The very idea of running more IIT like institutes ...

The very idea of running more IIT like institutes sprouted from IIT,KGP!
Unbelievable public sector first rate performance for a decade of it prompted Central govt.to have more IITs in 1960.Thoughtless and greedy
later politicians came up with the bright idea that more IITs the merry it
is.Calling some institute IIT is not establishing or building an IIT.There was even a move asking IITs to become autonomous by building their own
Corpus fund when IIT,KGP bordered and narrowly missed.Had it been allowed that time it would have shown what strength IIT has.