Kuwait invalids IIT degrees, following non approval of NBA

HRD sends list of premiere engineering institutions

The HRD Ministry has sent a list of premiere engineering institutes in the country to Kuwait authorities where thousands of Indian engineers, including IITians, are staring at possible job losses after the Gulf country decided to recognise degrees only if India’s NBA approved of the courses they studied.

The Public Authority for Manpower, a government body in Kuwait, had last year issued a circular asking the labour department to not give work permits to expatriate engineers unless they got no-objection certificates from the Kuwait Engineers Society. The decision by Kuwait authorities has brought degrees by prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the invalidation scanner. For India, engineers were to be issued no-objection certificates only if the course had been accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).

“A high-level Indian delegation had visited Kuwait to resolve the issue and it was decided to send lists of ‘Non-NBA premier institute’ and ‘Institutes of National Importance’ to Kuwait authorities,” a senior HRD Ministry official said.

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