Comments - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community by Arjunm

Shahwar K

Shahwar K — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Good Write up!

I quite second your point in this write up!

Arjun

Arjun — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Shahwar.... But I read the story today in Instablogs only that HRD ministry has finalized the places for forthcoming IIT’s and IIM’s. So they will keep on diluting the brand name.

Anyway thanks for appreciation. that is the only consolation a citizen of this country can have.

Shahwar K

Shahwar K — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thank YOU!

your post makes a hell lot of a sense to me!

Madhuri Katti

Madhuri Katti — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Arjun,

Excellent piece of writing. I agree with you that this is a pure suicidal attempt to dilute the academic excellence centres of India.

I too had put down my ramblings about the issue sometime back:

http://madkat70.instablogs.com/entry/manufacturing-iit-ians/

Arjun

Arjun — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Madhuri, you have mentioned the problems really well. really our education system is in a mess, from which no way out is visible.

Further the way our politicians is eroding it, being optimist could be worse then being pessimist.

Abhijit

Abhijit — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A very thought provoking article! I enjoyed reading it so much.

Indeed, the best possible thing our politicians can invent is replication, endlessly of it. And the ’made in India’ logo...

Arjun

Arjun — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Abhijit for appreciation.

And yes, our politicians can only think about replication and nothing else. May be they need to get acquainted with Joseph Schumpeter’s term: ”Creative Destruction”. Only then they can understand the importance of developing something new.

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Arjun, I agree with you that when they increase the number of seats, they are diluting the essence of what its supposed to be. However, the reason they are increasing the number of seats is to please the General Category... Whose future has already has been decimated by all the crappy reservations.. Until they do away with the reservation system, we shall continue to see more number of seats, and people who don’t deserve to be in IIMs and IITs...

Arjun

Arjun — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hey Jaiyant I agree with you that now seats for general category is far more less... but by increasing the number of colleges they are also increasing the number of reserved seats...

and secondly by having undeserving candidates in elite institutions they may be destroying their brand name further ...

So in all it doesn’t make sense to me, until, of course their main aim is not to make sense.. :)

Jaiyant Cavale

Jaiyant Cavale — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Well the government needs the General category votes too. And if the general category is foolish enough to not see the increase in reserved seats along with the increase in the number of institution, we can only wonder how bizarre the whole system is.. And yeah, nothing makes any sense, except that every government would do anything to stay in power.

Vincent Van Ross

Vincent Van Ross — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Arjun,

A very well written post. I really liked the way you handled the use, misuse and abuse of brand names by our politicians. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this piece.

Arjun

Arjun — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks Vincent,

thanks for the appreciation, it is really a great feeling that somebody likes your write up.

Shlog

Shlog — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The missing point here is that with the sharp increase in the population as well as deserving adult population the seats at these premier institutions should also increase. Now, setting up a new facility at a new locations makes lot of sense than increasing the seats at the same facility.

Also, its not bad to capitalise on the brand name. Yes, overexploitation is.

Though the steps should be steady with all the improvements incorporated in the new facilities, rather than just going to multiply numbers of the same.

Arjun

Arjun — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

He Shlog, thanks for the comment.

But I still feel that to cater to a larger population we need not increase the number of colleges with the same name.

On the other hand we need to allow development of different kind of colleges, where the student can go deciding from the choice of his course.

Just putting IIM tag won’t make every place to be good, but allowing different names to develop could ensure that college can provide better specialization.