NCP questions hurry in changing IIT-JEE admission format

He said the senates of IIT-Kanpur and IIT-Delhi have disapproved of the way the Human Resource Development Ministry has been pushing for the changes in the test.

8220;I urged the Minister to look into it and take IITs8217; suggestion,8221; he said,adding the institutes were not against the proposal but against the manner in which issues were pursued without consulting them.

The government has proposed to change the IIT-JEE format by introducing two-part objective-type tests and giving weightage to Class XII marks.

The Ministry plans to hold an Indian Science Engineering Eligibility Test ISEET from 2013. This would serve as a single national entrance exam for admission to engineering and science courses in centrally funded institutions such as the 15 IITs,30 NITs and a host of other technical institutes.

The test will replace the existing IIT-JEE and the All India Engineering Entrance Examination AIEEE.

Highlighting the plight of farmers in the country,Parshottam Khodabhai Rupala BJP said cotton growers have not been able to export even a bale despite the government lifting the ban,which had led to suicides by farmers.