‘ONE OF THE MANY USPs OF PIET’
Prologue I was coming from a conference of IIM Lucknow. I boarded Swarn Shatabdi Express from Lucknow to Delhi at 15:30, and the journey was seven hours long and out of courtesy of a few scholar friends, I had black coffee, so I could not sleep. Two young kids were sitting on the front seat, one of whom was wearing the T-shirt of the college in which I am currently teaching, i.e., Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology (PIET) . When I struck a conversation, I came to know that they both are the alumni of PIET, now working in an IT MNC, and were coming for a project presentation to Delhi. Although being associated with the institution for a few years now, I stated to them, ‘I have heard a lot about your institution,’ without revealing my own identity as I wanted to hear the genuine feedback, both positive and negative of the institute. I further asked them, ‘In this time, when there are sixteen IITs and thirty...