IITS dominate innovation rankings

NEWDELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras placed first, followed by the Mumbai and Delhi IITS, in the Union education ministry’s Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020, released by vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru ranked fourth, followed by IIT Kharagpur as fifth, in the Prestigious Institutes of National Importance and Central Universities category. IIT Madras placed first in the first edition of the ARIIA rankings as well, in 2019.

The other institutions in the

Top 10 were IIT Kanpur (6), IIT Mandi (7), National Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut (8), IIT Roorkee (9) and University of Hyderabad (10).

The rankings, which aim to promote innovation among educational institutions, assess colleges and varsities on various criteria, ranging from support for entrepreneurship to innovative learning method, intellectual property generation, technology transfer and commercialisation, among other aspects.

Among the exclusive higher educational institutions for women, Avinashlingam Institute for Home Sciences and Higher Education in Coimbatore of Tamil Nadu ranked first, followed by Indira Gandhi Delhi

Technical University for Women, in New Delhi.

In the private or self-financed colleges category, the top rank went to S R Engineering College in Warangal, followed by GH Raisoni College of Engineering in Nagpur.

Among private or self-financed universities, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha ranked first, followed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology in Tamil Nadu and Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT).

The new National Education Policy (NEP) has a sharp focus on this aspect, he said. Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ was also present at the event.