No More IITs Petition - Comments 1300-1500

1303.Ashok Sharma-India
I support and respect the concern of all friends who have signed the petition and urge you dear Prime Minister to agree to the plea raised here...

1305.ADMAL NKHIL CHANDRA-INDIA
I fully support this petition and hope my vote counts

1308.Mayank Jain-India, Batch of 2007, IIT Delhi
I feel that this is a good step, and only hope that it can lead to a positive outcome for the future of the IIT Brand Name. Someone also please do something about the falling standards of the JEE, which will lead to an internal dilution of the IIT Brand. I even wrote an article for the Hindustan Times in response to the CBSE Head's comment about restricting the JEE to the Class XII syllabus and quality, and making it only an objective exam. Expectedly, it wasn't published.

1316.Abhinav-India
IIT is pride of India and we need to preserve IIT brandname

1317.V V Ramaswamy-UK
It has taken several years of efforts by the staff and outstanding performance by the Alumni in various fields all over the world for IIT to get recognition as a ‘Centre of Excellence matching any’. It is a case of achievement of ‘great vision of our founder fathers of the nation’. Why mass produce, water down the quality and with that the name, fame and recognition earned over several years? Can we not leave these outstanding institutions without tampering?

1328.manoj kumar himanshu-india
includes what others have said...it helps the iitian to have confidence and recognition and that implications of that has long way to go in helping country and prospiring condidate

1333.Pradeep-USA
Being an alumni from IITM, I think it is not in the right spirit to make other institutes equivalent to IIT's. If this goes through, other institutes changing their names to IIT's would ensue.

1334.Vikash Murthy Peesapati-India
I totally agree with the above, very well written petition

1341. Ajay Kumar Singh-IIT Roorkee-India
Conversion can Annihilate IDENDITY –Core value (IIT Brand )
1] IIT brand is a soul of IIT system. And this powerful spirits of IIT brand has been stabilized through consistent handwork of all professors, alumni and students. IIT brand is a core value of the system and it is not not transferable. If anyone transfers it to other, it violates core principles of visionary organization and after some time it degrades conscious level of spirit of IIT brand. Our mission is to enhance consciousness of IIT brand in all space, time and circumstance.

point[2]we are here and working very integrated way – HOW ??

Point 3] Every institution build own Identity so it create own uniqueness and brand through consistent hard work of all member which is interconnected with them.

Point 4 ]IISC,IIT ,BARC ,DRDO, NIT construct own IDENTITY according to core principle on which they work, definitely all are working very well, any conversion can annihilate its IDENDITY.

Point 5 ] Any conversion can not give any benefits because IT does not change root (core), If any system is try it then I believe that It violate principles of those institution and degrade conscious level of core . Finally The power of core value (IIT Brand ) is more than any interest of any institution , organisation and system . So presere the IIT Brand is our great resposibility otherwise vision of glorious organisation will become meaningless. So friend, Empowering the voice and CRUSH THE PERSONAL INTEREST OF SOME PERSON So that we can feel beauty of its core priciples.with wishes ..-- Ajay Singh Niranjan from IIT Roorkee

1346.Rohit Das- India
I completely agree with the petition. Moreover the suggestion to provide a different name is very creative and will provide a healthy competition which will be beneficial to all.

1352.Ananth-UK
Only 25% of our IT manpower is employable! Please change this to 95% in 8 years

1354.Aditya Ramani-USA
IIT is IIT because of it's selectivity. If 20,000 people got into MIT, it would suck

1357.Arnab Banerjee-India/WB
I support the move whole heartedly

1363.Bhargav-India
Mr. P.M. first give them good faculty n facilities , infrastructure and then think of naming it as IIT or whatever

1367.Udit Agrawal-Canada
Sir, the basic grounds on which the reputation of IITs is built is the quality of the students admitted through the toughest exam in the world, JEE. And more than that, it depends on the way this quality is maintained throughout the 4/5/6... years the student stays over their. The foundation of the fame that the IITs carry, is laid on the concept of the severe competitive environment they provide. Distribution of this name brand, will only lead to a dilution of this intensive competition within the IITs. Instead, as suggested in the above petition, giving them an external competition through something like the HITs will in practice enhance the educational scenario in India in the technological field. I hope the Indian Government will kindly listen to this plea by the IIT Alumni. Thank you.

