Click to play videoMumbai: With a tight deadline of less than two months, there is still nothing on-ground regarding the three new IITs in Gujarat, Orissa and Punjab.
The government had announced that it would start six new IITs by July 2008. However, three of them at Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar are facing teething trouble and three others are still only at the blueprint stage.
“With regard to the new IITs, no funds have been allocated so far. We will have to hire new faculty. It's a Greenfield project. Nothing really exists on ground there. So we will have to see how we can attract new faculty to those areas,” says Director, IIT Bombay, Ashok Misra.
The Director of Time Coaching classes, Arkss Srinivas says, “None of the three new IITs are ready to start off.”
Despite support from existing IITs, there is still no independent infrastructure or lab facilities in the institutes in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.
“The first batch guys are going to be taking a slight risk but in the long process it's a fifty-fifty game. The fact that they are getting into IIT is always going to be overriding the fact that they don't have a campus the first three years,” says Arkss Srinivas.
Students with ranks up to 8000 in the IIT-JEE are currently waiting to be counseled. They will decide on which IITs and which engineering branch they can get into based on their ranks.
“I'll go for the older IITs as the brand of the institute matters more to me and the infrastructure and faculty is more established in the seven IITs,” says Student, IIT-JEE, Mansi, who ranked 6178 in IIT-JEE.
Another student, Ayush who ranked 3910 in IIT-JEE feels otherwise. “I don't mind opting for the new IITs as the branch is more important to me.”
There’s a huge demand for IIT students in the Indian industry and the new IITs are a step to meet that need. However, the biggest challenge for IITs would be to ensure that the quality is not compromised for quantity.
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