IIT's are no doubt centres of technical excellence. But the decision to increase the number of IIT's won't serve any purpose. Instead of opening up more IIT's govt should instead focus on upgradation of the existing ones. I myself being an IITian know the condition in our labs, we have been working with equipments which are as old as the IIT itself. On one hand our govt don't have funds to support the IIT's which are already there and on other hand it plans to open up 5 more.
