National Institute of Technology, Silchar

technology as Institutes of National Importance, placing

them at par with the Indian Institutes of Technology.[1]

NIT Silchar
NIT Silchar (Assam)
National Institute Of Technology Silchar (NIT
Silchar) (Hindi: , )
(Bengali: , ) is one of the 30 NIT SILCHAR
NITs of India and was established in 1967 as a Regional
Engineering College in Assam. In 2002 it was upgraded
to the status of National Institute of Technology and was
declared as Institute of National Importance under the 3 Academics
National Institutes of Technology Act, 2007.

NIT Silchar oers undergraduate and graduate programs

in Engineering, Science and Humanities with 1187 departments. The annual intake for the B.Tech. program
is more than 500 (573 as of 2013). The College also
has a Kendriya Vidyalaya school up to Class VIII functioning from a temporary building in Campus.[2] Now,
the Kendriya Vidyalaya has got its own campus inside the
institute. The Institute has its own kids school near to
computer science building. Since, the college has started
oering management courses in various disciplines and
as on 2014, the rst batch of MBA students passed out
of the college securing 100% placement.

Location

The institute is located at 24.75N, 92.79E by the

Silchar-Hailakandi road, twelve kilometers from the city
of Silchar in the state of Assam. The college lies in what
is known as the education axis of Silchar, with the Silchar
Medical College and Hospital and Assam University located on the same road.

History
3.1 Awards

The Regional Engineering College at Silchar was founded

in 1967 as a joint venture between the Government of
India and the State Government of Assam to cater to the
countrys need for manpower in technology. RECs were
jointly operated by the central government and the state
government.

The ABP News National Education Awards has decided to honour NIT Silchar, with the Outstanding
Engineering Institute, East India.[3]
NIT Silchar has been given the award of best engineering college in eastern India by leading industry
body ASSOCHAM in the National Education Excellence Awards 2014.[4]

The college was conferred with autonomy in nancial

and administrative matters. In 2002, the institution was
granted Deemed University status with the approval of
the UGC/AICTE and was renamed the National Institute
of Technology, Silchar. In 2007, through the NIT Bill,
the Indian government declared the national institutes of

NIT Silchar got 9/9 grade in TEQIP project.There

are only 3 NITs to achieve this.[5]
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5 FACILITIES

NIT Silchar received inspiring comments from the The Central Library, established in 1977, has around
President of India.[6]
85,000 documents as of 31 March 2012.[10] The library has been fully computerized and automated with
Libsys[11] software and has implemented RFID and DVR
technology for security purposes under a TEQIP grant,
3.2 Departments
becoming the rst library in the northeast region to implement RFID and DVR technology.[12]
Engineering departments
Non-engineering departments

3.3

Undergraduate programs

The institute has completed six projects, including Elearning projects Virtual Classroom and Digital Library, sponsored by MHRD, India under the MODROB
scheme, which enabled the library to digitalize old and
rare books, manuscripts and documents.[13]

The institute awards B.Tech. degrees in all six disciplines

under the engineering departments.[8] Admission to these
programs is through the JEE-Main. NITS follows the 5
Reservation Policy declared by the Supreme Court of India, by which 27% of seats are reserved for Other Back- 5.1
ward Classes (OBCs), 15% for Scheduled Castes (SCs),
and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes (STs).

Facilities
Hostel and guest houses

The institute also accepts foreign nationals through scholarships awarded by the Government of India, and NonResident Indians through an independent scheme known
as Direct Admission for Students Abroad (DASA).[9]
In the four-year program of B.Tech, the rst year instruction is common across all disciplines, in which students
are taught the basic courses in Mathematics, Physics,
Chemistry, Professional communication, Basics of Computer Programming, Basic Engineering Drawing, and Basic Mechanical Workshop.

