89-408: Electoral Performance Legislative Assembly Media Controversies [REDACTED] Arvind Kejriwal ( Hindi pronunciation: [əɾʋin̪d̪ ked͡ʒɾiːʋaːl] ; born 16 August 1968) is an Indian politician, activist and former bureaucrat, who served as the 7th Chief Minister of Delhi . He was the chief minister from 2013 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2024. He is also the national convener of
178-566: A public interest litigation (PIL) demanding transparency in public dealings of the Income Tax department, and also organised a satyagraha outside the Chief Commissioner's office. Kejriwal and other activists also stationed themselves outside the electricity department, asking visitors not to pay bribes and offered to help them in getting work done for free. In 2001, the Delhi government enacted
267-510: A 20% female enrolment target, total available seats increased further to 16,053, with over 1500 super-numerary female-only seats. In 2012, Super 30 founder and mathematician Anand Kumar criticized the New Admission Norms, saying that the decision of the IITs ' council to give a chance to students in the top 20% from various boards in the class 12 examinations was "a decision in haste". "This
356-523: A case of fabrication and " match-fixing " by the BJP. Amnesty International said that financial and terrorism laws have been weaponised to go after political opponents. On 10 May, the Supreme Court ordered Kejriwal's release on interim bail until 1 June 2024, on account of campaigning for the election. Kejriwal surrendered at Tihar Jail after the expiry of his bail period on 2 June 2024. On 13 September 2024, he
445-557: A fee. Along with other social activists like Anna Hazare , Aruna Roy and Shekhar Singh , Kejriwal came to be recognised as an important contributor to the campaign for a national-level Right to Information Act (enacted in 2005). He resigned from his job in February 2006, and later that year, he was given the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership, for his involvement with Parivartan. The award recognised him for activating
534-1344: A function, analysis of continuity and differentiability of a function, derivatives and their applications ( tangents and normals to a function, angle between curves, Rolle's theorem , Mean Value Theorem , monotonicity of a function, and maxima and minima of a function), indefinite antiderivative of a function, definite integrals , analysis of area bounded by a curve and its axis, and differential equations . General Physics , classical Newtonian Mechanics , Fluid Mechanics , Thermodynamics , Acoustics ( sound and oscillation ), Electromagnetism , Electrostatics , Electrodynamics or, Electromagnetism (Both electricity and magnetism ) and electromagnetic waves , Modern Physics ( radioactivity , Nuclear Physics , elementary Quantum mechanics ), Optics ( Both geometrical optics and wave optics ) General studies of substance ( moles , molarity , redox reactions , etc), atomic structure (with concerned topics of Quantum Mechanics ), states of matter , chemical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics , equilibrium chemistry (both chemical equilibrium and ionic equilibrium), Electrochemistry , colligative properties , titrations (including acid-base and redox ), Surface Science and Nuclear Chemistry . Periodic properties , bonding in chemicals (including
623-533: A high school student, the questions asked go way beyond the scope of conventional teaching in schools, this forces the students to opt for coaching classes. The coaching classes create a situation of extreme pressure for the students, gradually affecting their mental health. Preparation for the Joint Entrance Exam begins typically two to four years before students take the test. Most students who passed this exam attended coaching institutes , which had created
712-533: A highly sought-after achievement. In a 2018 interview, former IIT Delhi director V. Ramgopal Rao , said the exam is "tricky and difficult" because it is framed to "reject candidates, not to select them". In 2024, out of the 180,200 candidates who took the exam, 48,248 candidates qualified. The first institute among IITs , Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , started in 1951. In its initial years before 1961, students were admitted based on their academic results, followed by an interview in several locations across
801-532: A minority government in the hung assembly , (claiming support for the action gauged from opinion polls) with outside support from the eight INC MLAs, one Janata Dal MLA and one independent MLA. Kejriwal was sworn in as the second-youngest chief minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013, after Chaudhary Brahm Prakash who became chief minister at the age of 34. He was in charge of Delhi's home, power, planning, finance, services and vigilance ministries. On 14 February 2014, he resigned as Chief Minister after failing to table
890-519: A mistake by resigning without publicly explaining the rationale behind his decision. Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party won 67 of the 70 constituencies in the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections, leaving the BJP with three seats and the INC with none. In those elections, he was again elected from the New Delhi constituency, defeating Nupur Sharma by 31,583 votes. He took oath on 14 February 2015 as Delhi's chief minister for
