AN OVERALL PICTURE OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA

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1 AN OVERALL PICTURE OF ENGINEERING INSTITUTIONS IN INDIA Soon after the down of independence, India launched a massive programme of development. Many large projects were undertaken to meet the needs for irrigation, power, and flood control and to establish a basic industrial base for steel, machine tools, fertilizers, transportation, drugs and pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, power equipment etc. The country hardly had any industrial base or the infrastructure for the task of national building. A policy of planned development adopted. However, one of the major problems faced by the country during the early year of planning was the acute shortage of trained technical manpower. To meet the challenges, an ambitious programme of expansion of engineering education was undertaken to overcome the situation. India completed more than six decades after independence; during these years, the country has had eleven five year plans of development. The technology capacity of the nation, a key determinant of the pace, quality and quantum of economic and social growth has increased manifold. This has been possible on account of the corresponding quantitative and qualitative expansion of technical education 1. Engineering education is a basic and essential input for national development and strengthening of the industry, economy and ultimately improving the quality of life of the people. It has made a significant contribution to India s economic development. The programmes which have advanced the country and diversified and augmented production since independence are largely because of the manpower produced by engineering institutions of the country.

2 17 In India, initially engineering education was based on the British model and emphasized the importance of engineering professional practice. After independence it has been constantly influenced by American education system in its contents 2. The 20 th century witnessed tremendous progress and incredible developments took place in the field of engineering education. Technical education system is to produce trained manpower in adequate number for the economic and technological development of the country and to run its industries. It plays an important role for the economic and industrial growth, national developments and international competitiveness. It imparts technical knowledge, study, and research and facilitates technological transfer. In India engineering education at degree level is provided basically by five categories of institutions 3 : Institute of National importance (IITs) Technical Universities Regional engineering collages/national Institute of Technology(NITs) Engineering Department/ collages in traditional Universities State level government/private engineering collages Technical education in India contributes a major share to the over all education system and play a vital role in the social and economic development of our nation. In India, Technical education is imparted at various levels such as: craftsmanship, diploma, degree, post graduate and research in specified fields to various aspects of technological development and economic progress. The beginning of formal technical education in India can be dated back to the mid 19 th century. The major policy initiatives in the pre- independence period includes appointment of the Indian Universities commission in 1902, issue the Indian Education policy resolution in 1904 and Governor General s policy statement of 1913 stressing the importance of technical education. The

3 18 establishment of IISc., Bangalore, Institute of Sugar, Textile and Leather Technology in Kanpur, NCE in Bengal in 1905 and industrial schools in several provinces and significant development includes: Constitution of technical education committee of the central advisory board of Education(CABA) in 1943 Preparation of sergeant report of 1944 Formation of All India council for Technical education (AICTE) in 1945 by the Government of India. All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE): The All India Council Technical Education (AICTE) was setup in November, 1945 as an apex organization, charged with the responsibility or planning and coordinated the development of technical education in India. An to insure the same as stipulated in the national policy of education(1986), AICTE be vested with statutory authority for planning, formulation and maintenance of norms and standards, quality assurance through accreditation, funding in priority areas, monitoring and evaluation, maintaining parity of certification and awards and ensuring coordinated and integrated development and management of technical education in country. 4 The Government of India (Ministry of HRD) also constituted a national working group to look into the role of AICTE in the context of proliferation of technical institutions, maintenance of standards and other related matters. The working group recommended that AICTE be vested with necessary statutory authority for making it more effective which would consequently require restricting and strengthening with necessary infrastructure and operating mechanisms.

