Birth
Initially, a group of seven universities have been selected for upgrade to the status of IIT by the S. K. Joshi committee. Since these colleges were controlled by the respective state governments and could not be given IIT status due to political, administrative or technical reasons the MHRD appointed another Committee, called the Anandakrishnan Committee. The committee recommended setting up a new family of institutes by upgrading the selected group of colleges and to be called IIESTs (Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology). Later, the Government of India shortlisted it to five institutions.Bengal Engineering and Science University topped the list among five institutes short listed for IIEST ahead of institutes Engineering faculty of Jadavpur University.
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Famous quotes containing the word birth:
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”
—Edward Young (1683–1765)
“Alas! The time is coming when man will no longer give birth to stars. Alas! The time of the most contemptible man is coming, one who can no longer despise himself. Behold! I show you the last man.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)