Regional balance as well as academic excellence in making new IITs and IIESTs

There is plan to upgrade some exisiting institutions to IIT like institutes (IIESTs). There are two big flaws in the current short list, as it did not consider regional balance and it did not consider NITs, some of which are better than the shortlisted institutes. We suggest alternatives and keep track of developements in this front as well as other IIT related initiatives, such as various branch campuses of exisiting IITs that are being proposed now.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

more on IIT demands for Karnataka

Kumaraswamy wants IIT in his home district
Mumbai Mirror, India - Aug 17, 2006
Bangalore: The Karnataka government is lobbying for setting up of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Hassan, the home district of the Gowda family. ...

# posted by chitta @ 5:36 PM

Links

• * Shfiting an IIT from Orissa to Andhra Pradesh - documents, links, newsreports, etc.
• * IIT shifting controversy at Orissawatch.org
• * CM of Orissa's meeting with Arjun Singh
• * Higher education, lower development (Indian Express December 21, 2006)
• * For IIT upgrade -- an alternative roadmap (Indian Express July 11, 2006)
• * IDC-Dataquest-Nasscom Tech School Rankings
• * Local copy of the above ranking
• * Mission: IIEST, Shibpur

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