979-511: A movement named Parivartan (which means "change"), in the Sundar Nagar area of Delhi. A month later, in January 2000, Kejriwal took a sabbatical from work to focus on Parivartan. Parivartan addressed citizens' grievances related to Public Distribution System (PDS), public works, social welfare schemes, income tax and electricity. It was not a registered NGO - it ran on individual donations, and
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#17331068729361068-516: A police directive to give a written undertaking that they will not go to JP Park. Kejriwal attacked the government on this and said there was a need for a debate over police power to detain and release people at will. In August 2011, a settlement was reached between the Government and the activists. Besides the government, the Jan Lokpal movement was also criticised by some citizens as 'undemocratic' on
1157-618: A second time at Ramlila Maidan . Since then his party has passed the Jan Lokpal Bill though with some differences. There has been a long-running dispute between Kejriwal's office and that of the Lieutenant-Governor of Delhi during Kejriwal's second term as Chief Minister. Various issues have been involved, relating which office has ultimate responsibility for various aspects of government, including some significant public appointments. Manish Sisodia characterised it as "a battle between
1246-402: A state-level Right To Information (RTI) Act, which allowed the citizens to access government records for a small fee. Parivartan used RTI to help people get their work done in government departments without paying a bribe. In 2002, the group obtained official reports on 68 public works projects in the area, and performed a community-led audit to expose misappropriations worth ₹ 7 million in 64 of
1335-651: A status report of the police investigation into the incident. Chief Minister of Delhi The chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi is the head of government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi . According to the Constitution of India , the lieutenant governor is the National Capital Territory of Delhi's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with its chief minister . Following elections to
1424-404: A strong Jan Lokpal, resulting in another series of protests from Kejriwal and his fellow activists. These protests attracted lower participation compared to the 2011 protests. By mid-2012, Kejriwal had replaced Anna Hazare as the face of the remaining protestors. In January 2014, Kejriwal said that he will quit from the government if Jan Lokpal Bill is not passed. In 2015, during the second term of
1513-411: A target of setting up 1000 such clinics in the city before 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly Elections. Mohalla Clinics offer a basic package of essential health services including medicines, diagnostics, and consultation free of cost. These clinics serve as the first point of contact for the population, offer timely services, and reduce the load of referrals to secondary and tertiary health facilities in
1602-483: A two-tier examination. Whereas ranks from the first tier can be used to gain admission to the NITs and other engineering colleges in the country. In September 2005, the group of directors of all the IITs announced significant revisions to the examination. These were implemented from 2006 onward. The revised examination consisted of a single objective test, replacing and abolishing the earlier two-test system with screener. In
1691-499: A ₹2309992.61 billion industry with annual tuition of up to ₹288850,000. These academies included mock tests multiple times a week, up to 200 students per class, and long hours, ranging from 4 to 7 hours a day, in addition to regular high school work. There were hundreds of academies across the country, and the most famous—in Kota, Rajasthan —attracted approximately 125,000 students each year. Coaching programs are major corporations, listed on
1780-713: Is also used as a possible basis for admission by Indian applicants to non-Indian universities such as the University of Cambridge and the National University of Singapore . The JEE-Advanced has been consistently ranked as one of the toughest exams in the world. High school students from across India typically prepare for several years to take this exam, and most of them attending coaching institutes . The combination of its high difficulty level, intense competition, unpredictable paper pattern and low acceptance rate exerts immense pressure on aspirants, making success in this exam
1869-710: Is close to the Delhi Secretariat. IIT JEE The Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced ( JEE-Advanced ) (formerly the Indian Institute of Technology – Joint Entrance Examination ( IIT-JEE )) is an academic examination held annually in India that tests the skills and knowledge of the applicants in physics, chemistry and mathematics. It is organised by one of the seven zonal Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs): IIT Roorkee , IIT Kharagpur , IIT Delhi , IIT Kanpur , IIT Bombay , IIT Madras , and IIT Guwahati , under
