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Aug. 13: The six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) that have begun functioning from this academic year (2008-09) have finally been able to resolve the issue of “vacant” seats that were meant to be filled with SC/ST candidates. The matter was resolved after the Joint Admission Board (JAB) of JEE 2008 held an emergency meeting in the capital on Wednesday. Consequently, it was decided that the 66 vacant seats for SC/ST candidates at the new IITs will be “made available” during the 2009 admission exercise.
In its eagerness to launch no less than six IITs this year, the UPA government virtually chose to overlook the infrastructure and faculty constraints each of them would have to deal with. It were these constraints that had prompted the new IITs to expressd their inability to conduct the preparatory programme which is held for students belonging to the SC/ST category. For neither the required infrastructure nor faculty is presently in place. Instead, each of the six new IITs is functioning from the premises of its mentor IIT, ie one of the older IITs.
Sharing details of the meeting with reporters, JAB members said that the “issue of vaccancies of seats in the IIT system is a matter of concern and therefore a very comprehensive review is necessary". In the case of the new IITs, 66 seats meant for SCs/STs out of the total of 740 seats available could not be filled. JAB members said that the “possibility of filling up these vacancies by initiating a preparatory programme in each of these six new IITs was examined".
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