High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The NIT Council is the supreme governing body of India`s National Institutes of Technology (NIT) system. As like the IIT Council and modelled very much similarly to its IIT counterpart the NIT Council consists of chairmen, directors of all NITs along with the government nominees from various sectors with the Minister of HRD, Govt. of India as the Chairman of the Council. The NIT Council is the highest decision making body in the NIT fraternity and is answerable only to the Government of India. The NIT Council is expected to meet regularly and take steps conducive for maximum growth of the NITs as whole in the near future.