No More IITs Petition - Comments 1900-2200

1901.Jay Giri-US
i fully edorse the petition.

1905.V. Swaminathan-USA
The sentiment that the new universities being considered to be anointed with the IIT name are far short of performance especially in the quality of faculty available in those campuses (in fact even the original 5 IITs are stretched in finding, attracting and retaining the budgeted number of faculty) and hence will be unable to produce any IIT-caliber graduates - this sentiment was strongly shared by Professor Indiresan (a former IIT Director) at the 25th Reunion of Alumni at the IITM campus on Dec 25, 2005.

1907.MJC Prasad-USA
Yes, there is a need to stop this brand dilution as well as preserve the standard of JEE as an exam that is very different from the rest of the entrance exams

1908.Deepak Mishra-INDIA
Rather than renaming NIT's n other institutes to IIT, it'll be better to enhance their quality and let them build their own Brand!!

1910.Manohar Reddy-INDIA
please preserve the brand, dont dilute

1915.Sanjit Kumar Burnwal-IIT Kharagpur(2002)-INDIA
The idea of upgrading the standard of concerned institutes would have been better. Bring standards before converting to a brand. Once IITian always IITian. Proud to be an IITian.

1916.Sarath M-USA, IITM - class of 99.
The institutions that are at the verge of being named IITs are steeped in culture of campus politics, political influence and even violence. It is impossible to clense them of these and provide a fresh and free environment that exists in the original six IITs that was so important for us to become what we are today - honest, smart and outspoken! Renaming the institutions will be like selling old wine in a new bottle. In addition, IIT brand name is being diluted. Please do the nation a favour and start new IITs.

1919.Suman Mukherjee-India
If You have to make more IIt'sthen make sure that the marking in JEE is absolute not relative and if seats remain vacant let them be so

1922.Ravi Raamchandran-USA
Based on comments I have heard from faculty that I respect, this sounds like a political move that is only likely to tarnish the IIT image.

1925.Soubhagya Sahoo-India
if you try to sell fake products under a well-known brandname, you eventually get caught !!

1926.Micha Prem Kumar T-India
A true desire to improve the education system cannot be achieved by merely renaming colleges. This will not only downgrade the hard-earned world-wide brand name of the IITs, but will also create a false impression in the newly named colleges that giving them the name has strengthened their core educational offering. So we urged to reconsider the plan to rename the 7 colleges to IIT.

1935.chauhan-India
Dear Sirs, IIT system is not at all due to huge investment by GOI but mostly the work culture, ethics, pedagogic techniques, informal student-staff-professor relationships, dedication, commitment and many more. Mélange of world class infrastructure and unique institute culture attracted bright students and faculties. Huge investing in non-IITs may create a world class infrastructure but it will definitely take several years to develop an IIT culture. We appreciate the idea of developing very good institutions and strengthen the competitive institutions financially. But if Government really want to see more IITs based on the IIT system then instead of christening 7 Institution to IITs create one or two brand new IITs.

1951.Dr.Sumit Sur-USA
Diluting IIT brand name is a terrible idea. IITians are respected solely because of their quality - and there is no way this quality can be guaranteed by doubling the number of graduates.

1957.Avinash-USA
It is amazing to see the short-sightedness in addressing an issue at hand. Let us rename all colleges IITs and call 1 billion people in India software engineers! An ingenius way to address the problems of all ailments!

1966.Karan Sahni-USA
The IIT brand name should not be diluted

1972.Vijay-USA
While it is a good idea to broaden the IIT brand, the way it is planned by GOI - by these so called deemed IITs- makes no sense. They are not upto IIT standards in terms of faculty and facilities. They will definitely dilute the IIT brand.

1973.Satya Srinivasan-China
I am not an IITian and I am based in Shangai. There must have been some article in the media in Chinese that I could not read but got told by my chinese friend, that if Indian Govt goes through with upgrading other old engineering colleges to IITs and dilutes them it would help Chinese colleges get better recognition globally. India does not need enemies to destroy it. All India needs is its own Govt and corrupt Politicians and administrators who can do a better job of destroying India. We Indians are so used to this anyway, why bother?

1977.Rajarshi Guin-India
Just renaming an institute doesn't really transform it to an IIT, It requires years of hardwork,dedication and a pool of great talents to build up the recognition. By the way, how do you suddenly get so many bright students who will be at par with the 'IITians' ?

1983.B.G.KINI,M.TECH.,POWAI,1978-INDIA
Transforming Mr.Arjun Singh into a world-renowned, eminent economist is very simple; just rename him deemed Dr.Manmohan Singh!!

1984.Hariharan S-India
I am going to change my name to either Srinivasa Ramanujan or Albert Einstein. This is in line with the thinking of the Govt. of India.

1990.Prajith P Kumaran-India
Please don't dilute the reputation of IIT

1993.Vijay Kumar-India
Dear Hon.PM & Hon.HRD Ministers,
The thought of creating IIT type institutions is a very valuable to the future generation but to split and divide the prestige of IIT into more institutions will not only negate the standards but also will severely effect the zeal and enthusiasm of IITians to give back to India and more so with the Citizens of India, who consider IITs as a crown jewel of Indian technology schools.

Please do not dilute IITs, rather find out the best co-operation in the world to start another set of institutions like IITs to increase our educational feasibility and make them two role models of the world by carrying forward the dreams of the creators of these prestigious Institutes. I am more than sure that most Indians will agree with my line of thinking

1995.Arun Kulshreshth-US
I really appreciate it. Govt of India should not do it. Otherwise IITs will suffer a lot.

