Engineering Teaching and Research in IITs and its Impact on India*

Jul 5th 2012, Milind Sohoni

The dominant paradigm of research and development (R&D), as it is practised in India's premier engineering institutes, has not only been abstract and lacking in diversity, but has also been too 'international' to incentivise work on our own development problems. Such an inverted incentive structure in the socio-economically important engineering job market has been macro-economically observable as the service-sector growth outstrips that in manufacturing.

*This article was originally published in Current Science, VOL. 102, No. 11, 10 JUNE 2012.


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