By increasing the number of IITs , that too by "upgrading" RECs and other engineering colleges (which is in itself a questionable idea ) will adversely affect the Brand name IIT .I am final year student of IIT and to be frank enough , IIT is the way it is because of the supreme quality of it's students and faculty and not because of it's infrastructure. Very few things in the country believe in quality and it is almost an universal law that quality * quantity is constant.So by increasing the number, we will have to compromise with quality. Already the number of seats in IIT are being increased,as decided by Government Of India.Needless to say the quality level has gone down.So , I plead to the government, for heaven's sake leave the IITs alone and let it be a autonomous institute as it is supposed to be.
IIT's are recognized all over the world because of bright students and highly qualified professors.
Converting the old setup to newer one with the same prof's I dont think can work out.In IIT's prof's really work- they are best in their field and keep on updating them selves on newer areas.
I have seen in universities how much prof's are eager to go to home...instead in IIT' even one cant feel that today is divali.Can we change the mind set of those prof's by just converting the institute to IIT? WIll the students recieve the same quality of education as well as extra carricular activities without being experiencing the real IIT world?
MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE OF IIT STUDENTS DO NOT PURSUE ENGINEERING. Nowadays IIT only used as a stepping stone to get into Management institutes or to go foreign institutes. Government and Industry must try to recognise the importance of every form of education and use them for which they have studied. Getting more IITs only get more students to get accredition for their further studies unrelated to engineering. lakshmanan
i sincerely feel that adding more iits 2 the already existing plethora would deplete the standards the iits have reaped since decades.well,am a student of of an "NIT in SURATHKAL".i know how rich are the standards of students as well as staff in an rec/nit.our's being one of the top nits at present,still lacks that cutting edge quality in the staff.however,student quality's not 2 b blamed much 'coz u find substandard stuff out of a pretty ordinary exam,definitely.
upgradation of staff quality coupled with infrastructural amends should see the recs/nits 2 the iit levels.but i feel,this must b gradual with 1 iit at a time being announced.our's being the best nit will still need all the above changes and gradual n complete change 2 the iit level should take atleast about 6-7 years.the other institutes' plight is evident,ofcourse except a few like mnnit,calicut nit.
also,mere renaming will not help,unless standards are improved 2 world class levels as in present iits.
i think the govt is trying to bring about a technological revolution out here n also trying to increase the crase of getting into prestigious IIT. i thingk this will definetly revolute the invironment.
i would rather say no bcos IIT's have their own standards maintaining them from age olds and the Govt's.policy would rather dilute the very essence of what IIT is really like.They are considered as the bench mark for any aspiring engineer and i could see many want to achieve that but only few get it.Expanding the number of seats would be rather give a solution than converting the REC's to IIT's and i suppose that REC's do stand on a different ground apart from IIT's.
Instead of increasing the number of IITs the government should provide more funding and infrastructure support to add the state of art facilities in the existing IIT.
Increasing the no. of IIT will furthe increase in funding options and a ground up approach will be required.
