This blog is meant to highlight how talented students are being excluded (and inferiors selected in the same General category) in prestigious IIT's entrance examination, called Joint Entrance examination(JEE).Startling disclosures on the mistakes in entrance exam have been made by the IITs themselves under RTI.See RTI Awards site
An appeal is also made to all stakeholders to use the oppoutunity send your suggestions to improve the examination system and to make it more balanced and transparent. These may be sent to Mr Damadar Acharya, Director IIT, Khargpur, Chairman of the Committee constituted by the Ministry of the HRD, to study the IIT JEE System and suggest suitable reforms.
Shri Damodar Acharya,email director@iitkgp.ernet.in
Court notice to IITs on joint entrance examination
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has sent notices to 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the ministry of human resource development to clarify their process of selection through the annual joint entrance examination (JEE), a teacher who filed the case said Thursday.
"The IIT-JEE selection procedure is a fraud. I have been fighting against it for four years and finally the Delhi High Court has issued notice to the ministry, the IIT council and the Joint Admission Board that conducts the entrance," Rajeev Kumar, a professor from IIT-Kharagpur, told IANS.
"The entrance in its current format is not transparent. No one knows how they select the candidates," he said.
"Though Kolkata High Court dismissed my public interest litigation, I moved the Delhi High Court," said the computer science professor.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who is fighting the case on behalf of Kumar, said that the court has asked the three parties to reply by mid May.
Every year tens of thousands of students appear for the JEE seeking a berth in the elite technology schools. Currently India has 15 IITs including the eight new ones who have started operation in the last two years.
This year over 400,000 students will appear in the IIT-JEE scheduled for April 11.
Kumar said he has also met Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on this isssue.
--Indo-Asian News Service
"The IIT-JEE selection procedure is a fraud. I have been fighting against it for four years and finally the Delhi High Court has issued notice to the ministry, the IIT council and the Joint Admission Board that conducts the entrance," Rajeev Kumar, a professor from IIT-Kharagpur, told IANS.
"The entrance in its current format is not transparent. No one knows how they select the candidates," he said.
"Though Kolkata High Court dismissed my public interest litigation, I moved the Delhi High Court," said the computer science professor.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, who is fighting the case on behalf of Kumar, said that the court has asked the three parties to reply by mid May.
Every year tens of thousands of students appear for the JEE seeking a berth in the elite technology schools. Currently India has 15 IITs including the eight new ones who have started operation in the last two years.
This year over 400,000 students will appear in the IIT-JEE scheduled for April 11.
Kumar said he has also met Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on this isssue.
--Indo-Asian News Service
How did they get selected
In IIT Kharagpur – Only Wards of Faculty working in IIT Administration or having connection with Powerful faculty got selected in last 4 JEEs 1. RTI application files bt Prof Rajeeev Kumar of IIT-K reveals startling facts.
2. The purpose of the RTI Application is to show that almost all the faculty wards admitted in IIT Kharagpur, are from those powerful faculty who are in IIT Administration (e.g., Director, Dean, Head,Chairman, Professor-in-charge etc.) and/or closer to administration.
This disclosure is in line with other JEE bungling dimensions, which were opened up in the past, e.g., -- cutoff fiasco by which many hundreds of students were robbed –off their IIT admission in spite of scoring huge marks, errors in question paper and their evaluation, shredding up of ORS in undue haste, unfilled seats in IITs, etc.
3.From the tabulated supply of information (on page 6 of the attached pdf), there are 14 students whose information is supplied. However, out of 14, the first six students and the last one are for Ph.D., M.S.and M.Tech. programmes for which selection process is not through JEE.Therefore, these seven students (first six and the last one) are not part of this discussion.
4.Our interest in those SEVEN students, whose admission in IIT Kharagpur is done based on JEE examinations for B.Tech. and Dual (B.Tech. and M.Tech.) courses. One can see that the bottom (excluding the bottom most) 7 students (starting from A. BHOWMIK to N. SHARMA), are studying BTech and Dual Degree Courses in IIT KGP. Such
students have been selected based on their JEE performance, their JEE rank is given in column FOUR. These are the total seven students amongst the faculty wards who have been selected from JEEs of 2006 to
2009.
