National Institute of Technology Agartala (NITA)

ABOUT NIT Agartala - National Institute of Technology Agartala

Established in 1965 as Tripura Engineering College and declared National Institute of Technology in 2006, The Institute has been recognized by the Honourable Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India as “An Institute of National Importance”. Among its various objectives, The National Institute of Technology Agartala pledges to revitalize the indices of education not only in the field of technical subjects but also pursue a chapter of excellence in various disciplines and in its course of evolution into a multifaceted knowledge hub of the North East India. The Institute in its strategic initiatives realizes the responsibilities of its pivotal role of importance in the arena of higher education to meet the future challenges and roots its commitment in inculcating the values of quality education. With highly experienced faculties and robust infrastructure, the Institute has broken many impediments which stood in its way of becoming an Institute of National importance and today through its commitments to achieve its strategic objectives charters out even further in its quest to be a Centre of Excellence in the near future.

Based in the state of the art campus spread in 365 acres, NIT Agartala family consists of 4000+ students and 200+ faculties distributed across 13 departments and 6 schools.

Our Vision

Institute is committed to develop highly competent young Engineers, Scientists, and Management Professionals to cater to the ever increasing techno-managerial needs of national and international standards fulfilling professional ethics and societal commitment.

Our Mission

• To produce techno-managerial human resource in line with global need offering state-of-the-art facility, research and training in engineering and allied disciplines.
• To enhance the effectiveness of technical education with innovative system and devising a mechanism to facilitate application of research findings to solve real problems of industries/academics.
• To nurture and sustain an academic ambience conducive to the development of intellectually capable and committed professionals so that an effective growth is obtained for the economic development of the region and the nation as a whole.
• To establish as the corridor of higher education for the South East Asian countries.

Our Objective

In order to response effectively to the needs of the society, the Institute aims at

• Influencing the technical practices of the Governmental and Non-Governmental organizations through its Under Graduate and Post Graduate teaching programme for the young and prospective technocrats, Training of corporate executives, Consultancy and Research. The research programmes are oriented towards developing technical systems that are most suitable in the Indian context particularly for North-Eastern Zone.
• Transpiring the technical knowledge from the Institute level to the entrepreneurs, so that an effective growth is obtained for the economic development of the Region and the Nation as a whole.
• Enhance the effectiveness of technical education and innovative system and devising a mechanism to facilitate application of research findings to solve the problems in the industry.

Our Education System

Presently the Institute offers eight UG courses and PG courses in several fields along with Post Doctoral Fellowships. This Institute is autonomous under NIT being act passed by the parliament.

The Institute recently introduced a new curriculum in the line of IITs where more number of elective subjects are being offered to make the system flexible. Previously, the Institute used to follow the mark based system of evaluation, but have been switching over to credit based system in order to keep track with the global evaluation methods. Industrial training, Undertaking projects are parts of the education system and students are also encouraged to take various activities for social development through NSS and NCC.