Times
of India: COIMBATORE/ NAGPUR: Friday, 26 September 2014.
Isro may be
making great strides in space, but when it comes to attracting graduates from
premier institutes like IIT, it has a long way to go. Details gathered through
an RTI application shows that only 2% employees of Indian Space Research
Institute (Isro) are graduates from IITs or NITs.
With
satellite launches and interplanetary exploration increasingly becoming as
commercial as scientific, Isro will need products of premier institutes.
"But this is not a trend that affects only Isro," says V Adimurthy,
senior advisor of interplanetary mission at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,
Thiruvananthapuram. Other sectors like roadways and railways too don't attract
them," says the IIT-Kanpur alumnus.
Moreover,
Isro's centralized recruitment system doesn't differentiate between an IIT
graduate and one from another engineering college. "We look for strength
in fundamentals, wherever the person is from. It is essential to have people
from different institutions."
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