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#17331068729361958-483: Is conducted in two papers of three hours each - Paper-1 and Paper-2,(both papers are compulsory to write)both the papers consist questions from three major subjects- Physics , Chemistry and Mathematics . Unlike most of the other exams, the type , the number of questions being asked in the paper, the total marks and the marking scheme varies from year to year depending upon the organizing institute, with an average of about 36–38 questions asked from each subject across both
2047-645: Is listed below. Higher Algebra (including certain topics from Linear Algebra ), Combinatorics , probability (including topics like conditional probability , Law of total probability , Bayes theorem ), Geometry , coordinate system ( points and lines , circles , parabolas , ellipses and hyperbolas ), Trigonometry (including the inverse trigonometric functions ), algebraic functions , exponential functions , logarithmic functions , floor function , fractional part function , signum function , even and odd functions , periodic functions , composite Function , inverse functions , limits , derivative of
2136-470: Is one decision that will go against the poor, who don't have the opportunity to study in elite schools," he added. The IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi ; it has been criticized as being harder for students from places where other Indian languages, like Telugu , Tamil , Kannada , Malayalam , Urdu , Oriya , Bengali , Marathi , Assamese , or Gujarati , are more prominent. In September 2011,
2225-605: Is pertinent to note, that in the past as well, on December 10, 2020, there was an attack on the residence of the Deputy Chief Minister by BJP Goons, where also, the Delhi Police did not take any steps to stop the attackers and thereafter failed to take any concrete criminal action against the attackers." The petition asked the court to issue direction to the Delhi Police and the Union Ministry of Home Affairs for ensuring
2314-589: Is subject to no term limits . Since 1952, National Capital Territory of Delhi has had 7 chief ministers, starting with the Indian National Congress party's Brahm Prakash . Shortly after his term ended, the office of chief minister of the National Capital Territory of Delhi was abolished for 37 years until 2 December 1993, when the Bharatiya Janata Party 's Madan Lal Khurana was sworn in. The longest-serving chief minister, Sheila Dikshit from
2403-484: The 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election . He took oath on 16 February 2020 as Delhi's chief minister for a third time at Ramlila Maidan, equaling the record of Sheila Dikshit . On 21 March 2024, he became the first ever sitting chief minister in India to be arrested and imprisoned. After being released on bail by the Supreme Court, he vowed to resign from the post of chief minister on 15 September 2024 to campaign for
2492-671: The AIEEE was introduced, and it was used for admissions to many institutions of national importance other than the IITs. In June 2005, The Hindu newspaper led a campaign for reforming the IIT-JEE to eradicate the "coaching mania" and to improve gender and socio-economic diversity. Two possible solutions were proposed - either a convergence between the screening test and the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) , or
2581-711: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) since 2012. He has represented the New Delhi constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly since 2015 and from 2013 to 2014. In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his involvement in the Parivartan movement using right to information legislation in a campaign against government corruption. The same year, after resigning from government service, he founded
2670-608: The Civil Services Examination . In February 2006, he resigned from his position as Joint Commissioner of Income Tax in New Delhi. In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, which won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. Since 2012, he has acted as the main national convenor of AAP. In December 1999, while still in service with the Income Tax Department, Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and others founded
2759-414: The Delhi Legislative Assembly , the lieutenant governor usually invites the party with a majority of seats to form the government . The president of India , on the advice of the lieutenant governor, appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that the person has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and
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2848-498: The Enforcement Directorate on allegations of a liquor scam against the Aam Aadmi Party led Delhi Government . He became the first ever sitting chief minister in India to be arrested. His other party leaders, Satyendra Jain , Sanjay Singh and Manish Sisodia have also spent months to years in jail without bail, trial or conviction. The opposition alliance called the arrest weeks before the 2024 Indian general election ,