5.Out of these 7 students, father of the three students are shown as DEAN, while for the rest FOUR, no information is given. Out of these FOUR, Administrative post occupied by their father is not given; this is the case of incomplete information, which is reported in the First Appeal under section 19of RTI Act, while the rest two’s are brothers (whose father was very closely related to the then IIT Kharagpur’s
Director, Prof. S.K. Dube.
6. The profile of their parents along with students’ names (the First name of a student is replaced by the First letter to bring anonymity) are given below :
(i)A____ Bhowmick (selected in JEE 2007; now studying in 3rd year of BTech Chemical Engineering) - his father Prof. Anil Kumar Bhowmik was Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy (a very rich and resourceful) Division and then Head of a department, in IIT Kharagpur. Now Prof. Bhowmik is Director, IIT Patna.(Prof. Bhowmik Director, IIT Patna)
(ii)R_____ Vardhan (selected through JEE 2008; now studying in 2nd year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) -- His father Prof. R.V. Raja Kumar was Dean, Academics in IIT Kharagpur. Now he is the Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi Univ. for Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) in Andhra Pradesh. More importantly, he was Dean, Academics (and Chairman, Undergraduate Admissions) in IIT Kharagpur when JEE
2006 Bunglings were started getting exposed. If he had taken the corrective action then, the victims would have been admitted in Aug.2006 itself.
(iii)P______ Sharma (selected in JEE 2007; now studying in 3rd year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) – His father is not holding any admin. post in IIT Kharagpur. However, his father is PhD holder from BHU, Varanasi. His father was very close to then IIT KGP Director, Prof SK Dube, who also hails from the same geographic area and has very close links with BHU, Varanasi.
It is to be noted that Prof SK Dube was the head of JEE 2006 (as Chairman, Joint Admission Board (JAB), the highest body for JEE),which is famous for all sorts of admission bunglings. Even his son was caught for impersonating someone in one of the JEE.
(iv)A___ Sengupta (through JEE 2006; now studying in 4th year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) -- no post is shown against his father though his father is Chairman, Kalpana Chaola Space Technology Cell. THIS INFORMATION IS SUPPRESSED.
(v)N_______ Desai (through JEE 2006; now studying in 4th year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) -- no post is shown against his father though his father is Chairman, Students' Brotherhood Fund. THIS INFORMATION IS SUPPRESSED. For both the above cases, scripts of Chemistry were asked to be opened through RTI application, then, in response, it was found that the scripts were destroyed in undue haste.
(vi)S______ Patra (through JEE 2009; now studying in 1st year of BTech Electrical Engineering) -- his father is a Current Dean, Alumni Affair and International Relations.
(vii)N_______ Sharma (selected in JEE 2007; now studying in 3rd year of BTech Computer Science & Engineering) -- his case is similar to the Item 3 above. Both are brothers.
7.Thus, from the above, it can be seen that out of the 7 faculty wards studying in IIT through JEE, five are the wards of Dean/Directors/Chairmen. The rest two are sons of a faculy who had very strong link with the then Director, IIT KGP.
8.CAN THIS BE A NATURAL Phenomenon, that only wards of IIT POWERFUL Professors are selected in JEE. The information supplied is not complete, on getting complete information, one can find the names of many other high-profile faculty. One can also observe that this has been happening since long.
9.The above can happen if the personal identity of the candidate is revealed, and then their ORS sheets are tampered or their marks are increased while feeding in the computer.
10.The above data is taken from JEE 2006 to JEE 2009 from IIT Kharagpur. Every year the same phenomenon may possibly be visible. The similar may be the case with a few other IITs.
11. The above indicates that the JEE has no sanctity.
2. The purpose of the RTI Application is to show that almost all the faculty wards admitted in IIT Kharagpur, are from those powerful faculty who are in IIT Administration (e.g., Director, Dean, Head,Chairman, Professor-in-charge etc.) and/or closer to administration.
