The Ministry of Education’s innovation cell released the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2021 on December 29. ARIIA 2021 classifies participating institutions into two major categories; technical and non-technical. In the technical ranking, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has been recognised as the Most Innovative Educational Institute in India. This is the third time that IIT Madras has secured the first rank. IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi were placed at the second and third ranks respectively. The ranking was announced today by the Union Minister of State for Education, Government of India, Subhas Sarkar virtually. Addressing the virtual ceremony, he urged the higher educational institutions to inculcate the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship among students and to prepare the faculty members as innovators, out-of-the-box thinkers, creative problem solvers, entrepreneurs & job creators. Institute of National Importance, Central Universities & CFTIs Rank 1: IIT-Madras Rank 2: IIT-Bombay Rank 3: IIT-Delhi Rank 4: IIT, Kanpur Rank 5: IIT-Roorkee Rank 6: IISc Rank 7: IIT-Hyderabad Rank 8: IIT-Kharagpur Rank 9: NIT-Calicut Rank 10: Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology In government and government-aided universities, the rank-holders were – Rank 1: Panjab University Rank 2: Delhi Technological University Rank 3: Netaji Subhas University of Technology Rank 4: Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Rank 5: Avinashilingam Institute For Home Science And Higher Education For Women Rank 6: Institute of Chemical Technology Rank 7: Gujarat Technological University Govt. and Govt. Aided College/Institutes Rank 1: College of Engineering Pune Rank 2: PSG College of Technology Rank 3: L. D. College of Engineering Rank 4: Thiagarajar College of Engineering Rank 5: Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute Private or Self-Financed Universities Rank 1: Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Khordha Rank 2: Chitkara University Rank 3: Lovely Professional University Rank 4: S.R.M. Institute of Science And Technology Rank 5: Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Private or Self-Financed College/Institutes Rank 1: G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur Rank 2: R.M.K. Engineering College Rank 3: KIET Group of Institutions Rank 4: Sri Krishna College of Engineering And Technology Rank 5: Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology Institute of National Importance, Central Universities & CFTIs (non-technical) Rank 1: Indira Gandhi National Open University Rank 2: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode General (Non-Technical): Top 5 Ranks Rank 1: Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India Rank 2: Sree Narayana College Rank 3: Mahatma Gandhi University Rank 4: PSG College of Arts And Science Rank 5: Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli For the first time, ARIIA had a category for non-technical higher educational institutions. The other five categories are — centrally-funded institutions, state-funded universities, state-funded autonomous institutions, private/deemed universities, private institutions.
