Indecision by the human resource development ministry could hit the fate of 79 IIT aspirants who could not get into the prestigious institute due to variance in calculation between the state boards and the institutions in deciding the top 20 percentile of students in class XII.
IIT-Kharagpur faculty goes on hunger strike
On Wednesday, HRD minister M M Pallam Raju met IIT Delhi director R K Shevgaonkar and discussed the discrepancy in calculation. After the meeting, Raju said, “Immediately after the class XII board results came out, state boards calculated percentile by factoring in the total number of students who appeared in the board examination. But CBSE calculated percentile on the basis of students who passed the class XII examination.” While the discrepancy has been noted in many state boards it is Andhra Pradesh that has been the worst hit as the first calculation made 89% as cut-off which went up to 91.8% according to CBSE’s calculation.
Reminiscent of his stand on the Delhi University’s fouryear undergraduate programme (FYUP), Raju was noncommittal about the action the ministry can take. “We will see, will look into how many have got affected and on what basis,” he said. Raju said he would like to have more clarifications on the matter and intends to hold a couple of more meetings on the admission process which would also include the system of normalization of marks. He was evasive about the question on reverting to the old system of admission to IITs.
He said, “The present system was adopted as per the wisdom of the IIT council and it’s for them to see what’s fair and what’s not.”
Ministry officials say since majority of the students affected are from Raju’s home state he would be more proactive than in the past.
Reminiscent of his stand on the Delhi University’s fouryear undergraduate programme (FYUP), Raju was noncommittal about the action the ministry can take. “We will see, will look into how many have got affected and on what basis,” he said. Raju said he would like to have more clarifications on the matter and intends to hold a couple of more meetings on the admission process which would also include the system of normalization of marks. He was evasive about the question on reverting to the old system of admission to IITs.
He said, “The present system was adopted as per the wisdom of the IIT council and it’s for them to see what’s fair and what’s not.”
Ministry officials say since majority of the students affected are from Raju’s home state he would be more proactive than in the past.
IIT-Kharagpur faculty goes on hunger strike
Over 400 faculty members and a large number of alumni of IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal on Wednesday went on a token hunger-strike demanding immediate appointment of a director. The post of the director fell vacant on June 30, 2012 and there has been no permanent appointment till now, IIT Teachers Association general secretary Rajendra Singh said. The institute was being neglected by the HRD ministry, he alleged.
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