The Bombay High Court has instructed the National Informatics Center (NIC) to examine the student's payment status for securing a seat in IIT Bombay, i.e, if the student had tried to pay a fee in order to secure a seat in the courses offered at IIT Bombay.
According to the TOI reports, Justice Shahrukh Kathawalla was leading the bench, when a 17-year old student named Prince Singh from Ghaziabad, UP filed a petition after his admission request at IIT Bombay got cancelled after his online payment was rejected due to technical issues.
Singh passed the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced 2021 and secured an All-India rank of 25,894. He also obtained a scheduled caste (SC) rank of 864. As a result, he was allocated with a seat in the Civil Engineering discipline at IIT Bombay, during the JoSAA counselling 2021, the TOI report said.
Kathawalla said that an intelligent student like Singh shouldn't suffer because of a technical issue. Consequently, the issue was postponed to next Friday, the TOI report said.
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Meanwhile, two professors and four students from IIT Bombay have won a total of 2.5 lakh US dollars XPrize grant as they developed a technology to remove carbon dioxide from atmosphere, oceans etc.
A team of students, Anwesha Banerjee (PhD student), Srushti Bhamare (BTech+MTech student), Srinath Iyer (PhD student), and Shubham Kumar (Junior Research fellow-Earth Science) is the only institute from India to have received this grant.
In partnership with the Elon Musk Foundation, the XPRIZE Foundation has given this grant. The announcement was made on November 11 at the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP-26 in Glasgow.
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