Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), known previously as the Maulana Azad College of Technology (MACT), is celebrating its Golden Jubilee this year. The Institute, established in 1960, has been named after the veteran freedom fighter and educationist Maulana Azad and was one of the few Regional Engineering Colleges set up after independence to provide quality Science and Technology manpower to build modern India. In the fifty years that followed, it has emerged as one of the premier institutions in the country has been rechristened as a National Institute of Technology, and has made exemplary contributions in the areas of Science and Technology, Politics and Public Administration, Public and Private Enterprises, Education, Arts and Culture. MANIT ALUMNI has made significant contributions not only in India but all over the world.

SPIRIT 2010 is an attempt to capture this spirit of enterprise and innovation, that is MANIT. It is not only a re-union of MANIT-ALUMNI but is also an attempt to showcase the achievements of the institution and its alumni. We shall endeavour to network the existing alumni chapters all over the world and shall create new chapters, to make a platform for sharing of ideas, to reposition our selves in the modern day knowledge based society. SPIRIT 2010 shall consider what the Alumni can do for the Institution and for the development of the State. SPIRIT 2010 is an attempt to rejoice in the spirit of Creativity, Enterprise and Innovation.