Institutes of National Importance serve as pivotal players in developing highly skilled personnel. This status can be conferred on them by

The status of Institution of National Importance is conferred through an Act of Parliament.

The University Grants Commission funds and regulates universities but does not confer this status.

The All India Council for Technical Education oversees technical education without granting this status.

A combination of these bodies fails because only parliamentary legislation confers it.

Such institutions are treated as pivotal for developing highly skilled personnel.

IITs, NITs and AIIMS carry this legislatively conferred status.