Name-game brigade casts eye on IITs - Plan to replace Bombay & Madras labels CHARU SUDAN KASTURI New Delhi, Dec. 21: The whim that led Indian politicians to rename some of the country’s biggest cities may finally have caught the IITs in its grip.
India is planning to rename IIT Bombay and IIT Madras half a century after they were started, under amendments to the Indian Institute of Technology Act proposed by the UPA government.
If the amendments are approved by Parliament in their present state, the institutes will soon be called IIT Mumbai and IIT Chennai.
