No More IITs Petition - Comments 3000-3200

3005.Aman Mohunta-India
PLease do not use IIT Brand Name for political reasons

3006.MOHIT KUMAR BANERJEE-Singapore
It has taken the students and faculty a lot of efforts to build brand IIT as the premier brand from India - lets not dilute its value due to sheer political considerations

3010.avsilesh-india
iit potential gets lowered. iit brand gets diluted

3018.Mandeep Singh Bhatia-Singapore
I totally agree with the fact that this will dilute the quality of engineers graduating from IIT.

3027.P. M. Vedamanikam-USA-B. Tech 1969 - IIT Madras
I fully endorse the petition

3028.suryajith-INDIA
this results in the loss of competition among the students and thereby reduces the charm of the institutes

3033.Srikumar K. S.-India
Rebranding existing institutions as IITs is not going to affect the quality of education at those places. The student and faculty culture built over decades at the original IITs are not what will be carried over to these other schools. The Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) , the Tata Instutite of Fundamental Research (Bombay) and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (MatScience, Chennai) are examples of stellar institutions that did not need to use the IIT brand name and have built their own by purely going for excellence, in the same spirit as the IITs.

There is no need for another brand like "HIT" as suggested in this petition. Let there be 20 institutions in India all known for excellence by their own names for their own reasons. The only way to nurture excellence is by insisting on excellence. Just as naming someone Purushottam isn't going to make him the most noble of men. It only contributes to ignoring the meaning of the name

3035.Unnati Gupta- IIT Kanpur,INDIA
i sincerely agree with the petition

3041.R Manu-India
Let there be no more IITs.Develop many more institutes to IIT or International standards. I do not agree to the suggestion of HITs. Let the institutes retain their identities.

3043.apksinha-IIT, Kgp, India
It takes Decades to build the NAME but only minutes of Negligence to lose. ETERNAL VIGILENCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.

3046.Arindam Basu-India
While I do agree that excessive amount of Brand Extension (without commensurate monitoring of quality) can resort to dilution of the parent brand; one cannot ignore the demands for significantly increasing the number of seats at the existing IITs.

India need to produce atleast 15000 and not 3000 IIT engineers every year, to make a difference to the world.

3047.Shantanu Kumar-India
I strongly agree with this plea. Preserve the brand "IIT".Don,t destroy it

3059.PSP SARMA, [retd army brigadier]-india
enable competetive new brands, who knows they cd do better, !

3064.Kalyan Panda-India
New IITs ok but try to start new name new institute

3074.MSAMSHIVA-India
Dear Sir,Please don,t let the brand image of IITs dilute,the new institute canbe named as HIT or JIT(Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Technology, which in course of time would become a brand name itself.

3075.Anurag Dwivedi-India-Student,IIT Kharagpur
An IIT should only be built up totally new - Kindly designate the 7 new colleges as NIT's which also is a good brand.2 more IIT's are goin to come up in close vicinity of IIT Kharagpur itself, I can already forsee a downfall of the brand IIT in this region.

3078.Avyay-india
sir these new intitutes should be given an open ground to play and work not something which is already built ..iits got here from ground level so should these new institutes ..then only they can be really called new temples of education

3079.Suresh Adina-India
Entry to IIT should be earned and not disbursed. If the current entry system into IITs is flawed, let the existing institutions come togther and fix it. Let the existing IITs maintain their uniqueness and the level of education they currently have. If each state has an IIT, which is likely to happen in future, their standard will slowly but steadily go down over the years, which would be a real shame. Let IITs not become another public sector undertaking like the many we have in India that have done very little for the nation's improvement overall. Autonomy is what gives them the drive to reach new heights and the courage to try out new ideas. Give us a chance to remain proud as IIT alumni and not become just another one of those IITians.

3080.Bishwadeep Mukherjee-India
Let's not tamper with the reputation of IITs

3086.Abhishek Singh-India
I think this is a serious issue and government should take a bold step toward it.
3089.Asutosh Pathak-United States
Brand identity is crucial to the focus of IITs Quality would be hard to replicate It takes years to build that reputation not only a name

3091.Sundeep Peechu-USA
This is a silly gimmick to expand the IIT brand. Why dont we club all the local mgmt colleges into IIMs as well? Ditto for medical colleges.

3092.Suramya Rajwade-Singapore
Look at ur goals. IIT is not the only way to achieve that, create brand India, and not by destroing brand IIT. Its simple think and understand. Make many other brands related or originated from INDIA. Learn from IIT and GOAL is Achieved.

