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Meeting on Joint Admission Board for IIT on Aug. 24

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“Coaching classes ‘killing’ the childhood of students”

NEW DELHI: The policy for the Joint Admission Board-2009 will be finalised at a Joint Admission Board meeting scheduled to be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, later this month.

Asked if there could be any change in the pattern of the next year’s Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to the IITs, IIT Kanpur Director Sanjay Dhande told reporters that it would come up for discussion at a meeting that will be held on August 24.

The directors of the seven older IITs were present at the JAB meeting at IIT, Delhi, on Wednesday to take a decision on the vacant SC/ST seats at the six new IITs.

On their stand on introduction of reservations in the IIT faculty, Prof. Dhande said: “We have submitted our observations to the Union Human Resource Development Ministry. We feel there should be no discrimination in the various departments. There will be another round of discussions with the officials over the next one month to decide on the issue.”

IIT, Bombay, Director Ashok Misra who was more vocal on the issue said among the teaching fraternity no one should know any other person’s caste.

On the issue of whether coaching classes were imperative for the preparation of the JEE, Prof. Misra argued that these classes were “killing” the childhood of students.

“They are spoiling the childhood of our children. They go to school, come back and attend coaching classes and have no time to pursue their hobbies or sports. There should not be any coaching classes system in our country. Instead the school system should be strengthened enough,” he asserted.

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