[1]Despite facing strong opposition from the IIT faculty and alumni associations, Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal on Monday met the representatives of deemed-to-be universities and secured their in-principle approval for the 'one-nation one-examination' plan for engineering courses.
Sources stated that the HRD minister, who chaired the meeting, was able to secure the approval of deemed-to-be universities for adopting the new common entrance examination for engineering programmes from 2013.
Most of the approximately 130 deemed universities have engineering colleges and their approval of the 'one-nation one-examination' plan was considered important for its success.
Presently, most deemed-to-be universities conduct their own entrance examination while some are part of the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination.
So far aspirants to an engineering programme had to appear for multiple examinations. “During the discussion the minister apprised them of the benefits of joining the common test and assured the institutes that they will have complete freedom in choosing weightages for Class 12 and JEE Main,” sources stated.
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