Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Is the number of IIT's degrading the IIT BRAND name?

People get used to privilege. In any society once you get a taste of privileged treatment it is so difficult to give it up, give it away or even share it. It does not seem strange to me that we now try to maintain our privilege at the tax payers expense.

So now I ask :
Is the number if smart people in India declining?
1981 - 640 million
1991 - 840 million
2008 - 1130 million
This is nearly a 75% increase in the number of "smart" people eligible to get admission into IIT.
So is the increase in number of seats in IIT such a bad option?
With so much talent in our country , a population of over one billion, 7 IIT's are not enough.

Let us not forget that in every nation it is the duty of the government to create infrastructure that reaches the masses and not to harbor elitism.
Dedicated to the service of the nation , not to an elite 1 %.

IIT's were never meant to be high IQ societies where only the "divinely

gifted were supposed to enter. IIT's were opened to provide high quality engineers to support the economic and social development of our country.

OBVIOUSLY THE MORE INTELLIGENT SHOULD BE PREFERED,

But at the cost of a nation's development?