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IIT alumni to lobby against new entrance test pattern
Saturday June 02, 2012 06:21:15 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Upset over
the new IIT joint entrance test pattern announced by the
government, alumni of the institute in Delhi have decided to form
lobby groups and meet the prime minister to get the decision
rescinded.
In decisions taken at a meeting Friday, IIT (Indian Institute of
Technology) Delhi Alumni Association decided to meet the prime
minister next week to submit a memorandum with objections on the
new pattern, the body's president Somnath Bharti said.
The association has also decided to file public interest
litigation in various high courts within a week and try to get the
petition heard before June 5, the day Central Advisory Board of
Education (CABE) is set to meet.
CABE, which has representatives from the central government and
all state governments, is a key decision-making body of the human
resource development ministry.
The new pattern, which combines IIT-JEE (Indian Institute of
Technology-Joint Entrance Examination) and AIEEE (All India
Engineering Entrance Examination), will be discussed in the
meeting.
Somnath Bharti said senates of several IITs were not happy with
the new pattern and the faculty of IIT-Kanpur had even decided to
boycott the institute's convocation Saturday.
"It was felt that Mr. Sibal did not keep his promise made to
different stake-holders of not going ahead (with the new pattern)
if there is even one dissent and here five out of seven senates
have given their dissent in writing but the human resource
development ministry still went ahead," he said.
IIT-Kanpur senate will meeting on the issue Saturday.
The association demanded that senates should have the last word in
taking a decision on the new pattern.
The new pattern, after the merger of AIEEE and IIT-JEE, will have
two papers -- main and advance -- and will also include a fixed
weightage from the class 12 board exam results.
The association, however, said school board scores should not be
included in the entrance exam score, and rather a cut-off should
be fixed as criteria for filling the form.
It has also decided to mobilise all senates, which are against the
decision, to arrange a formal rejection of the ministry's
proposal.
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