40% Tech Students at IIT-Madras from Andhra,Telangana
A recent RTI issued to E Muralidharan, an academic council member of IIT Madras, it is shown that the major number of students at IIT Madras is from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
A recent survey has shown that Tamil Nadu students do not make up even 20% of B.Tech+M.Tech Dual and M.Tech degree of Indian Institute of Technology - IIT Madras. The case is consistent for the last 3 years.
An RTI revealed that the remaining seats are filled by the students of other states among which, most of are from Telangana or Andhra Pradesh. The RTI was given to one of the former academic council member and IITM Alumni E Muralidharan.
In B.Tech seats, more or less only 16% students consisted in the total student strength and on the other hand, 40% of the students in various specialisations of B.Tech is based out of Andhra Pradesh or Telangana. The statistics also showed that 25% of the seats in M.Tech and 30% of M.Tech Dual Degree seats are filled by the students belonging from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Where the Tamil Nadu students make 8% and 18% of the streams respectively.
Muralidharan has informed that mostly all the IITs across the country see a dominant percentage of Andhra and Telangana students combined. He said that he initially wanted to file an RTI to know the all-total percentage of students belonging to the state in IITs across the country but the IIT Council responded by saying he can only have data as per particular institute basis but not of the total.
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Muralidharan expressed that the government should think to introduce domicile in the IITs as there are 23 IITs across India in every state where previously, there were only 5 IITs before.
Renowned educationist and an ex-Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Tamil Nadu, Mr. E Balagurusamy said that a large amount of taxpayers’ money from the states gets paid for the education in IITs, thus it would not be unfair to introduce domicile as the students from the respective state would get priority.
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The Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, Mr. MK Surappa said that it is time that IITs start follow the policy of Regional Engineering Colleges (REC) till those became NITs in 2002. The state and centre shared the expenses of REC, thus 50% of the total seats were reserved for students from the respective state. But the policy was scrapped after RECs became centralised with changed the name ‘NIT.’
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