2937-692: The Gujarat High Court acted on a Public Interest Litigation by the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad , demanding the examinations be conducted in Gujarati too. A second petition was made that October by Navsari's Sayaji Vaibhav Sarvajanik Pustakalaya Trust. Another petition was made at the Madras High Court for conducting the exam in Tamil. In the petition, it was claimed that not conducting the exam in
3026-455: The IITs having to pass the nationwide standardized engineering entrance exam JEE-Main with high marks, and then take the JEE-Advanced to qualify for the IITs . In 2018, the JEE-Advanced exam started being conducted online . of marks in each subject of aggregate marks for SC/ST/PWD Minimum percentage of aggregate/subject marks may be lowered subsequently considering the toughness of
3115-557: The Indian Maritime University Kolkata , the Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy , the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology and the Indian Institute of Space Technology , use the score obtained in the JEE-Advanced exam as the sole basis for admission. The Indian Institute of Science also uses the score obtained in the JEE-Advanced exam as one of the basis for admission. The JEE-Advanced score
3204-669: The Public Cause Research Foundation to campaign for transparent governance. Before entering politics, Kejriwal had worked in the Indian Revenue Service . Prior to that, he was a mechanical engineer from IIT Kharagpur . In 2012, he launched the AAP. In 2013, he assumed office as the Chief Minister of Delhi and resigned 49 days later over his inability to mobilise support for his proposed anti-corruption legislation. In
3293-561: The World Bank , regarding a project for privatisation of water supply. Kejriwal and other activists questioned the huge expenditure on the project and argued that it would hike water tariffs ten-fold, thus effectively cutting off the water supply to the city's poor. The project was stalled as a result of Parivartan's activism. Another campaign by Parivartan led to a court order that required private schools, which had received public land at discounted prices, to admit more than 700 poor kids without
3382-602: The online exam would neutralize the problem of misprinting. JEE(Advanced) 2020 was scheduled on 17 May 2020.However due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the JEE-Main 2020 April attempt was postponed to September(JEE(Main) 2020 September attempt was held from September 1 2020 to September 6 2020),JEE(Advanced) 2020 was also postponed and was held on 27 September 2020. A series of schedule revisions were carried out in 2021. The former Education minister of India, Ramesh Pokhriyal confirmed
3471-426: The 2015 Delhi Legislative assembly elections, the AAP registered an unprecedented majority. In subsequent 2020 elections , AAP re-emerged victorious and retained power in Delhi, following which, Kejriwal was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Delhi for the third time in a row. Outside Delhi, his party registered another major victory in 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election . He was arrested on 21 March 2024 by
3560-468: The AAP government in Delhi, the Jan Lokpal Bill was passed by the assembly awaiting the president's approval. One of the major criticisms directed at the Jan Lokpal activists was that they had no right to dictate terms to the elected representatives. As a result, Kejriwal and other activists decided to enter politics and contest elections. In November 2012, they formally launched the Aam Aadmi Party; Kejriwal
3649-474: The Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi, saying that it had used state money on advertisements projecting chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his party in violation of Supreme Court guidelines. According to RTI reply, Arvind kejriwal was given funds to set up 8 of oxygen plant back in December 2020 but only just 1 was setup and diverted funds to ads instead. When there was an oxygen crunch, Central Government increased
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3738-523: The BJP." Later on in September 2022, 8 out of 11 Congress MLAs joined BJP. In the 2013, Delhi Legislative Assembly elections for all 70 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party won 31 seats, followed by Aam Aadmi Party with 28 seats. Kejriwal defeated incumbent Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit of the Indian National Congress (INC), in her constituency of New Delhi by a margin of 25,864 votes. AAP formed
3827-509: The IIT-JEE entrance exam in Tamil . They claimed that every year 763,000 students were completing grade 12 in Tamil Nadu, 75% of them from Tamil Medium. They had to take the entrance exam in English or Hindi , neither of which was their medium of instruction nor their mother tongue, and so were denied their fundamental right to take the entrance exam in a language familiar to them. Shiv Sena urged
3916-455: The IITs. IIT Tirupati and IIT Palakkad were started in 2015 and four more institutes ( IIT Bhilai , IIT Dharwad , IIT Goa , and IIT Jammu ) opened in 2016. In 2018, to ensure minimum female enrollment of 14%, the IITs introduced "female-only" and "gender-neutral" seats based on 2017 enrollment statistics; and "super-numerary" seats were allocated per-institute and per-course to reach a 14% target. With these, and slight overall seat increases,
