IIT Bombay News: SC used ‘almighty’ to get Dalit boy an IIT-Bombay seat. Mumbai News – Times of India

New Delhi: Supreme court On Monday, in exercise of its omnibus powers under Article 142 of the Constitution, directed IIT-Bombay to help the authorities in arranging fees to a Dalit student from hinterland of Uttar Pradesh within 48 hours. Tell me about the refusal.
“If you do not admit such students, IIT The seats will be reserved only for the people of metropolitan cities,” the bench of justices said. D Y Chandrachud and AS Bopanna. It directed the institute to admit student to the four-year civil engineering B.Tech course on or before Wednesday.
The court observed that many students from far flung areas may face difficulties in paying fees online due to internet connectivity issues, but because of this, they cannot be deprived of their seats in such reputed institutions. Prince Jaibir Singh, who studied in Allahabad, had qualified in IIT-JEE (Advanced). The boy had secured an all India rank of 25,864 and 864 among the successful SC candidates. After this, he was allotted the seat of civil engineering on 27 October.
The portal of IIT-Bombay was open till October 31 for completion of online admissions, which included fee payment, uploading of documents and response of candidates to queries and other formalities. On October 29, Jaybir logged into the portal and uploaded the required documents. Unfortunately, he could not pay the fee due to paucity of funds. He took a loan from his sister on 30 October. Then he made 10 to 12 attempts to complete the fee payment but could not succeed due to technical error on the portal. On October 31, they made a similar attempt from a cyber cafe, where the same set of errors appeared.
He unsuccessfully called admissions officers and then followed up with emails to them from October 31 to November 1. Dalit student again borrowed money to travel from Allahabad. Kharagpur – Where the centralized admission authorities are located. The office at Kharagpur expressed its inability to assist them. He then traveled to Mumbai and moved to Bombay HC, seeking directions to the authorities concerned to admit him to the IITs. However, the High Court refused to give any such direction.

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