Section 8(xiii) in The First Statutes of the National Institutes of Technology
(xiii)[ make recommendations to the Board to disseminate knowledge through distance learning mode to various parts of the State or country or abroad and in the cases of signing of agreement with the foreign agency, agreement may be signed with the approval of the Ministry;] [Substituted 'make recommendations to the Board with regard to the creation or restructuring of Departments or Programmes or Centres and the abolition of existing Departments or centres thereof;' by Notification No. S.O. 947(E), dated 21.7.2017 (w.e.f. 23.4.2009).]
