Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior

eginning

In the Information Technology era which came to India in 1998 the Govt of India felt a need for establishment of an institute for excellence in Information Technology.Hence the then Indian Govt established IIITs in India which were institutes of national importance other than IITs. The All India Council for Technical Education established a working group in 1995 consisting of professionals, academics and others in the areas of IT, management and communications to deliberate on the issues relating to IT and prepare a Theme paper. This group prepared a document underlining thec need for the establishment of a National Centre in the area of IT and hence the IIITs were started in country. Founding Committee

In 1992, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) set-up a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. P G Reddy. The team reviewed the scenario in the country with regard to software education and training. It was identified that the total manpower need for the software development, domestic and export, was of the order of 570,000 personnel in 1996 to meet a target of software export of Rs. 10,000 crores. Against this the formal educational system produced only 120,000 personnel. The team recommended setting up of Advanced Information System Institutes on the pattern of IITs and IIMs in the country. A study conducted by the World Bank sponsored in July 1992 also underlined the need for additional manpower in the area of IT and software development. Description above from the Wikipedia article IIITM Gwalior, licensed under CC-BY-SA full list of contributors here. Community Pages are not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.