NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technolog viz., IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science. NPTEL as a project originated from many deliberations between IITs, Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) during the years 1999-2003.
For downloading NPTEL lessons please go to the website http://nptel.iitm.ac.in. For video courses, go to the course of interest. Under the "download" tab, all the lectures of that course are listed. Every lecture can be downloaded in MP4, FLV or 3GP format. Click on the mirror links provided, to start download. Video lectures are also available on http://www.youtube.com/iit from which also you can download by using any browser add-ons.
E-Books: McGRAW-Hill’s ACCESS Engineering (ENGINEERING) more than 450 reference texts e-books available for online reading. http://accessengineeringlibrary.com
Kindle: GRIET is one of the rare colleges who have subscribed for kindle unlimited reading and have bought kindle devices. It is necessary that the reading habits must be built up among faculty and students. It is also expected that the faculty and students must read books coming under History, Geography, Literature, Science, Technology, Medicine, Health, Food Fun and other areas Kindle device cum e-books available for online reading with in campus.
Kindle books can be read either within or outside the campus.