Section 1332 in The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961
1332.
In order to provide facilities on an extensive scale for post-graduate courses, advanced work and research in the various branches of science, engineering and technology, for which facilities in the country were inadequate, the Sarkar Committee recommended in 1945 that four institutions on the lines of the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., he established, one in each of the four regions of the country. Government accepted this recommendation and the first institution named as the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur started in 1950 in the eastern region as a Government institution. Although situated in the cast, it has functioned as an All India Institution in consonance with the original decision that these institutions should be open to students from all parts of the country. Later, the Institute at Kharagpur was declared by Parliament as an institution of national importance under the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) Act, 1956. The Act came into force on the 1st April, 1957 and the Institute has been since functioning as an autonomous body corporate.2. The three other institutions named as the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, were started in 1958, 1959 and 1960, respectively, and were registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. All the tour institutions provide first degree courses in addition to facilities for post-graduate studies and advanced research. This requires and provides co-operation between work at the post-graduate level and the first degree level for the mutual benefit of both and also results in full utilization of the facilities created in these institutions. They aim at training personnel who will combine the highest technical competence with broad human sympathy as well as a practical outlook and awareness of the social implications of planning. The institutes have already succeeded in creating an atmosphere which instills in the minds of students a spirit of objective enquiry and a sense of purpose and are helping them develop a balanced and integrated personality.3. One of the important tasks of the institutions is to meet the present and future needs of industry and technology. They, therefore, have an individuality and purpose of their own distinct from those of a University. The broad objectives of the four Institutes are the same, although in their actual working, there will be difference of emphasis on separate fields, particularly at the advanced levels. The Bill seeks (i) to retain the individuality of the institutions by declaring them institutions of national importance tinder Article 248 read with 7th Schedule, List I, Entry 64 of the Constitution, (ii) to bring in the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, which has already been so declared and incorporated by an Act of Parliament, within the ambit of the proposed Act, and (iii) to make provision lot the co-ordination and regulation of the affairs of the four Institutes. The Institutes will have the power to grant degrees. diplomas and other academic distinctions as at present possessed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur".- Gazette of India, 1961, Extra, Pt. II, Section 2, p. 833.[19th December, 1961.]An Act to declare certain institutions of technology to be institutions of national importance and to provide for certain matters connected with such institutions and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
