With normalisation of marks for BTech admissions in Centrally-Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) running into trouble with a couple of PIls in Delhi and Andhra Pradesh High Courts, the HRD Ministry has taken a preemptive measure.
The Ministry has decided that the candidates who are offered seats through seat allocation processes of JEE (Advanced) 2013 and Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) 2013 will go through a Central and Joint Seat Acceptance Process (CJSAP).
The HRD Ministry sources said that under this scheme, the JEE (Advanced) 2013 and CSAB 2013 will have their independent processes of taking choices from the candidates for the seats and doing the seat allocation as per the established norms.
“The candidates who are offered seats through JEE (Advanced) 2013 or through CSAB 2013 will be shown the results of the seat allocation through a joint portal which will be coordinated by Joint Seat Acceptance Committee 2013,” said a HRD Ministry official. IIT-Delhi will serve as Secretariat for the Joint Seat Acceptance Committee (JSAC).
JSAC will be responsible for defining the procedure for the Joint Seat Acceptance; maintenance of the website for Joint Seat Acceptance Process; accepting the seat allocated by CSAB and JEE (Advanced) to the candidates and displaying the results through common website and identifying the candidates who are offered a seat only by one of the boards or by both.
“The basic idea is that no seats remain vacant in any of CFTIs. If a candidate is provided two seats, there is an immediate online update to the respective boards as which seat the candidate has retained and returned thus passing on to others seeking admission. The JEE (Advanced) 2013 and CSAB 2013 will be responsible for the decision on the eligibility of the candidates, and thus upgrading the seat acceptance status on the common website,” added the official.
The JSAC 2013 will be chaired by Prof GB Reddy from IIT-Delhi and Prof SK Sarangi, Director NIT-Rourkela, Prof HC Gupta, Organising Chairman, JEE (Advanced) 2013, and Vineet Joshi, Chairman CBSE among others as members.
Meanwhile in a related development the Andhra Pradesh High Court has directed IIT not to fill four seats which were offered to four AP students who were later denied on the ground of poor percentile upon. Justice Ramesh Ranganathan termed the actions of the authorities as violation of Article 14 of constitution while dealing with the writ petition filed by Anudeep Pendyala and three others.
PIl contended that they appeared in the JEE (Advanced) -2013 after qualifying in JEE (Mains) and secured good ranks in the Advanced. But even after getting call letters from IIT Chennai, they were in a state of shock to know that admissions were being denied on ground of low percentile. Another similar matter is lined up in the Delhi High Court and the matter is likely to be taken by the Chief Justice’s court on Thursday.