Question: what govern the  public institutes that  IIT Council is the governing body for ?
Context: The IIT Council is the governing body responsible for all of the Indian Institutes of Technology S. C. Vats (born September 1945) is a veteran Indian politician and an educationist who currently heads the governing body of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, imparting education in the field of Law, Journalism and Information Technology.  He is a former member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly Shakur Basti and won the elections twice in 1998 and 2003 contesting as an Indian National Congress candidate.  In 2015, Dr S C Vats contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and lost to Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Satyendra Kumar Jain by a narrow margin of only 3133 votes from Shakur Basti (Delhi Assembly constituency).  Dr Vats has also been Member of Delhi Metropolitan Council from 1983-1989.  Dr Vats has chaired Governing body of half a dozen of reputed National Institutes with distinction. The Sovereign Council (French: "Conseil Souverain") was a governing body in New France.  It served as both Supreme Court for the colony of New France, as well as a policy-making body, though this latter role diminished over time.  The council, though officially established in 1663 by King Louis XIV of France, was not created whole cloth, but rather evolved from earlier governing bodies.  As early as 1647, a council of three was created by the King.  In 1648, this council was enlarged to include five members.  The Sovereign Council came to be known as the Superior Council ("Conseil Supérieur") as early as June 16, 1703, when Louis XIV issued a royal edict referring to it as the Superior Council instead of its former name, and increasing the number of sitting Councilors from seven to twelve. AFL England is the governing body for Australian Rules Football in England.  It was formed in 2012 out of the old AFL Britain.  The main purpose of forming this new body was to be more effective in governing the game in England as opposed to trying to govern the game nationally in the UK where both Scotland and Wales had their own respective governing bodies. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education, located in India.  They are governed by the "Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 " which has declared them as institutions of national importance alongside National Institutes of Technology and lays down their powers, duties, and framework for governance etc.  The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists twenty-three institutes (after the last amendment in 2016).  Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration.  The Minister of Human Resource Development is the ex-officio Chairperson of IIT Council.  As of 2017, the total number of seats in all IITs is 11,032. The Council of National Institutes of Technology, commonly known as the NIT Council, is the supreme governing body of India's National Institutes of Technology (NIT).  Like the IIT Council, after which it is modeled, the NIT Council consists of chairmen, directors of all NITs along with the government nominees from various sectors with the Minister of HRD as the Chairman of the Council.  The NIT Council is the highest decision making body in the NIT fraternity and is answerable only to the Government of India.  The NIT Council is expected to meet regularly and take steps conducive for maximum growth of the NITs as whole in the near future. The Football Federation of USSR (Russian: Федерация футбола СССР ) was a governing body of football in the Soviet Union and since 1972 the main governing body of football in the country.  The Federation was created late in 1934 by the decision of the "Supreme Council of Physical Culture" of the USSR (Russian: Высший Совет Физической Культуры , VSFK) as its sports section governing specifically football.  It was the only organization that obtained recognition of FIFA in 1946. The rules of water polo are the rules and regulations which cover the play, procedure, equipment and officiating of water polo.  These rules are similar throughout the world, although slight variations to the rules do occur regionally and depending on the governing body.  Governing bodies of water polo include FINA, the international governing organisation for the rules; the NCAA rules, which govern the rules for collegiate matches in the United States; the NFHS rules which govern the rules in high schools in the USA and the IOC rules which govern the rules at Olympic events. A sports governing body is a sports organisation that has a regulatory or sanctioning function.  Sports governing bodies come in various forms, and have a variety of regulatory functions.  Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport that they govern.  Governing bodies have different scopes.  They may cover a range of sport at an International level, such as the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, such as the Rugby Football League.  National bodies may or may not be affiliated to international bodies for the same sport.  The first international federations were formed at the end of the 19th century. The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are autonomous public institutes of higher education, located in India.  They are governed by the "National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007", which declared them as institutions of national importance alongside Indian Institutes of Technology.  These institutes of national importance receive special recognition from the Government of India.  The NIT Council is the supreme governing body of India's National Institutes of Technology (NIT) system and all 31 NITs are funded by the Government of India.  These institutes are among the top ranked engineering colleges in India and have one of the lowest acceptance rates for engineering institutes, of around 2 to 3 percent, second only to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in India.  All NITs are autonomous which enables them to set up their own curriculum.  The language of instruction is English at all these institutes.
Answer: "Institutes of Technology Act, 1961