The Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 lists 16 institutes located at Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi, Patna, Ropar and Varanasi
Each IIT is an autonomous institution, linked to the others through a common IIT Council, which oversees their administration
The IITs have a common admission process for undergraduate admissions, called IIT - JEE, which was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination Advanced in 2013.
The post-graduate level program that awards M.Tech, MS degrees in engineering is administered by the older IITs (Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Roorkee, Varanasi, Guwahati)
M.Tech and MS admissions are done on the basis of Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineeering(GATE)
In addition to B.Tech, M.Tech and MS programs, IITs also award other graduate degrees such as M.Sc in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, MBA, PhD etc
In 2014, six new IITs were announced by the government. In the Union budget presented on 28 February 2015
IIT Tirupati and IIT Palakkad started functioning in June 2015
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