Type Public Campus Urban Website mits.edu.in Founded 1999 | Established 1999 Affiliations BPUT Phone 06856 233 146 Motto "Ensures Smart Education" | |
Location Bhujabal, Kolnara, Rayagada, Orissa, India Address Sriram Vihar, Rayagada, Odisha 765017 Similar Gandhi Institute of Science a, Mahavir Institute of Engineeri, Bhadrak Institute of Engineeri, Purushottam Institute of Engineeri, Ghanashyama Hemalata Institute o | ||
Majhighariani Institute of Technology and Science (or MITS) is located in Rayagada, Orissa, India. It was started in 1999 by the Basantdevi Charitable Trust. Its name came from the Goddess Majhighariani, deity of Rayagada. The college was approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the government of Orissa. The college is affiliated to Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), Rourkela and Berhampur University. It is an ISO 9001:2008 certified institute of eastern India.
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Location
The campus is 15 km from Rayagada on the State Highway.
Trust
The redoubtable Basanta Devi Charitable Trust derives its name from the venerable Late Smt. Basanta Devi, mother of Sri Balakrishna Panda & Sri Subash Chandra Panda, its chief architects, Managing Trustee & Founder Trustee respectively.
History
Majhighariani Institute Of Technology & Science, Rayagada (MITS) was started in the year 1999 under the patronage of Basanta Devi Charitable Trust in the memory of the Panda family. MITS is a link in the long chain of philanthropic accomplishments of the trust in the form of primary and high schools, junior and degree colleges and hospitals in the far flung tribal areas of the KBK districts in Orissa. Started in a modest campus at Bhakuruguda on the way from Rayagada to Jaykaypur, MITS has developed into a campus of fifty acres at Bhujbal, adjoining the State Highway No. 7 between Jeypore and Berhampur. It drew its name from the Goddess Majhighariani, the reigning deity of Rayagada.
It has planned buildings, which includes multi-storeyed main building housing classrooms, laboratories, library, seminar hall, examination hall, offices, etc. and 8 sloping roofed but permanent structures housing duty laboratories, drawing hall, canteen, auditorium, etc. It has also a playground and a Gayatri Temple in the campus. MITS has hostel facilities for both boys and girls separately. MITS Boys Hostel is in the campus whereas the Girls Hostel is in the Rayagada Town. It has a fleet of College buses for the transport of students and faculties. Having started with a mere three disciplines of engineering at B.Tech level, it now has ECE, EEE, CSE, IT, BIOTECH, ME, CE, EE. MITS is the 1st institution to have started the B.Tech course in Biotechnology in the entire state of Orissa. It added M.Sc. Course in Biotechnology and Microbiology, Industrial Biotechnology and Bioinformatics & M.Tech Course in Electronic Information System. The Biotechnology Department has a state-of-art laboratories. Recently, MITS has entered into the area of Industrial Biotechnology. Having envisaged to state a Bio-Diesel Project, it is now prompting and spreading cultivation of Jatropha plants in large areas in various parts in Orissa. The Biodiesel Project will have a plant for the extraction of Bio-crude from Jatropha seeds, for the sale of which, MITS entered into a MoU with the British Company - D1 Oils Plc., together with the condition of placement opportunities for the pass-outs of MITS. In addition to classroom instruction, MITS encourages its students to inculcate habits of discipline, Godmindedness and sports & game.