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| Motto | asato ma sadgamaya, Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya |
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| Type | Deemed University |
| Established | 2006 |
| Chairman | Jitendra Nath Goswami |
| Director | Prof. Hemanta Kumar Kalita[1] (Additional charge) |
| Location | 26°28′41″N 90°18′09″E / 26.4780512°N 90.3026385°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
The Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar (CITK) is a public technical university[2] established in 2006 and owned by the Government of India. It is located in Kokrajhar, Assam, India. The institute is spread across 300 acres (1.2 km2) in Kokrajhar and offers Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Design (B.Des.), Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Master of Design (M.Des.), PhD, and Diploma programs in various disciplines.
History
The Institute was established on 19 December 2006. The genesis of this Institute was the memorandum of Settlement on Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) signed between the Assam Government, the Government of India and the Bodo Liberation Tigers Force, on 10 February 2003, in New Delhi. The Institute is an autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and functions under a Board of Governors (BOG). The Institute is declared as a Deemed University by University Grants Commission (UGC) and Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) with the recommendation from Central Government under "De-Novo" category on 13 December 2018.
Departments
The institute has the following departments offering both diploma and degree programs:
- Civil engineering
- Computer Science & Engineering
- Electronics & Communication Engineering
- Food Engineering and Technology
- Instrumentation Engineering
- Multimedia Communication and Design
- Allied Engineering
- Basic Science
- Humanities and Social Science
Facilities
There are 3 Boys' and 1 Girls' Hostel inside the campus with capacity to accommodate around 1100 Boys and 250 girls. However to accommodate the newly admitted girls the institute has arranged 2 rented house outside the campus and new Hostels are being constructed. Due to the constraints faced by the students especially the outstation students to find accommodation in the town, the Institute is making arrangements for opening more hostels for both boys and girls.
Academics
Rankings
Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar was ranked in the 251–300 band among all engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2021.
References
- ^ "Prof. Hemanta Kumar Kalita has taken over charge as the Director (I/C) of CIT Kokrajhar". CIT Kokrajhar. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
- ^ "Deemed University ,Assam". University Grants Commission.
- ^ "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2021 (Engineering)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Education. 9 September 2021.
External links
This page was last edited on 12 December 2023, at 18:10