No complaint about IIT counselling

Updated on: Tuesday, July 06, 2010

The IIT-JEE Board today rejected suggestions that online counselling for admission to IITs is non-secure and prone to misuse, saying that not a single complaint has been received in this regard so far.

"Overall, 11555 out of 12676 students exercised their choices online and not a single complaint of misuse has been received," said Director of IIT Madras Prof M S Ananth.
   
The online counselling is being held for the first time this year for IITs, BHU and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad and concerns have been expressed by some sections of the IIT faculty over its possible misuse.
   
Every step of the counselling process has been made completely secure, he said adding, even the acceptance letter containing allotment of seats can be generated only once.  He said wrong entries or falsely generated acceptance letters can be rectified by verification by one of the IIT-JEE offices.
   
During the counselling process, the successful student enters name, registration number, date of birth, all India rank and a random number which is printed only on his or her admit card. After this five-parameter authentication, a login ID is created for each student and the student enters the password, Ananth said.
   
This can be used for multiple logins. Most of the general category candidates who qualified for counselling through JEE used this secure authenticated online facility to submit his or her course and institute choices, Ananth said. This step has been successfully completed and not a single complaint has been received of misuse, he said.
   
The Joint Implementation Committee then allocates the course and institute for each candidate based on the choices filled. The results of this exercise were published through JEE websites on June 28, 2010, he said.

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