This is overlooking commonsense in the face of popular demand. If your economy is cash starved you dont become rich by printing more and more currency notes. Why do the existing institutes need the IIT tag to reach glory. Are they so lame ? They just want to eat upon the hard work doen by IITs.
Let them develop themselves. Give then all support. Let them rise above IITs and lets see some brand competition
It seems the HRD ministry has lost touch with commonsense.
Author has not even left any e-mail address as his contact info. Can anybody tell me how to write into rediff guest columns. I need to pitch an article to neutralise the people who think they r doing good by creating new IITs.