The image of an institution comes from the calibre of the students geting out of it. IITs are famous because they get the best brains. the question is that are there only 3000 guys who can be considered brilliant. There are perhaps many more similar guys. witht eh growing population IIT numbers is increasing so perhaps its make sense to increse by say two more. Invcreasing it by 5 will perhaps cause not so ggod guys to come in and will dilute the reputation in the long run.
Another point to ponder is what exactly is menat by converting them to IITs. The system will perhaps be the same as other IITs, which is good. Will the professors change? No. and is that good enough... perhaps not. Will the facilities improve? No... the grants to IITs are at all time low. The exisiting IITs are running on the grants from Alumni and the projects they have managed to secure. The newer IITs will find it hard to match that. Also the general perception will take a bit to change.IIT Guwahati is a classic example. People still do not think of ir really as an IIT and the grads from there are not treated the same as other IITs. So what the government essentailly wants to do needs to be examined.
More IITs will definitely dilute its exclusiveness.Instead Govt. should take more care of the existing IITs.IITs should not become scapegoat to political ambitions.
I don't think so just the number will do anything..rather I will feel that...it will reduce the competition ...will definitely result in degradation of level that is associated with IIT name..Also if practically they are increasing the number there should not be just name change from REC to NIT and from NIT to IIT...simaltanuously there should be change in every thing that is required for any college to be IIT .I mean infrastructure , teachers etc whatever facilities other IIT's have.
By changing labels, quality doesnt change. everything can be good but everything cant be BEST. The present calue of IIT will change if done so... BEWARE!
The ratio of the number of bright students to the total number of students(technical education) present in the country is definitely one of the highest in the world.
Added to that is the fact that schooling levels are pretty uniform across the country.This simply points to the fact that there are lesser number of seats available vis-a-vis the number of deserving students.
Therefore I think that this is a good decision as long as this does not go on unabated.Let us finally have 12 IITs for atleast the next 20 years.
But does it really matter?The Indian economy is NOT driven by IIT graduates.It is a matter of utter disappointment and distaste that corporate India does not recognize IITians as "valuable" assets.Instead IITians are just a part of the large crowd emerging out of "baseless" and "low-quality" engg colleges.
Today, in India, IITians are treated as "commodities".
Corporates and academic institutions in USA understand the true value of IITians better than anyone else.
So in the end, it does not matter whether you have 12 or 120 IITs.On hindsight,it must be said that RECs have been loyal to India, and I guess they now deserve some rewards.
Well idea of upgrading colleges to IIT shall be a better idea if and only if the standards and facilities technology wise are maintained and assured to the ever latest ones. If not its mere waste of additional paper work
It is an absolutely rubbish decision to increase no. of IIT. The quality will ditoriate and in future fame of IITan will vanish. It will be just like our country's population- huge quantity... but hard have any quality
