The Centre has convened a special meeting with the IIT Council on June 27 to address the concerns of students in the aftermath of the rejection of the proposed common entrance test for all Centrally funded engineering colleges by the IITs of Kanpur and Delhi. It was IIT-Kanpur that earlier this month first rejected the common entrance idea, saying it was ‘‘academically and methodically unsound’’, with IIT-Delhi joining in later. It has been learnt that the special meeting will ‘‘discuss the fallout of the move of the two IITs’’ by ‘‘addressing the issue of uncertainty faced by students’’ and try to find ‘‘the way ahead to end the logjam’’. Since the IITs are a very special institution with a brand name the world over due primarily to the rigorous and very valid way of selecting students, followed by their grooming, we believe that the system in place should not be disturbed so that the essence of the IITs is not imperilled. In other words, the way ahead is not to scrap IIT-JEE. The IITs of Kanpur and Delhi have done the right thing by revolting against a bizarre proposal. Does the HRD Ministry not have any other better thing to work on?