IITs

The IIT-JEE results this year turned out to be a bag full of surprises; not just for one or two, but many all over the country. The results this year where on one hand are a reflection of sheer hard work; they are on the other also a picture of total dedication and then again a showcase of amazing brain power.

As part of its efforts to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) would facilitate free access of the course materials designed by the Indian Institutes of Technology to the different engineering institutes.

Accusing that meritorious students have been denied a fair chance at qualifying for the IITs, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has requested Union Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal to re-conduct the IIT Joint Entrance Examination which was held on 11 April 2010.

In his letter to Sibal, the chief minister has stated that the three major typographical errors that had crept into the question paper are sure to have misled the students and thereby denied them a fair opportunity.

With most of the students appearing for the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) struggling to somehow finish their answers in time, the paper this year has left many dissatisfied and infact quite worried about their results, despite having put in months into preparation.

The exam was taken by almost 68,500 examinees in the IIT Madras Zone. This zone includes examination centres across the cities of Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore

The Indian Institutes of Technology (popularly known as IITs) are institutions of national importance established through an Act of Parliament for fostering excellence in education. There are fifteen IITs at present, located in Bhubaneswar, Bombay (Mumbai), Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras (Chennai), Mandi, Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee. Over the years IITs have created world class educational platforms dynamically sustained through internationally recognized research based on excellent infrastructural facilities.

Discretely putting on hold the proposal of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to start medical courses as well, the health ministry has rejected the idea of starting medicine related courses and has decided to let the premiere institutes remain exclusively engineering institutes only.

Drawing attention to the obvious disparity between poor rural students and their rich urban counterparts, the founder of the super hit 'Super 30' initiative Anand Kumar requested the Prime Minister to offer an additional chance to the less privileged candidates to clear the crucial IIT entrance examination.

As part of the efforts to confer self-financing status to IITs, drastic revisions in its present fee structure seem likely. The IIT directors have decided to propose an eight-fold increase in its student fees before Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal.

The brain storming session would also discuss the newly evolved system for checking the ongoing teacher shortage crisis, under which fresh M. Tech graduates would be allowed to serve as ‘faculty interns’ in IITs.

First time ever in the history of Indian academics, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) has decided to put their PhD students on screens around the world. The aim is to inspire lakhs of other aspiring students to think out of the box. As per the plan, the young graduates will each speak for 40 minutes to give detailed information about their research and their work.