Present IITs are enough ..still facilities in IITs are lacking...placement for those who are coming out of IITs is still not fully covered ..They should be given suitable placements in Govt service/companies for the total progress of the nation in technology..
Instead of increasing the number of students , quality should be taken in to account ..
Increasing number of IITs would definitely decrease the quality of IITians that it churns out each year.
Other institutes should be raised to IIT standards but not converted to IIT. IIt should remain a benchmark for the other institutes but it's exclusivity should be maintained.
As someone rightly pointed out that if the no of IITs keeps increasing no of IITians too keeps increasing n folds. But that is definitely not the aim that was sought when the first 5 IITs were built.
If IITs increase, then the competition to get into IITs would no more be spoken about and thus there would arise a large gradient of IQ among the IITians.
Today, we all know that IITs have amassed world recognition and thus the government's aim should be to further enhance/develop the standards of IITs .. build on the reputations got already and mae them the top institutions in the world.
I feel it is a bold step Dr.Joshi has taken to increase the number of IITs.Since a large number of technically brilliant students are deprieved from getting access to IITs Because of just scoring one marks less.By addition of five more IITs atleast we can able to give justice to few more.For a country like India ,having population more than one billion,there should be more colleges to the standard of IIT.We can avoid brain-drain also by the addition of IIT.
We Do need But the following things have to be borne in mind and addressed with due importance while converting REC's (i.e., NIT's) into IIT's: 1. The faculty of NIT's are accustomed to the traditional system of exams and marks and they may find it difficult to change over to a new system wherein knowledge in the subject is more important than the MEMORIZING CAPACITY of the students. I am saying this because as a student of an NIT I have come across only a few lectureres who stress on gaining knowledge rather than on passing the exams with high scores. In my sincere opinion One basic thing required is to swap a part of teaching staff from existing IIT's to new IIT's. Also the government should see to it that the existing lecturers in these institutions (new IIT's) who do not have qualifications required for an IIT lecturer should be removed at any cost without which the whole exercise and money will be wasted. ----------- An NIT ian
I think it will dilute their exclusiveness. As it is I think IIT's are a success due to the culture imparted on the people there and facility. May be a new set of colleges could be brought about to impart better culture and be named different. As IITs and RECs there should be another set of colleges which should take the best from IIT system and REC system and blend it with those of IISc's and get a better research output.
