NEWS
MIKKI KUMAR DATE: 26-10-2009
SOON, DUAL DEGREE FOR “DTU” STUDENTS
Come 2010, the new entrants at Delhi Technological University (DTU) will be offered an additional one-year MBA course at the end of their BTech studies. An MBA programme in addition to the Four Year BTech course would ensure the students have a dual-degree with specialization in technology, knowledge or innovation.
The dual-degree would be introduced from 2010-11 academic session, where by BTech students would be eligible to opt for the one year MBA programme at the end of their third year.
IIT COMES UP WITH ITS RTI “SHIELD”
Stung by the exposure of admission anomalies in recent years, the IIT system has come up with an innovative method of blocking transparency even as it agreed to give data under RTI on the marks obtained by the four lakh candidates in this year’s joint entrance examination (JEE). It insisted on giving the data only in the hard copy running in to hundreds of thousands of pages rather than in the more convenient from of a CD.
The information seeker, Rajeev Kumar, a computer science professor in IIT Kharag pur, is crying foul. for, the hard copy would not only result in a steep increase in the cost of information but also make it almost impossible for him to detect irregularities in the latest JEE as he did in the three previous ones by analyzing the electronic data that had then by given to him under RTI.
SIGNAL REPAIR DISRUPTS METRO SERVICES ON LINE 3
Train services were affected b/w Barakhamba Road and Yamuna Bank Stations.
Passengers traveling on line 3 of the Delhi metro had a harrowing time on Sunday morning as the frequency of trains was reduced to 24-minutes with long stoppages DMRC, train services were mainly disrupted b/w Barakhamba Road and Yamuna Bank Stations from 6am to 12 noon due to maintenance work in the signaling system.
The report has only given the side of the story of the appellant. What is being quoted are excerpts from email exchanges I had with the Information Commissioner trying to show the motives of the appellants, in the face of allegations by them that the IIT system is doing wrong things. One of the allegations is that sons and daughters of faculty members are getting in to the IIT system through fraudulent means.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why we have refused to part with the data in the form requested is that doing so will violate the privacy of about 4,00,000 candidates. They want the names, the addresses, the phone numbers, the email addresses, the category of the candidate, how many times he has attempted JEE, and of course the marks.
So there is a hearing before an Information Commissioner on the 7th of November to decide on the matter.
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