National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
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The National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli (NITT) , formerly the Regional Engineering College (REC), Tiruchirappalli, is a public
engineering and technology university located 20 km near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India
. The institute was founded in 1964 to cater to the country's growing need for technological manpower. It is one of the 30 National Institutes of Technology
in India and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance
. About 3,400 students are enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the institute. NITT has consistently been ranked as one of the top engineering colleges in the country.
The institute is located on an 800 acre (3.2 km²) campus on the outskirts of Tiruchirappalli. Most students live in residential hostels on campus. There are more than 35 student groups that pursue activities and hobbies. The institute organises annual cultural and technical festivals that attract participants from all over the country and abroad.
and the Government of Tamil Nadu
in 1964 to cater to the country's need for manpower in technology. The college was given autonomy in financial and administrative matters to achieve rapid development. In 2003, the institution was granted Deemed University
status with the approval of the UGC
/AICTE
and was renamed National Institute of Technology. The Chairman of the institute is Rajaram Nityananda
. Dr.Srinivasan Sundarrajan has been Director of the institute since July 2011. The institute is undergoing accelerated growth through the World Bank
-funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP).
Research in the institute is sponsored by major government agencies including Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) and the Department of Science and Technology
(DST); in 2006–07, research grants from these agencies exceeded one crore Indian rupee
s ( 1,00,00,000; approx. US$
200,000).
. Companies that visit the campus include Microsoft
, Google
, Amazon
,
Oracle ,Michelin
, ITC, Cisco
, Yahoo, ZS Associates
, VMware
, Directi
, nVIDIA
, Intel, Texas Instruments
,ARM, Atmel
, Analog Devices
, Qualcomm
, Morgan Stanley
, Goldman Sachs
, Maruti Suzuki, Schlumberger
and Public-sector undertaking companies such as ONGC, NTPC
, BHEL, BPCL, HPCL and C-DOT
.
degrees in nine engineering disciplines as well as the B.Arch.
degree through its architecture program. Admission to these programs is through the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)
. NITT follows the reservation policy declared by the Supreme Court of India
, by which 27% of seats are reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBCs)
, 15% for Scheduled Castes (SCs), and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes (STs). The institute also accepts foreign nationals through scholarships awarded by the Government of India, and non-resident Indians
through an independent scheme known as Direct Admission for Students Abroad (DASA).
The B.Tech. program is a four-year program while the B.Arch. program is five years long. The first year of the B.Tech. program is common across all disciplines, during which students take basic courses in engineering, mathematics and professional communication.
or M.Tech. degree respectively, as well as a program in computer applications (MCA
) and management (MBA
). Doctoral programs are offered in all disciplines.
The Department of Management Studies (DoMS)
has been functioning since 1978.
Graduate admissions are through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
for the M.Tech. and M.Sc. programs, and through NIMCET
for the MCA program.
ranked NIT Trichy as the 7th best engineering college in terms of placement and overall it was ranked 10th.In 2010, a survey by India Today
and the Nielsen Company ranked NITT the 12th best engineering college in India. A similar study conducted by Education Times
and GfK
in 2009 placed the institute at 6th position, while Outlook India
ranked it 15th in the same year. The Department of Architecture is ranked one of the best in India in the 2011 Outlook ranking for Architectural colleges in India
The NITT campus is situated near Thuvakudi
, on the outskirts of Tiruchirappalli. The campus spans 800 acre (3.2 km²) and is the second largest educational campus in India ( After IIT Kharagpur). The main entrance is located on the southern end of the campus, facing National Highway 67
.
The administrative building (popularly referred to as the ad-block) with its iconic clock tower
is one of the institute's landmarks. This building houses the administrative offices and also the offices of the director and deans. The eastern and western wings of this building are occupied by the physics and chemistry departments respectively.
The Octagon is the institute's primary computer centre, with eight computer lab
s, printing facilities and a variety of engineering software for use by students. The Octagon also serves as a central hub for interconnecting the campus-wide LAN
. The original facility, opened in 1990, was extended into a second building in 2006; there are plans to further expand the facility in view of the increase in student enrolment.
Other amenities on campus include a guest house, a modern hospital and pharmacy, a post office, a bank, 2 ATMs (State Bank of India
) and two supermarkets.
, Cognizant Technology Solutions
and Reliance Industries
. Since 2007, the institute has annually presented Distinguished Alumni Awards to its notable and outstanding alumni.
(NCC), the National Sports Organisation
(NSO) or the National Service Scheme
(NSS).
groups at NITT include the dance troupe, the music troupe and the thespians' society. These groups perform at institute events and have won accolades at contests across the country. The dance troupe combining vibrant colours with meaningful themes in their performances.
