The current student strength in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is 82,604 (Eighty two thousand six hundred four). The total strength includes all courses including BTech, MTech, PhD, Integrated Degree courses, etc. The IIT Council in its 50th Meeting held on 23 August 2016 approved in-principle, the proposal for increasing the overall student’s strength in the IITs to one lakh by the year 2020.