UPTU Engineering Entrance Exam to be held on 20, 21 April

Uttar Pradesh Technical University will release the schedule for the State Entrance Examination (SEE) exam 2013 in engineering and management colleges today. This and many more decisions pertaining to the admissions in technical institutions will be taken in a meeting of the Central Admission Board (CAB) to be held at Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) on Tuesday. The meeting will be chaired by UPTU vice-chancellor Prof RKKhandal.

Though the university has already decided the dates for SEE 2013 as 20 and 21 April, decisions on the mode of examination whether online or offline will be taken on Tuesday. Currently, the state government merged the two state technical universities, the Noida-based Mahamaya Technical University (MTU) and Gautam Buddh Technical University (GBTU). After this merger, MTU university officials are trying to attract more students by bringing the brand value of SEE-UPTU back.

The meeting will see suggestions from many engineering and management institutions. Also, there is a proposal by private colleges to allow them to sell SEE brochures and application forms. Till last year, the forms and brochures were available only at post offices.

In the meeting, it will also decide whether the SEE for admissions to engineering colleges will be online or offline. Previous year, the university conducted SEE for MBA and MCA online. Even their application process was completely online. However, for engineering, the application process was both online and offline and the entrance test was in the written mode. This year, officials are hopeful that there will be online test for engineering students too. In this regard, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida has also send proposal to the university to begin dual degree course in Applied Management. This will also be placed in the meeting.

GCET Admission norms to be out in February First Week

The prospectus of the Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) 2013 will be out for engineering and pharmacy aspirants in the first week of February month. This year, the prospectus will be different from last year because students seeking to join medicine and dentistry courses will not be taking the GCET but the national entrance and eligibility test (NEET).

DTE will also come out with the new guidelines for direct admissions to the second year engineering and pharmacy seats, which used to take place based on G2CET scores. The G2CET - which was held for diploma holders and science graduates for direct admissions to second year of engineering and pharmacy courses - is no more compulsory for states to hold as per directives of the all India council for technical education (AICTE).

The National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) for UG students will be conducted at a centre in Panaji on May 5.

Admissions to engineering and pharmacy bachelor's courses will take place based on the GCET conducted by the state directorate of technical education at 10 centres across the state. The GCET exam is set to be held after the NEET on May 8.

Direct admissions to second year engineering and pharmacy seats will now be decided on the basis of marks scored in the final year of the diploma or BSc course by the students.

However, the board of technical education has decided to consider giving a second opportunity to diploma course students who passed out in 2012 to re-answer the final year diploma exam to better their score.

JEE 2013- How should one attempt the questions?

JEE 2013, Always keep in mind that negative marking is there. Check each answer twice before marking the option. It might be possible that you are not able to solve initial questions, but don’t loose your confidence and read all questions carefully before answering them.


When you read the questions, segregate them using the 123 method.
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1: These questions are from topics you have prepared well, enabling you to comprehend their meaning.
2: You know you can solve these questions but they are time-consuming; you are confident you’ll be able to crack them when you come back.
3: You don’t know how to tackle these questions and should not waste time attempting them.
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Each mark is very important for your career, so don’t do guess work.
All the best !!

NIT, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar Placement statistics

The National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, formerly Regional Engineering College, Srinagar, commonly known as NIT Srinagar or NIT-SRI, (An Institute of National Importance) is a public engineering college in Kashmir.
Year of Establishment – 1960

Placement Statistics 2012

S NO.	Company	Civil	Mech	Electrical	ECE	Chem	Mett	CSE	IT
1	Aricent Group				1			4	3
2	Samsung				4			4
3	Capjemini India			1	6		1	8	5
4	Tata Motors		7			1	1
5	IOCL	2		3
6	Infosys			3	25	1	1	7	6
7	HCL			3	7			7	5
8	TCS Limited	5	4	9	5			7	4
9	Carborundum (online)		1			1	1
10	SISO (Samsung)				2			4	3
11	L&T		3	4
12	Wipro Tech	3	9	7	2	1	1	3	6
13	SEL (Samsung)							12	13
14	Mahindra & Mahindra		2						2
15	Tata Autocom		5
16	Simplex	5
17	Coal India Ltd.		12	12	7	5		10
18	DEL				4			1
19	NTPC		2	2	1
20	ISMT		1	2			2
21	ONGC			5
22	Atkins				3
23	Bharat Electronics		1		3
24	DENSO		2
25	Affcons	10	1
26	Era	1
27	JSW					2	4
28	Flareum				1
29	Maruti & Suzuki		2
30	Power Grid	4		4
	Total:	30	52	55	(14)71	11	11	(23)67	(18)47
	Batch Strength	79	56	58	57	27	14	44	29
	Total Eligible Students	76	53	58	57	26	13	40	29
	%Placement	39%	98%	95%	100%	42%	85%	100%	100%

 

UPTU Engineering Entrance Exam to be held on 20, 21 April

Uttar Pradesh Technical University will release the schedule for the State Entrance Examination (SEE) exam 2013 in engineering and management colleges today. This and many more decisions pertaining to the admissions in technical institutions will be taken in a meeting of the Central Admission Board (CAB) to be held at Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) on Tuesday. The meeting will be chaired by UPTU vice-chancellor Prof RKKhandal.

Though the university has already decided the dates for SEE 2013 as 20 and 21 April, decisions on the mode of examination whether online or offline will be taken on Tuesday. Currently, the state government merged the two state technical universities, the Noida-based Mahamaya Technical University (MTU) and Gautam Buddh Technical University (GBTU). After this merger, MTU university officials are trying to attract more students by bringing the brand value of SEE-UPTU back.

The meeting will see suggestions from many engineering and management institutions. Also, there is a proposal by private colleges to allow them to sell SEE brochures and application forms. Till last year, the forms and brochures were available only at post offices.

In the meeting, it will also decide whether the SEE for admissions to engineering colleges will be online or offline. Previous year, the university conducted SEE for MBA and MCA online. Even their application process was completely online. However, for engineering, the application process was both online and offline and the entrance test was in the written mode. This year, officials are hopeful that there will be online test for engineering students too. In this regard, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida has also send proposal to the university to begin dual degree course in Applied Management. This will also be placed in the meeting.

GCET Admission norms to be out in February First Week

The prospectus of the Goa Common Entrance Test (GCET) 2013 will be out for engineering and pharmacy aspirants in the first week of February month. This year, the prospectus will be different from last year because students seeking to join medicine and dentistry courses will not be taking the GCET but the national entrance and eligibility test (NEET).

DTE will also come out with the new guidelines for direct admissions to the second year engineering and pharmacy seats, which used to take place based on G2CET scores. The G2CET - which was held for diploma holders and science graduates for direct admissions to second year of engineering and pharmacy courses - is no more compulsory for states to hold as per directives of the all India council for technical education (AICTE).

The National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) for UG students will be conducted at a centre in Panaji on May 5.

