<p>Thiruvananthapuram: The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is on the defensive following the turmoil in the engineering entrance examination as the government reportedly ignored the expert committee's suggestion not to rush with the modification.</p><p>Higher education minister R Bindu lost her cool after media persons raised questions on the matter.</p>.KEAM rank list to be republished after Kerala HC action.<p>The fresh row has happened at a time when a power tussle between the Kerala University vice-chancellor and the left-front subsequent to the Bharathamba row has affected the functioning of the university.</p><p>As a revised rank list of the Kerala Engineering, Architecture and Medical entrance exam (KEAM) was published on Thursday night, ranks of students from the state syllabus went down and that of CBSE and ICSE syllabus went up. </p><p>While there were 43 students from state syllabus among the top hundred rank holders in the initial rank list published last year, it has gone down to 21 in the revised list.</p><p>The HC scrapped the initial rank list as the state government's decision to give more weightage to the subject marks of state syllabus students than that of CBSE and ICSE students came after the examinations were conducted.</p><p>The state government has been defending that the decision was taken in view of the widespread concern by students from state syllabus that they were going behind CBSE and ICSE students in the entrance examination during the previous years.</p><p>However, now it has come to light that the state government ignored the suggestion of the expert committee that the changes in the weightage calculation method being followed since 2011 should be changed only after detailed studies. Some ministers also reportedly expressed concerns over a swift change in the system.</p><p>When reporters enquired about this to the higher education minister, she responded that "she had no obligation to explain everything to the media." To repeated questions citing the HC verdict, Bindu got agitated and said that "you need not become super courts."</p><p>Opposition leader V D Satheesan criticised that the state government's mismanagement of KEAM entrance results was causing severe mental stress to thousands of students besides sabotaging the higher education sector. He also alleged that the Governor - government rift has hit the functioning of the Kerala University and thereby affecting the students.</p>
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front government in Kerala is on the defensive following the turmoil in the engineering entrance examination as the government reportedly ignored the expert committee's suggestion not to rush with the modification.</p><p>Higher education minister R Bindu lost her cool after media persons raised questions on the matter.</p>.KEAM rank list to be republished after Kerala HC action.<p>The fresh row has happened at a time when a power tussle between the Kerala University vice-chancellor and the left-front subsequent to the Bharathamba row has affected the functioning of the university.</p><p>As a revised rank list of the Kerala Engineering, Architecture and Medical entrance exam (KEAM) was published on Thursday night, ranks of students from the state syllabus went down and that of CBSE and ICSE syllabus went up. </p><p>While there were 43 students from state syllabus among the top hundred rank holders in the initial rank list published last year, it has gone down to 21 in the revised list.</p><p>The HC scrapped the initial rank list as the state government's decision to give more weightage to the subject marks of state syllabus students than that of CBSE and ICSE students came after the examinations were conducted.</p><p>The state government has been defending that the decision was taken in view of the widespread concern by students from state syllabus that they were going behind CBSE and ICSE students in the entrance examination during the previous years.</p><p>However, now it has come to light that the state government ignored the suggestion of the expert committee that the changes in the weightage calculation method being followed since 2011 should be changed only after detailed studies. Some ministers also reportedly expressed concerns over a swift change in the system.</p><p>When reporters enquired about this to the higher education minister, she responded that "she had no obligation to explain everything to the media." To repeated questions citing the HC verdict, Bindu got agitated and said that "you need not become super courts."</p><p>Opposition leader V D Satheesan criticised that the state government's mismanagement of KEAM entrance results was causing severe mental stress to thousands of students besides sabotaging the higher education sector. He also alleged that the Governor - government rift has hit the functioning of the Kerala University and thereby affecting the students.</p>