DISCUSSION 71 this regard, no steps have been taken by the University so far to implement its own rules. Karmcharis and students are completely ignored by the University and the managements. The situation in the government-run colleges is worse. Bureaucracy has a complete hold on these institutions and even for unimportant matters teachers have to depend tm the executives. In the administration of the institutions, the principals and the heads of the department act more like executives rather than as academic leaders. A majority of teachers have no say in either administrative or academic decision-making. One right move in the direction of establishing an equalitarian set-up in the educational institutions could well be the introduction of unified grades for all categories of teachers. N G BODAS 1 Five Indian Institutes of Technology were established with foreign help at Kharag" pur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi. In terms of facilities some of these institutes are among the best in the world. 2 Report of the Education Commission (1964-66), Chapter VI, p 119. / 8 Dean of Faculties, IIT, Kanpur visited the European countries and USA to recruit teachers. Teachers of Indian origin in USA are given direct employment offers. 4 V V John, Higher Education in India, A B Shah (ed.), 1967, Lalvani Publishing House, Bombay, p 161. 5 IlT, Kanpur is the key institute providing expertise in computers. With the provision for the import of Russian computers in the recently signed Indo-Soviet Economic Protocol, the role is likely to be shared by the Russian-aided IIT, Bombay. 6 Kothari Commission draws heavily from instances in USA and UK. If at all we have to learn from a foreign experience, that of the People's Republic of China is more relevant to our conditions. 7 Gwalior Administrative Division has six districts of Madhya Pradesh under its jurisdiction : Gwalior, Bhind, Morena, Shivpuri, Guna and Datia. 8 Kothari Commission (Report of the Education Commission, 1964-66, p 119) gives the percentage of students from families with Rs 150 per month income as 38.7 per cent. This is incorrect. In the hope of obtaining some concession as poor students, some (particularly those belonging to the business and agriculturist families) give fictitious incomes of their guardians. 9 Report of the Education Commission (1964-66), Chapter XV, 15.43, p 377-78. 10 Ibid., Chapter XV, 15.70, p 383. 11 Ibid., Chapter XV, 15.44. p 378. 12 Many scheduled caste students terminate their studies after failing in first B E ex" animation in MITS, Gwalior. A very large proportion of students fails in this B E examination. The major cause for this is the change in medium of education. 13 N G Bodas, "Some Thoughts on Making Hindi a Medium of Education in Engineering Subjects" (in Hindi), paper presented in a Seminar on 'Hindi as Medium of Technical Education5, 1971, M P Hindi Grantha Academy, Bhopal. 14 The secretary of the MITS Student's Union approached the president of the governing body for permission to build a Shiva temple in the college premises (non-residential). The permission was granted and the deity was installed with fanfare.