Updated: Minister lauds efforts of faculty, students in achieving various milestones Share Article AAA Union Minister of State for Education, Communications, and Electronics and Information Technology Sanjay Dhotre inaugurating via video conference the newly constructed mega hostel at NIT-Calicut in Kozhikode on Friday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Minister lauds efforts of faculty, students in achieving various milestones Union Minister of State for Education, Communications, and Electronics and Information Technology Sanjay Dhotre inaugurated the newly constructed mega hostel at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) through videoconferencing on Friday. Mr. Dhotre lauded the collective efforts of the faculty, staff and students of the institute in achieving various milestones — the all-India 23rd position in engineering; third position in architecture in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF); and eighth rank amongst Institutes of National Importance, Central Universities and CFTIs in the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020.