A journey to excellence with social responsibility
I am on a visit to IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN), which is one of the newly built IIT in India. There are some very impressive and fresh things that made me write this blog. Everyone seems to be happy here, and I heard no complaints. Let me just list some of the things I noticed in the campus. 1. There is visible enthusiasm among the faculty and students. One of the most impressive things is the sense of belonging the faculty and student have to the institute, which is quite rare now a days. 2. Openness and democracy in the system is quite impressive. A new physics faculty is introducing open experiments in undergraduate lab, where the students propose experiments along with the required budget, and then they get to do the experiment under an enthusiastic guidance from a faculty. A fourth-year undergraduate student, Akash Singh, toured me the new campus with an enthusiasm as if he was a key member of the building committee; he knew the engineers and workers. He told me that th