Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar
The move of the BJD-BJP Government to begin classes of IIT Orissa at a makeshift location would be a blunder, cautioned leading educationists. Minister of Industries Biswabhusan Harichandan seems adamant to start IIT Orissa classes at the CET Campus in Bhubaneswar, where there are no proper facilities, they argued.Expressing their reaction to the decision, two leading non-resident Oriyas, Prof Chitta Baral and Digambara Patra, have appealed to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik not to allow such casualness. Baral, who is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, said it would be a big mistake to start the IIT Orissa classes at a make-shift location.
He said it is important to have the first year of class in IIT Kharagpur as it would allow the students to bring some of the good cultural aspects of the established IITs to IIT Orissa. For example, in IIT Kharagpur, junior students and senior students are equal. A junior student does not call a senior student a 'big brother' or a 'bhai' or a 'Sir.'
In IIT Kharagpur, no student is afraid of any other student and there is zero 'goondagiri' or 'dadagiri' in the campus. Such a fear-free atmosphere is very important. There are many other good cultural aspects of IIT Kharagpur, which the first batch of IIT Orissa students can bring back to Orissa when the permanent campus of the new IIT is ready. Some of the other cultural highlights of IIT Kharagpur are its hostel libraries, some of which have more books than many colleges in Orissa, Baral argued.
On the other hand, the existing colleges such as CET Bhubaneswar have their own culture and by having the IIT Orissa students starting their class in CET Bhubaneswar they will be copying the culture of CET rather than the culture of an IIT, he said, adding that it is of paramount importance that the first batch of IIT Orissa spends one year in Kharagpur.
Similarly, Patra said he also strongly feels that IIT Orissa should function at IIT Kharagpur campus for the time being. At least for the couple of years since it would help IIT Orissa get hold of better quality students and faculties. He said the State Government should pursue with the Union HRD Ministry on how the IIT Orissa campus is built in an expeditious manner.
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IITs are itself a brand and has their own culture. Those cultures are secured by strict guidelines for students and I'm sure that the union govt has kept that in mind and will promulgate that in new IIts.
For example, new students in IIts are accommodated in a new hostel for 1st year and are transfered to the other hostels to mingle with the seniors. This keeps them immune to ragging and get used to IIT system by their own. Also there are strict rules against ragging too.
We can educate new entrants against bossism or "sir" culture in new IITs.
The hostel library is a IIT rule and doesnt depend on students.
Also IIT kgp has some bad culture due to bengali influence, and we dont want those in IIT orissa
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