The National Institute of Design, Gujarat (NID) is a national design school in Ahmedabad with campuses in Gandhinagar and Bengaluru. The institute functions as an autonomous body under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry , Government of India. A campus was later planned to be built at Yeshwantpur, a suburb in Northwest Bengaluru. The new campus was built for 7.5 crores and was officially inaugurated on 31 March 2006 by Dr Darlie O'Koshy, who was the executive director of NID at the time. NID's entrance exam Design Aptitude Test (DAT) which is also popularly called the National Entrance Examination for Design (NEED) is a National level entrance exam organized for admission to UG and PG courses separately by NID each year. These exams for B.Des and M.Des exams are conducted in 12 exam centres across India.