Admissions to engineering and pharmacy bachelor's courses will take place based on the GCET conducted by the state directorate of technical education at 10 centres across the state. The GCET exam is set to be held after the NEET on May 8.

Direct admissions to second year engineering and pharmacy seats will now be decided on the basis of marks scored in the final year of the diploma or BSc course by the students.

However, the board of technical education has decided to consider giving a second opportunity to diploma course students who passed out in 2012 to re-answer the final year diploma exam to better their score.

JEE Main 2013- Number of seats at all NITs

This year JEE Main 2013 is scheduled to held in month of April. JEE Main offline will be held on 7th April while Online exam will be held between 8th to 25th April.

Below list shows number of seats available at all National institute of technologies.

IIT Undergraduate students might soon get PhD degree from US universities

Reportedly Indian institute of technology, Madras is in talk with 20 American universities to set to a joint PhD programme. No doubt that IIT gets best UG students across the country, but there phD programmes are not going too good. Most IIT undergraduates left for high-paying jobs or management education after their degree and the remaining went for PhD in overseas universities, they are not interested in IITs.

This is one of the biggest challenge for all IITs, since long time all the IITs were working to change this. Finally IIT Madras has found one uniques solution for this.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) director Bhaskar Ramamurthy and external relations dean R Nagarajan went to 20 American universities.
Ramamurthy wanted to sow the ground first with US universities before offering joint PhD programmes. Their tour went exceptionally well. US universities were too keen to collaborate with IIT Madras.
Michigan State University was eager to get to a joint PhD programme quickly, as soon as later this year. Two others, Purdue University and the University of Maryland, also wanted to move on to deeper relationships culminating in a joint PhD programme.

IIT Bombay to launch New Program to connect alumni for enterprise

Over the years, IIT Bombay has churned out some of the best engineers.

Now, the former students will get a helping hand as the institute launches an ‘alumni-alumni mentorship programme’ on the lines of ‘alumni-student mentorship programme’, in which expertise of former students is used to help and guide the current lot.

“Many of our alumni need mentors and the number of requests from former students to start an initiative where they can use the experience, knowledge and assistance of other alumni has gone up in the last one-and-a-half years. Hence, we decided to launch this initiative. We will launch the ‘alumni-alumni mentorship programme’ in the next two months,” said Bakul Desai, chairman of IIT Bombay Alumni Association (IITBAA) board of directors.

From career guidance to home loans — the project will cover a range of issues.

Desai said, “All requests for help or interaction will be routed through IITBAA. A formal structure is being created to facilitate this.”

A panel of mentors will be created. Once a request comes in, what the mentee wants and what the mentor can offer will be reviewed.

The parameters will be matched and once both parties agree, the process of interaction will start.

For the ‘alumni-student mentorship programme’, alumni and students have to register on a website maintained by Student Alumni Relations Cell. Each student is allotted a mentor, depending on preferences.

Let's See Plan of action

A panel of mentors will be created. Once a request comes in, what the mentee wants and what the mentor can offer will be reviewed. The parameters will be matched and once both parties agree, the process of interaction will start.

For the ‘alumni-student mentorship programme’, alumni and students have to register on a website maintained by Student Alumni Relations Cell. Each student is allotted a mentor, depending on preferences.

From career guidance to home loans — the project will cover a range of issues.

Japan's Multinational Compnay Ricoh sets up research centre at IIT Gandhinagar

Ricoh, the multinational imaging and electronics company of Japan, will set up a Design and Innovation Centre (DIC) at the IIT-Gn(Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar). This reserach centre will engage in various projects of finding innovative solutions and designing technologies and services that can be deployed in the Indian market.

As a part of an agreement, apart from funding the DIC, the company will also be taking part in joint research projects at the centre. The centre will have designers from Ricoh. They will work on various projects along with the students of IIT-Gandhinagar. Beginning from April 1, 2013, the partnership has been initially planned for three years.

"This partnership with Ricoh will enable the students and faculty of IIT-Gn to work with the colleagues from Ricoh in an inter-disciplinary and an inter-cultural environment, which is most conducive for design and innovation," said Sudhir Jain, director of IITGN.

IIT-BHU annual cultural fest ends with marathon

The annual cultural festival of IIT(Indian Institute of Technology), BHU(Banaras Hindu University) ended with 'Run for a cause marathon' which began from the institute to Bhelupur crossing on Sunday morning. In this marathon, around 250 people from BHU and other colleges participated in the marathon.

A marathon for a social cause was listed in the cultural fest of the institute. Funds collected from the event will go to Smile Foundation. Marathon's theme was to empower women, education and welfare of underpriviledged children and AIDS awareness. Participants were carrying placards containing slogans.

Final rounds of eastern bands and original composition competition were also held. The final rounds of great Indian finals and Vaad Yudh were also held. Street plays, quiz and many literary events were also organized. Besides, around 16 musical bands from different colleges and universities held performance during the Antarnaad event after the closing ceremony of the festival on Sunday.

1700 study at 7 government engineering colleges

Even as Bihar now boasts of an IIT, NIT and BIT-Mesra's branch, the state also has seven government engineering colleges where at least 1700 students pursue engineering courses. Besides, there are nine private engineering colleges affiliated to Aryabhatt Knowledge University.

The government colleges are located at Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur, Gaya, Darbhanga, Motihari, Nalanda and Saran whereas private colleges are at Lakhisarai, Kishanganj, Biharsharif, Bihta, Vaishali, Aurangabad, Purnia, Buxar and Gaya. All these institutes are recognized by All India Council for Technical Education.

Science and technology department director Dhrub Prasad said admissions to the seven government engineering colleges are made through Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board. Students clearing the entrance test are also sent to private engineering colleges of Bihar.

According to Prasad, civil and mechanical streams are quite popular among students as job opportunities in computer science and information technology are shrinking. "While almost 80% students of Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur colleges get placed with different companies (as the colleges are older), the placement from relatively newer colleges averages 40%," he said.

Expansion of colleges is not on the immediate agenda, but the government is keen on streamlining the existing colleges. "After the colleges came under AKU, we have implemented a common syllabus and semester system. A sum of Rs 2 crore each has already been disbursed to the colleges at Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur. An equal amount has also been approved for the institutes at Motihari, Gaya and Darbhanga and as soon as we get funds from the central government, we would disburse the same to these colleges," said Prasad.

As for staff shortage in the government colleges, the directorate is awaiting nod from the general administration department to process the recruitment of teachers on contract for which a merit list of aspirants has already been prepared.

Shubhan Kumar, a IInd semester student of NITP, said the engineering colleges in the state were bettering, but they still had to go a long way insofar as training and placement are concerned.

But those who have migrated to other states for engineering studies disagreed with Shubhan. "Barring a few engineering colleges in Patna, the colleges in the state cannot compete with those in other states. With MNCs not around, placement is also difficult," said Patna's Aditya Kamal who studies at Jaipur Engineering College. Araria's Alok Ranjan, who also studies outside the state, echoed similar views.

