The percentile way to ruin the IITs

It’s amazing. This is the first Union government to have three IITians in its top tier, and we have such a mess over the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) entrance system. Jairam Ramesh, Ajit Singh and Nandan Nilekani (who has cabinet rank) are all IITians. It’s just yet another symptom of the broader malaise that affects the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) II government—it’s every man for himself, and the central leadership is too weak to intervene.

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