Convert CUSAT'S school of engineering (SOE) (and other STEM depts) to an IIT like IT-BHU was made into an IIT.

1) We are not industrialized and can't produce at scale like TN or MH. Hence completely skip that step in our economic transformation and jump to service/technology/knowledge economy. This seems like the establishment's idea 2) Infrastructure push is all good and important. But we wont be a knowledge economy unless we pivot towards research and development in STEM fields. 3) our universities are pretty bad when it comes to research in STEM. Bringing in private unis won't increase research output. It will, in the best case become VIT or SRM ig but not an Ashoka probably ig 4)CUSAT, being in kochi can attract talent. But people won't join given the culture there. One reason banglore is what it is when it comes to productivity in STEM is the sheer number of public reasearch labs there like iisc, rri, isi, tifrcam, icts,isro,ncbs, instem etc. 5) logistically it will be difficult to convert to an IIT since political consensus would be unattainable and unlike BHU, CUSAT is a state uni. 6) college politics is important. But it's time we move on from anti-intellectual, anti-democratic, illiberal SFI-KSU duopoly shit show. We need to radically reimagine how college politics is done. I am not saying we have to do away with it. Students should stop being mercenaries of political parties to begin with. What y'all think?