Plea to change engineering admission pattern

Justice L Narsimha Reddy of the AP High Court issued notices to the government and authorities concerned seeking review of the admission pattern in engineering colleges in the state.

In a writ petition filed by students and the Telangana Professional Colleges Managements' Association, it is contended that there is a huge change in the circumstances from when the need for entrance examinations were felt to a scenario where as many as 2.4 lakh engineering seats are on offer in the convener's quota for 2.07 lakh students qualified in the Eamcet in 2012.

"Even after all the qualified students secure admissions, about 33,000 seats will be left vacant in the convener's quota this year. There are another 1,34,446 seats available in the management quota (30% seats), of which over one lakh seats may not find any takers. An estimated 1.5 lakh seats remained vacant after the conclusion of the counselling for the academic year 2012-2013", the petitioners contended. It is said that in the changed scenario continuing with the same selection process is untenable.

Similar 12th board question papers for different board students

Now board marks will play a major role to secure your seat in premier engineering institutes across the country. To get a seat in IITs student must be under top 20 percentile in their respective board. Till now standard of all boards were not same, so eligibility criteria didn’t seem to be meaningful, but now there is good news for students appearing for the class 12 exams. The educational boards have agreed to have a common design of question paper to make the school-leaving exams uniform.


20 educational boards, including the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) have adopted the core curriculum in maths and science..
This year admission to all centrally funded engineering colleges will be based on JEE Main and 12th board score, 60% weightage will be given to JEE Main score and 40% to XII board score.
Admission to all IITs will be based on JEE Advanced score but student must be in top 20 percentile to be eligible for IIT admission.

13 year old ‘Dinesh Dwivedi’ has never been to school but coaches IIT aspirants.

13 year old ‘Dinesh Dwivedi’ has never been to school, but he is able to solve toughest mathematics problems in minutes. He also imparts tutions to students preparing for most toughest entrance exam for engineering (IIT-JEE).

Living in a small rented room along with his father, elder brother and sister in Mutthiganj, Dinesh is favourite ‘guruji’ to hundreds of students who dream of cracking IIT but cannot afford expensive coaching classes.
Dinesh Dwivedi of Allahabad has bagged the ‘Young Indian’s Big Achievement’ award, the maiden ‘Amazing Indians’ series award, constituted by news channel Times Now.
The winners were chosen across 13 categories with a tie in two of them, and brought out extraordinary stories of compassion, dedication and selfless service to the nation.
Dinesh is aiming to clear class XIIth exam this year and after that IIT.

China confers top science award on C N R Rao

Noted Indian scientist Dr C N R Rao has been conferred with China's top science award for his important contributions in boosting Sino-India scientific cooperation.

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) yesterday gave its 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation to three scientists from India, Germany, and Russia.

Rao, 79, founder of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, shared the 2012 award with Herbert Jaeckle of Germany's Max Planck Society and Russian space physicist G A Zherebtsov.

The awards are given every year by the CAS, which is China's top academic and research institution for natural sciences.

It has so far honoured 17 international scientists for their contributions in Sino-Foreign research cooperation, since the prize was instituted in 2007.

"Rao is devoted to the research of solid-state and structural chemistry. He was awarded for his important contributions in boosting scientific cooperation between China and India, as well as raising the scientific capabilities of developing countries", state-run Xinhua news agency quoted CAS as saying in a statement.

Rao has won various prestigious awards. He is currently the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Indian Prime Minister.

German scientist Jaeckle specialised in the fields of molecular developmental biology. He has actively promoted scientific cooperation between China and Germany, CAS said.

He has explored and put into practice approaches that integrate a Max Planck management model with the CAS's scientific research system, as well as set up an international team of researchers, it said.

Zherebtsov has actively promoted the construction of a Sino-Russian weather research centre and is currently working to get Russia involved in a CAS space science programme, the CAS said.

IIT-BHU's 'Kashiyatra' begins today

The four-day annual cultural fest of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), 'Kashiyatra 2013' will commence on Thursday. The general secretary, cultural wing, IIT-BHU, Chandra Prakash Sipani said this year's edition of Kashiyatra, to be held between January 24 and January 27, would witness the introductory edition of first-of-its-kind 'Run for a Cause Marathon' on January 27.

Dedicated to women and underprivileged children, the marathon will start from IIT Gymkhana and culminate at Bhelupur area. Children, students and local natives can participate in the marathon. Apart from this, a model United Nations (MUN) is also being introduced in the fest from this year. Noted poet Surendra Sharma and Arjun Shisodiya will be present in the Kavi Sammelan on Wednesday. A band called Rishi Inc would also perform in the fusion night which will be held on the same day. In addition, Indian Music competition, Rangbaazi (fine art event), skit, mime and mono acting will also be held on the first day of the fest.

The fest would witness a series of literary events including a creative writing competition on January 25. The much-awaited fashion show 'Mirage', and laser show and musical night will also be held on the occasion. Notably, the cultural wing has also decided to organise a street-painting (three dimensional) competition (Silly Street) which will be held on the same day near IIT Gymkhana. 'Antarnaad', another major event of the fest has been scheduled on January 27. According to Sipani, Delhi-based bank 'Eka' is expected to perform on the occasion.

Besides, there will be face-painting competition, debates, street plays, stage plays, painting competitions and several other events during the four-day cultural fest. Around 14 colleges including IIT Mumbai, IIT Gandhi Nagar, IIT Indore and 250 participants from various colleges are expected to arrive here on the occasion.

Centre of excellence launched at Netaji Subash Institute of Technology, Delhi

A Centre of Excellence for Embedded Product Development was launched at the Netaji Subash Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi by Texas Instruments (TI) on Tuesday. This is the first centre of excellence, the TI has set up in any educational institution in India. Professor P V Indiresan, former director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, inaugurated the centre.

The centre will promote design of embedded products based on TI's semiconductors. It will also promote design of educational solutions for teaching subjects on embedded systems and conduct educational activities such as seminars and train-the-trainer workshops that will be open to teachers from other engineering colleges as well. C P Ravikumar, technical director - university relations, TI India and Dhananjay Gadre, professor of electronics and communication engineering, NSIT will coordinate the working of the centre.

Indiresan in his address said: "One must question theories, only then can one become a good scientist." He also released a book titled ' Microcontroller Projects for the Evil Genius', co-authored by an NSIT alumnus.

TI will donate the equipment, semiconductor tools and solutions to get the center started. Students of NSIT who work on product design activities at the centre will be offered internships.
"Our objective is to encourage and promote an ecosystem in the design of embedded products," said Ravikumar. "The centre will design products that are relevant to the Indian electronics industry and nurture talent in the area of embedded product design," he added.

