Data | Hundreds of eligible SC/ST/OBC applicants, zero admissions: Disparity in PhD intake at IITs

In 2021, eight departments of IIT Delhi received 637 eligible PhD applications from SC/ST/OBC students. In IIT Delhi, 52.7% of applicants were from the General Category and they formed 70.5% of the admissions Acceptance rate The table lists the applications received for various PhD programmes across communities in 2021 and their acceptance rates Charts appear incomplete? A similar trend was observed in Bhilai among SC students Two ratios The table lists the PhD applications from a community as a % of total applications received and the admitted PhD applications from a community as a % of total admissions in 2021 In IIT Indore, while applications from the General Category formed only 41.2% of the total applications, the community formed 63.8% of those admitted. Applications from the SC community were 12% and only 5.5% of admissions were from the community In Bhilai, 10.9% of the applications were from the SC community and they formed 0% of the admissions In all the IITs chosen, the % of ST among admissions was fewer than % of STs among applications In all the IITs chosen, except Bhilai and Goa, the % of UR among admissions was higher than % of UR among applications Zero admissions The tables list select departments under various IITs which received a considerable number of eligible applications from the SC/ST/OBC categories but failed to admit even one applicant. The university did not admit even one PhD candidate from the SC and OBC communities in the Biochemical Engineering & Biotech department despite receiving 104 and 171 applications, respectively Source: Lok Sabha unstarred question number 106 raised by S. Venkatesan, CPI MP from the Madurai constituency.