The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are a group of 30 public engineering institutes located across India that were established to promote regional diversity and multicultural understanding. NITs offer undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in engineering and technology and are considered the best technical institutes in India next to the IITs. They function autonomously similar to IITs and can set their own curriculum. NITs have produced many successful alumni in business, public service, and academia/research.

1. NITIAN
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2. National Institute of Technology
• The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) (Hindi:
), are a group of public engineering institutes of
India. On their inception decades ago, all NITs were referred as
Regional Engineering Colleges (RECs) and were governed by their
respective state governments. NITs were founded to promote
regional diversity and multi-cultural understanding in India.
Comprising thirty autonomous institutes, they are located in one
each major state/territory of India. In 2007, through NIT Bill, the
Indian government declared these schools as Institute of National
Importance.
• NITs offer degree courses at bachelors, masters, and doctorate levels
in various branches of engineering and technology. NITs are
regarded as the best institutions of engineering next to IITs. NITs
function autonomously, similarly to IITs. The autonomy enables the
NITs to set up their own curriculum, thereby making it easier to
adapt to changing industry requirements.

3. Governance
• The President of India is the ex officio visitor of all
the NITs. The NIT Council works directly under him
and includes the minister-in-charge of technical
education in Central Government, the Chairmen and
the Directors of all the NITs, the Chairman of
University Grants Commission (India), the Director
General of CSIR, the Directors of other selected
central institutions of repute, members of
Parliament, Joint Council Secretary of Ministry of
Human Resource and Development, nominees of
the Central Government, AICTE, and the Visitor.

4. Alumni
• Business/Industry
• R.K. WanchooNIT SrinagarExecutive Director, BHEL, Hyderabad
• Umesh KumarNIT SrinagarVice President and MD, Bartec Middle East
FZE , Dubai
• Sunil Dutt SharmaNIT SrinagarGeneral Manager,
• Flovel Energy Pvt LTD, FaridabadN ChandrasekaranNIT, TrichyChief
Executive Officer, Tata Consultancy Services
• Mouli Raman NIT, Allahabad Chief Executive Officer/Founder, OnMobile
• C. P. Gurnani NIT, Rourkela Chief Executive Officer, Mahindra Satyam
• K. V. Kamath NIT, Surathkal CEO of ICICI Bank, Padma Bhushana
Awardee
• Nelabhotla Venkateswarlu NIT, AllahabadCEO, Emami Limited
• Srini Raju NIT, KurukshetraChairman, Peepul Capital, iLabs VCF, Former
CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions & Satyam Enterprise Solutions
• Dinesh Keskar NIT, NagpurSenior VP, Boeing Aircraft Trading and Head
Boeing Indaia.
• Pradeep Kar NIT, NagpurFounder of Microland Technologies,and also the
founder of the portal Indya.com
• Rao Ramela NIT, WarangalThe first Indian employee of Microsoft.
• Sudhir Vasudeva NIT, RaipurChief Managing Director, ONGC

5. • Public service
• Deep JoshiNIT, AllahabadRecipient of Magsaysay award & Padma
Shri, Social Activist, Founder of PRADAN(NGO)
• Nitish KumarNIT, PatnaChief Minister of Bihar
• Suresh PachouriNIT, BhopalMember of ParliamentCAPT(In)
• Dalbir Singh SodhiNIT SrinagarHQ IDS Indian Navy, New Delhi
• Dawood Danesh JafariNIT, SrinagarMinister of Finance &
Economic Affairs, Iran
• Sharad AdhikaryNIT SrinagarMinistry of Labour & Employment,
Deptt. of Labour, Kathmandu, Govt. of Nepal
• Prabhakaran PaleriNIT, CalicutFormer Director General, Indian
Coast Guard
• Dr.Thomas AbrahamNIT, JaipurChairman of the Global
Organization of People of Indian Origin, coined the term PIO
• Ajit JogiNIT, BhopalFirst Chief Minister of Chattisgarh
• Ram Vinay ShahiNIT, JamshedpurLongest serving Power Secretary
of India
• Hemant KarkareNIT, NagpurMaharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad
(ATS) chief, killed during the November 2008 Mumbai Terrorist
attack.

6. • Academia/Technology and Research
• Rajesh AdhikariNIT SrinagarSenior Research Analyst,
Noise and Vibration, Ford Motor Coy, Dearbon, Michigan,
USA
• Samir BaruaNIT, Nagpur Director, Indian Institute of
Management Ahmedabad
• A K LahiriNIT, JamshedpurHead, metallurgical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
• Chitranjan SahayNIT, JamshedpurChairman,Department of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford
• Siva S. BandaNIT, WarangalDirector of the Control Science
Center of Excellence and Senior Scientist in Control Theory
for the Air Vehicles
• Srinidhi VaradarajanNIT, WarangalCreator of SystemX and
currently working at Virginia Tech
• .K. R. SridharNIT, TrichyFormer advisor to NASA on Mars
missions and nanotechnology.
• Baldev RajNIT, RaipurIndian scientist and director of the
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in
Kalpakkam, India.