Top 10 IIT's in India The Indian Institutes of Technology are autonomous institutes , officially declared as the ‘Institutes of National Importance' since 1961 . The IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 . The Human Resource Development Minister , currently Prakash Jawadekar is the ex-officio Chairperson of IIT Council . There are a total number of 23 IITs across the country and provides nearly 11 thousand seats to the engineering aspirants. Here is a list of the Best Indian Institutes of Technology list of top 10 IIT's in India : 1. Indian Institute of Technology - Madras: IIT Madras is established in Chennai(Tamilnadu) . The institute was founded in 1959 by the Government of India with assistance from the Government of West Germany . According to the NIRF Ranking , IIT Madras has been ra...