Ricoh to endow research center at IIT Gandhinagar

Ricoh Company Ltd has announced its financial endowment and industry partnership for the creation of the Design and Innovation Centre (DIC) at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN). The partnership is planned for three years starting April 1, 2013.

As part of the agreement, Ricoh will take part in joint research projects at the Center. This cooperative effort will further the company's aims of promoting open innovation, accelerating research and development using global resources, and studying market needs in India and similar markets. The technologies and services deployed in the Indian market can form the groundwork for solutions in other large emerging regions, including Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, which together constitute a market of over 2.5 billion people.

IITGN was set up in 2008. Located in the capital of the state of Gujarat in western India, IITGN is ideally situated at the intersection of leading-edge IT infrastructure, traditional culture, scholarship and industry.

In February 2012, Ricoh established Ricoh Innovations Private Ltd (RIPL) in Bangalore. A subsidiary of Ricoh Innovations Inc (RII) in Menlo Park, California, RIPL was created to combine market-oriented technology development with regionally optimized research to pioneer new business tailored for the Indian market and similar emerging countries. Ricoh's collaboration with IITGN began with RII's study of the application and validation of advanced IT technologies in educational fields.
"We are thrilled to promote open innovation in India by locally researching solutions relevant to specific markets," stated Terumoto Nonaka, Corporate Senior Vice President at Ricoh, in charge of R&D. "Becoming the founding industrial partner for the new Design and Innovation Centre is a major step toward achieving this goal."

"This partnership with Ricoh will enable the students and faculty of IITGN to work with the colleagues from Ricoh in an inter-disciplinary and an inter-cultural environment, which is most conducive for design and innovation. We are excited with the opportunity and expect that our relationship with Ricoh will grow in time as both sides start to see the tremendous value of such a partnership. Moreover, we believe that this is an interesting model of collaboration between an academic institute and a large company, which may later be emulated elsewhere," added Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Director of IITGN.

The newly established DIC will have both educational and research functions. Full-time and part-time faculty, full-time technical staff and students will conduct research in a collaborative environment.
New solutions adopted in an emerging market may also yield innovations in advanced countries, a trend known as reverse innovation. Ricoh continues to aggressively promote open innovation in India with these mid-and long-term goals in mind.

HC rejects PIL demanding deferment of JEE

 The engineering degree aspirants will have to take the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) this time as Gujarat high court on Tuesday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) which had sought deferment of its introduction from this year.

The PIL had sought directions to the state government that it should defer its decision of offering the mandatory JEE to 2014, and it should not start from this academic year.

The government had earlier declared that all those who clear the board examination in science stream and aspire to take admission in engineering courses must take JEE, which is a common entrance test for majority of engineering institutes of prime importance.

An association - Vidhyarthi Hit Rakshak Samiti - had moved the court saying that the government decision could harm the future of nearly 1.7 lakh students, who may pass the board examination in 2013.

The petitioner also claimed that the students may not find enough time to prepare for JEE, for the study material is not available in Gujarati yet. Besides, there is a difference in the syllabuses offered for JEE and for Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET), which is mandatory for the students to take after clearing the board exams, the petitioner submitted.

In a rebuttal, the government said that there is not much difference in the syllabuses and the decision to introduce JEE has been taken with a view to uplifting the standard of education to what is required for the premier technical institutes.

The petitioner's lawyer submitted during the hearing that the state government has taken dual stand over the issue of entrance examinations, as in a similar litigation pending before the Supreme Court (SC) questioning mandatory National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) for admission in UG medical courses, the government opposes introduction of the test at this juncture.

After conclusion of hearing, the division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala upheld the state government's contention. It observed that the students should not be having problems because the syllabus for both the tests is the same.

The judges also criticized the request for deferment saying that advertisements in this regard were published in August last year. Besides, when there is no level field, how the ratio of 80:20 for intake of admission of students from Gujarat and outside can be maintained. The court further observed that if students' demands are accepted, there would be chaos at the time of admission. The HC also maintained that court should not interfere in educational policy.

IIT-B Techfest: City team wins RoboWars in record time

“Blood, sweat, destruction and glory,” this is how IIT Bombay’s Techfest web page describe its RoboWars event. This year the glory at RoboWars event belonged to three final year mechanical engineering students from Pune who won the competition in a record time of ‘within 3 seconds’.

Techfest held between January 3 and 5 is an annual technical festival held at IIT Mumbai every year where students from all over the world participate in various events. As many as 500 teams had registered online for the event out of which 59 teams were selected for the competition. There were six rounds in the competition, each a knock out round of 3 minutes, where two robots fought it out in the arena.

Rust In Peace (RIP), a 60 kg robot designed by Pushkin Sonuskar, Rohit Patel and Habeel Bakshi, final year mechanical engineering students of Padmabhooshan Vasantdada Patil Institute of Technology won the event.

“In the finals we were fighting a team from Sabu Siddiqui college in Mumbai. The moment the fight started, our RIP hit Dr Golu (Sabu Siddiqui’s robot) and flipped it out. Dr Golu couldn’t get back on its wheels and we won within three seconds from the start of the bout. This is a record winning time in the history of IIT tech fest,” said Rohit Patel.

Rohit and team won Rs 30,000 at the event.

The participants had to ‘design and construct a remote controlled robot capable of fighting a one on one tournament’. The maximum permissible weight of the robot is 60kg and it is required to destroy its opponent without damaging itself to win the match.

This is not the first time the team has won a major event. They also won the RoboWars at VJTI, Mumbai, held early this month.

“The preparation for the event started in July itself. Rs 50,000 was given by the college management thanks to professor SM Patil and rest we took out from our pocket. The weapon on our robot was a 14 kg drum that completes 5,000 revolutions per minute. The energy stored in it is 5,000 joules which is equivalent to two AK-47 bullets hitting you,” Patel said. “With the prize money, we want to make it more sophisticated and wireless so that we can participate in Robo games in California,” he added.

“We are very proud of our students. They will be felicitated by the college. Plus after seeing their enthusiasm, many students have shown interest and we are in talks with various companies to make a Robo center in the campus so that creativity of the students is utilised in a good way,” said SD Shirbahadurkar, Principal, PVPIT.

IIT students to coach students in Maoist hit villages

Bihar Police have roped in IIT students to provide free coaching to students in Maoist-affected villages to wean them away from rebels, a police official said Monday.

"A group of IITians will coach students for free in Maoists affected villages to prepare them for engineering and medical examinations and to clear Class 10 and 12 examinations," Rohtas District Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.
Maharaj said some IITians have agreed to help police to teach students in Maoist-affected villages.

Maharaj told IANS that nearly 1,000 students in over two dozen villages under Nauhatta block in Rohtas had enrolled for free coaching by IITians.

About 150 km from Patna, Rohtas is considered a Moist stronghold.

He said police would provide all facilities to run the free coaching. "In the beginning, free coaching would be given near Nauhatta block."

