Talk:Institutes of National Importance

Authentic sources
The most authentic list is at this link.

If anyone wants to add new institutes, they are requested to provide authetic source justifying the addition. New IITs automatically come into this list as they are established under the same act(The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961), which established old IITS. The act clearly states that the institutes established under it are "institutes of national importance", see THE INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY ACT,1961. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anilmuthineni (talk • contribs) 17 May 2010

IIITs status
As people keep adding IIITs to the list, I added two sources with the current status. Except Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram which was added with a specific act, please don't add any of the rest until the Act is approved. --Muhandes (talk) 17:32, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Updated list
The DHE has updated the list and not only does it not include any of the new institutes added recently, it does not include it now does not include Indian Statistical Institute and National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research. I am going to leave these two in the list and add sources for them specifically, but I really wonder what is going on with this. --Muhandes (talk) 18:48, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

parallelism
i'm not knowledgable about these, but there are many schools (law and management, at least) in the tabulated list, but not in the enumerated categories above. if the first is supposed to be some representative selection, it should be shorter (given the existence of the tabular list) and clearly marked as a list of a few examples. if it's supposed to be complete, all the ones in the tab should be added to some category above, as appropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by David Farris (talk • contribs) 14:10, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
 * This is more a problem of drive by addition. I'm going to spend some time cleaning this up, we don't need multiple lists, one sortable table is enough. The list itself is unlikely to change regularly. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  04:21, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Tags
Once again we have drive bys adding all and sundry on here, making the list larger than what it should be. &mdash; Spaceman  Spiff  23:52, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs)
As far as I can tell Indian Institutes of Management are not Institutes of National Importance and I am not aware of any change in this status. They were added by an anonymous editor in January. They are now removed. --Muhandes (talk) 13:18, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Sources were added showing the change in status. --Muhandes (talk) 13:48, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

== Khuda Bakhsh Library - An Institute of National Importance, needs to be added in the Social Science category since it is an Education Institution on government records and is designated as an Institute of National Importance in 1969 .let me be very clear that it's not just a library but also an important Educational Institution  ==

Khuda Bakhsh Library plays a dual role as a Research Center and as a library, The Library encourages scholars and provides them with all research facilities including free accommodation. It awards 10 research fellowships - 3 Senior and 7 Junior - for a period of 2 years and helps them do Ph.D./D.Litt. It also assigns different projects to them, for example, editing of manuscripts, a compilation of descriptive catalog of manuscripts, indexes of Urdu periodicals, subject bibliographies, etc.

The Library has started a 1 year PG Course in Oriental Librarianship and Manuscriptology to help produce well trained staff to manage any oriental library. Three batches comprising of people selected mostly from in-house staff has been successfully concluded and work is going on to improve the scope of this course even further.

The Library facilitates exchange of scholars with other countries and takes steps for sharing its resources with other libraries either in India or outside to enrich its collection.

The Library has been recognized as a Research Centre by seven Universities, namely -

Shantiniketan University, Calcutta

Hamdard University, New Delhi

Kashmir University, Srinagar

Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka

Magadh University, Gaya

B. R. Ambedkar University, Muzaffarpur

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Besides, it also offers a lump sum amount to retired professors to work on our manuscripts.

Compilation of a descriptive catalog of manuscripts is also research work. Our catalogs published so far contain rich information about the manuscripts and hence they are highly valued in the academic world.

The Library has so far published 43 volumes of Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts covering about one-third of the total collection. Moreover, the hand-list of manuscripts in Arabic (4 vols.), Persian (5 vols.) and Urdu (1 vol) have also been compiled and printed for the benefit of the readers. More volumes of Descriptive Catalogue are likely to be published soon.

Khuda Bakhsh Library is not merely a library, it is in fact a nucleus of multi-dimensional activities. It caters to the needs of intellectuals and scholars, promotes research, advocates communal harmony and also serves public. During the last fifty years it has organised about 200 extension lectures, talks, group discussions and debates. Eminent personalities have delivered lectures on a variety of subjects.

International seminars have been organised on manuscript literature on Tibb (Unani Medicine), Tasawwuf (Islamic Mysticism), Quranic sciences, Medieval Indian history followed by the seminars on Urdu Manuscripts and on lndo-Uzbek relations. Free India and Dr. Zakir Husain were the topics for national seminars. Besides, symposia on Reservation for Muslims and Indian Woman have also been arranged in the library.

Several talks have been organised on health care and hygiene specially for public awareness. The library also arranges National and International Mush'ara's (poetry recitation), Kavi Sammelans and Qawwalis besides film shows representing Indian culture and also documentaries.

Khuda Bakhsh struggled throughout his life for communal harmony. The library thus represents this quality of the Founder through its collection and holds group discussions on the issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syed Sadique Hussain (talk • contribs) 09:58, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Syed Sadique Hussain (talk) 10:09, 9 May 2022 (UTC) Syed Sadique Hussain