At last we have someone in Govt. with a backbone and courage to speak the
truth. IIT-s are not institutions churning out graduates like the degree
colleges in Bihar where one could buy the degrees without attending the
classes!!
If we had similar bureaucrats and experts to counter Arjun Singh in his
reservation moves for OBC-s in PG courses in medicine, IIM and IIT-s, the
Country's sagging image could have been saved.
The SC/ST/OBC-s themselves are at a discount and loss, as they would be weeded
out at the preliminary stages itself in placement procedures, since it is
evident that they got admitted not on merit but reservation. And in any future
job prospects too they would expose themselves as not meritorious candidates
but "reserved" ones!!
Arjun Singh and earlier VP Singh did a great disservice to these OBC
categories, as they could be eligible only for idling in Govt. jobs!!
--- On Sat, 9/6/08, Dr.V.N. Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Dr.V.N. Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New IITs are a disaster, says PM's scientific adviser
To:
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2008, 9:17 AM
Jharkhand Forum
I fully agree with the views expressed by Prof.C.N.R. Rao, Scientific advisor
to PM and my Guru at IITK. The fate of the new IITs and their students can be
easily imagined when we are not finding good and qualified teachers for the
regular colleges. How will the new IITs will manage the teachers and the
teaching aids and from where. This has always remained a big question in my
mind because the University's vocational courses (a bit new in nature) are
managed through guest faculty and that too not from the same discipline/
subject.
Dr.V.N.Sharma
New IITs are a disaster, says PM's scientific adviser
IANS
Published on Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 15:57 in Nation section
Tags: IIT's, PM Manmohan Singh , New Delhi
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DEMEANING STANDARDS: Six new IITs have started operations from the current
academic session.
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's initiative to establish eight new
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has drawn flak from his own scientific
adviser C.N.R. Rao, who said on Friday that the opening of so many new IITs is
a "disaster".
"Opening so may IITs in one year is a disaster. I had no idea that so many IITs
have already come up in our country," he told reporters on the sidelines of an
event at the Federation of Indian Cambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
Six new IITs - in Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh - have
started operations from the current academic session. India now has 13 IITs.
"This is not a play. To open IITs, you need proper planning. There are
makeshift campuses and some are even attending classes in old IITs," said the
renowned scientist.
"I came to know about this development after the institutes admitted students.
This is sad and I have told the prime minister and even the human resource
development minister (Arjun Singh) about this. I am dissatisfied with the
developments," said Rao, a visiting professor at Cambridge University.
IITs are premier engineering colleges of the country. Manmohan Singh has
already announced that India will have eight new IITs, including the six opened
this year, to boost engineering and technology education.
