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11. Execution

11.1 National Board of Accreditation (NBA)

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) is the primary agency that was given the overall responsibility of co-
ordinating and executing the Ranking work in consultation with the Implementation Core Committee, constituted by
the Ministry of Education. NBA invited applications for registration of institutions for ranking in various disciplines
and the overall ranking. It coordinated with its collaborators to execute all aspects of the ranking work.

11.2. INFLIBNET Centre

The Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre was responsible for the development of NIRF Web Portal
including data capturing system, perception capturing system, the feedback mechanism and the ranking platform. The
Centre also provided and verified data on publications, citations, patents, top 25% highly cited papers, H-Index and
JCR-1Q. The Centre also deployed technical help desk at its premises.

11.3 Other Acknowledgements

We acknowledge with gratitude the help and advice from UGC and AICTE from time to time. We especially
acknowledge the help and advice from our industrial partners, Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics.

12. URL of Ranked Institutions

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