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52
candidates admitted to IIT by mistake: Kapil Sibal
Saturday November 27, 2010 11:33:42 AM ,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Clarifying the withdrawal of offer of admission to 52 candidates
from IITs, the human resource development ministry Friday said
that the offers were made "erroneously" to the candidates.
In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Human Resource Development
Minister Kapil Sibal said that according to the Joint Admission
Board, 52 candidates in the general category were offered
admission to IIT though they had not qualified in the test.
"Some candidates who wrote the JEE 2010 were erroneously offered
admission. The inadvertent error in course allocation pertained to
candidates who had not qualified in the architecture/design
aptitude test, were offered admission," Sibal said quoting
information from the Joint Admission Board.
"Their admission was later withdrawn and the places were filled by
eligible candidates," he said.
According to the ministry, 41 of the candidates were provided
admission in the second list while the rest 11 could not be taken
as "they had not filled a large number of choices even though they
has been advised to do so during their counselling".
The minister also said that two of the candidates had gone to
court.
"The JEE system has introduced additional checks in their
procedure so that such an error does not recur," Sibal added.
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