Maharaj said the offer of free coaching has created a positive atmosphere in the villages. "The response is better than expected. Students and their parents from Maoist-affected villages have shown interest in the free coaching," Maharaj said.
Six IIT students from IIT-Roorkee, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Kanpur, will tutor the students.

Last year, Maharaj used Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan's picture in a poster asking poor and backward youths from rural areas not to join the rebels and to enlist in the security forces. However, Bachchan objected to the use of his picture without his consent.

JEE Advanced 2013: Procedure for selection of candidates

Reportedly 14 lakh candidates have been registered for JEE Main 2013 examination. CBSE will conduct JEE Main 2013. Total 1,50,000 candidates will be shortlisted for JEE Advanced 2013.

50.5% of the 1,50,000 (75,750 candidates) will be taken from the top rankers of the Common Merit List (CML) of JEE (Main). 27% (40,500), 15% (22,500) and 7.5% (11,250) candidates will be taken from the top rankers of the category rank lists of OBC-NCL, SC and ST, respectively.
The candidates figuring in the category rank lists will be those who do not figure in the 75,750 candidates chosen from the CML.
3% of the candidates selected within each category will be those belonging to PwD (Persons with Disability) sub-category, who figure in the respective rank lists of JEE (Main).
Only the candidate’s aggregate marks in JEE (Main) will be considered and no tie-break mechanism will be implemented at this stage.

Tentative List of Engineering Colleges to participate in JEE Main CCB Counselling

National Institutes of Technology (NITs)

National Institute of Technology , Agartala (Tripura)
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (U.P.)
National Institute of Technology, Arunachal Pradesh.
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal (MP)
National Institute of Technology, Calicut (Kerela)
National Institute of Technology, Delhi
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur (West Bengal)
National Institute of Technology, Goa
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh)
Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (Punjab)
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand)
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra (Haryana)
National Institute of Technology, Manipur
National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya
National Institute of Technology, Mizoram
National Institute of Technology, Nagaland
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur (Maharashtra)
National Institute of Technology, Patna (Bihar)
National Institute of Technology, Puducherry
National Institute of Technology, Raipur (Chhattisgarh)
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (Odisha)
National Institute of Technology, Sikkim
National Institute of Technology, Silchar (Assam)
National Institute of Technology, Hazartbal, Srinagar (J & K)
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (Gujarat)
National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Mangalore (Karnataka)
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu)
National Institute of Technology, Uttrakhand
National Institute of Technology, Warangal (Andhra Pradesh)
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs, IIITM & IIITDM)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior (M.P.)
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Kanchipuram, Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Amethi, Allahabad (U.P.)
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Jhalwa, Allahabad (UP)
Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Jabalpur (M.P.)
Other Central Government/State Government Funded Institutions
Assam University, Silchar (Assam)
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi (Jharkhand)
Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (Uttarakhand)
Indian Institute of Carpet Technology, Bhadohi (U.P.)
Institute of Technology, Guru Ghasidas Vishawavidyalaya, Bilaspur (C.G.)
J.K. Institute of Applied Physics & Technology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad- 211002 (U.P.)
Mizoram University, Aizwal-796009
National Insitute of Foundary & Forge Technology, P.O. Hatia, Ranchi (Jharkhand).
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
School of Planning and Architecture, I.P. Estate, New Delhi (SPA, Delhi).
School of Planning and Architecture, Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh)
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra-182320 (J & K)
Tezpur University, NAPAAM, Tezpur (Assam)
Following Self Financed Deemed Universities/Universities/Other Institutions also participated in CCB Counselling through AIEEE 2012
ACME college of Engineering, Ghaziabad (UP)
Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Gwalior (MP)
Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Lucknow (UP)
Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Jaipur Rajasthan
Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Gurgaon, Haryana
Amity School of Engineering, Amity University, Noida, UP
Bhagwant University, Ajmer (Rajasthan)
Dr. KN Modi University, Newai, Rajasthan
IAMR College of Engineering, Meerut (Uttar Pradesh)
Institute of Technology, Management, Meerut, UP
Inverties University, Bareilly, UP
ITM University, Gwalior, MP
Jagannath University, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
Jayoti Vidyapeeth Women’s University, Jaipur (Rajasthan)
Jodhpur National University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan)
Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Distt. Kapurthala (Punjab)
M M Engineering College, Ambala, Haryana
M M Group of Institute, Sodopur, Haryana
Maharishi Markendeshwar University, Solan, HP
Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phule University, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Mewar University, Chittorgarh-312901 (Rajasthan)
Shobhit University, Meerut (U.P.)
Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut, UP
Many States/Institutes used AIEEE-2012 ranks to fill seats through their own counselling, some of them are listed here.
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Punjab
Uttarakhand
Army Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra
Delhi Technological University, Delhi.
Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology under Delhi University.
Final List of Institutions admitting students (with intake in each discipline and category as per reservation) through JEE (Main)-2013 shall be available on the here in the month of May/June 2013.

Record winning time entry in history of IIT Bombay tech fest, just 3 seconds to win !!

Winner of this year Robowars constent at IIT Bombay’s Techfest-2013 is a team of three final year mechanical students from Pune, who won this competition in record time ‘just 3 seconds’.

Techfest is organised every year by IIT Bombay, where students from all over the world participate in various events.This year 500 teams registered themselves for Robowars competetion, out of which 59 teams were selected. There were six rounds in the competition, each a knock out round of 3 minutes, where two robots fought it out in the arena.
Rust In Peace (RIP), a 60 kg robot designed by Pushkin Sonuskar, Rohit Patel and Habeel Bakshi, final year mechanical engineering students of Padmabhooshan Vasantdada Patil Institute of Technology won the event.
This is a record winning time in the history of IIT tech fest

Scientists to be awarded

Eminent scientists E.C.G. Sudarshan and M. Vijayan will be conferred the Kerala ‘Sasthrapuraskaram’ for the years 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will give away the awards instituted by the Department of Science and Technology and administered by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, at a function here on Tuesday.

The awardees were selected by a committee appointed by the Chief Minister and consisting of internationally renowned scientists.

The award carries a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, a citation and a memento.

National Robotics Championship 2013 to begin tomorrow at PCET

The National Robotics Championship 2013 will begin tomorrow at Park College of Engineering and Technology (PCET) on the city outskirts.

The championship, an IIT Kharagpur inititive, is an intensive two-day workshop for talented undergraduate students, who have the opportunity to participate in the state-of-the-art ‘ADRUINO based Robotics, ATMEGA controller and RobotC’, a PCET release said here.

The workshop forwards the best aspiring students team to participate in the championship to be held in March and the competition is held at 40 colleges in India and PCET hosts as a Zonal Centre under the Southern Region, it said.

RobotC is distributed with intellectural property of Camegie Mellon Robotics Academy, USA and all participants will be awarded Certificates from IIT Kharagpur and RobotC USA.

The Winner gets a Humanoid Robot, Certificate of Excellence, Free Summer Internship and a cash prize up to Rs 1 lakh, the release said.

