It's a good news that 4 to 5 colleges are getting IIT status and few are getting INI(Institute of National Importance)stature like NITIE, Mumbai.
This article is really nice to read, but there is a small mistake which can be negligible, but i thought why there should be any mistake in such a nice article. So this is a small attempt to rectify it for correct information sharing with all readers.
Here NITIE is stated as National institute for training in Industrial engineering, whereas it stands for National Institute for Industrial Engineering.
Future IITs
by Prabal K Choudhury on Aug 28, 2005 02:21 AM Permalink
Jadavpur University to become IIT ? the people who love to boycott exam., beat professors and go frequently on strikes. the university where students are promoted with no attendance in classes and failure in six papers out of nine. if JU is converted into IIT that will be the first naxalite IIT in the country. P K Choudhury Toronto Canada
RE:Admission through AIEEE
by yogesh upadhyay on Aug 24, 2005 08:07 PM Permalink
Dear Mr. Partha Sarathy:
My reply is as follows:
In order to impart a national character to student body, government has asked six colleges to take students through AIEEE, the national level exam. The colleges will start admitting a minimum of 50% (100%, if they prefer) of students through AIEEE from next year. Once a college becomes an IIT, it will switch over to IIT-JEE for 100% of the intake. Thus AIEEE is just a stop-gap exam till a college is converted into an IIT.
Any college that can not be converted into an IIT will be designated as INI. Then it will continue admitting students through AIEEE at the same original (50% to 100%) quota. The non-IITs (IT-BHU and Indian School of Mines) will continue taking students through IIT-JEE, irrespective whether they become IITs or not.
It is the govt. decision to grant admission through AIEEE before a college becomes an IIT and through IIT-JEE after it becomes an IIT.
RE:About NITIE...
by Partha sarathy on Aug 24, 2005 08:29 AM Permalink
Dear Dr Yogesh If you say that add the line "Once they become IITs they can join IIT JEE", then you have to also say that delete the line "All the six colleges were asked to take at least 50 per cent of the students from the All Indian Engineering Entrance Exam." from the article. There is an inherent contradiction in the whole concept and the contents of the article With regards Partha Sarathy
RE:About NITIE...
by Sourav on Nov 03, 2005 12:43 AM Permalink
I agree that only JU deserves to be iit. BE College has far more political activism than JU, and standards in JU are far better. WBJEE and IITJEE are two exams styled on different syllabi. So u can not say that one is inferior than the other. JU students also have equal calibre as IIT students. Moreover, JU is the only university among the 7 to receive 5-star status from UGC. Let me tell you, I have studied in IIT-KGP (95) and I can say that bunking of classes is IIT is a very common phenomenon, especially in IIT-KGP.
Thanks for catching the error. There are some typos, errors and omissions in the article, which I want to clarify as follows:
a) NITIE should be National Institute of Industrial Engineering, as you have correctly stated. (I used the old name of NITIE, when it was established.)
b)In the opening para, the statement should be "this was a second meeting in 3 months" (the first meeting was on May 3 and second on July 27.)
c) Also in the opening para, the statement should be "Union ministry of Human Resource Development".
d) Under Students' quality, the following statement should be added:
All the six colleges shall be able to recruit students through IIT-JEE, once they become IITs."
