So the 2012 aspirants for MBBS, please start preparing for AIPMT, State CETs, WBJEE and other entrance exams in 2012

Kids are not objects and one cannot standardize them. It is a stupid and insensitive idea to force ALL kids to do one type of exam.
The MHCET for example is far easier than the JEE, so then this new test will probably have to tread a middle path and make a watered down version of the JEE where it will be too easy for some and too tough for others.
Besides how can board exam marks be criteria for admission into iit? They differ from state to state in i)quality of teaching, ii)paper setting, iii)conducting of examinations and in the iv)correction pattern.
Besides board exams in several states and small towns is just a sham. Students regularly indulge in mass copying with the connivance of the school (several times the newspapers and channels have reported this), a)there is also instances of mark sheets being tampered with, b)answer sheets being replaced, c)invigilators being threatened into submission etc . Every alternate year the board papers (and last year even the AIEEE) in many states are leaked. So is the board exam marks a sound basis for admissions to the iits? Will such instances not increase if more benefits depended on these marks.
Many children have been preparing for these exams for the last four years what about their efforts? Can they not be allowed to write the Jee and any changes be brought in gradually before other younger kids start their preparations?
Besides if they are unable to plug the paper leak with just the AIEEE how will they ensure it now for an exam on such a huge scale? Also will it be conducted in regional languages too?
What about parents who will now put pressure on the kids to top the board exams AND the entrance tests? I thought the whole idea was to reduce stress.
Besides that, lacs of students get above 90% in their board exams, so on what basis will they be chosen to be admitted in the iits? Is this a backdoor entry then for those with influence and money?
Kapil Sibal is once again playing games with the lives of the children. (after the chaos of doing away with the CBSC 10th exams) Why is he making the situation fertile for corruption just when people like Anna are trying to fix it?
The chap is trying to kill the dreams of thousands of children. Its not like only the kids with money to attend coaching classes are affected, it’s more those from poor families, for whom iit was the only ticket out of their situation It is the kids coached by places like the Super 30 who will suffer as they may never make it to the iits in this flawed system and they cannot afford the huge fees of other colleges.
Most of all the reputation of IIT as a premier Institute whose hallowed precincts is only for the meritorious regardless of any other criteria will be ruined. It will be filled with the friends and relatives of the likes of Kapil Sibal.

LOW COST TERAFIL WATER FILTER is invented by Surendra Khuntia, Chief Scientist of Institute of Minerals & Material Technology, Bhubaneswar (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology), Govt of India. It is wrongly published on 11th August 2011 that it is designed by DST and CIPET. I being the project leader of a sponsored project funded by DST, Govt of India for popularisation of domestic Terafil water filter, we have taken CIPET, Govt of India as our associate (Co-Project Leader) for production of food grade vergin plastic containers of domestic TERAFIL water filter for supply at a fair price. As CIPET has production facility, we have suggested many State Govt depts to procure Terafil water filter from CIPET centers. Our laboratory is licensing technology to private entrepreneurs for mass production of Terafil candles as well as plastic containers in different parts of the country. It is wrongly published in your media that TERAFIL water filter is designed by DST & CIPET, without mentioning name of CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar who is prime institute for invention, propagation of this technology in the country. Many State Govts are installing TERAFIL water filter in schools under JALMANI National programme, sponsored by Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation, Govt of India.

Please correct the news and inform my views to the Director General of CIPET-Corporate, Chennai (drsknayak@gmail.com) and Director of DST (sbajpai@nic.in) for verification.

S.Khuntia
Chief Scientist
CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar-751013
Mob: 09437012679
E-Mail ID: khuntias@gmail.com, skhuntia@immt.res.in

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