2000.mayank-india
its really incorrect on the part of government to dilute the brand name of iit .IIT through traditions has lived as one of the major center for education in india .by saying this i dont demise other institutes ,other are great as wellbut IIT has its own name .we are just demanding that new institutes should have different name .this thing by all means is justified.

2001.Varun Arya-India
We have no choice but to preserve the few islands of excellence which have remained in the field of education in India.

2008.Shamendra Ekka-India
It took 50 years for the IITs and the IITians to prove themselves as a Global Brand. Please don't take that away from them.

2009.Prashant Jain-USA
Preserve the IIT brand at all costs. Fund other institutes under a different name. This avoids the IIT brand dilution and hopefully creates a competing brand.

2011.Pradeep Yadav-India
GOI should put some efforts in providing infrastructure to raise the standard of existing rec's, just naming them to IIT won't help

2012.Amitoj Cheema-India
It seems like a perfect solutions to me. Please save the IIT brand name.

2013.Amitoj Cheema-India
It seems like a perfect solutions to me. Please save the IIT brand name.

2014.Udaya Kiran-India
Totally agree. All the reasons put forward are sound enough to make an impact at the highest level.

2015.Sree Rama Raju Vetukuri-India
Please do not set up any more IIT's

2120.Chinna Kannu-Bangalore-India
I am a BE Mech, but drive a taxi Yes an interstate Taxi as I could not find a decent job as an engineer because my BE was useless. Cost me money and time. I am proud of my very clever cousin who studied at IIT Madras and did an MBA at Ahmedabad and now has a fantastic job and a good life. I am not jealous but really proud like all family members..

A possible solution to all these nightmares that HRD seems to create every year is to move IITs and IIMs directly under the control of the PM. If PM Dr Manmohan Singh could free up and give the economy of the nation a boost, I am sure he will take autonomous IITs and IIMs to greater glory.. We need an HRD Minister young and with a vision to educate the rural masses. Another suggestion would be to dismantle AICTE that is very corrupt and the entire nation is aware of this.

If the current proposal materialises may be IITians may have to drive taxis too and we do not want that .. Please look after Indias assets

2124.Ravi Joshi-India
its really a good petition, would like to contribute my efforts for the same.IITs are jewels of india and shouldnt be diluated.

2131.swati-india
Please dont bring down the standard of IIT's..

2144.sourabh verma-iit madras-india
already a lot of iitans r jobless. Except cs and electricals all branches of iits r getting 20-40\% placement in campus. Only JEE is Demanded and rest of the people just want to have a good background and not want to go to Banch job. If people really dont want to do engineers job . Why to waste more fund in serving other countries in bussiness.

2145.Narendrakumar M Bhandari-Oman
Kindly do not treat the IITs as a commodity. IITs are temples that can be compared with Tirupathy, Vaishnov Devi, Sabrimalai, If we can we have multiple Tirupathy, Vaishnov Devi, Sabrimalai then we can have multiple IITs. The PM and HRD M are Learned men and must have missed the perspective we are showing them. I am sure they are not going to do this blunder.

2146.Kuldeep kumar-india
Please save IITs, and its Brand name that so many people have worked so hard to achieve.

2154.J P S Oberoi-USA
I absolutely agree with the petition. There could be no greater disservice to technology in India than to dilute the name of the IITs. I am sure both the Prime Minister of India and the HRD Minister understand this. Its probably the IAS Babus in the bureaucracy that are creating all the mess as always.

2155.S. Misra-USA
IIT's are a premier brand in technology education...we can not and should not dilute it

2157.Ravi Prakash-India
I agree with the plea as it took ard 30 yrs to build the image of IIT's But it may take even 2 or 3 batches to destroy these credentials

2160.Ashish Gandhe-India
Making more IITs is the worst thing that can be done. Quality and quantity can never go together. Imagine a duffer and a genius being treated in the same way because both are IITians, thanks to the ease in getting into an IIT because there are so many of them.

2168.R.Raghav-India
I feel that too many will spoil the standard of the IITs.it has a reputation that has been built slowly and with great dedication over the years.we must not spoil the reputation by a mistake.

2172.Nitin Gupta-India
I agree with the petition. Save IIT's Making HIT's or something on similar grounds (keeping IIT brand separate) is a much better option to upgrade the education system. Kindly note the purpose for which the IIT's were formed and do not dilute it

2176.Desmond Jacob-India
I totally agree with the idea expressed in the petition.There is no point in spoiling the IIT brand, esp by asociating it with private colleges which areway below IIT standards. Besides who can guarantee that these colleges wud keep up to the required standards all the time and not only during acreditation alone. Remember, its easy to attain great heights, its difficult to maintain them!!

2178.Desmond Jacob-India
I totally agree with the idea expressed in the petition.There is no point in spoiling the IIT brand, esp by asociating it with private colleges which areway below IIT standards. Besides who can guarantee that these colleges wud keep up to the required standards all the time and not only during acreditation alone. Remember, its easy to atain great heights, its difficult to maintain them!!

2183.Abhinav Tripathi-India
sir IIT's are different from other institutes and please leave them as it is

2188.ANIL KUMAR-INDIA-NO MORE IITS PLEASE

2199.S.Kumar-India
IITs has its own mark pls dont let it down