Declaration of certain institutions as institutions of national importance

Section 2 of the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 deals with declaration of certain institutions as institutions of national importance. Whereas the objects of the institutions known as the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, [the College of Engineering and Technology, Delhi,] [the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam] the Indian Institute of Technology, [Kanpur, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras [the Indian I The Act came into force on 01 Apr 1962.

Whereas the objects of the institutions known as the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, ¹[the College of Engineering and Technology, Delhi,] ²[the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam] the Indian Institute of Technology, ³[Kanpur, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras ⁴[the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee]], the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhi Nagar, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar ⁵[and the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi] are such as to make them institutions of national importance, it is hereby declared that each such institution is an institution of national importance.

Section 2, The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 (Act 59 of 1961).