Amruthavarshini, the Carnatic music
group of the college, organises classical music concerts in the institute. In 2007, the group organised Tyagaraja Aradhana in honour of the Carnatic musician Tyagaraja
.
Festember is the annual national-level cultural festival
of the institute. Held every year since 1975 during the month of September, this event encompasses music, dance and literary competitions, with thousands of participants from colleges all over the country vying for the trophy. The event has seen performances by Indian musicians including Karthik
, Srinivas
, Naresh Iyer
, Kadri Gopalnath
and Sivamani
as well as bands like Indian Ocean
. Festember derives its name from the phrase, "A Fest to Remember" and not from "A Fest in September" as is popularly believed due to its falling in the month of September every year. The 2011 edition is themed around the casino, Las Vegas style. NITTFEST is the intra-college version of Festember with many of the same events, but with the competition between departments of the institute.
Pragyan is the annual science and technology festival of the institute, usually held in the month of January or February. The festival features contests in programming, management, robotics and other fields of engineering. These contests – some of which are conducted online – attract participants from all over India and also from other countries. Pragyan has featured workshops by Adobe
and Sun Microsystems
as well as guest lecturers including Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales
, Nobel prize-winning physicist John C. Mather
and linguist Noam Chomsky
.
Public university
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions...
engineering and technology university located 20 km near the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
. The institute was founded in 1964 to cater to the country's growing need for technological manpower. It is one of the 30 National Institutes of Technology
National Institutes of Technology
The National Institutes of Technology , are a group of higher education engineering institutes in India. Comprising thirty autonomous institutes, they are located in one each major state/territory of India. On their inception decades ago, all NITs were referred as Regional Engineering Colleges ...
in India and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance
Institute of National Importance
An Institute of National Importance, in India is defined as one which serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled personnel within the specified region of the country/state. Institutes on the list are usually supported by the Government of India...
. About 3,400 students are enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the institute. NITT has consistently been ranked as one of the top engineering colleges in the country.
The institute is located on an 800 acre (3.2 km²) campus on the outskirts of Tiruchirappalli. Most students live in residential hostels on campus. There are more than 35 student groups that pursue activities and hobbies. The institute organises annual cultural and technical festivals that attract participants from all over the country and abroad.
History
The Regional Engineering College at Tiruchirappalli was founded in 1964 as a co-operative venture between the Government of IndiaGovernment of India
The Government of India, officially known as the Union Government, and also known as the Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of the union of 28 states and seven union territories, collectively called the Republic of India...
and the Government of Tamil Nadu
Government of Tamil Nadu
The Government of Tamil Nadu, headquartered at Chennai is the governing authority for the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. It is seated at the Fort St. George...
in 1964 to cater to the country's need for manpower in technology. The college was given autonomy in financial and administrative matters to achieve rapid development. In 2003, the institution was granted Deemed University
Deemed University
Deemed university is a status of autonomy granted to high performing institutes and departments of various universities in India. This status of ‘Deemed-to-be-University’, is granted by Department of Higher Education, Union Human Resource Development Ministry, on the advice of the University Grants...
status with the approval of the UGC
University Grants Commission (India)
The University Grants Commission of India is a statutory organisation set up by Union government in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education. It provides recognition for universities in India, and provides funds for government-recognised...
/AICTE
All India Council for Technical Education
The All India Council for Technical Education is the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development...
and was renamed National Institute of Technology. The Chairman of the institute is Rajaram Nityananda
Rajaram Nityananda
Rajaram Nityananda is an Indian physicist who works on Astronomical Optics, Image Processing & Gravitational Dynamics. He was formerly the Director of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics...
. Dr.Srinivasan Sundarrajan has been Director of the institute since July 2011. The institute is undergoing accelerated growth through the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
-funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP).
Academics
NITT offers undergraduate and graduate programs in disciplines spanning engineering, science, architecture and management. The institute has 16 departments with about 250 faculty members and more than 3,400 enrolled students. As of 2008, the annual intake for the B.Tech. program was 530, with a student-faculty ratio of 14:1.Research in the institute is sponsored by major government agencies including Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Defence Research and Development Organisation
Defence Research and Development Organisation
The Defence Research and Development Organisation is a agency of the Republic of India, responsible for the development of technology for use by the military, headquartered in New Delhi, India...
