IIT, Roorkee fails to register case in IIT-JEE copying case

Even six months after a cheating in Indian Institute of Technology- Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) examination, the premier institute has failed to initiate action against the officials responsible for the same.

Updated on: Oct 18, 2011, 21:21:09 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Even six months after a cheating in Indian Institute of Technology- Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) examination, the premier institute has failed to initiate action against the officials responsible for the same.

Teachers of Gaini Zail Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Bathinda were apparently found guilty of allowing mass copying in the IIT-JEE examination in April this year.

The IIT’s joint admission board had black-listed the college and debarred the college principal and two invigilators from taking part in future IIT-JEE examinations following a report by an inquiry committee in June.

The committee had established nexus between college officials and students, thereby enabling them in copying. It was a rare case of IIT aspirants found cheating with an earlier case reported from a centre in Kota, Rajasthan.

After examining the committee’s report, the board had also directed IIT, Roorkee to lodge a complaint with the police to establish the liability of the concerned persons and initiate criminal proceedings against the accused.

It has not happened. The IIT Roorkee in reply to a RTI application says that no case has been lodged with the police as the matter was still under investigation. Even the action taken report on the recommendations of the advisory board has not been prepared.

There have been allegations that a few students caught copying were related to officials in IIT and a probable reason for cheating taking place in such a systemic manner.

Many insiders in the IIT system are questioning the delay saying it was helping those responsible for bringing bad name to the country’s premier educational institution. “It shows that the IITs are not serious about tackling the copying menace,” a senior professor with an IIT said.

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Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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