Upgrading NITs to IITs

In the time of NDA ruling our country, 1 person i liked very much was our MHRD(Ministry of Human Resources and Development) minister Mr. Murali Manohar Joshi. He came up with the idea of upgrading NITs to IITs and changing IITs to IISc's. So country can have 6 premiere research institutes and 20 IITs. But alas the govt felled and congress came into power as ruling party.

Now this new MHRD minister Mr. Arjun Singh has been 1 of the most controversial MHRD minister. 1st of all he placed govt into the embarassing position by placing the idea of quota for OBCs(Other Backward Classes) on the table of govt's 5 year plan. Also he is making new IITs at a place where there was no IIT at all . For example take IIT Bhubhaneshwar --- newly made IIT has no infrastructure and so students have to go and study at IIT Kharagpur for 1st year. Also they still don't know how to arrange faculty when country is facing shortage of good Proffessors already. Post of the proff's are already empty in many IITs and other premiere institutes of engineering.

If they would have upgraded NITs to IITs , country would have 20 IITs. This would have reduced a bit tension for students because students preparing for IIT-JEE would have got higher percentage chance of getting selected into IIT, because of increased number of seats. Also on the practical level of implementation government would have a lots of infrastructure already. Only thing need would have been upgradation of somethings which could be done in 1 or 2 years. This would have been better than making new IITs with no infrastructure at all and students getting shift here and there.

NITs are doing well right now. Only thing is that they don't get as much funds as IITs . So if they get high funding even they will perform well and in 1 or 2 years equivalent to IITs. NITs like Surathkal and Tirchi already have been marked top 10 many times by India today and some other agencies. So it clearly shows that NITs have capability and if they get proper funding with IIT tag, surely they can perform as good as IITs.

I sometimes wish that previous MHRD minister comes into power and implement his policies for the betterment of the country instead of playing dirty politics.