(3) the institutes of technology (amendment) ordinance, 2001 is hereby repealed ord 6 of 2001 (4) notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the repealed ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the principal act, as amended by this act statement of objects and reasonsthe need for conversion of the university of roorkee, a state university in the state of uttaranchal, into an indian institute of technology (iit) and its integration with iit system was felt for some time past this is in line with the overall thinking of the central government to have more iit level institutions by upgrading existing institutions imparting technical education excellent track record of the university of roorkee and its inherent technical strength and capabilities compare favourably with that of the existing iits in fact, there are many areas of technical competence where iit system is likely to benefit immensely from the university of roorkee integrating into iit system the state of uttaranchal will benefit with the presence of iit within its geographical jurisdiction with higher level of technical competence, inter alia, in areas like earthquake engineering, water resource management and hydropower development 2 the expert committee constituted by the government of india to assess the academic, administrative and financial requirements for conversion of the university of roorkee into an iit had recommended that admissions to under-graduate programme for the year 2002-2003 should be held through a joint entrance examination in the year 2002 along with other iits 3 as parliament was not in session, and there was urgency, the institutes of technology (amendment) ordinance, 2001 was promulgated by the president on 21st september, 2001 to convert the university of roorkee into an iit and its integration with the tit system and it was declared as an institution of national importance the roorkee university act, 1947 was also repealed by the said ordinance 4 the bill seeks to replace the aforesaid ordinance murli manohar joshi new delhi; the 22nd november, 2001 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill provides for conversion of the university of roorkee into an indian institute of technology and its declaration as an institution of national importance the estimated non-recurring expenditure for upgradation of infrastructure and facilities for conversion of the university of roorkee into an indian institute of technology would be about rs 150 crore during the period of 9th five year plan and 10th five year plan the recurring expenditure would be approximately rs 50 crore per annum the expenditure would be met from the consolidated fund of india through the budgetary provision under the department of secondary and higher education, ministry of human resource development memorandum regarding delegated legislationsub-clause (a) of clause 6 of the bill inserts new clause (g) in section 38 of the act which empowers the institutes of technology to make statutes and ordinances new clause (i) empowers the central government by order to remove certain difficulties which may appear to it to be necessary or expedient further, such order is not to be made under the said clause after the expiry of a period of two years from the commencement of this act every such order shall be laid before each house of parliament 2 the matters in respect of which the statutes, ordinances or orders may be made or issued are matters of administrative details and procedure and, as such, the delegation of legislative power is of a normal character annexure extracts from the institutes of technology act, 1961 (59 of 1961)declaration 2 whereas the objects of the institutions known as the indian institute of technology, of certain bombay, the college of engineering and technology, delhi, the indian institute of technology, institutions 85 guwahati, assam, the indian institute of technology, kanpur and the indian institute of institutions of masane  : ar national technology, madras are such as to make them institutions of national importance, it is importance hereby declared that each such institution is an institution of national importan¢e definitions 3 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,—      (c) "corresponding institute" means-—      (ii) in relation to the society known as the indian institute of technology (kanpur) society, the indian institute of technology, kanpur, and (iii) in relation to the society known as the indian institute of technology, madras, the indian institute of technology, madras;      transititonal 38 notwithstanding anything contained in this act,— provisions '  + ' 