Supreme Court Lifts Ban On Admission Process In IITs

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its stay on the admission counselling across all IITs, NITs and other government funded engineering institutions, ordering it to resume the process from Tuesday (11th July 2017) for the third round of counseling.

The decision came three days after the court had put on hold the admission process in the IITs on the basis of IIT-JEE advanced result 2017. The apex court had put a stay on the admission process in all the IITs and NITs due to the grant of grace marks allotted to all the students for printing error in the question paper.

Justice Dipak Misra has asked the centre to bring out a process to avoid printing errors in exam papers seeking an undertaking from the IITs that such mistakes would not recur; so as to avoid these controversies in future. The IITs also assured to avoid any such mistakes in the future. IITs welcomed the development as it cleared the confusion.

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The IITs had previously said that almost 30,000 students had been allotted seats and their document verification was going on. Resuming the seat allotment process will allow the IITs to fill up the remaining seats. The IITs believe they will cover up for the days lost and there won’t be any delay in the academic session. Many IITs are scheduled to start their academic session between 19th July and 18th August.Top of FormBottom of Form

An IIT aspirant, Aishwarya Agarwal had moved to the court challenging the awarded grace marks to all the aspirants who had not even attempted the question following which, the court had asked the IITs to publish a new merit list.

The IIT board had justified its grace marks decision saying that around 30,000 admissions were done and it would be impossible to bring out a new merit list. Additionally, it was maintained that a fresh examination be conducted on the basis of which a new merit list may be prepared for admissions.

Rajguru Tandon

BW Reporters The author is a correspondent with BW Businessworld with keen interest in HR and employee welfare.