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National Institute of Technology• The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) (Hindi: रा�ष्ट्री�य प्रौ�द्योगि�की�

सं�स्था�न), are a group of public engineering institutes of India. On their inception decades ago, all NITs were referred as Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) and were governed by their respective state governments. NITs were founded to promote regional diversity and multi-cultural understanding in India. Comprising thirty autonomous institutes, they are located in one each major state/territory of India. In 2007, through NIT Bill, the Indian government declared these schools as Institute of National Importance.

• NITs offer degree courses at bachelors, masters, and doctorate levels in various branches of engineering and technology. NITs are regarded as the best institutions of engineering next to IITs. NITs function autonomously, similarly to IITs. The autonomy enables the NITs to set up their own curriculum, thereby making it easier to adapt to changing industry requirements.

Governance• The President of India is the ex officio visitor of all

the NITs. The NIT Council works directly under him and includes the minister-in-charge of technical education in Central Government, the Chairmen and the Directors of all the NITs, the Chairman of University Grants Commission (India), the Director General of CSIR, the Directors of other selected central institutions of repute, members of Parliament, Joint Council Secretary of Ministry of Human Resource and Development, nominees of the Central Government, AICTE, and the Visitor.

Alumni• Business/Industry

• R.K. WanchooNIT SrinagarExecutive Director, BHEL, Hyderabad• Umesh KumarNIT SrinagarVice President and MD, Bartec Middle East

FZE , Dubai• Sunil Dutt SharmaNIT SrinagarGeneral Manager, • Flovel Energy Pvt LTD, FaridabadN ChandrasekaranNIT, TrichyChief

Executive Officer, Tata Consultancy Services• Mouli Raman NIT, Allahabad Chief Executive Officer/Founder, OnMobile• C. P. Gurnani NIT, Rourkela Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Satyam• K. V. Kamath NIT, Surathkal CEO of ICICI Bank, Padma Bhushana

Awardee• Nelabhotla Venkateswarlu NIT, AllahabadCEO, Emami Limited• Srini Raju NIT, KurukshetraChairman, Peepul Capital, iLabs VCF, Former

CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions & Satyam Enterprise Solutions• Dinesh Keskar NIT, NagpurSenior VP, Boeing Aircraft Trading and Head

Boeing Indaia.• Pradeep Kar NIT, NagpurFounder of Microland Technologies,and also the

founder of the portal Indya.com• Rao Ramela NIT, WarangalThe first Indian employee of Microsoft.• Sudhir Vasudeva NIT, RaipurChief Managing Director, ONGC

• Public service• Deep JoshiNIT, AllahabadRecipient of Magsaysay award & Padma

Shri, Social Activist, Founder of PRADAN(NGO)• Nitish KumarNIT, PatnaChief Minister of Bihar• Suresh PachouriNIT, BhopalMember of ParliamentCAPT(In) • Dalbir Singh SodhiNIT SrinagarHQ IDS Indian Navy, New Delhi• Dawood Danesh JafariNIT, SrinagarMinister of Finance &

Economic Affairs, Iran• Sharad AdhikaryNIT SrinagarMinistry of Labour &

Employment, Deptt. of Labour, Kathmandu, Govt. of Nepal• Prabhakaran PaleriNIT, CalicutFormer Director General,

Indian Coast Guard• Dr.Thomas AbrahamNIT, JaipurChairman of the Global

Organization of People of Indian Origin, coined the term PIO• Ajit JogiNIT, BhopalFirst Chief Minister of Chattisgarh• Ram Vinay ShahiNIT, JamshedpurLongest serving Power

Secretary of India• Hemant KarkareNIT, NagpurMaharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad

(ATS) chief, killed during the November 2008 Mumbai Terrorist attack.

• Academia/Technology and Research• Rajesh AdhikariNIT SrinagarSenior Research Analyst, Noise

and Vibration, Ford Motor Coy, Dearbon, Michigan, USA• Samir BaruaNIT, Nagpur Director,

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad• A K LahiriNIT, JamshedpurHead, metallurgical Engineering

Indian Institute of Science Bangalore• Chitranjan SahayNIT, JamshedpurChairman,Department of

Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford• Siva S. BandaNIT, WarangalDirector of the Control Science

Center of Excellence and Senior Scientist in Control Theory for the Air Vehicles

• Srinidhi VaradarajanNIT, WarangalCreator of SystemX and currently working at Virginia Tech

• .K. R. SridharNIT, TrichyFormer advisor to NASA on Mars missions and nanotechnology.

• Baldev RajNIT, RaipurIndian scientist and director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam, India.