4 19 The AICTE is responsible for the accreditation of all engineering institutions and it monitors the growth of technical education in relation to planed quantitative growth and proper maintenance of norms and standards. The National Board of Accreditation of AICTE aim to bring standards of some of the programmes offered in technical institutions on par with programmes offered in the institutions in the USA and Europe by introducing a quality auditing system and establishing a datum for measuring the quality and excellence in engineering education. The accreditation exercise is very rigorous has several inputs such as quality of teaching, level of research, faculty expertise evaluation of teachers and standard of infrastructure and resources available at the institutions. There are seven statutory regional committees across the country for assisting the council in planning and development of technical education, monitoring and periodic evaluation of approved institutions of the region. 5, 6 Development of Engineering Education in India: The history of technical education in India can be traced to epic period (1000BC) and Vedic period (prior to 500 BC) when the numerous technical skills such as carpeting, smithy, foundry and weaving were part of education. Later during medieval India the vocational skill reached great heights as it is evident from the findings of the archaeological remains of the period 7, 8. The high quality of article such as cotton and silk fabrics, embroidery painted and enameled wares, gold & silver jewelry, swords and knives potters metal utensils could not have been achieved and sustained for such a long period without a dependable system foe technical education. Thus, the development of engineering education in India may be divided into two major group- Pre independence and Post independence. Status of Engineering Education Pre-Independence: The first move in India to train surveyors in a formal manner was made by Michael Topping in May 1774 at the Fort George in Madras with eight students.

5 20 This school was later to grow into the engineering college, Guindy. The school was training only English boys and the government was at first definitely against the teaching surveying of any kind to young native Indians because of the military and political implications of such survey work. As a precaution, against the reliable maps falling into the hand of the French, the Dutch and other rival power operating in India at that time, the court of directors of the East India Company insisted on the secrecy of maps and restricted the art and science of surveying of 9, 10 and 11 English boys. In 1817, the Hindu College was founded by a spontaneous impulse of some Indians, in which the medium of instructions was English and in 1855, this college was incorporated in the Presidency College. In , the government sanctioned professorship of civil engineering at the Hindu College but suitable candidate was not found. The council of Education turned to the institution of civil engineers, London, for help in obtaining a suitable person but with no better result. Finally, a Cambridge gentleman teaching in Hindu College was designated as professor of civil engineering. However he could not make any contribution to the teaching of the subject. An engineering class to train surveyors and builders was started at Elphinston Institution, Bombay in June It had a very short life and was closed by the end of 1847 because it failed to attract students of sufficient merit to quality as scientific civil engineers fully grounded in the theory of their 12, 13 art suitable to be employed as civil engineers. A school started functioning in January 1845 at Saharanpur with few bright students from Delhi and Agra collages. However it was closed after two years. Saharanpur school had very short life but was significant in many ways. It was the speed from which the Roorkee College grew. It specifically aimed to train in civil engineering, those boys had already some education in science and mathematics at one of the recently setup collage at Delhi and Agra but the most remarkable feature of the school was the instructions was to be based not only scientific ideas

6 21 brought from the west but also on the indigenous know how possessed by the Indians. 13, 14 Lt. Governor James Thomason submitted a memorandum to supreme government with detail proposal of setting up a college to train Indians as civil engineers on September 23, The proposal was accepted by the governor general Lord Hardinge and a notification of the government of North West Provinces (NWP) was issued on Nov. 25, 1847 to establish a civil engineering college at Roorkee. The collage started the functioning on January 1848 under the principal ship of Lt. R. Maclagan with four other teachers. The college offered course at three levels: the first department with a two years course of engineers; the second department with a one year course for upper subordinate (overseer); and the third department with one year course (later raised to two years) for lower subordinates (sub overseers & drought men). The medium of instructions of first two departments was English, in third one it was Urdu and after some years, Hindi also. The Roorkee College was named as Thomos College of Civil Engineering in 1854, in honors of it founder. The Thomson College of Civil Engineering was affiliated to Calcutta University in 1864 and to Allahbad University in 1894, but this affiliation remained only notional, as no student were took diploma from these universities. The affiliation with Allahabad University ended in The college financially and administratively was governed by the NWP government and enjoyed complete autonomy in academic matter. 15 In 1859, introduced a civil engineering college in Madras, but it founded on a very modest scale for the first few years, as government gave no grants in addition to what were already being given to the survey school. The college was patterned on the Roorkee system with slight variations in nomenclature: The senior department to train engineers with students drawn from commissioned officers of the army, the first department to produce overseers from among the noncommissioned officers of the army, as well as civilians and a special drawing

