Well i am myself a student of NIT(formerly Regional engineering college).And i feel that simply building the infrastructure or giving state of art facilities to an institute wont make it an IIT.The point is how they utilise these things effectively and what technology do they produce.
What IITians have and what we lack is the attitude that makes the difference.So,simply saying that RECs are being upgraded will not make any big difference.The real challenge lies in building an attitude and changing the entire public sector culture that has marred the present day institutes.I believe new IITs should be created from the scratch because we realise that people are not flexible enough to accept the changes.
