JEE Advanced 2017: SC gives green signal to admissions at IIT, NIT
The bench was examining IIT's decision to award 18 bonus marks to all the candidates.
The Supreme Court today vacated the stay and gave the go ahead for the counselling for admissions in IITs and NITs. The court also directed the high courts not to interfere in the ongoing admission and counselling process. The Bench also told the IITs to give an undertaking that mistakes would not arise where a situation to award bonus marks would have to be made.
33,000
candidates
have
already
taken
admissions
in
various
IITs
across
the
country.
The
bench
was
examining
IIT's
decision
to
award
18
bonus
marks
to
all
the
candidates
(11
marks
for
incorrect
questions
in
Paper
II
and
7
marks
for
incorrect
questions
in
Paper
I)
irrespective
of
whether
they
attempted
the
said
questions
or
not.
"It is respectfully submitted that the relief is entirely against equity since the process of seat allocation is going on and around 33,000 candidates have already accepted the allotted seat and reported for physical verification of the documents ... It is submitted that in case ongoing counselling and admission process is disturbed, the admission procedure of more than 36,000 students in 97 institutes under the joint seat allocation programme for IITs, NIITs, IIITs and GFTIs (Government Funded Technical Institutions) would be scrapped," IIT said in its affidavit.
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