Times of India: Chandigarh: Wednesday,
April 06, 2016.
If you clear the tough IIT JEE test, get admission
to an IIT and then choose to give up your seat in the prestigious institute,
you can't take the entrance test again. This norm has come under the scanner of
the Punjab and Haryana high court after a resident of Chandigarh, who wants a
second crack at the test, has challenged it.
Justice R K Jain on Monday issued notice to the
ministry of Union human resources development ministry and IIT JEE Advanced
organizing committee on a plea by Archit Gupta. He was allotted a seat in IIT Tirupati
in 2015 but left it as the institute had a makeshift campus and he felt that it
did not have sufficient facilities. According to the IIT JEE brochure, he was
barred from appearing for the test in 2016.
Contending that such a bar was discriminatory and
had no nexus with the object sought to be achieved, Amar Vivek, counsel for the
petitioner pointed out that even in the higher exams like the one conducted by
the Union Public Service Commission, candidates have a right to improve their
performance from the previous year. Those who clear the IIT JEE Advanced,
however, are not given a second chance if they give up a seat, which was
unreasonable, the petitioner has said.
"Such a bar also resulted in hundreds of
vacancies in the prestigious IITs in the year 2015, which shows that the
brochure conditions were aimed at scuttling merit, instead of enhancing
it," the petition states. Moreover, if a candidate had chosen the 'float'
option, he should get seats available in other IITs as and when they fall vacant.
The counsel added that if a student from India's northern parts is admitted to
an IIT down south, he should be given a chance to take a vacant seat in an IIT
in the north.
It was also argued that information received under
RTI showed hundreds of such seats left vacant in the previous year, which was
disturbing as the IIT seats are in great demand. The case would now come up for
hearing on April 8.
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