No More IITs Petition - Comments 2300-2500

2300.Yogesh Amle-India
Save the IITs and its brand.I dont understand the Govt rationale behind branding the RECs as IITs. If funding and support is the motive, it can be done by creating a new brand or not hampering the IIT brand.

2302.Manikandan-India
why our government is not interested in new brand names, so that those brands can again bring laurels to our country, like what IITs are doing now.

2303. Ananth R India, Chennai I feel that the IITs have built up a brand image that is exceptional and world-class quite unlike any other. The quality of education is also excellent and setting up of IITs will only reduce not only the brand image but also the qualtiy of education. Hence it is a futile thought

2310.P.G.KRISHNAMURTHI-INDIA
I fully agree with the above views.But, when, Delhi Engg.college was converted into IIT, itself, we should have started our action. Anyway, better late than never.I had earlier written against converting Cochin University into an IIT.

2313.Mahesh Tripathi-India
Let's not ride on somebody else's success but put in efforts to make brands and take to that level

2315.Surbhi Jain-INDIA
I agree. The idea of creating a new brand of institutes in healthy competition with the IITs is a more suitable and fruitful idea rather than giving them the status of Deemed IITs.

2319.Ram Kumar-India
I think we need more colleges in India of international repute than just IITs . Let the other institutions command respect globally and not dilute the IIT brand.

2333.Nalinikanth Gollagunta-USA-BTech-IITM 1998
Creating new IITs ground up would be a much better option

2342.Gaurav Kedia-Germany
Let us keep the goodwill of IITs and not make it as political agenda.

2343.Deepak Gidwani-USA-IITD 1981
Renaming should have been resisted even before this. Only the original 5 should bear the IIT name

2345.m.rajesh kumar-india
i strongly oppose in establishment of new iit"s also the jee paper being made easy decreasing stanadard of iitans

2346.KARTHIK.N-INDIA
PLEASE SAVE THE IITs BY NOT UPGRADING LOCAL COLLEGES ALSO TO IIT LEVEL AS IT AFFECTS THE MORALE OF STUDENTS LIKE ME PREPARING FOR IIT-JEE(2006

2347.shreyas-india
pls pls pls donot take make this blunder)

2351.Nachiketa Mishra-India
We don't want to make only name the institutes in India.Make more quality institutes don't destroy some standard institutes that are in India.

2355.Mayukh Banik-India
Because of crisis & hardness of the entry pass, IIT is at the crest. Please don't bring it down for the sake of this reknowned institute.

2358.T.R. Ranganath-USA
The institutions and their students need to earn their reputation. The idea of just handing somebody the reputation is wrong and counter-productive. The university of California system has added campuses, not by renaming existing institutions but by building them from the ground up. I believe there are many good reasons (some of which have been talked about in the petition) why this course of action has been pursued. Please build qualtity institutions from the foundation by all means. This course of action will certainly provide good competition to the existing IITs and as a consequence strenghten both groups in the process. This will take time, but time and effort that is well spent. When the new institutes develop their own reputations based on their accomplishments, I am sure they inturn would not like to see their hard earned reputations given away to somebody else for nothing.

In short, please don't screw-up a good thing that you have! Reputations can be ruined easily, while it takes a long time to build - 50 years in the case of the IITs!

2361.Guthi Raja Sekhar-India
strongly agree with my alumni views

2378.Karthik T J-India
We should first improve the standards of IITs which are facing problems like shortage of Professors, infrastructure. I feel it is not a good idea to start more IITs at this juncture which will only worsen the current situation.

2379.Rajeev R Pradhan-India
I support the initiation of such petition afterall Brand indentity has to be preserved ! We do come across lookalike Fake and this needs to be protected

2380.kaushik-india
the brand name is effective when supply is optimal

2381.Reetu Raj-India
There are only 7 IITs in world let them be 7, create colleges which are different than IITs. I believe India has potential to produce other than just engineers.

2387.Prabhakar K. Vichare-USA, India
Exhanging faculty is a better idea or promtional opportunities for academic staff but not pure arbitrary transfers at Government' will.

2400.ARINDAM BARAL-INDIA
Its quite disgusting when we came to know that many small regional colleges will be given the status of IIT. IITIANs are the best among all and their value should not be minimized.

2411.Sridhar Gopaluni-US
I support the plea to preserve the IIT Brand and encourage all alumni to do the same.

2413.Point@IITM-INDIA
i m with u guys but seriously i dont have slightest hope. people who dont care about their country aren't worth sending some plea. i dunno what they( our respected politicians) want but even a tiny country like bangladesh has guts to kill our soldiers and send ITS PM here on a visit. man i m fed up with their so called ahinsatmak (non violence they call it but its more like their neglecting and irresponsible attitude of a weakling). anyway i just emptied my heart. sorry i may be biased but these r my views.

