In 1950, the first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) was founded in a former detention camp at Kharagpur, West Bengal. A pet project of Jawaharlal Nehru, the goal was to replicate the institutions of higher educational excellence in the West, with focus on engineering, mathematics and the physical sciences. The idea was to develop scientific minds required to drive India’s economic development as the young democracy matured.
The government invested in the IIT concept, opening several more in a short time. But the initial outcome was not to its liking when graduates started leaving India for the West. This, critics claimed, illustrated that the system did not work. Read the article at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/487398.aspx
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