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August 2010

Quota seats go abegging at IITs

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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53 Quota seats go abegging at IITs

Nearly 700 seats reserved for scheduled castes (SCs),
scheduled tribes (STs) and other backward classes (OBCs) are lying vacant at the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year after the first allotment of
seats.

The IITs had set aside 2,570 seats for OBCs, but only 2,023
were filled, according to T. S. Natarajan, Chairman of the Joint Entrance
Examination (JEE) at IIT Madras — the institute which conducted the JEE this
year. Of the 2,570 seats under the OBC category, 78 (around 3%) are reserved for
students with physical disabilities. Of the remaining 2,492 seats, only 2,023
have been filled.

(Source : Business Standard, dated 5-7-2010)

[Will meritocracy ever flourish in our country ? There are no
statistics available as to how many quota candidates fail or drop out of IITs ?
All at the cost of deserving students belonging to so-called upper castes ?]

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