7 22 class to produce draughts men and estimators. The college was affiliated to the University of Madras and the first batch of candidates received the Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE) during in In 1880, Director of Public Instructions (DPI) Madras suggested that mechanical engineering should be introduced at the Madras collage of civil engineering should introduce at the Madras College of Civil Engineering. In 1886, the collage underwent further reorganization and the word civil was dropped from the name. The Madras University instituted a separate degree course in mechanical engineering in 1894, changing the name from BCE to Bachelor of Engineering (BE) and his was first institute in India to offer a degree course in mechanical engineering. In 1854, the council of education, Bengal submitted a proposal for the establishment of a separate engineering department in a proposed presidency college. In November 1856, the civil engineering college Calcutta started functioning with ten students. The duration of course was two years and admission was based on an entrance examination. With the establishment of Calcutta University in 1857, the college was affiliated to it and the course rose with three years with one of the practical training at the end of which successful candidate got the degree in Licentiate in civil engineering (LCE) from the university. In 1865 after the approval from secretary of state the engineering college was closed and instead a department of civil engineering at the presidency collage was opened but in 1880, engineering college was given back its separate identity as a college by transferring it to a building of the old Bishop s College at Sibpur in the Howrah with civil and mechanical engineering course. In May 1887, it was rechristened as civil engineering college, Sibpur. Finally in 1920 it was given its present name- Bengal Engineering College, Sibpur with the view to providing qualified managers and assistant to mines. The Bengal government, on the recommendations of a committee, decided to establish mining department at the

8 23 college in 1906 and there were abolished in 1926 after the establishment of the Dhanbad School of Mines. 16, 17 On the basis of a project submitted by the Bombay government, the Supreme Government approved to establish a college for instruction of civil engineers, surveyors, overseers etc. The project beyond starting an engineering college and mechanical school at Poona. Consequently the school was converted into the Poona Civil Engineering Collage in 1864 and affiliated to the University of Bombay. The scope of instruction at the college was extended in 1879 to include forestry and agriculture to trained forest rangers but in 1904, the forest rangers courses was closed and in 1911,all other non engineering courses were also abolished and it back its original name- Poona College of Engineering. 18 The Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute founded in 1887 proudly claims that the impulses, which led to the formation the Indian National Congress, were also responsible for the origin of the institute. The institute aimed to provide systematic courses in those science subjects which had direct bearing on the industrial occupations existing in and around Bombay at the time. The licentiate courses in electrical engineering and technical chemistry were added in 1903 and 1906 respectively. 19 The Princely state of Baroda established the Kala Bhawan Technical Institute at Baroda in The Institute started with mechanical & chemical technology, architecture and civil works. Copper s Hill College was established in at a site called Copper s Hill after which the college was popularly known through out its short life. It was officially known as the Royal Indian Engineering College in 1875 and was closed down in On March 11, 1904 the Governor General Lord Curzon announced the Indian education policy 21 which advocated a speedy growth of technical education

9 24 in India on the basis of a new approach. The importance of the technical education was further stressed in 1913 by the Governor General through a policy statement 22. In the beginning of the twentieth century i.e. in 1905 another engineering college was established at Jadhavpur which started a diploma courses in mechanical and civil engineering in The Indian Institute of Science, Bangolor was established in 1911 and started a degree level course in general and applied chemistry. 24 The standard of work and scholarship setup during in it early days and stand today as leading postgraduate institution in the country for advanced instruction and research in many branches of science and technology. The establishment of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1916 gave a birth of engineering college in 1919 with two departments Electrical and Mechanical in the campus at three levels: degree and diploma level in engineering and an artisan level. The department of mining and metallurgy were added in the college of engineering in the same year. Four year letter (1923), these departments was given separate identity in department of engineering college. In 1944, its status was further raised to become the college of mining and metallurgy. During the period of 1919 to 1944, a lot of degree and diploma courses like industrial chemistry (1919), ceramic technology (1924), diploma in soap manufacturing (1932), etc. were started. Thus the BHU can proudly claim to have given the greatest impetus to technical education in India during this period 25, 26. In 1920, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute was established at Kanpur (UP) with the primary objective of institute being chemical research for the development of industries. The HBTI had the credit of producing a large number of chemical technologists who manned a large part of chemical industry in all over the country and it initiated many courses in various areas of chemical technology like oil, soaps, paints, ceramics etc. 27, 13