This disclosure is in line with other JEE bungling dimensions, which were opened up in the past, e.g., -- cutoff fiasco by which many hundreds of students were robbed –off their IIT admission in spite of scoring huge marks, errors in question paper and their evaluation, shredding up of ORS in undue haste, unfilled seats in IITs, etc.
3.From the tabulated supply of information (on page 6 of the attached pdf), there are 14 students whose information is supplied. However, out of 14, the first six students and the last one are for Ph.D., M.S.and M.Tech. programmes for which selection process is not through JEE.Therefore, these seven students (first six and the last one) are not part of this discussion.
4.Our interest in those SEVEN students, whose admission in IIT Kharagpur is done based on JEE examinations for B.Tech. and Dual (B.Tech. and M.Tech.) courses. One can see that the bottom (excluding the bottom most) 7 students (starting from A. BHOWMIK to N. SHARMA), are studying BTech and Dual Degree Courses in IIT KGP. Such
students have been selected based on their JEE performance, their JEE rank is given in column FOUR. These are the total seven students amongst the faculty wards who have been selected from JEEs of 2006 to
2009.
5.Out of these 7 students, father of the three students are shown as DEAN, while for the rest FOUR, no information is given. Out of these FOUR, Administrative post occupied by their father is not given; this is the case of incomplete information, which is reported in the First Appeal under section 19of RTI Act, while the rest two’s are brothers (whose father was very closely related to the then IIT Kharagpur’s
Director, Prof. S.K. Dube.
6. The profile of their parents along with students’ names (the First name of a student is replaced by the First letter to bring anonymity) are given below :
(i)A____ Bhowmick (selected in JEE 2007; now studying in 3rd year of BTech Chemical Engineering) - his father Prof. Anil Kumar Bhowmik was Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy (a very rich and resourceful) Division and then Head of a department, in IIT Kharagpur. Now Prof. Bhowmik is Director, IIT Patna.(Prof. Bhowmik Director, IIT Patna)
(ii)R_____ Vardhan (selected through JEE 2008; now studying in 2nd year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) -- His father Prof. R.V. Raja Kumar was Dean, Academics in IIT Kharagpur. Now he is the Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi Univ. for Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) in Andhra Pradesh. More importantly, he was Dean, Academics (and Chairman, Undergraduate Admissions) in IIT Kharagpur when JEE
2006 Bunglings were started getting exposed. If he had taken the corrective action then, the victims would have been admitted in Aug.2006 itself.
(iii)P______ Sharma (selected in JEE 2007; now studying in 3rd year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) – His father is not holding any admin. post in IIT Kharagpur. However, his father is PhD holder from BHU, Varanasi. His father was very close to then IIT KGP Director, Prof SK Dube, who also hails from the same geographic area and has very close links with BHU, Varanasi.
It is to be noted that Prof SK Dube was the head of JEE 2006 (as Chairman, Joint Admission Board (JAB), the highest body for JEE),which is famous for all sorts of admission bunglings. Even his son was caught for impersonating someone in one of the JEE.
(iv)A___ Sengupta (through JEE 2006; now studying in 4th year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) -- no post is shown against his father though his father is Chairman, Kalpana Chaola Space Technology Cell. THIS INFORMATION IS SUPPRESSED.
(v)N_______ Desai (through JEE 2006; now studying in 4th year of BTech Electronics & Communication Engineering) -- no post is shown against his father though his father is Chairman, Students' Brotherhood Fund. THIS INFORMATION IS SUPPRESSED. For both the above cases, scripts of Chemistry were asked to be opened through RTI application, then, in response, it was found that the scripts were destroyed in undue haste.
(vi)S______ Patra (through JEE 2009; now studying in 1st year of BTech Electrical Engineering) -- his father is a Current Dean, Alumni Affair and International Relations.
(vii)N_______ Sharma (selected in JEE 2007; now studying in 3rd year of BTech Computer Science & Engineering) -- his case is similar to the Item 3 above. Both are brothers.
7.Thus, from the above, it can be seen that out of the 7 faculty wards studying in IIT through JEE, five are the wards of Dean/Directors/Chairmen. The rest two are sons of a faculy who had very strong link with the then Director, IIT KGP.