4005-728: The Income Tax Department, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi , the Public Distribution System and the Delhi Electricity Board. In 2010, Kejriwal protested against corruption in the Commonwealth Games . He argued that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) did not have any powers to take any action against the guilty, while CBI was incapable of launching an unbiased investigation against
4094-584: The Indian National Congress party held the office for over fifteen years. On 28 December 2013, Arvind Kejriwal of Aam Aadmi Party sworn in as first state party chief minister of the national capital territory. There have been one instance of president's rule in National Capital Territory of Delhi, most recently in 2015. Atishi Marlena Singh of Aam Aadmi Party is the incumbent chief minister of Delhi since 17 September 2024. Since 2014, CM resides at Bhagwan Das Road in central Delhi. The location
4183-516: The Indian stock market and also attracting billions of dollars of investment from private equity firms. The high-pressure environment at these coaching institutes has been blamed for a significant number of suicides. There were several changes made to the exam in 2018. The Joint Admission Board (JAB) decided to conduct the entire exam online from 2018 onwards, hoping to reduce the chances of paper leak and make logistics and evaluation easier. It said that
4272-548: The Jan Lokpal Bill in the Delhi Assembly. He recommended the dissolution of the Assembly. Kejriwal blamed the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party for stalling the anti-corruption legislation and linked it with the government's decision to register a First Information Report (FIR) against industrialist Mukesh Ambani , chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries . In April 2014 he said that he had made
4361-501: The MHRD to conduct the IIT-JEE and other national undergraduate entrance exams in regional languages, particularly Marathi in Maharashtra. In 2017, the Supreme Court ordered JAB to put a bar on the ongoing counseling process. There were three questions comprising a total of 11 marks that were unclear. JEE(Advanced) has also been criticised for its notoriously tough examination pattern, for
4450-589: The Public Cause Research Foundation in December 2006, together with Manish Sisodia and Abhinandan Sekhri. He donated his Ramon Magsaysay Award prize money as a seed fund . Besides the three founders, Prashant Bhushan and Kiran Bedi served as the Foundation's trustees. This new body paid the employees of Parivartan. Kejriwal used the RTI Act in corruption cases in many government departments including
4539-521: The RTI movement at the grassroots and empowering New Delhi's poor citizens to fight corruption. By 2012, Parivartan was largely inactive. Sundar Nagri, where the movement was concentrated, suffered from irregular water supply, unreliable PDS system and poorly done public works. Calling it "ephemeral and delusionary in nature", Kejriwal noted that Parivartan's success was limited, and the changes brought by it did not last long. In December 2006, Kejriwal established
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#17331068729364628-411: The activists could not be allowed to blackmail the elected representatives through protests. Kejriwal retorted that democratically elected representatives could not be allowed to function like dictators, and asked for a public debate on the contentious issues. The IAC activists intensified their protests, and Anna Hazare organised a hunger strike . Kejriwal and other activists were arrested for defying
4717-590: The allegations as baseless, stating that the donations were made to support the RTI campaigns. Besides, several other Indian organisations had also received grants from the Ford Foundation. Kejriwal also denied the allegations that the movement was a plot against the ruling Congress by the RSS , or that it was an upper-caste conspiracy against the Dalits . By January 2012, the Government had backtracked on its promise to implement
4806-469: The allocation of oxygen tanks after that Arvind Kejriwal thanked the Central Government for providing 730 tons of oxygen. Many of the critics claim that Kejriwal was "criminally liable" for the death of many patients in two Delhi hospitals due to lack of oxygen. Attack by BJP members In March 2022, the official residence of CM Kejriwal was attacked by BJP supporters. Deputy CM Manish Sisodia called
4895-530: The campaign, the government's advisory body - the National Advisory Council - drafted a Lokpal Bill. However, the NAC's Bill was criticised by Kejriwal and other activists on the grounds that it did not have enough powers to take action against the prime minister, other corrupt officeholders, and the judiciary. The activists also criticised the procedure for the selection of Lokpal, the transparency clauses and
4984-420: The compounds and preparation of hydrocarbons , alkyl halides , carbonyl compounds ( alcohols , phenols and ethers ), aromatic compounds , biomolecules , carbohydrates and polymers , amines , Chemistry in everyday life and practical Organic Chemistry. The number of students taking the examination increased substantially each year with 506,484 candidates registered for JEE-Advanced- 2012. However, with
