NIT Hamirpur Alumni

NIT Hamirpur History

National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (commonly referred to as NIT Hamirpur) is a public technical university located at Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh state of India and is wholly funded by Government of India. NIT Hamirpur is one of the twenty National Institutes of Technology established and administered by Government of India. NIT Hamirpur runs various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Engineering and Architecture and Doctor of Philosophy programme in Engineering, Sciences and Humanities.
Established in 1986 as Regional Engineering College, Hamirpur in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh, it was a joint enterprise of the Government of India and the Government of Himachal Pradesh. Come 26th June, 2002 REC Hamirpur was awarded the status of deemed-to-be university and upgraded into an NIT. As a result of this transition the institute came under the sole purview of the Government of India. Recently, it has been awarded the status of institute of national importance by an Act of Parliament. Also, more recently, it was adjudged as the best NIT in terms of infrastructure by the World Bank.