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Dear IITians, how successful have you been in making India self-reliant in technology?
Jeswanth Padooru · Today · 10:30 am
Photo Credit:Manan Vatsyayana/AFP
Can students of the country's premier institutes claim to have started high-tech industries in the aeronautics or telecom-equipment manufacturing sectors?
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A recent articleabout whether IITians need subsidy for their education has triggered anintense debateon how much IITians have actually helped the nation.
After Independence, it was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who spearheaded the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology to provide trained technical personnel of international calibre to the nation. These men and women, it was hoped, would grow to become leaders in technology for newly independent India.
India hoped that the IIT system would, over time, be instrumental in creating scientists and technologists who would engage in research, design and development to help make the nation towards self-reliance in her technological needs.
Now, let us see how IITians have served this purpose of making the nation self-reliant in some of the critical technologies.
So next time, before giving an analysis of how much value IITians have created for the Indian economy, one should also analyse on how much value is lost because IITians haven't met their mandate of making the country self-reliant in technology.
Here are some points I'd like to reiterate:
I am not saying that all this work should have to be done only by the IITians. But I would have been more proud if any IITian claims that to have started a high-tech industry in aeronautics or telecommunication-equipment manufacturing.
This article was originally published onSaddahaq.com.
Jeswanth Padooru · Today · 10:30 am
Photo Credit:Manan Vatsyayana/AFP
Can students of the country's premier institutes claim to have started high-tech industries in the aeronautics or telecom-equipment manufacturing sectors?
5.6K
Total Views
A recent articleabout whether IITians need subsidy for their education has triggered anintense debateon how much IITians have actually helped the nation.
After Independence, it was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who spearheaded the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Technology to provide trained technical personnel of international calibre to the nation. These men and women, it was hoped, would grow to become leaders in technology for newly independent India.
India hoped that the IIT system would, over time, be instrumental in creating scientists and technologists who would engage in research, design and development to help make the nation towards self-reliance in her technological needs.
Now, let us see how IITians have served this purpose of making the nation self-reliant in some of the critical technologies.
So next time, before giving an analysis of how much value IITians have created for the Indian economy, one should also analyse on how much value is lost because IITians haven't met their mandate of making the country self-reliant in technology.
Here are some points I'd like to reiterate:
I am not saying that all this work should have to be done only by the IITians. But I would have been more proud if any IITian claims that to have started a high-tech industry in aeronautics or telecommunication-equipment manufacturing.
This article was originally published onSaddahaq.com.