NERIST

Exam Announced? YES

Courses offered : B.Tech (Agricultural, Civil, Computer Science & Engg, Electronics & Communication, Electrical, Mechanical), 4 Year BSc (Forestry) and 4 Year BSc (Physics / Chemistry / Mathematics)

About the institute : The North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), a Deemed University, is a unique Institute in the country, having unconventional and innovative academic programmes. It was established in the year 1983 by the Government of India. Its foundation stone was laid by the former President of India Late Gyani Zail Singh on 4th March, 1984.

The Institute was set up initially as a project of the North Eastern Council (NEC) for providing a system of education to create technical manpower at various levels for the development of the North Eastern Region of the country. Its approach is to encourage a policy of vocationalisation at the 10+2 level and to allow motivated of students to move up for professional degree while others to go out of the Institute to enrich their profession with industrial experience. It is autonomous and fully funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India since April 1, 1994. It got the status of a DEEMED UNIVERSITY on 31st May 2005 under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956. It is governed by the Board of Management (BoM) comprising representatives of the MHRD, Govt. of India, the eight beneficiary states of the North East India, AICTE and eminent educationists. It is residential, and is spread over 513 acres of land.

Academic programmes in the Institute started during August 1986 with the first batch of students admitted to the Base Module. Full fledged PG and Ph.D. programmes started during 2007.

About the entrance exam : The NERIST Entrance Examination (NEE) is conducted at three Levels viz., NEE-I, NEE-II and NEE-III for admissions to Certificate, Degree Courses of Engineering & Technology branches through NEE-II (PCM) Engineering & Technology, 4 years B.Sc. Course in Forestry through NEE-II (PCB) and 4 years B.Sc. Courses in Physics / Chemistry / Mathematics through NEE-II (PCM) Science.

State / All India quota

a) 80% of seats are reserved for candidates of the eight North Eastern States (10% for each state) as state quota.

b) Besides this, 7% of the total seats are filled with Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC) holders of these eight North Eastern States on merit basis.

c) 10% of the total seats are filled up with candidates under All India quota (candidates who belong to any of the States of India).

d) 3% of the total seats are reserved for Physical Locomotor Disabled (PD) persons under PD quota.

Note : Reservation for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) is as per the guidelines of GoI.

Concession for the wards of Kashmiri Migrants and Kashmiri Pandit / Kashmiri Hindu Families (Non-Migrants) living in Kashmir Valley

a) Relaxation in cut-off percentage upto 10% subject to minimum eligibility requirement.

b) Increase in intake capacity upto 5% course wise.

c) Reservation of at least one seat merit quota in technical /professional institutions.

d) Waiving off domicile requirements for Kashmiri Migrants only. Kashmiri Pandits / Kashmiri Hindu Family (Non-Migrants) living in Kashmiri Valley need domicile certificate.

Stipend / Scholarship : The SC/ST students of North Eastern states are generally provided with stipends by the concerned state and Central governments at varying rates. The North Eastern Council (NEC) also provides scholarship to the students of the region for their study at Degree and higher levels. The students can also apply for various scholarships schemes available to them as per eligibility through National Scholarship Portal (NSP). The continuance of stipend is subject to the following conditions:

(i) His/her maintenance of discipline in the Institute is consistently good and he/she is regular in the classes. Unauthorized absence from the Institute/Hostel is treated as a lapse of discipline.

(ii) Satisfactory progress in his/her studies.

Placements : The Placement Cell imparts in-house training to the students through IIT Bombay. The Cell also organizes visits of executives of leading Public and Private Sector companies like IBM, DELL, and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. etc, to the Institute, under industry-institute interaction programmes, to deliver lectures on career development and prospects of placement in their organizations to the students.

Students have been placed in APTECH Computer Education, Bells Laboratory, Ericsson(USA), CDC, C-DOT, CMC Ltd, Crompton Greaves, HP, HERO Cycles, HCL, Hindustan Cables, IES(Indian Railway Services), Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Motorola (India) Electronics Private Ltd, JIO Infocom, Airtel, Vodafone, Accenture, Dell, BRPL, NHPC, SBI, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, L&T, OIL, Reliance Industries, Shipping Corporation of India, SIEMENS,  SAIL, TATA Telecom, TCS, Videocon, WIPRO, Indian Railways, Bharat Petroleum.

Conducted by: NERIST - North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology

Conducting organization type: Deemed University

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