10 25 Indian School of Mines (IMS), Dhanbad was established in (while school was formally opened by the Viceroy, Lord Irwin on 1st Dec. 1926) with six departments: Mining, Geology, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics. In 1924, The Bihar Engineering School was raised to the status of civil engineering college, affiliated to Patna University. The degree course in electrical engineering was started in 1945 while mechanical engineering had to wait till Calcutta University made it direct contribution to advanced level technical education by starting postgraduate courses and creating facilities in research in applied chemistry and (1920) applied physics (925) and its made great reputation for itself in scientific research. 28 While the department of chemical technology of Bombay University, established in 1934 was also achieved a prominent position among the higher institutions of chemical technology in he country. 29 Aligharh Muslim University (AMU) established his engineering college in 1935 with diploma courses in civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. 25 While JDV Collage of Science and Technology was started by the Andhra University at Waltair in 1933 with three years degree course in physics and applied chemistry (i.e. food, drugs, sugar technology, pharmaceuticals and chemical engineering). In 1927, Radha Swami Satsang Sabha of Dayalbagh, Agra founded a technical school to produce mechanics, technicians & engineers. 28 By 1930 it developed into a college imparting training in mechanical, electrical and automobile engineering. 30 The Bombay government opened two schools in 1939 for leather training in Bandra- the government training Institute and the Government leather working school. The modern education society of Poona established Sir Cusrow Wadia Institute of Electrical Technology in 1938 with three years diploma course in electrical technology and certificate course in radio servicing. 28

11 26 Delhi polytechnic was started at Delhi in At that time it was the only institution of its kind in India designed to provide full time as well as part time courses in technical commercial and art subject both for junior and senior students. 31 The Laxmi Narayan Institute of Technology was founded in Nagpur in 1943 as a sequel to the will of Rao B.D. Laxmi Narayan according to which the annual income of his state was bequeathed to the Nagpur University for the purpose. The Institute started with two year BSc (Technology) degree course in chemical engineering and oil technology. 13 AFTER INDEPENDENCE: After independence various educational commissions and committees were made to recommend highly practical and research oriented recommendations and development plans for technical education in the country. In 1945, Sarkar committee was appointed by the AICTE under the chairmanship of Mr. N.R. Sarkar. This committee was recommended the establishment of higher technical education institutes known as IITs in order to meet post war needs of engineers of higher level 32. These institutes aimed at providing excellence in science and engineering education. The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was established on May 15, 1950 and was then called Eastern Higher Technical Institute. The present name Indian Institute of Technology was adopted just before its formal inauguration on August 18, A chain of six more IITs were established in different part of the country (as Table.1) (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, &39) and these were declared as Institute of National Importance by an act of parliament (1961, amended in 1963).

12 Figure 2.1 : Location of IIT s in India 27

13 28 Table 2.1: Establishment of IITs in India Sl. No. Institute Name Place Year of Establishment 1. IIT Kharagpur IIT Bambay IIT Madras IIT Kanpur IIT Delhi IIT Gowahati IIT Roorkee 2002 The Sarkar Committee recommended one thousand seats of postgraduate (PG) as against 2400 undergraduate students in IITs. Over the years all IITs have introduced very large number of PG and M Tech. programs to utilize the core professionals of the faculties concerned. Recognizing the importance of such engineering field as Biotechnology, IITs Delhi and Kharagpur have established independent department which run integrated M Tech programs in this field. Further the need for integration of science, engineering, technology and management has been recognized and setting up a School of Management at IIT Karagpur. Similar schools have been setup in other IITs also. In the year 2008, Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD) announced to open eight new IITs under XI five year plan in different states of India and upgraded IT BHU as IIT to fulfill the demand of technical men power of the country 38. Thus, the total no.of IITs will be increased up to sixteen. Out of these six IITs, are functional and have admitted the students for session (Table.2) with 120 seats in each 40, 41.

