I have serious doubt about the claims of caste free mind in IITs. Just a few years back in one of the IIT, the professors asked students to stay away from a professor because he was SC. I doubt if the professor knows what engineering is about. IITs are not great because of the JEE scores. IITs are great because the tremendous amount of the taxpayers money is spent on these institutes. What makes an engineer is the training and the exposure to the technology. IITs are just churning out theory masters but seldom engineers. So the reservation might just work producing better engineers as people of different background and not bound by the current lingo (which has not contributed much) of IITs will participate. I doubt if the professor knows anything beyound the theory of whatever faculty he is teaching in. And I doubt if he has ability to guide a student at different levels. And may be he is scared that the abilities of so called good teachers at IITs will expose if they face a wide range of merit.
