PG Seats for SC/ STs remain Vacant in IITs

New Delhi: As government proposes to enhance reservation in institutions of higher learning, a number of seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes students in post-graduate courses in the Indian courses in the Indian Institutes of Technology have remained vacant down the years.

The prescribed reservation for SCs and STs is 15 percent and 7.5 percent in post-graduate courses offered by Indian Institutes of Technology.

But only 11.91 percent and 3.95 percent of the seats could be filled in the SC and ST categories respectively in 2005-06, Minister of State for Human Resource Development MAA Fatmi told the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply to a question.

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