Demand for Statement from Prime Minister assuring Autonomy for IIT System

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    Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India , Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India , Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi, Union Minister for HRD, Mr. S. K. Tripathi, Secretary (Secondary & Higher Education), Govt. of India
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It is of grave concern to us- the alumni, the students, the faculty and well-wishers of IITs- that the Human Resources Ministry may be making moves to compromise the autonomy of IIT System. The greatest educational institutions of India- IITs, IIMs and other schools and universities- have reached great milestones including iternational recognition as institutes of repute. The bedrock principle on which this greatness has been achieved is autonomy in deciding how to conduct research and how to teach. This also requires ability to raise and spend funds directly without interference.

If you compare the insitutions in India that are closely under Government control, they have not fared as well as these autonomous institutes (deemed Universities). The lesson is simple- IITs (and IIMs) need more autonomy not less. Government support is welcome but not at the cost of compromising the system built on merit and professionalism without much undue interference from politics.

If India wants to achieve greatness and have hundreds of Universities produce hundreds of thousands of graduates of IIT quality- we need to replicate the IIT model, not tinker with it, not change it, not ruin it.
So, please Mr Prime Minister, will you kindly issue a statement re-assuring us that the IIT System will remain autonomous, and gain more autonomy and not less.

2683 Signatures

  • Anshu Sharma
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Foster City, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Continued and Greater Autonomy
  • Maneesh Joshi
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • K.Banerjee
    • Location (City, Country)
    • India
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Ravi Jonnalagedda
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Kalyan
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Kharagpur
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Amish Asthana
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Delhi, India
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Maneesh Pawar
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Vijay S Gautam
    • Location (City, Country)
    • USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • I hope the prime minister understands the grave situation and takes out time from his unproductive political meetings to punish the criminals
  • Sadiq Shaik
    • Location (City, Country)
    • В
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • В
  • Ramakrishna Vemuri
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • sumathi
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Kiran Choudary
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Redwood Shores,CA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Amit
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Redwood Shores, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • В
  • Sujatha Janardhanan
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Redwood Shores,California,USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Muni Malhotra
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Thiagarajan Trichy
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Vipin Gokhale
  • Mukesh Khattar
    • Location (City, Country)
    • San Jose
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • It will bring talent to the forefront and increase country's progress.
  • Debu Chatterjee
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Fremont, CA USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • please don't try to fix something that ain't broken!
  • Sanjay Khanna
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Newark, CA, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • В
  • Pradeep Bhat
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Foster City, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • jose
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • IITs are just pre-immigration funneling points on Indian shores. Indian research establisments like DRDO , ISRO ,CSIR are staffed with non-IIT lesser know college alumnus producing dazzling results. On the contrary an average IITian works overseas doing low level jobs for multi-national. These white elephants have no relevance to India any way. They must be made accountable and should be forced to produce results relevant to India
  • Bhushan Vaidya
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Houston, Texas
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • В
  • Niloy Banerjee
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Anindo Roy
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Fremont, CA, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • The IIT system should be used as a model of success. There is no need for the government to get involved and mess it up.
  • Sanjeev Kumar Gupta
    • Location (City, Country)
    • AlJubail, KSA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Venkat Subramanian
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Feel very strongly about this
  • Dilip Kenchammana
    • Location (City, Country)
    • San Francisco Bay Area
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Go Anshu!
  • Anoop Singh
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Hyderabad, India
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Please do not let this last frontier also fall to the whims and fancies of polity.
  • Rohit Sharma
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Bangalore, India
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Purushottam Rathi
    • Location (City, Country)
    • USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Rajendra Parida
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Bangalore, India
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Soumitra Mandal
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Detroit, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • let us not fix what is not broken
  • Brijesh khanna
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Nashua, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Please mainten the autonomy of IIT
  • Sounak Sinha
    • Location (City, Country)
    • California, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Please let IIT/IIMs flourish without the govt. shakles
  • Dr. Dev Gupta
    • Location (City, Country)
    • USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Dear Animal ( Cow, Monkey, Rat, .. ) Worshippers : Think twice before you kill the Golden Goose, i,e. the IITs, to reward your ever - incompetent Hindu fundamentalist followers ( who have always FAILED to keep any invader out )
  • Ashish Jain
  • Vaidehi Srinivasan
    • Location (City, Country)
    • San Francisco, CA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • IITs should remain autonomous
  • Abhijeet Bisain
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Nivedita Sharma
  • Santanu Pal
    • Location (City, Country)
    • UK
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Jayaprakash Pasala
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Redwood City, USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Shashank Mohan
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Hyderabad, India
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • Let IITs be just IITs .. don't make it a political playground.
  • Kapil
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Kiran Kumar
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • biswanath chatterjee
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • Rajiv Shukla
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
  • sanjay verma
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • non interference would highly appreciated
  • Asish Law
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Los Angeles, CA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No
    • Comments
    • There is no way IIT's and IIM's can be influenced by politics. Please reconsider this bill, if India wants IIT and IIM alumni abroad to have any participation in their alma mater's future. The only reason I am abroad is that there is not much faith is the Indian political system. If the political system (and influence) changes, I will be the first to return to India and contribute directly instead of only monetorily. The Indian government is now trying to take away the monetory contribution also.
  • Birendra (Raj) Dutt
    • Location (City, Country)
    • Los Angeles,USA
    • IIT student, alumni or faculty
    • No