Licenced to keep India back
It is of a piece with the confused structure of our present government that it should be the Minister of Environment who initiated the first public debate on education that we have heard since Dr Manmohan Singh became Prime Minister. Jairam Ramesh, who has a remarkable ability to say things that keep him in the news, pronounced last week that he did not think IIT professors were ‘world class’ but IIT students in his view are world class.