IIT AND KOTA

In a bid to get back on the top of the global best institutes of technology chart, a team of four IIT directors would hold talks with officials of the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings here on Wednesday. The team would meet Amita Sharma, who is Additional Secretary, (Technical Education and Technology Enabled Learning) MHRD, and a THE ambassador. “Last year, at the 58th convocation of IIT-Kharagpur, President Pranab Mukherjee had referred to the dwindling global ranking of IITs. Given that the country’s premier institutes of technology were not even ranked in the top 200 in the past two years, this decision to engage in a dialogue was taken at the IIT Council’s meeting on July 24,” said an IIT-Kharagpur official. Through the dialogue process, the IITs intend to provide the ranking organisations a better understanding of how Indian institutes function. “The idea is to prepare a ranking parameter tha

They say "Helping a child stand up give us an unthinkable amount of pleasure. Ever imagined what it would be like to help him blossom?" Gopali Youth Welfare Society of IIT Kharagpur has started "Earn a Smile" campaign to aid in the construction of a new campus for the school - Jagriti Vidya Mandir. Gopali youth welfare society is a registered non-governmental organization, managed by few faculty members and students of Indian Institute of technology, Khargpur along with the help of local people. It aims and aspires at improving the general living standards of the people of Gopali Village, a small village 5km away from the IIT campus. Right to education for children and elimination of child labour has been one of the prime missions of the NGO. Under the campaign, the society urges donations to assist the ongoing construction of a new campus of Jagriti Vidya Mandir. A generous amount of 5000 rupees was sought from the present graduating students of the institute.

After years of delayed work on the construction of the permanent campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Indore, the work seems to gaining pace. IIT-I has sought pre-qualification applications for designing and building of the campus, for which August 26 has been scheduled as the last date for submission. IIT-I's permanent campus is proposed to come up on 500 acre of land in Simrol, nearly 35 kilometres away from the city at an estimated cost of Rs 608.4 crore in 30 months. The company, which will get the contract, will have to design and construct academic buildings, hostel building, faculty and staff housing, indoor sports centre, ancillary buildings along with external development and all engineering services at the permanent campus of the institute. IIT Indore has been functioning from the building of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) since its inception in 2007. As per the initial plan, IIT-I was expected to function from IET till 2011 and then sh

The Indian Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) is upgrading and expanding its laboratories and workshops to ensure quality researches and academic work in the institute, and the activities under the IIT Gymkhana as per the standards of an IIT. According to director, IIT-BHU, Prof Rajeev Sangal, several new clubs under IIT-Gymkhana will be introduced in the institute shortly after completing some paper works. As many as three new technical clubs including 'Rural-Technology Outreach Club', 'Automobile Club' and 'Green Club' will be introduced under the IIT Gymkhana from this academic session. According to assistant professor, Satish Kanaujiya the Green Club has already started functioning and had also started a 'Clean Campus drive and 'Save Food' initiative to stop wastage of food in hostel mess recently and the Rural Outreach Club will conduct activities to communicate technology to rural population. Apart from this the Automob

While the overall pattern of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admission to IITs  may remain the same next year, the government could consider relaxing the eligibility criteria. But any relaxation can happen only if it is approved by the Joint Admission Board (JAB), a body for deciding admission to IITs, which meets on August 25. The directors of different IITs will review the percentile system for admission this year, which will finally be ratified at the IIT council meeting scheduled for September 3. The government had made the IIT entrance exam a two-phased one this year – JEE (main) and JEE (advanced). The eligibility criterion was changed from 60% in the board exams to being in the top 20 percentile of his/her board. Only the top 1.5 lakh students of JEE (main) were allowed to appear for JEE (advanced) exam — which was the gateway for selection to IITs. The top 20 percentile cut offs has varied largely across different boards with some like Andhra board and Tamil Nadu

The government has decided to rework the admission norms for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), acknowledging flaws in the process, although the change is likely to effectively dilute the criterion for appearing in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced). The current eligibility norm is that a student be in the top 20th percentile of students in terms of performance in the school-leaving (or so-called board) examination and this will likely be tweaked, two government officials with direct knowledge of the development said, asking not to be identified. The 20th percentile criterion has attracted several legal challenges. The officials said that the government is proposing an alternative criterion of minimum 75% marks in the school-leaving examination. The change will benefit students from Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and those affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) because these boards are believed to be generous with their marking. Accordin

V.G. Idichandy, former deputy director,  IIT-Madras, feels that the IITs should be  postgraduate institutions. In an interview to  N. Arun Kumar, Dr Idichandy says that the current trend of seats being left vacant will not hurt the IITs too much.   Seats in excess of 300 may go vacant this academic year in the Indian Institutes of Technology. What do you think are the reasons for this phenomenon?    Three hundred is an alarming number. This is the first time the number of vacant seats is so huge.   In the past, only 20-30 seats remained vacant. If you look at this issue positively and analyse the trend closely, you will see that students have become choosy. They have other options, of getting into better branch of study than what they may get at the IITs.    There is nothing wrong if a student gets better education outside IITs. Students may now be looking seriously at the National Institute of Technology (NITs) or some other institute where they might get

