You need to have passion to have a culture. You can't have a passion about the things you don't know. The situation I went through at NIT is okay, lot better than many instututes, infact a thousand of India ( excluding IIITs, few IITs, and 2-3 NITs). But that is not satisfactory as we all know. The day people/teachers understand freshman year is not only to learn C and C++, and C,C++ is not everything coding, things will be way better. This can only be done by some persons who can inspire students by great speech on the first month of their arrival to college. What I understand, as a fresher when we join college, we are not smart enough to decide what to do, and we flow with the motion of academics. Thanks to many clubs of NIT, Rourkela people get exposed to many cultural and technical things. Similarly there are few clubs which tried to help with coding, but failed due to lack of inspiration they can provide. I am not smart enough to solve this problem, but this is the core problem I think.