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| Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Decision on NIT admission will hit State students
Tiruchi: The sudden decision of the Ministry of Human Resource
Development to fill 50 per cent of the seats, hitherto reserved
for students of other States in the National Institutes of Technology,
on an all-India merit basis, will eliminate the chances of Tamil
Nadu students getting admission to the NITs elsewhere in the
country, say school principals.
The Ministry informed the Central Counselling Board (AIEEE–2008)
about the change only on June 13. The principals fear the new
system raises the possibility of the 50 per cent seats in 20
NITs being filled with students of some States that have been
dominating the national ranking in the All-India Engineering
Entrance Examination (AIEEE) over the years. Furthermore, they
reckon, the awareness of the examination is inadequate in Tamil
Nadu.
The States that lag in the AIEEE will have to content themselves
with the 50 per cent of seats earmarked in the NITs for their
own students. The decision has come as a shock at a time when
all NITs are increasing the number of seats to implement 27
per cent reservation for the OBC students.
What rankles them is that the Central Government has not honoured
its promise to safeguard the interests of States when it converted
the Regional Engineering Colleges into the National Institutes
of Technology.
In fact, the Centre was allowed to take over the Regional Engineering
College here a few years ago only after it promised that the
pattern of admission would be retained.
The decision must be based on the fact that the Centre meet
the entire funding for the NITs as it does for the Indian Institutes
of Technology, sources in the Central Counselling Board (AIEEE–2008)
told The Hindu.
“There is no justification for the timing of the decision.
Tamil Nadu students who have devoted their time and energy to
securing seats in the NITs have been caught unawares. Had they
known the decision earlier, they would have intensified their
preparations since securing all-India ranks is quite a tough
task,” says A. Rajagopal, a full-time trainer of IIT-JEE
and AIEEE.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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