The seeds of the PanIIT Alumni Nation Building Initiatives were sown during the global annual conclave of PanIIT Alumni held in Mumbai in December 2006. The key note speaker of the conference and then President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam during his inspirational address urged IITians to be job creators rather than job seekers. This truly was a call for action.
Soon, a group of active and involved IIT alumni collectively decided to create PanIIT Alumni Nation Building Initiatives — a platform with the objective of creating employability among the underprivileged, enhancing the quality of engineering education and training and fostering entrepreneurship.
Today, PIAI mentors eight Nation Building initiatives: Avanti Fellows, Classle Knowledge, Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education, Pan IIT Alumni Reach for India, I Create India, Indian Nirman Sangh, IIT Mentors and IITians for ITIs.