Some one quipped that what Mr.Murthi complained about falling standards of education at IIT is an indirect snub to the reservaton policy. It could be true because IITs have become inclusive followin the introduction of reservations which is resented by high caste lobby. We have an excellent IIT alumni amongst us Union Minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh who has contributed immensely to the shaping of people friendly policies of the UPA II. Not many IITans would like to take up such tasks.

Tell me how many IITans have contributed to national development ? Forget about their clout in silicon valley but actually have they won universal recognition for any meaningful contribution to society? Till such time we have such graduates churned from IITs, the purpose of establishment of such an institute of higherlearnign with value addition to society will be lost.

It is no denying that IITinans have the sharpest brains whether or not they are trained in coaching mandis to gain admission. I do not consider myself brilliant to their level and yet feel that they had traded off their obligaton to society for material benefits. Why is that it never occured to Murthi and his ilks that distance education models could cut down costs of education as has been proved by on line education portals like Shantanus' educomp.solutions? That explains the choice of IIT graduates. They prefer to mint money as quickly as possible- to use a cliche monetise their IP