IIT-D joins rebel league, plans to hold separate test

On thursday IIT-Delhi rejected HRD minister Kapil Sibal's proposal of conducting single entrance test for all central engineering institutes and announced its own entrance exam next year. IIT-D would hold the test on the same pattern of 2012 JEE. Delhi is the second IIT after Kanpur to plan their own entrance procedure. Dr. Sanjeev Sanghi, the president of IIT-D faculty forum asked the need to introduce the changes in JEE from 2013. Somnath Bharti, the president of IIT-D Alumni Association, said that the decision to conduct a separate exam was taken because of government's autocratic and manipulative atttitude.

IIT-Kharagpur will hold a senate meeting next week and they may go for a separate exam. IIT-Bombay senate meeting  will be held on july 5. Prof AK Chaturvedi, spokesperson for IIT-kanpur senate, said that IIT-Delhi had taken the right step for rejecting single entrance test. He also said that they would look forward to jointly conduct 2013 exam with other IIT's in the same format as JEE 2012.