Recommendations By Panel @ FORMED TO REDUCE VACANT SEATS IN IITs, NITs
‘Scrap unpopular courses, reduce seats & slap penalty at IITs and NITs’
According to sources in the HRD Ministry, the recommendations of the committee will be placed before the IIT Council and NIT Council for consideration and approval.
Unpopular courses at the IITs and NITs should either be discontinued or
have their seats reduced, and a penalty should be imposed on candidates for not
joining their course, a committee set up to suggest measures to bring down
vacant seats in the premier engineering schools has said in its report to the
government. The HRD Ministry had constituted a three-member panel headed by
IIT-Kharagpur Director Partha Pratim Chakraborty three months ago, after almost
3,000 seats fell vacant last year despite six rounds of joint counselling for
the IITs, NITs and centrally funded technical institutions. Of these, 73 seats
were lying vacant at the IITs and 1,518 at the NITs.
According to sources in the HRD Ministry, the
recommendations of the committee will be placed before the IIT Council and NIT
Council for consideration and approval.
The report, accessed by The Indian Express,
states that all the institutes participating in joint seat allocation process
may — after a thorough review of vacancies, employment opportunity,
infrastructure requirement across different courses — revise the number of
seats in each course and “if needed, some disciplines may be closed down and
new areas introduced.” Further, the report suggests new courses should only be
introduced after a “proper requirement analysis”.
The panel has also recommended that the
institutions impose a penalty — at least 50 per cent of the seat acceptance
fees — on applicants for late withdrawal or not joining after the academic
session begins to bring down seat vacancies. This penalty was dropped last
year, which the IITs felt encouraged many students to block seats and not join
the institutes later.
The committee is also in favour of allowing
the NITs to convert state quota seats to general seats in case they fall vacant
despite repeated rounds of counselling. Currently, all NITs reserve at least 50
per cent seats for candidates from home state.
Over 1,500 seats fell vacant across 31 NITs
with even sought-after institutions such as the NIT Surat and NIT Jalandhar
having 115 and 110 vacancies, respectively. According to ministry sources,
seats at NITs in the northeastern states usually fall vacant because the state
quota remains underutilised.
Further, the panel felt that since that the
JEE (Main) rank is no longer calculated on the basis of Class XII marks, the
joint seat allocation can start earlier. “The process may be completed early to
enable the first year students to join at least two weeks early. The first year
students will join early for a two-week induction programme,” the report
states.
“Based on actual vacancies found on joining
and an analysis that there are seats vacant which students may have wanted but
did not get (based on their original choices), a fresh allocation round may be
completed within a week, which may include fresh registration of current and
new interested students. This may be completed before classes start,” the panel
said in the report.
Source | Indian Express | 2 January 2017
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