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IIT Kanpur revolts, to hold separate entrance exam
Saturday June 09, 2012 08:59:11 AM,
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New Delhi: In a clear
revolt against the human resource development ministry's move for
a common entrance test, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur
Friday decided to hold its own entrance test from 2013.
Upset with the ministry's decision to merge IIT Joint Entrance
Exam (IIT-JEE) with the All India Engineering Entrance Examination
(AIEEE), the 210-member senate of IIT-Kanpur passed a resolution
rejecting the new format.
"The recent IIT Council proposal on admissions to IITs is
academically and methodically unsound and in violation of the
Institutes of Technology Act (1961) and IIT Kanpur Ordinances
(Ordinance 3.2 (Admissions)," said the resolution.
"In view of the Senate resolution adopted in its 2011-12/9th
meeting held on April 10, 2012, invoking Ordinance 3.2, the Senate
resolves that IIT Kanpur will conduct the entrance examination for
admissions to its undergraduate programmes in 2013."
It authorised its chairman to constitute a committee with the help
of the dean of academic affairs for conducting "JEE 2013 by IIT
Kanpur".
IIT Kanpur had raised a voice of dissent earlier as well at the
meeting of the HRD ministry when the new pattern of exam was
decided upon.
According to those present at the meeting, except IIT-Delhi and
IIT-Madras, none of the IITs agreed with the new format.
The professors, alumni and those close to the IITs fear the new
format will "dilute" the IITs.
IITs have been holding a joint entrance exam. However, the new
format combines it with the entrance exam for the National
Institutes of Technology (NITs) and the Indian Institutes of
Information Technology (IIITs). It also includes a weightage of
percentage from Class 12 board exams for entrance into IITs.
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