Tips and tricks for budding engineers Getting ready for a B.Tech. programme? Looking out for information on new colleges and courses? ...... New rules for courses in higher education Higher Education Minister V S Acharya made a few announcements on the salient features of PhD program�. 'Hopeful about passage of crucial legislations on education' New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday expressed hope that crucial legislations on reforming higher education,� 4.85 lakh students appear for IIT entrance exam Around 4.85 lakh students appeared for the joint entrance examination of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT-JEE) today Education quality must for employable orkforce Software body Nasscom's estimate that only a quarter of all engineering graduates are readily 74% Indians Literate: 2011 Census While female literacy in 2001 stood at 53.67%, it has gone up to 65.46% in 2011. The male literacy in comparison rose from 75.26 to 82.14%

IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal 100% IIT, Madras,Tamil Nadu 99% (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat 92% NIT,Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh 86% Motilal Nehru NIT, Allahabad, UP 74% NIT, Surathkal, Karnataka 68% NIFoundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand 66% Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur,     Maharashtra 64% Chitkara Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala,     Punjab 55% NIT Calicut, Kerala 53%

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Did you know? Mallika Sarabhai, Amitabh Chaudhry, Harsha Bhogle, Piyush Gupta, Nelabhotla Venkateswarlu and Sanjeev Bikhchandani are Alumni of which Indian Institute of Management? Kozhikode Ahmedabad Lucknow