Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT)

Motto in English	"Education is the ultimate wealth"
Type	Institute of National Importance, Public
Established	2007[1]
Endowment	₹900 million (US$13 million) per annum [2][3]
President	K.B. Akhilesh[4]
Director	P.K. Bhattacharya
Administrative staff	40
Undergraduates	300
Postgraduates	80
Location	Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India 26°15′53″N 81°30′20″E / 26.2648064°N 81.5054372°E / 26.2648064; 81.5054372Coordinates: 26°15′53″N 81°30′20″E / 26.2648064°N 81.5054372°E / 26.2648064; 81.5054372
Campus	Rural, 125 acres (510,000 m2)[5]
Website	www.rgipt.ac.in www.domsrgipt.ac.in

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), in Jais, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a training and education institute that gives technical and management training to the petroleum industry and was formally opened on July 2008.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MOP&NG), Government of India founded the institute through an Act of Parliament (“Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Act 2007").^[6] The Institute is empowered to award degrees in its own right. RGIPT is co-promoted as an energy domain specific institute by six leading Oil Public Sector Units (ONGC, IOCL, OIL, GAIL, BPCL and HPCL) in association with the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB) and with an academic mentorship from IIT Kanpur.^[7] The Institute is associating with leading International Universities/Institutions specializing in the domain of Petroleum Technology.^[1]

It has been accorded the Institute of National Importance status and a governance structure similar to that available to IITs.^[8] It admits undergraduate students from the rank list of students who have qualified JEE (Advanced) Examination.^[9]

RGIPT Centers

• Besides main center at Jais, Raebareli, the RGIPT also have campuses at NOIDA in Uttar Pradesh.
• It had a secondary/complimentary campus at Ratapura Chowk which also permanently houses the Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology on Lucknow-Allahabad Highway in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh.
• On 15 October 2016, the institute moved to the permanent campus at Jais.^[10]
• Sivasagar in Assam which is under construction. In consonance with the charter of RGIPT, the primary objective of the Assam Center of RGIPT is envisaged to offer programmes of education and training of skilled technical manpower at the diploma and advance diploma levels including B.Sc - M.Sc integrated courses in various areas in the domain of the petroleum sector as per requirements of the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.^[11][12]
• In July 2013, Karnataka government agreed to offer 200 acres of land to set up the Bangalore centre which is going to be the Asia's first centre on fire and safety for oil and gas sector.^[13]

Admissions

• The institute admits undergraduate students from the rank list of qualified students in the prestigious IIT JEE Advanced Examination and post-graduate through GATE.^[14]
• For MBA, institute admits candidates from qualification in either of the three examinations, CAT or XAT or GMAT.^[15]

Opening and closing ranks in each category

Central Library

Opening and closing ranks for each category in JEE Advanced 2016:^[16]

Academic programmes

Rae Bareli
(Rae Bareli)

Sivsagar
(Sivsagar)

Bangalore
(Bangalore)

Noida
(DoMS, Noida)

Location of the RGIPTs. Green - Operational, Red - Under Construction^[11]

• RGIPT offers courses in engineering, pure sciences, management and humanities with a focus on petroleum engineering. The programs and courses offered at RGIPT are changing as the school evolving into a full-fledged petroleum engineering university.
• Admission to the courses of B.Tech is done from candidates appearing for JEE Advanced Examination. Admission to the M.Tech courses are done either through the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). Admissions to the MBA program is done through the Common Admission Test (CAT).
• Admission to the M.Sc.Tech. and PhD courses are done through examinations conducted by the institute.

Departments

RGIPT has the following departments:^[21]

Departmental Blocks

• Department of Petroleum Engineering
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Management Studies
• Department of Geology
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Physics
• Department of English
• Department of Mathematics

Future Departments

• Department of Instrumentation Engineering
• Department of Fire Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering

Academic collaboration

Main Hostel Building

RGIPT has academic collaboration with the many universities in India and abroad.^[22] Some of the major universities which have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and share research projects with RGIPT are as follows:^[23]

• Texas A&M University, USA
• Kun Shan University, Taiwan
• Chonnam National University, South Korea
• Lund University, Sweden
• Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan
• Louisiana State University, USA
• National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
• University of Houston, USA
• Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun
• Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi
• IIT Kanpur
• IIT Bombay

Integrated Aerospace Development Program

D-Block of hostel

RGIPT has collaborated with some pioneer institutes for advancements in aviation/aerospace and Rocket Fuels/Petroleum Technology.^[24]

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur through an MOU has decided to be the mentor of the program.^[25][26]
• Fundamentally, the Aerospace program is by IET Raebareli from APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University.
• Currently, the program is running in complete collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi.
• MNNIT Allahabad and Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad are providing academic assistance.
• In future, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is said to be in full-fledged resource (academic and managerial) collaboration with FGIET/ IET Raebareli.^[27]

Admission process depends on several factors including aptitude, intellect, personality and learning of the student. The selected students are a group who have qualified at-least one of the required admission tests like JEE-Mains/Advanced, WBJEE, SEE-AKTU and even SATs. The students have been provided residential services in-campus at Ratapur, Raebareli. The educational program will require for transition in between college departments/campuses on an annual even-semester basis.

