Press Trust of India / New Delhi Feb 20, 2009, 14:17 IST
The process of upgrading Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU) to a full fledged IIT has gathered momentum after the HRD Ministry prepared a detailed proposal on the issue.
The Ministry of HRD has prepared a detailed proposal for approval of Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC) for converting IT-BHU into an IIT.
"The EFC note is ready. After EFC clearance, it will be sent to Cabinet for approval," a senior ministry official told PTI here.
About 500 alumni, students and teachers of the institute recently came to Delhi and launched a campaign in support of their demand. The students and teachers met HRD Minister Arjun Singh, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and about 120 MPs and apprised them about their demand.
They were assured that their demand would be fulfilled very soon, Puneet Bindish, an alumni, said.
The government has started six new IITs in the current session, while it will start two others in 2009-10 session. IT-BHU will be an addition to the list if it is given the IIT status.
IIT status for IT-BHU has been long standing demand of the institute. Earlier, S K Joshi committee in 2003 had recommended that seven technical institutions, including IT-BHU and Zakir Hussain College under AMU, should be upgraded to IITs.
The government has been mulling over the proposal for long, but no decision was taken yet.
Meanwhile, students from Zakir Hussain College under Aligarh Muslim University have demanded IIT status for their institute. They are of the view that it is a premier college and has played a pioneering role in promoting technical education in the country.
zakir hussain college...!!! where in the hell is that. It will be a complete disastorous decision to give iit status to such a small college it will only lower iit standards . And tell me how good is to make new iits when we have such good college like it-bhu which still awaits iit status
AMU is doing very good wo iit status.Admission of muslim students will become very difficult if its given iit status.AMU is built for educational upliftment of muslim community of india.Its better serving its goal in present condition.
IIT BHU should get an IIT status immediately withot any further delay.it deserves an IIT status.Lot of intelligent students do not opt for BHU,as it lacks an IIT status.Cabinate should pass the resolution immediately.
IT-BHU deserves an IIT status due to it's students which r IIT-JEE qualified & also it has a gr888 technical & scientific background which world knows from very early time.IT-BHU ranks 8th in India after IIT's!!!
AMU is not of that type, its ranking is not even in top 20's.
Posted by: Ayaz
November 22 , 2010, 19:13 IST
we never give our inst.to iit
as tihi is the identity of muslims enginners
Posted by: ved
February 28 , 2009, 14:46 IST
Can anybody tell me what is the current status ?
Posted by: Prakash
February 25 , 2009, 11:02 IST
Aditya, AMU's ranking is nit even in the top 1,000, let alone top 20! Look at their arrogance! Asking to be given IIT status indeed
AMU must not get the IIT status only because it is a minority college....it can't even stand before the IT-BHU status. While IT-BHU has best teacher student ratio and IIT-JEE qualified students, AMU lacks both.It will be the MUSLIM APEASEMENT policy of Congress only to deny the IIT status to IT-BHU OR grant AMU the same.
I appreciate that too. But what on earth is Aligarh Muslim University up to? How can they possibly demand IIT status for Zakir Hussain College when it is not even in the top 200 engineering colleges in the country?
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