Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology (abbreviated as IIEST) was a planned group of academic institutions in India for research and education in engineering, originally proposed by the Government of India in 2007[1] to meet the increasing demand for technological and scientific workforce in the industrial and service sectors of India as well as the growing need for qualified personnel in research and development.

List of institutes

List of Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology
NameOriginal instituteYear of upgrade to IIESTStateWebsite
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology ShibpurBengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur2014West Bengal

The other institute in the original Anandakrishnan Committee recommendation, that is, Benaras Hindu University Institute of Technology, was upgraded to be part of the Indian Institutes of Technology in 2012. Indian Institutes of Technology are tasked as mentors for conversion of the above-mentioned institutes to IIEST. The conversion process of BESU to IIEST is mentored by IIT Kanpur.[2]

Conversion of BE College to IIEST

The first institute to be upgraded to IIEST was Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (BESU), which was a university under the Government of West Bengal prior to the upgrade process. It took some years for the Government of India to finally decide to go ahead with the process recommended by the Anandakrishnan Committee for upgrading the selected group of state universities to the nation level under the IIEST banner. It was thus in October 2010, that the Union Cabinet of Ministers of the Government of India formally approved the process of conversion of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur to Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, by suitably amending the National Institutes of Technology and Science Education and Research Act, 2007.[3] Accordingly, the amendment bill was tabled in the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the Parliament of India in March 2013 and subsequently passed by it in December 2013. Following this, the bill was also passed in the upper house (Rajya Sabha) in February 2014.[4] The bill received the presidential assent by President of India Pranab Mukherjee on 4 March 2014, thereby legalizing the upgrade process.[5] —In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of Section 1 of the NITSER(Amendment) Act, 2014, the Central Government appointed the 4th day of March, 2014 (i.e. date of receiving assent of the President) as the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall come into force. That is BESU has become the first IIEST of the country with effect from 4 March 2014. The conversion process of BESU to IIEST shall be mentored by IIT Kanpur.[2]

IIEST was inaugurated by President of India, Pranab Mukherjee on 24 August 2014.[6][7]


Governance and organization

As the first IIEST (IIEST Shibpur) starts to function from the academic year 2014–15, the governance model and organizational structure will become clear subsequently and is currently in the stage of being formulated (as of March 2014).

Rajya Sabha Member V. Vijaya Sai Reddy urged the Union government to upgrade the AU College of Engineering (AUCE) as the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, as per the recommendations of the Anandakrishnan Committee. But, unfortunately, the report was not implemented, even after 14 years after it was submitted by the committee.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "IIEST press release" (PDF). Pib.nic.in. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Pranab nod to Besu upgrade". The Telegraph. India. Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Press Information Bureau". Pib.nic.in. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Passage of NITSER (Amendment) Bill 2013". Prsindia.org. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  5. ↑ "THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2014 (NO. 9 OF 2014)" (PDF). Egazette.nic.in. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "Inauguration of IIEST, Shibpur by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India on 24th August 2014". Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Press Releases Detail - the President of India". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Vijaya Sai Reddy seeks upgrading of AUCE – The Hindu". The Hindu. 4 February 2020.
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