How IIT-JEE is becoming the stronghold of CBSE, urban students For very long the venerated and coveted IITs and their entrance exams have been considered as the great leveler in India, a country where inequality and diversity are two sides of the coin. Students from villages, from uneducated backgrounds and low economic strata have qualified for these exams. But now this notion seems to have turned on its head. IITs picked over 57% of their selected students in 2012 from CBSE, a board that represents 6% of their target group. AFP A statistical analysis of the results of 2012 admission tests by scientists at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata shows that certain Boards, students from high income families, and urban areas bag most of the IIT seats. In fact, among those who had registered, students from higher income group have a four times higher success rate than those from lower income group. As for the Boards, IITs picked over 57% of thei

The JEE 2013 results have occasioned many stories about students suffering as a result of the new entrance system. But we should not lose sight of the big picture and why it was important to reform the old admission process. First, let's remember what the previous system meant for students and parents. At a personal level, my first realisation of the devaluation of school education came more than a decade ago when my son asked me if he could stop attending school classes and instead concentrate on coaching classes for the IIT-JEE exam. The situation since then has only worsened. In many states it is a common practice for parents to wean their children from schools as early as in class VII to put them onto the coaching assembly line. Seamless tie-ups between coaching outfits and schools tackle mundane issues like attendance. All this appears worthwhile because entry into IITs is seen as a fortune-turner for the family, a dream helped along by flashy headlines

Excited by the recent revelations that people are being paid 0.5 US Dollar (31 rupees as per the latest falling rate of INR) for every tweet they tweet using hash tags sponsored by political parties, major coaching institutes located in Kota, the ‘Coaching Capital of India’, have decided to offer coaching classes in Twitter. “This opportunity couldn’t have come at a better time when Mr. Sibal is hell-bent on ruining the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) format for engineering courses. New JEE course enrolments are down by as much as 23% this year as the Duckworth-Sibalewis System used for calculating JEE ranks this has left many a student feeling like lame ducks,” Mr. VK Bansal of Bansal Classes told Faking News why they shifted from IITs to social media. Twitter can be used to earn money, experts have long said, now political parties in India are making it true. “Simple math would tell you that at a median rate of 0.5 US Dollar per tweet, and keeping in mind a falling Rupe

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The legality of the appointment of the IIT-Madras director, Bhaskar Ramamurthy, has been challenged in the Madras high court, where a former IITian has filed a quo warranto petition. Justice D Hariparanthaman, before whom the petition filed by E Muralidharan of Chennai came up for hearing on Friday, ordered notices to the director and the Centre, returnable in three weeks. In his petition, Muralidharan, who argued the case himself on Friday, said the director had been appointed without the mandatory approval of the Appointment Committee of Cabinet headed by the PM. Noting that the President was the Visitor of the 15 IITs in the country, he said each IIT is managed by a 32-member council. The director is appointed by the council with prior approval of the Visitor, the petition said. In this regard, he said that Clause 15(3) of the statutes says: "The council may appoint an eminent person as director for a period not exceeding five years with a provision for renewal

IIT-Delhi has approved the design for the proposed district hospital building in Sector 39, Noida. The project report for the building had been sent to IIT after a private consultant prepared it for Noida Authority. IIT's approval has cleared the decks for necessary documentation related to tendering process for the construction work. "All paperwork is expected to be completed by September end. After this, tenders will be floated for construction of the building," said an Authority official. Authority officials said it will take at least two years to complete construction. The estimated cost to be incurred by the Authority has been pegged at Rs 425 crore. The hospital will have 200 beds and be equipped with a state-of-the-art trauma centre. The Noida Authority board had approved the plan to upgrade the district hospital in January. The hospital will have a double basement for parking vehicles. Officials said the hospital premises will have housing quart

The success rate of the 2013 Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) for admission to different Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has been heavily tilted towards three boards, primarily CBSE and four cities, a recent analysis of the result has revealed. CBSE, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan boards accounted for nearly 80% of those qualified. While CBSE constituted 56% of those qualified, the next was Andhra 17%, followed by Rajasthan 7%. A maximum number of 58,587 students registered from CBSE, followed by 17,360 from Andhra board and 8,738 from Rajasthan board. The worst performers in terms of qualifiers in JEE have been from the North East boards — with Meghalaya 0%, Mizoram 0%, Nagaland 0%, Manipur0.01% and Tripura 0.02%. The Assam board was a little better at 0.26%. Among cities, Jaipur with a total number of 2,188 qualifiers heads the list. With 1,900 from Delhi, 1,702 from Hyderabad and 1,088 from Vijaywada, the four cities too