IIT-Delhi to enrol 850 students in B-Tech this year

NEW DELHI - The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will increase its students intake by 27 percent this year to accommodate the quota for other backward classes. In all, the institute will admit 850 students at the B-Tech level.

“We are adding 27 percent students more this time. With this, the government rule of increasing students intake by 54 percent to accommodate 27 percent OBC quota has been done,” IIT-Delhi director Surendra Prasad told IANS.

IIT-Delhi authorities said that in the last three years they have added nearly 300 more students to accommodate the OBC quota as mandated by the central government.

The central government has ordered implementation of OBC quota in all the government- aided higher educational institutes across India. The IITs have decided to implement it in three years.

Currently, India has 15 IITs including eight new ones which have started operation in the last two years.

At least 472,000 students had appeared for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) joint entrance examination (JEE) April 11, seeking a berth in over 15 top engineering colleges across the country. Less than 9,000 students will make it to these 15 IITs through this entrance examination.