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Contact Rosario Fernandes +1 (905) 858-0871 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Everyone, With the impending victory of IITian Manohar Parrikar for Goa Chief Minister in the May elections, there is a lot of interest in Goa about IIT and IITians. I am sorry to know that the common Goenkar does not know the difference between ITIs (India's Engineering Diploma-granting colleges) and IITs (India's elite, world famous Engineering Degree Colleges). So here is a Primer on the IITs. IIT stands for the Indian Institute of Technology - there are 7 of them now - 5 of the initial ones were set up in the 1950s as a Vision of Nehru to provide a highly educated high tech workforce for a newly independent India - in Kharagpur near Calcutta (set up with UNESCO backing in the form of faculty and equipment), Madras (set up with German backing), Delhi (set up with British backing), Bombay (set up with USSR backing) and Kanpur (set up with US Backing). The two newest IITs were created in the late 90s/early 00s at Guwahati and Roorkee (formerly University of Roorkee - one of the oldest Engineering colleges in India set up by the British). And there are three more planned in Andra Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan. I have no doubt that with IITian Manohar Parrikar as Chief Minister we will have another IIT in Goa - strategically located between the high tech centers of Bombay/Pune and Bangalore. For more info on the IITs you can check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology IIT is not a western acronym. It is pronounced "Eye Eye Tee" and the students who graduate from them are called IITians (rhymes with Indians). The IIT campuses are National Centers of Excellence, very well endowed in the form of learning/living facilities, research labs, sports facilities and internationally reputed faculties. The vast, secluded, serene IIT campuses (very conducive to learning) are very different from the Regional Engineering Colleges and other engineering colleges like VJTI or Goa Engineering College. The student body at the IITs is also world class - students are selected through a stringent Joint Entrance Exam which lasts a few days and is followed up with an equally stringent interview for placement in the different engineering disciplines. With the best faculty, and the best, carefully selected engineering students in the country, the highly charged atmosphere in the IITs is very conducive to academic excellence, competitiveness and the pursuit of knowledge I have to admit that unfortunately due to the terrible mis-allocation of funds in India the facilities and equipment for hockey at the IITs far superceded the facilities and equipment at both NIS (National Institute of Sports) Patiala and at NIS Bangalore where I trained with our international medal-winning national teams. For example at IIT we consumed nearly half a dozen new hockey balls every day and used top of the line equipment. Whereas at the NIS our national players ran for the one or two new hockey balls that were rationed out every other day ! Over the years both IITs and IITians have far exceeded their expectations as the "Vision of Nehru" beyond first PM Jawaharlal Nehru's wildest dreams. IITians have helped India dominate the IT and other high tech industries world wide and have helped India emerge as a dominant force in this high tech economy. India may still be chasing an Olympic Gold Medal in hockey these days (partly due to reasons mentioned above) - but we always win Gold Medals (in the form of highly successful start-ups and IPOs) in this global high tech economy. For example Metallurgical engineers from the IITs hold a dominant position in the world today - in the US more than one in two metallurgical engineers is a graduate from the IIT - another example of how India splurges on its IIT engineers is that at IIT Kharagpur we had the world's largest non-production foundry - it was a teaching foundry - as it was used solely to train our metallurgical engineers. Here are more links on the impact of IITs and IITians on the high tech global economy of today: 1. IITs and IITians have become much revered and household terms in the US esp after a recent widely viewed interview on CBS 60 minutes: See link below. Prominently featured in this interview are IITians NR Narayanamurthy (founder of Indian IT Giant Infosys) and Vinod Khosla (co-founder of US high Tech Giant Sun Microsystems): http://meaindia.nic.in/bestoftheweb/2003/03/02bow01.htm 2. IITians - A Special breed http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar212004/br2.asp 3. Prominent IITians http://users.bigpond.net.au/iitaa/Prominent_IITians.pdf IIT is definitely going to get more visibility in Goa when IITian Manohar Parrikar is Goa Chief Minister. We have great plans to stuff the IITs with Goan students by increasing awareness and conducting IIT Joint Entrance Exam Classes all over Goa. We will need all these Goan IITians if Goa is to become a global high tech Mecca ! Best Regards, Dr. Carmo D'Cruz, Goan, IITian ex Velim Goa, now INDIAN Harbour Beach, Florida From: "Dr. Cornel DaCosta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Re IITian Hi Carmo Please pardon my abysmal ignorance but what exactly does IITian stand for? I assume it must be quite important as you use it a lot. Also, how does one pronounce the term and is it specifically American? Regards Cornel, UK >