19,000 visit cultural fest at IIT-Gandhinagar

Engineering Entrance (PG) , Engineering Entrance

The two-day cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) concluded on Sunday amidst revelry. Blithchron recorded 19,000 visitors, much more than the last edition that had seen 10,000 footfalls. More than 20 events including rock concert, music shows, drama, fashion show and games were organized by the hosts where more than 30 institutes participated.

On day two, thousands of students thronged Pronites, a rock concert featuring Agnee, an Indie-Rock band, and String Theory where various bands from across the state were pitted against each other. BMX (bicycle motocross), continued to be the crowd puller on second day as the professionals from Mumbai enthralled the audience with their stunts. The performers later also provided the spectators a chance to try their hands at the bicycles.

"This year, we had introduced a new event - The Butler Did It - where we provided the participating teams with clips of a murder taking place and then handed them over the material such as forensic evidence, witness statements and crime scene analysis. The teams had to connect the dots and identify the murderer," said Vinit Joshi, a student of IIT-Gn.

Teams also participated in Antaragnee, a street play competition. Blithchron'13 had introduced an online photography contest - 'The Lens Law' which received around 500 entries.

Reference Books for JEE Advanced 2013: Complete list

Physics

S.No.	Author/Publisher	Name of the Book
1	H.C. Verma	Concepts of Physics Vol I and II
2	I.E. Irodov	Problems in General Physics
3	Halliday, Resnick & Walker	Fundamentals of Physics
4	Sears and Zemansky	University Physics
5	Nelkon and Parker	Advanced Level Physics
6	A.A Pinsky	Problems in Physics
7	S.S Krotov	Aptitude Test Problems in Physics
8	L.A. Sena	A collection of questions and Problems in Physics
9	V.Zubov & V.Shalnov	Problem in Physics
10	S.L Loney	Elements of Dynamics Part I & II
11	S.L. Loney	Dynamics of a Particle & of Rigid Bodies
12	R.P. Feynman	The Feynman Lectures on Physics vols 1 & 2
13	Chen, Min	Physics Problems w/solutions
14	Tipler	Physics Vols I & II

Chemistry

S.No.	Author/Publisher	Name of the Book
1	NCERT	Chemistry XI & XII
2	P. Bahadur	Physical Chemistry
3	Arihant Prakashan	Organic Chemistry
4	O.P. Agarwal	IIT Chemistry
5	Ebbing	General Chemistry
6	J.D. Lee	Concise Inorganic Chemistry
7	R.T. Morrison, R.N. Boyd
8	R.C. Mukhrjee	Numerical Chemistry
9	Francis Carey
10	I. L. Finar	Organic Chemistry-Vol I
11	Bahal & Bahal	Organic Chemistry
12	Sienko & Plane	Chemistry Principles & Applications
13	P.W. Atkins
14	Bruce H. Mahan	University Chemistry

Mathematics

S.No.	Author/Publisher	Name of the Book
1	R. S. Agarwal	Maths XI & XII
2	S.L. Loni	Plane Trigonometry Part I
3	S.L. Loni	Co-ordinate Geometry
4	Hall & Knight	Higher Algebra
5	I.A. Maron	Problems in Calculus of One Variable
6	Vectors & 3-D Geometry	Arihant Prakashan
7	Vectors	Shanti Narayan
8	V Govorov, P.Dybov, N.Miroshin, S.Smirnova.	Problems in Mathematics
9	Bernard & Child	Higher Algebra
10	Dr. Gorakh Prasad	Co-ordinate Geometry
11	K.P. Basu	Algebra Made Easy
12	DoroFeev, Patapov	Elementary Math’s
13	Krechmar	Math’s
14	G.N. Berman	A Problem Book in Mathematical Analysis
15	W. Feller	Intro. to Probability & its Applications
16	Calculus	J. Edward

CBSE’s dedicated helpline for students from Feb 1

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that a dedicated helpline for CBSE class 10 and 12 students will be active from February.Currently no one is there to clear doubts of 10th, 12th students related to board exams, helplines are there but they are not working smoothly.
Board provide helpline numbers or may be referred as counselling numbers to clear doubts of students appearing for the board examinations.
These dedicated helpline numbers will be functional from Feb 1 to April 17. The board said that counselors and principals will provide psychological counselling from 8 am to midnight.

Many Public sector Units (PSUs) are now using GATE scores for recruitment

Reportedly 10 lakh candidates have registered themselves for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering this year, an almost 30% increase over last year.


Basically GATE scores are used to determine admission to masters and doctoral courses in engineering, technology, architecture and science in higher education institutions funded by the ministry of human resource development (MHRD) and other government agencies. But interest in higher education isn’t the only reason for this increase in number of registrations. Employment Opportunities are also playing major role here. Many PSUs are recruiting using GATE scores.
In 2012, 13 public sector units, including BHEL, HPCL, PowerGrid, IOCL and GAIL, issued notifications that recruitment would be based on GATE scores. In 2011, the GATE score was used only by IOCL for recruitment, while in 2012 five PSUs said to have used the scores.

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IIT Bombay placement 2012-13 Overview, 10% increase in offered salaries.

Despite the economic shutdown students of premier institute Indian institute oftechnology are getting bigger pay packages than last year. Reportedly IIT-B’s students have got a 10 per cent jump in offered salaries . Last year, 65 firms offered salary packages of over Rs 9.5 lakh a year, 43 firms offered between Rs 8 lakh and Rs 9.5 lakh and 61 companies offered packages between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 6.5 lakh. This year , the salary packages offered have been higher, said S. K. Mehta, Assistant Placement Officer, IIT-B.
Placement Overview:
240 companies visited the campus in 1st phase of campus placement season
880 students have been placed so far.
600 students are yet to be placed.
More than 100 companies are expected to visit the campus in the ongoing second phase of placements at the IIT-B.
Around 25 per cent of the students did not sit for placements this year.

ISM Dhanbad Placement Records for Past years with current placement statistics

Current Placement Statistics:


Placement 2012

Placement 2011

Placement 2010

Placement 2009

Top Engineering Colleges, India 2012-13, Ranking by Outlook Magazine

The list of top 75 engineering college in India. The list is based on the survey conducted by Outlook magazine, survey includes many factors such as
Selection process,
Academic Excellence,
Personality Devt & indl interface,
Infrastructure,
Placement, etc…

JEE Advanced 2013: Admit Card will be available by May 16

The admit cards for JEE Advanced 2013 will be available by May 16. The admit card of JEE Advanced 2013 will have photograph and the personal details of the candidate, along with name and address of the Examination Centre allotted to candidate.


For JEE Advanced 2013 IITs will not issue any hard copy of the admit card, all candidates have to download their admit card from the corresponding JEE (Advanced) – 2013 websites.
To download his/her admit card the candidate needs to enter his/her JEE (Main) – 2013 registration number and Date of Birth (DoB) (dd/mm/yyyy).

