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IITs have lost old sheen, says Narayana Murthy AHMEDABAD: Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are no longer the quality institutions they were in the 60s and 70s, said chief mentor of Infosys N R Narayana Murthy while speaking at IIT-Gandhinagar. Murthy encouraged students to become strategic learners and restore the lost glory of the IITs. Murthy said very few world-class researches came out of IITs and IIMs in the last decade. In 2004, China produced 2,652 PhDs in computer science and in that year the figure was 24 in our country, he said. This is truly worrisome. Focus on researches has diminished in the IITs and they have become just a teaching institution and we all know that it is not the way to go about it, he added. In the last 15 to 20 years, IITs have lost all the sheen that they had once upon a time. In 1967, at the electrical engineering department of IIT-Kanpur there were about 60 to 70 students registered for PhD. But today, at the same department if there are five PhD students joining in a year, that would be fantastic, said Murthy. He said that even gold medalists from IITs were at a loss when they pursue researches in institutes like MIT and Harvard. Back |
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