Rejecting HRD minister Kapil Sibal's 'one-nation one-test' proposal, IIT-Kanpur today decided to conduct its own entrance exam from next year. This decision was taken at a meeting of the institute's 210-member senate. Terming it as a very important development, IIT Delhi alumni president Somnath Bharti said "other senates are likely to follow the suit". The senate of IIT Kanpur said that the recent IIT Council proposal on admissions to IITs is "academically and methodically unsound and in violation of the Institutes of Technology Act (1961) and IIT Kanpur Ordinances (Ordinance 3.2 (Admissions)" "....the senate resolves that IIT Kanpur will conduct the entrance examination for admissions to its undergraduate programmes in 2013," it said. The decision came days after government rejected criticism of the decision to have a common IIT-JEE examination from next year.

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