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There is nothing wrong in the prestigious, Ivy League Indian Institute of Technology forbidding a student taking admission into its course from appearing in the joint entrance examination (JEE) in future.
The Delhi High Court while upholding the impugned regulation said that not a single seat at the IIT should go waste due to whims of candidates.
A candidate got admission into IIT Madras after paying the fees in Engineering Design (Automotive engineering) in 2011, in which year, to his chagrin, the regulation under challenge kicked in.
Wanting to improve
He wanted to improve his performance in the JEE so that he could land on an engineering stream of his choice than what he had got, and, hence, applied for sitting in the 2012 JEE.
Aggrieved, by the rejection of his application, he moved the Delhi High Court which dismissed his plea pointing out that every seat was precious and no one should be allowed to squat on it albeit by paying fees.
The Court pointed out that in the absence of such rules it was possible for a student to go on appearing not once but several times may be till the fifth and final year by going through the motions of studying the subject in which his heart did not lie and biding the time till he got the subject of his choice.
Jettisoning the seat in this manner in the second or subsequent year is a colossal waste of precious educational resources because it could have been allotted to a student keen on pursuing the course.
(The author is a Delhi-based Chartered Accountant.)
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