Posts

Showing posts from June, 2012

One nation one test

The recent news about the premiere institution of the country has not been related to the quality improvement or the faculty development but for some other reason. The decision taken by the MHRD in consultation with other concerned groups has not been taken kindly by the faculty and alumni of IITs. They do not want the common entrance examination to be made mandatory. Before looking at their perspective let us see what the ministry has suggested and the background of the same. We all are aware that IITs have been the most sought after engineering institutes in for the last many years and the craze of the same has been increasing day by day. Due to this,a large number of the children prepare themselves for the tough examination. Till four years back, the number of seats in IITs were around six thousand and for that there would be approximately two lacs candidates. The government has set up nine more IITs and the number of seats available has gone up to ten thousand approximately bu