New Delhi: The Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) has made three major changes in the system under the compulsion of a notice issued from the Supreme Court on special leave petition (SLP) filed by Rajiv Kumar of IIT-Kharagpur.
As per sources, Kumar, the first one to find out faults in IIT-JEE, has not been credited by IIT-Kanpur, which is conducting the entrance examination this year. Also, none of the changes announced last week are part of the admission brochure. It is believed that affidavit by IIT-Kanpur in the SC would now claim that since three major changes have been implemented, Kumar's SLP be dismissed.
The three changes includes is putting scanned copies of answer sheet of each candidate, announcing correct answers within 48 hours of the examination and giving marks of each candidate, qualified or not - still do not fulfil the slew of prayers that Kumar has made. However, for one, the demand to use pen so that answer sheets cannot be tampered with instead of pencil to encircle the answer scripts is not being implemented this year. It is believed that pens could be allowed from next year. But every year, the IIT that conducts JEE comes up with new set of rules and, therefore, sources said it is too early to say if the demand of use of pen would be allowed.
Besides, Kumar had made a request that JAB should be asked not to repeat same set of persons as question setters, or JEE administrators for more than two years and also to ensure strict vigilance. He had also requested that JAB be asked to discard the concept of extended merit list, and to give all-India rank to all the candidates. JAB was also asked to publish status of vacant and filled-in seats on a day-to-day basis during the counseling session for admission. Another important prayer of Kumar was direction to JAB that the unilateral declaration given by a candidate, behind which IIT takes refuge when challenged with irregularities in JEEs - is of no legal consequence.
