National Institute of Technology, Durgapur


The National Institute of Technology Durgapur is a public technical university located in Durgapur, West Bengal, India, was formerly known as the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur.
An Institute of National Importance under Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

History

In order to serve the growing demand for trained technical manpower, the Government of India started 14 RECs between 1959 and 1965.
The National Institute of Technology, Durgapur was established in 1960 under an Act of the Parliament of India as one of the eight such colleges, as a co-operative venture between the Government of India and the Government of West Bengal aimed to function as a pace setter for engineering education in the country and to foster national integration. It is a fully funded Technological Institution of the Government of India and is administered by an autonomous Board of Governors. The college was given autonomy in financial and administrative matters to achieve rapid development.
In 1998, a review committee "High Powered Review Committee "
was set up by the Union Government for review of RECs. The HPRC, under the chairmanship of R.A. Mashelkar, submitted its report entitled "Strategic Road Map for Academic Excellence of Future RECs" in 1998. Following the recommendations of HPRC, in 2002, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India upgraded all the 17 Regional Engineering Colleges to National Institutes of Technology. In July 2003, the college was granted Deemed University status with the approval of the UGC/AICTE and was renamed National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.

Departments

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur has the following departments:
The library is an institutional member of DELNET, American Center Library, Kolkata, National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, and Current Science Association, Bangalore. It is also a beneficiary Member of INDEST-AICTE Consortium, which provides Desktop Access to high quality e-resources like IEL Online, Springer Verlag's Link, Proquest, ACM journals, ASCE, ASME, Nature Magazine, Indian Standards and ASTM journals & Standards etc. It has a collection of several thousand E-Books on computer science.

Ranking

NIT Durgapur was ranked 47th among engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020 and 96th overall.

Notable alumni