There are people
who give so much to society but society does not even acknowledge their efforts.
We have one such person Prof. Rajeev Kumar, a Professor of Computer Science at
IIT Kharagpur who falls in to unsung heroes category. He is alone person who is
responsible for bringing the major reforms in IIT JEE admission process. His
untiring fight for transparency in the JEE admission process has benefited thousand
of students who themselves are not aware about this efforts.
A Brief Background of
his efforts
Indian Institutes
of Technology (IITs) are established by the central government under the IIT
Act, 1961. Admissions to IITs flagship undergraduate (B.Tech.), integrated
M.Sc. and dual (B.Tech. with M.Tech./M.B.A.) degree courses is done based on
the merit list prepared on the basis of the performance in Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE), which are routinely being conducted by IITs for the past 50
years. JEE had been completely black boxed and nothing was revealed to
candidates, e.g., students were not allowed to carry question papers after
examination; model solutions were never revealed at any stage after the
examinations; marks obtained by a candidate were never informed to the
candidate. At the time of result declaration, a student simply gets a rank, if ‘qualified’
else a ‘not-qualified’ status.
With the enactment
of RTI Act 2005, candidates received the marks sheets, in 2006. Then, bizarre
facts came to surface that students with as high as 279 as the total marks
scored were rejected while with as low as 154 marks were declared qualified’;
all in the same general category on the RTI application filled by Professor Rajeev
kumar. Later, it was revealed that there were such 994 high scoring candidates
who were excluded due to subject cutoff discrepancies arbitrary and
illogically; their exclusion remained unexplained yet in spite of IITs
submitting four different cutoff procedures by now.
On being challenged
by the Professor Rajeev Kumar, the main selection criterion, i.e., the cutoff
decision procedure was made public in JEE 2007, and the correctly calculated
subject cutoffs fell down to {1, 4, 3} from {37, 48, 55} of 2006, respectively
in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.
By detailed
analysis and research being carried out, by Professor Rajeev Kumar, of the past
4 JEEs data (2006 to 2009) which was disclosed under RTI Act, many
discrepancies and irregularities have been revealed, namely, ad hocism
in cutoff determination, unattended errors in question settings/evaluation,
tampering/shredding of ORS in undue haste, promoting coaching institutes,
lacking effective transparency and accountability, having a heavily skewed
marks distribution, selecting IIT administrators’ wards in some IITs, closed
admission counseling resulting in irregularities in admissions and seats lying
vacant, zero accountability for attending to apparent errors, poor ethics in
JEE administration etc.
He has been
instrumental in bringing the transparency in JEE admission process; he is also instrumental
in sacking of Tainted IIT Prof Ghosh. To read the complete story please click
on the following link http://eklavyajee06.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=50
4 comments:
I wish him all success for forth coming struggles against corrupt persons/systems/Govts etc
Mainly educational Instutes coming under centrally funded should be screened for thier transparency for admission process and other benefits extended as per govt rules should be disclosed irrespect of public demand.
I wish all the best to Mr. Nilesh Gupta and Professor Rajeev Kumar who are fighting for transparency through RTI 2005
Congratualtions Sir,
Please bring such persons in mass media for public appreciation
Some people are playing with meritorias student community by using system loopholes in thier offices. this should be sacked and bring to the public and pull such persons even to Courts also.
Hence , efforts made by Prof.Rajeev Kumar and Nilesh Gupta are highly appreciated
pl accept our best wishes
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