CIC asks IIT to reveal cut-off marks

More than a year after an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) professor filed Right to Information (RTI) application seeking details relating to the cut-off marks for the IIT-JEE 2006 exam, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the IIT to come out with the required information.

However, while directing it to disclose the cut-off marks, Information Commissioner O P Kejariwal asked the institute to delete the names and personal details of the candidates who had appeared for the exam.

Filing three applications under the RTI Act, Professor Rajeev Kumar, had sought to know the cut-off marks for JEE 2006 in addition to the procedure and the formulae adopted to arrive at the necessary numbers for each subject.

Kumar, during the hearing on the matter, submitted that he would himself compile the data in the required format if the institute provided him with the complete list of candidates, including information about their subjects and the marks obtained by them in the examinations.