7 years ago

Increasing number of IIT seats going vacant, maximum at IIT-BHU

Of all the seats going unclaimed in IITs in the five years since 2013, the IIT-BHU has reported maximum vacancies, according to data compiled by the HRD ministry. According to the ministry data, of the nearly 11,000 seats across the IITs, a total of 274 seats remained vacant from 2013, which included 15, five in 2014, 39 in 2015, 96 in 2016 and 121 in 2017. As far as IIT-Bombay is concerned, it had all its seats filled in 2013, 2014 and 2015, while had two vacancies in 2016 and one in 2017. "In order to minimise the vacancies in IITs, NITs and other Centrally-Funded Technical institutions, the HRD ministry constituted a committee to recommend suitable measures," a senior ministry official said.

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