Not at all and at any cost. This is just a politically motivated issue by our Prime minister since the national election is heading soon. It will surely please people from those cities where the new IITs are supposed to be built, but surely degrade the status of IITs. IITs are reputed because they have got only limited number of students which are the best in India. If each and every institute becomes IIT, then the quality of students entering there will obviously degrade due to the additional input of students who otherwise would not have qualified to study in IITs. As a consequence the output of IITs will fall making IITs of no status symbol to the international community. People from all front should oppose this move, although I feel, in a country like India, where political parties never oppose any move which has some popular aspects fearing cut in votes and hence once this has been proposed, means no parties will oppose it. For example, Nitish Kumar, the central minister for accidents (Railway) has even dared to divide the eastern zone to make an additional zone to his constituency just to please his local voters although this causes enormous loss to the overall income of rail