3.4

Postgraduate programs

Hostels

The institute oers M.Tech. degrees[8] in-

NIT Silchar is a fully residential campus. There are eight

. The Institute has also started MBA program from 2012. hostels for boys and two hostels for girls, each equipped
with LAN with high-speed Internet access. All hostels
are under the care of a warden and Board of Hostel Management (BHM).[14] Messes are run privately or by stu4 Central Library
dents themselves.
Most of the teachers and the sta members reside in the
residential quarters provided by the institute. The Institute has two guest houses for catering to the need of visitors.
Students are allotted dierent hostels every year. The following is the list of all hostels:
The institute also provides three PG Hostels
1. APJ Abdul Kalam Hostel
2. CV Raman Hostel
3. Bhupen Hazarika Hostel

Library

The boys hostel Octoregia is only available for rst year

students. Two more boys hostels and a hostel for PhD
scholars are under construction.

5.2

Bank and shopping complex

5.3

Postal service

currently inoperative. However, the broad gauge rail service between Lumding junction and Silchar is soon to be
The institute has a State Bank of India branch inside the commenced, which will certainly facilitate the journey
campus.[15][16] There are two ATMs of SBI and PNB between NIT Silchar and the other parts of the state.[20]
within the campus. The institute also has a co-operative
market complex in the center of the campus catering to
the daily needs of students.
7 Culture and student life

7.1 Societies

[21]
The institute has a sub Post Oce maintained by Indian On-campus Societies:
Post that facilitate SpeedPost and money orders.
Research Promotion Cell

5.4

Health care

Civil Engineering Society (CES)

Computer Science Society (CSS)
Electrical Engineering Society (Electra)
Mechanical Engineering Society (MES)
Electronics and Communication Society (ECS)
Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering Society (INSEES)
ISTE Student Chapter
IEEE Student Chapter
SAE India Students Chapter (SAE)

Lake Front of Inrmary

The institute provides an ambulance and a dispensary/inrmary providing treatment to all students.[17] The
medical sta consists of 1 Senior Medical Ocer, 1 Lady
Medical Ocer, 1 Pharmacist, 1 Nurse-cum-midwife
and 3 Medical attendants.[18] Silchar Medical College
(SMC)[19] is only a few kilometers away from the institute.

Communications & Transport

Communications between the college and Silchar town is

mainly served by auto rickshaws. Auto rickshaws, which
form the chief mode of transport in Silchar, can be shared
or hired to shuttle between the college campus and the
other parts of the town. It is about 20 minutes ride from
the college to central Silchar. There is also the provision of halts at NIT campus for a few buses plying between Silchar and Guwahati, which is conveniently linked
to the other parts of Assam. Till September, 2014, the
Northeast Frontier Railway had been providing rail services between Lumding junction and Silchar, but with the
termination of the metre gauge train services between the
two stations, the Silchar-Lumding-Guwahati rail route is

Literary and Debating Club

Photography Club
Solar Energy Society of India Students Chapter
(SESI)
Boating Club
Robotics Club
NIT Silchar Quiz Club

7.2 Student union body

The institute has an elected student body Gymkhana
that takes responsibility for student welfare and extracurricular activities. The members are selected for various
posts and work with the Dean of Students Welfare for the
overall development of students.[22]
Some of Gymkhanas activities include the technical festival Tecnoesis and cultural festival Incandescence,
which includes the rock music event Thundermarch.[23]
It is also responsible for publishing the college magazine
IGNITS and organizes regular quizzes, debates, freshers
social and sports events.

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7.3

Activities

Provisions have been made for extracurricular activities

and games and sports on the hostels premises, in other locations and in the student activity center, which includes
a stadium.[24] Hostels are equipped with indoor games
facilities such as Carom and table tennis. The Student
Activity Center (SAC Building) is used as an indoor stadium. Two playgrounds each with capacity of 1000 spectators are used for outdoor games. Besides these, students, faculty and sta have facilities for lawn tennis,
basketball, football and volleyball. Inter-hostel Carom,
Chess, Cricket, Tennis, Kabaddi, Volleyball, Football and
Badminton tournaments are conducted every year. The
gymnasium center houses tness and gym equipment.[25]

Admissions

Students are admitted for the undergraduate courses

through the JEE-Main conducted by CBSE, New Delhi.
Admission to the M.Tech and PhD courses are primarily based on scores in the GATE exam, conducted by
the IITs. Faculty from other institutes work as research
scholars under Quality Improvement Program (QIP).[26]

