EDITORIAL
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IIT Guwahati
Twelve years may not be enough for an ordinary educational institute to
consolidate its position, but for an advanced institute of technology like IIT
Guwahati, supported by Union Government funds, that period has seen its growth
into a full-fledged facility providing quality education to some of the
countrys best young minds. At present in its 700-acre campus, it has come to
possess almost all major departments with more in the offing. Alumni of the IIT
Guwahati are now working in some of the most successful tech majors across the
world proving that the education they had received counted among the best
available. One area of concern for IIT Guwahati like other institutes of
technology is how to produce more researchers, or academics and not just
graduates intent on joining corporates offering attractive pay packages. In
several convocations of the IIT Guwahati, a common refrain has been the dearth
of students to pursue higher studies or get involved in research
activities. In spite of repeated appeals by the IITs top academics, the
number of students opting for research has not increased in a satisfactory
manner. As a consequence the contribution of the institute in the field of
research has not enlarged to the extent it could have been possible. The manner
in which the promising young institution surmounts this hurdle is an issue that
deserves critical attention. The other important query that needs to be
addressed by educationists and academics of Assam is how to train more students
to secure admission in an IIT; it is well to remember that the IIT Guwahati was
among the gifts of the Assam Accord with the aim that it would help educate
young students of the region. Till now we have not seen a strategic road map
prepared by the State Government or from the non-Government sector to train
students for the tough IIT entrance test. The need to motivate students at the
school level to get interested in IIT education has to be
fulfilled if Assam is to create its own technologically superior human
resource.
(The Assam Tribune,27.05.2007)
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