Үндістанның Технологиялық Институты - Сильчар

Indian engineering school

National Institute Of Technology Silchar (NIT Silchar or NITS) is one of the 31 NITs of India and was established in 1967 as a Regional Engineering College in Silchar. In 2002, it was upgraded to the status of National Institute of Technology and was declared as Institute of National Importance under the National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007.

The Regional Engineering College at Silchar (Assam) was founded in 1967 as a joint venture between the Government of India and the State Government of Assam to cater to the country's need for manpower in technology. RECs were jointly operated by the central government and the Assam state government. The college was conferred with autonomy in financial and administrative matters. In 2002, the institution was granted Deemed University status and was renamed as the National Institute of Technology, Silchar. In 2007, through the NIT Bill, the Indian government declared the National Institutes of Technology as Institutes of National Importance. NIT Silchar is the Mentor Institute of NIT Nagaland. Prof. Dilip Kumar Baidya currently serves as the Director of the National Institute of Technology, Silchar. Concurrently, the position of Dean of Research & Consultancy is held by Srimanta Baishya.

Each year, the institute hosts a series of esteemed guests from diverse fields for a range of events, including invited lectures, convocation ceremonies, and other special engagements. Notable figures from past events include:

A P J Abdul Kalam, Ramesh Pokhriyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Onir, Anupam Roy, Badal Sircar, Rituparno Ghosh, Ipsita Biswas, Siddhartha Paul Tiwari, Rajat K Baisya, Syed Samsuddin Ahmed.

NIT Silchar offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Engineering, Science and Humanities with 11 departments. The annual intake for the B. Tech. program is more than 632 as of 2015. The institute also offers different post graduation programs in Engineering, Science and Management. The institute also has a Kendriya Vidyalaya school up to Class XII. Now, the Kendriya Vidyalaya has got its own campus inside the institute. The institute has its own kids school near to computer science building.

The institute awards B. Tech. degrees in all six disciplines under the engineering departments. In the four year program of B. Tech, the first year instruction is common across all disciplines, in which students are taught the basic courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Professional communication, Basics of Computer Programming, Basic Engineering Drawing, and Basic Mechanical Workshop.

The institute offers M. Tech. and M. Sc. degrees in various disciplines. The institute also offers MBA degree in Human Resource, Marketing and Finance. Every department offers the Ph. D. program, with the departments of computer science, management studies, humanities and social sciences, chemistry, and physics enrolling approximately 100 Ph. D. students annually.

NIT Silchar was ranked 40th among all engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2023, and is ranked as the 8th best NIT amongst the 31 NITs across the country. The Times Higher Education World University Ranking ranked National Institute of Technology Silchar 600 800 in 2023 rankings.

Students are admitted for the undergraduate courses through the JEE Main conducted by National Testing Agency [NTA], Admission to the M. Tech and PhD courses are primarily based on scores in the GATE exam, conducted by the IITs. Faculty from other institutes work as research scholars under Quality Improvement Program (QIP).

The ABP News National Education Awards has decided to honour NIT Silchar, with the Outstanding Engineering Institute, East India. NIT Silchar has been given the award of best engineering college in eastern India by ASSOCHAM in the National Education Excellence Awards 2014 and 2015.

The institute has received funding in a number of international and domestic research projects with academia and industry in the past few years. Faculty from the institute have received 4 international projects in 2019 under the SPARC program of MHRD with University of Saarland, Germany, Dalhousie University, Canada, Queen's University, Canada and Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom. The institute has also received projects with universities in France and Finland. There are ongoing research projects with SERB, DST, DIT, MNRE, CSIR, BRNS, BARC, UGC, AICTE, MeitY, CPRI, under Govt. of India. The institute has contributed over 4,000 papers to Scopus and has garnered in excess of 30,000 citations from Scopus on a global scale. From 2018 to 2022, the institute received international recognition with over 100 patents. The computer science department accounted for 42 of these patents. These innovations contributed to the institute, generating $39 million in revenue.

The annual technical and management festival of NIT Silchar, Tecnoesis, is held every year in the month of October. Each year, the festival follows a specific theme. It comprises various events like competitions, exhibits, coding rounds, hackathons, robotic events and talks from guest speakers from all over India. The annual cultural fest of Incandescence, is held every year in the month of February. Various artists, singers, celebs are invited from all over the country. It also comprises the Gliterati, the annual fashion show of NITS and ThunderMarch, a metal concert.