Institutes of Technology Act,1961
Act No : 59
Section :
Declaration of certain institutions as institutions of nationalimportance.
2. Declaration of certain institutions as institutions of national importance. Whereas the objects of the institutions known as the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2*[the College of Engineering and Technology, Delhi, 3*[The Indian Institute of technogys Guwahati, Assam] the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras are such as to make them institutions of national importance, it is hereby declared that each such institution is an institution of national importance.