IIIT-Naya Raipur, established by the International Institute of Information Technology University Act, 2013 of the Government of Chhattisgarh, is a joint venture by Chhattisgarh State Government and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). The institute is committed to pursue excellence in higher education, research and development in Information Technology (IT) and associated disciplines. It firmly believes in bestowing knowledge dissemination and imparting entrepreneurial skills to the students to enable them to address real world problems. To empower this vision, IIIT-NR fosters state-of-the-art research and product development laboratories to carry out inter-disciplinary research and product development endeavors. The institute is mentored by a highly eminent board comprising of Mr. Ajay Chowdhry, Founder, HCL; Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Macroni Awar winner and Professor Emeritus, Stanford University; Dr. B.K.Gairola, Ex-Mission Director, National e-Governance Mission and Ex-DG NIC; Ms Renu G Pillay, Principal Secretary, Departments of Technical Education, Manpower Planning and Science and Technology, Govt. of Chhattisgarh; Mr Aman Kumar Singh, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Chhattisgarh; Mr. Himanshu Gupta, Commissioner-cum-Director of Directorate of Technical Education and Directorate of Employment and Training, Govt. of Chhattisgarh; Mr. Sujit Baksi, CEO, BPO Division at Tech Mahindra; Mr. Satyendranath Ganguly, Regional Executive Director (Western Region-II), NTPC Ltd; Mr. Surendra Kumar Patnaik, General Manager, NTPC Ltd. Lara Super Thermal Power Project; Mr. Steven A. Pinto, Retired Lead Director of the Chairman's Supervisory Board of the Emirates Investment Bank, UAE; Mr. Shubhasis Ghosh, Executive Trainee, NTPC Ltd. and Dr. P.K.Sinha, Vice Chancellor & Director, DSPM IIIT-NR.