'Indian industry not sophisticated enough to absorb IIT-quality engineer'

Pramath Sinha, founding Dean of the ISB, says we must build new institutions right from day one

The government is expected to finalise the new education policy in the coming year. A new committee has been set up to decide the contours of the policy. Experts and educationists have been arguing for more autonomy for institutions of national importance like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). In this context, Pramath Sinha, an IIT Kanpur alumnus and founding Dean of the Indian School of Business, spoke to Anjuli Bhargava on why very few IITians who stay in India remain engineers and why the IITs of today are no longer the IITs