No More IITs Petition - Comments 3500 to 4000

3507. Rahul Sinha India
Let there be a competition on equal grounds for all engineering institutions in india , but please dont tamper the brand name "IIT".

3509. Anil Bisht India
Do'nt indulge politics ....

3521. SatyanarayanaReddy Vemireddy India
Strongly support the Plea

3522. hemant goyal india IIT brand is what has put India on the international scenario and it will only get diluted with creation of more IITs as exceptional things are always less in number or rare.

3526. Avijit Kumar Singh ( IIT KGP) India
I believe that this dilution of the brand name might prove harmful for the nation in the long run.

3533. Prasanta Kumar Bose India
IIT brand has taken over 50 years to be built.If we try to push in more institutes /colleges into its fold , the coverage will become superficial since these institutions proposed to be brought under IIT fold are not new and each has its own heritage , culture , vision and priorities.

This may unnecessarily dilute the essence of the IIT brand involving whatever unique culture or practices it has been built with. Also , we must remember that evrything is not bad in these institutions and many of these have their own areas of excellence and pride .

If we forcibly try to bring them under IIT brand name then , maybe the practices will merge only upto the admission test activities leaving the rest of the culture quite different.

Rather, why do we not identify areas of excellence in each running institution and encourage them to enhance it under another fold,like National Institutes or Premier Institutes and make special resources available for them.

3536. prateek mishra india IIT aspirant suggestions made in the plea are highly logical and commendable.

3538. Basab Ghosh, IIT KGP, 1975 UAE
There may be a need for creating stronger Engineering curricula following the example of IITs, but let IITs be IITs, do not dilute the exclusiveness by putting the IIT stamp on any and every college

3541. Ramdas Menon. India. The high standards of IITs should be maintained and should not be diluted by sacrificing quality for quantity.

3546. satyendra india
make sure you have the resources to bring the IIT at par with the other IITs in around 3 years and then start a new IIT.

3553. Ajay Mishra India
IIT r brand name , dont spoil it by just naming some colleges as IIT, it takes time and blood to create such name.

3563. Anshumaan Prasad India
I fully agree with the views presented in the petition. The need of the hour is to upgrade the current IIT's to match inter national norms and this is not helped in anyway by dividing the funds to a large number of institutions.

3567. Saurabh Gupta iitkgp,
India will this work... I doubt !!

3570. Thejaswi India
PLzzzzzzzz preserve the IIT Brand....

3574. vineet prakash (IIT KGP) INDIA
IITs serve the nation more than any other institute in the country ,through research , providing quality technical base and many more ...please do not indulge any politics in it. we can have more NITs, exchange programs to increase quality of technical studies in the country. just increasing the no. of IITs by renaming some Intitutes will come up with diluting the nation most prestigeous Institutes . Plz do not play with the brand names ..

3582. Aniruddha Gore India
though i cannt make it to IITs, but its true that we shld make evry effort to save its brand name & quality

3585. vaibhav agrwal india
Perhaps we can have IITs few more but not the current way... They must be capable...

3588. SAGAR SUTHRAM INDIA
I sincerely hope that this petition is taken seriously and the Brand IIT not diluted, the image which has taken years to build.

3594. Ambarish De USA
When the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the extraordinary becomes ordinary. Brands like IIT should be preserved, it is a brand accepted worldwide for its excellence and continued superiority. Compromising on the quality this brand guarantees will dilute the compelling conviction that this brand now instills

3597. Sukhada Fadnavis India I studied in India till twelth after which I came to caltech for my undergraduate studies. It makes me really proud of the IITs when lots of students and professors here comment on their excellent education. As far as engineering is concerned, an IIT education is very highly regarded. I have friends at IIT and from our discussions it is apparent that they receive as good an education as I receive here. From my experience of schools and local colleges in India, I can definitely say that the IITs are an order of magniture better than the rest of the institutes in India and it would be a big shame to lower the standards of IIT. We have something to be proud of, lets not dilute it in order to get equality everywhere. It is one thing to improve the standards of other institutes and another to just give a brand name to poor products. Let us recognise the difference and accept it.

3604. Biswas Gautam Australia
Dear politicians, you have no idea how exclusive brands form. And, so keep your idle minds off the IIT brand. DO NOT damage the country's standing abroad, a large part of which is owed to the IITs. Stay away

3608. Sohil Garg India
Give these emerging institutions the name of NIT or something else, spare the IITs. They cannot match the infrastructure, administration, faculty and Management that an institution born as an IIT would have...

3613. Kunal India Present National Institues of Technology can be provided the face lift not by christening some of them as them as IITs but with providing them better funding to aid quality research and can serve the purpose of providing quality education and creating a brand of its own in times to come. This would also provide competition to the IITs and thus help in achieving the objectives better as this would create an environment to challenge the monopoly of status enjoyed by the IITians and the IITs themselves.

