Section 2: Declaration of certain institutions as institutions of national importance.

Whereas the objects of the institutions known as the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, the College of Engineering and Technology, Delhi, the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 5[the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee], the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhi Nagar, the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar and the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi are such as to make them institutions of national importance, it is hereby declared that each such institution is an institution of national importance.