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Sibal retracts: IITs will decide eligibility criteria for entrance exams | Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal today clarified that the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will themselves decide the eligibility criteria for students appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination. He
said this while addressing a press conference at New Delhi on Tuesday (October
20). Sibal also noted that the Government of India or HRD ministry can in no way
make any proposal for such a decision. It may be recalled that the HRD Minister
on Monday had mooted a proposal whereby a student would have to secure at least
80 percent marks in the 12th standard instead of 60 per cent for qualifying entrance
exams of IITs, India's premier engineering institutions. The proposal raised a
hue and cry among the students across the country, eyeing to get through the entrance
of IIT. Chief Minister of Bihar , Nitish Kumar, termed this as discriminatory
and asked Sibal to rethink. "The eligibility criteria to appear in JEE (joint
entrance examination) are decided by the IITs themselves. The Government of India
has no role to play and any report which suggests that there is a proposal to
allow only those who obtain 80 percent marks in their 12th standard examination
to sit for the JEE is baseless. "The only decision that has been taken by the
IIT (Governing) Council is that the IITs will submit a report in January 2010
to rationalise the JEE. It is entirely their decision to decide on the criteria.
It is they who will consider what weightage is to be given to the 12th class examination.
It is they who will decide whether percentile should be the basis for admission.
"The Government of India has no jurisdiction in the matter and the HRD Ministry
can in no way, either directly or indirectly, decide or make any proposal for
a decision," said Sibal. At the press conference, the minister almost lost his
cool to a couple of posers from the media persons. He refused to speak anything
else apart from a written statement. |
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