5073-450: The country. From 1955 to 1960, admissions for the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur were conducted via a national examination. Academic disciplines were allotted to the students via interviews and counselling sessions held at Kharagpur . The IIT-JEE was first conducted in 1961 as Common Entrance Exam (CEE), coinciding with the 1961 IIT Act. In 1978, the English paper was not considered when ranking participants' performance in
5162-433: The dates for the exam. JEE-Main exam was slated to be conducted in eight sessions over four days— two sessions each day— for each phase, with a total of four phases being held in four different months. The first phase was organized from the 23 to 28 February, while the other phases were scheduled to be organized in the subsequent months of March, April and May. The JEE-Advanced exam was scheduled to be held on 3 July 2021 but
5251-575: The dean of IIT Madras proposed further revisions to the examination, arguing that the coaching institutes were "enabling many among the less-than-best students to crack the test and keeping girls from qualifying". They expressed concern that the present system did not allow for applicants' 12 years of schooling to have a bearing on admissions into IIT . In 2008, the Indian Institutes of Technology began offering their admission tests in Dubai . Annually,
5340-597: The examination in 1961, the syllabus majorly consists of topics that are taught in Indian High schools, from the curriculum of Class XI and Class XII. These include topics from Mathematics , Physics and Chemistry ( Organic Chemistry , Inorganic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry ). A recent change in the syllabus was carried out in November 2021, when a revised syllabus was adopted for the exam, this syllabus has been implemented from 2023 onwards. A brief overview of topics asked
5429-457: The examination. In 1998, the English test was discontinued. In 1997, the IIT-JEE was conducted twice after the question paper was leaked in some locations. Between 2000 and 2005, an additional screening test was used alongside the main examination, intended to reduce pressure on the main examination by allowing only about 20,000 top candidates to appear for the examination, out of more than 450,000 applicants. In 2002, an additional exam called
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#17331068729365518-521: The garb of a protest, launched an attack on the official residence of the Delhi CM", "Videos and photographs show that these goons casually walked through the security cordon [maintained by Delhi police], kicked and broke the boom barrier, broke the CCTVs cameras with 'lathis', threw paint on the gate of the residence and almost climbed over the gate, while Delhi police personnel simply looked on, doing little to stop
5607-543: The grounds that the ombudsman had powers over elected representatives. Arundhati Roy claimed that the movement was not a people's movement; instead, it was funded by foreigners to influence policymaking in India. She pointed out that the Ford Foundation had funded the Emergent Leadership category of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, and also donated $ 397,000 to Kejriwal's NGO Kabir. Both Kejriwal and Ford Foundation termed
5696-627: The guidance of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) on a round-robin rotation pattern for the qualifying candidates of the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (exempted for foreign nationals and candidates who have secured OCI/PIO cards on or after 04-03-2021). It used to be the sole prerequisite for admission to the IITs' bachelor's programs before the introduction of UCEED , Online B.S. and Olympiad entries, but seats through these new media are very low. Other universities, such as
5785-410: The incident a conspiracy to murder Kejriwal. AAP MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj filed a petition in the Delhi High Court (HC) seeking the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for investigation in the incident. He petitioned that the attack and vandalisation appeared to have been carried out with the "tacit complicity" of Delhi police. The petition said, "On March 30, 2022, several BJP goons, in
5874-454: The ministers who controlled it. He advocated appointment of public ombudsman - Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states. In 2011, Kejriwal joined several other activists, including Anna Hazare and Kiran Bedi , to form the India Against Corruption (IAC) group. The IAC demanded enactment of the Jan Lokpal Bill , which would result in a strong ombudsman. The campaign evolved into the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement . In response to
5963-436: The number of candidates for the examination in Dubai varies between 200 and 220. In 2013, the AIEEE was renamed JEE-Main , and IIT-JEE was renamed JEE-Advanced; the JEE-Main had become the screening exam for JEE-Advanced. The two-tier reform suggested in 2005 may become a reality as the Indian government has announced plans for a single entrance exam for all engineering colleges from 2018, with students aspiring for
