Image Shows the Lok SabhaKey Features of Bill:
- Addition of six new IITs includes:
- It brings the Indian School of Mines (ISM) , Dhanbad (Jharkhand) within the range of the parent Act.
- All these institutions will be declared as institutions of national significance.
- Till the statues in relation to IIT (ISM) , Dhanbad are made under the parent Act, the statues applicable to IIT Roorkee will apply to it.
- The government is focusing on providing quality education to all.
- To improve the infrastructure and research facilities in the institutes.
- Government has formed High Education Financial Agency.
- Government has started online programme IIT-PAL and in order to statement the issue of high fee of IIT coaching class entrance exam.
- Under this programme the students can take free seminars, exams, homework.
- The government has been working to provide Wi-Fi connectivity to all universities in the country.
- Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 states certain Institutes of Technology as institutions of national significance.
✍Examrace Team at Jul 26, 2016