Act Number: 29

Act Name: The National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research Act, 2007

Year: 2007

Enactment Date: 2007-06-05

Long Title: An Act to declare 1certain institutions of technology, science education and research to be Institutions of national importance and to provide for instructions and research in branches of engineering, technology, management, education, sciences and arts and for the advancement of learning and dissemination of knowledge in such branches and for certain other matters connected with such institutions.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 11: Board of Governors.
    The Board of every 1[Institute mentioned in the First Schedule] shall consist of the following members, namely:--
         (a) the Chairperson to be nominated by the Visitor;
         (b) the Director, ex officio;
         (c) two persons not below the rank of the Joint Secretary to the Government of India to be nominated by the Central Government from amongst persons dealing with technical education and finance;
         (d) two persons to be nominated by the Government of the State in which the 2[Institute mentioned in the First Schedule] is situated, from amongst persons, who, in the opinion of that Government, are technologists or industrialists of repute;
         (e) two persons, at least one of whom shall be a woman, having special knowledge or practical experience in respect of education, engineering or science to be nominated by the Council; 3***
     (f) one professor and one assistant professor or a lecturer of the 2[Institute mentioned in the First Schedule] to be nominated by the Senate;
     4[(g) the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology in whose zone the Institute is located, or his nominee, not below the rank of a Professor].
Notes:
1. Subs. by s.8, ibid., for "Institute" (w.e.f. 7-6-2012).
2. Subs by Act 28 of 2012, s.8, for "Institute" (w.e.f. 7-6-2012).
3. The word "and" omitted by s. 8, ibid. (w.e.f. 7-6-2012).
4. Ins. by s.8, ibid. (w.e.f. 7-6-2012).
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