14 29 Table 2.2: List of IITs established under XI five year plan. Sl. No. Institute Name Place 1. IIT, Bihar Patna 2. IIT, Rajsthan Kota 3. IIT, Andhra Pradesh Hydrabad 4. IIT, Panjab Ropar 5. IIT, Orissa Bhunaneshwar 6. IIT,Gujarat Gandhinagar 7. IIT, Himanchal Pradesh Mandi 8. IIT, Madhya Pradesh Indore 9. IIT, BHU Varanasi It was the dream of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the 1st Prime Minister of India to see the India as a leader in Science and Technology 42. In 1955, Planning Commission appointed an Engineering Planning Committee (EPC), to undertake an overall assessment of the demand and supply position in respect of engineering personnel because a large number of industrial projects were completed in 2 nd five year plan ( ). To fulfill the above said demand of technical manpower, the Government of India started seventeen Regional Engineering Collages (RECs) (Table No.3) in different parts of the country 43.

15 30 Table 2.3: Growth of the regional engineering colleges Sl. No. RECs Year of Land in acres Intake at UG establishment level 1. Warangal Suratkal Nagpur Bhopal Durgapur Jamshedpur Srinagar Allahabad Suratkal Calicut Rourkela Jaipur Kurukshtra Tiruchirappali Silture Jalandhar Hamirpur The REC system served well initially but as time passed, some state government did not shoulder proper responsibility to steer the Institutes in the right direction. Following the long standing demand for more IITs, the MHRD decided to upgrade all RECs to National Institute of Technology (NITs) in 2002 with three new NITs (Table No. 4). The Government of India introduced the National Institute of Technology Act 2007 to bring twenty such institutions within the ambit of the act and to provide them with complete autonomy in their functioning. The individual NITs after the introduction of NITs Act have been

16 31 functioning as autonomous Technical Universities and hence they can draft their own curriculum and functioning policies. 42 Table 2.4: List of NITs Sl. No. NITs Place 1. National Institute of Technology Warangal 2. S V National Institute of Technology Surat 3. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur 4. Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal 5. National Institute of Technology Durgapur 6. National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur 7. National Institute of Technology Srinagar 8. Motilal Neharu National Institute of Technology Allahabad 9. National Institute of Technology Surathkal 10. National Institute of Technology Calicut 11. National Institute of Technology Rourkela 12. Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur 13. National Institute of Technology Kurukshtra 14. National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappali 15. National Institute of Technology Agarthala 16. National Institute of Technology Raipur 17. National Institute of Technology Silcur 18. Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar 19. National Institute of Technology Hamirpur 20. National Institute of Technology Patna

17 Figure 2.2 : Location of NIT s in India 32

18 33 By the end of 5 th plan ( ), there was again considerable pressure for expansion of engineering institutions to fulfill the demand of technical manpower for sustainable development of the country but governments were finding it difficult to make functional resources for the same. To handle this situation some state government, especially Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh took a bold decision to permit private registered societies and trusts to establish and run engineering institutions on a self finance basic and all these Institutes were affiliated with the universities of the region or to the State Board of Technical Education. This type of private engineering institutions came in very large number but there was no effective mechanism to control their functioning nor was any systematic admission process. The above situation continued even all institute were brought under the AICTE control and latter the Supreme Court in its historical judgment defined the norms for admission and fee structure for all self- financing engineering institutions. After come out of some set norms from AICTE and Supreme Court decision, large number of engineering institutions in different parts of the country were established (Table No- 5) 44 and tried to satisfy the demand of technical manpower. Presently, private engineering colleges running engineering courses both at degree and PG level are very large scale and due to that engineering institutions spread in all regions and state of the country.

