - http://goo.gl/m9hJJw

1. EDUCATION
- NEW IITS
“Advantages and Disadvantages ’’

2. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
 The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are
autonomous public institutes of higher education,
located in India.
 They are governed by the Institutes of Technology
Act, 1961 which has declared them as institutions of
national importance,[ and lays down their powers,
duties, and framework for governance etc.
 The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists twenty-
three institutes located at Bhilai, Chennai, Delhi,
Dhanbad, Dharwad, Goa, Guwahati, Jammu, Kanpur,
Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee, Bhubaneswar,
Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi,
Palakkad, Patna, Ropar, Tirupati and Varanasi.

3. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
 M.Tech and MS admissions are done on the basis of
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).
 In addition to B.Tech, M.Tech and MS programs, IITs
also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc in
Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc.
 Admission to these programs of IITs is done
through Common Admission Test (CAT), Joint
Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and Common
Entrance Examination for Design (CEED). IIT Guwahati
and IIT Bombay offer undergraduate design
programmes as well.
 Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2015 (JoSAA 2015)
conducted the joint admission process for a total of 19
IITs.

4. Addition of IITs
 IITs are 'institutions of national importance' established
by Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. After India got its
Independence, the world was changing.
 The leaders were able to envisage coming of ' Age of
technology 'rather than capital.
 After Kharagpur became first IIT,different IITs were
established that are scattered in different parts of
country to maintain regional balance.
 IITs are internationally respected for the quality of their
graduates and teaching.

5. Addition of IITs
 IITs receive comparatively higher grants than any other
engineering colleges in India. While the total government
funding to most other engineering colleges is around Rs. 10–
20 crores (USD 2–4 million) per year, the amount varies
between Rs. 90 crores –1.3 Arab (USD 18–26 million) per
year for each IIT.
 They have advantage in terms of faculty-to-student ratio which
is between 1:6 and 1:8.

6. Addition of IITs
 A bill providing for opening six new IITs, including at Jammu
and Tirupati, was passed by the Lok Sabha.
 Under the Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill 2016,
new IITs will also be started in Palakkad, Goa, Dharward and
Bhilai.
 The Bill also seeks to bring the Indian School of Mines,
Dhanbad, within the ambit of the Act.
 Announcement of HRD ministry's proposal to set up New IITs
was debated by educationists but every coin has 2 sides
which are evaluated here.

7. Serial
no
Name Short Name Founded Established
Campus Size
(acres)
Director State/UT
1 IIT Kharagpur IITKGP 1951 1951 2100 Partha Pratim West Bengal
2 IIT Bombay IITB 1958 1958 550 Devang V. Khakar Maharashtra
3 IIT Kanpur IITK 1959 1959 1055 Indranil Manna Uttar Pradesh
4 IIT Madras IITM 1959 1959 620 Bhaskar Ramamurthi Tamil Nadu
5 IIT Delhi IITD 1961 1963 320 V Ramgopal Rao Delhi
6 IIT Guwahati IITG 1994 1994 704 Gautam Biswas Assam
7 IIT Roorkee IITR 1847 2001 365 Pradipta Bannerjee Uttarakhand
8 IIT Bhubaneswar IITBBS 2008 2008 936 R. V. Raj Kumar Odisha
9 IIT Gandhinagar IITGN 2009 2009 450 Sudhir K. Jain Gujarat
10 IIT Hyderabad IITH 2008 2008 576 U. B. Desai Telangana
11 IIT Jodhpur IITJ 2008 2008 900 C. V. R. Murthy Rajasthan
12 IIT Patna IITP 2008 2008 501 Pushpak Bhattacharya Bihar
13 IIT Ropar IITRPR 2008 2008 545 Sarit Kumar Das Punjab
14 IIT Indore IITI 2009 2009 525 Pradeep Mathur Madhya Pradesh
15 IIT Mandi IITMandi 2009 2009 538 Timothy A. Gonsalves Himachal
16 IIT (BHU) IIT(BHU) 1919 2012 400 Rajeev Sangal Uttar Pradesh
17 IIT Palakkad IITPKD 2015 2015 500 Kerala
18 IIT Tirupati IITTP 2015 2015 590 Andhra Pradesh
19 IIT (ISM) Dhanbad IIT(ISM) 1926 2016 458 D C Panigrahi Jharkhand
20 IIT Bhilai IITC 2016 2016 Chhattisgarh
21 IIT Goa IITGoa 2016 2016 Goa
22 IIT Jammu 2016 2016 Jammu and
23 IIT Dharwad IITDH 2016 2016 Karnataka
IITs and locations, sorted by date of establishment
Session begins in 2016
Session begins in 2016
Session begins in 2016
Session begins in 2016

8. Advantages
 More opportunities
 Scientific progress
 More number of IITs could attract foreign students
 New IITs in different parts of the country opportunities for
people residing in surrounding areas
 Upgrading of existing academic institutions like ISM Dhanbad
 Ease out the competition
 New institutes with better qualities
 Better facilities

9. Disadvantages
 Bad situation in terms of primary and secondary education
 No improvement in existing IITs
 Number of seats in existing IITs
 IITs set up in 2008 many have no buildings
 Increase quantity over quality
 Competition will be easy
 Divide between new and old IIT
 New IITs will be established in the remote areas
 Facilities will be lagging in old IITs

10. Conclusion
 We have an ever increasing population with number of pass
outs increasing every year. In such a scenario, we definitely
need more choice of courses with an increase in the number
of seats per course in every college.
 In these prevailing circumstances, there is no harm in
increasing the number of seats in IITs than number of IITs, we
can manage to maintain the charm and quality of education in
all the existing IITs which can’t be achieved in New IITs easily.
 After increasing in number of seats still be difficult to get into
IITs as we have a good creamy layer hovering here and there
every year to get quality education.
 So on a concluding note I would say that there's absolutely no
requirement of any more IITs in our nation because we don't
want students to qualify IITs with a casual approach and
colleges of that stature demand cut throat competition.

11. REFERENCES
 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/53
382852.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_m
edium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Te
chnology

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