Administration

Under the constitution of the National Institutes of Technology Act 2007, the President of India is the Visitor to
the institute. The authorities of the institute are the Board
of Governors and the Senate. The Board is headed by the
Chairman, who is appointed by the Visitor. The Director,
who is the secretary of the Board, looks after the day-today running of the institute. The Board of Governors has
nominees of the Central Government, the State Government, the NIT Council and the Institute Senate.[27][28]

REFERENCES

5. The project on 'Solar Powered Wheelchair' (patent

pending: 832/KOL/2013), completed by the students of NIT Silchar, Rohit Thakwani (Mechanical
Engineering'2013), Rajarshi Choudhury (Electrical Engineering'2014) and Shubham Jain (Electronics and Communication Engineering'2014) has won
the 'European Renewable Energy Research Centres
Award 2013' and the 'Indian National Academy of
Engineering Award 2013'[31][32]
6. NIT Silchar is the rst NIT to own a boating club,
and second to IIT Roorkee among notable Engineering colleges
7. Central Library, NIT Silchar has entered into a collaborative MOU with University Library & Mortenson Centre for International Library Programme of
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA to
create world class LIS facilities at NIT Silchar.[33]
8. A team from the NIT Silchar, which developed
an industrial composite with self-healing properties,
which can last longer got top honours in mechanical
engineering.[34]
9. NIT Silchar achieved 100 percent placement for
its rst batch of master of business administration
(MBA) students.[35]

11 Gallery
Faculty quarters
Old Gallery
Estate Department
View From Hostel 8
ECE & CSE Department

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Achievements

[1] About NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.

1. The institute has a 10 MW solar power plant, the

second such institute to have its own power plant after NIT Pune.[29]

[2] Kendriya Vidyalaya in NIT Silchar. KV_NITS. Retrieved 2013-02-19.

2. The 11th Centre for Development of Advanced

Computing, (C-DAC) of India was established
in NIT Silchar Campus (Inaugurated on 21-Feb2014).

[4] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/
NIT-Silchar-bags-excellence-award-by-ASSOCHAM/
articleshow/39535602.cms

3. The Central Library has achieved several honorable

achievements[30]
4. First institute in North-East India to enforce library
security by RFID and DVR

[3] http://www.ptbn.org/nit-silchar-bags-prestigious-award/

[5] https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=
1628945293989790&id=1396275263923462
[6] http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?
id=nov2514/state053
[7] List of Departments in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved
2013-12-28.

[8] NITS Academics

[9] DASA Homepage
[10] Central Library, NIT Silchar
[11] Libsys
[12] Whats New
[13] MODROB
[14] Hostels in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
[15] Facilities in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
[16] State Bank Of India, NIT Silchar
[17] Dean, Student Welfare, NIT Silchar
[18] Inrmary, NIT Silchar
[19] Silchar Medical College
[20] MG services in hill section cancelled.
bune.com. Retrieved 2015-02-19.

assamtri-

[21] Societies in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.

[22] Students Gymkhana. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
[23] Festivals in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
[24] Activities in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
[25] Physical Facilities
[26] Quality Improvement Program (QIP)
[27] Administration in NIT Silchar. NITS. Retrieved 201301-07.
[28] Organization Structure of NIT Silchar (PDF). NITS.
Retrieved 2013-01-07.
[29] NIT Silchar Power Plant, TOI
[30] Central Library Achievements
[31] http://www.master.eurec.be/en/
Careers-and-EUREC-Awards/EUREC-Awards/
Results-of-the-EUREC-Awards-2013/
[32] http://www.inae.in/inovative_student_awards.html
[33] http://www.library.illinois.edu/news/MOU_NITSilchar.
html
[34] http://www.livemint.com/Industry/
1NMpPxWHgcDXKiro3GhbaN/
JEDI-awards-reflect-larger-issues-in-quality-of-engineering.
html
[35] http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?
id=jun1114/state06

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External links

Ocial website
Rexian-NIT Silchar Alumni Association
Coordinates: 244527N 924707E / 24.757432N
92.78537E

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