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National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (NIAMT) formerly known as the National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT) is a premier public technical research institution in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. It is a Deemed to be University under the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India. It is one of the autonomous institutes under the NIT+ system in India.
It was established in 1966 by the Government of India in collaboration with UNDP – UNESCO to provide qualified engineers and specialists for running foundry and forge industries. It is a National Institute as well as Deemed to be University and is Centrally Funded by Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.
The institute offers postdoctoral, doctoral and master's program at the graduate level and bachelor's program and advanced diploma courses at the undergraduate level. The objectives of the institute have broadened to meet the present need of the industries, with the introduction of departments of Manufacturing Engineering in 1985, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering in 1998, Mechanical Engineering in 2020 and Electronics and Computer Engineering in 2021.
Apart from training and placement of students, NIAMT also provides consultancy, documentation and information retrieval services in manufacturing engineering, industrial metallurgy and in foundry and forge sectors and many more core sectors all over the world. (Source: National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Wikipedia)