National Institute of Technology Calicut or NITC is a federally funded technical College established by an act of the Indian Parliament, located at Kettangal in Chathamangalam Gram panchayat which is situated about 22 km north-east of Kozhikode (Calicut) City in Kerala, India. It was formerly known as Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC).Or NITC It is one of the twenty National Institutes of Technology - one in each major state of India - established by the Government of India for fostering national integration by imparting technical education to students from all over the country. NITC was set up in 1961 as Regional Engineering College, Calicut (CREC) as the ninth of its kind and the first one to be established during the Third Five Year Plan period. Till the formation of the Calicut University in 1963 the institute was affiliated with the Kerala University. It was largely due to the efforts of Pattom Thanu Pillai, the Chief Minister of Kerala that the institute came into being. Prof.S.Rajaraman was appointed the special officer in 1961 to organise the activities of the college till Dr. M. V. Keasva Rao took charge as the first principal of the college. The classes were first held at the Government Polytechnic at West Hill, Calicut before it moved to its present campus in 1963. The college started with an annual intake of 125 students for the under-graduate courses, in a campus of 120 acres.