19 34 Table 2.5: Region/state wise distribution of engineering institutions in India till 2004 (Data from AICTE website) Region State/Union Territory ENGINEERING NOI Intake Central 1. Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh Gujarat Total -----> Eastern 1. Mizoram Sikkim West Bengal Tripura Meghalaya Arunachal Pradesh Andaman&Nicobar Assam Manipur Nagaland Orissa Jharkhand Total -----> North 1. Bihar Uttar Pradesh Uttranchal Total North-West 1. Chandigarh Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu& Kashmir New Delhi Punjab Rajasthan Total -----> South 1. Andhra Pradesh Pondicherry Tamil Nadu Total -----> South-West 1. Karnataka Kerala Total -----> West 1. Maharashtra Goa Daman & D,Dadar,N.H. - - Total -----> Grand Total

20 35 With the time spent, both Government and private engineering institutes doing well and continue to improve them shelf to get better status and become one of the best institute of the nation through their quality of education and quantitative research output, campus placements, infrastructure, academic environment, industry interface and by producing quality technical manpower for sustainable development of the country. Table 2.6: Top hundred institutions of India ranked by outlook magazine in 2007 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute 1. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Kanpur 24. IIIT Hyderabad 2. Indian Institute of Technology IIT 25. Harcourt Butler Technological Institute Kharagpur Kanpur 3. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Bombay 26. Malviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur 4. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras 27. VNIT Nagpur 5. Indian Institute of Technology IIT Delhi 28. NIT- National Institute of Technology Kozhikode 6. BITS Pilani 29. Dhirubhai Ambani IICT Gandhinagar 7. IIT Roorkee 30. Osmania University College of Engineering Hyderabad 8. IT-BHU Varanasi 31. College of Engineering, Andhra University Vishakhapatnam 9. IIT-Guwahati 32. Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology New Delhi 10. College of Engineering, Anna University Guindy 33. NIT- National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra 11. Jadavpur University, Faculty of 34. NIT- National Institute of Technology Engineering & Technology Calcutta Rourkela 12. Indian School of Mines Dhanbad 35. SVNIT Surat 13. NIT- National Institute of Technology Warangal 36. Government College of Engineering Pune 14. BIT, Mesra Ranchi 37. Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal 15. NIT- National Institute of Technology 38. JNTU Hyderabad Trichy 16. Delhi College of Engineering New Delhi 39. R.V. College of Engineering Bangalore 17. Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh 40.. NIT- National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur 18. NIT- National Institute of Technology Suratkal 41. University Visvesvaraya College of Engg. Bangalore 19. Motilal Nehru National Institute of 42. VJTI Mumbai Technology Allahabad 20. Thapar Institute of Engineering & 43. Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore Technology Patiala 21. Bengal Eng and Science University, 44. Coimbatore Institute of Technology Shibpur Howrah Coimbatore 22. MANIT Bhopal 45. SSN College of Engineering Chennai 23. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore 46. IIIT Allahabad Contd.

21 36 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute 47. College of Engineering Trivandrum 74. NIT- National Institute of Technology Jalandhar 48. NIT Durgapur Durgapur 75. SV University Engineering College Tirupati 49. SIT Calcutta 76. NIT- National Institute of Technology Raipur 50. Mumbai University Institute of Chemical Tech Mumbai 77. Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad 51. Sardar Patel College of Engineering 78. The ICFAI Institute of Science and Mumbai Technology Hyderabad 52. P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Banglore 79. NIT- National Institute of Technology Patna 53. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune 80. Cummins Colleges of Engg of Women Pune 54. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science 81. VIT Pune Coimbatore 55. National Institute of Engineering Mysore 82. Shri Ramdeo Baba K.N. Engineering College Nagpur 56. B.M.S. College of Engineering Bangalore 83. Muffakham Jah Engineering College Hyderabad 57. Laxminarayan Institute Of Technology 84. Karunya Institute of Technology Nagpur Coimbatore 58. Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad 85. D.J. Sanghvi Mumbai 59. IIIT Pune 86. Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai 60. Amity School of Engineering Noida 87. Kongu Engineering College Erode 61. JNTU Kakinada 88. Mepco Schlek Engineering College Sivakasi 62. S.J. College of Engineering Mysore 89. Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana 63. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology 90. Hindustan Institute of Engineering Hyderabad Technology Chennai 64. IIIT Bangalore 91. SDM College of Engineering Dharwad 65.. SRM Institute of Science and Technology 92. R.V.R. & J.C. College Of Engg Guntur Chennai 66. SASTRA Thanjavur 93. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi New Delhi 67.. Bangalore Institute of Technology 94. K.L. College of Engineering Veddeswaram Bangalore 68. The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences Bhiwani 95. Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology Nadiad 69. III Gwalior 96. S.G.S. Institute of Technology & Science Indore 70. JNTU Anantpur 97. Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur 71. M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology 98. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Bangalore Engineering Trivandrum 72. Gitam Vishakhapatnam 99. G.H. Patel College of Engg & Technology Vallabh Vidyanagar 73. NIT- National Institute of Technology Hamirpur 100. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneshwar Table 3.6 lists the top hundred engineering institute of India ranked by Out Look Magazine in 2007 on the basis of their intellectual capital (IC), infrastructure

