New Admission Process to the NITs

A few days ago, I heard that there will be a change of admission pattern for the NITs from this year. If you are not aware yet, the change is that unlike before, the non-home state seats of any NIT will not have any state reservation and will purely be decided based on a students AIR. Now some people might say how the hell does this affect us. Directly no, but there are bound to be a lot of changes.

Let us first see what this means to different people. People in states like Rajasthan and Andhra will rejoice at this. Clearly these two states produce are the ones that produce the highest AIRs. But due to the limited no. of seats reserved for these states, people with high ranks are bound to lose out. But now, this rule comes as a blessing from the heavens and we will surely see many more people from these states. On the other hand, the states where competition is not that much like Karnataka or Tamil Nadu are luckily blessed with the best NITs, so i doubt it affecting them that much apart from the competition for spots in home NITs gets tougher slightly because of people's subject preferences. Apart from that there are states like Goa,and the North Eastern states which stand absolutely no chance to getting in to the good NITs because they seldom produce high AIR's and have thus far been helped by the state reservation. But i think the most hit will be the intermediate states like say a Kerala, or a Bengal. These states are often caught in the fix between choosing their home state NITs which could be classified as second tier, and choosing the higher rated NITs and that will now be difficult because of this new rule. Some may argue that this rule is fair, because everyone should be given an equal opportunity, but there again is where the other side of the equation is highlighted too. Since the methods of training/coaching/schooling are not that advanced in some states, and are not upto the mark of Hyderabad/Kota, is it fair to deny them admission to some of the best institutes of the country. You could argue that, this will create the study environment of a Kota in other states also because of the competition but its not very realistic.

Coming to how this would affect us NITKians, you can almost say goodbye to the party system, which would mean a first step in getting rid of dirty politics, but it also means there will almost be no diversity in the crowd of people. The college would have probably seen the last of North East people (God bless the football team). And there will be an overflow of gults and the likes.

What does all this mean to you? Do you think this is the best thing to happen or not? I personally am against this because it defeats the purpose of creating NITs to give people from all states the right to a good college after the IITs. Also there will not be as much diversity anymore and the balance of things would be lost. Only time will tell what difference this change will bring about.