(News) IITs Struggle To Fill Up OBC Seats
News : IITs Struggle To Fill Up OBC Seats
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Despite the government's best intentions, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are struggling to get candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes (OBC).
Seven existing IITs will admit 9% OBC candidates and six new institutes will implement the full 27% OBC reservation from this year.
However, data from the seven IITs, where counselling for OBC candidates concluded recently, reveals that only 7.4% of the students (638 out of 8,652) have managed to prove their non-creamy layer status to benefit from the reservation.
This is the first year when the IITs are implementing the OBC reservation. The engineering institutes shortlisted 13.1% OBC students from the general category this year. In three years, all IITs will roll out the full 27% quota for OBC candidates.
This year, there are 654 seats across the 13 IITs that have been reserved for OBC candidates. Each of the existing seven IITs is rolling out 9% OBC reservation this year; moreover, the six new IITs have set aside 33 seats (27% of 120 seats) for OBC candidates as they are implementing the entire reservation from this year.
Courtesy : timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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