6052-401: The paper and the need of students. of marks in each subject of aggregate marks for SC/ST/PWD The JEE – Advanced exam is conducted by the seven zonal Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) : IIT Roorkee , IIT Kharagpur , IIT Delhi , IIT Kanpur , IIT Bombay , IIT Madras and IIT Guwahati on a rotating basis. This list shows the organizers of the exam in recent years. JEE(Advanced)
6141-470: The projects. On 14 December 2002, Parivartan organised a Jan sunvai (public hearing), in which the citizens held public officials and leaders accountable for the lack of development in their locality. In 2003 (and again in 2008), Parivartan exposed a PDS scam, in which ration shop dealers were siphoning off subsidised foodgrains in collusion with civic officials. In 2004, Parivartan used RTI applications to access communication between government agencies and
6230-438: The proposal to disallow the Lokpal from taking cognizance of public grievances. Amid continuing protests, the Government constituted a committee to Draft a Jan Lokpal Bill . Kejriwal was one of the civil society representative members of this committee. However, he alleged that the IAC activists had an unequal position in the committee, and the government appointees kept ignoring their recommendations. The Government argued that
6319-403: The protesters." The petition called the violence directed towards the CM and his family as "especially egregious" and "meant to subdue, by the use of force, the highest elected official in NCT of Delhi and therefore the elected Government of Delhi. This was a direct attack on democracy." On 22 August 2017, the Delhi HC had directed the Delhi Police to ensure that no unnecessary protest occurs on
6408-510: The regional languages violates article 14 of the Constitution of India . The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) party, a political party in Tamil Nadu , held a demonstration at Chennai for conducting the IIT-JEE and other national entrance exams in regional languages also, particularly Tamil in Tamil Nadu . The PMK party filed Public Interest Litigation in the Madras High Court to conduct
6497-401: The revised examination, to be eligible for taking it, candidates in the general category had to obtain at least 60% aggregate marks in the 12th-grade examinations organized by various educational boards of India, while candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Persons With Disabilities (PwD) categories needed a minimum score of 55%. In 2008, the director and
6586-478: The road in front of the Delhi CM's house, as it is a residential area. The petition noted that the inaction of Delhi Police in this incident, was a violation of the 2017 order. The petition noted, "It thus appears that Delhi Police was hand in glove with the goons as the goons are members of the ruling party in the Central Government, which has absolute control over the Delhi Police through the Ministry of Home Affairs. It
6675-515: The run-up to the elections. During the NDTV Townhall event before the 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election , Arvind Kejriwal said, "The people of Goa have a choice between AAP and BJP. If you want a clean, honest government, you can vote for AAP. The other option is to vote for the BJP directly or indirectly. Indirect voting is when you vote for the Congress, that Congress man will win and go to
6764-461: The security of the Chief Minister and his residence. On 31 March 2022 eight persons involved in the incident were arrested. A case was filed with the police pertaining to Causing obstruction to a public servant and under The Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act of the Indian Penal Code was lodged. The Delhi HC noted that the security was not adequate to control the crowd, and sought
6853-406: The selected and the elected" and indicated after a legal setback that the government was prepared to take the issues to the Supreme Court of India . Mohalla Clinics that are primary health centres in Delhi was first set up by the Aam Aadmi Party government in 2015, and as of 2018, 187 such clinics have been set up across the state and served more than 2 million residents. The Government has kept
6942-510: The shifts, For example, the 2021 JEE-Advanced paper had 38 questions (19 questions in Paper-1 and the next 19 in Paper-2) from each of the three subjects. Each paper in every subject is divided into 4 sections(The marking scheme may vary from year to year): Some previous year papers also included matrix match type questions instead of single-correct multiple choice questions. Since the starting of
7031-568: The state. Beginning in October 2019, New Delhi began rolling out free bus transit for women on the Delhi Transport Corporation , with women travelling for free when using pink tickets carrying a message from Kejriwal. He has been criticised for his controversial remarks over Biharis and "outsiders". Shunglu Committee submitted a report to LG of Delhi raising questions over decisions of Government of Delhi. AAP won 62 seats out of 70 in
