5 IITs, 2 IIMs allowed to go Slow on Quota in First Year

5 IITs, 2 IIMs allowed to go Slow on Quota in First Year

New Delhi: Five of the seven IITs and two of the six IIMs have been allowed to scale down the OBC quota implementation plan originally laid out by the Veerappa Moily Oversight Committee.

HRD Ministry sources cited “practical reasons” given by these institutions for staggering reservations. Only two IITs-Kanpur and Roorkee – will increase seats by 18 percent and reserve 9 percent for OBCs in the coming academic year.

The Moil panel had asked all IIT’s to increase the seats by 18 percent every year for three years to achieve 54 percent ex

Pansion, and simultaneously reserve 9 per cent seats for OBCs every year to meet the target of 27 per cent.

The country’s top engineering institute can now go easy in the first year but sources pointed out that they will have to make up for the lag in the next two year. IIT Delhi has been given the maximum leverage – it will increase seats only by 10 percent and, therefore, reserve only 5 percent for OBCs in the next academic session.

The remaining four IITs – Mumbai, Chennai, Kharagpur and Guwahati – will increase seats by 13 percent and reserve half of that for OBCs.

In contrast, four of the six IIMs have fallen in the line, and will follow the roadmap charted out by Moily. IIM Lucknow leads the way with 16 percent expansion in the first year, followed by Ahmedabad at 12 percent, Indore at 8 percent and Kolkata 6 percent. All these institutes will reserves half the new capacity for OBC students.

The remaining two IIMs have been allowed minor changes – Bangalore will increase seats by 13 percent, a point below Moily’s 14 percent, and Kozhikode by 8 percent. The Indian School of Mines, too, has reduced its expansion target for the first year from Moily’s 18 percent to 11 percent. However, other premier institutions such as IISc Bangalore and School of Planning and Architecture will expand by 18 percent for the coming academic session.

5 IITs, 2 IIMs allowed to go Slow on Quota in First Year

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