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Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology (abbreviated as IIEST) are a group of academic institutions in India for research and education in engineering. These were originally proposed by the Government of India in 2007 to meet the increasing demand for technological and scientific workforce in the industrial and service sectors of India as well as the growing need for qualified personnel in research and development. It was decided that the institutes under the banner of IIEST were to be created by upgrading existing engineering colleges or universities under the various State governments of India through an act of the Parliament of India, instead of founding completely new institutes. After upgrading, these institutes would also be granted the status of "Institutes of National Importance". The first institute to be upgraded to IIEST was Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, which was a university under the Government of West Bengal prior to the upgrade process. Three more universities are in the pipeline to be upgraded to IIEST in the coming years. ==History== In the early years of the 21st century, the Government of India recognized the need to create more institutes for education in engineering and technology at the national level, since there were only a few institutes, under the banner of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) which provided top quality education and research opportunities in engineering and science. The result was the decision to improve the level of some existing colleges and universities at the state level, that is, under the various State governments of India, which would enable these institutes to receive direct funding from the central Government of India as well as be classified as "Institutes of National Importance", thereby earning its students various benefits. Consequently, a group of seven colleges and universities were selected for upgrade by the S. K. Joshi Committee in 2003. However, these institutes were under the respective State governments of India and could not be upgraded due to various political, administrative or technical difficulties. Later, in 2005, the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India appointed another committee, the Anandakrishnan Committee, to go into the modus operendi of the proposed transformation. In September 2006, he committee recommended setting up a new family of institutes by upgrading the selected group of colleges and universities, to be called Indian Institutes of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST). A list of five institutions were drawn up for this upgrade process by the Anandakrishnan Committee.〔http://www.hindu.com/edu/2006/09/19/stories/2006091900020100.htm〕 Bengal Engineering and Science University Sibpur followed by Benaras Hindu University Institute of Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Osmania University College of Engineering and Andhra University College of Engineering. Benaras Hindu University Institute of Technology was given the status of IIT in 2012. Till now only BESU has got the status of IIEST and the rest other colleges are still to be given the status of IIEST. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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