The report by this committee will be submitted to the IIT council, he said.

On IIT-Kanpur ranking at 295 in the 'QS World University Rankings', Manna said the institute was placed on the position based on old information provided on its website.

"The ranking should have been after a team would have come to IIT-Kanpur and seen how the institute works. There have been so many students of IIT-Kanpur who have achieved so much on the world stage," he said.

The list released on September 10 was dominated with U.S. universities, with MIT grabbing the top slot and Harvard at No 2, pushing Britain's Cambridge University to No 3.

The 11 Indian institutions which featured in the list included IIT Delhi at 222, IIT Bombay at 233, IIT Kanpur at 295, IIT Madras at 313 and IIT Kharagpur at 346.

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