Campus

• The institute started functioning from a leased land from Feroze Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology at Rae Bareli as academic center and ITI Township as Residential center for almost 9 years. On 15 October 2016, the institute was moved to its 125-acre newly constructed permanent campus at Jais, Uttar Pradesh.^[5]
• The new campus is a state-of-the-art campus with air conditioned classrooms having projectors, high definition televisions, computers for the faculty, video conferencing equipment and internet connectivity of 10 Gbit/s in the entire campus through Wi-Fi.^[28][29]

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  Campus Building
• 
  Inside campus of RGIPT
• 
  Department building
• 
  Tennis court outside hostel
• 
  Academic Blocks
• 
  Part of Central Library

• 
  East side of the Hostel
• 
  Main Auditorium
• 
  Inside Classroom
• 
  Staff apartments
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  Local Train Performance

Kaltarang

Kaltarang is the annual cultural and sports fest of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Rae Bareli. It is a themed fest, generally held in the month of February every year, since the very first time in 2011. It is a three-day fest having events like rock band performance, fashion show, rock band competition, stand-up comedy, cyber gaming, themed events, various sports events. It attracts a lot of young crowd from across the state to take part in the events of the fest. In the past, rock bands, celebrities, poets such as Local Train, Astitva, surya kumar pandey have been a part of Kaltarang. It is one of the biggest cultural fest held in the Lucknow-Allahabad region.

Placements

During the campus inauguration speech of Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan said: “The present central government has come up with many schemes for improving the standard of education in the country and it was our priority to start the RGIPT at the earliest. I assure that the government and private petroleum companies will come here for placements and the youths of Amethi will get accolades in the near future.” ^[30]

The institute witnessed participation of multitude of companies across varied domains. Students of B.Tech., M.Tech. and MBA outgoing 2016 batch successfully got opportunities across diversified profiles and various functions in the organizational setup. Some of the prominent brands that came for final placements in the past and present were:^[31][32]

Union ministers inauguration ceremony of RGIPT

Union minsters lighting up the "Lamp of Knowledge"

• Bharat Petroleum
• Indian Oil Corporation
• Hindustan Petroleum
• Oil India Limited
• Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
• Reliance Industries Limited
• Bharat Oman Refinery Limited
• HMEL
• American International Group
• Engineers India Limited
• UOP LLC
• Cairn India
• Essar Oil
• Shell Business Operations
• ADANI GAS Ltd.
• Petronet LNG
• Haldia Petrochemicals
• Larsen & Toubro Infotech
• Tech Mahindra
• Global Data
• Globus Spirits
• Avanti Learning Center

Many students from the institute go further with higher education in the international universities. The institute recommends the meritorious students to these universities and also helps them in representing India at international conferences across the world.^[33][34]

Milestones

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laying foundation stone of RGIPT Assam Campus

Petroleum Minister as chief guest at RGIPT's First Convocation

• Jul 04, 2007: the Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology at Jais in Rai Bareli District of UP.^[35]
• Nov 29, 2007: the Rajya Sabha passed the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Bill 2007.^[36]
• Dec 3, 2007: the Lok Sabha passed the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) Bill 2007.^[37]
• Feb 20, 2008: Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi lays foundation stone of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology at Jais.^[38]
• 2008–2009: start of academic session.^[39]
• 2011: Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh laid the foundations of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (Assam centre).^[40]
• 2012: First B.Tech batch passes out.^[41]
• 2013: Bangalore centre gets approved.^[13]
• 2014: Veerappa Moily, former Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas inaugurates Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology at Kambalipura Village, Hoskote Taluk, Bangalore Rural District.^[22]
• 2015: First Convocation was conducted with Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and other high level dignitaries from Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas as Chief Guests.^[10]
• 2016: Institute is moved to the permanent campus at Jais.^[42]
• Oct 22, 2016: Union ministers, Minister of Textiles Shrimati Smriti Irani, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of Human Resource Development Shri Prakash Javadekar, inaugurated the permanent campus at Jais.^[43]

Union ministers with students and Faculty of RGIPT

Budget

Union ministers inaugurating RGIPT's Campus

• The total estimated capital cost : Rs. 861 crores (Rs. 416 crores (Central Exchequer) + Rs. 250 crores (GOI) + Rs. 150 crores (Oil Industry Development Board) + Rs. 45 crores (Institute itself))^[44]
• The institute's permanent campus infrastructure was provided with Rs. 129 crores during Congress led UPA government and additional Rs. 302 crores were provided by the current NDA government for completion of campus.^[43][45]
• During fiscal 2016–17, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has allocated additional Rs. 47 crores while the institute remains independent to generate more funds for operational purposes through college fees and other funds/awards.^[2][3][46]

See also

• Institute of National Importance
• List of autonomous higher education institutes in India
• Joint Entrance Examination
• Oil Industry Development Board
• Education in India

References