7120-1031: The theories of bonding i.e. Valence bond theory , VSEPR Theory and Molecular orbital theory ), coordination compounds and complexes , metallurgy , qualitative inorganic salt analysis , hydrogen , detailed studies of reactions, physical and chemical properties, along with their certain compounds of alkali metals , alkaline earth metals , boron family , carbon family , nitrogen family , oxygen family , halogens and noble gases , transition elements (including noble metals ), actinides , lanthanides , types of reactions and environmental chemistry . IUPAC nomenclature , General Organic Chemistry (including hybridization , hydrogen bonding , inductive effects , isomerism , resonance , aromaticity , hyperconjugation , mesomerism , carbocations and carbanions , free radical , bond cleavage including heterolysis and homolysis , stereoisomerism including enantiomers and diastereomers ), organic reagents , some named reactions , detailed analysis of reaction mechanisms ,
7209-406: The total seat availability was over 12,000, including 801 "super-numerary female-only" seats. For 2019, with the partial rollout of a 10% EWS quota (without a reduction in non-reserved seats) and the increase of the female enrollment target to 17%, the total seats available went up to over 13,500, with over 1200 super-numerary female-only seats. In 2020, with the full rollout of the 10% EWS quota and
7298-542: The two stage JEE-Main + JEE-Advanced structure from 2013, the number of candidates in JEE-Advanced is fixed at 150 thousand students in 2013 and it is increased in subsequent years to 250 thousand as of 2022. The total seats available in each institute (Seat Matrix) is summarized in table below. Note: This intake is only about bachelor's program intake through JEE-Advanced and it is not about intake in IITs, because some IITs also admit students through UCEED and Olympiads. In 2011, additional courses were introduced in
7387-567: The upcoming Delhi assembly elections. He resigned formally on 17 September 2024 and AAP named education minister Atishi Marlena Singh as his replacement. During COVID 2020–21, the Congress in April 2021 accused the Arvind Kejriwal government of spending crores on publicity but doing nothing in the past one year to augment oxygen storage capacity and set up new plants in the national capital. A Central government appointed committee came down heavily on
7476-640: Was an electrical engineer who graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra . Kejriwal spent most of his childhood in north Indian towns such as Sonipat , Ghaziabad and Hisar . He was educated at Campus School in Hisar and at Holy Child School at Sonipat . In 1985, he took the IIT-JEE exam and scored All India Rank (AIR) of 563. He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , majoring in mechanical engineering. He joined Tata Steel in 1989 and
7565-423: Was characterised as a jan andolan ("people's movement") by its members. Later, in 2005, Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia launched Kabir, a registered NGO named after the medieval philosopher Kabir . Like Parivartan, Kabir was also focused on RTI and participatory governance. However, unlike Parivartan, it accepted institutional donations. According to Kejriwal, Kabir was mainly run by Sisodia. In 2000, Parivartan filed
7654-466: Was elected as the party's National Convener. The party name reflects the phrase Aam Aadmi , or "common man", whose interests Kejriwal proposed to represent. The establishment of AAP caused a rift between Kejriwal and Hazare. AAP decided to contest the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election , with Kejriwal contesting against the incumbent Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit . Kejriwal became the fifth most-mentioned Indian politician on social media channels in
7743-525: Was granted bail by Supreme Court with certain conditions, the case still continues. On 17 September 2024, he resigned as Delhi Chief Minister saying he will only become CM again if he receives a public mandate. Kejriwal was born in an Agrawal family of Baniyas in Siwani in the Bhiwani district of Haryana , India on 16 August 1968, the first of the three children of Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi. His father
7832-718: Was posted in Jamshedpur , Bihar . Kejriwal resigned in 1992, having taken leave of absence to study for the Civil Services Examination . He spent some time in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), where he met Mother Teresa , and volunteered with The Missionaries of Charity and at the Ramakrishna Mission in North-East India and at Nehru Yuva Kendra . Arvind Kejriwal joined the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) as an Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax in 1995, after qualifying through
7921-485: Was postponed— together with the third and fourth phases of the JEE-Main examination that were to be held in the respective months of April and May— due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The third and fourth phases of the JEE-Main examinations were later held on 20 July - 3 August and 26 August – 2 September, respectively. The JEE-Advanced exam was held on 3 October 2021. JEE-Advanced 2022 was scheduled to be held on 3 July 2022 in
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