IITs find room for more, silent on how it was done

IITs find room for more, silent on how it was done


NEW DELHI: After the second round of counselling, IIT has accommodated 41 of the 52 general category students whose admission was cancelled after the premier institution itself admitted that were mistakenly allotted architecture and design course even though they had not appeared for the separate aptitude test.

The Joint Admission Board (JAB) authorities are maintaining a studied silence how 41 candidates have been accommodated all of a sudden.

Has it been done by creating more seats? "Some have been given admission in engineering course, which figures in their list of preference," an IIT director says. But, he could not give a suitable explanation if seats were increased in the engineering stream. The IIT admission website, too, has no information about this.

This also raises a moot question. What happens to the 11 candidates? JAB is mum about their fate. Architecture and design courses are taught in three IITs. Of the 86 seats in the general category, IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Roorkee have 25 and 40 in architecture, respectively, while IIT-Guwahati has 21 in design.

JAB sources said all these seats got filled in the first round of admission. Erroneously, 52 candidates were offered admission to these courses, which were cancelled later.


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