2415.Ajay Singh Niranjan-Delhi,India
Hon.Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh & Hon.HRD Minister Mr.Arjun Singh, Dear Sir,

Myth:
conversion of some institute to IITs for national interest?
Reality: I think that national interest mean RECs or NIT or HIT (Hindustan Institute of technology: It is recommended for future brand) stabilize their own brand on global level. Like MIT or Stanford University. And it will give better space of healthy competition. So HRD ministry should provide more funds, better infrastructure facility, and more intellectual resource to NIT.National interest means every national level institute empowered through various levels like integration with IITs, Foreign University, collaborate with industries extra.

National interest means, they ( HRD ministry ) worked – How real research work stimulate from institute, how transparent and open system will develop, how institute will transform their mechanical system to Organic system ( mean very flexible or adaptive with CHANGE), How we give student 4 dimensions development Because It is the right time for Institute to produce ENTREPRENEURS / ENGINEER simultaneously.

National Interest means allocate more funds on Education Sector. It means open new IITs not conversion of Some institute to IITs. It means deregulation and decontrol of higher education.If national Interest means think and work beyond political interest or personal interest. It is better for national level Institute work in open environment and any political agenda can not interfere at any rate.

Education Centre is a temple of knowledge in which there are no space of political agenda because we can not compromise with future of coming generation. I think that Transfer of body (sound Infrastructure or better facility & good funding) is OK, Transfer of Minds ( Intellectual resouces , Knowledge, ) is OK, Transfer of Heart ( Emotional supports or empowering )is OK, BUT Transfer of IIT Brand ( the soul or the core value ) is not OK.

Just try to think at visionary platform. Any conversion can damage feeling of healthy competition. Our main focus should be , HOW WE CAN MAKE REC OR NIT OR HIT as a global brand like IIT Brand. But Definately It should need consistent hard works. SO begin to WORK.

2416.Dipendra Pratap Singh-india
there is increase in no. of IITs but wat about AIIMS that have only 50 no. intake............is india there r sufficient amount of good doctor not engineer??

2423.Ram Nehra-USA
Govt's effort to exploit IIT brand name are condemnable. Govt should rather try establishing parallel series of NITs.

2427.Ramji-India
Dont dilute the IIT brand name please stop this foolish ignorance

2433.Aditya Vijaya Kumar-India
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2008

2434.Amrith Bhide-India
Sir, IIT brand name has world wide recognition , since the number is countable. Opening more IITs won't enhance, quality of the technical eductaion by over night.. Rather do invest on infrastructure of existing top ranking Institutes for healthy competion with IITs. However, do not rename the institutes to IIT, in order to reatin the brand name.

2443.Kalyan Raj A.H.-INDIA
I am in strong agreement with the petition

2444.Dr. Kal Renganathan Sharma PE-USA National;
Employment visa in India- Professor at SASTRA deemed university

2445.Makarand K. Dabholkar-India
Please do not destroy IIT brand by increasing the number of IITs

2453.Suhas Walanjoo-India
What a nonsensical approach. Create aniother brand if you want. Doesn't Rolls Royce sell Bentleys as well? What happened to the proposal of NIT

2455.aniket-India
dont spoil the brand created by IIT which took more than 50yrs to create

2459.Ajoy Kapat-India
it is better idea not increase IIT but to established new institution of another name

2461.satya-INDIA
yes, i concede with the petitioners

2465.rohan-india
hey! we neddd to setup new iits not rename a few existing eng colleges

2476.B.Govindarajalu-India
In my opinion, what is needed today is two urgent actions:

1.Set goals to all existing technical institutions to emulate IIT standards

2.IITs today lack certain standards compared to leading US universities.Find ways and means to resolve this.

B.Govindarajalu, M.TEch(CSE)IITB,1979,CEO,Microcode,Chennai
Author of IBM PC AND CLONES and Computer Architecture and Organisation

2482.vishal rajpurohit-india
plz dont play with the status of IIT's

2483.abhiram-india
for gods sake please ...no more IIT'S........let the brand name remain

2483.abhiram-india
for gods sake please ...no more IIT'S........let the brand name remain

2489.Dasigi B Venkateswarlu-Kuwait
The current move to name seven colleges as IITs would certainly dilute the brand image of IITs. This brand image is not just a pride for the alumni of these institutes but a pride to the entirenation. Hope the authorities would appreciate the point.

2498.Ganesh Subbarayan-USA
Professor of Mechanical Engineering-Purdue University-IITM, ME, 1980-85

2499.Suresh Garimella-USA
As a professor in the US, I keep in close touch with the IITs, and am already seeing a dilution in standards and quality. Please revisit this issue and stop this before it is too late and the meaning of the IIT name is lost.