3617. Gautam Sengupta INDIA lets not dilute the best made in india brand

3629. Krishan Lal India 'IIT' the brand title of original 5 great technical Institutes of the country must be copy-righted

3633. Vipin C Gulati UAE
I appreciate the concern of the government to upgrade some of the existing engineering colleges. Why ride on the existing brand and play with it?? The government, if serious in its effort should start a second brand. This will also encourage healthy competition between existing IITs and the new brand.

3641. adesh yadav india plzzzzzz dont mix politics with education .

3643. Probir Ray, '95 IIT KGP USA Fully agree with the petition. Let another brand be created which can be a competetor of THE IIT brand. This would strengthen both the brands. Please do not dilute the significance of IIT in rest of the World.

3644. Amitava Biswas India
I am sure Dr. Manmohan Singh will appriciate this laudable move to retain the identity of the IITs.

3651. Binit Bhatia India
I fully agree with the points in this plea and i think the brand name should indeed be preserved with emergence of new brands which provide healthy compettition to existing iits

3658. Manjul Apratim India
This dilution of infrastructure as well as standards to serve a non-existent purpose has GOT to stop. Change is the essence of the IIT system, but not change for the worse

3686. ABHINEET GAURAV INDIA i think there is no need to make new IITs as there has been an increase in intake for all courses at all IITs

3689. Sitaram Panse INDIA Instead of opening new IITs you should improve the existing ones.

3696. Madhur Kashyap India From IITB DD Micro 2004 batch.
Definitely, this will dilute the brand and I strongly feel that it should not be done. It will be an injustice for all those who put hard efforts to prepare for JEE and spend there times at IITs (original). I also support the idea that good funding should be provided for all technical institutes and let them grow with time.

3698. Vivek Sharma Switzerland
I urge the HRD ministry not to hammer nails in the IIT's coffin. Already, massive student intake due to shortfalls in govt. funding have sparked fears that the quality may be lost due to an excess of quantity. It would be better to spend this money on supporting existing institutes, IITs or otherwise, without going through politicial gimmicks of naming and renaming.

3701. Kumar Setu India
An institute can't be good just because of it's name being IIT.We need to have same level of education ,students,environment and resources to ensure that we are adding to the brand value rather than diluting it. We all support the need of more quality institutions like IIT's , but we can't support the flawed idea of renaming institutes. Let's add to the quality of education and not to the quantity of IIT's.

3716. Prashant Trivedi India I fully agree with the petition. I agree with the creation of better institutes but it can not be attained by naming institutions as IITs

3717. Shahnawaz Ali India
Please do not dilute the IIT brand. Changing names would not help anybody!

3720. Amit Anand India
I strongly agree with all the points raised in the petition... There is no shortcut to success...

3725. Pradeep Vinayak Sant Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
I strongly agree with the viws expressed in the petition.

3731. Prakhar Jain India
It is definetly not right to create more IIT's A brand equity like iit would be spoilt this way It is better to create another set of institutes like NIT's which may create their own image

3739. Shantanu S Date India First extend JEE merit list for admission to these colleges , remove state quotas , build infrastructure , upgrade present abysmal faculty & then only consider to call them IIT

3742. Mukund V. Karwe USA
I strongly endorse this petition. Please don't damage the IIT brand.

3750. Nagesh Kuppuraju USA
This was a tough decision to vote for the petition. May I also suggest that down the line, if HIT's create as much mojo as IIT's they can be merged with the IIT's on a case by case basis.

3756. Vikram Yekula India BTech IITM 2001
IIT's are 3rd Tech Univ's in the world and as we go on adding colleges with just IIT brand, then 0's will be accumulating at the right side of 3.

3761. SELVAKUMAR Australia
Totally in agreement with the petition. To add, GOI does not know the achieved value of the IITs as a priceless comodity that needs to be protected at all cost. The Honourable Minister being a political figure whose life span depends on the next election should not be accorded the unique distiction of giving prestigious titles to unequal status instituitions. It is indeed a disgrace to do so especially at this time. GOI needs to strongly preserve the identity and quality of the existing original five IITs.

3764. P Sangeeth Kumar India
I totally agree with this plea and strongly urge our HRD to reconsider this decision

3766. Sandeep K Srivastava India
I agree with the cause, and I feel that IITians have preserved a tradition please don't jeopardize it.

3770. Suchir Bhatnagar India
Please don't change the other institutes to IIT It takes a lot of hardwork to reach where they are today and u are helping no one's cause through a move like this.

3782. Abhishek Vatsa India IIT brand has been built by the outstanding performance of its alumni in across the globe...its is a hallmark of quality and dedication...it cannot be allowed to be diluted...