22 37 & facilities (I&F), pedagogic systems (PS), industry interface (II), placements (P) and total performance (T). As per the survey report IIT Kanpur occupy 1 st position and followed by Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras and Delhi. BITS Pilani was ranked 6 th and IIT Roorkee was at 7 th position. The recently upgraded IT BHU, Varanasi as IIT has occupied 8 th rank where as IIT Guwahati rank was 9 th. 45 Table 2.7: Top fifty private engineering institutions of India ranked by outlook magazine in 2007 Rank Name of Institute Rank Name of Institute 1. BITS Pilani 26. Amrita Institute of Technology & Science Coimbatore 2. BIT Mesra Ranchi 27. Shri Ramdeo Baba KN Engineering College Nagpur 3. PSG College of Technology Coimbatore 28. Karunya Institute of Technology Coimbatore 4. Thapar Inst. of Engineering &Technology 29. Kongu Engineering College,Perundurai Erode Patiala 5. Dhirubhai Ambani Inst. of Infocom.Tech Gandhinagar 30. Sreenidhi Inst. of Science &Technology Hyderabad 6. Manipal Institute of Technology Manipal 31. SDM College of Engineering Dharwad 7. Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore 32. Mufkham Jah Engineering College Hyderabad 8. VJTI Mumbai 33. Mufkham Jah Engineering College Hyderabad 9. SSN College of Engineering Chennai 34. Vasavi College of Engineering Hyderabad 10. RV College of Engineering Bangalore 35. Jaypee University of Information Tech Solan 11. PES Institute of Technology Bangalore 36. RVR & JC College Of Engineering Guntur 12. Sardar Patel College of Engineering Mumbai 37. Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Bhubaneshwar 13. Maharashtra Institute of Technology Pune 38. KL College of Engineering Vaddeswaram 14. SJ College of Engineering Mysore 39. Babu Banarasi Das Lucknow 15. SASTRA University Thanjavur 40. Institute of Technology & Management Gurgaon 16. Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology Hyderabad 41. Hindustan Inst. of Engineering Technology Chennai 17. Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad 42. Siddhartha Engineering College Vijayawada 18. BMS College of Engineering Bangalore 43. Sona College of Technology Salem 19. SRM Institute of Science and Technology 44. Galgotia Noida Chennai 20. Bangalore Institute of Technology Bangalore 45. VIT Pune 21. Sathyabhama Engineering College Chennai 46. Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engg Nagpur 22. Gitam Vishakhapatnam 47. Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram 23. National Institute of Engineering Mysore 48. Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science Warangal 24. The ICFAI Inst. of Science and Technology Hyderabad 25. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College Sivakasi 50. JSS Academy of Technical Education Bangalore 49. KLE Society s College of Engineering Belgaum

23 38 Table 3.7 lists the top fifty private engineering institute of India based on a survey report of Look Magazine in 2007 on the basis of their intellectual capital (IC), infrastructure & facilities (I&F), pedagogic systems (PS), industry interface (II), placements (P) and total performance (T). As per the survey BITS Pilani has occupied 1 st rank and followed by the BIT Ranchi, PSG College of Technology Coimbatore, Thapar Institute of Technology, Patiala and Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Infocom. Tech Gandhinagar. 46.

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