 "Prakash Javadekar")
The human resource development ministry’s proposal to scrap JEE-Advanced — the joint entrance examinations for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) — for easing admissions has been vetoed by the IIT Council, and by HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar himself.
The minister is the chairman of the Council that includes other officials from his ministry as well as IIT directors and chairpersons.
Quoting the HRD Minister the Human Resource Development Ministry stated in a press release that the "Council did not consider any further changes in the JEE (Advanced) system".
Doing away with the test was one of the crucial issues on the agenda for
