The article rightly blames the scarcity for the problem. But bizarrely enough, one of the factors responsible is this gate keeping tendency that is inherent to the Indian culture. I still remember the whining that the expansion will dilute the “quality” from so many former IIT people.

The Government of India spends a lot of its resources badly for populist reasons, and scarcity can be mitigated with what they have currently on hand.

Though, gate keeping is a widespread human cultural tendency, India still hasn’t had any champions emerge, who have successfully fought against it, like for example Theodore Vail did in the US.