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After its portal to coordinate admissions to IITs and NITs could not be utilised this year, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has accused the IIT Delhi of sabotaging its plan to alleviate the problem of vacant seats in these institutions.

The C-DAC was developing a common portal to host data of all rounds of seat allocation of IITs and NITs that would help prevent engineering aspirants from holding seats in both the institutions, simultaneously, at the time of admission.

The director of C-DAC has written to the chairman of the board of governors of IIT Delhi and the union HRD ministry protesting the statement made by IIT Delhi’s HC Gupta who held C-DAC partially responsible for the plan falling through.

dna has reported earlier this month that the IITs had decided to drop the proposed exercise because of the C-DAC’s delay in developing a fool-proof software. Professor Gupta, who is the organising chairman of JEE-Advance this year, had said that the software was not prepared with enough time to test it, which is one of the reasons why the proposal was dropped.

In a strongly worded letter sent to the chairman of the board of governors of IIT Delhi, C-DAC director Rajat Moona has held Gupta’s non-cooperation responsible for the failure of the plan. In the letter, a copy of which is with dna, Moona said the organising chairman of JEE Advance was not forthcoming on giving any inputs to the common portal, both on its design and other feedback.

According to Moona, the common portal, being developed by C-DAC, was ready by July 2, which was almost a week before the deadline, but the software could not be tested because of Gupta’s refusal to provide seat allotment data.

In his defence, Gupta said he was just following what had been decided by the Joint Admission Board of the IITs. “The JAB had said that the first round of the counselling for the NITs would only begin after the IIT’s first round is over. How could I share any material before July 8 (when the first round was scheduled to get over)?” he said.

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