No More IITs Petition - Comments 1700-1800

1703.S.Rajiv-India
Politicians should stop playing around with IIT's for their own vested interest. IIT's are institutes of national pride and not a matter of some senselss political agenda. Our leaders need to be more visionary on this Issue.

1712.varun-india
my opinion is that the brand name of IIT should not be generalized..otherwise no one will recognise IITand in world

1713.ankit rustagi-india
this is a very nice idea.....implementing this would not only achieve govt.'s plans to make quality technical education reachable to many more....., but would also protect the quality of intellect at the iit's.

1721.Ashok Bhatia-U.S.A
I sincerely believe that creation of a new brand name, as suggested in the petition, will create healthy competition. This will be good for all the involved educational institutes - new (HIT?) as well as IITs.

1726.Sagar-India
It's a mere act of foolishness to covert some low-graded institutes to IITs. IITs are highly reputed institutes across world. You can't name some college of engineering (which doesn't even stands in top 10 in world) as IIT.

1738.Prashant Billore-USA
Diluting IIT brand is not in the interest of India

1740.Deepak Kumar-USA
Pls allocate more funds to other colleges and let them grow their own brands better than IIT's.Mr Arjun Singh pls dont play trash politics with IIT's that you do with the minorities.

1741.N. Muralidhar-India, BTech, IITM, 1974
Increasing the number of IITs would lead to dilution of the brand that has done our nation proud.

1742.Ajay B Naidu-India
Idea is good, but we cant believe politicians, we have to take further step

1743.Gaurav Kumar-India
Name is a thing that makes us unique and feel different. But this difference should bring us closer - like unity in diversity, and not take us apart or feel alienated.

we call IIT's as our alma mater we feel a sense of association, a bond which will be destroyed if we are unable to distinguish ourselves in this big world. I personally do not find a reason to name all the colleges IIT, its ridiculus. The college might have a geographical, state (like UP, bihar, kanatak, J&K..,.....) or other things.

Naming all colleges IIT before giving them equal fund or treating them equally is absurd, rather a way to divert from the main issue (ie poor funding). Naming all colleges IIT sounds like having same names for everyone in the family....hah. Let the name of IIT be for us.

1765.K K NAGARAJAN-India
ITs ridiculous to dilute the brand name of IIT

1766.Kiran Biswal-India
Please don't sink the IITs, please save the world

1767.Balaji-India
Just by renaming the other colleges to IITs will only dilute the IIT brand. I do not see any purpose in doing it. Instead they should develop the NITs and build another global brand just like the IITs. It is detrimental to the current IITs to rename more colleges to IITs. Also, the average quality of students that the IITs get will go down, and IITs will never be what they are now.

1770.Amit Kumar Gupta-India
It is good that we want to make the reach of good technical education as far as possible. But we also need to keep in mind that we don't want to kill the brand name IIT. We as alumni of IIT will not be much affected. But we are saying this for the future generations and for all other people who come in.

1773.Gaurav Vaish-India
Let's not dilute the Brand IIT that took half a century to develop

1775.Manan Agrawal-India
IIT brand must be preserved at all costs. Infact, steps should be taken to improve the present 7 IITs to bring them akin to MIT. The standards of engineering education in other colleges should be improved by putting appropriate processes in place such as setting minimum quality standards for teaching faculty, designing an attractive remuneration package for the faculty at par with the market forces, improving infrastructure etc.

But, there should be no more labelling of selected colleges as IITs. This is only in the interest of the nation. I fully endorse and support the arguments in favor of no more IITs in the best interests of our nation.

1790.Om Jagadish Prasad-INDIA
plz preserve the IIT brand and most importantly try to raise the level through improving the infrastructure

regarding our performance, we will do it in much better way for an EMPOWERED INDIA, Jai Hind!!!!!