The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was introduced by Minister of Human Resource Development, Mr Prakash Javadekar in Lok Sabha on December 9, 2016, and was passed by Lok Sabha on March 28, 2017.
The preamble of the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Act, 2017 reads as An Act further to amend the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007.
The principal objective of the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (Amendment) Act, 2017 Consequent upon the bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh to include the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati and IISER, Berhampur in the Second Schedule of National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (NITSER) Act, 2007.
The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education, and Research Act, 2007 was enacted by the Parliament to declare India's National Institute of Technology (NITs) as the institute of national importance. The Act received the assent of the President of India on June 5, 2007, and commenced on August 15, 2007. The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education, and Research Act is the second law for technical and education institutions after the Indian Institute of Technology Act of 1961. NITs are centrally funded technical institutes in India with the campus in each India state.
The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education, and Research Act, 2007 declares certain institutes of National importance along the lines of Indian institute of technology (IITs). It makes them eligible for a larger amount of funding and support from the India government. The Act also aims to provide for instructions and Research in branches of engineering, technology, management, education, sciences, and arts and the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge in such branches and certain other matters connected with such institutions.
Initially, these institutes were governed by twenty societies registered under the societies registration Act 1860 of Institutes of Technology spread across the country.
In the year 2012 the first amendment of the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007 happened that incorporated ten more National Institutes of Technology in the First Schedule and inserted a Second Schedule incorporating therein five new Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research.
In the year 2014, the Act was amended for the second time incorporating the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in the Third Schedule to the Act.
National Institutes of Technology, Science Education, and Research (Amendment) Act, 2017 be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India.
In the Second Schedule to the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007, after serial number 5 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial numbers and entries shall be inserted, namely:—
“6 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati Society. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati.
7 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur Society. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur.’’
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) aims to provide equitable access to quality education in the country, to bring out professional from our country, improve the quality of higher education in the country so that it encourages other engineering and technical institute as a result of which education standard may rise. This also ensures poor and common people to get the opportunity to have quality education in these centres excellences.
Fortunately, with the addition of two more NITs by The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education, and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2017, the government may get closer to achieve these goals.
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