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Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) is a Institute of National Importance under the NIT Act. It is one of the National Institutes of Technology of India. It was formerly known as Maulana Azad College of Technology (MACT).
History
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India (formerly Maulana Azad College of Technology, MACT), is one of the first eight Regional Engineering Colleges in India. The institute has been named after the great scholar, educationist and the first education Minister of Govt. of India, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The Govt. of India and Govt. of Madhya Pradesh jointly sponsored the then MACT (a Regional Engineering College) in 1960 to attract bright young students from across the country. The Institute is successfully meeting the objective of producing skilled manpower of the highest quality who is able to cope up with challenges of ever evolving industrial needs of the country.
The Institute is situated in the heart of Bhopal on southern side. The verdant 650-acre (2.6 km2) campus, on a beautiful plateau, houses, about 400 faculty and 1500 students who enjoy excellent facilities of laboratories that are well equipped. Over the past 40 years of the effective existence the laboratories have not only at attained maturity and confidence but also shaped themselves as Center for Excellence for higher education.
The first principal was J.N. Moudgill and served for 5 years during which initial planning was done. Then there were several principals, mostly acting, till 1977 when Dr. B.L. Mehrotra joined. Dr. Mehrotra continued till 1994 during which most of the development in MACT took place.
Infrastructure
MANIT is situated in the heart of Bhopal on southern side. Its campus is spread over 652 acres (2.6 km2), on a beautiful plateau. It houses about 1000 students and faculty.
Student life
MANIT has students from all parts of the country. Student life revolves around the college campus and hostels. College has Hostel facility with round the clock net connectivity, electricity, water, security, canteen and other facilities for students. There are separate hostels for students who are in different academic years. Other than these hostels, Hostels for post graduation students are also available. All the hostels have a care taker, an assistant warden and a warden separately. A Chief warden is head of all hostels and post is held by senior Professor of college.
Apart from Indian students, candidates from many countries such as Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Mauritius, Malaysia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan and Oman also join MANIT for various undergraduate and post-graduate programs.
The college has active student life with various student organizations that include Drishtant (The literary society), iBC,ISTE(Technical Community), Vision (Science community),The Edboard,.etc. The students learn a lot more than mere academics. They are made into good entrepreneurs.
Festivals
MANIT hosts various Major National Level Meets namely:
a) 'Technosearch' - Annual National Level Technical Meet: One of its kind in terms of Quality and Scale of events.
b) 'Maffick' - Annual Cultural Festival.
c) 'Samadhan' - Annual National Level programming test.
d) 'Robotics'- Annual festival for displaying various robots made the students of the college.
e) 'RIPPLE' - Annual Literary festival of the college hosted by the college literary society DRISHTANT
f) Twist - annual quiz contest by college society IBC
g)-sports o mania- annual sports meet
People
- Present Director : Dr. K.S. Pandey.
- Sport's Staff : Bhatt Sir, Rajesh Mishra, Narendra
Notable Alumni
- Suresh Pachouri, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
- John K John, Managing Director, Johnson Lifts, Chennai
- Alok Rastogi, Entrepreneur and Founder of L&T Infotech in USA
- Ajit Jogi, First Chief minister of Chattisgarh.
- Brajesh Dubey, Carorepati Champion of Kaun Banega Carorepati-2 (KBC-2), hosted by Amitabh Bachchan on Star plus channel in 2005.
- Abraham Joseph, Vice President (R&D), Bajaj Auto Limited, Akurdi, Pune
Admissions
For the undergraduate courses the admission is through the national level engineering entrance examination - AIEEE.
For the post graduate courses the entry is through GATE for MTech, NIMCET for MCA or through an institute conducted entrance test.
Placements
The year 2007-08 saw an unprecedented 662 job offers being made to MANITians from 64 companies. The year also saw a marked increase in the number of core jobs to an extent that the core fields seem promising. Many students had 2 offers and some even had 3 or more jobs. The institute boasts of very good placements with leading companies like Microsoft, Google,Verizon, HP Labs, Accenture , Aricent, CSC, IBM, Intel, Amdocs, Analog Devices, Reliance, Essar, TIME, LG, C-Dot, Capgemini, Honda, Hindalco, Samsung, BPCL, Bajaj Verizon, Career Launcher, Vedanta, Nestle, Areva TnD, DRDO, ABB, Tata Motors, Maruti, Pepsico, IOCL, NTPC, BHEL, Alstom, Satyam, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Conexant, Cognizant, HCC, L&T etc. visiting the institute for placement.
Courses offered
Graduate, Post Graduate and Doctoral level courses are offered by the following engineering and sciences departments
Civil
Mechanical
Electrical
Electronics and Communication
Computer Science and Engineering
Information technology
Architecture and Planning
Production and industrial engineering
Chemical
Energy
Metallurgy
Bioinformatics
Computer Applications
Business Administration.
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