The government’s tardiness has cost the IITs and NITs the opportunity to launch an exercise in solving the problem of vacant seats at the two institutions.
About two months ago, the two of the country’s best brands in engineering education had jointly decided to forbid candidates from holding a seat in an IIT and NIT, simultaneously, at the time of admission so that aspirants with lower ranks stand a better chance at securing seats in either institutions. In other words, a candidate with a good score/rank in the JEE-Main (used by NITs) and JEE-Advance (used by IITs) would not have been able to take admission in an IIT unless one gives up one’s allotted seat in an NIT and vice versa.
However, a delay on part of the CBSE in declaring the JEE-MAIN results and also the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in developing a fool-proof software for coordination of IITs and NITs has forced the two institutions to ditch this plan. CDAC is the research and development department under the union ministry of communications and information technology.
According to sources, initially the government was confident of putting the coordination mechanism in place on time, which is why it even posted an announcement on its website about two weeks ago. But with IITs and NITs not having tested the software (on account of delay by CDAC), the two institutions decided to not put their reputation at stake and, hence, dropped the idea.
“It was a combination of factors, one of them being that the JEE Main results were delayed by two days. The new session at the IITs is scheduled to begin on July 18 and so we could not afford the wait. Also we weren’t too confident about the software,” said IIT Delhi’s HC Gupta, who is overseeing the JEE-Advance this year.
So this year, too, the problem of seat vacancy at the IITs is going to persist. According to last year’s JEE chairman GB Reddy , in 2012 about 320 seats fell vacant and in 2011, as many as 757 seats were unoccupied across IITs.
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