Delhi high court ordered to fix the parity in engineering/technical degrees in India. The Center was asked by the Delhi High Court to set up a panel of experts who will be responsible for examine UGC recognized engineering degrees in various streams and decide a equality among them to facilitate Indian army aspirants.
The Cause:
Recently Indian army has removed few branched from technical entry recruitment like TGC and SSC, which has created lot of sadness among ineligible candidates. Candidates those who were eligible earlier are no more eligible for tech entries in army. Indian army has took this decision just to reduce the amount of applicants every because it is hard to manage the big crowd, however ineligible candidates are facing hard time because army is not listening to them.
Action:
Many candidates have started sending appeal and request to Indian army and courts, candidates are appealing for equal opportunity as they have also studied the same syllabus which is studied by the eligible candidates.
& Reaction:
On 26 Nov 2012, Delhi high court has order the government to setup a group who will fix parity in technical degrees. The court was hearing a bunch of petitions from B Tech degree holders in various streams like Information Technology, Computer Science, Instrumentation and Control, Electronic and Instrumentation, and Electrical and Electronics engineering etc, seeking employment with Army against the vacancies advertised for B Techs in Electrical, Computer Science and Electronic and Instrumentation.
Source: business-standard.com
Bottom Line:
There is no logic behind this step of Indian army or they must provide a satisfactory answers to candidates willing to join army, all candidates with equal qualification must be treated equally irrespective to their degree name. Most of the branches have same syllabus but with difference in name. Hope this action may fetch some good results for defence aspirates.
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