8.CAN THIS BE A NATURAL Phenomenon, that only wards of IIT POWERFUL Professors are selected in JEE. The information supplied is not complete, on getting complete information, one can find the names of many other high-profile faculty. One can also observe that this has been happening since long.
9.The above can happen if the personal identity of the candidate is revealed, and then their ORS sheets are tampered or their marks are increased while feeding in the computer.
10.The above data is taken from JEE 2006 to JEE 2009 from IIT Kharagpur. Every year the same phenomenon may possibly be visible. The similar may be the case with a few other IITs.
11. The above indicates that the JEE has no sanctity.
Parents of 5 IIT-K students in institute's 'administration'!
New Delhi, Mar 6 (PTI) Out of the seven wards of
IIT-Kharagpur faculty members who have cracked the Joint
Entrance Examination and studying at the institute, five of
them have parents involved in its administrative process.
This was claimed by Rajeev Kumar, a professor in the
institute, who said his information is based on details of the
institute on its website and data, it provided to his RTI
application.
The institute in its RTI reply said three students are
wards of Deans of different faculty wings in the institute.
It also said four other faculty members have their wards
in the institute but did not disclose their designations.
Kumar, however, cross-checked the names provided with the
list of faculty members on the institute's website and found
that parents of two more students are involved in the
administrative process.
Alleging that the details provided in the reply was
"grossly incomplete and incorrect", Kumar has moved the higher
authority of the institute.
He also claimed that the institute has "suppressed"
details of three faculty members whose four wards, two of them
being brothers, are studying at the Institute.
The institute's reply gave a list of 14 dependants of
IIT-Kharagpur faculty who are studying at the Institute.
Of these, seven have cracked the Joint Entrance
Examination and are studying the main course -- B Tech or Dual
Degree Course -- while the rest are in Post Graduate or MSc
courses which do not require JEE. PTI ABS
IIT-Kharagpur faculty members who have cracked the Joint
Entrance Examination and studying at the institute, five of
them have parents involved in its administrative process.
This was claimed by Rajeev Kumar, a professor in the
institute, who said his information is based on details of the
institute on its website and data, it provided to his RTI
application.
The institute in its RTI reply said three students are
wards of Deans of different faculty wings in the institute.
It also said four other faculty members have their wards
in the institute but did not disclose their designations.
Kumar, however, cross-checked the names provided with the
list of faculty members on the institute's website and found
that parents of two more students are involved in the
administrative process.
Alleging that the details provided in the reply was
"grossly incomplete and incorrect", Kumar has moved the higher
authority of the institute.
He also claimed that the institute has "suppressed"
details of three faculty members whose four wards, two of them
being brothers, are studying at the Institute.
The institute's reply gave a list of 14 dependants of
IIT-Kharagpur faculty who are studying at the Institute.
Of these, seven have cracked the Joint Entrance
Examination and are studying the main course -- B Tech or Dual
Degree Course -- while the rest are in Post Graduate or MSc
courses which do not require JEE. PTI ABS
Flawed IIT admission process set for overhaul
Ten days ago, the government set up a committee headed by IIT Kharagpur Director Damodar Acharya to suggest reforms to the admission process for the Indian Institutes of Technology. It is expected the committee will look at ways to incorporate Class XII exam marks in the selection criteria.
This comes after revelations that the process used in the past is flawed.
An RTI application by a professor at IIT Kharagpur filed in 2007 revealed that in 2006, 994 students with low aggregates in maths, physics and chemistry in the Joint Entrance Exami-nation qualified, though around 4,000 others who had higher aggregates than them did not.
Flawed IIT admission process set for overhaul read complete story in Hindustan Times
This comes after revelations that the process used in the past is flawed.
An RTI application by a professor at IIT Kharagpur filed in 2007 revealed that in 2006, 994 students with low aggregates in maths, physics and chemistry in the Joint Entrance Exami-nation qualified, though around 4,000 others who had higher aggregates than them did not.
Flawed IIT admission process set for overhaul read complete story in Hindustan Times
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