Until the entire system is re-tooled, involving pratical tests to judge the candidate's true potential for a career in engineering, as well as tests on linguistic ability, IQ, GK and personal vision, nothing significant will be achieved by window-dressing from time to time: the coaching classes will tweak the system to their advantage soon enough, and the IITs will keep admitting and churning out greedy mediocrities with bloated egos by the thousands, who will rarely found Infosys-style corporations or invent miraculous gadgets and processes to change the world.They have by and large always been good only for doing mid-level jobs for MNCs or escaping into B-schools or running away to the US, unless they can land jobs in the IAS. When will we wake up and look the nasty truth in the face?
