IIIT Amendment Bill
IIIT Amendment Bill 2020 Passed, Five Institutes Receive National Importance Status
Parliament passed a bill on 22 September 2020, that declares five newly established Indian Institute of Information Technology (IITs) as institutions of National Importance. The five new institutes are set up in Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala, and Raichur in Public Partnership Mode.
In March 2020, Lok Sabha passed the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Law Amendment bill. The bill was finally introduced on 21 September in the upper house by Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the Human Resource Development Minister of India.
