Sacrifice?

Its that time of the year when the media does the annual academic results dance and props up all and sundry e.g. Seen on NDTV..a girl chose to not do some dance with SRK and concentrated on her studies ..when interviewed she said thus "My sacrifice really paid off...." Sacrifice?? Hello?
On a related and more serious note the IIT-JEE results are also out. Those lucky few who made it are of course happy and should be. The news stories point out that about 250000 applicants vie for the ~4600 seats and then go on to how difficult it is to get through the test blah blah. None however raises the more serious issues of why in our country is there a shortfall of quality education. Why should we be able to grant the best engineering education to only 4,600 students every year in a country of a billion people? Where's the rot? What's stagnating the education industry? Who benefits from this constricted supply? Why do most of the engineering colleges in the country have a politician connection? These are the questions that they need to probe and air rather than the banal stuff that they dish out yearly.