3787. Supratik Ray India
This is blasphemous.

3789. Kulkarni Vidyadhar USA
I would suggest National Institute of Technolgy as an aletrnate name.

3797. Saurabh Gupta India
It is really appreciable that HRM Ministry has realized the level of quality of our institutions other than few top rank colleges, but at the same time they should not devalue the already established brand value to encourage others, as building a brand value takes long but hampering takes no time. Perhaps HRM Ministry should see the long term effect of their action. If HRM Ministry want to increase the quality than they should encourage other institutions to participate in the mutual dialogues between the members employed at both the ends( IIT & the institutions under quality enhancements). In simple: Look at the care & considerations have been given to the institutions like Harvard, Wharton, Stanford, Oxford, cambridge etc. by the management of these institutions. Our IIT's are one of its kind - Please do preserve it.

3818. Devendra Kumar Baghel India
i strongly support the above petition

3824. RAINY CHAWLA INDIA
PLEASE,don't make IIT'S a hackneyed INSTITUTION by diluting it with other not so worthy colleges. LET IT MAINTAINS IT'S OWN STANDARD AND QUALITY OF EDUCATION AS IT DID FROM YEARS.

3828. Vaibhav Jain India
Dont play around with an established brand name. If naming works, then why so much fund? similarly, if funding works, then why dwell upon the name?

3834. Arvind Sanger USA Its a shame that every government that comes in in India these days has to tinker with whats worked so well. If it aint broke dont try to fix it.

3840. Divyaman Srivastava India
Its like naming of all the buidlings with a dome as "Taj Mahal"

3841. Kirtan Singh Ningwal India
Please do not populate IIT's, instead of that try to create competitive environment

3849. Farid Ahmed India
Please Preserve IIT Brand , If you make existing colleges as IITs then nothing difference between an IITian and Others , Please Preserve it as IIT

3853. Shashikumar Mantrawadi India
Save IIT Brand. Build competition with NIT Brand. IITB Alumnus.

3861. Milind Ganesh Kurve India
Creating another Institute is a better way for multiplying

3867. Basant Singh India
petition supporting the preservation of brand name IIT is the right step to to maintain its privacy and excellency. At this time 7 IITs has enough capacity and i dont think that its necessary to make new IITs by imposing this name to other colleges which necessarily does'nt fulfil the criteria to be an IIT.

GOI should believe in the quality not in quantity by making new IITs.They should take one step ahead to improve what is already present by giving right amplitude to compete with other esteemed Universities like MIT ,Oxford...

And its really logical and rational idea to give the name HITS to those institutes which is forced to be IIT and by providing privilege like IITs and even better facilty,faculty members,and fostering research..But dont dilute the name of IITs by which it becomes a trivial name..

3873. aniket India
save IIT's , if the proposal goes on, it will take down the " IIT's " with it, and then there ll b nothing left but a bunch of ordinary bldgs dont politicize the matter just for personal gains; if it continues it wont b long b4 there ll b an IIT in every city & every corner in the country

3880. Aditi Sharma India/USA
This is not doing anyone any good. Just by changing the name of an institution to IIT does not mean that it will start producing IIT calibre professionals. There should be a ground-up effort if the intent is to create more talented individuals. Random conversion of colleges to IITs will do noting more than hurting the well established and globally respected IIT brand.

3881. Vivek Kwatra India/USA
There should be an attempt to bring the university upto the same level as IIT in terms of infrastructure, faculty, facilities, and students before making it an IIT, if at all. I think it would be better to focus on making IITs world class research institutions instead of making more IITs.

3882.deepak farmania India
this is a serious issue.....in the longer run we are runing carrers of thousands

3884. sunil kumar India
The above mentioned things have been suggested by the true mentors of Indian growth and development, so i think their initiatives in this direction have been taken up after considering serious aspects and all consequences. Meanwhile, there are already a lot problems regarding IIT management and infrastructure, adding more institutions on this name won't serve the purpose, infact the quality education will be further deteriorated. This is not a prediction, but a scientific fact. So, do have a look at this.

3889. Rakesh India
yes this has to done !! we have to make people understand the whole concept of brand

3897. Wg.Cdr.S.K. Jain(Retd.) M.Tech. IIT B 1966 India
It is time Govt.aided institutes be supported well by good faculty. Creating more IITs without quality output will only damage the brand IIT.

3898. Pushkar Purohit India
Please stop messing with IITs. Just leave us alone. We are much better without your intervention.

3899. amitesh mishra india
It would be better if government focuses on quality rather than quantity. Why is it necessary to give other colleges the brand name IIT. Why cant they work to make their name a brand name.

