| Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad | |
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| Motto | Pragyanam Brahm |
| Established | 1999 |
| Type | Public, Education and Research |
| Academic staff | 82 |
| Undergraduates | 1050 |
| Postgraduates | 475 |
| Location | Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Campus | Urban, 100-acre (0.40 km2) |
| Colors | Red |
| Mascot | Converging of the Rivers Ganga and Yamuna |
| Website | www.iiita.ac.in |
The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (Hindi: भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, इलाहाबाद, IIIT-A, IIITA, IIIT-Allahabad) is an Indian Institute of Information Technology established in 1999 by the government of India. The institute was conferred deemed university status in 2000, empowering it to award degrees following the setting of its own examinations. A bill is under active consideration by the MHRD to grant it the status of Institute of National Importance along with the rest of the government IIITs.[1]
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The institute is located on a campus at Jhalwa, on the outskirts of Allahabad. Some portion of the Nehru Science Center, within the Allahabad University campus, was also on lease till 2011.
The Jhalwa campus includes two computer centers with six labs each, 16 lecture halls, electronics library, and residential facilities for students and faculty. An open air theater, stadium and recreational facilities are under development. A third computer center is under construction comprising two wings with six floors each.
Apart from these there is a library,lecture theater complex and administrative building.A new auditorium is also under construction. The campus has facilities for sports and extra curricular activities including a swimming pool,sports field,basketball and tennis courts as well as a Student Activity Center that houses facilities for various indoor games and musical pursuits along with the gymnasium.There is also a health center,shopping complex and a cafeteria in the campus.
The NSC complex included five laboratories, eight computer laboratories, five lecture halls, a conference room, auditorium, library, cafeteria, office space and other facilities. The total covered area was about 25,000 sq ft (2,300 m2).
The new campus has been developed on 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land at Deoghat, Jhalwa, on the outskirts of Allahabad. The campus and other buildings have been styled on patterns developed by a mathematics professor named Roger Penrose.
There are separate hostels for boys and girls, with single rooms (for the senior most batches) and twin sharing rooms. There are four hostels for boys and two for girls at the Jhalwa campus.Two more hostels, one each for girls and boys, are under construction.
The girls of first year live in quad-shared rooms. The accommodations are provided with computers, along with 24-hour backup power supply. The hostel mess caters to the students' meals.
The freshmen batches, from 1999 to 2011, were housed in another hostel situated in Naini (19 kilometres from the main campus), which could accommodate over 200 students.Starting the Academic year 2011-2012 they have been shifted to the main campus and Naini facility has been shut down. The students have access to a bus service from the Jhalwa campus to central Allahabad (the Nehru Science Centre campus). The bus service also covers Civil Lines areas.
The residential campus consists of four men's hostels with capacity for 240 students each, two women's hostels for 60 students, 40-room air-conditioned guest house and staff residences for senior professors and other staff. Faculty hostels with two-room and one-room units for visiting professors are provided.There are three visitor hostels(guest houses) and 2 hostels for Married scholars.
Students frequent restaurants such as Aryans, Sapphire Blue, Hot Stuff, Dominoes, Tripathi Restaurant, old canteen, Malik, Hasty and Tasty, Punjabi Restaurant, McDonalds, Sagar Ratna (Veg/South Indian), Friends, Bikanerwala canteen, Chowranghee Bengali Restaurant. These days, visit to malik and HND restaurants have been banned after 9 O'Clock for security purposes. New canteens have been opened inside the hostel premises for late night snacks.
IIITA offers a B.Tech degree in either Information Technology or Electronics and Communications Engineering. Admission is through the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE). Foreign students are accepted based on SAT II scores.[2]
Three graduate Programmes are offered, Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Technology (MBA-IT), Master of Science (M.S.) in Cyber Law and Information Security (MS-CLIS) and Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Information Technology.[3] Admission to the MBA-IT programme is based on CAT 2009 scores and an entrance test, interview & group discussion.[4] Admission to the MS-CLIS program is based on an entrance test and an interview.[5] Admission to the M.Tech programme is based on Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) scores and on a written test or interview.[3]
Students can enroll in the research Doctoral Programme (awarding a Ph.D) after either completing a B.Tech degree or an M.Tech one.[6]
The technical club undertakes all the student technical activity.
The INDEM (IIITA Network Development, Engineering and Management) represents the Network and System Admins at IIITA. INDEM innovates and experiments with technology at the campus LAN, as well as maintaining and managing the internet/intranet services.
The robotics club encourages students to explore and experiment with robot design, artificial intelligence programming and related areas. Robot fabrication workshops are conducted.
The club debates, extempore and other literary competitions. It publishes IMHO (in English) and Swacchanda (in Hindi), two magazines for in-campus circulation.
The dramatics club organizes workshops for acting and scriptwriting, and holds drama competitions where talent can be showcased. The club has staged performances both in Hindi and English. Innovation one act play competition is an annual feature of the club.
The IIITA music club showcases the musical talent of the institute. The club has a college band.
The club manages lights, audio equipment, and visual recording of events staged at IIITA.
The club is responsible for management and publicity of events held at IIITA.
The Campus houses the Universal Digital Library, a branch of the Million Book Project which would enable all the literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind to be digitally preserved and made freely available.
Under the umbrella of the Indo-Russian Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP) in Science and Technology, several joint R&D projects are being implemented. Russian institutions have been offering technologies for commercialisation in India. Similarly, the Indian side has been offering technologies developed in India for validation and commercialisation in Russia. Technology transfer activities in engineering materials, electronics, laser science and technology, catalysis, space science and technology has been significant.
The sub-working group on biotechnology in its meeting held on 8 December 1999 endorsed the view of the ILTP joint council that there was a need to establish a joint Indo-Russian centre for biotechnology (IRCB) to co-ordinate activities under Indo-Russian collaboration in biotechnology. The Sub-Working group on biotechnology during its third meeting in June, 2000 in Moscow also strongly recommended the proposal. M. M. Joshi, the Minister for Science and Technology announced it formally during his visit to Russia in July, 2000.
The agreement for establishment of this centre was formally concluded on 5 November 2001 in Moscow during the visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Russia between the Department of Science and Technology on the Indian side and the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Russian side.
The centre was inaugurated by M. M. Joshi at Allahabad on 23 December 2001.
The First project at the center is the HCRPDB, a Database Retrieval and Mining System for Human Cell Receptors Proteins. HCRPDB generates information for structure based drug design on cell receptors proteins and allows retrieval of protein sequence related information.
IIITA has an extension campus at Amethi, Sultanpur District, Uttar Pradesh, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Information Technology. Rahul Gandhi, MP from the Amethi Lok Sabha Constituency, laid the foundation stone for the new extension centre on April 14, 2006. The project is likely to cost about Rs 35 crore, although final details are yet to be worked out. All the faculty members come from the main campus ( Jhalwa ) to take their respective classes. The exams and evaluation are also conducted from the main campus only.
RGIIT Amethi an extension campus of IIIT Allahabad is established in a sprawling 60-acre (240,000 m2) area in the midst of picturesque, holy and calm surroundings to improve the quality of life of the surrounding area and to bridge the technology gap.
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