Murthy's comments on IIT unfair: Chetan Bhagat

Former IITian Chetan Bhagat has defended the IITs and come to the defence of the institute by saying that Infosys founder Narayan Murthy's comments were unfair. Murthy created a stir when he said that the quality of students passing out of the acclaimed institute has gone down. Bhagat said that the comments made by Murthy were high handed and that it hurts when a negative comment like that is made.

"The IIT students are the softest target and you know I found it very high handed. Its the same as saying Infosys is said to be this great company but as compared to Google and Facebook what is Infosys? I just wanted to show that it hurts when people look at you in a high handed, negative manner," Bhagat said. Bhagat added that if there was something wrong with the quality of the students, as is being claimed, then efforts need to be made to fix it. He added that saying 80 per cent of the students are not good was wrong as they cleared one of the toughest entrance exams to enter the renowned institute. "Saying that 80 per cent of the students are not good, I mean this is such a high handed statement. These are the students who have cleared one of the toughest exam and you are undermining their achievement," said Bhagat. Murthy had said that almost 80 per cent of the IITians lack quality and blamed the coaching classes for the drop in quality of students. "Thanks to coaching classes, the quality of students entering IITs has gone lower and lower. Save the top 20 per cent who crack the tough IIT entrance exam and can stand among the best anywhere in the world, the quality of the remaining 80 per cent of students leaves much to be desired," said Murthy. Murthy further stressed on the need of a new system for the selection of students to the IITs.