There was a time when the IITs(Indian Institute of Technology) were considered as one of the best Engineering colleges throughout the world with its generation of quality Engineers, excellent infrastructure and world-class lecturers. Even now it retains some of the fame but I feel that the standard is degrading gradually lately.
The most important reason of the excellence of these institutions is the isolation from politics and generous funding from the central government. But now one of the reasons is fading away with government intervention in the operations of the institutions.
Firstly some long time ago, the politicians brought in seat reservations based on caste systems as they wanted to show favor to those people by reserving seats for them. Whether this is right or not is debatable but I feel this reduces the standard of the students joining the institutions by selecting students not entirely based on their knowledge.
Then came some drastic decision to open a bunch of several other IITs even when the required infrastructure in not in place. Many new ones were started without and separate facilities and were made to share resources of the existing IITs. Under all possibilities I feel that this is a very bad decision affecting the entire IIT fame and quality.
Recently there were many instances by the IIT authorities that the students were not socializing enough and not participated in cultural and festivals. They instead preferred to browse the internet, play games online and blogging.
By all means, I don’t want to see the IITs that I dreamt of joining one day when I was in my high school, to lose their shine and become yet another Engineering college without the quality of a world class institution.
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