We spoke at NSIT InnoVision 06-07 yesterday afternoon. The event was a mixed bag. We met some good people at NSIT like Dr. M.P.S. Bhatia and Prof. Dhananjay Gadre. Both were quite energetic and enthusiastic about what they were doing. Prof. Gadre was quite blunt in his criticism of Services companies, esp. the leaders in India. In his opinion they are primarily responsible for degradation of science education in this country. There was a gentleman from TCS who countered his views and said that if it wasn't for these companies there wouldn't be any jobs for lakhs of young middle class students in this country. I agree with both these views. In fact the abundance of jobs in present times has definitely led to frivoulous standards of education. However, if it wasn't for these jobs millions of average students wouldn't have had high paying jobs that they have today - let alone careers. Although IT revolution of last 15 years have changed the face of the country in short term and brought much needed properity in bigger cities, it's imperative that unless we raise the standards in our educational institutions - other than just give autonomy, we have serious troubles in medium to long term. Engineers in this country have unfairly smooth roads to tread upon right now. They shouldn't forget however that unless they raise their standards through lifelong learning the roads will be full of potholes in coming years.