INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AGARTALA (IIIT-AGARTALA), is one of the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (PPP) in the country, set up with the objective of making available facilities for higher education, research and training in various fields of Information Technology. To address the challenges faced by the Indian IT industry and growth of the domestic IT market, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India intends to establish twenty Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT), on a Not-for-profit Public Private Partnership (N-PPP) basis. The partners in setting up the IIITs would be the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Governments of the respective States where each IIIT will be established, and the industry. On the same line INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AGARTALA (IIIT-AGARTALA) is newly established Educational Institute by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India and few industry partners as Not-for-profit Public Private Partnership (N-PPP) Institution.This institute is an institute of national importance under act of parliament and is currently operating from its temporary campus at mentor institute NIT Agartala.
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IIIT AGARTALA, MENTORED BY NIT AGARTALA, BARJALA, JIRANIA, AGARTALA-799046
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Agartala |
| Type of the institute: | Indian Institute of Information Technology |
| Complete Mailing Address: | IIIT AGARTALA, MENTORED BY NIT AGARTALA, BARJALA, JIRANIA, AGARTALA-799046 |
| Contact Person For Admission: | Dr. Ashim Saha |
| Designation: | Centre In-Charge, JoSAA 2020, IIIT Agartala |
| Email: | [email protected] |
| Alternate Email: | [email protected] |
| Phone Nos: | 0381-2548510 |
| Fax No: | 0381-2546630 |
| Mobile No.: | +91-9436556680 |
IIIT
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are a group of Multidisciplinary Technical Universities of higher education in India, focused on Information Technology Engineering. Five of them are established, funded and managed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The rest are set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) model.
Prior to 2013, the IIITs at Gwalior, Allahabad, Jabalpur and Kancheepuram were set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
In 2013 the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Bill 2013 was introduced in Lok Sabha.The bill sought to grants the status of Institutes of National Importance (INI) upon the four IIITs. After much debate and changes, the bill was passed by the Parliament on 1 December 2014┬аand published as Indian Institutes of Information Technology Act, 2014 on 8 December 2014, coming into effect on 5 January 2015.
Admission
Admissions into undergraduate programmes in IIITs for 4,000 seats are through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority and JEE-Main.[20] For postgraduate programs admission is through Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE).
