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