Use of Calculator in JEE 2013

JEE 2013 is scheduled to be held in two parts, JEE Main and JEE Advanced. CBSE will conduct JEE Main in month of April while JEE Advanced 2013 is scheduled to be held on June 2nd 2013. IIT Delhi will conduct JEE Advanced this year.


Use of electronic devices like mobile phone, calculator, iPod, etc. is NOT PERMITTED in JEE .Materials like log table, book, notebook, etc. SHOULD NOT be brought into the examination hall.
Bringing Calculators or any other Communication Aids in the exam hall is a punishable offence and student can be debared from the examination if found guilty.

JEE Advanced 2013- List of All Degree Courses Available

Below list shows all degree courses available at IITs that you can opt for if you get a rank in JEE Advanced 2013.

• Four Year B.tech Courses in IIT
• Four Year B.S. Courses in IIT
• Four Year B.Des. Courses in IIT
• Five Year B.Arch. Courses in IIT
• Four Year B.Pharm. Courses in IIT
• Five Year M.Pharm Dual Degree Courses in IIT
• Five Year M.Sc Tech Courses in IIT
• Five YearB.S. and M.S. Dual Degree Courses in IIT
• Five Year Integrated M.Sc Courses in IIT
• Five Year B.Tech and MBA Dual Degree Courses in IIT
• Five Year M.Tech Integrated Courses in IIT
• Five Year M.Tech Dual Degree Courses in IIT

 

BITS Pilani’s new model for Multi-Campus Education,giant step in the direction of becoming a world class university

After Jan 2013, BITS Connect 2.0 will bridge the geographical distance across the 4 BITS Campuses and the knowledge centers worldwide.
BITSConnect 2.0 is a multi-million dollar project that envisions bringing state-of-the-art telepresence and inter-connectivity to all four campuses of BITS Pilani. It will enable remote learning and participatory coursework, collaborative research and remote recruitment. BITSConnect 2.0 will be a giant step for BITS Pilani in the direction of becoming a world class university.


How BITS Connect 2.0 will bridge the gaps across campuses.
Remote Meetings: Faculty and administrative staff can be more productive, and cost-effective with TelePresence.
Remote Teaching: A specialized elective can now be offered to students in all 4 campuses by the professor residing in any one of the campus, by an alumnus or domain expert off campus.
Web Conferencing: Faculty and students can collaborate on research work via a web conference ( audio, video and content sharing) Academicians from across the world will be able to collaborate with and mentor research labs in BITS.
Embryo 2.0: Alumni like Vivek Paul, Baba Kalyani Dinesh Ramanathan or a luminary like Hon. APJ Abdul Kalam can remotely interact with all the 4 campuses.
Online Publication of Course Content: Courses can be streamed similar to MIT OpenCourseWare.
Industry Relations and Recruitment: A BITSian manager whether in Adobe India or Microsoft Seattle will be able to recruit students from all 4 campuses with no travel costs.

AIEEE 2012: TopicWise, Subject-wise Analysis

AIEEE 2012 Physics Paper 1 Weightage Analysis :

AIEEE 2012 Physics Paper 1 Difficulty Levels

AIEEE 2012 Chemistry Paper 1 Weightage Analysis :

AIEEE 2012 Chemistry Paper 1 Difficulty Levels :

AIEEE 2012 Mathematics Paper 1 Weightage Analysis :

AIEEE 2012 Mathematics Paper 1 Difficulty Levels :

Students can pay the registration fee for JEE Advanced 2013 from May 3.

Students can pay the registration fee for JEE Advanced 2013 from May 3. The students will be required to fill up the online registration form.
After completion the bank payment challan will be generated. Candidates are required to print the generated challan. Payment against the generated Challan can be made at any branch of State Bank of Indian (SBI) having Core Banking Solution (CBS). Get the counterpart of the Challan endorsed by the bank.
Required Documents:
(i) Class X mark sheet (if Dob is not mentioned in it then you have to send a Dob certificate)
(ii) Class XII mark sheet if available; otherwise the declaration form mentioning that you will submit the mark list before 30th Sep 2013 (Monday)
(iii) Caste certificate as applicable;
(iv) PwD certificate as applicable.

24th is last date for online correction in JEE form Data

 PUBLIC NOTICE  Issued on 11^th January

As notified earlier, it is again brought to the notice of all the aspirant and registered candidates of JEE (Main)-2013 that the facility for correction in their data (particulars) will be operational on the website www.jeemain.nic.in from 15.01.2013 to 24.01.2013. All the registered candidates for the said examination are advised to visit the website and verify their particulars. They are further advised to make correction in their particulars, if any, in their registration form. However, the change of city for examination and change of mode from computer based to pen & paper based is not allowed. Since, it is one time facility, extended to the candidates to avoid any hardship to them, the candidates are advised to make the corrections, if any, latest by 24.01.2013. Thereafter, no correction in particulars, whatsoever, will be entertained by the JEE Unit under any circumstances. The correction slip generated after corrections with the bank draft of additional amount (if applicable) and copy of earlier confirmation page is to be sent to JEE Unit on the address mentioned below so as to reach latest by 31.01.2013.

The Executive Director

JEE Main Secretariat

Central Board of Secondary Education

P.S. -1-2, Institutional Area, I.P. Extension

Patparganj, Delhi-92.

JOINT SECRETARY (JEE)

CBSE has set up a dedicated Call Centre for handling routine enquiries

WELCOME TO CBSE IN-HOUSE CALL CENTRE

CBSE has set up a dedicated Call Centre for handling routine enquiries and grievances pertaining to various activities and functions of the Board. Students presently studying in various CBSE affiliated schools, candidates appearing in private examination, pass out students of CBSE Board, parents, School management, new school seeking CBSE affiliation, awardees of CBSE scholarship schemes, aspirants and applicants for NEET, JEE, CTET, JNVST and general public can approach the CBSE Call Centre for obtaining information of the procedures/rules and regulations of various activities of the Board.

Through Telephone/Mobile phone one can contact us on all working weekdays between 9:30 am to 7 pm on the following telephone nos.

1800 118 002 [Toll Free]

011-22509257-58-59

011-22509256 [Tele-fax]

On all days 24x7 one can e-mail us giving details of his/her grievance/query along with contact number and details at:

cbsecc@gmail.com

Through post one may contact us by sending a letter through Speed Post at:

Joint Secretary (Administration& Vigilance)

Central Board of Secondary Education [CBSE], Shiksha Kendra

2, Community Centre, Preet Vihar, Delhi-110301 INDIA

For parents, more money goes out, anxieties flow in

An IIT-JEE study plan has been prominently visible in R. Chandrasekharan’s living room for almost seven years now. It has a wealth of details, including hours to be spent on ‘solved examples’ in the textbook, the number of mock tests one should take and calculations on the time required for every numerical.

