What do you think is the biggest contribution of IIT-ians to India?
The biggest contribution of IIT (and largely by the IIT-ians) in my opinion is the brand that they have created at the global level. The IIT brand commands respect for capability and excellence of a very high order in most academic institutions, corporate circles across a wide range of industries, and even government. This success of the IIT brand, largely built on the successes of IIT-ians around the world, has increased the respect for India around the world. Of course, there have been other factors that have contributed to the ‘India’ brand, but IIT has a reasonable share in that success. In difficult times like these, how do IIT-ians plan to help the industry, the country? Simply by doing better what we are doing. There is nothing special that IIT-ians can do just because they are from IIT. How does Pan-IIT plans to boost entrepreneurship, through infrastructure development? Pan-IIT has a track on infrastructure development. The three sessions in the Infrastructure track cover issu
