Act Number: 23

Act Name: The Indian Institutes of Information Technology (Public-private Partnership) Act, 2017

Year: 2017

Enactment Date: 2017-08-09

Long Title: An Act to declare certain Indian Institutes of Information Technology established under public-private partnership as institutions of national importance, with a view to develop new knowledge in information technology and to provide manpower of global standards for the information technology industry and to provide for certain other matters connected with such institutions or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Human Resource Development

Department: Department of Higher Education

Section 36: Annual report of Director.
    (1) There shall be attached to every statement of accounts laid before the Board of each Institute, a report by its Director, with respect to—
         (a) the state of affairs of such Institute;
         (b) the amount, if any, which it proposes to carry forward to any surplus reserves in its balance sheet;
         (c) the extent to which understatement or overstatement of any surplus of income over expenditure or any shortfall of expenditure over income has been indicated in the auditor's report and the reasons for such understatement or overstatement;
         (d) the productivity of research projects undertaken by the Institute measured in accordance with such norms as may be specified by any statutory regulatory authority;
         (e) appointments of the officers and teachers of the Institute;
         (f) benchmark and internal standards set by the Institute, including the nature of innovations in teaching, research and application of knowledge.
     (2) The Director shall also be bound to give the complete information and explanation in its report on every reservation, qualification or adverse remark contained in the auditors' report.
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