HT : IIT-Kharagpur quota for staff

Hindustan Times :: 27 July 2010

IIT-Kharagpur kept aside illegal quota for staff

Charu Sudan Kasturi, Hindustan Times

New Delhi, July 26, 2010

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was secretly — and illegally — keeping aside a discretionary admission quota for children of its teachers and staff for over four decades, admitting dozens of students to seats they failed to secure through the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination.

Flawed paper and flawed execution

The first hint of the problem in JEE 2010 came within minutes of the start of examination at 0900 hrs on April 11. Students found that the ORS (Optical Response Sheet) on which answers are to be given had a mismatch with the question paper. While the question paper had questions numbered 30-58 for Mathematics and 59-87 for Physics, the ORS showed 30-58 for Physics and 59-87 for Mathematics. The candidates who noticed the discrepancy asked for clarifications.

IIT JEE declared the most awaited controversial result today

After much ho lala IIT JEE declared the result today, result was declared amidst lot of litigations which were filled in the various high courts and Supreme Court of India about various irregularities in the question paper.

Soon after the declaration of the results the complains are coming from different part of the country about its credibility.

What went inside the examination hall !!!!!!!!!!

I am a student of BASE who wrote the jee 2010 in bangalore. Let me tell you my thoughts as the exam progressed..................

Notice to IIT-JEE chairman

2 May 2010, 00:43 HRS IST
Press Trust of India

Jaipur, May 21 (PTI) The Rajasthan High Court has issued a show cause notice to the Department of Human Resource, New Delhi and IIT-JEE Board on a writ petition seeking quashing of the entrance test for the elite institutes held this year on grounds of alleged dicrepancies in the question paper.

IIT issue will reach to Supreme Court

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today dismissed public interest litigation of a non-governmental organization (NGO) that has sought stay on the declaration of result of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) entrance exam held on April 11.

Today on 19 May 2010 Delhi High court dismissed the writ petition demanding an interim stay on IIT JEE result; however the next hearing on the PIL will be held on 02 June 2010.

Chetan Upadhyaya, secretary and counsel of Satya Foundation dissatisfied with the court decision decided to move to supreme court to challenge the decision taken by the Delhi high Court.

Raising the issue of errors in the instructions for examinees who took the IIT joint entrance examination (IIT-JEE) in Hindi, the NGO, Satya Foundation, filed the public interest litigation (PIL) on April 23, which was heard on 04 May 10

Earlier Chetan Upadhyaya, submitted before the court a list of serious blunders in the IIT JEE-2010 and said that instead of accepting the faults and re-conducting the examination, the Joint Admission Board was trying to cover up the issue with "corrective measures" which are "totally illogical and can't be digested by anybody".

The IIT-JEE board evolved corrective measures on May 2 to ensure that genuine candidates were not affected by the examination errors. It formulated a point-by-point remedial action and posted the same on the IIT-JEE website on May 2, it said.

But the petitioner demanded an interim stay on the publication of results till the pendency of the petition and also that the examination be re conducted.

Earlier The two-judge bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Ms. Justice Mukta Gupta, admitting the petition clubbed it along with the earlier petition filed by Rajeev Kumar, a professor at IIT Kharagpur through his legal counsel Prashant Bhushan on April 7 for overall transparency in the IIT-JEE system ordered that both the PIL will be heard on 19 May 10

IIT JEE to be conducted again

HRD Minister should take the responsibility and should suspend JAB and resign himself. More than 20 crores have been spent on conducting the IIT JEE examination and this money has gone wasted just because of the carelessness of the JAB. The entire JAB should be suspended and appropriate charges should be framed against the people who are responsible for this. At this juncture the conducting JEE again is the only option