“My elder son started preparing for JEE (Joint Entrance Exam ) very late. So he could not clear the test. I did not want to repeat the mistake with my second son,” says the banker, who has now enrolled his younger son, Abhinav, in a reputed JEE coaching class in the city.

Abhinav, a class X student, has been spending precisely 16 hours every weekend in the coaching centre. “He is rather weak now but I am sure he will pick up,” his father says.

Mr. Chandrasekharan has already spent Rs. 3 lakh on JEE tuitions, and he will have to dole out another Rs. 2 lakh in the next few years.

“I spent Rs. 8 lakh to enrol my elder son in a deemed university. I could not manage a loan then. Banks are very doubtful about deemed universities and they don’t loan money for coaching,” he adds.

Parents these days, set aside at least Rs. 6 lakh for their children’s engineering education, in case their child does not make it through merit into a good college via counselling. This is standard practice, and the constantly-increasing amounts of money to be spent for admission are frequently lamented.

What does not make it to this discussion however, is the expense incurred on coaching classes.

Coaching classes for JEE are widely popular, and practically every household ends up spending at least Rs. 75,000 a year if the child starts coaching from class VIII, which, teachers say is the right time.

The tragedy is, many children leave these classes midway in class XI, when they just aren’t able to take the stress anymore. By this point, more than Rs. 2 lakh goes down the drain, says Kanchana Jayaraman, another parent.

Besides the over Rs. 4 lakh that a family spends on JEE coaching, there are additional costs involved too. “Mock tests at other coaching centres, crash courses, downloading JEE apps — many such costs spring up. Last year, my son asked for separate subject tuitions in March, because he was not confident about doing well in his boards exams. We had to spend Rs. 25,000 on that too,” said R. Sudha, whose son now studies electrical engineering at IIT-Roorkee.

And sometimes, coaching even entails dislocation. K. Balajee, a class VII student from Erode, joined an integrated course at Maharshi Vidya Mandir last year. “My father still works in Erode, but my mother and I have taken a room here,” says the boy.

In Chennai, schools such as Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Devi Academy and Chettinad Vidyashram have integrated JEE training into their regular curriculum, by tying up with coaching institutes.

Well-known coaching institute FIITJEE runs a hostel in Egmore, and partners with a firm to provide accommodation to students. Around 50 students from different parts of Tamil Nadu, the northeast and even the Gulf stay in these hostels.

For R. Rajathi Balasubramanian whose family relocated to India only so that her daughter, now in class X, could undergo JEE coaching, the recent changes in the pattern of the test have been a source of worry. “The students follow an integrated programme which means that they don’t have to look for extra coaching outside of school,” she said.

New rules make it tough for admission for even toppers of Engineering Agricultural and Medical Co

A student who tops EAMCET (Engineering Agricultural and Medical Common Test) may still not be eligible for admission at the first phase if he fails to pass the intermediate annual exam at the first go, officials said in Hyderabad.

In fact, candidates who take supplementary examination to clear any backlogs will be eligible for seats in the second counselling rounds only, with the new rules in place.

This move comes after the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) fixed deadlines for giving out entrance exam results and admission.

According to the new rules laid down by AICTE, all entrance test results would have to be released by June 5 and the first round of counseling completed in the same month. It also says the 2013 academic year must begin on August 1.

Until now, government was announcing EAMCET ranks after considering advanced supplementary results, which is released in June end or July first week. Last year the supplementary exam results came out in although EAMCET was conducted in May.

The new AICTE norms are all based on a Supreme Court ruling and experts say similar guidelines were also in place regarding the medical admissions by the MCI, which specifies that medical admission is not exceeded beyond September 30 and admissions made after that are not approved.

NIT, Karnataka to get three centres of excellence under TEQIP phase II

National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal will get three centres of excellence under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) phase II. While NITK received Rs 20 crore under phase I of TEQIP, the Union government under a World Bank funded programme has sanctioned Rs 12.5 crore for setting up these centres of excellence and already released Rs 6 crore for the purpose.

Gopal Mugeraya, dean of students' welfare, NITK presiding over the inaugural function of three-day international conference ICRAMST - 13 said the centres of excellence will be set up in renewable energy and smart grid, advanced materials technology, and cloud computing. While funding in first phase was used for strengthening nfrastructure of existing departments, phase II will help select departments grow as centres of excellence, he said.

Allied departments will come together to help fuel expansion of these centres, he said, adding that existing and new equipments will be used in these centres. The union government is helping premier educational institutions such as NITs with funds for equipment. Hitherto, the use for such equipment was low or was being limitedly used; he said adding that industries have come forward to meet the recurring costs of such equipment procured.

These centres will also give a thrust to NITK's drive towards consultancy services, which is essential for revenue generation, he said. Observing that industry-institutions have tended to work in isolation thus far, he said this is not the case with NITK. "In the time the institution in its KREC avatar for nearly 40-years came up with 49 PhDs. But in the last decade that it was upgraded to a NIT, the institution has churned out 350-odd PhDs," he noted.

Girish Rao, regional manager, Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd said it is imperative that all stake holders meet the broader energy challenges. It has been an endeavour with Shell to produce more energy with less carbon dioxide; he said adding industry-academia can resolve these issues together. Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, dean of research for material and manufacturing research alliance, Universiti Teknologi Mayaysia, Malaysia was the chief guest.

CBSE starts regional call centre service

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has set up a call centre for handling routine enquiriesand grievances pertaining to various activities and functions of the board. 
Students presently studying in various CBSE affiliated schools, candidates appearing in private
examination, pass out students of CBSE Board, parents, school management, new school seeking CBSE affiliation, awardees of CBSE scholarship schemes, aspirants and applicants or NEET, JEE, CTET, JNVST and general public can approach the CBSE call centre for obtaining information of the procedures/rules and regulations of various activities of the Board.

Talking to Hindustan Times, CBSE regional officer, Panchkula, RJ Khanderao, said, "The dedicated call centre is open for everybody and one can contact the board through phone call, fax, email and also post their queries. The idea is to handle the routine queries and whenever anybody wants to contact the board they are not aware where to contact and to whom they can redress their grievances. So now anybody who has any query can contact the board 24X7 on email giving details of his/her grievance/query along with contact number and details at: cbsecc@gmail.com."

Through Telephone/Mobile phone one can contact us on all working weekdays between 9:30 am to 7 pm on the following telephone no- 1800 118 002 [Toll Free], 011-22509257-58-59 and 011-22509256 [Tele-fax].

Through post one may contact us by sending a letter through Speed Post at: Joint Secretary (Administration and Vigilance), Central Board of Secondary Education [CBSE], Shiksha Kendra 2, Community Centre, Preet Vihar, Delhi-110301 India.

Navita Puri, principal of Kundan Vidya Mandir School, civil lines, said, "This is a very good initiative by the board and now it will help the schools, parents, students to contact the board whenever they have any query."