Methodology

Disclaimer: Who am I to offer an alternative solution and why should any one even consider my proposal ?.

The answer is,  I am a No body.  Just another alumnus, one in 200,000. I am not a billionaire, like Narayanamurthy or Nandan Nilekani, I do not have any Padma Bhushans or Padmashrees, nor am I a renowned author like Chetan Bhagat or Sandipan Deb, nor am I a hot shot in PANIIT hierarchy etc etc which are  prerequisites for Indian Media to seek your opinion. I am not even an academic to profess that I even can think of offering a solution.

For reasons unknown to me, I am extremely passionate about bringing about changes in IITs for the betterment. I would like steps taken to prevent suicides in IITs that make head lines ever so often through professional counselling not just to students but also to change the attitude of faculty members, so learning becomes fun. I would like to see a JEE Format that is fair to all students rich and poor alike, and rebirth IITs restoring their original glory.

What are my strengths: I am an engineer, an Industrial Noise Control Engineer and for 20 years I did nothing but solve Noise Problems.

To solve a noise problem one had to study the problem, conduct noise measurements at the source, and along the path and at the receiver. Once completed, I had to establish the acceptable noise levels at the source, along the path as well as at the receiver, before design commenced.

So for every given Noise problem it is possible to treat the source, or the path or the receiver independently or treat at all three points if necessary.

Let us consider “IIT JEE” as a Noise problem,

Source: the noise at the source is the demand for JEE ( 500,000 students and increasing). Usual treatment at the source is to build acoustic enclosures around the noisy equipment. In this case We need to reduce this demand for JEE as a first step ( more on this later)

Path: in the Noise path we introduce acoustic barriers or attenuators reducing the noise reaching the receiver. In this case the path is the JEE itself. JEE is not filtering the noise the way we want it. The Filters have to be fine tuned meaning JEE format has to change.

Receiver: the receiver is the person complaining about the Noise and is provided with ear muffs or ear plugs etc. In the case of IITs we have to see what structural change is required to yield the desired results.