bill no 61 of 2020 the indian institutes of information technology laws (amendment) bill, 2020 a bill further to amend the indian institutes of information technology act, 2014 and to amend the indian institutes of information technology (public-private partnership) act, 2017be it enacted by parliament in the seventy-first year of the republic of india as follows:— chapter i preliminary chapter ii amendment to the indian institutes of information technology act, 20142 in the indian institutes of information technology act, 2014, in section 41, in sub-section (3), for the word "elected" at both the places where they occur, the word"nominated" shall be substituted5amendment of section 41 of act 30 of 2014 chapter iii amendment to the indian institutes of information technology (public-private partnership) act, 2017103 in the schedule to the  indian institutes of information technology (public-private partnership) act, 2017,—amendment of schedule to act 23 of 2017(a) after serial number 2 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely:—| (1)             | (2)          | (3)              | (4)    | (5)              ||-----------------|--------------|------------------|--------|------------------|| 15              |              |                  |        |                  || 20              |              |                  |        |                  || "2a            | bihar        | indian institute | indian | indian institute || of  information | institute of | of information   |        |                  || technology,     | information  | technology,      |        |                  || bhagalpur       | technology,  | bhagalpur";     |        |                  || being a society | bhagalpur    |                  |        |                  || registered      |              |                  |        |                  || under the       |              |                  |        |                  || societies       |              |                  |        |                  || registration    |              |                  |        |                  || act, 1860       |              |                  |        |                  || (21 of  1860)   |              |                  |        |                  || 25              |              |                  |        |                  |(b) after serial number 3 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely:—| (1)             | (2)          | (3)              | (4)    | (5)              ||-----------------|--------------|------------------|--------|------------------|| 30              |              |                  |        |                  || 35              |              |                  |        |                  || "3a            | gujarat      | indian institute | indian | indian institute || of  information | institute of | of  information  |        |                  || technology,     | information  | technology,      |        |                  || surat being     | technology,  | surat";         |        |                  || a society       | surat        |                  |        |                  || registered      |              |                  |        |                  || under the       |              |                  |        |                  || societies       |              |                  |        |                  || registration    |              |                  |        |                  || act, 1860       |              |                  |        |                  || (21 of  1860)   |              |                  |        |                  |(c) after serial number 7 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely:—40(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)45 50"7a karnataka indian instituteindianindian instituteof  informationinstitute ofof  informationtechnology,informationtechnology,raichur being atechnology,raichur";society registered raichur under the societies registration act, 1860 (21 of  1860)(d) after serial number 8 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely:—| (1)                     | (2)                     | (3)             | (4)              ||-------------------------|-------------------------|-----------------|------------------|| 5                       |                         |                 |                  || 10                      |                         |                 |                  || "8a                    | madhya indian institute | indian          | indian institute || pradesh of  information | institute of            | of  information |                  || technology,             | information             | technology,     |                  || bhopal                  | technology,             | bhopal";       |                  || being a society         | bhopal                  |                 |                  || registered              |                         |                 |                  || under the               |                         |                 |                  || societies               |                         |                 |                  || registration            |                         |                 |                  || act, 1860               |                         |                 |                  || (21 of  1860)           |                         |                 |                  |15(e) after serial number 13 and the entries relating thereto, the following shall be inserted, namely:—| (1)             | (2)              | (3)             | (4)              ||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|| 20              |                  |                 |                  || 25              |                  |                 |                  || "13a tripura   | indian institute | indian          | indian institute || of  information | institute of     | of  information |                  || technology,     | information      | technology,     |                  || agartala        | technology,      | agartala"     |                  || being a society | agartala         |                 |                  || registered      |                  |                 |                  || under the       |                  |                 |                  || societies       |                  |                 |                  || registration    |                  |                 |                  || act, 1860       |                  |                 |                  || (21 of  1860)   |                  |                 |                  | statement of objects and reasonsthe indian institutes of information technology (public-private partnership)act, 2017 (the said act) was enacted to declare certain indian institutes of information technology established under public-private partnership mode as institutions of national importance, with a view to develop new knowledge in information technology and to provide manpower of global standards for the information technology industry and to provide for certain other matters connected with such institutions or incidental thereto2 the said act was enacted in pursuance of a scheme approved by the government to set up twenty indian institutes of information technology in public-private partnership mode fifteen such institutes were incorporated as institutions of national importance under the said act the government has decided to include five more institutes which have been subsequently established as societies at bhagalpur (bihar), surat (gujarat), raichur (karnataka), bhopal (madhya pradesh) and  agartala (tripura), also within the ambit of the said act to be institutions of national importance3 the proposed legislation also provides for rectifying a patent error in sub-section (3) of section 41 of the indian institutes of information technology act, 2014 so as to substitute the word "elected" with "nominated", for clarity4 the bill seeks to achieve the above objectivesnew delhi;ramesh pokhriyal 'nishank'the 21st february, 2020 financial memorandumthe five institutes proposed to be included in the schedule to the indian institutes of information technology (public-private partnership) act, 2017 are already being provided budgetary support in accordance with the scheme approved by the government2 the bill does not involve any other additional expenditure of recurring or non-recurring nature annexure extracts from the indian institutes of information technology act, 2014 (30 of  2014)    41 (1)     (3) the term of office of a member elected under clause (ii) of sub-section (2) of section 40 shall expire as soon as he ceases to be a member of the house which elected himterm of office and allowances payable to members of council    ———— a bill further to amend the indian institutes of information technology act, 2014 and to amend the indian institutes of information technology (public-private partnership) act, 2017————(shri ramesh pokhriyal 'nishank', minister of  human resource development)