3097.Biswanath Dutta-India
Support the petition whole heartedly. The GOI move will be a very big mistake and only serve to dilute the image. Just giving the Rolls Royce name to every car will not help. Neither is it practical to think that all can be brought to the same standard or will have the same quality output. In a few years the IIT name will be worth nothing.

3098.sujata singh-india
i am in support of this mission.iit brand should be preserve.and the suggesion given in plea is also appriciable

3099.I. Selvaraj-India
Support the petition. Setting up new Engineering Colleges, under a different brand (with competing philosophies) will benefit the nation.

3102.khimendra singh- I.I.T.MADRAS-india
IIT brands must be preserved.

3104.Anupam Vivek-India
good suggestion, but I am afraid...Indian government is not so patient.

3106.colossom-Canada
This political move will not only dilute but tarnish the only brand image which India hold today. After all world do not want trash coming from every third or fourth poor infrastructure college. I bet India will loose this five decade of hard earned "JEWEL" down the lane.

3109.Kiran Kumar Pippalapalli - B.Tech,IIT KGP, 2002.India
Get rid of the word "Brand" from the petition. I would rather use "Plea to preserve the IIT heritage and build complementary educational institutions to serve India"

3116.Shyamprasad-India
wonderful suggestion

3125.Raj Narayan Marndi-India
Don't dilute the brand of IIT by adding some more non-IITs into this list. The idea of HIT is really good one, and it should be implemented.

3126.Sandeep Bharti,MCA IITR-India
No new IITs please

3128.manish jain-india
please dont do that

3135.Praveendra Singh-CYPRUS
NO to more attachments to IITs, it will dilute the brand IIT which Indians are proud of.Why don't go and create new brands like IIITs, NITs, BITs etc...
There is only one MIT, Harward, Princeton

3137.Prateek-Japan
Changing name of an institute will not improve quality of education. Why not give funding and other support under the existing name? Once these institutes are at par with IITs. they can be renamed.

3138.Fred Rodrigues-Australia
Don't fix something that does not need fixing

3139.Saurabh Agnihotri-UK
I completely agree

3140.Ganesh Kumar K-India
Kindly preserve the world reputed IIT brand.Do not dilute the JEE entrance (toughest) exam.

3142.Hemant Sonawane-India
If GOI sincerely desires to enable more students to take advantage of the IIT curriculum, it must build fresh, new institutes (from scratch), instead of falling back on shortcuts, thru half-hearted measures like renaming existing institutes to IIT. This entire naming-renaming (of airports, streets, and colleges) business is hogwash and a colossal waste of national time & resources.

If GOI is serious about technical education, it must take the initiative to build new institutes, modelled along the lines of existing IITs. There is always an easy path, and a right path. One needs to see if they have the courage to choose the right path.

3144.amit sinha-India
plz do not kill tis golden goose

3148.Shikher Bisaria-USA
Please do not convert RECs to IITs

3149.Anu-USA
I don't know why Government is thinking that giving the brand name of IIT's to other Institutions will help? IITs have come up to this name and fame after struggling a lot. Let the other institutions struggle and acquire their fames in differnt brand names. Giving the brand of IIT to other institutions will not serve the purpose rather it will deteriorate the name and fame of all existing IITS rapidly. Government must think about the exsiting infrastructures sensibly.

3153.Ankit Malhotra-India
they should be renamed but not to IIT's these colleges should be renamed to some other name and grant given. it would be misleading to name them as IIT's

3164.Amit Gautam-India
14 IITs!!! Will go a long way as the perfect example of Brand dilution. The term IITian wont carry any value...one will need to specify whether one is from say IIT Kanpur or some IIT Osmania.

3166.Manikanth Mohan-India
It is essential that the brand value of the IITs are not played around with. The effort should be to raise the existing NITs (or as the petition says convert them to HITs) to better levels than just renaming them, causing irreparable damage to the brand value of the IITs.

3173.soham ganguly-india
do not dilute thebrand name

3175.Amit Jain-India
No more IIT please if you want to keep it premium
else it will beome like any other school on the street

3176.Arun Kumar Giri-USA
Let's create some other brand names to make ourselves prod. Why spoil one we have
created.

3178.Sadanand Deshpande-USA
Please keep the seven IITs as they are

3179.Shireesh Agrawal-India
I request that the decision be made by people who have been a part of IITs. Let this not be a case of short term planning and show of power.

3184.Ashish Kar-USA
No point in diluting the brand name of IIT. It would be better if we could raise the standard of other institute and bring it at par with iit without giving any care to its name :

3190.Chandan Mendiratta-India
Save IIT, Save IITians, Save India

3199.Sanjay Jadhav-India
I support the Petition