National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh

National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh

NIT Arunachal Pradesh main building(Temporary Campus)
Motto	न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते
Motto in English	Certainly there is no purifier in this world like Knowledge
Established	2010
Director	Dr.V. Ramachandran
Location	Yupia, A.P., India
Acronym	NITAP
Website	www.nitap.in & www.nitap.ac.in

The National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh (also known as NIT Arunachal Pradesh) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, अरुणाचल प्रदेश) is one of the 31 National Institutes of Technology in India and is recognized as an Institute of National Importance. The classes of NIT Arunachal Pradesh were started from 2010 in a temporary campus in Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh. NIT Arunachal Pradesh has been ranked 19th (www.eduvidya.com) among the 31 NITs.

Yupia is 18 kilometers from Itanagar and 11 kilometers from Naharlagun, which is the twin capital town and houses the temporary campus for the institute. The nearest railway station is Naharlagun, which is two kilometers away. Day and night bus services are available from Guwahati, which is 400 kilometers from Naharlagun.

Jawaharlal Nehru sought to develop India as a leader in science and technology. The government started 14 RECs between 1959 and 1965, at Bhopal, Allahabad, Calicut, Durgapur, Kurukshetra, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Nagpur, Rourkela, Srinagar, Surathkal, Surat, Tiruchirappalli, and Warangal). It established one in Silchar in 1967 and added two others located at Hamirpur in 1986, and Jalandhar in 1987.