1372.Vasanthan Raghavan-USA
Even without this issue, the brand name of IIT's are getting tarnished by the day. We do not have to add fuel to this raging fire.

1375.Anildev Vasudevan Unni-Canada
Renaming the colleges as IITs will be a great disaster, defaming the brand name of IITs which are worldwide accepted and recognized.

1384.Abhinav Garg-India
What makes it an IIT? A judgement criteria should be set up with respect to current IITs. And the students, faculty and facilities of an institution must be according to that judgement criterian to declare that institution as an IIT. The academics system of a new IIT should be like that of present IITs

1388.Arijit De-USA
First improve the standards of other colleges then dare to give them such a brand

1389.Hari Krishna Dutt-Canada-BTech IITM 2005
It is important that the IIT name be preserved as any other intellectual property or brand name is!! Increasing quantity will not improve quality!!

1402.Pavan Rai-USA
I am from the batch of IIT Bombay 65, and feel very strongly that we not dilute the IIT brand.

1405.Eakta Jain-India
Interestingly, there was a Review Committee that came to IITK two years ago. During their interaction with students, they said something along the lines that there are no immediate plans to create more IIT's. I don't know what happened to the committee, its report, or its recommendations.

1409.Anoush Sree Kumar-Australia
The IIT name is a highly regarded and respected one not only in India but all over the world, and to see that name diluted would be terrible. The exclusivity of IIT and desire for places is one of the driving forces of IIT in my opinion, and to lose that would be to lose some of the lustre that IIT now commands

1419.sravani reddy-india
iits r unique..please dont polute them.

1430.Vijit Mishra-India
I agree with the petition for preserving the brand name of IIT

431.Shadab Khan-India
I am only concerned with the IIT brand name getting affected. India has only one worldclass brand in the field of Education and that too is going to be being destroyed. Besides, can anyone really tell me the reason why these colleges are being renamed IITs? I feel this is nothing but a cosmetic change being done by Govt just to appease its partners; and differes in no way from another futile and useless (and probably maniacal) activity of renaming cities.

1433.Shinjan Tiwary-India
Please ! Mr. Prime Minister, it's very important that we maintain and improve the quality of technical education but not on the cost of what we strived to achieve in 50 years

1460.Anish Khadiya-India
Instead of arbitrarily bestowing colleges with the IIT tag, its better that they are funded to come upto IIT status. simply promoting colleges to IIT wont make them IITs but wud rather dilute the brand value of existing IITs

1462.Ramesh Polisetty-USA
Lets not ruin the reputation of IIT. Lets build the next generation of IITs, since we have already done it once.

1468.V.SRINIVAS-India
Well I think the name of the IIT should be preserved. But I would also suggest that the Centre government should not expend any more on the IITs. Because you all are saying that the IITs have strong alumini. Also the IITs should be funded by industries rather than government.In this way we can know the true potential of the university. What the centre govt should do is provide some initial good infrastructure.In this way quality rather than autonomy will the main goal of any university.This will also remain even in the community which lives in IIT.

1469.Mohit Jhawar-India
I sincerely believe that by following the policy of appeasement, politicians are not only diluting the academic standards of country but also the overall life quality. Just packaging any soap with 'Lux' wrapper wont make them Lux.

1484.George Vergese-India
No more IITs. Do not dilute the one thing India is being recognized for in a major way

1489.Mahitosh Patankar-India
Please do not Dilute the name of IIT create more world class universities in the name of NIT's or HIT's