3900. amit rathore india
The government should rather try to create a competitive environment. Not only it will motivate other colleges to work harder, but also motivate iitians to preserve their value.

3901. rajat biswas india
I still dont consider IITs to be world class institutes... For that matter, how many quality scientists have been created by iits... how many nobels have been awarded to IITs... IITs have yet to make a mark globally and in such circumstances, if the government is trying to further dilute the quality... there must be some serios flaws in their policies.

3910. PUSHKARAJ RAMCHANDRA SHERKAR india
when you increase the quantity, quality suffers.

3911. Vishwas Arora, IIT Bombay India
In a way to expand the IIT culture by opening more IITs, the GOI is diluting its spirit and repute. HITs is a gud option

3917. Abhijit Ray India
Having 'deemed' IITs is an unnecessary step that will simply dilute the brand image. Instead let us give other institutes facilities at par with IITs so that they stand up to the world on their own merit - not on the shoulders of a well-known brand - IIT.

3918. R P Rammohan 1975-IITB-M TECH India
Engineering colleges all across India must be ranked immediately and those in the top 5 for the consecutive 10 years could be upgraded to IIT as an incentive. Utterly corrupt bodies like AICTE must not be involved in the ranking process. Except the top 5\% of the higher educational institutes quality standards in the remaining 95\% are as bad as anywhere in the world. It is a pity even the top institutes have failed to produce even a single Nobel since independence. Drastic reforms are urgently called for to improve the quality standards.

3925. VARUN SINGHAL INDIA
New IIT's should come up enhancing the bench strength not loosening the held grip of present standards of IIT's

3928. Pankaj Gupta USA
Today IITians are known world wide for their excellent education. It is wonderful that GOI is trying to create more good quality educational institutes. But would it not be wonderful if they rise up with their own brandname, they develop their own identity. It would be a challenge for them to compete with IITs. This would generate a healthy competition between them and IITs and thereby further improving the educational standards. Calling them IITs to begin with would be like giving them a free brand name and no motivation towards living up the high expectations.

3931. Alathur Ramachandra USA
I would be happy if these HITs churn out better products than the current IITs. It paves a way for healthy competition between these institutes.

3934. Santosh Gupta USA
Just renaming other colleges will not make any change to these colleges. Everything else will remain the same with IIT brandname losing its value. Govt should concentrate on bringing these to world-class standards, rather than ranme.

3939. Deepak Raghavan USA
Thanks to the authors of this petition. I strongly support it.

3940. Girish Desham - MTech 1996 India
I agree, the newly named institutes should be called something elseother than IIT

3942. Sachidanand Rai India
Even if thinking about creating one more IIT is a great sin in its own. Please restore and enhance the values of IIT rather than diluting it.

3943. Anil Kumar S.R. India
I fully agree that creating new IIT's will make the brand IIT to loose it shine.

3947. Hemant J Sondhi India
Such a move should be debated at global level before taking decision If State's support exist the HIT project may do better just as NSE volumes far exceeds those at BSE. Let IIT be left as it is. 20 More IITs may be set up afresh rather than merging existing institutes

3952. Shobhit Chugh USA
I strongly support this petition. People all over the world recognize the IITs for the quality of students that come out of it. Let's not lower the bar and dilute this brand.

3957. Ajit Deobhakta USA
Naming a hut the "Taj Mahal" does not a monument make. Those REC's will not become IIT's, but the IIT's will lose the stature and respect they have earned.

3961. Manoj S. Vishnubhotla US
2000 students through JEE is who shld be called IIT-ians

3962. Sanjay Rao USA
I strongly support this petition - anointing other colleges as 'IITs' without putting in the investment and effort to make them so will do nothing but devalue the brand further.

3968. Ahmad Rizvi India IIT Delhi -2000 batch;
I agree unreservedly with this petition and give my wholehearted support Quality and results come with hard work, not by naming tricks

3969. Kunal India
Why do these colleges need the brand name? If they are capable IIT will one day named after them.

3973. Praveen Kumar USA
Please Preserve IIT Brand which in now world class and world recognized

3978. Pranay Pankaj India I strongly endorse the point raised here and would like to join the voices of the concerned members.

3982. Amit Pant India
I also feel strongly against the advise being floated around by the "people in command" to offer the IIT and IIM experience as a favour (for being opened in a different country, or for one specific country to be given preferential treatment and allowing lateral entry into IITs) ,; in in return for some political favor , and diluting the name.

3985. Vipul Mistry India
IITs are of national importance. This step will make them loose their dignity among people.

3991. Rajarshi Muhuri USA
IIT from grounds up only or no IIT

3998. ROHIT RAJ INDIA
Don't do anything haphazardly

3999. Sridhar Yanamandra USA
Dont group second grade institutes with IITs and bring down the image of IITs as world class instutions