No state quota in new IIITs: Pai committee

Updated on: Wednesday, April 27, 2011

An HRD ministry-appointed committee has rejected a demand from different states to have domicile-based reservation in the 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) to be rolled out from next year.

T V Mohandas Pai, who heads the expert committee to recommend criteria for selection of industry partners as well as proposals from states to set up 20 IIITs in public-private partnership mode, has not favoured the system of having state quota or giving preferential treatment to the state students in admissions to the top institutes. During a workshop convened by the HRD ministry last month, Pai clarified that the National Institutes of Technology system of setting aside 50% of seats for state students would not be followed.

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