Dear Sir, The conversion of a few old colleges and institutions into new IITs is not a healthy idea. It is because this colleges are having their own culture, administrative and academic set up. The faculty and supporting staffs are obsessed with their way of managing the academic curriculum and less recieptive to changes and flexibility that is required for IIT set up. The faculties of these instituions are not that updated and geared up to accept the challanges of research, consulting, and other scientific and technological innovations. After all no one can expect them to change overnight and deliver. It will be only beneficial to a few individuals who are working in the said institutions in different capacities. The basic important parameters to be considered in IITs should be faculty and laboratory or instructional infrastructure, which are either old, outdated or of sub standard in those colleges.The faculty is also not well updated of latest knowledge and happenings in thier respective fields except a few ones. That is an exception than a rule. Hence it is always a better idea to start new ones for a healthy academic and research culture.
