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Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal speaks to journalists to clarify the remarks made by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on IITs and IIMs, in New Delhi on Thursday.
Aarti Dhar
| “Faculties should not be blamed” |
‘Lack of investment to blame for institutes not gaining critical mass to change scientific discourse'
‘IITs were not created for producing researchers, but engineering graduates'
NEW DELHI: Reposing complete trust in the creative potential of the faculty at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Thursday said that if the IITs had not gained the critical mass to change the global scientific discourse, it was because of the “ecosystem,” including lack of infrastructure and investment, and not because of the faculties.
Without naming his Cabinet colleague, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh, who had earlier this week said the IITs and the IIMs faculty was not “world class” and paid little attention to research, Mr. Sibal said: “We are in a democracy and my colleagues are entitled to give their opinion, but the opinion should be based on facts and not perception.”
It is silly to accuse the faculty to be dumb, while its students to be excellent! How could the lake be bad while the water is good or the Tree to be bad, while the fruit be good?
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