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NEW DELHI: Aiming to combat the
"menace" of coaching, the HRD ministry is coming up a mobile app and portal containing free lectures from IIT faculty on various subjects and previous
years' question papers of entrance tests to these prestigious engineering
institutions.
HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said
it has also been decided that the questions in the IIT-JEE entrance test would
conform to class XII syllabus.
Referring to the "menace of the
coaching industry", Irani said one of the biggest pressures on students
preparing for IIT entrance exam is to seek outside help in preparation.
"That is why the government has
decided to dedicate in the forthcoming two months, an IIT-Pal portal and mobile
app on which 50 years of IIT (entrance) examination papers will be available
free of cost.
"In all segments of knowledge
on the basis of which students take the IIT entrance exam, some of the IIT
academicians and faculty members will give lectures available on this app, so
that students can have that additional learning," she added.
Keeping in mind the requirements of
students who have studied in regional languages, this content will be
available in 13 languages.
"We all know that capitation
fee is not allowed. We all know that students cannot be harassed in the middle
of the academic year to cough up money for which no disclosure was made,"
she said, suggesting that not all institutions in the private sector were
following the norms.
She asked the EPSFI to to engage
with administrators and weed out "wrongdoers who bring a bad name to the
sector" like fake universities and added that states have already been
asked to take action against such universities.
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