THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT BILL, 2021

This Bill declares specific existing food technology, entrepreneurship, and management institutes as institutions of national importance. It converts them into not-for-profit corporate bodies to provide instruction, research, and degree-granting capabilities in these fields.

The Bill applies to the specific institutes listed in the Schedule (converting existing societies into new corporate bodies), their employees, students, and the Central Government (which appoints key officials and approves property disposal). It also affects the general public by establishing these as open educational institutions.

• Declares institutes in the Schedule as institutions of national importance.
• Incorporates each institute as a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.
• Transfers all property, rights, liabilities, and employees from the existing 'Society' to the new corporate Institute.
• Establishes a Board of Governors as the principal executive body, including members from the Central Government, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
• Mandates that institutes be open to all persons irrespective of gender, race, creed, caste, or class, with admission based on merit.
• Requires institutes to be not-for-profit legal entities where surplus revenue is reinvested in the institute's growth or research.
• Prohibits the disposal of immovable property without prior approval of the Central Government.
• Designates the institutes as Central Educational Institutions for the purposes of the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Admission) Act, 2006.

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