An 1886 engineering school at Patna is now the eighteenth National Institute of Technology

Background

Bihar's technical institutions are in focus this week alongside the central farm research institutes at Patna and Motihari, and one of the oldest among them is the National Institute of Technology Patna.
The institute states that it was established in 1886 as the Bihar School of Engineering and is the 18th National Institute of Technology recognised by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
Its Director is Professor Pradip K. Jain, who joined as a Lecturer at IIT-BHU in 1981 and became Professor in 2001.
The institute offers 10 undergraduate, 21 postgraduate and doctoral programmes across 11 departments, with more than 230 faculty members.
Its stated mission is to nurture innovation through research and to offer undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes.