52 students lose their seats due to IIT board's blunder

52 students lose their seats due to IIT board's blunder

NEW DELHI: To the shock and dismay of 52 candidates who had cleared the prestigious IIT joint entrance exam this year and were assigned architecture and design courses, IITs' Joint Admission Board has cancelled the allotments a day before the students were to deposit their fees.

IIT authorities says these students had not cleared the architecture/design aptitude test — a separate exam for architecture and design — but were "inadvertently included in seat allotment for BArch and BDes courses".

Another set of 52 students have been offered admission to these courses. The students whose admissions were cancelled have been left in the lurch. Most of them have lost the chance of joining other institutes as they did not go for counselling after getting IITs.

Many of these students said they had cleared AIEEE and other entrance examinations but will not be able to join these institutes. The students have threatened to go to court against the decision.

The JAB said the 52 candidates would be considered for the second allotment based on choice-sheets they had submitted earlier. T Natarajan of JAB told TOI, "We are looking into it, something will be done.” But many in the JAB felt this assurance was meaningless. "There could be hundreds who scored more than these 52. The scores of all students who appeared for architecture and design must be published," a source said.

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