The government has now ordered IITs to introduce - with "immediate effect" - quotas in the teaching for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and OBCs.Whoa! I mean is this to give company to the OBC/SC/ST students coming in the IITs? So that the parents of these 'unfortunate' students can accompany them to their classes, and in the mean time, teach other students too! Later on, there will be a rule that you are not allowed to 'award' (yes that is what they call it here) a fail grade to these 'unfortunate' kids so that their education does not suffer.
Well, in my humble opinion, this sucks! First the quota for students, then doubling the number of IITs and finally, since the faculty was already short and it was not possible to recruit good faculty, the HRD came up with an 'innovative' solution - introduce quota for the faculty too! I must say ... of late, I have seen that the new faculty that IIT is employing is already crappy. At least when compared to the existing faculty. And with this quota into effect, god only knows what will happen. It is pretty evident that the 'IIT' brand will be ruined, but how far will the HRD go is still not known. Maybe there will be a quota in the placements too .... I just hope not.
The day is not far, when people will start asking "Oh! So you are from which IIT?" - just to know whether you are from the Mohali/Patna IIT or from Mumbai/Delhi/Kanpur IIT. Moreover, they just might also ask you "And did you pass out before or after the faculty quota got implemented?". I just thank god that I just passed out ... before all these effects started showing.
May god bless the people in the 'general' category (as it is written in the admission form) , because other people are already blessed :D. Your comments are welcome on this. The whole news article is present here
And well, as far as the title is concerned, it is pretty clear why the people from the 'reserved' category love the HRD ....
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