National Institute of Technology Hamirpur (NIT Hamirpur or NITH) is a

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located in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is one of the thirty one

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established, administered and funded by MHRD. Ranked 128 among engineering colleges in India by

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. NIT Hamirpur offers a comprehensive curriculum for undergraduate, graduate and doctorate studies in various fields of

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, pure sciences and

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History

Foundation

The institute came into existence on 7 August 1986 as Regional Engineering College, Hamirpur in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India, it was a joint enterprise of the

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and the

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. The classes commenced at Government Polytechnic College, Hamirpur as REC Hamirpur did not have a campus initially. The classes and administration moved to current location in 1987 when few buildings were constructed. At the inception, the institute only had three departments,

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and

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. Later, two more departments Electronics and Communication Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering were added in 1988 and 1989 respectively. The department of

was established in 2000. Recently in 2013,

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department also came into existence. The institute only offered undergraduate courses until 2005, when it started offering graduate and Ph.D programs. On 26 June 2002, REC Hamirpur was awarded the status of deemed university and upgraded into a

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. As a result of this transition the institute came under the sole purview of the Government of India. It was awarded the status of

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by an Act of Parliament along with other NITs and

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. NIT Hamirpur has been ranked as best NIT in terms of infrastructure by the World Bank in 2007.

Campus

The institute campus is situated in the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh, India, at an altitude of 900 meters above sea level. The campus is spread across 320 acres and is located on a hilly terrain which is surrounded by pine trees. The distance to campus from main bus terminus of Hamirpur city is approximately 4 kilometres. The nearest situated airport is Kangra airport at 86.9 kilometres. Bus and cab facilities are easily available for the campus. Being a residential campus, there are eight boys' hostels and four girls' hostels, with residences for the faculty and staff. Some hostels have four-seated or triple-seated rooms, while others have doublets and singlets. Mega Hostel is the newest and largest in its capacity.

Hostels

Boys' Hostels * Kailash Boys' Hostel * Shivalik Boys' Hostel * Dhauladhar Boys' Hostel * Vindhyachal Boys' Hostel * Neelkanth Boys' Hostel * Himadri Hostel * Himgiri Hostel * Udaygiri Hostel Girls' Hostels * Parvati Girls' Hostel * Ambika Girls' Hostel * Aravali Hostel * Manimahesh Girls' Hostel * Satpura Hostel

Computer Centre

Computer Centre is a central facility, which caters to the needs of academic departments. The aim of the centre is to provide professional services, promote and assist the use of new computing technology among the students, staff and administration.

Central Library

The institute library was set up in 1986 in one room of Government Polytechnic Hamirpur and was shifted to the institute campus in 1988 in Visvesvarya Block. At present it is in a separate building with the floor area of 3200 square meters. The library has more than 100,000 books and numerous scientific journals in both print and electronic format. The reading halls of the library can accommodate around 600 people at a time. Building is facilitated with water coolers, heaters Wi-Fi etc.

Sports

NIT Hamirpur provides sports facilities for indoor and outdoor games. Teams are sent out to compete in university-level sports competition. Sports facilities include Karate,

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, football,

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basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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and

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Health Centre

NIT Hacentre. It is equipped with basic medical facilities and in case of emergency, patients are referred to the Zonal Hospital, Hamirpur.

Organisation and administration

Departments

NIT Hamirpur has 15 departments and 2 centres of excellence. The academic departments at NIT Hamirpur include the following * Architecture * Chemical Engineering * Civil Engineering * Computer Science and Engineering * Electrical and Electronics Engineering * Electronics and Communication Engineering * Mechanical Engineering * Industrial Engineering * Management * Humanities * Physics * Chemistry * Energy and Environment * Material Science * Mathematics and Computing * Statistics

Centres

The two centres of excellence located at NIT Hamirpur are * Centre for Excellence in Energy & Environment * Centre for Material Science and Engineering

Academics

Ranking

National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur was ranked 99 among engineering colleges by the

(NIRF) in 2021. Department of Architecture, NIT, Hamirpur was ranked 9 among all Architecture colleges by the

(NIRF) in 2018.

Student life

Festivities

Hill 'Ffair and Nimbus are the cultural and technical festivals respectively.

Hill'ffair

Hill'ffair is a cultural event of the institute, organized at the national level, with the involvement of bands, singers, musicians, artist, poets and participants from all across the country. Two days and three nights of performance with over a wide genre of dance, music, drama.

NIMBUS

NIMBUS is the annual technical festival of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is touted to be an amalgamation of ideas, expressions, innovations, prototypes, knowledge channels, taken to the most premier levels. In NIMBUS all the departmental teams compete with their best projects, demonstrations and Events. Students from himachal and outside himachal Pradesh come to participate in these events. The team which participates in NIMBUS are * OJAS (Electrical Engg) * MEDEXTROUS (Mechanical Engg) * VIBHAV (Electronics & Comm) * C HELIX (Civil Engg) * Hermetica (Chemical Engg) * Team .EXE (Computer Science and Engineering) * Design O Crats (Architecture) * Metamorph (Material science engg) Tech NEXUS Tech Nexus is the newest National Level Fest introduced at NIT Hamirpur. The fest includes events related to e-sports, hackathons, startup idea incubation and much more.

Notable alumni

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Mohit Kumar
Professor for "Computational Intelligence in Automation (apl)" at the University of Rostock, Germany and Key Researcher at Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria. * Vijay Kumar Thakur, scientist in Manufacturing Enhanced Composites & Structures Centre. at Cranfield University.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:National Institute Of Technology, Hamirpur National Institutes of Technology Engineering colleges in Himachal Pradesh Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh Educational institutions established in 1986 1986 establishments in Himachal Pradesh Education in Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh All India Council for Technical Education Technical universities and colleges in India