(DRDO) and the Department of Science and Technology
Department of Science and Technology (India)
The Department of Science and Technology is a department within the Ministry of Science and Technology in India. It was established in May 1971, with the objective of promoting new areas of Science and Technology and to play the role of a nodal department for organising, coordinating and promoting...
(DST); in 2006–07, research grants from these agencies exceeded one crore Indian rupee
Indian rupee
The Indian rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India....
s ( 1,00,00,000; approx. US$
United States dollar
The United States dollar , also referred to as the American dollar, is the official currency of the United States of America. It is divided into 100 smaller units called cents or pennies....
200,000).
Placements
The training and placement department of the institute arranges for companies to conduct on-campus interviews to recruit students. Over 160 companies participate in the placement process every year. The highest compensation being $125,000(~56 lakh) per annum,Offered by FacebookFacebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
. Companies that visit the campus include Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, Amazon
Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
,
Oracle ,Michelin
Michelin
Michelin is a tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France. It is one of the two largest tyre manufacturers in the world along with Bridgestone. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the BFGoodrich, Kleber, Riken, Kormoran and Uniroyal tyre brands...
, ITC, Cisco
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
, Yahoo, ZS Associates
ZS Associates
ZS Associates is a privately owned American consulting company, founded on September 21, 1983, by Kellogg School of Management marketing professors Andris A. Zoltners and Prabhakant Sinha. The company, which has grown to over 1,500 employees, has provided primarily sales and marketing consulting...
, VMware
VMware
VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....
, Directi
Directi
Direct is an internet domain registrar and web hosting company, and was the first ICANN-accredited registrar in India. Directi was started by Bhavin Turakhia and his brother Divyank Turakhia in 1998...
, nVIDIA
NVIDIA
Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...
, Intel, Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
,ARM, Atmel
Atmel
Atmel Corporation is a manufacturer of semiconductors, founded in 1984. Its focus is on system-level solutions built around flash microcontrollers...
, Analog Devices
Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. , known as ADI, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts...
, Qualcomm
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
, Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
, Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
, Maruti Suzuki, Schlumberger
Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
and Public-sector undertaking companies such as ONGC, NTPC
NTPC
NTPC may refer to:* Nam Theun 2 Power Company* National Thermal Power Corporation, in India* Northwest Territories Power Corporation...
, BHEL, BPCL, HPCL and C-DOT
C-DOT
The Centre for Development of Telematics is an Indian Government owned Telecom Technology development Centre,. It was established in 1984 with initial mandate of designing and developing digital exchanges. Today, C-DOT has expanded itself in the area of Telecom. C-DOT is now a Next Generation...
.
Undergraduate programs
The institute awards B.Tech.Bachelor of Technology
The Bachelor of Technology is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after completion of a three or four year program of studies at an accredited university or accredited university-level institution...
degrees in nine engineering disciplines as well as the B.Arch.
Bachelor of Architecture
The Bachelor of Architecture is an undergraduate academic degree designed to satisfy the academic component of professional accreditation bodies, to be followed by a period of practical training prior to professional examination and registration. It is awarded for a course of study that lasts up...
degree through its architecture program. Admission to these programs is through the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)
All India Engineering Entrance Examination
The All India Engineering Entrance Examination , is an examination organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education in India...
. NITT follows the reservation policy declared by the Supreme Court of India
Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India...
, by which 27% of seats are reserved for Other Backward Classes (OBCs)
Other Backward Class
The Central Government of India classifies some of its citizens based on their social and economic condition as Scheduled Caste , Scheduled Tribe , and Other Backward Class . The OBC list presented by the commission is dynamic and will change from time to time depending on social, educational and...
, 15% for Scheduled Castes (SCs), and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribes (STs). The institute also accepts foreign nationals through scholarships awarded by the Government of India, and non-resident Indians
Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin
A Non-Resident Indian is an Indian citizen who has migrated to another country, a person of Indian origin who is born outside India, or a person of Indian origin who resides permanently outside India. Other terms with the same meaning are overseas Indian and expatriate Indian...
through an independent scheme known as Direct Admission for Students Abroad (DASA).
The B.Tech. program is a four-year program while the B.Arch. program is five years long. The first year of the B.Tech. program is common across all disciplines, during which students take basic courses in engineering, mathematics and professional communication.
Graduate programs
The institute offers graduate programs in 23 disciplines, including 21 programs in science and engineering, leading to a M.Sc.Master of Science
A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences including the social sciences.-Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay:...
or M.Tech. degree respectively, as well as a program in computer applications (MCA
Master of Computer Applications
The Master of Computer Applications is a postgraduate degree in computer application streams awarded in India. Full time MCA programmes normally take three academic years. The primary emphasis in MCA curriculum is on the development of diverse types of application software rather than designing...
