Lok Sabha Question No. 1525 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-05
Subject: Number of NIT
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA, Richard Hay

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. † 1525 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.03.2018

## Number of NIT

## † 1525.  SHRI PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA: PROF. RICHARD HAY:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the number of National Institutes of Technology across the country, State/UT-wise including Gujarat and Kerala;
- (b) the  details  of  the  percentage/ratio  of  male  and  female  seats  in  these institutes at present across the country, State/UT-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  increase  the  percentage/ratio  of female seats in the said institutions and if so, the details thereof, State/UTwise and the reasons therefor;
- (d) whether the Government has issued any guidelines in this regard in any of the institutes across the country during the last one year and the current year and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise along with the response received by the Government thereon; and
- (e) the time by which such measures are likely to be implemented?

## A N S W E R

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. SATYA PAL SINGH)

(a) & (b): At present, thirty one National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are functioning in the country including in Gurajat and Kerala. The details of NITs and also the details of ratio of male and female seats in these Institutes are given in Annexure .

(c) to (e): Yes  Madam.  With  a  view  to  improve  the  gender  balance  in undergraduate  programmes  of  NITs,  the  Government  has  decided  to  increase female  enrolment  from  existing  14%  to  20%  over  a  period  of  2  -  4  years  by creating supernumerary seats. The measures recommended in this regard are as follows:-

- (i) The  number  of  male  students  admitted  will  not  be  reduced,  unless  the overall  performance  of  male  candidates  in  JEE  (Main)  declines  vis-à-vis female candidates.
- (ii) Any female candidate who would have got a seat prior to this scheme will get the same or a more preferred seat with this scheme.
- (iii) Rank-based  merit  shall  be  strictly  followed  within  the  pool  of  male candidates and within the pool of female candidates.
- (iv) Statutory  reservation  for  Scheduled  Castes  (SCs),  Scheduled  Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and for Physically Handicapped (PH) categories will be applicable in the supernumerary seats in the same manner as for the sanctioned seats.
- (v) The  Central  Seat  Allocation  Board  /  Joint  Seat  Allocation  Authority  will work out the Business Rules and detailed procedure for implementing the same.
- (vi) Increase in female enrolment in B.Tech. programmes of NITs at the levels prescribed for IITs i.e. from the current to 14% in 2018-19, 17% in 201920 and 20% in 2020-21 by creating supernumerary seats in NITs.

The above shall be implemented from the academic year 2018 - 2019.

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## ANNEXURE

## ANNEXURE  AS  REFFERED  IN  THE  REPLY  OF  PART  (A)  &  (B)  OF  THE  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.1525  FOR  5 TH   MARCH,  2018  ASKED  BY  SHRI  PARBHUBHAI NAGARBHAI VASAVA AND PROF. RICHARD HAY REGARDING NUMBER OF NIT

| S. No.   | NITs (State-wise/UT-wise)                                                |   Male |   Female |   Total |   Male % |   Female % |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|----------|---------|----------|------------|
| 1        | National Institute of Technology, Agartala, Tripura                      |    644 |      139 |     783 |     82.2 |       17.8 |
| 2        | Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh |    742 |       67 |     809 |     91.7 |        8.3 |
| 3        | Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh    |    781 |      142 |     923 |     84.6 |       15.4 |
| 4        | National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala                        |    741 |      177 |     918 |     80.7 |       19.3 |
| 5        | National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal                  |    562 |       99 |     661 |     85   |       15   |
| 6        | National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh             |    600 |      106 |     706 |     85   |       15   |
| 7        | Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan             |    602 |      103 |     705 |     85.4 |       14.6 |
| 8        | Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab     |    657 |       99 |     756 |     86.9 |       13.1 |
| 9        | National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand                  |    555 |       35 |     590 |     94.1 |        5.9 |
| 10       | National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana                   |    731 |       90 |     821 |     89   |       11   |
| 11       | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharastra        |    618 |      117 |     735 |     84.1 |       15.9 |
| 12       | National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar                           |    498 |       59 |     557 |     89.4 |       10.6 |
| 13       | National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh                   |    759 |      161 |     920 |     82.5 |       17.5 |
| 14       | National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha                       |    704 |      115 |     819 |     86   |       14   |
| 15       | National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam                         |    563 |       58 |     621 |     90.7 |        9.3 |
| 16       | National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir              |    450 |       62 |     512 |     87.9 |       12.1 |
| 17       | Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat      |    709 |      115 |     824 |     86   |       14   |
| 18       | National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Karnataka         |    656 |       77 |     733 |     89.5 |       10.5 |
| 19       | National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu            |    680 |      132 |     812 |     83.7 |       16.3 |
| 20       | National Institute of Technology, Warangal, Telangana                    |    642 |      156 |     798 |     80.5 |       19.5 |
| 21       | National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh                      |    123 |       24 |     147 |     83.7 |       16.3 |
| 22       | National Institute of Technology, Delhi                                  |    149 |       13 |     162 |     92   |        8   |
| 23       | National Institute of Technology, Goa                                    |     76 |        9 |      85 |     89.4 |       10.6 |
| 24       | National Institute of Technology, Manipur                                |    135 |       17 |     152 |     88.8 |       11.2 |
| 25       | National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya                              |    118 |       26 |     144 |     81.9 |       18.1 |
| 26       | National Institute of Technology, Mizoram                                |    104 |       11 |     115 |     90.4 |        9.6 |
| 27       | National Institute of Technology, Nagaland                               |     99 |       20 |     119 |     83.2 |       16.8 |
| 28       | National Institute of Technology, Puducherry                             |    179 |       50 |     229 |     78.2 |       21.8 |
| 29       | National Institute of Technology, Sikkim                                 |    167 |       25 |     192 |     87   |       13   |
| 30       | National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand                            |    242 |       33 |     275 |     88   |       12   |
| 31       | National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh                         |    335 |      103 |     438 |     76.5 |       23.5 |
|          | Total                                                                    |  14621 |     2440 |   17061 |     85.7 |       14.3 |