The Parliament on September 22, 2020 passed the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill 2020.
This Amendment Bill 2020 will amend the principal Acts of 2014 and 2017.
It seeks to declare five IIITs in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode - IIIT Bhopal, IIIT Agartala, IIIT Surat, IIIT Bhagalpur and IIIT Raichur as Institutions of National importance.
The institutes are already functioning as societies, registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.
With this, the total number of IIITs that have been declared as Institutions of National Importance will go up to 25.