<P> On the recommendations of the Sarkar Committee, four campuses were established at Bombay (1958), Madras (1959), Kanpur (1959), and Delhi (1961). The location of these campuses was chosen to be scattered throughout India to prevent regional imbalance . The Indian Institutes of Technology Act was amended to reflect the addition of new IITs. Student agitations in the state of Assam made Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi promise the creation of a new IIT in Assam . This led to a sixth campus at Guwahati under the Assam Accord in 1960 . The University of Roorkee, India's oldest engineering college, was conferred IIT status in 2001 . </P> <P> Over the past few years, there have been a number of developments toward establishing new IITs . On 1 October 2003, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced plans to create more IITs "by upgrading existing academic institutions that have the necessary promise and potential". Subsequent developments led to the formation of the SK Joshi Committee in November 2003 to guide the selection of the five institutions which would become the five new IITs . Based on the initial recommendations of the Sarkar Committee, it was decided that further IITs should be spread throughout the country . When the government expressed its willingness to correct this regional imbalance, 16 states demanded IITs . Since the SK Joshi Committee prescribed strict guidelines for institutions aspiring to be IITs, only seven colleges were selected for final consideration . Plans are also reported to open IITs outside India, though not enough progress has been made in this regard . Eventually in the 11th Five year plan, eight states were identified for establishment of new IITs, and IT - BHU was converted into an IIT . </P> <P> Indian School of Mines at Dhanbad a premier institute in India was converted to IIT Dhanbad in 2016 . </P> <P> The President of India is the most powerful person in the organisational structure of IITs, being the ex officio Visitor, and having residual powers . Directly under the President is the IIT Council, which comprises the minister - in - charge of technical education in the Union Government, the Chairmen of all IITs, the Directors of all IITs, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission, the Director General of CSIR, the Chairman of IISc, the Director of IISc, three members of Parliament, the Joint Council Secretary of Ministry of Human Resource and Development, and three appointees each of the Union Government, AICTE, and the Visitor . </P>

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