) and management (MBA
Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
). Doctoral programs are offered in all disciplines.
The Department of Management Studies (DoMS)
DoMS NIT Trichy
The Department of Management Studies was started in 1978 with an ME programme in Management. The MBA programme was started in1982, which was later funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, government of India....
has been functioning since 1978.
Graduate admissions are through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering is an examination administered and conducted jointly by the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institutes of Technologies on behalf of the National Coordination Board – GATE, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development ,...
for the M.Tech. and M.Sc. programs, and through NIMCET
NIMCET
NIMCET is the national level entrance test for admission to Master of Computer Applications courses in select National Institutes of Technology ....
for the MCA program.
Rankings
Outlook IndiaOutlook (magazine)
Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...
ranked NIT Trichy as the 7th best engineering college in terms of placement and overall it was ranked 10th.In 2010, a survey by India Today
India Today
India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...
and the Nielsen Company ranked NITT the 12th best engineering college in India. A similar study conducted by Education Times
Education Times
Education Times is a weekly supplement of The Times of India newspaper and was launched in 1995. This newspaper supplement caters to the ever-expanding student community as a career guide, counselor and adviser. The editorial covers exhaustive profiles of mainstream and offbeat careers, prepares...
and GfK
GfK
The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, and IMS Health...
in 2009 placed the institute at 6th position, while Outlook India
Outlook (magazine)
Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...
ranked it 15th in the same year. The Department of Architecture is ranked one of the best in India in the 2011 Outlook ranking for Architectural colleges in India
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Campus
Thuvakudi
Thuvakudi is a 3rd Grade Municipality in Tiruchirappalli City in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is approximately 335 km from the nearest cosmopolis — Chennai...
, on the outskirts of Tiruchirappalli. The campus spans 800 acre (3.2 km²) and is the second largest educational campus in India ( After IIT Kharagpur). The main entrance is located on the southern end of the campus, facing National Highway 67
National Highway 67 (India)
National Highway 67 is a National Highway in Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It runs from Nagapattinam, a sea-side town in Tamil Nadu to Gundlupet in Karnataka near the intersection of National Highway 212...
.
Clock tower
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. Some clock towers are not true clock towers having had their clock faces added to an already existing building...
is one of the institute's landmarks. This building houses the administrative offices and also the offices of the director and deans. The eastern and western wings of this building are occupied by the physics and chemistry departments respectively.
Academic facilities
The institute's academic facilities are located in the southern half of the campus; these include the department buildings, laboratories and workshops, lecture halls, computer centres and the central library. Each department has its own library, in addition to the central library, which holds more than one lakh (100,000) resources including books, periodicals and journals in print and electronic format.The Octagon is the institute's primary computer centre, with eight computer lab
Computer lab
A computer lab, also known as a computer suite or computer cluster is typically a room which contains many networked computers for public use...
s, printing facilities and a variety of engineering software for use by students. The Octagon also serves as a central hub for interconnecting the campus-wide LAN
Local area network
A local area network is a computer network that interconnects computers in a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, or office building...
. The original facility, opened in 1990, was extended into a second building in 2006; there are plans to further expand the facility in view of the increase in student enrolment.
Athletic facilities
Most of the institute's athletic facilities are located in and around the sports centre. The centre includes indoor badminton courts and a fitness centre. Adjoining this building are a 25 metres (82 ft) swimming pool and an outdoor stadium with a 400 metres (1,312.3 ft) track, which is also used as a cricket field. Other facilities on campus include basketball courts, and indoor table tennis tables in the residential hostels.Housing and other amenities
Residential facilities are provided on campus for students, faculty and staff of the institute. Most students live on campus in the residential hostels. In all, there are 17 boys and 3 girls hostels with a capacity of 3800 students. Four more hostels are under construction. Once completed they will be able to accommodate 4660 students. With the exception of the girls' hostel, all the others are located in the northern side of the campus. Meals are served by 2 mega messes and 2 government messes located in campus. There are two cafeterias on campus where food is available for purchase.Other amenities on campus include a guest house, a modern hospital and pharmacy, a post office, a bank, 2 ATMs (State Bank of India
State Bank of India
The State Bank of India is the largest Indian banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is state-owned. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest...
) and two supermarkets.
Notable alumni
The institute's graduates hold (or have held) senior executive positions in such companies as Tata Consultancy ServicesTata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a global IT services, business solutions and outsourcing company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is the largest provider of information technology in Asia and second largest provider of business process outsourcing services in India...
, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. is an American global provider of custom information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. Its headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States and is a member of NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500 and Fortune 500...
and Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian conglomerate company headquartered at Mumbai, India. The company operates through three business segments: petrochemicals, refining, and oil and gas, other segment of the company includes textile, retail business, special economic zone development and...
. Since 2007, the institute has annually presented Distinguished Alumni Awards to its notable and outstanding alumni.
Student life
NITT has over 35 student groups spanning a variety of interests, including cultural, social and professional groups, student publications and recreational groups. Undergraduate students participate in one of three national programmes in their first year: the National Cadet CorpsNational Cadet Corps (India)
The National Cadet Corps is the Indian military cadet corps with its Headquarters at New Delhi. It is open to school and college students on voluntary basis....
(NCC), the National Sports Organisation
National Sports Organisation (India)
The National Sports Organisation is an effort by the Government of India to promote the development of athletics and sporting activities with the youth of India....
(NSO) or the National Service Scheme
National Service Scheme
National Service Scheme ' is an Indian government-sponsored program under the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. It was started in 1969.-History:...
(NSS).
Performing arts
The performing artsPerforming arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
groups at NITT include the dance troupe, the music troupe and the thespians' society. These groups perform at institute events and have won accolades at contests across the country. The dance troupe combining vibrant colours with meaningful themes in their performances.
Amruthavarshini, the Carnatic music
Carnatic music
Carnatic music is a system of music commonly associated with the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, with its area roughly confined to four modern states of India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu...
group of the college, organises classical music concerts in the institute. In 2007, the group organised Tyagaraja Aradhana in honour of the Carnatic musician Tyagaraja
Tyagaraja
Kakarla Tyagabrahmam , colloquially known as Tyāgarājar and Tyagayya was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music. He, along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastry, forms the Trinity of Carnatic music...
.
Annual events
Three of the institute's official annual events – Festember, NITTFEST and Pragyan – are organised by the students themselves. These are also the largest and most-awaited events every year.Festember is the annual national-level cultural festival
Culfest
A culfest or cultfest is an annual event organized by colleges in India.-General format:Most college culfests last from two to five days...
of the institute. Held every year since 1975 during the month of September, this event encompasses music, dance and literary competitions, with thousands of participants from colleges all over the country vying for the trophy. The event has seen performances by Indian musicians including Karthik
Karthik (singer)
Karthik is an Indian playback singer.Karthik started his professional singing career as a backing vocalist and has since been a playback singer in Tamil cinema while also single in other Indian languages for various composers...
, Srinivas
Srinivas (singer)
Srinivas 'Srini' is an award winning playback singer who has sung over 2000 songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi. He is also a music composer.-Early life:...
, Naresh Iyer
Naresh Iyer
Naresh Iyer is a playback singer from Chennai, India. Naresh Iyer has rendered film songs in several Indian languages and has several chart hits to his credit. His rendition of "Roobaroo" from the movie Rang De Basanti composed by A. R. Rahman topped the music charts for many weeks in 2006 and won...
, Kadri Gopalnath
Kadri Gopalnath
Dr. Kadri Gopalnath is an Indian saxophonist and one of the pioneers of Carnatic music on the saxophone.-Early life:...
and Sivamani
Sivamani
Anandan Sivamani , popularly known as Sivamani, is a percussionist based in India. He plays many instruments including drums, Octoban, Darbuka, Udukai, and Kanjira, as well as many more. He performed drumming during the IPL Championships in 2008 & 2010. He is affiliated to the Chennai Super Kings...
as well as bands like Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean (band)
Indian Ocean are an Indian rock band formed in New Delhi in 1990. They are considered to be the pioneers of fusion rock genre in India. Susmit Sen, Asheem Chakravarty, Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam formed the most stable and successful line-up in the band's timeline. This line-up lasted till Asheem's...
. Festember derives its name from the phrase, "A Fest to Remember" and not from "A Fest in September" as is popularly believed due to its falling in the month of September every year. The 2011 edition is themed around the casino, Las Vegas style. NITTFEST is the intra-college version of Festember with many of the same events, but with the competition between departments of the institute.
Pragyan is the annual science and technology festival of the institute, usually held in the month of January or February. The festival features contests in programming, management, robotics and other fields of engineering. These contests – some of which are conducted online – attract participants from all over India and also from other countries. Pragyan has featured workshops by Adobe
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
and Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems
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as well as guest lecturers including Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
, Nobel prize-winning physicist John C. Mather
John C. Mather
John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure ".....
and linguist Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
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