India Institute Technology, IIT Madras, has topped the list while IISc Bengaluru and IIT Bombay bagged second and third positions. A new category, Research Institutions, has been added to NIRF Rankings 2021. Indian Institute of Science, IISc Bengaluru topped the research category. This year every large institution has been given in common overall NIRF Rankings 2021 as well as a discipline specific rank as applicable.

The numbers of participants in the ranking procedure have increased with time. The rankings are released annually to recognize top universities, colleges and educational across the country. NIRF Ranking 2021 is broadly prepared on the basis of teaching, learning and resources, research and professional practice, etc. Last year also, IIT Madras had retained the top spot overall as well as in the engineering category.

The number of Indian institutes registered for the NIRF ranking 2020 has increased by 20 per cent as compared to 2019. In 2020, a total of 3,800 institutes had participated in NIRF Rankings. The institutes are given scores based on teaching, learning and resources (TLR), research and professional practice (RP), graduation, outcomes (GO), outreach and inclusively (OI), peer perception.

Last year, the NIRF rankings were released in online format owing to the pandemic. IIT Madras was adjudged the top institutes of India 2020 (overall category) while the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore was the top university followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

According to the sources, Rohit Shetty answers to the media about sootyavanshi’s release. He says, “Sawaal yeh hai ki theaters kab khulenge. Sabse important hai ki vaccination hona bahut zaroori hai. Jab woh hoga tab jaake sab khulega, jab khulega tab pata chalega kya ho raha hai. Iss waqt I think, hum sabko yehi sochna chahiye ki dheere dheere sab theek horaha hai. Precaution lena bahut zaroori hai because abhi bhi sab theek hua nahi hai.”

In this pandemic, where most of the makers of high budget films are facing huge loss and all the theatres are shut all over India, it is difficult to announce the release date of the movies. Sooryavanshi has already been shifted thrice sue to the pandemic. In the beginning, it was originally scheduled to release on March 24, 2020.

Rohit Shetty also asks the media that focus right now should be on vaccinating people all over India. “The most important thing is vaccination and when that will happen then everything will open up. However, we should not think that everything is slowly getting okay…” He further added, “We still need to take precautions because even today everything is still not okay. In other countries the cases are rising. This time we all need to take utmost care and not go on holidays thinking everything is opening up,”

However, Sooryavanshi is recorded as the fourth series film of Rohit Shetty after ‘Singham’, ‘Singham Returns’ and ‘Simmba’.