Unsung Heroes of modern India: Prof Rajeev Kumar

There are people who give so much to society but society does not even acknowledge their efforts. We have one such person Prof. Rajeev Kumar, a Professor of Computer Science at IIT Kharagpur who falls in to unsung heroes category. He is alone person who is responsible for bringing the major reforms in IIT JEE admission process. His untiring fight for transparency in the JEE admission process has benefited thousand of students who themselves are not aware about this efforts.

JEE partially answers to questions asked by me under RTI

I have received the reply from JEE about the questions asked by me pertaining to JEE 2010

1. We would like to know how many candidates, out of 4.72 lakh who appeared in JEE 2010 on April 11, used the Hindi version for Paper 1 & Paper 2? Kindly provide the exact number.

Ans 61,717

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.

Documents accessed by HT using the RTI Act show the country’s oldest IIT — started in 1951 — blocked 25 per cent of its seats in popular five-year integrated science courses (up to M.Sc level) for handpicked nominees, even as students from the rest of India had to clear the IIT-JEE for admission.

IIT wards merely needed 60 per cent marks in their Class XII Board examination and should have appeared in the IIT-JEE to be eligible for the quota seats, doled out at the institute director’s discretion. Between 2003 and 2005, those who got in through this illegal quota didn’t even need to appear for the entrance exam. The secret quota was suspended in 2005, the year the RTI Act was launched, and was abandoned in 2006 under pressure from the Joint Admission Board of all IITs, which organises entrance examination.

“This was the most shameful chapter in the history of the IITs. I tried convincing colleagues to end the quota, but failed,” said a former IIT Kharagpur director who was in charge for several years when the quota was in place.

The IIT admitted 88 students through the secret quota between 1998 and 2005, including 50 in 2003 and 2004, documents reveal. The quota was never disclosed in admission brochures — unlike all other reservations for backward communities that the IITs have.

The beneficiaries of the secret quota include the children of Madhusudan Chakraborty, now the Director of IIT Bhubaneswar and VK Tewari, the organising chairman of the IIT-JEE in 2006. Chakraborty, who has also been deputy director of IIT Kharagpur, confirmed the discretionary quota to HT but argued: “Not only my son, the sons and daughters of many others in the faculty were also admitted through this quota.”

The IIT has not disclosed exactly when the quota was started, but minutes of an August 16, 1988 board of governors meeting reveal that the quota existed even before the IIT-JEE was started in the mid-1960s.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/IIT-Kharagpur-kept-aside-illegal-quota-for-staff/H1-Article1-578158.aspx

Write to Mr. Kapil Sibal   about it

kapilsibal@hotmail.com;kapil@kapilsibal.com;ksibal@sansad.nic.in

IITs have a long history of manipulating the results

RTI Act Exposes Large Scale Bungling in IIT-JEE 06  
 Robbed Admission of the Brightest 994; Faculty Wards Scored Very High Marks

The saga still continues 
http://eklavyajee06.blogspot.com/2009/12/rti-exposes-large-scale-bungling-in-iit.html 

Has JEE forget to check few ORS

 I am getting regular mails like this, in order to increase the credibility JEE should show the soft copy of the ORS on demand

 

IIT JEE still not done with the litigations

Three more writ petitions were filled recently in the Delhi High Court. One of those writ to come for hearing  on Thursday. It seems IIT  JEE has not done with the litigations. JEE declared its results on 26 May but the issue of errors in the questions paper is keep coming back to it

JEE is not transparent

IIT JEE should disclose following things to clear the controversy surrounding around the results

1.    Officially accepted answer key by JEE for evaluating the results

2.    Marks of all the selected students

3.    Cut off for each category (General, SC, ST, OBC) in which IITs have selected students. IITs should also elaborate the cut off procedure ( total marks or marks in individual subjects) adopted by IIT

4.    IIT should also put the soft copy of the ORS on the net so that students can access the ORS and can satisfy themselves.