National Institutes of Technology

National Institutes of Technology (NIT)s are premier schools of engineering and technology education in India. They were originally called as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs). In 2002, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, decided to upgrade, in phases, all 17 Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) as National Institutes of Technology (NITs), on the lines of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

There are currently 17 of them. Their list is as follows :

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• Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur
  
• Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
  
• Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
  
• NIT Trichy
• NIT Jalandhar
• NIT Surathkal
• NIT Calicut
• NIT Durgapur
• NIT Hamirpur
• NIT Kurukshetra
• NIT Warangal
• NIT Jamshedpur
• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology, Surat
• NIT Rourkela
• NIT Silchar
• NIT Srinagar
• NIT Nagpur