| National Institute of Technology, Bhopal | |
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| MANIT | |
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| Established | 1960 |
| Type | Institute of National Importance |
| Director | Dr. R.P. Singh[1] |
| Faculty | 400+ |
| Students | 1500+ |
| Location | Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Website | www.manit.ac.in |
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) is a Institute of National Importance under the NIT Act. It is one of the elite group of public funded institutions in India called National Institutes of Technology.
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History
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India (formerly Maulana Azad College of Technology, MACT), is one of the first eight Regional Engineering Colleges in India. The institute has been named after the great scholar, educationist and the first education Minister of Govt. of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The Govt. of India and Govt. of Madhya Pradesh jointly sponsored the then MACT (a Regional Engineering College) in 1960 to attract bright young students from across the country. The Institute is successfully meeting the objective of producing skilled manpower of the highest quality who is able to cope up with challenges of ever evolving industrial needs of the country.
The Institute is situated in the Bhopal Central region of Bhopal City on southern side. The verdant 650-acre (2.6 km2) campus is on a plateau with academic building, hostels and residential quarters.
How to Reach
Air : Bhopal is well connected with daily flights from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ahemedabad, Lucknow, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune and Indore. MANIT is 11 Km from the airport.
Rail : Bhopal is best connected by train on the central and southern railways. It is well connected with trains from all over major cities of india (the list of trains passing through Bhopal can be seen here) . The Bhopal Habibganj railway station is 5 km & Bhopal Central railway station is 9 km away from MANIT.
It is well connected by road as well.
Infrastructure
MANIT is situated in the Bhopal Central on southern side. Its campus is spread over 630 acres (2.5 km2), on a beautiful plateau. It houses about 3000 students and faculty.
Student life
MANIT has students from all parts of the country. Student life revolves around the college campus and hostels. College has Hostel facility with round the clock net connectivity, electricity, water, security, canteen and other facilities for students. There are separate hostels for students who are in different academic years. Other than these hostels, Hostels for post graduation students are also available. All the hostels have a care taker, an assistant warden and a warden separately. A Chief warden is head of all hostels and post is held by senior Professor of college.
Apart from Indian students, candidates from many countries such as Oman, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Mauritius, Malaysia, Iran, United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan also join MANIT for various undergraduate and post-graduate programs.
The college has active student life with various student organizations that include Drishtant (The literary society), IBC ( Intellect Browsers' Consortium, The Management Society ), http://iste.manit.ac.in ISTE](Technical Community), Vision (Science community), ROTARACT (Social service related), The Edboard, etc. The students learn a lot more than mere academics. They are made into good entrepreneurs.
Concerns
Recently the college has remained in news due controversies surrounding the administration and faculty selection process. In 2005 in the appointment of 60 teachers, massive irregularities were found by the committees formed to investigate the matter. It was found that arbitrary favour was given to many teaching candidates who were much less qualified than the candidates who were rejected. There were also cases where arbitrary promotions were given to incompetent teachers. There was even a case where bypassing every rule someone with a Doctorate in Psychology was made a Professor of Architecture and Planning. One of the enquiry committees formed to investigate the matter held the erstwhile dean (administration) Dr. Ashutosh Sharma and the then acting director Dr. K. S. Sayann prima facie responsible for the irregularities. The overall impact of all this has been a reduction of trust on the teaching standards of the institute.
Festivals
MANIT hosts various Major National Level Meets namely:
a) 'Technosearch' - Annual National Level Technical Meet: One of its kind in terms of Quality and Scale of events.
b) 'Maffick' - Annual Cultural Festival.
c) 'CHIMERA' - Annual National level, Inter college Quiz competition organized by ISTE.
d) 'Robotics'- Annual festival for displaying various robots made the students of the college.
e) 'RIPPLE' - Annual Literary festival of the college hosted by the college literary society DRISHTANT
f) Twist - annual quiz contest by college society IBC
g) 'SportsMania' - annual sports meet
h) 'Samadhan' - Annual National Level programming test.
i) 'NOESIS' - Annual fest of society VISION.
People
- Dean Administration Dr. Saroj Rangnekar
- Dean Academic Dr. C. M. Agrawal
- Dean Students' Affair Dr. Sushil Mittal
- Dean Planning & Resource Dr. V. K. Gahlot
- Dean Research & Development Dr. K. R. Pardasani
- Dean Faculty Affairs Dr. S. C. Shrivastava
Notable alumni
- Suresh Pachouri, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
- John K John, Managing Director, Johnson Lifts, Chennai
- Alok Rastogi, Entrepreneur and Founder of L&T Infotech in USA
- Ajit Jogi, First Chief minister of Chattisgarh.
- Brajesh Dubey, Carorepati Champion of Kaun Banega Carorepati-2 (KBC-2), hosted by Amitabh Bachchan on Star plus channel in 2005.
- Abraham Joseph, Vice President (R&D), Bajaj Auto Limited, Akurdi, Pune
- Sachin Taparia, Managing Director, Aviall India (A Subsidiary of The Boeing Company)
Admissions
For the undergraduate courses the admission is through the national level engineering entrance examination - AIEEE.
For the post graduate courses the entry is through GATE for MTech, NIMCET for MCA or through an institute conducted entrance test.
Placements
The year 2007-08 saw an unprecedented 662 job offers being made to MANITians from 64 companies. The year also saw a marked increase in the number of core jobs to an extent that the core fields seem promising. Many students had 2 offers and some even had 3 or more jobs. The institute boasts of very good placements with leading companies like Microsoft, Google,Verizon, HP Labs, Accenture , Aricent, CSC, IBM, Intel, Amdocs, Analog Devices, Reliance, Essar, TIME, LG, C-Dot, Capgemini, Honda, Hindalco, Samsung, BPCL, Bajaj Verizon, Career Launcher, Vedanta, Nestle, Areva TnD, DRDO, ABB, Tata Motors, Maruti, Pepsico, IOCL, NTPC, BHEL, Alstom, Satyam, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Conexant, Cognizant, HCC, L&T etc. visiting the institute for placement.
Courses offered
Various Graduate, Post Graduate and Doctoral level courses are offered by the following engineering and sciences departments. All course-works and examinations for all majors and subjects are conducted with English language as the only mode of instruction. Below is the list of courses available at MANIT.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
- Civil Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Information Technology
- Architecture Engineering
- Planning Engineering
- Production and Industrial engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Energy engineering
- Material Science & Metallurgy
- Bioinformatics
- Engineering Physics
- Computer Oriented Mathematical Engineering
POST GRADUATE COURSES
References
- ^ "Director:MANIT". MANIT. http://manit.ac.in/content/view/21/32/. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
External links
- MANIT's Official website
- Editorial board,MANIT
- Technosearch
- Drishtant
- NIT alumni website - Largest database of all NITians
- IBC'S Discussion site of manit
- IBC
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