Victimization of an IIT Teacher for reforming IIT JEE
IIT teacher Rajeev Kumar, (www.rajeev.cu.cc/), a computer science professor at IIT Kharagpur, is continued to be on suspension in defiance of laws of the land. A teacher is made academically dysfunctional for blowing the whistle against IIT's top administrators (then Director, Deans etc.), who are indicted by CBI in academic/financial irregularities.
He discovered inaccuracies in the merit lists of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admissions in IITs by research & analysis of the information obtained under RTI Act. For example, a student with 279 marks was not qualified while students with 154 were:--
Sl. No.
Year
Maths.
Physics
Chemistry
Aggregate
Result
1.
2006
36
116
127
279
Not Qualified
2.
2006
101
96
54
251
Not Qualified
3.
2006
45
56
55
156
Qualified
4.
2006
37
48
69
154
Qualified
Many other irregularities, namely, cutoff discrepancies, unattended question paper errors, hundreds of seats lying vacant, filling vacant seats through back-doors, administrators wards' routine admissions, etc., were surfaced.
His Public Services:---
1. His 6-year long crusade, as a single-person-army, led to many reforms, first time in 6-decade old IITs. Today's IIT-JEE is much reformed due to transparency and well defined processes,
§ selection criteria, e.g., cutoffs procedure and marks are pre-fixed and known a priori,
§ carbon copy of the Optical Response Sheet (ORS) is provided to prevent tampering,
§ answer keys are announced for assessing their correctness before the result,
§ scored marks and evaluated scanned scripts are made available online before the result,
§ multiple rounds of admissions are done with exit policy to re-allocate surrendered seats for avoiding wastage of vacant seats.
Since IIT-JEE is treated as the role model, many other such examinations in the country conducted by UGC, CBSE, almost all State Boards, have been unveiling the secrecy.
2. He pioneered the Single Engineering Entrance Examination, with transparency in Jan. 10 for fairness, uniformity and de-stressing the aspirants. He challenged MHRD's proposal of using 12th standard marks, in his PIL filed in Apr 10. His was the 'lone' dissent against Achraya Comm. proposal in IIT Kgp Senate, on 02/07/10, which later spread all over. The single examination scheme, which has inherent flaws of increased arbitrariness, manipulation, stress, and coaching, due to -- (i) use of 12th stnd. percentile Board score which vary widely, and (ii) weighted mix of non-uniform/non-standardized components for admissions in NITs, is under challenge in his PIL.
3. He is the sole author of undergraduate engineering accreditation guidelines (May 2011 Edn.), by which India is heading to acquire full signatory status in Washington Accord. The guidelines are in public use by National Board of Accreditation (NBA), an autonomous body of MHRD.
His crusade is for GenNext to truly realize them fruits of transparent and well defined processes with built-in checks-n-balances during their study. This will work as a catalyst for moral uplift-ment and motivate GenNext to work with transparency. Details on: eklavyajee06.blogspot.in/ □
A few Excerpts from Supreme / High Court's Order / Judgment:--
4. Supreme Court Judgment, dated 11/10/11 [(2012) 1 SCC 157] "... the action taken by the appellants in challenging the procedure for JEE 2006, their attempts to bring in transparency in the procedure by various RTI applications, and the debate generated by the several views of experts during the course of the writ proceedings, have helped in making the merit ranking process more transparent and accurate... IITs and the candidates who now participate in the examinations must, to a certain extent, thank appellants for their effort in bringing such transparency and accuracy in the ranking procedure. ... have to be satisfied in being one of the many unsung heroes who helped in improving the system."
5. Supreme Court Order, dated 16/08/11 [C.A. 7100/2011] "he was interested in ensuring JEE is conducted in a transparent and fair manner so that meritorious students may not suffer."
6. Calcutta High Court Judgment, dated 18/07/12 [WP 3582/2011] "… In order to unearth the truth and also to ensure transparency in the matter of assessment of the relative merits of the aspirants for admission in the institute ... the institute to give inspection of the relevant file(s) containing all documents, records, correspondence, communication etc. related to JEE 2006."
His Victimization for undertaking Reforms:--
7. Kumar is made academically dysfunctional. Kumar is debarred from (i) teaching and research work, and (ii) entering his departmental office complex and laboratories. The indefinite suspension is doing irreparable losses and ruining his professional career. Recently, Delhi High Court penalized IIT Kharagpur for delaying the matter.
8. The void ab initio suspension order, dated 13/05/11, is continuing in 21st month. Suspension order, which was not reviewed for extension within 90-days, is not valid. As a perjury, IIT Board ordered "... his joining back is likely to adversely affect the academic atmosphere of the Institute." IIT defied CVC/MHRD directive for suspesnion review as per CCS (CCA) Rules.
9. IIT set up a Kangaroo Court for the inquiry which could not yet provide him even the relevant documents and witnesses' statements. No established due-process is followed. The Inquiry Officer is working closely, for gains, with IIT admin., who were exposed in irregularties. IIT defied CVC/MHRD directive for placing allegation of bias before the Visitor as per rules.
10. Charges against Kumar are those on which he blew the whistle, viz., silent copying in IIT examinations and scam related to purchase of laptops. He has been charged of threatening an IIT Dean who submitted a false affidavit that M.Tech. admissions are not based on GATE performance. Kumar is charged for maligning the institution though IIT is maligned due to IIT administrators turning a Nelson Eye to all irregularities including their indictment by CBI.
11. Not a single out of 30 RTI applications received complete info within 30 days. Not a single, out of a hundred of his RTI applications/appeals/complaints in the last 6 years, was dealt as per the RTI Act. Recently, Calcutta High Court directed IIT for inspection of the JEE 2006 files.
12. Call details of his personal cell phone are-being acquired/shared by IIT's top administrators to have complete e-surveillance of his activities; this is reminiscing of the Watergate Scandal.
13. His Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are being destroyed / grabbed.
14. IIT launched a smear campaign against him on the charges on which Kumar blew the whistle. IIT Board adopted the policy of shoot the messenger and protect the corrupt. Kumar's conflicts of interest with the IIT Board & HCL Chairman, Mr. Shiv Nadar, are on records.
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