IIT Delhi celebrates World Telecommunication Day
G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant delivered the annual Bharti Lecture titled ‘India’s G20 Presidency: Building Consensus in a Fractured World- Frontier for Digital Cooperation’.
India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant delivers the annual Bharti Lecture at IIT Delhi.
The Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management (BSTTM) at IIT Delhi celebrated the World Telecommunication Day today, 17 May 2023. Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa and former CEO of NITI Aayog, delivered the annual Bharti Lecture titled ‘India’s G20 Presidency: Building Consensus in a Fractured World- Frontier for Digital Cooperation’.
Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Vice-Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, and Prof Rangan Banerjee, Director, IIT Delhi, were also present. Kant said it was India that created India Stack, a digital public infrastructure on open source software for a set of open APIs aiming to unlock the economic primitives of identity, data, and payments at population scale. The initiative ensured India’s continued growth and offered opportunities to accelerate inclusiveness, resilience, sustainable growth and have a new green development pact. As the India Stack is open and scalable, it can be applied by other countries to accelerate their digital transformation.
He said, “We are actually getting into global value chains in a very big way. And that will enable us to penetrate global markets. It is very important that whatever we do, we do it at a global scale to enable us to penetrate global markets..”
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Yes, IIT Delhi is a good institute for MSc aspirants. The institute has got a good overall rank from NIRF in the 2023 rankings. It has been ranked at the third spot among top colleges in the country. Moreover, IIT Delhi also provide placements support. As per its 2023 placement report, the median package offered to PG (2-year) candidates was INR 12.50 LPA. Some of the top companies that participate in its placements drive are Microsoft, Cisco, Accenture, etc.
He went on to add, “I am truly delighted that I am speaking on what I think has been India's huge achievement in our ability to become a technology layer and a technology leader in many ways. The Bharti School of Telecom (at IIT Delhi) will have to be the key driver of this transformation in India. And I really wish it all success and progress in the days to come. I take this opportunity to congratulate IIT Delhi and the Bharti Group for this very innovative partnership in creating this wonderful school here.”
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 4 weeks ago
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has been ranked by NIRF over past years under Engineering, Management, Overall and Research Institutions categories. Check below past-year trend for IIT Delhi in Overall category:
| Category | IIT Delhi NIRF Ranking 2023 | IIT Delhi NIRF Ranking 2024 | IIT Delhi NIRF Ranking 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3 | 4 | 4 |
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Answered 4 weeks ago
Yes, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi has been ranked at 4 under 'Management' category in NIRF 2025 rankings. Previously, it was ranked at 4 in 2024 and 3 in 2023.
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Answered 4 weeks ago
Both IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay are top choices for students wishing to pursue BTech. The NIRF rank of both the colleges are neck to neck. In NIRF 2025 rankings, IIT Delhi was ranked 2 whereas IIT Bombay was at 3 under Engineering category. BTech cutoffs of both the institutes are equally competitive.
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Answered a month ago
IIT Delhi offers a total of approximately 1,239 to 1,249 seats across its B.Tech, B.S., and dual degree programs.
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Answered a month ago
According to me, CS is the safest and most flexible choice, but Artificial Intelligence and Data Science offers faster growth in specialised sectors. Automation and Robotics engineering has fewer mass-recruitment IT jobs compared to standard CS as it is heavily tied to core industrial sectors and h
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Answered 2 months ago
General AI category students need to secure a rank of at least 22, or preferably lower for admission to MSc in Economics programme. For other categories, the highest acceptable rank is given below for the same course.
| Category | IIT Delhi MSc cutoff 2026 |
|---|---|
| General | 22 |
| OBC | 202 |
| SC | 391 |
| ST | 475 |
| EWS | 51 |
| PWD | 497 |
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Answered 2 months ago
A rank of at least 175 is required in the General AI category in the last round to gain admission to the MSc in Physics course. Check the list below to know the highest acceptable rank for other categories for the aforementioned programme.
- General: 175
- OBC: 485
- SC: 859
- ST: 1846
- EWS: 441
- PWD: 2649
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Yes, 20 might be an excellent rank for gaining admission to the IIT Delhi BDes course if you belong to the General or OBC AI category. For both these categories, the last round closing ranks were 28 and 32, respectively.
Students can check the table below to know the highest rank accepted by differe
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What is the NIRF ranking trend for IIT Delhi?