The S.K. Joshi
Committee has short-listed the seven institutes as institutions possessing
the best potential among the engineering the technical colleges in the country
for upgradation to the level of IITs. These institutions includes:
1.
Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
2.
University College of Engineering combined with the
University College of Technology, both belonging to Osmania University,
Hyderabad.
3.
Bengal Engineering College, Howrah.
4.
Jadavpur University’s Engineering and Technology Departments
5.
Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh
Muslim University, Aligarh.
6.
Andhra University College of Engineering, Vishakhapatnam
and,
7.
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin.
While shortlisting the above institute, the committee observed
that these institutions fall far below the level of existing IITs in all criteria
used for shortlisting. In the light
of substantial gap between the selected colleges/Institutions and the IITs,
the Committee was of the view that it would not be correct to position these
colleges straight way alongside the IITs.
The Committee,
therefore, suggested that before taking the final decision on their recommendations,
the Ministry of HRD may like to set up a small expert group that would need
to visit the above 7 institutions to assess their suitability and also to
assess, first hand, the problems of transformation of these Institutions to
IIT like Institutes. The group can
then also arrive at the quantum of one time financial support needed for managing
such a transformation of the Institutions in the even the Government decides
to upgrade any of them. The Report
of the Committee is under consideration of the Government.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri M.A.A.
Fatmi, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.
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